Minor Fasts DEC 19,07
There are five minor fasts on the Jewish calendar. With one exception, these fasts were instituted by the Sages to commemorate some national tragedy. The minor fasts (that is, all fasts except Yom Kippur and Tisha b'Av) last from dawn to nightfall, and one is permitted to eat breakfast if one arises before sunrise for the purpose of doing so. There is a great deal of leniency in the minor fasts for people who have medical conditions or other difficulties fasting. The date of the fast is moved to Sunday if the specified date falls on Shabbat. Three of these five fasts commemorate events leading to the downfall of the first commonwealth and the destruction of the first Temple, which is commemorated by the major fast of Tisha B'Av.
Following is a list of minor fasts required by Jewish law, their dates, and the events they commemorate:
The Fast of Tevet, Tevet 10, is the beginning of the siege of Jerusalem. It has also been proclaimed a memorial day for the six million Jews who died in the Holocaust.
The Tenth of Tevet
Yom Ha-Kaddish HaKlali
In the State of Israel, Kaddish (the Jewish prayer for the deceased) is recited on this day for people whose date or place of death is unknown. Consequently, many rabbis have designated it as a day of remembrance for the Holocaust.
Historic Significance
And it was in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth (day) of the month, that Nebuchadnetzar, King of Babylon came, he and all his hosts, upon Yerushalayim, and he encamped upon it and built forts around it. And the city came under siege till the eleventh year of King Tzidkiyahu. On the ninth of the month famine was intense in the city, the people had no bread, and the city was breached. (Second Melachim 25).
We see then, that the tenth of Tevet - on which the siege of Yerushalayim began, was the beginning of the whole chain of calamities which finally ended with the destruction of the Beit Hamikdash.
The Purpose of Fasting
The essential significance of the fast of the Tenth of Tevet, as well as that of the other fast days, is not primarily the grief and mourning which they evoke. Their aim is rather to awaken the hearts towards repentance; to recall to us, both the evil deeds of our fathers, and our own evil deeds, which caused anguish to befall both them and us and thereby to cause us to return towards the good. As it is said (Vayikra 26): 'And they shall confess their transgressions and the transgressions of their fathers. (Rambam: Hilchot Ta'anit Chapter 5).
The aim of fasting, therefore, is to subjugate our evil inclination by restriction of pleasure; to open our hearts and stir us to repentance and good deeds through which the gates of Divine mercy might be opened for us.(Chayei Adam; Klal 33)
Therefore, each person is obligated to examine his deeds and to repent during these days. As it is written of the people of Nineveh: And the Lord saw their actions (Yonah 3), upon which the Rabbis say: It is not said, He saw their sackcloth and fasting, but rather their actions (Ta'anit 22). We see hence that the purpose of fasting is repentance. (same as above)
Therefore, the people, who fast but engage in pointless activities, grasp what is of secondary importance and miss what is essential. Nevertheless, repentance alone without fasting is also insufficient, because there is a positive commandment of Rabbinic origin to fast on this day. (same as above)
The Observance of the Fast
The fast begins, as do all the public fasts with the exception of Tisha B'Av and Yom Kippur, at alot haShachar, dawn.
These four public fasts: Asarah B'Tevet, Tzom Gedaliah, Shiva Asar B'Tammuz, and Ta'anit Esther, are also alike in that there do not apply any additional physical constraints, such as the prohibition of washing or of wearing leather shoes, etc.
One who is in the category of being ill-even-without-danger, or who is a pregnant or nursing woman, for whom fasting might be difficult, and all children, are exempt from fasting.
All those who are exempt from fasting should not, in any case, eat publicly or indulge in purely pleasurable forms of consumption (such as eating black-'n-whites), but should eat only that which is necessary for good nutrition.
If a public fast falls on Shabbat, it is delayed until after Shabbat since fasting is not permitted on Shabbat. The one exception is Yom Kippur, which, based on a verse in the Torah, is observed even if it falls on Shabbat. The Geonim also write that the same was once true of the tenth of Tevet, since it is written of the tenth of Tevet: On this very day (YechezkeI 2). In our calendar calculation, however, the tenth of Tevet can never fall on Shabbat.
If a public fast occurs on Erev Shabbat, we fast the entire day till the conclusion of the fast, even though it means entering Shabbat while fasting. Neither Avinu Malkeinu nor Tachanun are recited at Mincha. The fast continues until after the completion of Maariv for Shabbat (after the appearance of the stars). One should not eat or drink anything until after Kiddush.
Nowadays our calendar calculation is such that the only public fast which can fall on Erev Shabbat is the tenth of Tevet.
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Monday, December 17, 2007
VATICAN CHANGES JESUS' LOCATION
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.
Winter storm hits N.L., as cleanup begins in central, eastern Canada Mon Dec 17, 11:13 AM
By The Canadian Press
HALIFAX - Parts of the Maritimes were paralyzed Monday after a blast of wintry weather forced the closure of schools, made driving treacherous and left thousands of people in the dark. The massive storm, which also heaved near-record amounts of snow on Southern Ontario and Quebec, lashed Newfoundland and Labrador on Monday, where up to 25 centimetres of snow was predicted. Even after the snow, wind and rain subsided in the Maritimes, the wintry blast continued to cause trouble for electricity customers, especially in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. About 3,900 homes and businesses remained without power in New Brunswick by late-morning, mostly in the Moncton and Shediac areas. The province's electric utility said strong winds in the Moncton area were hampering restoration efforts. We restore some customers only to have the wind come along and cause an outage again, NB Power spokeswoman Heather MacLean said in a statement. Nova Scotia Power said it hoped to restore power to about 4,500 customers by Monday afternoon, the vast majority of whom were in Cape Breton and Pictou County. Higher wind gusts were in coastal areas, and that pretty much lines up with where the damage is, said NS Power spokeswoman Margaret Murphy, adding that crews were mostly able to work through the night and restore outages as they occurred.
Schools were also closed in many parts of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick as drivers struggled to deal with the messy mixture of heavy snow and rain. The storm continued to create travel headaches, with whiteouts in some areas and icy roads in others.
Treacherous travel may have played a part in a fatal car crash on slippery roads in Nova Scotia. Police say a 16-year-old boy who was a passenger in one vehicle died at the scene Sunday afternoon on Highway 101 in the Kentville area. The 17-year-old boy who was driving was taken to hospital with serious injuries. Meanwhile, dozens of flights in and out of Halifax's airport had been cancelled since Sunday, stranding thousands of passengers, with disruptions expected to continue well into Monday. The storm hit the Maritime region around midday Sunday, after the heavy weather battered Ontario and Quebec. Darin Borgel, a meteorologist with Environment Canada, said the storm system hit the Maritimes pretty much as predicted. Most people were pretty adequately warned, Borgel said from Dartmouth, N.S. This storm got a lot of attention as it went through Ontario and Quebec ... so I think most people were expecting some pretty nasty conditions here.Across the Maritime provinces, snowfall amounts of between 10 and 20 centimetres were reported before the snow changed over to rain in many places. In northern New Brunswick, however, there was no changeover to rain, meaning a total of 30 centimetres of snow or more by day's end Monday. Wind gusts up to 100 kilometres per hour were typical in the region, although one gust of 165 km/h was reported near Cheticamp in western Cape Breton.
Latest wintry blast lashes U.S. from the Great Lakes to New England Mon Dec 17, 10:21 AM
By David N. Goodman, The Associated Press
DETROIT - A blend of snow, sleet and freezing rain cut visibility and iced over highways from the Great Lakes to New England on the weekend, dumping up to 45 centimetres of snow and stranding air and road travellers. School districts across the region - including Michigan's largest, in Detroit - cancelled Monday classes. Slippery roads were blamed for four weekend deaths in Indiana, two in Michigan and one each in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. AAA Michigan said it helped more than 3,000 motorists Sunday. Most had spun out, got stuck or couldn't start their vehicles, spokeswoman Nancy Cain said. The northern New York state community of Peru received 45 centimetres of snow, whipped up by high winds, the U.S. National Weather Service said. In Michigan, Ann Arbor reported 27 centimetres, while parts of Indiana got up to 36 centimetres of snow. It's winter, said Ann Arbor resident Linda Thelen, 53, as she and her husband dug out their home. I expect a couple of these each year.In Rhode Island, a U.S. Airways Express Flight from Philadelphia carrying 31 passengers and three crew members slid off the runway when it landed at T.F. Green Airport, which got nearly 20 centimetres of snow. No injuries were reported, but the airport had to close its runways for about 2 1/2 hours.
The storm cancelled hundreds of flights at airports in Chicago and about 300 flights at Boston's busy Logan International Airport. Flights were also cancelled at airports in Portland, Maine; Buffalo, N.Y.; and Manchester, N.H. Few major problems - though plenty of delays - were reported at airports in Philadelphia and the New York area, which had braced for plenty of snow but got mostly sleet and rain. Every available plow truck was at work in Vermont, said Reggie Brown, highway department dispatcher in Montpelier. Everybody's out and running, he said. Braving the elements Sunday in New York were fans of teen singer Hannah Montana, whose concert in Rochester drew Jolene Horton and her eight-year-old daughter, Paxtyn Brown. They spent five hours on the road from Schuyler County in the Finger Lakes. "Normally it would have taken 2 1/2 hours, but we wouldn't have missed it for the world, Horton said. The storm also didn't keep fans away from the New England Patriots-New York Jets game at Foxborough, Mass., but they had to shovel off their seats in the stadium. A video of a fire roaring in a fireplace was shown on the scoreboards. The weekend storm came less than a week after an ice storm in the Midwest and Northeast that was blamed for at least 38 deaths, mostly in traffic accidents. Up to a million homes and businesses lost power in parts of Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri. On Monday, Oklahoma utilities said just more than 126,000 customers were still waiting for electricity, most in the Oklahoma City and Tulsa areas.
Among those waiting for service to be restored, Choctaw resident Beverly Smith said her trailer had been without power for seven consecutive days as of Sunday. We don't have anywhere to go, said Smith, who lives with her 15-year-old son. We're out of money. Christmas is nine days away, and I have no hope of giving my family a Christmas all.
Fla. storm overturns cars, damages jail Sun Dec 16, 10:12 AM ET
LAND O' LAKES, Fla. - An apparent tornado demolished a jail building and overturned vehicles early Sunday in central Florida, authorities said. No injuries were reported. The storm was reported about 5:15 a.m. in Pasco County, the National Weather Service said.One of two minimum-security annex buildings at the Pasco County Jail in Land O' Lakes was destroyed, sheriff's spokesman Doug Tobin said. The approximately 125 female inmates it housed had been evacuated moments earlier to the main jail.A few seconds after shutting the door is when that structure basically collapsed, Tobin said.The destroyed building was a temporary structure used to ease overcrowding and designed to withstand winds up to 110 miles per hour, according to a county Web site.
A second annex, housing about 100 male inmates, did not sustain any serious damage, Tobin said. The roof was damaged on the main prison building, which holds about 950 inmates.Pasco County is north of Tampa Bay on Florida's Gulf Coast.
Global donors pledge 7.4 bln dlrs for Palestinians by Christophe de Roquefeuil DEC 17,07
PARIS (AFP) - International donors pledged 7.4 billion dollars to the Palestinians Monday at a conference described by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as the last hope to save their government from bankruptcy. Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad had formally asked donors meeting in Paris for 5.6 billion dollars by 2010 to help fulfil his plan to develop a viable economy for a future state.The real winner is the Palestinian state, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner told AFP as he announced that a total of 7.4 billion dollars (5.15 billion euros) had been promised.The pledges were made at a one-day conference convened to agree a package of aid to stabilise the Palestinian economy and shore up the peace process with Israel -- jumpstarted in the US city of Annapolis last month.
We see this conference as an important vote of confidence on the part of the international community, Fayyad said as the conference wrapped up.But Islamist group Hamas, which seized control of the Gaza Strip in June and was not invited to Paris or the Annapolis meeting, labelled it a dangerous conspiracy aimed at dividing the Palestinians.We support all forms of aid, financial or otherwise, to the Palestinian people. But the Paris conference is coating poison with honey and is a dangerous conspiracy, Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhum said in a statement released in Gaza.Some humanitarian groups questioned the benefit of such a massive aid package.In London, the development charity Oxfam warned donors were pouring cash into a leaking bucket, arguing that aid efforts already in place were being seriously hampered by Israeli restrictions on movement.The challenge is to fix the leak, not pour faster... Due to Israel's movement restrictions and the blockade of Gaza, millions of dollars of aid for Palestinians are being lost, Oxfam's Middle East director Adam Leach said.But Tony Blair, Middle East envoy for the diplomatic Quartet, said the money would be used for building the capacity and the institutions for the (Palestinian) state.Over the next few months what we have got to show to people is that we are capable of making the difference on the ground, he said.Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas had earlier warned the almost 90 delegations that the West Bank and Gaza were facing a total catastrophe without their aid.
Pledges quickly came pouring in with Rice announcing a US donation of 555 million dollars for 2008, including 150 million dollars for budget support.The Palestinian Authority is experiencing a serious budgetary crisis. This conference is literally the government's last hope to avoid bankruptcy, Rice said.The European Commission pledged to donate 650 million dollars in aid for 2008 alone while Britain and Saudi Arabia announced three-year aid packages of 490 million dollars and at least 500 million dollars respectively.
Opening the conference earlier, French President Nicolas Sarkozy pledged 300 million dollars over three years. Germany promised 200 million dollars by 2010 and Sweden offered 300 million dollars in 2007 and 2008.Some 3.4 billion dollars of Monday's pledges was to go to the Palestinians in 2008, the first year of Fayyad's three-year recovery plan, a final statement at the end of the conference said. This support will be essential for accompanying the political process launched in Annapolis at the end of November, the statement added. As the conference kicked off, Abbas urged Israel -- represented by Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni -- to freeze all settlement activity in the Palestinian territories to allow the newly-relaunched peace drive to gain a foothold.
I expect a complete halt of all settlement activities without exception, Abbas said, also calling for the dismantling of 127 wildcat settlements, the lifting of military checkpoints, a halt to construction of the separation barrier and prisoner releases.
Around 70 countries, as well as all the major international organisations, were attending the Conference of Donors for a Palestinian State, a month after Israel and the Palestinians relaunched negotiations frozen for seven years. The takeover of the Gaza Strip by Hamas, which won a majority in 2006 parliamentary elections, effectively split the Palestinian territories in half. Hamas -- pledged to Israel's destruction and shunned by the West -- rules in Gaza, while the Western-backed Abbas controls the West Bank.
DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(WORLD TRADE BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).
GBCORP chief says-Europe-Mideast trade can bridge the cultural divide Moussa Ahmad BI-ME 14 December 2007
BAHRAIN. Mark Hanson, Chief Executive of Bahrain-based Global Banking Corporation (GBCORP), today outlined his vision for increased Middle East-European trade partnerships as an effective method of bridging the two regions’ cultural divides, in his keynote speech to the UCI Global Investor Window conference in London.Hanson was addressing some of the world’s leading investment bankers at London’s Institute of Directors, where he highlighted the increasing potential of Sharia’a-compliant banking products as the key to future financing in the US$4.4 billion UK-GCC trade sector.
The combined GDP of the six GCC member states will reach US$957 billion in 2007, a rapid 100% growth in the past five years, with economists predicting GCC expansion will continue to outpace Western economies in the coming years. This allows the investment banking industry to grasp the opportunities presented by joint Arabian Gulf, UK and European business ventures and, in my experience, trade is the most effective way for cultures to come to greater understanding of one another, commented GBCORP CEO Hanson.While sectors such as energy, real estate, telecommunications and technology continue to represent the majority of the Middle East’s 2,800 major infrastructure projects, significant investment in education and training is creating a region increasingly recognised for the quality of its intellectual capital.There are currently more than 200 UK/Saudi joint ventures with an estimated total investment of US$14.5 billion and foreign investors can own up to 100% of Saudi companies in certain sectors. Bahrain-based companies have invested in the UK for 40 years, taking stakes in the McClaren Formula One racing team, acquiring utility companies and recently bidding for Peacocks, one of the UK’s largest discount fashion retailers.
We live in a world in which negative stereotypes abound, especially when it comes to perceptions of the Middle East. Yet my experiences living and working in predominantly Muslim countries has helped me understand just how outdated and inaccurate so many of these negative images are, continued Hanson. Commercially, the Global Investor Window conference acts as a bridge for potential investors, with more than half of Europe’s 387 million futures contracts traded in the City of London. Culturally, it acts as a bridge between people of different traditions seeking opportunities to work together in pursuit of a greater good.Global Banking Corporation is a fast-growing Islamic investment bank with a global vision. I hope my speech will help convey the potential of Sharia’a-compliant banking and how our team at Global Banking Corporation offers a high-return, Sharia’a-compliant environment, leading investment banking into a new era, added Hanson.
REVELATION 17:2-3
2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.(VATICAN IN POLITICS)
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.(WOMAN=VATICAN)(7HEADS=THE 7 HILLS OF ROME(VATICAN)AND 10 HORNS=10 KINGS FROM THE EU THAT WILL BE WORKING HAND IN GLOVE WITH THE VATICAN.
Israel, Vatican agree to pick up negotiating pace
Jerusalem, Dec. 14, 2007 (CWNews.com) - Israeli and Vatican negotiators promised to accelerate their talks, aimed at finalizing an economic accord, during a meeting in Jerusalem this week. The two sides concluded their latest round of talks on December 13, issuing a statement that said the negotiations had been marked by cordiality, mutual understanding, and good will. The next talks were scheduled for May 2008, to take place in Rome.
Israel and the Holy See have not yet concluded the economic agreement called for by their original agreement struck in 1993, which led to Vatican recognition of Israel. Church spokesmen have indicated a mounting interest in finalizing the long-delayed pact.
ISAIAH 9:6-7
6 For unto us a child is born,(JESUS' FIRST COMING) unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder:(JESUS' 2ND COMING TO RULE AND REIGN) 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,(JERUSALEM) 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.(JERUSALEM BECOMES WORLD CAPITAL)(ALL NATIONS WORSHIP KING JESUS IN JERUSALEM)
THIS IS REDICULAS BUSH REFUSES TO ACKNOWLEDGE JERUSALEM AS THE CAPITAL OF ISRAEL OR THE EMBASSY WOULD BE IN JERUSALEM QUICK. ESCPECIALLY SINCE HE CLAIMS TO BE A CHRISTIAN AND CHRISTIANS KNOW IN THE FUTURE JERUSALEM WILL BE THE WORLD CAPITAL.
Bush delays embassy move Published: 12/14/2007
President Bush extended a delay on moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem for another six months. I hereby determine that it is necessary to protect the national security interests of the United States to suspend for a period of six months the embassy move mandated in a 1995 law, Bush said Wednesday in a memorandum to Condoleezza Rice, the U.S. secretary of state. My administration remains committed to beginning the process of moving our embassy to Jerusalem.Bush and his predecessor, President Clinton, have routinely exercised their prerogative to delay the move, citing the difficulties such an action would impose on Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking.
Blair calls for Palestinian-Israeli action to reach agreement within certain time www.chinaview.cn 2007-12-15 05:30:09
CAIRO, Dec. 14 (Xinhua) -- Mideast Quartet envoy Tony Blair called Friday for an action to reach an political agreement between the Palestinians and Israel within certain time, reported Qatar's al-Jazerra satellite news channel. Blair, who is currently on a tour in the Middle East region seeking to speed up the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, made the call in an interview with al-Jazerra. The Palestinian and Israeli sides should not take any measures that could hinder the final status negotiations, Blair told al-Jazerra. Meanwhile, the former British premier called for international assistance for the Palestinians to build their educational, health and security institutions. The international donors will pledge to support the Palestinians in their conference in Paris next week, during which the donors will grant some 5.6 billion U.S. dollars to Palestinians, Blair hoped.
Earlier on Thursday, Blair expressed his confidence in solving the final-status issues such as the borders of a future Palestinian state, and the fate of Jerusalem and Palestinian refugees, saying they were resolvable if the two sides had confidence in each others' intentions. The real challenge was convincing sceptical Israelis and Palestinians that a peace deal could be reached, he told Israel's Channel 10 television. Negotiators from Israel and the Palestinian National Authority(PNA) held their first meeting of peace negotiations on Wednesday with little progress but an agreement about a next meeting. In the U.S.-sponsored peace conference in Annapolis in late November, PNA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert launched the talks aimed at reaching a statehood agreement next year, before U.S. President George W. Bush leaves office in January 2009.Editor: Mu Xuequan
Report: Hamas to escalate attacks on Israel
Kuwait based Al-Jarida newspaper reports Hamas' Khaled Mashaal met with Iranian officials, asked for backing when organization exacerbates attacks on Israel Roee Nahmias Published: 12.14.07, 13:24 / Israel News
Hamas has asked Iran to allow the organization to escalate its altercations with Israel, carry out more suicide attacks and if need be – threaten kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit with execution, Kuwait's Al-Jarida newspaper reported Friday. The report, citing senior Hamas officials, Hamas politburo chief Khaled Mashaal recently met with a senior Iranian intelligence official, who accompanied Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on his visit to Qatar last week.
Hard Bargain
The two reportedly discussed Hamas' retaliation to a possible large-scale IDF operation in Gaza, which may leave Hamas debilitated. Mashaal, said the report, told the Iranians Hamas will need their political support, as well as Iran and Syria's go-ahead to carry out a series of major attacks on Israel. Al-Jarida further reported that Mashaal told the Iranians Hamas wants to kidnap more Israeli soldiers, as well as threaten Gilad Shalit's well-being in order to stir Israeli public opinion, pressure Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and hinder the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
A FALSE PROPHET COMES FROM THE VATICAN ALSO AT THIS TIME.
REVELATION 13:11-18
11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
REVELATION 17:1-18
1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.
8 The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
13 These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
14 These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.
15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
16 And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
17 For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
WOW THE VATICAN IS CHANGING THE SCENERY OF JESUS' BIRTH. BAD MOVE VATICAN. COULD THIS BE THE START OF THE GODLESS FUTURE VATICAN, ONLY TIME WILL TELL.
Vatican rewrites nativity scene to put baby Jesus in a carpenter's shop By MICHAEL DAY 14:17pm on 15th December 2007
Baby Jesus was not born in a Bethlehem stable but above the carpenter shop owned his father Joseph in Nazareth, according to an unusual nativity scene being prepared by the Vatican. The unconventional depiction that Pope Benedict XVI will see in Saint Peter's Square this Christmas, is supposed reflect a return to the story of the nativity as told by Matthew, according to a Vatican spokesman. In Matthew's Gospel, Joseph's role in events is given greater emphasis. He learns of the impending birth of Jesus in a dream and is told by angel to take Mary to his house in preparation. Both Gospels state however, that Jesus was finally born in Bethlehem near, Jerusalem. And the Vatican says moving Christ's crib is really a way of reflecting the experience of ordinary people.
According Luke's well known version of the nativity, when Mary was due to give birth, she and her husband Joseph travelled 100 miles south from their house in Nazareth to Joseph's ancestral home, Bethlehem, in order to register in a census ordered by Emperor Augustus. Having found no place for themselves in the inn, they lodged in stable where animals were kept. It was here that Mary gave birth to Jesus. An alternative nativity scene is also being prepared in the nearby church of Santa Anna, inside the Leonine Wall. In this scene Jesus's birth is set in the ruins of a Roman aqueduct. It will be a strong representation of the impact poverty had in the time of the Nativity, said parish priest Padre Silvestrini who was responsible for the design.
WW3 THE 3 WAVES THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL
DANIEL 11:40-45
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
The Third and Final Wave of WW3 is when all Nations march to Jerusalem, but JESUS bodily returns to earth and destroys them,sets up his KINGDOM OF RULE FOR 1000 YEARS THEN FOREVER.
Israel: US Report on Iran May Spark War
By LAURIE COPANS – DEC 15,07
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's public security minister warned Saturday that a U.S. intelligence report that said Iran is no longer developing nuclear arms could lead to a regional war that would threaten the Jewish state.In his remarks — Israel's harshest criticism yet of the U.S. report — Avi Dichter said the assessment also cast doubt on American intelligence in general, including information about Palestinian security forces' crackdown on militant groups. The Palestinian action is required as part of a U.S.-backed renewal of peace talks with Israel this month.Dichter cautioned that a refusal to recognize Iran's intentions to build weapons of mass destruction could lead to armed conflict in the Middle East.He compared the possibility of such fighting to a surprise attack on Israel in 1973 by its Arab neighbors, which came to be known in Israel for the Yom Kippur Jewish holy day on which it began.
The American misconception concerning Iran's nuclear weapons is liable to lead to a regional Yom Kippur where Israel will be among the countries that are threatened, Dichter said in a speech in a suburb south of Tel Aviv, according to his spokesman, Mati Gil. Something went wrong in the American blueprint for analyzing the severity of the Iranian nuclear threat.Dichter didn't elaborate on the potential scenario but seemed to imply that a world that let its guard down regarding Iran would be more vulnerable to attack by the Islamic regime.Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert had disputed the U.S. intelligence assessment this month, saying that Iran continues its efforts to obtain components necessary to produce nuclear weapons. Tehran still poses a major threat to the West and the world must stop it, Olmert said.Israel has for years been warning that Iran is working on nuclear weapons and backed the United States in its international efforts to exert pressure on Iran to stop the program. Israel considers Iran a significant threat because of its nuclear ambitions, its long-range missile program and repeated calls by its president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, for the disappearance of Israel.
Iran says its nuclear program is for purely peaceful purposes.
Israel will work to change the American intelligence agencies' view of Iran, said Dichter, a former chief of Israel's Shin Bet secret service agency.A misconception by the world's leading superpower is not just an internal American occurrence, Dichter said.Any future faulty U.S. intelligence on the actions of Palestinian security forces could damage peace efforts, Dichter said.Those same (intelligence) arms in the U.S. are apt to make a mistake and declare that the Palestinians have fulfilled their commitments, which would carry with it very serious consequences from Israel's vantage point, Dichter said.
Africa: EU is Using Bully Tactics to Push Through EPAs
Inter Press Service (Johannesburg)15 December 2007
Aileen Kwa Cape Town
We succumbed, lamented a diplomat from Namibia. We signed on the 12th of December. The pressure was too much. The private sector felt that they would be disproportionately affected. In terms of markets, they would be losing access for beef, grapes, fish and fish products.The political and economic strength of the European Commission (EC) is in itself a threat and a pressure in the negotiations, he explained on condition of anonymity to IPS.When negotiating with a stronger partner, you end up only being on the receiving end. Bully tactics are used with the threat 'you either sign or you don't have the market', he said.Up to the last moment, Namibia's government had tried to resist the pressures from both their own private sector and the EU. Until late last week, trade minister Immanuel Ngatjizeko had categorically stated that the demands the EPA placed on Namibia were not acceptable.
He insisted that the EPA should be helping with regional integration and not to disintegrate the region.We made a lot of mistakes, the diplomat told IPS. There was no proper coordination amongst the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries. The EC has successfully fragmented the ACP, not only in terms of regions, but also within regions.The Southern African Development Community (SADC) consists of 15 countries. While we used to get EU development aid for the region as a whole, now only seven SADC countries (those party to the SADC EPA) will get development aid that is related to the EPAs. This will have ramifications.The intra-SADC free trade area is also supposed to be formalized by 2008. How this will play out, with some countries being signatories to the EPAs while a country such as Angola chose not to sign the EPA, remains to be seen.The Namibian diplomat was quick to add that whilst the country had signed the interim EPA on December 12, it had done so with explicit reservations on certain clauses. If these concerns are not satisfactorily addressed in the next phase of negotiations, then we can say that we are not in a position to ratify the final agreement and opt out. But in the meantime, we need to do other things, such as finding alternative markets.
The problem is that Namibia, Lesotho, Botswana, Swaziland and South Africa have a common customs union -- the Southern African Customs Union (SACU), established in 1910. Lesotho, Botswana and Swaziland have signed the SADC EPA which contains clauses that Namibia is not comfortable with.One of these clauses restricts local content requirements in the manufacturing sector. In order to support local industries, Namibia does not want to abolish any legislation that requires investors to use locally produced inputs. Another clause deals with the freezing of export taxes. The EC does not want ACP countries to put in place export taxes. Namibia, however, wants the freedom to use export taxes to discourage the export of raw materials and to encourage local industries to add value to their products before export.The EC has asked SADC countries to provide it with the same level of market access SADC gives to other significant trade partners. SADC is currently negotiating free trade agreements with India and with the MERCOSUR. MERCOSUR is the Southern Common Market trade area which includes Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay.If more favourable terms of market access are provided in these and other future trade agreements, the same level of liberalization will have to be extended to the European Union (EU).The SADC EPA also states that goods entering any one of the SADC EPA signatories should be allowed to move freely to the other signatory countries. However, SADC has yet to formalize its own regional customs union. There are still issues to be sorted out internally.
In contrast to countries which have caved in and signed the interim EPAs, Senegal in West Africa remains steadfastly opposed to the EPAs. An expert from Senegal, who declined to be named, commented on President Abdoulaye Wade's firm stance taken at the Africa-EU Summit in Lisbon earlier this week.He was simply reflecting the national position. The private sector, civil society, parliament and the opposition are all opposed to the EPAs. To have an EPA right now will create a lot of problems for our economy. It will open our markets to products from the EU, some of which are subsidized, said the Senegalese trade expert.
Senegal is a least developed country. The industry and agricultural sectors are not ready to compete with the EU on a level playing field. In the next phase of EPA negotiations, we would also have to bring in investment, competition and government procurement, issues which have been rejected at the WTO (World Trade Organisation).So the EPAs are WTO-plus. On the other side, in development cooperation, we are not sure that what is on the table can offset any negative liberalization impact, said the expert.He also underscored the problems the EPA poses for the West African region, in particular the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAMU / UMOA). The monetary union consists of eight members -- Senegal, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Mali, Niger, Togo and Guinea-Bissau.Of these, Cote d'Ivoire is the only country which has signed the interim EPA in an attempt to safeguard its banana exports to the EU. The country is the main economic powerhouse within WAMU, accounting for 40 percent of the union's gross domestic product.
According to the Senegalese expert, Cote d'Ivoire's signing of the interim EPA will definitely have an impact on WAMU. Given the high level of economic integration in that region, EU products flowing into Cote d'Ivoire can easily find their way into the other WAMU countries.I don't think they (the EU) did an impact assessment on regional integration, he said.He also underscored the tensions the EPA negotiations have created for the WTO negotiations. They have put the LDCs (least developed countries) in a very bad position in the WTO. Since the 2005 Hong Kong ministerial meeting, LDCs have asked for duty-free and quota-free market access to all developed countries.Under the EPA, the duty-free and quota-free market access is reciprocal. Now other countries will say, 'You have given this to the EU, now you will also have to give me something in return', he said.So there are many unanswered questions and a lot of uncertainty, he concluded.Kenya has also signed an EPA, together with others from the East African Community. A trade diplomat from Nairobi, alluding to the threats the EPAs pose for Africa, summed the position up in the following way: They say love is blind. This must be real love because we are going along without knowing where we are going.
Kenyan civil society groups are working hard to make the EPAs a major issue in Kenya's national elections taking place later this month.According to Ezekiel Mpapale of the Initiatives for Community and Enterprise Development, One of the things we are doing is to make sure that Dr Mukhisa Kituyi (the current trade and industry minister) is not re-elected. We think he has betrayed us Kenyans.
MUSLIM NATIONS
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
EZEKIEL 39:1-8
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
Hamas supporters rally to show strength By IBRAHIM BARZAK, Associated Press Writer
Sat Dec 15, 3:08 PM ET
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Palestinians flooded the streets of the Gaza Strip Saturday in the biggest show of support for Hamas since the Islamic militants seized the territory in June. Leader Ismail Haniyeh vowed in speeches on the 20th anniversary of the movement's founding that Hamas will not compromise its hardline views despite growing isolation, poverty and popular support for the rival West Bank government of President Mahmoud Abbas.Since Hamas wrested control from Abbas' Fatah forces, Gaza's 1.5 million residents have been virtually cut off from the outside world, with Israel and Egypt refusing to fully reopen crossings with the coastal territory. Unemployment has risen to about 50 percent, forcing poverty up to 75 percent, Palestinian officials say.The message from you today is that Hamas and these masses will not yield before the sanctions, Haniyeh told the cheering onlookers who waved green Islamic flags at the rally in Gaza City.
The crowd shouted in response, To you we come, Haniyeh!
Haniyeh lambasted the renewal of peace talks between Israel and Abbas' administration in the United States last month, warning they will not bring about a cessation of Israeli settlement construction on disputed land or yield any other Israeli concessions.As for the fruits of the other track, the track of negotiations, normalization and bargaining, all can see that it is the consolidating of settlements ... injustice and oppression for the Palestinian people, Haniyeh said. It is bitter fruits.The Hamas leader warned Abbas against conceding in peace talks on the Palestinian demand that refugees who fled past wars with Israel and their descendants be allowed to return to their homes. Their fate is a key sticking point in the talks that are meant to iron out a final peace agreement.There is no such thing as a just solution to the right of return, Haniyeh said. It is the right of every refugee ... to return to the land.The throngs of Hamas supporters gathered in a sandy lot and along nearby streets. There appeared to be several thousand more people than attended a rally by backers of Hamas' rival, Fatah, who gathered on the same spot in November in what was seen as a major challenge to Hamas. That rally, which an Associated Press reporter estimated at more than 250,000 people, ended in mayhem with Hamas police opening fire and protesters hurling rocks or running for cover. Seven civilians were killed and dozens were wounded in the violence between Palestinian factions.
This is the real referendum on the popularity of resistance, the people converging behind Hamas, said Zayed Herzallah, a 28-year old merchant, who brought a van full of young relatives Saturday. Hamas today, after 20 years and after thousands of martyrs, is graduating the fourth generation (of supporters).Large pictures of Hamas leaders, both in Gaza and in exile, were draped across the speakers' podium. A black banner hanging from a nearby building read, in Arabic, English and French: We will not recognize Israel.
In the crowd were dozens of members of the Hamas military wing, among them armed men carrying replicas of homemade Qassam rockets. Some 50 female members of the military wing also marched, dressed in long robes and sporting military-style ammunition vests. Some covered their faces with veils, others with ski masks.In an anniversary message to Hamas TV, the group's top leader in exile, Khaled Mashaal, said Hamas will not abandon violence.This is our real choice, our trump card, which causes the enemy to succumb to us, he said.He said Abbas does not have the mandate to negotiate with Israel.Our people are able to launch a third and fourth uprising until the dawn of victory arrives, he warned.After the Hamas takeover, Abbas set up a moderate government in the West Bank, winning strong international support and opening the way to the resumption of peace talks with Israel last week.
In his speech, Haniyeh rejected Abbas' conditions for negotiations between the rival movements, including that Hamas give up its power in Gaza. Hamas was founded in Gaza in December 1987, after the outbreak of the first Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation. It is an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, which was founded in Egypt and is seen as the mother of all fundamentalist factions in the Arab Sunni world. Abbas' government was hoping on Monday at an international conference in Paris to receive pledges toward its goal of raising $5.6 billion over three years to bolster its economy. The United States said Friday it will pledge about $500 million. Donors warned that unless Israel eases physical and administrative obstacles, the money may go to waste.
From 2004 to 2009
16 December 2007 - Issue : 760
And while the discussions on the quasi-Constitution were the main issue of the December 14 summit in Brussels, President Jose Barroso was acting to capitalise on the signature of the new Treaty and secure a new appointment as Commission president in 2009. Mr. Barroso has been able to maintain a pretty good equilibrium in Euro-American relations and this is one of his major assets in his present mandate.
The chances for Mr. Barroso to get the job are substantial after the Spanish and the Italians refused to consider former British prime minister Tony Blair for the position. The basic arguments of those who align with Spain and Italy are the facts that Britain had not approved the Constitutional Treaty, does not participate in the Eurozone and has not signed the Schenghen agreement. Furthermore, they consider Mr. Blair’s dependence on Washington excessive and claim that dragging the United Kingdom into the Iraq war was a major political mistake that also reflects on Europe. Alternatively to Mr. Barroso’s reappointment, Germany, Italy and Belgium are considering for the position of President of the European Commission or to one of the best qualified for the new position of Foreign Minister of the EU the Prime Minister of Luxembourg Jean Claude Junker.
For the position of Foreign Minister, the case of former Italian Prime Minister Massimo Dalema is also being discussed and Italy is emphasising his role in the Lebanon and Afghanistan crises, but both the UK and USA along with their followers are contrary to such a possibility, for his particular relations with Hezbollah. Candidates for the position of the Foreign Minister are also considered to be German Socialist Frank Walter-Steinmeier, the Conservatives Swedish Carl Bildt and the Austrian Ursula Plassnik. A strong candidate for the position of Foreign Minister, however, remains the present High Representative Javier Solana, an all-color Spanish politician with a meteoric career who enjoys the full support of the Spanish Prime Minister Rodriguez Zappatero, other Socialist governments as well as the British and Americans. Mr. Solana, began his career from the extra-Parliamentary Spanish communists, where he was leading street demonstrations against the US Torejon military base. He became Foreign Minister of Spain with the Socialists, subsequently was appointed Secretary General of NATO responsible after bombing Serbia with Depleted Uranium Ordinance for becoming after Council’s High Representative. A high political position in the European making will be reserved by Germany to the President of the European Parliament Hans Didriech Poetering who in 2009 it is highly likely to be replaced in the two-and-a-half year rotation by the rising Socialist star Mr. Martin Schulz.
In the European Parliament, the European People’s Party, after the addition of the Romanians and the enrollment of the British MEP Saj Karim who left the declining ALDE group to join EPP, emerge stronger. In the next Parliament, the number of MEPs will be reduced from 785 to 751. In 2009, the Tories EPP is likely to suffer a major loss with the British Tories under Mr. David Cameron planning to withdraw from EPP and form their own group. This is a logical development given the ultra Eurosceptical stance of the Tories under Mr. Cameron, which are vertically opposite to that of the European People’s Party. EPP was crucial in the selection of Mr. Barroso to President of the Commission in 2004, an appointment which was the result of a compromise thanks to the efforts of EPP President Wilfried Martens and Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis who made the mediations for the compromise.
Greece, despite its endemic problems, as a result of 20 years of socialist mal administration, is taking major steps in sustaining European policies, in particular Greece’s enhanced relations with Russia in matters of energy and pipelines, which are crucial for Europe. The bottom line is, in 2007, The EU-27 proved more active and more involved in world affairs in all serious issues starting with, but not limited to, climate change, and strengthened its relations and presence in Africa, China and Latin America, proving a world player. The most important political changes in Europe during 2007 were the election of Mr. Nicolas Sarkozy to the French presidency with the redefinition of Franco-German relations, the French opening to the United States and the new French business approach to world markets, which reflects Europe’s performance in matters of international trade.
The fallout from The Sarkozy election came at the just-concluded European Summit marking the finale of The Portuguese Presidency in Brussels where the leaders decided to put up a face-saving agreement with the launch of Reflection Group, headed by Spain’s former premier Felipe Gonzalez, with Latvia’s former president Vaira Vike-Freiberga and Nokia chairman Jorma Ollila as his deputies. According to reliable sources, the two deputies were inducted to get a consensus and avoid collapse of talks, thus weakening the very purpose for which the group was launched.
Putting Turkish membership onto the agenda without naming Turkey is the sticking point in the mandate for the group to take into account likely developments within and outside Europe and examine in particular how the stability and prosperity of both the Union and of the wider region might best be served.
Livni to try to prevent Quartet condemnation of East Jerusalem construction By Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondent
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni will try in the coming days to avoid Quartet condemnation of Israel over its decision to build new homes in a controversial East Jerusalem neighborhood. The so-called Quartet of Middle East negotiators ? the United States, European Union, Russia, and the United Nations ? are expected to meet at the foreign minister level on the sidelines of Monday's conference of Palestinian Authority donor states in Paris, France.
According to information obtained by the Foreign Ministry, the Palestinians are pushing for the Quartet to issue a statement condemnation of Israel's decision to build some 300 new homes in Har Homa. Senior Israeli officials held contacts Thursday and Friday with representatives of the Quartet members, in an attempt to calm concerns and reduce the international criticism of Israel.
Livni met Thursday with the new UN special envoy to the Middle East, Robert Serry, who according to diplomatic sources expressed concern over the planned construction.
Serry warned the construction could hamper negotiations. Livni for her part sought to clarify that the construction is legal, and that the approval does not represent a change in the government's policy on settlement construction. Israeli officials also met with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State David Walsh, in which Walsh briefed the officials on his meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Walsh said the Palestinians maintain it is difficult for them to conduct negotiations while Israel continues construction in the West Bank. Walsh said the Bush administration is interested to know whether Israel intends to approve any further tenders. The Israeli officials said they understand that this bothers the Palestinians, but the political echelon was not involved in the tender in any way.The donor state conference will seek to raise billions of dollars for PA institutions. Jerusalem sources said Israel wants to preserve the conference as a mechanism to push the political process forward. We want the conference to focus on the positive momentum and not negative issues, said one source. These are crises that have happened and will happen and they should not bring negotiations to a halt each time.
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.
Winter storm hits N.L., as cleanup begins in central, eastern Canada Mon Dec 17, 11:13 AM
By The Canadian Press
HALIFAX - Parts of the Maritimes were paralyzed Monday after a blast of wintry weather forced the closure of schools, made driving treacherous and left thousands of people in the dark. The massive storm, which also heaved near-record amounts of snow on Southern Ontario and Quebec, lashed Newfoundland and Labrador on Monday, where up to 25 centimetres of snow was predicted. Even after the snow, wind and rain subsided in the Maritimes, the wintry blast continued to cause trouble for electricity customers, especially in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. About 3,900 homes and businesses remained without power in New Brunswick by late-morning, mostly in the Moncton and Shediac areas. The province's electric utility said strong winds in the Moncton area were hampering restoration efforts. We restore some customers only to have the wind come along and cause an outage again, NB Power spokeswoman Heather MacLean said in a statement. Nova Scotia Power said it hoped to restore power to about 4,500 customers by Monday afternoon, the vast majority of whom were in Cape Breton and Pictou County. Higher wind gusts were in coastal areas, and that pretty much lines up with where the damage is, said NS Power spokeswoman Margaret Murphy, adding that crews were mostly able to work through the night and restore outages as they occurred.
Schools were also closed in many parts of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick as drivers struggled to deal with the messy mixture of heavy snow and rain. The storm continued to create travel headaches, with whiteouts in some areas and icy roads in others.
Treacherous travel may have played a part in a fatal car crash on slippery roads in Nova Scotia. Police say a 16-year-old boy who was a passenger in one vehicle died at the scene Sunday afternoon on Highway 101 in the Kentville area. The 17-year-old boy who was driving was taken to hospital with serious injuries. Meanwhile, dozens of flights in and out of Halifax's airport had been cancelled since Sunday, stranding thousands of passengers, with disruptions expected to continue well into Monday. The storm hit the Maritime region around midday Sunday, after the heavy weather battered Ontario and Quebec. Darin Borgel, a meteorologist with Environment Canada, said the storm system hit the Maritimes pretty much as predicted. Most people were pretty adequately warned, Borgel said from Dartmouth, N.S. This storm got a lot of attention as it went through Ontario and Quebec ... so I think most people were expecting some pretty nasty conditions here.Across the Maritime provinces, snowfall amounts of between 10 and 20 centimetres were reported before the snow changed over to rain in many places. In northern New Brunswick, however, there was no changeover to rain, meaning a total of 30 centimetres of snow or more by day's end Monday. Wind gusts up to 100 kilometres per hour were typical in the region, although one gust of 165 km/h was reported near Cheticamp in western Cape Breton.
Latest wintry blast lashes U.S. from the Great Lakes to New England Mon Dec 17, 10:21 AM
By David N. Goodman, The Associated Press
DETROIT - A blend of snow, sleet and freezing rain cut visibility and iced over highways from the Great Lakes to New England on the weekend, dumping up to 45 centimetres of snow and stranding air and road travellers. School districts across the region - including Michigan's largest, in Detroit - cancelled Monday classes. Slippery roads were blamed for four weekend deaths in Indiana, two in Michigan and one each in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. AAA Michigan said it helped more than 3,000 motorists Sunday. Most had spun out, got stuck or couldn't start their vehicles, spokeswoman Nancy Cain said. The northern New York state community of Peru received 45 centimetres of snow, whipped up by high winds, the U.S. National Weather Service said. In Michigan, Ann Arbor reported 27 centimetres, while parts of Indiana got up to 36 centimetres of snow. It's winter, said Ann Arbor resident Linda Thelen, 53, as she and her husband dug out their home. I expect a couple of these each year.In Rhode Island, a U.S. Airways Express Flight from Philadelphia carrying 31 passengers and three crew members slid off the runway when it landed at T.F. Green Airport, which got nearly 20 centimetres of snow. No injuries were reported, but the airport had to close its runways for about 2 1/2 hours.
The storm cancelled hundreds of flights at airports in Chicago and about 300 flights at Boston's busy Logan International Airport. Flights were also cancelled at airports in Portland, Maine; Buffalo, N.Y.; and Manchester, N.H. Few major problems - though plenty of delays - were reported at airports in Philadelphia and the New York area, which had braced for plenty of snow but got mostly sleet and rain. Every available plow truck was at work in Vermont, said Reggie Brown, highway department dispatcher in Montpelier. Everybody's out and running, he said. Braving the elements Sunday in New York were fans of teen singer Hannah Montana, whose concert in Rochester drew Jolene Horton and her eight-year-old daughter, Paxtyn Brown. They spent five hours on the road from Schuyler County in the Finger Lakes. "Normally it would have taken 2 1/2 hours, but we wouldn't have missed it for the world, Horton said. The storm also didn't keep fans away from the New England Patriots-New York Jets game at Foxborough, Mass., but they had to shovel off their seats in the stadium. A video of a fire roaring in a fireplace was shown on the scoreboards. The weekend storm came less than a week after an ice storm in the Midwest and Northeast that was blamed for at least 38 deaths, mostly in traffic accidents. Up to a million homes and businesses lost power in parts of Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri. On Monday, Oklahoma utilities said just more than 126,000 customers were still waiting for electricity, most in the Oklahoma City and Tulsa areas.
Among those waiting for service to be restored, Choctaw resident Beverly Smith said her trailer had been without power for seven consecutive days as of Sunday. We don't have anywhere to go, said Smith, who lives with her 15-year-old son. We're out of money. Christmas is nine days away, and I have no hope of giving my family a Christmas all.
Fla. storm overturns cars, damages jail Sun Dec 16, 10:12 AM ET
LAND O' LAKES, Fla. - An apparent tornado demolished a jail building and overturned vehicles early Sunday in central Florida, authorities said. No injuries were reported. The storm was reported about 5:15 a.m. in Pasco County, the National Weather Service said.One of two minimum-security annex buildings at the Pasco County Jail in Land O' Lakes was destroyed, sheriff's spokesman Doug Tobin said. The approximately 125 female inmates it housed had been evacuated moments earlier to the main jail.A few seconds after shutting the door is when that structure basically collapsed, Tobin said.The destroyed building was a temporary structure used to ease overcrowding and designed to withstand winds up to 110 miles per hour, according to a county Web site.
A second annex, housing about 100 male inmates, did not sustain any serious damage, Tobin said. The roof was damaged on the main prison building, which holds about 950 inmates.Pasco County is north of Tampa Bay on Florida's Gulf Coast.
Global donors pledge 7.4 bln dlrs for Palestinians by Christophe de Roquefeuil DEC 17,07
PARIS (AFP) - International donors pledged 7.4 billion dollars to the Palestinians Monday at a conference described by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as the last hope to save their government from bankruptcy. Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad had formally asked donors meeting in Paris for 5.6 billion dollars by 2010 to help fulfil his plan to develop a viable economy for a future state.The real winner is the Palestinian state, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner told AFP as he announced that a total of 7.4 billion dollars (5.15 billion euros) had been promised.The pledges were made at a one-day conference convened to agree a package of aid to stabilise the Palestinian economy and shore up the peace process with Israel -- jumpstarted in the US city of Annapolis last month.
We see this conference as an important vote of confidence on the part of the international community, Fayyad said as the conference wrapped up.But Islamist group Hamas, which seized control of the Gaza Strip in June and was not invited to Paris or the Annapolis meeting, labelled it a dangerous conspiracy aimed at dividing the Palestinians.We support all forms of aid, financial or otherwise, to the Palestinian people. But the Paris conference is coating poison with honey and is a dangerous conspiracy, Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhum said in a statement released in Gaza.Some humanitarian groups questioned the benefit of such a massive aid package.In London, the development charity Oxfam warned donors were pouring cash into a leaking bucket, arguing that aid efforts already in place were being seriously hampered by Israeli restrictions on movement.The challenge is to fix the leak, not pour faster... Due to Israel's movement restrictions and the blockade of Gaza, millions of dollars of aid for Palestinians are being lost, Oxfam's Middle East director Adam Leach said.But Tony Blair, Middle East envoy for the diplomatic Quartet, said the money would be used for building the capacity and the institutions for the (Palestinian) state.Over the next few months what we have got to show to people is that we are capable of making the difference on the ground, he said.Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas had earlier warned the almost 90 delegations that the West Bank and Gaza were facing a total catastrophe without their aid.
Pledges quickly came pouring in with Rice announcing a US donation of 555 million dollars for 2008, including 150 million dollars for budget support.The Palestinian Authority is experiencing a serious budgetary crisis. This conference is literally the government's last hope to avoid bankruptcy, Rice said.The European Commission pledged to donate 650 million dollars in aid for 2008 alone while Britain and Saudi Arabia announced three-year aid packages of 490 million dollars and at least 500 million dollars respectively.
Opening the conference earlier, French President Nicolas Sarkozy pledged 300 million dollars over three years. Germany promised 200 million dollars by 2010 and Sweden offered 300 million dollars in 2007 and 2008.Some 3.4 billion dollars of Monday's pledges was to go to the Palestinians in 2008, the first year of Fayyad's three-year recovery plan, a final statement at the end of the conference said. This support will be essential for accompanying the political process launched in Annapolis at the end of November, the statement added. As the conference kicked off, Abbas urged Israel -- represented by Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni -- to freeze all settlement activity in the Palestinian territories to allow the newly-relaunched peace drive to gain a foothold.
I expect a complete halt of all settlement activities without exception, Abbas said, also calling for the dismantling of 127 wildcat settlements, the lifting of military checkpoints, a halt to construction of the separation barrier and prisoner releases.
Around 70 countries, as well as all the major international organisations, were attending the Conference of Donors for a Palestinian State, a month after Israel and the Palestinians relaunched negotiations frozen for seven years. The takeover of the Gaza Strip by Hamas, which won a majority in 2006 parliamentary elections, effectively split the Palestinian territories in half. Hamas -- pledged to Israel's destruction and shunned by the West -- rules in Gaza, while the Western-backed Abbas controls the West Bank.
DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(WORLD TRADE BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).
GBCORP chief says-Europe-Mideast trade can bridge the cultural divide Moussa Ahmad BI-ME 14 December 2007
BAHRAIN. Mark Hanson, Chief Executive of Bahrain-based Global Banking Corporation (GBCORP), today outlined his vision for increased Middle East-European trade partnerships as an effective method of bridging the two regions’ cultural divides, in his keynote speech to the UCI Global Investor Window conference in London.Hanson was addressing some of the world’s leading investment bankers at London’s Institute of Directors, where he highlighted the increasing potential of Sharia’a-compliant banking products as the key to future financing in the US$4.4 billion UK-GCC trade sector.
The combined GDP of the six GCC member states will reach US$957 billion in 2007, a rapid 100% growth in the past five years, with economists predicting GCC expansion will continue to outpace Western economies in the coming years. This allows the investment banking industry to grasp the opportunities presented by joint Arabian Gulf, UK and European business ventures and, in my experience, trade is the most effective way for cultures to come to greater understanding of one another, commented GBCORP CEO Hanson.While sectors such as energy, real estate, telecommunications and technology continue to represent the majority of the Middle East’s 2,800 major infrastructure projects, significant investment in education and training is creating a region increasingly recognised for the quality of its intellectual capital.There are currently more than 200 UK/Saudi joint ventures with an estimated total investment of US$14.5 billion and foreign investors can own up to 100% of Saudi companies in certain sectors. Bahrain-based companies have invested in the UK for 40 years, taking stakes in the McClaren Formula One racing team, acquiring utility companies and recently bidding for Peacocks, one of the UK’s largest discount fashion retailers.
We live in a world in which negative stereotypes abound, especially when it comes to perceptions of the Middle East. Yet my experiences living and working in predominantly Muslim countries has helped me understand just how outdated and inaccurate so many of these negative images are, continued Hanson. Commercially, the Global Investor Window conference acts as a bridge for potential investors, with more than half of Europe’s 387 million futures contracts traded in the City of London. Culturally, it acts as a bridge between people of different traditions seeking opportunities to work together in pursuit of a greater good.Global Banking Corporation is a fast-growing Islamic investment bank with a global vision. I hope my speech will help convey the potential of Sharia’a-compliant banking and how our team at Global Banking Corporation offers a high-return, Sharia’a-compliant environment, leading investment banking into a new era, added Hanson.
REVELATION 17:2-3
2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.(VATICAN IN POLITICS)
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.(WOMAN=VATICAN)(7HEADS=THE 7 HILLS OF ROME(VATICAN)AND 10 HORNS=10 KINGS FROM THE EU THAT WILL BE WORKING HAND IN GLOVE WITH THE VATICAN.
Israel, Vatican agree to pick up negotiating pace
Jerusalem, Dec. 14, 2007 (CWNews.com) - Israeli and Vatican negotiators promised to accelerate their talks, aimed at finalizing an economic accord, during a meeting in Jerusalem this week. The two sides concluded their latest round of talks on December 13, issuing a statement that said the negotiations had been marked by cordiality, mutual understanding, and good will. The next talks were scheduled for May 2008, to take place in Rome.
Israel and the Holy See have not yet concluded the economic agreement called for by their original agreement struck in 1993, which led to Vatican recognition of Israel. Church spokesmen have indicated a mounting interest in finalizing the long-delayed pact.
ISAIAH 9:6-7
6 For unto us a child is born,(JESUS' FIRST COMING) unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder:(JESUS' 2ND COMING TO RULE AND REIGN) 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,(JERUSALEM) 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.(JERUSALEM BECOMES WORLD CAPITAL)(ALL NATIONS WORSHIP KING JESUS IN JERUSALEM)
THIS IS REDICULAS BUSH REFUSES TO ACKNOWLEDGE JERUSALEM AS THE CAPITAL OF ISRAEL OR THE EMBASSY WOULD BE IN JERUSALEM QUICK. ESCPECIALLY SINCE HE CLAIMS TO BE A CHRISTIAN AND CHRISTIANS KNOW IN THE FUTURE JERUSALEM WILL BE THE WORLD CAPITAL.
Bush delays embassy move Published: 12/14/2007
President Bush extended a delay on moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem for another six months. I hereby determine that it is necessary to protect the national security interests of the United States to suspend for a period of six months the embassy move mandated in a 1995 law, Bush said Wednesday in a memorandum to Condoleezza Rice, the U.S. secretary of state. My administration remains committed to beginning the process of moving our embassy to Jerusalem.Bush and his predecessor, President Clinton, have routinely exercised their prerogative to delay the move, citing the difficulties such an action would impose on Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking.
Blair calls for Palestinian-Israeli action to reach agreement within certain time www.chinaview.cn 2007-12-15 05:30:09
CAIRO, Dec. 14 (Xinhua) -- Mideast Quartet envoy Tony Blair called Friday for an action to reach an political agreement between the Palestinians and Israel within certain time, reported Qatar's al-Jazerra satellite news channel. Blair, who is currently on a tour in the Middle East region seeking to speed up the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, made the call in an interview with al-Jazerra. The Palestinian and Israeli sides should not take any measures that could hinder the final status negotiations, Blair told al-Jazerra. Meanwhile, the former British premier called for international assistance for the Palestinians to build their educational, health and security institutions. The international donors will pledge to support the Palestinians in their conference in Paris next week, during which the donors will grant some 5.6 billion U.S. dollars to Palestinians, Blair hoped.
Earlier on Thursday, Blair expressed his confidence in solving the final-status issues such as the borders of a future Palestinian state, and the fate of Jerusalem and Palestinian refugees, saying they were resolvable if the two sides had confidence in each others' intentions. The real challenge was convincing sceptical Israelis and Palestinians that a peace deal could be reached, he told Israel's Channel 10 television. Negotiators from Israel and the Palestinian National Authority(PNA) held their first meeting of peace negotiations on Wednesday with little progress but an agreement about a next meeting. In the U.S.-sponsored peace conference in Annapolis in late November, PNA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert launched the talks aimed at reaching a statehood agreement next year, before U.S. President George W. Bush leaves office in January 2009.Editor: Mu Xuequan
Report: Hamas to escalate attacks on Israel
Kuwait based Al-Jarida newspaper reports Hamas' Khaled Mashaal met with Iranian officials, asked for backing when organization exacerbates attacks on Israel Roee Nahmias Published: 12.14.07, 13:24 / Israel News
Hamas has asked Iran to allow the organization to escalate its altercations with Israel, carry out more suicide attacks and if need be – threaten kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit with execution, Kuwait's Al-Jarida newspaper reported Friday. The report, citing senior Hamas officials, Hamas politburo chief Khaled Mashaal recently met with a senior Iranian intelligence official, who accompanied Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on his visit to Qatar last week.
Hard Bargain
The two reportedly discussed Hamas' retaliation to a possible large-scale IDF operation in Gaza, which may leave Hamas debilitated. Mashaal, said the report, told the Iranians Hamas will need their political support, as well as Iran and Syria's go-ahead to carry out a series of major attacks on Israel. Al-Jarida further reported that Mashaal told the Iranians Hamas wants to kidnap more Israeli soldiers, as well as threaten Gilad Shalit's well-being in order to stir Israeli public opinion, pressure Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and hinder the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
A FALSE PROPHET COMES FROM THE VATICAN ALSO AT THIS TIME.
REVELATION 13:11-18
11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
REVELATION 17:1-18
1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.
8 The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
13 These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
14 These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.
15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
16 And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
17 For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
WOW THE VATICAN IS CHANGING THE SCENERY OF JESUS' BIRTH. BAD MOVE VATICAN. COULD THIS BE THE START OF THE GODLESS FUTURE VATICAN, ONLY TIME WILL TELL.
Vatican rewrites nativity scene to put baby Jesus in a carpenter's shop By MICHAEL DAY 14:17pm on 15th December 2007
Baby Jesus was not born in a Bethlehem stable but above the carpenter shop owned his father Joseph in Nazareth, according to an unusual nativity scene being prepared by the Vatican. The unconventional depiction that Pope Benedict XVI will see in Saint Peter's Square this Christmas, is supposed reflect a return to the story of the nativity as told by Matthew, according to a Vatican spokesman. In Matthew's Gospel, Joseph's role in events is given greater emphasis. He learns of the impending birth of Jesus in a dream and is told by angel to take Mary to his house in preparation. Both Gospels state however, that Jesus was finally born in Bethlehem near, Jerusalem. And the Vatican says moving Christ's crib is really a way of reflecting the experience of ordinary people.
According Luke's well known version of the nativity, when Mary was due to give birth, she and her husband Joseph travelled 100 miles south from their house in Nazareth to Joseph's ancestral home, Bethlehem, in order to register in a census ordered by Emperor Augustus. Having found no place for themselves in the inn, they lodged in stable where animals were kept. It was here that Mary gave birth to Jesus. An alternative nativity scene is also being prepared in the nearby church of Santa Anna, inside the Leonine Wall. In this scene Jesus's birth is set in the ruins of a Roman aqueduct. It will be a strong representation of the impact poverty had in the time of the Nativity, said parish priest Padre Silvestrini who was responsible for the design.
WW3 THE 3 WAVES THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL
DANIEL 11:40-45
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
The Third and Final Wave of WW3 is when all Nations march to Jerusalem, but JESUS bodily returns to earth and destroys them,sets up his KINGDOM OF RULE FOR 1000 YEARS THEN FOREVER.
Israel: US Report on Iran May Spark War
By LAURIE COPANS – DEC 15,07
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's public security minister warned Saturday that a U.S. intelligence report that said Iran is no longer developing nuclear arms could lead to a regional war that would threaten the Jewish state.In his remarks — Israel's harshest criticism yet of the U.S. report — Avi Dichter said the assessment also cast doubt on American intelligence in general, including information about Palestinian security forces' crackdown on militant groups. The Palestinian action is required as part of a U.S.-backed renewal of peace talks with Israel this month.Dichter cautioned that a refusal to recognize Iran's intentions to build weapons of mass destruction could lead to armed conflict in the Middle East.He compared the possibility of such fighting to a surprise attack on Israel in 1973 by its Arab neighbors, which came to be known in Israel for the Yom Kippur Jewish holy day on which it began.
The American misconception concerning Iran's nuclear weapons is liable to lead to a regional Yom Kippur where Israel will be among the countries that are threatened, Dichter said in a speech in a suburb south of Tel Aviv, according to his spokesman, Mati Gil. Something went wrong in the American blueprint for analyzing the severity of the Iranian nuclear threat.Dichter didn't elaborate on the potential scenario but seemed to imply that a world that let its guard down regarding Iran would be more vulnerable to attack by the Islamic regime.Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert had disputed the U.S. intelligence assessment this month, saying that Iran continues its efforts to obtain components necessary to produce nuclear weapons. Tehran still poses a major threat to the West and the world must stop it, Olmert said.Israel has for years been warning that Iran is working on nuclear weapons and backed the United States in its international efforts to exert pressure on Iran to stop the program. Israel considers Iran a significant threat because of its nuclear ambitions, its long-range missile program and repeated calls by its president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, for the disappearance of Israel.
Iran says its nuclear program is for purely peaceful purposes.
Israel will work to change the American intelligence agencies' view of Iran, said Dichter, a former chief of Israel's Shin Bet secret service agency.A misconception by the world's leading superpower is not just an internal American occurrence, Dichter said.Any future faulty U.S. intelligence on the actions of Palestinian security forces could damage peace efforts, Dichter said.Those same (intelligence) arms in the U.S. are apt to make a mistake and declare that the Palestinians have fulfilled their commitments, which would carry with it very serious consequences from Israel's vantage point, Dichter said.
Africa: EU is Using Bully Tactics to Push Through EPAs
Inter Press Service (Johannesburg)15 December 2007
Aileen Kwa Cape Town
We succumbed, lamented a diplomat from Namibia. We signed on the 12th of December. The pressure was too much. The private sector felt that they would be disproportionately affected. In terms of markets, they would be losing access for beef, grapes, fish and fish products.The political and economic strength of the European Commission (EC) is in itself a threat and a pressure in the negotiations, he explained on condition of anonymity to IPS.When negotiating with a stronger partner, you end up only being on the receiving end. Bully tactics are used with the threat 'you either sign or you don't have the market', he said.Up to the last moment, Namibia's government had tried to resist the pressures from both their own private sector and the EU. Until late last week, trade minister Immanuel Ngatjizeko had categorically stated that the demands the EPA placed on Namibia were not acceptable.
He insisted that the EPA should be helping with regional integration and not to disintegrate the region.We made a lot of mistakes, the diplomat told IPS. There was no proper coordination amongst the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries. The EC has successfully fragmented the ACP, not only in terms of regions, but also within regions.The Southern African Development Community (SADC) consists of 15 countries. While we used to get EU development aid for the region as a whole, now only seven SADC countries (those party to the SADC EPA) will get development aid that is related to the EPAs. This will have ramifications.The intra-SADC free trade area is also supposed to be formalized by 2008. How this will play out, with some countries being signatories to the EPAs while a country such as Angola chose not to sign the EPA, remains to be seen.The Namibian diplomat was quick to add that whilst the country had signed the interim EPA on December 12, it had done so with explicit reservations on certain clauses. If these concerns are not satisfactorily addressed in the next phase of negotiations, then we can say that we are not in a position to ratify the final agreement and opt out. But in the meantime, we need to do other things, such as finding alternative markets.
The problem is that Namibia, Lesotho, Botswana, Swaziland and South Africa have a common customs union -- the Southern African Customs Union (SACU), established in 1910. Lesotho, Botswana and Swaziland have signed the SADC EPA which contains clauses that Namibia is not comfortable with.One of these clauses restricts local content requirements in the manufacturing sector. In order to support local industries, Namibia does not want to abolish any legislation that requires investors to use locally produced inputs. Another clause deals with the freezing of export taxes. The EC does not want ACP countries to put in place export taxes. Namibia, however, wants the freedom to use export taxes to discourage the export of raw materials and to encourage local industries to add value to their products before export.The EC has asked SADC countries to provide it with the same level of market access SADC gives to other significant trade partners. SADC is currently negotiating free trade agreements with India and with the MERCOSUR. MERCOSUR is the Southern Common Market trade area which includes Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay.If more favourable terms of market access are provided in these and other future trade agreements, the same level of liberalization will have to be extended to the European Union (EU).The SADC EPA also states that goods entering any one of the SADC EPA signatories should be allowed to move freely to the other signatory countries. However, SADC has yet to formalize its own regional customs union. There are still issues to be sorted out internally.
In contrast to countries which have caved in and signed the interim EPAs, Senegal in West Africa remains steadfastly opposed to the EPAs. An expert from Senegal, who declined to be named, commented on President Abdoulaye Wade's firm stance taken at the Africa-EU Summit in Lisbon earlier this week.He was simply reflecting the national position. The private sector, civil society, parliament and the opposition are all opposed to the EPAs. To have an EPA right now will create a lot of problems for our economy. It will open our markets to products from the EU, some of which are subsidized, said the Senegalese trade expert.
Senegal is a least developed country. The industry and agricultural sectors are not ready to compete with the EU on a level playing field. In the next phase of EPA negotiations, we would also have to bring in investment, competition and government procurement, issues which have been rejected at the WTO (World Trade Organisation).So the EPAs are WTO-plus. On the other side, in development cooperation, we are not sure that what is on the table can offset any negative liberalization impact, said the expert.He also underscored the problems the EPA poses for the West African region, in particular the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAMU / UMOA). The monetary union consists of eight members -- Senegal, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Mali, Niger, Togo and Guinea-Bissau.Of these, Cote d'Ivoire is the only country which has signed the interim EPA in an attempt to safeguard its banana exports to the EU. The country is the main economic powerhouse within WAMU, accounting for 40 percent of the union's gross domestic product.
According to the Senegalese expert, Cote d'Ivoire's signing of the interim EPA will definitely have an impact on WAMU. Given the high level of economic integration in that region, EU products flowing into Cote d'Ivoire can easily find their way into the other WAMU countries.I don't think they (the EU) did an impact assessment on regional integration, he said.He also underscored the tensions the EPA negotiations have created for the WTO negotiations. They have put the LDCs (least developed countries) in a very bad position in the WTO. Since the 2005 Hong Kong ministerial meeting, LDCs have asked for duty-free and quota-free market access to all developed countries.Under the EPA, the duty-free and quota-free market access is reciprocal. Now other countries will say, 'You have given this to the EU, now you will also have to give me something in return', he said.So there are many unanswered questions and a lot of uncertainty, he concluded.Kenya has also signed an EPA, together with others from the East African Community. A trade diplomat from Nairobi, alluding to the threats the EPAs pose for Africa, summed the position up in the following way: They say love is blind. This must be real love because we are going along without knowing where we are going.
Kenyan civil society groups are working hard to make the EPAs a major issue in Kenya's national elections taking place later this month.According to Ezekiel Mpapale of the Initiatives for Community and Enterprise Development, One of the things we are doing is to make sure that Dr Mukhisa Kituyi (the current trade and industry minister) is not re-elected. We think he has betrayed us Kenyans.
MUSLIM NATIONS
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
EZEKIEL 39:1-8
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
Hamas supporters rally to show strength By IBRAHIM BARZAK, Associated Press Writer
Sat Dec 15, 3:08 PM ET
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Palestinians flooded the streets of the Gaza Strip Saturday in the biggest show of support for Hamas since the Islamic militants seized the territory in June. Leader Ismail Haniyeh vowed in speeches on the 20th anniversary of the movement's founding that Hamas will not compromise its hardline views despite growing isolation, poverty and popular support for the rival West Bank government of President Mahmoud Abbas.Since Hamas wrested control from Abbas' Fatah forces, Gaza's 1.5 million residents have been virtually cut off from the outside world, with Israel and Egypt refusing to fully reopen crossings with the coastal territory. Unemployment has risen to about 50 percent, forcing poverty up to 75 percent, Palestinian officials say.The message from you today is that Hamas and these masses will not yield before the sanctions, Haniyeh told the cheering onlookers who waved green Islamic flags at the rally in Gaza City.
The crowd shouted in response, To you we come, Haniyeh!
Haniyeh lambasted the renewal of peace talks between Israel and Abbas' administration in the United States last month, warning they will not bring about a cessation of Israeli settlement construction on disputed land or yield any other Israeli concessions.As for the fruits of the other track, the track of negotiations, normalization and bargaining, all can see that it is the consolidating of settlements ... injustice and oppression for the Palestinian people, Haniyeh said. It is bitter fruits.The Hamas leader warned Abbas against conceding in peace talks on the Palestinian demand that refugees who fled past wars with Israel and their descendants be allowed to return to their homes. Their fate is a key sticking point in the talks that are meant to iron out a final peace agreement.There is no such thing as a just solution to the right of return, Haniyeh said. It is the right of every refugee ... to return to the land.The throngs of Hamas supporters gathered in a sandy lot and along nearby streets. There appeared to be several thousand more people than attended a rally by backers of Hamas' rival, Fatah, who gathered on the same spot in November in what was seen as a major challenge to Hamas. That rally, which an Associated Press reporter estimated at more than 250,000 people, ended in mayhem with Hamas police opening fire and protesters hurling rocks or running for cover. Seven civilians were killed and dozens were wounded in the violence between Palestinian factions.
This is the real referendum on the popularity of resistance, the people converging behind Hamas, said Zayed Herzallah, a 28-year old merchant, who brought a van full of young relatives Saturday. Hamas today, after 20 years and after thousands of martyrs, is graduating the fourth generation (of supporters).Large pictures of Hamas leaders, both in Gaza and in exile, were draped across the speakers' podium. A black banner hanging from a nearby building read, in Arabic, English and French: We will not recognize Israel.
In the crowd were dozens of members of the Hamas military wing, among them armed men carrying replicas of homemade Qassam rockets. Some 50 female members of the military wing also marched, dressed in long robes and sporting military-style ammunition vests. Some covered their faces with veils, others with ski masks.In an anniversary message to Hamas TV, the group's top leader in exile, Khaled Mashaal, said Hamas will not abandon violence.This is our real choice, our trump card, which causes the enemy to succumb to us, he said.He said Abbas does not have the mandate to negotiate with Israel.Our people are able to launch a third and fourth uprising until the dawn of victory arrives, he warned.After the Hamas takeover, Abbas set up a moderate government in the West Bank, winning strong international support and opening the way to the resumption of peace talks with Israel last week.
In his speech, Haniyeh rejected Abbas' conditions for negotiations between the rival movements, including that Hamas give up its power in Gaza. Hamas was founded in Gaza in December 1987, after the outbreak of the first Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation. It is an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, which was founded in Egypt and is seen as the mother of all fundamentalist factions in the Arab Sunni world. Abbas' government was hoping on Monday at an international conference in Paris to receive pledges toward its goal of raising $5.6 billion over three years to bolster its economy. The United States said Friday it will pledge about $500 million. Donors warned that unless Israel eases physical and administrative obstacles, the money may go to waste.
From 2004 to 2009
16 December 2007 - Issue : 760
And while the discussions on the quasi-Constitution were the main issue of the December 14 summit in Brussels, President Jose Barroso was acting to capitalise on the signature of the new Treaty and secure a new appointment as Commission president in 2009. Mr. Barroso has been able to maintain a pretty good equilibrium in Euro-American relations and this is one of his major assets in his present mandate.
The chances for Mr. Barroso to get the job are substantial after the Spanish and the Italians refused to consider former British prime minister Tony Blair for the position. The basic arguments of those who align with Spain and Italy are the facts that Britain had not approved the Constitutional Treaty, does not participate in the Eurozone and has not signed the Schenghen agreement. Furthermore, they consider Mr. Blair’s dependence on Washington excessive and claim that dragging the United Kingdom into the Iraq war was a major political mistake that also reflects on Europe. Alternatively to Mr. Barroso’s reappointment, Germany, Italy and Belgium are considering for the position of President of the European Commission or to one of the best qualified for the new position of Foreign Minister of the EU the Prime Minister of Luxembourg Jean Claude Junker.
For the position of Foreign Minister, the case of former Italian Prime Minister Massimo Dalema is also being discussed and Italy is emphasising his role in the Lebanon and Afghanistan crises, but both the UK and USA along with their followers are contrary to such a possibility, for his particular relations with Hezbollah. Candidates for the position of the Foreign Minister are also considered to be German Socialist Frank Walter-Steinmeier, the Conservatives Swedish Carl Bildt and the Austrian Ursula Plassnik. A strong candidate for the position of Foreign Minister, however, remains the present High Representative Javier Solana, an all-color Spanish politician with a meteoric career who enjoys the full support of the Spanish Prime Minister Rodriguez Zappatero, other Socialist governments as well as the British and Americans. Mr. Solana, began his career from the extra-Parliamentary Spanish communists, where he was leading street demonstrations against the US Torejon military base. He became Foreign Minister of Spain with the Socialists, subsequently was appointed Secretary General of NATO responsible after bombing Serbia with Depleted Uranium Ordinance for becoming after Council’s High Representative. A high political position in the European making will be reserved by Germany to the President of the European Parliament Hans Didriech Poetering who in 2009 it is highly likely to be replaced in the two-and-a-half year rotation by the rising Socialist star Mr. Martin Schulz.
In the European Parliament, the European People’s Party, after the addition of the Romanians and the enrollment of the British MEP Saj Karim who left the declining ALDE group to join EPP, emerge stronger. In the next Parliament, the number of MEPs will be reduced from 785 to 751. In 2009, the Tories EPP is likely to suffer a major loss with the British Tories under Mr. David Cameron planning to withdraw from EPP and form their own group. This is a logical development given the ultra Eurosceptical stance of the Tories under Mr. Cameron, which are vertically opposite to that of the European People’s Party. EPP was crucial in the selection of Mr. Barroso to President of the Commission in 2004, an appointment which was the result of a compromise thanks to the efforts of EPP President Wilfried Martens and Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis who made the mediations for the compromise.
Greece, despite its endemic problems, as a result of 20 years of socialist mal administration, is taking major steps in sustaining European policies, in particular Greece’s enhanced relations with Russia in matters of energy and pipelines, which are crucial for Europe. The bottom line is, in 2007, The EU-27 proved more active and more involved in world affairs in all serious issues starting with, but not limited to, climate change, and strengthened its relations and presence in Africa, China and Latin America, proving a world player. The most important political changes in Europe during 2007 were the election of Mr. Nicolas Sarkozy to the French presidency with the redefinition of Franco-German relations, the French opening to the United States and the new French business approach to world markets, which reflects Europe’s performance in matters of international trade.
The fallout from The Sarkozy election came at the just-concluded European Summit marking the finale of The Portuguese Presidency in Brussels where the leaders decided to put up a face-saving agreement with the launch of Reflection Group, headed by Spain’s former premier Felipe Gonzalez, with Latvia’s former president Vaira Vike-Freiberga and Nokia chairman Jorma Ollila as his deputies. According to reliable sources, the two deputies were inducted to get a consensus and avoid collapse of talks, thus weakening the very purpose for which the group was launched.
Putting Turkish membership onto the agenda without naming Turkey is the sticking point in the mandate for the group to take into account likely developments within and outside Europe and examine in particular how the stability and prosperity of both the Union and of the wider region might best be served.
Livni to try to prevent Quartet condemnation of East Jerusalem construction By Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondent
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni will try in the coming days to avoid Quartet condemnation of Israel over its decision to build new homes in a controversial East Jerusalem neighborhood. The so-called Quartet of Middle East negotiators ? the United States, European Union, Russia, and the United Nations ? are expected to meet at the foreign minister level on the sidelines of Monday's conference of Palestinian Authority donor states in Paris, France.
According to information obtained by the Foreign Ministry, the Palestinians are pushing for the Quartet to issue a statement condemnation of Israel's decision to build some 300 new homes in Har Homa. Senior Israeli officials held contacts Thursday and Friday with representatives of the Quartet members, in an attempt to calm concerns and reduce the international criticism of Israel.
Livni met Thursday with the new UN special envoy to the Middle East, Robert Serry, who according to diplomatic sources expressed concern over the planned construction.
Serry warned the construction could hamper negotiations. Livni for her part sought to clarify that the construction is legal, and that the approval does not represent a change in the government's policy on settlement construction. Israeli officials also met with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State David Walsh, in which Walsh briefed the officials on his meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Walsh said the Palestinians maintain it is difficult for them to conduct negotiations while Israel continues construction in the West Bank. Walsh said the Bush administration is interested to know whether Israel intends to approve any further tenders. The Israeli officials said they understand that this bothers the Palestinians, but the political echelon was not involved in the tender in any way.The donor state conference will seek to raise billions of dollars for PA institutions. Jerusalem sources said Israel wants to preserve the conference as a mechanism to push the political process forward. We want the conference to focus on the positive momentum and not negative issues, said one source. These are crises that have happened and will happen and they should not bring negotiations to a halt each time.
Sunday, December 16, 2007
70 COUNTRIES AT DONOR SUMMIT
I wrote a comment to a story on Haaretz. If you want to read the story and leave your own comment go to link below.
Last update - 21:10 13/12/2007
Document shows progress on core issues at Camp David summit
By Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondent
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/934110.html
MY COMMENT TO THE STORY
Well in my take on Bible Prophecy it says the 3RD TEMPLE has to be rebuilt before the final 7 year treaty of Daniels 70TH WEEK (Dan 9:24-27). In Daniel 9:26 it says the Romans (THE EU) will make this final treaty not the (U.S.A). In Daniel 9:27 it has to be a 7 year contract and the European Union has to Guarentee Israels security. (Daniel 8;23-25, Daniel 11;36-39). So I believe the EU will take control of the Peace process Bring Nato troops into Israel to Guarentee their security. I believe the Vatican will be given control of the Holy sites since the VATICAN and the EU will be working in unison in the MIDEAST. I believe in the final status talks ISRAEL will be able to rebuild their 3RD TEMPLE by the dome of the Spirits (all kinds of room their) and it will not destroy the dome of the rock. THE EU will then some time in the very near future sign the 7 yr treaty to usher in the 70TH WEEK of Daniel 9:24 and the final 7 years before the MESSIAH comes to the Mount of Olives. Zech 14:4.
GENESIS 11:1-9 King James Bible
1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.(today with interprters the world is one language again).
2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.
4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.(notice the words let us)(todays world leaders, judges and men in power say let us also do our will not GODS WILL.)
5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.(God warns us here once every nation is in unison no Sin will be out of mind. The world will deny theres a God and will think they have all the answers. Sounds like this Generation to me.
7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.(When Jesus returns to earth he will once again stop the Sinners and bring in righteousness to the World.)
9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
THE ISRAELIS BELIEVE GOD SPLIT THE NATIONS OF THE EARTH INTO 70 NATIONS AND LANGUAGES. THIS IS INTERESTING THAT THE NEW WORLD ORDER (ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT IS COMING TOGETHER AND 70 NATIONS WILL BE AT THIS DONOR SUMMIT. AND SINCE THE BIBLE SAYS THE EU WILL LEAD THIS WORLD GOVERNMENT. BIBLE PROPHECY IS QUICKLY COMING TO PASS LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS WOULD HAPPEN. THE CULMINATION OF PROPHECY WILL BE LIKE A WOMAN IN LABOUR, THE PAIN STARTS OUT MINUTES BETWEEN LABOUR PAINS UNTIL WHEN THE CHILD COMES OUT THE PAIN IS INTENSE AND CONSTANT. THIS IS HOW LAST DAYS PROPHECIES WILL BE COMING TO PASS AFTER ISRAEL IS IN THEIR OWN LAND AND RECAPTURED JERUSALEM AS THEIR CAPITAL. SINCE 67 TILL NOW HAS BEEN 40 YRS A BIBLE GENERATION, AND THE BIBLE CLEARLY SAYS ALL PROPHECIES OF THE BIBLE WILL BE COMPLETED IN THE LAST GENERATION TO SEE ISRAEL IN THEIR OWN LAND AND IN CONTROL OF JERUSALEM. ITS NO ACCIDENT THAT JERUSALEM IS BEING DIVIDED TO CAUSE WW3 TO OCCUR BECAUSE THE BIBLE HAS TO BE FULFILLED IN THIS FINAL GENERATION AND USHER IN THE MESSIAHS (JESUS) RETURN TO EARTH BODILY ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES WERE HE WAS TAKEN TO HEAVEN AFTER HIS RESURRECTION.
70 Nations at Day-Long Conference for Palestinian Stateby Hillel Fendel DEC 16,07
(IsraelNN.com) Representatives of some 70 nations and another 20 international delegations will convene in Paris on Monday in a one-day Conference of Donors for a Palestinian State. The goal is to raise hundreds of millions of dollars, or more, on behalf of a Palestinian state adjoining, crowding - and threatening - the State of Israel. The event is being held as a continuation of sorts of last month's Annapolis Summit, at which Israel and the Palestinian Authority agreed to begin final-status talks. The agreement flew in the face of the U.S.-sponsored Road Map plan, which specified that the PA must stop anti-Israel terrorism from within the areas under its control before final-status talks could begin.Among the international representatives taking part in the Monday conference in Paris are UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, and Israel's Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni. Quartet Middle East peace envoy Tony Blair, who recently stepped down as Britain's Prime Minister, will co-chair the event. Participating organizations include the European Commission, the Arab League, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and European and Arab financial funds. All 27 members of the European Union will be represented, as will be Middle East countries, the Group of Eight industrialized nations, Brazil, China, India and Norway.
Houses for Arabs - But Not for Jews
PA chairman Mahmud Abbas, who also heads the Fatah terrorist organization, is seeking $5.6 billion dollars over the coming three years for various needs of a state-in-the-making. Among them are thousands of Arab housing units to be built throughout Judea and Samaria - to which Israel has already reportedly agreed.
At the same time, Israel has imposed a ban - under American pressure - on Jewish construction in these areas.The PA is asking for money for development projects for education, health, business, and more. Some 30-40% of the projects are to be in Hamas-controlled Gaza, with guarantees to ensure that the funds do not reach Hamas. Such guarantees have been only partially effective in the past. Analysts expect a common thread to run through many of the speeches at the conference: Pressure and demands upon Israel to remove security checkpoints in Judea and Samaria. This, despite the fact that they actually aid the PA in fulfilling its commitment to fight terrorism; Israeli soldiers frequently detect would-be terrorists who attempt to smuggle weapons or explosives into Israel via the checkpoints.
The Dangers of a Palestinian State
Though it is the position of world opinion, the Bush Administration and Prime Minister Olmert's government that a Palestinian state is necessary, many analysts feel otherwise. Objections include military, religious and political considerations. Even Shimon Peres, in his book, Tomorrow is Now, resounding opposed a Palestinian state, writing, During a war, the borders of the Palestinian state will serve as an ideal springboard for mobile forces to immediately breach Israeli defenses towards the infrastructure vital to Israel's existence, to limit the freedom of action of the Israeli Air Force in Israeli skies, and to shed the population's blood through masses of artillery positions proximity to the border. In the absence of defensible borders, Israel will be annihilated in a war.Yitzchak Rabin wrote in his memoirs, Palestine will rise upon the ruins of the State of Israel.Shmuel Katz, co-founder of the Herut Party with Menachem Begin and an MK of the First Knesset, wrote, If the Arabs were given a state in a part of Palestine, they would surely accept it as the next of the 'phases' for attaining the rest of the country – which they have been forecasting for years. It would inevitably make a serious contribution to the grievous weakening of Israel, strategically and politically. It is illusory in the extreme – and shockingly misleading – to suggest that it will bring peace.
Last update - 21:10 13/12/2007
Document shows progress on core issues at Camp David summit
By Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondent
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/934110.html
MY COMMENT TO THE STORY
Well in my take on Bible Prophecy it says the 3RD TEMPLE has to be rebuilt before the final 7 year treaty of Daniels 70TH WEEK (Dan 9:24-27). In Daniel 9:26 it says the Romans (THE EU) will make this final treaty not the (U.S.A). In Daniel 9:27 it has to be a 7 year contract and the European Union has to Guarentee Israels security. (Daniel 8;23-25, Daniel 11;36-39). So I believe the EU will take control of the Peace process Bring Nato troops into Israel to Guarentee their security. I believe the Vatican will be given control of the Holy sites since the VATICAN and the EU will be working in unison in the MIDEAST. I believe in the final status talks ISRAEL will be able to rebuild their 3RD TEMPLE by the dome of the Spirits (all kinds of room their) and it will not destroy the dome of the rock. THE EU will then some time in the very near future sign the 7 yr treaty to usher in the 70TH WEEK of Daniel 9:24 and the final 7 years before the MESSIAH comes to the Mount of Olives. Zech 14:4.
GENESIS 11:1-9 King James Bible
1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.(today with interprters the world is one language again).
2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.
4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.(notice the words let us)(todays world leaders, judges and men in power say let us also do our will not GODS WILL.)
5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.(God warns us here once every nation is in unison no Sin will be out of mind. The world will deny theres a God and will think they have all the answers. Sounds like this Generation to me.
7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.(When Jesus returns to earth he will once again stop the Sinners and bring in righteousness to the World.)
9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
THE ISRAELIS BELIEVE GOD SPLIT THE NATIONS OF THE EARTH INTO 70 NATIONS AND LANGUAGES. THIS IS INTERESTING THAT THE NEW WORLD ORDER (ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT IS COMING TOGETHER AND 70 NATIONS WILL BE AT THIS DONOR SUMMIT. AND SINCE THE BIBLE SAYS THE EU WILL LEAD THIS WORLD GOVERNMENT. BIBLE PROPHECY IS QUICKLY COMING TO PASS LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS WOULD HAPPEN. THE CULMINATION OF PROPHECY WILL BE LIKE A WOMAN IN LABOUR, THE PAIN STARTS OUT MINUTES BETWEEN LABOUR PAINS UNTIL WHEN THE CHILD COMES OUT THE PAIN IS INTENSE AND CONSTANT. THIS IS HOW LAST DAYS PROPHECIES WILL BE COMING TO PASS AFTER ISRAEL IS IN THEIR OWN LAND AND RECAPTURED JERUSALEM AS THEIR CAPITAL. SINCE 67 TILL NOW HAS BEEN 40 YRS A BIBLE GENERATION, AND THE BIBLE CLEARLY SAYS ALL PROPHECIES OF THE BIBLE WILL BE COMPLETED IN THE LAST GENERATION TO SEE ISRAEL IN THEIR OWN LAND AND IN CONTROL OF JERUSALEM. ITS NO ACCIDENT THAT JERUSALEM IS BEING DIVIDED TO CAUSE WW3 TO OCCUR BECAUSE THE BIBLE HAS TO BE FULFILLED IN THIS FINAL GENERATION AND USHER IN THE MESSIAHS (JESUS) RETURN TO EARTH BODILY ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES WERE HE WAS TAKEN TO HEAVEN AFTER HIS RESURRECTION.
70 Nations at Day-Long Conference for Palestinian Stateby Hillel Fendel DEC 16,07
(IsraelNN.com) Representatives of some 70 nations and another 20 international delegations will convene in Paris on Monday in a one-day Conference of Donors for a Palestinian State. The goal is to raise hundreds of millions of dollars, or more, on behalf of a Palestinian state adjoining, crowding - and threatening - the State of Israel. The event is being held as a continuation of sorts of last month's Annapolis Summit, at which Israel and the Palestinian Authority agreed to begin final-status talks. The agreement flew in the face of the U.S.-sponsored Road Map plan, which specified that the PA must stop anti-Israel terrorism from within the areas under its control before final-status talks could begin.Among the international representatives taking part in the Monday conference in Paris are UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, and Israel's Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni. Quartet Middle East peace envoy Tony Blair, who recently stepped down as Britain's Prime Minister, will co-chair the event. Participating organizations include the European Commission, the Arab League, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and European and Arab financial funds. All 27 members of the European Union will be represented, as will be Middle East countries, the Group of Eight industrialized nations, Brazil, China, India and Norway.
Houses for Arabs - But Not for Jews
PA chairman Mahmud Abbas, who also heads the Fatah terrorist organization, is seeking $5.6 billion dollars over the coming three years for various needs of a state-in-the-making. Among them are thousands of Arab housing units to be built throughout Judea and Samaria - to which Israel has already reportedly agreed.
At the same time, Israel has imposed a ban - under American pressure - on Jewish construction in these areas.The PA is asking for money for development projects for education, health, business, and more. Some 30-40% of the projects are to be in Hamas-controlled Gaza, with guarantees to ensure that the funds do not reach Hamas. Such guarantees have been only partially effective in the past. Analysts expect a common thread to run through many of the speeches at the conference: Pressure and demands upon Israel to remove security checkpoints in Judea and Samaria. This, despite the fact that they actually aid the PA in fulfilling its commitment to fight terrorism; Israeli soldiers frequently detect would-be terrorists who attempt to smuggle weapons or explosives into Israel via the checkpoints.
The Dangers of a Palestinian State
Though it is the position of world opinion, the Bush Administration and Prime Minister Olmert's government that a Palestinian state is necessary, many analysts feel otherwise. Objections include military, religious and political considerations. Even Shimon Peres, in his book, Tomorrow is Now, resounding opposed a Palestinian state, writing, During a war, the borders of the Palestinian state will serve as an ideal springboard for mobile forces to immediately breach Israeli defenses towards the infrastructure vital to Israel's existence, to limit the freedom of action of the Israeli Air Force in Israeli skies, and to shed the population's blood through masses of artillery positions proximity to the border. In the absence of defensible borders, Israel will be annihilated in a war.Yitzchak Rabin wrote in his memoirs, Palestine will rise upon the ruins of the State of Israel.Shmuel Katz, co-founder of the Herut Party with Menachem Begin and an MK of the First Knesset, wrote, If the Arabs were given a state in a part of Palestine, they would surely accept it as the next of the 'phases' for attaining the rest of the country – which they have been forecasting for years. It would inevitably make a serious contribution to the grievous weakening of Israel, strategically and politically. It is illusory in the extreme – and shockingly misleading – to suggest that it will bring peace.
Saturday, December 15, 2007
THE RUSSIAN BUILDUP
MUSLIM NATIONS
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
EZEKIEL 39:1-8
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
Russian Mediterranean Naval Build-Up Challenges NATO Sixth Fleet Domination David Eshel
This week witnessed a great thrust by Russia to demonstrate its military strength, when Russian President Vladimir Putin alarmed Europe by finally declaring Russia's official rejection of the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe Treaty (CFE), (the treaty entered into force on July 17, 1992 limiting the number of combat elements that Russia could deploy along its borders with Europe). Immediately following this declaration, Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov announced sending a sortie of six Russian warships to the Mediterranean, led by the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier. Other vessels escorting the carrier as part of the task force are Admiral Levchenko and Admiral Chabanenko anti-submarine ships, and the Sergei Osipov and Nikolai Chiker support ships. The group is expected to be joined by the flagship Moskva a guided missile cruiser and four additional ships as it arrives in the Mediterranean.
This will be the first prolonged stay of a Russian carrier to the eastern Mediterranean in waters dominated with regular patrolled by the US Sixth Fleet and in vicinity of Israel’s shores. On its decks Admiral Kuznetsov carries 47 warplanes (mostly Su-33) and 10 helicopters. The Russian Black Sea Fleet contingent, which has already set out for its new mission from Sevastopol, will rely on the naval facilities at Syria’s Tartous port. Its presence for several months will be a complication for the Israel navy’s operations opposite the Lebanese and Syrian coasts, especially if the Russians could be joined at Tartous by Iranian extended Kilo class submarines armed with the Russian-made Sizzler Klub-S (3M54) missile, as some unofficial Israeli sources reported. The Rusian Kuznetsov carrier group will conduct three tactical exercises, including real and simulated launch of missiles, said Serdyukov, adding 11 port visits are expected to be made. Sending such powerful Russian warships onto the Mediterranean, for any amount of time, is no small matter. With the Mediterranean having been a NATO lake for the past 15 years, since the demise of the Soviet Union, the simple presence of a naval Russian force will require reviewed strategy and tactics of many of western and Israeli navies.
But making matters even more complicated for NATO, the Kremlin has also decided to send a sortie of warships to the northeastern Atlantic. No less that eleven vessels from the Northern Fleet have set sail on a range of voyages that will cover much of the globe. Extending to more than 12,000 miles they are scheduled to enter ports of six countries in 71 days.
In the latest twist to worsening East-West relations, NATO submarines and surface ships, which may include Royal Navy vessels, are already engaged in trying to gather information on the new Amur stealth class boat, being secretly tested by the Russian Navy in the Baltic. Adding to this greater-than-normal scrutiny effort is in part, a response to Russia's recent decision to resume long-range bomber flights close, or even penetrating into NATO airspace, which has revived memories of Cold War confrontation between the two blocs. In fact, twice during last summer, Russian Tu-95 Bear nuclear bombers have been spotted heading towards British airspace off Scotland, prompting the RAF to send fast reaction interceptors to head them off.
The prospect of Russia reactivating its cold war naval bases in Syria's Tartus and Latakia ports, could have a most dramatic strategic impact. High-profile air defense missiles and surveillance systems deployment around any Russian-manned installations in Syrian ports, might also shift the military balance to Israel's disadvantage, or even threaten a clash between Israel and Russian forces, as happened during the later stages of the so-called War of Attrition in 1970, along the Suez Canal.
The Russian Black Sea fleet's 720th Logistics Support Point at Tartus has been in disuse since 1991, when the Soviet Union imploded. Yet it remains the only Russian military base outside the post-Soviet Commonwealth of Independent States territory. Last year Russia reportedly dredged Tartus and began building a new dock at Latakia. The Syrian ports are invaluable for the Russian navy as an alternative naval base, provided that their security could be assured, by a viable air defense barrier - The Moskva with 64 SN-A-6 missiles on board (navalized S-300) will be able to provide such capability
Israeli analysts believe that the present and rather unprecedented Russian strategic decision - sending such an impressive naval sortie into the eastern Mediterranean - could have resulted from Israel's still mysterious foray into Syrian air defense, during the air strike on an alleged nuclear development or weapon assembly site. According to Aviation Week - who interviewed the retired Brigadier General Pinchas Burchris, director general of Israel's Ministry of Defense, before the Israeli fighter aircraft ingress, a main Syrian radar site was struck with a combination of electronic attack and precision weapons, causing complete black-out of the entire Syrian air defense system which relied exclusively on Russian produced and installed equipment. Aviation Week claims this event may have been one of the first examples of offensive and defensive network attacks that included higher-level, non-tactical network penetrations.
No precise information, nor confirmation of the AW&ST report was released by Israeli official authorities, but the very fact that non-stealth jet fighters managed to enter unscathed into the highly sophisticated Russian supplied air defense barrier, built painstakingly during decades, since the 1973 Yom Kippur War, speaks for itself. It certainly must have caused Moscow considerable embarrassment, over the lack of performance of their latest sophisticated air defense systems sold for hard cash to Mid Eastern Muslim nations. But not embarrassment alone, painful as it was, could have triggered Moscow to such a rapid reaction. The Russian navy is under growing pressure from Ukraine to withdraw the Black Sea Fleet from its traditional deployment at Sevastopol by 2017. Some recent incidents has sharpened this into, sofar minor, clashes with local elements, but the warnings are out in clear: get out - you are no longer wanted here!
The Kiev Post noted that the Black Sea fleet's lease on its Sevastopol base is hostage to Ukraine's volatile relations with Moscow - which will expire in 2017, necessitating a renegotiation or withdrawal. The Russian Black Sea Fleet base already boosted security at its navigational facilities, amid a dispute with Ukraine authorities, over a lighthouse, linked to the fleet in the Crimean city of Yalta. The Russian move came after Ukraine threatened to take over all the navigational facilities of the Black Sea Fleet. The dispute emerged when the staff of a Ukrainian state company seized the lighthouse and denied Russian servicemen access to the lighthouse.
All this would render the Syrian ports invaluable for an alternative naval base, provided that their security could be assured, by a viable air defense barrier, safeguarding them from any future Israeli, or US attack, or even surveillance activities. Bolstering such an air defense can be enhanced by the long-term presence in off-shore deployment of high-profile warships, mounting sophisticated airpower (Su-33 fighters) and air defense armament, such as the Admiral Kuznetsov's 3K95 Kinzhal missile system, the navalized version of the TOR and the Slava class Moskva's SA-N-6 Grumble navalized version of the S-300 (SA-10).
Another aspect of the new Russian Med deployment is intelligence. Israeli electronic warfare experts warn that the presence of a strong Russian naval force, most likely based in the Syrian port of Tartus, would represent a significant strengthening of Russian intelligence gathering capabilities in the region. The Russian navy is considered to have high-quality electronic equipment capable of observing new weapons systems and intercepting communications, which could become high-value assets to Syria and Iran. Russian intelligence maintained constant presence for several decades in international waters, where listening ships, camouflaged as fishing boats were positioned continuously off the Israeli coast, gathering electronic and communications. This activity continued at least through the 1990s.
Whatever the latest Russian foray might signal, one thing is clear, the Mediterranean will soon become a new 'Cold War' type contest between Western and Russian navies, which will heat up substantially once the new Russian fourth generation Project 955 Borey class submarines, armed with Bulava missiles also enter into the fray.
WW3 THE 3 WAVES THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL
DANIEL 11:40-45
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
The Third and Final Wave of WW3 is when all Nations march to Jerusalem, but JESUS bodily returns to earth and destroys them,sets up his KINGDOM OF RULE FOR 1000 YEARS THEN FOREVER.
2ND WAVE CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL
REVELATION 16:12
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.(THIS IS THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY,THEY CROSS OVER).
DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(IRAQ-SYRIA)
15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE USED.
ISAIAH 66:15-18
15 For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
16 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
17 They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.
18 For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.
ISAIAH 26:21
21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.(WW3,1/2 earths population die).
ISAIAH 13:6-13 KJV
6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:(FROM FRIGHT)
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
ISAIAH 24:17-23 KJV
17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
2 TIMOTHY 3:1
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.
JOEL 2:20,30
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.
EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
REVELATION 9:18
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.
HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
LUKE 17:34-37
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten by the birds).
MATTHEW 24:37-51
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
EZEKIEL 39:1-8
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
Russian Mediterranean Naval Build-Up Challenges NATO Sixth Fleet Domination David Eshel
This week witnessed a great thrust by Russia to demonstrate its military strength, when Russian President Vladimir Putin alarmed Europe by finally declaring Russia's official rejection of the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe Treaty (CFE), (the treaty entered into force on July 17, 1992 limiting the number of combat elements that Russia could deploy along its borders with Europe). Immediately following this declaration, Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov announced sending a sortie of six Russian warships to the Mediterranean, led by the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier. Other vessels escorting the carrier as part of the task force are Admiral Levchenko and Admiral Chabanenko anti-submarine ships, and the Sergei Osipov and Nikolai Chiker support ships. The group is expected to be joined by the flagship Moskva a guided missile cruiser and four additional ships as it arrives in the Mediterranean.
This will be the first prolonged stay of a Russian carrier to the eastern Mediterranean in waters dominated with regular patrolled by the US Sixth Fleet and in vicinity of Israel’s shores. On its decks Admiral Kuznetsov carries 47 warplanes (mostly Su-33) and 10 helicopters. The Russian Black Sea Fleet contingent, which has already set out for its new mission from Sevastopol, will rely on the naval facilities at Syria’s Tartous port. Its presence for several months will be a complication for the Israel navy’s operations opposite the Lebanese and Syrian coasts, especially if the Russians could be joined at Tartous by Iranian extended Kilo class submarines armed with the Russian-made Sizzler Klub-S (3M54) missile, as some unofficial Israeli sources reported. The Rusian Kuznetsov carrier group will conduct three tactical exercises, including real and simulated launch of missiles, said Serdyukov, adding 11 port visits are expected to be made. Sending such powerful Russian warships onto the Mediterranean, for any amount of time, is no small matter. With the Mediterranean having been a NATO lake for the past 15 years, since the demise of the Soviet Union, the simple presence of a naval Russian force will require reviewed strategy and tactics of many of western and Israeli navies.
But making matters even more complicated for NATO, the Kremlin has also decided to send a sortie of warships to the northeastern Atlantic. No less that eleven vessels from the Northern Fleet have set sail on a range of voyages that will cover much of the globe. Extending to more than 12,000 miles they are scheduled to enter ports of six countries in 71 days.
In the latest twist to worsening East-West relations, NATO submarines and surface ships, which may include Royal Navy vessels, are already engaged in trying to gather information on the new Amur stealth class boat, being secretly tested by the Russian Navy in the Baltic. Adding to this greater-than-normal scrutiny effort is in part, a response to Russia's recent decision to resume long-range bomber flights close, or even penetrating into NATO airspace, which has revived memories of Cold War confrontation between the two blocs. In fact, twice during last summer, Russian Tu-95 Bear nuclear bombers have been spotted heading towards British airspace off Scotland, prompting the RAF to send fast reaction interceptors to head them off.
The prospect of Russia reactivating its cold war naval bases in Syria's Tartus and Latakia ports, could have a most dramatic strategic impact. High-profile air defense missiles and surveillance systems deployment around any Russian-manned installations in Syrian ports, might also shift the military balance to Israel's disadvantage, or even threaten a clash between Israel and Russian forces, as happened during the later stages of the so-called War of Attrition in 1970, along the Suez Canal.
The Russian Black Sea fleet's 720th Logistics Support Point at Tartus has been in disuse since 1991, when the Soviet Union imploded. Yet it remains the only Russian military base outside the post-Soviet Commonwealth of Independent States territory. Last year Russia reportedly dredged Tartus and began building a new dock at Latakia. The Syrian ports are invaluable for the Russian navy as an alternative naval base, provided that their security could be assured, by a viable air defense barrier - The Moskva with 64 SN-A-6 missiles on board (navalized S-300) will be able to provide such capability
Israeli analysts believe that the present and rather unprecedented Russian strategic decision - sending such an impressive naval sortie into the eastern Mediterranean - could have resulted from Israel's still mysterious foray into Syrian air defense, during the air strike on an alleged nuclear development or weapon assembly site. According to Aviation Week - who interviewed the retired Brigadier General Pinchas Burchris, director general of Israel's Ministry of Defense, before the Israeli fighter aircraft ingress, a main Syrian radar site was struck with a combination of electronic attack and precision weapons, causing complete black-out of the entire Syrian air defense system which relied exclusively on Russian produced and installed equipment. Aviation Week claims this event may have been one of the first examples of offensive and defensive network attacks that included higher-level, non-tactical network penetrations.
No precise information, nor confirmation of the AW&ST report was released by Israeli official authorities, but the very fact that non-stealth jet fighters managed to enter unscathed into the highly sophisticated Russian supplied air defense barrier, built painstakingly during decades, since the 1973 Yom Kippur War, speaks for itself. It certainly must have caused Moscow considerable embarrassment, over the lack of performance of their latest sophisticated air defense systems sold for hard cash to Mid Eastern Muslim nations. But not embarrassment alone, painful as it was, could have triggered Moscow to such a rapid reaction. The Russian navy is under growing pressure from Ukraine to withdraw the Black Sea Fleet from its traditional deployment at Sevastopol by 2017. Some recent incidents has sharpened this into, sofar minor, clashes with local elements, but the warnings are out in clear: get out - you are no longer wanted here!
The Kiev Post noted that the Black Sea fleet's lease on its Sevastopol base is hostage to Ukraine's volatile relations with Moscow - which will expire in 2017, necessitating a renegotiation or withdrawal. The Russian Black Sea Fleet base already boosted security at its navigational facilities, amid a dispute with Ukraine authorities, over a lighthouse, linked to the fleet in the Crimean city of Yalta. The Russian move came after Ukraine threatened to take over all the navigational facilities of the Black Sea Fleet. The dispute emerged when the staff of a Ukrainian state company seized the lighthouse and denied Russian servicemen access to the lighthouse.
All this would render the Syrian ports invaluable for an alternative naval base, provided that their security could be assured, by a viable air defense barrier, safeguarding them from any future Israeli, or US attack, or even surveillance activities. Bolstering such an air defense can be enhanced by the long-term presence in off-shore deployment of high-profile warships, mounting sophisticated airpower (Su-33 fighters) and air defense armament, such as the Admiral Kuznetsov's 3K95 Kinzhal missile system, the navalized version of the TOR and the Slava class Moskva's SA-N-6 Grumble navalized version of the S-300 (SA-10).
Another aspect of the new Russian Med deployment is intelligence. Israeli electronic warfare experts warn that the presence of a strong Russian naval force, most likely based in the Syrian port of Tartus, would represent a significant strengthening of Russian intelligence gathering capabilities in the region. The Russian navy is considered to have high-quality electronic equipment capable of observing new weapons systems and intercepting communications, which could become high-value assets to Syria and Iran. Russian intelligence maintained constant presence for several decades in international waters, where listening ships, camouflaged as fishing boats were positioned continuously off the Israeli coast, gathering electronic and communications. This activity continued at least through the 1990s.
Whatever the latest Russian foray might signal, one thing is clear, the Mediterranean will soon become a new 'Cold War' type contest between Western and Russian navies, which will heat up substantially once the new Russian fourth generation Project 955 Borey class submarines, armed with Bulava missiles also enter into the fray.
WW3 THE 3 WAVES THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL
DANIEL 11:40-45
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
The Third and Final Wave of WW3 is when all Nations march to Jerusalem, but JESUS bodily returns to earth and destroys them,sets up his KINGDOM OF RULE FOR 1000 YEARS THEN FOREVER.
2ND WAVE CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL
REVELATION 16:12
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.(THIS IS THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY,THEY CROSS OVER).
DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(IRAQ-SYRIA)
15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE USED.
ISAIAH 66:15-18
15 For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
16 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
17 They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.
18 For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.
ISAIAH 26:21
21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.(WW3,1/2 earths population die).
ISAIAH 13:6-13 KJV
6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:(FROM FRIGHT)
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
ISAIAH 24:17-23 KJV
17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
2 TIMOTHY 3:1
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.
JOEL 2:20,30
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.
EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
REVELATION 9:18
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.
HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
LUKE 17:34-37
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten by the birds).
MATTHEW 24:37-51
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Friday, December 14, 2007
2000 BARAK HANDS MOUNT TO ARABS
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.
New England digs out after record snowfall Fri Dec 14, 10:58 AM ET
BOSTON (Reuters) - New England dug out on Friday from a record-setting storm that dumped 10 inches of snow on Boston, more than the city typically sees in the entire month of December. Thursday's storm hit hours before the afternoon commute, snarling roadways and leaving some travelers -- many of whom left their offices early only to face the storm's full force on the road -- stranded for hours during their trips home. Others had to abandon their cars or sleep in them after running out of fuel, local media reported.More than 400 flights were canceled at Boston Logan International Airport.The National Weather Service said the region could expect another blast over the weekend, when a second storm is expected to drop 6 inches of snow and sleet starting on Saturday evening.
It is a powerful Northeaster, said Charlie Foley, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Taunton, Massachusetts. The difference in this storm is that it is going to occur during the overnight hours and on the weekend, so we wouldn't expect it to have the impact that this thing yesterday did.Thursday's snowfall set a new one-day record for December 13, and was more than the 7.8inches that typically falls during the entire month of December.
Foley said temperatures were expected to reach 40 degrees Fahrenheit (4 C) on Friday, warm enough to melt some of the snow.
Logan Airport had returned to normal operations by Friday, with about 41 outbound flights canceled, said spokesman Phil Orlandella.
The airlines will have to play catch up for a couple of days, Orlandella said. It's not a madhouse here, things are moving pretty well.He said airport management did not yet know how their operations would be affected by the coming weekend storm.(Editing by Eric Beech)
WFP seeks funds after Storm Olga hits Caribbean Fri Dec 14,7:21 AM ET
GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations food agency appealed on Friday for $4 million to help tens of thousands of people forced to flee their homes in the Dominican Republic after Tropical Storm Olga unleashed flash floods. The death toll from the storm, the second to hit in just over a month, reached at least 19, mostly drownings, Dominican officials said on Thursday.We need $4 million to help victims over the next six months, Christiane Berthiaume, spokeswoman of the U.N.'s World Food Programme (WFP), told a news briefing in Geneva. The WFP would issue details of the appeal later in the day, she said.Some 37,000 people had fled their homes in the Dominican Republic, which shares the Caribbean island Hispaniola with Haiti, Berthiaume said.Olga killed three more people in Cuba, Puerto Rico and Jamaica, according to a statement issued by the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.The majority of the Dominican deaths were people who drowned when a river burst its banks and flooded parts of Santiago, the Dominican Republic's second-largest city, 110 miles north of the capital Santo Domingo.It followed another storm, Noel, which killed at least 89 people, left 42 missing and caused millions of dollars in damages to roads, farming and power and water systems.(For more information on humanitarian crises and issues visit www.alertnet.org)(Reporting by Stephanie Nebehay; Editing by Caroline Drees)
Ice-storm power outages still nearly 400,000 DEC 14,07
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Utilities in the U.S. Central Plains said nearly 400,000 customers remained without power on Friday due to ice storms this week. Electric companies reported that more than 800,000 of the 1.2 million customers who lost power during ice storms this week have had power restored.As restoration efforts entered a fifth day, more than 389,000 customers remained without electric service.In Oklahoma, the hardest-hit state, OGE Energy Corp's Oklahoma Gas & Electric unit outages were falling toward 100,000 on Friday, but forecasts calling for another round of freezing weather may slow work by repair crews, said spokesman Gil Broyles.As much as four to eight inches of snow is expected to fall in northwestern Oklahoma beginning Friday afternoon, Broyles said.Snow should be less damaging to trees and power lines than freezing rain so may not increase the outage total but will make restoration efforts tougher, he said.We hope the weather won't make us take a step backward, but it may make moving forward more difficult, Broyles said.OG&E said the storm was the worst in the company's history, leaving more than 300,000 customers without power at its peak.
American Electric Power Co Inc's Public Service Co of Oklahoma said about 148,000 customers were still without power late Thursday, down from over 250,000 earlier in the week.PSO estimated it could take up to 10 days to restore power to all customers.The storm entered Oklahoma early Sunday, bringing freezing rain that accumulated as ice on trees and overhead power lines. The weight of the ice broke tree branches and pulled down power lines, cutting power.The weather system later moved across Kansas, Iowa, Missouri and Illinois, knocking out power as it went.Other utilities still working to restore power on Friday included Westar Energy Inc with 35,000 in Kansas, Aquila Inc with about 22,000 in Missouri and Empire District Electric Co with about 26,000 in Missouri and Kansas.All of the utilities in the affected area have called on repair crews from other states to help with the restoration.(Reporting by Eileen O'Grady; Editing by Christian Wiessner)
The CARMEL ALERT Dec 13th 2007
A compilation of news reports from the past week for the information of those committed to praying for Israel and the salvation of the Jewish people.
David's Comment: The Plot Thickens
The Annapolis Summit is now three weeks behind us, but the lies, manipulations and plotting to bring about the demise of Israel continue. Several key events have taken place over the last few days, that those who love for and care about Israel, need to be aware of. and pray into. Lets take a look at what the people intent on Israel's destruction are up to .........
1/ Iran's Nuclear program In the USA, until recently Israel's closest ally, the NIE (National Intelligence Estimate) report that was released last week claims that intelligence concerning Iran's program to produce a nuclear bomb. After all of the recent claims and warnings by the US government, they now claim that Iran ceased their efforts to produce Nuclear weapons 4 years ago. Intelligence experts in Israel and the UK are in total shock at the US turn around and continue to stand by their information that points to Iran racing to achieve nuclear status. Israeli jornalist Yossi Klein Halevi, wrote in his article, An Insult to Intelligence: in The New Republic: The sense of betrayal within the Israeli security system is deep. After all, Israel's great achievement in its struggle against Iran was in convincing the international community that the nuclear threat was real; now that victory has been undone--not by Russia or the European Union, but by Israel's closest ally.
2/ Permits for New Housing in Jerusalem Establishing a Jewish presence in the land of our forefathers has been the dream of the Zionists for the last 100 years. At the same time it has been the dread of those who abhor the thought of the Jewish people living in the land that was promised to Abraham and hsi descendants. One of the standard demands of every peace treaty forced upon Israel is the cessation of the construction of new homes. The Annapolis peace initiative is no different. Last week the Jerusalem City Council authorised construction permits for 300 new dwellings in the Jewish neighborhood of Har Homa on the outskirts of Jerusalem. This area is not located in disputed territory, but Condalessa Rice is not happy about the decision and is questioning Israel's right to expand the Har Homa neighborhood. We read in Ezekiel 36 7 37 that it is the will of the Lord that all the Jews return to the land their ancestors once dwelt in, Judea and Samaria ( the West Bank) being the heart of the land in question. So who do these politicians think they are denying the Jewish people the right to live on their own land ?
3/ Confiscating the Settlers Guns The other issue in the news is that the Israeli police are in the process of confiscating the guns that West Bank settlers have always been permitted to carry for self-defense against being attacked by the so called Palestinians. One doesnt have to be a brain surgeon to figure out why the government is trying to disarm the settlers. Israel's defacto leaders, George Bush and Condalessa Rice have deemed that there will be a Palestinian State by the end of 2008. For that to become a reality (which we will continue to pray will not happen), Israel will need to evacuate more than 100,000 Jewish residents. The West Bank settlers will not be as docile as the Gaza settlers were, and the last thing the government wants is gunfire fights between armed Jewish settlers and Jewish IDF soldiers. It is obvious that this drive to take their weapons now is one of the first preparations for the US designed and demanded ethnic cleansing of Judea and Samaria.
4/ Russian Immigrants Being Lured Back In a bizarre turn of events... after so much effort over 30 years by Israeli and Western Jewish and Christian politicians, lobby groups and aid organizations, about 100,00 CIS emmigrants who went to Israel have returned back to the former Soviet Union! And Putin is overtly soliticing more with economic incentives (for those who are highly educated). Well, I guess Pharaoh also realized he couldn't run his country very well after his best workers all took off! But Putin knows that the carrot of money works better than the rod of forceful coercion... Yet he may meet the same end if he interferes with God's prophetic plan!
All four of the above issues are about hindering the restoration of Israel.
The Plot is Definately Thickening !
Lets pray that these schemes and conspiracies will become obvious to the Jewish people and that they will not allow themselves to be manipulated out of their God-given inheritance. Lets also pray that the George Bush and Rice will come under conviction of the God they claim to believe in, and will cease from this dangerous folly that endangers both Israel and the nations that conspire against her.
The Lord bless you as you bless Israel by standing in defense of her right to exist on the land given to the Jewish people by the God of Israel . Lets pray that Israel will turn back to their God. Do not be silent, but share this with your fellow Christians, share it with your pastors, and with anyone you have a chance to speak to. Lets also pray for that breakthrough to the Muslims, and please remember to pray for our son Jordan, and all of his fellow soldiers in the IDF.
Shabbat Shalom ... David & Josie SILVER
EU leaders sign Charter of Fundamental Rights
www.chinaview.cn 2007-12-13 04:32:15
BRUSSELS, Dec. 12 (Xinhua) -- European Union (EU) leaders signed Wednesday the Charter of Fundamental Rights at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France. The document was signed by Jose Socrates, prime minister of Portugal which holds the rotating EU presidency, and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and European Parliament President Hans-Gert Pottering. Dec. 12 will be a fundamental date in the history of the European Union, said Socrates. This charter is a commitment to European values.
The charter, which currently has no legal force, is part of the new EU treaty -- the Lisbon Treaty -- to be signed Thursday in the Portuguese capital. It brings together a range of European human-rights texts into a single document for the first time in history.
The charter will only apply to 25 EU nations, excluding Britain and Poland, which have decided to opt out amid concerns that the European Court of Justice could use the document to impose certain rights in their countries.Editor: Mu Xuequan
EU DICTATOR (WORLD LEADER)
REVELATION 17:12-13
12 And the ten horns (NATIONS) which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
13 These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
REVELATION 6:1-2
1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
2 And I saw, and behold a white horse:(PEACE) and he that sat on him had a bow;(EU DICTATOR) and a crown was given unto him:(PRESIDENT OF THE EU) and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.(MILITARY GENIUS)
REVELATION 13:1-10
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.(THE EU AND ITS DICTATOR IS GODLESS)
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.(DICTATOR COMES FROM NEW AGE OR OCCULT)
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death;(MURDERERD) and his deadly wound was healed:(COMES BACK TO LIFE) and all the world wondered after the beast.(THE WORLD THINKS ITS GOD IN THE FLESH, MESSIAH TO ISRAEL)
4 And they worshipped the dragon (SATAN) which gave power unto the beast:(JEWISH EU DICTATOR) and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?(FALSE RESURRECTION,SATAN BRINGS HIM TO LIFE)
5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.(GIVEN WORLD CONTROL FOR 3 1/2YRS)
6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God,(HES A GOD HATER) to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.(HES A LIBERAL OR DEMOCRAT,WILL PUT ANYTHING ABOUT GOD DOWN)
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints,(BEHEAD THEM) and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.(WORLD DOMINATION)
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.(WORLD DICTATOR)
9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.(SAVED CHRISTIANS AND JEWS DIE FOR THEIR FAITH AT THIS TIME,NOW WE ARE SAVED BY GRACE BUT DURING THE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH, PEOPLE WILL BE PUT TO DEATH (BEHEADINGS) FOR THEIR BELIEF IN GOD (JESUS) OR THE BIBLE.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come (ROMANS IN AD 70) shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMANS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
27 And he( EU ROMAN, JEWISH DICTATOR) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:( 7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,( 3 1/2 YRS) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
NOW THAT THE LISBON TREATY IS SIGNED WHICH I THINK GUARENTEES A PERMANANT PRESIDENT NOW, LOOKOUT FOR THE EU TO CONTROL THE PEACE PROCESS AND SEND TROOPS INTO ISRAEL TO GET THE ROADMAP ON TRACK.
Treaty on Running European Union Is Signed DEC 14,07By STEPHEN CASTLE and GRAHAM BOWLEY (NYTIMES)
BRUSSELS — Gathering in a 16th-century monastery in Lisbon, European Union leaders signed a new treaty on Thursday that changes the way the 27-member bloc is run. Those changes include the creation of a permanent post of European Union president to represent Europe on the world stage.The treaty replaces the failed attempt to create a European constitution, which foundered after French and Dutch voters rejected it in referendums two years ago.
The post of president, with a term of two and a half years, will replace the unwieldy system by which European Union leaders and nations rotate holding the presidency every six months. The new treaty also alters the way decisions are made in the union. More decisions will be made by majority vote instead of by unanimous agreement, a threshold that critics said had hindered the union’s reaction to some major issues. Foreign policy duties will be concentrated in a single new representative.The European leaders hailed the treaty, saying it would help the union overcome the political drift that has troubled it since the humbling defeats in the referendums in France and the Netherlands in 2005. Its main achievements so far have included a common currency, the euro, in 13 member states; open borders among Continental members; and the extension of membership to several former Communist countries in 2004.
Europe was blocked, not knowing how to move forward, and we found the solution, said José Sócrates, the Portuguese prime minister and the ceremony’s host. Portugal holds the union’s six-month presidency.The president of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, said, By resolving its institutional matters, Europe is readying itself to address global problems.The treaty was signed in the Jerónimos Monastery while a choir sang Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy. It will take effect after being ratified by all 27 countries in the European Union, a process that should be completed by 2009 —if Ireland agrees. During the process of trying to approve a constitution, many countries planned referendums, but only Ireland will put the new treaty to a popular vote. In the other 26 countries, parliamentary ratification seems more certain. In a sign of the lingering schisms between countries, and the ambivalence that some governments feel toward the process of European integration, the British prime minister, Gordon Brown, missed the signing ceremony. It was widely perceived as a snub to Britain’s neighbors.Blaming a scheduling clash, Mr. Brown — alone among the leaders — arrived late and signed the treaty alone. The European Union is deeply unpopular among some sections of the British public, as it is in several other European countries, and Britain’s popular press is skeptical about the benefits of European integration and the surrender of national sovereignty.
Mr. Brown’s absence from the ceremony enraged supporters of the European Union. It’s a complete and absolute scandal, said Andrew Duff, a pro-European Liberal Democrat member of the European Parliament. Likely contenders for the new presidency include Tony Blair, the former British prime minister; Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen of Denmark; Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker of Luxembourg; and a former Polish president, Aleksander Kwasniewski.
Stephen Castle reported from Brussels, and Graham Bowley from New York.
Blatter claims EU treaty favours foreign player capping DEC 14,07
It does not look good if you have a club in a country and there are no national players on the team' Richard Aikman and agencies
Friday December 14, 2007 Guardian Unlimited
Blatter believes foreign player capping will soon be permissible by EU law. Photograph: Michael Regan/Action Images .The Fifa president Sepp Blatter believes that the European Union's Lisbon Treaty will allow the game's governing body to cap foreign players in domestic leagues.The agreement, which was signed by all 27 nations that comprise the EU in the Portuguese capital yesterday, replaces Europe's ill-fated constitution and will abolish many national vetoes, especially in areas of justice and criminal affairs. It will also reduce the size of the European commission, give the EU a sitting president and foreign policy chief, and eventually change the voting clout of EU countries to reflect their size.Along with a growing number of high-profile coaches and administrators, Blatter has long waged a battle against clubs who fill their starting line-ups with players from overseas and the Fifa president believes the new treaty will see sporting associations become exempt from the employment laws that give workers freedom of movement across the continent. That would allow Fifa to proceed with plans which will see teams forced to field at least six home-grown players at all times.
You have people like Sir Alex Ferguson and Roy Keane, the coach of Sunderland, and Franz Beckenbauer and [Johan] Cruyff and [Uefa president Michel] Platini all working in the right direction and we are working for the identity of football, said Blatter. They have accepted a new treaty in Europe and they discussed the specificity of sport and its statutes are guaranteed. We don't want to fight any laws or authority but we want football to exist as a good family.Blatter stressed the national identity of a club is lost if overseas-born players dominate and that England's failure to qualify for Euro 2008 had given the issue a higher profile. We have to maintain, if not the local idea of a club then at least the national identity of a club, he said. It does not look good if you have a club in a country and there are no national players on the team.Blatter claimed recent events in England had led to a sea change in opinion. This matter has been brought up by the Fifa president two or three years ago, but it has started now, he said. Why? Because something has happened in the motherland of football, England.They have not qualified for Euro 2008 and some have said that there are too many foreign players in the league. This discussion is going on in the Fifa strategic committee. We will have a look at some of these items and, at the next Fifa congress in Sydney, we will come out with a proposal that six plus five can be, will be and must be accepted by the Fifa congress.
European Union leaders hold end-of-year summit in Brussels
Brussels, Dec 14: European Union (EU) leaders arrived in Brussels Friday for a summit expected to focus on latest developments in Kosovo and on longer term issues such as globalisation and the shape of the bloc in 20 years' time.The traditional end-of-year meeting comes just a day after prime ministers and heads of state gathered in Lisbon to sign a landmark treaty designed to improve the European Union's decision-making process.Diplomats say Thursday's signing ceremony officially ended months of discussions and years of navel-gazing by EU leaders, allowing them to move on to deal with real issues.Real issues on the agenda of Friday's meeting include plans by Kosovo, a predominantly ethnic-Albanian province, to declare independence from Serbia.Some EU countries, divided Cyprus in particular, strongly oppose recognizing an independent Kosovo for fear that it might encourage other ethnic minorities to do the same.
EU leaders were not expected to reach unanimity on how to react to Kosovo's secessionist plans Friday, but were nevertheless expected to conclude that the province constitutes a sui generis case that would not set a precedent.Prime ministers and heads of state were also expected to discuss the EU's planned Galileo satellite navigation system as well as broader issues such as migration, climate change and the recent turmoil on the international financial markets.But perhaps the most potentially divisive discussion Friday's agenda concerns the creation of a so-called reflection group, an independent think tank of high-profile Europeans proposed by French President Nicolas Sarkozy to discuss the challenges that the Union will face between 2020 and 2030.
The reflection group will examine how the stability and prosperity of both the Union and of the wider region might best be served in the longer term, according to a draft of the summit's conclusions.
Britain, Sweden and other member states fear that the group will be used by France to shut and lock the EU doors to Turkey. Potential candidates for the role of group leader include Latvia's former president Vaira Vike-Freiberga, former head of Nokia Jorma Ollila, Spain's former premier Felipe Gonzalez, head of Italy's Unicredit banking group Alessandro Profumo, and former president of the European Parliament Pat Cox. --- IANS
EU leaders to hail benefits of globalisation
14.12.2007 - 09:27 CET | By Renata Goldirova
Now that the EU's six-year long institutional impasse has ended, the 27-nation bloc is turning its attention to the outside challenge of globalisation – something that is to be highlighted by a fresh declaration at today's EU summit, suggesting the phenomenon should become a source of opportunity rather than a threat. Globalisation is increasingly shaping our lives by fostering the exchange of people, goods, services and ideas and by offering new opportunities to citizens and business, states the opening paragraph of the EU declaration on globalisation, seen by EUobserver. The paper continues by saying that greater trade flows and economic growth have increased prosperity, transforming the lifestyles of Europe's citizens and lifting millions worldwide out of poverty.
The idea to have a specific declaration on the economic benefits of globalised economies is mainly attributed to UK prime minister Gordon Brown, who once described properly-managed globalisation as a force for good. The union has always promoted free trade and openness as a means to foster growth, employment and development for itself and its trading partners and intends to continue taking the lead in this domain, the text says, clearly reflecting the liberal economic philosophy pursued by London. The declaration has also been welcomed in some of the countries that joined the EU club in 2004, with one diplomat from a new member state telling EUobserver that we felt that the effects of globalisation had sometime been wrongly attributed to EU enlargement. Globalisation will not disappear and therefore, the EU should take an advantage of it, the diplomat added. Nevertheless, the declaration takes into account some concerns about the phenomenon, expressed mainly in Paris. The European Union will press for increasingly open markets which should lead to reciprocal benefits (...) Our partners must also demonstrate openness, on the basis of internationally agreed rules, in particular as concerns fair competition and the protection of intellectual property rights, the paper states. The wording is a clear response to France's aim to protect home-grown industries from cheap imports as well as to its push for the so-called principle of reciprocity, meaning trading partners should open their markets as much as the EU does.
Let's not be naive, we must demand a reciprocity, president Nicolas Sarkozy said in October, when the issue was debated by EU leaders for the first time. He complained about the environmental and social requirements placed upon EU businesses, but not followed by their non-European competitors. We have to remind others there are rights as well as obligations, he said, singling out Russia and China.In general, the declaration - to be adopted later on Friday (14 December) - is widely seen as a bargain between the UK and France, as Mr Sarkozy needed London's approval for his own idea to set up a reflection group designed to sketch the best political recipe for how to deal with Europe's future major challenges.
COULD THIS GROUP HEADED BY A FORMER SPANISH PRIME MINISTER BE THE SANHEDRIN OF THE EU................
Skeptic on Turkey to chair EU wise panel Fri Dec 14, 2007 1:33pm By Darren Ennis and William Schomberg
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders on Friday named former Spanish Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez, a past critic of Turkey's EU membership bid, to head a reflection group to study the long-term future of the 27-nation bloc.The panel was the brainchild of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, a vehement opponent of Turkish accession, who first called in August for the EU to create a group of wise people to consider Europe's final borders.The mandate has since been changed to look at the future of Europe in 2020-2030, focusing mostly on the economic challenges of globalization.In this new European dream, the question of borders is bound to be posed, not simply first of all the question of Turkey but should Europe set borders or not, the French leader told a news conference after an EU summit.Sarkozy may have scored a point by stealth with the choice of Gonzalez, a socialist who ran Spain from 1982 to 1996 and voiced skepticism three years ago about incorporating the large, poor, mostly Muslim country into the EU.
Spanish newspapers quoted the ex-premier in May 2004 as telling a Universal Forum of Cultures in Barcelona there were limits to the enlargement of Europe, which should stop at the borders of Turkey because of social and cultural differences.Asked about those comments, Gonzalez's spokesman Joaquin Tagar told Reuters in Madrid on Friday: He was just expressing a theoretical opinion, not taking a definite position on the matter. He was just pointing out the difference between European and Turkish culture.Pressed to say what Gonzalez's position on Turkey's candidacy was now, he said: What he has been saying in recent times is that if the European Union has a commitment to Turkey, it should honor it.
WHERE DOES EUROPE END?
In Ankara, a Turkish Foreign Ministry official said: The mandate of the wise men group was very important for us and apparently Turkey was excluded. So with regard to Turkey's EU process, it's not very important for us who chairs the group.The reflection group, which will number no more than nine members, is mandated to look at the stability and prosperity of the Union and of the wider region.The formulation deliberately left open whether Turkey would be part of the Union or the wider region in 2020-2030.The panel will also look at issues such as energy, climate change and justice matters. It is due to report its findings to EU leaders in June 2010.Former Latvian president Vaira Vike-Freiberga and Jorma Ollila, the chairman of mobile phone giant Nokia, were named as the two vice-chairs of the panel.Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero voiced delight at the choice of his political mentor for the key chairman role, and said it had not been ruled out that the group could discuss the EU's borders.
It's not excluded that there is a reflection about what the size of Europe should be in the future, he told reporters.British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said it was extremely partial to describe Gonzalez as being against Turkey's EU membership.Some politicians were critical of the choice of a leader from the 1980s to study the EU's future.If you ever wanted to see Jurassic Park in reality, then this appointment (of Gonzalez) is just that, Graham Watson, leader of the Liberal Democrat group in the European Parliament.It's not about age, but all three of the panel so far represent old Europe.(Additional reporting by Jason Webb in Madrid, Yves Clarisse and Ingrid Melander in Brussels; Writing by Paul Taylor; Editing by Ibon Villelabeitia)
EU Treaty main points DEC 14,07
Here are some of the main points of the European Union's new Treaty of Lisbon: It incorporates the key reforms in the constitution but it discards the name.The Charter of Fundamental Rights becomes legally binding - in all the member states except Britain and Poland, which negotiated exemptions.There is also a provision that if a million citizens petition the European Commission, it will propose legislation in the field concerned.
A new foreign policy chief with EU staff will give the bloc a greater say on the world stage. The High Representative will answer to EU governments and be a vice-president of the European Commission, with power over the EU external aid budget. A NATO-style mutual defence clause in case one of the member states is attacked is another of the foreign policy features.Voting at the member state level will be based on a double majority system, from 2017. A decision, to pass, will need 55 percent of the countries' support.At the moment this means 15 of them.These have to represent 65 percent of the EU's population. The Ioannina decisional delay provision especially important for Poland - in lieu of greater voting weight - becomes valid at this time.
The redistribution of seats in the European Parliament has been adjusted under a reform agreed in the assembly. This reshuffle for an enlarged EU reflects population changes. The treaty raises the total number of seats to 750 but it does not count the parliament's president.Like the constitution, the treaty aims to streamline the number of members in the EU executive college, or European Commission. It says the number of commissioners will be reduced from 27 to 15 by the year 2014. Its head will be named according to the results of European elections, this needing endorsement by a parliamentary vote.
The EU leaders will choose a president of the European Council for a 2-1/2 year renewable term.This does away with the current six-month rotating presidency - today assumed by a country. In the future an individual will chair the agenda and summits.Also left out is the flag commonly associated with the EU, formerly the European Communities, which adopted the banner in the 1980s. The Lisbon Treaty also makes no mention of the anthem symbol, Ode to Joy.
EUROPEAN UNION ARMY
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.( BE HEAD OF 3 NATIONS)
25 And he (EU PRESIDENT) shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.(3 1/2 YRS)
DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.
DANIEL 11:36-39
36 And the king (EU DICTATOR) shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS JEWISH) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.(CLAIM TO BE GOD)
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(WAR) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god,(DESTROY TERROR GROUPS) whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.
REVELATION 19:19
19 And I saw the beast,(EU LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse,(JESUS) and against his army.(THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)
Kasicky: EU and NATO Have Found Ways to Finance Joint Operations
Bratislava, December 12 (TASR-SLOVAKIA) - Mechanisms have already been found within NATO and EU to finance the deployment of units of individual member countries in joint operations, Slovak Defence Minister Frantisek Kasicky said after the Government session on Wednesday.According to him, in the case of the EU this concerns the so-called Athena project. At every ministerial meeting, we're pushing for this project valid for 2007-2008 to continue also in 2009, because our first contribution to the EU Battle Groups will only be in 2009, said Kasicky.As for NATO, Kasicky said that a Slovak initiative has also added impetus to the development of the Rapid Reaction Forces project.Kasicky added that the latest meeting of EU defence ministers in the Netherlands decided that a specific project for financing military units will be submitted at the next meeting.msm/df/tb
EU Presidency Statement - CFE Treaty
jeudi 13 décembre 2007
Following the decision of the Russian Federation to suspend the implementation of the CFE Treaty, taking effect as of 12 December 2007, and taking into account the declaration issued today in Moscow by the Ministry of Defence, the EU Presidency reiterates that the EU considers the CFE Treaty as the cornerstone of security and stability in Europe.The EU Presidency urges Russia to continue to engage with CFE partners in the search for an acceptable solution to the outstanding concerns of all State parties related to the implementation of the CFE Treaty. Constructive proposals which have been presented so far to solve the current situation should continue to be pursued.eu2007.pt
FIIA: no wartime help for Finland without NATO Only temporary damage to Finnish-Russian relations from joining alliance
DEC 14,07
According to an assessment issued on Tuesday by the Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA), Finland should join NATO only if it is ready to defend other member states of the alliance against an attack. If Finland's political decision-makers and its citizens do not feel that an attack on Istanbul, Washington, or Tallinn would be so significant that Finland should immediately offer its help, possibly also in the form of sending military units, Finland should not become a member of NATO, the report states. According to the writers, in such a case, Finns should not expect other countries to come to their aid if Finland is attacked. The FIIA text gives a cautiously NATO-positive background analysis of the development of NATO and its links with Finland.
In the introduction to the report, FIIA director Raimo Väyrynen writes that the ten experts who took part in the project had sharply differing views of Finnish foreign policy when they began their work. The text, edited by FIIA researcher Charly Salonius-Pasternak, assesses the enlargement of NATO, its new tasks, the role of the United States in NATO, and the alliance's interaction with other systems. FIIA does not see that NATO is getting any alternatives as a defence alliance. The common European defence will continue to be organised exclusively through national solutions, as well as NATO, the assessment concludes. Decisions on NATO will have to be made in Finland and elsewhere on the basis of inadequate information, because NATO is changing. According to the report, Finnish membership in the alliance would probably cause only temporary damage to relations between Finland and Russia.
FIIA has worked on its report at the same time that another assessment is being produced at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
The Foreign Ministry report is to come out next week, once it has been presented to the foreign affairs committee of the President and government.
Minister of Defence Jyri Häkämies (Nat. Coalition Party) feels that when discussing the NATO issue, the implications of the security guarantees of the European Union should be known.
These matters need to be examined alongside each other, and not separately, Häkämies says. In his view, it would be especially important, when pondering NATO membership, to know what the large EU countries feel about the EU security guarantees. Foreign Ministry official Teija Tiilikainen is currently drafting a report on EU security guarantees, which is expected to be ready in March.
Defence Minister Häkämies feels that the first question in the NATO debate is if Finland needs security guarantees in case of a military attack. If we want security guarantees, we need to know how the EU will implement them. If the EU plans to implement security guarantees through NATO, it would be a significant piece of information in the NATO debate, Häkämies says.
MUSLIM NATIONS
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
Russia to complete Iran's atom plant
By David Blair, Diplomatic Correspondent
Last Updated: 2:22am GMT 14/12/2007
Iran's nuclear programme has reached a crucial milestone after Russia and Teheran agreed a timetable for completing a long-delayed reactor.The two countries have agreed to activate the Bushehr nuclear power station, which Russian technicians have been building on Iran's Gulf coast.This facility, forming the centrepiece of Iran's atomic energy programme, is being used as a cover for Teheran's covert effort to build nuclear weapons, according to Western governments.America has repeatedly urged the Kremlin to stop building Bushehr - and Russia has often dragged its feet on completing the project.But Moscow appears to have changed its mind and decided to press ahead. We have resolved all the problems with the Iranians, said Sergei Shmatko, the president of the state-controlled nuclear energy company, Atomstroiexport, which is constructing Bushehr.Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, said that Bushehr would comply with all International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards. These are designed to ensure its use for civilian purposes only.
Al-Qaida No. 2 critical of peace parley By MAGGIE MICHAEL, Associated Press Writer DEC 14,07
CAIRO, Egypt - Al-Qaida's deputy leader denounced last month's Mideast peace conference in Annapolis, Md., as a betrayal of Palestinians in a new audio message posted Friday on an Islamic militant Web site, It was the first reaction by the terrorist network to the Mideast conference, sponsored by President Bush and attended by key Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia, Syria and Egypt, as well as Palestinian and Israeli leaders.The conference relaunched Palestinian-Israeli peace talks after a seven year hiatus — a key breakthrough in the region's core conflict.The Annapolis meeting was held to turn Palestine into a Jewish state, the voice, purported to be that of Ayman al-Zawahri, said the 20-minute posting that carried a still photo of the white-turbaned militant against a backdrop of a photograph from the conference.
The czar of Washington invited 16 Arab countries ... to sit in one room, at one table with the Israelis, al-Zawahri said, adding that the conference witnessed the betrayal deals to sell Palestine.The authenticity of the posting could not be independently confirmed, but the voice was recognizable as that of al-Zawahri. It was posted by al-Qaida's media arm, Al-Sahab, on a site where it usually releases its messages.The site also had a banner advertising an upcoming interview of al-Zawahri by Al-Sahab, with a picture of him in a white traditional Arab robe and white turban, seated before a bookshelf. Such advertisements are usually posted up to 72 hours before the message is released.Al-Zawahri mainly addressed Arabs, urging them to condemn the Annapolis conference and label Mahmoud Abbas as the traitor, adding that the Palestinian brother-president sold you out in Annapolis and in its aftermath.It's time now, he said, for the Muslims to extent hands to other jihad brothers a likely reference to militants beyond the Middle East.
My brothers in Palestine, we, all Muslims, the Mujahedeen are by your side, in your confrontation with the Zionist enemy, al-Zawahri said. We will not let you down even if your politicians do.
He also criticized imprisoned Islamic militants in Egypt, who after years in jail turned away from their militant stance. Those revisionists are in fact calling for a new American religion that violates God's rules, he said.A top jailed Jihad leader, Sayed Imam, last month announced his Revisions — a recanting of his past calls for the use of force to overthrow Arab governments seen by militants as infidels.Egypt is hoping the Revisions will diminish support for militancy but al-Qaida leaders have dismissed similar past recantations as forced on imprisoned militants.I am addressing the Muslim nation in Egypt in particular: where is your role in confronting aggression on Islam and Muslims? al-Zawahri said. Stand up and ... be aware of the poisons of weakness and submission which the traitor regime is trying to inject into you through the tongues of the revisionists.He called on Egyptian soldiers and also Bedouin tribes in Egypt's Sinai peninsula to rise against the rule of President Hosni Mubarak.God wants you to get ready, for the sake of God, al-Zawahri said.Al-Zawahri — seen by many counterterrorism experts to be al-Qaida's operational chief, rather than bin Laden — is believed to play a large role in directing al-Qaida's strategy on the ground and issues frequent videos an audiotapes, often laying out the network's doctrinal line.In most recent postings, al-Zawahri sought to galvanize fighters from North Africa to Afghanistan in a September video. In an audiotape in July, he threatened to retaliate against Britain for having honored novelist Salman Rushdie and railed against Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf.
JERUSALEM DIVIDED
ZECHARIAH 12:1-5 King James Bible
1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
ZECHARIAH 14:1-9 King James Bible
1 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south. 5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.
6 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:
7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
8 And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.
9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.
Barak Agreed To Hand Temple Mount & Yesha to Arabs in 2000 Talks by Hana Levi Julian DEC 14,07
(IsraelNN.com) According to a document brought out of mothballs seven years after it was signed, Defense Minister Ehud Barak – then Prime Minister of Israel – agreed to transfer the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, Judaism's holiest site, to Arab sovereignty.
The document entitled The Status of the Diplomatic Process with the Palestinians - Points to Update the Incoming Prime Minister outlined the many points of disagreement between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), but noted significant agreement on at least three core issues. The talks at Camp David and Taba in 2000 and 2001 resulted in agreements on the issues of borders, refugees and Jerusalem, according to a 26-page document obtained by the Ha'aretz news service.Signed by Gilad Sher, bureau chief to then-Prime Minister Ehud Barak, the document included plans for an initiated separation in the event that talks would break down. It was the precursor to Israel's plan to withdraw from Gaza, which was carried out in then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's 2005 Disengagement operation, and to withdraw from Judea and Samaria which the current government is planning.All aspects of life were to be covered in a plan that was to be carried out over a number of years -- leaving enough time for adjustment and change as conditions warranted, including updated negotiations. The document indicated the cabinet gave its final approval for the plan in October 2000.On December 23, 2000, then-US President Bill Clinton sent a document entitled The Ideas Raised by President Clinton to Israel and the PA.
Those ideas were for Israel to annex 4 to 6% of Judea and Samaria for Jewish settlement, with 94-96% of the region going to a PA state, providing that Israel allow all PLO Arabs free passage through Israel. The Temple Mount would go to the PLO, with the Western Wall, the City of David, the Mount of Olives and other holy sites being given to Israel.According to Ha'aretz, Israel told Clinton that it wanted a special authority to ensure freedom of worship to Jews and Muslims at Jerusalem holy sites. In the Israeli response, Barak stated that the Jewish population of Judea and Samaria would not fit into Clinton's proposed annexed territory. He also stated that Israel should be in charge of securing safe passage to all worshippers at the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hevron, Joseph's Tomb in Shechem, and Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem. Barak and Clinton agreed to keep Israel's seven-page response a secret, but Barak sent letters before he left office to Clinton, George W. Bush, Yasser Arafat and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak saying that Israel was not bound by Clinton's manifesto. Recently Barak, who is now the Defense Minister and Labor party chairman, has said he is advocating a plan to entice Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria to leave their homes in exchange for financial compensation.
FROM WND'S JERUSALEM BUREAU
Revealed: Israel agreed to forfeit Temple Mount
Documents detail ex-Israeli leader's deal handing Judaism's holiest site to Yasser Arafat December 13, 2007 11:09 a.m. Eastern
By Aaron Klein 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
Temple Mount
JERUSALEM – In spite of longstanding denials by top officials here, the Israeli government in 2000 agreed to relinquish the Temple Mount – Judaism's holiest site – to the Palestinians during U.S.-backed negotiations, according to declassified documents made public today. The information comes as Prime Minister Ehud Olmert earlier this month denied talks started at November's Annapolis summit would lead to Israel giving up its sovereignty over the Temple Mount, while chief Palestinian negotiators tell WND the Jewish state already agreed to forfeit Judaism's holiest site to a coalition of Arab countries. According to declassified Israeli government documents published today by Israel's Haaretz newspaper, during U.S.-led negotiations in 2000 at Camp David, Ehud Barak, then prime minister, agreed sovereignty over the Temple Mount would be either ambiguous or control would be determined based on the bond of each party to the site. The Palestinians would therefore control the upper sections of the Mount, which houses the Al Aqsa Mosque and also is the site of the First and Second Jewish Temples.
The 2000 negotiations fell through after Palestinian President Yasser Arafat rejected an offer of a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and eastern sections of Jerusalem. Barak at times denied he offered the Temple Mount to the Palestinians, but he also indicated during interviews he was willing to compromise over the site. Haaretz published excerpts from a 26-page document it obtained, signed by Barak's negotiator Gilad Sher and said to be summaries of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. The document was titled The Status of the Diplomatic Process with the Palestinians Points to Update the Incoming Prime Minister. Sher also wrote in his book published after the 2000 negotiations, titled Beyond Reach, that President Bill Clinton floated a plan that called for the Temple Mount to become Palestinian sovereign territory, while the Western Wall below and its complex would fall under Israeli sovereignty.
Barak was said to have initially rejected that plan, but according to participants at the negotiations summit, he was ultimately willing to forfeit the Temple Mount. The 26-page document published by Haaretz also said Barak was willing to give up most of the West Bank and split Jerusalem into two capitals, one called Jerusalem and another Al-Quds. Negotiations would have seen Arab sections of Jerusalem being turned over to the Palestinians. The release of the document follow's last month's Annapolis summit at which Olmert committed to aim at creating a Palestinian state before the end of next year, handing strategic territory to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. In a briefing to reporters upon returning to Israel from Annapolis, Olmert claimed Israel's sovereignty over the Temple Mount is not up for discussion. He said negotiations started at this week's Annapolis summit had no bearing on the situation on the Temple Mount. But a chief Palestinian negotiator, speaking to WND on condition of anonymity, said Olmert's denials were false.What Olmert said (regarding the Mount) is absolutely false. I think he's not yet ready to tell the Israeli public and is waiting for the right time, and he fears his coalition with religious extremists will fall apart if he announces it now, said the negotiator. Olmert's maintains a government coalition with the religious Shas party and Russian Yisroel Beiteinu party, but if those two bolt, the prime minister could create a new coalition with leftist parties.
The chief Palestinian negotiator said that in the months leading up to Annapolis, the Palestinian team was surprised by Olmert's willingness to give up the Mount. We had intense debates on many topics, which remain open and unsettled, but the Harem Al-Sharif (Temple Mount) is not a sticking point. The Israelis didn't argue with us. We were pleasantly surprised Olmert didn't debate about giving the lower section of the [Mount] either, which was a sticking point in the past.According to the negotiator, Olmert agreed to evacuate the Mount but not to turn it over to the Palestinians alone. The negotiator said both sides agreed, the Temple Mount would be given to joint Egypt, Jordan and Palestinian Authority control. He said the Israeli government felt an umbrella group of several Arab countries controlling the holy site instead of only the PA would help ease Israeli domestic opposition to giving up the Temple Mount, since Egypt and Jordan are considered by Israeli policy to be moderate countries. The Palestinian negotiator pointed out Israeli prime ministers previously denied withdrawal plans only to later carry them out. Former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, elected on a platform against evacuating territory, denied for his first year in office he would retreat from the Gaza Strip, but in 2005 he carried out a Gaza withdrawal.
Israel bars Jews, Christians from praying on Mount
The Temple Mount is the holiest site in Judaism. Muslims say it is their third holiest site. The First Jewish Temple was built by King Solomon in the 10th century B.C. It was destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 B.C. The Second Temple was rebuilt in 515 B.C. after Jerusalem was freed from Babylonian captivity. That temple was destroyed by the Roman Empire in A.D. 70. Each temple stood for a period of about four centuries. The Jewish Temple was the center of religious Jewish worship. It housed the Holy of Holies, which contained the Ark of the Covenant and was said to be the area upon which God's presence dwelt. The Al Aqsa Mosque now sits on the site. The Temple served as the primary location for the offering of sacrifices and was the main gathering place in Israel during Jewish holidays. The Temple Mount compound has remained a focal point for Jewish services over the millennia. Prayers for a return to Jerusalem have been uttered by Jews since the Second Temple was destroyed, according to Jewish tradition. Jews worldwide pray facing toward the Western Wall, a portion of an outer courtyard of the Temple left intact. The Al Aqsa Mosque was constructed around A.D. 709 to serve as a shrine near another shrine, the Dome of the Rock, which was built by an Islamic caliph. Al Aqsa was meant to mark where Muslims came to believe Muhammad, the founder of Islam, ascended to heaven. Jerusalem is not mentioned in the Quran. Islamic tradition states Muhammad took a journey in a single night from a sacred mosque – believed to be in Mecca in southern Saudi Arabia – to the farthest mosque and from a rock there ascended to heaven. The farthest mosque later became associated with the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. Currently under Israeli control, Jews and Christians are barred from praying on the Mount.
The Temple Mount was opened to the general public until September 2000, when the Palestinians started their intifada by throwing stones at Jewish worshipers after then-candidate for prime minister Ariel Sharon visited the area. Following the onset of violence, the new Sharon government closed the Mount to non-Muslims, using checkpoints to control all pedestrian traffic for fear of further clashes with the Palestinians. The Temple Mount was reopened to non-Muslims in August 2003. It still is open but only Sundays through Thursdays, 7:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m., and not on any Christian, Jewish or Muslim holidays or other days considered sensitive by the Waqf. During open days, Jews and Christian are allowed to ascend the Mount, usually through organized tours and only if they conform first to a strict set of guidelines, which includes demands that they not pray or bring any holy objects to the site. Visitors are banned from entering any of the mosques without direct Waqf permission. Rules are enforced by Waqf agents, who watch tours closely and alert nearby Israeli police to any breaking of their guidelines.
HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
FAMINE
REVELATION 6:5-6
5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.
Stocks fall on startling inflation jump By TIM PARADIS, AP Business Writer DEC 14,07
NEW YORK - Stocks sold off Friday after a jump in consumer inflation raised concerns about how much freedom the Federal Reserve has to continue cutting interest rates. The Dow Jones industrial average gave up more than 100 points. The Labor Department said the consumer price index rose 0.8 percent in November amid a spike in gasoline prices. The report also found large increases in the cost of clothing, airline tickets and prescription drugs.The report raises questions about the Fed's options for priming the economy. The Fed this week lowered interest rates and announced a plan to align with other key central banks and offer loans to pressed lenders around the world. But while it wants to stimulate the U.S. economy and make lending easier among banks wary of faltering debt, the Fed also has to keep a watchful eye on inflation.Robert Dye, senior economist at PNC Financial Services Group, said the economic readings this week painted a mixed picture for investors, spurring some of the market's volatility.
If you take the stronger-than-expected economic data we saw this week in the form of retail sales and add to that the inflation data and then combine that with a somewhat ambiguous statement from the Fed, you get a picture as clear as mud, he said.The uncertainty weighed on the markets Friday, a day after stocks finished mixed. In afternoon trading, the Dow Jones industrial average fell 112.75, or 0.83 percent, to 13,405.21.Broader stock indicators also fell. The Standard & Poor's 500 index dropped 12.19, or 0.82 percent, to 1,476.22, and the Nasdaq composite index fell 17.50, or 0.66 percent, to 2,650.99.Bond prices fell for the third straight day. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note, which moves opposite its price, rose to 4.23 percent from 4.21 percent late Thursday. The dollar was mixed against other major currencies, while gold prices fell.Light, sweet crude dropped 31 cents to $90.91 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.Friday's report on inflation follows a reading Thursday that showed the biggest jump in inflation at the wholesale level in 34 years.
The 0.8 percent increase in consumer prices topped the 0.6 percent rise economists had been expecting. The report also showed so-called core inflation, which excludes often-volatile food and energy prices, had its biggest increase in 10 months, rising 0.3 percent.Dye said the Fed could be proven wise for cutting interest rates by just a quarter of a percentage point Tuesday rather than by a half point as some investors had hoped. Stocks fell sharply Tuesday after the Fed's rate decision and staged a partial rebound Wednesday after the Fed announced its liquidity plan with other central banks.The uptick in core inflation is unnerving, Dye said, because it makes it harder for the Fed to justify further rate cuts.Also Friday, the Federal Reserve said industrial production rebounded in November, increasing 0.3 percent after a steep 0.7 percent decline in October. The increase came in slightly ahead of Wall Street's expectations.But beyond economic reports, investors faced more news from the troubled banking sector.Citigroup Inc. rose 44 cents to $31.45 after the bank announced late Thursday it plans to move assets from seven structured investment vehicles onto its books and put up $49 billion to help the SIVs repay their debts.The bank had said earlier it had no plans to bring the SIVs onto its books. Citigroup's Vikram Pandit, who on Tuesday became chief executive, said taking control of the SIVs was the best way to guard their credit ratings and help them sell their investments at decent prices.SIVs are complex investments set up by banks and sold to investors and have come under pressure in recent months because of their investment strategy, which involves the use of mortgage investments and other now-risky debt. The resulting drop in demand hurt the value of the SIVs. Declining issues outnumbered advancers by more than 2 to 1 on the New York Stock Exchange, where volume came to 652.4 million shares. The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies fell 6.53, or 0.85 percent, to 762.93. Overseas, Japan's Nikkei stock average slipped 0.14 percent. Britain's FTSE 100 rose 0.52 percent, Germany's DAX index rose 0.25percent and France's CAC-40 rose 0.26 percent. On the Net:
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WW3 THE 3 WAVES THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL
DANIEL 11:40-45
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
The Third and Final Wave of WW3 is when all Nations march to Jerusalem, but JESUS bodily returns to earth and destroys them,sets up his KINGDOM OF RULE FOR 1000 YEARS THEN FOREVER.
Iran tests long-range missile
Published: 12/13/2007
Iran has secretly tested a new long-range missile, Israel's intelligence services said.The Ashoura missile, whose construction was announced by Iran's Defense Ministry on Nov. 27, was also secretly test-fired that day, Israeli media reported Thursday, citing intelligence sources.The fanfare in Tehran over the weapon, which boasts a range of 1,250 miles because of a solid-fuel engine, suggested the test was a success.Israeli commentators noted that the Ashoura was made public on the day of the Annapolis peace conference, an indication of Iran's desire to flex its muscles in the face of moderate Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' efforts to achieve coexistence with the Jewish state.The Ashoura joins the Shihab-3 in the arsenal of Iranian missiles capable of reaching Israel, U.S. targets in the Persian Gulf and some European capitals -- potentially with nuclear warheads.
Israel is World's Fourth Largest Arms Exporter
by Gil Ronen DEC 14,07
(IsraelNN.com) The anxiety felt by some Israelis about the tarnishing of the country's tough image in recent years may be premature. Israel is still the go-to state for all things defense-related, according to recent statistics and reports.Israel became the world's fourth largest arms exporter in 2007, after signing contracts worth $4.3 billion, according to the Defense Ministry. According to Ministry Director Pinchas Buchris, only the U.S.A., Russia and France export more arms than the tiny Middle Eastern country. Great Britain exported fewer arms than Israel in 2007.
Israel's main exports in the defense field are radar systems, anti-tank missiles and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, and its major clients are India, Turkey, the U.S.A. and other western countries.
New law to regulate exports
A new law which will go into effect in January will regulate arms exports, and it will be enforced by a new agency – the Defense Export Department. The maximum punishments for violations of the rules governing defense exports will be 5 years in jail and fines could reach NIS 10 million.The Defense Ministry handles 30,000 applications for brokering permits a year, 5,000 applications for export licenses, and a further 70,000 applications for license renewals.The law is intended to place Israel's arms exports under the kind of limitations that other exporting countries have placed on themselves. It will make it illegal for an Israeli abroad to sell weapons from one foreign country to another in violation of an embargo. The law will also define which weapons are forbidden for export and will make it more difficult to qualify for an export license.
Israel is no newcomer to the club of top defense exporters, and was actually listed in third place by Jane's Defense Weekly as recently as 2003. The U.S.'s Popeye air-to-surface missiles — dubbed AGM-142 by the U.S. Air Force — were designed by Rafael, a semi-governmental weapons-development authority, which also designed the Litening brand targeting pods used to fire precision weapons from the Marines' AV-8B Harrier jet. Israeli-designed Hunter unmanned aerial vehicles are in the service of the U.S. Army, and another UAV made by the Israel Aerospace Industry, the Pioneer, has been used by U.S. Marines.Israel's high ability in the security and technology sphere is recognized – and envied – in the Arab world surrounding it, as this frank sermon from Qatar TV shows:The American entertainment industry, too, has become a client of Israel's security industry. The new trend in Hollywood, it turns out, is Israeli bodyguards. Among the stars employing Israeli brawn are Eva Longoria, Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt (before their divorce), and Lindsey Lohan. Israel21c reports: Kevin Federline's lawyer hired IDF-trained Aaron Cohen, founder of the Beverly Hills-based IMS Security, to serve Britney Spears' camp with subpoenas for their custody battle. Even that dubious friend to the Jews, Mel Gibson, has relied on [an Israeli] to part the waters for him. For more than a decade, Avi Korein was Gibson's personal bodyguard before he opened his own Beverly Hills security firm, Screen International Security Services.
'They never switch off'
The report says that security firm CEOs also seek out ex-Israeli military members: Elijah Shaw, CEO of Icon Services Corporation in St. Paul, Minnesota, once hired an ex-Israeli commando to guard a famous actress who was being stalked on an international tour.
Stalking is a form of terror, counter-terrorism expert Cohen told The Forward in October. The formula is a lot like counter-terrorism, because you need to see who you're dealing with before you freak out. Cohen is a Beverly Hills native who served in the elite Israeli Duvdevan combat unit, which specialized in tracking terrorists. I've used members of the Israel Special Forces - its equivalent of the Navy Seals - when I've had a specific, high-level threat, says Shaw, whose clients include Naomi Campbell, Michael Bolton and 50 Cent. They operate at such a heightened sense of awareness. Because of the constant conflicts there, they're always on alert; they never switch off.
Rice to announce bigger Palestinian aid package by Sylvie Lanteaume DEC 14,07
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is to announce a hike in aid for the Palestinians this weekend during a donor conference in Paris that aims to bolster efforts for Middle East peace. I think what everybody is looking for is some real tangible support for the efforts of Palestinian institution-building because that is going to be absolutely key in helping to bring about a Palestinian state, said State Department spokesman Sean McCormack.He refused to give any specifics on how much Rice planned to offer but she is expected to unveil a sharp increase over past amounts, given that the Bush administration had asked Congress to approve 400 million in economic support for Palestinians in the 2007-2008 budget which began on October 1.
Prior to the election win of the Islamist Hamas movement in early 2006, US aid to the Palestinians amounted to about 250 million dollars per year.But since then, the United States has spent money bit by bit on the Palestinians, particularly through the release of 40 million dollars in emergency aid to Gaza residents last June, unblocked once Hamas seized control of the impoverished coastal strip.France organized the Paris donor conference as a follow up to peace talks held in November in Annapolis, Maryland.
If Rice is able to commit the United States to an aid effort similar to what the administration asked for in the 2008 budget, the aid package over three years that Rice announce could surpass one billion dollars.First in Annapolis and next in Paris, we will be showing the world that the United States is fully engaged and committed to providing the necessary support, both financial and diplomatic and political, said Robert Danin, a Middle East official within the State Department.A significant US contribution will send the signal to the other donors at this time that now is the time to assist the Palestinian Authority and that a Palestinian government with the full and public support of the international community will help build a constituency for peace within the Palestinian society, he told the House of Representatives.The George W. Bush administration has faced reticence from Congress, where some lawmakers are hesitant to approve funding for the Palestinians for fear the cash will fall into Hamas's hands.
For that reason, an 86 million dollar aid package that Rice wanted this year for Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas to beef up his security forces in the face of Hamas's growing ranks of fighters, was held up in Congress for several months.Bush this year launched a public-private partnership run by the independent Aspen Institute with the aim of encouraging US companies to invest directly in the Palestinian territories.A spike in US aid would mark a turnaround for the US administration, which had convinced its negotiating partners in the Middle East peace process -- Russia, the European Union and the United Nations -- to suspend aid after Hamas's electoral win.But the blockage only aggravated Palestinian' economic woes and radicalized public opinion in some quarters.At Europe's insistence, a temporary financial aid package was set up through the quartet that would circumvent Hamas but allow civil servants to receive their salaries.The United States has justified its change of heart by citing the recent nomination of Salam Fayyad, a former International Monetary Fund official, to the post of Palestinian prime minister.
Egypt supports holding next Mideast conference in Moscow Fri Dec 14, 12:40 AM ET
MOSCOW (AFP) - Egypt's foreign minister welcomed Moscow hosting a follow-up Middle East peace conference, saying in an interview published Friday that Russia plays in an important role in the peace process. Egypt welcomes the holding of the meeting in Moscow, Ahmed Abul Gheit, who arrived in Russia on Thursday, was quoted as saying in the business daily Kommersant.Russia ... plays an important role in encouraging the parties (Israel and the Palestinians) to fulfill their obligations and attain the final objective of the process -- the creation of a Palestinian state.
During a conference in the US city of Annapolis last month, Israel and the Palestinians pledged to seek a peace deal by the end of 2008, relaunching negotiations frozen for seven years.Upon return to Moscow, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told Russian news agencies the next Middle East peace conference will be held in Moscow.French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner has said Russia proposed at the Annapolis meeting holding a conference on normalizing Israeli-Syrian relations, which could be held by the end of January.
Israel hosts OSCE Med bunch DEC 14,07
A grouping of Israel and six Arab nations aimed at promoting regional tolerance will meet in Tel Aviv. The meeting of the Mediterranean Partners of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe will take place next Tuesday and Wednesday. The grouping, which comprises Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Jordan, Egypt and Mauritania, is an outgrowth off the OSCE's Combating Intolerance and Discrimination and Promoting Mutual Respect and Understanding, an initiative launched in 2003 to combat the perceived recent growth of anti-Semitism and other forms of intolerance in Europe. Israel has diplomatic relations with Egypt, Jordan and Mauritania and limited trade and exchanges with Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. The meeting comes as the United States is nudging Arab nations to improve ties with Israel in the wake of renewed Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. Members of the OSCE, a 55-nation grouping of European and North American nations promoting security in Europe, will also send delegates.
Among those representing the United States will be Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.), the chairman of the congressional Helsinki Commission, which monitors human rights. Over the past year, in my travel to the region and in meetings that I have held with representatives of our Mediterranean Partners, I have continued to urge that the annual OSCE Mediterranean Conference be held in Israel, Hastings said in a statement. I am quite pleased that it will be taking place there this year.Hastings plans to meet Prime Minister Ehud Olmert while in Israel.
Jordan's King Abdullah tells MEPs of 'growing hope' in the Mideast EJP Updated: 13/Dec/2007 16:16
King Abdullah of Jordan at the European Parliament in Strasbourg: Second chances are rare.
STRASBOURG (EJP)---Jordan’s King Abdullah told the European Parliament that the recent Annapolis Mideast peace conference has created a growing hope in the region. In an address to MEPs on Wednesday during the plenary session of the parliament, the King said a critical opportunity is before us. For the first time in years, we see movement toward a permanent settlement and an independent, sovereign, viable Palestinian state, he added. Second chances are rare.He called on Europe to support the goal of peace negotiations. He defined this as a final settlement, creating an end to conflict, security for both Palestine and Israel, a sovereign, independent and viable Palestinian state. As our near neighbour, Europe shares our interest in solving this, the central crisis of our age. All sides respect Europe’s neutral role and model of regional progress and peace. For years you have been our partner in the search for solutions. He added: I have come here today to urge your active engagement, to seek your specific, practical skills and investment in the future, and to offer Jordan’s own commitment in the days of work that lie ahead.
Europe's unique experience
He reminded the MEPs that Europe has a unique experience with post-conflict recovery and reconciliation.In a bid to improve the situation on the ground, he stressed the importance of tangible results, using trade and aid to boost living conditions - particularly for Palestinians. Seeing Europe’s resolution of its past conflicts as a sign of hope for his own region, King Abdullah declared: Today, young Europeans are coming to adulthood who never knew a divided Europe. Their young counterparts, Palestinian and Israeli, have no such positive experience. They have grown up in a world of division and conflict. Now, together, we have an opportunity to remove the barriers to their future, and leave the past behind.The President of the European Parliament, Hans-Gert Poettering told the King that in the search for peace, we are on your side.The King was in Strasbourg with a delegation of leading Jordanian MPs.
EU, US deadlocked at climate change talks
By environment reporter Sarah Clarke Thu Dec 13, 2007 6:10pm AEDT
The UN says it wants a mandate that sets up talks for a new climate deal beyond 2012. (AFP: Jewel Samad)Video: Rudd orders negotiators to clinch agreement in Bali (ABC News) The European Union (EU) and the United States remain deadlocked over a key part of the text in the United Nations climate declaration.On the plenary floor, politicians continue to deliver their national statements but behind closed doors the US is lobbying countries to reject key text that calls for developed nations to commit to emission cuts of up to 40 per cent by 2020. The EU favours the text. But the United States is adamant specific figures should not be included. The UN says it wants a mandate that sets up talks for a new climate deal beyond 2012. With the US and Europe showing no signs of compromise, this meeting is expected to continue until Saturday.Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says a final Bali mandate must be agreed on at the meeting.Australia is waiting for the findings of an economics report before it declares its policy on interim targets.
But Mr Rudd says countries must agree on a Bali road map that sets up a new international climate deal when the Kyoto Protocol expires.I'd be very concerned if negotiations meant that we had any states indicating they would walk away from the process, he said.What I have instructed our negotiators to do is to spare no effort in trying to bridge the gap between developed countries and between developed and developing countries to make sure we have a robust mandate going forward.
SIGNS OF THE END OF THE AGE (NOT THE WORLD) THE WORLD GOES ON FOREVER.
GENESIS 1:5,14
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:(ISRAELS HOLY DAYS AND SABBATH STARTS AT 6PM) And for SIGNS (PROPHECY SIGNS TO HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE, OUR DAY)
SIGNS IN THE SUN, MOON AND STARS
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.
Geminid Meteor Shower peaks this week
By KAYNE CRISON, Editor, ACIE December 11, 2007
This month the red planet Mars moves westward across the Gemini Twins and by month's end is crossing the boundary of eastern Taurus. On the evening of Dec. 23 the full Moon rises very close, within one degree, of Mars as viewed by most observers. However, from the far northern latitudes of Canada and Alaska the Moon will be seen to occult, or pass in front of Mars. As the image shows, on that evening Mars will not only be close to the Moon, but Mars will also be within about two-degrees of the open star cluster, M-35. Unfortunately having a full Moon near something like M-35 means that M-35 will not be visible as its relatively dimmer light is lost in the glare from the Moon. Wait a couple of nights and go out before the Moon rises to look for M-35. It will be only a degree or two further to the east from Mars. Both are still close enough to be seen in the field of view of binoculars.
Geminid Meteor Shower
During December the other good annual meteor shower reaches its peak on Friday, December 14. While the peak is on Dec. 13 and 14, the actual meteor shower event lasts nearly two weeks, from Dec. 6 through Dec. 19. The meteors will radiate outward in all directions from the radiant which is located quite close to the star Castor. The Gemini Twins rise at about 7 p.m. and so the radiant for the meteor shower may be observed throughout the night. The constellation will still be high above the southwestern horizon at the peak time. Despite a crescent Moon rising at about 2a.m. local time the light from the waning crescent Moon will not interfere with observing meteors. The Geminids are as exciting as their summer counterpart, the Perseids, often producing a high rate of visible meteors. A meteor shower occurs as the earth, moving along its orbital path, passes through clouds of debris left behind by comets. The Geminids are unique in that they are associated with an Apollo Asteroid, 3200 Phaethon. An Apollo Asteroid is one whose orbit crosses the earth's orbit.
Rising over the eastern horizon in the early evening hours during December are the stars of the constellation Auriga, the Charioteer. Appearing as a five-sided pentagon-shape with the brilliant star Capella in the upper right corner, and the other four stars Hassaleh, Elnath, Theta and Mekalinan. It is an easy star pattern to recognize and within its boundaries are three deep-sky objects discovered by Charles Messier that can be seen under dark skies with binoculars. These are the open star clusters, M36, M37 and M38.
Each of these open star clusters shines at magnitudes that flirt with the limit of naked-eye visibility. M36, 4100 light years distant has an apparent magnitude of 6.5; M37, at a distance of 4400 light years, has an apparent magnitude of 6.0, and M38, at 4200 light years, is the faintest of the trio with an apparent magnitude of 7.0 .The brightness of all three also competes with the glow of the Milky Way in their background. While this may take away from some of their brightness, having the Milky Way to view objects against is certainly a pleasure, as this computer-generated image above illustrates. The darker the skies the better is definitely the rule here. These three star clusters are close enough together that they fit within the field of view of most binoculars.
Planetary Guide
Mercury is steadily moving eastward toward the Sun and superior conjunction on Dec. 17. It might be possible to view Mercury for the first few days this month but it will be low above the southeastern horizon shortly before sunrise. Venus starts the month about four degrees east, to the right, of the bluish star Spica. Using Spica as a reference point the daily movement of this inner, and relatively faster moving planet becomes obvious. By month's end Venus will have nearly made it to the reddish star Antares in Scorpius. Mars is very visible within the stars of the Gemini Twins. This month Mars is closest to the Earth on Dec. 19. The red planet reaches opposition on Dec. 24, and is well into its retrograde loop as it moves westward into Taurus. Jupiter is too close to the sun and will be in conjunction with the sun by Dec. 23. Watch for the giant planet to reappear in the morning skies next month. Saturn rises around midnight local time and is visible over the southern horizon around sunrise. It begins retrograde motion on Dec. 20 moving slowly westward back toward Regulus.Casa Grande Valley Newspapers Inc.2007
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.
New England digs out after record snowfall Fri Dec 14, 10:58 AM ET
BOSTON (Reuters) - New England dug out on Friday from a record-setting storm that dumped 10 inches of snow on Boston, more than the city typically sees in the entire month of December. Thursday's storm hit hours before the afternoon commute, snarling roadways and leaving some travelers -- many of whom left their offices early only to face the storm's full force on the road -- stranded for hours during their trips home. Others had to abandon their cars or sleep in them after running out of fuel, local media reported.More than 400 flights were canceled at Boston Logan International Airport.The National Weather Service said the region could expect another blast over the weekend, when a second storm is expected to drop 6 inches of snow and sleet starting on Saturday evening.
It is a powerful Northeaster, said Charlie Foley, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Taunton, Massachusetts. The difference in this storm is that it is going to occur during the overnight hours and on the weekend, so we wouldn't expect it to have the impact that this thing yesterday did.Thursday's snowfall set a new one-day record for December 13, and was more than the 7.8inches that typically falls during the entire month of December.
Foley said temperatures were expected to reach 40 degrees Fahrenheit (4 C) on Friday, warm enough to melt some of the snow.
Logan Airport had returned to normal operations by Friday, with about 41 outbound flights canceled, said spokesman Phil Orlandella.
The airlines will have to play catch up for a couple of days, Orlandella said. It's not a madhouse here, things are moving pretty well.He said airport management did not yet know how their operations would be affected by the coming weekend storm.(Editing by Eric Beech)
WFP seeks funds after Storm Olga hits Caribbean Fri Dec 14,7:21 AM ET
GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations food agency appealed on Friday for $4 million to help tens of thousands of people forced to flee their homes in the Dominican Republic after Tropical Storm Olga unleashed flash floods. The death toll from the storm, the second to hit in just over a month, reached at least 19, mostly drownings, Dominican officials said on Thursday.We need $4 million to help victims over the next six months, Christiane Berthiaume, spokeswoman of the U.N.'s World Food Programme (WFP), told a news briefing in Geneva. The WFP would issue details of the appeal later in the day, she said.Some 37,000 people had fled their homes in the Dominican Republic, which shares the Caribbean island Hispaniola with Haiti, Berthiaume said.Olga killed three more people in Cuba, Puerto Rico and Jamaica, according to a statement issued by the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.The majority of the Dominican deaths were people who drowned when a river burst its banks and flooded parts of Santiago, the Dominican Republic's second-largest city, 110 miles north of the capital Santo Domingo.It followed another storm, Noel, which killed at least 89 people, left 42 missing and caused millions of dollars in damages to roads, farming and power and water systems.(For more information on humanitarian crises and issues visit www.alertnet.org)(Reporting by Stephanie Nebehay; Editing by Caroline Drees)
Ice-storm power outages still nearly 400,000 DEC 14,07
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Utilities in the U.S. Central Plains said nearly 400,000 customers remained without power on Friday due to ice storms this week. Electric companies reported that more than 800,000 of the 1.2 million customers who lost power during ice storms this week have had power restored.As restoration efforts entered a fifth day, more than 389,000 customers remained without electric service.In Oklahoma, the hardest-hit state, OGE Energy Corp's Oklahoma Gas & Electric unit outages were falling toward 100,000 on Friday, but forecasts calling for another round of freezing weather may slow work by repair crews, said spokesman Gil Broyles.As much as four to eight inches of snow is expected to fall in northwestern Oklahoma beginning Friday afternoon, Broyles said.Snow should be less damaging to trees and power lines than freezing rain so may not increase the outage total but will make restoration efforts tougher, he said.We hope the weather won't make us take a step backward, but it may make moving forward more difficult, Broyles said.OG&E said the storm was the worst in the company's history, leaving more than 300,000 customers without power at its peak.
American Electric Power Co Inc's Public Service Co of Oklahoma said about 148,000 customers were still without power late Thursday, down from over 250,000 earlier in the week.PSO estimated it could take up to 10 days to restore power to all customers.The storm entered Oklahoma early Sunday, bringing freezing rain that accumulated as ice on trees and overhead power lines. The weight of the ice broke tree branches and pulled down power lines, cutting power.The weather system later moved across Kansas, Iowa, Missouri and Illinois, knocking out power as it went.Other utilities still working to restore power on Friday included Westar Energy Inc with 35,000 in Kansas, Aquila Inc with about 22,000 in Missouri and Empire District Electric Co with about 26,000 in Missouri and Kansas.All of the utilities in the affected area have called on repair crews from other states to help with the restoration.(Reporting by Eileen O'Grady; Editing by Christian Wiessner)
The CARMEL ALERT Dec 13th 2007
A compilation of news reports from the past week for the information of those committed to praying for Israel and the salvation of the Jewish people.
David's Comment: The Plot Thickens
The Annapolis Summit is now three weeks behind us, but the lies, manipulations and plotting to bring about the demise of Israel continue. Several key events have taken place over the last few days, that those who love for and care about Israel, need to be aware of. and pray into. Lets take a look at what the people intent on Israel's destruction are up to .........
1/ Iran's Nuclear program In the USA, until recently Israel's closest ally, the NIE (National Intelligence Estimate) report that was released last week claims that intelligence concerning Iran's program to produce a nuclear bomb. After all of the recent claims and warnings by the US government, they now claim that Iran ceased their efforts to produce Nuclear weapons 4 years ago. Intelligence experts in Israel and the UK are in total shock at the US turn around and continue to stand by their information that points to Iran racing to achieve nuclear status. Israeli jornalist Yossi Klein Halevi, wrote in his article, An Insult to Intelligence: in The New Republic: The sense of betrayal within the Israeli security system is deep. After all, Israel's great achievement in its struggle against Iran was in convincing the international community that the nuclear threat was real; now that victory has been undone--not by Russia or the European Union, but by Israel's closest ally.
2/ Permits for New Housing in Jerusalem Establishing a Jewish presence in the land of our forefathers has been the dream of the Zionists for the last 100 years. At the same time it has been the dread of those who abhor the thought of the Jewish people living in the land that was promised to Abraham and hsi descendants. One of the standard demands of every peace treaty forced upon Israel is the cessation of the construction of new homes. The Annapolis peace initiative is no different. Last week the Jerusalem City Council authorised construction permits for 300 new dwellings in the Jewish neighborhood of Har Homa on the outskirts of Jerusalem. This area is not located in disputed territory, but Condalessa Rice is not happy about the decision and is questioning Israel's right to expand the Har Homa neighborhood. We read in Ezekiel 36 7 37 that it is the will of the Lord that all the Jews return to the land their ancestors once dwelt in, Judea and Samaria ( the West Bank) being the heart of the land in question. So who do these politicians think they are denying the Jewish people the right to live on their own land ?
3/ Confiscating the Settlers Guns The other issue in the news is that the Israeli police are in the process of confiscating the guns that West Bank settlers have always been permitted to carry for self-defense against being attacked by the so called Palestinians. One doesnt have to be a brain surgeon to figure out why the government is trying to disarm the settlers. Israel's defacto leaders, George Bush and Condalessa Rice have deemed that there will be a Palestinian State by the end of 2008. For that to become a reality (which we will continue to pray will not happen), Israel will need to evacuate more than 100,000 Jewish residents. The West Bank settlers will not be as docile as the Gaza settlers were, and the last thing the government wants is gunfire fights between armed Jewish settlers and Jewish IDF soldiers. It is obvious that this drive to take their weapons now is one of the first preparations for the US designed and demanded ethnic cleansing of Judea and Samaria.
4/ Russian Immigrants Being Lured Back In a bizarre turn of events... after so much effort over 30 years by Israeli and Western Jewish and Christian politicians, lobby groups and aid organizations, about 100,00 CIS emmigrants who went to Israel have returned back to the former Soviet Union! And Putin is overtly soliticing more with economic incentives (for those who are highly educated). Well, I guess Pharaoh also realized he couldn't run his country very well after his best workers all took off! But Putin knows that the carrot of money works better than the rod of forceful coercion... Yet he may meet the same end if he interferes with God's prophetic plan!
All four of the above issues are about hindering the restoration of Israel.
The Plot is Definately Thickening !
Lets pray that these schemes and conspiracies will become obvious to the Jewish people and that they will not allow themselves to be manipulated out of their God-given inheritance. Lets also pray that the George Bush and Rice will come under conviction of the God they claim to believe in, and will cease from this dangerous folly that endangers both Israel and the nations that conspire against her.
The Lord bless you as you bless Israel by standing in defense of her right to exist on the land given to the Jewish people by the God of Israel . Lets pray that Israel will turn back to their God. Do not be silent, but share this with your fellow Christians, share it with your pastors, and with anyone you have a chance to speak to. Lets also pray for that breakthrough to the Muslims, and please remember to pray for our son Jordan, and all of his fellow soldiers in the IDF.
Shabbat Shalom ... David & Josie SILVER
EU leaders sign Charter of Fundamental Rights
www.chinaview.cn 2007-12-13 04:32:15
BRUSSELS, Dec. 12 (Xinhua) -- European Union (EU) leaders signed Wednesday the Charter of Fundamental Rights at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France. The document was signed by Jose Socrates, prime minister of Portugal which holds the rotating EU presidency, and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and European Parliament President Hans-Gert Pottering. Dec. 12 will be a fundamental date in the history of the European Union, said Socrates. This charter is a commitment to European values.
The charter, which currently has no legal force, is part of the new EU treaty -- the Lisbon Treaty -- to be signed Thursday in the Portuguese capital. It brings together a range of European human-rights texts into a single document for the first time in history.
The charter will only apply to 25 EU nations, excluding Britain and Poland, which have decided to opt out amid concerns that the European Court of Justice could use the document to impose certain rights in their countries.Editor: Mu Xuequan
EU DICTATOR (WORLD LEADER)
REVELATION 17:12-13
12 And the ten horns (NATIONS) which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
13 These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
REVELATION 6:1-2
1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
2 And I saw, and behold a white horse:(PEACE) and he that sat on him had a bow;(EU DICTATOR) and a crown was given unto him:(PRESIDENT OF THE EU) and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.(MILITARY GENIUS)
REVELATION 13:1-10
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.(THE EU AND ITS DICTATOR IS GODLESS)
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.(DICTATOR COMES FROM NEW AGE OR OCCULT)
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death;(MURDERERD) and his deadly wound was healed:(COMES BACK TO LIFE) and all the world wondered after the beast.(THE WORLD THINKS ITS GOD IN THE FLESH, MESSIAH TO ISRAEL)
4 And they worshipped the dragon (SATAN) which gave power unto the beast:(JEWISH EU DICTATOR) and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?(FALSE RESURRECTION,SATAN BRINGS HIM TO LIFE)
5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.(GIVEN WORLD CONTROL FOR 3 1/2YRS)
6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God,(HES A GOD HATER) to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.(HES A LIBERAL OR DEMOCRAT,WILL PUT ANYTHING ABOUT GOD DOWN)
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints,(BEHEAD THEM) and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.(WORLD DOMINATION)
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.(WORLD DICTATOR)
9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.(SAVED CHRISTIANS AND JEWS DIE FOR THEIR FAITH AT THIS TIME,NOW WE ARE SAVED BY GRACE BUT DURING THE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH, PEOPLE WILL BE PUT TO DEATH (BEHEADINGS) FOR THEIR BELIEF IN GOD (JESUS) OR THE BIBLE.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come (ROMANS IN AD 70) shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMANS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
27 And he( EU ROMAN, JEWISH DICTATOR) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:( 7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,( 3 1/2 YRS) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
NOW THAT THE LISBON TREATY IS SIGNED WHICH I THINK GUARENTEES A PERMANANT PRESIDENT NOW, LOOKOUT FOR THE EU TO CONTROL THE PEACE PROCESS AND SEND TROOPS INTO ISRAEL TO GET THE ROADMAP ON TRACK.
Treaty on Running European Union Is Signed DEC 14,07By STEPHEN CASTLE and GRAHAM BOWLEY (NYTIMES)
BRUSSELS — Gathering in a 16th-century monastery in Lisbon, European Union leaders signed a new treaty on Thursday that changes the way the 27-member bloc is run. Those changes include the creation of a permanent post of European Union president to represent Europe on the world stage.The treaty replaces the failed attempt to create a European constitution, which foundered after French and Dutch voters rejected it in referendums two years ago.
The post of president, with a term of two and a half years, will replace the unwieldy system by which European Union leaders and nations rotate holding the presidency every six months. The new treaty also alters the way decisions are made in the union. More decisions will be made by majority vote instead of by unanimous agreement, a threshold that critics said had hindered the union’s reaction to some major issues. Foreign policy duties will be concentrated in a single new representative.The European leaders hailed the treaty, saying it would help the union overcome the political drift that has troubled it since the humbling defeats in the referendums in France and the Netherlands in 2005. Its main achievements so far have included a common currency, the euro, in 13 member states; open borders among Continental members; and the extension of membership to several former Communist countries in 2004.
Europe was blocked, not knowing how to move forward, and we found the solution, said José Sócrates, the Portuguese prime minister and the ceremony’s host. Portugal holds the union’s six-month presidency.The president of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, said, By resolving its institutional matters, Europe is readying itself to address global problems.The treaty was signed in the Jerónimos Monastery while a choir sang Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy. It will take effect after being ratified by all 27 countries in the European Union, a process that should be completed by 2009 —if Ireland agrees. During the process of trying to approve a constitution, many countries planned referendums, but only Ireland will put the new treaty to a popular vote. In the other 26 countries, parliamentary ratification seems more certain. In a sign of the lingering schisms between countries, and the ambivalence that some governments feel toward the process of European integration, the British prime minister, Gordon Brown, missed the signing ceremony. It was widely perceived as a snub to Britain’s neighbors.Blaming a scheduling clash, Mr. Brown — alone among the leaders — arrived late and signed the treaty alone. The European Union is deeply unpopular among some sections of the British public, as it is in several other European countries, and Britain’s popular press is skeptical about the benefits of European integration and the surrender of national sovereignty.
Mr. Brown’s absence from the ceremony enraged supporters of the European Union. It’s a complete and absolute scandal, said Andrew Duff, a pro-European Liberal Democrat member of the European Parliament. Likely contenders for the new presidency include Tony Blair, the former British prime minister; Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen of Denmark; Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker of Luxembourg; and a former Polish president, Aleksander Kwasniewski.
Stephen Castle reported from Brussels, and Graham Bowley from New York.
Blatter claims EU treaty favours foreign player capping DEC 14,07
It does not look good if you have a club in a country and there are no national players on the team' Richard Aikman and agencies
Friday December 14, 2007 Guardian Unlimited
Blatter believes foreign player capping will soon be permissible by EU law. Photograph: Michael Regan/Action Images .The Fifa president Sepp Blatter believes that the European Union's Lisbon Treaty will allow the game's governing body to cap foreign players in domestic leagues.The agreement, which was signed by all 27 nations that comprise the EU in the Portuguese capital yesterday, replaces Europe's ill-fated constitution and will abolish many national vetoes, especially in areas of justice and criminal affairs. It will also reduce the size of the European commission, give the EU a sitting president and foreign policy chief, and eventually change the voting clout of EU countries to reflect their size.Along with a growing number of high-profile coaches and administrators, Blatter has long waged a battle against clubs who fill their starting line-ups with players from overseas and the Fifa president believes the new treaty will see sporting associations become exempt from the employment laws that give workers freedom of movement across the continent. That would allow Fifa to proceed with plans which will see teams forced to field at least six home-grown players at all times.
You have people like Sir Alex Ferguson and Roy Keane, the coach of Sunderland, and Franz Beckenbauer and [Johan] Cruyff and [Uefa president Michel] Platini all working in the right direction and we are working for the identity of football, said Blatter. They have accepted a new treaty in Europe and they discussed the specificity of sport and its statutes are guaranteed. We don't want to fight any laws or authority but we want football to exist as a good family.Blatter stressed the national identity of a club is lost if overseas-born players dominate and that England's failure to qualify for Euro 2008 had given the issue a higher profile. We have to maintain, if not the local idea of a club then at least the national identity of a club, he said. It does not look good if you have a club in a country and there are no national players on the team.Blatter claimed recent events in England had led to a sea change in opinion. This matter has been brought up by the Fifa president two or three years ago, but it has started now, he said. Why? Because something has happened in the motherland of football, England.They have not qualified for Euro 2008 and some have said that there are too many foreign players in the league. This discussion is going on in the Fifa strategic committee. We will have a look at some of these items and, at the next Fifa congress in Sydney, we will come out with a proposal that six plus five can be, will be and must be accepted by the Fifa congress.
European Union leaders hold end-of-year summit in Brussels
Brussels, Dec 14: European Union (EU) leaders arrived in Brussels Friday for a summit expected to focus on latest developments in Kosovo and on longer term issues such as globalisation and the shape of the bloc in 20 years' time.The traditional end-of-year meeting comes just a day after prime ministers and heads of state gathered in Lisbon to sign a landmark treaty designed to improve the European Union's decision-making process.Diplomats say Thursday's signing ceremony officially ended months of discussions and years of navel-gazing by EU leaders, allowing them to move on to deal with real issues.Real issues on the agenda of Friday's meeting include plans by Kosovo, a predominantly ethnic-Albanian province, to declare independence from Serbia.Some EU countries, divided Cyprus in particular, strongly oppose recognizing an independent Kosovo for fear that it might encourage other ethnic minorities to do the same.
EU leaders were not expected to reach unanimity on how to react to Kosovo's secessionist plans Friday, but were nevertheless expected to conclude that the province constitutes a sui generis case that would not set a precedent.Prime ministers and heads of state were also expected to discuss the EU's planned Galileo satellite navigation system as well as broader issues such as migration, climate change and the recent turmoil on the international financial markets.But perhaps the most potentially divisive discussion Friday's agenda concerns the creation of a so-called reflection group, an independent think tank of high-profile Europeans proposed by French President Nicolas Sarkozy to discuss the challenges that the Union will face between 2020 and 2030.
The reflection group will examine how the stability and prosperity of both the Union and of the wider region might best be served in the longer term, according to a draft of the summit's conclusions.
Britain, Sweden and other member states fear that the group will be used by France to shut and lock the EU doors to Turkey. Potential candidates for the role of group leader include Latvia's former president Vaira Vike-Freiberga, former head of Nokia Jorma Ollila, Spain's former premier Felipe Gonzalez, head of Italy's Unicredit banking group Alessandro Profumo, and former president of the European Parliament Pat Cox. --- IANS
EU leaders to hail benefits of globalisation
14.12.2007 - 09:27 CET | By Renata Goldirova
Now that the EU's six-year long institutional impasse has ended, the 27-nation bloc is turning its attention to the outside challenge of globalisation – something that is to be highlighted by a fresh declaration at today's EU summit, suggesting the phenomenon should become a source of opportunity rather than a threat. Globalisation is increasingly shaping our lives by fostering the exchange of people, goods, services and ideas and by offering new opportunities to citizens and business, states the opening paragraph of the EU declaration on globalisation, seen by EUobserver. The paper continues by saying that greater trade flows and economic growth have increased prosperity, transforming the lifestyles of Europe's citizens and lifting millions worldwide out of poverty.
The idea to have a specific declaration on the economic benefits of globalised economies is mainly attributed to UK prime minister Gordon Brown, who once described properly-managed globalisation as a force for good. The union has always promoted free trade and openness as a means to foster growth, employment and development for itself and its trading partners and intends to continue taking the lead in this domain, the text says, clearly reflecting the liberal economic philosophy pursued by London. The declaration has also been welcomed in some of the countries that joined the EU club in 2004, with one diplomat from a new member state telling EUobserver that we felt that the effects of globalisation had sometime been wrongly attributed to EU enlargement. Globalisation will not disappear and therefore, the EU should take an advantage of it, the diplomat added. Nevertheless, the declaration takes into account some concerns about the phenomenon, expressed mainly in Paris. The European Union will press for increasingly open markets which should lead to reciprocal benefits (...) Our partners must also demonstrate openness, on the basis of internationally agreed rules, in particular as concerns fair competition and the protection of intellectual property rights, the paper states. The wording is a clear response to France's aim to protect home-grown industries from cheap imports as well as to its push for the so-called principle of reciprocity, meaning trading partners should open their markets as much as the EU does.
Let's not be naive, we must demand a reciprocity, president Nicolas Sarkozy said in October, when the issue was debated by EU leaders for the first time. He complained about the environmental and social requirements placed upon EU businesses, but not followed by their non-European competitors. We have to remind others there are rights as well as obligations, he said, singling out Russia and China.In general, the declaration - to be adopted later on Friday (14 December) - is widely seen as a bargain between the UK and France, as Mr Sarkozy needed London's approval for his own idea to set up a reflection group designed to sketch the best political recipe for how to deal with Europe's future major challenges.
COULD THIS GROUP HEADED BY A FORMER SPANISH PRIME MINISTER BE THE SANHEDRIN OF THE EU................
Skeptic on Turkey to chair EU wise panel Fri Dec 14, 2007 1:33pm By Darren Ennis and William Schomberg
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders on Friday named former Spanish Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez, a past critic of Turkey's EU membership bid, to head a reflection group to study the long-term future of the 27-nation bloc.The panel was the brainchild of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, a vehement opponent of Turkish accession, who first called in August for the EU to create a group of wise people to consider Europe's final borders.The mandate has since been changed to look at the future of Europe in 2020-2030, focusing mostly on the economic challenges of globalization.In this new European dream, the question of borders is bound to be posed, not simply first of all the question of Turkey but should Europe set borders or not, the French leader told a news conference after an EU summit.Sarkozy may have scored a point by stealth with the choice of Gonzalez, a socialist who ran Spain from 1982 to 1996 and voiced skepticism three years ago about incorporating the large, poor, mostly Muslim country into the EU.
Spanish newspapers quoted the ex-premier in May 2004 as telling a Universal Forum of Cultures in Barcelona there were limits to the enlargement of Europe, which should stop at the borders of Turkey because of social and cultural differences.Asked about those comments, Gonzalez's spokesman Joaquin Tagar told Reuters in Madrid on Friday: He was just expressing a theoretical opinion, not taking a definite position on the matter. He was just pointing out the difference between European and Turkish culture.Pressed to say what Gonzalez's position on Turkey's candidacy was now, he said: What he has been saying in recent times is that if the European Union has a commitment to Turkey, it should honor it.
WHERE DOES EUROPE END?
In Ankara, a Turkish Foreign Ministry official said: The mandate of the wise men group was very important for us and apparently Turkey was excluded. So with regard to Turkey's EU process, it's not very important for us who chairs the group.The reflection group, which will number no more than nine members, is mandated to look at the stability and prosperity of the Union and of the wider region.The formulation deliberately left open whether Turkey would be part of the Union or the wider region in 2020-2030.The panel will also look at issues such as energy, climate change and justice matters. It is due to report its findings to EU leaders in June 2010.Former Latvian president Vaira Vike-Freiberga and Jorma Ollila, the chairman of mobile phone giant Nokia, were named as the two vice-chairs of the panel.Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero voiced delight at the choice of his political mentor for the key chairman role, and said it had not been ruled out that the group could discuss the EU's borders.
It's not excluded that there is a reflection about what the size of Europe should be in the future, he told reporters.British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said it was extremely partial to describe Gonzalez as being against Turkey's EU membership.Some politicians were critical of the choice of a leader from the 1980s to study the EU's future.If you ever wanted to see Jurassic Park in reality, then this appointment (of Gonzalez) is just that, Graham Watson, leader of the Liberal Democrat group in the European Parliament.It's not about age, but all three of the panel so far represent old Europe.(Additional reporting by Jason Webb in Madrid, Yves Clarisse and Ingrid Melander in Brussels; Writing by Paul Taylor; Editing by Ibon Villelabeitia)
EU Treaty main points DEC 14,07
Here are some of the main points of the European Union's new Treaty of Lisbon: It incorporates the key reforms in the constitution but it discards the name.The Charter of Fundamental Rights becomes legally binding - in all the member states except Britain and Poland, which negotiated exemptions.There is also a provision that if a million citizens petition the European Commission, it will propose legislation in the field concerned.
A new foreign policy chief with EU staff will give the bloc a greater say on the world stage. The High Representative will answer to EU governments and be a vice-president of the European Commission, with power over the EU external aid budget. A NATO-style mutual defence clause in case one of the member states is attacked is another of the foreign policy features.Voting at the member state level will be based on a double majority system, from 2017. A decision, to pass, will need 55 percent of the countries' support.At the moment this means 15 of them.These have to represent 65 percent of the EU's population. The Ioannina decisional delay provision especially important for Poland - in lieu of greater voting weight - becomes valid at this time.
The redistribution of seats in the European Parliament has been adjusted under a reform agreed in the assembly. This reshuffle for an enlarged EU reflects population changes. The treaty raises the total number of seats to 750 but it does not count the parliament's president.Like the constitution, the treaty aims to streamline the number of members in the EU executive college, or European Commission. It says the number of commissioners will be reduced from 27 to 15 by the year 2014. Its head will be named according to the results of European elections, this needing endorsement by a parliamentary vote.
The EU leaders will choose a president of the European Council for a 2-1/2 year renewable term.This does away with the current six-month rotating presidency - today assumed by a country. In the future an individual will chair the agenda and summits.Also left out is the flag commonly associated with the EU, formerly the European Communities, which adopted the banner in the 1980s. The Lisbon Treaty also makes no mention of the anthem symbol, Ode to Joy.
EUROPEAN UNION ARMY
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.( BE HEAD OF 3 NATIONS)
25 And he (EU PRESIDENT) shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.(3 1/2 YRS)
DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.
DANIEL 11:36-39
36 And the king (EU DICTATOR) shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS JEWISH) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.(CLAIM TO BE GOD)
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(WAR) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god,(DESTROY TERROR GROUPS) whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.
REVELATION 19:19
19 And I saw the beast,(EU LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse,(JESUS) and against his army.(THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)
Kasicky: EU and NATO Have Found Ways to Finance Joint Operations
Bratislava, December 12 (TASR-SLOVAKIA) - Mechanisms have already been found within NATO and EU to finance the deployment of units of individual member countries in joint operations, Slovak Defence Minister Frantisek Kasicky said after the Government session on Wednesday.According to him, in the case of the EU this concerns the so-called Athena project. At every ministerial meeting, we're pushing for this project valid for 2007-2008 to continue also in 2009, because our first contribution to the EU Battle Groups will only be in 2009, said Kasicky.As for NATO, Kasicky said that a Slovak initiative has also added impetus to the development of the Rapid Reaction Forces project.Kasicky added that the latest meeting of EU defence ministers in the Netherlands decided that a specific project for financing military units will be submitted at the next meeting.msm/df/tb
EU Presidency Statement - CFE Treaty
jeudi 13 décembre 2007
Following the decision of the Russian Federation to suspend the implementation of the CFE Treaty, taking effect as of 12 December 2007, and taking into account the declaration issued today in Moscow by the Ministry of Defence, the EU Presidency reiterates that the EU considers the CFE Treaty as the cornerstone of security and stability in Europe.The EU Presidency urges Russia to continue to engage with CFE partners in the search for an acceptable solution to the outstanding concerns of all State parties related to the implementation of the CFE Treaty. Constructive proposals which have been presented so far to solve the current situation should continue to be pursued.eu2007.pt
FIIA: no wartime help for Finland without NATO Only temporary damage to Finnish-Russian relations from joining alliance
DEC 14,07
According to an assessment issued on Tuesday by the Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA), Finland should join NATO only if it is ready to defend other member states of the alliance against an attack. If Finland's political decision-makers and its citizens do not feel that an attack on Istanbul, Washington, or Tallinn would be so significant that Finland should immediately offer its help, possibly also in the form of sending military units, Finland should not become a member of NATO, the report states. According to the writers, in such a case, Finns should not expect other countries to come to their aid if Finland is attacked. The FIIA text gives a cautiously NATO-positive background analysis of the development of NATO and its links with Finland.
In the introduction to the report, FIIA director Raimo Väyrynen writes that the ten experts who took part in the project had sharply differing views of Finnish foreign policy when they began their work. The text, edited by FIIA researcher Charly Salonius-Pasternak, assesses the enlargement of NATO, its new tasks, the role of the United States in NATO, and the alliance's interaction with other systems. FIIA does not see that NATO is getting any alternatives as a defence alliance. The common European defence will continue to be organised exclusively through national solutions, as well as NATO, the assessment concludes. Decisions on NATO will have to be made in Finland and elsewhere on the basis of inadequate information, because NATO is changing. According to the report, Finnish membership in the alliance would probably cause only temporary damage to relations between Finland and Russia.
FIIA has worked on its report at the same time that another assessment is being produced at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
The Foreign Ministry report is to come out next week, once it has been presented to the foreign affairs committee of the President and government.
Minister of Defence Jyri Häkämies (Nat. Coalition Party) feels that when discussing the NATO issue, the implications of the security guarantees of the European Union should be known.
These matters need to be examined alongside each other, and not separately, Häkämies says. In his view, it would be especially important, when pondering NATO membership, to know what the large EU countries feel about the EU security guarantees. Foreign Ministry official Teija Tiilikainen is currently drafting a report on EU security guarantees, which is expected to be ready in March.
Defence Minister Häkämies feels that the first question in the NATO debate is if Finland needs security guarantees in case of a military attack. If we want security guarantees, we need to know how the EU will implement them. If the EU plans to implement security guarantees through NATO, it would be a significant piece of information in the NATO debate, Häkämies says.
MUSLIM NATIONS
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
Russia to complete Iran's atom plant
By David Blair, Diplomatic Correspondent
Last Updated: 2:22am GMT 14/12/2007
Iran's nuclear programme has reached a crucial milestone after Russia and Teheran agreed a timetable for completing a long-delayed reactor.The two countries have agreed to activate the Bushehr nuclear power station, which Russian technicians have been building on Iran's Gulf coast.This facility, forming the centrepiece of Iran's atomic energy programme, is being used as a cover for Teheran's covert effort to build nuclear weapons, according to Western governments.America has repeatedly urged the Kremlin to stop building Bushehr - and Russia has often dragged its feet on completing the project.But Moscow appears to have changed its mind and decided to press ahead. We have resolved all the problems with the Iranians, said Sergei Shmatko, the president of the state-controlled nuclear energy company, Atomstroiexport, which is constructing Bushehr.Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, said that Bushehr would comply with all International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards. These are designed to ensure its use for civilian purposes only.
Al-Qaida No. 2 critical of peace parley By MAGGIE MICHAEL, Associated Press Writer DEC 14,07
CAIRO, Egypt - Al-Qaida's deputy leader denounced last month's Mideast peace conference in Annapolis, Md., as a betrayal of Palestinians in a new audio message posted Friday on an Islamic militant Web site, It was the first reaction by the terrorist network to the Mideast conference, sponsored by President Bush and attended by key Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia, Syria and Egypt, as well as Palestinian and Israeli leaders.The conference relaunched Palestinian-Israeli peace talks after a seven year hiatus — a key breakthrough in the region's core conflict.The Annapolis meeting was held to turn Palestine into a Jewish state, the voice, purported to be that of Ayman al-Zawahri, said the 20-minute posting that carried a still photo of the white-turbaned militant against a backdrop of a photograph from the conference.
The czar of Washington invited 16 Arab countries ... to sit in one room, at one table with the Israelis, al-Zawahri said, adding that the conference witnessed the betrayal deals to sell Palestine.The authenticity of the posting could not be independently confirmed, but the voice was recognizable as that of al-Zawahri. It was posted by al-Qaida's media arm, Al-Sahab, on a site where it usually releases its messages.The site also had a banner advertising an upcoming interview of al-Zawahri by Al-Sahab, with a picture of him in a white traditional Arab robe and white turban, seated before a bookshelf. Such advertisements are usually posted up to 72 hours before the message is released.Al-Zawahri mainly addressed Arabs, urging them to condemn the Annapolis conference and label Mahmoud Abbas as the traitor, adding that the Palestinian brother-president sold you out in Annapolis and in its aftermath.It's time now, he said, for the Muslims to extent hands to other jihad brothers a likely reference to militants beyond the Middle East.
My brothers in Palestine, we, all Muslims, the Mujahedeen are by your side, in your confrontation with the Zionist enemy, al-Zawahri said. We will not let you down even if your politicians do.
He also criticized imprisoned Islamic militants in Egypt, who after years in jail turned away from their militant stance. Those revisionists are in fact calling for a new American religion that violates God's rules, he said.A top jailed Jihad leader, Sayed Imam, last month announced his Revisions — a recanting of his past calls for the use of force to overthrow Arab governments seen by militants as infidels.Egypt is hoping the Revisions will diminish support for militancy but al-Qaida leaders have dismissed similar past recantations as forced on imprisoned militants.I am addressing the Muslim nation in Egypt in particular: where is your role in confronting aggression on Islam and Muslims? al-Zawahri said. Stand up and ... be aware of the poisons of weakness and submission which the traitor regime is trying to inject into you through the tongues of the revisionists.He called on Egyptian soldiers and also Bedouin tribes in Egypt's Sinai peninsula to rise against the rule of President Hosni Mubarak.God wants you to get ready, for the sake of God, al-Zawahri said.Al-Zawahri — seen by many counterterrorism experts to be al-Qaida's operational chief, rather than bin Laden — is believed to play a large role in directing al-Qaida's strategy on the ground and issues frequent videos an audiotapes, often laying out the network's doctrinal line.In most recent postings, al-Zawahri sought to galvanize fighters from North Africa to Afghanistan in a September video. In an audiotape in July, he threatened to retaliate against Britain for having honored novelist Salman Rushdie and railed against Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf.
JERUSALEM DIVIDED
ZECHARIAH 12:1-5 King James Bible
1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
ZECHARIAH 14:1-9 King James Bible
1 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south. 5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.
6 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:
7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
8 And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.
9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.
Barak Agreed To Hand Temple Mount & Yesha to Arabs in 2000 Talks by Hana Levi Julian DEC 14,07
(IsraelNN.com) According to a document brought out of mothballs seven years after it was signed, Defense Minister Ehud Barak – then Prime Minister of Israel – agreed to transfer the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, Judaism's holiest site, to Arab sovereignty.
The document entitled The Status of the Diplomatic Process with the Palestinians - Points to Update the Incoming Prime Minister outlined the many points of disagreement between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), but noted significant agreement on at least three core issues. The talks at Camp David and Taba in 2000 and 2001 resulted in agreements on the issues of borders, refugees and Jerusalem, according to a 26-page document obtained by the Ha'aretz news service.Signed by Gilad Sher, bureau chief to then-Prime Minister Ehud Barak, the document included plans for an initiated separation in the event that talks would break down. It was the precursor to Israel's plan to withdraw from Gaza, which was carried out in then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's 2005 Disengagement operation, and to withdraw from Judea and Samaria which the current government is planning.All aspects of life were to be covered in a plan that was to be carried out over a number of years -- leaving enough time for adjustment and change as conditions warranted, including updated negotiations. The document indicated the cabinet gave its final approval for the plan in October 2000.On December 23, 2000, then-US President Bill Clinton sent a document entitled The Ideas Raised by President Clinton to Israel and the PA.
Those ideas were for Israel to annex 4 to 6% of Judea and Samaria for Jewish settlement, with 94-96% of the region going to a PA state, providing that Israel allow all PLO Arabs free passage through Israel. The Temple Mount would go to the PLO, with the Western Wall, the City of David, the Mount of Olives and other holy sites being given to Israel.According to Ha'aretz, Israel told Clinton that it wanted a special authority to ensure freedom of worship to Jews and Muslims at Jerusalem holy sites. In the Israeli response, Barak stated that the Jewish population of Judea and Samaria would not fit into Clinton's proposed annexed territory. He also stated that Israel should be in charge of securing safe passage to all worshippers at the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hevron, Joseph's Tomb in Shechem, and Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem. Barak and Clinton agreed to keep Israel's seven-page response a secret, but Barak sent letters before he left office to Clinton, George W. Bush, Yasser Arafat and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak saying that Israel was not bound by Clinton's manifesto. Recently Barak, who is now the Defense Minister and Labor party chairman, has said he is advocating a plan to entice Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria to leave their homes in exchange for financial compensation.
FROM WND'S JERUSALEM BUREAU
Revealed: Israel agreed to forfeit Temple Mount
Documents detail ex-Israeli leader's deal handing Judaism's holiest site to Yasser Arafat December 13, 2007 11:09 a.m. Eastern
By Aaron Klein 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
Temple Mount
JERUSALEM – In spite of longstanding denials by top officials here, the Israeli government in 2000 agreed to relinquish the Temple Mount – Judaism's holiest site – to the Palestinians during U.S.-backed negotiations, according to declassified documents made public today. The information comes as Prime Minister Ehud Olmert earlier this month denied talks started at November's Annapolis summit would lead to Israel giving up its sovereignty over the Temple Mount, while chief Palestinian negotiators tell WND the Jewish state already agreed to forfeit Judaism's holiest site to a coalition of Arab countries. According to declassified Israeli government documents published today by Israel's Haaretz newspaper, during U.S.-led negotiations in 2000 at Camp David, Ehud Barak, then prime minister, agreed sovereignty over the Temple Mount would be either ambiguous or control would be determined based on the bond of each party to the site. The Palestinians would therefore control the upper sections of the Mount, which houses the Al Aqsa Mosque and also is the site of the First and Second Jewish Temples.
The 2000 negotiations fell through after Palestinian President Yasser Arafat rejected an offer of a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and eastern sections of Jerusalem. Barak at times denied he offered the Temple Mount to the Palestinians, but he also indicated during interviews he was willing to compromise over the site. Haaretz published excerpts from a 26-page document it obtained, signed by Barak's negotiator Gilad Sher and said to be summaries of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. The document was titled The Status of the Diplomatic Process with the Palestinians Points to Update the Incoming Prime Minister. Sher also wrote in his book published after the 2000 negotiations, titled Beyond Reach, that President Bill Clinton floated a plan that called for the Temple Mount to become Palestinian sovereign territory, while the Western Wall below and its complex would fall under Israeli sovereignty.
Barak was said to have initially rejected that plan, but according to participants at the negotiations summit, he was ultimately willing to forfeit the Temple Mount. The 26-page document published by Haaretz also said Barak was willing to give up most of the West Bank and split Jerusalem into two capitals, one called Jerusalem and another Al-Quds. Negotiations would have seen Arab sections of Jerusalem being turned over to the Palestinians. The release of the document follow's last month's Annapolis summit at which Olmert committed to aim at creating a Palestinian state before the end of next year, handing strategic territory to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. In a briefing to reporters upon returning to Israel from Annapolis, Olmert claimed Israel's sovereignty over the Temple Mount is not up for discussion. He said negotiations started at this week's Annapolis summit had no bearing on the situation on the Temple Mount. But a chief Palestinian negotiator, speaking to WND on condition of anonymity, said Olmert's denials were false.What Olmert said (regarding the Mount) is absolutely false. I think he's not yet ready to tell the Israeli public and is waiting for the right time, and he fears his coalition with religious extremists will fall apart if he announces it now, said the negotiator. Olmert's maintains a government coalition with the religious Shas party and Russian Yisroel Beiteinu party, but if those two bolt, the prime minister could create a new coalition with leftist parties.
The chief Palestinian negotiator said that in the months leading up to Annapolis, the Palestinian team was surprised by Olmert's willingness to give up the Mount. We had intense debates on many topics, which remain open and unsettled, but the Harem Al-Sharif (Temple Mount) is not a sticking point. The Israelis didn't argue with us. We were pleasantly surprised Olmert didn't debate about giving the lower section of the [Mount] either, which was a sticking point in the past.According to the negotiator, Olmert agreed to evacuate the Mount but not to turn it over to the Palestinians alone. The negotiator said both sides agreed, the Temple Mount would be given to joint Egypt, Jordan and Palestinian Authority control. He said the Israeli government felt an umbrella group of several Arab countries controlling the holy site instead of only the PA would help ease Israeli domestic opposition to giving up the Temple Mount, since Egypt and Jordan are considered by Israeli policy to be moderate countries. The Palestinian negotiator pointed out Israeli prime ministers previously denied withdrawal plans only to later carry them out. Former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, elected on a platform against evacuating territory, denied for his first year in office he would retreat from the Gaza Strip, but in 2005 he carried out a Gaza withdrawal.
Israel bars Jews, Christians from praying on Mount
The Temple Mount is the holiest site in Judaism. Muslims say it is their third holiest site. The First Jewish Temple was built by King Solomon in the 10th century B.C. It was destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 B.C. The Second Temple was rebuilt in 515 B.C. after Jerusalem was freed from Babylonian captivity. That temple was destroyed by the Roman Empire in A.D. 70. Each temple stood for a period of about four centuries. The Jewish Temple was the center of religious Jewish worship. It housed the Holy of Holies, which contained the Ark of the Covenant and was said to be the area upon which God's presence dwelt. The Al Aqsa Mosque now sits on the site. The Temple served as the primary location for the offering of sacrifices and was the main gathering place in Israel during Jewish holidays. The Temple Mount compound has remained a focal point for Jewish services over the millennia. Prayers for a return to Jerusalem have been uttered by Jews since the Second Temple was destroyed, according to Jewish tradition. Jews worldwide pray facing toward the Western Wall, a portion of an outer courtyard of the Temple left intact. The Al Aqsa Mosque was constructed around A.D. 709 to serve as a shrine near another shrine, the Dome of the Rock, which was built by an Islamic caliph. Al Aqsa was meant to mark where Muslims came to believe Muhammad, the founder of Islam, ascended to heaven. Jerusalem is not mentioned in the Quran. Islamic tradition states Muhammad took a journey in a single night from a sacred mosque – believed to be in Mecca in southern Saudi Arabia – to the farthest mosque and from a rock there ascended to heaven. The farthest mosque later became associated with the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. Currently under Israeli control, Jews and Christians are barred from praying on the Mount.
The Temple Mount was opened to the general public until September 2000, when the Palestinians started their intifada by throwing stones at Jewish worshipers after then-candidate for prime minister Ariel Sharon visited the area. Following the onset of violence, the new Sharon government closed the Mount to non-Muslims, using checkpoints to control all pedestrian traffic for fear of further clashes with the Palestinians. The Temple Mount was reopened to non-Muslims in August 2003. It still is open but only Sundays through Thursdays, 7:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m., and not on any Christian, Jewish or Muslim holidays or other days considered sensitive by the Waqf. During open days, Jews and Christian are allowed to ascend the Mount, usually through organized tours and only if they conform first to a strict set of guidelines, which includes demands that they not pray or bring any holy objects to the site. Visitors are banned from entering any of the mosques without direct Waqf permission. Rules are enforced by Waqf agents, who watch tours closely and alert nearby Israeli police to any breaking of their guidelines.
HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
FAMINE
REVELATION 6:5-6
5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.
Stocks fall on startling inflation jump By TIM PARADIS, AP Business Writer DEC 14,07
NEW YORK - Stocks sold off Friday after a jump in consumer inflation raised concerns about how much freedom the Federal Reserve has to continue cutting interest rates. The Dow Jones industrial average gave up more than 100 points. The Labor Department said the consumer price index rose 0.8 percent in November amid a spike in gasoline prices. The report also found large increases in the cost of clothing, airline tickets and prescription drugs.The report raises questions about the Fed's options for priming the economy. The Fed this week lowered interest rates and announced a plan to align with other key central banks and offer loans to pressed lenders around the world. But while it wants to stimulate the U.S. economy and make lending easier among banks wary of faltering debt, the Fed also has to keep a watchful eye on inflation.Robert Dye, senior economist at PNC Financial Services Group, said the economic readings this week painted a mixed picture for investors, spurring some of the market's volatility.
If you take the stronger-than-expected economic data we saw this week in the form of retail sales and add to that the inflation data and then combine that with a somewhat ambiguous statement from the Fed, you get a picture as clear as mud, he said.The uncertainty weighed on the markets Friday, a day after stocks finished mixed. In afternoon trading, the Dow Jones industrial average fell 112.75, or 0.83 percent, to 13,405.21.Broader stock indicators also fell. The Standard & Poor's 500 index dropped 12.19, or 0.82 percent, to 1,476.22, and the Nasdaq composite index fell 17.50, or 0.66 percent, to 2,650.99.Bond prices fell for the third straight day. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note, which moves opposite its price, rose to 4.23 percent from 4.21 percent late Thursday. The dollar was mixed against other major currencies, while gold prices fell.Light, sweet crude dropped 31 cents to $90.91 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.Friday's report on inflation follows a reading Thursday that showed the biggest jump in inflation at the wholesale level in 34 years.
The 0.8 percent increase in consumer prices topped the 0.6 percent rise economists had been expecting. The report also showed so-called core inflation, which excludes often-volatile food and energy prices, had its biggest increase in 10 months, rising 0.3 percent.Dye said the Fed could be proven wise for cutting interest rates by just a quarter of a percentage point Tuesday rather than by a half point as some investors had hoped. Stocks fell sharply Tuesday after the Fed's rate decision and staged a partial rebound Wednesday after the Fed announced its liquidity plan with other central banks.The uptick in core inflation is unnerving, Dye said, because it makes it harder for the Fed to justify further rate cuts.Also Friday, the Federal Reserve said industrial production rebounded in November, increasing 0.3 percent after a steep 0.7 percent decline in October. The increase came in slightly ahead of Wall Street's expectations.But beyond economic reports, investors faced more news from the troubled banking sector.Citigroup Inc. rose 44 cents to $31.45 after the bank announced late Thursday it plans to move assets from seven structured investment vehicles onto its books and put up $49 billion to help the SIVs repay their debts.The bank had said earlier it had no plans to bring the SIVs onto its books. Citigroup's Vikram Pandit, who on Tuesday became chief executive, said taking control of the SIVs was the best way to guard their credit ratings and help them sell their investments at decent prices.SIVs are complex investments set up by banks and sold to investors and have come under pressure in recent months because of their investment strategy, which involves the use of mortgage investments and other now-risky debt. The resulting drop in demand hurt the value of the SIVs. Declining issues outnumbered advancers by more than 2 to 1 on the New York Stock Exchange, where volume came to 652.4 million shares. The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies fell 6.53, or 0.85 percent, to 762.93. Overseas, Japan's Nikkei stock average slipped 0.14 percent. Britain's FTSE 100 rose 0.52 percent, Germany's DAX index rose 0.25percent and France's CAC-40 rose 0.26 percent. On the Net:
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WW3 THE 3 WAVES THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL
DANIEL 11:40-45
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
The Third and Final Wave of WW3 is when all Nations march to Jerusalem, but JESUS bodily returns to earth and destroys them,sets up his KINGDOM OF RULE FOR 1000 YEARS THEN FOREVER.
Iran tests long-range missile
Published: 12/13/2007
Iran has secretly tested a new long-range missile, Israel's intelligence services said.The Ashoura missile, whose construction was announced by Iran's Defense Ministry on Nov. 27, was also secretly test-fired that day, Israeli media reported Thursday, citing intelligence sources.The fanfare in Tehran over the weapon, which boasts a range of 1,250 miles because of a solid-fuel engine, suggested the test was a success.Israeli commentators noted that the Ashoura was made public on the day of the Annapolis peace conference, an indication of Iran's desire to flex its muscles in the face of moderate Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' efforts to achieve coexistence with the Jewish state.The Ashoura joins the Shihab-3 in the arsenal of Iranian missiles capable of reaching Israel, U.S. targets in the Persian Gulf and some European capitals -- potentially with nuclear warheads.
Israel is World's Fourth Largest Arms Exporter
by Gil Ronen DEC 14,07
(IsraelNN.com) The anxiety felt by some Israelis about the tarnishing of the country's tough image in recent years may be premature. Israel is still the go-to state for all things defense-related, according to recent statistics and reports.Israel became the world's fourth largest arms exporter in 2007, after signing contracts worth $4.3 billion, according to the Defense Ministry. According to Ministry Director Pinchas Buchris, only the U.S.A., Russia and France export more arms than the tiny Middle Eastern country. Great Britain exported fewer arms than Israel in 2007.
Israel's main exports in the defense field are radar systems, anti-tank missiles and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, and its major clients are India, Turkey, the U.S.A. and other western countries.
New law to regulate exports
A new law which will go into effect in January will regulate arms exports, and it will be enforced by a new agency – the Defense Export Department. The maximum punishments for violations of the rules governing defense exports will be 5 years in jail and fines could reach NIS 10 million.The Defense Ministry handles 30,000 applications for brokering permits a year, 5,000 applications for export licenses, and a further 70,000 applications for license renewals.The law is intended to place Israel's arms exports under the kind of limitations that other exporting countries have placed on themselves. It will make it illegal for an Israeli abroad to sell weapons from one foreign country to another in violation of an embargo. The law will also define which weapons are forbidden for export and will make it more difficult to qualify for an export license.
Israel is no newcomer to the club of top defense exporters, and was actually listed in third place by Jane's Defense Weekly as recently as 2003. The U.S.'s Popeye air-to-surface missiles — dubbed AGM-142 by the U.S. Air Force — were designed by Rafael, a semi-governmental weapons-development authority, which also designed the Litening brand targeting pods used to fire precision weapons from the Marines' AV-8B Harrier jet. Israeli-designed Hunter unmanned aerial vehicles are in the service of the U.S. Army, and another UAV made by the Israel Aerospace Industry, the Pioneer, has been used by U.S. Marines.Israel's high ability in the security and technology sphere is recognized – and envied – in the Arab world surrounding it, as this frank sermon from Qatar TV shows:The American entertainment industry, too, has become a client of Israel's security industry. The new trend in Hollywood, it turns out, is Israeli bodyguards. Among the stars employing Israeli brawn are Eva Longoria, Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt (before their divorce), and Lindsey Lohan. Israel21c reports: Kevin Federline's lawyer hired IDF-trained Aaron Cohen, founder of the Beverly Hills-based IMS Security, to serve Britney Spears' camp with subpoenas for their custody battle. Even that dubious friend to the Jews, Mel Gibson, has relied on [an Israeli] to part the waters for him. For more than a decade, Avi Korein was Gibson's personal bodyguard before he opened his own Beverly Hills security firm, Screen International Security Services.
'They never switch off'
The report says that security firm CEOs also seek out ex-Israeli military members: Elijah Shaw, CEO of Icon Services Corporation in St. Paul, Minnesota, once hired an ex-Israeli commando to guard a famous actress who was being stalked on an international tour.
Stalking is a form of terror, counter-terrorism expert Cohen told The Forward in October. The formula is a lot like counter-terrorism, because you need to see who you're dealing with before you freak out. Cohen is a Beverly Hills native who served in the elite Israeli Duvdevan combat unit, which specialized in tracking terrorists. I've used members of the Israel Special Forces - its equivalent of the Navy Seals - when I've had a specific, high-level threat, says Shaw, whose clients include Naomi Campbell, Michael Bolton and 50 Cent. They operate at such a heightened sense of awareness. Because of the constant conflicts there, they're always on alert; they never switch off.
Rice to announce bigger Palestinian aid package by Sylvie Lanteaume DEC 14,07
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is to announce a hike in aid for the Palestinians this weekend during a donor conference in Paris that aims to bolster efforts for Middle East peace. I think what everybody is looking for is some real tangible support for the efforts of Palestinian institution-building because that is going to be absolutely key in helping to bring about a Palestinian state, said State Department spokesman Sean McCormack.He refused to give any specifics on how much Rice planned to offer but she is expected to unveil a sharp increase over past amounts, given that the Bush administration had asked Congress to approve 400 million in economic support for Palestinians in the 2007-2008 budget which began on October 1.
Prior to the election win of the Islamist Hamas movement in early 2006, US aid to the Palestinians amounted to about 250 million dollars per year.But since then, the United States has spent money bit by bit on the Palestinians, particularly through the release of 40 million dollars in emergency aid to Gaza residents last June, unblocked once Hamas seized control of the impoverished coastal strip.France organized the Paris donor conference as a follow up to peace talks held in November in Annapolis, Maryland.
If Rice is able to commit the United States to an aid effort similar to what the administration asked for in the 2008 budget, the aid package over three years that Rice announce could surpass one billion dollars.First in Annapolis and next in Paris, we will be showing the world that the United States is fully engaged and committed to providing the necessary support, both financial and diplomatic and political, said Robert Danin, a Middle East official within the State Department.A significant US contribution will send the signal to the other donors at this time that now is the time to assist the Palestinian Authority and that a Palestinian government with the full and public support of the international community will help build a constituency for peace within the Palestinian society, he told the House of Representatives.The George W. Bush administration has faced reticence from Congress, where some lawmakers are hesitant to approve funding for the Palestinians for fear the cash will fall into Hamas's hands.
For that reason, an 86 million dollar aid package that Rice wanted this year for Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas to beef up his security forces in the face of Hamas's growing ranks of fighters, was held up in Congress for several months.Bush this year launched a public-private partnership run by the independent Aspen Institute with the aim of encouraging US companies to invest directly in the Palestinian territories.A spike in US aid would mark a turnaround for the US administration, which had convinced its negotiating partners in the Middle East peace process -- Russia, the European Union and the United Nations -- to suspend aid after Hamas's electoral win.But the blockage only aggravated Palestinian' economic woes and radicalized public opinion in some quarters.At Europe's insistence, a temporary financial aid package was set up through the quartet that would circumvent Hamas but allow civil servants to receive their salaries.The United States has justified its change of heart by citing the recent nomination of Salam Fayyad, a former International Monetary Fund official, to the post of Palestinian prime minister.
Egypt supports holding next Mideast conference in Moscow Fri Dec 14, 12:40 AM ET
MOSCOW (AFP) - Egypt's foreign minister welcomed Moscow hosting a follow-up Middle East peace conference, saying in an interview published Friday that Russia plays in an important role in the peace process. Egypt welcomes the holding of the meeting in Moscow, Ahmed Abul Gheit, who arrived in Russia on Thursday, was quoted as saying in the business daily Kommersant.Russia ... plays an important role in encouraging the parties (Israel and the Palestinians) to fulfill their obligations and attain the final objective of the process -- the creation of a Palestinian state.
During a conference in the US city of Annapolis last month, Israel and the Palestinians pledged to seek a peace deal by the end of 2008, relaunching negotiations frozen for seven years.Upon return to Moscow, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told Russian news agencies the next Middle East peace conference will be held in Moscow.French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner has said Russia proposed at the Annapolis meeting holding a conference on normalizing Israeli-Syrian relations, which could be held by the end of January.
Israel hosts OSCE Med bunch DEC 14,07
A grouping of Israel and six Arab nations aimed at promoting regional tolerance will meet in Tel Aviv. The meeting of the Mediterranean Partners of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe will take place next Tuesday and Wednesday. The grouping, which comprises Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Jordan, Egypt and Mauritania, is an outgrowth off the OSCE's Combating Intolerance and Discrimination and Promoting Mutual Respect and Understanding, an initiative launched in 2003 to combat the perceived recent growth of anti-Semitism and other forms of intolerance in Europe. Israel has diplomatic relations with Egypt, Jordan and Mauritania and limited trade and exchanges with Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. The meeting comes as the United States is nudging Arab nations to improve ties with Israel in the wake of renewed Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. Members of the OSCE, a 55-nation grouping of European and North American nations promoting security in Europe, will also send delegates.
Among those representing the United States will be Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.), the chairman of the congressional Helsinki Commission, which monitors human rights. Over the past year, in my travel to the region and in meetings that I have held with representatives of our Mediterranean Partners, I have continued to urge that the annual OSCE Mediterranean Conference be held in Israel, Hastings said in a statement. I am quite pleased that it will be taking place there this year.Hastings plans to meet Prime Minister Ehud Olmert while in Israel.
Jordan's King Abdullah tells MEPs of 'growing hope' in the Mideast EJP Updated: 13/Dec/2007 16:16
King Abdullah of Jordan at the European Parliament in Strasbourg: Second chances are rare.
STRASBOURG (EJP)---Jordan’s King Abdullah told the European Parliament that the recent Annapolis Mideast peace conference has created a growing hope in the region. In an address to MEPs on Wednesday during the plenary session of the parliament, the King said a critical opportunity is before us. For the first time in years, we see movement toward a permanent settlement and an independent, sovereign, viable Palestinian state, he added. Second chances are rare.He called on Europe to support the goal of peace negotiations. He defined this as a final settlement, creating an end to conflict, security for both Palestine and Israel, a sovereign, independent and viable Palestinian state. As our near neighbour, Europe shares our interest in solving this, the central crisis of our age. All sides respect Europe’s neutral role and model of regional progress and peace. For years you have been our partner in the search for solutions. He added: I have come here today to urge your active engagement, to seek your specific, practical skills and investment in the future, and to offer Jordan’s own commitment in the days of work that lie ahead.
Europe's unique experience
He reminded the MEPs that Europe has a unique experience with post-conflict recovery and reconciliation.In a bid to improve the situation on the ground, he stressed the importance of tangible results, using trade and aid to boost living conditions - particularly for Palestinians. Seeing Europe’s resolution of its past conflicts as a sign of hope for his own region, King Abdullah declared: Today, young Europeans are coming to adulthood who never knew a divided Europe. Their young counterparts, Palestinian and Israeli, have no such positive experience. They have grown up in a world of division and conflict. Now, together, we have an opportunity to remove the barriers to their future, and leave the past behind.The President of the European Parliament, Hans-Gert Poettering told the King that in the search for peace, we are on your side.The King was in Strasbourg with a delegation of leading Jordanian MPs.
EU, US deadlocked at climate change talks
By environment reporter Sarah Clarke Thu Dec 13, 2007 6:10pm AEDT
The UN says it wants a mandate that sets up talks for a new climate deal beyond 2012. (AFP: Jewel Samad)Video: Rudd orders negotiators to clinch agreement in Bali (ABC News) The European Union (EU) and the United States remain deadlocked over a key part of the text in the United Nations climate declaration.On the plenary floor, politicians continue to deliver their national statements but behind closed doors the US is lobbying countries to reject key text that calls for developed nations to commit to emission cuts of up to 40 per cent by 2020. The EU favours the text. But the United States is adamant specific figures should not be included. The UN says it wants a mandate that sets up talks for a new climate deal beyond 2012. With the US and Europe showing no signs of compromise, this meeting is expected to continue until Saturday.Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says a final Bali mandate must be agreed on at the meeting.Australia is waiting for the findings of an economics report before it declares its policy on interim targets.
But Mr Rudd says countries must agree on a Bali road map that sets up a new international climate deal when the Kyoto Protocol expires.I'd be very concerned if negotiations meant that we had any states indicating they would walk away from the process, he said.What I have instructed our negotiators to do is to spare no effort in trying to bridge the gap between developed countries and between developed and developing countries to make sure we have a robust mandate going forward.
SIGNS OF THE END OF THE AGE (NOT THE WORLD) THE WORLD GOES ON FOREVER.
GENESIS 1:5,14
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:(ISRAELS HOLY DAYS AND SABBATH STARTS AT 6PM) And for SIGNS (PROPHECY SIGNS TO HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE, OUR DAY)
SIGNS IN THE SUN, MOON AND STARS
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.
Geminid Meteor Shower peaks this week
By KAYNE CRISON, Editor, ACIE December 11, 2007
This month the red planet Mars moves westward across the Gemini Twins and by month's end is crossing the boundary of eastern Taurus. On the evening of Dec. 23 the full Moon rises very close, within one degree, of Mars as viewed by most observers. However, from the far northern latitudes of Canada and Alaska the Moon will be seen to occult, or pass in front of Mars. As the image shows, on that evening Mars will not only be close to the Moon, but Mars will also be within about two-degrees of the open star cluster, M-35. Unfortunately having a full Moon near something like M-35 means that M-35 will not be visible as its relatively dimmer light is lost in the glare from the Moon. Wait a couple of nights and go out before the Moon rises to look for M-35. It will be only a degree or two further to the east from Mars. Both are still close enough to be seen in the field of view of binoculars.
Geminid Meteor Shower
During December the other good annual meteor shower reaches its peak on Friday, December 14. While the peak is on Dec. 13 and 14, the actual meteor shower event lasts nearly two weeks, from Dec. 6 through Dec. 19. The meteors will radiate outward in all directions from the radiant which is located quite close to the star Castor. The Gemini Twins rise at about 7 p.m. and so the radiant for the meteor shower may be observed throughout the night. The constellation will still be high above the southwestern horizon at the peak time. Despite a crescent Moon rising at about 2a.m. local time the light from the waning crescent Moon will not interfere with observing meteors. The Geminids are as exciting as their summer counterpart, the Perseids, often producing a high rate of visible meteors. A meteor shower occurs as the earth, moving along its orbital path, passes through clouds of debris left behind by comets. The Geminids are unique in that they are associated with an Apollo Asteroid, 3200 Phaethon. An Apollo Asteroid is one whose orbit crosses the earth's orbit.
Rising over the eastern horizon in the early evening hours during December are the stars of the constellation Auriga, the Charioteer. Appearing as a five-sided pentagon-shape with the brilliant star Capella in the upper right corner, and the other four stars Hassaleh, Elnath, Theta and Mekalinan. It is an easy star pattern to recognize and within its boundaries are three deep-sky objects discovered by Charles Messier that can be seen under dark skies with binoculars. These are the open star clusters, M36, M37 and M38.
Each of these open star clusters shines at magnitudes that flirt with the limit of naked-eye visibility. M36, 4100 light years distant has an apparent magnitude of 6.5; M37, at a distance of 4400 light years, has an apparent magnitude of 6.0, and M38, at 4200 light years, is the faintest of the trio with an apparent magnitude of 7.0 .The brightness of all three also competes with the glow of the Milky Way in their background. While this may take away from some of their brightness, having the Milky Way to view objects against is certainly a pleasure, as this computer-generated image above illustrates. The darker the skies the better is definitely the rule here. These three star clusters are close enough together that they fit within the field of view of most binoculars.
Planetary Guide
Mercury is steadily moving eastward toward the Sun and superior conjunction on Dec. 17. It might be possible to view Mercury for the first few days this month but it will be low above the southeastern horizon shortly before sunrise. Venus starts the month about four degrees east, to the right, of the bluish star Spica. Using Spica as a reference point the daily movement of this inner, and relatively faster moving planet becomes obvious. By month's end Venus will have nearly made it to the reddish star Antares in Scorpius. Mars is very visible within the stars of the Gemini Twins. This month Mars is closest to the Earth on Dec. 19. The red planet reaches opposition on Dec. 24, and is well into its retrograde loop as it moves westward into Taurus. Jupiter is too close to the sun and will be in conjunction with the sun by Dec. 23. Watch for the giant planet to reappear in the morning skies next month. Saturn rises around midnight local time and is visible over the southern horizon around sunrise. It begins retrograde motion on Dec. 20 moving slowly westward back toward Regulus.Casa Grande Valley Newspapers Inc.2007
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