1-WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS.2-Quake strikes off Taiwan's east coast. 3-Malaysian rain warning triggers fears of more floods. 4-Bitter cold takes hold of the Northeast. 5-71 killed in Angolan floods as relief work under way. 6-St. John's and vicinity Issued at: 11.00 AM. 7-Fence Route Changed Due to Illegal Arab Construction. 8-Olmert Slams Katzav, Hopes For Sharon Revival and Warns Iran. 9-Iran air-defense missiles obtained from Russia. 10-Netanyahu urges trial for Iran leader, fearing new Holocaust. 11-Norovirus sickens hundreds aboard QE2.12-Permissive Treason in Israel.
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 = Fri Jan 26 12:00 AM EDT
JAN 26,07
MAP 5.1 TONGA
JAN 25,07
MAP 5.0 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 2.9 MAUI REGION, HAWAII
MAP 2.6 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.9 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 5.4 NIAS REGION, INDONESIA
MAP 2.8 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.5 PUERTO RICO
MAP 3.4 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 6.0 TAIWAN REGION
MAP 4.9 SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS REGION
MAP 2.9 HAWAII REGION, HAWAII
MAP 4.1 FIJI REGION
MAP 5.0 PAPUA, INDONESIA
MAP 3.8 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 3.6 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC REGION
MAP 3.7 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 4.0 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 2.8 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 3.0 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 3.0 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 5.0 MOLUCCA SEA
JAN 24,07
MAP 3.1 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 3.4 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 3.0 SAN JUAN URBAN AREA, PUERTO RICO
MAP 4.8 EASTERN UZBEKISTAN
MAP 3.0 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 2.9 OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.4 OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.6 NEVADA
MAP 2.8 MONA PASSAGE, PUERTO RICO
MAP 3.4 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 2.8 NEVADA
MAP 2.9 NEVADA
MAP 2.5 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.2 NEVADA
MAP 4.1 NEVADA
MAP 4.9 MOLUCCA SEA
MAP 3.1 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 3.1 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 5.5 MOLUCCA SEA
MAP 5.4 MOLUCCA SEA
MAP 2.9 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 3.9 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 2.9 ISLAND OF HAWAII, HAWAII
MAP 2.9 PUERTO RICO
Quake strikes off Taiwan's east coast Thu Jan 25, 6:21 AM ET
TAIPEI, Taiwan - A strong earthquake struck off the eastern coast of Taiwan on Thursday, rocking buildings in the capital of Taipei. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage. The Central Weather Bureau measured the quake at 6.2-magnitude. It put its epicenter 39 miles southeast of the city of Chengkung, or about 82 miles southeast of Taipei.Quakes frequently rattle Taiwan, but most are minor and cause little or no damage.However, a 7.6-magnitude earthquake in central Taiwan in September 1999 killed more than 2,300 people.
Last month a 6.7 offshore tremor south of the city of Kaohsiung severed two undersea cables, disrupting telephone and Internet service to millions of users throughout Asia.
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.
Malaysian rain warning triggers fears of more floods Thu Jan 25, 12:06 AM ET
KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - Malaysia has issued its highest red stage rain warning for the southern state of Johor, triggering fears of a third wave of flooding after weeks of chaos caused by torrential downpours. The Meteorological Services Department said in a statement late Wednesday that moderate to heavy rain was expected to persist until Sunday in Johor, which borders Singapore, and central Pahang state.Residents in the flood zone, where tens of thousands were forced to shelter in evacuation centres during the crisis which has peaked twice since late December, said they were not bothering to do repairs yet in light of the warning.I only cleaned up the house a little because we fear the floods will come again, for the third time, 61-year-old Hassan Saadon told the official Bernama news agency.
Hassan said his family cleared up the flood damage after the first wave of floods in the closing days of 2006, only to be devastated again just two days later when bad weather returned.State Drainage and Irrigation Department chief Chong Chee Han said river levels had already beached their danger mark.We never had heavy flooding twice within a month, but that too has occurred. All we can hope for is that a third wave does not happen, he told The Star newspaper.The floods, the worst in a century, have claimed 17 lives and caused damage worth 350 million ringgit (100 million dollars) to infrastructure in the south. The private sector has reportedly estimated economic losses at 2.4 billion ringgit.
Bitter cold takes hold of the Northeast Wayne Verno, Meteorologist, The Weather Channel Thu Jan 25, 5:07 AM ET
Northeast
Gusty north winds flowing across the Great Lakes in the wake of a cold front will continue to bring very cold air and snow showers across much of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern States today. The most persistent snow showers and squalls will occur just downwind of the Great Lakes, affecting areas from Cleveland and Pittsburgh, to Buffalo and Syracuse. Scattered snow showers will reach as far east as Philadelphia and New York City. Several inches will accumulate in the lake effect snow bets off Lake Erie and Ontario, where locally up to a foot could accumulate. Several inches will also be possible across the higher elevations further south as well. Afternoon highs will range from the teens and 20s west of the Appalachians, to the lower 30s across the eastern Mid-Atlantic. Gusty winds will push wind chill values into the single digits and teens, with below zero readings across northern New England. Even colder air will settle in Friday into Saturday, with morning low temperatures in the single digits to below zero, and afternoon highs only recovering into the single digits and teens in some locations. Wind chills both Friday and Saturday morning may reach 20 to 30 below zero over parts of New England.
Midwest
The cold temperatures which dominate the Upper Midwest and northern Great Lakes yesterday will begin to shift eastward today. It will remain chilly across the Upper Midwest and western Great Lakes though, with afternoon highs in the teens and 20s from Chicago and Minneapolis, to Fargo. Highs in the 30s will dominate the Midwest and Plains, from Louisville to Kansas City.
Lake effect snow showers will also persist across the northern and central Great Lakes, where several inches could accumulate along the eastern snow belts. Friday, another cold front will enter the Upper Midwest. This will bring milder temperatures to much of the Midwest and central Plains, as southerly flow kicks in ahead of the front. By Saturday, much colder air will begin to spill into the Great Lakes and Midwest, along with windy conditions and an increased chance of snow showers. Bitter cold temperatures will dominate the Great Lakes and Midwest this weekend, with afternoon highs in the single digits and teens, and morning low temperatures below zero. Wind chills will be well below zero at times.
South
A persistent flow of moisture across the Gulf of Mexico, coupled with a weather disturbance, will finally exit Texas. Drying conditions are expected today across the Lone Star State. The unsettled weather will continue to impact Florida, where scattered showers will dominate the central and southern parts of the state, but these too will be ending by the later portion of the day.
Across the remainder of the South, from Memphis to Atlanta, high pressure will build south bringing an end to the cloudy dreary conditions which have dominated the area. As this high pressure builds in, windy conditions will develop on its leading edge, from Georgia into South Carolina. Dry conditions will remain across much of the South through Friday, but a cold front will begin to approach the Mississippi Valley Saturday, bringing the chance of rain showers back into that area. Much colder temperatures will settle across all of the southern states Sunday into Monday.
West
High pressure remains in control of much of the West, resulting in generally dry conditions. As a result of this high pressure, morning fog, and even some freezing fog, will continue to be an issue across parts of the Pacific Northwest, while much of the Southwest, including southern California, experience above average temperatures. A weak weather disturbance will enter the western coast by Saturday, bringing a few scattered rain showers to parts of northern California, with snow showers further inland.
Snow showers will also increase across the interior Rockies. This area of disturbed weather will linger and drift slowly south, bringing scattered rain and snow showers so parts of the southern Rockies and Southwest into the first part of the upcoming week. Generally, the Pacific Northwest will remain dry through the weekend.
71 killed in Angolan floods as relief work under way by Manuel Muanza JAN 25,07
LUANDA (AFP) - Flash floods in Angola had by claimed 71 lives as authorities in the seaside capital Luanda clambered to shelter some 1,300 homeless families and repair damaged bridges and roads.
Other parts of southern Africa have been hit by heavy downpours, including Malawi where at least 20 villages are under water and Mozambique where torrential rains have claimed five lives and turned 3,500 homeless.
According to the last count, there have been 71 deaths, fire service spokesman Faustino Sebastiao told AFP, saying 65 of these were in Luanda and six in the southern province of Benguela.We are carrying out search operations for bodies with the help of the defence forces and police, he said.Luanda's centre had been cut off after three key downtown bridges were damaged following heavy rains on Monday. Two of them have repaired.Residents of the sprawling but rundown city of 4.5 million are struggling to cope with the rising waters.Despite Angola's oil riches, Luanda has a skeletal infrastructure which still bears the scars of a brutal 27-year civil war that ravaged the former Portuguese colony.Telephone lines have been badly hit and vast tracts of low-lying and sordid slums are under water.
The Angolan government meanwhile approved a 10 million dollar (7.7 million euro) emergency relief plan to shelter, re-home and provide other forms of assistance to citizens between now and June, a communique said.
This followed warnings by the national weather office that the torrential rains were set to continue until June, traditionally the end of the monsoon in the southern African country.Luanda's governor Job Capapinha told an emergency meeting that his three main priorities were providing emergency relief, restoring road links and ensuring proper sanitation to stem the tide of cholera, which has claimed more than 2,000 lives across the country since February last year.The cholera epidemic broke out in February last year in a sprawling Luanda slum and has been blamed on poor sanitation, an acute lack of drinking water and inadequate infrastructure.We will put people in tents or in roofed shelters. We are seeing to it that the roads are quickly cleared of water before enforcing measures to prevent cholera, governor Capapinha told a news conference late Wednesday.Antonio Miguel Germano, a police official from Cacuaco, Luanda's worst-hit quarter, added: There are still people who are missing. We are carrying out searches.In March 2005, flooding in northern Angola a former Portuguese colony which is still recovering from a 27-year civil war left over 10,000 people without shelter.
Environment Canada Weather Forecast St. John's and vicinity Issued at: 11.00 AM NST Thursday 25 January 2007
Wind warning in effect. Today..Cloudy with 70 percent chance of flurries or freezing drizzle. Wind west 30 km/h increasing to 50 gusting to 80 this afternoon. Temperature steady near minus 1. Tonight..Cloudy periods. 60 percent chance of flurries this evening. Wind southwest 40 km/h gusting to 60 becoming south 20 overnight. Low minus 3. Friday..Increasing cloudiness. Snow and blowing snow beginning in the afternoon. Amount 5 to 10 cm. Wind southeast 30 km/h gusting to 50 becoming east 60 gusting to 100 late in the day. High zero. Saturday..Periods of snow. Windy. Low minus 5. High minus 3. Sunday..Flurries. Windy. Low minus 1. High zero. Monday..Cloudy with 60 percent chance of flurries. Low minus 3. High minus 1. Normals for the period..Low minus 8. High zero.
Fence Route Changed Due to Illegal Arab Construction
07:45 Jan 25, '07 / 6 Shevat 5767
(IsraelNN.com) The route of the security fence in Judea and Samaria has been changed drastically in at least two locations due to illegal Arab construction. The original route, which was determined in 2003, was changed after local Arabs built houses illegally along the proposed route. The changes caused the fence to be much longer in both areas, making it far more expensive than originally planned.One of the changes was near the Yakir junction west of Ariel; another is just north of the Gush Etzion town of Efrat. The new route of the fence will completely block the northern entrance to Efrat. The new route near Ariel will require the construction of an alternate road for Ariel residents. The new road is expected to be expensive, and will considerably lengthen the residents travel time.
Olmert Slams Katzav, Hopes For Sharon Revival and Warns Iran
By Ezra HaLevi(INN) JAN 25,07
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called upon President Moshe Katzav to resign and addressed the Iranian threat in his address before the Herziliya Conference Wednesday evening. The prime minister spoke following a panel on government corruption that referred to many specifics of the criminal allegations against him and his government. Immediately preceding his speech, however, was the televised address of President Moshe Katzav, which provided him the opportunity to play the prosecutor rather than the prosecuted.
I cannot speak tonight without referring to the events of the past day, and the Attorney General’s decision to hold a hearing for the President in light of the possibility that serious charges may be filed against him. In these circumstances, I have no doubt that the President cannot continue to fulfill his role and he should leave the President’s Residence. This is a sad day for the State of Israel, Olmert said.He went on to express his hope that Ariel Sharon would return to us.Olmert focused on Iran for the remainder of his speech, offering a run-down of diplomatic moves his government has been taking against Iran’s nuclear program. He cited his recent visit to China and took credit for the United Nations resolutions aimed against Iran.We know our efforts had much influence in this regard, he said.Those who believe, as we do, that a diplomatic solution is preferable, must exert pressure to bring about change in the near future, he said. Dragging our feet at this point…will only make harsher steps more necessary in the future. Iran is vulnerable and susceptible to international pressure in this regard despite its defiant and belligerent public declarations.Olmert urged the international community to act so Israel does not have to. At this stage, there is still time though not unlimited to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power that will threaten its adversaries, first and foremost Israel, he said. Israel is not spearheading the struggle against this threat. It must be dealt with first and foremost by the superpowers and other key countries. We are working to try to place this on the top of the agenda of world leaders.The prime minister stressed, though, that Israel would not rely on the world to protect it. The Jewish people, upon whose consciousness the scars of the Holocaust are deeply engraved cannot afford to ignore those who want to destroy us. In the past, the world remained silent and the results are known. Our role is to prevent the world from repeating this mistake, Olmert said. When the leader of a country announces, officially and publicly, his country’s intention to wipe off the map another country, and creates those tools which will allow them to realize their stated threat, no nation has the right to weigh its position on the matter. This is an obligation of the highest order, to act with all force against this plot.
In a direct message to the people of Iran, who would presumably be negatively impacted by an Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear sites, Olmert recalled past Israeli-Iranian cooperation. We have nothing against the Iranian people, he said. Prior to the takeover of Iran we had impressive and warm relations under the Shah.Olmert concluded with an explicit assurance that Israel will reserve the military option should diplomacy leave Iran with nuclear weapons.
We have the right and freedom of defensive actions in defense of our interests, he said. Nobody should misconstrue our hesitation for reluctance to defend the State of Israel…There is no difference between right, left and center in this regard and the people stand united as well.
WW3 THE 3 WAVES THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL
DANIEL 11:40-45
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
The Third and Final Wave of WW3 is when all Nations march to Jerusalem, but JESUS bodily returns to earth and destroys them,sets up his KINGDOM OF RULE FOR 1000 YEARS THEN FOREVER.
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)
Iran air-defense missiles obtained from Russia
By Nasser Karimi - The Associated Press JAN 25,07
TEHRAN, Iran Iranian officials said Wednesday they have taken delivery of advanced Russian air-defense missile systems weapons intended, according to one Russian news agency, to defend Iran's major nuclear facilities.Announcement of the delivery of the Tor-M1 mobile missile launchers came as Iran launched three days of military maneuvers, its first since the U.N. Security Council approved sanctions against Iran on Dec. 23.We have had constructive defense transactions with Russia, and we purchased Tor-M1 missiles that were recently delivered to us, the official Web site of Iranian state television quoted Minister of Defense Mostafa Mohammad Najjar as saying.Najjar did not say how many missiles were delivered or when they arrived. Russia previously said it would supply 29 of the mobile surface-to-air missile systems to Iran under a $700 million contract signed in December 2005, Russian media has reported.In New York, Richard Grenell, spokesman for the U.S. mission to the United Nations, called the development troublesome given that Iran is the leading state sponsor of terror in the world.
It certainly isn't an appropriate signal to be sending a government which is under U.N. sanctions for trying to develop a nuclear weapon, Grenell said.According to Russia's ITAR-Tass news agency, the weapons were expected to be used to protect major government and military installations such as the nuclear facilities at Isfahan, Bushehr, Tehran and in eastern Iran.ITAR-Tass on Tuesday quoted Sergei Chemezov, the head of the country's state-run weapons exporter, as saying that the Tor-M1 missiles had been delivered before the end of December 2006.It is not clear whether the sale was completed before the Security Council vote.
Russian officials have repeatedly said the sale would not violate any international obligations.Russia U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin, current president of the Security Council, did not explicitly confirm the handover. But he said whatever deliveries may have been carried out, they had nothing to do with the U.N. sanctions on Iran over its uranium enrichment.Iran denies U.S. accusations that it is using its nuclear-power program as a cover to develop nuclear weapons. On Monday, Iran conducted missile tests and said it had barred 38 U.N. nuclear inspectors from entering the country.The Seattle Times Company
Netanyahu urges trial for Iran leader, fearing new Holocaust Thu Jan 25, 5:18 AM ET
LONDON (AFP) - Former Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu has called for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to be put on trial to prevent what he warned could be a new Holocaust by a nuclear-armed Iran.
Comparing events in Iran to those of Nazi Germany in the 1930s, Netanyahu told BBC radio Thursday he was here as part of efforts to raise international support for such a trial.Both Britain's ruling Labour Party and opposition Conservative MPs are trying to drum up support here in Britain, a country that finally stood up against another hateful apocalyptic, hateful fanatic sect and ended up stopping it, he said.He added he was also trying to drum up support within the United States for a trial.Right now people have to understand that the combination of unbridled fanaticism of the militant Islamic government of Iran and its attempts to arm itself with nuclear weapons as it prepares another Holocaust, as it denies the previous Holocaust, is something unconscionable, he said.Men and women of conscience have to stop it, Netanyahu said.
One of the ways of stopping it is to bring Ahmadinejad to trial because he has expressly violated a 1948 convention against genocide which outlaws not only the action of genocide but the incitement to genocide, he said.When asked why Iran should comply with UN resolutions when Israel has flouted those concerning the Palestinians, Israel's former ambassador to the United Nations replied that the UN General Assembly resolutions are that the world is flat.These are not binding international conventions, he said.
Netanyahu left the door open for Israel to take unilateral action against Iran, but only after diplomacy and eventual economic sanctions are given a chance.I think those have to be tried before stiffer action is required, he said.Asked how long he would give for diplomacy and economic sanctions to work, he replied: The real timetable that you have to ask is when does Iran develop nuclear bombs.He cited estimates by Israel's domestic intelligence agency Mossad that Iran could develop nuclear weapons in three years.Diplomats in New York said Tuesday that the United States is circulating at the UN General Assembly a proposed resolution condemning any denial of the Holocaust as increasing the risk that such a terrible historic event could be repeated.According to several diplomats, the draft resolution, which does not name any country, was inspired by the behavior of Iran, where Ahmadinejad has publicly denied repeatedly that the Holocaust occurred.
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).
Norovirus sickens hundreds aboard QE2
POSTED: 1206 GMT (2006 HKT), January 25, 2007
SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) A highly contagious form of stomach flu sickened hundreds of passengers during a worldwide voyage on the famed Queen Elizabeth 2 cruise ship in what health officials called an unusually large outbreak.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 276 passengers and 28 crew members had come down with norovirus by the time the ship docked Wednesday in San Francisco, California, for a regularly scheduled stop, though only four passengers remained sick.The CDC boarded the QE2 on Friday in Acapulco, Mexico, to investigate the outbreak.Investigators determined the emergency sanitation measures put in place by the ship's crew, from disinfecting casino chips to halting self-service at the ship's buffet, were containing the outbreak.This one was a good example where they had a lot of cases but they did gain control over the spread of infection, Ames said.
The infections affected nearly 17 percent of the ship's 1,652 passengers, a particularly high percentage, said Jaret Ames, acting chief of the CDC's vessel sanitation program. By comparison, a norovirus outbreak last month aboard the world's largest cruise ship, Royal Caribbean's Freedom of the Seas, infected 338 passengers out of 3,823, or less than 9 percent.
In rare cases, the elderly and young children can die from dehydration caused by norovirus symptoms. The infection, which ranks second only to the common cold in reported cases, usually clears up in two or three days with no lasting effects.No passengers have canceled their tickets as a result of the outbreak, said Brian O'Connor, a spokesman for Cunard Line, the company that operates the QE2.The ship departed January 8 from New York on the first leg of its 106-day cruise around the world. It was to leave San Francisco for Honolulu, Hawaii, on Wednesday night.
Permissive Treason in Israel
Prof . Paul Eidelberg JAN 25,07
Article III, Section 3 of the American Constitution includes, in its definition of treason against the United States , adhering to their Enemies and giving them Aid and Comfort .
Israel ’s Penal Law on treason is more complex: it defines treason in terms of four kinds of acts:
1 . the category of acts which impair the sovereignty of the State of Israel —section 97(a);
2 . the category of acts which impair the integrity of the State of Israel —section 97(b);
3 . the category of acts under section 99 which give assistance to an enemy in war against Israel , which the Law specifically states includes a terrorist organization;
4 . the category of acts in section 100 which evince an intention or resolve to commit one of the acts prohibited by sections 97 and 99 .
The punishment prescribed in the Penal Law for the first three categories of acts of treason is death or imprisonment for life The harshness of the punishment emphasizes the seriousness with which the State of Israel originally viewed the crime of treason. This is no longer the case .Treason has become permissible in Israel .No less than six Israeli prime ministers, dozens of past and present cabinet ministers, and scores of past and present Knesset members are prima facie guilty of having violated at least section 99 of the law governing treason—by yielding, or by agreeing to yield, Jewish land to Israel’s implacable foe, the PLO-Palestinian
Authority .(I leave aside how often various Israeli governments have armed this enemy of the Jewish State since 1993 . ) Moreover, since various past and present members of the Supreme Court have adopted the mendacious ruling of the International Court of Justice that Judea, Samaria, and Gaza constitute belligerent occupied territory—territory over which no state other than Israel could claim sovereignty under international law—one can only conclude that Israel’s High Court of Justice has made treason legitimate and even respectable in the Jewish State .
To clinch my thesis, let us review the Geneva Accord or Geneva Initiative which was launched on December 1, 2003 at a ceremony in Geneva . Among its signatories were Israeli politician Yossi Beilin, one of the architects of the Oslo Accords, and former PLO-Palestinian Authority minister Yasser Abed Rabbo .This non-governmental agreement, reportedly distributed to two million Israelis, yields to Israel ’s enemy not only Gaza but almost all of Judea and Samaria .The agreement stipulates that the Temple Mount and most of the Old City of Jerusalem will come under Arab control . The Western Wall will remain Israeli, as will the Zion and Dung Gates—but the other city gates will be under Arab control . Jews will be permitted, according to the agreement, to walk freely from Jaffa Gate to the Jewish Quarter .Even the cities of Ariel and Efrat will be dismantled and evacuated, according to the agreement, as would most of the other Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria .As many as 200,000 Jews would thus be expelled from their homes .In return for this Israeli withdrawal, the Palestinians would limit their right to return! Whatever the term limit may mean, the Geneva Accord would return Israel close to the borders that existed before the 1967 war—which Abba Eban dubbed Israel’s Auschwitz lines .Although the Geneva Accord sanctions treason, it did not prevent Mr . Beilin from returning to the
Knesset—a return facilitated by Israel pernicious system of proportional representation and fixed party lists . But what is more, Israel ’s territorial withdrawal, as stipulated by the Beilin-Abed Rabbo agreement, appears to be the basis of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s realignment plan! Mr . Olmert need not worry about being indicted for treason .
Treason having become legitimate and respectable in Israel , he’s free to dispense with Jewish land as he might his own apartment . Aiding and abetting Israel’s enemy is not to be taken seriously in the Jewish State—certainly not so long as most Jews, too ignorant to realize that this State is their most dangerous enemy, lack the wherewithal to liberate themselves from bondage .
Friday, January 26, 2007
Thursday, January 25, 2007
EU WANTS ISRAEL SECURITY ROLL
1-WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS.2-Quake shakes Indonesia's Sulawesi. 3-Heavy rains claim 53 lives in Angolan capital 4-Snow around the Great Lakes. 5-Heavy rains hammer northwestern B.C. 6-Schools close as storm sweeps across N.L. 7-Canada readies for Atlantic tsunami peril. 8-Drilling said caused Indonesia mud volcano. 9-Yemen's Last Jews Threatened and Banished. 10-Luxembourg calls off EU constitution conference. 11-Activists protest free trade pact at EU base in Kenya. 12-EU expecting role in Israel's security 13-Jewish Withdrawal from Judea and Samaria Back on the Table. 14-EU expecting role in Israel's security.
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 Jan 25 12:27 AM EDT
JAN 25,07
MAP 3.1 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 5.0 MOLUCCA SEA
JAN 24,07
MAP 3.1 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 4.8 EASTERN UZBEKISTAN
MAP 2.9 OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.4 OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.6 NEVADA
MAP 3.4 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 2.8 NEVADA
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MAP 2.5 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.2 NEVADA
MAP 4.1 NEVADA
MAP 4.9 MOLUCCA SEA
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MAP 2.9 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 3.9 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 2.9 ISLAND OF HAWAII, HAWAII
JAN 23,07
MAP 2.9 OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 5.1 AISEN, CHILE
MAP 2.6 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 5.9 VANUATU
MAP 4.1 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 2.8 MOUNT ST. HELENS AREA, WASHINGTON
MAP 2.7 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 5.1 PAPUA, INDONESIA
MAP 5.4 MOLUCCA SEA
MAP 4.9 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 2.5 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 4.8 CENTRAL PERU
MAP 3.2 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 2.5 YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, WYOMING
MAP 2.8 YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, WYOMING
MAP 2.8 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 3.1 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 5.7 BANDA SEA
MAP 4.7 EASTERN HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 3.6 SOUTHERN ALASKA
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Quake shakes Indonesia's Sulawesi Wed Jan 24, 5:10 AM ET
JAKARTA (AFP) An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 has shaken the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, seismologists said, but there were no immediate reports of any damage. The quake hit at 4:40 pm (0840 GMT) Wednesday and was centered about 98 kilometres (60 miles) southeast of the North Sulawesi provincial capital Manado at a depth of 33 kilometres under the seabed, the meteorology agency here said.The tremor was felt in Manado, an official at the agency said.A major 6.5-magnitude undersea earthquake rocked Sulawesi Sunday, causing panic but no serious damage.The Indonesian archipelago sits on the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire where continental plates meet, causing frequent seismic and volcanic activity.There have been several quakes and aftershocks this week alone.Indonesia was the nation worst hit by the earthquake-triggered Asian tsunami in December 2004, which killed some 168,000 people in western Aceh province.
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.
Heavy rains claim 53 lives in Angolan capital Wed Jan 24, 10:14 AM ET
LUANDA (AFP) Fifty-three people have died in Luanda, Angola's seaside capital, in torrential rains that have lashed the city for three days, a police spokesman has said. We have recorded 53 deaths until now, Divaldo Martins told AFP Wednesday, adding that more than 1,300 families were homeless.Luanda's governor Job Capapihna on Tuesday met with senior local officials in the city of some 4.5 million, whose creaking infrastructure has been further damaged by the downpours, to assess the damage.In March 2005, flooding in northern Angola a former Portuguese colony which is still recovering from a 27-year civil war that shattered most of its infrastructure left over 10,000 people without shelter.Makeshift shelters have been put up in Luanda to house those rendered homeless by the flash floods, which have also hit telephone lines.The country has been cut off from the rest of the world because the rains have destroyed the optic fibre cables. We will do our best to address the situation, said Manuel Cesar, spokesman of the state-run telephone firm Angolatelecom.
Snow around the Great Lakes Tom Moore, Sr. Meteorologist, The Weather Channel Wed Jan 24, 12:53 AM ET
A narrow band of lake-effect snow will continue overnight in Michigan's U. P. and northern lower Michigan. Heavier bands of lake-effect snow will continue east of Lakes Erie and Ontario. In the Tug Hill Plateau east of Lake Ontario, 10 to 20 inches are expected through Wednesday. Another area of snow will fall well to the south of Buffalo. Expect 6 to 12 inches in these areas, with locally higher amounts. Elsewhere, look for periods of rain around coastal areas of Texas and Louisiana. A plunge of polar air will sweep across the Northeast on Wednesday night and Thursday so get ready for the coldest air of the season.
Heavy rains hammer northwestern B.C.
Last Updated: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 | 2:26 PM PT CBC News
Heavy rain has flooded neighbourhoods in the Terrace area of northwestern B.C. and shut down highways across the region.Terrace fire Chief Pete Weeber said that because of the frozen ground, the water can't be absorbed, so it's flowing freely down some streets.He said a number of streets that are covered with several feet of water have been blocked off, and the water has also caused a mudslide in the eastern part of the city.Weeber also said volunteers have been busy filling sandbags, and that there have not been any widespread evacuations.Most of Highway 16 from Prince Rupert to Terrace has been closed because of avalanche danger and massive pools of water.Highway 37 from Terrace to Kitimat is open, but crews report water ponding at Furlong Bay. There is also water ponding at Morrison Creek near Kitimaat Village.Officials say they expect this rain to taper off, with sunshine in the forecast for the next few days.
Schools close as storm sweeps across N.L.
Highways hit by slippery conditions, poor visibility
Wednesday, January 24, 2007 | 6:39 PM NT CBC News
A winter storm ripped into much of Newfoundland and Labrador on Wednesday, with a treacherous combination of snow, high winds and ice pellets hitting many communities.The blizzard was powerful enough to close scores of schools, government offices, businesses and community groups.Blizzard or heavy snowfall warnings were in effect for almost all of Newfoundland and along Labrador's coast. (CBC) The storm tapered off along the eastern coast of Newfoundland by late afternoon, but was still raging in other areas.Snowfall and other warnings remained in effect Wednesday evening for southern, central and northern Newfoundland, as well as for all of Labrador's coast.The storm made for difficult driving on highways, with slippery conditions coupled with poor visibility.The provincial Department of Transportation urged motorists to stay off the Burgeo Highway. A part of the Trans-Canada
Highway was temporarily closed after a truck went off the road.
While crews began dealing with cleaning up the snowfall as much as 25 centimetres fell within a few hours residents were bracing for more snow, forecast for Thursday.A blizzard warning remained in effect for parts of Newfoundland's northeast coast, which received some of the toughest weather.The Bonavista Peninsula and other areas were expected to be hit by northeasterly gusts as strong as 110 kilometres per hour.It's going to be a pretty messy day, said Wanda Rideout, a meteorologist at Environment Canada's Gander office, on Wednesday morning.Schools in St. John's and in many other communities closed for the day, as did Memorial University's St. John's campus.Also closed were banks, most government offices, community centres and many businesses.The storm caused numerous cancellations and delays at St. John's International Airport.
Canada readies for Atlantic tsunami peril Tue Jan 23, 3:13 PM ET
OTTAWA (AFP) Canada has activated an Atlantic tsunami warning system to better prevent deaths or destruction from massive waves and frequent storm surges, the government said.
The devastating tsunami in southeast Asia heightened concerns about tsunami warnings in coastal areas around the world, Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day said in a statement.Today, I'm pleased to announce that we are taking action to strengthen our security by activating a warning system for tsunamis along Canada's east coast.More than 70 percent of tsunamis actually occur in the Pacific Ocean, produced by sea earthquakes or undersea volcanic eruptions.But the most devastating wave to hit Canada smashed its eastern seaboard, killing 29 people and damaging some 50 coastal towns in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia provinces in 1929.The new alert system would eventually become part of an international structure for issuing Atlantic tsunami warnings, operated in collaboration with the US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and similar to the one existing for the Pacific Ocean, the government said.In December 2004, more than 220,000 people were killed, most of them struck without warning, as a massive tsunami battered Indian Ocean coasts.The tragedy led to worldwide calls for a more effective tsunami response system including both the technology to predict the disasters and the means to get the message out.
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.
Drilling said caused Indonesia mud volcano By ANTHONY DEUTSCH,
Associated Press Writer Wed Jan 24, 3:22 AM ET
JAKARTA, Indonesia A mud volcano that inundated dozens of villages was probably triggered by commercial gas drilling, research published in a respected scientific journal shows, contradicting an Indonesian government minister who insists it was a natural disaster.
It is very likely that the mud flow on the island of Java, which has spewed a million barrels of mud a day for eight months, is manmade, four researchers say in the February issue of the Geological Society of America's GSA Today.Welfare Minister Aburizal Bakrie whose family controls the PT Lapindo Brantas drilling company at the center of the scandal has repeatedly claimed the geyser was sparked by a May 27 earthquake and that his company bears no financial liability.But the British-based scientists believe drilling at a depth of more than one mile ruptured a highly pressurized pocket of hot gas and water which created fissures in a bed of porous limestone.Once initiated, the fractures would have propagated to the surface, driven by the deep pressure, the report stated. It would be highly coincidental for an earthquake-induced fracture to form 200 meters away from this well and provide the entire fracture network required for an eruption on the earth's surface.Since May, around 163,000 cubic yards of sediment equal to about 50 Olympic swimming pools has gushed from the site. Around 11,000 people have been forced from their homes while four villages, and 25 factories have been consumed by a 30-foot layer of smelly gunk.In November, a natural gas pipeline cracked under the weight of a dam built to channel the mud to the sea, triggering a powerful explosion that killed 13 people and injured a dozen others. It took emergency workers several days to find the bodies in the sludge.The government has said it will seek an initial $420 million in damages from Lapindo, including $276 million paid to the victims, by March 2007.
Yemen's Last Jews Threatened and Banished
By Hillel Fendel (INN) JAN 23,07
Jews in Yemen have been abruptly targeted by a local sheikh, told they were moral destroyers, and ordered to leave or else and some have. Jewish sages have been killed, one woman reports. Only some 50 Jewish families remain in virulently anti-Israel Yemen, but after years of being largely ignored by the local population and authorities, they have now been targeted by Moslem extremists. Some of the families, in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, were confronted by masked men who told them that if they do not leave within ten days, things will be bad for you. Other Jews were told that the Moslems don't want to see even one Jew left in the region.
Reports of Killings
In a phone call engineered by Voice of Israel Radio on Monday, a Jewish woman living in Yemen said that the Moslems have already killed the wise men.
No confirmation of this has been received from other quarters though news from Yemen does not flow freely.The stated explanation for the Moslem anti-Semitism, according to a letter circulated by local Sheikh Yahya Sad Al Khudhair, is that the Jews are associated with groups and activities that primarily serve global Zionism that works actively to corrupt the people and cause them to abandon their ethical values and religion and disseminate all types of abominations... Our religion has ordered us to fight the corrupt people and expel them. In the Voice of Israel phone call, Masoud - a Yemenite Jew who moved to Israel six years ago and now lives in Be'er Sheva - spoke with a woman relative in Yemen. The conversation was held in Hebrew-spiced Arabic. Kif halak? Masoud asked in Arabic, meaning, How are you?, and the response came in Hebrew, Baurich Hashem, Blessed be G-d.The woman told Masoud, On Friday [11 days ago], they received letters saying that whoever doesn't leave will get killed or have his children taken away or I don't know what... Now they saw these [threatening] letters and are scared; what can they do? They took everything they had, with the children, and left, and now they're in a hotel. Some 45 Jews are now
reportedly in the Paris Tower Hotel in Saana.Asked why the remaining Jews do not come to Israel, Masoud said simply that they are currently not interested in that option.Earlier last week, according to the Yemen Observer, local authorities and tribal sheikhs held meetings to discuss the complaints from the Yemeni Jews but they resulted only in oral reassurances for the Jews, who were told to ignore the threats and go back to their villages. Yes, they received threats, the area's DeputyGovernor said Monday about the Jews, and they are now here in the hotel, but I can assure you that the problem will be solved today, and the Jews will return to their villages.
Yemenite Jews Converted to Islam
Dr. Moshe Nachum, of the Israeli Federation of Yemenite Jews, accuses modern Israel of having led indirectly to many thousands of Jewish converts to Islam. He told Arutz-7 that 56,000 Jews - roughly 2/3 of the Jewish population in Yemen - were brought over to Israel during Operation Magic Carpet (also known as Operation Eagles' Wings) in 1949-50, following murderous Muslim riots. A trickle of migration was allowed to continue until 1954, at which point it stopped. In 1962, another 2,300 Jews were allowed to immigrate, but many families were then left split between Israel and Yemen. I went to Yemen in 1977, Nachum said, at which time I learned that there were between 25,000 and 28,000 Jews there. No one was allowed to leave until 1993, at which time a trickle began, leading to a total of 900 or 1,000 Jews coming to Israel. A few hundred now remain there.A-7: What happened to the 25-28,000 Jews you said were there in 1977 and before?
Dr. Nachum: Very simple they converted to Islam. Because of uncaring behavior on the part of the officials here in Israel, we lost thousands of Jews... I started to actively lobby to have Israel bring the remaining Yemenite Jews to Israel, but in response, the officials released statements that there were no Jews left in Yemen.Dr. Nachum also blames the Satmarer Hassidim for trying to bring Yemenite Jews to New York or to Europe or even to return to Yemen - anywhere but Israel.
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).
Luxembourg calls off EU constitution conference
23.01.2007 - 09:26 CET | By Mark Beunderman
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS Luxembourg has called off a planned February meeting on the EU constitution in order to avoid the impression of working against the German EU presidency, while this week's friends of the constitution meeting in Madrid continues to stir controversy. The Luxembourg conference, scheduled for 27 February, was meant as a follow-up to a gathering of 18 EU states supporting the constitutional treaty which will take place as planned this Friday (26 January) in Madrid.
Spain and Luxembourg the only two countries which approved the charter by referendum took the intitiative for both meetings, but have now decided to ditch the second conference in Luxembourg in order not to interfere with the German EU presidency's efforts to revive the constitution, Luxembourg's foreign minister Jean Asselborn told EUobserver. The initial idea was that we hold a meeting in Madrid, and then a later meeting in Luxembourg. We have said now about the meeting in Luxembourg: we are not doing this for the moment, Mr Asselborn said after meeting EU counterparts in Brussels on Monday (22 January). It emerged that maybe we give the impression of disregarding the presidency. Of course we want to help the presidency, he stated. From the start this was cleared with the Germans, that we wouldn't work against the presidency. But it could be interpreted as such, he said.
French-Dutch unease
Although Germany has publicly welcomed the first friends of the constitution meeting in Madrid this week, EU diplomats say Berlin was unhappy particularly with the second meeting in February, which was scheduled just before the signing of a major declaration on the EU's 50th birthday in March. The second meeting, which would bring the pro-constitution camp and the constitution sceptics together, would also encroach on what Germany sees as the prime task of its presidency - to bridge the divide between the two camps and seek a new consensus on an EU treaty.Meanwhile, Mr Asselborn said that the meeting had also been cancelled because of resistance by France and the Netherlands, which would be forced at the Luxembourg conference to define their exact position on the constitution at an early stage.We don't want to bring France, the Netherlands and others in a difficult position.
Luxembourg and Spain do not want to force anyone to take part, he said, with France's presidential elections planned for May and the Netherlands being engaged in a cabinet formation which could take until March. Dutch foreign minister Bernard Bot told reporters that especially after the French and Dutch reactions, they have given it some re-consideration.
All invited to watch
Meanwhile, Mr Bot had in a Benelux chat with Mr Asselborn on Monday morning expressed his worry that Friday's restricted meeting could look like a ganging up of pro-constitution states.
But Mr Asselborn said I have repeated with [Spanish foreign minister] Moratinos that this initiative of the Spanish and the Luxembourgers is directed against nobody, neither against the French and the Dutch nor against anyone else.In order to counter any fears of secrecy, Spain and Luxembourg have now decided that all EU capitals, including Paris and The Hague, are free to send observers to the meeting. The official invitation has been sent to the 18 [states who have ratified the constitution]. If the others want to participate under an observer statute, we have said: everyone who wants to come, can come,according to Mr Asselborn.
We will not negotiate
The Luxembourg politician added that the 18 ratifiers will not take an official position after the meeting, which will take place at the level of EU affairs ministers. In Madrid, we will not negotiate. Those who are there, do not have a mandate of their governments, he said, but added that the 18 will produce some kind of paper.Ireland and Portugal, which have not ratified the treaty but strongly
support it, will send observers to the meeting. Germany as EU chair also chose to be represented as an observer only - sending its ambassador in Madrid to take notes of the meeting. The Netherlands appears to have politely declined the invitation to also send an observer, with Mr Bot saying that we will not go to Madrid.
Activists protest free trade pact at EU base in Kenya Wed Jan 24, 10:02 AM ET
NAIROBI (AFP) Some 2,000 anti-globalisation activists were marching in Kenya's capital Nairobi to protest against a plan to liberalise trade between developing nations and the European Union. The marchers said implementation of Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) between the EU and a group of African, Caribbean and Pacific nations, due to come into force in 2008, should be delayed for several years.Fight poverty, stop the EPAs. We do not need euros, chanted the protesters marching from Nairobi's Uhuru (Independence) Park to the EU offices where they unsuccessfully sought an audience with the heads of mission.The protests were held during the ongoing World Social Forum, a gathering of thousands of anti-globalisation activisits which wraps up on Thursday.We are demanding a moratorium of several years on the signing of the EPAs to enable ACP countries, particularly African nations emerging from conflicts, to revamp their agriculture, said Ousainou Ngum, an activist.Ngum said African governments were willing to sign the EPAs without being worried that their markets will be flooded by goods from the more developed European countries whose agricultural sector benefits from subsidies.At a meeting between representatives of the the two blocs in Khartoum last month, the ACP regretted the lack of progress with the EPAs.
Radio tags track wasp behaviour JAN 24,07
The researchers looked at a species of paper wasp
Wasps fitted with minuscule radio tags have helped scientists shed light on the insects' behaviour. Rather than just tending their home colonies, the worker wasps also buzzed into nearby relative-holding nests, helping raise the young, the team said. The researchers believed the insects were boosting their chances of propagating their genes by nurturing relatives in multiple nests.
The Zoological Society of London (ZSL) study is published in Current Biology. Nest drifting, which is where individual insects move between different nests, has been described in a few different species of social insects, but it has always been a puzzle as to why they have done this, explained lead author Seirian Sumner of ZSL. It has also been very difficult to quantify the standard way is to mark the wasps with paint and then carry out nest censuses so we developed a new method.To track the wasps, the team fitted the insects with Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags and placed sensors at the entrance of each nest to record their movements, in real time, in and out of the nests. Dr Sumner said she got the idea from the Oyster card touch in, touch out system used on the London Underground.
Passing genes
The researchers, working in the tropics of Panama, looked at an extended colony of 33 nests belonging to a species of paper wasp called Polistes canadensis. In each nest, they tagged every female worker (those in the colony responsible for nest maintenance, food gathering and care of the brood), fitting a total of 422 with the RFID tags. A staggering number, 56% of the population, were drifting from nest to nest, Dr Sumner told the BBC News website, many more than previous studies had estimated. After further observations, the ZSL team ruled out that the wasps were lost, confused by their tags or trying to lay eggs in their neighbours' nests in a bout of social parasitism. Instead, it found the wasps were helping to raise their relatives' young. Worker wasps do not reproduce themselves, but by raising relatives who share their genes they can pass on genes indirectly, explained Dr Sumner.
And these workers are gaining indirect fitness benefit by helping to raise relatives on lots of different nests rather just than their home nests.This would be particularly crucial with wasps that face a high likelihood of getting their nests destroyed, such as the P. canadensis, she said. If you have just put all of your efforts into one nest and then that nest gets eaten, then all of this effort is lost
and you haven't helped to pass on your genes, Dr Sumner said. The researchers expect to find similar behaviour in other insect species.
Jewish Withdrawal from Judea and Samaria Back on the Table
By Hana Levi Julian (INN) JAN 24,07
The government has agreed in principle to withdraw from most of Judea and Samaria (Yesha), in secret talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. So reports WorldNetDaily.
Egypt and the European Union (EU) have been mediating the negotiations, according to the World Net Daily (WND) news website. WND quoted high-level Egyptian diplomatic and intelligence officials, and an aide to EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana, as saying they have been directly involved in the talks.Negotiations have been quietly proceeding apace for the past two or three weeks, according to sources quoted by WND reporter Aaron Klein, after PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas suggested to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert late last month that the two men switch to back channel talks in order to avoid media coverage.According to Egyptian and EU sources, one of the plans currently under consideration involves handing over control of central and southern Yesha to PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s security forces. In northern Yesha, the transfer of responsibility to Abbas’ security forces over the area would bemonitored by Jordan and EU observers.No word about the fate, under this plan, of the many tens of thousands of Jews living in these areas has been received.
Hamas’s role in the plan remains unclear. The terrorist organization has repeatedly vowed never to formally recognize the State of Israel, renounce terrorism or uphold agreements with Israel signed by the previous, Fatah-led, PA government. That stance is not accepted by the international community.Talks toward a unity coalition between PA Prime Minister and Hamas chairman Ismail Haniyeh and Mahmoud Abbas, who heads the Fatah faction, are all but dead, leaving Hamas in control of the PA. The streets of Gaza have become a battlefield as Hamas and Fatah struggle for control of the PA government, with bloody clashes that have resulted in the deaths of both terrorists and innocent PA residents alike in what has become a militia war.The situation may intensify further and eventually lead to escalated attacks against the Jewish State as well, in the wake of an announcement by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice last week that the Bush administration has agreed to finance, arm and train Abbas’ security force.
The force will reportedly include the Fatah-controlled Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades, one of the most vicious groups engaged in the terrorist war against Israel. Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades has shared responsibility with the Islamic Jihad terror group for the suicide bombings in Israel over the past two years.Rice said during her visit to the region last week that the U.S. will send Abbas $86.4 million to beef up his personal security guard, Force 17, which also polices PA areas in Judea, Samaria and Gaza. The Bush administration is hoping to strengthen Fatah which it perceives as a moderate group in its bid to wrest control of the PA government from Hamas.The last time the U.S. transferred arms to Fatah in order to strengthen its ability to police the PA, the weapons were ultimately pointed at Israel by a myriad of terrorist factions. When asked about that experience, Rice claimed that this time would be different.It was envisioned [then] that the Palestinian Authority would have security forces, she said. The problem is those security forces broke into essentially personal militias under [former PLO chairman Yasser] Arafat. They broke into too many that were often warring with each other.The current plan, she added, would be carried out in a way that would move over time, with the idea being that the U.S. would maintain control over what is being done with the weapons.
This plan is not just to equip [Abbas’ security forces] and train them, [but] it is also to professionalize them, to unify them [and] to put them under a single command, she said.
Now these newly-armed forces, trained and professionalized by the U.S. government would be given control over most of Judea and Samaria, placing them within rocket fire range of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and Ben Gurion International Airport. They would also be within range of Arad in the Negev, and other cities and smaller communities located near the pre-1967 borders.Diplomatic sources said talks are moving rapidly as the PA wrestles with Israel over the precise location of the new borders. Solana’s aide told WND that diplomats are expected to see a historic political evolution and movement in negotiations in the next few weeks and few months, unseen since the Camp David peace talks in 2000.In 2000, then-Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered to give Arafat an official PA state in Judea, Samaria, Gaza and eastern neighborhoods in Jerusalem. Arafat turned down the offer, insisting the entire Israeli capital be transferred to the PA.
EU expecting role in Israel's security
Top diplomatic sources say secret talks held on handing West Bank to Abbas
January 24, 2007 1:00 a.m. Eastern - By Aaron Klein - 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
JERUSALEM The European Union is in the process of expanding its offices in Israel, including in the Palestinian areas, in anticipation of an increased security role here following what European diplomatic officials say is new momentum regarding an
Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank.The West Bank borders Jerusalem and is within rocket-firing range of Tel Aviv and Israel's international airport. EU sources in Israel tell WND their offices here are taking on new staffers to deal with matters of security, public relations, diplomacy and regional coordination. They say they expect an increased work load due to behind-the-scenes diplomatic initiatives they state may result in an Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank. The sources said the EU would coordinate handing over security control of key West Bank areas to the Palestinians According to an aide to EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana, speaking on condition of anonymity, there will be a historic political evolution and movement in negotiations in the next few weeks and few months, unseen since the Camp David peace talks in 2000. During the Camp David talks, then-Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered then-Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat a state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and eastern sections of Jerusalem.
Earlier this week a WND report quoted top Egyptian and European diplomatic sources stating Israel and the Palestinians have been conducting behind-the-scenes negotiations regarding handing over most of the West Bank to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. The diplomatic sources said they were directly involved in negotiations mediated by Egypt and the EU, with U.S. input. The sources said major changes in Israeli-Palestinian affairs are expected within a few weeks to two months. According to the diplomatic sources, Israel agreed in principal to hand over most of the West Bank in a deal with Abbas. The sources said Israel is studying the transfer of responsibility in the central and southern West Bank to Abbas' security forces, which reportedly are receiving aid, weapons and training from the U.S. They said one proposal being considered for the northern West Bank would see Jordan and the EU supervise the transfer to Abbas' security forces. Still being debated is the role of Hamas, which leads the PA and maintains the majority of seats in the Palestinian parliament. Negotiations between Abbas and Hamas leaders for a national unity government have mostly fallen through. On Monday, Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz said he viewed any Palestinian elements recognizing the state of Israel as a partner for negotiations even if it is Hamas.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has made similar comments.
So far, Hamas has refused to recognize Israel but recently offered a 10-year truce with the Jewish state.
In a series of interviews this past weekend, Hamas leaders told WND during any 10-year truce period they would build a large Palestinian army and plan for the destruction of Israel. Olmert's office yesterday denied the WND report of secret negotiations for a West Bank withdrawal. There were no negotiations regarding a West Bank withdrawal. This would go contrary to other things we have said in the recent past, said Olmert's spokesperson, Miri Eisin. Perhaps the officials talking to WorldNetDaily were referring to general expectations for movement in the Israeli-Palestinian arena, Eisin said. But the European and Egyptian sources yesterday stood by their statements that Israel agreed in principal to transfer West Bank security control to Abbas. Israeli leaders previously have denied reports of pending withdrawals only to later carry them out. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, elected in 2001 on a platform against unilateral withdrawal, at first denied media reports Israel was planning to evacuate the Gaza Strip but later announced his Gaza withdrawal plan. Olmert was elected prime minister on the platform of carrying out a withdrawal from the West Bank, but after this summer's Lebanon war, he has stated a West Bank withdrawal would not occur.
Olmert in August called the policy of unilateral withdrawal a failure and said it was no longer relevant. But he can argue handing the West Bank to Abbas in an agreement is not unilateral. Contradicting Olmert, Israeli Interior Minister Roni Bar-On of Olmert's Kadima party said this summer, The withdrawal plan is not dead, though its implementation has been postponed. The plan is now on the shelf or in the freezer, but when the time comes it will be accessed. Several recent public opinion polls showed the majority of Israelis now oppose a West Bank withdrawal. The leaders of Egypt and Jordan have expressed reservations about withdrawal plans, fearing terrorism can spill over into their respective countries. Israel withdrew from southern Lebanon in 2000. It had occupied a small section of Lebanon's border with Israel following repeated attacks by Palestinian terrorists in the area. Since the withdrawal, Hezbollah has staged numerous attacks against Israel, including rocket bombardments of civilian population centers, raids against military outposts and ambushes and kidnappings of Israeli troops. Hezbollah built an arsenal in south Lebanon of more than 13,000 short- and medium-range rockets capable of hitting central sections of the Jewish state Israel withdrew last August from the Gaza Strip. Since then, rockets have been fired almost daily into nearby Jewish communities, Hamas has been elected to power and both Israeli and Palestinian officials have stated al-Qaida has infiltrated the territory. Israel says the Palestinians have smuggled hundreds of tons of heavy weaponry into Gaza and are preparing for a large-scale confrontation. Israel in June mounted a major ground invasion of Gaza after Hamas carried out a raid against a military installation in which Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit was abducted.
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 Jan 25 12:27 AM EDT
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MAP 3.4 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
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MAP 2.9 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 3.9 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 2.9 ISLAND OF HAWAII, HAWAII
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MAP 5.1 AISEN, CHILE
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MAP 2.8 MOUNT ST. HELENS AREA, WASHINGTON
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Quake shakes Indonesia's Sulawesi Wed Jan 24, 5:10 AM ET
JAKARTA (AFP) An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 has shaken the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, seismologists said, but there were no immediate reports of any damage. The quake hit at 4:40 pm (0840 GMT) Wednesday and was centered about 98 kilometres (60 miles) southeast of the North Sulawesi provincial capital Manado at a depth of 33 kilometres under the seabed, the meteorology agency here said.The tremor was felt in Manado, an official at the agency said.A major 6.5-magnitude undersea earthquake rocked Sulawesi Sunday, causing panic but no serious damage.The Indonesian archipelago sits on the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire where continental plates meet, causing frequent seismic and volcanic activity.There have been several quakes and aftershocks this week alone.Indonesia was the nation worst hit by the earthquake-triggered Asian tsunami in December 2004, which killed some 168,000 people in western Aceh province.
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.
Heavy rains claim 53 lives in Angolan capital Wed Jan 24, 10:14 AM ET
LUANDA (AFP) Fifty-three people have died in Luanda, Angola's seaside capital, in torrential rains that have lashed the city for three days, a police spokesman has said. We have recorded 53 deaths until now, Divaldo Martins told AFP Wednesday, adding that more than 1,300 families were homeless.Luanda's governor Job Capapihna on Tuesday met with senior local officials in the city of some 4.5 million, whose creaking infrastructure has been further damaged by the downpours, to assess the damage.In March 2005, flooding in northern Angola a former Portuguese colony which is still recovering from a 27-year civil war that shattered most of its infrastructure left over 10,000 people without shelter.Makeshift shelters have been put up in Luanda to house those rendered homeless by the flash floods, which have also hit telephone lines.The country has been cut off from the rest of the world because the rains have destroyed the optic fibre cables. We will do our best to address the situation, said Manuel Cesar, spokesman of the state-run telephone firm Angolatelecom.
Snow around the Great Lakes Tom Moore, Sr. Meteorologist, The Weather Channel Wed Jan 24, 12:53 AM ET
A narrow band of lake-effect snow will continue overnight in Michigan's U. P. and northern lower Michigan. Heavier bands of lake-effect snow will continue east of Lakes Erie and Ontario. In the Tug Hill Plateau east of Lake Ontario, 10 to 20 inches are expected through Wednesday. Another area of snow will fall well to the south of Buffalo. Expect 6 to 12 inches in these areas, with locally higher amounts. Elsewhere, look for periods of rain around coastal areas of Texas and Louisiana. A plunge of polar air will sweep across the Northeast on Wednesday night and Thursday so get ready for the coldest air of the season.
Heavy rains hammer northwestern B.C.
Last Updated: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 | 2:26 PM PT CBC News
Heavy rain has flooded neighbourhoods in the Terrace area of northwestern B.C. and shut down highways across the region.Terrace fire Chief Pete Weeber said that because of the frozen ground, the water can't be absorbed, so it's flowing freely down some streets.He said a number of streets that are covered with several feet of water have been blocked off, and the water has also caused a mudslide in the eastern part of the city.Weeber also said volunteers have been busy filling sandbags, and that there have not been any widespread evacuations.Most of Highway 16 from Prince Rupert to Terrace has been closed because of avalanche danger and massive pools of water.Highway 37 from Terrace to Kitimat is open, but crews report water ponding at Furlong Bay. There is also water ponding at Morrison Creek near Kitimaat Village.Officials say they expect this rain to taper off, with sunshine in the forecast for the next few days.
Schools close as storm sweeps across N.L.
Highways hit by slippery conditions, poor visibility
Wednesday, January 24, 2007 | 6:39 PM NT CBC News
A winter storm ripped into much of Newfoundland and Labrador on Wednesday, with a treacherous combination of snow, high winds and ice pellets hitting many communities.The blizzard was powerful enough to close scores of schools, government offices, businesses and community groups.Blizzard or heavy snowfall warnings were in effect for almost all of Newfoundland and along Labrador's coast. (CBC) The storm tapered off along the eastern coast of Newfoundland by late afternoon, but was still raging in other areas.Snowfall and other warnings remained in effect Wednesday evening for southern, central and northern Newfoundland, as well as for all of Labrador's coast.The storm made for difficult driving on highways, with slippery conditions coupled with poor visibility.The provincial Department of Transportation urged motorists to stay off the Burgeo Highway. A part of the Trans-Canada
Highway was temporarily closed after a truck went off the road.
While crews began dealing with cleaning up the snowfall as much as 25 centimetres fell within a few hours residents were bracing for more snow, forecast for Thursday.A blizzard warning remained in effect for parts of Newfoundland's northeast coast, which received some of the toughest weather.The Bonavista Peninsula and other areas were expected to be hit by northeasterly gusts as strong as 110 kilometres per hour.It's going to be a pretty messy day, said Wanda Rideout, a meteorologist at Environment Canada's Gander office, on Wednesday morning.Schools in St. John's and in many other communities closed for the day, as did Memorial University's St. John's campus.Also closed were banks, most government offices, community centres and many businesses.The storm caused numerous cancellations and delays at St. John's International Airport.
Canada readies for Atlantic tsunami peril Tue Jan 23, 3:13 PM ET
OTTAWA (AFP) Canada has activated an Atlantic tsunami warning system to better prevent deaths or destruction from massive waves and frequent storm surges, the government said.
The devastating tsunami in southeast Asia heightened concerns about tsunami warnings in coastal areas around the world, Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day said in a statement.Today, I'm pleased to announce that we are taking action to strengthen our security by activating a warning system for tsunamis along Canada's east coast.More than 70 percent of tsunamis actually occur in the Pacific Ocean, produced by sea earthquakes or undersea volcanic eruptions.But the most devastating wave to hit Canada smashed its eastern seaboard, killing 29 people and damaging some 50 coastal towns in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia provinces in 1929.The new alert system would eventually become part of an international structure for issuing Atlantic tsunami warnings, operated in collaboration with the US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and similar to the one existing for the Pacific Ocean, the government said.In December 2004, more than 220,000 people were killed, most of them struck without warning, as a massive tsunami battered Indian Ocean coasts.The tragedy led to worldwide calls for a more effective tsunami response system including both the technology to predict the disasters and the means to get the message out.
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.
Drilling said caused Indonesia mud volcano By ANTHONY DEUTSCH,
Associated Press Writer Wed Jan 24, 3:22 AM ET
JAKARTA, Indonesia A mud volcano that inundated dozens of villages was probably triggered by commercial gas drilling, research published in a respected scientific journal shows, contradicting an Indonesian government minister who insists it was a natural disaster.
It is very likely that the mud flow on the island of Java, which has spewed a million barrels of mud a day for eight months, is manmade, four researchers say in the February issue of the Geological Society of America's GSA Today.Welfare Minister Aburizal Bakrie whose family controls the PT Lapindo Brantas drilling company at the center of the scandal has repeatedly claimed the geyser was sparked by a May 27 earthquake and that his company bears no financial liability.But the British-based scientists believe drilling at a depth of more than one mile ruptured a highly pressurized pocket of hot gas and water which created fissures in a bed of porous limestone.Once initiated, the fractures would have propagated to the surface, driven by the deep pressure, the report stated. It would be highly coincidental for an earthquake-induced fracture to form 200 meters away from this well and provide the entire fracture network required for an eruption on the earth's surface.Since May, around 163,000 cubic yards of sediment equal to about 50 Olympic swimming pools has gushed from the site. Around 11,000 people have been forced from their homes while four villages, and 25 factories have been consumed by a 30-foot layer of smelly gunk.In November, a natural gas pipeline cracked under the weight of a dam built to channel the mud to the sea, triggering a powerful explosion that killed 13 people and injured a dozen others. It took emergency workers several days to find the bodies in the sludge.The government has said it will seek an initial $420 million in damages from Lapindo, including $276 million paid to the victims, by March 2007.
Yemen's Last Jews Threatened and Banished
By Hillel Fendel (INN) JAN 23,07
Jews in Yemen have been abruptly targeted by a local sheikh, told they were moral destroyers, and ordered to leave or else and some have. Jewish sages have been killed, one woman reports. Only some 50 Jewish families remain in virulently anti-Israel Yemen, but after years of being largely ignored by the local population and authorities, they have now been targeted by Moslem extremists. Some of the families, in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, were confronted by masked men who told them that if they do not leave within ten days, things will be bad for you. Other Jews were told that the Moslems don't want to see even one Jew left in the region.
Reports of Killings
In a phone call engineered by Voice of Israel Radio on Monday, a Jewish woman living in Yemen said that the Moslems have already killed the wise men.
No confirmation of this has been received from other quarters though news from Yemen does not flow freely.The stated explanation for the Moslem anti-Semitism, according to a letter circulated by local Sheikh Yahya Sad Al Khudhair, is that the Jews are associated with groups and activities that primarily serve global Zionism that works actively to corrupt the people and cause them to abandon their ethical values and religion and disseminate all types of abominations... Our religion has ordered us to fight the corrupt people and expel them. In the Voice of Israel phone call, Masoud - a Yemenite Jew who moved to Israel six years ago and now lives in Be'er Sheva - spoke with a woman relative in Yemen. The conversation was held in Hebrew-spiced Arabic. Kif halak? Masoud asked in Arabic, meaning, How are you?, and the response came in Hebrew, Baurich Hashem, Blessed be G-d.The woman told Masoud, On Friday [11 days ago], they received letters saying that whoever doesn't leave will get killed or have his children taken away or I don't know what... Now they saw these [threatening] letters and are scared; what can they do? They took everything they had, with the children, and left, and now they're in a hotel. Some 45 Jews are now
reportedly in the Paris Tower Hotel in Saana.Asked why the remaining Jews do not come to Israel, Masoud said simply that they are currently not interested in that option.Earlier last week, according to the Yemen Observer, local authorities and tribal sheikhs held meetings to discuss the complaints from the Yemeni Jews but they resulted only in oral reassurances for the Jews, who were told to ignore the threats and go back to their villages. Yes, they received threats, the area's DeputyGovernor said Monday about the Jews, and they are now here in the hotel, but I can assure you that the problem will be solved today, and the Jews will return to their villages.
Yemenite Jews Converted to Islam
Dr. Moshe Nachum, of the Israeli Federation of Yemenite Jews, accuses modern Israel of having led indirectly to many thousands of Jewish converts to Islam. He told Arutz-7 that 56,000 Jews - roughly 2/3 of the Jewish population in Yemen - were brought over to Israel during Operation Magic Carpet (also known as Operation Eagles' Wings) in 1949-50, following murderous Muslim riots. A trickle of migration was allowed to continue until 1954, at which point it stopped. In 1962, another 2,300 Jews were allowed to immigrate, but many families were then left split between Israel and Yemen. I went to Yemen in 1977, Nachum said, at which time I learned that there were between 25,000 and 28,000 Jews there. No one was allowed to leave until 1993, at which time a trickle began, leading to a total of 900 or 1,000 Jews coming to Israel. A few hundred now remain there.A-7: What happened to the 25-28,000 Jews you said were there in 1977 and before?
Dr. Nachum: Very simple they converted to Islam. Because of uncaring behavior on the part of the officials here in Israel, we lost thousands of Jews... I started to actively lobby to have Israel bring the remaining Yemenite Jews to Israel, but in response, the officials released statements that there were no Jews left in Yemen.Dr. Nachum also blames the Satmarer Hassidim for trying to bring Yemenite Jews to New York or to Europe or even to return to Yemen - anywhere but Israel.
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).
Luxembourg calls off EU constitution conference
23.01.2007 - 09:26 CET | By Mark Beunderman
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS Luxembourg has called off a planned February meeting on the EU constitution in order to avoid the impression of working against the German EU presidency, while this week's friends of the constitution meeting in Madrid continues to stir controversy. The Luxembourg conference, scheduled for 27 February, was meant as a follow-up to a gathering of 18 EU states supporting the constitutional treaty which will take place as planned this Friday (26 January) in Madrid.
Spain and Luxembourg the only two countries which approved the charter by referendum took the intitiative for both meetings, but have now decided to ditch the second conference in Luxembourg in order not to interfere with the German EU presidency's efforts to revive the constitution, Luxembourg's foreign minister Jean Asselborn told EUobserver. The initial idea was that we hold a meeting in Madrid, and then a later meeting in Luxembourg. We have said now about the meeting in Luxembourg: we are not doing this for the moment, Mr Asselborn said after meeting EU counterparts in Brussels on Monday (22 January). It emerged that maybe we give the impression of disregarding the presidency. Of course we want to help the presidency, he stated. From the start this was cleared with the Germans, that we wouldn't work against the presidency. But it could be interpreted as such, he said.
French-Dutch unease
Although Germany has publicly welcomed the first friends of the constitution meeting in Madrid this week, EU diplomats say Berlin was unhappy particularly with the second meeting in February, which was scheduled just before the signing of a major declaration on the EU's 50th birthday in March. The second meeting, which would bring the pro-constitution camp and the constitution sceptics together, would also encroach on what Germany sees as the prime task of its presidency - to bridge the divide between the two camps and seek a new consensus on an EU treaty.Meanwhile, Mr Asselborn said that the meeting had also been cancelled because of resistance by France and the Netherlands, which would be forced at the Luxembourg conference to define their exact position on the constitution at an early stage.We don't want to bring France, the Netherlands and others in a difficult position.
Luxembourg and Spain do not want to force anyone to take part, he said, with France's presidential elections planned for May and the Netherlands being engaged in a cabinet formation which could take until March. Dutch foreign minister Bernard Bot told reporters that especially after the French and Dutch reactions, they have given it some re-consideration.
All invited to watch
Meanwhile, Mr Bot had in a Benelux chat with Mr Asselborn on Monday morning expressed his worry that Friday's restricted meeting could look like a ganging up of pro-constitution states.
But Mr Asselborn said I have repeated with [Spanish foreign minister] Moratinos that this initiative of the Spanish and the Luxembourgers is directed against nobody, neither against the French and the Dutch nor against anyone else.In order to counter any fears of secrecy, Spain and Luxembourg have now decided that all EU capitals, including Paris and The Hague, are free to send observers to the meeting. The official invitation has been sent to the 18 [states who have ratified the constitution]. If the others want to participate under an observer statute, we have said: everyone who wants to come, can come,according to Mr Asselborn.
We will not negotiate
The Luxembourg politician added that the 18 ratifiers will not take an official position after the meeting, which will take place at the level of EU affairs ministers. In Madrid, we will not negotiate. Those who are there, do not have a mandate of their governments, he said, but added that the 18 will produce some kind of paper.Ireland and Portugal, which have not ratified the treaty but strongly
support it, will send observers to the meeting. Germany as EU chair also chose to be represented as an observer only - sending its ambassador in Madrid to take notes of the meeting. The Netherlands appears to have politely declined the invitation to also send an observer, with Mr Bot saying that we will not go to Madrid.
Activists protest free trade pact at EU base in Kenya Wed Jan 24, 10:02 AM ET
NAIROBI (AFP) Some 2,000 anti-globalisation activists were marching in Kenya's capital Nairobi to protest against a plan to liberalise trade between developing nations and the European Union. The marchers said implementation of Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) between the EU and a group of African, Caribbean and Pacific nations, due to come into force in 2008, should be delayed for several years.Fight poverty, stop the EPAs. We do not need euros, chanted the protesters marching from Nairobi's Uhuru (Independence) Park to the EU offices where they unsuccessfully sought an audience with the heads of mission.The protests were held during the ongoing World Social Forum, a gathering of thousands of anti-globalisation activisits which wraps up on Thursday.We are demanding a moratorium of several years on the signing of the EPAs to enable ACP countries, particularly African nations emerging from conflicts, to revamp their agriculture, said Ousainou Ngum, an activist.Ngum said African governments were willing to sign the EPAs without being worried that their markets will be flooded by goods from the more developed European countries whose agricultural sector benefits from subsidies.At a meeting between representatives of the the two blocs in Khartoum last month, the ACP regretted the lack of progress with the EPAs.
Radio tags track wasp behaviour JAN 24,07
The researchers looked at a species of paper wasp
Wasps fitted with minuscule radio tags have helped scientists shed light on the insects' behaviour. Rather than just tending their home colonies, the worker wasps also buzzed into nearby relative-holding nests, helping raise the young, the team said. The researchers believed the insects were boosting their chances of propagating their genes by nurturing relatives in multiple nests.
The Zoological Society of London (ZSL) study is published in Current Biology. Nest drifting, which is where individual insects move between different nests, has been described in a few different species of social insects, but it has always been a puzzle as to why they have done this, explained lead author Seirian Sumner of ZSL. It has also been very difficult to quantify the standard way is to mark the wasps with paint and then carry out nest censuses so we developed a new method.To track the wasps, the team fitted the insects with Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags and placed sensors at the entrance of each nest to record their movements, in real time, in and out of the nests. Dr Sumner said she got the idea from the Oyster card touch in, touch out system used on the London Underground.
Passing genes
The researchers, working in the tropics of Panama, looked at an extended colony of 33 nests belonging to a species of paper wasp called Polistes canadensis. In each nest, they tagged every female worker (those in the colony responsible for nest maintenance, food gathering and care of the brood), fitting a total of 422 with the RFID tags. A staggering number, 56% of the population, were drifting from nest to nest, Dr Sumner told the BBC News website, many more than previous studies had estimated. After further observations, the ZSL team ruled out that the wasps were lost, confused by their tags or trying to lay eggs in their neighbours' nests in a bout of social parasitism. Instead, it found the wasps were helping to raise their relatives' young. Worker wasps do not reproduce themselves, but by raising relatives who share their genes they can pass on genes indirectly, explained Dr Sumner.
And these workers are gaining indirect fitness benefit by helping to raise relatives on lots of different nests rather just than their home nests.This would be particularly crucial with wasps that face a high likelihood of getting their nests destroyed, such as the P. canadensis, she said. If you have just put all of your efforts into one nest and then that nest gets eaten, then all of this effort is lost
and you haven't helped to pass on your genes, Dr Sumner said. The researchers expect to find similar behaviour in other insect species.
Jewish Withdrawal from Judea and Samaria Back on the Table
By Hana Levi Julian (INN) JAN 24,07
The government has agreed in principle to withdraw from most of Judea and Samaria (Yesha), in secret talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. So reports WorldNetDaily.
Egypt and the European Union (EU) have been mediating the negotiations, according to the World Net Daily (WND) news website. WND quoted high-level Egyptian diplomatic and intelligence officials, and an aide to EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana, as saying they have been directly involved in the talks.Negotiations have been quietly proceeding apace for the past two or three weeks, according to sources quoted by WND reporter Aaron Klein, after PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas suggested to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert late last month that the two men switch to back channel talks in order to avoid media coverage.According to Egyptian and EU sources, one of the plans currently under consideration involves handing over control of central and southern Yesha to PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s security forces. In northern Yesha, the transfer of responsibility to Abbas’ security forces over the area would bemonitored by Jordan and EU observers.No word about the fate, under this plan, of the many tens of thousands of Jews living in these areas has been received.
Hamas’s role in the plan remains unclear. The terrorist organization has repeatedly vowed never to formally recognize the State of Israel, renounce terrorism or uphold agreements with Israel signed by the previous, Fatah-led, PA government. That stance is not accepted by the international community.Talks toward a unity coalition between PA Prime Minister and Hamas chairman Ismail Haniyeh and Mahmoud Abbas, who heads the Fatah faction, are all but dead, leaving Hamas in control of the PA. The streets of Gaza have become a battlefield as Hamas and Fatah struggle for control of the PA government, with bloody clashes that have resulted in the deaths of both terrorists and innocent PA residents alike in what has become a militia war.The situation may intensify further and eventually lead to escalated attacks against the Jewish State as well, in the wake of an announcement by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice last week that the Bush administration has agreed to finance, arm and train Abbas’ security force.
The force will reportedly include the Fatah-controlled Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades, one of the most vicious groups engaged in the terrorist war against Israel. Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades has shared responsibility with the Islamic Jihad terror group for the suicide bombings in Israel over the past two years.Rice said during her visit to the region last week that the U.S. will send Abbas $86.4 million to beef up his personal security guard, Force 17, which also polices PA areas in Judea, Samaria and Gaza. The Bush administration is hoping to strengthen Fatah which it perceives as a moderate group in its bid to wrest control of the PA government from Hamas.The last time the U.S. transferred arms to Fatah in order to strengthen its ability to police the PA, the weapons were ultimately pointed at Israel by a myriad of terrorist factions. When asked about that experience, Rice claimed that this time would be different.It was envisioned [then] that the Palestinian Authority would have security forces, she said. The problem is those security forces broke into essentially personal militias under [former PLO chairman Yasser] Arafat. They broke into too many that were often warring with each other.The current plan, she added, would be carried out in a way that would move over time, with the idea being that the U.S. would maintain control over what is being done with the weapons.
This plan is not just to equip [Abbas’ security forces] and train them, [but] it is also to professionalize them, to unify them [and] to put them under a single command, she said.
Now these newly-armed forces, trained and professionalized by the U.S. government would be given control over most of Judea and Samaria, placing them within rocket fire range of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and Ben Gurion International Airport. They would also be within range of Arad in the Negev, and other cities and smaller communities located near the pre-1967 borders.Diplomatic sources said talks are moving rapidly as the PA wrestles with Israel over the precise location of the new borders. Solana’s aide told WND that diplomats are expected to see a historic political evolution and movement in negotiations in the next few weeks and few months, unseen since the Camp David peace talks in 2000.In 2000, then-Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered to give Arafat an official PA state in Judea, Samaria, Gaza and eastern neighborhoods in Jerusalem. Arafat turned down the offer, insisting the entire Israeli capital be transferred to the PA.
EU expecting role in Israel's security
Top diplomatic sources say secret talks held on handing West Bank to Abbas
January 24, 2007 1:00 a.m. Eastern - By Aaron Klein - 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
JERUSALEM The European Union is in the process of expanding its offices in Israel, including in the Palestinian areas, in anticipation of an increased security role here following what European diplomatic officials say is new momentum regarding an
Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank.The West Bank borders Jerusalem and is within rocket-firing range of Tel Aviv and Israel's international airport. EU sources in Israel tell WND their offices here are taking on new staffers to deal with matters of security, public relations, diplomacy and regional coordination. They say they expect an increased work load due to behind-the-scenes diplomatic initiatives they state may result in an Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank. The sources said the EU would coordinate handing over security control of key West Bank areas to the Palestinians According to an aide to EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana, speaking on condition of anonymity, there will be a historic political evolution and movement in negotiations in the next few weeks and few months, unseen since the Camp David peace talks in 2000. During the Camp David talks, then-Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered then-Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat a state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and eastern sections of Jerusalem.
Earlier this week a WND report quoted top Egyptian and European diplomatic sources stating Israel and the Palestinians have been conducting behind-the-scenes negotiations regarding handing over most of the West Bank to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. The diplomatic sources said they were directly involved in negotiations mediated by Egypt and the EU, with U.S. input. The sources said major changes in Israeli-Palestinian affairs are expected within a few weeks to two months. According to the diplomatic sources, Israel agreed in principal to hand over most of the West Bank in a deal with Abbas. The sources said Israel is studying the transfer of responsibility in the central and southern West Bank to Abbas' security forces, which reportedly are receiving aid, weapons and training from the U.S. They said one proposal being considered for the northern West Bank would see Jordan and the EU supervise the transfer to Abbas' security forces. Still being debated is the role of Hamas, which leads the PA and maintains the majority of seats in the Palestinian parliament. Negotiations between Abbas and Hamas leaders for a national unity government have mostly fallen through. On Monday, Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz said he viewed any Palestinian elements recognizing the state of Israel as a partner for negotiations even if it is Hamas.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has made similar comments.
So far, Hamas has refused to recognize Israel but recently offered a 10-year truce with the Jewish state.
In a series of interviews this past weekend, Hamas leaders told WND during any 10-year truce period they would build a large Palestinian army and plan for the destruction of Israel. Olmert's office yesterday denied the WND report of secret negotiations for a West Bank withdrawal. There were no negotiations regarding a West Bank withdrawal. This would go contrary to other things we have said in the recent past, said Olmert's spokesperson, Miri Eisin. Perhaps the officials talking to WorldNetDaily were referring to general expectations for movement in the Israeli-Palestinian arena, Eisin said. But the European and Egyptian sources yesterday stood by their statements that Israel agreed in principal to transfer West Bank security control to Abbas. Israeli leaders previously have denied reports of pending withdrawals only to later carry them out. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, elected in 2001 on a platform against unilateral withdrawal, at first denied media reports Israel was planning to evacuate the Gaza Strip but later announced his Gaza withdrawal plan. Olmert was elected prime minister on the platform of carrying out a withdrawal from the West Bank, but after this summer's Lebanon war, he has stated a West Bank withdrawal would not occur.
Olmert in August called the policy of unilateral withdrawal a failure and said it was no longer relevant. But he can argue handing the West Bank to Abbas in an agreement is not unilateral. Contradicting Olmert, Israeli Interior Minister Roni Bar-On of Olmert's Kadima party said this summer, The withdrawal plan is not dead, though its implementation has been postponed. The plan is now on the shelf or in the freezer, but when the time comes it will be accessed. Several recent public opinion polls showed the majority of Israelis now oppose a West Bank withdrawal. The leaders of Egypt and Jordan have expressed reservations about withdrawal plans, fearing terrorism can spill over into their respective countries. Israel withdrew from southern Lebanon in 2000. It had occupied a small section of Lebanon's border with Israel following repeated attacks by Palestinian terrorists in the area. Since the withdrawal, Hezbollah has staged numerous attacks against Israel, including rocket bombardments of civilian population centers, raids against military outposts and ambushes and kidnappings of Israeli troops. Hezbollah built an arsenal in south Lebanon of more than 13,000 short- and medium-range rockets capable of hitting central sections of the Jewish state Israel withdrew last August from the Gaza Strip. Since then, rockets have been fired almost daily into nearby Jewish communities, Hamas has been elected to power and both Israeli and Palestinian officials have stated al-Qaida has infiltrated the territory. Israel says the Palestinians have smuggled hundreds of tons of heavy weaponry into Gaza and are preparing for a large-scale confrontation. Israel in June mounted a major ground invasion of Gaza after Hamas carried out a raid against a military installation in which Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit was abducted.
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
EU POWER TAKER IN MIDEAST
1-WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS.2-Five killed, 3,500 homeless after heavy rains in Mozambique. 3-Wet in Texas; lake effect snow by Great Lakes. 4-St. John's and vicinity. 5-BAD WEATHER IN THESE VANCOUVER PLACES. 6-Auckland at risk of simultaneous volcanic eruptions. 7-Norwalk prompts N.L. hospitals to restrict visitors. 8-WHO says 35 million people die from chronic diseases in '06. 9-Jet With Anti-Missile System Leaves LAX. 10-Russia, India Set to Conduct Counter-Terrorism Exercises in 2007. 11-Peretz: Israel ready to negotiate. 12-Kuwait media: U.S. military strike on Iran seen by April. 13-Muslim leaders say Jews digging under Temple Mount. 14-Betting Their Souls: Is there such a thing as an unforgivable sin? Newsweek. 15-Secret talks handing West Bank to Abbas Top diplomatic sources tell WND. 16-Sceptical countries need to budge on EU constitution, says German FM. 17-New rules for the Middle East game.
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 Jan 24 12:00 AM EDT
JAN 24,07 NO QUAKES YET
JAN 23,07
MAP 2.9 OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 5.1 AISEN, CHILE
MAP 2.7 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 5.8 VANUATU
MAP 4.1 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 2.8 MOUNT ST. HELENS AREA, WASHINGTON
MAP 2.7 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 5.1 PAPUA, INDONESIA
MAP 5.5 MOLUCCA SEA
MAP 4.9 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 2.5 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 4.8 CENTRAL PERU
MAP 3.2 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 2.5 YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, WYOMING
MAP 2.8 YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, WYOMING
MAP 2.8 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 3.1 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 5.9 BANDA SEA
MAP 4.7 EASTERN HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 3.6 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 5.0 TONGA
MAP 3.0 KODIAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP 2.6 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
JAN 22,07
MAP 2.6 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 5.4 BISMARCK SEA
MAP 5.3 MOLUCCA SEA
MAP 4.9 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 5.3 MOLUCCA SEA
MAP 5.3 SIMEULUE, INDONESIA
MAP 4.9 MOLUCCA SEA
MAP 3.4 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 3.7 VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP 4.8 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 3.4 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 3.2 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 4.7 NEAR THE COAST OF NICARAGUA
MAP 3.0 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.9 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 5.6 NEAR THE NORTH COAST OF PAPUA, INDONESIA
MAP 5.3 NEAR THE NORTH COAST OF PAPUA, INDONESIA
MAP 5.2 MOLUCCA SEA
MAP 5.5 MOLUCCA SEA
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.
Five killed, 3,500 homeless after heavy rains in Mozambique JAN 23,07
MAPUTO (AFP) Torrential rains in central Mozambique have claimed five lives and rendered more than 3,500 homeless since the weekend, the National Institute for Disaster Management said. Three people died of electrocution in Quelimane and two have drowned in Namacurra district. More than 3,500 people have been housed in makeshift shelters as their homes have been flooded, institute director Paulo Zucula told AFP Tuesday.The situation is alarming in Quelimane, he said adding that almost the entire length of the coastal town in the northern Zambezia province was flooded.For the moment there is only cholera but no other epidemics, he added.In early 2000, about 1,000 people lost their lives in floods that caused widespread devastation in the southern African nation, which is also struggling to rebuild after a 16-year civil war that ended in 1992.
Wet in Texas; lake effect snow by Great Lakes Mark Avery, Meteorologist, The Weather Channel Tue Jan 23, 5:05 AM ET
South
Texas stands to have a wet day today, with the heaviest rains being near the Gulf Coast between Corpus Christi and Houston. Other areas of South and Central Texas including San Antonio, Austin, Del Rio, and Brownsville stand to get more rains today as well, helping to alleviate the drought situation in the Lone Star State to a small extent. In West Texas, snow could fall around El Paso, Midland, Marfa, and Odessa today, with up to 2 inches or so falling between Marfa and El Paso. Rain will continue to linger near the Texas Gulf Coast and the Florida Peninsula on Wednesday with a break possible by Thursday and Friday except in far South Texas and Florida (which gets a break on Friday). Showers will move to Louisiana and Southeast Texas by Saturday.
Northeast
The lake effect snow machine is on again for the interior Northeast. A lake effect snow watch is up for the eastern end of Lake Ontario, including Watertown and Syracuse, New York, with a lake effect snow advisory posted for the western slopes of the Adirondacks. Lake effect snows will continue to affect the interior Northeast through Friday, when much colder temperatures the first real arctic outbreak of the season#move in all across the region. Temperatures may bounce up slightly tomorrow before the beginning of the onset of the cold outbreak Thursday into Friday, with a slight rebound by Saturday.
Midwest
The Midwest will also be affected by the lake effect snow machine for the next several days. Some of the heaviest snows today will be across the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and the western and northern portions of Lower Michigan. Snow will be possible through Thursday in the Great Lakes with a break on Friday. More snow#and the return of much colder temperatures returns by Saturday.
Elsewhere in the Midwest, snow is possible in the Missouri Valley to the mid Mississippi Valley today with light (trace) amounts of snow possible. Mild temperatures for mid-January should persist through Friday (except near the Great Lakes, where it will stay cooler than average for the next few days), before the next round of much colder weather moves in by the weekend.
West
The Southwest and southern New Mexico in particular continues to feel the effects of an upper level low that's continuing to sit over northern Mexico. The threat of snow is possible continues in southern New Mexico and southeastern Arizona through Thursday. Snow is also possible in western Montana and some of the higher elevations of the Cascades in Washington. In Southern California, Santa Ana winds are set up again for today, bringing an increased fire danger#and red flag warnings as a result from Santa Barbara to San Diego. Winds relax in Southern California tonight and tomorrow. The next chance of rain and snow moves ashore Thursday in Northern California and southwestern Oregon and farther inland into Northern California and western Oregon by Friday.
Environment Canada Weather Forecast
St. John's and vicinity
Issued at: 11.00 AM NST Tuesday 23 January 2007
Snowfall warning in effect. Today..Flurries ending early this afternoon then cloudy. High minus 5. Tonight..Cloudy. Snow and blowing snow beginning overnight. Amount 2 to 4 cm. Wind becoming east 20 km/h this evening then northeast 40 gusting to 60 overnight. Temperature rising to minus 2 by morning. Wednesday..Snow at times heavy changing to ice pellets in the afternoon then to rain later in the afternoon. Snow and ice pellet amount 15 cm. Rainfall amount 5 mm. Blowing snow in the morning. Wind northeast 60 km/h gusting to 90 diminishing to 40 gusting to 60 in the afternoon. High plus 2. Thursday..Cloudy with 60 percent chance of flurries. Windy. Low minus 1. High zero. Friday..Snow mixed with rain. Low minus 6. High minus 1. Saturday..Cloudy with 60 percent chance of flurries. Windy. Low minus 8. High minus 3. Normals for the period..Low minus 8. High zero.
BAD WEATHER IN THESE VANCOUVER PLACES JAN 23,07
Abbotsford ,Campbell,River ,Comox ,Esquimalt ,EstevanPoint ,Gibsons ,Gonzales ,
Hartland ,Kitimat ,Malahat ,Nanaimo ,Pitt Meadows ,Powell River ,Prince Rupert , Sechelt , Squamish ,Stewart ,Terrace ,Tofino ,Ucluelet ,Vancouver ,Victoria ,
White Rock
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.
Auckland at risk of simultaneous volcanic eruptions
Tuesday January 23, 2007
Puketutu is one of the volcanoes that may have erupted at the same time as four others. Photo / Martin Sykes.
At least five volcanoes in Auckland were born together and the city remains at risk of further simultaneous eruptions, according to a study released today.The Auckland University results showed that the volcanoes of Puketutu, Crater Hill, Wiri, Mt Richmond and Taylor Hill all erupted within 50 to 100 years of each other, possibly at the same time.The research further suggested that Auckland and some other major cities could be at risk of future simultaneous multiple eruptions, Dr John Cassidy, of the University's School of Geography, Geology and Environmental Science department, said.This is the first evidence that multiple volcanic eruptions in such fields may have occurred at the same time and could have tremendous consequences for people living in these highly active areas.Dr Cassidy said several cities worldwide, including Honolulu and Mexico City, sat on volcanic fields.Most hazard planning for population centres vulnerable to volcanic eruptions assumes a single eruption at any point in time, but this research shows that this is not necessarily the correct course of thinking. The research, funded by the Earthquake Commission, was carried out by studying volcanic rocks which have recorded unusual disturbances in the ancient Earth's magnetic field.- NZPA
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).
Norwalk prompts N.L. hospitals to restrict visitors
Last Updated: Monday, January 22, 2007 | 7:07 AM NT CBC News
Health managers in central Newfoundland have instituted strict measures to contain Norwalk virus in their institutions.The Central Health regional authority has stopped allowing visitors at hospitals in Springdale, Baie Verte and New-Wes-Valley, as well as authority-managed nursing homes in Springdale and New-Wes-Valley.As a precautionary measure, visitation is now restricted at the rest of the authority's facilities.Patients at those institutions may have only one visitor at a time, and even then visitors must be an immediate family member over 14.Norwalk, the best known of the norovirus group of viruses, attacks the gastrointestinal system.
Quick to develop and easy to spread, it causes severe diarrhea, abdominal cramps, nausea and vomiting, headache and low-grade fever.Earlier this month, Central Health cancelled elective surgeries for several days at the Central Newfoundland Regional Health Centre in Grand Falls-Windsor.Central Health has asked volunteers and clergy not to visit any sites in the region.
HLT-WHO-WORLD
WHO says 35 million people die from chronic diseases in '06
GENEVA, Jan 22 (KUNA) A report to the Executive Board of the World Health Organization (WHO) said Monday that 35 million people died in 2006 as a result of chronic diseases, equivalent to 60 percent of all deaths globally.According to the report presented to the WHO Executive Board in its twice-yearly session which will last through January 30th, these deaths are projected to increase by a further 17 percent over the next decade.The report says that 10.5 million children under the age of five years die every year.
Most of these deaths are from treatable conditions.Treatments exist, but some are not available in dosages that are suitable for children; of those that do exist in appropriate dosages, many are not available in low- and middle-income countries.The Executive Board is comprised of representatives from 34 WHO Member States. (end) hn.bs
Jet With Anti-Missile System Leaves LAX
By JOHN ANTCZAK - Associated Press Writer - January 16, 2007, 11:06 PM EST
LOS ANGELES An MD-10 cargo jet equipped with Northrop Grumman's Guardian anti-missile system took off from Los Angeles International Airport on a commercial flight Tuesday, the company said. The FedEx flight marked the start of operational testing and evaluation of the laser system designed to defend against shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles during takeoffs and landings. Adapted from military technology, Guardian is designed to detect a missile launch and then direct a laser to the seeker system on the head of the missile and disrupt its guidance signals. The laser is not visible and is eye-safe, the company said. For the first time, we will be able to collect valuable logistics data while operating Guardian on aircraft in routine commercial service, said Robert L. DelBoca, vice president and general manager of Northrop Grumman's Defensive Systems Division. During the current test phase, which concludes in March 2008, nine MD-10s equipped with the Guardian system will be in commercial service. Katie Lamb-Heinz of Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems said all those aircraft will be freighters. The ultimate goal is to defend passenger airliners.
The testing is part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Counter-Man Portable Air Defense Systems program. BAE Systems has also been working for the government on a similar airliner defense system and has successfully tested it. John Pike, a defense analyst at GlobalSecurity.org, an Alexandria, Va., think tank, suggested that development of the system was the lesser of issues for the airline industry.I think the problem is making the numbers work in the sense of figuring out who's going to pay for it, he said. More than capital costs, airlines are likely to be most concerned about the costs of maintenance and aircraft downtime, he said. They've gotten these airliners now (so) that they are just remarkably maintenance-free. They've also gotten these airlines to the point that they've got razor thin margins, he said. Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., viewed the plane Monday and said she was encouraged.
This program is very promising because it's already met the operational testing. Now it's a question of how does it actually work in terms of stresses on the system while the airplane is in operation for several hours, said Boxer, a longtime proponent of equipping planes with anti-missile technology. Boxer said her first priority is to equip the Civil Reserve Air Fleet, more than 1,000 commercial
airplanes operated by airlines that contract with the Pentagon to make military flights during emergencies. No passenger plane has ever been downed by a shoulder-fired missile outside of a combat zone.
But terrorists linked with al-Qaida are believed to have fired two SA-7 missiles that narrowly missed an Israeli passenger jet after it took off from Mombasa, Kenya, in November 2002. The first commercial flight with the Guardian system followed 16 months of tests on an MD-11, an MD-10 and a Boeing 747 using simulated launches of shoulder-fired missiles. The Guardian system appears as a pod with eye-like features attached to the belly of the FedEx MD-10, a freight version of what was originally the three-engine widebody DC-10 airliner. DHS gave Northrop Grumman and BAE Systems $45 million each in 2004 to adapt military defense systems to civilian airliners, requiring improvements because military systems need too much maintenance and mistakenly fire too often.
A government report obtained by The Associated Press last summer said that both the Northrop Grumman and BAE Systems prototypes still don't meet the reliability standards set by the DHS, and it could be 20 years before every U.S. passenger airplane has such a system. Billions of dollars would have to be spent to protect all 6,800 commercial U.S. airliners. The report said testing showed that the systems can be installed on commercial aircraft without impairing safety; at least one company can supply 1,000 systems at a cost of $1 million each; and operation and maintenance will cost $365 per flight, above the $300-per-flight goal.
Northrop Grumman said Tuesday that during the 16-month flight test program a ground-based electronic missile surrogate was used to simulate launches and each time Guardian functioned as designed, automatically detecting the simulated launch and mock missile. Had the threats been real, an invisible laser beam safe to humans would have disrupted the missile guidance system and protected the aircraft, the company statement said.Associated Press Writer Erica Werner in Washington, D.C., contributed to this report. On the Net: Northrop Grumman: http://www.northropgrumman.com BAE Systems: http://www.baesystems.com
MUSLIM NATIONS
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE 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)
Russia, India Set to Conduct Counter-Terrorism Exercises in 2007
Dated 22/1/2007 Russia and India are planning to conduct joint land and naval counter-terrorism exercises in 2007, a Russian Defense Ministry official said Saturday.INDRA-2007 is a biennial joint exercise between the armed forces of Russia and India aimed at coordinating cooperative engagement in the fight against terrorism.The details of the upcoming joint Russian-Indian exercise will be discussed during a visit of Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov to India, said Colonel General Anatoly Mazurkevich, head of the Main Directorate for Foreign Military Cooperation.The naval part of INDRA-2007 will be held in April 2007 at the Pacific Ocean involving naval units of the Russian Pacific Fleet and the Indian Navy.The land part of the war games is scheduled for mid-September at the training grounds of the 76th Airborne Division near the city of Pskov in north-western Russia. Paratroopers will practice air drops with live firing, the general said adding that the counter-terrorism exercise will involve a Russian airborne battalion and a company of India paratroopers.The previous joint Russian-Indian exercise, INDRA-2005, was held in India on October 10-20, 2005.Mazurkevich also said the Russian defense minister will discuss bilateral military-technical cooperation during his visit to India on January 22-25.The main topics of talks will include the supply of spare parts to Russian-made military equipment that was previously sold to India and the licensed production of RD-33 jet engines for MiG-29 Fulcrum and Su-30MKI Flanker C fighter aircraft in service with the Indian Air Force, the general said.According to various estimates, the Indian Air Force has up to 65 MiG-29's and 50 Su-30's.
Peretz: Israel ready to negotiate JAN 23,07
JERUSALEM, (UPI) Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz says Israel is ready to negotiate with any Palestinian group that is willing to recognize the right of Israel to exist. That even goes for Hamas, the militant faction that won a majority in the Palestinian parliament. Peretz told a conference Israel must focus on settling the Palestinian issue. I view any Palestinian element recognizing the state of Israel as a partner for negotiation, even if it is Hamas, Peretz told the Herzliya Conference. We have to focus on the Palestinian arena.Peretz, whose hometown of Sderot is a frequent target of rocket attacks, recently asked a top military commander to head a team to come up with recommendations on how to defend against Qassam rockets fired from Gaza, YNetNews reported.
Kuwait media: U.S. military strike on Iran seen by April
www.chinaview.cn 2007-01-14 15:19:28 - Special report: Iran Nuclear Crisis
KUWAIT CITY, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) U.S. might launch a military strike on Iran before April 2007, Kuwait-based daily Arab Times released on Sunday said in a report.The report, written by Arab Times' Editor-in-chief Ahmed al-Jarallah citing a reliable source, said that the attack would be launched from the sea, while Patriot missiles would guard all Arab countries in the Gulf. Recent statements emanating from the United States indicated the Bush administration's new strategy for Iraq doesn't include any proposal to make a compromise or negotiate with Syria or Iran, added the report. The source told al-Jarallah that U.S. President George W. Bush recently had held a meeting with Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other assistants in the White House, where they discussed the plan to attack Iran in minute detail. Vice President Dick Cheney highlighted the threat posed by Iranto not only Saudi Arabia but also the whole Gulf region, according to the source.
Tehran is not playing politics. Iranian leaders are using their country's religious influence to support the aggressive regime's ambition to expand, Dick Cheney was quoted by the source as saying.Indicating participants of the meeting agreed to impose restrictions on the ambitions of Iranian regime before April 2007 without exposing other countries in the region to any danger, the source said they have chosen April as British Prime Minister Tony Blair has said it will be the last month in office for him.
The United States has to take action against Iran and Syria before April 2007.Claiming the attack will be launched from the sea and not from any country in the region, he said the U.S. and its allies will target the oil installations and nuclear facilities of Iran ensuring there is no environmental catastrophe or after effects.The source added that the U.S. has started sending its warships to the Gulf and the build-up would continue until Washington has the required number by the end of this month.U.S. forces in Iraq and other countries in the region will be protected against any Iranian missile attack by an advanced Patriot missile system, the source noted. The Bush administration believes that attacking Iran will create a new power balance in the region, calming down the situation in Iraq and paving the way for their democratic project, which have to be suspended due to the interference of Tehran and Damascus in Iraq, according to the source.Editor: Pan Letian
REBUILT 3RD TEMPLE
REVELATION 11:1-2
1 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
DANIEL 9:27
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
Muslim leaders say Jews digging under Temple Mount
Ha'aretz - January 23, 2007
The Temple Mount in Jerusalem is the holiest site on earth to Jews, and has been for nearly 3000 years.Muslims, however, who regard the hill as Islam's third holiest site, and who hold de facto control over who does what up there, frequently incite Islamic anger against Israel by spreading rumors about Jewish excavations on or near the Mount.So it is again today as the Israeli Arab Islamic Movement accuses Jews of excavating beneath the Temple Mount.Leaders of the movement levelled their charges Monday, saying Jews had purchased a store from an Arab vendor near the mount and were working to tunnel underneath it.According to Sheikh Ra'ad Salah, Jews were digging in the area so as to create a stranglehold around Al-Aqsa Mosque, in order for the Israeli establishment to fulfill its darkest dreams of building a Jewish Temple. The Israel Antiquities Authority has said that the excavations in question were being carried ut 60 meters from the Temple Mount, and were intended to clear a tunnel that was filled with trash.
CULTS AND FALSE RELIGIONS
1 TIMOTHY 4:1-2
1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
MARK 13:22-23
22 For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.
23 But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things.
2 TIMOTHY 3:1-7 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.
DECIEVERS WAXING WORSE AND WORSE.
2 TIMOTHY 3:13
13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
HES A BLASPHEMER ( THE EU DICTATOR )
DANIEL 7:25
25 And he 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.
REVELATION 13:5-6
5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.
6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.What is the spirit of Antichrist, it puts Jesus down exactly what this future EU Dictator will do.
1 John 2:22
22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.
1 John 4:1-3
1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
2 John 7
7 For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
THIS IS VERY BAD NEWS THIS STORY, BUT THESE PEOPLE ARE FORERUNNERS OF THE ULTIMATE BLASPHEMER THE EU DICTATOR THAT WILL DO THE SAME AND WORSE. ITS THESE PEOPLE THAT WILL GLADLY TAKE THE DICTATORS MARK IN THEIR RIGHT HAND OR FOREHEAD, UNFORTUNATELY THEIR TORMENT OF BURNING WILL BE DAY AND NIGHT FOREVER.
Beliefwatch: Blasphemy JAN 08,07
Hi my name is Lindy and I deny the existence of the Holy Spirit and you should too.
Betting Their Souls: Is there such a thing as an unforgivable sin? Newsweek
Jan. 8, 2006 issue With that five-second submission to YouTube, a 24-year-old who uses the name menotsimple has either condemned herself to an eternity of punishment in the afterlife or struck a courageous blow against superstition.
She's one of more than 400 mostly young people who have joined a campaign by the Web site Blasphemy Challenge.com to stake their souls against the existence of God. That, of course, is the ultimate no-win wager, as the 17th-century French mathematician Blaise Pascal calculated—it can't be settled until you're dead, and if you lose, you go to hell.The Blasphemy Challenge is a joint project of filmmaker Brian Flemming, director of the antireligion documentary The God Who Wasn't There, and Brian Sapient, cofounder of the atheist Web site RationalResponders.com. Their intent was to encourage atheists to come forward and put their souls on the line, showing others that you don't have to be afraid of God. The particular form of the challenge was chosen because, by one interpretation, blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, a part of the Christian Trinity, is the only sin that can never be forgiven. And once something you've said gets posted on YouTube, as any number of celebrities can attest, you never live it down.
See what secular teens are saying about religion
For better or worse, though, hell may not be so easy to get into. Despite the seemingly clear language in Mark 3:28-29 (all the sins and blasphemies of men will be forgiven them. But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven), most theologians are reluctant to pronounce anyone beyond repentance and salvation. Richard Land, a leader of the Southern Baptist Convention, says the passage, read in context, refers to a very narrow and specific definition of blasphemy: maliciously attributing God's miracles to a demon. Merely denying the Holy Spirit, by this reading, doesn't qualify. My response, Land says, would be to
pray for these people: forgive them, [for] they know not what they do'.To which another self-described blasphemer, whose real name is Michael Lawson, replies that he knows exactly what he's doing: he's daring God to send him to hell. We want to show that we really mean it when we say we don't believe a word in this book, he says. He means the Bible.2007 Newsweek, Inc.
Secret talks handing West Bank to Abbas Top diplomatic sources tell WND
historic changes coming in weeks - Posted: January 22, 2007
5:19 p.m. Eastern - By Aaron Klein - 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
JERUSALEM Israel and the Palestinians have been conducting behind-the-scene negotiations regarding handing over most of the West Bank to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, according to top Egyptian and European diplomatic sources who told WND they were directly involved with the talks. The West Bank borders Jerusalem and is within rocket-firing range of Tel Aviv and Israel's international airport. The Egyptian and European sources told WND the negotiations for an Israeli withdrawal were mediated by Egypt and the European Union, with U.S. input. The sources said major changes in Israeli-Palestinian affairs are expected within a few weeks to two months. According to an aid to European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana, speaking on condition of anonymity, there will be a historic political evolution and movement in negotiations in the next few weeks and few months, unseen since the Camp David peace talks in 2000.
During the Camp David talks, then-Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered late-Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat a state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and eastern sections of Jerusalem. According to the top diplomatic sources speaking to WND, Israel has agreed in principal to hand over most of the West Bank in deal with Abbas. The sources said Israel is studying the transfer of responsibility in the central and southern West Bank to Abbas' security forces, which reportedly are receiving aid, weapons and training from the U.S. They said one proposal being considered for the northern West Bank would see Jordan and the EU supervise the transfer to Abbas' security forces.Still being debated is the role of Hamas, which leads the PA and maintains the majority of seats in the Palestinian parliament. Negotiations between Abbas and Hamas leaders for a national unity government have mostly fallen through.
Yesterday, Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz said he viewed any Palestinian elements recognizing the state of Israel as a partner for negotiations even if it is Hamas.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has made similar comments.
So far, Hamas has refused to recognize Israel, but recently offered a 10-year truce with the Jewish state. In a series of interviews this past weekend, Hamas leaders told WND during any 10-year truce period they would build a large Palestinian army and plan for the destruction of Israel. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice recently announced she is planning to mediate talks between Olmert and Abbas next month. Asked about the alleged behind-the-scenes negotiations to hand over the West Bank, a spokesman in Olmert's office stated he doesn't know about any West Bank withdrawal.
Olmert was elected prime minister on the platform of carrying out a withdrawal from the West Bank, but after this summer's Lebanon war he has stated a West Bank withdrawal would not occur. Olmert in August called the policy of unilateral withdrawal a failure and said it was no longer relevant. But he can argue handing the West Bank to Abbas in an agreement is not unilateral. Regarding a West Bank withdrawal, Israeli Interior Minister Roni Bar-On said this summer, The withdrawal plan is not dead, though its implementation has been postponed. The plan is now on the shelf or in the freezer, but when the time comes it will be accessed.
Several recent public opinion polls showed the majority of Israelis now oppose a West Bank withdrawal. The leaders of Egypt and Jordan have expressed reservations about withdrawal plans, fearing terrorism can spill over into their respective countries. Israel withdrew from southern Lebanon in 2000. It had occupied a small section of Lebanon's border with Israel following repeated attacks by Palestinian terrorists in the area. Since the withdrawal, Hezbollah has staged numerous attacks against Israel, including rocket bombardments of civilian population centers, raids against military outposts and ambushes and kidnappings of Israeli troops. Hezbollah built an arsenal in south Lebanon of more than 13,000 short- and medium-range rockets capable of hitting central sections of the Jewish state Israel withdrew last August from the Gaza Strip. Since then, rockets have been fired almost daily into nearby Jewish communities, Hamas has been elected to power and both Israeli and Palestinian officials have stated al-Qaida has infiltrated the territory. Israel says the Palestinians have smuggled hundreds of tons of heavy weaponry into Gaza and are preparing for a large-scale confrontation. Israel in June mounted a major ground invasion of Gaza after Hamas carried out a raid against a military installation in which Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit was abducted.
Sceptical countries need to budge on EU constitution, says German FM Tue Jan 23, 8:24 AM ET
BRUSSELS (AFP) The biggest opponents of the European Union's stalled constitution will have to change position if the bloc is to break the deadlock, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has warned. If a compromise is to be reached by the end of the German (EU) presidency, some of them are going to have to move, Steinmeier told the European Parliament's constitutional affairs commission in Brussels on Tuesday.Germany this month assumed the EU's rotating presidency and will hand the baton over to Portugal at the end of June.Steinmeier said that two-thirds of the 27 EU member states have already ratified the constitutional treaty which was brought to a grinding halt in 2005 when Dutch and French voters rejected it in national referendums.We must be aware that some (countries) will have to move more than others, said the German foreign minister.Although he did not cite any particular countries, Britain, the Czech Republic and Poland are widely considered to among those countries most uncomfortable with Germany's efforts to resuscitate the constitution.The German EU presidency has repeatedly said that it hopes to preserve the substance of the treaty, the fruit of three years of laborious talks.We are perfectly aware that there are certain key states where there is some scepticism as regards the whole idea of such a treaty, said Steinmeier.
But a presidency (of the EU) cannot avoid the fact that two thirds of member states have ratified the treaty; you have to reconcile the interests of the sceptics with those that have already ratified the treaty, he added.Berlin has asked all EU member states to nominate representatives for closed-door talks on the issue, in a bid to reach agreement on the way forward or at least to learn each nation's bottom line on the matter.However some members of the European Parliament have called on Germany to display more transparency in its search for a way out of the constitutional impasse.Steinmeier stressed that at first Germany was going to engage in a phase of secret consultations, with member states.These talks should begin this week at the sherpa level among the 27 EU member states.Steinmeier admitted that the objective of EU leaders to find a solution to the problem ahead of the next European Parliament elections in 2009 was ambitious.Given the time needed for some countries to ratify any agreement that could mean sorting out all the details a year and a half before the European elections, meaning by the end of this year or mid-2008, he said.But he added that he saw no virtue in pushing back the schedule.It is important to keep the pressure on. For the moment, there is no reason to increase the margins, increase the timetable, he said.
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)
New rules for the Middle East game
By Raanan Eliaz JAN 23,07 Haaretz
The current discussions about the future of American foreign policy in the Middle East touch directly upon Israel-U.S. relations. U.S. policymakers, however, have not yet given enough consideration to the unprecedented weight that the European Union increasingly exerts in the region. In the case of Israel as well as on other U.S. fronts, no durable progress is reachable without the agreement, not to say the active involvement, of the slowly uniting Europe. A historic window of opportunity may be brought on by the development of the EU over the past decades, the escalation of the conflict in the Middle East to include a nuclear threat, and the volatility of the U.S. role in the region. In view of this, the United States should realize the strategic value of gradually integrating Israel into the European Union. Although a full membership is not in the cards at the moment, the EU becoming Israel's second losest strategic ally, alongside the U.S., is in everybody's best interests. Over the next decade or two, relations between the U.S., the EU and Israel should be progressively formulated anew. Despite America's significant role in facilitating Israel's just struggle to survive, it has failed to ensure the county's lasting longevity and independence. Regardless of the Bush administration's intentions, Israel's strategic position has deteriorated on multiple fronts. It is still the most powerful in terms of military might, but present day Israel has to rely on America more than ever before in order to secure its political standing and its military superiority. Most tragically, Israel's peace offerings of its scarce land to Egyptian and Palestinian neighbors have not led it to better integration into the Middle East. The current Iranian nuclear threat only materializes a wider, existential fragility that Israel has failed to eliminate.
Although the U.S. still has the power to exert a unique leverage that no other outside party can, it is becoming clear that in order to stabilize the Middle East, the U.S. simply cannot go it alone.
Increasingly, the EU complements and in some cases, assumes, the U.S.'s traditional third party role in the region. For example, on the macro level, the EU took on a leading role in the Middle East Quartet and as chief negotiator with Iran, and on the micro level, the EU has an active presence in southern Lebanon and Gaza, and has, on several occasions, attempted to revive negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. Europe has a clear interest in stabilizing its backyard and it can offer incentives and exert leverages the U.S. cannot. Nevertheless, the dialogue between Israel and the EU lacks strategic vision and sincere willingness to work together. In dealing with Europe, Israel is preoccupied with planning preventive measures instead of embarking proactively in shaping its future. The EU, still heavily engaged in solving internal crises, cannot follow through its own foreign policy initiatives. Only the U.S. can help both parties to shift gears.Such paradigmatic change in course will involve the creation of a durable transatlantic Middle East policy that will introduce new rules to the region's game. With the required massive financial, political and military investment, all pragmatic Arab countries would be encouraged to work together with Israel toward an agreed-upon settlement. Creative solutions may include offering NATO-like regional security guarantees, the establishment of sustainable economic incentives, and multilateral territorial swaps.
It is doubtful whether the current U.S. administration, alongside weak leaderships in the Middle East and an unfocused EU, will be able to promote such an ambitious agenda. But in order for this positive dramatic shift to assume shape over the next generation, now is the time to start preparing the ground. Raanan Eliaz, former Coordinator at the Israeli National Security Council, is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, and a consultant on European-Israeli Affairs.
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 Jan 24 12:00 AM EDT
JAN 24,07 NO QUAKES YET
JAN 23,07
MAP 2.9 OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 5.1 AISEN, CHILE
MAP 2.7 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 5.8 VANUATU
MAP 4.1 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 2.8 MOUNT ST. HELENS AREA, WASHINGTON
MAP 2.7 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 5.1 PAPUA, INDONESIA
MAP 5.5 MOLUCCA SEA
MAP 4.9 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 2.5 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 4.8 CENTRAL PERU
MAP 3.2 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 2.5 YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, WYOMING
MAP 2.8 YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, WYOMING
MAP 2.8 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 3.1 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 5.9 BANDA SEA
MAP 4.7 EASTERN HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 3.6 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 5.0 TONGA
MAP 3.0 KODIAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP 2.6 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
JAN 22,07
MAP 2.6 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 5.4 BISMARCK SEA
MAP 5.3 MOLUCCA SEA
MAP 4.9 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 5.3 MOLUCCA SEA
MAP 5.3 SIMEULUE, INDONESIA
MAP 4.9 MOLUCCA SEA
MAP 3.4 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 3.7 VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP 4.8 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 3.4 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 3.2 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 4.7 NEAR THE COAST OF NICARAGUA
MAP 3.0 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.9 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 5.6 NEAR THE NORTH COAST OF PAPUA, INDONESIA
MAP 5.3 NEAR THE NORTH COAST OF PAPUA, INDONESIA
MAP 5.2 MOLUCCA SEA
MAP 5.5 MOLUCCA SEA
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.
Five killed, 3,500 homeless after heavy rains in Mozambique JAN 23,07
MAPUTO (AFP) Torrential rains in central Mozambique have claimed five lives and rendered more than 3,500 homeless since the weekend, the National Institute for Disaster Management said. Three people died of electrocution in Quelimane and two have drowned in Namacurra district. More than 3,500 people have been housed in makeshift shelters as their homes have been flooded, institute director Paulo Zucula told AFP Tuesday.The situation is alarming in Quelimane, he said adding that almost the entire length of the coastal town in the northern Zambezia province was flooded.For the moment there is only cholera but no other epidemics, he added.In early 2000, about 1,000 people lost their lives in floods that caused widespread devastation in the southern African nation, which is also struggling to rebuild after a 16-year civil war that ended in 1992.
Wet in Texas; lake effect snow by Great Lakes Mark Avery, Meteorologist, The Weather Channel Tue Jan 23, 5:05 AM ET
South
Texas stands to have a wet day today, with the heaviest rains being near the Gulf Coast between Corpus Christi and Houston. Other areas of South and Central Texas including San Antonio, Austin, Del Rio, and Brownsville stand to get more rains today as well, helping to alleviate the drought situation in the Lone Star State to a small extent. In West Texas, snow could fall around El Paso, Midland, Marfa, and Odessa today, with up to 2 inches or so falling between Marfa and El Paso. Rain will continue to linger near the Texas Gulf Coast and the Florida Peninsula on Wednesday with a break possible by Thursday and Friday except in far South Texas and Florida (which gets a break on Friday). Showers will move to Louisiana and Southeast Texas by Saturday.
Northeast
The lake effect snow machine is on again for the interior Northeast. A lake effect snow watch is up for the eastern end of Lake Ontario, including Watertown and Syracuse, New York, with a lake effect snow advisory posted for the western slopes of the Adirondacks. Lake effect snows will continue to affect the interior Northeast through Friday, when much colder temperatures the first real arctic outbreak of the season#move in all across the region. Temperatures may bounce up slightly tomorrow before the beginning of the onset of the cold outbreak Thursday into Friday, with a slight rebound by Saturday.
Midwest
The Midwest will also be affected by the lake effect snow machine for the next several days. Some of the heaviest snows today will be across the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and the western and northern portions of Lower Michigan. Snow will be possible through Thursday in the Great Lakes with a break on Friday. More snow#and the return of much colder temperatures returns by Saturday.
Elsewhere in the Midwest, snow is possible in the Missouri Valley to the mid Mississippi Valley today with light (trace) amounts of snow possible. Mild temperatures for mid-January should persist through Friday (except near the Great Lakes, where it will stay cooler than average for the next few days), before the next round of much colder weather moves in by the weekend.
West
The Southwest and southern New Mexico in particular continues to feel the effects of an upper level low that's continuing to sit over northern Mexico. The threat of snow is possible continues in southern New Mexico and southeastern Arizona through Thursday. Snow is also possible in western Montana and some of the higher elevations of the Cascades in Washington. In Southern California, Santa Ana winds are set up again for today, bringing an increased fire danger#and red flag warnings as a result from Santa Barbara to San Diego. Winds relax in Southern California tonight and tomorrow. The next chance of rain and snow moves ashore Thursday in Northern California and southwestern Oregon and farther inland into Northern California and western Oregon by Friday.
Environment Canada Weather Forecast
St. John's and vicinity
Issued at: 11.00 AM NST Tuesday 23 January 2007
Snowfall warning in effect. Today..Flurries ending early this afternoon then cloudy. High minus 5. Tonight..Cloudy. Snow and blowing snow beginning overnight. Amount 2 to 4 cm. Wind becoming east 20 km/h this evening then northeast 40 gusting to 60 overnight. Temperature rising to minus 2 by morning. Wednesday..Snow at times heavy changing to ice pellets in the afternoon then to rain later in the afternoon. Snow and ice pellet amount 15 cm. Rainfall amount 5 mm. Blowing snow in the morning. Wind northeast 60 km/h gusting to 90 diminishing to 40 gusting to 60 in the afternoon. High plus 2. Thursday..Cloudy with 60 percent chance of flurries. Windy. Low minus 1. High zero. Friday..Snow mixed with rain. Low minus 6. High minus 1. Saturday..Cloudy with 60 percent chance of flurries. Windy. Low minus 8. High minus 3. Normals for the period..Low minus 8. High zero.
BAD WEATHER IN THESE VANCOUVER PLACES JAN 23,07
Abbotsford ,Campbell,River ,Comox ,Esquimalt ,EstevanPoint ,Gibsons ,Gonzales ,
Hartland ,Kitimat ,Malahat ,Nanaimo ,Pitt Meadows ,Powell River ,Prince Rupert , Sechelt , Squamish ,Stewart ,Terrace ,Tofino ,Ucluelet ,Vancouver ,Victoria ,
White Rock
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.
Auckland at risk of simultaneous volcanic eruptions
Tuesday January 23, 2007
Puketutu is one of the volcanoes that may have erupted at the same time as four others. Photo / Martin Sykes.
At least five volcanoes in Auckland were born together and the city remains at risk of further simultaneous eruptions, according to a study released today.The Auckland University results showed that the volcanoes of Puketutu, Crater Hill, Wiri, Mt Richmond and Taylor Hill all erupted within 50 to 100 years of each other, possibly at the same time.The research further suggested that Auckland and some other major cities could be at risk of future simultaneous multiple eruptions, Dr John Cassidy, of the University's School of Geography, Geology and Environmental Science department, said.This is the first evidence that multiple volcanic eruptions in such fields may have occurred at the same time and could have tremendous consequences for people living in these highly active areas.Dr Cassidy said several cities worldwide, including Honolulu and Mexico City, sat on volcanic fields.Most hazard planning for population centres vulnerable to volcanic eruptions assumes a single eruption at any point in time, but this research shows that this is not necessarily the correct course of thinking. The research, funded by the Earthquake Commission, was carried out by studying volcanic rocks which have recorded unusual disturbances in the ancient Earth's magnetic field.- NZPA
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).
Norwalk prompts N.L. hospitals to restrict visitors
Last Updated: Monday, January 22, 2007 | 7:07 AM NT CBC News
Health managers in central Newfoundland have instituted strict measures to contain Norwalk virus in their institutions.The Central Health regional authority has stopped allowing visitors at hospitals in Springdale, Baie Verte and New-Wes-Valley, as well as authority-managed nursing homes in Springdale and New-Wes-Valley.As a precautionary measure, visitation is now restricted at the rest of the authority's facilities.Patients at those institutions may have only one visitor at a time, and even then visitors must be an immediate family member over 14.Norwalk, the best known of the norovirus group of viruses, attacks the gastrointestinal system.
Quick to develop and easy to spread, it causes severe diarrhea, abdominal cramps, nausea and vomiting, headache and low-grade fever.Earlier this month, Central Health cancelled elective surgeries for several days at the Central Newfoundland Regional Health Centre in Grand Falls-Windsor.Central Health has asked volunteers and clergy not to visit any sites in the region.
HLT-WHO-WORLD
WHO says 35 million people die from chronic diseases in '06
GENEVA, Jan 22 (KUNA) A report to the Executive Board of the World Health Organization (WHO) said Monday that 35 million people died in 2006 as a result of chronic diseases, equivalent to 60 percent of all deaths globally.According to the report presented to the WHO Executive Board in its twice-yearly session which will last through January 30th, these deaths are projected to increase by a further 17 percent over the next decade.The report says that 10.5 million children under the age of five years die every year.
Most of these deaths are from treatable conditions.Treatments exist, but some are not available in dosages that are suitable for children; of those that do exist in appropriate dosages, many are not available in low- and middle-income countries.The Executive Board is comprised of representatives from 34 WHO Member States. (end) hn.bs
Jet With Anti-Missile System Leaves LAX
By JOHN ANTCZAK - Associated Press Writer - January 16, 2007, 11:06 PM EST
LOS ANGELES An MD-10 cargo jet equipped with Northrop Grumman's Guardian anti-missile system took off from Los Angeles International Airport on a commercial flight Tuesday, the company said. The FedEx flight marked the start of operational testing and evaluation of the laser system designed to defend against shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles during takeoffs and landings. Adapted from military technology, Guardian is designed to detect a missile launch and then direct a laser to the seeker system on the head of the missile and disrupt its guidance signals. The laser is not visible and is eye-safe, the company said. For the first time, we will be able to collect valuable logistics data while operating Guardian on aircraft in routine commercial service, said Robert L. DelBoca, vice president and general manager of Northrop Grumman's Defensive Systems Division. During the current test phase, which concludes in March 2008, nine MD-10s equipped with the Guardian system will be in commercial service. Katie Lamb-Heinz of Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems said all those aircraft will be freighters. The ultimate goal is to defend passenger airliners.
The testing is part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Counter-Man Portable Air Defense Systems program. BAE Systems has also been working for the government on a similar airliner defense system and has successfully tested it. John Pike, a defense analyst at GlobalSecurity.org, an Alexandria, Va., think tank, suggested that development of the system was the lesser of issues for the airline industry.I think the problem is making the numbers work in the sense of figuring out who's going to pay for it, he said. More than capital costs, airlines are likely to be most concerned about the costs of maintenance and aircraft downtime, he said. They've gotten these airliners now (so) that they are just remarkably maintenance-free. They've also gotten these airlines to the point that they've got razor thin margins, he said. Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., viewed the plane Monday and said she was encouraged.
This program is very promising because it's already met the operational testing. Now it's a question of how does it actually work in terms of stresses on the system while the airplane is in operation for several hours, said Boxer, a longtime proponent of equipping planes with anti-missile technology. Boxer said her first priority is to equip the Civil Reserve Air Fleet, more than 1,000 commercial
airplanes operated by airlines that contract with the Pentagon to make military flights during emergencies. No passenger plane has ever been downed by a shoulder-fired missile outside of a combat zone.
But terrorists linked with al-Qaida are believed to have fired two SA-7 missiles that narrowly missed an Israeli passenger jet after it took off from Mombasa, Kenya, in November 2002. The first commercial flight with the Guardian system followed 16 months of tests on an MD-11, an MD-10 and a Boeing 747 using simulated launches of shoulder-fired missiles. The Guardian system appears as a pod with eye-like features attached to the belly of the FedEx MD-10, a freight version of what was originally the three-engine widebody DC-10 airliner. DHS gave Northrop Grumman and BAE Systems $45 million each in 2004 to adapt military defense systems to civilian airliners, requiring improvements because military systems need too much maintenance and mistakenly fire too often.
A government report obtained by The Associated Press last summer said that both the Northrop Grumman and BAE Systems prototypes still don't meet the reliability standards set by the DHS, and it could be 20 years before every U.S. passenger airplane has such a system. Billions of dollars would have to be spent to protect all 6,800 commercial U.S. airliners. The report said testing showed that the systems can be installed on commercial aircraft without impairing safety; at least one company can supply 1,000 systems at a cost of $1 million each; and operation and maintenance will cost $365 per flight, above the $300-per-flight goal.
Northrop Grumman said Tuesday that during the 16-month flight test program a ground-based electronic missile surrogate was used to simulate launches and each time Guardian functioned as designed, automatically detecting the simulated launch and mock missile. Had the threats been real, an invisible laser beam safe to humans would have disrupted the missile guidance system and protected the aircraft, the company statement said.Associated Press Writer Erica Werner in Washington, D.C., contributed to this report. On the Net: Northrop Grumman: http://www.northropgrumman.com BAE Systems: http://www.baesystems.com
MUSLIM NATIONS
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE 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)
Russia, India Set to Conduct Counter-Terrorism Exercises in 2007
Dated 22/1/2007 Russia and India are planning to conduct joint land and naval counter-terrorism exercises in 2007, a Russian Defense Ministry official said Saturday.INDRA-2007 is a biennial joint exercise between the armed forces of Russia and India aimed at coordinating cooperative engagement in the fight against terrorism.The details of the upcoming joint Russian-Indian exercise will be discussed during a visit of Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov to India, said Colonel General Anatoly Mazurkevich, head of the Main Directorate for Foreign Military Cooperation.The naval part of INDRA-2007 will be held in April 2007 at the Pacific Ocean involving naval units of the Russian Pacific Fleet and the Indian Navy.The land part of the war games is scheduled for mid-September at the training grounds of the 76th Airborne Division near the city of Pskov in north-western Russia. Paratroopers will practice air drops with live firing, the general said adding that the counter-terrorism exercise will involve a Russian airborne battalion and a company of India paratroopers.The previous joint Russian-Indian exercise, INDRA-2005, was held in India on October 10-20, 2005.Mazurkevich also said the Russian defense minister will discuss bilateral military-technical cooperation during his visit to India on January 22-25.The main topics of talks will include the supply of spare parts to Russian-made military equipment that was previously sold to India and the licensed production of RD-33 jet engines for MiG-29 Fulcrum and Su-30MKI Flanker C fighter aircraft in service with the Indian Air Force, the general said.According to various estimates, the Indian Air Force has up to 65 MiG-29's and 50 Su-30's.
Peretz: Israel ready to negotiate JAN 23,07
JERUSALEM, (UPI) Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz says Israel is ready to negotiate with any Palestinian group that is willing to recognize the right of Israel to exist. That even goes for Hamas, the militant faction that won a majority in the Palestinian parliament. Peretz told a conference Israel must focus on settling the Palestinian issue. I view any Palestinian element recognizing the state of Israel as a partner for negotiation, even if it is Hamas, Peretz told the Herzliya Conference. We have to focus on the Palestinian arena.Peretz, whose hometown of Sderot is a frequent target of rocket attacks, recently asked a top military commander to head a team to come up with recommendations on how to defend against Qassam rockets fired from Gaza, YNetNews reported.
Kuwait media: U.S. military strike on Iran seen by April
www.chinaview.cn 2007-01-14 15:19:28 - Special report: Iran Nuclear Crisis
KUWAIT CITY, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) U.S. might launch a military strike on Iran before April 2007, Kuwait-based daily Arab Times released on Sunday said in a report.The report, written by Arab Times' Editor-in-chief Ahmed al-Jarallah citing a reliable source, said that the attack would be launched from the sea, while Patriot missiles would guard all Arab countries in the Gulf. Recent statements emanating from the United States indicated the Bush administration's new strategy for Iraq doesn't include any proposal to make a compromise or negotiate with Syria or Iran, added the report. The source told al-Jarallah that U.S. President George W. Bush recently had held a meeting with Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other assistants in the White House, where they discussed the plan to attack Iran in minute detail. Vice President Dick Cheney highlighted the threat posed by Iranto not only Saudi Arabia but also the whole Gulf region, according to the source.
Tehran is not playing politics. Iranian leaders are using their country's religious influence to support the aggressive regime's ambition to expand, Dick Cheney was quoted by the source as saying.Indicating participants of the meeting agreed to impose restrictions on the ambitions of Iranian regime before April 2007 without exposing other countries in the region to any danger, the source said they have chosen April as British Prime Minister Tony Blair has said it will be the last month in office for him.
The United States has to take action against Iran and Syria before April 2007.Claiming the attack will be launched from the sea and not from any country in the region, he said the U.S. and its allies will target the oil installations and nuclear facilities of Iran ensuring there is no environmental catastrophe or after effects.The source added that the U.S. has started sending its warships to the Gulf and the build-up would continue until Washington has the required number by the end of this month.U.S. forces in Iraq and other countries in the region will be protected against any Iranian missile attack by an advanced Patriot missile system, the source noted. The Bush administration believes that attacking Iran will create a new power balance in the region, calming down the situation in Iraq and paving the way for their democratic project, which have to be suspended due to the interference of Tehran and Damascus in Iraq, according to the source.Editor: Pan Letian
REBUILT 3RD TEMPLE
REVELATION 11:1-2
1 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
DANIEL 9:27
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
Muslim leaders say Jews digging under Temple Mount
Ha'aretz - January 23, 2007
The Temple Mount in Jerusalem is the holiest site on earth to Jews, and has been for nearly 3000 years.Muslims, however, who regard the hill as Islam's third holiest site, and who hold de facto control over who does what up there, frequently incite Islamic anger against Israel by spreading rumors about Jewish excavations on or near the Mount.So it is again today as the Israeli Arab Islamic Movement accuses Jews of excavating beneath the Temple Mount.Leaders of the movement levelled their charges Monday, saying Jews had purchased a store from an Arab vendor near the mount and were working to tunnel underneath it.According to Sheikh Ra'ad Salah, Jews were digging in the area so as to create a stranglehold around Al-Aqsa Mosque, in order for the Israeli establishment to fulfill its darkest dreams of building a Jewish Temple. The Israel Antiquities Authority has said that the excavations in question were being carried ut 60 meters from the Temple Mount, and were intended to clear a tunnel that was filled with trash.
CULTS AND FALSE RELIGIONS
1 TIMOTHY 4:1-2
1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
MARK 13:22-23
22 For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.
23 But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things.
2 TIMOTHY 3:1-7 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.
DECIEVERS WAXING WORSE AND WORSE.
2 TIMOTHY 3:13
13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
HES A BLASPHEMER ( THE EU DICTATOR )
DANIEL 7:25
25 And he 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.
REVELATION 13:5-6
5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.
6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.What is the spirit of Antichrist, it puts Jesus down exactly what this future EU Dictator will do.
1 John 2:22
22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.
1 John 4:1-3
1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
2 John 7
7 For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
THIS IS VERY BAD NEWS THIS STORY, BUT THESE PEOPLE ARE FORERUNNERS OF THE ULTIMATE BLASPHEMER THE EU DICTATOR THAT WILL DO THE SAME AND WORSE. ITS THESE PEOPLE THAT WILL GLADLY TAKE THE DICTATORS MARK IN THEIR RIGHT HAND OR FOREHEAD, UNFORTUNATELY THEIR TORMENT OF BURNING WILL BE DAY AND NIGHT FOREVER.
Beliefwatch: Blasphemy JAN 08,07
Hi my name is Lindy and I deny the existence of the Holy Spirit and you should too.
Betting Their Souls: Is there such a thing as an unforgivable sin? Newsweek
Jan. 8, 2006 issue With that five-second submission to YouTube, a 24-year-old who uses the name menotsimple has either condemned herself to an eternity of punishment in the afterlife or struck a courageous blow against superstition.
She's one of more than 400 mostly young people who have joined a campaign by the Web site Blasphemy Challenge.com to stake their souls against the existence of God. That, of course, is the ultimate no-win wager, as the 17th-century French mathematician Blaise Pascal calculated—it can't be settled until you're dead, and if you lose, you go to hell.The Blasphemy Challenge is a joint project of filmmaker Brian Flemming, director of the antireligion documentary The God Who Wasn't There, and Brian Sapient, cofounder of the atheist Web site RationalResponders.com. Their intent was to encourage atheists to come forward and put their souls on the line, showing others that you don't have to be afraid of God. The particular form of the challenge was chosen because, by one interpretation, blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, a part of the Christian Trinity, is the only sin that can never be forgiven. And once something you've said gets posted on YouTube, as any number of celebrities can attest, you never live it down.
See what secular teens are saying about religion
For better or worse, though, hell may not be so easy to get into. Despite the seemingly clear language in Mark 3:28-29 (all the sins and blasphemies of men will be forgiven them. But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven), most theologians are reluctant to pronounce anyone beyond repentance and salvation. Richard Land, a leader of the Southern Baptist Convention, says the passage, read in context, refers to a very narrow and specific definition of blasphemy: maliciously attributing God's miracles to a demon. Merely denying the Holy Spirit, by this reading, doesn't qualify. My response, Land says, would be to
pray for these people: forgive them, [for] they know not what they do'.To which another self-described blasphemer, whose real name is Michael Lawson, replies that he knows exactly what he's doing: he's daring God to send him to hell. We want to show that we really mean it when we say we don't believe a word in this book, he says. He means the Bible.2007 Newsweek, Inc.
Secret talks handing West Bank to Abbas Top diplomatic sources tell WND
historic changes coming in weeks - Posted: January 22, 2007
5:19 p.m. Eastern - By Aaron Klein - 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
JERUSALEM Israel and the Palestinians have been conducting behind-the-scene negotiations regarding handing over most of the West Bank to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, according to top Egyptian and European diplomatic sources who told WND they were directly involved with the talks. The West Bank borders Jerusalem and is within rocket-firing range of Tel Aviv and Israel's international airport. The Egyptian and European sources told WND the negotiations for an Israeli withdrawal were mediated by Egypt and the European Union, with U.S. input. The sources said major changes in Israeli-Palestinian affairs are expected within a few weeks to two months. According to an aid to European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana, speaking on condition of anonymity, there will be a historic political evolution and movement in negotiations in the next few weeks and few months, unseen since the Camp David peace talks in 2000.
During the Camp David talks, then-Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered late-Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat a state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and eastern sections of Jerusalem. According to the top diplomatic sources speaking to WND, Israel has agreed in principal to hand over most of the West Bank in deal with Abbas. The sources said Israel is studying the transfer of responsibility in the central and southern West Bank to Abbas' security forces, which reportedly are receiving aid, weapons and training from the U.S. They said one proposal being considered for the northern West Bank would see Jordan and the EU supervise the transfer to Abbas' security forces.Still being debated is the role of Hamas, which leads the PA and maintains the majority of seats in the Palestinian parliament. Negotiations between Abbas and Hamas leaders for a national unity government have mostly fallen through.
Yesterday, Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz said he viewed any Palestinian elements recognizing the state of Israel as a partner for negotiations even if it is Hamas.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has made similar comments.
So far, Hamas has refused to recognize Israel, but recently offered a 10-year truce with the Jewish state. In a series of interviews this past weekend, Hamas leaders told WND during any 10-year truce period they would build a large Palestinian army and plan for the destruction of Israel. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice recently announced she is planning to mediate talks between Olmert and Abbas next month. Asked about the alleged behind-the-scenes negotiations to hand over the West Bank, a spokesman in Olmert's office stated he doesn't know about any West Bank withdrawal.
Olmert was elected prime minister on the platform of carrying out a withdrawal from the West Bank, but after this summer's Lebanon war he has stated a West Bank withdrawal would not occur. Olmert in August called the policy of unilateral withdrawal a failure and said it was no longer relevant. But he can argue handing the West Bank to Abbas in an agreement is not unilateral. Regarding a West Bank withdrawal, Israeli Interior Minister Roni Bar-On said this summer, The withdrawal plan is not dead, though its implementation has been postponed. The plan is now on the shelf or in the freezer, but when the time comes it will be accessed.
Several recent public opinion polls showed the majority of Israelis now oppose a West Bank withdrawal. The leaders of Egypt and Jordan have expressed reservations about withdrawal plans, fearing terrorism can spill over into their respective countries. Israel withdrew from southern Lebanon in 2000. It had occupied a small section of Lebanon's border with Israel following repeated attacks by Palestinian terrorists in the area. Since the withdrawal, Hezbollah has staged numerous attacks against Israel, including rocket bombardments of civilian population centers, raids against military outposts and ambushes and kidnappings of Israeli troops. Hezbollah built an arsenal in south Lebanon of more than 13,000 short- and medium-range rockets capable of hitting central sections of the Jewish state Israel withdrew last August from the Gaza Strip. Since then, rockets have been fired almost daily into nearby Jewish communities, Hamas has been elected to power and both Israeli and Palestinian officials have stated al-Qaida has infiltrated the territory. Israel says the Palestinians have smuggled hundreds of tons of heavy weaponry into Gaza and are preparing for a large-scale confrontation. Israel in June mounted a major ground invasion of Gaza after Hamas carried out a raid against a military installation in which Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit was abducted.
Sceptical countries need to budge on EU constitution, says German FM Tue Jan 23, 8:24 AM ET
BRUSSELS (AFP) The biggest opponents of the European Union's stalled constitution will have to change position if the bloc is to break the deadlock, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has warned. If a compromise is to be reached by the end of the German (EU) presidency, some of them are going to have to move, Steinmeier told the European Parliament's constitutional affairs commission in Brussels on Tuesday.Germany this month assumed the EU's rotating presidency and will hand the baton over to Portugal at the end of June.Steinmeier said that two-thirds of the 27 EU member states have already ratified the constitutional treaty which was brought to a grinding halt in 2005 when Dutch and French voters rejected it in national referendums.We must be aware that some (countries) will have to move more than others, said the German foreign minister.Although he did not cite any particular countries, Britain, the Czech Republic and Poland are widely considered to among those countries most uncomfortable with Germany's efforts to resuscitate the constitution.The German EU presidency has repeatedly said that it hopes to preserve the substance of the treaty, the fruit of three years of laborious talks.We are perfectly aware that there are certain key states where there is some scepticism as regards the whole idea of such a treaty, said Steinmeier.
But a presidency (of the EU) cannot avoid the fact that two thirds of member states have ratified the treaty; you have to reconcile the interests of the sceptics with those that have already ratified the treaty, he added.Berlin has asked all EU member states to nominate representatives for closed-door talks on the issue, in a bid to reach agreement on the way forward or at least to learn each nation's bottom line on the matter.However some members of the European Parliament have called on Germany to display more transparency in its search for a way out of the constitutional impasse.Steinmeier stressed that at first Germany was going to engage in a phase of secret consultations, with member states.These talks should begin this week at the sherpa level among the 27 EU member states.Steinmeier admitted that the objective of EU leaders to find a solution to the problem ahead of the next European Parliament elections in 2009 was ambitious.Given the time needed for some countries to ratify any agreement that could mean sorting out all the details a year and a half before the European elections, meaning by the end of this year or mid-2008, he said.But he added that he saw no virtue in pushing back the schedule.It is important to keep the pressure on. For the moment, there is no reason to increase the margins, increase the timetable, he said.
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)
New rules for the Middle East game
By Raanan Eliaz JAN 23,07 Haaretz
The current discussions about the future of American foreign policy in the Middle East touch directly upon Israel-U.S. relations. U.S. policymakers, however, have not yet given enough consideration to the unprecedented weight that the European Union increasingly exerts in the region. In the case of Israel as well as on other U.S. fronts, no durable progress is reachable without the agreement, not to say the active involvement, of the slowly uniting Europe. A historic window of opportunity may be brought on by the development of the EU over the past decades, the escalation of the conflict in the Middle East to include a nuclear threat, and the volatility of the U.S. role in the region. In view of this, the United States should realize the strategic value of gradually integrating Israel into the European Union. Although a full membership is not in the cards at the moment, the EU becoming Israel's second losest strategic ally, alongside the U.S., is in everybody's best interests. Over the next decade or two, relations between the U.S., the EU and Israel should be progressively formulated anew. Despite America's significant role in facilitating Israel's just struggle to survive, it has failed to ensure the county's lasting longevity and independence. Regardless of the Bush administration's intentions, Israel's strategic position has deteriorated on multiple fronts. It is still the most powerful in terms of military might, but present day Israel has to rely on America more than ever before in order to secure its political standing and its military superiority. Most tragically, Israel's peace offerings of its scarce land to Egyptian and Palestinian neighbors have not led it to better integration into the Middle East. The current Iranian nuclear threat only materializes a wider, existential fragility that Israel has failed to eliminate.
Although the U.S. still has the power to exert a unique leverage that no other outside party can, it is becoming clear that in order to stabilize the Middle East, the U.S. simply cannot go it alone.
Increasingly, the EU complements and in some cases, assumes, the U.S.'s traditional third party role in the region. For example, on the macro level, the EU took on a leading role in the Middle East Quartet and as chief negotiator with Iran, and on the micro level, the EU has an active presence in southern Lebanon and Gaza, and has, on several occasions, attempted to revive negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. Europe has a clear interest in stabilizing its backyard and it can offer incentives and exert leverages the U.S. cannot. Nevertheless, the dialogue between Israel and the EU lacks strategic vision and sincere willingness to work together. In dealing with Europe, Israel is preoccupied with planning preventive measures instead of embarking proactively in shaping its future. The EU, still heavily engaged in solving internal crises, cannot follow through its own foreign policy initiatives. Only the U.S. can help both parties to shift gears.Such paradigmatic change in course will involve the creation of a durable transatlantic Middle East policy that will introduce new rules to the region's game. With the required massive financial, political and military investment, all pragmatic Arab countries would be encouraged to work together with Israel toward an agreed-upon settlement. Creative solutions may include offering NATO-like regional security guarantees, the establishment of sustainable economic incentives, and multilateral territorial swaps.
It is doubtful whether the current U.S. administration, alongside weak leaderships in the Middle East and an unfocused EU, will be able to promote such an ambitious agenda. But in order for this positive dramatic shift to assume shape over the next generation, now is the time to start preparing the ground. Raanan Eliaz, former Coordinator at the Israeli National Security Council, is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, and a consultant on European-Israeli Affairs.
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