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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.

Earthquake shakes Iran region
Mar 26, 2008 9:40 PM

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 shook a region in south-west Iran but there were no immediate reports of any casualties, the official IRNA news agency reported. The quake struck in an area round the city of Dogonbadan, about 600km south of the Iranian capital Tehran, IRNA quoted Iran's Geophysics Institute as saying.

Dogonbadan is situated near some big Iranian oil fields.

We are not aware of any damage to the oil or gas facilities in the Sardasht region, an official from the National Iranian South Oil Company in Sardasht, a city about 90km west of Dogonbadan, said.

Iran, the world's fourth largest oil producer, is frequently struck by earthquakes because the country is criss-crossed by faultlines.

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.

Tanzania says 75 feared dead in mine flood
Sat Mar 29, 2:09 PM

NAIROBI (Reuters) - At least 75 miners were feared dead in northern Tanzania on Saturday after floods swept through a mine near the town of Arusha, state media reported.The Daily News quoted Manyara Regional Commissioner Henry Shekifu as saying five bodies had been recovered so far after a torrential downpour on Friday.Witnesses said flood waters entered eight pits and then spread to other pits, drowning working miners, the state-run newspaper said on its Web site.Volunteers rushed to the scene on Saturday and the government said it was bringing equipment to drain the water as fast as possible. But electricity poles in the area had been brought down by the floods, it said, and engineers were battling to restore power for rescuers.The newspaper said 100 miners died in similar floods in the area 1998. The region is the only place where the valuable blue gemstone tanzanite is found -- prized by jewellery-lovers in wealthy nations.Mining disasters are not uncommon in Tanzania's wild north, where small-scale independent miners dig remote gemfields in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro. Miners sometimes die in explosions or due to suffocation.In 2002, at least 48 miners were suffocated when a compressor used to pump clean air into the gemstone mine failed.(Writing by Daniel Wallis; Editing by Jon Boyle)

Storm brewing over southern Manitoba
Fri Mar 28, 9:53 AM

WINNIPEG (CBC) - People in southern Manitoba could start their spring break shovelling as a winter storm blows into the area over the weekend.A low-pressure system now over the northern United States is expected to bring a mix of rain and snow into southern Manitoba, starting Saturday.Environment Canada issued a winter storm watch for all of southern Manitoba except areas north of Dauphin and areas east of Steinbach. That eastern area could be added to the watch later Friday as meteorologists track the path of the storm.The Red River Valley is expected to receive about 15 centimetres of snow, while parts of southwest Manitoba could see 20 or 25 cm.We oft times get heavier snowfalls at this time of year, Ken Stewart, with Environment Canada, said Friday morning.We still have the cold air to the north, and we're getting warming, moister air coming up from the south as the air mass starts to warm over the States. As a result, the two clash and they end up creating more snow.Depending on how warm the weather is over the weekend, Stewart said, the province could see more rain, which would lessen the accumulation.The way we're planning on going with it right now is it may start off with rain or a rain-and-snow mix, and then quickly switch over into snow.A strong southeast wind could blow snow around, reducing visibility, which could cause problems for many people who are travelling in the area, where Friday is the last day before spring break for most schoolchildren.

Stormy weather kicks up Sunday into Tuesday James Wilson
Sat Mar 29, 6:12 PM ET

Midwest

A few showers and thunderstorms will extend into the Ohio Valley on Sunday. While precipitation amounts are expected to be light, flood-weary residents across the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys do not need any additional rainfall. As a system quickly races into southern Canada, a few showers are also possible across the northern Plains and Upper Midwest. Some of this precipitation could fall as light snow across northern Minnesota and northern Wisconsin. Thunderstorms will develop in the late afternoon and evening across portions of Kansas and Oklahoma. Some of these storms could become severe into the overnight hours, with tornadoes possible. Highs on Sunday will be in the 40s from the central Plains into the western Great Lakes. Thirties will tinge the border with Canada. Milder 50s and 60s will be felt from the central Plains into the Ohio Valley. An active day is in store for the region on Monday. Severe thunderstorms with the likelihood of tornadoes are expected from central Texas into northern Illinois. Cities that need to stay alert for the potential of severe weather include Dallas, Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Kansas City, and St. Louis. Additionally, heavy rain could cause more flooding across portions of Arkansas and Missouri.

South

Scattered showers and thunderstorms will once again speckle the southern U.S. on Sunday. A few light showers are likely across the Southeast as a wedge front remains parked over the region. There will be quite a temperature disparity on either side of this boundary. To the south and west, from Mississippi through Florida, temperatures will climb into the 70s and 80s. While in the colder air across north Georgia and the Carolinas, highs will only be in the 40s and 50s. Farther west, across the southern Plains, look for high temperatures to climb into the 70s and 80s. Showers and thunderstorms will once again become activated on the tail end of a front. Some of the thunderstorms in Oklahoma, and in Texas overnight, could become severe.

West

A cold storm system is spinning its way though the Northwest into the northern Rockies. Snow levels have been as far down as 200 feet in parts of western Washington. The wintry conditions will persist into Sunday, with the chance of a few snow showers mixing in with the rain even into the Seattle and Portland. No accumulations are expected in these cities. Although still unsettled, temperatures should moderate enough by Sunday afternoon to bring straight rain showers. Parts of the northern Rockies will see heavy snow, and several inches up to a foot of snow is possible across the mountains of Idaho, Montana, Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming by late Sunday. Hardest hit will be the Wasatch to Rockies with some ski areas reporting 6-12, locally 12+ above 9,000 feet. Farther south, sunshine will stretch from New Mexico through most of California. However, windy conditions will return to much of California and Nevada. Temperatures on Sunday will remain stuck in the 30s and 40s across the Pacific Northwest, northern Rockies, and much of the Great Basin. Sixties will be felt across much of the California Valleys. Seventies are expected in the Southwest, with 80s in the deserts.

Northeast

A cold dry day in the Northeast on Saturday will continue on Sunday for most areas as high pressure remains firmly in place. Look for a sunny day across New England into Pennsylvania and Maryland. Rain showers may begin to creep into the Virginias later in the day. Temperatures will remain below seasonal averages across most of the region. Highs will be in the 40s across almost the entire Northeast, with 30s from the Adirondacks through Northern New England.

Bush seeks financial regulation overhaul By MARTIN CRUTSINGER, AP Economics Writer Sat Mar 29, 11:00 AM ET

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is proposing a sweeping overhaul of the way the government regulates the nation's financial services industry from banks and securities firms to mortgage brokers and insurance companies. The plan would give major new powers to the Federal Reserve, according to a 22-page executive summary obtained by The Associated Press.The Fed would be given broad authority to oversee financial market stability. That would include new powers to examine the books of any institution deemed to represent a potential threat to the proper functioning of the overall financial system.The proposal, which will be outlined Monday in a speech by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, is certain to set off heated debates within different sectors of the financial services industry and in Congress, where some Democrats are likely to complain that the proposal does not go far enough to crack down on abuses.

The administration divided its recommendations into short-term goals that could be adopted quickly, intermediate recommendations and an optimal regulatory framework, which contains a radical restructuring of how the government supervises banks and other financial institutions.The recommendations are the product of a yearlong review that was begun in an effort to modernize the government's regulatory structure so that the country's financial services industries could better compete in a fast-changing global economy.The plan also seeks to address problems that have been brought to light in recent months since a severe credit crisis began roiling financial markets last August.That crisis has already claimed as its biggest victim Bear Stearns, the nation's fifth-largest investment bank, which came to the brink of collapse before a government-arranged purchase by JP Morgan Chase & Co.I am not suggesting that more regulation is the answer, or even that more effective regulation can prevent the periods of financial market stress that seem to occur every five to 10 years, Paulson will say in the remarks he will deliver on Monday.But the plan does seek to address problems highlighted by the current crisis in which the Fed in an unprecedented move has begun making direct loans to securities firms in an effort to shore up a system badly shaken by billions of dollars of losses stemming from sour mortgage loans.

The proposal would allow the Fed, in its new role as market stability regulator, to dispatch examiners to check the books not just of commercial banks but of all segments of the financial services industry.The administration proposal would also consolidate the current scheme of bank regulation by shutting down the Office of Thrift Supervision and transferring its functions to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, which regulates nationally chartered banks.The plan recommends that the Securities and Exchange Commission, which regulates stock trading, be merged with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which regulates futures trades for oil, grains and various other commodities.The plan would create a national regulator for the insurance industry, which is now largely governed by the states, and would create a Mortgage Origination Commission to try to address the abuses exposed in the current tidal wave of mortgage defaults.The role Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and his colleagues have been playing to shore up the financial system would be formalized in the administration plan by giving Fed officials greater power to detect where threats might be lurking in the system.The proposal is certain to generate intense scrutiny in Congress and within the financial services industry, where past efforts to change how regulation is handled have met with fierce resistance.Many Democrats in Congress are already pushing tougher proposals that would impose much stricter regulation in an effort to crack down on abuses exposed by the current credit crisis.Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said he believed Paulson's plan offered some valid suggestions. In broad outlines, we agree with large parts of Secretary Paulson's plan, Schumer, chairman of the Joint Economic Committee, said in a statement. He is on the money when he calls for a more unified regulatory structure, although we would prefer a single regulator to the three he proposes. Under Paulson's approach, the long-term goal would be to designate the Fed as market stability regulator and to have a financial regulator who would focus on financial institutions that operate with government guarantees such as providing deposit insurance.

The administration plan, which was first reported by The New York Times on its Web site Friday night, also proposes a business conduct regulator who would be in charge of overseeing consumer protection issues. The initial reaction from the securities industry was also positive. Treasury has delivered a thoughtful and sweeping plan which should provoke intense discussion, debate and potential legislative changes, said Tim Ryan, president of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association. Our present regulatory framework was born of Depression-era events and is not well suited for today's environment where billions of dollars race across the globe with the click of a mouse, Ryan said in a statement.

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).

Royal Watch News King Juan Carlos' fatherly advice
King Juan Carlos I of Spain (R) greets bishop Jesus Murgui before the traditional mass celebrated on the occassion of the Easter Sunday, in Palma de Mallorca, the Balearic Islands, eastern Spain, 23 March 2008. EPA/MONTSERRAT T DIEZ Mar 27, 2008, 12:45 GMT

Spain's King Juan Carlos advised his teenage son to be a kind, attentive and helpful king. The 70-year-old king - who has ruled the country since 1975 - passed on his secrets to Crown Prince Felipe in a series of confidential letters written between 1984-85, which have been published for the first time.In one letter to his son, who was then 16-years-old and at finishing school in Canada, Juan Carlos wrote: You need to appear animated even when you are tired; kind even when you don't feel like it; attentive even when you are not interested; helpful even when it takes an effort.The letters have been published by journalist and royal expert Jose Garcia Abad in his book El Principe y el Rey (The Prince and the King).

Garcia Abad said the letters are a document of extraordinary political value and a treasure for historians.Another note told Felipe: We all are a bit slaves of the media, which can elevate or pull down a person or an institution. The press needs to be respected, but it is also necessary to make it respect you. All that you do and say will be analysed in a special manner will be in you... more scandalous than in another boy of the same age.He also said a king needs to relate to his public and speak with a sense of proportion. Juan Carlos added: Knowing how to be quiet is as difficult as knowing how to talk. In the public sphere, the golden rule is to talk a lot, but prudently and without making important affirmations.Garcia Abad said the letters reflect Juan Carlos' subtle understanding of his role, as well as the affectionate relationship between father and son.(C) BANG Media International.

Thursday, March 27, 2008 at 19:29
EuroMed talks important for global stability

ATHENS (EUX.TV) -- Elected representatives of 37 parliaments from Europe and the Mediterranean started a two-day meeting here on Thursday. The agenda is to address energy cooperation, the environment and relations between Israel and Palestine, among other issues.The meeting includes a total of 240 parliamentarians. Half of them are from the 27 members states of the European Union and the European Parliament. The other 120 are from the countries surrounding the Mediterranean.The EuroMed is important for global stability, said Greek President Karolus Papoulias while meeting a delegation at his residence Thursday morning. Take two minutes to watch this report produced in Athens today:

http://www.eux.tv/article.aspx?articleId=19999

Cooperation between the Mediterranean and Europe has a long history, he said. Today, it's political, economic, financial and cultural cooperation that really matters.The Athens meeting is the 4th of the EuroMed parliamentary assembly. The meeting will also discuss plans adopted by the European Union's heads of government earlier this months for closer cooperation with Mediterranean countries. This will be discussed further at a conference organized under the French EU presidency in July.French President Nicolas Sarkozy last year launched a plan to create a Mediterranean union that would resemble the European Union. But - largely due to German pressure - that plan has been amended to ensure that all 27 member states of the EU will be involved, not just those on the Mediterranean.Thursday has been reserved for Committee meetings, while a plenary session takes place on Friday in the presence of Hans-Gert Poettering, President of the European Parliament. The EuroMed meeting, formally known as the Euro Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly, is a product of the Barcelona Process, which aims to improve EU cooperation with the Mediterranean countries. The EuroMed assembly is the only international political body that includes both representatives from Israel and the Palestinian territories.-- From the EUX.TV newsroom news@eux.tv

Union of the Mediterranean Claudette Baldacchino Sat, 29 March 2008

In the last European Council, EU leaders gave the green light to a compromise, struck by French President Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel to create a Union of the Mediterranean, an initiative aimed at upgrading the EU’s relations with its neighbours from North Africa and the Middle East.So before analyzing this proposed Union it is worth looking at what the EU is trying to upgrade. Relations between the EU and its southern neighbours are based on the so called Euro-Mediterrean Partnership or as it is better know as the Barcelona Process. The latter represented a wide framework of political, economic and social relations between the Member States of the European Union and Partners of the Southern Mediterranean.

Since Malta and Cyprus became members of the EU, the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership is made up of 35 members, 25 EU Member States and 10 Mediterranean Partners (Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestinian Authority, Syria, Tunisia and Turkey). Libya has observer status since 1999.

The Barcelona Declaration established three main objectives of the Partnership:

1. The definition of a common area of peace and stability through the reinforcement of political and security dialogue (Political and Security Chapter).
2. The construction of a zone of shared prosperity through an economic and financial partnership and the gradual establishment of a free-trade area (Economic and Financial Chapter).
3. The rapprochement between peoples through a social, cultural and human partnership aimed at encouraging understanding between cultures and exchanges between civil societies (Social, Cultural and Human Chapter).

It is evident that these three main ambitious objectives have not been fulfilled. There may be several reasons for this one of which is that due to the historical developments that have occurred in Central and Eastern Europe in the nineties the EU has concentrated more on its neighbours from this area. What is a fact is the the Mediterranean is not an area of peace and stability with the unsolved problems in the Middle East. The free-trade area foreseen by the Barcelona Declaration has also not been achieved.So the revisit of the relationship between the EU member states and its partners of the Southern Medeterrean is in itself something positive. At least it has put Euro Mediterrean relationship once again on the agenda of the EU.

So what is the focus of the new Union of the Mediterranean? Its focuses on the five areas namely:
Improving energy supply;

Fighting pollutions in the Mediterranean;

Strengthening the surveillance of maritime traffic and civil security cooperation

Setting up a Mediterranean exchange programme for students, and

Creating a scientific community between Europe and its southern neighbours.

It should also be stated that Sarkozy had originally envisioned the proposed Union as involving only the EU’s Mediterranean countries and its neighbours but not the EU as a whole. However, this proposal attracted strong criticism, especially from Germany, which feared the plan could split the EU into two, with the proposed union becoming a rival to the EU itself. Consequently, the French President was forced to agree to allow all the EU member states to participate in this initiative. He also agreed to change the original title of Mediterranean Union to Union of the Mediterranean to counter fears that this new union would rival the whole EU project. Of more substance is the fact that Germany prevailed in holding its position that no additional funds will be allocated to this new project. This is contrary to the Franco-Italian proposal that financing to this new body be multiplied from what is being allocated to the Barcelona Process.

As regards the Union’s management structure, there will be two directors coordinating cooperation between the EU and the partner countries. One director is to come from the EU member stares and the other from a non-European Mediterranean country. Each will be appointed for two years, supported by a 20-strong secretariat. As regards the location Barcelona and Marseille are being mentioned as favorites. It is very unfortunate that Malta is not being mentioned in spite of its geographical location as a bridge between mainland Europe and non-European Mediterranean countries or to be more practical the Arab world.

Michael Emerson of the prestigious Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) criticized the way the Union was presented politically. However he considers the new project as an opportunity to rationalize and revitalize the EU’s present set of policies towards the Mediterranean, which is stuck in a condition of laborious lethargy.The proposed Union has less ambitious objectives the original Barcelona declaration but they are also more achievable. While they are less glamorous they are more down to earth and can have a more direct effect on the citizens of the Mediterranean countries. A clear example is the surveillance of maritime traffic.What is worrying is the absence of the Maltese Government from the discussion about this Union of the Mediterranean. If there is an area that one expects Malta to take a leading role in EU discussion is definitely the Mediterranean. I wish that the Maltese Government and particularly the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will put my mind and those of the vast majority of Maltese people that the Mediterranean is still a priority not only by saying so but by their actions.

EU borderless zone to be extended to airports
28.03.2008 - 14:55 CET | By Elitsa Vucheva

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – At midnight on Sunday (30 March) the enlargement of the EU's borderless zone to eight Eastern European countries and Malta will be completed through the lifting of air border controls between them and the 15 countries already part of the area.The enlargement of the so-called Schengen area started on 21 December when land and sea border checks between Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, and the other Schengen countries were abolished.

The enlargement of the Schengen zone to 24 member states is now complete, EU transport commissioner Jacques Barrot stated on Friday (28 March) referring to the inclusion of airports. I would like to underline the symbolic and concrete importance of this change, he said.The free movement of persons represents one of the fundamental [EU] principles. [It is] concrete, as the life of the citizens moving within the Schengen zone will be very simplified, he added.

While air companies will continue to perform identity checks at check-in and boarding, people will from Sunday onwards be allowed to fly from one airport to another within the Schengen area without being subjected to other formalities.In addition, it will be the end of a certain number of long queues and procedures for EU citizens, as well as for third country nationals travelling within Schengen by air, said Mr Barrot.In order to celebrate the lifting of air borders, several member states have planned media events at their main airports.At the airport of Ljubljana, the capital of current EU president country Slovenia, EU commissioner Janez Potocnik, himself from Slovenia, will represent the European Commission at a ceremony celebrating the border opening.The Schengen area was established in 1985 and named after the small Luxembourg village where it was signed by Germany, the Benelux countries and France.

It now comprises 22 EU member states, as well as Norway and Iceland.

Non-EU member Switzerland is also to become a member of the Schengen area later this year, while EU members Ireland and the UK do not participate in the zone.Cyprus, Bulgaria and Romania still have to meet the necessary requirements. It is not yet known when they will join Schengen, but Cyprus is expected to do so around 2009, while Bulgaria and Romania are hoping to follow suit by 2011.

Sarkozy and Brown agree on partnership of pioneers
28.03.2008 - 09:28 CET | By Elitsa Vucheva

Following a high-profile summit, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown agreed to intensify cooperation between their countries in a number of fields as a partnership of pioneers leading the global response to new international challenges.The range of fields where the two leaders vowed to work jointly include [reforms of] international institutions, foreign and defence policy, development, migration, climate change and energy, and global prosperity, including the promotion of practical responses to such challenges, says a 14-page joint declaration published Thursday (27 March). More concretely, France and the UK will work together to reform institutions such as the G8, the International Monetary Fund and the UN Security Council – where they reaffirmed support for Germany, Brazil, India and Japan's candidacies for a permanent seat, as well as for a permanent African representation.They will also tackle development and climate change together and coordinate their action in order to harness greater resources, the document reads.

One of the Anglo-French goals suggests getting 16 million children into school in Africa by 2010 and every child by 2015.The two leaders also called for greater transparency in financial markets and for the improvement of risk management in a bid to promote financial stability following the recent global credit crisis.They also pledged to join efforts to combat terrorism and to boost the EU's military capabilities, and will work on proposals for a meeting of EU leaders in June on how EU counter-radicalisation efforts might be deepened, for example by devoting more EU spending to counter radicalisation work.But they did not agree on how to approach the 2008 Olympic Games' opening ceremony in Beijing in August, in light of China's recent crackdown on Tibet.Mr Sarkozy has not ruled out boycotting the opening ceremony of the games. The French president, who will head the EU at the time of Olympics, said he will consult other member states before taking a final decision on the matter.Mr Brown, whose country will host the next Games in 2012, excluded a boycott and said he would attend the ceremony.

Towards an entente formidable

The Sarkozy-Brown meeting took place the second day of the French leader's state visit to the UK. In a speech full of praise for his host country on Wednesday (26 March), the French president called for closer Franco-British ties, as well as for Britain to play a greater role in Europe.For his part, Mr Brown returned the compliments although somewhat less effusively.We will turn the entente cordiale [cordial relationship] into the entente amicale [friendly relationship], he said at a press conference after their meeting yesterday.In the last years, relations between the two countries had cooled, notably over Britain's participation in the 2003 Iraq war which France opposed. Tony Blair and Jacques Chirac, respectively Mr Brown and Mr Sarkozy's predecessors, also had different views on the EU's future, on the common agricultural policy and free trade.But now, although these policy differences are not completely bridged over, Mr Brown said the Franco-British cooperation could turn into an entente formidable – or a wonderful relationship.

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A crude tool for teaching students to hate Israel
Frank Dimant, National Post Published: Friday, March 28, 2008

Canadians may not know it, but they are being duped. The Canadian Islamic Congress (CIC), Palestine House and the Canadian Arab Federation have joined together to distort truth and justice in an effort to promote a vehemently anti-Israel agenda of hate to young Canadians. All three have sponsored an inflammatory essay contest for students aged 17-27 that will reward (with cash) writing that perpetuates the myth of what contest organizers call 'the ethnic cleansing of Palestine' -- a notion that pretends Jews were not indigenous to Israel and the Middle East. According to its sponsors, the contest is being held in response to the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the state of Israel within Palestine.

The contest announcement features points of interest for potential essay topics, including May, 1948 through October, 1957 (the Israeli war against Egypt). Conspicuously omitted is any reference to Israeli statehood, or for that matter the fact that the Arab armies of Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Lebanon invaded the nascent Jewish state, triggering the first of many wars to follow. According to organizers, the Suez war of 1956 also falls into this category -- but in their inverted version of events, it is Israel that was the initiator rather than Egypt, which triggered the war by blocking entry into the Suez Canal to British, French and Israeli shipping.

On it goes. The years 1957-1967 are listed as the Israeli war against Egypt, Syria and Jordan, when in reality Egypt, Syria and Jordan, bolstered by Iraq, Algeria and Kuwait, joined together in an attempt to destroy the Jewish state.The clear implication is that throughout its 60 years, every move by Israel has been accompanied by a policy of ethnic cleansing. The wars of self-defence that Israel fought, its ardent pursuit of peace, accompanied by painful sacrifices reflected in Oslo and the many subsequent peace treaties that it signed, and even its obligatory defence of its civilian population against terrorist attacks by Hamas and Hezbollah, are somehow proof of Israel's malevolence.
The truth is that at the time of Israel's establishment by the United Nations in 1948, many Palestinians left their homes within the new country's borders for a variety of reasons -- including evacuation calls from Arab leaders, who warned them to get out of the way of their advancing armies. Palestinians were actively urged to leave on the understanding that they would soon return after what would be a resounding Arab victory.

This essay contest should be seen as a troubling development. It represents a plain attempt on the part of the Canadian Arab Federation, the CIC and Palestine House to propagandize Canadian youth and demonize the Jewish state -- and by extension Jews who support Israel -- by applying the fabricated 'ethnic cleansing' tag to Israel.Canadians should care about this essay contest. It is grounded on lies and distortions, and comes at the expense of true and open dialogue, spurring students to indulge in hatred of Israel while precluding moderation of any kind. Parents, especially, ought to be concerned. This contest, by its very nature, encourages students to adopt the type of radical, pre-packaged positions that fuel terrorist groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah. - Frank Dimant is executive vice-president of B'nai Brith Canada, which has been active in Canada since 1875 as the foremost Jewish human rights organization.CanWest Interactive, a division of CanWest MediaWorks Publications, Inc.

SECOND ANGEL: TO DR DOCTORIAN

Then I saw that the second angel had a sickle in his hand, such as is used in harvesting. The second angel said, Harvest time
has come in Israel and the countries all the way to Iran. I saw those countries in a few split seconds. All of Turkey and those
[inaudible;] countries that have refused me and refused my message of love shall hate each other and kill one another. I saw
the angel raise the sickle and come down on all the Middle East countries.

I saw Iran, Persia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, all of Georgia - Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, all of Asia Minor - full of blood.
I saw blood all over these countries. And I saw fire; Nuclear weapons used in many of those countries. Smoke rising from
everywhere. Sudden destruction - men destroying one another.

I heard these words, Israel, Oh Israel, the great judgment has come. The angel said, The chosen, the church, the remnant,
shall be purified. The Spirit of God shall prepare the children of God. I saw fires rising to heaven. The angel said, This is the
final judgment. My church shall be purified, protected and ready for the final day. Men will die from thirst. Water shall be
scarce all over the Middle East. Rivers shall dry up, and men will fight for water in those countries. The angel showed me
that the United Nations shall be broken in pieces because of the crisis in the Middle East. There shall be no more United
Nations. The angel with the sickle shall reap the harvest.

THE ONLY THING THE U.N WILL DO IS FOLD, IT USELESS.

Reshaping the New World Order - UN looks to expand security council by September

An interim proposal to tackle the divisive issue of Security Council reform would expand the UN's most powerful body from 15 to 22 members but leave it up to the 192 UN member states to decide what countries should fill them.The proposal, obtained Friday by The Associated Press, also leaves it up to UN members to decide how long the new seats should be held - with suggestions of two years, five years and permanent seats as possible options. It leaves the contentious issue of veto power to future negotiations.There is strong support for enlarging the Security Council to reflect the world today rather than the global power structure after World War II when the United Nations was created. But all previous attempts, starting in 1979, have failed because national and regional rivalries blocked agreement on the size and composition of an expanded council. The deep divisions forced the General Assembly to shelve three rival resolutions to expand the council in 2005.The so-called Group of Four - Germany, Japan, Brazil and India - aspire to permanent seats without veto rights on a 25-member council.

A group of middle-ranking countries, including Italy and Pakistan, who call themselves Uniting for Consensus, want a 25-member council with 10 new non-permanent seats.The African Union, whose 53 members argue that their continent is the only one without a permanent seat on the council, wants to add 11 new seats - six permanent seats including two for Africa with veto power, and five non-permanent seats.The new proposal says these groups maintain their positions, but the impossibility of achieving them now has pointed to an apparent willingness to negotiate on the basis of achieving intermediate reform, through the identification of the highest common denominator at this stage.More than 50 ambassadors representing all the major groups with a stake in reforming the council attended a meeting Tuesday hosted by Germany's UN Ambassador Thomas Matussek to discuss the new proposal. He told reporters afterwards that all the groups were represented, many had ideas on how to improve the proposal, and for the first time the Africans engaged in meaningful discussion.The proposal was submitted to General Assembly President Srgjan Kerim on Thursday, Germany's UN mission said. He is expected to study it and have members of his task force on council reform consult groups with differing views. Kerim also received separate letters from Italy and the African Group.My ambition would be - and I don't know how realistic that is - that we, by the end of this General Assembly session, will have a text that can be voted on, Matussek said. The current session ends in September.

Of the seven new council seats in the proposal, two would be allocated to African countries, two to Asian countries, one to Latin America and the Caribbean, one to Western Europe and one to Eastern Europe.The proposals also calls for a mandatory review of the reforms after a fixed period and sets out new working methods for the council, many to promote better communications and openness on its operations.One proposal appeals to the five veto-wielding council members - the US, Russia, China, Britain and France - to ensure that a veto would not be used to continue the commission of war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity.The proposal was drafted by the ambassadors from the Netherlands, Romania, Malaysia, Britain, Cyprus and Germany, with support from the Bahamas and strong input from Italy, Matussek said.In 2005, he said, the different groups were competing to try to win support from two-thirds of the UN member states and that didn't work. What is different about the new proposal is that it came out of the membership and it started from scratch to bring everybody on board, Matussek said.The idea, he said, is to bring as many countries together at the base, and then in the negotiations the real tough talking and the dealing will go on. ... We expect the negotiations will be pretty tough. The various groups will try to get as much as they can, but it's already clear now, nobody will get 100 percent.

Matussek stressed that the proposal did not reflect the views of any group or government. I hope that it will reflect the future position of my government, and that was the position for everybody concerned, Matussek said.After examining the new proposal, he said, it was evident that the pain was spread because everybody was equally unhappy with the paper, or to turn it the other way around, everybody found a little bit.

JERUSALEM DIVIDED

ZECHARIAH 12:1-5 King James Bible
1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.

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

ZECHARIAH 14:1-9 King James Bible
1 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south. 5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.
6 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:
7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
8 And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.
9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.

Friday March 28, 2008 Dividing Jerusalem — when, not whether
by douglas bloomfield

Jerusalem will be divided. The question isn’t whether, but when and how. The city’s borders have been shifting for 3,000 years. Today’s borders will not be tomorrow’s. Already the security barrier cuts off some parts of the city, and the Palestinian Authority, with American funding, is building a road linking East Jerusalem to Ramallah. The Jewish majority is shrinking as many secular Jews move away, complaining, at times, that the city is too poor, too Orthodox and too Arab. If the present borders remain unchanged, David’s City could be come Daud’s City and have a Palestinian mayor. Ariel Sharon understood the inevitability of dividing the city; his initial plans for the security barrier included putting some Arab neighborhoods of Jerusalem on the far side. American Jews who are increasingly demanding a voice in deciding the fate of Jerusalem understand the same reality; many oppose any change in the city’s borders, including jettisoning Arab neighborhoods that were added after 1967, because they oppose any and all land for peace deals with the Palestinians. Without Jerusalem, no deal is possible. There will be no end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, nor will there be international recognition of the city as Israel’s capital, even by the United States. Most of the Arab neighborhoods in East Jerusalem have no Jews living there, noted former top U.S. peace negotiator Dennis Ross, questioning why Israel would want to absorb nearly a quarter of a million Arabs who live in parts of the city where Jews don’t visit.

A bigger question may actually be whether Jerusalem’s Arabs want to have their homes and property transferred to the Palestinian state and to lose their Israeli permanent residency status and its accompanying social, educational and economic benefits. Polls indicate they would welcome the establishment of a Palestinian state but have little desire to move there; not unlike many American Jews’ attitude toward Israel. Jerusalem has been on the negotiating table at least since 1979, and may or may not still be there, depending on whom you believe. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert mollifies his critics by assuring them he is not discussing Jerusalem with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who says just the opposite for the same reason — their own political survival.

Each leader has a domestic constituency and diaspora to worry about, and each faces death threats if it appears he’s giving away too much. Abbas also has a plethora of Muslim and Arab states whose approval he needs for any agreement. Olmert’s lack of public support for changing Jerusalem’s boundaries makes little difference because the discussions with the bifurcated Palestinian Authority aren’t going anywhere near where that would be necessary. When Israel annexed East Jerusalem in 1967 following the Six-Day War, lines were drawn to reflect security considerations and to include as few Arabs as possible. Nonetheless, the Shuafat Palestinian refugee camp and 28 Palestinian villages not previously considered part of the city wound up within Jerusalem’s municipal boundaries.

All too often, talk of an undivided Jerusalem is less about preserving Jewish patrimony than blocking a peace settlement with the Palestinians. There is a two-state consensus among Israelis today, but there is also a vocal rejectionist camp. One of its leaders, Likud chairman Benjamin Netanyahu, has said that if he becomes prime minister again he will shut down the U.S.-initiated peace talks begun at Annapolis, Md., in November 2007. Meanwhile, the future of Jerusalem is becoming a source of growing tension between the Olmert government and diaspora leaders, many of who are demanding at least a voice, if not a vote, in any decision. Israeli leaders privately resent what they consider the paternalism of American Jewish machers who, they note, don’t live in Israel, don’t vote, don’t pay taxes and don’t serve in the army. Jerusalem is an emotionally charged issue and while Olmert is correct in saying it is a political decision for Israelis ultimately to make, ignoring the voices of the diaspora would seriously fray the ties that bind them together. It will be up to Israeli leaders to educate Jewish and Christian supporters that redrawing municipal boundaries is not splitting the city asunder but making it a stronger capital of a stronger Jewish state. Douglas Bloomfield is a Washington, D.C.-based political consultant who was formerly chief legislative lobbyist for AIPAC.

Rice renews focus on Mideast peace By MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press Writer Sat Mar 29, 5:11 PM ET

JERUSALEM - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Saturday she would push for an easing of Israeli restrictions on Palestinians in the West Bank as she began her latest Mideast mission aimed at reviving faltering peace talks. Rice said she was looking for real concrete progress on several issues, including improving the movement and access of people and goods from the West Bank. Israeli checkpoints and strict travel rules have curtailed such commerce and largely crippled the Palestinian its economy.I will spend a good deal of time on issues concerning the West Bank and issues concerning the ability to provide a better life for the people of the West Bank, including ways to improve movement and access, she told reporters on her plane en route to Israel.The improvement of life on the ground is the piece that I think really has to be pushed forward pretty hard, Rice said before arriving and heading to dinner with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.Easing the restrictions would clear the way for economic revival projects proposed by former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, now a Mideast peace envoy, with the strong backing of Palestinian leaders who control the West Bank.Rice planned three-way talks on Sunday with Palestinian Prime Minister Salaam Fayyad and Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak to explore ways of easing the regulations, including turning over more security control to the Palestinian Authority in certain areas.

Obviously, there are security issues, but we do have to find ways to improve movement, she said. There are obstacles that are not checkpoints and there are checkpoints that are obstacles. I think you have to look at both.Palestinians contend Israel, in not removing the restrictions on movement, is undermining Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and his moderate Fatah Party in their power struggle with the militant Hamas movement. Hamas seized control of Gaza last year.Israel is in a battle with Hamas, whose members have fired rockets at Israeli communities in southern Israel. Israel has retaliated with attacks that have killed scores of civilians in Gaza.Israel agreed this past week to issue more permits for Palestinian laborers and merchants, but has yet to take down any of the hundreds of West Bank checkpoints it says are necessary to stop suicide bombers.Broader peace negotiations have bogged down despite pledges from all sides to reach at least the outline of a peace deal by the time President Bush leaves office in January. On this issue, Rice said she was not coming to the region to insert American ideas into this process.I am not bringing the American paper' because I don't think that that is useful, she said at the start of her second trip to the Mideast this month. What is useful right now is for the parties to continue what I think is a pretty fruitful discussion between them.In addition to seeing Barak and Fayyad on Sunday, Rice planned to meet with Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni before a quick trip to Amman for talks with Jordanian King Abdullah II as well as Abbas, who is currently in Jordan.Rice then returns to Jerusalem for a three-way meeting on Monday with Livni, who is leading the Israeli negotiating team, and the Palestinian's chief negotiator Ahmed Qureia. Rice later will head back to Amman for further talks with Abbas.

IDF: Islamic Jihad producing Grad-like rockets MAR 27,08

New type rockets can reach 12.5-mile range, carry double amount of explosives compared to Qassams. The fact terror groups can manufacture their own long-range rockets is disturbing and worrying, army official warns Hanan Greenberg Published: 03.27.08, 09:43 / Israel News

The Islamic Jihad terror group has recently began manufacturing rockets capable of reaching a 12.5-mile range, similar to the Grad rockets already in use by terror organizations in Gaza.

Latest Attack

Sderot: 2 wounded in Qassam barrage / Shmulik Hadad

Eight Qassams land in western Negev in late evening, bringing Wednesday's total to 17 in end to brief lull in rocket fire
The new rockets are armed with a much deadlier warhead that carries double the amount of explosives compared to the regular Qassams, the IDF has recently learned. According to army data, the terror groups have made use of the new rocket at least three times since the IDF's Warm Summer Operation in Gaza concluded. Regular Qassam rockets carry about 11 lbs of explosives and have a 4.5 inch caliber, while the new ones can carry up to 22 lbs of explosives and have a 6.5 caliber. The new rockets are also more accurate and sophisticated and are made out of lighter materials. The IDF also learned that the armed groups in Gaza have recently obtained two new types of Iranian-made 4.7 inch caliber mortar shells: The first is equipped with an auxiliary engine and can travel up to 6.2 miles, while the other can reach a distance of 3.7 miles.

Terror groups will become more sophisticated

According to security officials, the new rocket indicates that the terror groups in Gaza have increased their efforts to develop new weapons and that they have been receiving help from agents outside the Strip.The fact that they are able to produce their own long-range rockets…is disturbing and worrying, an army official said.

There is no doubt that the smuggling of arms through the Philadelphi route and the breached border in the area are a significant weak spot and a major channel for terrorists. As time passes, the terror organizations will continue to become more established and sophisticated, he warned.

A MESSAGE OF HOPE FROM DR. JACK VAN IMPE

Beloved we will continue our study of Alcohol: The Beloved Enemy in our next newsletter. However, since we have just celebrated the Resurrection of our Lord this past Sunday, I want to present the following study.

THE RESURRECTION AND THE
RAPTURE OF THE CHURCH

And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God, because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not. For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised: And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain, ye are yet in your sins. Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.

I Corinthians 15:14-19

The Apostle Paul said it as well as it can be said. One cannot overstate the profound importance of the reality of the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus to our faith as Christians. If Jesus had not risen from the dead as the Bible states, then all who had and have fallen asleep (died in Christ) are perished and our hope for eternal life is gone. If Jesus had remained in the grave so would we - but praise God He is risen.

Think about what happened when Christ rose from the grave? What was left behind? All they found in that sepulcher was our Lord's grave clothes. What's the significance of that?

In I Corinthians 15:23, it says, Christ is the firstfruits of the Resurrection. The first fruits. Isn't that plain? Then in the text it explains that afterwards, or later, they that are Christ's at his coming will follow. It's there in God's Word. What it means is that since His clothes were left behind, ours will be also. Those that belong to Christ at the time of His coming will be bodily translated into heaven just as Jesus was - leaving behind the rags of sin for new robes of righteousness.

When Jesus Christ comes to call us home at the Rapture, He will come exactly as He left. How did He leave? He left bodily into the clouds. Acts 1:9 says, And when he (Jesus) had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight. And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing into heaven? This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go.

In other words, if I can prove that He went bodily, then I don't have to go any further to prove that He's coming back bodily. Why? Because the Bible says He's coming back exactly as He left. How did He leave? After spending three days in the grave, He rose and stood on the earth in His new body. In Luke 24:39, He says to some of His followers, Behold, my hands and my feet. It is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have. In verse 41, He says, Have ye here any meat? And they gave him a piece of broiled fish, and of an honeycomb. And he took it, and did eat before them.

This is Christ in His new resurrected body - a body that could be seen, a body that could be touched, a body that could partake of food. It's a picture of what we will have at the time of the Rapture. How quickly will it happen? Behold, I show you a mystery, the Bible tells us in I Corinthians 15:51-54. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible (the dead) must put on incorruption, and this mortal (the living) must put on immortality.

This is going to be a glorious event. We shall be changed to be like Jesus. The Psalmist said in chapter 17, verse 15: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness. In Philippians 3:21, Paul says that God will change our vile bodies - not leave them behind, change them - that they may be fashioned like unto his glorious body. In I John 3:2, it says that when we see Jesus, we shall be like Him, for we shall see him as he is.

Did you know that Jesus wasn't the first person to be raptured out of this earth? In fact, when the Rapture occurs, it will be the fourth one documented in the Bible. The first was Enoch in Genesis 5:24: And Enoch walked with God; and he was not; for God took him. In Hebrews 11:5, Paul adds, that Enoch was translated by faith so that he should not see death. He was raptured - caught up in the twinkling of an eye, without dying. The second documented rapture is Elijah in II Kings 2:11. Elijah was caught up by a whirlwind into heaven. He, too, never saw death, foreshadowing what we believers will experience on the day the Lord catches us up in the clouds. Then, of course, Jesus was raptured away in Acts 1:9: And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.

When Elijah was caught up, angels and chariots of fire came to get him. I personally believe that, in a similar way, angelic hosts may come after those of us who ascend in the Rapture. Why? Because every believer - not just Elijah - has his own ministering angel. They could come to whisk us home in the twinkling of an eye. Luke 16:22 provides a precedent for us: And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom.

Is all this something that should frighten us? Excited, yes. Frightened, no. So many people today are facing the future with dread - with fear and foreboding. There is an anticipation - even in the secular media - that we may be nearing the end of the world. There is anxiety and hopelessness everywhere. The world seems to get just a bit uglier every day as crime increases and wars break out and immorality reigns.

This is not the way believers should feel - especially in this season when we are remembering what Jesus did for us on the cross of Calvary and how He victoriously defeated the last enemy, death, I Corinthians 15:26. What could be more exciting and encouraging than the idea that some of us will never die? In Titus 2:13, Paul calls the Rapture our blessed hope. In I Thessalonians 4:18, he says, Comfort one another with these words.Comfort one another, he says, not frighten one another.

I've got news for you. The world is not - I repeat, not - coming to an end. The world is not going away in the year 2012, nor even a thousand years after that. It is clear from scripture that the world will not even end after Christ's 1,000-year reign on earth. The world will never end. Isaiah 45:17 is unequivocal: It's a world without end. Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen, Paul writes in Ephesians 3:21.

Skeptics will no doubt point to Matthew 24:3 which states: As he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? Let's recall that the New Testament was written in Greek. The Greek translation of that last world is age, not world. Once again, the world is not coming to an end. But this epoch, this age, is closing.

Long before Christ was born, the Jewish rabbis taught a six-day theory about the future of the world. They believed that the world would face several eras lasting a total of 6,000 years, from Adam's creation until the Messiah would come. This theory was based, in part, on Psalm 90:4: For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday. Since God created the world in six days and rested on the seventh day, they reasoned, the world would go on for 6,000 years followed by a 1,000-year millennial rest period presided over by the Lord himself.

Think about this. From the creation of Adam until the birth of Christ a period of 4,000 years - or four days passed. From Christ's time on earth until now represents approximately another 2,000 years - or two days. This total of six days is just one more reason to believe that Jesus could return very, very soon.

Six-day periods, followed by remarkable transitions, have been important throughout scripture. Look at Matthew 17:1, for example. And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, And he was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light. Jesus was giving them a preview of what it would be like when He comes back as King of Kings and Lord of Lords as described in Revelation 19:16. When they came down from that mountain, He told them not to tell anyone of these things until after His Resurrection.

Not only did the ancient Jewish rabbis teach this six-day theory, but so did the church during the first 300 years of Christendom. The church leaders based their belief on II Peter 3:8: But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. St. Victorinus, the bishop of Petah, wrote a commentary on the book of Revelation in 270 AD. He said he saw another great and wonderful sign - Seven angels having the last seven plagues, for in them is completed the indignation of God. And these shall be in the last time when the church shall have gone out of the midst. In other words, St. Victorinus was talking about the Rapture! This teaching is not a present day innovation but a doctrinal statement dating back 17 centuries to St. Victorinus and 20 centuries to Jesus and Paul.

In the 16th century there were those expressing assurance of the Rapture. Hugh Latimer, burned at the stake for his faith in 1555, said: It may come in my days, old as I am, or in my children's days, the saints shall be taken up to meet Christ in the air and so shall come down with him again. Joseph Medde, the great 16th century literalist understood I Thessalonians 4:13-18 to teach the catching up of the saints and even used the word rapture. So this is not some new idea.

However, understand this: The Rapture is not taught in Matthew, Mark and Luke. You can find it twice in the Gospel of John. Any other time you are reading about Christ's return in the gospels, it is not referring to the Rapture. Instead, these are references to the second phase of Christ's return - when He physically comes back to earth to rule over it after a seven-year Tribulation period and it's called, in theological circles, the Revelation or the revealing of Christ upon earth.

Where are the two Rapture texts in the Gospel of John? John 14:1-3: Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. This is not His coming to the earth. This is the point at which He receives us unto Himself at the great Rapture - the snatching away - to be with Him in heaven as the seven years of torment occur on earth. The second reference is in John 11:25,26. I quoted this passage for years but didn't really understand it. Christ said: I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?

Jesus is contrasting those who experience death and live again (for the dead in Christ rise first, I Thessalonians 4:16) with those who never experience death (because we which are alive and remain are caught up without dying, I Thessalonians 4:17).

It's a fact that God always spares His own from judgment. When the horrendous worldwide flood came in Noah's day, Noah told those who were prepared to COME INTO the ark, Genesis 7:7. When the judgment fell on Sodom and Gomorrah in Genesis 19:14, the angels told Lot and his family to COME OUT of the city. Notice this trilogy: In Noah's day, it was COME IN. In Lot's day it was COME OUT. In our day, it will be COME UP, Revelation 4:1.

But, of course, as always, only a select group will be saved - rescued from the worst period in human history. During the Tribulation period that follows the Rapture, all hell is going to break loose on planet earth. It will be a furious time because the hindering power of the Holy Spirit will be temporarily removed.

How bad will things get? In Revelation 9:18, it indicates that a third of mankind will be killed by fire, smoke and brimstone. That, my friends, is nothing less than a first century way of explaining all-out thermonuclear warfare. Imagine. But that's just the beginning. In Revelation 6:8, the rider on the fourth horse brings with him a worldwide plague of disease that causes another fourth of humanity to perish. So half the human race will be annihilated in this relatively brief period. This pictures the judgment predicted by Jesus in Matthew 24:41 and 42.

As terrible as that fate sounds, there is still hope for those left behind. I used to believe and teach that if one hadn't accepted the Lord before the Rapture, all was lost. I was wrong. As long as one is alive there's hope. Joel chapter 2 and Acts chapter 2 describe the calamitous tribulation period. In the midst of all the carnage and destruction Joel 2:32 and Acts 2:21 states: whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

There's always hope in Jesus. That's what we need to reflect upon, not only during this victorious resurrection season, but all year long.

FROM THE HEART OF DR. REXELLA VAN IMPE
Give Me Your Hand

In my daily Bible reading, I've been noticing how much is mentioned about the hands of our Lord. Again and again the Gospels relate how He reached out to people in their need and hurt and sorrow. And when He touched them, they were never the same again.

His hands healed the sick

After He began His earthly ministry, great multitudes thronged about Him wherever He went. Those who were sick, blind, and lame -- even those marked for death with the curse of leprosy -- came to Him seeking to be healed and made whole.

When the hands of Jesus touched them, pain and suffering ceased, diseases and infirmities were cured, and lives shattered and ruined by sickness were restored.

His hands fed the multitude

It was the hands of Jesus that fed the multitudes who followed Him out into the desert place to hear His words. When evening came, Christ's disciples urged Him to send the people away. But Jesus saw their hunger and weariness and, in compassion, desired to minister to them.

Taking a few small loaves and fishes -- barely enough for one small boy's lunch -- the Lord blessed the food. Then His hands began to break and divide the bread and fish into portions which He gave to His disciples to serve.

We're told that 5,000 men were fed that day, not counting the women and children. And when everybody had eaten all they wanted, there were twelve baskets full of leftovers! The hands of Jesus not only provided enough...but plenty to spare.

His hands blessed the children

Loving children as I do, my heart is touched to read the biblical account of how the hands of Jesus blessed and comforted the little children. He specifically told His disciples not to prevent them from coming to Him. And in my mind's eye, I can see the Lord sitting down and opening His arms to them. As they eagerly jostled about, perhaps He lifted a toddler into His lap, shook hands with an older lad, touched the cheek of a shy little girl. And as His gentle hands patted little shoulders and smoothed tousled hair, the Lord blessed these little ones. Somehow I think they probably never forgot that day when the hands of Jesus touched them.

The hands of the Master

No doubt the hands of Jesus were strong and powerful. Growing up around Joseph's carpenter shop, He probably learned to hold and use various tools to shape and assemble wood into useful items. His hands knew how to work.

It was those strong hands that later would grasp a whip as an indignant Jesus drove the callous money changers out of the holy halls of the Temple. Those hands were instruments of righteousness and justice.

It was those hands that reached out to lift and save impetuous Peter who, after walking on the water toward Jesus, took his eyes off the Lord and began to sink.

There are so many other references to the hands of Jesus that we could talk about. But the single most important mention of Christ's hands is when they were nailed to the cross.

A very dear, life-long friend gave me a beautiful wall plaque, which I have hanging in my kitchen. It says:

I asked Jesus, How much do You love me?

This much, He answered, and He stretched out His arms and died.

Greater love hath no man than this, said Jesus, that a man lay down his life for his friends (John 15:13).

And who is Jesus' friend? The deeply spiritual and very religious? The learned and respectable? The proud traditionalists?

No, our Lord said that He was called a friend of...sinners! (Luke 7:34).

The Apostle Paul reminds us that Christ died for the ungodly... in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us (Romans 5:6,8).

It is strangely and beautifully significant that the first person to benefit from Christ's sacrifice at Calvary was a thief on the cross next to His! Think of it -- the first person to whom the Lord stretched out His nail-pierced hands was someone totally unworthy of His love.

Love-scarred hands

Some time ago my husband, Jack, and I were guests at a Christian fellowship dinner in another city. During the meal I got acquainted and talked with a dear little mother who sat next to me. After a while, with tears streaming down her cheeks, she leaned over and whispered the sad story of a wayward daughter who had run away from home, mounted up many debts, and fallen to the very depths of sin, even into a life of prostitution.

I pray for her every day, she said, and every time I hear from her I beg her to come home. My husband doesn't make a lot of money, so I got a job to help pay off the debts our daughter made. I'm doing everything I know how to do to help her. Please pray with me.

When I reached out to take hold of this precious mother's hands to comfort her, they were rough and calloused, scarred by long hours of hard work, week after month after year. Those hands were scarred by love...by a mother's selfless sacrifice and desperate desire to reach and save her wayward daughter.

As I held those hands and prayed, I was reminded of Christ's nail-scarred hands that also were pierced for that lost daughter...and for every lost sinner in the whole world. They were scarred for me...and for you!

Just as the hands of our Lord ministered to men and women, boys and girls, wherever He went during His time on earth, so we today can feel the touch of His hands in our daily lives. His power is still available to us today.

In our times of pain and suffering, He is still the Great Physician who lays His hands upon us and restores our bodies. Whether our healing comes through medication, the skill of a surgeon, or by the power of faith alone, we know that He is the source of all healing.

When we are hungry and experiencing a lack of supply -- when we're empty physically, emotionally, and spiritually -- Christ's hands will bless and multiply the smallest things we have to offer Him and make it sufficient to meet our need...with plenty to spare.

When we've tried and failed -- when like Peter, we're sinking into the depths of trials and tribulations, with no hope in sight -- He will come to us, walking on the waters of our stormy sea. His hand will save us, lift us up, and lead us safely to the solid rock!

The challenge of Easter

I love Spring! There's something special about seeing the sun light up winter's gray skies, and nature stir the grass and trees into new life. Surely it is no coincidence that we celebrate Easter in the springtime.

Each Easter we are reminded that Christ died for us -- but He rose again! Without Easter, we might be tempted to forget that it is through the outstretched arms and nail-pierced hands of Jesus that we have life eternal. Had it not been for His sacrifice on Calvary and His bodily resurrection, there would be no everlasting life.

As we look around us and see all of nature coming back to life anew, let us be reminded of Christ's great love for us.

But let us also be challenged to reach out in His love into every man's world with a helping hand. Let us emulate our Lord's great example and use the resurrection power that flows through us to minister to the needs of those around us.

Never forget that for many people in the world, their first glimpse of Christ may be in you...the only hands that will touch them in love, that will comfort, lift, and bless them, may be your hands.

Reach out whenever you can, wherever you can, to whomever you can. However unlovely or unworthy the person you find may be, remember that Christ's sacrifice is sufficient...and that He loves that individual just as much as He loves you.

Do not be afraid to stretch forth your hand to anybody. For you minister, not in your own strength and ability, but in His love. So when you reach out, it will not be just your hand that touches them, but the hand of God through you!

I love the beautiful gospel chorus that cries out

Oh, to be His hand extended,
Reaching out to the oppressed,
Let me touch Him, let me touch Jesus,
So that others may know and be blessed.

Look around you today and find someone who is hurting or needy, someone who is in trouble. Ask God to guide you to someone who needs Jesus.

When you find them, don't hesitate or delay. Go to them with a smile filled with the light of His love and simply say...

Give me your hand.

DEAD HEAT: McCAIN RUNNING NECK AND NECK WITH DEMS
But exclusive new poll finds the Arizona Senator is losing among Christian voters, despite the Rev. Wright controversy. By Joel C. Rosenberg, for National Review Online

(Washington, D.C., March 26, 2008) -- After months of speeches and debates, and nearly $1 billion in total campaign spending to date, the presidential race is a dead heat.

A head-to-head showdown between Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama is now too close to call - 45.9 percent to 44.6 percent - based on an averaging of national polls by realclearpolitics.com. A head-to-head showdown between McCain and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is also razor-thin, 46 percent to 45.7 percent.

Now, a poll of likely Christian voters offers evidence of why the McCain campaign is struggling to gain real traction and a lead that can last. The poll was conducted among 1,000 likely Christian voters early last week, on behalf of November Communications, Inc., the company I founded in 2000. McLaughlin & Associates, a leading polling firm for many Republican candidates, but unaffiliated in the current presidential campaign, conducted the survey.

The Arizona senator is losing the Christian vote decisively to both Obama and Clinton, even though the poll was conducted as the recent firestorm over the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. erupted.

If the general election were held today, McCain would lose the Christian vote to the Democratic nominee - 36 percent to 45 percent - with 19 percent of Christian voters currently undecided.

Among Protestants, McCain pulls even with the Democrats at 40 percent. But the Democrats have a whopping 32-point lead over McCain among Catholics.

Among white evangelical Protestants, McCain is doing better (51 percent to 28 percent), but clearly they have not rallied behind him at this point.

By contrast, the 2004 exit polls found that George W. Bush beat John Kerry among Protestants (59 percent to 40 percent), Catholics (52 percent to 47 percent), and white evangelical Protestants (78 percent to 21 percent).

How is it possible that McCain is doing so poorly among Christian voters, and the Democrats are doing so well among them? Especially as Reverend Wright Week kicked off?

To be sure, the brouhaha over Obama's pastor may take more time to sink into the public consciousness, particularly among self-described Christians. In the weeks ahead, polls may pick up subtle or significant changes. But this poll highlights just what a serious problem McCain has.

James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, has said publicly and repeatedly that he couldn't back McCain for president. Speaking as a private individual, I would not vote for John McCain under any circumstances, said Dobson.

The Republican party, Dobson recently warned, seems poised to select a nominee who did not support a constitutional amendment to protect the institution of marriage, who voted for embryonic stem-cell research to kill nascent human beings, who opposed tax cuts that ended the marriage penalty, who has little regard for freedom of speech, who organized the Gang of 14 to preserve filibusters, and who has a legendary temper and who often uses foul and obscene language. Should John McCain capture the nomination as many assume, I believe this general election will offer the worst choices for president in my lifetime.

With a radio audience of seven to nine million listeners per week, Dobson is a voice McCain can ill afford to have against him.

No evangelical or Catholic leader today has the power to single-handedly throw tens of millions of votes one way or another, and McCain would lose credibility with all voters if he suddenly pandered to anyone. But McCain and the GOP need a clear and convincing strategy to win Christian voters back - and fast.

One issue where McCain could gain traction among Christians: focusing consistently and effectively on how Islamic extremism affects the safety of American families, the price of oil, and the strength of our economy.

A number of evangelical leaders have told me they believe the threat of radical Islam is the biggest family issue in this campaign.

I couldn't agree more. There are many critical family issues in this campaign, to be sure - human life, marriage, and judicial nominees, to name just a few.

But what else matters if jihadist organization and/or rogue states build, buy, or steal nuclear weapons and detonate them inside the U.S.?

Also, McCain should make Israel an issue. We asked American Christian voters: Would you be more likely or less likely to vote for a candidate for President of the United States if you knew that candidate would strongly advocate policies to protect America from radical Islamic terrorism; protect Israel from a nuclear attack by Iran; protect the capital of Israel - Jerusalem - from being divided with Palestinian Muslims; and refuse to pressure Israel to make diplomatic concessions that could endanger Israel's security?

Overall, nearly half (45 percent) say they are more likely to vote for such a candidate, including 45 percent of Protestants and 52 percent of evangelical Protestants. Among Catholics - only 26 percent of them support McCain now - 44 percent would be more likely to vote for such a candidate.

McCain's trip to Israel last week was a good first step in reaching a demographic group he is currently losing. But he must do much more - and be consistent - if he is to win Catholics and evangelicals back from the Democrats in numbers large enough to win this campaign in November.

[NOTE: We will release more exclusive numbers from the poll on American Christian attitudes towards Israel, Iran and other Middle East issues at the Epicenter Conference in Jerusalem on April 10th.]

DICTATOR WORSHIP CULT

EU DICTATOR (WORLD LEADER)

REVELATION 17:12-13
12 And the ten horns (NATIONS) which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
13 These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.

REVELATION 6:1-2
1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
2 And I saw, and behold a white horse:(PEACE) and he that sat on him had a bow;(EU DICTATOR) and a crown was given unto him:(PRESIDENT OF THE EU) and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.(MILITARY GENIUS)

REVELATION 13:1-10
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.(THE EU AND ITS DICTATOR IS GODLESS)
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.(DICTATOR COMES FROM NEW AGE OR OCCULT)
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death;(MURDERERD) and his deadly wound was healed:(COMES BACK TO LIFE) and all the world wondered after the beast.(THE WORLD THINKS ITS GOD IN THE FLESH, MESSIAH TO ISRAEL)
4 And they worshipped the dragon (SATAN) which gave power unto the beast:(JEWISH EU DICTATOR) and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?(FALSE RESURRECTION,SATAN BRINGS HIM TO LIFE)
5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.(GIVEN WORLD CONTROL FOR 3 1/2YRS)
6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God,(HES A GOD HATER) to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.(HES A LIBERAL OR DEMOCRAT,WILL PUT ANYTHING ABOUT GOD DOWN)
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints,(BEHEAD THEM) and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.(WORLD DOMINATION)
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.(WORLD DICTATOR)
9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.(SAVED CHRISTIANS AND JEWS DIE FOR THEIR FAITH AT THIS TIME,NOW WE ARE SAVED BY GRACE BUT DURING THE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH, PEOPLE WILL BE PUT TO DEATH (BEHEADINGS) FOR THEIR BELIEF IN GOD (JESUS) OR THE BIBLE.

DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come (ROMANS IN AD 70) shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMANS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
27 And he( EU ROMAN, JEWISH DICTATOR) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:( 7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,( 3 1/2 YRS) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

WELL HERE IS THE FORERUNNER OF THE EU DICTATOR. NORTH KOREANS WORSHIP A DICTATOR. IN THE VERY NEAR FUTURE IT WILL BE THE PERISHING WORLD THAT WORSHIPS THE EU (EUROPEAN UNION DICTATOR).

WATCH THE VIDEO ABOUT THIS STORY WITH THE TROOPS FLYIN BY THE LEADER. THIS WILL BE THE FUTURE, GET READY.........!

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=60043

VIDEONETDAILY Hidden-camera series reveals nationwide cult
North Korean society revolves around worship of dictator
March 28, 2008 10:00 pm Eastern By Bob Unruh 2008 WorldNetDaily

This pose in front of a photograph of North Korea's dictator by filmmaker Shane Smith generated a warning from guards not to block Kim Jong-Il. A video documentary series shot partly with hidden cameras by a film crew that ventured into North Korea posing as tourists reveals a closed cult society that revolves around the worship of the dictator, Kim Jong-Il.The series of videos was filmed and edited by crew members at an eclectic website called Vice, described by Vanity Fair as a purveyor of hipster style and nihilism.Although its home page contains art material that may be objectionable to family viewers, officials there have set up a special web page linking directly to the 14 episodes created from the visit to North Korea.In the Vanity Fair description of the series, writer Christopher Bateman said, Vice co-founder Shane Smith and a cameraman bribed their way into the country and then got treated to the full panoply of pomp and diplomacy apparently saved for North Korea's few annual tourists.

He continued, Never let out of eyesight by their state-supplied tour guides, they are forced to participate in a nonstop regiment (sic) of ideologically kosher sightseeing (the creepy People's Study House, a monumental statue of Kim Il-Sung, the exploitation of child music prodigies at an elite elementary school.) At every juncture they are reminded either of the evil of the U.S. Imperialists or the magnificence of Great Leader Kim and Dear Leader Kim Jong-Il. This is partly done through laughable propaganda videos with awkward English dubbing that are sold all over North Korea, and which are featured in the film.The 14-part series launches with a video about the company's year-long unsuccessful effort to obtain entry to North Korea through legitimate routes, and the eventual decision to fly to South Korea, where they are advised to go to China and bribe their way in. And they do.Once inside the nation that is listed at the top of most lists assembled by governments or humanitarian organizations for its aggressive repression of Christians and members of other faiths, the crew discovers a complete cult atmosphere, with warnings against even standing in front of a picture of North Korea's dictator.Mandatory is a visit by tourists to the U.S.S. Pueblo, a U.S. spy ship captured in 1968 by North Korea. Another mandatory visit is to the People's Study House.

There a guide tells the visitors it is for students.

They come here to ask professors questions and the professors give them the correct answers immediately, visitors are told.A stop in a music library reveals Beatles and Bob Dylan recordings, but no one listening, prompting the Vice crew to speculate they are for wannabe guards to learn idiomatic English to monitor the rest of the world.Visitors are allowed to go into the Pyongyang subway but only to ride from one station to the next. In those stations, guards inform the crew members the colored lights are there to represent fireworks.The crew members repeatedly visit such interesting sites accompanied only by their guards. In their various random stops in restaurants, the videos reveal them to be virtually the only customers.One video, Episode 5 – The Tea Girl, shows their tourist bus as the only vehicle traveling on the roads and traveling through villages with no electricity. Then they are the only customers in a tea shop where an overjoyed employee plays pool and ping-pong with them.We may still be the last people this girl has hung out with, crew members concluded in another video.We have seen plenty of footage before from journalists in North Korea, but the footage [from Vice] came up with is highly impressive because they were using a hidden camera, which has skillfully captured many images of life in North Korea that is not usually seen by outsiders, said the North Korean blog Rok Drop.

North Korea still imposes the death penalty for those who offend the dictator by expressing faith in a religion such as Christianity, and where tens of thousands of Christians are held in terminal prison camps.A spokesman for Open Doors, which ranks North Korea No. 1 on its World Watch list of countries where Christians suffer the greatest persecution, said even on Christmas Day, executions occur.The state is working hard to wipe out Christianity, said Open Doors USA spokesman Jerry Dykstra. Nowhere in the world is such a high price paid as in this country with its tyrannical regime, he said.A man identified only as Brother Simon told the Christian ministry from a secret location inside North Korea that a holiday such as Christmas is celebrated by Christians who gather in groups of two, to keep underneath the radar that alerts authorities.For example (on an ordinary Sunday), a Christian goes and sits on a bench in the park. Another Christian comes and sits next to him. Sometimes it is dangerous even to speak to one another, but they know they are both Christians, and at such a time, this is enough. If there is no one around, they may be able to share a Bible verse which they have learned by heart and briefly say something about it. They also share prayer topics with each other. Then they leave one another and go and look for Christians in some other part of their town. This continues throughout Sunday. A cell group usually consists of fewer than 20 Christians who encourage and strengthen one another in this way. Besides this, there are one-to-one meetings in people's homes, Simon said.Vice officials told WND that as tourists, the crew members were allowed to take a camera and use it in some locations. In others, however, even tourists were banned from taking pictures or video.

Guards in one museum warmed Smith not to block their president-for-life by standing in front of his picture. In another episode the camera captures a banquet hall filled with food for one guest just to give the impression that North Korea does not have a food shortage.Reports Smith, as he was leaving he saw the waitresses collecting the food that had been on display on other tables and carefully storing it, apparently to be re-used for the next tourist visitor.Smith, whose company also has documented travel to Baghdad as well as the Sudan, noted traveling into the highly restricted nation that has built and runs prison camps for its own citizens was one of the hardest and weirdest processes [Vice] has ever dealt with.After we went back and forth with their representatives for months, they finally said they were going to allow 16 journalists into the country to cover the Arirang Mass Games in Pyongyang. Then, 10 days before we were supposed to go, they said, 'No, nobody can come.Then they said, OK, OK, you can come. But only as tourists. We had no idea what that was supposed to mean. They already knew we were journalists, and over there if you get caught being a journalist when you're supposed to be a tourist you go to jail. We don't like jail. And we’re willing to bet we'd hate jail in North Korea, Smith said.

But we went for it, he told reporters. The first leg of the trip was a flight into northern China. At the airport the North Korean consulate took our passports and all of our money, then brought us to a restaurant. We were sitting there with our tour group, and suddenly all the other diners left and these women came out and started singing North Korean nationalist songs. We were thinking, Look, we were just on a plane for 20 hours. We're jet-lagged. Can we just go to bed? but this guy with our group who was from the LA Times told us, Everyone in here besides us is secret police. If you don't act excited then you're not going to get your visa.So we got drunk and jumped up onstage and sang songs with the girls. The next day we got our visas. A lot of people we had gone with didn't get theirs. That was our first hint at just what a freaky, freaky trip we were embarking on...Interspersed with video footage of 120,000 people putting on a stadium show, apparently for a handful of observers, are comments from President Bush describing North Korea as a regime with missiles and weapons of mass destruction and including it in an axis of evil.

During the mandatory visit to the North Korea side of the demilitarized zone separating it from South Korea, guides tell the crew members of the two million soldiers poised and ready to defend their country if anyone invades by so much as one inch.They also are told of huge buildings filled with dynamite ready to explode should an invasion be reported. They stayed in one hotel, on an island, that was 47 stories tall but apparently included people on only one floor, they said.You're not a tourist, Smith said, You're on a tour. You come in. You're shown what you're shown.This is so surreal, he said.

ISRAEL IS NEGOTIATING JERUSALEM

JERUSALEM DIVIDED

ZECHARIAH 12:1-5 King James Bible
1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.

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

ZECHARIAH 14:1-9 King James Bible
1 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south. 5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.
6 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:
7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
8 And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.
9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.

SAD BUT TRUE, THE BIBLE CLEARLY SAYS JERUSALEM WILL BE DIVIDED AND HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE AS A RESULT.

ITS A SHAME PEOPLE DON'T READ THE BIBLE, THEN WW3 WOULD NEVER COME ABOUT BECAUSE THEY WOULD KNOW IF YOU DIVIDE JERUSALEM OR FORCE ISRAELIS OFF THEIR GOD GIVIN LAND YOU WILL BE DESTROYED AT SOME POINT.

WW3 THE 3 WAVES THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL

DANIEL 11:40-45
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.

REVELATION 14:18-20
18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
20 And the winepress was trodden without the city,(JERUSALEM) and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.(200 MILES) (THE SIZE OF ISRAEL)

The Third and Final Wave of WW3 is when all Nations march to Jerusalem, but JESUS bodily returns to earth and destroys them,sets up his KINGDOM OF RULE FOR 1000 YEARS THEN FOREVER.

2ND WAVE CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL

REVELATION 16:12
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.(THIS IS THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY,THEY CROSS OVER).

DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)

REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(IRAQ-SYRIA)
15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)

FROM WND'S JERUSALEM BUREAU WorldNetDaily Exclusive
Exposed: Israel is negotiating Jerusalem PM Olmert repeatedly denied holy city discussed with Palestinians March 27, 2008
4:41 pm Eastern By Aaron Klein 2008 WorldNetDaily

Illegal Arab construction in Jerusalem (WND)

JERUSALEM – Israel is negotiating with the Palestinian Authority regarding all core issues, including the status of Jerusalem, PA President Mahmoud Abbas said yesterday.[Talks deal with] all the core issues without exception: Jerusalem, refugees, settlements, borders and security. We hope to achieve a settlement in 2008; there are many obstacles but we hope they will be removed. We are all pressing to reach a settlement by the target date, Abbas said.

His statements fly in the face of recent claims by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who repeatedly has denied Jerusalem is being discussed. The ultra-Orthodox Shas party, a key member of Olmert's coalition, has pledged to bolt the government if Jerusalem is negotiated.Shas has denied Jerusalem is being discussed during regular weekly Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, which commenced after last November's U.S.-sponsored Annapolis summit.Nobody is talking about Jerusalem. The moment Jerusalem is being discussed, Shas will leave the government – period, Shas spokesman Roi Lachmanovitch told Israel National News.Abbas' statement yesterday was specifically referring to the weekly meetings between chief Palestinian negotiator Ahmed Qureia and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni.

The PA leader's comments are sure to result in increased pressure against Shas to leave the government, a move that likely would send Olmert's government into crisis and could result in the prime minister's downfall.Last week, WND reported the son of the Shas spiritual leader demanded his father's party immediately bolt the government amid rampant media reports Jerusalem is up for negotiations.Rabbi Jacob Yosef accused the Shas party of selling Jerusalem" for 478 million Israeli shekels, or $138 million. Yosef's father, Rabbi Ovadye Yosef, serves as the spiritual leader of Shas, where he is also considered the party's most important and revered figure.Earlier this month, the Knesset's Finance Committee approved $138 million in government funds to Shas' educational institutions as part of the party's coalition agreement with Olmert.

How dare you sell out Jerusalem for 478 million shekels. Jerusalem is worth more than all monies in the world, said Jacob Yosef, rabbi of the Givat Mordechai neighborhood in Jerusalem, addressing his father's party.Jacob Yosef is also a member of the Rabbinical Congress for Peace, a coalition of more than 350 Israeli rabbinic leaders and pulpit rabbis.Yosef accused his father's party of staying in the government until a formal announcement regarding dividing Jerusalem is made, by which time, the rabbi said, it will be too late.When someone brings a rope to hang your child, will you say, 'Oh, it's nothing, he only brought a rope?' Or if a killer is only sharpening the knife, will you say, It's nothing, he's only sharpening the knife? You will stop him right at the beginning, because by the time the knife is on the throat it will be too late. What is Shas waiting for? It must leave the government right now," Yosef exclaimed.Olmert's government has hinted a number of times it will divide Jerusalem and reportedly has halted all Jewish construction permits for eastern sections of the city.In December, Israeli Vice Premier Haim Ramon said the country must give up sections of Jerusalem for a future Palestinian state, even conceding the Palestinians can rename Jerusalem to whatever they want.We must come today and say, friends, the Jewish neighborhoods, including Har Homa, will remain under Israeli sovereignty, and the Arab neighborhoods will be the Palestinian capital, which they will call Jerusalem or whatever they want, said Ramon during an interview.Positions held by Ramon, a ranking member of Olmert's Kadima party, are largely considered to be reflective of Israeli government policy.Olmert himself recently questioned whether it was really necessary to retain Arab-majority eastern sections of Jerusalem.Israel recaptured eastern Jerusalem, including the Temple Mount – Judaism's holiest site – during the 1967 Six Day War. The Palestinians have claimed eastern Jerusalem as a future capital; the area has large Arab neighborhoods, a significant Jewish population and sites holy to Judaism, Christianity and Islam.About 231,000 Arabs live in Jerusalem, mostly in eastern neighborhoods, and many reside in illegally constructed complexes. The city has an estimated total population of 724,000.

Olmert to blame for dividing Jerusalem?

Ramon listed population statistics as the reason Olmert's government finds it necessary to split Jerusalem.But WND broke the story that according to Jerusalem municipal employees, during 10 years as mayor of Jerusalem, Olmert instructed city workers not to take action against hundreds of illicit Arab building projects throughout eastern sections of Jerusalem housing over 100,000 Arabs squatting in the city illegally.The workers and some former employees claim Olmert even instructed city officials to delete files documenting illegal Arab construction of housing units in eastern Jerusalem.Olmert was Jerusalem mayor from 1993 to 2003. As mayor, he made repeated public statements calling Jerusalem the eternal and undivided capital of Israel. Jerusalem municipal employees and former workers, though, paint a starkly contrasting picture of the prime minister.He did nothing about rampant illegal Arab construction in Jerusalem while the government cracked down on illegal Jewish construction in the West Bank, said one municipal employee who worked under Olmert. She spoke on condition of anonymity, because she still works for the municipality.One former municipal worker during Olmert's mayoral tenure told WND he was moved in 1999 to a new government posting after he tried to highlight the illegal Arab construction in Jerusalem. He also spoke on condition of anonymity, fearing for his current job.Aryeh King, chairman of the Jerusalem Forum, which promotes Jewish construction in Jerusalem, told WND an investigation by his group found Olmert's city hall deleted files documenting hundreds of illegal Arab building projects throughout eastern sections of Jerusalem. He said he forwarded his findings to Israel's state comptroller for investigation.King also claims Olmert told senior municipal workers not to enforce a ban on illegal Arab buildings.

Ehud Olmert gave the order not to deal with the problem and not to put Israeli security forces to the duty of taking down the illegal Arab complexes, said King. Senior municipal workers told me Olmert said not to bother with the illegal Arab homes, because eventually eastern Jerusalem would be given to the Palestinian Authority.

King's report alleges Jerusalem municipal officials erased the files, which detail over 300 cases of Arab construction in eastern Jerusalem deemed illegal starting from 1999. The illegal buildings reportedly were constructed without permits and are still standing. According to law, they must be demolished.Local media reports investigating King's charges alleged the files were erased by Ofir May, the head of Jerusalem's Department of Building Permits, with the specific intention of allowing the statute of limitation on enforcing the demolition of the illegal construction to run out.

The Jerusalem municipality released a statement in response to the allegations claiming the threat of Arab violence kept it from bulldozing the illegal Arab homes.During the years of the intifada, the municipality had difficulty carrying out the necessary level of enforcement in the neighborhoods of eastern Jerusalem due to security constraints, the statement read.King said the hundreds of buildings allegedly detailed in the deleted municipal files house more than 20,000 illegal units.We're talking about perhaps 100,000 or more Arabs in eastern Jerusalem living in illegal homes with the government doing nothing about it, King said.

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EU HEAVY RELIANCE ON LOBBYISTS

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.

More Ohio Valley rain, Northeast snow Kevin Roth
MAR 27,08

Midwest

A wave of low pressure finally pushes the stationary boundary south of the Ohio Valley Friday bringing an end to the latest rounds of rain. Before the rain moves out Friday afternoon the Midwest should receive 1 to 3 inches. All that moisture eventually finds its way into the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers prolonging the flooding occurring from southern Indiana southwest to Arkansas. The drier regime that moves in Friday afternoon lasts through Saturday, but more rain is in the forecast Sunday through early next week. Cooler air spreads from the upper Midwest into the Ohio Valley behind the rain later Friday and Saturday with slight moderation expected Sunday.

Northeast

A storm system moves from the Ohio Valley through southern New England Friday bringing rain and snow to the Northeast. A band of moderate snowfall could occur across central New York, southern Vermont, southern New Hampshire into central Maine. Many locations could see 4 inches with local amounts exceeding 6 inches. Rain amounts on the warm side of the system should average 0.25 to 0.75 inches. Drier air moves in for the weekend with mostly sunny skies Saturday and increasing clouds Sunday. The next threat of rain and snow moves in Sunday night. Temperatures Friday range from the chilly 30s north to the lower 80s over southeastern Virginia. The cool air over the north spreads into Virginia knocking temperatures back into the 40s and 50s for the weekend.

South

A cold front drops into the South from the Midwest later Friday and stalls close to the Gulf Coast for the weekend. Scattered thunderstorms are in the forecast for the Tennessee Valley and lower Mississippi Valley Friday. Isolated showers and thunderstorms are possible across the entire South Saturday. Temperatures should still be quite warm Friday ahead of the front with highs ranging from the 60s north to the lower to middle 80s south. A few areas in the Rio Grande Valley could make a run at the lower 90s Friday afternoon. Cooler air spreads southward into the Carolinas and northern Georgia Saturday with temperatures falling into the 50s by evening. Other areas of the South should continue warm with highs mostly in the 70s and 80s.

West

A storm system sweeps through the Northwest into the northern Rocky Mountains Friday into Saturday with more rain and snow. Elevations above about 3,000 feet could pick up over a foot of new snow from the Cascades through the Rockies. Initially the precipitation could start as snow in Seattle and Portland, but should quickly change over to rain. Rain from the system may make it as far south as the central California coast including San Francisco and Sacramento. Residual showers of rain and snow hang over the Northwest and northern and central Rockies through the weekend while central California dries out. Temperatures remain on the cool side of average through the weekend to the north, while southern areas remain at or slightly above average. Highs should range from the 20s over the mountains to the middle 40s over the lower elevations of the north to the 50s over the mountains to the lower 90s over deserts to the south.

$8 mln rebuilding bill after Mozambique cyclone
Wed Mar 26, 5:58 AM

MAPUTO (AFP) - Mozambique's northeast Nampula province needs eight million dollars to rebuild five districts devastated this month by a cyclone which killed 12 people in the region, an official said Wednesday.About 30 people died while nearly 90,000 others were displaced throughout the country when Cyclone Jokwe ripped through the southern African country earlier this month.An assessment made by the Nampula provincial government indicates that eight million dollars (about five million euros) will be needed to repair and rebuild infrastructure destroyed by the cyclone, national disaster management director Joao Ribeiro told AFP.The cyclone, which tore down electric pylons, buildings and trees, was propelled by packed winds of up to 100 kilometres (63 miles) per hour when it hit northern Mozambique.Officials from the government and donor agencies were still evaluating the extent of damage done by the cyclone in the central Zambezia province, he said.The report on the damage done to the Zambezia province will be out by the beginning of April, Ribeiro said.Six people were killed while tens of others were injured, some of them seriously, in the same province.The government has not fully rebuilt the resort town of Vilankulo, which was destroyed by another cyclone in February last year despite receiving one million dollars it requested.Some government infrastructure yet to be rebuilt are hospitals, schools and offices.

Cyclone forms off Australia, oil drillers on watch
Wed Mar 26, 4:05 AM

PERTH (Reuters) - A powerful category-three cyclone has formed off the northwest coast of Australia and is likely to move south or southeast, potentially threatening production at some offshore oil fields.Australia's Bureau of Meteorology said on Wednesday that tropical Cyclone Pancho was located 1,208 km (750 miles) west of the Exmouth region at 4 p.m. local time and warned of winds above 55knots with very high to phenomenal seas. But the cyclone is not expected to affect the Western Australian coastline in the next 48 hours, the bureau said.Woodside Petroleum Ltd, which operates a liquefied natural gas (LNG) project as well as some major oil fields off northwest Australia, said it was keeping a close eye on the storm but was continuing normal operations at all fields for now.Chevron also said it was monitoring the storm but has not shut down any operations.No oil firms have reported shutdowns yet.

Tropical cyclones typically batter the region between November and April, forcing offshore oil drillers as well as miners, such as Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton Ltd/Plc to suspend operations and evacuate staff.Last month, a powerful cyclone forced oil companies, including Apache Corp, Woodside and BHP to shut over 220,000 barrels a day of oil production, about 40 percent of Australia's output, for nearly a week.

Towns by Ark. refuge warned of flooding By JON GAMBRELL, Associated Press Writer Thu Mar 27, 11:19 AM ET

CLARENDON, Ark. - Authorities warned small communities and cabin dwellers along the White River National Wildlife Refuge that they will soon be affected by rising waters that have flooded more than half the state. Hydrologist Steve Bays of the National Weather Service said Thursday that residents are going to see a foot a day rise. The refuge is located in the floodplain of the White River near where it meets the Mississippi.One thing that we are trying to do around here is keep people concerned about what's going on but not inflict a panic, and it's a fine line. It certainly bears monitoring by people along the river, Bays said.Bays said there were too many variables to predict what will happen when the crest in the White River meets the Mississippi on Arkansas' eastern border. While rain is forecast, it might not be as heavy and might be slower moving than the storms last week that brought on the current conditions.At St. Charles on Thursday morning, the White River was at 29.3 feet, about a foot higher than a year ago. Bays guessed the river would reach 33-35 feet by late this weekend or early next week, near the 36.5-foot level during floods in 1973.

It's certainly going to be several feet above what causes some problems, Bays said.Thursday morning, the National Weather Service issued a flash flood warning for points along the White River downstream from Des Arc.Gov. Mike Beebe has declared 39 counties — more than half the state — disaster areas, and President Bush issued a federal disaster declaration for 35 counties on Wednesday. One person remains missing after the storms.In Missouri, the Army Corps of Engineers said Thursday it stopped the release of extra water into the Missouri River below Kansas City, citing residents worried about more flooding.The corps said it began holding back releases from tributary dams in the lower Missouri on Wednesday. That move effectively negates releases already put in motion from Gavins Point Dam in Yankton, S.D.The move will still provide a pulse of higher water needed to prompt spawning of an endangered fish, the corps said.Recent heavy rains also flooded parts of Ohio, Indiana and southern Illinois. The weather has been linked to at least 17 deaths.On the Net:Arkansas Emergency Management: http://www.adem.arkansas.gov/ Weather Service Arkansas flood map: http://tinyurl.com/2ujyrw.

NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE USED.

REVELATION 14:18-20
18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
20 And the winepress was trodden without the city,(JERUSALEM) and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.(200 MILES) (THE SIZE OF ISRAEL)

ISAIAH 66:15-18
15 For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
16 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
17 They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.
18 For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.

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

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

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

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

JOEL 2:20,30
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.

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

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

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

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

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

REVELATION 9:18
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.

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

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

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

Russia to US: Scrap missile defense By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV, Associated Press Writer MAR 27,08

MOSCOW - Russia's foreign minister laid out a tough negotiating position on America's missile defense plans Thursday ahead of a visit by President Bush, saying the best solution would be for the U.S. to scrap the idea altogether. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Russian experts were studying the latest U.S. plans — intended to ease Russian concerns about the proposed missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic — but he reaffirmed Moscow's call for Washington to drop them.We are convinced that the best way to assuage Russia's concerns ... will be to abandon such plans and turn to a truly collective project, Lavrov told reporters.Earlier this month, the U.S. secretaries of state and defense visited Moscow with new proposals that would allow Russia to closely monitor the prospective missile defense sites.Lavrov previously has said the proposals reflect the U.S. recognition of Russia's concerns but that Moscow needs to study them in details before replying.

Bush plans to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin at Putin's Black Sea residence on April 6 to try to resolve the missile defense dispute.Putin has rejected U.S. arguments that the missile shield is needed to counter a prospective missile threat from Iran. He said the U.S. plan would erode Russia's nuclear deterrent.Last summer, Putin proposed that the U.S. jointly use an early warning radar in Azerbaijan instead. The U.S. has promised to consider that Russian offer, but said it couldn't replace its planned facilities in Poland and the Czech Republic.Bush plans to visit Russia after attending a NATO summit in Bucharest, Romania, April 2-4.Putin also plans to attend part of the summit, which is set to discuss membership aspirations of Ukraine and Georgia.Russia has strongly warned NATO against granting its two ex-Soviet neighbors a so-called membership action plan, a roadmap to joining the alliance.

Putin has threatened to aim nuclear weapons at Ukraine if it joins NATO and accepts the deployment of anti-missile defenses on its territory. And the Russian parliament last week urged the Kremlin to consider recognizing the independence of two separatist regions in Georgia, part of a campaign to keep it out of NATO.Lavrov on Thursday reaffirmed Moscow's strong objections against putting Ukraine and Georgia on a track to NATO membership, saying an expansion of the Cold War-era alliance would be at odds with realities of the modern world.

Diplomatic tussle over Georgia and Ukraine NATO bids
27.03.2008 - 09:01 CET | By Honor Mahony

Germany and other western European states are attempting to block Georgia and Ukraine from getting the green light to join NATO out of a fear of antagonising Russia.Citing diplomatic sources, German daily Financial Times Deutschland says that a group of western countries do not want Tbilisi and Kiev to get candidate status for membership of the military alliance, something they are due to receive at a high-level summit in Bucharest next week.At the 2-4 April meeting, Georgia and Ukraine are hoping to get approval for their membership action plans (MAP). This would be considered as a signal that their application bid is on the right track. The camp of blocking states is said to include Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal and Luxembourg.

A fear of annoying Russia which is categorically against its two neighbours joining a military organisation to which it does not belong is behind the move.Earlier in the week, incoming Russian president Dmitry Medvedev said in a Financial Times interview that Moscow was not happy with the situation.We consider that it is extremely troublesome for the existing structure of European security, he said.The move by Germany and France and others puts them in the path of US president George W. Bush, who is in favour of Ukraine and Georgia joining NATO. Eastern EU member states such as Poland are also lobbying in favour of Tbilisi's and Kiev's membership.Berlin opposition stems from a desire to keep talks on a compromise between Russia and the US on Washington's planned missile defence shield - to be placed in Poland and the Czech Republic and strongly opposed by Moscow - on track.Meanwhile, Georgia has called on NATO not to bow to pressure from Russia.

Foreign minister David Bakradze said it would inflame tensions in the region if Moscow gets its way on this issue.No in Bucharest will be very clearly seen by some people in Moscow as their success, and it will be very clearly seen in Moscow that they have indirect veto right on NATO decisions, he said on Wednesday (26 March).From all our experience with Russians, the most effective policy with Russians is policy based on principles, not on appeasement, he added.

FAMINE

REVELATION 6:5-6
5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.(A DAYS WAGES FOR A LOAF OF BREAD)

World Grain Markets at a Critical Point
posted on: March 25, 2008

Last week's shortened trading week saw a significant liquidation of long positions across the commodity complex, and grains were certainly included. In addition to grains, decreases were also seen in energy, metals and softs. By Monday morning, corn, soy and wheat were all up in overnight trading. The market is now at a critical point where traders could decide to liquidate further, or look at the longer term picture and view this as an attractive entry point. The pattern in Brazil has been progressing favorably for soybeans and wheat, but the dryness in Argentina and potential flood related planting delays in the US could counter this and serve as a bullish signal. Here's a quick look at recent weather impacting grains around the world:

ARGENTINA: A light precipitation week in soybean and wheat regions last week. Fields in southeast Cordoba received 30-40 mm, but the rest of the growing region had generally dry conditions with less than 20 mm of rainfall. The ridge which set up towards the beginning of the week blocked most of the moisture from penetrating the region for most of the week. High pressure finally broke down by late Thursday, and this allowed some parts of Cordoba to receive between 14 and 20 mm over two days. The outlook for the current week is for another relatively dry week; 12-15 mm total. Crop Signal: Bullish.

BRAZIL: Brazil fared much better last week as the moisture from the west was able to reach much of the Centre-South; northern Sao Paulo growing regions received between 35 and 50 mm, with higher totals in the north and northwest through the southeastern growing areas in Mato Grosso. A steady rainfall pattern is expected in many soybean areas for the next two weeks; lighter in the south. Crop Signal: Bearish.

UNITED STATES: Major flooding occurred in the central US last week and while the longer range forecast still looks favorable for planting, the wetter conditions through next week will lead to some concern for corn and wheat planting, which starts in large scale by early April. Crop Signal: Bullish

EUROPE: Slightly cool conditions last week; the outlook is for a cooler week this week with evening temperatures below freezing through Wednesday or Thursday. Crop Signal: Bullish.

KAZAKHSTAN: Warm week last week in northern Kazakhstan; another warm and dry week anticipated this week. Crop Signal: Bearish.

INDIA: Light but more widespread rainfall last week in central to southern India. Soil moisture profile still largely deficient for this time of year. Crop Signal: Neutral.

CHINA: Another decrease in % soil moisture in the Yellow River Basin, while a slight increase was evident in the Yangtze basin (vs. the previous week). Many stations across Henan recorded no precipitation last week. Crop Signal: Neutral.

AUSTRALIA: A similar pattern from the previous week with slightly more precipitation in the southeast. Surface soil moisture vs. last year is still behind in New South Wales, but the subsurface profile looks favorable through March 20. Crop Signal: Bearish.

Disclosure: At the time of this writing, the author does not hold any positions in DBC, DBA or MOO. Michael Ferrari

Economy sputters with 0.6 percent growth By JEANNINE AVERSA, AP Economics Writer Thu Mar 27, 12:19 PM ET

WASHINGTON - The economy nearly sputtered out at the end of the year and is probably faring even worse now amid continuing housing, credit and financial crises. The Commerce Department reported Thursday that gross domestic product increased at a feeble 0.6 percent annual rate in the October-to-December quarter. The reading — unchanged from a previous estimate a month ago — provided stark evidence of just how much the economy has weakened. In the prior quarter, the economy clocked in at a sizzling 4.9 percent growth rate.The gross domestic product (GDP) measures the value of all goods and services produced in the United States and is the best barometer of the country's economic health.Many economists say they believe growth in the current January-to-March quarter will be even weaker than the 0.6 percent figure of the previous quarter. A growing number also say the economy may actually be shrinking now. Under one rough rule, the economy needs to contract for six straight months to be considered in a recession. The government will release its estimate for first-quarter GDP in late April.

The economy just kept its head above water in the fourth quarter, said Nigel Gault, chief U.S. economist at Global Insight. We think that GDP will decline, albeit slightly, during the first half of 2008, he said. The first half outlook is bleak.On Wall Street, stock were down in morning trading.In another report, fewer people signed up for unemployment benefits last week, although that didn't change the broader picture of a deteriorating jobs market. The Labor Department said jobless claims fell by 9,000 to 366,000, a better showing than many economists were forecasting. Still, unemployment is expected to rise this year given all the problems clobbering the economy.The newly released fourth-quarter GDP figure matched analysts' expectations.Thursday's report underscored the damage to the economy from the collapse in the housing market, which has dragged down housing prices, pushed home foreclosures up to record highs and has led to a glut of unsold homes.Against that backdrop, builders slashed spending on housing projects by a whopping 25.2 percent on an annualized basis in the fourth quarter, the biggest cut in 26 years.

To limit the damage from the crises, the Federal Reserve has taken a number of extraordinary actions. It has slashed a key interest rate over the last two months by the most in a quarter century. And to relieve turmoil on Wall Street, which intensified after the crash of the country's fifth-largest investment firm, Bear Stearns, the Fed has resorted to its greatest expansion of lending authority since the 1930s. Big securities firms will temporarily be allowed to go to the Fed directly for loans — a privilege that had been afforded only to commercial banks.With the nation's economic woes a top concern for voters, the White House and Democrats in Congress have been scrambling to provide relief. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Thursday called for an overhaul of financial regulations.Consumers, whose spending is indispensable to the economy's vitality, boosted buying at a 2.3 percent pace in the fourth quarter. That was better than the 1.9 percent growth rate previously estimated but still marked a slowing from the third quarter's 2.8 percent pace.Businesses — nervous about customers' waning appetite to buy given all the problems in the economy — cut back sharply on their inventories of unsold goods. That shaved 1.79 percentage points off fourth-quarter GDP, the most in more than two years.Spending by businesses on equipment and software, meanwhile, rose at a pace of 3.1 percent in the final quarter of last year. That was slightly less than previously estimated and marked a slowdown from the prior quarter's 6.2 percent growth rate.

Businesses' profits also took a hit in the final quarter. A measure linked to the GDP report showed that after-tax profits fell 3.3 percent at the end of last year, after being flat in the prior quarter.There was a bright spot in the mostly gloomy report, however. Sales of U.S. goods and services to other countries grew at a 6.5 percent pace. That was better than the 4.8 percent growth rate previously estimated, although it was down sharply from the prior quarter's blistering 19.1 percent growth rate.U.S. exports have been helped by the sinking value of the U.S. dollar, which makes U.S. goods less expensive to foreign buyers. The U.S. dollar recently plunged to record lows against the euro and has fallen sharply against the Japanese yen.

The drooping dollar can aggravate inflation pressures.

An inflation measure linked to the GDP report showed that overall prices increased at a rate of 3.9 percent in the fourth quarter. That was not as high as previously estimated but marked a big pickup from the third quarter's 1.8 percent pace. Another gauge showed that core prices — excluding food and energy — grew at a rate of 2.5 percent at the end of last year. That was down from a previous estimate of a 2.7 percent pace but was up from the prior quarter's 2 percent growth rate. The new core inflation figure is above the Fed's comfort zone — the upper bound of which is a 2 percent inflation rate. Although the Fed's No. 1 job is trying to save the economy from a deep and prolonged recession, it is also keeping close tabs on inflation and soaring energy prices. Oil prices are topping $105 a barrel. Gasoline prices have marched higher, too. High energy prices can spread inflation if lots of companies boost prices charged to customers for a wide range of goods and services. High energy prices also can be a drag on overall economic growth by crimping consumer spending. The combination of slowing economic growth and rising inflation make the Fed's job more difficult. It also has raised fears the country may be headed for a bout of stagflation, a scenario the U.S. hasn't experienced since the 1970s. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, however, has said that's not the case. The Fed's rate reductions along with the government's $168 billion stimulus package of tax rebates for people and tax breaks for businesses should help revive economic growth in the second half of this year, economists said.

HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER

DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.

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.

REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

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.

REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM

Stocks fall in back-and-forth session By TIM PARADIS, AP Business Writer MAR 27,08

NEW YORK - Wall Street sank in volatile trading Thursday after the government confirmed that the last quarter of 2007 did indeed see a sharp economic slowdown. For the second straight session, the Dow Jones industrial average fell more than 100 points. The technology sector was particularly weak after business software maker Oracle Corp. posted worse-than-expected fiscal third-quarter sales and issued a cautious forecast. Meanwhile, data suggesting that Google Inc.s revenue from Internet users clicks could slow also raised worries about tech stocks.Oracle fell $1.51, or 7.2 percent, to $19.43, and Google dropped $14.11, or 3.1 percent, to $444.08.

Financial stocks lost ground Thursday as well, with investors uncertain about what is in store for the economy and the troubled financial sector.But the sense of panic that emanated from the near-collapse of Bear Stearns Cos. at the start of last week has lessened, observers say. The Federal Reserve on Thursday afternoon auctioned off $75 billion in credit to investment banks, whose demand was solid but not at the desperate levels some investors had feared.GDP was in line, so we're still expanding, even though we're expanding at a very small rate, said Dave Rovelli, managing director of U.S. equity trading at Canaccord Adams. It's definitely a different mind-set than it was two weeks ago. A lot of smart people are telling us to buy on the dips. I think we'll be fine as long as there is not another Bear Stearns out there.According to preliminary calculations, the Dow Jones industrial average fell 120.40, or 0.97 percent, to 12,302.46.Broader stock indicators also fell. The Standard & Poor's 500 index declined 15.37, or 1.15 percent, to 1,325.76, and the technology-heavy Nasdaq composite index fell 43.53, or 1.87 percent, to 2,280.83.On the Net:
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WORLD TERRORISM

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

2 PETER 2:5
5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

2 PETER 3:7
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men

LEVITICUS 26:16
16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you( sudden) terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.

ISAIAH 33:1,18-19 Woe to thee that spoilest,(destroys) and thou wast not spoiled;(destroyed) and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil,(destroy) thou shalt be spoiled;(destroyed) and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.

JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.

Green Zone target for Shiite militias By BRADLEY BROOKS, Associated Press Writer MAR 27,08

BAGHDAD - Warning sirens wail and within seconds rockets and mortars strike — sometimes one or two, other times 10 or more. The Green Zone is again a prime target as American and British diplomats, Iraqi politicians, contractors and others struggle to go about their business — always aware that any time they are outside the most fortified buildings there is a chance to be injured or killed.The danger has temporarily reshaped life: Green Zone traffic is minimal, few people venture out on the streets and security precautions — always high — have been boosted. Many diplomats and others prefer to bunk on cots in the stone and marble grandeur of the former Saddam Hussein palace that now holds U.S. Embassy offices.

On Thursday, the State Department instructed all Embassy personnel not to leave reinforced structures. A memo sent to embassy staff and obtained by The Associated Press says employees are required to wear helmets and other protective gear if they must venture outside and strongly advises them to sleep in blast-resistant locations instead of trailers.For the fourth day this week, suspected Shiite militiamen sent rockets and mortars into the Green Zone in central Baghdad. The volleys on Thursday began in the morning and came in about once an hour well into nightfall.The attacks on the Green Zone are being carried out in tandem with growing clashes between Iraqi government forces and the Mahdi Army militia led by anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.By bombarding the Green Zone, the followers of al-Sadr are not only targeting the Iraqi government, but also the hub of the American political mission and its influence on the Iraqi government.At least one death was reported inside the Green Zone in the latest attacks. Embassy spokeswoman Mirembe Nantongo said a U.S. government employee was killed, but would give no further details until relatives are notified. Another American, a financial analyst who audited contracts in Iraq, was killed earlier this week in the zone.One explosion Thursday ignited a fire in the central area of the zone that sent a massive column of thick, black smoke drifting over the Tigris River.Military and diplomatic officials would not say what had been hit inside the Green Zone. A U.S. military statement said one civilian was killed and 14 wounded in the vicinity of the protected district.

U.S. military officials said Thursday that among the weapons used in recent attacks on the Green Zone were 107mm rockets made in Iran. One official, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the information, said they have included rockets stamped with 2007 Iranian manufacture dates.Washington has accused Iran of funneling weapons to Shiite militia. Iran denies it.The first wave of rockets this week came on Easter Sunday. The Green Zone — and areas nearby — have barely had a breather since.On Sunday, at least 12 Iraqis were killed that day outside the Green Zone, apparently by salvos that went astray.A U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity because of security concerns, said one round earlier this week hit a main helicopter landing zone used by the U.S. forces, putting it temporarily out of commission. Housing used by some U.S. officials and contractors was also hit, the official said.All personnel are required to wear body armor, helmet and protective eye wear any time they are outside of building structures in the International Zone, said embassy spokeswoman Nantongo, using the official name of the area. Beyond that, we don't discuss our security posture.Another U.S. official said that personnel — who usually sleep two to a trailer on the embassy grounds — are now sleeping inside the former Saddam palace where their offices are located.There are cots everywhere, the U.S. official said. People are scouting out free couches.The official — who has been through other attacks — described the recent barrages as qualitatively different.

There is a sense of hunkering down for a sustained period of time, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of security restrictions. The Green Zone is normally a five-square-mile haven from the war, particularly in recent months as overall violence in Baghdad has dropped. But it is now caught in the widening attacks by forces loyal to al-Sadr to protest a crackdown by the Iraqi government. The last sustained attacks on the Green Zone were in July when extremists unleashed a barrage of more than a dozen mortars or rockets, killing at least three people — including an American — and wounding 18. Security forces know where the firing is from: mainly Shiite districts in eastern Baghdad. The challenge is how to stop them. The attacks come from deep inside residential neighborhoods, making it difficult to counterattack without risking widespread civilian casualties. Also, the rockets and mortars are fired from mobile launchers, meaning militants can speedily move away from the launch area before soldiers can respond. Last May, an explosion from a rocket rattled windows in the U.S. Embassy while Vice President Dick Cheney was visiting. In the same month, a blast hit the British Embassy compound when then Prime Minister Tony Blair arrived.

In March, a rocket or mortar round landed near Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's office while he and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon were holding a news conference. Ban ducked behind a podium as small chips of debris floated down from the ceiling. Attacks against the zone have also renewed concern about security at the new U.S. Embassy, which is due to open this year within a protected area along the Tigris. The embassy will be Washington's largest and most expensive foreign mission.

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).

EU accused of heavy reliance on industry lobbyists
25.03.2008 - 17:37 CET | By Honor Mahony

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - An alliance of environment groups, trade unions and academics has accused the European Commission of relying too heavily on business and industry lobbyists when drawing up EU legislation.The transparency group Alter-EU, made up of 160 organisations, said the commission - which of the EU institutions has the sole power to initiate European laws - has over-filled its advisory expert groups with industry lobbyists.In a report published Tuesday (25 March), Alter-EU says some of the commission's most controversial advisory groups such as those on biotechnology, clean coal and car emissions are among those controlled by industry. The report found that industry representatives made up more than half of the membership of a quarter of the groups surveyed while 32% percent had members representing a wide range of interests. The remainder of the 44 groups surveyed were considered unbalanced.Alter-EU also accused Brussels of not being transparent about the composition of such expert groups, which are there to advise commission policy-makers.

The transparency campaigners say they choose the 44 groups from what they consider key policy areas - the environment, energy, agriculture, consumers, health, water and biotechnology.According to their report, the total number of expert groups has increased by more than 40% since 2000 with one group for every eight officials working in the European Commission. Total membership of the groups runs to over 50,000.The Commission seems unwilling to provide information about who is on its Expert Groups, and in some cases does not even appear to know whether groups exist or not. This reveals an appalling attitude to transparency and public accountability in the law-making process, said Paul de Clerck of green group Friends of the Earth Europe.Report author Yiorgos Vassalos of Corporate Europe Observatory said: These groups should act in the public interest, but it appears that some are being allowed to further their own commercial interests.The report says that while the commission in 2005 started an online register of the groups, it does not list who is in them while several academics, lobbyists and even EU officials have estimated a much higher figure than the around 1,200 listed groups.The report found that a climate change panel, for example, had 30 industry representatives, 13 commission officials, plus 7 further members coming from NGOs and universities and a regional member.For its part the commission on Thursday said that only around 20 percent of experts represent industry.It also said it planned to make public the names on such committees by the summer.

It's still a work in progress to the extent that the commission is still compiling the various elements to be able to release the names on the expert groups, said a commission spokeswoman.She also pointed out that experts from national governments and agencies made up two-thirds of those in the groups.The transparency report comes at a time of heightened awareness about the importance of legislation coming out of Brussels, with a corresponding growth in recent years of lobbyists, NGOs and think-tanks in the EU capital.

Last year the commission set out plans for a voluntary register for lobbyists, with estimates suggesting there are about 15,000 in Brussels. The European Parliament, whose powers to influence legislation are set to grow substantially next year under the proposed EU treaty, is also looking into establishing a voluntary register.Both institutions have come under criticism for not automatically opting for a mandatory register.

Sarkozy calls on Britain to play greater role in Europe
27.03.2008 - 09:20 CET | By Elitsa Vucheva

On the first day of his state visit to Britain, French president Nicolas Sarkozy called for closer Franco-British ties and for the UK to take its full place in Europe in order to bring along necessary changes to the bloc. In a speech on Wednesday (26 March) to the joint houses of UK parliament, the French president said he wanted to write a new page of our common history, that of Franco-British fraternity, a fraternity for the 21st century.I have always believed that Europe needed the UK. I have never reduced France's European policies simply to our relations with the Germans. The Paris-Berlin axis is at the essence, but it is not enough, and I have never ceased wanting to work in close cooperation with London, he later told BBC radio.In addition, as the president of a state which rejected the draft European Constitution in 2005, Mr Sarkozy said he had understood the main message of the French and more generally the European citizens at that time - that they wanted a different Europe.But in order to make this happen, London should take its full place in Europe, he said.So, I want to say to the British: help us build this different Europe. But for this Europe to be different, you must be part of it, he said.Who could imagine that we can build a Europe of the future without Britain and who could imagine that Britain could live, survive alone, outside of Europe? One cannot succeed alone, we need others, he added.In particular, the French president noted, joint efforts are needed to keep the European economy competitive, to boost a common defence policy, as well as to tackle immigration.

Mr Sarkozy, who is seen as the most Anglophile French president in the country's modern history, will today meet UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown to also discuss cooperation on nuclear power development and climate change.In addition, both leaders are expected to make a call on financial markets to be more transparent, following the recent global credit crisis.A discussion on UN Security Council reform is also on the agenda.Both France and the UK want a reform of the institution, making it more representative. The French president also recently called for a permanent seat to be created in the Council for Africa.

MUSLIM NATIONS

EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.

ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)

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

JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.

How Can Mahmoud Abbas Be Called A Moderate
Chicago, IL 60035 March 25 2008
Winston Mid East Analysis & Commentary March 25, 2008
Email: gwinston@interaccess.com

How Can Mahmoud Abbas Be Called A Moderate?
by Emanuel A. Winston, a Middle East Analyst & Commentator
Why does the Bush Administration (including C. Rice, D. Cheney, and J. Baker as the sleeper agent) insist on calling the Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas (aka Abu Mazen) a moderate dedicated to peace. We all know of Abu Mazen’s record as the Grand Master of Terrorism Yassir Arafat’s 40 year companion, aide, financier, co-conspirator, partner in Terrorism, advisor on Terrorist operations. He was Arafat’s financial bag-man, gathering and transferring money to Terrorist groups for maintenance and special operations.

Not to be forgotten was his funding of the Munich Olympic Terrorists who murdered eleven of the Israeli team of athletes, trainers and coaches. When Arafat died (of AIDS) the U.S. pushed for Abbas to take Arafat’s place. There was a full court press by the PR mechanisms, both in the White House and the Arabist State Department to give him a new persona. Hereafter, he was to be known as a Moderate in a suit. The U.S. Administration pressed the Israeli government to go along with the ruse, knowing his record as a dedicated and active Terrorist. As Goebbels said, Tell a lie big enough; repeat it often enough and it becomes a fact.

Voila! Mahmoud Abbas (aka Abu Mazen - his nom du guerre) was now a Moderate - a Terror Mastermind in a suit. Abu Mazen became heir to Arafat’s entire Terrorist mechanism. That included 25,000 lightly armed policemen as stipulated and agreed to by Rabin and Peres by Oslo BUT, that number inflated to (at least) 45-60,000 heavily armed Muslim Arab Palestinians. Rabin and Peres also included in the Oslo Pact arming them lightly - but accepted the increase in men and arms without objections. Israel even supplied many of those arms. Abu Mazen kept Arafat’s 9 to 12 separate Secret Services - all operating as separate Terrorist organizations, working independently but collaborating in the overall picture. In most families the men would split up and each join a different Terror group so they would be represented and covered by all. The U.S. urged Abu Mazen to consolidate the many Secret Services and even agreed to have Americans fund and train them to greater efficiency in sniper shooting, electronic intercepts, explosives, etc. - all of which was used against Israeli civilians.

As you read this, please keep in mind that several American Presidents, namely, George Herbert Walker Bush, Bill Clinton, George Bush - with the ever-present James Baker III - all of whom knew all of this. All had approved keeping Arafat on the U.S. payroll as our man inside the Terrorists. That mantle went on to cover Abu Mazen, the made-over Moderate cum Terrorist. You did know that Abu Mazen, like Hamas, refused to accept Israel as a Jewish nation whatever the results of the Bush-Rice imposed negotiations.
When Abu Mazen became the suit-and-tie heir to Fatah/the PLO/Tanzim/Al Aksa Martyrs’ Brigade/ - and even Hamas (inside of Fatah), the disinformation poured forth from the propaganda mechanisms inside the White House and the State Department to wit: Abbas and Fatah were peace-seeking moderates.

Billions of American tax-payers’ dollars were and still are pouring into Arafat’s old war treasure chest to pay a Terrorist army and now the new recipient was Abbas/Abu Mazen. That money came in all forms. Some direct, some out of secret funds designated for black ops, more from the CIA slush funds (off the books). Billions more flowed from the E.U. donors (European Union) - always deep pockets for Arab Muslim Terrorists to impress the Saudis and Gulf Oil countries.Billions of wasted dollars and euros that merely funded Terror while Congress was told it was buying American influence or inside information. Somehow the Terror kept growing (fed by all those Billions of wasted dollars and euros). We never got what we thought we paid for with all that Baksheesh (Middle East bribery).
It was often thought that a lot of those dollars filtered back to buy U.S. influence in Washington. When Billions go out off the books and it comes back under the table, it buys a lot. It buys campaign financing and the votes to keep the money flowing. It also buys black ops or operations out-of-sight of any Congressional overview. Iran-Contra was only one of those black ops which, when exposed, men like former President George Herbert Walker Bush claimed he knew nothing about it and besides it was a matter of national security so much more remained hidden.

The Arafat and now Abu Mazen operation was to remain secret, under the usual dodge of National Security. The problem is that, there is no security except for those putting together an illegal operation covered over with a tonnage of disinformation and sheer propaganda.
Arafat’s henchman, Abu Mazen, was merely a clean shaven, suit-and-tie version of Arafat and could, therefore, be called a Moderate. Abu Mazen, from his earliest days in training at the Soviet Lumumba University, was an apt pupil. Unlike Carlos, the Jackal (Ramirez) who also trained there as a hands-on assassin in what is called wet work, Abu Mazen was trained to be more of an arranger and enabler. His university thesis spoke of his dedication to the eradication of Jews in terms of outright Holocaust Denial which was well-received by the anti-Semitic Soviets. The U.S.S.R. was the birthplace of the false Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Abu Mazen had, indeed, found a proper home and training place for his Jihadist (warrior for Islam) zeal against Jews.

Have you ever wondered why American Presidents and the State Department would put their trust in any trained agent of the then Soviet Union which is now back to being Russia? Do Russia’s trained agents ever really turn and become loyal to America? Is Abbas really loyal to President Bush and Secretary Rice or is he merely an agent turned twice and who will in the end, serve Vladimir Putin? Recall how most Muslim Arabs served the Nazis against America and their Allies? So far, Abu Mazen and his gang(s) have not kept even one agreement with respect to halting Terror and dismantling the Terror organizations while President Bush continues to have the CIA train and arm the Muslim Arab Palestinian Army. Soon Hamas (with Kassam Rockets and Grad Missiles that can reach as far Ashdod and Ashkelon) and Fatah will re-join IF they were ever really split. Then they can combine their forces, armaments and American tax-payers’ dollars. When Cheney charges Hamas with sabotaging the so-called Peace Talks, he ignores Fatah’s many Terror organizations that share the same ideology and goals as Hamas.Did I mention that Israel’s Prime Minister Ehud Olmert just approved the transfer of armored personnel carriers from Russia - which he turned over to the Arab Muslim Palestinians? The first shipment of 25 carriers will be followed by a second 25 units. The Russians insisted they be armed with heavy machine guns.There is little doubt that Al Qaeda and Hezb’Allah (now re-stocked with 40,000 Katyusha Missiles) have a significant presence in the North, aided by Syria and Iran.

In the Center of Israel (Judea and Samaria) stands Abu Mazen’s trained and armed Fatah. In the South Hamas’ home-made Kassam Rockets are being supplemented with more sophisticated Missiles (like the Grad) - with greater accuracy and range - supplied through Egypt by Syria and Iran. The propagandists in the Arabist U.S. State Department would have you believe that all of these Terrorist organizations operate separately, whereas, they are and always have been operational brothers under the skin - often in the same family. I believe that Hamas and Fatah will rejoin openly and very soon.Granted, they have separate operations and agenda - except when they co-operate together for the greater good of Islam against America and Israel. Syria has always been a regional base where the Jihadist Terrorists can open up offices and training bases. Add in Iran, with Ahmadinejad’s growing Nuclear weapons’ developments (aided by the Russians and the Pakistanis) - and Al Qaeda as an operational extension of Osama Bin Laden’s organization.

Call that an integrated matrix of which Abu Mazen and his many factions are part.Now we come to some Big Questions! What and Who in Washington is running a very big Black Ops in the Middle East. Why are they doing it and Who are they serving? We see a great effort being made to put the Muslim Arab Palestinians into a Two-State Solution. This is very threatening to the Israelis, knowing full well the Muslim State of Palestine will attack the Jewish State of Israel with their intention being to totally eliminate the Jewish State - as they have often proclaimed.The pretense that the Muslim Arabs, be they Sunni or Shi’ite, belonging to any group, will tolerate any non-Muslims anywhere in the Middle East is a complete delusion. As rockets and missiles fall on the American Green Zone while American soldiers and construction workers try to give Iraqis a free government and reconstructed country, the Islamists try to kill them. Do we expect something different for Israel from the dozens of Terrorist groups launching Missiles and Rockets into Israel, first from Gaza and Lebanon - and then from any other Jewish Land which might be foolishly surrendered to them?
Again the question arises: Is there a Shadow Government, epi-centered in Washington which thinks they can appease Saudi Arabia who sets up Madrassahs (strict Islamic schools) all over the world to teach Wahhabiism (strictest Islam) and then aim for the right to rule the world in a great Islamic Caliphate?

Why hasn’t the American Congress questioned Bush, Rice, Baker, Admiral Fallon, State Department agents slipped America’s 16 different Intel Agencies to subvert anti-Terror Doctrine?
Such Congressional Hearings would make Watergate a minor event as the squad cars roll up to take those guilty of subversion in America off to trial and then to prison.Has appeasement lessened or escalated oil prices? There is something very sick and twisted in Washington that caters to killer nations and killer Terrorists who are perfectly willing to sacrifice true allies for - What?

Emanuel &/or Gail Winston (gwinston@interaccess.com)
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