37 PERCENT BABIES OUT OF WEDLOCK

1-WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS. 2-Strong quake hits northern Japan. 3-Rain, wind in Northeast Megalopolis tomorrow 4-Mount St. Helens brooding, not bursting. 5-Tiny wasps released in Cayman Islands. 6-IAEA board agrees to deny Iran nuke aid. 7-Hamas: Jews must evacuate. 8-China buildup seen aimed at U.S. ships. 9-Canadian police arrest 73 in organized crime sweep. 10-37 Percent of U.S. Births Out of Wedlock. 11-Morocco and Jordan lead EU neighbourhood pack.

AMERICA DON'T FORGET TO GIVE THANKS TO GOD (KING JESUS) FOR ALL THE BLESSINGS TODAY AND EVERY DAY.

EARTHQUAKES

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

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

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

WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS (USGS)

Update time = Thu Nov 23 1:30 AM EDT (THANKSGIVING TIME)

NOV 23,2006
MAP 4.5 EASTERN TURKEY
MAP 2.7 SOUTHERN ALASKA

NOV 22,2006
MAP 5.2 EAST OF THE KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 4.7 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 2.5 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 3.1 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 2.8 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 2.7 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 2.6 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 5.8 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 3.2 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 3.1 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 5.1 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 5.1 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 3.1 VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP 4.8 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 2.6 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 5.3 EAST OF THE KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 2.9 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

Strong quake hits northern Japan Wed Nov 22, 10:46 AM ET

TOKYO (AFP) - A strong quake, with a magnitude of 5.5 on the Richter scale, jolted northern Japan, near an area that was recently hit by tsunamis, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The quake happened at 8:15 pm (1115 GMT) off the eastern shore of Nemuro city of Hokkaido prefecture, 1,000 kilometers (625 miles) north of Tokyo, the agency said.The quake, which happened around islands claimed by both Japan and Russia, was 100 kilometers deep, the agency said.There were no immediate reports of damage and no concerns about a tsunami, the agency said.The Nemuro area experienced minor tsunamis last week after one of the biggest earthquakes in recent times hit near the northeastern Russian-ruled Kuril islands.Japan lies at the junction of four tectonic plates and endures about 20 percent of the world's most powerful earthquakes, which frequently jolt Tokyo and other major cities.

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.

Rain, wind in Northeast Megalopolis tomorrow Senior Meteorologist, The Weather Channel Wed Nov 22, 2:45 PM ET

Northeast

It looks like a turkey of a Turkey Day in the Megalopolis with rain and wind expected to buffet the area from Boston to Philadelphia. Central and southern New England, southeast New York and New Jersey will catch the brunt of the storminess, thanks to the northward movement of the same storm that's been plaguing the Eastern Seaboard the past couple of days. (See Storm Watch for the latest details.) And although the system will lose some of its potency over the next 24 hours, gale warnings remain displayed along the coast northward to Cape Cod. During the onset of the storm tonight, some light freezing rain could develop in the valleys of northeast Pennsylvania and southeast New York, but shouldn't cause any major problems. Major problems may afflict NYC's Thanksgiving Day parade, however, with rain and strong, gusty winds lurking for tomorrow morning. Peak gusts could reach 45 mph. High temperatures, meanwhile, will be in the 40s and 50s throughout the Northeast. In the windy areas, of course, it will feel even colder: in the 30s.

West

The northern half of the West will remain wet and snowy tomorrow. Areas west of the Cascades will continue to be gray and damp while snow persists in its assault on the Cascades.

As much as a foot of additional powder could pile up in the Washington Cascades tomorrow and tomorrow night. Snow levels in Washington and Oregon will be quite low, ranging from 1500 to 3000 feet. Showers and mountain snow will spread as far east as Montana and western Wyoming. Heavy snow is a good bet for the Bitterroot Range. Farther south, sunshine and unseasonable warmth will grace the Southwest. High temperatures are forecast to range from the 20s at spots in the Idaho and Wyoming mountains to the 80s in southwest Arizona. Readings in the 30s and 40s will dominate the Northwest.

Midwest

Dry, mild conditions blanketing the Midwest and Plains will certainly be something for which to be thankful tomorrow. Busy southerly winds will drive temperatures well above seasonal levels in the Plains and Upper Midwest. Overall, maxima will range from the 40s in far northern areas to the 70s in southwest Kansas. Most locations will top out in the 50s and 60s.

South

The South will enjoy beautiful Thanksgiving Day weather with a plethora of sunshine and a cornucopia of warmth. High temperatures in the 60s and 70s will be widespread; a few spots in southern and West Texas will climb into the 80s. Even Florida will drift back toward thermal respectability with readings in most areas climbing into the 70s.

EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH

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

Mount St. Helens brooding, not bursting: experts By Will Dunham
NOV 22,2006

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Despite ongoing volcanic activity for the last two years, there is no indication Mount St. Helens is on the verge of a repeat performance of its cataclysmic 1980 eruption, scientists said on Wednesday. Mount St. Helens, in Washington state in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, reawakened in the fall of 2004 with new eruptions, and has produced thousands of shallow, regular, repetitive earthquakes since then.Writing in the journal Nature, scientists led by Richard Iverson of the U.S. Geological Survey said these quakes appear to result from the movement of a huge plug of igneous rock known as dacite being shoved out of the volcano.The good news, they said, is that the volcano appears to be brooding rather than bursting, and the recent quakes seem unlikely to be a harbinger of a massive eruption along the lines of the one that occurred on May 18, 1980.

That one blew off the upper 1,300 feet of the mountain, leveled thousands of acres of forest land, killed 57 people and coated the region with gritty ash. The eruption was triggered by a magnitude 5.1 earthquake that shook Mount St. Helens.There's really nothing that we've seen over the past two years that would indicate that a major explosive eruption is on the way, Iverson said in an interview.But Iverson gave himself a little bit of wiggle room.Now, of course, things could always start to change. If we saw, for example, dramatic increases in the amount of gas that was coming out of the volcano or dramatic increases in deformation, then we would revise our forecasts, he said.Mount St. Helens is the most active of the volcanoes in the Cascades Mountains, and geologically young compared to the others. It is believed to have the potential at some point in the future for another big eruption.

I know everybody was conditioned by the May 1980 eruption to think of Mount St. Helens as this very explosive volcano. And certainly it had done that prior to 1980 and will do that again in the future. But this ongoing eruption is of a completely different style, Iverson said.Scientists call what it going on now a dome-building eruption and note that it has continued on a steady basis for a bit longer than two years.The huge plug of rock now being shoved out of Mount St. Helens is going at a rate of about 10-20 feet per day, advancing in fits and starts and triggering tremors, the scientists found.Mount St. Helens, standing 8,363 feet in elevation, is
located about 100 miles south of Seattle, Washington, and 50 miles northeast of Portland, Oregon.

Tiny wasps released in Cayman Islands Wed Nov 22, 1:21 PM ET

GEORGETOWN, Cayman Islands - Thousands of tiny parasitic wasps have been released in the Cayman Islands to combat an island-hopping insect that has destroyed crops throughout the Caribbean.

The infestation by the pink hibiscus mealybug, which feeds on the sap, roots and leaves of plants, was confirmed in Grand Cayman in June but has not spread to the British dependency's two other islands, according to a statement Tuesday from the Agriculture Department.The tiny wasps, which are almost invisible to the naked eye, lay eggs inside mealybugs. Once hatched, the larvae feed on the pest internally, causing it to die.

Officials have unleashed about 62,200 of the wasps from vials at 80 sites in Grand Cayman in recent weeks. The insects pose no threat to humans.Mealybugs have destroyed millions of dollars in crops and ornamental plants across the Caribbean since they were first reported in the Western Hemisphere, in Grenada in 1994. They reached the U.S. Virgin Islands in 1997, and Puerto Rico a year later.The insect can ride wind currents or piggyback its way to new territories inside ornamental palms. The pink hibiscus mealybug was already established in Asia, Africa and Australia when it reached the Caribbean.

MUSLIM NATIONS

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

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

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

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

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

IAEA board agrees to deny Iran nuke aid By GEORGE JAHN, Associated Press Writer ,NOV 22,06

VIENNA, Austria - The U.N. nuclear watchdog agency effectively agreed Wednesday to deny Iran technical help in building a plutonium-producing reactor but left room for Tehran to renew its request in two years, diplomats said.

A committee of the International Atomic Energy Agency forwarded a summary of three days of deliberations on 832 requests for technical aid to the full board, scheduled to meet Thursday.That gathering was expected to waive a decision on Tehran's request for aid for its Arak reactor.

That, in effect, would deny IAEA money for Arak at least for the next two years, after which new requests will be considered.The two diplomats from countries on opposing sides of the issue had different interpretations of what the expected ruling would mean, reflecting the depth of the dispute. Both demanded anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the topic with the media.A European diplomat said the tentative agreement effectively meant that Iran's request was turned down. Another diplomat, from a developing nation, said it meant that the issue remained on the table because it could be revisited.It certainly is not denied, he said.The committee summary noted that several members expressed the need for caution regarding technical cooperation with the Islamic Republic of Iran.They expressed particular concern over Arak, saying they could not approve other Iranian projects if aid for the reactor were approved, said the summary of the closed meeting, obtained by The Associated Press.

Gregory L. Schulte, the chief U.S. representative to the IAEA, said his country had no choice but to oppose aid to Arak, given past calls by the board for the project to be stopped, the widespread distrust of Iran's nuclear program and the risk of plutonium (being) diverted from this reactor for use in a (nuclear) weapon.The full board on Thursday also will hear a report on the latest stage of a nearly four-year IAEA investigation into Iran's nuclear activities.That report essentially says the agency has been unable to make headway in determining whether suspicions that Tehran is interested in making nuclear weapons are well-founded. Schulte said the report also shows that the mistrust of Iran is only growing as Iran fails to cooperate with the IAEA.Iran, meanwhile, used the gathering to criticize Israel, expressing "deep concern as a result of the threat of armed attack against Iran's nuclear facilities and installations.

Recently the Zionist regime has augmented the campaign and threat, said a Nov. 13 letter from Iran's IAEA representative, Ali Ashgar Soltanieh, obtained by the AP. The letter was attached to an IAEA document issued for the meeting saying Soltanieh had asked that his comments be circulated among delegates.Still, the Arak dispute was the main focus of the meeting. While the argument was over technicalities, it reflected the politically charged atmosphere.Technical aid requests are normally approved without discussion but since the first committee meeting Monday, suspicions that Iran might be seeking to make nuclear weapons led to diplomatic tussling on what to do about the request. When it is completed within the next decade, Arak will produce enough plutonium for two bombs a year.Past IAEA resolutions have urged Iran to stop building the Arak reactor, which Iran says it needs to produce radioactive isotopes for medical purposes.Developing countries the key recipients of IAEA technical help are worried that denial of aid for any project would set a precedent that would hurt their future chances of getting agency support.Arak is one of seven or eight projects submitted by Iran lists circulating among diplomats have conflicting numbers. Most, if not all, of the 35 nations had no trouble approving Iran's request for help, along with the other far less contentious projects, said the diplomats.

Rebuffing Iran's request would not affect Arak's construction and would also have no effect on the country's other potential avenue to weapons production uranium enrichment. Still, the denial would maintain at least symbolic pressure while the U.N. Security Council is deadlocked over how to sanction Iran for ignoring demands to stop enriching uranium. Among the other projects submitted by Iran, one asks for help in developing nuclear capabilities for medical use. Another seeks legal aid for the Russian-built Bushehr reactor, which even the Americans acknowledge does not pose a threat of nuclear proliferation. The other requests seek assistance in administrative or safety aspects of nuclear power.

Hamas: Jews must evacuate
Source: WorldNetDaily,November 22, 2006

Hamas released a statement Wednesday saying that the only way missile attacks from Gaza on southern Israel will stop is if all Jews leave the town of Sderot.

Sderot has been hammered by more than 1,000 Palestinian missiles this year alone, and Hamas spokesman Abu Abaida said his and other terror groups retain the ability to pound the community indefinitely.Israel's abandonment of Sderot would be a sign of weakness on par with last year's retreat from the Gaza Strip, and would cause Hamas' star to further rise among the Palestinian Arabs.Ultimately, Hamas wants the Jews removed from all of the biblical land of Israel, which the group claims is Islamic land.The Palestinian Arabs overwhelmingly elected Hamas to lead them earlier this year.

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 buildup seen aimed at U.S. ships
By Bill Gertz,THE WASHINGTON TIMES,November 22, 2006

China's military buildup includes new missiles and naval weapons designed to sink U.S. aircraft carriers and deny U.S. forces access to the Asia-Pacific region, a congressional commission official said yesterday. Daniel Blumenthal, a former Pentagon defense policy maker and now a member of the U.S.China Economic Security Review Commission, said China's military is building up forces to deny the United States the use of the commons the sea, the air, cyber and space.

The Chinese have been quite successful in the area of sea denial, meaning that if we sent a carrier to or outside the [Taiwan] Strait as we did in 1996, it would be a lot riskier and a lot costlier to the United States, Mr. Blumenthal said at a conference held at the Heritage Foundation. The comments followed disclosure last week that a Chinese submarine sailed undetected to within five miles of the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk near Okinawa, Japan, and surfaced close enough to fire wake-homing torpedos or anti-ship cruise missiles, according to U.S. defense officials.

The Navy said in response to the surprise encounter that it is reviewing anti-submarine warfare defenses for the carrier battle group. The carrier was engaged in exercises when the Song-class submarine surfaced Oct. 26. China's government denied that the submarine encounter took place, but Adm. Gary Roughead, commander of the Navy's Pacific Fleet, said Friday in Beijing that Chinese military leaders he met told him the submarine was in international waters when it was near the carrier. Mr. Blumenthal, commenting on the release of the China commission's latest annual report, said Chinese weapons include 10 different types of ballistic and cruise missiles and up to 800 missiles aimed at Taiwan, five different types of submarines and 15 types of new warships.

This is a very concerted and sophisticated, diversified effort to build up a military whose goal is the United States and its ability to meet its own commitments and interests, he said. Beijing's military also is experimenting with new attack concepts, including land-based attacks on ships through multiple entry concepts in what Mr. Blumenthal called a very serious effort to try to basically sink a carrier or battle group.The commission report, while mainly focused on economic issues, included a chapter on China's military that said China's military buildup is closing a gap with U.S. forces.

The trend shows a window of vulnerability for the United States between 2008 and 2015 before newer U.S. weapons are fielded, the report continued. The report revealed that China's new DF-21C ballistic missile is being configured with a guidance system that will allow it to attack ships at sea and defeat shipborne missile defenses. The development efforts are being pursued vigorously, it stated.The report stated that China's warships and submarines could delay the arrival of U.S. Navy forces called on to defend Taiwan, but they lack integrated command and control needed for effective joint targeting of a carrier battle group.

INIQUITY(great wickedness or injustice) ABOUNDING.

MATTHEW 24:12
12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

LUKE 17:25-27
25 But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.
26 And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
27 They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.

SINS OF PEOPLE

2 TIMOTHY 3:1-7
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous 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.
6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

EPHESIANS 5:5-8
5 For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
6 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them.
8 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light.

Canadian police arrest 73 in organized crime sweep By Robert Melnbardis ,NOV 22,06

MONTREAL (Reuters) - Canadian police arrested more than 70 people on Wednesday in raids targeting what officials said was a traditional Italian organized crime gang that had infiltrated Montreal's Pierre Trudeau International Airport. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said those arrested included Nicolo Rizzuto, 82, and other individuals alleged to be affiliated with the Mafia. They face 1,350 criminal charges, including illicit drug trafficking, gangsterism and attempted murder.Among the alleged criminal activities were smuggling cocaine into Quebec from the Caribbean and South America and smuggling marijuana into the United States.

Investigators said they seized houses, bank accounts, and more than C$3 million ($2.6 million) in cash.Project Colisee allowed us to reach the very heart of the traditional Italian organized crime community, Richard Guay, superintendent of the Mounties criminal operations office for Quebec, told a news conference.

The recent developments went beyond all our hopes, he said.RCMP Corporal Luc Bessette said 700 police officers were involved in the Montreal area raids, which stemmed from an investigation dubbed Project Colisee, which began in 2004.Essentially, Project Colisee will show that six individuals are at the head of a crime organization whose principal activities are committing or facilitating the commission of serious crimes such as the import and export of illicit substances, bookmaking, extortion and the possession of the proceeds of crime, he said.A police statement said warrants had been issued for 90 people and 73 had been arrested.

Nicolo Rizzuto is the father of Vito Rizzuto, 58, who was recently deported to the United States on U.S. racketeering charges related to the 1981 murders of members of the Bonnano crime family of New York.

Police allege that the organization was able to corrupt two customs officials and that its operations involved a dozen airline and food services workers at the airport. The smuggling was said to have occurred from 2003 to 2006.Federal Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day said Canadian customs and immigration officials all undergo background screenings before they are hired, but that this case raised questions about what happened after they were hired.

They were lured or bribed or whatever to do things they shouldn't be doing and they were found out, and that is what will always happen if people are trying to abuse their position, Day told reporters in Ottawa.($1=$1.14 Canadian)

SEX SINS

1 CORINTHIANS 6:9,14-18
9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
14 And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.
15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.
16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

GALATIONS 5:19-21
19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

37 Percent of U.S. Births Out of Wedlock
Tuesday, November 21, 2006,By MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer

ATLANTA — Out-of-wedlock births in the United States have climbed to an all-time high, accounting for nearly four in 10 babies born last year, government health officials said Tuesday.While out-of-wedlock births have long been associated with teen mothers, the birth rate among girls ages 10 to 17 actually dropped last year to the lowest level on record.

Instead, births among unwed mothers rose most dramatically among women in their 20s.Experts said the overall rise reflects the burgeoning number of people who are putting off marriage or living together without getting married. They said it also reflects the fact that having a child out of wedlock is more acceptable nowadays and not necessarily the source of shame it once was.The increase in births to unwed mothers was seen in all racial groups, but rose most sharply among Hispanics. It was up among all age groups except youngsters ages 10 to 17.

A lot of people think of teenagers and unmarried mothers synonymously, but they are not driving this, said Stephanie Ventura of the National Center for Health Statistics, a co-author of the report.

The government also reported that the rate of births by Caesarean delivery continued to climb in 2005 to a record high, despite efforts by public health authorities to bring down the number.Many experts believe a large number of C-sections are medically unnecessary and done only for the convenience of the mother or her doctor.The government report includes information from 99 percent of U.S. birth certificates filed last year. The information for 2005 is considered preliminary, but officials said it is not expected to change much.

About 4.1 million babies were born in the United States last year, up slightly from 2004. More than 1.5 million of those were to unmarried women; that is about 37 percent of the total. In 2004, about 36 percent of births were out of wedlock.

Out-of-wedlock births have been rising since the late 1990s.

Several factors may be contributing to the trend, said Dr. Yolanda Wimberly, an adolescent-medicine specialist at Atlanta's Morehouse School of Medicine.More women in their 30s and 40s, hearing their biological clock, are choosing to give birth despite their single status. Younger women are not as worried about being unmarried, either, she added.I think it's more acceptable in society to have a child without getting married, she said.Just because a mother is not married does not mean the father isn't around, Ventura noted. She cited 2002 statistics that showed that about 20 percent of all new mothers under 20 were unmarried but living with the father at the time of the birth. The same was true of about 13 percent of all new mothers ages 20 to 24.According to census figures, the median age at first marriage was 27 for men and 25 for women last year, up from 23 and 20 in 1950. Meanwhile, the number of unmarried-couple households with children has been climbing, hitting more than 1.7 million last year, up from under 200,000 in 1970.

Other findings in the report:

The birth rate among teenagers declined 2 percent in 2005, continuing a trend from the early 1990s. The rate is now about 40 births per 1,000 females ages 15 to 19. That is the lowest level in the 65 years for which a consistent series of rates is available.The U.S. teen birth rate is still the highest among industrialized countries.Births to women in their early 20s rose slightly, to 102 births per
1,000 women ages 20 to 24. Births to women in their late 20s the most productive group in terms of childbirth was about the same from the previous year, at about 116 per 1,000 women ages 25 to 29.The C-section rate rose to 30.2 percent of all births in 2005, an increase of 1 percentage point from the previous year. The rate has risen by nearly half since 1996.It is clear that the procedure is being overused, Tonya Jamois, president of the International Cesarean Awareness Network, said in a statement. ICAN is a California-based nonprofit organization focused on lowering C-section rates.

Morocco and Jordan lead EU neighbourhood pack
21.11.2006 - 17:15 CET | By Andrew Rettman

EUOBSERVER/BRUSSELS Morocco and Jordan did best in 2005 in terms of EU reforms in line with the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) the European Commission will say next week, when it unveils proposals for a new ENP-plus that are to include a pro-democracy fund and a multilateral diplomatic structure for eastern Europe.

The two Mediterranean rim states already got bits of extra EU cash in recognition of progress last year, but in the 2007 to 2013 period Brussels plans to set up a formal €300 million fund to reward pro-democracy pace setters in the 16-strong ENP club, commission sources revealed on Tuesday (21 November).The commission's detailed blueprint for the new model ENP which aims to create a ring of peaceful and economically advanced states around the EU's borders will be unveiled in Brussels on 29 November in time for the upcoming German EU presidency to dovetail the ideas with its own foreign policy thinking.

The commission's ENP-plus will suggest a second new fund of €700 million to help neighbourhood states co-fund borrowing from the European Investment Bank and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, with Brussels hoping member states will top up its €700 million to €7 billion. Brussels is also set to propose a new multilateral diplomatic structure for the six ex-Soviet states covered by the ENP on the model of the Barcelona Process, which has tried to improve relations with Mediterranean rim states as a group since it was put in place in 1995.The ex-Soviet states currently talk to the EU on a bilateral basis only.

Alternative to enlargement?

But it is unclear how the new ENP will address some of the key criticisms levelled at the old version by some analysts, who say the ENP does not offer a big enough incentive for painful reforms in transitional states such as Ukraine and that bureaucracy often sees EU projects outpaced by events on the ground. The ENP-plus will not offer any promises on enlargement for EU-hopeful states Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia with commission sources saying it is a complementary policy to accession rather than an alternative, but with most of the ex-Soviet hopefuls seeing it as a waiting room for at least 10 years before talks on accession can begin. The very language used to describe the new ENP as a policy that will offer a perspective of a deeper single market integration mirrors the pro-accession language that Ukraine is fighting to get into its new post-2007 EU treaty, pushing Brussels to give a perspective on enlargement instead. Meanwhile, the commission's plan does not foresee rolling out the ENP to Central Asian states such as Kazakhstan which has asked to be part of the neighbourhood scheme but it does also plan to unveil a new policy blueprint for Central Asia after 29 November that will have some elements of the neighbourhood policy in it.

Brussels and Berlin see eye-to-eye

Brussels ideas seem to fit neatly with Germany's thinking on future EU engagement in the post-Soviet east, as outlined in a so-called Ostpolitik document drafted this summer by a strategic planning unit attached to the German foreign ministry. With strong regard for an ascendant Russian power that must be made to feel welcome in Europe dominating Germany's vision, Berlin foresees an enhanced ENP that would see EU neighbours adopt EU single market law but fall short of accession during the next 10 years to create a buffer-ring of non-EU but EU-like states. The upcoming German presidency is also considering reaching out to Central Asia by bundling existing EU projects for creating free trade zones and building new pipelines into a coherent new policy, the first glimmer of which could already be seen in Berlin's push to relax EU sanctions against Uzbekistan earlier this month.

HIV RISE IN ALL REGIONS

1-WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS. 2-Storms lash Melbourne. 3-Somali refugees trudge to higher ground in flood-hit Kenya. 4-Starbucks back as B.C. water advisory continues. 5-This Week with Rabbi Eckstein. 6-Iraq, Syria agree to restore relations. 7-Split U.N. watchdog puts off ruling on Iran atom aid. 8-Hamas very satisfied with fleeing Jews. 9-6 nations, EU sign nuclear fusion accord. 10-Boost global role and forget constitution. 11-Gays married abroad to be registered as married. 12-HIV infection on rise in all regions: U.N. report.

EARTHQUAKES

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

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

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

WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS (USGS)

Update time = Wed Nov 22 12:10 PM EDT

NOV 22,2006
MAP 2.5 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 3.1 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 2.5 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 5.8 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 3.2 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 3.1 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 5.1 KURIL ISLANDS
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MAP 4.8 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 2.6 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 5.3 EAST OF THE KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 2.9 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

NOV 21,2006
MAP 5.2 EAST OF THE KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 2.5 KODIAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP 4.5 EAST OF THE KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 3.3 COLORADO
MAP 4.5 EAST OF THE KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 3.0 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 3.7 UNIMAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP 4.9 EAST OF THE KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 2.5 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.2 MOUNT ST. HELENS AREA, WASHINGTON
MAP 2.5 UNIMAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP 4.8 EAST OF THE KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 5.3 EAST OF THE KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 5.6 BOUGAINVILLE REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
MAP 2.7 KENAI PENINSULA, ALASKA
MAP 4.7 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 4.8 SERBIA, SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO
MAP 2.7 OFFSHORE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.5 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA

STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES

LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

Storms lash Melbourne
By Jordan Chong and Renee Switzer,November 22, 2006

Violent storms lashed Melbourne last night after a day in which firefighters battled dozens of blazes that destroyed about 10,000 hectares across the state.

Winds gusting at 100 km/h caused widespread damage around Geelong, Ballarat and Werribee last night.As the storm front crossed the state from the west, the State Emergency Service took 520 calls for help as trees fell onto buildings and across roads, and parts of roofs were ripped from homes.In Werribee between 9.30pm and 11pm there were 80 calls for assistance nearly a call a minute,SES duty officer Tim Wiebusch said. There's been a number of houses that have lost significant parts of their roofs.About 350 SES volunteers worked last night to clear debris and are expected to continue this morning.

Of yesterday's bushfires, the biggest, at Little Desert National Park in the west, destroyed more than 9000 hectares of bushland. Another, at Waubra north-west of Ballarat, destroyed 400 hectares.Last night, about 15 fires in the Portland area were burning after destroying hundreds of hectares of hard and soft-wood plantations. The fires were started by lightning about 3pm.Department of Sustainability and Environment state duty officer Andrew Graystone said one of the fires near Corndale, in the south-west, was putting a lot of smoke and ash across the Glenelg Highway and properties in Corndale.Police are searching for four youths riding BMX bikes after a suspicious fire at Sandringham on Monday threatened homes and a golf course. The blaze, believed to have been deliberately lit, started about 5pm.With DAN HARRISON and AAP

Somali refugees trudge to higher ground in flood-hit Kenya by Matthew Lee Tue Nov 21, 1:03 PM ET

NAIROBI (AFP) - Thousands of Somali refugees made homeless by raging waters at UN camps in flood-hit northeast Kenya have begun trudging to higher ground as their numbers grow, the United Nations said. As torrential rains continue to pound the region, it said the death toll from the floods at its Dadaab refugee camp complex had risen from two to three, with three children reported missing at the weekend.

More than 100,000 of the 160,000 Somalis at Dadaab have been displaced up by 20,000 from the previous figure and many are moving to drier areas, accompanied by donkey carts with their meager belongings, it said.

While the water has receded somewhat since the last flash flood on Saturday, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said more buildings and shelters had collapsed due to the rains and warned of a major threat of waterborne diseases.After five planeloads of emergency relief supplies were delivered to the worst hit camps of Dagahaley and Ifo on Sunday and Monday, the UN refugee agency began relocating the most-affected from Ifo to the third site, Hagadera, it said.

Because of the difficulty of road transport in the flooded region, able-bodied men are being encouraged to walk to Hagadera, while most women and children are carried by truck, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees said.About 2,000 refugees, along with 32 donkey carts carrying their scant possessions, had made the 20-kilometer (12.5-mile) trek by Monday night, the agency said, adding that at least 250 more were waiting to move.It said the airlifted aid made necessary after floods that have killed at least 31 people in Kenya in the past three weeks cut the only supply route to Dadaab from Nairobi was now being distributed in appalling conditions.Health and sanitation remain a serious concern, UNHCR said in a statement. The general health of the population has deteriorated due to the conditions, lack of food and sleep and difficulty in accessing medical care.Spillage from latrines in the camps has contaminated standing water and poses grave risks, it said, adding that fever, diarrhoea, and eye and skin infections have become common complaints among refugees.

The flooding has compounded the misery of the refugees, many of whom have fled from insecurity, drought and fears of an all-out war in Somalia between the country's weak government and powerful Islamist movement.The UN special envoy for Somalia Francois Fall urged a speedy delivery of humanitarian supplies for at least 50,000 people who have been displaced by floods in the lawless African nation.Fall lamented that the response was slow despite a weekend appeal by Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi for humanitarian aid to avert a major disaster there.While at the seat of government in Baidoa on Monday, Somali leaders expressed concern that too little relief was reaching people in dire need, Fall said in a statement released in Kenya.Fall said UN agencies and other humanitarian groups were delivering emergency supplies to the affected people, but more will be needed in order to avert suffering caused by unusually heavy rains that have caused the worst floods in 50 years.Flooding in southern and central Somalia has claimed at least 52 lives and affected more than 1.5 million people, most of whom were weakened by a recent drought that affected around 15 million across east Africa.Meanwhile, the London-based Muslim Aid launched an appeal seeking to raise one million dollars to help hundreds of thousands of displaced people in the worst-hit Horn of Africa region, it said in a statement.

Starbucks back as B.C. water advisory continues
Mon. Nov. 20 2006 11:25 PM ET,CTV.ca News Staff

Almost a million people in the Vancouver area remain under a boil-water advisory for a fifth day, although coffee giant Starbucks is once again serving residents. The popular chain is using filtered water, heated close to the boiling point to prevent contamination. Meanwhile, 900,000 people in the city of Vancouver, North Shore and Burnaby remain under a boil-water advisory.The advisory was issued on Thursday after powerful rains and a wind storm stirred up reservoirs and overwhelmed the water treatment system.

Officials say the advisory could continue for several days.Advisories are also in place for Port Alberni, Parksville and Chemainus on Vancouver Island. Although there have been no reports of people falling in from drinking water, it's feared the brown, cloudy tap water could lead to gastrointestinal illness.Tests of water samples throughout the affected region so far have been negative for fecal coliform and E. coli, says the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority website.

Sunday's storm was strong enough to once again stir up the dirt and silt clouding the Seymour reservoir, which supplies water to the area.

We're finding that Capilano is going down as expected, and that's good news, Vancouver Coastal Health Authority spokesman Dr. Reka Gustafso told CTV Newsnet on Sunday, but turbidity in Seymour increased over the last 24 hours. The incoming storm wasn't as strong as the one that paralyzed B.C.'s Lower Mainland on Wednesday, knocking out power to 210,000 homes. Only three millimetres of rain fell, far short of the 50 millimetres forecast. But wind gusts of up to 70 kilometres an hour caused scheduled ferry runs to be cancelled on Sunday and brought power line repairs to halt. The boil-water advisory is the largest in Canadian history, and has led to widespread bottled water shortages. A donation of 100,000 litres of bottled water from Canadian Tire was a welcome sight Sunday to low-income families on Vancouver's lower east side. This tractor trailer just showed up and already people are lining up,Salvation Army Capt. John Murray told CTV Newsnet.

Not prepared for emergency

Authorities say that the storm showed British Columbians aren't prepared for emergencies. Although most stores had restocked with shipments of water by Saturday, shelves were quickly emptied on Friday as more than two million residents responded to the advisory. It's a wake up call for everybody to go out and get prepared, Michael Smith, Vancouver Fire Emergency Preparedness officer, told CTV News.The bottom line is that you have to be self-sufficient without emergency services responding, for at least three days, he said. Smith said every household should stock four litres of water per person per day, flashlights and batteries, non-perishable food, duct tape and first aid supplies.The good news is that no bacteria or parasites have been detected in the water, said Dr. Roland Guasparini, the chief medical health officer for the Fraser Health Authority. Authorities were concerned the particulates in the water would make it harder to disinfect the water, increasing the risk of gastro-intestinal illness. Residents were told not to drink the water, wash vegetables with it, or use it to brush their teeth without boiling it first. With a report by Jina You in Vancouver and files from The Canadian Press

This Week with Rabbi Eckstein
November 21, 2006

Dear Friend of Israel,

In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln designated the last Thursday in November as a day for all Americans to observe a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.This was the official beginning of Thanksgiving Day, when Americans join with family and friends to share a meal and give thanks to God for our many blessings.Thanksgiving is rooted in the Judeo-Christian principle that the good we have received as a nation and as individuals is a gift from God. Though this holiday is not celebrated in Israel, its theme is woven throughout Jewish life and holidays. On Purim, giving thanks to God is central to the joyous and fun celebration of the victory by the Jewish people over the evil Haman. On Passover, our hearts are filled with gratitude when we remember how God delivered our ancestors from captivity in Egypt. And during Hanukkah, we remember with a thankful heart God’s gift of a miraculous flask of oil that lasted eight days.

I am also reminded of this spirit of thanksgiving whenever I visit our Fellowship-sponsored programs in Israel and hear heartfelt expressions of gratitude from Israel’s needy people for the help they’re receiving the food, clothing, medical assistance and other critical support supplied by The Fellowship and you, our ministry generous partner. And today, as Thanksgiving nears, I want to share with you a few of the many ways you have been a blessing to Jewish people in Israel and around the world this past year:For the Bnei Menashe, your gifts have made it possible for the descendants of one of the 10 lost tribes of Israel to return to Israel through The Fellowship’s On Wings of Eagles program; For the people of northern Israel who still struggle to recover from the devastating effects of the more than 3,000 Hezbollah rockets fired upon her cities, your donations are helping fund an amazing rebuilding effort;For 38,500 needy children in northern Israel, your donations to Guardians of Israel make it possible for them to receive a nutritious, hot lunch each school day;And for thousands of poor and elderly Jews in the former Soviet Union, where the long, hard winter has already arrived, your steadfast love and support of our Isaiah 58 program provides life saving food, medicine, heating fuel, and personal care.

That is why this Thanksgiving, I will be thanking God for you and all He has accomplished through you, and your generous spirit. Your compassionate help provides so many needy people with the life-giving support that gives them hope. And I will also give thanks with great joy for His promise to bless those, like you, who bless Israel.

With prayers for shalom, peace,

Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein
President International Fellowship of Christians and Jews

NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE USED

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Iraq, Syria agree to restore relations
Sabrina Tavernise, Baghdad, November 22, 2006

IRAQ has re-established full diplomatic relations with Syria, agreeing to restore an embassy in Baghdad after more than 20 years without formal avenues of communication.And in a flurry of diplomatic activity in the region as the US reconsiders its role, Iran has invited the presidents of Iraq and Syria to Tehran for a weekend summit with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to hash out ways to curb violence that has taken Iraq to the verge of civil war.The Iraq-Syria rapprochement came on the second day of a two-day visit by Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem, who met Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.Iraq's neighbours Iran, Turkey and Syria have tried to position themselves in case of a major change in US policy.The countries are also concerned about the possibility of a political collapse in Iraq.The Iran meeting is designed in part to promote Mr Ahmadinejad's role as a responsible regional player rather than the rogue maverick he is often portrayed as in the West. It will also help boost Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, who until recently had poor relations with Iraq's President Jalal Talabani.

Syria cut off relations with Saddam Hussein's government in 1982 after siding with Iran in the Iran-Iraq War. Iraqis could not travel to or telephone Syria. The countries re-established trade relations in 1997.Now tens of thousands of Iraqis seeking to escape the violence in their country have fled to Syria, creating their own schools and communities there.

Ninety Iraqis were killed across Iraq on Monday, including 60 who were found dead in and around Baghdad, authorities said.Among the dead was the host of a popular comedy show, Walid Hassan, who poked fun at post-invasion life. He was shot dead by gunmen in Baghdad.Health Ministry director Hakim al-Zameli, a supporter of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, escaped assassination when his convoy came under attack.

During their meeting on Monday, Mr Maliki used stern words in urging Mr Moualem to take more serious steps in preventing Sunni militants from crossing into Iraq from Syria, the Prime Minister's office said.The US military command said Syrians made up about 20 per cent of the 670 foreign fighters in custody in Iraq.The US withdrew its ambassador from Damascus in February last year after the assassination in Beirut of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri. But as the Bush Administration considers policy alternatives in Iraq, allies such as British Prime Minister Tony Blair are encouraging it to reopen dialogue with Syria and Iran.In some ways it has already started. Mr Moualem met former secretary of state James Baker, who is co-chairman of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group, in New York in September and discussed what role Syria could play in helping to stabilise Iraq, the Syrian ambassador to the United States, Imad Moustafa, said.Although the US and Iran have been at odds over Tehran's nuclear program, Bush Administration officials have signalled they would be willing to discuss Iraq.NEW YORK TIMES, GUARDIAN

Split U.N. watchdog puts off ruling on Iran atom aid By Mark Heinrich
Tue Nov 21, 8:27 AM ET

VIENNA (Reuters) - A divided U.N. nuclear watchdog has postponed until Thursday a ruling on Iran's bid for aid for a project the West fears could yield bomb-grade plutonium, but is still likely to block such assistance, diplomats said. They said Western and developing nations had failed to hammer out a compromise deal on Iran's request at a meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency's technical affairs committee, meeting ahead of an IAEA governing board session.Efforts to reach consensus are stuck. So they have decided to send the Iran item to the full board without the usual recommendation on whether to approve or not, and let the board decide, said a senior IAEA diplomat, who requested anonymity.

The United States and European Union urged delegates at the 35-nation IAEA board committee session on Monday to deny Iran's request for IAEA expertise to ensure the Arak heavy water reactor under construction upholds agency safety standards.The IAEA board and U.N. Security Council have already asked Iran not to pursue the Arak project due to concerns Tehran could derive plutonium from spent uranium fuel used in the production process. Tehran has vowed to launch the Arak plant in 2009.IAEA board approval of technical aid requests by member states developing peaceful nuclear energy is usually routine.But Western members said the Arak case must be rejected due to Iran's record of evading IAEA non-proliferation inspections and defiance of U.N. demands to stop enriching uranium behavior over which Iran now faces the risk of U.N. sanctions.Developing nations, however, argued a rejection of Tehran's request would set a precedent for withholding technical aid from them for peaceful atomic energy programs.The Islamic Republic, insisting its nuclear fuel program is peaceful, says it will produce only radio-isotopes for medical uses at Arak. It would replace a smaller light-water reactor that predates Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution.

CONSENSUS ELUSIVE

The compromise under consideration at the closed-door IAEA meeting would indefinitely defer, but not reject, assistance for Arak while approving seven other aid requests made by Iran.These items have mainly to do with medical and regulatory aspects of civilian atomic energy which most board members are satisfied would not further Iran's ability to enrich uranium or reprocess spent fuel into plutonium.But some doubters remained in the Western camp, such as France, still insisting all eight projects be rejected, while a few Iran allies among developing nations such as Cuba were demanding all eight be approved, diplomats said.

Some nations aren't prepared to compromise. But they need to face political reality there will be no broad consensus for outright rejection or outright approval on Arak, said a diplomat in the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) which groups most developing nations, including Iran.Tehran says its nuclear agenda is limited to generating electricity. The United States and EU fear Iran is seeking bombs to threaten Israel and Western interests in the Middle East.Iran accused Western states of double standards since they had never made an issue about similar assistance to Israel, which has not joined the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

It is shameful that countries who declare to be strong proponents of the NPT do not even dare to touch on the issue of Israel, which has a long, dark record of violating all IAEA and U.N. Security Council resolutions and categorically rejects NPT and agency safeguards, Iran envoy Aliasghar Soltanieh said.Diplomats said deferring a decision on Arak would buy time for guidance from the U.N. Security Council, where world powers are considering sanctions against Iran but are mired in disputes over how far they should go.

MUSLIM NATIONS

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

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

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

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

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

Hamas very satisfied with fleeing Jews
Source: WorldNetDaily,November 21, 2006

The Hamas rulers of the Palestinian Authority are expressing great satisfaction over the effect their rockets and those of their allied terror groups are having on Israeli civilians, and particularly Jewish children in the vicinity of Gaza.One terror commander noted that the fact people are fleeing the southern Israel town of Sderot and that local children are unable to attend school out of fear proves ongoing missile attacks on the town bring big benefits.He vowed that Hamas and other Palestinian groups would not only continue to hit Sderot and surrounding communities, but would actively work to upgrade their ability to terrorize the Jews.

DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TR BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).

THE EU DICTATOR

REVELATION 6:1-2,13:1-3,7-9,16
1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
2 And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.(THIS IS THE EU DICTATOR)
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.(7 HEADS ARE THE 7TH WORLD EMPIRE IN HISTORY (THE EU) AS WELL AS THE VATICAN WHICH IS BUILT ON 7 HILLS. 10 HORNS ARE 10 KINGS THAT ARISE FROM THE EU, THEN #11 COMES ON THE SCENE BECOMES THE HEAD OF 3 OUNTRIES AND THEN THE EU DICTATOR, COMES FROM 1 OF THE 3 COUNTRIES THAT RULE FOR THIS TERM. I BELIEVE THE 3 COUNTRIES RULING AT THE TIME ARE SPAIN AND 2 OF THE ORIGINAL 6 THAT STARTED THE EU. FROM 1 OF THESE 3 COUNTRIES COME THE FUTURE EU DICTATOR PRESIDENT OF THE EUROPEAN UNION WHO GUARENTEES ISRAELS SECURITY FOR A LAND FOR PEACE 7 YEAR TREATY.
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.(THE JEWISH EU DICTATOR GETS HIS POWER FROM SATAN,HE COMES FROM THE OCCULT).
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.(THE DICTATOR HAS A FALSE RESURRECTION. JUST LIKE JESUS HAD A LITERAL RESURRECTION THIS DICTATOR GETS MURDERED AT THE 3 1/2 YR MARK OF THR 7 YEAR TREATY AND COMES BACK TO LIFE. THIS IS HOW HE CAN
CLAIM TO BE GOD AND GET AWAY WITH IT AND CONTROL THE WHOLE EARTH.
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

DANIEL 11:36-40
36 And the king shall do according to his will;(EU PRESIDENT) and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS A EUROPEAN JEW) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(HES A MILITARY GINIUS) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds (CONTROL HEZBOLLAH,AL-QUAIDA MURDERERS ETC) with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south(EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR PROTECTING ISRAELS SECURITY) and the king of the north(RUSSIA) 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.

6 nations, EU sign nuclear fusion accord Tue Nov 21, 5:21 AM ET

PARIS Officials from six nations and the European Union signed a long-awaited, $12.8 billion pact Tuesday to build an experimental nuclear fusion reactor aimed at developing a cheaper, cleaner and safer energy source.

French President Jacques Chirac hosted officials from the EU, the United States, India, China, Japan, South Korea and Russia in launching the ITER project in Paris.EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso called it a historic event in the effort to phase out polluting fossil fuels.The reactor will be built in Cadarache in the southern French region of Provence. The project is promoting the future of fusion, which reproduces the sun's power source and produces no greenhouse gas emissions and only low levels of radioactive waste.The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor is expected to create about 10,000 jobs and take about eight years to build. If all goes well with the experimental reactor, officials hope to set up a demonstration power plant in Cadarache around 2040.

Chirac expressed pride that France was chosen for the site and pledged to be vigilant in making sure the project fulfills its vision.Environmental activists, who generally oppose nuclear power, have argued that the project would turn the focus away from current efforts to fight global warming.Fusion, which powers the sun and stars, involves colliding atoms at extremely high temperatures and pressure inside a reactor. When the atoms fuse into a plasma they release energy that can be harnessed to generate electricity.

While fossil fuels will run short, the reactor would run on an isotope of hydrogen, a virtually boundless source of fuel that can be extracted from water.

Boost global role and forget constitution, Soros urges EU
21.11.2006 - 09:26 CET | By Mark Beunderman

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - US billionaire financier and liberal political activist George Soros has said the EU should shelve its planned constitution and instead take concrete steps to effectively promote a global open society. The Hungarian-born US citizen, who became famous as a financial speculator in the 1980s and 1990s, currently heads the Open Society Institute which promotes liberal democracy worldwide and which has been particularly active in the former Soviet bloc. Speaking at the European Policy Centre in Brussels on Monday (20 November), Mr Soros hailed the EU as an inspiring example of what he calls an open society, with none of the member states dominating and with human rights prevailing.

To my mind the EU embodies the principles of an open society, Mr Soros said also referring to the step by step building process of the union since the 1950s, with Europe's founding fathers gradually exploring new forms of co-operation while being aware of their imperfections.

An open society is an imperfect society which holds itself open to improvement, he said. But while praising the EU's record on democracy and liberalism, Mr Soros also called upon the EU to shelve its proposed constitution, which was rejected in France and the Netherlands in referendums last year. The constitution may have been in any case an over-ambitious step, he said, adding that I believe the debate on the constitution should be shelved. But although he added that to try and force [the constitution] through people's throats now would spark fresh popular resistance, Mr Soros also expressed support for key reforms introduced in the charter designed to make the union function more efficiently. He proposed that the constitution be unbundled and presented piecemeal, with priority to be given to simplifying the EU's decision-making process which he said is urgent for the bloc to act more effectively on the world stage.

The world badly needs a more united Europe committed to a global open society, he stated, adding that the constitutional deadlock of the bloc should not be used as pretext for inaction.Meanwhile EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana, who took part in the debate with Mr Soros, appeared to defend the constitution by saying we are at a point where people want to know where the journey is heading. Open societies need to be efficient in every direction he said highlighting the overall efficiency gains provided by the charter.

Russian authoritarianism

The US philanthropist backed up his call for the EU to end its divisions on foreign policy by referring to the US, under president George W. Bush, as being no longer in the position to set the agenda in the world after having brought the world into disarray by its failed war on terror. The EU is used to reacting to Washington and accepting the US-created world order as a given, but from now on it should play a more active role than it did in the past.

A stronger Europe is also necessary in the face of an authoritarian and power-playing Russia, he warned. I have bad news on Russia, he said, explaining that it has emerged as an authoritarian state using natural resources to assert its power by setting up shady joint ventures in energy with foreign firms. Moscow wants to control all institutions of democracy, he said highlighting attempts by the Kremlin to set up government-organised non-governmental organisations.Faced with this, Europe has a problem and there is a reluctance to recognise that, he concluded.

Gays married abroad to be registered as married (YNET NEWS)

High Court judges rule that homosexual couples married abroad will be registered as married couples in population registry. Six judges vote in favor of decision, only one opposes Aviram Zino Published: 11.21.06, 09:56 Precedent: For the first time in Israel , homosexual couples will be registered as married in the population registry, High Court judges ruled Tuesday morning after accepting a petition filed by gay couples married abroad.The petition was approved by six judges. Only Justice Elyakim Rubinstein opposed.

Justice Aharon Barak, who wrote the ruling, explained that the court is not interfering in decisions made by different countries regarding the recognition of homosexual couples. We are ruling that as part of the population registry's statistic-registration status, and in light of the registry clerk's duty to collect statistic material in order to manage the registry, the registry clerk must register in the population registry what is revealed in the public document submitted to him by the petitioners, according to which the petitioners are married.We are not ruling that marriage of people of the same sex is recognized in Israel; we are not recognizing a new status of such marriage; we are not expressing any position regarding the recognition of same-sex marriage conducted outside Israel.Justice Barak relied on a previous court ruling from the 1960s, which followed an incident in which a Jew and a non-Jew married in a civil wedding in Cyrpus, and when they asked to register at the population registry they were not recognized as a married couple.

Justice Yoel Zussman had written in the ruling: It is obvious that the registrations clerk's duty, according to the population registry order, is nothing more than the duty of collecting statistic material in order to manage the resident registry, and he holds no judicial authority.Supreme Court President Dorit Beinish supported Barak's ruling. A year-long judicial tradition created and based the distinction in our system between the population registry, its duty and the boundaries of its authority, and the most difficult issues of determining personal status.The fact that from the petitioners' point of view the registry and the statement included in it is definitely important, does not lessen the significant distinction created in the laws which came out from this court between the registry issue and the personal status issue.This approach of our ruling created a framework which leaves the most complicated legal questions undecided, while the question of social and moral recognition is left to the Knesset as a legislative body.

Justice Rubinstein: Lawmaker must refer to issue

Justice Rubinstein, the only one who opposed the decision, explained his stance: I believe that granting the economic-social rights for homosexual couples, which bears some human and legal decency, is a legal pattern similar to marriage registration. There is a line separating them, and the lawmaker must refer to incidents in which it is crossed.The line is a symbol, the same moral decision, which justifies that the lawmaker in Israel pays attention to it.

And the registration is, at the end of the day, an official seal of the kingdom for the creation of a family cell, which is only recognized in a small minority of the world's countries. Therefore, if my opinion had been heard, we would have not accepted the petitions.The petitioners demanded that the Interior Ministry's population registry register same-sex couples married abroad as married couples after presenting a verified marriage certificate from the country they were married in.The petitions, filed by Attorney Dan Yakir, the legal advisor of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, and Yonatan Berman, was filed on behalf of two male couples married in Canada, and the State refused to change their personal status in the population registry from single to married.

The petitioners noted that changing the couples' registration will not suffice, but that the court must create a precedent by ruling that the State must register other same-sex couples who presented a marriage certificate as married.In the petition it was claimed that the State of Israel is preventing these couples from getting married in their country surrounded by all their loved ones, family members, friends and acquaintances, and forces them to move far across many continents.

This critical injury of their basic rights is enough, and the registrar must not be allowed to present an obstacle against the registration of their marriage in Israel. The State responded to the appeal by saying that there is no room for registering same-sex marriage conducted in a foreign country.

This stance is based on two levels of considerations: The first, the lack of recognition of a one-sided family cell and the scope of the registrar's judgment. On the second level, the State claimed that laws applying to recognition of marriage conducted in foreign countries are not fitting in a social institution which is not recognized in Israel.Ilan Marciano contributed to the report.

DISEASES

REVELATION 6:7-8
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).

HIV infection on rise in all regions: U.N. report By Stephanie Nebehay
Tue Nov 21, 2:01 PM ET

GENEVA (Reuters) - HIV infection is rising in every region of the world and most worryingly in countries like Uganda and Thailand, which had been heralded as success stories in the fight against AIDS, the United Nations said on Tuesday. Nearly 40 million adults and children are infected worldwide.

The most striking increases in new cases are in east Asia and in eastern Europe/central Asia, mainly due to drug use and unsafe sex, UNAIDS and the World Health Organization said.Somebody is infected with the HIV virus every 8 seconds, equivalent to 11,000 infections worldwide every day, while another 8,000 infected people die, the two agencies said in a joint annual report 2006 AIDS Epidemic Update.Evidence shows again that the global epidemic is growing in all areas, Peter Piot, executive director of UNAIDS, told a news conference.Perhaps of even greater concern to me is the fact that in some countries that had known real results in the fight against AIDS Uganda and some western countries we see an increase in infection rates.Some 4.3 million people across the globe became infected with HIV this year, with a heavy concentration among young people, bringing the total number to an estimated 39.5 million.

Sub-Saharan Africa, which recorded 2.8 million new infections, still bears the brunt of the AIDS scourge, with 24.7 million people living with HIV, according to the report.Of the 2.9 million global deaths from AIDS last year which Piot said was the highest number recorded 2.1 million occurred in Africa, the core area of the 25-year-old epidemic.China's drug-fuelled HIV epidemic, which accounts for about half the country's estimated 650,000 infections, has reached alarming proportions, according to the report.With HIV spreading gradually from most-at-risk populations to the general population, the number of HIV infections in women is growing too, it said of China.

PAST SUCCESS STORIES

Uganda is among countries suffering a resurgence of infection rates which were previously stable or declining.New data showed erratic condom use in Uganda and more men having sex with more than one partner, as well as evidence of rising HIV prevalence in some rural areas, according to Karen Stanecki, UNAIDS senior epidemiologist.In Thailand, another one of our past success stories, the number of new infections continues to drop but the epidemic is changing and countries such as Thailand and Uganda need to take into account the fact that epidemics do change over time, Stanecki said.In Thailand, a large percentage of new HIV infections occur in people considered low risk, she added, noting one third of new infections are among married women.In Thailand it's a shift, it is not the same people who are infected today as who were infected 10 years ago. The sex industry, we can say, is safe but the government neglected grossly the problem among injecting drug-users, Piot said.Aid agencies called for a funding boost to provide access to anti-retroviral drug treatment, which only 1.65 million or 24 percent of the 6.8 million people in need are receiving.

As the yearly ritual of the UNAIDS figures comes round again, leaders of the rich world should be reaching for their collective checkbooks, said the London-based group ActionAid. Paul Zeitz, head of the Washington-based Global AIDS Alliance, said that with the epidemic outpacing control efforts, governments had to keep promises to provide essential services. The report cited evidence of diminishing or stable HIV spread in most east African and west African countries, while epidemics still grow in Mozambique, South Africa and Swaziland. In South Africa, where an estimated 5.5 million people have HIV, the epidemic continues unabated, suggesting the disease's prevalence has not yet reached a plateau, the report said. In Asia, an estimated 8.6 million people are living with HIV, an increase of nearly one million, and 630,000 people died from AIDS-related illnesses in the vast region this year. India, where the epidemic appears to be stable or diminishing in some parts while growing modestly in others, has 5.7 million infected people, mainly through heterosexual sex.

HAMAS IN HEBREW MEANS VIOLENCE

1-WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS. 2-Scientists rank top 10 U.S. quake states. 3-45 dead, thousands homeless from heavy Sri Lanka seasonal rains. 4-Fears rise for flood-hit refugees in Kenya. 5-Afghan flood death toll climbs to 120. 6-Israeli minister moots international force for Gaza. 7-Olmert: Kadima Changed the Face of the Political Arena. 8-American Fears Include Iranian Biological Weapon. 9-35 nations meet on denying Iran nuke aid. 10-Iran Slowly Securing Its Grip Around Israel. 11-Chlamydia strain may produce new diseases. 12-Israel’s False Partners for Peace.

EARTHQUAKES

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

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

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

WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS (USGS)

Update time = Tue Nov 21 1:45:AM EDT

NOV 21,2006
MAP 3.6 GULF OF ALASKA
MAP 2.7 KENAI PENINSULA, ALASKA
MAP 4.7 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 4.8 SERBIA, SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO
MAP 2.6 OFFSHORE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.5 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA

NOV 20,2006
MAP 5.0 EAST OF THE KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 3.6 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 2.6 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 5.1 ZIMBABWE
MAP 5.3 OFF THE COAST OF LOS LAGOS, CHILE
MAP 2.8 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 5.0 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 4.8 EAST OF THE KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 5.6 SOUTHERN PERU
MAP 4.9 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 2.5 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 2.8 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 4.9 CATAMARCA, ARGENTINA
MAP 4.9 EAST OF THE KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 2.5 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 5.1 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 2.5 CENTRAL ALASKA

Scientists rank top 10 U.S. quake states
Nov 20, 2006, 20:40 GMT

RENO, NV, United States (UPI) Seismologists at the Nevada Seismological Laboratory have ranked the United States most earthquake prone states and found Alaska is No. 1.Alaska is followed by California.

But beyond that point, depending on how you measure activity, the rankings change.The rankings, based on the magnitude of earthquakes that occurs once per year on average: Alaska, 6.70; California, 6.02; Nevada, 5.11; Hawaii, 5.00; Washington, 4.97; Wyoming, 4.67; Idaho, 4.57; Montana, 4.47; Utah, 4.29; and Oregon, 4.24.The reason for talking about this is ... to motivate people to build structures that resist earthquakes, said NSL Director John Anderson. If you`re on this Top 10 list, hopefully it will motivate you to be better prepared in the event of a large earthquake.Anderson and colleague Yuichiro Miyata analyzed the U.S. Geological Survey`s Advanced National Seismic System`s catalog of earthquakes, which contains data from 1898-2005. The researchers supplemented that with data from the USGS catalog of significant U.S. earthquakes from 1568-1989.The research appears in the November/December issue of the journal Seismological
Research Letters.United Press International

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.

45 dead, thousands homeless from heavy Sri Lanka seasonal rains
Mon Nov 20, 9:39 AM ET

COLOMBO (AFP) - At least 45 people have died from floods and mudslides caused by heavy seasonal rains in Sri Lanka that left 91,000 families temporarily homeless, the National Disaster Management Centre said. The number of people drowned in the past three weeks was at 30 while 15 were buried alive in mudslides, N.D. Hettiarachchi, director of the centre said.Most of the families have gone back to their homes, but heavy rains in the past two days affected another 8,300 families who had to abandon their homes and move to high ground, Hettiarachchi told AFP on Monday.He said the government spent half a million dollars to provide immediate relief to the affected people while about 2.7 million dollars would be needed to rebuild the flood-damaged homes in the central and northwest regions of the island.

The latest flooding is the worst natural disaster since the December 2004 tsunami that killed an estimated 31,000 people and displaced a million people along much of the island's coastlines.Sri Lanka depends on monsoon rains for farming as well as for power generation. However, the seasonal rains also cause property damage and loss of life in low-lying areas.

The two main monsoon seasons in Sri Lanka are from May to September and December to February and rains also lash different parts of the island between October and November and again between March and April.

Fears rise for flood-hit refugees in Kenya
Tuesday November 21, 2006,By Steve Bloomfield

NAIROBI - The United Nations refugee agency has begun airlifting emergency aid to thousands of refugees after severe flooding hit a camp in northeastern Kenya, sweeping away thousands of temporary shelters.Up to 80,000 people, mainly refugees fleeing Somalia, have been affected by the floods which have swept through the Dadaab camp over the past week.Torrential rain has washed away much of the road leading to Dadaab from the main town in the Garissa district in the northeast, leaving the camps completely isolated.UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, flew in fuel, health kits and tarpaulins. The sanitation situation has deteriorated raising the likelihood of an outbreak of water-borne diseases, such as diarrhoea, cholera or typhoid.Flights from Nairobi began to deliver 25,000 tarpaulins to provide shelter.

Fuel is needed for the camp's boreholes which provide clean water. UNHCR tried to deliver aid by road at the weekend but 4WD vehicles sank in the thick mud as the water levels continued to rise.The short rains season in Kenya, which tends to last for a few weeks in October and November, has brought severe flooding across many parts of the country, which caught many unawares.

Torrential rain followed a long period of severe drought, which meant much of Kenya's farmland and arid plains were unable to absorb much water.In Kenya's Coast region at least 12 people died and more than 60,000 were left homeless after floods hit suddenly.

More rain is forecast over the next fortnight. A dam in eastern Kenya is on the brink of bursting, according to the UN. The rains failed last year, leading to a drought which aid agencies claimed left up to 11 million people in the Horn of Africa on the brink of a food crisis.Dadaab, less than 100km from the Somali border, is home to three refugee camps.More than 160,000 refugees live there, many of whom have been there since fleeing the fighting in Somalia in 1991. Numbers have swelled in recent months following the fighting between warlords and the Islamic Courts in Mogadishu in June.Talk between the transitional Government in Somalia and the Islamic Courts have broken down and regional analysts claim the country is on the brink of war.Ethiopia has sent troops and arms to bolster the Government, while Eritrea has supplied weapons to the Islamic Courts.Some 30,000 refugees have crossed the border since June, putting already-stretched resources under even more pressure.Aid agencies working in Dadaab said the recent flooding has made the situation unbearable.

Mohammed Qazilbash, senior programme manager for refugee assistance for CARE in Kenya, said: What was supposed to be the short rainy season has turned into a widespread disaster affecting over 100,000 people. Food storage facilities have been flooded, latrines have collapsed and a significant number of shelters, including one wing of the hospital in Ifo camp, have crumbled.

Spreading danger

Dadaab, less than 100km from the Somali border, is home to three refugee camps. More than 160,000 refugees live there.

Up to 80,000 people, mainly Somali refugees, have been affected by the floods over the past week.In Kenya's Coast region at least 12 people have died and more than 60,000 have been left homeless after floods hit suddenly.A dam in eastern Kenya is on the brink of bursting.More rain is forecast over the next fortnight.- INDEPENDENT

Afghan flood death toll climbs to 120 Mon Nov 20, 12:16 PM ET

KABUL, Afghanistan Heavy rain again battered remote villages in western Afghanistan already devastated by flooding, as the death toll rose to 120, officials said Monday.Aid workers delivered several tons of food and aid to people in Badghis province, said Habibullah Murghabi, the head of a government-appointed disaster committee. The delivery had taken more than two days of travel by donkey and horse to reach flood-affected villages in the mountainous region.Murghabi said the death toll in Balamurghab and Ghormach districts had risen to 62, while 92 people were reported missing.The roads are still bad, and last night there was heavy rain again. It's still raining now, Murghabi said by telephone from Badghis.Heavy rain Thursday triggered flash floods that inundated several villages in Badghis. Some 50,000 families live in the inundated area.Other affected areas in the west include Farah province, where at least 18 people have died in recent days, said provincial police chief Gen. Sayed Aga Saqib. One village of eight houses had been washed away, he said.Floods also hit the southern province of Uruzgan over the weekend, killing 40 people and destroying hundreds of homes in four districts, said Qayum Qayumi, the governor's spokesman.

EUROPEAN UNION ARMY

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

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

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

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

Israeli minister moots international force for Gaza
(AFP) 20 November 2006

JERUSALEM - An Israeli cabinet minister on Monday mooted the possibility of deploying a multinational force in the Gaza Strip to prevent persistent Palestinian rocket attacks on the Jewish state.For the moment there is no military solution to the Qassam (rocket) fire problem on Israel from the Gaza Strip and therefore the deployment of a multinational force needs to be considered, minister without portfolio Yitzhak Cohen, from the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, told public radio.This model has worked in Lebanon...We went to war this summer in Lebanon and an average of 180 Katyusha rockets were fired against our territory every day. That stopped only thanks to (UN) Resolution 1701, he added.The Security Council resolution ushered in an August 14 ceasefire ending the 34-day conflict between Israel and Shiite militia Hezbollah and saw the deployment of a multinational UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon.Palestinian militants on Monday fired seven rockets into Israel from the Gaza Strip, which caused no casualties or damage, a military source said.

Former EU leaders call for political leap in Europe
20.11.2006 By Honor Mahony (EU OBSERVER)

Several former EU politicians have called for a leap on the European political scene to create enough impetus to see through institutional reform in the bloc by 2009.A joint declaration, published in Florence on Friday (17 November) urges member states to get back on the path to reform of the European institutions.Signed, amongst others, by Valery Giscard d'Estaing, the architect of the frozen EU constitution, ex-German foreign minister Joschka Fischer and the former presidents of Italy and Portugal, the text calls for a political leap by all the parties concerned so that the new process is concluded at the time of the new European parliament in spring 2009.Going into detail, it says that the whole of the first and second parts of the constitution dealing with the values and aims of the bloc as well as the fundamental rights of citizens should be kept and that the contentious parts of the third section detailing the policies of the EU should be clarified.

This could be done with an additional protocol, says the declaration. We cannot remain deaf and inward-looking when faced with the necessity of the revival of the European integration process, said current Italian president Giorgio Napolitano, according to French daily Le Monde.

Berlin-Paris axis

Talk about reviving the EU institutional reform process put off track by the rejection of the European constitution by French and Dutch voters last year has gone up a notch recently.This is mainly due to the twin prospect of the German EU presidency in the first half of next year as well as French elections in April with only a concerted effort by Berlin and Paris thought to be enough to get reform back at the top of the bloc's political agenda.Additional pressure has also come from the enlargement process as several politicians including EU commission president Jose Manuel Barroso have indicated that the EU cannot expand further without internal reform.Germany has made progress on the constitution calling for an ambitious text one of the main issues of its six-month stint at the helm of the EU. Now it is waiting to hear what Paris has to offer.

The likely centre-right contender for the French presidential elections, Nicolas Sarkozy, has suggested the constitution be pared down to a mini treaty – but this has sparked hostile reactions from several quarters, including Berlin.So far, the left has not been so clear. Segolene Royal, recently chosen to be the socialist presidential candidate, has simply indicated that voters need to be won over about the need for reform in Europe.Angelica Schwall-Dueren, an EU expert for the German social democrats in parliament, told Reuters We have to hope that the respective [French] candidates don't wed themselves to a position that would make agreement on a constitution difficult in the end. I am trying to make clear to our [Socialist] partners that it is important to leave the door open to possible solutions, she added with French socialists continuing to be strongly divided over the EU constitution.For its part, Germany is planning to have a concrete timetable on the constitution and institutional reform on the table by an EU leaders summit in June with a view to bringing the reform process to fruition in 2009.

Olmert: Kadima Changed the Face of the Political Arena
17:05 Nov 20, '06 / 29 Cheshvan 5767 (INN)

(IsraelNN.com) Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told members of the Kadima faction that the establishment of the party by Ariel Sharon changed the face of Israel’s political arena. I wish us the continued rule of the government for many years, Olmert told his colleagues.

NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE USED.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

LUKE 17:34-37
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.(Judgement)
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.(judgement)
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.

American Fears Include Iranian Biological Weapon
21:07 Nov 20, '06 / 29 Cheshvan 5767

(IsraelNN.com) Among America’s fears concerning Iran is the possibility that Tehran possess biological weapons developed by N. Korea and Syria.American officials attending the Convention on Biological Weapons (CBW) told participants that this appears to be the case. John C. Rood stated that a country like Iran, which supports terrorism, is a primary concern regarding the development of non-conventional weaponry.

35 nations meet on denying Iran nuke aid By GEORGE JAHN, Associated Press Writer Mon Nov 20, 9:42 AM ET

VIENNA, Austria - Thirty-five nations tried to find common ground Monday in a fractious session focusing on what to do about Iran's requests to the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency for help on projects including building a plutonium-producing reactor. Diplomats accredited to the meeting a committee of the International Atomic Energy Agency representing its 35 board members said there was general agreement to deny Tehran's request for aid in finishing its Arak research reactor but lack of consensus about seven other projects.Adding to discord was a ruling by the U.N. organization the International Atomic Energy Agency that the reactor, as well the as seven other projects did not pose a proliferation threat.

All (Iranian) projects are in conformity with the relevant Security Council resolution and specifically these projects do not contribute to enrichment related or reprocessing activities in Iran, Anna Maria Cetto, an agency deputy director general, told an IAEA committee meeting reviewing technical aid requests from Iran and other countries.The closed meeting adjourned but resumed later in the day to give members time to reach a common position in informal discussions.The main council concern is Tehran's uranium enrichment program and Iran's defiance of a council demand that it freeze such activities. But the Arak heavy water reactor is also worrying because once it is completed sometime in the next decade it will produce plutonium. This, like highly enriched uranium, can be used for the fissile core of nuclear warheads through reprocessing.A Security Council resolution in July demanded Iran stop all enrichment-related activities, But it did not specifically mention Arak, saying only that Tehran had to stop all reprocessing activities as well.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Monday that Iran would be self-sufficient in nuclear fuel in 2007, days after he acknowledged his country was far from producing enough fuel to power a nuclear reactor. To reach that goal, Iran would need to dramatically accelerate its capacity for uranium enrichment.Iran will produce its required nuclear fuel next year, the president said during a visit to Iran's Broadcasting Co., according to the company's Web site.

Pressure by the U.S. and Israel aimed at violating the rights of the Iranian nation will not succeed, he added.Normally, the United States takes the lead in demanding tough action against Tehran for defying U.N. Security Council demands that it freeze uranium enrichment.But with council agreement on sanctions mired down because of Russian and Chinese efforts to block severe punishment, diplomats said the Americans have taken a back seat to France in calling for harsher penalties.A diplomat familiar with the U.S. stance said the Americans were not backing the French in the lead with demands that all eight Iranian projects be reviewed and possibly refused because of recognition that the board would agree to nothing more than denying Iran help with Arak.

But a European diplomat said the Americans along with Australia and Canada fully backed the French but preferred Paris be publicly linked to the more hard-line position at a time when Washington was exploring the possibility of direct contacts with Tehran. Others pointed to recent changes in the top echelons of the French government agencies dealing with Iran and proliferation threats, saying new, more hard-line leadership could explain why Paris was out front in seeking tougher action.Even nonaligned nations traditionally supportive of Iran were likely to approve some form of denying Iran help for Arak, but the other seven Iran projects are less controversial.One asks for help in developing nuclear capabilities for medical use. Another seeks legal aid for the Russian-built Bushehr reactor, which even the Americans have accepted as not posing a threat to nuclear proliferation. And the five others ask for assistance in administrative or safety aspects of nuclear power, according to a list made available to the AP.

With most nations backing approval of all other projects except Arak and the IAEA ruling it did not qualify as a proliferation threat France was likely to modify its position. Denying Iran help with Arak where it is seeking agency assistance to make sure the reactor is environmentally safe would do little to slow construction of that facility or affect Tehran's other potential avenue to weapons production uranium enrichment.

Still, it would send a signal in how harshly to penalize Tehran. Ali Ashgar Soltanieh, Iran's chief delegate to the IAEA, said his country's request would benefit the international community by increasing outside involvement in Arak. By adopting this project, the agency's presence .will be much more, he said.

Iran Slowly Securing Its Grip Around Israel
By Hana Levi Julian (INN)

A nuclear threat is only one of several Iranian problems facing Israel as the Islamic Republic increases its influence in Gaza and Lebanon. Bush says he would understand an Israeli attack on Iran. The Iranian government is sending money to Gaza, gradually extending its influence over the region surrounding Israel. The Islamic Republic has donated $120 million to the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority, according to an announcement last Thursday by PA Foreign Minister Mahmoud al-Zahar. The PA official met in Tehran with Ali Larijani, the head of national security in Iran. Palestinian Authority terrorists in Gaza have become major beneficiaries of Iranian largesse recently, according to the AFP news service. Iran has handed out, until now, over $120 million and says it will supply more aid. Its support is very important for us, said the PA foreign minister.

PA terrorists have significantly stepped up their Kassam rocket attacks against southern Israeli communities recently. Sderot residents have said the rockets are increasing in accuracy, and now contain more explosives as well as ball bearings to maximize damage upon impact.Meanwhile, international efforts to stop Iran’s nuclear development activities have slowly ground to a halt. Despite threats by the U.N. Security Council to impose sanctions against the Islamic Republic if it did not end its uranium enrichment program by the end of August, the program continues uninterrupted, and no action has been taken against Iran.U.S. President George W. Bush said Sunday night he would understand if Israel attacked the Islamic Republic, but that America would not help the Jewish State to do so.According to a report in Monday’s issue of New Yorker magazine, Israeli agents operating in Iran have been passing intelligence information to the White House. The report by Seymour Hersh claimed that the information states that Iran has already developed and tested the technology for a nuclear weapon. The news reinforces a concern expressed repeatedly by both the U.S. and Israel about repeated claims by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that the nuclear activities currently underway will be used for peaceful, domestic purposes only.Meanwhile, north of Israel, the Iranian-backed Hizbullah terror organization is ratcheting up its efforts to topple the Lebanese government.

Hizbullah terror chieftain Hassan Nasrallah told thousands of Lebanese supporters to prepare to take to the streets of Beirut in order to force the resignation of the government. He said the current Lebanese government is a puppet of the Bush administration. Six ministers of Hizbullah and its allies have quit the Lebanese Cabinet after failing to achieve an agreement for a new unity government.

Nasrallah's speech was apparently recorded on Saturday in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, an area repeatedly attacked by Israel during this summer's Second Lebanon War.Hizbullah touched off the July war with a cross-border attack in which terrorists kidnapped two IDF reservists on patrol and killed several soldiers. The next day, they began launching daily Katyusha rockets against northern Israeli communities.Thousands of Katyusha rockets rained down upon Nahariya, Haifa, Kiryat Shmona, Tzfat and other Galilee communities, prompting the evacuation of more than a third of the population in at least two cities, and more than half of the residents of Kiryat Shmonah.

NewsTrack - Science
Chlamydia strain may produce new diseases

OAKLAND, Calif., Nov. 20 (UPI) U.S. scientists say they have determined Chlamydia trachomatis is evolving at a rate faster than believed possible. Chlamydia trachomatis is a bacterium that is the leading cause of sexually transmitted diseases and the second leading cause of blindness worldwide.

The researchers at Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute in California say they are the first to find the bacterium is evolving through a process called recombination, in which genes from one or more strains combine to create new strains and, theoretically, new diseases. The study, led by Dr. Deborah Dean, suggests since Chlamydia trachomatis evolves through recombination, the traditional method of studying a single gene to track the transmission of the bacterium is wrong.

What we found is an organism that not only evolves rapidly but in ways that we thought were rare. We also discovered that this organism can customize its attack, said Dean. Consequently, the constant flux of the bacterium could serve as a gateway for new emerging diseases, but more research needs to be conducted to understand if and how this is happening. The study is featured in the November issue of the journal Genome Research.

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

WHY WOULD GOD MAKE THIS A LAST DAYS PROPHECY, HAMAS IN HEBREW MEANS VIOLENCE, THATS WHY, TO FULFILL PROPHECY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Israel’s False Partners for Peace
by Laura Turetsky, Queens College,REUTERS/Abu Haykel

Since the Palestinian Authority elections last January, it seems Hamas has aroused some serious attention. Although the Palestinian Arabs have long been obligated by agreements with Israel to abolish terrorism and terrorist groups, Hamas, a democratically elected fanatical group, has come to power, and the question that has been on everyone’s mind is: what does this mean for Israel?

When elected, Hamas replaced Fatah, the leading party of the Palestinian Authority, as the majority in the PA’s governing body. Hamas and Fatah are political opponents, one religious and one secular. Members of the two groups hate and often kill each other. Hamas, an Arabic acronym for Islamic Resistance that, prophetically, means violence in Hebrew, is a strongly religious Islamist party whose goal is the destruction of Israel, and implementation of an Islamic Arab state in its place. The Hamas charter expresses this by stating, Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.

Fatah is a secular nationalist party, and the main party of the PLO, formed for the purpose of carrying out terrorist attacks against Israel. Yasser Arafat was the leading politician in Fatah, succeeded by Holocaust-denier Mahmoud Abbas, Arafat’s long-time ally and right-hand man. Unlike Hamas, Fatah is not a religious party, and stresses the importance of a nationalist Palestinian Arab state rather than a Muslim one.Fatah revolutionized Arab terrorism when it began hijacking planes in 1968. Fatah members instituted the now infamous terrorist tactic of hijacking passenger planes, a crime never before committed. Thus, Fatah first invented and propagated plane hijackings as a form of terrorism.

There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through jihad.—Hamas charter

Unlike its more candid pronouncements in Arabic, in English, Fatah has feigned a desire to make peace with Israel, and has called for a so-called two-state plan, which would actually be a three-state plan, as Jordan, created in 1946 out of 78% of the territory of the Palestine Mandate, is the Arab State in Palestine, and Israel is the Jewish State in Palestine. In Arabic, however, to non-Western ears, Fatah has explained that the so-called two-state plan is merely the first stage in a process of destroying Israel.

So, though Fatah seems diplomatic, or at least attempts to, in truth, its ultimate goal matches that of Hamas. Hamas does not try to hide it, and states clearly in its charter: There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through jihad. Initiatives, proposals, and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors.

However, in the end, what they say they want makes no difference, because actions speak louder than words, and blatant acts of terrorism prove that there is no chance for peace until Israel has a partner that wants it. Fatah was clearly not that partner; neither is Hamas. How so many Israelis, in order to sustain their hope for peace, continue to trust these terrorists and terrorist-supporters is a heartbreaking mystery.And so Israel continues the fight for peace, desperately hoping that someday someone else will too. For now, Hamas is what we’re dealing with, and it will not stop until it sees to the end of Israel. Or, more accurately, until Israel sees to the end of it. Laura Turetsky is a sophmore at Queens College, where she is studying Comparative Literature and Journalism. She is the Vice President of the Chabad executive board and the Chair of the Political Science Club's Middle East Committee.