NEW ZEALAND QUAKE KILLS 65

ISRAEL SATAN COMES AGAINST

1 CHRONICLES 21:1
1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.

ISRAELS TROUBLE

JEREMIAH 30:7
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble;(ISRAEL) but he shall be saved out of it.

DANIEL 12:1,4
1 And at that time shall Michael(ISRAELS WAR ANGEL) stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people:(ISRAEL) and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation(May 14,48) even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,(WORLD TRAVEL,IMMIGRATION) and knowledge shall be increased.(COMPUTERS,CHIP IMPLANTS ETC)

ISRAELS INHERITED LAND IN THE FUTURE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytWmPqY8TE0&feature=player_embedded

DEUTERONOMY 7:7-8
7 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people;(ISRAEL) for ye were the fewest of all people:
8 But because the LORD loved you,(ISRAEL) and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

ZECHARIAH 2:8
8 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.

JEREMIAH 3:14
14 Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you:(ISRAEL) and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:

ISAIAH 42:1
1 Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect,(ISRAEL) in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.

ISAIAH 45:4
4 For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.

ISAIAH 65:9,22
9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect (ISRAEL) shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.
22 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect (ISRAEL) shall long enjoy the work of their hands.

ISAIAH 56:5
5 Even unto them (ISRAELIS) will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name,(ISRAEL) that shall not be cut off.

And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.

IRANIUM THE MOVIE-IRANS WORLD NUKES
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TAMAR TALKS TO JEROME CORSI AND IRANIUM MOVIE PRODUCER
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Iranian warships enter Suez Canal By SALAH NASRAWI, Associated Press – Tue Feb 22, 2:55 am ET

CAIRO – Suez Canal officials say two Iranian naval vessels have entered the strategic waterway en route for the Mediterranean Sea.Canal officials say the ships — a frigate and a supply vessel — entered the canal early Tuesday morning and are expected to reach the Mediterranean later in the day. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they aren't authorized to speak publicly about the matter.This marks the first time in three decades that Iranian military ships have traveled the waterway that links the Red Sea to the Mediterranean.Israel has made clear it views the passage as a provocation.Iranian officials say the ships are headed to Syria for a training mission. Damascus is close ally of Iran's hardline Islamic rulers and an arch foe of Israel.

Iran naval ships enter Suez Canal, set to anger Israel
– Tue Feb 22, 1:30 am ET

ISMAILIA, Egypt (Reuters) – Two Iranian naval ships entered the Suez Canal on Tuesday and were heading toward the Mediterranean, a canal official said, a move certain to anger Israel.They entered the canal at 5:45 a.m., the official told Reuters. No other details were immediately available.The Suez Canal cuts through Egypt and allows shipping to pass from the Middle East to Europe and vice versa without circumnavigating the southern tip of Africa.The canal's northern mouth, Port Said, is around 100 km (60 miles) from Israel, but the ships' route to Syria, their intended destination, would take them parallel to the Israeli coast. The vessels are a frigate and a supply ship.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had previously said he would take a grave view of the passage of the ships, the first Iranian naval vessels to go through the canal since Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution.Iran appears to be testing the state of affairs in the Middle East after the fall of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. A longstanding peace treaty with Egypt is crucial to Israel's regional security.

Israel is anxious about political upheaval in Egypt and other Arab states aligned with its ally the United States.Polls in Egypt suggest most of the main political forces will be less compliant with Israel and its ally the United States, although no group has called for the abrogation of the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty.A recently completed Israeli war game, the first since Mubarak quit Egypt's presidency, concluded it would boost military preparations but try to avoid confrontation unless it sees a greater threat from arch-foe Iran.Egypt's ruling military council, facing its first diplomatic headache since taking power on February 11, has approved the vessels' passage through the canal, a vital global trading route and major source of revenues for the Egyptian authorities.The decision was a difficult one for Egypt's interim government. Cairo is an ally of the United States while its relations with Iran have been strained for more than three decades.

Analysts say Iran sees itself benefiting from the upheaval across the Middle East. Dislodgement and weakening of leaders sympathetic to the United States is likely to embolden Tehran, and lessen the chances of it making concessions on its nuclear program. Iran denies it intends to build atomic weapons.(Reporting by Yusri Mohamed, Writing by Edmund Blair and Maria Golovnina, editing by Daniel Magnowski)

Israel, US successfully test Arrow missile By MATTI FRIEDMAN, Associated Press - FEB 22,11

JERUSALEM – Israel and the U.S. carried out a successful test of the Arrow anti-missile system off the coast of California, Israel's Defense Ministry said Tuesday.
Israel's Defense Ministry said the Arrow detected, intercepted and destroyed a target missile launched from an offshore platform inside a U.S. Navy firing range in a test carried out late Monday.Tuesday's statement said the trial, the latest in a series of successful tests of the system, provides confidence in operational Israeli capabilities to defeat the developing ballistic missile threat.Jointly developed by Israel and the U.S., the system is primarily aimed at defending Israel from the threat of an Iranian missile strike. The Arrow detects an incoming missile and destroys it with a second missile.Israel has identified Iran as its biggest threat, citing the country's nuclear program and its development of ballistic missiles. Those fears have been compounded by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's repeated calls for the destruction of the Jewish state and the regime's support for militant groups fighting Israel.Iran's Shahab-3 missiles have a range of up to 1,250 miles (2,000 kilometers), putting Israel well within striking distance.

Iran claims its nuclear work is for energy production.Tensions between the two countries were raised further Tuesday by the passage of two Iranian warships through the Suez Canal toward the Mediterranean Sea, marking the first time since the 1979 Islamic Revolution that Tehran has sent military ships through the strategic waterway.The ships, a frigate and a supply vessel, are en route to a port in Syria, Israel's hostile northern neighbor and an Iranian ally.Israel has made clear it views the passage as a provocation and an attempt by Iran to exploit the recent instability in Egypt to expand its influence.

PERSECUSSION,BEHEADINGS

JESUS PERSECUTED BIGTIME

PSALMS 14:1
1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

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

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

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

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

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

WE ARE CHRISTIANS WE WILL BE TREATED THE SAME.

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

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

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

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

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

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

EU overcomes internal hurdles to condemn religious persecution
ANDREW WILLIS Today FEB 22,11 @ 09:18 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - EU foreign ministers have condemned religious persecution after a wave of recent attacks across the globe, overcoming earlier disagreement over whether to mention Christianity by name. In a compromise deal in Brussels on Monday (21 February), foreign ministers refer to Christians and Muslim pilgrims in their final conclusions, after a similar gathering last month ended in acrimony on the subject.At the time, Italian foreign minister Franco Frattini said the lack of any reference to Christianity amounted to an excess of secularism, while the UK and several Nordic countries feared that mentioning specific religions could cause a clash of civilisations. Monday's conciliatory agreement saw ministers express their profound concern about religious intolerance,as epitomised by recent violence and acts of terrorism, in various countries, against Christians and their places of worship, Muslim pilgrims and other religious communities.

Regrettably, no part of the world is exempt from the scourge of religious intolerance, continued the meeting's final statement. France, Italy, Hungary and Poland were among EU states that called for the original debate after a spate of recent attacks appeared to target Christian groups around the world.The bombing of a church in Baghdad last October killed 46 people, while an apparent suicide attack on a Coptic Christian church in Alexandria, Egypt in December left 21 dead.Six people were killed in attacks on two Christian churches in northeastern Nigeria over the Christmas festival, while six were wounded when a bomb exploded in a Roman Catholic Church on the island of Jolo in the Philippines.The Vatican has warned that attacks and restrictions on Christians in countries such as Saudi Arabia are driving members of the faith out of the Middle East.Ministers on Monday made no reference in their final statement to last week's gruesome killing of Polish priest Marek Rybinski in Tunisia. The 34-year old was found on Friday in the garage of a private religious school with his throat slit.EU high representative Catherine Ashton condemned the crime earlier in the day however.Tunisia has traditionally been a land of religious tolerance and I underline the importance that this be preserved in order to build a fully democratic rule, Ms Ashton said in a statement.This crime should be investigated and the perpetrators should be brought to justice,she added.

EARTHQUAKES

MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

New Zealand quake kills at least 65
By Gyles Beckford - FEB 22,11

WELLINGTON (Reuters) – A strong earthquake killed at least 65 people in New Zealand's second-biggest city of Christchurch on Tuesday, with more casualties expected as rescuers worked into the night to find scores of people trapped inside collapsed buildings.It was the second quake to hit the city of almost 400,000 people in five months, and New Zealand's most deadly natural disaster for 80 years.We may well be witnessing New Zealand's darkest day...The death toll I have at the moment is 65 and that may rise, said New Zealand Prime Minister John Key, who had flown to his home town of Christchurch, where he still has family.The 6.3 magnitude quake struck at lunchtime, when streets and shops thronged with people and offices were still occupied.Rescuers, working under lights in rain, focused on two collapsed buildings: a financial-services office block whose four stories pancaked on top of each other, and a TV building which also housed an English-language school.Twelve Japanese students at the school were believed to be missing, an official in Japan told Reuters.

Trapped survivors could be heard shouting out to rescuers from the TV building. Local media say as many as a dozen or more people could still be inside. Relatives of those feared trapped kept a vigil outside the building as rain began to fall.A woman freed from a collapsed building said she had waited for six hours for rescuers to reach her after the quake, which was followed by at least 20 aftershocks.I thought the best place was under the desk but the ceiling collapsed on top, I can't move and I'm just terrified, office worker Anne Voss told TV3 news by mobile phone.

Christchurch Mayor Bob Parker described the city, a historic tourist town popular with overseas students, as a war zone. He told local radio that up to 200 could be trapped in buildings but later revised that estimate down to around 100 or so.It is a tragedy that is unbelievable, he said.It was the country's worst natural disaster since a 1931 quake in the North Island city of Napier which killed 256. Christchurch Hospital saw an influx of injured residents.They are largely crushes and cuts types of injuries and chest pain as well, said David Meates, head of the Canterbury Health Board. Some of the more seriously injured could be evacuated to other cities, he added.

TRAPPED

All army medical staff have been mobilized, while several hundred troops were helping with the rescue, officials said.Christchurch has been described as a little piece of England.It has an iconic cathedral, now largely destroyed, and a river called the Avon. It had many historic stone buildings, and is popular with English-language students and also with tourists as a springboard for tours of the scenic South Island.Emergency shelters had also been set up in local schools and at a race course as night approached. Helicopters dumped water to try to douse a fire in one tall office building, while a crane was used to help workers trapped in another office block. I was in the square right outside the cathedral -- the whole front has fallen down and there were people running from there. There were people inside as well, said John Gurr, a camera technician who was in the city center when the quake hit.A lady grabbed hold of me to stop falling over...We just got blown apart. Colombo Street, the main street, is just a mess...There's lots of water everywhere, pouring out of the ground, he said.

STREETS TURN INTO QUICKSAND

Christchurch is built on silt, sand and gravel, with a water table beneath. In an earthquake, the water rises, mixing with the sand and turning the ground into a swamp, swallowing up roads and cars.TV footage showed sections of road that had collapsed into a milky, sand-colored lake beneath the surface. One witness described the footpaths as like walking on sand.Unlike last year's even stronger tremor, which struck early in the morning when streets were virtually empty, people were walking or driving along streets when the shallow tremor struck, sending awnings and the entire faces of buildings crashing down.Police said debris had rained down on two buses, crushing them, but there was no word on any casualties.The quake hit at 12:51 pm (2351 GMT Monday) at a depth of only 4 km (2.5 miles), according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

QUAKE COULD DAMAGE ALREADY FRAIL ECONOMY

Fears that the quake could dent confidence in the country's already fragile economy knocked the New Zealand dollar down by about 1.8 percent from late U.S. levels to $0.75.Westpac Bank raised the possibility that the central bank could cut interest rates over the next few weeks in a bid to shore up the economy, while other banks pushed out their expectations for the timing of the next rate increase.ANZ now expects the central bank to keep rates on hold until the first quarter of 2012.
Shares in Australian banks and insurers, which typically have large operations in New Zealand, fell after the quake.The tremor was centered about 10 km (six miles) southwest of Christchurch, which had suffered widespread damage during last September's 7.1 magnitude quake but no deaths. New Zealand sits between the Pacific and Indo-Australian tectonic plates and records on average more than 14,000 earthquakes a year, of which about 20 would normally top magnitude 5.0.(Additional reporting by Bruce Hextall, Michael Smith and Cecile Lefort in Sydney; Saika Takano in Tokyo; Writing by Mark Bendeich and Ed Davies; Editing by Daniel Magnowski & Kim Coghill)

NZ earthquake causes ice to break off glacier
FEB 22,11

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand – The earthquake that struck Christchurch has caused some 30 million tons of ice to break off from New Zealand's biggest glacier.Tour guides at the Tasman Glacier in the Southern Alps say the quake caused the ice to calve from the glacier, forming icebergs in the terminal lake.Tourists of Glacier Explorer boats say the icefall caused waves of up to 3.5 meters in height which swept up and down the lake for 30 minutes.The glacier is about 120 miles (200 kilometers) from Christchurch on the west coast.The powerful earthquake struck Christchurch on Tuesday, toppling tall buildings and churches, crushing buses and killing at least 65people.

EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH(BECAUSE OF SIN AND GODLESS PEOPLE)

GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS 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 (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

HOSEA 4:1-3
1 Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.

Thousands flee as Philippine volcano erupts
– Mon Feb 21, 9:19 am ET

MANILA (AFP) – Thousands of people in the Philippines fled their homes as a volcano erupted on Monday, sending a spectacular column of ash high into the sky, residents said.The eruption of Bulusan, a 1,559-metre (5,115-foot) volcano, turned mid-morning into night for about 20 minutes across largely farming areas around its slopes, regional army spokesman Major Harold Cabunoc told AFP.There was a major ashfall. There was zero visibility, Cabunoc said.State volcanologist Ramil Vaquilar told AFP that rumbling sounds accompanied the ash column that rose between two and 2.5 kilometres (1.2-1.6 miles) above the crater.About 2,000 residents were evacuated from three farming villages in the area as the government banned people from within four kilometres of the crater, said Lieutenant-Colonel Santiago Enginco, the local army commander.Thirty-eight high school students were treated for ashfall inhalation, Enginco said.Volcanic ash can cause nose, throat, eye or skin irritation as well as contaminate tap water, while prolonged exposure can cause lung disease, according to the health ministry.Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology director Renato Solidum said on national television that planes should avoid the skies over Bulusan, as ash might clog jet engines.

However the area is not widely used in the aviation industry.Bulusan is among 23 active volcanoes in the Philippines, which is located in the so-called Ring of Fire of volcanic activity around the Pacific.Bulusan, 360 kilometres southeast of Manila, last erupted between March and June of 2006.The volcano also shot ash into the air in November last year, forcing hundreds of people to evacuate their homes.However volcanologists said this was not an eruption, rather heated ash deposits near the crater mouth that exploded and burst out on contact with rainwater.

Quakes rock Philippines' Bulusan volcano
Published: Feb. 21, 2011 at 11:20 PM

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MANILA, Philippines, Feb. 21 (UPI) -- Volcanic quakes kept Mount Bulusan in central Philippines busy Tuesday, a day after it spewed huge columns of ash, experts said.
The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology has recorded at least 16 quakes since Bulusan came alive Monday with a 19-minute, 1.8-mile-high ash explosion that affected nearby town and villages.Bulusan Volcano's seismic network recorded 16 volcanic earthquakes during the past 24 hours. Two of these events, which occurred at 9:12 a.m. and 10:27 a.m. (Monday), were recorded as explosion-type earthquakes, the institute said in its latest update Tuesday, GMA News reported.The ash explosion accompanied by a rumbling sound was heard in towns 6 miles away in Sorsogon province.

Traces of ash deposits also have been found in the province's Magallanes town and in Masbate City in Masbate province.Institute officials said Bulusan's status remained at Alert Level 1, indicating its activity source is shallow and hydrothermal in nature. Entry into a 2.5-mile-radius area of the danger zone was prohibited because of the threat of steam and ash explosion, the report said.They also warned prevailing winds could carry the ash to the northwest and southwest sides of the volcano, and residents there were asked to take precautions. Some 2,000 villagers living at the base of the volcano were evacuated Monday.The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines has declared the vicinity around Mount Bulusan a "no-fly zone" because engines could be damaged it they take in volcanic ash.Experts told the Philippine Daily Inquirer scientists have collected ash samples to determine if there is any indication of magmatic eruption soon.Read more: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2011/02/21/Quakes-rock-Philippines-Bulusan-volcano/UPI-82881298272080/#ixzz1Eggb6qvP

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.

Tourists stay away from storm-battered Queensland
By KELLY DOHERTY, Associated Press – Tue Feb 22, 3:24 am ET

SYDNEY – Dream holiday destination Queensland has a new nightmare. The flood waters have receded, the cyclone's fury is long spent — the welcome mat is out again. But tourists are staying away in droves.We saw all the floods and thought we might be in danger, said Ben Davis, 21, who's in Australia on a year-long work and holiday visa with his girlfriend, Danielle Hodgson.The English couple planned a short jaunt to Sydney before heading to the tropical paradise of Australia's northeast coast. But one week has turned into six — and counting — as they watched first one, then a second natural disaster unfold in Queensland state and decided Sydney was a safer bet.The sudden change of plans is a small example of a bigger problem for Queensland as it recovers from weeks of deadly flooding and from a massive cyclone.The disasters have caused an abrupt image malfunction for the state, which includes some of the main drawcards in Australia's $40 billion a year tourism industry. Almost 6 million tourists visited Australia last year, and more than half of them went to Queensland, lured by Great Barrier Reef, thousands of miles of pristine beaches and year-round warm weather.The vast majority of the tourism businesses in the state have been completely untouched by the disasters. The problem is the phone has stopped ringing, said Anthony Hayes, the head of the government-funded promotional body Tourism Queensland.

Itinerary changes and trip cancellations have cut Queensland tourism revenue by an estimated $500 million since Christmas, said Daniel Gschwind, CEO of the Queensland Tourism Industry Council. Losses are still being assessed, but Gschwind expects that number to rise.Tourism contributes $9.2 billion to the Queensland economy annually and provides more than 220,000 jobs.Tourism officials say it is too early to say whether images of the disasters have affected the number of international visitors traveling to Australia. Industry workers and tourists themselves say many that are already in the country are avoiding Queensland.Davis and Hodgson bought bus passes and planned to travel the popular east coast route through Queensland, stopping in Brisbane, Byron Bay and the Whitsunday Islands before looking for casual farm work in the fruit-growing region near Cairns. An extended stay in Sydney, Australia's most expensive city, almost ruined their entire trip when they had to shell out money for accommodation they hadn't planned for.We actually came really close to having no money, so we would have had to go home, Davis said. I've only found a job just in time. Otherwise I was going to ring my dad and say Can you sort us a flight out home? Davis, who is staying at a hostel in Sydney, said he knew others in a similar position, staying in Sydney or Melbourne, while waiting for damaged areas to clear up and get back to normal.While many tourism businesses were able to reopen quickly after the floods and storm, damage to roads was deterring travelers, with fewer caravans and busloads of backpackers making their way along the coast, Gschwind said.

The town of Airlie Beach — gateway to the tropical Whitsunday Islands — virtually emptied of tourists as Cyclone Yasi bore down on Queensland early this month, said Anthony O'Rourke, owner of the Airlie Waterfront Backpackers. One staffer said she took 17 cancellations in one shift alone, he said.The storm ended up hitting the coast nearly 200 miles (300 kilometers) north of Airlie Beach and the town suffered only minimal damage, with most tourism operations opening up again quickly after it passed.But many operations were still struggling because everybody was under the impression that the whole of Queensland was flooded and it was a no-go zone, Danielle Seymour, the marketing manager of regional group Tourism Whitsundays.Hayes said initial reports reflected up to an 80 percent drop in booking rates in some places in Queensland compared to last year, and that small businesses with limited cash flow were suffering most, and had started cutting back on staff.Other destinations, such as Sydney, have benefited from Queensland's problems. Since about mid-December we've been literally full every night and at capacity, said Robert Smith, owner of the Jackaroo Hostel in Sydney's King's Cross, a nightclub and backpacker district that is humming with activity. It's been good for us but it's been bad for Queensland.Guests have extended their stays, sometimes for weeks, due to changes in plans for Queensland trips, and the hostel has been turning away up to 15 guests per day, Smith said.In recognition of the importance of the tourism industry, the Australian and Queensland governments have each contributed $5 million for a support package aimed at attracting visitors back to the state, though Gschwind said more help was needed.

He said word of mouth was one of the keys to convincing travelers that the state was open for business, and the Queensland tourism council was using social networks to help. It has created a Facebook page called Take a Queensland Holiday where visitors can post photographs and stories to show that Queensland destinations are in good shape and encouraging others to come. For Davis and Hodgson, making a trip to Queensland may be back on the cards now that the disasters have passed but it is not the priority it once was.We'll probably go up there in two months time,Davis said.We're enjoying Sydney, so it could have been worse, it's worked out OK.

WW3 THE 3 WAVES THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL

AMOS 9:10
10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.

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)

China stamps out attempt at Mideast-style protests By ANITA CHANG, Associated Press – Mon Feb 21, 5:20 am ET

BEIJING – Jittery Chinese authorities staged a show of force to squelch a mysterious online call for a Jasmine Revolution, with hundreds of onlookers but only a handful of people actively joining protests inspired by pro-democracy demonstrations sweeping the Middle East.Authorities detained activists Sunday, increased the number of police on the streets, disconnected some cell phone text messaging services and censored Internet postings about the call to stage protests in Beijing, Shanghai and 11 other major cities.Police took at least three people away in Beijing, one of whom tried to place white jasmine flowers on a planter while hundreds of people milled about the protest gathering spot, outside a McDonald's on the capital's busiest shopping street. In Shanghai, police led away three people near the planned protest spot after they scuffled in an apparent bid to grab the attention of passers-by.

Many activists said they didn't know who was behind the campaign and weren't sure what to make of the call to protest, which first circulated Saturday on the U.S.-based Chinese-language news website Boxun.com.The unsigned notice called for a Jasmine Revolution — the name given to the Tunisian protest movement — and urged people to take responsibility for the future. Participants were urged to shout, We want food, we want work, we want housing, we want fairness — a slogan that highlights common complaints among Chinese.China's authoritarian government is ever alert for domestic discontent and has appeared unnerved by protests in Egypt, Tunisia, Bahrain, Yemen, Algeria and Libya. It has limited media reports about them, stressing the instability caused by the protests, and restricted Internet searches to keep Chinese uninformed about Middle Easterners' grievances against their autocratic rulers.Though there are many similarities between the complaints voiced by Middle East citizens and the everyday troubles of Chinese, Beijing's tight grip on the country's media, Internet and other communication forums poses difficulties for anyone trying to organize mass demonstrations.Police stepped up their presence near major public squares and canceled holidays for officers across 20 cities in response to the protest appeal, the Hong Kong-based Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy reported.Extensive Internet filtering and monitoring meant that most Chinese were unlikely to know about the call to protest Sunday. Boxun.com is blocked, as are Twitter and Facebook, which were instrumental in Egypt's protest movement. Tech-savvy Chinese can circumvent controls, but few of the country's Internet users seek out politically subversive content.

Anti-government gatherings in China are routinely stamped out by its pervasive security forces, which are well-funded and well-equipped. A pro-democracy movement in 1989 that directly challenged the Communist government was crushed by the military and hundreds, perhaps thousands, were killed.On Saturday, President Hu Jintao ordered national and provincial officials to solve prominent problems which might harm the harmony and stability of the society.One person sitting in the McDonald's after the brief protest in Beijing said he saw Sunday's gathering as a dry run.Lots of people in here are Twitter users and came to watch like me, said 42-year-old Hu Di. Actually this didn't have much organization, but it's a chance to meet each other. It's like preparing for the future.With foot traffic always heavy at the Wangfujing pedestrian mall, it was difficult to discern who showed up to protest, who came to watch and who was out shopping. Many wondered if there was a celebrity in the area because of the heavy police presence and dozens of foreign reporters and news cameras.As the crowd swelled and police urged people to move on, 25-year-old Liu Xiaobai placed a white jasmine flower on a planter in front of the McDonald's and took some photos with his cell phone.I'm quite scared because they took away my phone. I just put down some white flowers, what's wrong with that? Liu said afterward. I'm just a normal citizen and I just want peace.Security agents tried to take away Liu, but he was swarmed by journalists and eventually was seen walking away with a friend.Two other people were taken away by police, including a shabbily dressed old man who was cursing and shouting, though it wasn't clear if he was there because of the online call to protest.

In Shanghai, three young men were taken away from outside a Starbucks coffee shop in People's Square by police, who refused to answer reporters' questions about why they were detained. They trio had been shouting complaints about the government and that food prices are too high.A couple dozen older people were drawn to the commotion and started voicing their own complaints and saying they wanted democracy and the right to vote. One woman jumped up on a roadside cement block to shout, The government are all hooligans, then ran off, only to return a bit later and shout again at the police and others crowded in the area before once again scampering away. Security officials were relaxed toward the retirees and the crowd eventually drifted away.

There were no reports of protests in other cities where people were urged to gather, such as Guangzhou, Tianjin, Wuhan and Chengdu.Ahead of the planned protests, human rights groups estimated that anywhere from several dozen to more than 100 activists in cities across China were detained by police, confined to their homes or were missing. Families and friends reported the detention or harassment of several dissidents, and some activists said they were warned not to participate.On Sunday, searches for jasmine were blocked on China's largest Twitter-like microblog, and status updates with the word on popular Chinese social networking site Renren.com were met with an error message and a warning to refrain from postings with political, sensitive ... or other inappropriate content.A text messaging service from China Mobile was unavailable in Beijing on Sunday due to an upgrade, according to a customer service operator for the leading service provider, who did not know how long the suspension would last. In the past, Chinese authorities have suspended text messaging in politically tense areas to prevent organizing.Boxun.com said its website was attacked Saturday after it posted the call to protest. A temporary site, on which users were reporting heavy police presence in several cities, was up and running Sunday. The site said in a statement it had no way of verifying the origins of the campaign.Associated Press writers Cara Anna and Charles Hutzler in Beijing and Elaine Kurtenbach in Shanghai contributed to this report.

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 RUSSIA-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 (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)

DANIEL 11:40-43
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.

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.

Gaddafi defiant in face of mounting revolt
FEB 22,11

TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi vowed defiance in the face of a mounting revolt against his 41-year rule on Tuesday, making a fleeting television appearance to scorn protesters and deny he had fled the country.Gaddafi's forces have cracked down fiercely on demonstrators, with fighting now spreading to the capital Tripoli after erupting in Libya's oil-producing east last week. Human Rights Watch says at least 233 people have been killed.As the fighting has intensified across the thinly populated nation stretching from the Mediterranean deep into the Sahara desert, cracks appeared among Gaddafi supporters, with some ambassadors resigning and calling for his removal.The justice minister quit in protest at the use of force and a group of army officers called on soldiers to join the people, while two pilots flew their warplanes to nearby Malta.Tripoli, a Mediterranean coastal city, appeared calm in the early hours of Tuesday. One resident said: There is heavy rain at the moment, so people are at home. I am in the east of the city and have not heard clashes.Gaddafi appeared on television after days of seclusion to scoff at reports he had fled to Venezuela, ruled by his friend President Hugo Chavez.

I want to show that I'm in Tripoli and not in Venezuela. Do not believe the channels belonging to stray dogs, Gaddafi said, holding an umbrella and leaning out of a van apparently outside his residence in what amounted to a 22-second appearance.I wanted to say something to the youths at Green Square (in Tripoli) and stay up late with them but it started raining. Thank God, it's a good thing, added Gaddafi, who has ruled Libya with a mixture of populism and tight control since taking power in a military coup in 1969.

DEMONSTRATIONS SPREAD, OIL PRICE RISES

World powers have condemned the use of force against protesters, with U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon accusing Libya of firing on civilians from warplanes and helicopters.This must stop immediately, said Ban, adding he had spoken to Gaddafi and urged him to halt attacks on protesters. The Security Council was to hold a meeting on Libya at 9 a.m. EST (1400 GMT), diplomats said.The fall of Gaddafi is the imperative of the people in streets, said Ali al-Essawi, Libya's ambassador to India after resigning his post. He told Reuters that African mercenaries had been recruited to help put down protests.Demonstrations have spread to Tripoli after several cities in the east -- including the second city Benghazi, where the protests had first erupted -- appeared to fall to the opposition, according to residents.

Residents on Monday reported gunfire in parts of Tripoli and one political activist said warplanes had bombed the city. Residents said anxious shoppers were queuing outside stores to try to stock up on food and drink. Some shops were closed.Libyan guards have withdrawn from their side of the border with Egypt and people's committees were now in control of the crossing, the Egyptian army said.Egypt's military rulers -- who took power following the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak on February11 -- reinforced the frontier but kept the main crossing open round-the-clock to allow the sick and wounded to enter, a military source said.The revolt in OPEC member Libya has driven oil prices sharply higher, U.S. crude futures rising close to 8 percent to more than $94 a barrel, a 2-1/2 year high.Shell said it was pulling out its expatriate staff from Libya temporarily because of the unrest.
International Energy Agency (IEA) chief economist Fatih Birol said oil prices could rise higher if turmoil persisted in the Middle East.

WORLD CONDEMNATION

The upheavals which deposed the presidents of Tunisia and Egypt have shaken the Arab world and inspired protests across the Middle East and North Africa, threatening the grip of long-entrenched autocratic leaders. While Human Rights Watch said at least 233 people had been killed in five days of violence in Libya, opposition groups put the figure much higher. No independent verification was available and communications from outside were difficult.U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said it was time to stop this unacceptable bloodshed and EU foreign ministers also condemned the killing of protesters.A flamboyant figure with his flowing robes and bevy of female bodyguards, Gaddafi has long been accused by the West of links to terrorism and revolutionary movements.U.S. President Ronald Reagan once called him a mad dog and sent planes to bomb Libya in 1986 and he was particularly reviled after the 1988 Pan Am airliner bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, by Libyan agents in which 270 people were killed.But this changed when Libya gave up its weapons of mass destruction in order to secure an end its international isolation and a rapprochement with western governments keen to tap its oil wealth and other lucrative trade and investment deals.(Reporting by Tarek Amara, Christian Lowe, Tarek Amara, Marie-Louise Gumuchian, Souhail Karam; Brian Love, Daren Butler; Writing by Jon Boyle; Editing by Angus MacSwan)

Shalit to Obama: Free Pollard!
by Hillel Fendel FEB 22,11

Yet another public figure has called on President Obama to release Jonathan Pollard from prison: Noam Shalit, father of hostage IDF soldier Gilad Shalit.Speaking from the Shalit vigil in Jerusalem, which yesterday marked Gilad’s 1,700th day in Hamas captivity in Gaza, Noam Shalit said that Pollard has served his sentence, and the time has come to free him. Shalit added, We hope all the prisoners and missing soldiers return home safely.The brief remarks by the father of a terrorists-held captive are taken to mean that the U.S. should not behave like Hamas in holding prisoners – even convicted ones – ad infinitum.Shalit’s comments are even more poignant in that Pollard has come out in the past against releasing terrorist prisoners in exchange for Shalit, Pollard himself, or any other captive.Many prominent Americans have come out publicly on behalf of clemency for Pollard (see below). They have explained nearly unanimously that the disproportionate nature of Pollard’s punishment – more than 25 years in prison, so far, six times more than the average sentence for his crime – requires remedial simple justice to be taken by the U.S. government.Meanwhile, 19 former Soviet Prisoners of Zion wrote to Obama last week, asking him to grant Pollard clemency. Your silence worries us, the 19 wrote to Obama. We, former Prisoners of Zion in Soviet Russia, know the danger of silence. We know the terrible suffering that comes with each passing day in prison. Therefore, we appeal to you with a heartfelt cry - end this Jewish prisoner's prolonged and terrible ordeal! You are the only one who can do so. Please, Mr. President, free Pollard now!

The list of signatories is headed by Yosef Mendelevich, followed by prominent refuseniks Ida Nudel, Yosef Begun, and Silva Zalmanson. A less well-known signatory is Dov Shperling, 74, who was sentenced to two years in the Gulag for conducting Zionist propaganda among Jewish youth and students in Riga and the like; released in 1959, he received permission to leave the USSR for Israel in 1968.Some of the signatories penned a letter seven years ago, complaining of the failure of American Jewry to take action on Pollard’s behalf.The constantly growing list of prominent Americans who have recently called for Pollard’s release includes the following:

•Former U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle
•Former CIA Director James Woolsey
•Former U.S. Secretary of State George Schultz
•Presidential candidate and ex-Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee
•Black Hebrew Rabbi Capers Funnye, Jr. (first cousin once removed of Barack’s wife)
•Former White House Legal Counsel Bernard Nussbaum
•Former U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey
•Former U.S. Senate Select Intelligence Committee Chairman Dennis Deconcini
•Former U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Lawrence Korb
•Former U.S. Navy Cryptologist Major Donald Levy
•Former U.S. Deputy Attorney General Phillip Heymann
•Obama's Mentor Harvard Law School Professor Charles Ogletree
•a host of members of the U.S. Congress
•and over 500 religious and communal leaders.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

France and Spain call to shift EU funds from east to south
ANDREW RETTMAN 21.02.2011 @ 09:29 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - France and five other south-lying EU members have said the Union should give less money to its post-Soviet neighbours and more to Mediterranean rim countries in the context of the Arab uprisings.A letter to EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton dated 16 February and signed by the foreign ministers of France, Spain, Cyprus, Greece, Malta and Slovenia says: The profound popular movements calling for political, economic and social reforms in Tunisia and Egypt argue in favour of reinforcing the European Union's actions in its southern neighbourhood.An attached analysis paper notes that out of the €12 billion put aside for the European Neighbourhood Policy in 2007 to 2013, just €1.80 is being spent per capita in Egypt and €7 in Tunisia compared to €25 in Moldova.The assymetries and disparities are today difficult to justify and sustain, it notes. These [financial] packages must be reviewed in the light of current events.The analysis paper also proposes: tying future EU money more strictly to democratic reform; redirecting other EU funds, such as development aid, to north Africa and the Middle East; creating new regional schemes on the model of the Danube Strategy; and boosting European Investment Bank lending to Arab countries by €2.5 billion over the next two years.The paper adds that the Union for the Mediterranean, a multilateral body bringing together 16 regional countries and the EU-27, should play a crucial role in the efforts.The proposal could throw a lifeline to the Barcelona-based institution, which failed to meet last year due to Arab-Israeli tensions.It's not dead. But it is ill. It's in a coma, Syria's ambassador to the EU, Mohamad Ayman Soussan, said last week.

Events in north Africa stand in contrast to the recent backsliding on democratic standards in several of the EU's post-Soviet neighbours, such as Belarus and Ukraine. Just when the southern neighbourhood of the EU is [being] shaken by a wave of revolutionary situations that toppled consolidated dictatorships in Tunisia and Egypt, the eastern neighbourhood seems to be in the middle of a trend towards authoritarian consolidation, Nicu Popescu, an analyst with the European Council on Foreign Relations think-tank, wrote in his EUobserver blog on 14 February.He pointed out on Monday that the French play a bit with the numbers since the occupied Palestinian territories are the largest European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) beneficiaries per capita and southern countries already take two-thirds of the total ENP pot.The French-led southern initiative comes after the Hungarian EU presidency had to cancel plans to hold a summit with six post-Soviet countries in May because Paris tabled a G20 summit on the same date.With Poland keen to focus the Union's attention on the east when it takes over the EU presidency in July, Polish EU affairs minister Mikolaj Dowgielewicz told Polish press agency PAP on Sunday: As the EU, we have equally important duties in the east [as in the south], perhaps a little different, but equally serious. In this context, I wouldn't see it in a competitive sense.The French-led proposal for the southern neighbourhood will be discussed by EU foreign ministers meeting in Brussels on Monday and at a multilateral event including US and Arab officials hosted by Ms Ashton in the EU capital on Wednesday.

EU commissioner Stefan Fuele will for his part publish a major review of the ENP by April.German EU affairs minister Werner Hoyer on the margins of a foreign ministers' dinner in Brussels on Sunday also said the EU must become more visible in the south following the region's tectonic shift. Berlin favours opening up EU trade with Arab countries instead of channeling more aid, however.Italian foreign affairs minister Franco Frattini said the EU must create a Marshall Plan for the region, referring to the US' post-World-War-II reconstruction effort in Europe.

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,(WORLD SOCIALISM) 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

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Italy and Czech Republic back Gaddafi despite bloodbath-Libyan opposition flag. LEIGH PHILLIPS 21.02.2011 @ 09:28 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The EU is struggling to speak with one voice following a massive loss of life in Libya over the weekend and the regime's vow to fight protesters to the to the last bullet. EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton has spoken of her extreme concern, while Rome does not want to disturb strongman Moammar Gaddafi and Prague has warned of a catastrophe if he falls.Late on Sunday (20 February), while sticking to the same script the EU has used throughout the wave of protests throughout the region of calling for restraint, dialogue and reform, Ms Ashton condemned the crackdown which, according to Human Rights Watch has claimed the lives of 233 pro-democracy demonstrators over the past five days.Reports on the ground say authorities mowed down demonstrators with machine gunfire while snipers from rooftops picked off individuals, but details are hard to come by after the government blocked access to foreign journalists and shut down the internet.The European Union is extremely concerned about the events unfolding in Libya and the reported deaths of a very high number of demonstrators, she said in a statement as EU foreign ministers gathered in Brussels to discuss the situation in north Africa and the Middle East.The EU urges the authorities to exercise restraint and calm and to immediately refrain from further use of violence against peaceful demonstrators, continued Ms Ashton. The legitimate aspirations and demands of the people for reform must be addressed through open and meaningful Libya-led dialogue.Hungary, which currently holds the bloc's six-month rotating presidency, told the EU ministers that it received a warning from Tripoli that Libya would end co-operation on blocking irregular immigration into the EU if Brussels did not side with Gaddafi.

Ms Ashton for her part dismissed Libya's threat.

We have heard threats, we hear people saying you should do this, you should do that, but in the end the EU will do what is right, she said.UK Prime Minister David Cameron described Tripoli's actions as unacceptable, counter-productive and wrong. His foreign secretary, William Hague, encouraged other countries to denounce the regime. The United Kingdom condemns what the Libyan government has been doing ... and we look to other countries to do the same, he said.Germany's EU affairs minister Werner Hoyer described his country's indignation at developments: We are watching with great concern and indignation the violence used by state authorities in Libya and in other states.France and Luxembourg followed suit, with French EU affairs minister Laurence Waquiez describing the repression as completely unacceptable and Luxembourg's foreign minister Jean Asselborn saying he is not afraid of a dictator who shoots at his own people.On the other side of the EU divide, Italy is horrified at the possible loss of a close ally. Foreign minister and ex-EU-commissioner Franco Frattini is trying to convince other European states that Mr Gaddafi has promised constitutional reforms and that the bloc should allow him to make good. Italy as you know is the closest neighbour of both Tunisia and Libya so we are extremely concerned about the repercussions on the migratory situation in the southern Mediterranean, Mr Frattini told reporters on Sunday.The previous day, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said he did not want to disturb his long-time friend with appeals for restraint. We are worried about everything happening there, in all the area, he told reporters. I haven't yet heard from Gaddafi. The situation is evolving and so I don't feel I should disturb anyone.On Sunday, Mr Frattini spoke about Gaddafi's reform promises with US secretary of state Hilary Clinton.

He raised with her the possibility of a reform of the constitution that could be taken up soon by the People's Congress, a foreign ministry statement said. Both Ms Clinton and Mr Frattini agreed on the importance in this delicate phase, of offering signs of political solidarity, the statement added.The Czech Repblic has also warned against speaking out in favour of human rights in Libya.Czech foreign minister Karel Schwarzenberg said the EU should not get involved too much and that high-minded EU appeals would only serve to prove our own importance.If Gaddafi falls, then there will be bigger catastrophes in the world, he told journalists in the EU capital on Sunday. It's no use for anyone if we intervene there loudly, just to prove our own importance.

Spain: EU to evacuate citizens from Libya
21.02.2011 @ 11:49 CET

Spanish foreign minister Trinidad Jimenez said on Monday that the EU is preparing to evacuate EU citizens from Libya, especially from the east-lying city of Benghazi, amid escalating violence that has already claimed over 200 lives. The regime has warned there cold be civil war to come.

EU scorns Libya blackmail on migrants
LEIGH PHILLIPS 21.02.2011 @ 20:51 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The European Union has rejected a threat from Libya's Colonel Moammar Gaddafi that if the bloc does not side with him, he will unleash a flood of immigrants across the Mediterranean.Tripoli's strongman last week warned that Libya, the departure point to the EU for many of Africa's would-be migrants, would stop co-operating on preventing them from making the trek across Europe's southern sea if the bloc takes the side of protesters. The Hungarian ambassador was called in in Libya on Thursday and was given the message that Libya is going to suspend cooperation with the EU on immigration issues if the EU keeps making statements in support of Libyan pro-democracy protests, said an EU official on Sunday.By Monday (21 February) this had provoked outrage amongst a number of member states. This is totally out of order. The European Union must not let itself be blackmailed, German Europe minister Werner Hoyer told reporters ahead of a meeting of EU foreign ministers.France's Europe minister, Laurent Wauquieze, said: There should not be any state blackmail ... And it is clear that Europe will not stop expressing itself.A senior EU diplomat told this website on Monday that the government could be on its last legs and no longer had anything to hold over the Union: Last week, they were still capable of this kind of pressure. But today, the government is fighting for its life. It's in no position to be blackmailing anybody.

It emerged on Monday that the Libyan interior minister, Abdel Fatah Younes, visited EU home affairs commissioner Ceclia Malmstrom last Tuesday (15 February) to discuss how to put into practice an agreement reached in October on immigration co-operation.
The commission last year offered the country some €50 million euros to assist in efforts to prevent irregular migrants from reaching the Mediterranean's northern shores. At the meeting, it is thought that a figure of 2 million refugees was brandished by Mr Younes.The bloc's own estimates for the number of irregular immigrants in Libya range from 500-750,000 - in a country with a population of some 6million.Italy is taking the threat seriously. Foreign minister Franco Frattini said that the crisis in Libya could produce an unimaginable wave of refugees trying to land on European shores.Those who spoke of hundreds of thousands, he said,were not exaggerating.We have already seen what happened in Tunisia.Rome is pushing for the EU to kick its response to the next level and send an armed Rapid Border Intervention Team to repel attempts at entering the EU across the Mediterranean.

Maltese foreign minister Tonio Borg also said that it was extremely worried about the situation in Libya and migration from its shores, adding to reporters that he feared instability resulting from a civil war.The countries most focussed on the migration question did however win backing for continued work with Maghreb countries to resist migratory flows.The Council [of Ministers] stresses the importance of strengthened co-operations with Mediterranean countries to address illegal immigration, reads the final document agreed to by European foreign ministers.The Czech Republic's foreign minister, Karel Schwarzenberg, meanwhile rowed back on earlier comments appearing to back the regime.He was earlier quoted by this paper as saying on Sunday: If Gaddafi falls, then there will be bigger catastrophes in the world ... It's no use for anyone if we intervene there loudly, just to prove our own importance.On Monday the minister claimed that journalists had misinterpreted what he had said.I did not say that the fall of Gaddafi would be a catastrophe, he told reporters in Brussels. On the contrary, I would think that if a wiser regime came to power, it would be profitable for the people, but right now, I do not know what the end result of the current events will be.The Czech foreign ministry also put out a statement calling for an immediate stop to all repression and use of force against peaceful demonstrators. We deplore the violence which caused a great number of civilian casualties.On Monday, EU foreign policy heads denounced the violence in Libya and announced a new partnership for the entirety of Europe's Southern Neighbourhood.In an agreed statement, the 27 ministers said that the bloc deplores the violence and the death of civilians.The legitimate aspirations and demands of people for reform must be addressed through open, inclusive, meaningful and national Libyan-led dialogue, continued the statement.

Iceland's president triggers second referendum on Icesave deal
ANDREW WILLIS 21.02.2011 @ 09:24 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Iceland's president has vetoed a draft repayment deal with Britain and the Netherlands for the second time in just over a year, handing Icelandic voters a second referendum on the controversial Icesave saga and throwing the small island nation's EU bid into further confusion. Olafur Ragnar Grímsson made the announcement on Sunday (20 February), just days after Icelandic lawmakers approved a new package aimed at returning roughly €4 billion to London and the Hague (€1.32 billion).In 2008, the two EU governments were forced to compensate British and Dutch citizens who lost money with the online bank Icesave, following the collapse of parent firm Landsbanki as Iceland's banking sector went into meltdown. A protracted dispute with Reykjavík over retrieving the money subsequently developed.

Despite improved terms in the latest repayment agreement - Iceland has until 2046 to repay, at an interest rate of about three percent - Mr Grímsson said Icelandic voters still deserved the final say.There is support for the view that the people should once again, as before, act together with the Althingi [parliament] as the legislator in this matter, he said. The president indicated that more than 40,000 voters, about a fifth of the electorate, had formally requested a referendum, with many reluctant to pay for what they perceive as the mistakes of the country's banking classes.Similar grassroots campaigns roughly a year ago led to the collapse of an earlier, more punitive agreement.The initial attempts to repay Britain and the Netherlands in 2009 were met with strong resistance in parliament, with lawmakers finally agreeing a bill later that year. Mr Grímsson vetoed the agreement in early 2010 however, triggering a referendum which saw 93 percent of voters reject the repayment package.

Since gaining independence from Denmark in 1944, Icelandic presidents have used the veto only three times, including last Sunday.The decision places a question mark over future payments under Iceland's €4.6 billion bail-out from the International Monetary Fund and four Nordic countries, handed to Reykjavík in November 2010 after the failure of Iceland's biggest banks and the collapse of its currency.The international lender has said the bail-out is separate from the Icesave dispute, but disbursements have been delayed before.Icelandic supporters of eurozone and EU membership have argued that the clubs would bring greater stability to the island in future, leading Reykjavík to formally submit an EU application in June 2009.Backing for the idea, which must be approved by all 27 EU member states, including Britain and the Netherlands, has since sharply declined among the Iceland's 318,000 citizens, partially as a result of bitterness over the Icesave dispute.

Gaddafi on State TV: I’m in Tripoli
by Elad Benari FEB 22,11

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi appeared on state television overnight Monday, dispelling rumors that he had fled the country to Venezuela amidst protests calling for him to step down.I am in Tripoli and not in Venezuela, Gaddafi said during the 40-second appearance in which he was seen under a large umbrella, leaning out of the front seat of a van.I want to have some rest, CNN quoted the Libyan dicator as having told a reporter during the appearance. Because I was talking to the young man at Green Square, and I want to stay the night with them but then it started raining. I want to show them that I am in Tripoli, not in Venezuela. Don't believe those dogs in the media.Gaddafi’s television appearance came following another day of bloody violence on the streets of Libya. On Monday, Libyan protesters stormed Tripoli and set government buildings on fire, while Gaddafi’s forces, aided by mercenaries, continued to violently shoot down the protesters.Meanwhile, the United States released a travel warning to Libya on Monday and called on all its citizens to leave the country immediately. The State Department also ordered the evacuation of all non-essential workers from the U.S. embassy in Libya, as well as the families of its diplomats there.Secretary of State Hillary Clinton condemned on Monday evening the violence used by the Libyan regime against the demonstrators.We must put an end to this bloodshed that is not acceptable, said Clinton, adding that the Libyan government should respect the universal rights of its citizens.

Libyan diplomats renounce Gaddafi
As the violent protests continued in Libya, its own diplomats throughout the world renounced Gaddafi.Among those who broke with the Libyan leader were members of Libya’s mission to the United Nations, who renounced Gaddafi and called him a genocidal war criminal. The diplomats called upon him to resign.We are sure that what is going on now in Libya is crimes against humanity and crimes of war, The New York Times quoted the deputy permanent Libyan representative, Ibrahim Dabbashi, who spoke to reporters at a news conference at the mission’s headquarters in New York.
The UN representatives joined Libya's representative to the Arab League, who had also tendered his resignation in protest of what he called the oppression against protesters.Other Libyan diplomats who have resigned in protest of Gaddafi’s behavior include the Ambassador to India as well as the Ambassador to China.In addition to the diplomats, it has been reported that many Libyan military forces have also abandoned Gaddafi and have sided with the protesters. These include two Libyan air force colonels, piloting two Mirage F1 fighter jets, who arrived in Malta and asked for political asylum after being ordered to bomb protesters.Al-Jazeera reported late Monday evening that a group of Libyan army officers had issued a statement calling on the soldiers to join the people and assist in the efforts to topple the regime. According to the report, the officers called on their fellow soldiers to march towards the capital Tripoli in protest.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

Anti-Semitism is Back in Greece
by Chana Ya'ar FEB 22,11

Anti-Semitism is rearing its ugly head in Greece, where the phenomenon is more prevalent than ever – especially in Athens.In the 10 months since a Holocaust memorial was dedicated in the Greek capital, a neo-Nazi candidate has been elected to the city council and the city's Jewish Museum of Greece has been slathered with swastikas.Jewish cemeteries have been desecrated across the country, and Holocaust monuments and synagogues have been vandalized. The country's 6,000 Jews – a vestige of the 60,000 others who were deported in 1943 and 1944 to Nazi death camps – have been the target of a recent surge in hate crimes in Greece.Moreover, a visit this month by Jewish American leaders was greeted with dismay, and unchallenged anti-Semitism by many, including a prominent Greek composer, Mikis Theodorakis. Zionism and its leaders are here, meeting in our country! he warned in a television interview. This is no laughing matter, he said, slamming Zionism and its control over America and the banking system of which Greece has now become a victim. Theodorakis openly admitted to being an anti-Semite on the program, a confession that reportedly did not raise even an eyebrow.We've always been under siege by fanatics and far-right political movements here, David Saltiel, president of the Central Jewish Board of Greece, told the LA Times in an interview published Monday. The fear now is that anti-Semitism will get worse with the financial crisis.The country's deep economic difficulties prompted a massive 110 billion euro ($147 billion) bailout last year by 15 financial ministers in the EuroZone (European Union) and the International Money Fund. The leaders of the 16-nation Eurogroup agreed to the deal in order to prevent Greece from defaulting on its massive debt. But the bailout could not prevent the rage triggered by the cascade of unemployment and skyrocketing immigration -- some of which has since been aimed at the Jews.

Not Only in Greece
Greece is not the only country in which anti-Semitism is on the rise, however. The dangerous trend is also being seen in the southern Swedish city of Malmo, home to only 700 Jews. Many Jewish residents have been prompted to move out for their own safety, according to Frederik Sieradzki of the Jewish Community of Malmo.In 2009, there were 79 hate crimes against Jewish residents reported to police – double the number reported a year earlier. Jewish cemeteries and synagogues have been repeatedly defaced with anti-Semitic graffiti.A similar trend has been noted in France, where 832 anti-Semitic incidents were recorded in 2009. Half that many, 474 incidents, were reported in 2008, according to the Aid to Victims Department of the Jewish Community Protection Service (SPCJ).Nearly a third of the gravestones in a 200-year-old Jewish cemetery in the northeastern part of the country were smashed last November. Of the 126 thick limestone tombstones, 49 were broken and toppled in the 19th century cemetery in the town of Bar-le-Duc, located in the Meuse district of the Lorraine region.A Jewish cemetery in eastern France was similarly attacked in the town of Wofisheim, in the Alsace region last July. In nearby Strasbourg, some 30 Jewish tombstones were broken and defaced earlier in the year, with Juden Raus (Jews Out!) scrawled on one of them. Swastikas were painted on 18 others.Vandals desecrated a memorial to Jews deported by the Nazis in the city of Marmande last August, an attack that followed another, targeting a dozen kosher stores.(Israel NationalNews.com)

EARTH UNRECOGNIZED BY 2050-WORLD SAYS

February 19, 2011 - Hour 1 JAN MARKELL OTM
Nonie Darwish was born and raised a Muslim in Egypt. She offers her perspective on Middle East turmoil, the evil of the Muslim Brotherhood, Sharia Law, the Obama administration's hand in promoting the Muslim brotherhood, his signal to them in his June, 2009 speech in Cairo, and the fact he has some Brotherhood reps as his advisers. She and others believe Obama knows the chaos he has allowed to be unleashed in Egypt and other parts of the Middle East. Nonie is President of Former Muslims United and Arabs for Israel. Learn more at: www.arabsforisrael.com or www.formermuslimsunited.org
http://olivetreeradio.com/OTM2011_02_19A.mp3

February 19, 2011 - Hour 2 JAN MARKELL OTM
Calvin Beisner heads the Cornwall Alliance, and has a campaign, Resisting the Green Dragon. This effort calls Christians to take a look at the environmental movement including those headed by evangelicals. Environmentalism is encouraging a new religion, is targeting our youth, and has a global vision. Why are Christians going along with a one-world system by signing on to the false claims of the greens? One Christian outfit says that a true evangelical proselytizes the planet. Since redistributing the wealth is behind almost all environmental efforts, why are Christians selling out? Having said this, please be good stewards of Gods creation. Learn more at: www.resistingthegreendragon or www.cornwallalliance.org
http://olivetreeradio.com/OTM2011_02_19B.mp3

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

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

THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS

Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.

DANIEL 11:21-23
21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
23 And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.

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

JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

Sunday, February 20, 2011-If You Want Peace, Prepare for War
By Stan Goodenough Jerusalem Watchman

My soul has dwelt too long with one who hates peace. I am for peace; But when I speak, they are for war. (Psalm 120:6-7)How do we pray concerning the Israel-Egypt peace treaty? Do we pray for it to be protected, upheld and perpetuated? For the majority who wish to see Israel live in peace with her neighbors, this question would seem a no brainer.And yet, I cannot pray so readily for this.

Let me paint a picture:A friend has contracted cancer that, unless caught in its early stages, will grow progressively more threatening to his life. On learning of the disease, you urge him to have the tumor removed, but he prefers to continue living as normal a life as possible, taking basic medication to numb him to the pain, and even help him forget he was ill.The more time passes, the more perilous his condition becomes. He would carry on regardless, but a sudden turn of events forces him to reassess. While the attack on his body is set to intensify, he’s not ready to deal with it.You have the chance to remind him that, had he agreed to it at the start, he would have undergone a painful but relatively straightforward procedure while his body was strong enough to survive. The passage of time and progression of the cancer has weakened him. Although it is still possible to save his life, he must have the surgery now.Thing is, it’s no longer a small operation. What he requires at this point will be agonizing; the risks far higher. As his friend, you must choose whether to pressure him to go under the knife by telling him some unpleasant home truths, or allow him to continue in self-delusion as he drifts towards his date with doom.Everybody’s pleading with him to, for heaven’s sake, leave well enough alone! Anything is better than the alternative.

But do we really believe this?

Let’s take a closer look at what this Israel-Egypt peace treaty really is: how it was drawn up, what it cost Israel to sign, how it has played out, what its effects have been, and where its perpetuation will lead.The Israeli prime minister, Menachem Begin, and the Egyptian military dictator, Anwar Sadat, signed the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty, known as the Camp David Agreement, in 1978.In other words, it was signed between an elected representative of the Israeli people on the one side, and a military ruler representing no-one on the other.The details – or more accurately – the parties to the agreement – were hammered together by the American president, Jimmy Carter.As close advisor to Begin, the late Shmuel Katz, outlined in his book The Hollow Peace, (Dvir Publishing; Israel; 1981), Carter held a gun to Israel’s head and, wielding blackmail and deception, mercilessly pressured Begin into agreeing to the treaty terms – the tangible fruits of which were all in Egypt’s – and America’s – favor.Sadat, who had his forces launch the aggressive wars of 1967 and 1973 with the intent of obliterating the Jewish state, was rewarded for his belligerence by being given the Sinai Peninsula (which was not Egyptian sovereign territory before), and by being universally applauded as a courageous peacemaker.

By relinquishing the Sinai, Israel lost access to sources of oil that supplied upwards of 60 percent of its oil needs. It lost the ultra-modern military airfields it had built in the Sinai, and the billions of dollars it had to spend building substitute airfields in the Negev.Israel lost the strategic depth that protected it against another Egyptian onslaught. It lost the only way it had of ensuring Israeli ships retain free access to the Indian Ocean via the Red Sea. It lost the Jewish communities it had established in the Sinai – the process of uprooting them leaving deep scars in the Israeli national conscious and deeply sowing seeds for civil disagreement and strife among Israel’s Jews.And in the agreement Israel forfeited the possibility of annexing Judea, Samaria and Gaza, instead binding itself to negotiate with the Palestinian Arabs to give them self-rule in those areas to which they – the Arabs – had no prior historical claim.The United States rewarded Egypt richly; over the ensuing years giving the country billions of dollars worth of modern and sophisticated weaponry, and training Egyptian soldiers and security forces. All the while Egypt’s army – twice as large as Israel’s – has been playing yearly war games in which it practices attacking and destroying the Jewish state.

Egypt, first under Sadat and then under Hosni Mubarak, lived up to nothing in return but a pledge not to launch attacks on Israel from Egyptian soil. That did not stop it from pursuing that other, political, war – delegitimizing the Jewish state and fomenting hatred of Israel at home and abroad.While Israeli leaders frequently visited Egypt for consultations with Mubarak and his officials, the Egyptian ruler absolutely refused to reciprocate. His solo trip to Jerusalem was for the funeral of assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.Israeli tourists flocked with their money to Egypt, but Egyptians basically never came to tour Israel. The Mubarak-controlled media in Egypt regularly vilified the Jewish state and its Jewish citizens, while Israel’s free media almost always related to their southern neighbor in terms of being a partner in peace.Meanwhile, included in the Carter-sanctioned agreement, with the American president’s full awareness and in fact collusion, was Egypt’s right to declare war on Israel if Israel should get into another conflict with any other Arab state.

As The Jerusalem Post’s Caroline Glick told an audience in the Israeli capital last week, what has existed between Israel and Egypt for the last 32 years has been not a state of peace but a readily reversible ceasefire.Apart from badly compromising Israel’s security at the start, when it was formulated and signed, the agreement led Israel to further weaken itself as the years, then the decades, passed.Glick pointed out that Israel, lulled into sleepiness by the exciting peace agreement, long ago stopped training its forces for desert warfare. It also stopped collecting intelligence on the Egyptian military. All the while, Cairo was building up its war machine – with a billion dollars in aid from the United States every year. Egypt received massive military assistance from the United States. Those forces – which are trained by the US military – have been training for war against Israel for the last 32 years… The Egyptian army is twice the size of the IDF. Nearly a million Egyptian boys come of call-up age every year.Egypt is not just anti-Israel; it is one of the most antisemitic countries in the world, warned the Post reporter.It must be noted, Glick added, that the new military junta ruling Egypt, despite being under intense pressure from the United States to commit itself to honoring the Israel-Egypt treaty, was willing to go no further than make a general commitment to all its international treaties.

This should not be overlooked.So what do we have? Israel signed a treaty with an Egyptian strongman which, yes, helped keep the southern border quiet for 32 years, and enabled millions of Israeli tourists to visit the Sinai and enjoy its beautiful coastline. But it also led to Israel weakening itself strategically, relaxing its guard and effectively rendering itself less able to deal with a future Egyptian assault.Meanwhile the Egyptian side massively modernized its military while uninterruptedly fomenting hatred of the Jews and their state. Egypt used its credentials (influential Arab state with Western-backing) to keep itself in the center of the peace process. From Cairo, Hosni Mubarak edged ahead with his anti-Israel agenda, encouraging American administrations and Israeli leftists to work against Israel’s security interests.Many, mostly liberal, experts are decrying the scaremongers who believe that the Muslim Brotherhood will soon ascend to power in Egypt. The revolution there has been widely described as the birthing of democracy in the Arab world and therefore promising a better future for Israel-Egypt relations. But democracy and Islam are oil and water – they cannot be mixed, and Israel’s presence in the Arab’s Muslim midst can never be tolerated. It must be expunged.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, while calling Israel-Egyptian peace a cornerstone of Mideast stability and hoping for the best has said that Israel must prepare for the worst in its relations with its southern neighbor. Leftist Israelis have torn strips off him for doing so, calling instead for an appeasing approach that would not risk heightening tensions between the two countries during this transition period.What is best for Israel? What should we pray for? The survival of a peace treaty that strengthens Egypt – whose political future is at best uncertain – and keeps Israel weak – making its future survival uncertain? Or do we pray for Israel to prepare for the possibility that Egypt will tear up the treaty and throw it away – even if Israel’s very act of preparation is used as a justification by Egypt to abrogate Camp David? Should we pray for God to help Israel prepare for what the Bible foretells and Middle East geo-political reality confirms is on the way – a war the Jewish people don’t want, but which will be unleashed against her? And if, as the IDF is bolstered in the south and Israel moves to make up its deficit in intelligence on Egypt, the Egyptian side reacts by scrapping the treaty, so be it?
Latin scholar Vegetius said: Si vis pacem, para bellum (If you want peace, prepare for war).With the Israel-Egypt treaty, Israel has prepared for peace, but Egypt has has used it to gear up for war.

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.

Cabinet Rejects Sovereignty on Jewish Towns of Judea, Samaria
by Gil Ronen FEB 21,11

The Ministerial Committee for Legislation rejected Sunday a bill that would have placed the Jewish communities of Judea and Samaria under Israeli sovereignty. The bill would have removed the threat of construction freezes and similar steps from the communities in Judea and Samaria, by taking them out of the jurisdiction of the Defense Ministry.The bill was sponsored by MK Yaakov Katz (Ketzaleh), Chairman of the National Union party. It was co-signed by all the other members of the NU, as well as 22 coalition MKs - including most of the Knesset's Likud faction. However, the Committee's rejection of the bill means that all coalition MKs are expected to vote against it when it comes up for a vote in the plenum Wednesday.The bill was first proposed four years ago by then-MK Rabbi Benny Elon, and was co-signed by numerous Likud MKs - including Binyamin Netanyahu; the Likud was in the Opposition at the time. The bill foundered, but it was re-submitted by MK Katz in the present Knesset and came up for a vote in the Ministerial Committee for Legislation one year ago. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu asked Ketzaleh to postpone the vote for three months, and Ketzaleh agreed.Since then, the Committee - which is headed by Justice Minister Yaakov Ne'eman - has ignored requests by Ketzaleh to discuss the bill again. Minister Benny Begin, who has been the acting head of the committee lately, declared that an injustice has been done to the NU and that he would raise the bill for a vote in the committee posthaste.

The Committee voted unanimously against the bill. Besides Ne'eman and Begin, the Committee includes Ministers Gideon Saar, Yuli Edelstein, Gilad Erdan, Moshe Cachlon, Michael Eitan, Limor Livnat, Dan Meridor, Yossi Peled, Yisrael Katz, and Yuval Steinitz (all of the LIkud), Yitzchak Aharonovich, Sofa Landver, Orit Noked, Stas Misezhnikov, Meshulam Nahari, Daniel Hershkowitz, Yaakov Mergi and Shalom Simchon.Knesset Coalition Chairman MK Ze'ev Elkin (Likud) put pressure on Ketzaleh to withdraw the bill yet again, so as to save Likud embarrassment. However, Ketzaleh refused.On Wednesday, Ketzaleh said,the Nation of Israel will have to see with its own eyes who is loyal to the Land of Israel in talk and signatures but turns his back on it when the time comes for action - and who is truly loyal.It now turns out, he added, that those who accepted the shameful slogan two states for two peoples, and those who froze the communities of Judea and Samaria and wanted to freeze them a second time, were not acting in earnest when they themselves signed the bill.(Israel NationalNews.com)

G20 ministers fudge deal on imbalance indicators
By Louise Egan and Daniel Flynn – Sat Feb 19, 2:04 pm ET

PARIS (Reuters) – Finance ministers of the world's major economies reached a fudged accord on Saturday on how to measure imbalances in the global economy after China prevented the use of exchange rates and currency reserves as indicators.French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde, who chaired the Group of 20 talks, said the deal nevertheless represented a significant step toward better coordination of economic policies worldwide to help prevent another financial crisis.It wasn't simple. There were obviously divergent interests but we were able to reach a compromise on a text that seems to us to be both balanced and demanding in its implementation, she told a news conference.Ministers and central bank governors agreed on a list of indicators including public debt and fiscal deficits, private savings and borrowing, the trade balance and other components of balance of payments such as net investment flows.

But at Chinese insistence there was no mention of the real effective exchange rate or of foreign currency reserves.Reserves have been dropped, Lagarde acknowledged, adding that the deal included a mechanism to take account of exchange rates when assessing the overall balance of payments.The United States and other western countries accuse Beijing of keeping the yuan artificially undervalued to boost its exports, hence accumulating massive foreign currency reserves that they say distort the world economy.U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner repeated after the talks that China's currency remains substantially undervalued and its real exchange rate had not moved much despite a slow appreciation since a reform last June.There is broad consensus that the major economies, not just Europe, Japan and the United States but also the large emerging economies, need to allow their exchange rates to adjust in response to market forces, he said.The world's number two economy, which overtook Japan this week, has resisted Western pressure to substantially revalue its currency to help rebalance global growth.China's trade surplus has shrunk of late, perhaps explaining why it prefers that measure.Western and Japanese officials said the indicators would in practice cover balance of payments and foreign reserves, even if those terms had been omitted to assuage Beijing. Chinese Finance Minister Xie Xuren left without speaking to reporters.We needed to be inventive about wording in the communique in consideration for a country that did not want to use the term current account balance... The statement lists components of the current account balance, Japanese Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda told reporters.

NO SPECIFIC GOALS

Lagarde said the indicators were not binding targets but would lead to the drafting of guidelines for coordinated economic policies to reduce distortions, and then to a mutual assessment process.Germany, Europe's biggest exporter, which has resisted U.S. efforts to set numerical targets for current account surpluses, said no specific goals would be set for certain indicators.The G20 ministers acknowledged that economic recovery was diverging between developed and developing economies, but they differed in their assessment of global inflation risks.The communique noted that while growth was subdued in most developed economies, with unemployment high, major emerging markets were roaring ahead, some with signs of overheating.European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet said inflationary pressures coming from energy and commodities prices must be taken seriously, and the ECB was determined to avoid second-round effects on wages.

But Geithner said inflation risks in the United States were moderate. French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who holds the G20 presidency this year, urged ministers on Friday not to get bogged down by the indicators dispute and welcomed the fact that China had agreed to host a seminar on reforming the international monetary system in Shenzhen in late March.France has also run into opposition with its two other G20 priorities -- greater transparency and regulation of commodities prices and reform of the international monetary system.The G20 communique said ministers agreed to work on strengthening the international monetary system to help avoid disruptive fluctuations in capital flows and disorderly movements in exchange rates.

China and Brazil complain that hot money inflows risk destabilizing the economies of emerging countries, pointing the finger at the U.S. Federal Reserve's money printing via a $600 billion bond purchase program.With world shares at 30-month highs, investors seem content for the G20 to take its time, whereas at the height of the crisis two years ago markets were baying for policy action.(Additional reporting by Toni Vorobyova, Catherine Bremer, Francesca Landini, Julien Toyer, Gernot Heller, John Irish, Leigh Thomas, Rie Ishiguro; writing by Paul Taylor; editing by Mike Peacock)

21 Feb, 2011, 10.15AM IST,REUTERS Yuan hits record high as China fights inflation

SHANGHAI/HONG KONG: The yuan hit its highest trading level against the dollar on Monday after the People's Bank of China fixed the mid-point at a record high for a third day, a clear sign the government is willing to let the Chinese currency appreciate to help fight inflation. The PBOC announced on Friday a 50-basis-point RRR rise to a record 19.5 percent in its latest move to fight high consumer inflation, which rose to 4.9 percent in January against a year earlier from 4.6 percent in December. Traders have long predicted the yuan will appreciate 5 to 6 percent this year as the government is expected to use the currency as part of its strategy to contain price rises. There was no impact from the weekend meeting of finance ministers of the world's major economies, who reached a fudged accord on how to measure imbalances in the global economy after China prevented the use of exchange rates and currency reserves as indicators.Because of China's need to fight inflation, the trend for the yuan to appreciate steadily for the rest of this year is likely to continue at least in the first half of this year, said a trader at a European Bank in Shanghai.Spot yuan traded as high as 6.5658 against the dollar on Monday morning, up from Friday's close of 6.5732 and having now risen 3.97 percent since its depegging from the dollar in June 2010. It touched an intraday low of 6.5700.

NDFS STABLE Dollar/yuan offshore forwards rose slightly on Monday to imply less yuan appreciation after they had fallen sharply on Friday to factor in the PBOC bank reserve hike.Benchmark one-year dollar/yuan non-deliverable forwards were bid at 6.4120 at midday versus 6.4010 at Friday's close. Their implied yuan appreciation in a year's time fell to 2.48 percent from 2.65 percent.Actually the market is trading quite stable for the whole morning. The trading range is around 100 to 130 (pips), so there is not much volatility coming here. The market is doing some arbitrage flows business, said a trader at BNP Paribas in Hong Kong.The market is pricing in that, short term, there will be appreciation, but in longer tenors, there will not be aggressive appreciation.NDF-implied yuan appreciation has persistently lagged market expectations over the past couple of months as dealers said hedge funds, the main players in the forwards, cut back on exposure to Asian emerging markets in favour of dollar assets as the U.S. economy recovers.Before trade began, the People's Bank of China set the yuan's daily mid-point at a record high of 6.5705, up from Friday's fixing of 6.5781.The mid-point, from which the yuan can trade up or down a maximum 0.5 percent in a given day, is the tool the central bank uses to express the government's intentions for the currency.

On top of inflation, China has been under pressure from the United States to let the yuan appreciate in recent years, although the government has repeatedly said it will control the pace of yuan appreciation to suit its economic conditions.While Beijing is partly worried a rapid yuan rise will hit exports and employment in the world's most populous nation, it has nevertheless allowed the currency to appreciate by 26 percent against the dollar since the landmark revaluation in July 2005.

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,(WORLD SOCIALISM) 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

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PA Places Arabs in the Heart of Jewish Hevron
by Elad Benari FEB 21,11

The Palestinian Authority, with financial assistance by the European Union, has begun to house Arabs in the heart Jewish community in Hevron near the Tomb of the Patriarchs, Arutz Sheva’s Hebrew website has learned.A security source revealed on Sunday that in the last year and a half, the Palestinian Authority, through a body named the council to rehabilitate the old city, has begun to house Arabs in areas of Hevron inhabited by Jews.These houses, previously uninhabited, have been filled with Arabs who were imported from west Hevron, Beit Kahel, and Halhoul, some of which were previously engaged in terror activity or have served time in Israeli prisons for criminal offenses, said the source and added: The Palestinian Authority's move is part of a clear strategy that no one denies: it is creating a separation between Kiryat Arba and Hevron.The source noted that The Palestinian Authority has understood that terrorist attacks will not stop the approximately 600,000 Jews who visit the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hevron each year, and has concluded that there is a need to house hundreds of families in the eastern Casbah in order to create separation.

Already in recent months, added the source, we have witnessed significant friction in the area between Arabs and the IDF and the Border Police as well as with the local Jewish residents and outside guests. Beyond the friction there have been several attacks of pedestrians on Shabbat, and some vehicles have been stoned at the crossing near the eastern Casbah.In summary, the source said that This situation brings the Tomb of the Patriarchs, which is a heritage site, into a most serious security situation. Instead of having the tombs of our forefathers accessible to every Jew at any day and hour, coordination of the arrival of Jews in the Tomb of the Patriarchs will be required and the PA would thus succeed in keeping so many Jews away from the Cave of the Patriarchs.Kiryat Arba Mayor Malachi Levinger told Arutz Sheva in response: We will work with all government and security officials to immediately stop this, and we hope that we do not have to take steps ourselves to expedite the handling of the situation by law enforcement officials.Meanwhile, Noam Arnon, a spokesman for Hevron’s Jewish community, said that this is a dangerous precedent that illustrates the danger of building a neighborhood that would disconnect Kiryat Arba from the Cave of the Patriarchs. We will conduct a determined struggle, together with the Council of Kiryat Arba and Hevron, to prevent the development of this neighborhood that would constitute a danger to hundreds of thousands of Jews passing through the route connecting Kiryat Arba to Hevron.(Israel NationalNews.com)

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 RUSSIA-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 (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)

DANIEL 11:40-43
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.

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.

Reports: Gaddafi Losing Control of Libya
by Elad Benari FEB 21,11

As demonstrations in Libya intensified Sunday, it appeared that Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is losing control of the country he has ruled for over 40 years.On Sunday evening it was reported that the anti-government protests had spread to the capital Tripoli, which until then had not been affected by them. Al-Jazeera reported heavy gunfire exchanges in the center of the Libyan capital between thousands of demonstrators who gathered in the streets and supporters of Gaddafi. Eyewitnesses also reported the use of tear gas against demonstrators.Also on Sunday, Shaikh Faraj al Zuway, leader of the Al-Zuwayya tribe in eastern Libya (a tribe which lives south of Benghazi), threatened during an interview with Al-Jazeera to cut oil exports to Western countries within 24 hours unless authorities stop what he called the oppression of protesters.Akram Al-Warfalli, a leading figure in the Al Warfalla tribe, one of Libya's biggest, told Al-Jazeera: We tell the brother (Gaddafi), well he's no longer a brother, we tell him to leave the country.

Earlier Sunday in the city of Benghazi, members of a Libyan army unit reportedly told residents of the city that they deserted, liberated the city from forces loyal to dictator Gaddafi and joined the public protest against Gaddafi's rule. According to local hospitals, soldiers arrived for treatment, following clashes with Gaddafi's personal security staff.The action came after at least 50 people were killed and 100 others were seriously wounded in afternoon and evening clashes. An emergency-room doctor said most of the dead had been shot.Witnesses in Benghazi claimed that only one brigade did not join the demonstrators. It was also reported that the protesters climbed on top of tanks and that many of them were armed with rifles and machine guns which they had looted from the deserted tanks.Meanwhile, Gaddafi’s son, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, went on state television late Sunday night and addressed the country’s residents for the first time since the protests began.In his speech, Gaddafi warned that Libya was on the verge of civil war and said that the protests against his father's rule were a foreign plot. He also pledged a new constitution and new liberal laws, saying the north African country was at a crossroads.

Gaddafi’s son warned that any uprising would be ruthlessly suppressed. We will continue to fight until the last moment, until the last bullet is fired, he said, while admitting that the local police erred in its behavior towards the demonstrators, attributing this to the fact that the officers had never been properly trained in handling mass demonstrations.Gaddafi also dismissed reports by groups such as Human Rights Watch, which have placed the death toll from the protests at over 200. He claimed that only 84 people have died in the demonstrations.
Meanwhile, there were unconfirmed reports Sunday night that Muammar Gaddafi had fled the country to Venezuela. His son, however, dismissed those reports as well.My father is in Libya and is supported by his army, he said.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

Israel eyes Suez trip of Iran warships with worry
By KARIN LAUB, Associated Press – Sun Feb 20, 3:09 pm ET

CAIRO – Iran's first attempt in decades to send warships through the Suez Canal into the Mediterranean on Europe's — and NATO's — southern flank could further destabilize the Middle East, a region already reeling from an unprecedented wave of anti-government rebellions.Egypt's new military rulers, who took power from ousted Hosni Mubarak a little more than a week ago, have granted two Iranian warships passage through the strategic waterway — something Israel has made clear it views as a provocation. Still, Egypt appeared to have no other choice because an international convention regulating shipping says the canal must be open to every vessel of commerce or of war.Iranian warships have not passed through the Suez Canal since 1979.The vessels bound for Syria are not expected to enter the canal before Tuesday or Wednesday, according to maritime sources in Egypt. On Sunday, the frigate Alvand and the supply ship Kharq were still near the southern entrance to the canal.

The canal linking the Red Sea and the Mediterranean enables ships to avoid a lengthy sail around Africa. The Iranian ships are headed for a training mission in Syria, a close ally of Iran's hardline Islamic rulers and an arch foe of Israel. In Syria, officials at the Iranian embassy said it would mark the first time in years that Iranian warships dock in a Syrian port.Iran is suspected by the U.S. and Israel of gearing its nuclear program to develop weapons, something Tehran denies. Israel considers Iran an existential threat and is watching the warships' movements with growing alarm. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Iran on Sunday of trying to exploit recent instability in Egypt and told his Cabinet he views Iran's moves with gravity.The request by the Iranians to send the warships through Suez is a test of the foreign policy intentions of Egypt's new military rulers, the gatekeepers of the canal. Mubarak, an ally of Israel and the U.S. who ruled for nearly 30 years, was toppled Feb. 11 by a popular uprising and the country is now run by a military council. Mubarak was considered a bulwark in the region against Islamic extremism.

Iran wants to say to the world, to the U.S., Israel and other countries in the Mideast that it has reach not only in areas close to it but also farther away, including in the Mediterranean, said Ephraim Kam of the Institute for National Security Studies in Israel.He said Iran is also signaling to Israel that it is prepared to protect its allies Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon on Israel's northern and southern flanks.A senior Iranian naval commander told an Iranian news agency already several days before the Jan. 25 start of the revolt in Egypt that Iran planned to dispatch warships to the Mediterranean, via the Suez Canal. The commander said candidly at the time that the mission was to gather intelligence on the region and train Navy cadets to protect Iranian cargo ships and oil tankers against attacks by Somali pirates.But Iran appears to have more far-reaching objectives, including asserting itself as a regional power and testing whether Egypt's new rulers will stick to Mubarak's pro-Western line, analysts said.Iran's influence has grown in recent years, with the political rise of its proxies Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, and its close alliance with Syria. At the same time, Israel lost the friendship of Turkey and the nature of its with post-Mubarak Egypt remains uncertain.

Egyptian-Iranian ties broke down after Tehran's Islamic Revolution of 1979 and the signing of the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty the same year. Later, the relationship improved slightly, with contacts currently channeled through interest sections in the two capitals.Iran's request last week to send warships through the Suez Canal came at a particularly difficult time for Egypt, with the transition government focused on pressing domestic issues, including restoring security after the uprising.
Iran now sees a window of opportunity to force the Egyptian government to make a stand and either tell Iranians something unpopular in Egypt (denying passage) or allow something that would be a diplomatic coup for Iran, and put the onus on Israel to make a defensive gesture, said Shashank Joshi, an analyst at the Royal United Services Institute for Defense and Security Studies in London.Canal officials, citing an 1888 international convention regulating shipping, said Egypt had no choice but to permit passage to the Iranian vessels. The convention says the canal must be open to every vessel of commerce or of war.It was not immediately clear whether Iran had requested passage for its warships at any time since 1979, and if not, then why.Applying the same principle, Egypt has also permitted the passage of an Israeli Dolphin-class submarine, which according to foreign reports is capable of firing nuclear-tipped cruise missiles. In Brussels, NATO spokeswoman Oana Lungescu said Sunday that the decision on the Iranian vessels is up to the authorities of the Suez Canal. Diplomats at NATO said privately that the organization was in no position to object since it insists on right of free passage of naval vessels through international waters.Israel's options appear limited, since the perceived provocation may not be enough to warrant a strong Israeli complaint.Netanyahu did not say Sunday how Israel might respond, if at all.Avi Dichter, Israel's former internal security minister, said Israel should be more concerned about Iran's suspected nuclear weapons ambitions — denied by Tehran — than about two naval ships reaching the Mediterranean.Associated Press writers Slobodan Lekic in Brussels, Matti Friedman in Jerusalem and Ben Hubbard in Cairo contributed reporting.

Egypt Denies Iranian Ships Passed Through Suez Canal
by Chana Ya'ar FEB 20,11

Egyptian officials at the Suez Canal have categorically denied an Iranian announcement on Al Aram TV Sunday morning that two of its warships had already passed through the canal.The ships are allegedly the Kharg, a 33,000-ton refueling and support vessel, and the Alvand, a 15,000-ton light patrol frigate. According to a statement issued last week by the Iranian navy, the Kharg carries a crew of 250 and three helicopters. The Alvand is armed with torpedoes and anti-ship missiles.The officials insisted that the ships are still expected to arrive at the southern entrance of the canal in the Gulf of Suez later Sunday. They are then slated to enter the Mediterranean by Monday morning on their way to the Syrian port of Latakia for a year of training.

Israel's Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told reporters Sunday the government is taking a grave view of the Iranian move, which he said was aimed at exploiting the chaos created by the recent upheaval in which the 30-year regime of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was toppled.I think that today, we can see what an unstable region we live in, a region in which Iran tries to exploit the situation that has been created in order to expand its influence by passing warships through the Suez Canal. Israel views this Iranian move with utmost gravity, Netanyahu told ministers at the government's weekly Cabinet meeting.This would be the first time Egypt has allowed Iranian naval vessels into the Suez Canal since the 1979 Revolution, when diplomatic ties were broken between the two nations.Iran announced its plans a week ago to deploy warships from its 12th Flotilla to areas near Israel and to dock at a Syrian port for a year. In response, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman warned at the time that such a move would be considered a serious provocation.Egyptian military officials who currently are in control of the country allegedly approved the request Friday after Iranian diplomats assured them the two vessels carried no nuclear or chemical materials, and no weapons, according to the state-run MENA news agency.Previously officials at the canal had denied any knowledge of the matter.With the move, Iran may have succeeded in establishing its political and naval presence in an area previously reached only through its proxies -- the Gaza-based Hamas terrorist group and the Lebanon-based Hizbullah terrorist organization. Iran, also closely allied with Syria, has recently tightened ties with Turkey as well.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

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.

Blizzard slams northern Midwest states
By David Bailey – Sun Feb 20, 6:53 pm ET

MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) – A severe winter storm was driving across the upper Midwest on Sunday, dumping up to 15 inches of snow and causing white-out conditions in spots from the Dakotas through Minnesota and into Wisconsin.State officials warned against travel in most of South Dakota where roads were not already closed, most southern Minnesota roads were slick and snow-covered with limited driver visibility and airlines canceled hundreds of flights.The National Weather Service said travel will be very difficult at times due to ice and snow in southern Wisconsin, where a mass protest against changes to collective bargaining laws was expected to continue at the state capital in Madison.Forecasters expect up to four inches of snow in southern Wisconsin with some sleet and freezing rain leading to ice accumulations in some areas.The storm was expected to dump up to 15 inches of snow in Minnesota from Sunday to midday on Monday and nearly a foot of snow across central to northeast Wisconsin, the National Weather Service said. Earlier forecasts had aimed for snow accumulations of up to 18 inches in parts of Minnesota.

The National Weather Service on Sunday afternoon forecast 10 to 14 inches of snow for the Twin Cities overall by the time the storm ends on Monday, said Tony Zaleski, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Minnesota.The biggest snow amounts have been basically across south central Minnesota, Zaleski said.Blizzard conditions were developing west and south of Minneapolis where up to 8 inches of snow were reported in New Ulm and Lester Prairie, the National Weather Service said.
South suburbs to Minneapolis and St. Paul had already reported snow falls of 5 to 7 inches on Sunday afternoon, Zaleski said.There is a lot of blowing snow out there, it's real tough to measure when you have the snow blowing at 20 to 30 miles per hour, Zaleski said.Most flights were canceled out of Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport on Sunday from the storm that brought high winds that reduced operations, airport spokeswoman Melissa Scovronski said.Delta Air Lines canceled hundreds of flights at the airport Sunday and expects more flight cuts on Monday across its route system, particularly in the midwest and northeast United States, spokesman Anthony Black said.

Heavy snows in December and at other points already had pushed snowfall totals to more than 61 inches in the Twin Cities before the latest storm, making it the fifth snowiest on record, according to National Weather Service statistics.A 10-inch snowfall would make it the second snowiest winter behind only 1981-82 when 76.9 inches of snow were recorded.Blizzard conditions crossed much of South Dakota with more than a foot of snow and wind gusts of up to 40 miles per hour in a band from Pierre to Watertown, forecasters said.South Dakota closed Interstate 29 from Sioux Falls north to the North Dakota border on the eastern side of the state and closed a 150 mile stretch of Interstate 90 from Wall to Chamberlain on the south central part of the state.(Reporting by David Bailey; Editing by Ellen Wulfhorst and Tim Gaynor)

EARTHQUAKES

MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

Magnitude-6.2 quake shakes east Russia
– Sun Feb 20, 5:49 pm ET

NEW YORK – A magnitude-6.2 earthquake rattled the east coast of Russia near the Kamchatka Peninsula, the U.S. Geological Survey reported Sunday. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries, and no tsunami alert was issued.The quake struck at 9:43 a.m. at the epicenter (4:43 Eastern time, 2143 GMT Sunday), Which was some 4,140 miles (6,660 kilometers) east of Moscow, the USGS said, closer to Japan than the Russian capital.The center of the quake was about 5.8 miles (9.3 kilometers) deep, the agency reported.

Small earthquake shakes Alabama gulf coast
– Fri Feb 18, 10:06 pm ET

FORT MORGAN, Ala. – Federal officials say a minor earthquake has shaken southern Alabama, and people more than 200 miles away have reported feeling the temblor.The U.S. Geological Service says the 3.5-magnitude earthquake happened at 5:15 p.m. Friday. There were no immediate reports of damage.The epicenter was near the tip of the Fort Morgan Peninsula at the mouth of Mobile Bay, about 35 miles southeast of Mobile.Residents in the Pensacola area of the Florida panhandle also said they felt the earthquake, as did residents as far north as Birmingham, Ala.In 2008, a 3.1-magnitude earthquake hit the southwest Alabama town of Coffeeville, about 100 miles north of where Friday's quake struck.

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.

REVELATION 9:14-16
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.
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.(WAVE 2 KILLS 2 BILLION WHEN CHINA,RUSSIA MARCH TO THE MIDEAST)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARY) and I heard the number of them.

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.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3 BY 2019 AT THE LATEST I BELIEVE)

MY RESPONSE THE WORLD GOES ON FOREVER WITH JERUSALEM AS THE WORLD CAPITAL.

Planet could be unrecognizable by 2050, experts say
– Sun Feb 20, 3:05 pm ET

WASHINGTON (AFP) – A growing, more affluent population competing for ever scarcer resources could make for an unrecognizable world by 2050, researchers warned at a major US science conference Sunday.The United Nations has predicted the global population will reach seven billion this year, and climb to nine billion by 2050, with almost all of the growth occurring in poor countries, particularly Africa and South Asia, said John Bongaarts of the non-profit Population Council.To feed all those mouths, we will need to produce as much food in the next 40 years as we have in the last 8,000, said Jason Clay of the World Wildlife Fund at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).By 2050 we will not have a planet left that is recognizable if current trends continue, Clay said.

The swelling population will exacerbate problems, such as resource depletion, said John Casterline, director of the Initiative in Population Research at Ohio State University.But incomes are also expected to rise over the next 40 years -- tripling globally and quintupling in developing nations -- and add more strain to global food supplies.People tend to move up the food chain as their incomes rise, consuming more meat than they might have when they made less money, the experts said.It takes around seven pounds (3.4 kilograms) of grain to produce a pound of meat, and around three to four pounds of grain to produce a pound of cheese or eggs, experts told AFP.

More people, more money, more consumption, but the same planet, Clay told AFP, urging scientists and governments to start making changes now to how food is produced.Population experts, meanwhile, called for more funding for family planning programs to help control the growth in the number of humans, especially in developing nations.For 20 years, there's been very little investment in family planning, but there's a return of interest now, partly because of the environmental factors like global warming and food prices, said Bongaarts.We want to minimize population growth, and the only viable way to do that is through more effective family planning,said Casterline.

ISAIAH 14:12-23
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, (SATAN) son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

REVELATION 12:3-4,7-9
3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon,(SATAN) having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.
4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven,( 1/3 OF ANGELS FELL WITH SATAN AT THE FALL) and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman (MARY JESUS MOTHER) which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.(JESUS WAS JEWISH,THIS IS PERSECUSSION AGAINST ISRAEL).
7 And there was (SPACE) war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.(SPACE)
9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.(SATAN/DEMONS CAST FROM THE HEAVENS TO THE EARTH IN THIS SPACE WAR)

REVELATION 20:2
2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,

U.S. Must Take Space Storm Threat Seriously, Experts Warn
Space.com – Sun Feb 20, 12:00 pm ET

WASHINGTON — Space weather could pose serious problems here on Earth in the coming years, the chief of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said Saturday (Feb. 19).A severe solar storm has the potential to take down telecommunications and power grids, and the country needs to work on being better prepared, said NOAA administrator Jane Lubchenco here at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Lubchenco is also the U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere.This is not a matter of if, it's simply a matter of when and how big, Lubchenco said of the potential for a dangerous solar flare. We have every reason to expect we're going to be seeing more space weather in the coming years, and it behooves us to be smart and be prepared.

Ramping up

The space weather threat is becoming more dire as our sun ramps up toward its period of solar maximum, predicted for around 2013. Activity on the sun fluctuates on a roughly 11-year cycle, and our star has been relatively dormant for a while.That's clearly starting to change, though, as evidenced by a class X solar flare – the strongest kind – that erupted from the sun Feb. 14.I think the events of this week certainly underscore how important it is for us to be paying attention to space weather and to be prepared to respond to, and mitigate, potential impacts, Lubchenco said. As we enter into a period of enhanced solar activity it seems pretty clear that we are going to be looking at the possibility of not only more solar events but also the possibility of some very strong events.The Feb. 14 flare unleashed a wave of charged particles that streamed immediately toward Earth, as well as coronal mass ejections, or blobs of plasma, that took days to arrive here. When they did, they interacted with Earth's magnetic field to cause geomagnetic storms that wiped out radio communications in the Western Pacific Ocean and parts of Asia, and caused airlines to reroute some polar flights to avoid radio outages.

Next time could be worse

However, experts say we got off fairly lucky with this recent solar storm, and that future eruptions could cause worse damage, particularly to the sensitive transformers and capacitors in power grids. If some of these were harmed, there could be power outages for days, weeks, months, or even, in the case of severe damage, years, experts warned.It turned out that we were quite well protected this time, so not much happened, said European Space Agency scientist Juha-Pekka Luntama. In another case things might have been different.Space weather hasn't posed quite such a threat before, because during the last solar maximum, around 10 years ago, the world wasn't as dependent on satellite telecommunications, cell phones and global positioning system (GPS) – all technologies that could be disrupted by solar flares.Many things we take for granted today are so much more prone to the effects of space weather than was the case during the last maximum,Lubchenco said. The problem is likely to get even worse as the world could likely become more technologically dependent by the time the next solar maximum rolls around, and the next.

Slightly scary

Other experts agree that the risk must be addressed.It is slightly scary, and I think properly so, said John Beddington, the U.K. government's chief scientific adviser. We've got to be scared by these events otherwise we will not take them seriously.He and other European officials said the world needs greater international cooperation to meet the threat of dangerous space weather.There are few emergency scenarios today that require such close cooperation across the Atlantic as a geomagnetic storm, said Helena Lindberg, director general for the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB).We have an urgent need to start sharing expertise and connecting our systems for warning and for response, Lindberg said. This cooperation has to be put in place before a disaster hits.Despite the risk, though, some experts stressed that there's reason to be optimistic. There is work being done to improve our ability to forecast solar storms in advance, equip more satellites with radiation shielding and fortify power grids with resilient transformers and capacitors.Please don’t panic, said Stephan Lechner of the Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre. Please don't leave the room and tell everybody that space weather will kill us tomorrow.

Gen. Cartwright: Egypt-like protests will spread
By BRENDAN FARRINGTON, Associated Press – Fri Feb 18, 3:56 pm ET

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Gen. James Cartwright told an economic club Friday that protests like the ones that brought down leaders in Egypt and Tunisia will continue to spread as long as authoritarian regimes don't meet the needs of their people.While we are urging restraint, this is going to happen. It is moving through Northern Africa, the Middle East at a pace that is just unheard of and each of those governments and each of those nations is watching it come, trying to figure out what's happening and how they might prevent it, Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the Economic Club of Florida.There are ongoing protests in Yemen, Bahrain and Libya. Cartwright said the fall of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt after just two weeks of protests probably surprised people most because it was considered one of the region's more stable nations.What you have in essence is a population from about 18- to 35-year-olds, educated and can't get a job and the wealth distribution in their country is all at the top and none of it is distributed down and they've basically come to the point where they're not going to tolerate it any more, Cartwright said. They are not satisfying the needs of their people, and if they don't, eventually the people will speak out.He said the United States was fortunate in Egypt's case because it has a good relationship with the country's military.

We knew our counterparts. We could talk to them. We could say, Exercise restraint. Protect your people first, then the regime,Cartwright said. And they did. I think the Egyptian army was probably the model of what you'd like to have happen based on educating each other, educating our military and their military together at the same schools. That makes a big difference.Cartwright said he likes to speak to groups around the country at least once a month so communities can learn from his experiences. The economic club has a featured speaker at each of its monthly meetings.Cartwright was asked several questions, including about the nation's relationship with Turkey and efforts to track down Osama bin Laden.Cartwright said al-Qaida has spread so far across the world that taking out bin Laden would have little effect on dismantling the terrorist movement.We can remove bin Laden, if we could find him, I'm not sure that it would change the character of al-Qaida or that it would terminate that movement, he said. It has moved globally. Our problem right now is not really with him, it's with all of the franchises that are out there.

Italy: Libya considering constitutional reforms
By NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press – Sun Feb 20, 2:55 pm ET

ROME – Libyan authorities are considering constitutional changes as they try to cope with a week of unrest by anti-government protesters demanding political and economic reforms, the Italian foreign ministry said Sunday.Italy has strong political and economic ties with Libya, which it occupied for 30 years until 1943, and has been watching the violent protests unfold there with a certain degree of alarm.In addition to its interests in Libya, Rome fears any relaxation of border controls could send thousands of African migrants to Italy, as was the case when border controls collapsed following the ouster of Tunisia's longtime president last month.

On Sunday, the foreign ministry said Foreign Minister Franco Frattini had been in close contact with Libyan authorities, and had told U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton about the possibility of a reform of the constitution that could be taken up soon by the People's Congress.

No details were given.

Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi came to power in 1969 in a military coup and has ruled the country without an elected parliament or constitution since then. According to U.S. diplomatic cables posted last month by WikiLeaks, Gadhafi has supported the adoption of a constitution by Libya's supreme legislative body, the General People's Congress, and as recently as 2008 draft copies were floating among members of a committee he had appointed.But the cables also spoke about resistance to a constitution by hard-liners who say it isn't necessary.Protesters have demanded Gadhafi's ouster, a constitution and other political and economic reforms. On Sunday, Libyan forces fired on mourners at a funeral for anti-government protesters in the eastern city of Benghazi, a day after commandos and foreign mercenaries loyal to Gadhafi pummeled demonstrators with assault rifles and other heavy weaponry.The Italian foreign ministry statement said the Libyan interior minister had been mediating between government institutions and the opposition for a peaceful solution to the problems. The statement said Italy considered stability in the country to be crucially important for the region and Europe.

Frattini and Clinton agreed on the importance in this delicate phase, of offering signs of political solidarity with the countries in the region, of maintaining strong bilateral ties and coming up with joint responses by the U.S. and the EU to the crisis, the statement said.Italian oil giant Eni has invested heavily in the oil-and-gas rich country. Libya's central bank, meanwhile, has a 4 percent share in Italy's largest bank UniCredit, which last year won the first international license to operate in the North African country.Premier Silvio Berlusconi, who has hosted Gadhafi lavishly on his frequent visits to Rome, said Saturday he was concerned about the situation but hadn't called Gadhafi himself because he didn't want to disturb him.Amid criticism from opposition that Italy had remained mumm on Gadhafi's crackdown, the foreign ministry late Sunday said it was following the situation closely and its embassy in Tripoli was in touch with Italians in the country with the aim of guaranteeing their utmost security.It issued a travel advisory Sunday strictly advising against any nonessential travel to Libya.Berlusconi and Gadhafi in 2008 signed a friendship treaty in which Italy agreed to pay Libya US$5 billion as compensation for its colonial occupation.The agreement calls for Libya to halt the massive flow of illegal African migrants sailing from Libya, and allows Italy to turn migrants back to Libya if intercepted at sea.

Pakistan intelligence considers US gunman was CIA
FEB 21,11

ISLAMABAD (AFP) – A Pakistani intelligence official said on Monday that an American official arrested last month for killing two men on motorcycles was working undercover for the CIA.It is beyond any shadow of a doubt that he was working for CIA, an official from Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency told AFP on condition of anonymity.The official said the shooting in broad daylight at a busy junction on January 27 in the eastern city of Lahore and Pakistan's subsequent arrest of Raymond Davis had damaged relations with the Central Intelligence Agency.

He's on contract. He's not a regular CIA guy, but he's working for CIA. That's confirmed, the Pakistani official said.He was sort of working behind our backs. Normal CIA guys -- we know who they are. We interact with them regularly. We know they're CIA, but in this particular case we had no knowledge of him, the official added.

China tries to stamp out Jasmine Revolution By Anita Chang, Associated Press – FEB 21,11

BEIJING – Jittery Chinese authorities staged a show of force to squelch a mysterious online call for a Jasmine Revolution, with hundreds of onlookers but only a handful of people actively joining protests inspired by pro-democracy demonstrations sweeping the Middle East.Authorities detained activists Sunday, increased the number of police on the streets, disconnected some cell phone text messaging services and censored Internet postings about the call to stage protests in Beijing, Shanghai and 11 other major cities.Police took at least three people away in Beijing, one of whom tried to place white jasmine flowers on a planter while hundreds of people milled about the protest gathering spot, outside a McDonald's on the capital's busiest shopping street. In Shanghai, police led away three people near the planned protest spot after they scuffled in an apparent bid to grab the attention of passers-by.

Many activists said they didn't know who was behind the campaign and weren't sure what to make of the call to protest, which first circulated Saturday on the U.S.-based Chinese-language news website Boxun.com.The unsigned notice called for a Jasmine Revolution — the name given to the Tunisian protest movement — and urged people "to take responsibility for the future. Participants were urged to shout, We want food, we want work, we want housing, we want fairness — a slogan that highlights common complaints among Chinese.China's authoritarian government is ever alert for domestic discontent and has appeared unnerved by protests in Egypt, Tunisia, Bahrain, Yemen, Algeria and Libya. It has limited media reports about them, stressing the instability caused by the protests, and restricted Internet searches to keep Chinese uninformed about Middle Easterners' grievances against their autocratic rulers.Though there are many similarities between the complaints voiced by Middle East citizens and the everyday troubles of Chinese, Beijing's tight grip on the country's media, Internet and other communication forums poses difficulties for anyone trying to organize mass demonstrations.Police stepped up their presence near major public squares and canceled holidays for officers across 20 cities in response to the protest appeal, the Hong Kong-based Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy reported.

Extensive Internet filtering and monitoring meant that most Chinese were unlikely to know about the call to protest Sunday. Boxun.com is blocked, as are Twitter and Facebook, which were instrumental in Egypt's protest movement. Tech-savvy Chinese can circumvent controls, but few of the country's Internet users seek out politically subversive content.Anti-government gatherings in China are routinely stamped out by its pervasive security forces, which are well-funded and well-equipped. A pro-democracy movement in 1989 that directly challenged the Communist government was crushed by the military and hundreds, perhaps thousands, were killed.
On Saturday, President Hu Jintao ordered national and provincial officials to solve prominent problems which might harm the harmony and stability of the society.One person sitting in the McDonald's after the brief protest in Beijing said he saw Sunday's gathering as a dry run.Lots of people in here are Twitter users and came to watch like me, said 42-year-old Hu Di. Actually this didn't have much organization, but it's a chance to meet each other. It's like preparing for the future.With foot traffic always heavy at the Wangfujing pedestrian mall, it was difficult to discern who showed up to protest, who came to watch and who was out shopping. Many wondered if there was a celebrity in the area because of the heavy police presence and dozens of foreign reporters and news cameras.

As the crowd swelled and police urged people to move on, 25-year-old Liu Xiaobai placed a white jasmine flower on a planter in front of the McDonald's and took some photos with his cell phone.I'm quite scared because they took away my phone. I just put down some white flowers, what's wrong with that? Liu said afterward. I'm just a normal citizen and I just want peace.Security agents tried to take away Liu, but he was swarmed by journalists and eventually was seen walking away with a friend.Two other people were taken away by police, including a shabbily dressed old man who was cursing and shouting, though it wasn't clear if he was there because of the online call to protest. In Shanghai, three young men were taken away from outside a Starbucks coffee shop in People's Square by police, who refused to answer reporters' questions about why they were detained. They trio had been shouting complaints about the government and that food prices are too high.A couple dozen older people were drawn to the commotion and started voicing their own complaints and saying they wanted democracy and the right to vote. One woman jumped up on a roadside cement block to shout, The government are all hooligans, then ran off, only to return a bit later and shout again at the police and others crowded in the area before once again scampering away.Security officials were relaxed toward the retirees and the crowd eventually drifted away.There were no reports of protests in other cities where people were urged to gather, such as Guangzhou, Tianjin, Wuhan and Chengdu. Ahead of the planned protests, human rights groups estimated that anywhere from several dozen to more than 100 activists in cities across China were detained by police, confined to their homes or were missing. Families and friends reported the detention or harassment of several dissidents, and some activists said they were warned not to participate.

On Sunday, searches for jasmine were blocked on China's largest Twitter-like microblog, and status updates with the word on popular Chinese social networking site Renren.com were met with an error message and a warning to refrain from postings with political, sensitive ... or other inappropriate content.A text messaging service from China Mobile was unavailable in Beijing on Sunday due to an upgrade, according to a customer service operator for the leading service provider, who did not know how long the suspension would last. In the past, Chinese authorities have suspended text messaging in politically tense areas to prevent organizing.Boxun.com said its website was attacked Saturday after it posted the call to protest. A temporary site, on which users were reporting heavy police presence in several cities, was up and running Sunday. The site said in a statement it had no way of verifying the origins of the campaign.Associated Press writers Cara Anna and Charles Hutzler in Beijing and Elaine Kurtenbach in Shanghai contributed to this report.