1-WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS.2-Damp Thursday Northeast, Deep South. 3-2nd-Temple Jewish Town Uncovered in Jerusalem. 4-Dispute Halts Delivery Of Atomic Fuel to Iran. 5-US mortgage mayhem prompts sell-off. 6-Israel not enthusiastic about strike on Iran: Olmert. 7-GSS: Israeli-Arabs are Existential Danger to Israel. 8-Arab Nations Charge Israel Doesn't Want Peace.
EARTHQUAKES
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS (USGS)
Update time = Thur Mar 15 12:00 AM EDT
MAR 14,07
MAP 3.1 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 3.9 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 2.8 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.0 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 2.6 NEVADA
MAP 4.7 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 2.6 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 2.9 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 2.6 OREGON
MAP 5.1 NEAR THE SOUTH COAST OF PAPUA, INDONESIA
MAP 4.9 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 4.7 EAST OF THE KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 3.0 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 5.1 KEPULAUAN BABAR, INDONESIA
MAR 13,07
MAP 2.5 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.8 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 3.2 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 3.1 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 4.7 SOUTH OF THE FIJI ISLANDS
MAP 5.0 NORTHERN PERU
MAP 2.6 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 3.0 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 3.4 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 2.9 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 2.8 GULF OF ALASKA
MAP 5.5 SUMBAWA REGION, INDONESIA
MAP 3.1 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.4 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.4 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 5.3 KEPULAUAN TALAUD, INDONESIA
MAP 5.4 KEPULAUAN TALAUD, INDONESIA
MAP 3.4 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 2.9 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 2.7 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 6.0 GULF OF CALIFORNIA
MAP 5.2 MOLUCCA SEA
MAP 2.7 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.5 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
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.
Damp Thursday Northeast, Deep South Senior Meteorologist, The Weather Channel MAR 14,07
Northeast
A cold front accompanied by rain and isolated thunderstorms will push southward through the Northeast tomorrow reaching central Virginia by evening. In parts of Upstate New York and northern New England the rain may change to wet snow before ending during the afternoon. An inch or two of slush is possible, especially in the higher terrain. The combination of rain, snowmelt and ice jams could lead to some river and stream flooding in northern Pennsylvania, New York and western New England. High temperatures will range from the 30s in western New York, the Adirondacks and far northern New England to the low 80s in southeastern Virginia. Readings in many locations may hold steady or retreat during the day.
South
Rain, showers and thunderstorms will dampen much of the South tomorrow, mainly from Louisiana eastward. The heaviest downpours are expected underneath an upper-air low in parts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. In Florida, the showers and storms should be primarily of the scattered afternoon pop-up variety. In the western reaches of the region, dry weather is forecast for the vast majority of Texas and Oklahoma. Temperatures, meanwhile, will continue to run well above March averages in most spots with highs in the 70s and 80s. Only the northern half of the Texas Panhandle and portions of northern Oklahoma will be limited to the 60s as gusty northerly winds push cooler air southward.
Midwest
Showers in the lower Midwest tomorrow should push gradually southward to south of the Ohio Valley by evening. Farther west, isolated showers may dot Kansas and Missouri throughout the day. To the north, a weak surface low followed by a reinforcing push of colder air is expected to deposit a few inches of snow on eastern North Dakota and northern Minnesota. High temperatures are expected to range from the 20s in much of northern North Dakota and far northern Minnesota to the 60s from extreme southeastern Kansas eastward through Kentucky. Readings in Illinois, Indiana and Ohio will be noticeably lower than today's topping out in the 40s and 50s in the wake of cold front.
West
Except for an orphaned shower or snow flurry here and there in the Rocky Mountain states tomorrow, the West will be dry. Temperatures will be near to above end-of-winter means with more record highs possible at some locations in the Southwest. Maxima are forecast to range from the 30s at a few spots in the northern Rockies to the 90s in southeast California and southwest Arizona. Most of the Great Basin will reach the 50s and 60s.
2nd-Temple Jewish Town Uncovered in Jerusalem
by Hillel Fendel (INN) MAR 13,07
In the course of preparing tracks for the new light-rail system in Jerusalem, remains of an ancient Jewish community just north of the Holy Temple have been uncovered. Rescue digs, required by law before any major construction work in Jerusalem and environs, have found a major set of remains of a Jewish town from post-Second Temple times. A long strip of land, 400 dunams (100 acres) in size, has been uncovered in which can be seen roads, alleys, houses, public buildings, a mikveh (ritual bath), and more. The community was located east of the old Roman highway leading from Jerusalem to Shechem (Nablus) - roughly along the same route as today's Shechem Way, or Highway 60.
Evidence shows that the community - the largest from that period yet uncovered in the Jerusalem vicinity - was inhabited by a well-to-do and religiously observant populace. In addition to the mikveh, many stone utensils were found - popularly used because they could not become ritually defiled, according to Jewish Law. Many coins were also found, including a rare gold one (pictured above) depicting Trainus Caesar (98-117 CE). Trainus began his reign 30 years after the Second Temple was destroyed. Antiquities Authority dig manager Rachel Bar-Natan said that this was only the second coin of its type found in Israel, and the first one within the Green Line. Nearly 1,000 4th-to-6th graders have visited the site on school trips. The site was first discovered during infrastructure work for the light-rail system being built in Jerusalem by the Moriah Company. In a related item, the National Infrastructures Planning and Construction Committee of the Interior Ministry has made its choice from among five alternatives for the establishment of Jerusalem's fifth water supply line. The project, which will be one of Israel's largest over the coming decade, will involve the placing of an 8-foot wide pipe deep underground, running from south of Rehovot to the western-Jerusalem reservoir in Beit Zayit. The 2-billion shekels project is being planned to meet the water needs of Jerusalem, Ramallah and the Jerusalem Corridor for the years 2015-2065.
Dispute Halts Delivery Of Atomic Fuel to Iran
By Peter Finn - Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, March 13, 2007; Page A13
MOSCOW, March 12 -- Russian officials said Monday that nuclear fuel will not be delivered to Iran this month as planned and that the September completion of a Russian-built nuclear power plant will be postponed because of an escalating dispute between the two countries.Moscow and Tehran have been arguing for weeks over what Russia calls Iran's failure to make $25 million monthly payments on the $1 billion plant in the southern city of Bushehr. Iran insists that it has made all scheduled payments.It will be impossible to launch the reactor in September, and there can be no talk about supplying fuel this month, the state-owned Russian contractor Atomstroiexport said in a statement Monday.Underlying the financial dispute appears to be increasing Russian hostility to Iran's suspected desire to build nuclear weapons and its flouting of international demands that it stop the enrichment of uranium and cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency.
The delivery of nuclear fuel would be a major boost for the Iranians. We hope the Russians won't politicize the delivery, Mohammad Ali Hosseini, a Foreign Ministry spokesman, said Sunday, according to news agencies. This should be done within the next two weeks. We expect the Russians to fulfill their commitments.The U.N. Security Council imposed limited sanctions on Iran in December after it refused to stop uranium enrichment. Iran says it has no intention of producing highly enriched uranium necessary for making nuclear weapons. Construction of the Bushehr plant was not affected by the sanctions, but Russia has in the past slowed construction as a lever to pressure Iran.The Security Council is considering further penalties against Tehran.We do not need a nuclear Iran or an Iran with the potential to create them, a Russian official whose name was not disclosed told Russian news agencies Monday. We will not play any anti-U.S. games with it, should [Iran] decide against giving any answers to the IAEA's questions. Let them answer for themselves.
The unidentified source accused Iran of abusing its good relations with Moscow. The Iranians have done nothing to help us convince our colleagues of Tehran's consistency, the official said. This is detrimental to us, especially to our foreign policy and our image.Russia has been building the Bushehr nuclear plant under a contract signed in 1995, and the two countries have close economic ties. Russia has repeatedly defended Iran's right to develop a peaceful nuclear energy program and has resisted efforts by the United States and the European Union to level harsher sanctions against the country.
Iran reportedly wants to make payments in euros, not dollars, which Russia has refused to accept without renegotiating the contract. There are reports here that the contract has become unprofitable and Russia may want to extract additional financial and political concessions.Talks broke down last week when Russian officials became angered by public statements from the head of the Iranian delegation blaming Moscow for the standoff.Iran's central bank issued a new bank note Monday that includes a nuclear symbol, the Associated Press reported. The note shows electrons flying around a nucleus on a map of Iran.
US mortgage mayhem prompts sell-off
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard and James Quinn
GMT 14/03/2007
A surge in arrears across the US mortgage industry and warnings of mass defaults have sent shivers through the US stock and junk bond markets, as Capitol Hill floated proposals for the biggest homeowner bail-out in US history.Chris Dodd called for direct aid
On Wall Street, the Dow tumbled 242.6 points to 12,076.0 - almost 2pc - in near panic trading as investors fled bank stocks led by Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns, while shares of sub-prime lender Accredited Home Lenders crashed 64pc as creditors invoked repayment clauses.Ominously, the Mortgage Bankers Association revealed that 4.95pc all loans tracked were in arrears of 30 days or more, the highest since the depths of the 2002 recession. Deliquencies on sub-prime loans have reached 13.3pc, even though the economy has barely begun to slow.US Federal Reserve governor Susan Bies said the turmoil in the $1,200bn (£620bn) sub-prime sector would get worse as people struggled to pay costs on over-sized properties bought on assumptions of capital gain. This is not the end of the wave, this is the beginning, she said, accusing brokers of issuing loans without even asking for proof of income.Median US house prices have fallen 9.3pc since April, leading to endemic cancellations on new homes. The market is now deteriorating so fast that top Democrats on Capitol Hill discussed plans yesterday for emergency measures to prevent the foreclosure on some 2.2m homes at risk from sub-prime defaults. Chris Dodd, the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, said the federal government would have to step in with direct aid. The impact of losing 2.2m homes, I suspect, will be in a lot of areas of our cities and towns that are already pretty hard hit, so we clearly want to look at that and legislate, he said.
advertisementHe proposed some from of forbearance or a new financial instrument to allow distressed households to work their way through the crisis.Meanwhile, chairman of the House Financial Service Committee Berney Frank said he wanted legislation to restrict risky mortgages.The grim mood in Washington comes after Lehman Brothers warned that defaults could $300bn over the next two years if the distress sales of property lead to contagion into the prime segment. There was a risk the sub-prime meltdown could be a catalyst to drag down the entire housing market.Some 20pc of US mortgages issued in the past two years have been sub-prime, but lax practices have also spread to the prime sector. Some 29pc of homes bought from mid-2005 to mid-2006 were purchased with no equity.Nouriel Roubini, of New York University, estimates that half of the entire mortgage issuance since early 2005 is garbage, warning of a seizure in housing. We have the beginning of a much broader credit crunch that could have severe macro-economic effects, Prof Roubini said. Home equity withdrawals reached 6pc of GDP at the height of the property boom, allowing overstretched consumers to meet their bills.
Federal regulators have now clamped down on lender New Century Financial, which seems headed for bankruptcy after its banks switched off support on Monday.The Securities and Exchange Commission is probing accounting errors that led to New Century's share suspension earlier this week. The Justice Department has launched a criminal inquiry.In London, shares in HSBC, which has a big exposure to the sub-prime market, fell 8½ to 902½p.
Israel not enthusiastic about strike on Iran: Olmert MAR 1407
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel is not enthusiastic about using military means to stop Iran's controversial nuclear programme, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Wednesday. The central issue bothering Israel nowadays is Iran, Olmert's office quoted him as telling representatives of the American Jewish Council.I have said before, and I still believe, that we prefer a diplomatic solution to the issue, and we are not enthusiastic about a military solution, he said during the meeting in Jerusalem.Believed to be the region's sole if undeclared nuclear power, Israel has accused Iran of trying to make an atomic bomb under the guise of a civilian nuclear programme, a charge Tehran denies.Israel considers Iran's nuclear programme to be an existential threat after its hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad repeatedly called for the Jewish state to be wiped off the map.Olmert has in the past said Israel did not rule out taking military steps against Iran.
Also Wednesday, ultra-nationalist Minister for for Strategic Affairs Avigdor Lieberman accused European leaders of willing to sacrifice the Jewish state to preserve economic ties with Tehran.
There are elements in Europe that are ready to sacrifice Israel on the alter of their security, of their trade contracts with Iran, Lieberman said.We saw the same phenomenon before World War II. That is how they sacrificed Czechoslovakia. That is how they ignored the Jewish problem, he said, referring to when European powers allowed Nazi Germany to annex areas in central Europe on the eve of World War II.I can see no other explanation to the opposition of some elements in Europe to imposing severe sanctions against Iran, he told public radio.Six world powers -- the permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany -- were set on Wednesday to resume efforts to agree new sanctions against Tehran over its nuclear defiance amid signs they are nearing agreement on a new resolution.The Security Council slapped a first round of sanctions on Iran in December.
GSS: Israeli-Arabs are Existential Danger to Israel
by Hillel Fendel MAR 13,07 (INN)
An internal Shabak document says Israel's Arabs are a long-range strategic danger to Israel's character and very existence. Though many believe that Iran is currently Israel's greatest danger, the General Secret Service believes that the worst threat may actually come from within. An internal General Security Service document says that Israel's Arab population is a genuine long-range danger to the Jewish character and very existence of the State of Israel.A recent meeting in the Prime Minister's office presented Prime Minister Ehud Olmert with worrisome data in various spheres, including increasing Israeli-Arab solidarity and identification with terrorist elements, Hizbullah and the Hamas government in the Palestinian Authority. The GSS has found that in the year 2006, 21 Israeli-Arab terror cells were uncovered, involving 24 Arab citizens. In 2005, the numbers were 17 terror cells involving 22 Arabs.
Arabs of Israel are generally recruited into terrorist gangs based on their family or business ties with Arabs of Judea and Samaria (Yesha), usually those of Samaria. The terrorists in Yesha find it easier to transport weapons using the services of Israeli-Arabs who are not bound by restrictions at checkpoints and the like. For instance, in November 2006, a smuggling cell of ten Israeli-Arabs was found to be active in smuggling weapons from pre-1967 Israel to Judea and Samaria. In the Negev, as well, Bedouin Arabs help out in smuggling weapons - to Gaza. Six such smuggling gangs were cracked open in 2006. Involvement of Hizbullah in Israeli-Arab terrorist initiatives has also been long noted. In July 2006, an Israeli-Arab was arrested who admitted to his interrogators that during the recent war with Hizbullah, he transmitted information to a Lebanese Hizbullah drug-dealer regarding IDF forces, military plans, and location of rocket hits. Some 40% of the Israeli-Arabs involved in terrorism originated in Yesha, but were permitted to come to pre-'67 Israel and receive Israeli residency after marrying Israeli-Arabs. They are then permitted to travel freely throughout the country.
Just this morning, six Israeli-Arabs from a Galilee village were indicted on charges of four brutal rapes over the past two years. The rapes were apparently another form of anti-Israel terrorism, as one victim told investigators that the rapists had told her that he was avenging" IDF operations in Gaza. This was echoed by one of the Arabs during police questioning.
Arab Nations Charge Israel Doesn't Want Peace
by Hana Levi Julian and Hillel Fendel (INN) MAR 14,07
Arab nations have expressed outrage over Israeli contentions that their 2002 peace plan, known as the Saui Arabian plan, equires changes in order to work for both sides, and charge that Israel doesnt want peace.The 5-year-old Arab initiative was recently dragged out of mothballs for re-examination in light of the Palestinian Authority failures to make headway on creating peace on its own neither with Israel nor internally between its own terrorist factions. Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said last week that there were elements of the plan that needed to be changed a comment that evoked the ire of Syria, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
Arabs Say Saudi Plan is Best Offer Take It or Leave It
Saudi Arabia has taken a take it or leave it stance on the 2002 Arab peace plan authored by Saudi King Abdullah. That view has been backed by other Arab leaders who will meet late this month at the Arab League summit in Riyadh. The 5-year-old peace plan is expected to be a main focus of the discussions. Saudi Foreign Affairs Minister Saud Al-Faisal said, in response to comments by Israeli officials that some of the language of the proposal was problematic,that there was nothing to talk about. We have no desire to negotiate over this, he said. They accept the resolution and then they talk about putting preconditions that should be accepted before negotiations or discussions or even the acceptance of the proposal. This is not a good way to do business.Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak joined in the chorus. A spokesman for the Egyptian leader told reporters after a meeting with Syrian Vice President Farouk al-Sharaa that Israel cannot pick and choose from the initiative and then jump into establishing normal relations with Arabs. Mubarak's spokesman rejected Israel's insistence that some of the plans elements were unacceptable. The Arab plan requires full withdrawal for full peace, he said. Foreign Minister Livni, responding to the attacks in New York, said that Israel had never accepted the plan in toto, and that it was always said to be a matter for negotiations. To the best of my understanding, she said, peace initiatives are not yes-or-no affairs or package deals... they must be negotiated.
Professor: Arab Peace Plans Have One Goal - to Destroy Israel
Historian and Middle East expert Prof. Moshe Sharon of Hebrew University told Arutz-7's Hebrew newsmagazine today, We must understand that the goal of all Arab peace initiatives is the same - the liquidation of the State of Israel. There is no Arab initiative that is not Islamic in essence. As far as the Arabs are concerned, Israel is a reversal of Allah's promise that Islam can and must rule over the entire world, and this reversal must be corrected... The State of Israel is not led by wise leaders who understand this.Syria too has expressed support for Saudi Arabias stance that its 2002 Arab peace plan cannot be amended or changed in any way. We have the Arab peace plan and we are committed to it as a whole, said Syrian Vice President Farouk al-Shara. Talk about amending it is baseless. Al-Shara bluntly told reporters Tuesday, after his talks Mubarak, What we want is returning all the occupied land including Jerusalem.Jordans King Abdullah II also warned Tuesday evening that violence and Islamic extremism is likely to return to the region if Israel does not come to the negotiating table.
Israel-PA Talks Less Than Promising
Talks between Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, which were revived in December 2006, have been less than promising, as expected. Both the U.S. and Israel have remained firm that the Hamas-led PA government must meet the criteria of the four- member Quartet of nations, comprised of the U.S., Russia, the United Nations and European Union official recognition of the State of Israel, renunciation of terrorism and fulfillment of agreements signed by previous PA governments. Hamas has repeatedly refused to comply with those demands, which the international community has set as a precondition for serious negotiations. The most recent Olmert-Abbas meeting, held in Jerusalem this past Sunday, was tense according to sources on both sides of the negotiating table, a description applied to the previous talks refereed personally last month by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. That assessment came less than a day after sources in the Prime Ministers office reported that the talks were conducted in a good atmosphere.
Despite weeks of groundwork by Rice, who met for weeks with Arab leaders and Quartet representatives, there was little accomplished other than Israeli concessions to the Hamas-led PA government. These included relaxation of travel restrictions on PA Arabs in Judea and Samaria, removal of a number of security checkpoints, and the transfer of $100 million in tax monies, collected by Israel on behalf of the PA, to Abbass office. Moreover, Reuters reported Tuesday that Hamas terrorists revealed that a portion of those funds, allegedly earmarked for partial salaries for Abbas's forces and for humanitarian purposes, nonetheless reached the hands of Hamas security personnel.
At their meeting this week, Olmert demanded that Abbas provide an accounting of how the tax funds were spent; Abbas was unable to do so. He did promise to have it by the end of the week.
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
FINAL STATUS TALKS ON FASTRACK
1-WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS.2-Earthquake felt in Ohio. 3-Fifty die as snow blankets Kashmir, rains pound northern India. 4-Rains pound southwestern B.C. 5-The Nation's Weather. 6-Orange County fire 80% contained, fire officials say. 7-King City breaks 84-year heat record. 8-Record Breaking Temperatures 9-Israel cautiously open to Arab peace plan. 10-Hamas Re-Assures Al Qaeda It Wants to Destroy Israel. 11-Explanation of Iraq War. 12-Bowing to Washington, Olmert agrees to go directly and unconditionally to final-status talks with Palestinians
EARTHQUAKES
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS (USGS)
Update time = Wed Mar 14 12:00 AM EDT
MAR 13,07
MAP 5.0 NORTHERN PERU
MAP 2.6 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 3.0 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 3.4 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 2.9 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 2.8 GULF OF ALASKA
MAP 5.5 SUMBAWA REGION, INDONESIA
MAP 3.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.4 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.4 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 5.3 KEPULAUAN TALAUD, INDONESIA
MAP 5.4 KEPULAUAN TALAUD, INDONESIA
MAP 3.4 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 2.9 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 2.7 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 6.0 GULF OF CALIFORNIA
MAP 5.2 MOLUCCA SEA
MAP 2.7 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.5 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAR 12,07
MAP 4.1 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 3.6 OHIO
MAP 5.6 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 4.5 OFFSHORE GUATEMALA
MAP 5.1 BABUYAN ISLANDS REGION, PHILIPPINES
MAP 2.6 HAWAII REGION, HAWAII
MAP 2.9 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 4.8 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 4.7 TAJIKISTAN
MAP 4.8 HOKKAIDO, JAPAN REGION
MAP 2.6 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 5.8 SOUTHEAST OF THE LOYALTY ISLANDS
MAP 4.6 COLOMBIA
MAP 5.5 SOUTHEAST INDIAN RIDGE
MAP 4.9 MOLUCCA SEA
MAP 3.0 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 2.9 CHANNEL ISLANDS REGION, CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.0 UNIMAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP 4.5 TONGA
MAP 2.6 NEVADA
MAP 4.7 KERMADEC ISLANDS REGION
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MAR 11,07
MAP 2.5 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.7 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 4.5 SOUTH OF THE FIJI ISLANDS
MAP 4.9 TONGA
MAP 5.0 LIBERTADOR O'HIGGINS, CHILE
MAP 2.7 PUERTO RICO
MAP 2.6 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 4.9 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 2.9 MOUNT ST. HELENS AREA, WASHINGTON
MAP 3.0 PUERTO RICO
MAP 2.7 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 5.8 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 2.6 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 3.1 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 3.7 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 2.5 NEW YORK
MAP 3.6 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 4.9 IZU ISLANDS, JAPAN REGION
MAP 3.4 BERING SEA
Earthquake felt in Ohio Mon Mar 12, 10:40 PM ET
TWINSBURG, Ohio - A rare northeast Ohio earthquake, with a preliminary magnitude of 3.6, was felt near the epicenter but caused no major damage. The quake was recorded at 7:18 p.m. outside Twinsburg, which is about 16 miles southeast of Cleveland. Most reports from people who felt the quake came from Twinsburg and nearby Stow and Aurora, said Michael Hansen, coordinator of the Ohio Seismic Network.
This isn't an area where we commonly have earthquakes, he said.Other than a television knocked off its stand, there were no reports of damage.Ohio's largest recorded earthquake registered 5.4 in 1937 in Shelby County, a rural area between Toledo and Dayton.
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.
Fifty die as snow blankets Kashmir, rains pound northern India MAR 13,07
SRINAGAR, India (AFP) - At least 50 people were killed as snow engulfed Kashmir and torrential rains pounded the rest of northern India, officials said Tuesday. Some 28 people were killed and 25 others received burn injuries in separate lightning strikes in Uttar Pradesh as rains crippled life in the populous northern Indian state, they said.Seventeen people, including two children and a soldier died in landslides, cold and floods in Indian Kashmir and its summer capital Srinagar reported its heaviest March snowfall in 15 years, weather officials said.Five other weather-related casualties were reported from other parts of northern India, lashed by rains since Friday.In Kashmir, five Hindu pilgrims trekking to a snowbound shrine high in the Himalayas froze to death.
A police patrol discovered the five bodies huddled together Monday in a shelter built to protect travellers to the Vaishno Devi shrine.All five pilgrims died of hypothermia as they weren't wearing enough clothes and heavy snow had brought down temperatures, said Puneet Kumar, a senior official at the shrine.Another 13 people suffered hypothermia injuries. Nine were in critical condition but were recovering fast in hospital, the official said.The dead were all from Uttar Pradesh, and officials said they had underestimated the cold at that time of year in Kashmir where the mercury regularly falls below zero Celsius (32 Fahrenheit).Ten more people died due to hypothermia, landslides and caving in of structures across the state, a police officer said while rescue officials reported another two deaths in the snowbound region.
Snowstorms have paralysed life in revolt-hit Kashmir, shutting schools, knocking out power and telephone lines and closing the region's main highway, police said.The main highway has been shut due to heavy snow and nearly 800 vehicles are stranded, police officer Abdul Hameed told AFP.
Labourers were using bulldozers, snow removal machines and shovels to open up the 300-kilometre (186-mile) highway, the main route for supplies to the Kashmir valley from state winter capital Jammu and the rest of the subcontinent.It may take us a few days to restore power supply in the valley, senior engineer Nissar Ahmed said.Offices in the region were still open but many people were late as they had to walk through the thick blanket of snow.Earlier this month, India's air force airlifted to safety more than 5,000 people stranded for days in sub-zerotemperatures on the main highway by avalanches and landslides.The Indian army has a strong presence in Kashmir where it is fighting to suppress a deadly Islamic separatist insurgency that has raged since 1989.
Rains pound southwestern B.C.
Last Updated: Monday, March 12, 2007 CBC News
Roads were flooded and rivers were threatening to overflow their banks in parts of southwestern British Columbia Monday following a weekend downpour.
The rain caused a temporary storm sewer pipe on Cambie Street to back up between Broadway and 10th avenues in Vancouver Sunday, flooding the Canada Line rapid-transit project excavation trench, washing out a steel beam and utility supports. Heavy rain caused flooding in downtown Vancouver.(CBC) The water also flooded the nearby Best Thai restaurant.Crews closed Cambie Street, northbound and southbound, with traffic being rerouted around the washout. The street was expected to reopen Monday.A spokeswoman for the rapid-transit project said construction was not expected to be delayed significantly.The rain also caused a couple of mudslides across the rail tracks in the Crescent Beach area of White Rock.
Flood warning
Environment Canada issued a flood warning for the Coquitlam and Nicomeckl rivers. More than 170 millimetres of rain was recorded at the Coquitlam Dam Forebay over the weekend.While the rain ended overnight, Surrey RCMP said driving was hazardous in low-lying areas, warning that water-filled ditches could flood roads.A number of roads were closed, including Highway 10 in the Cloverdale area of Surrey and the Maryhill bypass in Port Coquitlam.The downpour was also blamed for a mudslide that closed the Trans-Canada Highway from Rosedale to Hope and east of Hope to Jackass Mountain because of falling rock.On Vancouver Island, a flood watch was in effect as water levels in the Cowichan, Chemainus and Englishman rivers rose.As the rain let up, a wind warning was issued for much of B.C.'s South Coast. That order was lifted Monday morning.
The Nation's Weather By WEATHER UNDERGROUND, For The Associated Press
Tue Mar 13, 6:00 AM ET
Unseasonably warm and dry air settled across most of the nation early Tuesday, although rain and thunderstorms whipped across the southern Plains and Mississippi Delta. In the Northeast, temperatures were expected to rise well above normal, with highs in the 60s expected in New York and New Jersey, and the upper 70s for the mid-Atlantic and Southeast.The heat also will continue out West, with temperatures in Southern California remaining in the upper 80s and low 90s, which combined with continued dry weather and gusty winds will set the stage for another day of dangerous fire weather.The largest threat for strong storms exists from central Texas south and east to the Gulf Coast as warm afternoon temperatures and humid air provide the conditions ripe for storm development.In the Northwest, showers and high elevation snow showers were to continue, and, late in the day, light rain or snow could start up in the northern Plains.Temperatures in the Lower 48 states on Monday ranged from a low of 8 degrees at Whitefield, N.H., to a high of 98 degrees at Riverside, Calif.
Orange County fire 80% contained, fire officials say
By Janet Wilson, David Haldane and Greg Krikorian, LA Times Staff Writers
8:15 AM PDT, March 12, 2007
Unfriendly fireAided by higher humidity and cooler temperatures, firefighters overnight made dramatic strides in containing an arson fire in Orange and Anaheim Hills, authorities said today.The fire, which had charred 2,000 acres of brush and prompted evacuations of more than 1,200 people on Sunday, was reported as 80% contained, Capt. Stephen Miller of the Orange County Fire Authority said at a news conference broadcast this morning. He estimated the fire would be fully contained by 6 a.m. Tuesday.Everything is looking good in our favor now, he said.Authorities said that evacuations in some areas would remain in effect until later today.
Firefighters were hopeful no setbacks would be suffered from today's weather, which is predicted to again produce record breaking heat and strong winds.The winds in what is shaping up as one of the driest years ever in Southern California fed flames on Sunday that destroyed one structure and damaged three more, including two homes.The blaze was triggered before 8 a.m. by a fire that began in an abandoned car that was stolen and wound up in a roadside ditch, Miller said.
The vehicle was intentionally set on fire, Miller said this morning. This is an arson fire.More than 800 firefighters battled the flames, which at midafternoon darkened the skies over much of north Orange County with towering black columns of smoke.One of the firefighters' key adversaries was Sunday's scorching heat. Temperatures hit record highs for a March 11 at many spots in the Southland, including a midafternoon 97-degree reading in nearby Fullerton, making it the nation's hot spot for the day. Fullerton's previous record high of 84 was set in 1959.A red flag warning, based on the forecast of more brisk winds and single-digit humidity, was issued.This is classic Santa Ana fire season, and it's exacerbated because everything is so crispy because it's been such a dry winter, said William
Patzert, a climatologist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Caada Flintridge. It's definitely scary. The blaze named the Windy Ridge fire quickly scaled the ridge and destroyed dozens of acres near the toll road. By noon, as winds gusted and temperatures steadily rose, the fire was threatening enough for authorities to begin evacuating the residents of more than 500 homes.
By 10 p.m., most of the evacuees were allowed to return to their homes.One of those who fled was Theresa Sears, 51, a longtime resident of Orange Park Acres, an equestrian community at the edge of Orange.I smelled smoke about 8 o'clock in the morning, and we started taking the horses out about 10 in the morning, she said. All my friends came and helped me so I could stay in my house. We loaded up the horses. We loaded up the goats. We loaded up the chickens, the dogs and the cats. Sears stayed put until about 1 p.m. But, with firefighters nearby, she said, They didn't have to tell me to leave. The flames were so severe I knew it was time to go. Her home, however, was coated with foam by firefighters and saved.Most of the people living along Santiago Creek were ordered to evacuate Sunday afternoon, but some stayed home to keep an eye on the fire themselves.Even after authorities had blocked off roads near his Mabury Ranch neighborhood in Orange, defense contractor Vern Green, 58, sneaked behind law enforcement lines to pack up his things.When they tap into the fire hydrant by my house, that's our signal to leave, Green said. Authorities said the two damaged houses appeared to be the only ones in the area with wood-shake roofs. Neither, officials said, was seriously damaged.
But one structure, possibly a corral, was destroyed, and another outbuilding was damaged.Miller said two firefighters, the only people hurt, suffered minor injuries. He offered no prediction as to when the fire would be fully contained.Weather records were being set all over Orange County. Yorba Linda reached 95 degrees, 11 degrees above the record for the day; the Santa Ana fire station near John Wayne Airport reached 92 degrees, versus the normal high of 66 degrees.
Single-digit humidity levels compared to a norm of around 40% to 50% this time of year, officials said.Firefighters were also frustrated by winds blowing steadily at 29 mph and gusting up to 49 mph. Authorities at the fire scene said humidity fell to 9%, while weather officials reported that humidity in Fullerton dipped to as low as 4%.In Los Angeles County, temperatures were 20 to 25 degrees above normal. The county's hottest weather was in Long Beach, which reached 94 degrees, surging past the former high of 87 degrees set in 1959. Downtown posted a high of 92, only one degree below its record high.
Elsewhere, Southern California residents who started the morning by fast-forwarding to daylight saving time relished a day that felt more like June than mid-March.In Riverside County near Corona, a Sunday afternoon brush fire flared to 500 acres in the hilly terrain around the wildlife habitat of Lake Mathews Reserve.
It was 25% contained by 9 p.m.One hundred firefighters labored to contain the blaze, dubbed the Sierra fire. No homes were threatened or roads closed, said Capt. Julie Hutchinson of the Riverside County Fire Department.Until we get that line all the way around it, there's still that potential to spread, Hutchinson said.Weather forecasters have said that this unusually long fire season probably will continue, in large part because of the dry conditions.Only about 2.40 inches of rain had fallen on downtown Los Angeles since July 1, and forecasters say no sign of rain is in sight.The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's weather models suggest that a La Nina climate pattern an abnormal cooling of water temperatures in the equatorial Pacific is emerging, continuing the drought-like conditions. janet.wilson@latimes.com.david.haldane@latimes.com.greg.krikorian@latimes.com.Times staff writers Stuart Silverstein, William Heisel, Howard Blume, Deborah Schoch, Susannah Rosenblatt and Adrian G. Uribarri contributed to this report
King City breaks 84-year heat record
By SUNITA VIJAYAN The Salinas Californian
Several Monterey County cities today broke decade-old record temperatures, the National Weather Service in Monterey said, and one crested a record set more than 80 years ago.Forecaster Diane Henderson said temperatures in King City hit 93 degrees, breaking the 1923 record of 92 degrees.
Salinas recorded a high of 85 degrees, breaking its 1994 record of 80 degrees.In Monterey, she said, temperatures reached 78 degrees, enough to break its 1993 record of 77 degrees.The highest temperature within the area was in Bradley, with 98 degrees.
Record Breaking Temperatures MAR 12,07
The gusty wind disguised the fact that the mercury was rising, and believe it or not we managed to break some records around Southern Saskatchewan. Environment Canada was calling for a high of 16 degrees Monday, and we surpassed that high and set a new record high beating the old record set March 12th, 1910.
Bob Cormier with Environment Canada. Moose Jaw with a temperature of 17.8 eclipsed the old mark of 14.3. Some of the nearby spots like Swift Current reached 18.4 beating the previous record of 16.1 set back in 1914. Assiniboia made some history, too. They saw the temperature get up to 18.8 which beat the record high of 15.5 set in 1992.
Israel cautiously open to Arab peace plan by Yana Dlugy
Mon Mar 12, 9:36 AM ET
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel said on Monday it was cautiously open to an Arab peace initiative, amid reports that secret talks are being held with the aim of jump-starting the stalled Middle East peace process. Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said the so-called Saudi initiative on a comprehensive Arab-Israeli peace deal had some good points, but needed work.There are positive elements in the Saudi initiative, but some of its clauses are contrary to the principle of two states, Livni told Israeli public radio from Washington where she is visiting.Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Sunday that Israel was ready to take seriously the peace plan and hoped an Arab summit on March 28 in Saudi Arabia would bolster its positive elements.We sincerely hope that at the summit of the Arab leaders in Riyadh the positive element in the Saudi initiative will be emphasized and would maybe allow an
opportunity to strengthen the chances for negotiations with the Palestinians on its basis, Olmert said.
The Saudi plan calls for the Arab world to fully normalise its relations with Israel in return for the Jewish state withdrawing from all occupied Arab territory and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state.Livni said the initiative contained two additional clauses very problematic for Israel concerning the right of return of Palestinian refugees.One calls for the return of Palestinians who fled or were forced out in 1948, the other rules out their permanent settlement in the Arab states where they or their descendants currently live.Israeli Public Security Minister Avi Dichter told reporters on Monday that a peace agreement with the Palestinians was now much likelier than another cycle of violence.If we did it in 1993, I'm sure there is a strong possibility to repeat it again, he said.
The Israeli statements come amid reports that Livni has been holding secret talks with the Palestinians aimed at breathing life into a peace process that has been largely dormant since 2003.
Palestinian sources told AFP on Sunday that Livni has in recent weeks met twice with Yasser Abed Rabbo, a senior member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation, and Salam Fayyad, a former Palestinian finance minister.The secret talks have touched on the thorniest issues between the two sides, including the final borders of the Palestinians' promised state and the fate of refugees and Jewish settlements in the occupied territories, the sources said.A Livni aide told AFP that secret contacts were under way with the Palestinians, but denied they were being used as a separate channel for negotiations.
There are occasional exchanges, but they are not continuous, so there are no negotiations, he said. Abbas has on several occasions said that he favoured a parallel channel of talks with Israel, like the secret talks that resulted in the 1993 Oslo accords that paved the way for limited Palestinian autonomy.The liberal Haaretz newspaper reported that Israel's top ally the United States which has
increased its diplomatic efforts in the region in recent months was holding separate talks with the Jewish state and Saudi Arabia ahead of the Riyadh summit.
It said, without providing a source, that Saudi National Security Advisor Prince Bandar bin Sultan met Olmert in Jordan last year and was currently in Washington at the same time as Livni. In December, Israeli media reported that Olmert had met a senior Saudi official in Jordan, a report both Riyadh and Amman branded as false. Olmert told reporters at the time: We have decided that on this subject, I am going to deliver a denial but you don't have to believe it... On other matters, believe all my denials.Progress on the Palestinian front would provide a vital lifeline to Olmert, whose ratings have sunk to unprecedented lows following last summer's inconclusive war in Lebanon and corruption allegations just two percent of Israelis now say they trust him.
Hamas Re-Assures Al Qaeda It Wants to Destroy Israel
22 Adar 5767, March 12, '07
(IsraelNN.com) Hamas officials have reassured Al Qaeda that it wants to destroy Israel. Hamas spokesmen reacted to a statement, made on Sunday by Ayman al-Zawahri, second-in-command in the Al Qaeda terrorist network, accusing Hamas of surrendering to American interests by agreeing to sit with the Fatah in a Palestinian Authority (PA) unity government.
We will not betray promises we made to G-d to continue the path of Jihad and resistance until the liberation of Palestine, all of Palestine, Hamas said in a statement. Al Zawahri charged that the agreement hammered out in Mecca for a unity government was an American scheme to hit the Islamic jihadist resistance against the Crusader-Zionist campaign. He added that Hamas has ditched the movement of martyrdom operations ... for a government that plays with words in palace halls.Hamas terrorists have killed approximately 300 Israelis in 58 suicide bombings since the Oslo War broke out in 2000. Hamas replied to Al Qaeda that it continues to be a movement of resistance, seekers of martyrdom. The statement added, So be assured doctor Ayman, and all those who love Palestine like yourself, that Hamas is still the group you knew when it was founded and it will never abandon its path.
Explanation of Iraq War.
MAR 13,07 Raymond S Kraft
SOME OF YOU ARE NOT OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER THAT NEARLY EVERY FAMILY IN AMERICA WAS GROSSLY AFFECTED BY WW II . MOST OF YOU DON'T REMEMBER THE RATIONING OF MEAT, SHOES, GASOLINE, AND SUGAR. NO TIRES FOR OUR AUTOMOBILES, AND A SPEED LIMIT OF 35 MILES AN HOUR ON THE ROAD, NOT TO MENTION, NO NEW AUTOMOBILES. READ THIS AND THINK ABOUT HOW WE WOULD REACT TO BEING TAKEN OVER BY FOREIGNERS IN 2007.
This is an EXCELLENT essay. Well thought out and presented.
Historical Significance
Sixty-three years ago, Nazi Germany had overrun almost all of Europe and hammered England to the verge of bankruptcy and defeat. The Nazis had sunk more than 400 British ships in their convoys between England and America taking food and war materials.
At that time the US was in an isolationist, pacifist mood, and most Americans wanted nothing to do with the European or the Asian war.Then along came Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and in outrage Congress unanimously declared war on Japan, and the following day on Germany, who had not yet attacked us . It was a dicey thing We had few allies . France was not an ally, as the Vichy government of France quickly aligned itself with its German occupiers . Germany was certainly not an ally, as Hitler was intent on setting up a Thousand Year Reich in Europe. Japan was not an ally, as it was well on its way to owning and controlling all of Asia.
Together, Japan and Germany had long-range plans of invading Canada and Mexico, as launching pads to get into the United States over our northern and southern borders, after they finished gaining control of Asia and Europe.America's only allies then were England, Ireland, Scotland, Canada, Australia, and Russia. That was about it All of Europe, from Norway to Italy (except Russia in the East) was already under the Nazi heel.The US was certainly not prepared for war. The US had drastically downgraded most of its military forces after WW I because of the depression, so that at the outbreak of WW II, Army units were training with broomsticks because they didn't have guns, and cars with tank painted on the doors because they didn't have real tanks A huge chunk of our Navy had just been sunk or damaged at Pearl Harbor.Britain had already gone bankrupt, saved only by the donation of $600 million in gold bullion in the Bank of England (that was actually the property of Belgium) given by Belgium to England to carry on the war when Belgium was overrun by Hitler (a little known fact).
Actually, Belgium surrendered on one day, because it was unable to oppose the German invasion, and the Germans bombed Brussels into rubble the next day just to prove they could.Britain had already been holding out for two years in the face of staggering losses and the near decimation of its Royal Air Force in the Battle of Britain, and was saved from being overrun by Germany only because Hitler made the mistake of thinking the Brits were a relatively minor threat that could be dealt with later.
Hitler, first turned his attention to Russia, in the late summer of 1940 at a time when England was on the verge of collapse.
Ironically, Russia saved America's butt by putting up a desperate fight for two years, until the US got geared up to begin hammering away at Germany.Russia lost something like 24,000,000 people in the sieges of Stalingrad and Moscow alone . . . 90% of them from cold and starvation, mostly civilians, but also more than a 1,000,000 soldiersHad Russia surrendered, Hitler would have been able to focus his entire war effort against the Brits, then America. If that had happened, the Nazis could possibly have won the war.All of this has been brought out to illustrate that turning points in history are often dicey things. Now, we find ourselves at another one of those key moments in history.There is a very dangerous minority in Islam that either has, or wants, and may soon have, the ability to deliver small nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons, almost anywhere in the world .
The Jihadis, the militant Muslims, are basically Nazis in Kaffiyahs they believe that Islam, a radically conservative form of Wahhabi Islam, should own and control the Middle East first, then Europe, then the world. To them, all who do not bow to their will of thinking should be killed, enslaved, or subjugated. They want to finish the Holocaust, destroy Israel , and purge the world of Jews. This is their mantra. (goal).
There is also a civil war raging in the Middle East for the most part not a hot war, but a war of ideas. Islam is having its Inquisition and its Reformation, but it is not yet known which side will win the Inquisitors, or the Reformationists. If the Inquisition wins, then the Wahhabis, the Jihadis, will control the Middle East, the OPEC oil, and the US , European, and Asian economies. The techno-industrialeconomies will be at the mercy of OPEC not an OPEC dominated by the educated, rational Saudis of today, but an OPEC dominated by the Jihadis. Do you want gas in your car? Do you want heating oil next winter? Do you want the dollar to be worth anything? You had better hope the Jihad, the Muslim Inquisition, loses, and the Islamic Reformation wins. If the Reformation movement wins, that is, the moderate Muslims who believe that Islam can respect and tolerate other religions, live in peace with the rest of the world, and move out of the 10th century into the 21st, then the troubles in the Middle East will eventually fade away A moderate and prosperous Middle East will emerge.
We have to help the Reformation win, and to do that we have to fight the Inquisition, i.e., the Wahhabi movement, the Jihad, Al Qaeda and the Islamic terrorist movements. We have to do it somewhere. We can't do it everywhere at once. We have created a focal point for the battle at a time and place of our choosing . . . . . . . . in Iraq. Not in New York, not in London, or Paris or Berlin, but in Iraq, where we are doing two important things.
(1) We deposed Saddam Hussein. Whether Saddam Hussein was directly involved in the 9/11 terrorist attack or not, it is undisputed that Saddam has been actively supporting the terrorist movement for decades Saddam is a terrorist! Saddam is, or was, a weapon of mass destruction, responsible for the deaths of probably more than a 1,000,000 Iraqis and 2,000,000 Iranians.
(2) We created a battle, a confrontation, a flash point, with Islamic terrorism in Iraq. We have focused the battle. We are killing bad people, and the ones we get there we won't have to get here. We also have a good shot at creating a democratic, peaceful Iraq, which will be a catalyst for democratic change in the rest of the Middle East, and an outpost for a stabilizing American military presence in the Middle East for as long as it is needed .
WW II, the war with the Japanese and German Nazis, really began with a whimper in 1928 It did not begin with Pearl Harbor. It began with the Japanese invasion of China. It was a war for fourteen years before the US joined it.
It officially ended in 1945 a 17 year war and was followed by another decade of US occupation in Germany and Japan to get those countries reconstructed and running on their own a gain a 27 year war.WW II cost the United States an amount equal to approximately a full year's GDP adjusted for inflation, equal to about $12 trillion dollars. WW II cost America more than 400,000 soldiers killed in action, and nearly 100,000 still missing in action.The Iraq war has, so far, cost the United States about $160,000,000,000, which is roughly what the 9/11 terrorist attack cost New York. It has also cost about 3,000 American lives, which is roughly equivalent to lives that the Jihad killed (within the United States) in the 9/11 terrorist attack.The cost of not fighting and winning WW II would have been unimaginably greater -- a world dominated by Japanese Imperialism and German Nazism.This is not a 60-Minutes TV show, or a 2-hour movie in which everything comes out okay. The real world is not like that. It is messy, uncertain, and sometimes bloody and ugly. It always has been, and probably always will be.
The bottom line is that we will have to deal with Islamic terrorism until we defeat it, whenever that is. It will not go away if we ignore it.If the US can create a reasonably democratic and stable Iraq, then we have an ally, like England, in the Middle East, a platform, from which we can work to help modernize and moderate the Middle East. The history of the world is the clash between the forces of relative civility and civilization, and the barbarians clamoring at the gates to conquer the world. The Iraq War is merely another battle in this ancient and never ending war. Now, for the first time ever, the barbarians are about to get nuclear weapons. Unless some body prevents them from getting them.
We have four options:
1. We can defeat the Jihad now, before it gets nuclear weapons.
2. We can fight the Jihad later, after it gets nuclear weapons (which may be as early as next year, if Iran's progress on nuclear weapons is what Iran claims it is).
3. We can surrender to the Jihad and accept its dominance in the Middle East now; in Europe in the next few years or decades, and ultimately in America.
OR
4. We can stand down now, and pick up the fight later when the Jihad is more widespread and better armed, perhaps after the Jihad has dominated France and Germany and possibly most of the rest of Europe. It will, of course, be more dangerous, more expensive, and much bloodier.
If you oppose this war, I hope you like the idea that your children, or grandchildren, may live in an Islamic America under the Mullahs and the Sharia, an America that resembles Iran today. The history of the world is the history of civilization clashes, cultural clashes. All wars are about ideas, ideas about what society and civilization should be like, and the most determined always win.Those who are willing to be the most ruthless always win. The pacifists always lose, because the anti-pacifists kill them.Remember, perspective is every thing, and America's schools teach too little history for perspective to be clear, especially in the young American mind.The Cold War lasted from about 1947 at least until the Berlin Wall came down in 1989; forty-two years! Europe spent the first half of the
19th century fighting Napoleon, and from 1870 to 1945 fighting Germany!
World War II began in 1928, lasted 17 years, plus a ten year occupation, and the US still has troops in Germany and Japan World War II resulted in the death of more than 50,000,000 people, maybe more than 100,000,000 people, depending on which estimates you accept.
The US has taken more than 3,000 killed in action in Iraq. The US took more than 4,000 killed in action on the morning of June 6, 1944, the first day of the Normandy Invasion to rid Europe of Nazi Imperialism.In WW II the US averaged 2,000 KIA a week for four years. Most of the individual battles of WW II lost more Americans than the entire Iraq war has done so far.The stakes are at least as high . . A world dominated by representative governments with civil rights, human rights, and personal freedoms . . or a world dominated by a radical Islamic Wahhabi movement, by the Jihad, under the Mullahs and the Sharia (Islamic law).It's difficult to understand why the average American does not grasp this. They favor human rights, civil rights, liberty and freedom, but evidently not for Iraqis.
Peace Activists always seem to demonstrate here in America, where it's safe.Why don't we see Peace Activist demonstrating in Iran , Syria, Iraq, Sudan, North Korea, in the places that really need peace activism the most? I'll tell you why! They would be killed! The liberal mentality is supposed to favor human rights, civil rights, democracy, multiculturalism, diversity, etc . , but if the Jihad wins, wherever the Jihad wins, it is the end of civil rights, human rights, democracy, multiculturalism, diversity, etc.
Americans who oppose the liberation of Iraq are coming down on the side of their own worst enemy!
Raymond S. Kraft is a writer living in Northern California that has studied the Middle Eastern culture and religion.
DEBKAfile Exclusive: Bowing to Washington, Olmert agrees to go directly and unconditionally to final-status talks with Palestinians March 11, 2007, 11:45 PM (GMT+02:00)
Prime minister Ehud Olmert conceded key Israeli policy points in his talks with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in Jerusalem Sunday, March 11, according to DEBKAfile’s Middle East and Washington sources – contrary to advance statements from his office that the meeting was only a formality. Last week, Bush administration officials notified Olmert’s senor aides Yoram Turbovitch and Shalom Turjman in Washington that the wait for the Palestinians to comply with roadmap conditions to recognize Israel and renounce violence was at an end. Whether a Palestinian government was led by Hamas or shared with Fatah, they were told, Israel must now initiate final settlement talks with Abbas. Saudi and Jordanian leaders had won President George W. Bush over on this point as leverage for cooperation on the Iraq and Iranian issues..
At the Sunday cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, the prime minister therefore announced he was seriously considering accepting the 2002 Saudi peace plan. He already knew the Saudis had informed the White House that the plan would not be revised at the coming Arab summit in Riyadh on March 28. This means that Olmert has agreed to rescind the road map’s conditions for peace talks in favor of the tough Saudi peace plan. It was left to Abbas to run down for Olmert’s benefit the steps expected from Israel, now that the road map’s provisions were out of the way:
1. The Israeli government must pledge unconditionally that the IDF will refrain from attacking the Gaza Strip. Abbas called this a mutual ceasefire although he offered no guarantee for the Palestinian termination of missile fire or other terrorist attacks emanating form the Gaza Strip.After the Olmert-Abbas talks, Israeli officials spread reports of an Israel military alert in the area around the Gaza Strip in an effort to lay a smokescreen to conceal the prime minister’s concession.
2. Abbas said he would do his best to obtain the release of Hamas hostage Gilead Shalit, but offered no promises.
3. The mutual ceasefire is the first step to fast-track Israel-Palestinian negotiations on its extension to the West Bank. DEBKAfile reports that Israeli military and intelligence chiefs are trying to impress on the prime minister that the cessation of Israel’s intense counter-terror operations on the West Bank will result in an eruption of a fresh wave of Palestinian suicide bombings inside Israel and the transfer of Palestinian missiles and rockets to launching positions opposite central Israel, including its main cities.
4. Security restrictions on Palestinian movements in the West Bank must be further relaxed.
5. In May or June of 2007, Israel will enter into direct negotiations with the Palestinians on a final-status framework. Since the road map was formulated, Abbas has lobbied hard to skip the document’s prior condition for an end to Palestinian violence as the sine qua non for talks on a final settlement. Now the Palestinian leader has got is way.
6. Abbas voiced the hope that Israel’s flexibility in negotiating with the Palestinians would be rewarded by the willingness of moderate Arab and Muslim nations, like Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Malaysia and Indonesia, to establish diplomatic and open economic relations with the Jewish state.
DEBKAfile’s sources note that the Olmert-Abbas conversation did not discuss the role to be played by Hamas in the diplomatic process dictated the Israeli government, when it heads the Palestinian government. Also left up in the air was the framework in which the moderate Arab and Muslim governments would normalize their relations with Israel. This would call for amendments of the Saudi peace plan. However, Riyadh has informed Washington that no such amendments would be tabled at the coming Arab summit.
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.
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Earthquake felt in Ohio Mon Mar 12, 10:40 PM ET
TWINSBURG, Ohio - A rare northeast Ohio earthquake, with a preliminary magnitude of 3.6, was felt near the epicenter but caused no major damage. The quake was recorded at 7:18 p.m. outside Twinsburg, which is about 16 miles southeast of Cleveland. Most reports from people who felt the quake came from Twinsburg and nearby Stow and Aurora, said Michael Hansen, coordinator of the Ohio Seismic Network.
This isn't an area where we commonly have earthquakes, he said.Other than a television knocked off its stand, there were no reports of damage.Ohio's largest recorded earthquake registered 5.4 in 1937 in Shelby County, a rural area between Toledo and Dayton.
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.
Fifty die as snow blankets Kashmir, rains pound northern India MAR 13,07
SRINAGAR, India (AFP) - At least 50 people were killed as snow engulfed Kashmir and torrential rains pounded the rest of northern India, officials said Tuesday. Some 28 people were killed and 25 others received burn injuries in separate lightning strikes in Uttar Pradesh as rains crippled life in the populous northern Indian state, they said.Seventeen people, including two children and a soldier died in landslides, cold and floods in Indian Kashmir and its summer capital Srinagar reported its heaviest March snowfall in 15 years, weather officials said.Five other weather-related casualties were reported from other parts of northern India, lashed by rains since Friday.In Kashmir, five Hindu pilgrims trekking to a snowbound shrine high in the Himalayas froze to death.
A police patrol discovered the five bodies huddled together Monday in a shelter built to protect travellers to the Vaishno Devi shrine.All five pilgrims died of hypothermia as they weren't wearing enough clothes and heavy snow had brought down temperatures, said Puneet Kumar, a senior official at the shrine.Another 13 people suffered hypothermia injuries. Nine were in critical condition but were recovering fast in hospital, the official said.The dead were all from Uttar Pradesh, and officials said they had underestimated the cold at that time of year in Kashmir where the mercury regularly falls below zero Celsius (32 Fahrenheit).Ten more people died due to hypothermia, landslides and caving in of structures across the state, a police officer said while rescue officials reported another two deaths in the snowbound region.
Snowstorms have paralysed life in revolt-hit Kashmir, shutting schools, knocking out power and telephone lines and closing the region's main highway, police said.The main highway has been shut due to heavy snow and nearly 800 vehicles are stranded, police officer Abdul Hameed told AFP.
Labourers were using bulldozers, snow removal machines and shovels to open up the 300-kilometre (186-mile) highway, the main route for supplies to the Kashmir valley from state winter capital Jammu and the rest of the subcontinent.It may take us a few days to restore power supply in the valley, senior engineer Nissar Ahmed said.Offices in the region were still open but many people were late as they had to walk through the thick blanket of snow.Earlier this month, India's air force airlifted to safety more than 5,000 people stranded for days in sub-zerotemperatures on the main highway by avalanches and landslides.The Indian army has a strong presence in Kashmir where it is fighting to suppress a deadly Islamic separatist insurgency that has raged since 1989.
Rains pound southwestern B.C.
Last Updated: Monday, March 12, 2007 CBC News
Roads were flooded and rivers were threatening to overflow their banks in parts of southwestern British Columbia Monday following a weekend downpour.
The rain caused a temporary storm sewer pipe on Cambie Street to back up between Broadway and 10th avenues in Vancouver Sunday, flooding the Canada Line rapid-transit project excavation trench, washing out a steel beam and utility supports. Heavy rain caused flooding in downtown Vancouver.(CBC) The water also flooded the nearby Best Thai restaurant.Crews closed Cambie Street, northbound and southbound, with traffic being rerouted around the washout. The street was expected to reopen Monday.A spokeswoman for the rapid-transit project said construction was not expected to be delayed significantly.The rain also caused a couple of mudslides across the rail tracks in the Crescent Beach area of White Rock.
Flood warning
Environment Canada issued a flood warning for the Coquitlam and Nicomeckl rivers. More than 170 millimetres of rain was recorded at the Coquitlam Dam Forebay over the weekend.While the rain ended overnight, Surrey RCMP said driving was hazardous in low-lying areas, warning that water-filled ditches could flood roads.A number of roads were closed, including Highway 10 in the Cloverdale area of Surrey and the Maryhill bypass in Port Coquitlam.The downpour was also blamed for a mudslide that closed the Trans-Canada Highway from Rosedale to Hope and east of Hope to Jackass Mountain because of falling rock.On Vancouver Island, a flood watch was in effect as water levels in the Cowichan, Chemainus and Englishman rivers rose.As the rain let up, a wind warning was issued for much of B.C.'s South Coast. That order was lifted Monday morning.
The Nation's Weather By WEATHER UNDERGROUND, For The Associated Press
Tue Mar 13, 6:00 AM ET
Unseasonably warm and dry air settled across most of the nation early Tuesday, although rain and thunderstorms whipped across the southern Plains and Mississippi Delta. In the Northeast, temperatures were expected to rise well above normal, with highs in the 60s expected in New York and New Jersey, and the upper 70s for the mid-Atlantic and Southeast.The heat also will continue out West, with temperatures in Southern California remaining in the upper 80s and low 90s, which combined with continued dry weather and gusty winds will set the stage for another day of dangerous fire weather.The largest threat for strong storms exists from central Texas south and east to the Gulf Coast as warm afternoon temperatures and humid air provide the conditions ripe for storm development.In the Northwest, showers and high elevation snow showers were to continue, and, late in the day, light rain or snow could start up in the northern Plains.Temperatures in the Lower 48 states on Monday ranged from a low of 8 degrees at Whitefield, N.H., to a high of 98 degrees at Riverside, Calif.
Orange County fire 80% contained, fire officials say
By Janet Wilson, David Haldane and Greg Krikorian, LA Times Staff Writers
8:15 AM PDT, March 12, 2007
Unfriendly fireAided by higher humidity and cooler temperatures, firefighters overnight made dramatic strides in containing an arson fire in Orange and Anaheim Hills, authorities said today.The fire, which had charred 2,000 acres of brush and prompted evacuations of more than 1,200 people on Sunday, was reported as 80% contained, Capt. Stephen Miller of the Orange County Fire Authority said at a news conference broadcast this morning. He estimated the fire would be fully contained by 6 a.m. Tuesday.Everything is looking good in our favor now, he said.Authorities said that evacuations in some areas would remain in effect until later today.
Firefighters were hopeful no setbacks would be suffered from today's weather, which is predicted to again produce record breaking heat and strong winds.The winds in what is shaping up as one of the driest years ever in Southern California fed flames on Sunday that destroyed one structure and damaged three more, including two homes.The blaze was triggered before 8 a.m. by a fire that began in an abandoned car that was stolen and wound up in a roadside ditch, Miller said.
The vehicle was intentionally set on fire, Miller said this morning. This is an arson fire.More than 800 firefighters battled the flames, which at midafternoon darkened the skies over much of north Orange County with towering black columns of smoke.One of the firefighters' key adversaries was Sunday's scorching heat. Temperatures hit record highs for a March 11 at many spots in the Southland, including a midafternoon 97-degree reading in nearby Fullerton, making it the nation's hot spot for the day. Fullerton's previous record high of 84 was set in 1959.A red flag warning, based on the forecast of more brisk winds and single-digit humidity, was issued.This is classic Santa Ana fire season, and it's exacerbated because everything is so crispy because it's been such a dry winter, said William
Patzert, a climatologist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Caada Flintridge. It's definitely scary. The blaze named the Windy Ridge fire quickly scaled the ridge and destroyed dozens of acres near the toll road. By noon, as winds gusted and temperatures steadily rose, the fire was threatening enough for authorities to begin evacuating the residents of more than 500 homes.
By 10 p.m., most of the evacuees were allowed to return to their homes.One of those who fled was Theresa Sears, 51, a longtime resident of Orange Park Acres, an equestrian community at the edge of Orange.I smelled smoke about 8 o'clock in the morning, and we started taking the horses out about 10 in the morning, she said. All my friends came and helped me so I could stay in my house. We loaded up the horses. We loaded up the goats. We loaded up the chickens, the dogs and the cats. Sears stayed put until about 1 p.m. But, with firefighters nearby, she said, They didn't have to tell me to leave. The flames were so severe I knew it was time to go. Her home, however, was coated with foam by firefighters and saved.Most of the people living along Santiago Creek were ordered to evacuate Sunday afternoon, but some stayed home to keep an eye on the fire themselves.Even after authorities had blocked off roads near his Mabury Ranch neighborhood in Orange, defense contractor Vern Green, 58, sneaked behind law enforcement lines to pack up his things.When they tap into the fire hydrant by my house, that's our signal to leave, Green said. Authorities said the two damaged houses appeared to be the only ones in the area with wood-shake roofs. Neither, officials said, was seriously damaged.
But one structure, possibly a corral, was destroyed, and another outbuilding was damaged.Miller said two firefighters, the only people hurt, suffered minor injuries. He offered no prediction as to when the fire would be fully contained.Weather records were being set all over Orange County. Yorba Linda reached 95 degrees, 11 degrees above the record for the day; the Santa Ana fire station near John Wayne Airport reached 92 degrees, versus the normal high of 66 degrees.
Single-digit humidity levels compared to a norm of around 40% to 50% this time of year, officials said.Firefighters were also frustrated by winds blowing steadily at 29 mph and gusting up to 49 mph. Authorities at the fire scene said humidity fell to 9%, while weather officials reported that humidity in Fullerton dipped to as low as 4%.In Los Angeles County, temperatures were 20 to 25 degrees above normal. The county's hottest weather was in Long Beach, which reached 94 degrees, surging past the former high of 87 degrees set in 1959. Downtown posted a high of 92, only one degree below its record high.
Elsewhere, Southern California residents who started the morning by fast-forwarding to daylight saving time relished a day that felt more like June than mid-March.In Riverside County near Corona, a Sunday afternoon brush fire flared to 500 acres in the hilly terrain around the wildlife habitat of Lake Mathews Reserve.
It was 25% contained by 9 p.m.One hundred firefighters labored to contain the blaze, dubbed the Sierra fire. No homes were threatened or roads closed, said Capt. Julie Hutchinson of the Riverside County Fire Department.Until we get that line all the way around it, there's still that potential to spread, Hutchinson said.Weather forecasters have said that this unusually long fire season probably will continue, in large part because of the dry conditions.Only about 2.40 inches of rain had fallen on downtown Los Angeles since July 1, and forecasters say no sign of rain is in sight.The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's weather models suggest that a La Nina climate pattern an abnormal cooling of water temperatures in the equatorial Pacific is emerging, continuing the drought-like conditions. janet.wilson@latimes.com.david.haldane@latimes.com.greg.krikorian@latimes.com.Times staff writers Stuart Silverstein, William Heisel, Howard Blume, Deborah Schoch, Susannah Rosenblatt and Adrian G. Uribarri contributed to this report
King City breaks 84-year heat record
By SUNITA VIJAYAN The Salinas Californian
Several Monterey County cities today broke decade-old record temperatures, the National Weather Service in Monterey said, and one crested a record set more than 80 years ago.Forecaster Diane Henderson said temperatures in King City hit 93 degrees, breaking the 1923 record of 92 degrees.
Salinas recorded a high of 85 degrees, breaking its 1994 record of 80 degrees.In Monterey, she said, temperatures reached 78 degrees, enough to break its 1993 record of 77 degrees.The highest temperature within the area was in Bradley, with 98 degrees.
Record Breaking Temperatures MAR 12,07
The gusty wind disguised the fact that the mercury was rising, and believe it or not we managed to break some records around Southern Saskatchewan. Environment Canada was calling for a high of 16 degrees Monday, and we surpassed that high and set a new record high beating the old record set March 12th, 1910.
Bob Cormier with Environment Canada. Moose Jaw with a temperature of 17.8 eclipsed the old mark of 14.3. Some of the nearby spots like Swift Current reached 18.4 beating the previous record of 16.1 set back in 1914. Assiniboia made some history, too. They saw the temperature get up to 18.8 which beat the record high of 15.5 set in 1992.
Israel cautiously open to Arab peace plan by Yana Dlugy
Mon Mar 12, 9:36 AM ET
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel said on Monday it was cautiously open to an Arab peace initiative, amid reports that secret talks are being held with the aim of jump-starting the stalled Middle East peace process. Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said the so-called Saudi initiative on a comprehensive Arab-Israeli peace deal had some good points, but needed work.There are positive elements in the Saudi initiative, but some of its clauses are contrary to the principle of two states, Livni told Israeli public radio from Washington where she is visiting.Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Sunday that Israel was ready to take seriously the peace plan and hoped an Arab summit on March 28 in Saudi Arabia would bolster its positive elements.We sincerely hope that at the summit of the Arab leaders in Riyadh the positive element in the Saudi initiative will be emphasized and would maybe allow an
opportunity to strengthen the chances for negotiations with the Palestinians on its basis, Olmert said.
The Saudi plan calls for the Arab world to fully normalise its relations with Israel in return for the Jewish state withdrawing from all occupied Arab territory and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state.Livni said the initiative contained two additional clauses very problematic for Israel concerning the right of return of Palestinian refugees.One calls for the return of Palestinians who fled or were forced out in 1948, the other rules out their permanent settlement in the Arab states where they or their descendants currently live.Israeli Public Security Minister Avi Dichter told reporters on Monday that a peace agreement with the Palestinians was now much likelier than another cycle of violence.If we did it in 1993, I'm sure there is a strong possibility to repeat it again, he said.
The Israeli statements come amid reports that Livni has been holding secret talks with the Palestinians aimed at breathing life into a peace process that has been largely dormant since 2003.
Palestinian sources told AFP on Sunday that Livni has in recent weeks met twice with Yasser Abed Rabbo, a senior member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation, and Salam Fayyad, a former Palestinian finance minister.The secret talks have touched on the thorniest issues between the two sides, including the final borders of the Palestinians' promised state and the fate of refugees and Jewish settlements in the occupied territories, the sources said.A Livni aide told AFP that secret contacts were under way with the Palestinians, but denied they were being used as a separate channel for negotiations.
There are occasional exchanges, but they are not continuous, so there are no negotiations, he said. Abbas has on several occasions said that he favoured a parallel channel of talks with Israel, like the secret talks that resulted in the 1993 Oslo accords that paved the way for limited Palestinian autonomy.The liberal Haaretz newspaper reported that Israel's top ally the United States which has
increased its diplomatic efforts in the region in recent months was holding separate talks with the Jewish state and Saudi Arabia ahead of the Riyadh summit.
It said, without providing a source, that Saudi National Security Advisor Prince Bandar bin Sultan met Olmert in Jordan last year and was currently in Washington at the same time as Livni. In December, Israeli media reported that Olmert had met a senior Saudi official in Jordan, a report both Riyadh and Amman branded as false. Olmert told reporters at the time: We have decided that on this subject, I am going to deliver a denial but you don't have to believe it... On other matters, believe all my denials.Progress on the Palestinian front would provide a vital lifeline to Olmert, whose ratings have sunk to unprecedented lows following last summer's inconclusive war in Lebanon and corruption allegations just two percent of Israelis now say they trust him.
Hamas Re-Assures Al Qaeda It Wants to Destroy Israel
22 Adar 5767, March 12, '07
(IsraelNN.com) Hamas officials have reassured Al Qaeda that it wants to destroy Israel. Hamas spokesmen reacted to a statement, made on Sunday by Ayman al-Zawahri, second-in-command in the Al Qaeda terrorist network, accusing Hamas of surrendering to American interests by agreeing to sit with the Fatah in a Palestinian Authority (PA) unity government.
We will not betray promises we made to G-d to continue the path of Jihad and resistance until the liberation of Palestine, all of Palestine, Hamas said in a statement. Al Zawahri charged that the agreement hammered out in Mecca for a unity government was an American scheme to hit the Islamic jihadist resistance against the Crusader-Zionist campaign. He added that Hamas has ditched the movement of martyrdom operations ... for a government that plays with words in palace halls.Hamas terrorists have killed approximately 300 Israelis in 58 suicide bombings since the Oslo War broke out in 2000. Hamas replied to Al Qaeda that it continues to be a movement of resistance, seekers of martyrdom. The statement added, So be assured doctor Ayman, and all those who love Palestine like yourself, that Hamas is still the group you knew when it was founded and it will never abandon its path.
Explanation of Iraq War.
MAR 13,07 Raymond S Kraft
SOME OF YOU ARE NOT OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER THAT NEARLY EVERY FAMILY IN AMERICA WAS GROSSLY AFFECTED BY WW II . MOST OF YOU DON'T REMEMBER THE RATIONING OF MEAT, SHOES, GASOLINE, AND SUGAR. NO TIRES FOR OUR AUTOMOBILES, AND A SPEED LIMIT OF 35 MILES AN HOUR ON THE ROAD, NOT TO MENTION, NO NEW AUTOMOBILES. READ THIS AND THINK ABOUT HOW WE WOULD REACT TO BEING TAKEN OVER BY FOREIGNERS IN 2007.
This is an EXCELLENT essay. Well thought out and presented.
Historical Significance
Sixty-three years ago, Nazi Germany had overrun almost all of Europe and hammered England to the verge of bankruptcy and defeat. The Nazis had sunk more than 400 British ships in their convoys between England and America taking food and war materials.
At that time the US was in an isolationist, pacifist mood, and most Americans wanted nothing to do with the European or the Asian war.Then along came Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and in outrage Congress unanimously declared war on Japan, and the following day on Germany, who had not yet attacked us . It was a dicey thing We had few allies . France was not an ally, as the Vichy government of France quickly aligned itself with its German occupiers . Germany was certainly not an ally, as Hitler was intent on setting up a Thousand Year Reich in Europe. Japan was not an ally, as it was well on its way to owning and controlling all of Asia.
Together, Japan and Germany had long-range plans of invading Canada and Mexico, as launching pads to get into the United States over our northern and southern borders, after they finished gaining control of Asia and Europe.America's only allies then were England, Ireland, Scotland, Canada, Australia, and Russia. That was about it All of Europe, from Norway to Italy (except Russia in the East) was already under the Nazi heel.The US was certainly not prepared for war. The US had drastically downgraded most of its military forces after WW I because of the depression, so that at the outbreak of WW II, Army units were training with broomsticks because they didn't have guns, and cars with tank painted on the doors because they didn't have real tanks A huge chunk of our Navy had just been sunk or damaged at Pearl Harbor.Britain had already gone bankrupt, saved only by the donation of $600 million in gold bullion in the Bank of England (that was actually the property of Belgium) given by Belgium to England to carry on the war when Belgium was overrun by Hitler (a little known fact).
Actually, Belgium surrendered on one day, because it was unable to oppose the German invasion, and the Germans bombed Brussels into rubble the next day just to prove they could.Britain had already been holding out for two years in the face of staggering losses and the near decimation of its Royal Air Force in the Battle of Britain, and was saved from being overrun by Germany only because Hitler made the mistake of thinking the Brits were a relatively minor threat that could be dealt with later.
Hitler, first turned his attention to Russia, in the late summer of 1940 at a time when England was on the verge of collapse.
Ironically, Russia saved America's butt by putting up a desperate fight for two years, until the US got geared up to begin hammering away at Germany.Russia lost something like 24,000,000 people in the sieges of Stalingrad and Moscow alone . . . 90% of them from cold and starvation, mostly civilians, but also more than a 1,000,000 soldiersHad Russia surrendered, Hitler would have been able to focus his entire war effort against the Brits, then America. If that had happened, the Nazis could possibly have won the war.All of this has been brought out to illustrate that turning points in history are often dicey things. Now, we find ourselves at another one of those key moments in history.There is a very dangerous minority in Islam that either has, or wants, and may soon have, the ability to deliver small nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons, almost anywhere in the world .
The Jihadis, the militant Muslims, are basically Nazis in Kaffiyahs they believe that Islam, a radically conservative form of Wahhabi Islam, should own and control the Middle East first, then Europe, then the world. To them, all who do not bow to their will of thinking should be killed, enslaved, or subjugated. They want to finish the Holocaust, destroy Israel , and purge the world of Jews. This is their mantra. (goal).
There is also a civil war raging in the Middle East for the most part not a hot war, but a war of ideas. Islam is having its Inquisition and its Reformation, but it is not yet known which side will win the Inquisitors, or the Reformationists. If the Inquisition wins, then the Wahhabis, the Jihadis, will control the Middle East, the OPEC oil, and the US , European, and Asian economies. The techno-industrialeconomies will be at the mercy of OPEC not an OPEC dominated by the educated, rational Saudis of today, but an OPEC dominated by the Jihadis. Do you want gas in your car? Do you want heating oil next winter? Do you want the dollar to be worth anything? You had better hope the Jihad, the Muslim Inquisition, loses, and the Islamic Reformation wins. If the Reformation movement wins, that is, the moderate Muslims who believe that Islam can respect and tolerate other religions, live in peace with the rest of the world, and move out of the 10th century into the 21st, then the troubles in the Middle East will eventually fade away A moderate and prosperous Middle East will emerge.
We have to help the Reformation win, and to do that we have to fight the Inquisition, i.e., the Wahhabi movement, the Jihad, Al Qaeda and the Islamic terrorist movements. We have to do it somewhere. We can't do it everywhere at once. We have created a focal point for the battle at a time and place of our choosing . . . . . . . . in Iraq. Not in New York, not in London, or Paris or Berlin, but in Iraq, where we are doing two important things.
(1) We deposed Saddam Hussein. Whether Saddam Hussein was directly involved in the 9/11 terrorist attack or not, it is undisputed that Saddam has been actively supporting the terrorist movement for decades Saddam is a terrorist! Saddam is, or was, a weapon of mass destruction, responsible for the deaths of probably more than a 1,000,000 Iraqis and 2,000,000 Iranians.
(2) We created a battle, a confrontation, a flash point, with Islamic terrorism in Iraq. We have focused the battle. We are killing bad people, and the ones we get there we won't have to get here. We also have a good shot at creating a democratic, peaceful Iraq, which will be a catalyst for democratic change in the rest of the Middle East, and an outpost for a stabilizing American military presence in the Middle East for as long as it is needed .
WW II, the war with the Japanese and German Nazis, really began with a whimper in 1928 It did not begin with Pearl Harbor. It began with the Japanese invasion of China. It was a war for fourteen years before the US joined it.
It officially ended in 1945 a 17 year war and was followed by another decade of US occupation in Germany and Japan to get those countries reconstructed and running on their own a gain a 27 year war.WW II cost the United States an amount equal to approximately a full year's GDP adjusted for inflation, equal to about $12 trillion dollars. WW II cost America more than 400,000 soldiers killed in action, and nearly 100,000 still missing in action.The Iraq war has, so far, cost the United States about $160,000,000,000, which is roughly what the 9/11 terrorist attack cost New York. It has also cost about 3,000 American lives, which is roughly equivalent to lives that the Jihad killed (within the United States) in the 9/11 terrorist attack.The cost of not fighting and winning WW II would have been unimaginably greater -- a world dominated by Japanese Imperialism and German Nazism.This is not a 60-Minutes TV show, or a 2-hour movie in which everything comes out okay. The real world is not like that. It is messy, uncertain, and sometimes bloody and ugly. It always has been, and probably always will be.
The bottom line is that we will have to deal with Islamic terrorism until we defeat it, whenever that is. It will not go away if we ignore it.If the US can create a reasonably democratic and stable Iraq, then we have an ally, like England, in the Middle East, a platform, from which we can work to help modernize and moderate the Middle East. The history of the world is the clash between the forces of relative civility and civilization, and the barbarians clamoring at the gates to conquer the world. The Iraq War is merely another battle in this ancient and never ending war. Now, for the first time ever, the barbarians are about to get nuclear weapons. Unless some body prevents them from getting them.
We have four options:
1. We can defeat the Jihad now, before it gets nuclear weapons.
2. We can fight the Jihad later, after it gets nuclear weapons (which may be as early as next year, if Iran's progress on nuclear weapons is what Iran claims it is).
3. We can surrender to the Jihad and accept its dominance in the Middle East now; in Europe in the next few years or decades, and ultimately in America.
OR
4. We can stand down now, and pick up the fight later when the Jihad is more widespread and better armed, perhaps after the Jihad has dominated France and Germany and possibly most of the rest of Europe. It will, of course, be more dangerous, more expensive, and much bloodier.
If you oppose this war, I hope you like the idea that your children, or grandchildren, may live in an Islamic America under the Mullahs and the Sharia, an America that resembles Iran today. The history of the world is the history of civilization clashes, cultural clashes. All wars are about ideas, ideas about what society and civilization should be like, and the most determined always win.Those who are willing to be the most ruthless always win. The pacifists always lose, because the anti-pacifists kill them.Remember, perspective is every thing, and America's schools teach too little history for perspective to be clear, especially in the young American mind.The Cold War lasted from about 1947 at least until the Berlin Wall came down in 1989; forty-two years! Europe spent the first half of the
19th century fighting Napoleon, and from 1870 to 1945 fighting Germany!
World War II began in 1928, lasted 17 years, plus a ten year occupation, and the US still has troops in Germany and Japan World War II resulted in the death of more than 50,000,000 people, maybe more than 100,000,000 people, depending on which estimates you accept.
The US has taken more than 3,000 killed in action in Iraq. The US took more than 4,000 killed in action on the morning of June 6, 1944, the first day of the Normandy Invasion to rid Europe of Nazi Imperialism.In WW II the US averaged 2,000 KIA a week for four years. Most of the individual battles of WW II lost more Americans than the entire Iraq war has done so far.The stakes are at least as high . . A world dominated by representative governments with civil rights, human rights, and personal freedoms . . or a world dominated by a radical Islamic Wahhabi movement, by the Jihad, under the Mullahs and the Sharia (Islamic law).It's difficult to understand why the average American does not grasp this. They favor human rights, civil rights, liberty and freedom, but evidently not for Iraqis.
Peace Activists always seem to demonstrate here in America, where it's safe.Why don't we see Peace Activist demonstrating in Iran , Syria, Iraq, Sudan, North Korea, in the places that really need peace activism the most? I'll tell you why! They would be killed! The liberal mentality is supposed to favor human rights, civil rights, democracy, multiculturalism, diversity, etc . , but if the Jihad wins, wherever the Jihad wins, it is the end of civil rights, human rights, democracy, multiculturalism, diversity, etc.
Americans who oppose the liberation of Iraq are coming down on the side of their own worst enemy!
Raymond S. Kraft is a writer living in Northern California that has studied the Middle Eastern culture and religion.
DEBKAfile Exclusive: Bowing to Washington, Olmert agrees to go directly and unconditionally to final-status talks with Palestinians March 11, 2007, 11:45 PM (GMT+02:00)
Prime minister Ehud Olmert conceded key Israeli policy points in his talks with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in Jerusalem Sunday, March 11, according to DEBKAfile’s Middle East and Washington sources – contrary to advance statements from his office that the meeting was only a formality. Last week, Bush administration officials notified Olmert’s senor aides Yoram Turbovitch and Shalom Turjman in Washington that the wait for the Palestinians to comply with roadmap conditions to recognize Israel and renounce violence was at an end. Whether a Palestinian government was led by Hamas or shared with Fatah, they were told, Israel must now initiate final settlement talks with Abbas. Saudi and Jordanian leaders had won President George W. Bush over on this point as leverage for cooperation on the Iraq and Iranian issues..
At the Sunday cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, the prime minister therefore announced he was seriously considering accepting the 2002 Saudi peace plan. He already knew the Saudis had informed the White House that the plan would not be revised at the coming Arab summit in Riyadh on March 28. This means that Olmert has agreed to rescind the road map’s conditions for peace talks in favor of the tough Saudi peace plan. It was left to Abbas to run down for Olmert’s benefit the steps expected from Israel, now that the road map’s provisions were out of the way:
1. The Israeli government must pledge unconditionally that the IDF will refrain from attacking the Gaza Strip. Abbas called this a mutual ceasefire although he offered no guarantee for the Palestinian termination of missile fire or other terrorist attacks emanating form the Gaza Strip.After the Olmert-Abbas talks, Israeli officials spread reports of an Israel military alert in the area around the Gaza Strip in an effort to lay a smokescreen to conceal the prime minister’s concession.
2. Abbas said he would do his best to obtain the release of Hamas hostage Gilead Shalit, but offered no promises.
3. The mutual ceasefire is the first step to fast-track Israel-Palestinian negotiations on its extension to the West Bank. DEBKAfile reports that Israeli military and intelligence chiefs are trying to impress on the prime minister that the cessation of Israel’s intense counter-terror operations on the West Bank will result in an eruption of a fresh wave of Palestinian suicide bombings inside Israel and the transfer of Palestinian missiles and rockets to launching positions opposite central Israel, including its main cities.
4. Security restrictions on Palestinian movements in the West Bank must be further relaxed.
5. In May or June of 2007, Israel will enter into direct negotiations with the Palestinians on a final-status framework. Since the road map was formulated, Abbas has lobbied hard to skip the document’s prior condition for an end to Palestinian violence as the sine qua non for talks on a final settlement. Now the Palestinian leader has got is way.
6. Abbas voiced the hope that Israel’s flexibility in negotiating with the Palestinians would be rewarded by the willingness of moderate Arab and Muslim nations, like Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Malaysia and Indonesia, to establish diplomatic and open economic relations with the Jewish state.
DEBKAfile’s sources note that the Olmert-Abbas conversation did not discuss the role to be played by Hamas in the diplomatic process dictated the Israeli government, when it heads the Palestinian government. Also left up in the air was the framework in which the moderate Arab and Muslim governments would normalize their relations with Israel. This would call for amendments of the Saudi peace plan. However, Riyadh has informed Washington that no such amendments would be tabled at the coming Arab summit.
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
WORLD GOES ON FOREVER
From Jack Van Impe show Monday March 12,2007
THE WORLD WILL NEVER END JUST BE SHAKIN TO THE CORE. ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM WILL ALWAYS EXIST FOREVER.
ISAIAH 9:6-7
6 For unto us a child is born,(1ST COMING OF JESUS) unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder:(2ND COMING OF JESUS TO RULE FROM JERUSALEM) and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end,(THAT MEANS FOREVER) upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.
I can not stand it when the Lukewarm Leftists insist the Christian Zionists say the World will be destroyed, when we do not, we go by the Bible and the Bible says the World will go on forever and Ever Amen.
Sure, half of Earths population die in the future through Nuclear weapons, diseases and tribulation, but 3 BILLION people will be living on Earth at the return of Christ at the 2ND COMING for the 1000 YR REIGN, then forever from Jerusalem also. For all you lukewarmers that hate Israel, for get it, Israel will always exist as a Nation (and heres the kicker) Jerusalem will not only be the Capital of Israel, it will be the Capital of the Whole World.
Now lets get down to the numbers. Prove only half die and the World goes on forever.
When the flood occured, God only saved 8 people to go through the Flood and repopulate the Earth. As we see back then, as today the Earth was Filled with Violence (Terrorism) and Godlessness.
GENESIS 6:1-13
1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God (Demonic fallin Angels)came in unto the daughters of men,(Had sex with Human Women) and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.(thats today for sure again)
6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
9 These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
10 And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
NOAH TO BUILD AN ARK TO GO THROUGH THE TRIBULATION OF THE DESTRUCTION OF EARTH.
GENESIS 6:14-22
14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
15 And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
16 A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.
18 But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons’ wives with thee.
19 And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.
20 Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.
21 And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.
22 Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.
40 DAYS AND NIGHTS IT RAINED
GENESIS 7:1-12
1 And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.
3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
5 And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Note here The Israelites waundered in the Desert 40 Years. Jesus was tempted in the desert 40 days, in the future the 1ST half of the tribulation Period is 42 Months, and the 2ND half of the tribulation, the great wrath of God is 42 months.
After the 40 days and nights everyone (living ,breathing animals and people) on earth were gone, only the 8 of noahs family were alive to repopulate the Earth.
GENESIS 8:2-6
2 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
3 And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.(Notice its mountains of Ararat the Arc landed on, more then just one)(The Arc was so big it needed more then 1 mountain to balance it after the flood.)
5 And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.(Ararat is obviously 2 or more mountains) (not just a single mountain that the Arc landed on)
6 And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:
GOD MAKES A COVENANT THAT THE WHOLE EARTH WOULD NEVER BE DESTROYED BY WATER EVER AGAIN.
GENESIS 8:13-22
13 And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.
14 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.
15 And God spake unto Noah, saying,
16 Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons’ wives with thee.
17 Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.
18 And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him:
19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.
20 And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
21 And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.(Heres the 1st confirmation in the Bible that the earth will go on forever)
GENESIS 9:1-17
1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
2 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
4 But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
5 And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man.
6 Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
7 And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
8 And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
9 And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;
10 And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.
11 And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
12 And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:
15 And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
17 And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.
NOW WE COME TO OUR DAY
Well since GOD said the earth would never be totally destroyed by water ever again, there must be another way GOD gets rid of the Sins of the Earth this time. And its fire.
2 PETER 3:10-11
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
OK SO NOW WE SEE HOW GOD WILL DEAL WITH THE EARTH IN THE LAST DAYS, IT WILL BE WITH FIRE. EVEN THOUGH THE EARTH WILL GO ON FOREVER, THERE IS LOTS OF SCRIPTURES THAT GOD SAYS FIRE WILL BE USED TO CLEANSE THE WORLD THIS TIME.
ISAIAH 45:17-18
17 But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.
18 For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.
NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE USED.
ISAIAH 26:21
21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.(WW3,1/2 earths population die).
ISAIAH 13:6-13 KJV
6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:(FROM FRIGHT)
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
ISAIAH 24:17-23 KJV
17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
2 TIMOTHY 3:1
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.
JOEL 2:20,30
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.
EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
HOW 3 BILLION WILL BE ON EARTH AT THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST TO EARTH LITERALLY, BODILY. THE WORLD NEVER ENDS.
In Revelation 9:18 we see one-third of earths population die from Fire
REVELATION 9:18
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(Nuclear Bombs)
OK, there are currently 6 BILLION PEOPLE on the EARTH. 6 BILLION MINUS 1/3RD = 2 BILLION PEOPLE KILLED FROM NUCLEAR WARFARE. THIS LEAVES 4 BILLION PEOPLE REMAINING ON THE EARTH.
In Revelation 6:7-8 we see another one-quarter of earths population die from, weapons, famine and 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).
OK, 4 BILLION LEFT FROM NUCLEAR WARFARE, MINUS 1/4 from DISEASE = 1 BILLION KILLED FROM THESE 3 DISASTERS. THIS LEAVES A TOTAL OF 3 BILLION DEAD DURING THE TRIBULATION PERIOD. THIS IS EXACTLY HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DEAD LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS WILL HAPPEN.
FROM 6 BILLION CURRENTLY, TO 3 BILLION AT THE END OF THE 7 YR TREATY OF DANIEL 9:27 AND THE RETURN OF EARTH BODILY BY JESUS AND THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS.
HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
LUKE 17:34-37
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten by the birds).
MATTHEW 24:37-51
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
SO WE SEE CLEARLY HERE THAT LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS, THE EARTH WILL GO ON FOREVER. HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION WILL BE ALIVE ON EARTH TO SEE THE LITERAL BODILY RETURN TO EARTH OF JESUS.
AND IF EVERYONE WAS DEAD LIKE THE SECULER (LUKEWARM LEFTIST) WORLD CLAIMS WE ZIONISTS SAY, HOW COULD JESUS SEPARATE THE GOAT (BAD) FROM THE SHEEP (GOOD) NATIONS AFTER HE RETURNS TO EARTH. THIS JUDGEMENT IS HOW THE NATIONS OF THE EARTH TREATED THE ISRAELIS DURING THE 7 YR TREATY.
MATTHEW 25:31-46
31 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:
32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:
33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?
38 When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?
39 Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
42 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:
43 I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
44 Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
TO FINISH IT OFF HERES SCRIPTURES THAT SAY THE WORLD GOES ON FOREVER. NOT ALL OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE. IT MAKES ME SO MAD WHEN I HEAR THE GODLESS SAY THE END OF THE WORLD.CHRIST COMES FROM HEAVEN TO EARTH TO RULE FOREVER FROM JERUSALEM.
ISAIAH 45:17
17 But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.
EPHESIANS 3:21
21 Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.
PSALMS 104:5
5 Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.
2 CORINTHIANS 12:2
2 I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
MATTHEW 6:10
10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
JUDE 14
14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
REVELATION 19;14,16
14 And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
16 And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
MATTHEW 5:5
5 Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
PSALMS 37:29
29 The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever.
ISAIAH 9:6-7
6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.
DANIEL 2:44
44 And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
LUKE 1:32-33
32 He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:(IN JERUSALEM)
33 And he shall reign over the house of Jacob (ISRAEL) for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.(FOREVER)
2 KINGS 17:34
34 Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear not the LORD, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law and commandment which the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;
THE WORLD WILL NEVER END JUST BE SHAKIN TO THE CORE. ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM WILL ALWAYS EXIST FOREVER.
ISAIAH 9:6-7
6 For unto us a child is born,(1ST COMING OF JESUS) unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder:(2ND COMING OF JESUS TO RULE FROM JERUSALEM) and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end,(THAT MEANS FOREVER) upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.
I can not stand it when the Lukewarm Leftists insist the Christian Zionists say the World will be destroyed, when we do not, we go by the Bible and the Bible says the World will go on forever and Ever Amen.
Sure, half of Earths population die in the future through Nuclear weapons, diseases and tribulation, but 3 BILLION people will be living on Earth at the return of Christ at the 2ND COMING for the 1000 YR REIGN, then forever from Jerusalem also. For all you lukewarmers that hate Israel, for get it, Israel will always exist as a Nation (and heres the kicker) Jerusalem will not only be the Capital of Israel, it will be the Capital of the Whole World.
Now lets get down to the numbers. Prove only half die and the World goes on forever.
When the flood occured, God only saved 8 people to go through the Flood and repopulate the Earth. As we see back then, as today the Earth was Filled with Violence (Terrorism) and Godlessness.
GENESIS 6:1-13
1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God (Demonic fallin Angels)came in unto the daughters of men,(Had sex with Human Women) and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.(thats today for sure again)
6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
9 These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
10 And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
NOAH TO BUILD AN ARK TO GO THROUGH THE TRIBULATION OF THE DESTRUCTION OF EARTH.
GENESIS 6:14-22
14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
15 And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
16 A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.
18 But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons’ wives with thee.
19 And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.
20 Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.
21 And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.
22 Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.
40 DAYS AND NIGHTS IT RAINED
GENESIS 7:1-12
1 And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.
3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
5 And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Note here The Israelites waundered in the Desert 40 Years. Jesus was tempted in the desert 40 days, in the future the 1ST half of the tribulation Period is 42 Months, and the 2ND half of the tribulation, the great wrath of God is 42 months.
After the 40 days and nights everyone (living ,breathing animals and people) on earth were gone, only the 8 of noahs family were alive to repopulate the Earth.
GENESIS 8:2-6
2 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
3 And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.(Notice its mountains of Ararat the Arc landed on, more then just one)(The Arc was so big it needed more then 1 mountain to balance it after the flood.)
5 And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.(Ararat is obviously 2 or more mountains) (not just a single mountain that the Arc landed on)
6 And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:
GOD MAKES A COVENANT THAT THE WHOLE EARTH WOULD NEVER BE DESTROYED BY WATER EVER AGAIN.
GENESIS 8:13-22
13 And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.
14 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.
15 And God spake unto Noah, saying,
16 Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons’ wives with thee.
17 Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.
18 And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him:
19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.
20 And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
21 And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.(Heres the 1st confirmation in the Bible that the earth will go on forever)
GENESIS 9:1-17
1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
2 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
4 But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
5 And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man.
6 Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
7 And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
8 And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
9 And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;
10 And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.
11 And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
12 And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:
15 And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
17 And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.
NOW WE COME TO OUR DAY
Well since GOD said the earth would never be totally destroyed by water ever again, there must be another way GOD gets rid of the Sins of the Earth this time. And its fire.
2 PETER 3:10-11
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
OK SO NOW WE SEE HOW GOD WILL DEAL WITH THE EARTH IN THE LAST DAYS, IT WILL BE WITH FIRE. EVEN THOUGH THE EARTH WILL GO ON FOREVER, THERE IS LOTS OF SCRIPTURES THAT GOD SAYS FIRE WILL BE USED TO CLEANSE THE WORLD THIS TIME.
ISAIAH 45:17-18
17 But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.
18 For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.
NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE USED.
ISAIAH 26:21
21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.(WW3,1/2 earths population die).
ISAIAH 13:6-13 KJV
6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:(FROM FRIGHT)
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
ISAIAH 24:17-23 KJV
17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
2 TIMOTHY 3:1
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.
JOEL 2:20,30
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.
EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
HOW 3 BILLION WILL BE ON EARTH AT THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST TO EARTH LITERALLY, BODILY. THE WORLD NEVER ENDS.
In Revelation 9:18 we see one-third of earths population die from Fire
REVELATION 9:18
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(Nuclear Bombs)
OK, there are currently 6 BILLION PEOPLE on the EARTH. 6 BILLION MINUS 1/3RD = 2 BILLION PEOPLE KILLED FROM NUCLEAR WARFARE. THIS LEAVES 4 BILLION PEOPLE REMAINING ON THE EARTH.
In Revelation 6:7-8 we see another one-quarter of earths population die from, weapons, famine and 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).
OK, 4 BILLION LEFT FROM NUCLEAR WARFARE, MINUS 1/4 from DISEASE = 1 BILLION KILLED FROM THESE 3 DISASTERS. THIS LEAVES A TOTAL OF 3 BILLION DEAD DURING THE TRIBULATION PERIOD. THIS IS EXACTLY HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DEAD LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS WILL HAPPEN.
FROM 6 BILLION CURRENTLY, TO 3 BILLION AT THE END OF THE 7 YR TREATY OF DANIEL 9:27 AND THE RETURN OF EARTH BODILY BY JESUS AND THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS.
HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
LUKE 17:34-37
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten by the birds).
MATTHEW 24:37-51
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
SO WE SEE CLEARLY HERE THAT LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS, THE EARTH WILL GO ON FOREVER. HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION WILL BE ALIVE ON EARTH TO SEE THE LITERAL BODILY RETURN TO EARTH OF JESUS.
AND IF EVERYONE WAS DEAD LIKE THE SECULER (LUKEWARM LEFTIST) WORLD CLAIMS WE ZIONISTS SAY, HOW COULD JESUS SEPARATE THE GOAT (BAD) FROM THE SHEEP (GOOD) NATIONS AFTER HE RETURNS TO EARTH. THIS JUDGEMENT IS HOW THE NATIONS OF THE EARTH TREATED THE ISRAELIS DURING THE 7 YR TREATY.
MATTHEW 25:31-46
31 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:
32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:
33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?
38 When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?
39 Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
42 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:
43 I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
44 Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
TO FINISH IT OFF HERES SCRIPTURES THAT SAY THE WORLD GOES ON FOREVER. NOT ALL OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE. IT MAKES ME SO MAD WHEN I HEAR THE GODLESS SAY THE END OF THE WORLD.CHRIST COMES FROM HEAVEN TO EARTH TO RULE FOREVER FROM JERUSALEM.
ISAIAH 45:17
17 But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.
EPHESIANS 3:21
21 Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.
PSALMS 104:5
5 Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.
2 CORINTHIANS 12:2
2 I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
MATTHEW 6:10
10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
JUDE 14
14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
REVELATION 19;14,16
14 And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
16 And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
MATTHEW 5:5
5 Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
PSALMS 37:29
29 The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever.
ISAIAH 9:6-7
6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.
DANIEL 2:44
44 And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
LUKE 1:32-33
32 He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:(IN JERUSALEM)
33 And he shall reign over the house of Jacob (ISRAEL) for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.(FOREVER)
2 KINGS 17:34
34 Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear not the LORD, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law and commandment which the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;
Monday, March 12, 2007
PERES DREAMS GOVERNMENT APPROVES
1-WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS.2-Sluggish system soaks Texas. 3-Volcano ash delays Puerto Rico flights. 4-Early daylight time means less shut-eye. 5-Peres Dreams, Government Approves. 6-Israel serious on Saudi peace initiative. 7-EU Climate Goals a Model for Other Nations, Merkel Says. 8-Hopes are Low for Olmert-Abbas Meeting.
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 = Mon Mar 12 12:00 AM EDT
MAR 11,07
MAP 5.0 LIBERTADOR O'HIGGINS, CHILE
MAP 2.7 PUERTO RICO
MAP 2.6 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 4.9 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 2.5 MOUNT ST. HELENS AREA, WASHINGTON
MAP 6.1 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 2.6 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 3.1 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 3.7 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 4.9 IZU ISLANDS, JAPAN REGION
MAP 3.4 BERING SEA
MAR 10,07
MAP 3.3 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 5.9 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF KAMCHATKA, RUSSIA
MAP 3.0 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 5.7 GREENLAND SEA
MAP 5.1 SOUTH OF THE FIJI ISLANDS
MAP 5.4 ANTOFAGASTA, CHILE
MAP 4.4 OFFSHORE GUATEMALA
MAP 3.2 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 4.5 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 3.1 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 4.5 SAKHALIN, RUSSIA
MAP 4.1 NORTHERN YUKON TERRITORY, CANADA
MAP 3.3 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 3.7 UNIMAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Sluggish system soaks Texas Kevin Roth, Senior Meteorologist, The Weather Channel MAR 11,07
A sluggish storm over New Mexico is spiraling waves of heavy showers and thunderstorms to western Texas and the southern Plains. Through early Sunday afternoon Oklahoma City had picked up nearly an inch of rain with more on the way. This system swirls slowly through Texas Monday and Tuesday producing rounds of heavy rainfall over the Lone Star State and adjacent areas of the southern Plains and lower Mississippi Valley. Rainfall amounts of 2 to 4 inches are possible over much of Texas with 1 to 3 inches possible over Oklahoma, western Arkansas and western Louisiana through Tuesday. A few of the thunderstorms could become severe Sunday evening producing large hail, damaging wind gusts and isolated tornadoes. The threat of severe thunderstorms goes down Monday and Tuesday, but isolated heavier storms are still possible, primarily over central and eastern Texas. The heavier rainfall in the Pacific Northwest has lifted northward into Canada as the next wave of low pressure makes a run at British Columbia. Showers are still in the forecast through Tuesday with lighter rainfall expected.
Volcano ash delays Puerto Rico flights Sat Mar 10, 9:28 PM ET
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Volanic ash from the Caribbean island of Montserrat disrupted airport traffic in Puerto Rico Saturday, prompting delays and cancellations by several airlines. Most of the problems were in the small airport in the southern city of Ponce, but four Delta Airlines flights were canceled in San Juan, on the north coast, said Fred Sosa, the general manager of the capital's Luis
Munos Marin International Airport.Most flights out of San Juan were unaffected, Sosa said.A large cloud of dust from the Sahara Desert also was contributing to the poor visibility, said Miguel Calimano, general manager of Puerto Rico's regional airport system.Ash from the volcano in Montserrat, a British territory about 275 miles southwest of Puerto Rico, often clouds the skies of the Caribbean.In recent days, officials have warned that a dome of hardened lava over the Soufriere Hills volcano has swollen to near-record size and could collapse. On Wednesday, the Montserrat Volcano Observatory said the ash cloud had reached 8,000 feet and was blowing west.People in Montserrat have been on alert since Dec. 24, when the dome's growth shifted toward the volcano's northwestern flank, which is home to many of the island's 5,000 inhabitants. In January, the government issued an evacuation order for dozens of households.The volcano's 1997 eruption buried much of the island's
south and killed 19 people.
Early daylight time means less shut-eye
Clocks spring ahead 1 hour Sunday in most parts of Canada
Saturday, March 10, 2007 CBC News
Many Canadians are no doubt feeling sleepy-eyed on Sunday, as daylight time at 2 a.m. in each time zone traditionally means the springing ahead of clocks by one hour before bedtime.This year, daylight time, established in most parts of the country, comes three weeks earlier than usual, starting the second Sunday in March instead of the first Sunday in April after the ushering in of spring and ending late as well, the first Sunday in November.Dr. Brian Murray, Toronto neurologist and sleep specialist, says he would do away with daylight time altogether.(CBC) The three-weeks-early start is the result of Canada following the lead of the U.S., a move designed to save energy.
Sleep experts, however, say many Canadians don't get enough shuteye already, and studies have shown the time change can affect how the brain functions the Monday after the clocks have changed.There's a small increase in traffic accidents that occurs in the period of time where an hour of sleep is lost, which is interesting, says Dr. Brian Murray, a neurologist and sleep specialist at the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto.I would be happy if we did away with it just for the nuisance of having to reset clocks and computers and all.
Peres Dreams, Government Approves
by Hillel Fendel (INN) MAR 11,07
The Cabinet approved on Sunday morning a series of mega-projects envisioned by Shimon Peres and designed to improve regional cooperation. Among the approved ventures are a Dead Sea-Red Sea canal, and railway tracks to Jordan.
Peres, long the Minister of Regional Cooperation, has described his ideas as being intended to support diplomatic channels via economic anchors. The largest of the projects is the digging of a canal from the Red Sea northward to the Dead Sea. Water from the south will flow naturally to Earth's lowest spot, the Dead Sea, thus preventing it from drying up. In addition, the surge of the water will be used to power electricity generators, which in turn will power desalination facilities for Jordan and the PA. Another project will be the establishment of a joint Israeli-Jordanian international airport in Aqaba, adjacent to Eilat. Also planned are an agricultural industrial zone in Jericho, funded partially by Japan, and a high-employment Israeli-PA industrial zone near Jenin in the northern Shomron.
Israel serious on Saudi peace initiative Associated Press
Posted Sunday , March 11, 2007 at 18:51
PEACE INITIATIVE: Saudi initiative calls for a peace agreement between Israel and the Arab world.
Jerusalem: Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday said he was ready to treat seriously a dormant Saudi initiative calling for a comprehensive peace agreement between Israel and the Arab world in exchange for a full Israeli withdrawal from lands captured in the 1967 Mideast War.Olmert spoke to his Cabinet ahead of a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, the leaders' second summit in the past month. Both sides acknowledged they expected no major breakthroughs ahead of the formation of a new Palestinian government in the coming weeks.The talks, following an inconclusive meeting on February 19 attended by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, are part of US-backed efforts to prod the sides to a return to peace talks.
The Saudi peace initiative, which aimed to solve the Palestinian issue by offering Israel a comprehensive peace, was first proposed in 2002 but never got off the ground.
It is expected to be high on the agenda at an Arab League summit later this month in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.The Saudis, who have never backed away from the initiative, have been pushing hard for other regional countries, many of whom also have endorsed it, to gather behind the initiative in strength to push the peace process forward. Olmert told his Cabinet today that Israel is following developments in the Arab world with the utmost attention and noted positive developments among moderate Arab countries.
EU Climate Goals a Model for Other Nations, Merkel Says
By Philip White MAR 10,07
(EUNN) London - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Saturday that the climate goals set by the European Union this week were really a model for all other nations to follow.
Merkel called the EU's move a pioneering role.The European Union had agreed earlier this week cut greenhouse gas emissions and use more renewable energy, which included the further development of nuclear power as a clean fuel source for powering the EU member nations.In her weekly video message Merkel said through the European Union's example she hoped other nations would follow and do as much as they could to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The German Chancellor pointedly named the United States as one of those nations which could do more to fight global warming and pollution. I'm thinking of the United States and the emerging economies of India and China, Merkel said.
In June, Merkel hopes to present the EU Climate Summit results to the Group of Eight leading industrial nations when they meet.I hope that more people in the world are prepared to commit themselves to action to stop climate change, she said.As President of the European Union Merkel used her post Friday to push the leaders of the 27-member bloc of the EU to adopt a binding goal on the use of renewable energy, such as wind and solar power.The deal calls for all of the EU member nations to cut carbon dioxide emissions 20 per cent from 1990 levels by 2020. Merkel also hopes that all of the EU leaders will go along with a target of using 20 per cent renewable energy as well.
Hopes are Low for Olmert-Abbas Meeting
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu and Hillel Fendel (INN) MAR 11,07
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas are to meet Sunday, but a Hamas legislator said there is no point in talking. Neither Israel nor the PA expects much progress in head-on talks scheduled for Sunday, but the Prime Ministers office said it is does not want to close the lines of communication. Frankly speaking, there isnt one Palestinian who believes in negotiations, said Sheikh Ahmed Mubarak, a terrorist recently freed from Israeli prison. Even those who believe in negotiations have no hope that Israel will meet the Palestinian conditions.
Prime Minister Olmert's spokeswoman, Miri Eisen, proved him correct Saturday night, saying that negotiations cannot take place until Hamas fulfills Quartet-set conditions to recognize Israel, renounce terror and accept existing agreements, all of which it has repeatedly vowed not to do. Eisen called the talks a pre-negotiation stage, adding, We are not at a phase where we are actually talking about substance. Abbas's top aide, chief negotiator Saeb Erekat, also sees little hope for more than words.
These are difficult times between us and I don't want to raise expectations, he said. The Prime Minister and Abbas will talk for the first time since their summit last month, which was marked by angry shouts in the presence of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
Abbas claimed at the time that he had attained from Hamas all the concessions he could ever hope to get. However, this amounted only to a statement that Hamas would respect not even fulfill existing agreements.The discussions will take place in the shadow of continued Kassam rocket attacks on Israel, in continued violation of the Gaza ceasefire that the PA and Israel announced in late November. Four rocket blasts in the western Negev on Saturday caused no injuries.
Abu Mazen's Requests
Despite the violations of the ceasefire, Hamas wants Abbas to offer to extend it throughout all of Judea and Samaria in return for Israel's halting all counter-terrorist operations. Even if Hamas offers to free kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit, it will be difficult for Olmert to agree to a widened ceasefire in the face of constant warnings of terrorist attacks and an escalation in shootings, stonings and firebombings on Israeli vehicles. However, rejecting a ceasefire offer may be fodder for the media to continue portray Israel in a negative light. PA sources say Abu Mazen also plans to ask Olmert not to torpedo the PA unity government's activities - even though it was conceived in contrast with Abu Mazen's promise to Israel. The Fatah leader also intends to request that Olmert not pressure the
international community to continue its economic siege on the PA despite the fact that funds recently freed to the PA were given to Hamas.
Olmert Expresses Measure of Support for Saudi Plan
Olmert, at this morning's Cabinet meeting, made a surprising announcement of guarded support for the Saudi initiative. He said that the five-year-old plan - which calls for Israel's full withdrawal to the 1949-67 borders, the entry of an untold number of so-called Arab refugees into Israel, and full normalization with Arab countries - has some positive elements. The Saudi initiative is a plan that we are willing to relate to seriously, Olmert said. It has elements that we can talk about.Just ten days ago, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livny told the PA Al Ayam newspaper that Israel could not accept the initiative in its current format.
Shalit: Before or After?
Olmert also told the Cabinet ministers today that Israel has expressed its reservations regarding the Mecca Agreement [for a national unity government in the Palestinian Authority]. He said he will tell Abu Mazen today that the PA must honor its commitment to form a new government only after it releases kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit.Just two days ago, Hamas parliament member Halil Al-Haya told a crowd in Gaza that he feels Shalit will be released shortly after the unity government is formed.
Olmert further said he expects any PA government that is established to adhere to the Quartet's conditions. Hamas has refused to accept the demands to recognize Israel and renounce terrorism; regarding the Quartet's demand that it abide by previous PA-Israel agreements, Hamas has said it would respect not abide by Them.
While Abbas and the Prime Minister are talking, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Defense Minister Amir Peretz will be in the United States for talks with their
counterparts. Peretz will also speak with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who has said he intends to visit the Middle East at the end of this month. Foreign Minister Livni will be backed by a bi-partisan effort initiated by Democratic Senator Bill Nelson of Florida and Republican Senator John Ensign of Nevada. In a letter to Secretary Rice, they stated, We urge you to continue to hold
firm and insist that [there will be] no direct aid and no contacts with any members of a Palestinian Authority that does not explicitly and unequivocally recognize Israels right to exist, renounce terror and accept previous agreements.Russia has taken the opposite stance and has been campaigning for Israel and the international community to recognize Hamas.
Unity Gov't Problems Cast Shadow
A dark cloud overshadowing the talks between Abbas and Prime Minister Olmert is the proposed unity government between the rival Fatah and Hamas factions.
The PA Chairman also has threatened that if Israel does not accept the proposed Hamas-Fatah unity government, which has not yet been finalized, violence will escalate. On Saturday, Fatah's Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades terrorists fired at a Hamas minister. No one was injured, but the incident, which occurred in eastern Samaria, is a sign of the extent of how far discontent has spread beyond Gaza. Hamas has indicated that the new unity government will retain a strong Hamas influence, with four of its remaining ministers remaining in the government. No agreement has been reached on who will head the Interior Ministry, which oversees security forces. A Ramallah-based pollster expects a short life for a unity government, which was agreed on in Mecca under intense pressure from Arab leaders. The Mecca agreement has done nothing, said Jamil Rabah. It allowed the sides to come together, but not on a common agenda. I give it two months before it falls apart. We have a scrambled egg which is very difficult to unscramble.
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 = Mon Mar 12 12:00 AM EDT
MAR 11,07
MAP 5.0 LIBERTADOR O'HIGGINS, CHILE
MAP 2.7 PUERTO RICO
MAP 2.6 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 4.9 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 2.5 MOUNT ST. HELENS AREA, WASHINGTON
MAP 6.1 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 2.6 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 3.1 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 3.7 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 4.9 IZU ISLANDS, JAPAN REGION
MAP 3.4 BERING SEA
MAR 10,07
MAP 3.3 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 5.9 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF KAMCHATKA, RUSSIA
MAP 3.0 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 5.7 GREENLAND SEA
MAP 5.1 SOUTH OF THE FIJI ISLANDS
MAP 5.4 ANTOFAGASTA, CHILE
MAP 4.4 OFFSHORE GUATEMALA
MAP 3.2 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 4.5 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 3.1 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 4.5 SAKHALIN, RUSSIA
MAP 4.1 NORTHERN YUKON TERRITORY, CANADA
MAP 3.3 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 3.7 UNIMAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Sluggish system soaks Texas Kevin Roth, Senior Meteorologist, The Weather Channel MAR 11,07
A sluggish storm over New Mexico is spiraling waves of heavy showers and thunderstorms to western Texas and the southern Plains. Through early Sunday afternoon Oklahoma City had picked up nearly an inch of rain with more on the way. This system swirls slowly through Texas Monday and Tuesday producing rounds of heavy rainfall over the Lone Star State and adjacent areas of the southern Plains and lower Mississippi Valley. Rainfall amounts of 2 to 4 inches are possible over much of Texas with 1 to 3 inches possible over Oklahoma, western Arkansas and western Louisiana through Tuesday. A few of the thunderstorms could become severe Sunday evening producing large hail, damaging wind gusts and isolated tornadoes. The threat of severe thunderstorms goes down Monday and Tuesday, but isolated heavier storms are still possible, primarily over central and eastern Texas. The heavier rainfall in the Pacific Northwest has lifted northward into Canada as the next wave of low pressure makes a run at British Columbia. Showers are still in the forecast through Tuesday with lighter rainfall expected.
Volcano ash delays Puerto Rico flights Sat Mar 10, 9:28 PM ET
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Volanic ash from the Caribbean island of Montserrat disrupted airport traffic in Puerto Rico Saturday, prompting delays and cancellations by several airlines. Most of the problems were in the small airport in the southern city of Ponce, but four Delta Airlines flights were canceled in San Juan, on the north coast, said Fred Sosa, the general manager of the capital's Luis
Munos Marin International Airport.Most flights out of San Juan were unaffected, Sosa said.A large cloud of dust from the Sahara Desert also was contributing to the poor visibility, said Miguel Calimano, general manager of Puerto Rico's regional airport system.Ash from the volcano in Montserrat, a British territory about 275 miles southwest of Puerto Rico, often clouds the skies of the Caribbean.In recent days, officials have warned that a dome of hardened lava over the Soufriere Hills volcano has swollen to near-record size and could collapse. On Wednesday, the Montserrat Volcano Observatory said the ash cloud had reached 8,000 feet and was blowing west.People in Montserrat have been on alert since Dec. 24, when the dome's growth shifted toward the volcano's northwestern flank, which is home to many of the island's 5,000 inhabitants. In January, the government issued an evacuation order for dozens of households.The volcano's 1997 eruption buried much of the island's
south and killed 19 people.
Early daylight time means less shut-eye
Clocks spring ahead 1 hour Sunday in most parts of Canada
Saturday, March 10, 2007 CBC News
Many Canadians are no doubt feeling sleepy-eyed on Sunday, as daylight time at 2 a.m. in each time zone traditionally means the springing ahead of clocks by one hour before bedtime.This year, daylight time, established in most parts of the country, comes three weeks earlier than usual, starting the second Sunday in March instead of the first Sunday in April after the ushering in of spring and ending late as well, the first Sunday in November.Dr. Brian Murray, Toronto neurologist and sleep specialist, says he would do away with daylight time altogether.(CBC) The three-weeks-early start is the result of Canada following the lead of the U.S., a move designed to save energy.
Sleep experts, however, say many Canadians don't get enough shuteye already, and studies have shown the time change can affect how the brain functions the Monday after the clocks have changed.There's a small increase in traffic accidents that occurs in the period of time where an hour of sleep is lost, which is interesting, says Dr. Brian Murray, a neurologist and sleep specialist at the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto.I would be happy if we did away with it just for the nuisance of having to reset clocks and computers and all.
Peres Dreams, Government Approves
by Hillel Fendel (INN) MAR 11,07
The Cabinet approved on Sunday morning a series of mega-projects envisioned by Shimon Peres and designed to improve regional cooperation. Among the approved ventures are a Dead Sea-Red Sea canal, and railway tracks to Jordan.
Peres, long the Minister of Regional Cooperation, has described his ideas as being intended to support diplomatic channels via economic anchors. The largest of the projects is the digging of a canal from the Red Sea northward to the Dead Sea. Water from the south will flow naturally to Earth's lowest spot, the Dead Sea, thus preventing it from drying up. In addition, the surge of the water will be used to power electricity generators, which in turn will power desalination facilities for Jordan and the PA. Another project will be the establishment of a joint Israeli-Jordanian international airport in Aqaba, adjacent to Eilat. Also planned are an agricultural industrial zone in Jericho, funded partially by Japan, and a high-employment Israeli-PA industrial zone near Jenin in the northern Shomron.
Israel serious on Saudi peace initiative Associated Press
Posted Sunday , March 11, 2007 at 18:51
PEACE INITIATIVE: Saudi initiative calls for a peace agreement between Israel and the Arab world.
Jerusalem: Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday said he was ready to treat seriously a dormant Saudi initiative calling for a comprehensive peace agreement between Israel and the Arab world in exchange for a full Israeli withdrawal from lands captured in the 1967 Mideast War.Olmert spoke to his Cabinet ahead of a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, the leaders' second summit in the past month. Both sides acknowledged they expected no major breakthroughs ahead of the formation of a new Palestinian government in the coming weeks.The talks, following an inconclusive meeting on February 19 attended by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, are part of US-backed efforts to prod the sides to a return to peace talks.
The Saudi peace initiative, which aimed to solve the Palestinian issue by offering Israel a comprehensive peace, was first proposed in 2002 but never got off the ground.
It is expected to be high on the agenda at an Arab League summit later this month in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.The Saudis, who have never backed away from the initiative, have been pushing hard for other regional countries, many of whom also have endorsed it, to gather behind the initiative in strength to push the peace process forward. Olmert told his Cabinet today that Israel is following developments in the Arab world with the utmost attention and noted positive developments among moderate Arab countries.
EU Climate Goals a Model for Other Nations, Merkel Says
By Philip White MAR 10,07
(EUNN) London - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Saturday that the climate goals set by the European Union this week were really a model for all other nations to follow.
Merkel called the EU's move a pioneering role.The European Union had agreed earlier this week cut greenhouse gas emissions and use more renewable energy, which included the further development of nuclear power as a clean fuel source for powering the EU member nations.In her weekly video message Merkel said through the European Union's example she hoped other nations would follow and do as much as they could to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The German Chancellor pointedly named the United States as one of those nations which could do more to fight global warming and pollution. I'm thinking of the United States and the emerging economies of India and China, Merkel said.
In June, Merkel hopes to present the EU Climate Summit results to the Group of Eight leading industrial nations when they meet.I hope that more people in the world are prepared to commit themselves to action to stop climate change, she said.As President of the European Union Merkel used her post Friday to push the leaders of the 27-member bloc of the EU to adopt a binding goal on the use of renewable energy, such as wind and solar power.The deal calls for all of the EU member nations to cut carbon dioxide emissions 20 per cent from 1990 levels by 2020. Merkel also hopes that all of the EU leaders will go along with a target of using 20 per cent renewable energy as well.
Hopes are Low for Olmert-Abbas Meeting
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu and Hillel Fendel (INN) MAR 11,07
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas are to meet Sunday, but a Hamas legislator said there is no point in talking. Neither Israel nor the PA expects much progress in head-on talks scheduled for Sunday, but the Prime Ministers office said it is does not want to close the lines of communication. Frankly speaking, there isnt one Palestinian who believes in negotiations, said Sheikh Ahmed Mubarak, a terrorist recently freed from Israeli prison. Even those who believe in negotiations have no hope that Israel will meet the Palestinian conditions.
Prime Minister Olmert's spokeswoman, Miri Eisen, proved him correct Saturday night, saying that negotiations cannot take place until Hamas fulfills Quartet-set conditions to recognize Israel, renounce terror and accept existing agreements, all of which it has repeatedly vowed not to do. Eisen called the talks a pre-negotiation stage, adding, We are not at a phase where we are actually talking about substance. Abbas's top aide, chief negotiator Saeb Erekat, also sees little hope for more than words.
These are difficult times between us and I don't want to raise expectations, he said. The Prime Minister and Abbas will talk for the first time since their summit last month, which was marked by angry shouts in the presence of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
Abbas claimed at the time that he had attained from Hamas all the concessions he could ever hope to get. However, this amounted only to a statement that Hamas would respect not even fulfill existing agreements.The discussions will take place in the shadow of continued Kassam rocket attacks on Israel, in continued violation of the Gaza ceasefire that the PA and Israel announced in late November. Four rocket blasts in the western Negev on Saturday caused no injuries.
Abu Mazen's Requests
Despite the violations of the ceasefire, Hamas wants Abbas to offer to extend it throughout all of Judea and Samaria in return for Israel's halting all counter-terrorist operations. Even if Hamas offers to free kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit, it will be difficult for Olmert to agree to a widened ceasefire in the face of constant warnings of terrorist attacks and an escalation in shootings, stonings and firebombings on Israeli vehicles. However, rejecting a ceasefire offer may be fodder for the media to continue portray Israel in a negative light. PA sources say Abu Mazen also plans to ask Olmert not to torpedo the PA unity government's activities - even though it was conceived in contrast with Abu Mazen's promise to Israel. The Fatah leader also intends to request that Olmert not pressure the
international community to continue its economic siege on the PA despite the fact that funds recently freed to the PA were given to Hamas.
Olmert Expresses Measure of Support for Saudi Plan
Olmert, at this morning's Cabinet meeting, made a surprising announcement of guarded support for the Saudi initiative. He said that the five-year-old plan - which calls for Israel's full withdrawal to the 1949-67 borders, the entry of an untold number of so-called Arab refugees into Israel, and full normalization with Arab countries - has some positive elements. The Saudi initiative is a plan that we are willing to relate to seriously, Olmert said. It has elements that we can talk about.Just ten days ago, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livny told the PA Al Ayam newspaper that Israel could not accept the initiative in its current format.
Shalit: Before or After?
Olmert also told the Cabinet ministers today that Israel has expressed its reservations regarding the Mecca Agreement [for a national unity government in the Palestinian Authority]. He said he will tell Abu Mazen today that the PA must honor its commitment to form a new government only after it releases kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit.Just two days ago, Hamas parliament member Halil Al-Haya told a crowd in Gaza that he feels Shalit will be released shortly after the unity government is formed.
Olmert further said he expects any PA government that is established to adhere to the Quartet's conditions. Hamas has refused to accept the demands to recognize Israel and renounce terrorism; regarding the Quartet's demand that it abide by previous PA-Israel agreements, Hamas has said it would respect not abide by Them.
While Abbas and the Prime Minister are talking, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Defense Minister Amir Peretz will be in the United States for talks with their
counterparts. Peretz will also speak with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who has said he intends to visit the Middle East at the end of this month. Foreign Minister Livni will be backed by a bi-partisan effort initiated by Democratic Senator Bill Nelson of Florida and Republican Senator John Ensign of Nevada. In a letter to Secretary Rice, they stated, We urge you to continue to hold
firm and insist that [there will be] no direct aid and no contacts with any members of a Palestinian Authority that does not explicitly and unequivocally recognize Israels right to exist, renounce terror and accept previous agreements.Russia has taken the opposite stance and has been campaigning for Israel and the international community to recognize Hamas.
Unity Gov't Problems Cast Shadow
A dark cloud overshadowing the talks between Abbas and Prime Minister Olmert is the proposed unity government between the rival Fatah and Hamas factions.
The PA Chairman also has threatened that if Israel does not accept the proposed Hamas-Fatah unity government, which has not yet been finalized, violence will escalate. On Saturday, Fatah's Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades terrorists fired at a Hamas minister. No one was injured, but the incident, which occurred in eastern Samaria, is a sign of the extent of how far discontent has spread beyond Gaza. Hamas has indicated that the new unity government will retain a strong Hamas influence, with four of its remaining ministers remaining in the government. No agreement has been reached on who will head the Interior Ministry, which oversees security forces. A Ramallah-based pollster expects a short life for a unity government, which was agreed on in Mecca under intense pressure from Arab leaders. The Mecca agreement has done nothing, said Jamil Rabah. It allowed the sides to come together, but not on a common agenda. I give it two months before it falls apart. We have a scrambled egg which is very difficult to unscramble.
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