1-WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS.2-35 injured in western Iran quake. 3-The Nation's Weather. 4-Coldest March 6 on record looked a lot like spring. 5-Muslims enthusiastic, Christians apathetic about end times. 6-German clerics enrage Yad Vashem. 7-Answers in Genesis founder labels claims in 'Jesus Tomb' as nonsense. 8-Deadly Antibiotic-Resisting Bacteria Has Killed Dozens. 9-THE ID PEOPLE. 10-Racing Toward Armageddon.
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 = Thurs Mar 8 12:11 AM EDT
MAR 07,07
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35 injured in western Iran quake Wed Mar 7, 3:16 AM ET
TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) - Thirty-five people were injured when an earthquake measuring 4.8 on the Richter scale struck the city of Daroud in western Iran before dawn on Wednesday, local officals said.
Most of the injuries were caused by shards of glass from broken windows or when dazed victims were trampled in the aftermath of the quake at 2:00 am (2230 GMT), city governor Nasrollah Rashno said, according to the IRNA agency.Rashno added that most of the casualties were only lightly injured.The earthquake in Lorestan province comes just under a year after a much stronger quake of 6.0 magnitude struck the same area, killing around 70 people and leaving thousands homeless.Iran sits astride several major faults in the earth's crust, and is prone to frequent earthquakes, many of them devastating.The worst quake in recent times hit Bam in the south of the country in December 2003, killing 31,000 people, about a quarter of the city's population, and destroying the city's ancient mud-built citadel.
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.
The Nation's Weather By WEATHER UNDERGROUND, For The Associated Press
Wed Mar 7, 7:24 AM ET
Snow flurries were falling early Wednesday across the eastern Great Lakes, southern New England, New York and the northern mid-Atlantic region. High pressure was to produce mostly sunny and dry conditions throughout the Tennessee Valley, much of the southern mid-Atlantic region, the Southeast and Florida.Frigid weather was expected to continue in the Upper Midwest and Northeast, while temperatures in the 60s and 70s were expected in the Southeast.A Pacific cold front was predicted to push inland across the West Coast, bringing some rain and high elevation snow to the Northwest and northern California.Fair skies and dry conditions were expected throughout the Mississippi Valley, the Plains region, the Rockies, the Great Basin, the Desert Southwest and southern California.
Temperatures in the Lower 48 states on Tuesday ranged from a low of minus-30 degrees at Raco, Mich., to a high of 90 degrees at Santa Ana, Calif.
Record weather deceived
Coldest March 6 on record looked a lot like spring
BRIAN WHITWHAM - DAVE CARTER, GUELPH MERCURY GUELPH (Mar 7, 2007)
The sun was shining, the sky was blue, the roads looked clear and the birds were chirping, yet about 90 schools across the Guelph region were closed.Don Drone, director of education for the Wellington Catholic District School Board, is the first to admit things weren't quite as they seemed yesterday.It's days like (yesterday) that what you see isn't what you get with the weather, Drone said.
It can be deceiving.Environment Canada senior climatologist David Phillips said yesterday might have looked like a welcoming pre-spring day through the window, but it was actually the coldest March 6 on record for Guelph.The projected high for the day was -13 C and the temperature was still at -16 C early in the afternoon.Phillips said the previous coldest recorded March 6 was in 1901, with a projected high of about -10 C.
The only thing is that it's not quite as brutal as it was this morning because we're into calmer winds, Phillips said yesterday afternoon. But it could still freeze flesh in a matter of minutes.Several roads were closed in rural areas of Dufferin and Wellington counties early yesterday morning because of icy conditions.The frigid temperatures and the wind chill are the main reasons the public and Catholic school boards decided early yesterday to close local schools.Martha Rogers, director of education for the Upper Grand District School Board, said it's been about five years since the schools were closed because of the cold alone.
It's not something we do lightly, she said. Parents have to go to work and they reasonably expect that their children will go to school.Rogers said the boards worked together to create a policy on temperatures and wind chill about a decade ago. She said it was decided that when the wind chill hits -35 C, schools should be closed so that students don't have to walk.Rogers said the wind chill had hit -34 C yesterday around 5 a.m. and it was expected to drop further when she and Drone decided to close the schools.
She said some students have to walk lengthy distances to get to class. Grade 7s and 8s for example, walk up to 4.8 kilometres before becoming eligible to ride the school bus.I can't in good conscience condone that as something that's safe (in the cold), Rogers said. Sometimes people will agree with my call and sometimes people will disagree with my call.But it's based on the children's well-being.Drone said it's always difficult to make decisions based on weather predictions.e go with the information we have early in the morning, Drone said. If we can minimize the danger, then it's worth it.Drone said yesterday they did expect schools to be open today, but that decision was to be made this morning.
Phillips said several municipalities across Ontario set new records for the coldest March 6. Environment Canada issued a warning early yesterday morning about the wind chill, predicting it would reach -35 C in this part of the province.But he said Guelph was lucky the wind speeds slowed from about 30 km/h at 2 a.m. to about 9 km/h by 4 a.m., when the mercury dropped to its lowest point, -22 C. That took some of the bite off the wind chill, he said.Environment Canada expects a high of -5 C today and Phillips said it's expected to warm up through the week.He said the good news is Saturday's forecast predicts spring-like conditions with rain and a high of 3 C.By Saturday, spring should be here, Phillips said. I'm not saying this is winter's last hurrah. I wouldn't put the snow shovel away yet, but the good news is that winter is duking it out with spring.And in the long run, spring always wins.bwhitwham@guelphmercury.com
Muslims enthusiastic, Christians apathetic about end times
Chad Groening OneNewsNow.com February 27, 2007
Pro-Israel ministry leader Jan Markell says she is frustrated that many Christians are apathetic about the idea of the glorious return of Jesus Christ while Muslims, for the most part, demonstrate intense passion and fervor about their belief in the imminent return of their Islamic messiah.
She believes seeker-sensitive churches are partly to blame.Markell, founder and director of Olive Tree Ministries, says Muslims around the world, particularly in Iran and Iraq, are causing death, violence, and destruction in attempts to hasten the return of the one they regard as the ultimate savior of mankind, their so-called twelfth Imam or Mahdi. When I look at the enthusiasm and, if I can use the word, barbarism that some of the Islamic people are perpetrating for this Islamic Mahdi to return, they are absolutely adamant that there's a great day coming, the ministry spokeswoman says, and that the Islamic messiah ... is going to transform the Earth. Unfortunately, she notes, she does not see the same kind of enthusiasm among Christians for the prophesied return of the biblical Messiah.
Part of this is because the church has dropped this issue [of Jesus Christ's Second Coming] so that the church can be more seeker sensitive and not be divisive, Markell asserts. The contemporary church has set this topic aside, she says, and therefore, the congregation isn't by nature apathetic -- they don't know anything.Muslims, on the other hand, are going to great lengths, the Olive Tree Ministries spokeswoman points out, to try to hasten what they believe will be the return of their Mahdi, according to certain Islamic prophetic traditions. They believe it with all of their heart, she says, and I would just like to see Christians getting that excited for the return of the true Messiah.
Markell says even though Titus 2:13 talks about the glorious appearing of the Lord Jesus, most Christians today are not focused on that event. Apparently, she says, many believers think earthly business comes first for now.
German clerics enrage Yad Vashem
bt Etgar Lefkovits March 6, 2007 JPOST
Yad Vashem lambasted a group of visiting German Catholic bishops on Tuesday for comparing the situation in the Palestinian territories with the Holocaust, calling the contentious remarks political exploitation and demagoguery and a gross distortion of history. The sharp condemnation by Israel's Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority followed reports in the German press of comparisons made by senior German bishops between conditions in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II and current conditions in Ramallah, resulting from Israeli military activities. The remarks illustrate a woeful ignorance of history and a distorted sense of perspective, Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev wrote in a Tuesday letter to Cardinal Karl Lehmann, who led the Conference of German Catholic Bishops on a 10-day visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories. The group visited Yad Vashem last Friday.
Making analogies between the mass murder that was part of the plan to annihilate the Jewish people, carried out under the German Nazi regime and the current situation in Ramallah, and using words whose rhetorical power is immense, does nothing to help us understand what is going on today; such words only further poison the atmosphere making it that much more difficult to find workable solutions to deeply entrenched and thorny problems. These unwarranted and offensive comparisons serve to diminish the memory of victims of the Holocaust and mollify the consciences of those who seek to lessen European responsibility for Nazi crimes, he wrote. The German bishops' bitterly contentious comparisons stunned Yad Vashem officials, who had hosted the senior Christian leaders just hours earlier. In the morning, we saw the pictures at Yad Vashem of the inhumane Warsaw Ghetto, while in the evening we were in the Ramallah Ghetto, Bishop Gregor Maria Franz Hanke reportedly said.
Another visiting bishop, Joachim Meisner, who serves as the Archbishop of Cologne, reportedly described the conditions at Israeli security checkpoints as something done to animals, not to humans.In his letter, the head of Yad Vashem noted the words of of the late Pope John Paul II when he visited Yad Vashem in which he said no one can diminish the scale of the Holocaust. I urge all people to keep the Holocaust out of cheap political exploitation and demagoguery, Shalev wrote.
Such use of the Holocaust misrepresents both today's reality as well as that of the Shoah; it distorts historical facts and context, and trivializes the memory of the Holocaust's victims and events, he concluded.
Answers in Genesis founder labels claims in 'Jesus Tomb' as nonsense
Allie Martin OneNewsNow.com March 6, 2007
The president of Answers in Genesis says there's no new information in a documentary that chronicles claims by archaeologists that they have found a coffin containing the bones of Christ. Ken Ham says the recent documentary is the latest example in a string of increasing attacks on the Bible.
The documentary, The Lost Tomb of Jesus, premiered this weekend on the Discovery Channel. Produced by Oscar-winning filmmaker James Cameron, the documentary claims forensic tests support the view that six of the ten ossuaries, or coffins, found in the tomb in 1980 bear inscriptions linking them to Jesus.But Ken Ham, president of Answers in Genesis, says the claims are nonsense.
Anyone can take a documentary and take certain evidence they find and then, because of their own anti-Christian bias or whatever it is, put their own particular interpretation on that and make it sound so good in a movie, he says.Ham says people have tried unsuccessfully to debunk the Bible for thousands of years, and notes there has been an increase in attacks of the Bible from the secular world. But he points out that eyewitness accounts from God's Word support the fact that Christ rose from the dead. When it comes to interpreting the past -- of course you weren't there in the past; you weren't there to see the things happen -- that's why it's so important to trust God's Word, who's always been there, who knows everything, who tells us what happened in the past to help us correctly interpret the present, says Ham. And of course we know from scripture that you don't find the bones of Jesus because he was raised from the dead -- and it's an empty tomb.Ham points out that Christians must be ready to give answers to such claims. Christians need to be equipped; they need to be ready for these things.
Deadly Antibiotic-Resisting Bacteria Has Killed Dozens
by Hana Levi Julian MAR 07,07
A deadly antibiotic-resistance strain of bacterium has infected hundreds and killed dozens of patients in hospitals across Israel being treated for other illnesses. The story first broke Tuesday night on the Channel 1 Mabat TV program.
The bacterium is not new to Israeli hospitals, although this latest strain, Klebsiella pneumoniae, appeared in recent months. The bacterium attacks hospital patients being treated for other illnesses, and has infected mostly those who have been hospitalized for over 25 days.Several new strains have appeared in recent years that have become increasingly resistant to antibiotics. Antibiotics have been entirely ineffective in treating this most recent strain, which has spread rapidly in hospitals around the country. Normally found in the mouth, skin and intestines, Klebsiella pneumoniae is a member of the Enterobacteriaceae family. The germ often causes hospital-acquired urinary tract and burn wound infections, but is also known to cause bacterial pneumonia. Its identification is complicated and can involve a large number of tests.
Patients with weak immune systems, such as the elderly, are particularly at risk of contracting an illness associated with the bacterium, which is found in contaminated medical instruments and in feces.
Health Ministry officials have not released census figures on the epidemic, but according to infectious diseases specialist Dr. Galia Rahav, 130 patients at Sheba Hospital have become infected and of those, a third have died. All were hospitalized for other conditions. Health Minister Yaakov Ben-Yizri (Pensioners) said that the problem has been known for several weeks, but was not publicized in order not to cause public panic.
Director-General Professor Avi Yisraeli told reporters that a team of medical experts has been set up to address the situation. This is not the first instance of a bacteria evolving into a strain that does not respond to antibiotics, said Yisraeli Tuesday night. It is happening abroad as well, he said, noting that the phenomenon is happening more frequently due to the overuse of antibiotics in industrialized nations. Only very ill patients in hospitals are at risk, stressed Yisraeli. The group will be led by epidemiologist Professor Yehuda Carmeli, of the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center. One of the main purposes of the team will be to identify and isolate patients who have become infected with the bacterium.
THE ID PEOPLE by Professor Paul Eidelberg MAR 07,07
Who and what are the ID People? No, they're not libidinous disciples of Sigmund Freud. Truth to tell, some are prime ministers. Some are foreign ministers. Others are party leaders. More than a few are academics and journalists. They are legion. And whatever their differences or diverse nationalities, they all have one thing in common: they are Intellectually Dishonest. What does their dishonesty consist in? Simply this: They know you can't make peace with people committed to your destruction.
They know you can't make peace with people who do not recognize the sanctity of human life. They know you can't make peace with people conditioned by a culture of hatred -- a hatred so deep as to induce these people to use their own children as human bombs. But this means that those prime ministers and foreign ministers and party leaders who would have Israel engage in peace negotiations with the Arab Palestinian are not merely ignorant or obtuse: no, they are Intellectually Dishonest. Their dishonesty has so warped their minds that some almost believe that peace is possible between the Jews of Israel and their Muslim enemies.
There is no point in telling these ID People about the murderous verses in the Quran or in the Hadith the recorded or reported sayings and deeds of Muhammad. It's futile to cite Robert Spencer or Bat Ye'or or Nonie Darwish or Brigitte Gabriel or Ibn Warraq or Winston Churchill and others who have written about Islam's barbaric character.
The brilliant American Lee Harris he has been called the philosopher of 9/11 agrees with Syrian-born psychiatrist Wafa Sultan, that Islam is the enemy of civilization. To expect genuine peace with the followers of a bellicose religion is to sacrifice one's intellect, that is, to succumb to Intellectual Dishonesty. (And to make much in wartime of Muslim moderates when mainstream Islam is anything but moderate is also indicative of Intellectual Dishonesty.) The Middle East expert Daniel Pipes recently admitted that Israel's peace treaty with Egypt has proven to be a failure, that the Egyptians are committed to Israel's annihilation no less than Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Dr. Pipes has also warned that it would take at least two generations to undo the murderous hatred of Jews which Palestinian leaders have instilled in their children. Dr. Pipes, a man of wisdom and courage, knows that one would have to sear into Arab consciousness a hatred of war, which could only occur as a result of their being devastated.
Ariel Sharon's protégé Ehud Olmert, knows this, and so does Benjamin Netanyahu. The trouble is they are Intellectually Dishonest and it's time they were called such. I would say the same of Condoleezza Rice.
Lady, you're not a fool; you're not deceived by Mahmoud Abbas and the hype about his being a moderate. You're just Intellectually Dishonest. This is no time for politeness. It's time to call a spade a spade. It's time to say that the Big Lie of the Middle East is the word peace. It's time to say that all those who talk about making peace between Israel and the Palestinians are Intellectually Dishonest, be they politicians, journalists, or even rabbis. And if you want to add that they are moral cowards, go to it! We have to transcend the misleading and mendacious language of public discourse. Stop calling so-and-so politically correct when he or she is simply Intellectually Dishonest. When Olmert and others advocate a Palestinian state, call him Intellectually Dishonest, because the rival clans that compose the Palestinians don't want a state; they want to destroy the Jewish state.
When Bibi calls for negotiations with the Palestinians on the basis of reciprocity, a term foreign to the Arab-Islamic mind, call him Intellectually Dishonest. Intellectual Dishonesty is so rampant among politicians, academics, and journalists that it is undermining Western civilization. Western civilization has two basic sources: the Bible of Israel (on which Christianity is based) and classical Greek
philosophy.
If there is one thing these two basic sources have in common, it is this: Truth. Without truth there can be no trust. Without trust there can be no civilization. If it be objected that politeness is a necessary aspect of civilization, I answer: if politeness supplants truth, then it's nothing more than hypocrisy another form of Intellectual Dishonesty. It follows that Islam, which, by the way, makes a virtue of mendacity, is not the only enemy of civilization. No less dangerous is the enemy within: the Intellectual Dishonesty rampant among our opinion-makers and policy-makers. These ID People must be exposed. They are undermining the respect for truth which animates civilization: its rationality, its dignity, and its progress. Professor Paul Eidelberg is President of the Foundation For Constitutional Democracy. He can be reached by mail at 244 Madison Avenue, Suite 427, New York, NY 10016, Tel: 212-372-3752, and by email at Constitution@usa.net
Spring 2007 Racing Toward Armageddon (REFORM JUDAISM)
Shabtai Shavit served as director of Mossad (the equivalent of the CIA in Israel) from 1989 to 1996. A former member of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Commission on Future Preparedness on Counterterrorism (for the New York Fire Department), he is a founding member of Friends of Israeli Firefighters and director of EMG Israel, a company which is working on a natural gas project from Egypt to Israel. He was interviewed by Reform Judaism editor Aron Hirt-Manheimer and managing editor Joy Weinberg.
What do you see as the main threat facing Israel today?
Iran.
What makes Iran so great a threat?
Iran is a very big country—in size, population, and natural resources, mainly oil and gas, which this year will bring in $60 billion. Iran’s national reserve is about $65 billion, about 2.5 times its national debt, and as long as world oil prices remain high, Iran will have as much money as it needs.
As it needs for what?
To explain, I have to go back to the 1980s, when Iran and Iraq fought an almost ten-year war, eventually won by Iraq. The Iranians have learned the lessons of that war. Their defeat, they concluded, was due to Iraq’s use of long-range rockets as well as chemical weapons introduced during the last stages of the war. As a result, Iran decided to shore up its military operations through chemical, biological, and nuclear weaponry, and the capabilities to launch them against its enemies.
To launch against whom in particular?
In the early 1990s, when Iran began to develop and procure non-conventional weapons, it was widely assumed that they would be used as deterrents in a future conflict with Iraq. But as director of Mossad, I was very skeptical about this assessment. Following the research and development pattern of the Iranian arms industry, we discovered that the surface-to-surface missiles they were starting to develop had a range of 1,300 kilometers, which was much longer than what’s needed to hit Iraq from
the western side of Iran. Yet, that range was enough to cover all of Israel. We concluded that their objective was not to deter Iraq—but to build offensive capabilities against Israel.
Has Iran developed these weapons and missile capabilities?
Iran already has chemical and biological warheads for their surface-to-surface missiles, with launching capabilities of 3,500 kilometers, which could reach Russia and parts of Europe. They’re developing a ballistic missile with launching capabilities of 5,000 kilometers, capable of striking the U.S. They’re also investing heavily in the eventual building of submarines with missile-launching capabilities. And they are rapidly pursuing development of nuclear weapons to be launched by air, ground, and sea.
From whom are they acquiring technical assistance to proceed at such a fast pace ?
Over the years they have received nuclear assistance from Pakistan, surface-to-surface missile technology from North Korea and China, and technical support from Russian scientists—especially right after the demise of the Soviet Union, a chaotic time when Russian scientists and other technological experts couldn’t find work and make a living, and so they offered their expertise to anyone willing to pay for it. And the Iranians were ready to pay very handsome salaries for these services. Russia is still a main supplier of armaments and nuclear technologies to Iran.
You’ve been talking about capabilities; what about Iran’s intentions?
It’s a good question. As an intelligence officer, I always tried to answer two questions:
what are an enemy’s capabilities and what are its intentions?
Determining intentions is usually far more difficult than ascertaining capabilities—it’s more of an art. Let’s take Syria, for example. It is very hard to penetrate into Bashar al-Assad’s mind, to know his intentions. However, with the Iranians there are no secrets. They broadcast their intentions, telling everybody their main objective is to erase Israel from the map, destroy the Israeli people—and not only the Israeli people, but all infidels.
Who else do they want to destroy?
That answer is rooted in Iranian religious beliefs that date back to medieval times. There are many tenets—I’ll discuss the main ones. First, according to Shiite writings, Iran’s spiritual leader, who at this time is the Ayatollah Khamenei, is believed to be a reincarnation of God Almighty, infallible and incapable of making mistakes. Second, the Iranian religious leadership is authorized by God Almighty to do whatever is necessary—cheat, deceive, etc.—in order to serve the purpose of the end game; we’ll get to that in a moment. Third, there is to be no religious coexistence in the world. The Iranian people are therefore instructed by God Almighty through their supreme leader to fight the infidels—to either eliminate them or convert them to true Islam.
Their ultimate goal is to establish a global or world Muslim caliphate. And according to their ideology, which is described in many of their religious texts, the twelfth imam—the Mahdi who disappeared in the 12th century—must reappear. In order for this to happen there must be a martyrdom event on the scale of biblical proportions, an Armageddon. All devout Muslims are instructed to be proactive to
hasten the reappearance of the Mahdi. Now, if you stretch this logic further, one must conclude that Iran’s leaders are intent on perpetrating such an Armageddon. To do so, Iran would need precisely the kinds of weapons of mass destruction it is acquiring, including nuclear warheads.
How widely accepted is this ideology?
These are widely accepted, deep-rooted beliefs among devoted Shiites in Iran.
Does the Israeli leadership share your analysis?
They do.
How, then, will Israel stop Iran from carrying out its intention?
Here I am talking only for myself; I stopped working for the government ten years ago. I personally believe Israel should exhaust all political options before deciding to use force, an assessment I believe is shared by the Israeli government and the American administration. This remains a challenge. The politically correct Europeans are characteristically on the fence; unfortunately, they have to learn
lessons the hard way. China, which relies on Iran as its main source of energy, is very cynical in its strategic decisions and therefore unlikely to join an international coalition against the Iranians in the foreseeable future. Russia, which has had an adversarial relationship with Iran, including a few wars over some 700 years, has changed course and become Iran’s prime benefactor, supplying weapons
systems, building Iran a nuclear reactor, allowing Russian scientists to work in Iran, and more.
How do you account for this shift?
In the early 1990s, after the Soviet Union’s demise, the Russians were badly in need of money, so it made sense for them to support Iran’s development of nuclear weaponry for a price. But today, with Russia sitting on a huge pile of oil revenues, money can no longer be the reason for the Kremlin’s continuing assistance. What is the reason? The only answer I can come up with is that Russia will do just about anything to regain its status as a superpower, and to do so Russia will oppose the U.S. at every turn. If Washington considers Iran an enemy, then Moscow will consider Iran a friend.
One day, however, the Kremlin will wake up to the realization that a nuclear Iran is not in Russia’s national-security interest.
What can be done to stop Iran’s nuclear ambitions?
The Western democracies have tried everything possible—sanctions, threats, temptations, promises, you name it—to convince the Iranians to cease enriching uranium. But Iran won’t budge.
Still, there is some time before Iran reaches the point of no return—how much time is a matter of debate. One possibility is an American military strike. Another is a change of regime through a kind of implosion from within—a revolution by Western-educated Iranians, of which there are many, who are fed up with being kept in a straitjacket by the religious leadership of their country. This may be wishful thinking, but it cannot be ruled out.
If the Americans don’t unleash force and there is no change of regime from within, then the Israeli government will have to face a very hard decision.
If Israel couldn’t defeat Hezbollah in Lebanon, how could she take on a powerhouse like Iran?
It’s a wild exaggeration that Hezbollah humbled the IDF—a perception fed by the media in Israel and internationally. The reality is very different.
How so?
First, you have to reframe your perception—this war was different because in the past Israel won its wars decisively, and here the war went on for six weeks without a clear-cut victory. Still, I believe Israel won this war. The situation today is much better than it was before the war. We no longer have Hezbollah sitting on the border; instead, the Lebanese sovereign military and U.N. forces are there. A new U.N. resolution 1701 calls for disarming Hezbollah—it hasn’t been delivered, but it still strengthens Israel politically. And if you were to ask me what the chances are that Hezbollah will shoot new rockets at us tomorrow, my answer would be nil.
Would Iran’s leaders agree with your analysis?
Tehran is not happy about what happened in Lebanon because Iran built Hezbollah as a tool to use when it suits the Iranians’ interests and timetable, and then Hezbollah messed it up. In fact, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasralla publicly admitted that had he known what the Israeli reaction would be, he wouldn’t have approved the attack that launched this war.
At Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in NYC, you said, It takes a lifetime of experience to be an optimist, but I believe the good guys are going to win at the end of the day.
what makes you think the West will prevail?
To answer, I will mix realism with a bit of philosophy. Speaking philosophically, I just don’t believe that the radical Islamists, whatever their brand—Al Qaeda, Hezbollah, the Iranian ayatollahs—will win.
Let me try to explain with a short story. I did my master’s degree at Harvard University, where I took a class on the Cold War and the relationship between the Soviets and the Americans. Back in the fifties, all the innovative research and development was being done by the Americans, while the Russians took shortcuts—they stole, bought, cheated. The American response was to adopt a strategy where at all times the U.S. would be a step and a half ahead of the Russians. So even when the Russians succeeded in acquiring technology through espionage, America was still half a step ahead of them.
Today the adversaries are different, but the same principle applies. If you compare the translation of Islamic thinking into Western languages with Western writings translated into Arabic during the last 500 years, it’s at the rate of 100 to one. Islam has never been interested in what’s happening in the West. The same applies to technological development. The technologies they’ve acquired are not as a result of their own independent research and development; they come from others.
In short, I believe that Western ingenuity will enable us to remain at the cutting edge. Israel, too, will continue to be more innovative and technologically advanced than the Muslim states. This—our best and strongest advantage—gives me confidence that the good guys are going to win at the end of the day.
Thursday, March 08, 2007
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
LANDMINES IN ISRAEL FROM SYRIA
1-WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS.2-Powerful Indonesian earthquake kills 70. 3-Dozens of cars crash near Barrie, closing highway. 4-Threat of ice bombs closes Toronto. 5-Numbing cold in the Northeast. 6-Families flee active volcano in Ecuador. 7-Palestinian heads fail to agree on gov't. 8-Poll: Americans More Pro Israel, More Polarized. 9-Leftists to Build Illegal Arab Houses on State Land. 10-Land Mines Lobbed Into Israel From Syria.
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 = Wed Mar 7 12:00 AM EDT
MAR 06,07
MAP 3.3 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 5.2 COLOMBIA
MAP 4.9 SOUTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA
MAP 2.9 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.2 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 3.6 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 4.9 TONGA
MAP 2.5 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.4 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 3.1 UNIMAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP 6.3 SOUTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA
MAP 3.3 MONA PASSAGE, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
MAP 2.5 UNIMAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP 6.4 SOUTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA
MAP 2.8 OFFSHORE BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 3.0 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 2.6 PUERTO RICO
MAP 3.3 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 5.3 KEPULAUAN SULA, INDONESIA
MAR 05,07
MAP 3.5 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 2.7 GULF OF ALASKA
MAP 4.9 NEW GUINEA, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
MAP 2.5 SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.6 KENAI PENINSULA, ALASKA
MAP 4.2 SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA
MAP 2.9 SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.4 WESTERN XIZANG
MAP 2.5 MAUI REGION, HAWAII
MAP 3.0 UNIMAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP 4.6 GUATEMALA
MAP 5.2 KERMADEC ISLANDS, NEW ZEALAND
MAP 2.7 ONTARIO-QUEBEC BORDER REGION, CANADA
MAP 2.5 CENTRAL ALASKA
Powerful Indonesian earthquake kills 70 By ZAKKI HAKIM, Associated Press Writer MAR 06,07
PADANG, Indonesia - A powerful earthquake crumpled houses across a large swath of western Indonesia on Tuesday, killing at least 70 people and injuring hundreds, authorities said, predicting that the toll would rise. The magnitude 6.3 quake struck on Sumatra island and was felt as far away as neighboring Malaysia and Singapore, where some tall buildings were evacuated. It was followed by several strong aftershocks.Women were crying out in terror. We all just fled as quickly as we could, said Alpion, a welder in the seaside town of Padang who uses a single name. Along with thousands of others, he was running to higher ground, fearing a tsunami that never came.
Indonesia straddles one of the world's most seismically violent zones and has been hit by a string of natural disaster in recent years, the most deadly being the 2004 tsunami that killed 160,000 people on Sumatra's northern tip.Indonesian Cabinet Secretary Sudi Silalahi told reporters in Jakarta that at least 70 people had been killed by the quake, which hit the island's western coast. The worst-affected area appeared to be Solok, a bustling town close to the epicenter where two children were killed by falling debris on a school playground.Dozens of buildings had been destroyed and hundreds others damaged, local police chief Lt. Col. Budi Sarwono said. TV footage showed a flattened three-story home and thick cracks in the road.Hospitals were overflowing with patients, many of them with broken bones and cuts. Scores were laid out on cots where they were given emergency care, said Sarwono.
So far we have recovered 19 bodies and hundreds of injured people, he said. The two hospitals are overwhelmed with victims.At one hospital in nearby Padang, panicked doctors and nurses fled into the streets, startled patients limping behind, according to Metro TV.Local government spokesman Hasrul Piliang said the number of dead would likely rise because tolls from remote areas were still being collected and there were reports of others trapped under debris.The U.S. Geological Survey said the tremor struck 20 miles below Solok. It was followed by several strong aftershocks, one measuring 6.0.The tremor was felt in Singapore, 265 miles from the quake's epicenter, forcing the evacuation of several older office buildings, TV station Channel NewsAsia reported.In Malaysia's southern coastal city of Johor, citizens fled offices, buildings and shopping centers, eyewitnesses said.Indonesia, the world's largest archipelago, is prone to seismic upheaval because of its location on the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire, an arc of volcanos and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin.
In addition to the 2004 tsunami, earthquake-spawned waves also killed nearly 5,000 on Java island last year.Tuesday's quake was about 660 miles west of the country's capital Jakarta.
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.
Dozens of cars crash near Barrie, closing highway
Blowing snow causes shutdown of major highways across southern Ontario
Monday, March 5, 2007 CBC News
Pileups involving more than 75 vehicles closed Highway 400 south of Barrie on Monday afternoon, as blowing snow and powerful wind gusts caused accidents across Southern Ontario.Ontario Provincial Police Const. Sally Stewart said police are aware of at least one life-threatening injury and several serious injuries, but no fatalities so far.Sometimes we give tips about winter driving but when there's zero visibility, there really isn't a safe way to drive. OPP Sgt. Cam Woolley We have a lot of drifting snow and high winds today, Stewart said. It makes [snow] very loose and therefore the wind can pick it up and throw it around, which causes complete whiteouts.Police closed ramps onto the highway in the area of the pileups as emergency crews worked to free people from the wreckage.The northbound pileup happened near Highway 88. The southbound pileup was further north, near Highway 89.The northbound accident, involving more than 30 cars, three trucks and two coach buses, was the most serious, according to CBC reporter Steven D'Souza. A truck driver and a van driver were taken to hospital with critical injuries. At least 35 others are in hospital with minor injuries.Sections of Highway 400 near the accident scene are expected to remain closed until Tuesday morning.
It's like driving in milk
Hundreds of minor accidents were reported across southern Ontario as snow and winds gusting up to 100 km/h pummelled the region, hitting areas along Lake Huron and Georgian Bay the hardest.More than a dozen major highways across southern Ontario were closed because of the blowing snow, with visibility as low as half a kilometre in some spots.OPP Sgt. Cam Woolley suggested motorists avoid driving west of Highway 400, saying conditions are fluctuating between sunshine and whiteouts that make it feel like they're driving in milk.Sometimes we give tips about winter driving but when there's zero visibility, there really isn't a safe way to drive, Woolley said.The severe weather closed all county roads in Dufferin County, about 80 kilometres northwest of Toronto.Police asked drivers not to skirt blocked highways by taking back roads, warning there is little chance of being found if something happens on the less-travelled routes.It's really a dangerous situation starting to build and it's getting worse, said Woolley, adding another bad storm is headed for Ontario.
Threat of ice bombs closes Toronto
Tuesday Mar 6 08:56 AEDT (Reuters)
Toronto major streets are closed on fears that table-sized sheets of ice could shear off tall buildings and smash down on cars and pedestrians.Roads closed to traffic included parts of the Gardiner Expressway, an elevated freeway that leads to downtown Toronto, as well as part of King Street, the normally busy thoroughfare that is home to the Toronto Stock Exchange and Canada's financial district.Yellow tape kept even pedestrians indoors, leaving an eerie calm in the center of Canada's largest city.It's a situation where we had a mild December, then cold in mid-January, and over the last week or so a good blast of snow and freezing rain, said Geoff Coulson, a meteorologist with Environment Canada.
On top of some of those buildings, especially the ones with black roofs, it may be several degrees above zero. And when a piece of ice a couple metres (yards) across falls 30 floors it's like a bomb going off.CP-24 Television showed pictures of cars with smashed windshields from chunks of ice and said witnesses reported seeing ice slabs the size of a kitchen table flying off the sides of the soaring CN Tower.The ice is on the northeast side of the tower about 350 metres from the ground, said Irene Knight, the tower's manager of public relations. It's too dangerous to send anyone up to deal with it right now.The road closures snarled traffic during both morning and evening rush hours. Current weather conditions are presenting safety concerns, police said in a bland statement. The closures will remain in effect as long as there is a danger to public safety.A winter storm last Thursday dumped several centimetres of snow on Toronto and a night of rain turned that snow into icy porridge.Then the weather turned cold again, and the porridge turned back to ice, which started melting and falling from buildings.
Numbing cold in the Northeast Mark Avery, Meteorologist, The Weather Channel MAR 06,07
Northeast
The Northeast continues to deal with the leftovers of an Alberta clipper that brought snow and wind on Monday across the region. A few light snow showers or flurries are possible today in the Northeast, but the biggest impact will be the bitter cold and wind. Some of the coldest temperatures of the winter season (when compared to average temperatures) are possible today in the Northeast. Tomorrow, another clipper will affect the region, bringing a chance of snow mainly to the Mid-Atlantic and bringing a messy afternoon/evening commute to Washington, Baltimore, and Philadelphia Wednesday evening. A few snow showers will linger in far Northern New England on Thrusday before skies dry on Friday. Another chance of rain and snow moves into the region over the weekend. After bitter cold temperatures over the next three days, temperatures moderate toward Friday and the weekend with above average highs expected across the region this weekend.
Midwest
The Upper Midwest will be affected by an Alberta clipper today into tonight. The heaviest snows are expected over northern Minnesota into the Great Lakes. This system quickly moves out of the region, with a few snow showers possible in the Upper Ohio Valley Wednesday morning as the system leaves the Midwest. Thursday will give the region a break before the next system moves in and brings a chance of rain, with some snow near the Great Lakes, on Friday. The weekend looks to be mainly wet across most of the region, with the Northern Plains being the driest. Temperatures will be warming as the week progresses as well: temperatures over the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes are expected to be below average today through Thursday, but be above average region-wide by the weekend.
West
The Pacific Northwest and Northern California coasts will see the chance of rain returning tonight after enjoying a mostly dry day today. This system will bring valley rain and mountain snows across the Pacific Northwest and Northern Rockies tomorrow. A steady stream of moisture off of the Pacific will keep the chances of rain going through the weekend in the Pacific Northwest. Meanwhile, the Southwest will remain bone dry and warm. High pressure is expected to move over the Great Basin later this week and bring potential Santa Ana conditions to Southern California for Thursday through the weekend. Temperatures are expected to remain above seasonal averages across the region, with a brief cool down in the Northwest on Thursday.
South
The South remains relatively quiet today. The dry conditions are prompting red flag warnings due to the high fire danger over much of Florida and Georgia, as well as South Central Texas. Oklahoma and the Red River Valley of Texas also have an increased fire danger today due to breezy south winds expected. A few showers are possible on the East Coast of Florida on Wednesday, with a better chance of rain coming on Saturday and Sunday. Rain returns to the lower Mississippi Valley and Southern Plains on Friday and Saturday, with Saturday being a wet day across most of the South. Temperatures are expected to be near or above average across most of the region through the weekend, with Virginia and the Carolinas being below average today, warming tomorrow, and then briefly cooling off Thursday and Friday. Warmer than average temperatures should prevail over the weekend.
EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Families flee active volcano in Ecuador Mon Mar 5, 9:42 PM ET
QUITO, Ecuador - Authorities evacuated about 100 families from the slopes of a volcano in central Ecuador which began showering villages with flaming rocks and ash last month. Firefighters, police and civil defense officials conducted a voluntary evacuation because of the Tungurahua volcano's intensifying activity, Jorge Arteaga, director of Ecuador's Red Cross rescue squad, told Radio Quito on Monday.The 16,575-foot volcano, whose name means throat of fire in the Quechua language, shot a 1.2-mile plume of ash into the sky on Feb. 12.Santiago Arellano, a technician at Ecuador's Geophysics Institute, told The Associated Press that Tungurahua is registering its most intense activity since it erupted last August, killing four people and destroying or severely damaging nearly 5,000 homes.Arellano said Monday that an eruption is not imminent, but warned the volcano's activity could increase within hours. The volcano is located about 85 miles south of the capital of Quito.
Palestinian heads fail to agree on gov't By DIAA HADID, Associated Press Writer MAR 05,07
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - A daylong gunbattle between rival Palestinian factions raged in the streets of Gaza City Monday as Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh again failed to agree on the formation of a unity government. Government spokesman Ghazi Hamad said there would be another meeting tomorrow, where the two men planned to discuss the crucial issue of who would be interior minister, controlling security forces.The two leaders are negotiating the basis of an accord hammered out last month in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, laying out the framework of a government bringing Abbas' Fatah into partnership with Haniyeh's Hamas.Abbas hopes that bringing his more moderate Fatah back into the government would placate the West, which cut off aid to the Palestinian regime when Hamas took over a year ago after winning an election. However, the West insists that any Palestinian government must recognize Israel, renounce violence and accept previous peace accords. Hamas rejects the conditions, and the Mecca accord falls short of meeting them.
The U.S. State Department said Monday that full funding of a proposed $86 million in security assistance for the Palestinian Authority hinges on whether officials receive assurances that none of the funds can benefit Hamas.Hamas is considered a terrorist organization by the United States, European countries and Israel.Haniyeh has another two weeks to present the unity government, according to Palestinian law. His original Hamas-led government resigned to allow formation of a Hamas-Fatah team. Abbas has said the main goal is to stop armed conflicts that have killed more than 130 Palestinians in recent months.On Monday, members of a Hamas militia engaged in a daytime gunbattle with Fatah-allied security officers in the worst outbreak of internal violence since the Mecca accord was signed, security officials said.The gunbattle broke out in Gaza City when Hamas and Fatah loyalists argued over who had control of a nearby training compound, they said.The security forces demanded the Hamas militiamen leave the area, but they refused, saying it fell under the control of the Hamas-controlled Interior Ministry, security officials said. There were no injuries.
In two other incidents, unknown assailants fired shots at the house and car of a senior security officer who has had past problems with Hamas, security officials said. Shots were also fired at a police headquarters, and police returned fire, the security officials said.Also, security officials said they believed hardline Muslims were behind the bombing of a music shop in the southern town of Khan Younis early Monday, following a similar attack on an Internet cafe on Sunday. Another Internet cafe owner was also briefly kidnapped. Nobody was injured in the attacks.While there were no claims of responsibility, security officials suspect extremist Muslims trying to enforce strict moral conduct were behind the attacks. Hardline Muslims have said youths download pornography from Internet sites, are distracted from prayer by music and buy condoms and hallucinogenic drugs from some pharmacies. Since October, at least 20 such shops have been targeted.
Poll: Americans More Pro Israel, More Polarized by Gil Ronen MAR 06,07
A solid majority of Americans (58%) say their sympathies lie with the Israelis and only 20% say their sympathies are more with the Arabs of the Palestinian Authority, according to Gallup's annual World Affairs survey. Americans' sympathy towards Israel is holding at the same levels as in 2005 and 2006.
A comparison between Gallup polls conducted in the 1990s and those conducted since 2000 shows that the average level of sympathy for Israelis has risen, long term, from 41% to 53%, while the average sympathy for the Arab side of the conflict rose from 13% to 16%. The question posed was simply, In the Middle East situation, are your sympathies more with the Israelis or more with the Palestinians?
Gallup's experts explain the results as clearly showing that as Americans have moved out of the no preference columns (on the Israeli-Arab issue), they have moved disproportionately into the pro-Israeli column.Public preferences for Israelis in last year's February 2006 survey were at their highest since the 1991 Gulf War a survey that showed a slight dip in sympathies toward the Palestinian Authority. The recent shifts may be attributed to the events preceding them, namely Ariel Sharon's hospitalization and Hamas' election victory. The same general pattern is seen in a separate set of questions asking Americans to give their opinions of various countries. The total percentage of Americans viewing Israel favorably fell slightly between 2006 and 2007 - from 68% to 63% - while favorable views of Palestine, as the Palestinian Authority was presented in the poll, increased slightly, from 11% to 16%. However, between the two, Israel enjoys the much more positive image in the United States.
Americans are more pro-Israeli in their views today than they were 10 and 20 years ago, but, they are also more polarized generally. Today, a combined 78% of Americans favor one side or the other, while the remaining 22% express no partiality. Fourteen years ago, 43% of Americans had no preference in the dispute. BBC Releases Partial Information on Poll: Israel Deemed Very NegativeMeanwhile, a BBC World Service poll shows that a majority of people in 27 countries believes that Israel and Iran lead the list of countries seen as having a mainly negative influence in the world. The BBC staff did not disclose which countries were on the list and how many of them were Arab. The BBC admitted that Israel was most unpopular in Arab countries. Israel and Iran, each of which received a 56% negative rating in the BBC survey, are closely followed by the United States (51%) and North Korea (48%). The poll asked 28,000 respondents in 27 countries to rate a dozen countries, as well as the European Union, in terms of whether they have a positive or negative influence. Canada, Japan and the EU are viewed most positively in the survey.
Leftists to Build Illegal Arab Houses on State Land
16 Adar 5767, March 6, '07
(IsraelNN.com) Israeli leftists, together with foreign PLO supporters, plan to rebuild illegal Arab homes built on state-owned lands in the southern Hevron hills and plant trees on areas near the Gvaot Olam and Chavat Gilad (Gilad Farm) communities. The leftists have encouraged local Arabs to bring claims to the lands to sympathetic Israeli courts. When they obtain a court order, they plant trees or destroy Jewish crops, and when they are ruled against (as is the case in the Hevron Hills), they violently block the destruction and help the Arab illegally rebuild. An hour ago that the powers that be ruled in favor of a farmer from Hares. Twice last week we didn't succeed in planting on his lands next to the settlement of Revava, writes Rabbis For Human Rights rabbi-director Arik Ascherman. He went on to call upon activists to join Arabs from the Samaria village of Yanoun Wednesday in planting on land claimed by Gvaot Olam founder Avri Ran. Aschman, together with Ta'ayush, ISM, The Israeli Committee Against [Arab] House Demolitions, Gush Shalom, Coalition of Women for Peace, Machsom Watch, Yesh Gvul, Peace Now and Meretz (of Be’er Sheva) are calling upon leftists and foreign activists to prepare for a prolonged struggle in the Hevron Hills. Ascherman can be reached at: 050 560 7034.
Land Mines Lobbed Into Israel From Syria
by Gil Ronen MAR 06,07
Ten anti-personnel mines were discovered by an IDF patrol along the border with Syria in the Golan Heights on Saturday. The mines were not concealed or covered and IDF experts determined that they had been thrown over the border fence between Syria and Israel around midday Saturday. It is not clear who threw the mines into Israel or why. Syrian soldiers, terrorists and shepherds have been mentioned as the possible culprits. An IDF engineering unit was dispatched to neutralize the mines.
Israel planned to file an official complaint with the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF), which is deployed in Syria to oversee the 33-year-old ceasefire with Israel. An unnamed IDF officer said Sunday that responsibility for the event rests with the Syrian government, even if it was a local initiative that did not get an official green light from Damascus. The Syrian military has moved military infrastructure, including fuel depots, closer to the border with Israel.Military sources revealed that the mines were actually Israeli mines that the IDF had planted east of the security fence, but still within Israeli territory. Ten of these mines were taken out of the ground and lobbed over the fence. Six were found on the dirt road used by IDF patrols, north of Golan Brook in the southern part of the Golan Heights.
One possibility being looked into is that the Resistance Committees for Freeing the Golan Heights were involved in the incident. This Syrian guerrilla organization announced its inception in the summer of 2006, and said it would use Syrian terrorists to wage a guerrilla war in the Golan. The group also claimed that it was holding Israeli soldier Guy Hever, who went missing in the Golan on August 17, 1997. The Jerusalem Post reported on Friday that Syria has spent the past few months moving infrastructures to its southern border - and constructing additional infrastructures there as well - for the purpose of launching a war against Israel. According to defense officials, the Syrian military has moved military infrastructure, including fuel depots, closer to the border with Israel, and the Syrians have built structures that could serve as weapons storage facilities and military bases. The Syrian army is restricted in the number of troops it is allowed to deploy along the border.
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 = Wed Mar 7 12:00 AM EDT
MAR 06,07
MAP 3.3 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 5.2 COLOMBIA
MAP 4.9 SOUTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA
MAP 2.9 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.2 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 3.6 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 4.9 TONGA
MAP 2.5 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.4 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 3.1 UNIMAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP 6.3 SOUTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA
MAP 3.3 MONA PASSAGE, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
MAP 2.5 UNIMAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP 6.4 SOUTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA
MAP 2.8 OFFSHORE BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 3.0 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 2.6 PUERTO RICO
MAP 3.3 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 5.3 KEPULAUAN SULA, INDONESIA
MAR 05,07
MAP 3.5 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 2.7 GULF OF ALASKA
MAP 4.9 NEW GUINEA, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
MAP 2.5 SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.6 KENAI PENINSULA, ALASKA
MAP 4.2 SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA
MAP 2.9 SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.4 WESTERN XIZANG
MAP 2.5 MAUI REGION, HAWAII
MAP 3.0 UNIMAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP 4.6 GUATEMALA
MAP 5.2 KERMADEC ISLANDS, NEW ZEALAND
MAP 2.7 ONTARIO-QUEBEC BORDER REGION, CANADA
MAP 2.5 CENTRAL ALASKA
Powerful Indonesian earthquake kills 70 By ZAKKI HAKIM, Associated Press Writer MAR 06,07
PADANG, Indonesia - A powerful earthquake crumpled houses across a large swath of western Indonesia on Tuesday, killing at least 70 people and injuring hundreds, authorities said, predicting that the toll would rise. The magnitude 6.3 quake struck on Sumatra island and was felt as far away as neighboring Malaysia and Singapore, where some tall buildings were evacuated. It was followed by several strong aftershocks.Women were crying out in terror. We all just fled as quickly as we could, said Alpion, a welder in the seaside town of Padang who uses a single name. Along with thousands of others, he was running to higher ground, fearing a tsunami that never came.
Indonesia straddles one of the world's most seismically violent zones and has been hit by a string of natural disaster in recent years, the most deadly being the 2004 tsunami that killed 160,000 people on Sumatra's northern tip.Indonesian Cabinet Secretary Sudi Silalahi told reporters in Jakarta that at least 70 people had been killed by the quake, which hit the island's western coast. The worst-affected area appeared to be Solok, a bustling town close to the epicenter where two children were killed by falling debris on a school playground.Dozens of buildings had been destroyed and hundreds others damaged, local police chief Lt. Col. Budi Sarwono said. TV footage showed a flattened three-story home and thick cracks in the road.Hospitals were overflowing with patients, many of them with broken bones and cuts. Scores were laid out on cots where they were given emergency care, said Sarwono.
So far we have recovered 19 bodies and hundreds of injured people, he said. The two hospitals are overwhelmed with victims.At one hospital in nearby Padang, panicked doctors and nurses fled into the streets, startled patients limping behind, according to Metro TV.Local government spokesman Hasrul Piliang said the number of dead would likely rise because tolls from remote areas were still being collected and there were reports of others trapped under debris.The U.S. Geological Survey said the tremor struck 20 miles below Solok. It was followed by several strong aftershocks, one measuring 6.0.The tremor was felt in Singapore, 265 miles from the quake's epicenter, forcing the evacuation of several older office buildings, TV station Channel NewsAsia reported.In Malaysia's southern coastal city of Johor, citizens fled offices, buildings and shopping centers, eyewitnesses said.Indonesia, the world's largest archipelago, is prone to seismic upheaval because of its location on the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire, an arc of volcanos and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin.
In addition to the 2004 tsunami, earthquake-spawned waves also killed nearly 5,000 on Java island last year.Tuesday's quake was about 660 miles west of the country's capital Jakarta.
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.
Dozens of cars crash near Barrie, closing highway
Blowing snow causes shutdown of major highways across southern Ontario
Monday, March 5, 2007 CBC News
Pileups involving more than 75 vehicles closed Highway 400 south of Barrie on Monday afternoon, as blowing snow and powerful wind gusts caused accidents across Southern Ontario.Ontario Provincial Police Const. Sally Stewart said police are aware of at least one life-threatening injury and several serious injuries, but no fatalities so far.Sometimes we give tips about winter driving but when there's zero visibility, there really isn't a safe way to drive. OPP Sgt. Cam Woolley We have a lot of drifting snow and high winds today, Stewart said. It makes [snow] very loose and therefore the wind can pick it up and throw it around, which causes complete whiteouts.Police closed ramps onto the highway in the area of the pileups as emergency crews worked to free people from the wreckage.The northbound pileup happened near Highway 88. The southbound pileup was further north, near Highway 89.The northbound accident, involving more than 30 cars, three trucks and two coach buses, was the most serious, according to CBC reporter Steven D'Souza. A truck driver and a van driver were taken to hospital with critical injuries. At least 35 others are in hospital with minor injuries.Sections of Highway 400 near the accident scene are expected to remain closed until Tuesday morning.
It's like driving in milk
Hundreds of minor accidents were reported across southern Ontario as snow and winds gusting up to 100 km/h pummelled the region, hitting areas along Lake Huron and Georgian Bay the hardest.More than a dozen major highways across southern Ontario were closed because of the blowing snow, with visibility as low as half a kilometre in some spots.OPP Sgt. Cam Woolley suggested motorists avoid driving west of Highway 400, saying conditions are fluctuating between sunshine and whiteouts that make it feel like they're driving in milk.Sometimes we give tips about winter driving but when there's zero visibility, there really isn't a safe way to drive, Woolley said.The severe weather closed all county roads in Dufferin County, about 80 kilometres northwest of Toronto.Police asked drivers not to skirt blocked highways by taking back roads, warning there is little chance of being found if something happens on the less-travelled routes.It's really a dangerous situation starting to build and it's getting worse, said Woolley, adding another bad storm is headed for Ontario.
Threat of ice bombs closes Toronto
Tuesday Mar 6 08:56 AEDT (Reuters)
Toronto major streets are closed on fears that table-sized sheets of ice could shear off tall buildings and smash down on cars and pedestrians.Roads closed to traffic included parts of the Gardiner Expressway, an elevated freeway that leads to downtown Toronto, as well as part of King Street, the normally busy thoroughfare that is home to the Toronto Stock Exchange and Canada's financial district.Yellow tape kept even pedestrians indoors, leaving an eerie calm in the center of Canada's largest city.It's a situation where we had a mild December, then cold in mid-January, and over the last week or so a good blast of snow and freezing rain, said Geoff Coulson, a meteorologist with Environment Canada.
On top of some of those buildings, especially the ones with black roofs, it may be several degrees above zero. And when a piece of ice a couple metres (yards) across falls 30 floors it's like a bomb going off.CP-24 Television showed pictures of cars with smashed windshields from chunks of ice and said witnesses reported seeing ice slabs the size of a kitchen table flying off the sides of the soaring CN Tower.The ice is on the northeast side of the tower about 350 metres from the ground, said Irene Knight, the tower's manager of public relations. It's too dangerous to send anyone up to deal with it right now.The road closures snarled traffic during both morning and evening rush hours. Current weather conditions are presenting safety concerns, police said in a bland statement. The closures will remain in effect as long as there is a danger to public safety.A winter storm last Thursday dumped several centimetres of snow on Toronto and a night of rain turned that snow into icy porridge.Then the weather turned cold again, and the porridge turned back to ice, which started melting and falling from buildings.
Numbing cold in the Northeast Mark Avery, Meteorologist, The Weather Channel MAR 06,07
Northeast
The Northeast continues to deal with the leftovers of an Alberta clipper that brought snow and wind on Monday across the region. A few light snow showers or flurries are possible today in the Northeast, but the biggest impact will be the bitter cold and wind. Some of the coldest temperatures of the winter season (when compared to average temperatures) are possible today in the Northeast. Tomorrow, another clipper will affect the region, bringing a chance of snow mainly to the Mid-Atlantic and bringing a messy afternoon/evening commute to Washington, Baltimore, and Philadelphia Wednesday evening. A few snow showers will linger in far Northern New England on Thrusday before skies dry on Friday. Another chance of rain and snow moves into the region over the weekend. After bitter cold temperatures over the next three days, temperatures moderate toward Friday and the weekend with above average highs expected across the region this weekend.
Midwest
The Upper Midwest will be affected by an Alberta clipper today into tonight. The heaviest snows are expected over northern Minnesota into the Great Lakes. This system quickly moves out of the region, with a few snow showers possible in the Upper Ohio Valley Wednesday morning as the system leaves the Midwest. Thursday will give the region a break before the next system moves in and brings a chance of rain, with some snow near the Great Lakes, on Friday. The weekend looks to be mainly wet across most of the region, with the Northern Plains being the driest. Temperatures will be warming as the week progresses as well: temperatures over the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes are expected to be below average today through Thursday, but be above average region-wide by the weekend.
West
The Pacific Northwest and Northern California coasts will see the chance of rain returning tonight after enjoying a mostly dry day today. This system will bring valley rain and mountain snows across the Pacific Northwest and Northern Rockies tomorrow. A steady stream of moisture off of the Pacific will keep the chances of rain going through the weekend in the Pacific Northwest. Meanwhile, the Southwest will remain bone dry and warm. High pressure is expected to move over the Great Basin later this week and bring potential Santa Ana conditions to Southern California for Thursday through the weekend. Temperatures are expected to remain above seasonal averages across the region, with a brief cool down in the Northwest on Thursday.
South
The South remains relatively quiet today. The dry conditions are prompting red flag warnings due to the high fire danger over much of Florida and Georgia, as well as South Central Texas. Oklahoma and the Red River Valley of Texas also have an increased fire danger today due to breezy south winds expected. A few showers are possible on the East Coast of Florida on Wednesday, with a better chance of rain coming on Saturday and Sunday. Rain returns to the lower Mississippi Valley and Southern Plains on Friday and Saturday, with Saturday being a wet day across most of the South. Temperatures are expected to be near or above average across most of the region through the weekend, with Virginia and the Carolinas being below average today, warming tomorrow, and then briefly cooling off Thursday and Friday. Warmer than average temperatures should prevail over the weekend.
EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Families flee active volcano in Ecuador Mon Mar 5, 9:42 PM ET
QUITO, Ecuador - Authorities evacuated about 100 families from the slopes of a volcano in central Ecuador which began showering villages with flaming rocks and ash last month. Firefighters, police and civil defense officials conducted a voluntary evacuation because of the Tungurahua volcano's intensifying activity, Jorge Arteaga, director of Ecuador's Red Cross rescue squad, told Radio Quito on Monday.The 16,575-foot volcano, whose name means throat of fire in the Quechua language, shot a 1.2-mile plume of ash into the sky on Feb. 12.Santiago Arellano, a technician at Ecuador's Geophysics Institute, told The Associated Press that Tungurahua is registering its most intense activity since it erupted last August, killing four people and destroying or severely damaging nearly 5,000 homes.Arellano said Monday that an eruption is not imminent, but warned the volcano's activity could increase within hours. The volcano is located about 85 miles south of the capital of Quito.
Palestinian heads fail to agree on gov't By DIAA HADID, Associated Press Writer MAR 05,07
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - A daylong gunbattle between rival Palestinian factions raged in the streets of Gaza City Monday as Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh again failed to agree on the formation of a unity government. Government spokesman Ghazi Hamad said there would be another meeting tomorrow, where the two men planned to discuss the crucial issue of who would be interior minister, controlling security forces.The two leaders are negotiating the basis of an accord hammered out last month in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, laying out the framework of a government bringing Abbas' Fatah into partnership with Haniyeh's Hamas.Abbas hopes that bringing his more moderate Fatah back into the government would placate the West, which cut off aid to the Palestinian regime when Hamas took over a year ago after winning an election. However, the West insists that any Palestinian government must recognize Israel, renounce violence and accept previous peace accords. Hamas rejects the conditions, and the Mecca accord falls short of meeting them.
The U.S. State Department said Monday that full funding of a proposed $86 million in security assistance for the Palestinian Authority hinges on whether officials receive assurances that none of the funds can benefit Hamas.Hamas is considered a terrorist organization by the United States, European countries and Israel.Haniyeh has another two weeks to present the unity government, according to Palestinian law. His original Hamas-led government resigned to allow formation of a Hamas-Fatah team. Abbas has said the main goal is to stop armed conflicts that have killed more than 130 Palestinians in recent months.On Monday, members of a Hamas militia engaged in a daytime gunbattle with Fatah-allied security officers in the worst outbreak of internal violence since the Mecca accord was signed, security officials said.The gunbattle broke out in Gaza City when Hamas and Fatah loyalists argued over who had control of a nearby training compound, they said.The security forces demanded the Hamas militiamen leave the area, but they refused, saying it fell under the control of the Hamas-controlled Interior Ministry, security officials said. There were no injuries.
In two other incidents, unknown assailants fired shots at the house and car of a senior security officer who has had past problems with Hamas, security officials said. Shots were also fired at a police headquarters, and police returned fire, the security officials said.Also, security officials said they believed hardline Muslims were behind the bombing of a music shop in the southern town of Khan Younis early Monday, following a similar attack on an Internet cafe on Sunday. Another Internet cafe owner was also briefly kidnapped. Nobody was injured in the attacks.While there were no claims of responsibility, security officials suspect extremist Muslims trying to enforce strict moral conduct were behind the attacks. Hardline Muslims have said youths download pornography from Internet sites, are distracted from prayer by music and buy condoms and hallucinogenic drugs from some pharmacies. Since October, at least 20 such shops have been targeted.
Poll: Americans More Pro Israel, More Polarized by Gil Ronen MAR 06,07
A solid majority of Americans (58%) say their sympathies lie with the Israelis and only 20% say their sympathies are more with the Arabs of the Palestinian Authority, according to Gallup's annual World Affairs survey. Americans' sympathy towards Israel is holding at the same levels as in 2005 and 2006.
A comparison between Gallup polls conducted in the 1990s and those conducted since 2000 shows that the average level of sympathy for Israelis has risen, long term, from 41% to 53%, while the average sympathy for the Arab side of the conflict rose from 13% to 16%. The question posed was simply, In the Middle East situation, are your sympathies more with the Israelis or more with the Palestinians?
Gallup's experts explain the results as clearly showing that as Americans have moved out of the no preference columns (on the Israeli-Arab issue), they have moved disproportionately into the pro-Israeli column.Public preferences for Israelis in last year's February 2006 survey were at their highest since the 1991 Gulf War a survey that showed a slight dip in sympathies toward the Palestinian Authority. The recent shifts may be attributed to the events preceding them, namely Ariel Sharon's hospitalization and Hamas' election victory. The same general pattern is seen in a separate set of questions asking Americans to give their opinions of various countries. The total percentage of Americans viewing Israel favorably fell slightly between 2006 and 2007 - from 68% to 63% - while favorable views of Palestine, as the Palestinian Authority was presented in the poll, increased slightly, from 11% to 16%. However, between the two, Israel enjoys the much more positive image in the United States.
Americans are more pro-Israeli in their views today than they were 10 and 20 years ago, but, they are also more polarized generally. Today, a combined 78% of Americans favor one side or the other, while the remaining 22% express no partiality. Fourteen years ago, 43% of Americans had no preference in the dispute. BBC Releases Partial Information on Poll: Israel Deemed Very NegativeMeanwhile, a BBC World Service poll shows that a majority of people in 27 countries believes that Israel and Iran lead the list of countries seen as having a mainly negative influence in the world. The BBC staff did not disclose which countries were on the list and how many of them were Arab. The BBC admitted that Israel was most unpopular in Arab countries. Israel and Iran, each of which received a 56% negative rating in the BBC survey, are closely followed by the United States (51%) and North Korea (48%). The poll asked 28,000 respondents in 27 countries to rate a dozen countries, as well as the European Union, in terms of whether they have a positive or negative influence. Canada, Japan and the EU are viewed most positively in the survey.
Leftists to Build Illegal Arab Houses on State Land
16 Adar 5767, March 6, '07
(IsraelNN.com) Israeli leftists, together with foreign PLO supporters, plan to rebuild illegal Arab homes built on state-owned lands in the southern Hevron hills and plant trees on areas near the Gvaot Olam and Chavat Gilad (Gilad Farm) communities. The leftists have encouraged local Arabs to bring claims to the lands to sympathetic Israeli courts. When they obtain a court order, they plant trees or destroy Jewish crops, and when they are ruled against (as is the case in the Hevron Hills), they violently block the destruction and help the Arab illegally rebuild. An hour ago that the powers that be ruled in favor of a farmer from Hares. Twice last week we didn't succeed in planting on his lands next to the settlement of Revava, writes Rabbis For Human Rights rabbi-director Arik Ascherman. He went on to call upon activists to join Arabs from the Samaria village of Yanoun Wednesday in planting on land claimed by Gvaot Olam founder Avri Ran. Aschman, together with Ta'ayush, ISM, The Israeli Committee Against [Arab] House Demolitions, Gush Shalom, Coalition of Women for Peace, Machsom Watch, Yesh Gvul, Peace Now and Meretz (of Be’er Sheva) are calling upon leftists and foreign activists to prepare for a prolonged struggle in the Hevron Hills. Ascherman can be reached at: 050 560 7034.
Land Mines Lobbed Into Israel From Syria
by Gil Ronen MAR 06,07
Ten anti-personnel mines were discovered by an IDF patrol along the border with Syria in the Golan Heights on Saturday. The mines were not concealed or covered and IDF experts determined that they had been thrown over the border fence between Syria and Israel around midday Saturday. It is not clear who threw the mines into Israel or why. Syrian soldiers, terrorists and shepherds have been mentioned as the possible culprits. An IDF engineering unit was dispatched to neutralize the mines.
Israel planned to file an official complaint with the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF), which is deployed in Syria to oversee the 33-year-old ceasefire with Israel. An unnamed IDF officer said Sunday that responsibility for the event rests with the Syrian government, even if it was a local initiative that did not get an official green light from Damascus. The Syrian military has moved military infrastructure, including fuel depots, closer to the border with Israel.Military sources revealed that the mines were actually Israeli mines that the IDF had planted east of the security fence, but still within Israeli territory. Ten of these mines were taken out of the ground and lobbed over the fence. Six were found on the dirt road used by IDF patrols, north of Golan Brook in the southern part of the Golan Heights.
One possibility being looked into is that the Resistance Committees for Freeing the Golan Heights were involved in the incident. This Syrian guerrilla organization announced its inception in the summer of 2006, and said it would use Syrian terrorists to wage a guerrilla war in the Golan. The group also claimed that it was holding Israeli soldier Guy Hever, who went missing in the Golan on August 17, 1997. The Jerusalem Post reported on Friday that Syria has spent the past few months moving infrastructures to its southern border - and constructing additional infrastructures there as well - for the purpose of launching a war against Israel. According to defense officials, the Syrian military has moved military infrastructure, including fuel depots, closer to the border with Israel, and the Syrians have built structures that could serve as weapons storage facilities and military bases. The Syrian army is restricted in the number of troops it is allowed to deploy along the border.
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
EU - MARKETS DOWN - SYRIA
1-WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS.2-Extreme cold weather alert in force. 3-Wintry Weather Returns: Nasty Roads, Colder Air. 4-Renew animal sacrifices on Mount says radical rabbi. 5-Birthday declaration puts Merkel to EU constitution test. 6-Abbas accuses EU of discriminating against PA, being pro-Israel. 7-Asian stocks tumble as yen surges. 8-BIOLOGICAL WAR-FEAR Syria ready with bio-terror if U.S. hits Iran. 9-What's happening in Israel. Messianic Bible Project.
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 = Tue Mar 6 12:00 AM EDT
MAR 05,07
MAP 2.9 SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.4 WESTERN XIZANG
MAP 2.5 MAUI REGION, HAWAII
MAP 3.0 UNIMAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP 4.6 GUATEMALA
MAP 5.2 KERMADEC ISLANDS, NEW ZEALAND
MAP 2.7 ONTARIO-QUEBEC BORDER REGION, CANADA
MAP 2.5 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAR 04,07
MAP 3.0 ISLAND OF HAWAII, HAWAII
MAP 5.2 NORTHERN MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE
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 5.6 NORTHERN MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE
MAP 4.6 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 2.7 SOUTH OF ALASKA
MAP 3.4 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC REGION
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 5.7 PACIFIC-ANTARCTIC RIDGE
MAP 3.8 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 5.7 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.
Extreme cold weather alert in force MAR 05,07
TORONTO, March 5 /CNW/ - The City of Toronto has issued an extreme cold weather alert, effective immediately, to help get homeless people in from the cold. This is in effect until further notice.An extreme cold weather alert is issued when extremely cold weather is forecast. This type of severe cold weather is hazardous to homeless people who are sleeping outside.Street Helpline operates 24 hours a day to help homeless people and front-line workers know where to find shelter and other services. Street Helpline can be called toll-free at 1-866-392-3777 from any payphone. Members of the public can phone this number if they see a homeless person sleeping outside.
An alert is in effect when Environment Canada: predicts a temperature of -15 degrees Celsius or lower, without wind chill, issues a wind chill warning for outdoor activity for people in the Toronto area, and/or, predicts extreme weather conditions, such as a blizzard or ice storm.
Toronto is Canada's largest city and sixth largest government, and home to a diverse population of more than 2.6 million people. It is the economic engine of Canada and one of the greenest and most creative cities in North America. In the past three years Toronto has won more than 50 awards for quality and innovation in delivering public services. Toronto's government is dedicated to prosperity, opportunity and liveability for all its residents.
Wintry Weather Returns: Nasty Roads, Colder Air
Monday, March 5, 2007 07:57 AM - WBEN Newsroom
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) - If your commute takes you down roads that are susceptible to blowing and drifting snow, you could face some of the worst driving conditions of the season today.Snowfall of a few inches will combine with very strong winds to send snow whipping across roads and piling up in commuter lanes. Plows have been out, and will continue to be out throughout the day, but the strong winds immediately blow the snow back, and will create visibility problems, as well.The National Weather Service has issued a blowing and drifting snow ADVISORY until 7-this evening for the entire Western New York region.We're also in line for some very cold air coming out of Canada later today. That blast of arctic air will produce temperatures in the single digits, and wind chills below zero. The region is also under a wind chill ADVISORY starting at midnight tonight.
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.
God has always dealt with Israel in 7's, it just makes sense the last dealing with Israel and the World will be a 7 yr treaty. God rested from creation on the 7TH DAY. Every 7TH YEAR Israel is suppose to rest the land. And the 7X7=49 YRS and the jubilee is the 50TH YEAR.
Now the scriptures that a week in Israel history is 7YEARS.
Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs
Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
Isn"t this interesting it comes from the same Person whos name was changed to Israel,(JACOB) and Israel and Jerusalem is the places dealt with in Daniel 9:24-27.
GENESIS 32:27-28
27 And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.
28 And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
Renew animal sacrifices on Mount says radical rabbi MAR 05,07
Member of Sanhedrin says sacrifices were not possible when the people of Israel were in the Diaspora, but now they are. Adds: Jerusalem Temple should be rebuilt, Israeli government standing in our way Yaakov Lappin / Israel News
Animal sacrifices should be renewed on the Temple Mount, a member of the radical Sanhedrin organization told Ynetnews. In ancient Israel and Judea, the Sanhedrin served as the highest court in the land, and was made up of 71 top judges. Now, a group of 71 fringe rabbis say they have reformed the group, although the organization has received no recognition from Israel's official religious authorities. In the Torah there are around 200 commandments dealing with animal sacrifices, said Rabbi Dov Stein, of the Sanhedrin organization. The Torah of Israel demands animal sacrifices.
When the people of Israel were in the Diaspora, it couldn’t be done. But now, there is the supreme institution, the Sanhedrin, made up of experts, and it can be done. The new Sanhedrin, like the old, will educate the people of Israel on how to keep and safeguard the Torah.
Democracy was not invented today
Stein vowed that we will try to carry out animal sacrifices on the Temple Mount this Passover, as commanded by the Torah.Asked if his organization sought to rebuild the third Temple, Stein's answer was unequivocal. We want to establish the Temple again. Unfortunately, standing in our way is a hostile regime, the Israeli government, and rabbis who for political interest don't want this to happen.Stein even suggested that Muslims would agree to the project, saying: The Omar Mosque (the Dome of the Rock), built by Khalif Omar, was actually intended to safeguard the site for the Jews. Islam hasn't always been so hostile. Despite its hatred and massacres against us, Islam sees in Judaism a source and a guide. I think the moment will come that Muslims understand the need to build the Temple and go along with us.Stein outlined his plan for Israel, calling for a king to be appointed democratically. Democracy was not invented today, the king is elected from a list of candidates. A senior judge, as was done during the days of the judges, can also be appointed, he added.
However, such practices ended 2000 years ago, Rabbi Doniel Hartman was quoted by the Associated Press as saying. Around that time, animal sacrifice, as a mode of religious worship, stopped for Jews, Christians and Muslims, said the rabbi from the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, according to AP. Moving back in that direction is not progress, he added. According to mainstream Jewish thought, animal sacrifices must not be carried out outside of Temple, which itself cannot be rebuilt by human endeavor, but will be rebuilt upon the arrival of the messiah.
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).
Birthday declaration puts Merkel to EU constitution test
05.03.2007 - 09:28 CET | By Mark Beunderman
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - German chancellor Angela Merkel is facing the first real test of her efforts to push a revised EU constitution as she seeks to convince EU leaders this week to include a reference to a new treaty in the EU's 50th anniversary declaration. Ms Merkel is likely to raise the constitutional issue during a dinner with EU counterparts on Thursday evening (8 March) where she will outline her ideas for the so-called Berlin declaration to be signed by EU leaders and institutions on 25 March. The two to three page declaration - which will mark the 50th anniversary of the 1957 Treaty of Rome laying the foundation for the current EU - is set to consist of three main parts, on European history, European values and the current challenges facing the union. But the German EU presidency
also wants to conclude the document with a fourth element, a paragraph which would call upon EU member states to find a solution to the political impasse following the rejection of the EU constitution by French and Dutch voters in 2005.
The question of what we need in terms of institutions in order to go forward with the union is the crucial issue for Berlin here, EU diplomats said. In a consultation round with member states' so-called sherpas - government appointees for confidential talks with Berlin on the EU constitution - it emerged that Ms Merkel wants member states to commit themselves in the anniversary text to deadlines for both the agreement of a re-negotiated constitution text and its ratification. German Europe minister Guenther Gloser said last week 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.But language on a constitutional timetable is opposed by the UK, Poland and the Netherlands, which seek far-reaching changes to the EU constitution and dislike the idea of a fast-moving constitutional revival process. London, Warsaw, The Hague as well as Paris would also oppose any wording suggesting that the EU constitution should form the basis of a new EU treaty - a philosophy promoted by the 18 member states which already ratified the constitution. I don't think there is an agreement among member states on a sort of bridge at the end of the Berlin declaration to the EU constitution. I rather expect a reference to the coming willingness of the member states to work further towards a treaty settlement, Polish sherpa Marek Cichocki told EUobserver. EU diplomats said however that the divisions over the issue could be fudged by vague language such as that used by EU leaders in conclusions last June, where they said that they would continue the reform process taking the necessary steps to that effect before 2009. A French contact adding that Paris would probably agree to terms like institutional settlement.
Euro, Christian heritage
The constitution is not the only cause of division over the birthday declaration. Thursday's dinner is also expected to cover other outstanding issues surrounding the birthday text – on the euro, the union's social dimension and some values-related issues. Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker said last month that he would like the euro currency to get a mention as one of the great successes of European construction - a proposal disliked by the UK and Sweden which are outside the eurozone.A social-economic discussion over the document has also emerged, with nine member states including France, Italy and Spain recently issuing an open declaration calling for more promotion of social Europe. We thought it might feed into the discussion around the Berlin declaration, said a French official, with free-market states such as the Czech Republic and the UK however likely to resist too much social language. Meanwhile, Poland is pushing for a reference to Europe's Christian heritage - something which Warsaw failed to obtain in the 2004 EU constitution text but for which it now sees a second chance.
Maybe it would be easier to have this accepted in the Berlin declaration which will have no legal status, than in a preamble of a legally binding treaty, Poland's sherpa said. It poses a difficulty for us to have this included in a public political document, a diplomat from secularist France reacted. With member states so far wanting a whole wish-list of issues to be included in the declaration, the text risks becoming too long, some diplomats warned. Once you start with two pages and then everyone starts adding in, you will soon end up with three, said one source. It is likely that the first drafts of the declaration will emerge from Berlin only after Ms Merkel has tested the atmosphere at Thursday's dinner, officials said.
Abbas accuses EU of discriminating against PA, being pro-Israel
By Akiva Eldar, Haaretz Correspondent Mon Mar 05,07
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas accused the European Union on Sunday of
discriminating against the Palestinians, and of fostering an unjust, pro-Israel approach.He went on to complain to the EU of a series of provocative and illegal Israeli actions.In an unusually harsh letter from Dr. Rafiq Husseini, Abbas' chief of staff, to German Foreign Minister Frank Walter-Steimeier, the Palestinian leadership complained of several instances in which Israel has allegedly violated its prior commitments, including the road map. Husseini noted in his letter to Steimeier - current president of the European Council - the reports of Israel's intention to build a new Jewish neighborhood in East Jerusalem, and the construction of a new Jerusalem District police headquarters beyond the Green line. At a time when the Palestinian people are at the threshold of a historic national consensus... such Israeli actions only serve to derail efforts to support forces of moderation, the letter reads. It also lists the IDF's incursion into Nablus last week, as well as the archaeological excavation near the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
Husseini suggests that despite Israel's violations and its refusal to participate in dialogue with the Palestinians, it enjoys close relations and financial ties with the EU, as opposed to the Palestinian Authority, which is under an international embargo. The letter calls to end this glaring injustice, and to adopt a more balanced approach by the Council of Ministers and the international community.
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni was expected to visit Brussels in advance of the EU meeting scheduled for Monday, in an attempt to convince the Europeans to adhere to the embargo for as long as the Hamas government refuses to renounce terror and recognize Israel as well as agreements signed with it. Officials in Jerusalem are concerned about possible erosion in the European Union regarding the embargo, as reflected in recent announcements by several European governments of their intention to reevaluate their stance following the Mecca agreement between Hamas and Fatah.
DOCTOR SAMUEL DOCTORIAN ANGEL ONE
Then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
Asian stocks tumble as yen surges
March 5, 2007
SINGAPORE (Reuters) Asia's battered stock markets tumbled again on Monday, as a global sell-off that began last week gathered fresh steam, with Japanese shares sliding more than 3 percent as a surging yen hammered exporters such as Toyota.The yen hit three-month highs against the dollar and the euro as investors rushed to close out risky trades and pay off the cheap yen loans that financed them.
Major European markets are expected to open down around 2 percent on Monday, financial bookmakers said. Britain's FTSE 100 is expected to open 1.8 percent lower, while Germany's DAX and France's CAC 40 are expected to open down 2 and 2.2 percent, respectively.
If New York continues to slide and the yen continues to strengthen at this pace, there is no bottom in sight for Japan, said Kirby Daley, a strategist at brokerage Fimat in Tokyo.A near 9 percent slump in China's main stock index last Tuesday, combined with worries about stalling U.S. growth, sparked a wave a selling in world equity markets, many of which had been trading around record highs.
Australian stocks fell 2.3 percent to a seven-week closing low, erasing all their gains for 2007, with the world's largest miner, BHP Billiton, dropping 2.9 percent.Share indexes in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore lost between 3 and 4 percent and South Korea's benchmark fell 2.7 percent.
This is not like September 11, when there was a clear issue, so the sell-off was reasonable, said Lim Chang-gue, a fund manager at Samsung Investment Trust Management in Seoul.Something bad seems to be happening, but there is no one clear reason. It's this unknown that is making it worse so people are just selling out.Fears about the health of the global economy knocked more than 1 percent off oil prices, while Japanese government bond and U.S. Treasuries futures rose to around three-month highs, as investors fled stocks and commodities in search of safer assets.The yen rose across the board, with sterling plunging as much as 2 percent and other major currencies more than 1 percent, as market players unwound bets against the Japanese currency.The so-called carry trade, in which investors fund the purchase of higher-yielding -- and riskier -- assets with borrowing in the low-yielding yen, had driven the yen to a four-year low against the dollar in late January.The situation has changed now, with volatility no longer low to support the carry trades, and the unwinding of long positions in riskier assets spurred by the global stock market plunge is continuing, said a bond dealer at a Japanese trust bank.The dollar tumbled to a three-month low at 115.40 yen, before trimming losses slightly to trade around 115.55 yen by 0550 GMT. The euro bought around 152.25 down 1.2 percent, having fallen as low as 151.75 yen.
Yen worry
Tokyo's Nikkei fell below 17,000 for the first time in nearly two months to end down 3.3 percent, its biggest one-day percentage loss since June last year and its lowest close in 2007.The real worry is the currency, said Masayoshi Okamoto, head of dealing at Jujiya Securities.Toyota has assumed an exchange rate of 115 yen to the dollar for the fourth quarter. While we're already close to that, the thing is that investors were buying Toyota on the assumption the exchange level would be around 120 yen.Toyota, the world's most profitable car maker, fell 3.2 percent. Cameras and copiers maker Canon dropped 2.1 percent and Sony shed 2.9 percent. A stronger yen tends to hurt exporters because it erodes the value of their overseas sales.MSCI's broadest index of Asian shares outside Japan was down 3.7 percent at 0550 GMT.A measure of emerging Asian markets fell 4.1 percent, after diving 5.4 percent last week, and an index of Hong Kong-listed shares in mainland China firms, or H-shares, fell 5.3 percent, led by financials such as China Life
In the Japanese government bond market, lead March futures were up 0.44 point at 135.26, climbing towards a three-month high of 135.44 hit last week. The benchmark 10-year yield fell 4.5 basis points to 1.620 percent.A growing view that recent falls in share prices may not be just a temporary correction is giving the JGB market support, said Masuhisa Kobayashi, chief JGB strategist at Barclays Capital.Investors were cautiously hoping for the equities markets to steady this week but the Asian markets have continued to fall, so that's making people nervous, said Dariusz Kowalczyk, an analyst at Hong-Kong based CFC Seymour Ltd.Gold eased to around $640.80 an ounce, after sliding nearly 3 percent on Friday, when currency investors sold the precious metal to pay for losses in other markets.Reuters.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
LUKE 21:11,25-26
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.(NOTICES PESTILENCES IN HERE COULD MEAN BIOLOGICAL, CHEMICAL WEAPONS ALSO)
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)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:
BIOLOGICAL WAR-FEAR
Syria ready with bio-terror if U.S. hits Iran
Damascus reportedly hiding WMD among commercial pharmaceuticals
Dr Jerome R. Corsi - WorldNetDaily.com - MAR 05,07
An American biodefense analyst living in Europe says if the U.S. invades Iran to halt its nuclear ambitions, Syria is ready to respond with weapons of mass destruction – specifically biological weapons. Syria is positioned to launch a biological attack on Israel or Europe should the U.S. attack Iran, Jill Bellamy-Dekker told WND. The Syrians are embedding their biological weapons program into their commercial pharmaceuticals business and their veterinary vaccine-research facilities. The intelligence service oversees Syria's bio-farm program and the Ministry of Defense is well interfaced into the effort.Bellamy-Decker currently directs the Public Health Preparedness program for the European Homeland Security Association under the French High Committee for Civil Defense. She anticipates a variation of smallpox is the biological agent Syria would utilize.
The Syrians are also working on orthopox viruses that are related to smallpox, Bellamy-Decker said, and it's a good way to get around international treaties against offensive biological weapons development. They work on camelpox as a cover for smallpox.According to the Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy (CIDRAP) at the University of Minnesota, camelpox is a virus closely related to smallpox, that causes a severe and economically important disease in camels, but rarely, if ever, causes the disease in humans.
Bellamy-Decker also told WND the North Koreans were working closely with the Syrians on their biological weapons program. The Syrians have made some recent acquisitions in regard to their smallpox program from the DPRK, she explained. Right before the recent Lebanon war, the Syrians had a crash program in cryptosporidium.According to the Washington State Department of Health, cryptosporidium is a one-celled parasite that causes a gastrointestinal illness with symptoms of diarrhea, abdominal cramps, headaches, nausea, vomiting, and a low-grade fever. The symptoms can last for weeks and may result in weight loss and dehydration.
Because cryptosporidium is impervious to chlorine, Bellamy-Decker continued, you could infect the water supply by the bucket full of cryptosporidium, if you know where to get it. The resulting illness would put down a lot of civilians and military who might oppose you going into their country.The Syrians have a modus operandi of covert operations and deniability, she stressed, so biological weapons are absolutely perfect for them.WND asked Bellamy-Decker if the Syrians have any history of having used biological weapons.
I believe they are testing biological weapons right now, in Sudan, in the conflict in Darfur, she answered. There is credible information about flyover activity in Darfur, where little parachutes have been dropped down on the population. This is consistent with dispersal methods in bioweapons attacks. I've also seen evidence of bodies that have been recovered from Darfur that look as if they had been exposed to biological weapons.President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran met with Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir in Khartoum Feb. 28 to exchange expressions of support and solidarity.
The Syrians now consider biological weapons as part of their arsenal, Bellamy-Decker said. The Syrian military is also beginning to plan the eventual integration of biological weapons in its tactical and strategic arsenals.She referenced an April 2000 article published by Syrian defense minister General Mustafa Talas, titled Biological (Germ) Warfare: A New and Effective Method in Modern Warfare. The article was republished in a Farsi translation in Tehran.
All indications suggest that Syria's ultimate objective is to mount biological warheads on all varieties of the long-range surface-to-surface missiles in its possession, Bellamy-Decker maintained. This is a goal that can probably be achieved within a few years, and it may already have been realized in part.She argued that instead of producing large quantities of bioweapons agents, Syria is seeking to develop a smaller, but high-quality arsenal, which it can deliver accurately against military and civilian targets. When asked how Syria might be expected to retaliate against Israel or Europe if the U.S. attacked Iran, she responded, Syria has most likely forward-deployed some of their covert operatives. Smallpox does not need to be weaponized. Aerosol release is the way to go.Bellamy-Decker explained the methodology of a terrorist bio-attack:
So with a good primary aerosol release in an airport in Israel or Europe and you could get 100 index cases. If you've made the strain sufficiently virulent, you could have a ratio of 1 to 13 for infectivity, where the normal ratio is 1 to 3. If every index case infects 13 other people, you unfortunately have a great first hit.A terrorist bio-attack could go global, she noted. A good biological hit will spread
rapidly with international travel. Smallpox is a better weapon than anthrax. Smallpox has been field-tested, it is highly stable, and highly communicable, especially if you look at some of the strains the Russians manipulated. Syria probably retained some of [its] smallpox strains from the last outbreak back in 1972.Another risk is the possibility Syria's military might give bioweapons to terrorists. We are close to seeing a breakthrough where Syria could provide biological weapons to some of the terrorist groups they work with, like Hezbollah in Lebanon, Bellamy-Decker argued. The Syrians believe they can vaccinate themselves and they are working within the Syrian military. They're certainly not worried about releasing these biological weapons in a military setting, or even if civilians were infected as well, as long as they are vaccinated. I think it is a real threat.Bellamy-Decker is presenting a paper at this week's Intelligence Summit in St. Petersburg, Fla. It is expected to focus on the sophisticated state of development of the Syrian bioweapons program.
The Syrians have developed a rather remarkable bioweapons capability that has gone under the radar of U.S. intelligence, she said. U.S. intelligence continues to insist that the Syrian capability is not highly developed. The Syrian program mirrors how the Russians have developed their program, as well as Iraq under Saddam Hussein, North Korea, and Iran. The emphasis in the Syrian program is on latent potential and outbreak capability.Bellamy-Decker explained we should not expect to find stockpiles of biological weapons.
Stockpiles are just not how biological weapons are done, she said. With biological weapons, it is not the quantity, but the quality that counts. If you can produce a virulent, communicable strain, then you have a great biological weapon and it doesn't matter how much of it you have, it depends on what the weapon looks like.Bellamy-Decker also referenced a paper she had co-authored for the European Homeland Security Association (EHSA) titled, Public Health Security and Preparedness.This paper is intended to be used as part of a new initiative EHSA is launching in Brussels to hold a quarterly bioterrorism forum bringing together national and international experts with high-level decision-makers to discuss the threat posed by deliberate disease and the appropriate preparedness and response mechanisms vitally needed to address this threat.
What's happening in Israel. Messianic Bible Project MAR 05,07
More and more Jewish people in Israel are turning to Orthodox Judaism because they are trying to fill the spiritual emptiness in their lives.
Chabad Lubavitch, which is a sect of Orthodox Judaism, believes that if all Jews spend more time praying and doing more mitzvot (good deeds), that this will usher in the coming of the Messiah. However, about half of the Lubavitch followers believe that the late Rabbi Schneerson, who died in 1994 at the age of 92, is the promised Messiah of Israel. And the number of Jews who follow this false Messiah is growing daily!
With your help we can get our urgently-needed Messianic Prophecy Bible completed and distributed in Israel, so that Jewish people can be exposed to the truth of the Messianic Prophecies in the Hebrew Scriptures and see that Yeshua (Jesus) is the Real Messiah of Israel! Do you know that 99.9% of Israelis do not know that Yeshua is the Messiah and their Salvation? With 5.5 million Jewish people in Israel, and 5.3 million in the United States and Canada, the harvest fields are huge, but we need your help.
Did you put on tefillin today? Egal said to me as I was walking out of the shopping mall.Egal and two other Lubavitchers were standing outside the main entrance of the Ramat Aviv shopping mall (in a suburb of Tel Aviv), asking everyone to put on tefillin (phylacteries) and say the traditional Hebrew prayers. No, I didn't put on tefillin today, I replied. One of them took my left arm and pulled me over to the display table with their books on it, and he began wrapping the leather straps of the tefillin around my left arm. These straps are tied to a leather pouch, that contains small scrolls of Torah passages - the Word of God: Deuteronomy 6:8, 11:18 and Exodus 13:9, 16. The word tefillin comes from the root word tefilah which means prayer. I put on the tefillin so I could share Yeshua with them, and as I said the traditional prayers, I joyously prayed in the name of Yeshua!
Why are you praying in the name of Joshua? Egal asked me. Not Joshua, Yeshua, I replied. Yeshua of Nazareth who fulfilled all of the prophecies in the Tanakh (Old Testament), about the promised Messiah of Israel.
Egal then replied, Oh, you mean Yeshua the Christian ...well I know he was a Jew, born here in Israel. He was a good man, a Tzadik (righteous man) but he went astray and started a new religion. He obviously isn't the Moshiach (Messiah) because if he was the Messiah, Jews would believe in him, but as Jews we certainly don't accept that he is the Messiah.Wow - Egal's statement that Yeshua is rejected by His own people is actually a fulfillment of the Messianic prophecy in Psalm 118:22 which reads: The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief corner stone.
Egal then pointed to the books on his table and said to me, Zev you should read Rabbi Schneerson's writings and you will see that he is the Messiah! Have you read the Tanya or the Egross, Uri asked me, pointing to the books on their table. You must really read them, they will change your life forever.
You will find peace that you have never had, and all the questions about God and life will be answered.Pointing to the book on the table, Uri explained that the Tanya is a small book written by the first Rabbi of the Chassidic Lubavitch sect a couple of hundred years ago and it is the essential fundamentals of Jewish life. Zev, when you read the Tanya it will bring out something in you, the hidden part, and when you read and study it, you will come to the understanding of what being a Jew is, Egal explained. It has the answers to every question, and after you read it, you won't have any more questions about life. You will also come to the understanding that Rabbi Schneerson is the long awaited Messiah, and he is alive today! If he is alive, where is he? I asked Egal. He is with God in Heaven, he replied. I then said to Egal, isn't that a strange coincidence because Messianic Jews know that Yeshua is in heaven with God, and this fulfills the Messianic prophecy that King David wrote in Psalm 110:1: The LORD says to my Lord: Sit at My right hand until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.And this prophecy is fulfilled in the Brit Chadashah (New Testament) in Mark 16:19 where it says: After the Lord Yeshua had spoken to them, He was taken up into heaven and He sat at the right hand of God.
Still trying to convince me that Rabbi Schneerson is the Messiah, Uri pointed to the bigger books and explained that along with the Tanya I must read Egross. These books are called Egross which are 26 volumes of letters that were written to Rabbi Schneerson over a period of 50 years.
Our beloved Rabbi answered questions from his followers and all of these letters are published in these 26 volumes of Egross.There are questions about: business (such as what to do with a business partner who is stealing from you); family (how to deal with a husband who yells at his children, or gets involved with another woman); prayer - (how and when to pray), how to do this, or how to do that - any question you can imagine, the Rabbi answered them all and they are here in the Egross, Egal explained.
Zev, Listen Uri said, Rabbi Schneerson is the Messiah because the Torah says that he is Messiah. Because the Torah says the Messiah is alive - we know that Rabbi Schneerson - King Messiah is not dead, he is alive.Egal told me that he has only been a Lubavitcher for two years. Before that he was a completely secular Israeli. He did not grow a beard, and he barely even believed in God. But when I became Lubavitch, for the first time I got to know God, and who I am, Egal said. I explained to Egal the prophecies about the Messiah, but he was convinced by the books of Tanya and Egross that Rabbi Schneerson is the Messiah. He now works full-time for the Chabab Lubavitch movement recruiting other people to become Lubavitch, and to believe that the dead Rabbi Schneerson is the Messiah.
It is very sad that Jewish people rarely read the Tanakh (Bible). Instead they read other spiritual books like the Tanya and Egross which continue to blind them from the truth that Yeshua is the Messiah of Israel. What do you think would have happened if Egal did not meet other Lubavitchers or read the Tanya and Egross, but instead he met Israeli outreach workers who gave him one of our Messianic Prophecy Bibles?
I think Egal would believe in Messiah Yeshua, and he would be saved today.
Our Messianic Prophecy Bible will explain how Yeshua fulfilled all of the prophecies about the Messiah.
Unlike Rabbi Schneerson who did not fulfill the Messianic prophecies, Yeshua did coming riding into Jerusalem on a donkey (Zechariah 9:9), Yeshua was born a miraculous birth (Isaiah 7:14), Yeshua was born in Bethlehem (Micah 5:2), Yeshua did fulfill the time period when the Messiah had to be cut off (Daniel 9:24-26), and there are about 30 other prophecies that Yeshua fulfilled. The late Rabbi Schneerson who is buried in New York, fulfilled NONE of them! He never even visited Jerusalem. The Lubavitch movement has 4,000 full-time outreach workers and a budget of hundreds of millions of dollars to spread lies and the false teaching that Rabbi Schneerson is the Messiah. It is so important for you to make the best gift you can today, so that we can get Lubavitchers and all Jews, a copy of the Messianic Prophecy Bible when it is completed. They will see that Yeshua is the Real Messiah spoken of in the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) and have eternal life! Please make a donation to the Bible Project.http://messianicbible.com/donate.asp
With all my brotherly love in Messiah Yeshua,(JESUS)
Zev Isaacs
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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)
Update time = Tue Mar 6 12:00 AM EDT
MAR 05,07
MAP 2.9 SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.4 WESTERN XIZANG
MAP 2.5 MAUI REGION, HAWAII
MAP 3.0 UNIMAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP 4.6 GUATEMALA
MAP 5.2 KERMADEC ISLANDS, NEW ZEALAND
MAP 2.7 ONTARIO-QUEBEC BORDER REGION, CANADA
MAP 2.5 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAR 04,07
MAP 3.0 ISLAND OF HAWAII, HAWAII
MAP 5.2 NORTHERN MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE
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 5.6 NORTHERN MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE
MAP 4.6 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 2.7 SOUTH OF ALASKA
MAP 3.4 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC REGION
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 5.7 PACIFIC-ANTARCTIC RIDGE
MAP 3.8 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 5.7 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.
Extreme cold weather alert in force MAR 05,07
TORONTO, March 5 /CNW/ - The City of Toronto has issued an extreme cold weather alert, effective immediately, to help get homeless people in from the cold. This is in effect until further notice.An extreme cold weather alert is issued when extremely cold weather is forecast. This type of severe cold weather is hazardous to homeless people who are sleeping outside.Street Helpline operates 24 hours a day to help homeless people and front-line workers know where to find shelter and other services. Street Helpline can be called toll-free at 1-866-392-3777 from any payphone. Members of the public can phone this number if they see a homeless person sleeping outside.
An alert is in effect when Environment Canada: predicts a temperature of -15 degrees Celsius or lower, without wind chill, issues a wind chill warning for outdoor activity for people in the Toronto area, and/or, predicts extreme weather conditions, such as a blizzard or ice storm.
Toronto is Canada's largest city and sixth largest government, and home to a diverse population of more than 2.6 million people. It is the economic engine of Canada and one of the greenest and most creative cities in North America. In the past three years Toronto has won more than 50 awards for quality and innovation in delivering public services. Toronto's government is dedicated to prosperity, opportunity and liveability for all its residents.
Wintry Weather Returns: Nasty Roads, Colder Air
Monday, March 5, 2007 07:57 AM - WBEN Newsroom
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) - If your commute takes you down roads that are susceptible to blowing and drifting snow, you could face some of the worst driving conditions of the season today.Snowfall of a few inches will combine with very strong winds to send snow whipping across roads and piling up in commuter lanes. Plows have been out, and will continue to be out throughout the day, but the strong winds immediately blow the snow back, and will create visibility problems, as well.The National Weather Service has issued a blowing and drifting snow ADVISORY until 7-this evening for the entire Western New York region.We're also in line for some very cold air coming out of Canada later today. That blast of arctic air will produce temperatures in the single digits, and wind chills below zero. The region is also under a wind chill ADVISORY starting at midnight tonight.
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.
God has always dealt with Israel in 7's, it just makes sense the last dealing with Israel and the World will be a 7 yr treaty. God rested from creation on the 7TH DAY. Every 7TH YEAR Israel is suppose to rest the land. And the 7X7=49 YRS and the jubilee is the 50TH YEAR.
Now the scriptures that a week in Israel history is 7YEARS.
Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs
Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
Isn"t this interesting it comes from the same Person whos name was changed to Israel,(JACOB) and Israel and Jerusalem is the places dealt with in Daniel 9:24-27.
GENESIS 32:27-28
27 And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.
28 And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
Renew animal sacrifices on Mount says radical rabbi MAR 05,07
Member of Sanhedrin says sacrifices were not possible when the people of Israel were in the Diaspora, but now they are. Adds: Jerusalem Temple should be rebuilt, Israeli government standing in our way Yaakov Lappin / Israel News
Animal sacrifices should be renewed on the Temple Mount, a member of the radical Sanhedrin organization told Ynetnews. In ancient Israel and Judea, the Sanhedrin served as the highest court in the land, and was made up of 71 top judges. Now, a group of 71 fringe rabbis say they have reformed the group, although the organization has received no recognition from Israel's official religious authorities. In the Torah there are around 200 commandments dealing with animal sacrifices, said Rabbi Dov Stein, of the Sanhedrin organization. The Torah of Israel demands animal sacrifices.
When the people of Israel were in the Diaspora, it couldn’t be done. But now, there is the supreme institution, the Sanhedrin, made up of experts, and it can be done. The new Sanhedrin, like the old, will educate the people of Israel on how to keep and safeguard the Torah.
Democracy was not invented today
Stein vowed that we will try to carry out animal sacrifices on the Temple Mount this Passover, as commanded by the Torah.Asked if his organization sought to rebuild the third Temple, Stein's answer was unequivocal. We want to establish the Temple again. Unfortunately, standing in our way is a hostile regime, the Israeli government, and rabbis who for political interest don't want this to happen.Stein even suggested that Muslims would agree to the project, saying: The Omar Mosque (the Dome of the Rock), built by Khalif Omar, was actually intended to safeguard the site for the Jews. Islam hasn't always been so hostile. Despite its hatred and massacres against us, Islam sees in Judaism a source and a guide. I think the moment will come that Muslims understand the need to build the Temple and go along with us.Stein outlined his plan for Israel, calling for a king to be appointed democratically. Democracy was not invented today, the king is elected from a list of candidates. A senior judge, as was done during the days of the judges, can also be appointed, he added.
However, such practices ended 2000 years ago, Rabbi Doniel Hartman was quoted by the Associated Press as saying. Around that time, animal sacrifice, as a mode of religious worship, stopped for Jews, Christians and Muslims, said the rabbi from the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, according to AP. Moving back in that direction is not progress, he added. According to mainstream Jewish thought, animal sacrifices must not be carried out outside of Temple, which itself cannot be rebuilt by human endeavor, but will be rebuilt upon the arrival of the messiah.
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).
Birthday declaration puts Merkel to EU constitution test
05.03.2007 - 09:28 CET | By Mark Beunderman
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - German chancellor Angela Merkel is facing the first real test of her efforts to push a revised EU constitution as she seeks to convince EU leaders this week to include a reference to a new treaty in the EU's 50th anniversary declaration. Ms Merkel is likely to raise the constitutional issue during a dinner with EU counterparts on Thursday evening (8 March) where she will outline her ideas for the so-called Berlin declaration to be signed by EU leaders and institutions on 25 March. The two to three page declaration - which will mark the 50th anniversary of the 1957 Treaty of Rome laying the foundation for the current EU - is set to consist of three main parts, on European history, European values and the current challenges facing the union. But the German EU presidency
also wants to conclude the document with a fourth element, a paragraph which would call upon EU member states to find a solution to the political impasse following the rejection of the EU constitution by French and Dutch voters in 2005.
The question of what we need in terms of institutions in order to go forward with the union is the crucial issue for Berlin here, EU diplomats said. In a consultation round with member states' so-called sherpas - government appointees for confidential talks with Berlin on the EU constitution - it emerged that Ms Merkel wants member states to commit themselves in the anniversary text to deadlines for both the agreement of a re-negotiated constitution text and its ratification. German Europe minister Guenther Gloser said last week 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.But language on a constitutional timetable is opposed by the UK, Poland and the Netherlands, which seek far-reaching changes to the EU constitution and dislike the idea of a fast-moving constitutional revival process. London, Warsaw, The Hague as well as Paris would also oppose any wording suggesting that the EU constitution should form the basis of a new EU treaty - a philosophy promoted by the 18 member states which already ratified the constitution. I don't think there is an agreement among member states on a sort of bridge at the end of the Berlin declaration to the EU constitution. I rather expect a reference to the coming willingness of the member states to work further towards a treaty settlement, Polish sherpa Marek Cichocki told EUobserver. EU diplomats said however that the divisions over the issue could be fudged by vague language such as that used by EU leaders in conclusions last June, where they said that they would continue the reform process taking the necessary steps to that effect before 2009. A French contact adding that Paris would probably agree to terms like institutional settlement.
Euro, Christian heritage
The constitution is not the only cause of division over the birthday declaration. Thursday's dinner is also expected to cover other outstanding issues surrounding the birthday text – on the euro, the union's social dimension and some values-related issues. Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker said last month that he would like the euro currency to get a mention as one of the great successes of European construction - a proposal disliked by the UK and Sweden which are outside the eurozone.A social-economic discussion over the document has also emerged, with nine member states including France, Italy and Spain recently issuing an open declaration calling for more promotion of social Europe. We thought it might feed into the discussion around the Berlin declaration, said a French official, with free-market states such as the Czech Republic and the UK however likely to resist too much social language. Meanwhile, Poland is pushing for a reference to Europe's Christian heritage - something which Warsaw failed to obtain in the 2004 EU constitution text but for which it now sees a second chance.
Maybe it would be easier to have this accepted in the Berlin declaration which will have no legal status, than in a preamble of a legally binding treaty, Poland's sherpa said. It poses a difficulty for us to have this included in a public political document, a diplomat from secularist France reacted. With member states so far wanting a whole wish-list of issues to be included in the declaration, the text risks becoming too long, some diplomats warned. Once you start with two pages and then everyone starts adding in, you will soon end up with three, said one source. It is likely that the first drafts of the declaration will emerge from Berlin only after Ms Merkel has tested the atmosphere at Thursday's dinner, officials said.
Abbas accuses EU of discriminating against PA, being pro-Israel
By Akiva Eldar, Haaretz Correspondent Mon Mar 05,07
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas accused the European Union on Sunday of
discriminating against the Palestinians, and of fostering an unjust, pro-Israel approach.He went on to complain to the EU of a series of provocative and illegal Israeli actions.In an unusually harsh letter from Dr. Rafiq Husseini, Abbas' chief of staff, to German Foreign Minister Frank Walter-Steimeier, the Palestinian leadership complained of several instances in which Israel has allegedly violated its prior commitments, including the road map. Husseini noted in his letter to Steimeier - current president of the European Council - the reports of Israel's intention to build a new Jewish neighborhood in East Jerusalem, and the construction of a new Jerusalem District police headquarters beyond the Green line. At a time when the Palestinian people are at the threshold of a historic national consensus... such Israeli actions only serve to derail efforts to support forces of moderation, the letter reads. It also lists the IDF's incursion into Nablus last week, as well as the archaeological excavation near the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
Husseini suggests that despite Israel's violations and its refusal to participate in dialogue with the Palestinians, it enjoys close relations and financial ties with the EU, as opposed to the Palestinian Authority, which is under an international embargo. The letter calls to end this glaring injustice, and to adopt a more balanced approach by the Council of Ministers and the international community.
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni was expected to visit Brussels in advance of the EU meeting scheduled for Monday, in an attempt to convince the Europeans to adhere to the embargo for as long as the Hamas government refuses to renounce terror and recognize Israel as well as agreements signed with it. Officials in Jerusalem are concerned about possible erosion in the European Union regarding the embargo, as reflected in recent announcements by several European governments of their intention to reevaluate their stance following the Mecca agreement between Hamas and Fatah.
DOCTOR SAMUEL DOCTORIAN ANGEL ONE
Then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
Asian stocks tumble as yen surges
March 5, 2007
SINGAPORE (Reuters) Asia's battered stock markets tumbled again on Monday, as a global sell-off that began last week gathered fresh steam, with Japanese shares sliding more than 3 percent as a surging yen hammered exporters such as Toyota.The yen hit three-month highs against the dollar and the euro as investors rushed to close out risky trades and pay off the cheap yen loans that financed them.
Major European markets are expected to open down around 2 percent on Monday, financial bookmakers said. Britain's FTSE 100 is expected to open 1.8 percent lower, while Germany's DAX and France's CAC 40 are expected to open down 2 and 2.2 percent, respectively.
If New York continues to slide and the yen continues to strengthen at this pace, there is no bottom in sight for Japan, said Kirby Daley, a strategist at brokerage Fimat in Tokyo.A near 9 percent slump in China's main stock index last Tuesday, combined with worries about stalling U.S. growth, sparked a wave a selling in world equity markets, many of which had been trading around record highs.
Australian stocks fell 2.3 percent to a seven-week closing low, erasing all their gains for 2007, with the world's largest miner, BHP Billiton, dropping 2.9 percent.Share indexes in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore lost between 3 and 4 percent and South Korea's benchmark fell 2.7 percent.
This is not like September 11, when there was a clear issue, so the sell-off was reasonable, said Lim Chang-gue, a fund manager at Samsung Investment Trust Management in Seoul.Something bad seems to be happening, but there is no one clear reason. It's this unknown that is making it worse so people are just selling out.Fears about the health of the global economy knocked more than 1 percent off oil prices, while Japanese government bond and U.S. Treasuries futures rose to around three-month highs, as investors fled stocks and commodities in search of safer assets.The yen rose across the board, with sterling plunging as much as 2 percent and other major currencies more than 1 percent, as market players unwound bets against the Japanese currency.The so-called carry trade, in which investors fund the purchase of higher-yielding -- and riskier -- assets with borrowing in the low-yielding yen, had driven the yen to a four-year low against the dollar in late January.The situation has changed now, with volatility no longer low to support the carry trades, and the unwinding of long positions in riskier assets spurred by the global stock market plunge is continuing, said a bond dealer at a Japanese trust bank.The dollar tumbled to a three-month low at 115.40 yen, before trimming losses slightly to trade around 115.55 yen by 0550 GMT. The euro bought around 152.25 down 1.2 percent, having fallen as low as 151.75 yen.
Yen worry
Tokyo's Nikkei fell below 17,000 for the first time in nearly two months to end down 3.3 percent, its biggest one-day percentage loss since June last year and its lowest close in 2007.The real worry is the currency, said Masayoshi Okamoto, head of dealing at Jujiya Securities.Toyota has assumed an exchange rate of 115 yen to the dollar for the fourth quarter. While we're already close to that, the thing is that investors were buying Toyota on the assumption the exchange level would be around 120 yen.Toyota, the world's most profitable car maker, fell 3.2 percent. Cameras and copiers maker Canon dropped 2.1 percent and Sony shed 2.9 percent. A stronger yen tends to hurt exporters because it erodes the value of their overseas sales.MSCI's broadest index of Asian shares outside Japan was down 3.7 percent at 0550 GMT.A measure of emerging Asian markets fell 4.1 percent, after diving 5.4 percent last week, and an index of Hong Kong-listed shares in mainland China firms, or H-shares, fell 5.3 percent, led by financials such as China Life
In the Japanese government bond market, lead March futures were up 0.44 point at 135.26, climbing towards a three-month high of 135.44 hit last week. The benchmark 10-year yield fell 4.5 basis points to 1.620 percent.A growing view that recent falls in share prices may not be just a temporary correction is giving the JGB market support, said Masuhisa Kobayashi, chief JGB strategist at Barclays Capital.Investors were cautiously hoping for the equities markets to steady this week but the Asian markets have continued to fall, so that's making people nervous, said Dariusz Kowalczyk, an analyst at Hong-Kong based CFC Seymour Ltd.Gold eased to around $640.80 an ounce, after sliding nearly 3 percent on Friday, when currency investors sold the precious metal to pay for losses in other markets.Reuters.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
LUKE 21:11,25-26
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.(NOTICES PESTILENCES IN HERE COULD MEAN BIOLOGICAL, CHEMICAL WEAPONS ALSO)
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)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:
BIOLOGICAL WAR-FEAR
Syria ready with bio-terror if U.S. hits Iran
Damascus reportedly hiding WMD among commercial pharmaceuticals
Dr Jerome R. Corsi - WorldNetDaily.com - MAR 05,07
An American biodefense analyst living in Europe says if the U.S. invades Iran to halt its nuclear ambitions, Syria is ready to respond with weapons of mass destruction – specifically biological weapons. Syria is positioned to launch a biological attack on Israel or Europe should the U.S. attack Iran, Jill Bellamy-Dekker told WND. The Syrians are embedding their biological weapons program into their commercial pharmaceuticals business and their veterinary vaccine-research facilities. The intelligence service oversees Syria's bio-farm program and the Ministry of Defense is well interfaced into the effort.Bellamy-Decker currently directs the Public Health Preparedness program for the European Homeland Security Association under the French High Committee for Civil Defense. She anticipates a variation of smallpox is the biological agent Syria would utilize.
The Syrians are also working on orthopox viruses that are related to smallpox, Bellamy-Decker said, and it's a good way to get around international treaties against offensive biological weapons development. They work on camelpox as a cover for smallpox.According to the Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy (CIDRAP) at the University of Minnesota, camelpox is a virus closely related to smallpox, that causes a severe and economically important disease in camels, but rarely, if ever, causes the disease in humans.
Bellamy-Decker also told WND the North Koreans were working closely with the Syrians on their biological weapons program. The Syrians have made some recent acquisitions in regard to their smallpox program from the DPRK, she explained. Right before the recent Lebanon war, the Syrians had a crash program in cryptosporidium.According to the Washington State Department of Health, cryptosporidium is a one-celled parasite that causes a gastrointestinal illness with symptoms of diarrhea, abdominal cramps, headaches, nausea, vomiting, and a low-grade fever. The symptoms can last for weeks and may result in weight loss and dehydration.
Because cryptosporidium is impervious to chlorine, Bellamy-Decker continued, you could infect the water supply by the bucket full of cryptosporidium, if you know where to get it. The resulting illness would put down a lot of civilians and military who might oppose you going into their country.The Syrians have a modus operandi of covert operations and deniability, she stressed, so biological weapons are absolutely perfect for them.WND asked Bellamy-Decker if the Syrians have any history of having used biological weapons.
I believe they are testing biological weapons right now, in Sudan, in the conflict in Darfur, she answered. There is credible information about flyover activity in Darfur, where little parachutes have been dropped down on the population. This is consistent with dispersal methods in bioweapons attacks. I've also seen evidence of bodies that have been recovered from Darfur that look as if they had been exposed to biological weapons.President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran met with Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir in Khartoum Feb. 28 to exchange expressions of support and solidarity.
The Syrians now consider biological weapons as part of their arsenal, Bellamy-Decker said. The Syrian military is also beginning to plan the eventual integration of biological weapons in its tactical and strategic arsenals.She referenced an April 2000 article published by Syrian defense minister General Mustafa Talas, titled Biological (Germ) Warfare: A New and Effective Method in Modern Warfare. The article was republished in a Farsi translation in Tehran.
All indications suggest that Syria's ultimate objective is to mount biological warheads on all varieties of the long-range surface-to-surface missiles in its possession, Bellamy-Decker maintained. This is a goal that can probably be achieved within a few years, and it may already have been realized in part.She argued that instead of producing large quantities of bioweapons agents, Syria is seeking to develop a smaller, but high-quality arsenal, which it can deliver accurately against military and civilian targets. When asked how Syria might be expected to retaliate against Israel or Europe if the U.S. attacked Iran, she responded, Syria has most likely forward-deployed some of their covert operatives. Smallpox does not need to be weaponized. Aerosol release is the way to go.Bellamy-Decker explained the methodology of a terrorist bio-attack:
So with a good primary aerosol release in an airport in Israel or Europe and you could get 100 index cases. If you've made the strain sufficiently virulent, you could have a ratio of 1 to 13 for infectivity, where the normal ratio is 1 to 3. If every index case infects 13 other people, you unfortunately have a great first hit.A terrorist bio-attack could go global, she noted. A good biological hit will spread
rapidly with international travel. Smallpox is a better weapon than anthrax. Smallpox has been field-tested, it is highly stable, and highly communicable, especially if you look at some of the strains the Russians manipulated. Syria probably retained some of [its] smallpox strains from the last outbreak back in 1972.Another risk is the possibility Syria's military might give bioweapons to terrorists. We are close to seeing a breakthrough where Syria could provide biological weapons to some of the terrorist groups they work with, like Hezbollah in Lebanon, Bellamy-Decker argued. The Syrians believe they can vaccinate themselves and they are working within the Syrian military. They're certainly not worried about releasing these biological weapons in a military setting, or even if civilians were infected as well, as long as they are vaccinated. I think it is a real threat.Bellamy-Decker is presenting a paper at this week's Intelligence Summit in St. Petersburg, Fla. It is expected to focus on the sophisticated state of development of the Syrian bioweapons program.
The Syrians have developed a rather remarkable bioweapons capability that has gone under the radar of U.S. intelligence, she said. U.S. intelligence continues to insist that the Syrian capability is not highly developed. The Syrian program mirrors how the Russians have developed their program, as well as Iraq under Saddam Hussein, North Korea, and Iran. The emphasis in the Syrian program is on latent potential and outbreak capability.Bellamy-Decker explained we should not expect to find stockpiles of biological weapons.
Stockpiles are just not how biological weapons are done, she said. With biological weapons, it is not the quantity, but the quality that counts. If you can produce a virulent, communicable strain, then you have a great biological weapon and it doesn't matter how much of it you have, it depends on what the weapon looks like.Bellamy-Decker also referenced a paper she had co-authored for the European Homeland Security Association (EHSA) titled, Public Health Security and Preparedness.This paper is intended to be used as part of a new initiative EHSA is launching in Brussels to hold a quarterly bioterrorism forum bringing together national and international experts with high-level decision-makers to discuss the threat posed by deliberate disease and the appropriate preparedness and response mechanisms vitally needed to address this threat.
What's happening in Israel. Messianic Bible Project MAR 05,07
More and more Jewish people in Israel are turning to Orthodox Judaism because they are trying to fill the spiritual emptiness in their lives.
Chabad Lubavitch, which is a sect of Orthodox Judaism, believes that if all Jews spend more time praying and doing more mitzvot (good deeds), that this will usher in the coming of the Messiah. However, about half of the Lubavitch followers believe that the late Rabbi Schneerson, who died in 1994 at the age of 92, is the promised Messiah of Israel. And the number of Jews who follow this false Messiah is growing daily!
With your help we can get our urgently-needed Messianic Prophecy Bible completed and distributed in Israel, so that Jewish people can be exposed to the truth of the Messianic Prophecies in the Hebrew Scriptures and see that Yeshua (Jesus) is the Real Messiah of Israel! Do you know that 99.9% of Israelis do not know that Yeshua is the Messiah and their Salvation? With 5.5 million Jewish people in Israel, and 5.3 million in the United States and Canada, the harvest fields are huge, but we need your help.
Did you put on tefillin today? Egal said to me as I was walking out of the shopping mall.Egal and two other Lubavitchers were standing outside the main entrance of the Ramat Aviv shopping mall (in a suburb of Tel Aviv), asking everyone to put on tefillin (phylacteries) and say the traditional Hebrew prayers. No, I didn't put on tefillin today, I replied. One of them took my left arm and pulled me over to the display table with their books on it, and he began wrapping the leather straps of the tefillin around my left arm. These straps are tied to a leather pouch, that contains small scrolls of Torah passages - the Word of God: Deuteronomy 6:8, 11:18 and Exodus 13:9, 16. The word tefillin comes from the root word tefilah which means prayer. I put on the tefillin so I could share Yeshua with them, and as I said the traditional prayers, I joyously prayed in the name of Yeshua!
Why are you praying in the name of Joshua? Egal asked me. Not Joshua, Yeshua, I replied. Yeshua of Nazareth who fulfilled all of the prophecies in the Tanakh (Old Testament), about the promised Messiah of Israel.
Egal then replied, Oh, you mean Yeshua the Christian ...well I know he was a Jew, born here in Israel. He was a good man, a Tzadik (righteous man) but he went astray and started a new religion. He obviously isn't the Moshiach (Messiah) because if he was the Messiah, Jews would believe in him, but as Jews we certainly don't accept that he is the Messiah.Wow - Egal's statement that Yeshua is rejected by His own people is actually a fulfillment of the Messianic prophecy in Psalm 118:22 which reads: The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief corner stone.
Egal then pointed to the books on his table and said to me, Zev you should read Rabbi Schneerson's writings and you will see that he is the Messiah! Have you read the Tanya or the Egross, Uri asked me, pointing to the books on their table. You must really read them, they will change your life forever.
You will find peace that you have never had, and all the questions about God and life will be answered.Pointing to the book on the table, Uri explained that the Tanya is a small book written by the first Rabbi of the Chassidic Lubavitch sect a couple of hundred years ago and it is the essential fundamentals of Jewish life. Zev, when you read the Tanya it will bring out something in you, the hidden part, and when you read and study it, you will come to the understanding of what being a Jew is, Egal explained. It has the answers to every question, and after you read it, you won't have any more questions about life. You will also come to the understanding that Rabbi Schneerson is the long awaited Messiah, and he is alive today! If he is alive, where is he? I asked Egal. He is with God in Heaven, he replied. I then said to Egal, isn't that a strange coincidence because Messianic Jews know that Yeshua is in heaven with God, and this fulfills the Messianic prophecy that King David wrote in Psalm 110:1: The LORD says to my Lord: Sit at My right hand until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.And this prophecy is fulfilled in the Brit Chadashah (New Testament) in Mark 16:19 where it says: After the Lord Yeshua had spoken to them, He was taken up into heaven and He sat at the right hand of God.
Still trying to convince me that Rabbi Schneerson is the Messiah, Uri pointed to the bigger books and explained that along with the Tanya I must read Egross. These books are called Egross which are 26 volumes of letters that were written to Rabbi Schneerson over a period of 50 years.
Our beloved Rabbi answered questions from his followers and all of these letters are published in these 26 volumes of Egross.There are questions about: business (such as what to do with a business partner who is stealing from you); family (how to deal with a husband who yells at his children, or gets involved with another woman); prayer - (how and when to pray), how to do this, or how to do that - any question you can imagine, the Rabbi answered them all and they are here in the Egross, Egal explained.
Zev, Listen Uri said, Rabbi Schneerson is the Messiah because the Torah says that he is Messiah. Because the Torah says the Messiah is alive - we know that Rabbi Schneerson - King Messiah is not dead, he is alive.Egal told me that he has only been a Lubavitcher for two years. Before that he was a completely secular Israeli. He did not grow a beard, and he barely even believed in God. But when I became Lubavitch, for the first time I got to know God, and who I am, Egal said. I explained to Egal the prophecies about the Messiah, but he was convinced by the books of Tanya and Egross that Rabbi Schneerson is the Messiah. He now works full-time for the Chabab Lubavitch movement recruiting other people to become Lubavitch, and to believe that the dead Rabbi Schneerson is the Messiah.
It is very sad that Jewish people rarely read the Tanakh (Bible). Instead they read other spiritual books like the Tanya and Egross which continue to blind them from the truth that Yeshua is the Messiah of Israel. What do you think would have happened if Egal did not meet other Lubavitchers or read the Tanya and Egross, but instead he met Israeli outreach workers who gave him one of our Messianic Prophecy Bibles?
I think Egal would believe in Messiah Yeshua, and he would be saved today.
Our Messianic Prophecy Bible will explain how Yeshua fulfilled all of the prophecies about the Messiah.
Unlike Rabbi Schneerson who did not fulfill the Messianic prophecies, Yeshua did coming riding into Jerusalem on a donkey (Zechariah 9:9), Yeshua was born a miraculous birth (Isaiah 7:14), Yeshua was born in Bethlehem (Micah 5:2), Yeshua did fulfill the time period when the Messiah had to be cut off (Daniel 9:24-26), and there are about 30 other prophecies that Yeshua fulfilled. The late Rabbi Schneerson who is buried in New York, fulfilled NONE of them! He never even visited Jerusalem. The Lubavitch movement has 4,000 full-time outreach workers and a budget of hundreds of millions of dollars to spread lies and the false teaching that Rabbi Schneerson is the Messiah. It is so important for you to make the best gift you can today, so that we can get Lubavitchers and all Jews, a copy of the Messianic Prophecy Bible when it is completed. They will see that Yeshua is the Real Messiah spoken of in the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) and have eternal life! Please make a donation to the Bible Project.http://messianicbible.com/donate.asp
With all my brotherly love in Messiah Yeshua,(JESUS)
Zev Isaacs
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