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I WOULD LIKE TO WISH NATHALIE T. A HAPPY 38TH BIRTHDAY ON THIS DECEMBER 27,07 FROM ONTARIO CANADA TO LAVAL QUEBEC HAPPY BIRTHDAY NATHALIE.

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.

Scores dead or missing in Indonesia floods, landslides by Wawan Irawan DEC 26,07

TAWANGMANGU, Indonesia (AFP) - Floods and landslides triggered by monsoon rains left close to 100 people dead or missing on the main Indonesian island of Java on Wednesday, officials said. Landslides hit villages in densely populated Central Java's Karanganyar and Wonogiri districts early Wednesday after heavy downpours, with floods also swelling in several areas, leaving 42 dead and 42 missing, they said.The last report we received at 4:00 pm (0900 GMT) shows that 66 people in nine areas in Karanganyar district are dead or missing, the head of a local disaster management centre, Heru Aji Pratomo, told AFP.He said that 36 bodies had been retrieved. Seven of the areas he referred to were hit by landslides and two others were inundated by floods, he added.

An official at the disaster management centre in Wonogiri district, to the south, Sri Mubadi, told AFP that six bodies had been recovered but 12 others remained missing there.In Karanganyar, one family of four died after a landslide slammed into their home.The husband was actually evacuated and survived, but knowing that his wife and two children had died, he went into shock and made his condition worse. He later died, said Edi Susanto from Karanganyar's disaster management centre.A truck carrying three men also careened into a river as it tried to avoid a landslide, which are not unusual across Indonesia in hilly and volcanic areas during the monsoon.We've just found the three dead bodies in the river, Susanto added.In Tawangmangu, the worst-hit area, hundreds of troops, police and residents combed through debris using their hands, shovels and wooden sticks to search for victims.The disaster centre's Pratomo predicted that the recovery of bodies would take at least two or three days.The conditions here are very bad and steep, so that we cannot use heavy machinery, Pratomo said.TV footage showed flood evacuees clutching their belongings above their heads as they sloshed through muddy brown water reaching chest height.President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono relayed his sympathies to the families of the deceased.

The president sends his deepest condolences and has ordered the home affairs minister to coordinate with local officials and monitor the emergency response, his spokesman, Andi Mallarangeng, told Metro TV.Meanwhile in East Java, where heavy rains have also been falling, at least 10 people were killed when a bridge was swept away by swelling flood waters, Andi Hartoyo, chief of police at Madiun district, told ElShinta radio.Based on several witnesses, at least 10 people were swept away by strong currents as they were standing on the bridge when it collapsed, he said.

Local officials have been working on collecting data about missing people. We cannot start the search (for bodies or survivors) as the current is very strong now, Hartoyo added. The Sinar Harapan afternoon newspaper reported that a family of four had also died in a separate landslide in East Java's Ngawi district, citing a local policeman. And on the tourist haven of Bali, two Indonesians were killed when a small landslide, also triggered by heavy rains, hit their house in a village in Gianyar district, local policeman Sumantre told AFP. The victims were asleep when a hill collapsed and engulfed their house, he said, adding that no-one else was missing. Indonesia has been repeatedly afflicted by deadly floods and landslides in recent years, with activists warning that logging and a failure to reforest denuded land in the world's fourth most populous country are often to blame.

Heavy snow threatens areas of West Buzz Bernard DEC 26,07

Heavy snow that has been burying the Cascade Mountains in Washington and Oregon will abate somewhat today, but is expected to resume late tonight and early tomorrow. Snow levels are quite low, less than 1000 feet today, but will climb a bit tomorrow. Elsewhere in the West, heavy snow warnings are posted for portions of northern and western Utah (including Salt Lake City), and parts of western Colorado. In eastern Colorado, snow is forecast to begin late tonight in the Denver area and continue through much of the day tomorrow. In Southern California, high wind warnings and watches for tonight have been issued for the mountains and coastal valley of Santa Barbara, Ventura and Los Angeles Counties. Strong northerly winds are expected to develop and cause at least minor damage.

Asia remembers tsunami victims three years on by Nurdin Hassan DEC 26,07

CALANG, Indonesia (AFP) - Three years after Indian Ocean nations were lashed by massive tsunamis, sombre ceremonies were held Wednesday to recall those lost in one of the worst natural catastrophes in modern times. In Indonesia, mass prayers were held outdoors and at mosques across Aceh, the staunchly Muslim province at the northern tip of Sumatra island where 168,000 lives were claimed by the earthquake-triggered walls of water.The toll here was more than half the 220,000 killed in a dozen nations, including Sri Lanka, India and Thailand, with thousands of unidentified victims buried in mass graves hastily dug in the disaster's aftermath.Wednesday's main ceremony was held outdoors at a village on the outskirts of Calang, one of the areas of Aceh obliterated in the disaster.I came here to pray together with other residents. I pray for my wife and my child who died in the tsunami, hoping they are now resting in peace, said Alimudin, a 61-year-old retired local government official.Aceh governor Irwandi Yusuf, a former rebel fighter, told about 1,000 residents, school children and officials that he hoped we can learn from the tragedy to improve our piety towards God.

Let us leave behind all our tears and work together to rebuild Aceh, hoping that one day we can repay our 'debt' to the international community, he said.The international community pledged more than seven-billion dollars to help reconstruction in Aceh, which is well on track towards completion.Yusuf, who was detained in a jail that was destroyed by the tsunami, was elected in December last year following a historic peace pact spurred on by the disaster -- one of its few silver linings -- that saw a 29-year separatist conflict end.Also in Indonesia, a dramatic drill simulating a tsunami strike was held in Java's coastal province of Banten involving around 9,000 residents, local television reported.

The simulation, designed to test a tsunami warning system gradually being rolled out, saw hundreds of students, along with residents clutching children, rush to higher ground assailed by wailing sirens.This country is vulnerable to tsunami threats. Let us pray to God for this country to be kept safe from tsunamis, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said after observing the exercise.Sri Lanka, which suffered 31,000 deaths, marked the anniversary by opening a showpiece bridge in the southern coastal town of Matara, gifted by South Korea.President Mahinda Rajapakse observed two minutes of silence at 9:25 am, the time when the first giant waves lashed the coastline in a disaster that also displaced a million people on the island.Sri Lanka's post-tsunami reconstruction work has been dogged by corruption and renewed fighting that has blocked relief to survivors, with less than a fifth of the money pledged properly accounted for, according to watchdogs.In India, where more than 16,000 people died, thousands of fishing families who survived the avalanche of water gathered on beaches to remember the dead.Parents who lost children thronged local beaches and fishing hamlets in India's worst-hit Nagapattinam district, where around 6,500 people died in southern Tamil Nadu state.The memorial today is just a symbol for me where all of us collect to grieve together, said Kaveri, 37, who lost a son and daughter when the tsunami hit the fishing hamlet of Keechankuppam.

But then we are grieving everyday.

Tens of thousands of Indians lost huts in the disaster and rights groups say more than 20,000 tsunami-affected families are still waiting for new homes. Thousands of candles flickered in the night by Thailand's Andaman Sea in memory of the 5,400 people killed in the kingdom, half of whom were foreign holiday-makers. About 700 people from Thailand and abroad, including those who lost loved ones in the tragedy, first laid flowers at the sea's edge on Phuket's Patong beach, before lighting 10,000 candles along a two-kilometre stretch of sand. We will continue to grieve for the people. However, their memory lives on, Lennart Linner, Sweden's ambassador to Thailand, told the crowd. Hundreds of Swedes were killed in the disaster. After the low-key ceremony, attendees walked out onto the beach and cast the flowers representing the dead into the sea.

REBUILT 3RD TEMPLE

REVELATION 11:1-2
1 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.

DANIEL 9:27
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

FROM WND'S JERUSALEM BUREAU
Jews demand right to pray on Temple Mount
Israeli law forbids non-Muslim worship while Hamas broadcasting from Judaism's holiest site December 25, 2007
10:50 p.m. Eastern By Aaron Klein 2007 WorldNetDaily.com

Temple Mount

JERUSALEM – Rabbinic leaders and Temple Mount activist groups here today demanded the Israeli government allow Jews to pray on the Temple Mount – Judaism's holiest site. Israeli restrictions forbid Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount and only allow Jews to ascend for certain hours on some days while the Mount is open to Muslims yearlong. Muslim prayer services take place throughout the day on the many mosques and Islamic religious schools situated on the holy site. We demand the Government of Israel allow the Jewish people to have freedom of religious expression on the Temple Mount. This will serve as a preliminary step in confirming the Jewish people's inexorable connection with the Temple Mount, location of the Holy Temple, under the sovereignty of the people of Israel, states a letter to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert signed by the leaders of the New Jewish Congress, the Sanhedrin and the Holy Temple and Temple Mount movements. The Congress is a group of religious Zionist leaders here while the Sanhedrin consists of prominent rabbinic leaders who in 2004 reformed the ancient group of Jewish judges that previously constituted the legislative body of Israel. The reformed Sanhedrin has been a subject of debate within some Jewish communities.

The rabbinic leaders and activists demanded the Israeli government move toward allowing non-Muslim worship by initially establishing special days for Jewish communal prayer in fixed locations on the Temple Mount. They demanded Olmert allow prayer on the Mount on important Jewish holidays, including Passover, Shavuot, Sukkot, Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur, the first day of Hanukkah and on the Israeli national holidays of Jerusalem Day and Israeli Independence Day. Not all rabbinic figures allow Jewish prayer on the Mount although many schools do as long as entry and prayer is restricted to outer areas of the Mount, which can be measured by a change in the kind of foundation stone. According to Jewish law, the sanctity of the Temple Mount is structured in concentric circles. In the innermost circles, where the Holy of Holies was said to be located, the restrictions of Jewish access are the greatest. Jewish tradition and literature relates that during Temple times, only the kohen gadal, or high priest, was allowed to enter the most restricted area, and this happened once a year on Yom Kippur. The outer layers are less restricted. The rabbis' and activists' letter to Olmert was prompted by an episode last week – reported exclusively by WND – in which Israeli forces closed the Mount to Jews during an important Jewish fast day mourning the First Temple's destruction while the Hamas terror organization broadcast from the Mount's Al Aqsa Mosque, which Muslims say is their third holiest site.

In light of the broadcast of Hamas from the Temple Mount and the serious implications of this situation, we demand that the Government of Israel allow the Jewish people to have freedom of religious expression on the Temple Mount, stated the rabbis' letter to Olmert. WND broke the story that Hamas Wednesday exclusively broadcast Muslim prayers from the Mount's Al Aqsa Mosque on the group's official radio station, Al Aqsa Radio. The services are broadcast alongside anti-Semitic commentary, including incitement against Jews. The official Hamas radio network announced last week it would continue airing exclusive daily streams of Muslim morning services from the Temple Mount, and, indeed, the broadcasts continued yesterday as scheduled. Hamas radio is heard throughout Palestinian cities in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Our broadcast is a victory for the Al Aqsa Mosque, which is suffering from Judaization efforts imposed by the Zionist government. Broadcasting daily radio is a way to bring Al Aqsa to the Gaza Strip and challenge the siege imposed on us by the Zionist entity, said Rami Kaoud, a manager at Al Aqsa Radio.

All broadcasts from the Mount must be approved by the Waqf, which guard the Muslim entrances to the Temple Mount along with the Israeli police. Broadcasts in theory must also be approved by the Israeli police, but cameramen and reporters routinely enter the site from Muslim gates to broadcast without prior police approval as long as Waqf agents allow the entry. While Israel again has not yet acted to halt Hamas broadcasts, for most of last week it barred all non-Muslims from ascending the Mount, even on a Jewish holiday held last Wednesday. Last Wednesday marked the start of Muslim holiday of Ein ul-Adhaa, which commemorates the Islamic belief of Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son Ishmael for Allah. According to Jewish and Christian tradition, Abraham nearly sacrificed his son Isaac, not Ishmael. Also last Wednesday, Jews commemorated the Jewish fast day of the Tenth of Tevet, mourning the First Temple's destruction and the siege placed on Jerusalem leading up to Temple's destruction during the reign of the Babylonian ruler Nebuchadnezzar.

Jewish organizations and Temple Mount activist groups here were planning visits to the Temple Mount in observance of last Wednesday's Jewish day of mourning. Rabbi Chaim Richman, director of the international department at Israel's Temple Institute, a Mount activist group which planned to lead a tour of the site this week, said Israeli police informed his group earlier this week that they had decided the Mount would be closed the rest of the week to non-Muslims for fear of offending Muslims on the Islamic holiday. Due to Israeli restrictions, the Temple Mount is open only to non-Muslims 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, the Mount's Islamic custodians. 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, but only on select days for certain hours. 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. The letter to Olmert called the Temple Mount the holiest place in the world for the Jewish people, yet Jews are denied the right to pray in groups, and even as individuals ... they are granted no opportunity for any religious expression whatsoever on the Temple Mount.However, let it be known that the Jewish people will never accept the total refusal of Jewish communal prayer on the Mountain, the letter states.

President Abbas: Next Year will be Year of Security, Stability

BETHLEHEM, December 24, 2007 (WAFA) - President Mahmoud Abbas said on Monday that the nest year will be the year of security and economic stability.President Abbas told reporters in Ramallah in Bethlehem I wish the next year will witness the independence of our people and have Jerusalem as a capital.President Abbas' comments came after he performed prayers at al-Rebat Mosque in the city.

Dear Stan,

ST. PAUL PUT HIS PEN TO PARCHMENT AND WROTE WORDS THAT EVERY PERSON ON PLANET EARTH NEEDS TO HEAR AT TIMES LIKE THESE.
MAY THE GOD OF HOPE FILL YOU WITH ALL JOY AND PEACE AS YOU TRUST IN HIM, SO THAT YOU MAY OVERFLOW WITH HOPE BY THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.READ THAT VERSE AGAIN, SLOWLY, UNTIL ITS MESSAGE PENETRATES YOUR SOUL. TAKE AWAY HOPE, AND LIFE, WITH ALL ITS FASCINATING VARIETY OF OPPORTUNITIES AND EXPERIENCES IS REDUCED TO A MERE EXISTENCE...UNINTERESTING, BLEAK, And DRAB, A BURDEN AND A PAIN.THE BIRTH OF JESUS CHRIST WAS THE BIRTH OF HOPE ITSELF! HOPE THAT A WORLD FILLED WITH ROMAN HATRED COULD KNOW THE UNSPEAKABLE JOY OF THE LOVE OF GOD.

THAT HOPE DID NOT INVADE THE WORLD IN THE FORM OF A SUPREME SULTAN RIDING DOWN MAIN STREET JERUSALEM ON A WHITE STALLION DEMANDING THAT MEN BOW TO HIM AS A REIGNING MONARCH. HE CAME IN THE FORM OF A BABY WRAPPED IN SWADDLING CLOTHES LYING IN A DESOLATE MANGER SURROUNDED BY SHEPHERDS, SHEEP, OXEN, DONKEYS AND JOSEPH WHO WAS STRUGGLING TO UNDERSTAND THE MAGNIFICENCE OF THIS MOMENT.
THE HOPE THAT CHRIST BRINGS TO OUR LIVES GENERATES PEACE THAT SURPASSES UNDERSTANDING, JOY THAT IS UNSPEAKABLE, ENERGY THAT HAS NO LIMIT AND EXCITEMENT THAT NEVER ENDS!

TRUE CHRISTIANITY IS THE MOST JOYOUS FAITH ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH. IT BEGAN WITH ANGELS SINGING OVER BETHLEHEM'S MANGER AND ENDS WITH THE CHURCH TRIUMPHANT SINGING BEFORE THE LORD IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION.I PRAY THAT FOR TODAY, TOMORROW AND EVERY DAY OF THE REST OF YOUR LIFE YOU EMBRACE OUR BLESSED HOPE THAT IS STEADFAST AND SURE. THAT BLESSED HOPE WILL MAKE EVERYDAY, IN SPITE OF ITS TRIAL AND TURMOIL, A BLESSED DAY! FROM OUR HOUSE TO YOUR HOUSE, MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A VERY PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR!
SINCERELY,JOHN AND DIANA HAGEE

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)

Hamas says ready to hand over Gaza crossings to neutral side www.chinaview.cn 2007-12-26 20:20:07

GAZA, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- An aide to deposed prime minister of Hamas government in Gaza Ismail Haneya said on Wednesday that Hamas is ready to hand over control of all crossings in Gaza to a neutral side.Alaa al-A'raj, Haneya's economical advisor, said that Hamas government is ready to study the name of any nominee who have experience in running the crossing points. But he stressed that any side whose hands are polluted with issues harming the nationality and morality of our people is absolutely denied.

Over the past couple of days, local Palestinian media reported that Salam Fayyad's government installed by President Mahmoud Abbas in June after Hamas' violent takeover of Gaza was considering a plan to reopen the crossings of the Strip. The reports said that the U.S. administration, the European Union and the Quartet of Middle East mediators have accepted the plan. In response to the reports, al-A'raj said his government knows nothing about the plan. However, he proposed that a private business sector can oversee and manage the commercial crossings.

All Gaza crossings were shut down in the wake of Hamas' violent takeover the Gaza enclave following days of infighting between Hamas militants and security forces loyal to President Abbas. As a result, Abbas fired Hamas government and formed a Western-backed administration ruling from the West Bank while the Gaza Strip has been ruled by Hamas.Editor: Wang Hongjiang.

European Union sends rule of law mission to prepare for Kosovan independence By Paul Mitchell 24 December 2007

Last week, the European Union (EU), under pressure from the United States, sent a 1,800-strong rule of law mission—the largest in the bloc’s history—to replace the United Nations mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). The EU mission’s job is to reform the police, prisons and judiciary and pave the way for Kosovan independence, which the US wants the provincial government to declare early next year.UNMIK has administered Kosovo as a protectorate since the NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999. UNMIK has functioned under the terms of Security Council Resolution 1244, which recognised Serbia’s sovereignty over Kosovo while placing the province under the occupation of foreign troops governed by a UN viceroy. Under international law, a new UN resolution is needed to change the province’s status.The EU mission pre-empted a Security Council meeting held December 19 to receive a report on the failure of UN-appointed mediators to bring about a negotiated agreement between local ethnic Albanian and Serbian leaders, as well as Serbia. The report states, Neither party was willing to cede its position on the fundamental question of sovereignty over Kosovo.

Kosovo President Fatmir Sejdiu and Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica also addressed the meeting.We are ready to take steps toward a future declaration of independence of Kosovo together with our friends, Sejdiu told the Security Council. Rame Manaj, the spokesperson of Kosovo’s Constitutional Commission, said a new constitution had been drafted (reports suggest by Balkan experts at the US State Department) and would soon be presented to Kosovo’s parliament. Kosovo will be a parliamentary republic with a more powerful role for its president, Manaj explained, with a security force that will be transformed into a national army in due course. For the time being, 16,500 NATO troops are to remain in the province.Serbian Prime Minister Kostunica told the Security Council that Serbia’s fate was in its hands. He said his country defended its sovereignty strongly and firmly and would consider a declaration of independence illegal. Moves to dismember Serbia would create a precedent for separatists elsewhere in the world, he warned.Kostunica condemned the supervised independence plan published by UN special envoy Martti Ahtisaari in February 2007, of which the EU rule of law mission is the first step. Kostunica said, It is unacceptable that the illegitimate arrival of an EU mission to the province is discussed so that Ahtisaari’s plan for creating a puppet state may be implemented.It is particularly insulting and unacceptable that the mutilated Serbia is being offered the reward of quicker admission into the EU if it reconciles with violent alteration of its borders, Kostunica added.

Italian Foreign Minister Massimo D’Alema, who presided over the Security Council meeting, emerged to say its members were unable to reach any concrete conclusions, but urged the opposing sides to avoid actions that may lead to violence in the region. D’Alema blamed the strong positions taken by Washington and Moscow for aggravating the problems between the ethnic Albanian and Serbian sides. He said that President Boris Tadic of Serbia had told him, I can’t let the Russians be more Serbian than me, and the ethnic Albanians had said they can’t let themselves appear less Kosovar than President Bush.D’Alema added that Italy and most EU countries supported independence, but the Americans have underestimated the difficulties of the situation.The US has aggressively pursued the Ahtisaari plan. Last week, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice declared, “Serbia and Kosovo are never going to be one again”—repeating the promise US President George W. Bush made back in June that the province would soon be independent.Following the UN Security Council meeting, US Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad said the irreconcilable differences between the ethnic Albanians and Serbs meant Kosovo’s independence could no longer be delayed. The continuation of the status quo poses not only a threat to peace and stability in Kosovo, but also to the region and in Europe, he added. Khalilzad claimed Resolution 1244 allows for the implementation of the Ahtisaari plan.Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin disputed Khalilzad’s claim, warning that any move toward a unilateral declaration of independence would clearly be outside of the limits of international law and Resolution 1244 and would set a dangerous precedent. Russia has warned that the situation is threatening to slip towards an uncontrollable crisis if international law is not upheld.Russia’s mediator at the Kosovo Albanian-Serbian talks, Aleksandr Botsan-Kharchenko, declared that the negotiating process was still in an early stage and that the two sides cooperated and contacted constantly...for the first time since 1999.

Russia’s principled position is that work within Security Council Resolution 1244 should continue, without seeking loopholes in that document that would, allegedly, enable Pristina [the Kosovan capital] to declare independence or the international community to replace UNMIK with an EU mission, he stated.To say that Kosovo has the right to independence and [breakaway regions in Georgia] Abkhazia or South Ossetia do not would be a typical example of double standards, Botsan-Khachenko said. He added that Russia is doing everything in its power to prevent such a scenario and to prevent the creation of a negative precedent.We want to find a long-term solution for this conflict and any dialogue and any step, even a tiny one, is a step forward.... To let this go now would be a monstrous mistake, he concluded.Moscow is particularly concerned about the involvement of Washington, backed by Britain and the other European powers, in the future of Kosovo, which it sees as part of their attempt to limit its aspirations as a regional and world power. Moscow is eager to boost its position in the Balkans, where it competes for influence with the EU and where its companies have invested heavily, particularly in oil and gas pipelines.The tensions in Kosovo are linked to the wider dispute over the installation of US missile defence shield bases in the Czech Republic and Poland and threats of further sanctions and war on Iran. In the last few weeks, Russia has withdrawn from the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe Treaty and is threatening to redeploy troops to its European borders. Moscow has indicated that it intends to move part of its fleet to Syrian ports and to maintain a permanent presence in the Mediterranean, and has tested a new intercontinental ballistic missile.

The EU has been split by the recklessness of the US and the growing antagonisms with Russia. At the same time, the bloc is trying to project a united front to the world, saying it can handle problems in its own back yard. Kosovo’s independence is inevitable, French President Nicolas Sarkozy declared. It’s an issue for Europe to sort out.The most important thing is for the EU to take the next steps with as much unity as possible, German Chancellor Angela Merkel added.Only one EU country, Cyprus, remains openly opposed to Kosovan independence and backs Russia’s call for further negotiations. It fears that diplomatic recognition of an independent Kosovo would legitimise the Turkish regime that occupied the northern part of Cyprus in 1974.However, other EU countries remain concerned over the implications of Kosovo’s independence for separatist movements in their own countries and for their close relations with Serbia and Russia. Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said that a unilateral proclamation of independence is not positive for Spain, but it will wait to see what happens. He explained that Madrid respects international law and the unity of the EU and violating laws has never done any good in history. Romanian Defence Minister Teodor Melescanu added, A unilateral decision could have a very negative effect on the entire region and is not in keeping with international law.The EU is also split on the issue of Serbia’s membership of the bloc. Many member states are keen to start accession talks with Belgrade on January 28, in the run-up to presidential elections in the country.

They hope to boost the chances of pro-Western president Boris Tadic, who is running neck and neck in polls with Tomislav Nikolic, deputy leader of the extreme nationalist Serbian Radical Party. Nikolic unconditionally rejects Serbian recognition of an independent Kosovo, and has suggested Russia set up a military base in Serbia to rival the US presence at Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo. Some member states, led by the UK, are strongly against membership talks until the Serbian government pursues more vigorously fugitives wanted for war crimes, including former general Ratko Mladic and Bosnian-Serb leader Radovan Karadic.The rush to make Kosovo independent and uncertainty over Serbian EU membership have created a crisis for the Serb politicians who played a vital role for the West in ousting former President Slobodan Milosevic and were installed in power in Serbia. For example, Serbia’s foreign minister, Vuk Jeremic, educated in the UK and US and a high-flyer in London financial circles, has been forced to criticise his erstwhile backers, saying the EU offer to accelerate Serb membership of the organisation will never be accepted. The trade-off is out of the question. We cannot exchange our territory for our European future, he complained bitterly.In Kosovo, Bertran Bono, the spokesperson for KFOR, NATO’s peacekeeping mission in the province, proclaimed his confidence that everything was under control, saying, We do not want any kind of violence here, but we have already planned everything to stop it from happening again in all situations. That means that we have different scenarios prepared for the best and worst case scenarios and we are ready to answer all challenges.The 200,000-strong Serb minority concentrated in northern Kosovo well remembers KFOR’s inability to stop the violence of March 17, 2004, when 19 people died, more than 950 were injured and there was large-scale destruction of property. Knut Vollebaek, the high commissioner for national minorities of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, has already pointed to a possible new wave of Roma refugees who could flee to neighbouring Macedonia and Montenegro if their safety is threatened, especially in the southern part of the province.On December 18, several thousand Serbs in the ethnically divided city of Mitrovica demonstrated against the deployment of the EU mission and moves towards Kosovan independence. Marko Jaksic, a leading local official of Kostunica’s conservative Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS), told the crowd that the Serbian parliament should stop all discussions about EU membership and be prepared to annul a unilateral declaration of independence by Kosovo.Such a declaration by Pristina could prompt other unilateral actions, starting with the partition of northern Kosovo, precipitating violent separatist re-alignments in the region and becoming the catalyst for a wider conflagration.

Published: 12/24/07, 4:02 PM
The War on Zionism by Ted Belman
Arabs want to replace Israel. They are not alone.

Post-Annapolis, the Palestinian Authority made it crystal clear that it will never recognize Israel as a Jewish state. Furthermore, it made it crystal clear that it will not compromise on Jerusalem, making it a capital offense to do so. Yet, negotiations continue. Either Ehud Olmert doesn't believe the PA or, what is more likely, he will still cut a deal where Israel is denied that recognition and will divide Jerusalem according to Arab demands.Do not think for a moment that these entrenched Arab positions are negotiable. They aren't and never have been.Ever since Theodor Herzl wrote The Jewish State in 1896, the Arabs, with one exception, Faisal ibn-Hussein, have opposed it.According to Bat Ye'or, the author of The Dhimmi, Islam demands that Palestine must be reconquered from the infidel, regardless of the passage of time. In pursuit of this goal, the Arabs rejected the Partition Plan and the creation of Israel, they went to war
Olmert doesn't believe the PA or, what is more likely, he will still cut a deal.numerous times to destroy Israel, they rejected Resolution 242, and shortly thereafter they decided at the Khartoum Conference to have no recognition, no negotiations, no peace with Israel.

In 1964, the Arab states founded the PLO, with a Charter that specifically calls for the liquidation of the Zionist presence. Shortly thereafter, the PLO was taken over by Yasser Arafat's Nazi-trained Fatah, whose Charter was and is similar. Its goals:

Article (12) Complete liberation of Palestine, and eradication of Zionist economic, political, military and cultural existence.

Article (13) Establishing an independent democratic state with complete sovereignty on all Palestinian lands, and Jerusalem is its capital city, and protecting the citizens' legal and equal rights without any racial or religious discrimination.

Nothing could be clearer. It refers to all Palestinian lands and was written before the occupation in 1967.Then, in 1975, with Soviet support, the UN General Assembly passed the infamous resolution (3379) Zionism is Racism by a vote of 75 to 32 with 35 abstentions. The operative words are that Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination. Chaim Herzog, Israel's Ambassador to the UN at the time, made one of the great speeches of the Twentieth Century, arguing Zionism is Not Racism. Though the US, lead by the late Patrick Moynihan, vehemently objected also, a month later it did not veto a proposal to seat the PLO as observers in the UN Security Council. No non-state had ever been accorded such recognition. In 1991, with the fall of the Soviet Union, the UN General Assembly revoked resolution 3379, admitting it had been mistaken to label Zionism as racism. Nevertheless, this odious charge persists, like The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. In the negotiations prior to the Oslo Accords in 1993, the Fatah Charter became an obstacle. Arafat agreed to amend it. This was a precondition. Yet, no such amendment was effected, necessitating this letter from Arafat to President Clinton in 1998: In the mutual recognition letters between myself and the late Prime Minister Itzhaq Rabbin of September 9/10, 1993, the PLO committed to recognize the right of the State of Israel to exist in peace and security, to accept UN Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338 and to a peaceful resolution of the conflict between the two sides. The PLO also agreed to secure the necessary changes in the Palestinian Covenant to reflect these commitments.

Accordingly, the P.N.C. was held in Gaza city between 22-25 of April 1996, and in an extraordinary session decided that the Palestine National Charter is hereby amended by cancelling the articles that are contrary to the letters exchanged between the P.L.O and the Government of Israel on 9/10 September 1993.Still, the Charter is not amended.More recently, Judea Pearl, father of Daniel Pearl, penned an essay, Anti-Zionism is Racism, in which he wrote, anti-Zionism is a form of racism more dangerous than classical anti-Semitism. Could be. Just prior to 9/11, the UN hosted a World Conference Against Racism at Durban. It became a hate-fest of anti-Zionism, as was intended. Zionism is racism was actively promoted to delegitimize Israel. Durban II in 2010 promises to be even more hateful, if that is possible.In the run up to Annapolis, Roy Blunt (R-MO) introduced H. Res. 758 jointly with Shelley Berkley (D-NV). This resolution calls on Mahmoud Abbas to officially renounce ten articles in the Fatah Constitution that call for Israel's destruction and acts of terrorism against the Jews. While AIPAC supports the Blunt resolution, it also supports increasing aid to the PA, without regard to the Charter. Having it both ways, I guess. Doesn't it know that you can't suck and blow at the same time?

The Donor's Conference in Paris pledged $7.4 billion to the PA for the next three years. No one demanded that the Charter be amended, that terror stop or that there be The two-state solution is a sham for Western consumption.accountability for the funds. And everyone knows that Fatah is about to reconcile with Hamas on Hamas' terms.

And what are those terms?

First of all, the Hamas Charter is virulently anti-Semitic and uncompromising in its goal of ridding Palestine of the Jews. It declares that all Palestine is Islamic trust land, can never be surrendered to non-Muslims and is an integral part of Muslim world. On December 7, Ismail Haniyeh, speaking for Hamas, said, We will never recognise the usurper Zionist government and will continue our jihad-like movement until the liberation of Jerusalem.
Everyone is determined to ignore this, or worse, to live with it. This refusal on the part of the PA should be a deal breaker, but negotiations continue. The same goes for Jerusalem. This is very ominous.The bottom line is that the Arabs want Palestine to replace Israel. This goal is reiterated by all boycott movements, by the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) and Muslim Student Association (MSA), by Iran when it calls for Israel to be wiped off the map, by the PA that publishes books with maps showing Palestine in place of Israel, by Hamas, and by many UN agencies and NGO's. And they are not alone. The idea of a Jewish state is considered by the Left as anachronistic, retrograde and even racist. Daniel Pipes commented on this in Zionism's Bleak Future. In my article Jewish Israel is the key to its survival, not its end, I reviewed the liberal-Left opposition and argued: One of the icons of the left is affirmative action which obviously denies equality. Affirmative action is seen as making up for years of discrimination and therefore worthy. If anyone or people are entitled to affirmative action, the Jews are. [..] Jews are entitled to this assistance or favouritism or protection whatever you may call it. We paid for it in blood.

The endorsement of the two-state solution is a sham for Western consumption. The demand for a just solution to the Palestinian Refugee problem to be agreed upon in accordance with UN General Assembly Resolution 194, otherwise known as the right of return, vitiates any recognition of the two-state solution, because it effectively is intended to destroy the state of Israel.The enemies of Israel recently coined two new terms, Zion-Cons and Zionofascism. You can imagine why. The war on Zionism continues.
15 Tevet 5768 / 24 December 07.

WORLD GOVERNMENT

DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.

DANIEL 12:4,1
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
1 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.

REVELATION 13:1-3,7,8,12,16-18
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.
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.
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
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.
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
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.

REVELATION 17:3,7,9-10,12,18
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.
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.
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.
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.
18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.

A NEW BORN KING, HOPE FOR THE WORLD By: Devvy
December 24, 2007 2007 - NewsWithViews.com

Tomorrow, Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour. History shows early Christians were tortured and persecuted for their belief that Jesus is the son of God, yet they persisted despite fear of torture and death. In their hearts, they knew the truth and could not turn away, no matter the consequences. Here were are more than 2,000 years later, our Christian beliefs under attack for the past 50 years by the ACLU, commonly referred to as the American Communist Lawyers Union and Americans United for Separation of Church and State. Despite their propaganda to remove Christianity and all references to God from the fabric of this nation, we continue to successfully fight their toxic daily flogging of what is and isn't unconstitutional on that issue.

The state of our Union will only get worse because totalitarian government (communism sold under the deceptive communitarian social system and moral code) can only exist in a Godless country, i.e., Communist China and North Korea. Make no mistake about the intention of the elitists: totalitarian government which mandates removal of God from the American landscape and inculcate the state as parent to the peasants. Allegiance to the state provides privileges from the state. That's how slaves are made. As the attacks on every pillar of freedom and liberty continues, many will want to simply hide their head in the sand. They will get on their knees and accept the chains of slavery and hopelessness.

For the rest of us, we cannot and we will not!

Remember what Council on Foreign Relations member James Paul Warburg, said before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1950: We shall have world government whether or not you like it -- by conquest or consent. Warburg was wrong. He has badly underestimated the resolve of millions of Americans.

I am frequently reminded of a wonderful song reminiscent of our current situation. The lyrics are not about Christ-mas; Man of La Mancha is about a man imprisoned by the Inquisition for an offense against the Church. However, the theme is common with our fight for freedom, for what is right and for all the blessings that God has given this republic:

The Impossible Dream
from Man of La Mancha (1972)
music by Mitch Leigh and lyrics by Joe Darion

To dream the impossible dream
To fight the unbeatable foe
To bear with unbearable sorrow
To run where the brave dare not go

To right the unrightable wrong
To love pure and chaste from afar
To try when your arms are too weary
To reach the unreachable star

This is my quest
To follow that star
No matter how hopeless
No matter how far

To fight for the right
Without question or pause
To be willing to march into Hell
For a heavenly cause

And I know if I'll only be true
To this glorious quest
That my heart will lie peaceful and calm
When I'm laid to my rest

And the world will be better for this
That one man, scorned and covered with scars
Still strove with his last ounce of courage
To reach the unreachable star

A long time ago, when extraordinary, brave and courageous men, were spilling their blood to birth a free nation - reaching for that seemingly unreachable star - George Washington, said this to his troops in 1776: The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their houses and farms are to be pillaged and destroyed, and themselves consigned to a state of wretchedness from which no human efforts will deliver them. The fate of unborn millions will now depend on God, on the courage and conduct of this army. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.

As Washington knelt in the snow during the winter of Valley Forge (1777-1778), most likely feeling such despair as to overwhelm the average man, he put his faith in God and his sword to freedom. We ask for God's blessings, for strength to fight for what's right and to keep our troops safe as we work to bring them home.

Documented history:

The Original 13 - A Documentary History of Religion in America's first Thirteen States

Devvy Kidd authored the booklets, Why A Bankrupt America and Blind Loyalty; 2 million copies sold. Devvy appears on radio shows all over the country, ran for Congress and is a highly sought after public speaker. Devvy belongs to no organization.

She left the Republican Party in 1996 and has been an independent voter ever since. Devvy isn't left, right or in the middle; she is a constitutionalist who believes in the supreme law of the land, not some political party. Her web site (www.devvy.com) contains a tremendous amount of information, solutions and a vast Reading Room. Devvy's website: www.devvy.com

Before you send Devvy e-mail, please take the time to check the FAQ section on her web site. It is filled with answers to frequently asked questions and links to reliable research sources.
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ISRAELS INHERITED LAND IN THE FUTURE

And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.

ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.

12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE

EZEKIEL 47:13-23,48:1-35
13 Thus saith the Lord GOD; This shall be the border, whereby ye shall inherit the land according to the twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph shall have two portions.
14 And ye shall inherit it, one as well as another: concerning the which I lifted up mine hand to give it unto your fathers: and this land shall fall unto you for inheritance.
15 And this shall be the border of the land toward the north side, from the great sea, the way of Hethlon, as men go to Zedad;
16 Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazarhatticon, which is by the coast of Hauran.
17 And the border from the sea shall be Hazarenan, the border of Damascus, and the north northward, and the border of Hamath. And this is the north side.
18 And the east side ye shall measure from Hauran, and from Damascus, and from Gilead, and from the land of Israel by Jordan, from the border unto the east sea. And this is the east side.
19 And the south side southward, from Tamar even to the waters of strife in Kadesh, the river to the great sea. And this is the south side southward.
20 The west side also shall be the great sea from the border, till a man come over against Hamath. This is the west side.
21 So shall ye divide this land unto you according to the tribes of Israel.
22 And it shall come to pass, that ye shall divide it by lot for an inheritance unto you, and to the strangers that sojourn among you, which shall beget children among you: and they shall be unto you as born in the country among the children of Israel; they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.
23 And it shall come to pass, that in what tribe the stranger sojourneth, there shall ye give him his inheritance, saith the Lord GOD.
1 Now these are the names of the tribes. From the north end to the coast of the way of Hethlon, as one goeth to Hamath, Hazarenan, the border of Damascus northward, to the coast of Hamath; for these are his sides east and west; a portion for Dan.
2 And by the border of Dan, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Asher.
3 And by the border of Asher, from the east side even unto the west side, a portion for Naphtali.
4 And by the border of Naphtali, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Manasseh.
5 And by the border of Manasseh, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Ephraim.
6 And by the border of Ephraim, from the east side even unto the west side, a portion for Reuben.
7 And by the border of Reuben, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Judah.
8 And by the border of Judah, from the east side unto the west side, shall be the offering which ye shall offer of five and twenty thousand reeds in breadth, and in length as one of the other parts, from the east side unto the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in the midst of it.
9 The oblation that ye shall offer unto the LORD shall be of five and twenty thousand in length, and of ten thousand in breadth.
10 And for them, even for the priests, shall be this holy oblation; toward the north five and twenty thousand in length, and toward the west ten thousand in breadth, and toward the east ten thousand in breadth, and toward the south five and twenty thousand in length: and the sanctuary of the LORD shall be in the midst thereof.
11 It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok; which have kept my charge, which went not astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.
12 And this oblation of the land that is offered shall be unto them a thing most holy by the border of the Levites.
13 And over against the border of the priests the Levites shall have five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth: all the length shall be five and twenty thousand, and the breadth ten thousand.
14 And they shall not sell of it, neither exchange, nor alienate the firstfruits of the land: for it is holy unto the LORD.
15 And the five thousand, that are left in the breadth over against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a profane place for the city, for dwelling, and for suburbs: and the city shall be in the midst thereof.
16 And these shall be the measures thereof; the north side four thousand and five hundred, and the south side four thousand and five hundred, and on the east side four thousand and five hundred, and the west side four thousand and five hundred.
17 And the suburbs of the city shall be toward the north two hundred and fifty, and toward the south two hundred and fifty, and toward the east two hundred and fifty, and toward the west two hundred and fifty.
18 And the residue in length over against the oblation of the holy portion shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward: and it shall be over against the oblation of the holy portion; and the increase thereof shall be for food unto them that serve the city.
19 And they that serve the city shall serve it out of all the tribes of Israel.
20 All the oblation shall be five and twenty thousand by five and twenty thousand: ye shall offer the holy oblation foursquare, with the possession of the city.
21 And the residue shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy oblation, and of the possession of the city, over against the five and twenty thousand of the oblation toward the east border, and westward over against the five and twenty thousand toward the west border, over against the portions for the prince: and it shall be the holy oblation; and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst thereof.
22 Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession of the city, being in the midst of that which is the prince's, between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin, shall be for the prince.
23 As for the rest of the tribes, from the east side unto the west side, Benjamin shall have a portion.
24 And by the border of Benjamin, from the east side unto the west side, Simeon shall have a portion.
25 And by the border of Simeon, from the east side unto the west side, Issachar a portion.
26 And by the border of Issachar, from the east side unto the west side, Zebulun a portion.
27 And by the border of Zebulun, from the east side unto the west side, Gad a portion.
28 And by the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be even from Tamar unto the waters of strife in Kadesh, and to the river toward the great sea.
29 This is the land which ye shall divide by lot unto the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their portions, saith the Lord GOD.
30 And these are the goings out of the city on the north side, four thousand and five hundred measures.
31 And the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes of Israel: three gates northward; one gate of Reuben, one gate of Judah, one gate of Levi.
32 And at the east side four thousand and five hundred: and three gates; and one gate of Joseph, one gate of Benjamin, one gate of Dan.
33 And at the south side four thousand and five hundred measures: and three gates; one gate of Simeon, one gate of Issachar, one gate of Zebulun.
34 At the west side four thousand and five hundred, with their three gates; one gate of Gad, one gate of Asher, one gate of Naphtali.
35 It was round about eighteen thousand measures: and the name of the city from that day shall be, The LORD is there.

Jewish immigrants arrive in Israel from Iran Tue Dec 25, 10:13 AM ET

BEN GURION AIRPORT, Israel (Reuters) - Forty Jewish immigrants from Iran secretly flew to Israel on Tuesday, the largest such influx from the Islamic Republic as a single group in recent years, an Israeli immigration official said. Precise details of how the immigrants traveled from Iran to Israel were barred for publication under Israel's censorship rules for security matters.
The new arrivals were welcomed in a ceremony at Ben Gurion International Airport after arriving on a flight from a transit country which was not named due to censorship.Family members already in Israel gathered to welcome their relatives, who were offered $10,000 each by a Christian and Jewish fellowship to make the move, the official said.Israel is home to tens of thousands of Iranian immigrants, many of whom maintain discreet ties with relatives in their native land despite almost three decades of cold war-style hostility between the Islamic republic and the Jewish state.The official from the Jewish Agency, one of Israel's main organizations which helps bring Jews to the country, said the newcomers abandoned their property and possessions in Iran and left without announcing their intended final destination.The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said most of the new arrivals had come from Tehran. More than 200 Iranians have moved to Israel in 2007, up from 65 in the previous year.

Israel does not forbid its citizens from visiting Iran as the countries were never in open conflict. Iran does not recognize Israel and its president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has called for the Jewish state to be wiped off the map.Iran's nuclear program has further stirred war fears in Israel, though Tehran denies having hostile designs. Israel is believed to have the region's only atomic arsenal, but refuses to confirm or deny it.(Writing by Ori Lewis; Editing by Matthew Jones)

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.

Russia Successfully Tests New ICBM
Dec 25 02:23 PM US/Eastern
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
Associated Press Writer

MOSCOW (AP) - Russia's military on Tuesday successfully test-fired a new intercontinental ballistic missile capable of carrying multiple nuclear warheads—a weapon intended to replace aging Soviet-era missiles. The RS-24 missile was launched from the Plesetsk launch facility in northern Russia and its test warheads successfully hit designated targets on the Kura testing range on the Kamchatka Peninsula some 4,340 miles east, Strategic Missile Forces spokesman Alexander Vovk told The Associated Press. Vovk said that the missile carried multiple test warheads, but refused to say how many. The Interfax news agency said the RS-24 is capable of carrying at least three warheads. The Strategic Missile Forces said in a statement that the missile was launched from a mobile launcher. It said the new missile was based on the Topol-M and built by the same design team—Moscow's Heat Technology Institute led by Yuri Solomonov. The RS-24 was first test-fired successfully in May.

This missile is being created using scientific and technological solutions from the Topol-M missile which allows to significantly reduce time and cost of its development, the statement said.
Existing Topol-M missiles carry a single nuclear warhead and are capable of hitting targets more than 6,000 miles away. The Strategic Missile Forces said the RS-24 missile is designed to replace Soviet-built missiles with multiple nuclear warheads, such as RS-18 and RS-20. Those missiles are known in the West as the SS-19 Stiletto and the SS-18 Satan. The RS-24's deployment will strengthen the Strategic Missile Forces' capability to penetrate missile defense systems and strengthen the nuclear deterrent potential of Russia's strategic nuclear forces, the statement said. The RS-24 will form the backbone of the Strategic Missile Forces and safely ensure the security of Russia and its allies through the mid-century.President Vladimir Putin has used windfall oil revenues to modernize Russia's military arsenals amid increasing tensions with the West. The Kremlin has fiercely opposed U.S. plans to deploy missile defense sites in Poland and the Czech Republic, saying they threaten Russia's security.

Iran to get missile system from Russia: report Wed Dec 26, 2007

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Russia has agreed to sell an S-300 anti-aircraft missile system to Iran, Iran's defense minister was quoted as saying on Wednesday, a report likely to irritate the United States.S-300 missiles are longer-ranging than the TOR-M1 surface-to-air missiles which Russia, in a deal criticized by the West, earlier this year said it had delivered to the Islamic Republic under a $1 billion contract.Iran is under U.N. sanctions over its refusal to halt sensitive atomic work that Western powers suspect it wants to master so that it can build nuclear bombs, but they do not ban conventional weapons sales to the country.The S-300 system, under a contract signed in the past with Russia, will be delivered to Iran, Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar told Fars News Agency, without giving details.The timing of the delivery ... will be announced later, he said. The ISNA news agency carried a similar report.

The United States and Israel -- Tehran's arch foes -- have said Iran could use the TOR-M1 system to attack its neighbors. Russia says it is a short-range system and purely defensive.Najjar said last month Iran would never launch an attack against another country but warned that anybody trying to invade Iran would face a crushing response.Under Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russian arms firms have aggressively pushed sales abroad as the Kremlin seeks to reassert its role as a global power in the Middle East, Asia and Latin America.Russia's drive to boost arms exports have raised tensions with the United States, which last year imposed sanctions on Russia's state arms trader Rosoboronexport for cooperating with Iran, a move Moscow has called illegal.

Russia warns of retaliation against U.S. missile shield
www.chinaview.cn 2007-12-25 11:22:22

MOSCOW, Dec. 24 (Xinhua) -- Russia will take measures of reprisal if the United States insisted on deploying a missile shield in central Europe which could threaten Moscow's national security, a foreign ministry spokesman said Monday. The U.S. missile defense plan will be a strong action designed to weaken Russia's nuclear deterrent, said Mikhail Kamynin in a foreign ministry statement.

Russia would have no other choice than to take measures of reprisal,he said. Russia's head of strategic missile forces, General Nikolai Solovtsov, has threatened to target planned U.S. missile defense shield in Poland and the Czech Republic if Washington ignored Russia's concerns, the Interfax news agency reported. Russia's intercontinental ballistic missiles could target the planned U.S. shield if it was seen to undermine the Russian nuclear deterrent capability, Solovtsov said. Washington has insisted the missile shield, which consists of a radar station in the Czech Republic and interceptor missiles in Poland, is intended to stave off the threat of attacks from what it calls rogue states. Earlier reports said the first missile could be put on alert in Poland in 2011 and the deployment could be completed by 2013. Editor: Du Guodong

Russia launches 3 satellites to expand its space navigation system DEC 24,07 Canadian Press

MOSCOW - Russia on Tuesday launched three satellites to complement its space navigation system, officials said.The satellites were sent into orbit on a Proton-M rocket that blasted off successfully from the Baikonur launchpad in Kazakhstan, said Russia's Federal Space Agency spokesman Alexander Vorobyov.They are to join Russia's Global Navigation Satellite System, or GLONASS - the equivalent of the U.S. Global Positioning System, or GPS.The system, which serves both military and civilian purposes, was developed during Soviet times and is supposed to have 24 satellites. Their number dwindled after the 1991 Soviet collapse, but the government has earmarked funds to revive the system to its full strength thanks to Russia's windfall oil revenues.

Russia's First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said that Tuesday's launch would bring the GLONASS satellite fleet to 18 - the number necessary to provide navigation services over the entire Russian territory. He said Monday that the system would be available worldwide by 2010, for which it would need to have 24 satellites.

WORLD DECEPTION IS ON

ANTICHRIST (NAMES OF) CHARACTORISTICS OF THE MOVEMENT AND THE EU DICTATOR TO COME.

MATTHEW 24:24
24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.

MARK 13:22
22 For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.

1 JOHN 4:2-3
2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.

2 JOHN 7
7 For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.

1 JOHN 2:18,22
18 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.

DANIEL 9:26 (COMES FROM ROME) (EU DICTATOR)
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 shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.

DANIEL 8:9 (LITTLE HORN)
9 And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land.

DANIEL 7:8 (THE EU DICTATOR)
8 I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.

DANIEL 8:23 (KING OF FIRCE COUNTENANCE)
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.

DANIEL 11:36 (THE KING)
36 And the king 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.

2 THESSALONIANS 2:3-4,8 (MAN OF SIN)
3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:

ISAIAH 57:20
20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.

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.(EU DICTATOR)
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 AFTER READING ALL THOSE SCRIPTURES READ THIS STORY AND TELL ME IM NOT RIGHT THAT THIS EU JEWISH DICTATOR WILL BE FROM THE NEW AGE OCCULT OR KABBALAH IN ISRAEL MOVEMENTS.

Oprah and Friends to teach course on New Age Christ
By Warren Smith November 2007

Oprah Winfrey will be letting out all the stops on her XM Satellite Radio program this coming year. Beginning January 1, 2008,Oprah & Friends will offer a year-long course on the New Age teachings of A Course in Miracles. A lesson a day throughout the year will completely cover the 365 lessons from the Course in Miracles Workbook.For example, Lesson #29 asks you to go through your day affirming that God is in everything I see.Lesson #61 tells each person to repeat the affirmation I am the light of the world.Lesson #70 teaches the student to say and believe My salvation comes from me. By the end of the year, Oprah & Friends listeners will have completed all of the lessons laid out in the Course in Miracles Workbook. Those who finish the Course will have a wholly redefined spiritual mindset—a New Age worldview that includes the belief that there is no sin, no evil, no devil, and that God is in everyone and everything. A Course in Miracles teaches its students to rethink everything they believe about God and life. The Course Workbook bluntly states: This is a course in mind training and is dedicated to thought reversal.

Teaching A Course in Miracles will be Oprah’s longtime friend and special XM Satellite Radio reporter Marianne Williamson—who also happens to be one of today’s premier New Age leaders. She and Conversations with God author Neale Donald Walsch co-founded the American Renaissance Alliance in 1997, that later became the Global Renaissance Alliance of New Age leaders, that changed its name again in 2005 to the Peace Alliance. This Peace Alliance seeks to usher in an era of global peace founded on the principles of a New Age/New Spirituality that they are now referring to as a civil rights movement for the soul. They all agree that the principles of this New Age/New Spirituality are clearly articulated in A Course in Miracles—which is fast becoming the New Age Bible. So what is A Course in Miracles and what does it teach?

A Course in Miracles is allegedly new revelation from Jesus to help humanity work through these troubled times. This Jesus—who bears no doctrinal resemblance to the Bible’s Jesus Christ—began delivering his channeled teachings in 1965 to a Columbia University Professor of Medical Psychology by the name of Helen Schucman. One day Schucman heard an inner voice stating, This is a course in miracles. Please take notes. For seven years she diligently took spiritual dictation from this inner voice that described himself as Jesus. A Course in Miracles was quietly published in 1975 by the Foundation for Inner Peace. For many years the Course was an underground cult classic for New Age seekers who studied the Course individually, with friends, or in small study groups.

As a former New Age follower and devoted student of A Course in Miracles, I eventually discovered that the Course in Miracles was—in reality—the truth of the Bible turned upside down. Not having a true understanding of the Bible at the time of my involvement, I was led to believe that A Course in Miracles was a gift from God to help everyone understand the real meaning of the Bible and to help bring peace to the world. Little did I know that the New Age Christ and the New Age teachings of A Course in Miracles were everything the real Jesus Christ warned us to watch out for. In Matthew 24 Jesus warned about false teachers, false teachings and the false Christs who would pretend to be Him. When I left the New Age Christ to follow the Bible’s Jesus Christ, I had come to understand that the Jesus of A Course in Miracles was a false Christ, and that his Course in Miracles was dangerously deceptive. Here are some quotes from the Jesus of A Course in Miracles:

There is no sin. . .
A slain Christ has no meaning.
The journey to the cross should be the last useless journey.
Do not make the pathetic error of clinging to the old rugged cross.
The Name of Jesus Christ as such is but a symbol... It is a symbol that is safely used as a replacement for the many names of all the gods to which you pray.
God is in everything I see.
The recognition of God is the recognition of yourself.
The oneness of the Creator and the creation is your wholeness, your sanity and your limitless power.
The Atonement is the final lesson he [man] need learn, for it teaches him that, never having sinned, he has no need of salvation.

Most Christians recognize that these teachings are the opposite of what the Bible teaches. In the Bible, Jesus Christ’s atoning death on the cross of Calvary was hardly a useless journey. His triumph on the cross provides salvation to all those who confess their sin, accept Him and follow Him as their Lord and Saviour. His victory on the cross rings throughout the New Testament. It has been gloriously sung about in beloved hymns through the ages and is at the heart of our Christian testimony. I found the Jesus of the Bible to be wholly believable as He taught God’s truth and warned about the spiritual deception that would come in His name. The Jesus of A Course in Miracles reveals himself to be an imposter when he blasphemes the true Jesus Christ by saying that a slain Christ has no meaning and that we are all God and that we are all Christ. It was by reading the Bible’s true teachings of Jesus Christ that I came to understand how deceived I had been by A Course in Miracles and my other New Age teachings.

I was introduced to A Course in Miracles by Dr. Gerald Jampolsky’s book Love is Letting Go of Fear. Jampolsky declared in his easy-to-read book how the teachings of A Course in Miracles had changed his life. As an ambassador for A Course in Miracles over the years, Jampolsky has been featured not only in New Age circles but at least twice on Robert Schuller’s Hour of Power. While Schuller introduced Jampolsky and his fabulous Course in Miracles-based books to his worldwide television audience, it was Marianne Williamson’s appearance on a 1992 Oprah Winfrey Show that really shook the rafters.On that program, Oprah enthusiastically endorsed Williamson’s book, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles. Oprah told her television audience that Williamson’s book about A Course in Miracles was one of her favorite books, and that she had already bought a thousand copies and would be handing them out to everyone in her studio audience. Oprah’s endorsement skyrocketed Williamson’s book about A Course in Miracles to the top of the New York Times bestseller list. Ironically, all of this was happening after I had left the Course and the New Age. In fact, I was doing the final editing on my book The Light That Was Dark that warned about the dangers of the New Age—and in particular A Course in Miracles.After being introduced to the world on Oprah, Marianne Williamson has continued to grow in popularity and, as previously mentioned, has become one of today’s foremost New Age leaders. Williamson credits Winfrey for bringing her book about A Course in Miracles before the world: For that, my deepest thanks to Oprah Winfrey. Her enthusiasm and generosity have given the book, and me, an audience we would never otherwise have had.In her 2004 book, The Gift of Change, Williamson wrote: Twenty years ago, I saw the guidance of the Course as key to changing one’s personal life; today, I see its guidance as key to changing the world. More than anything else, I see how deeply the two are connected.Thus the New Age teachings of A Course in Miracles are about to be taught by Marianne Williamson to millions of listeners on Oprah’s XM Satellite Radio program. Listeners are encouraged to buy A Course in Miracles for the year-long course. An audio version of A Course in Miracles recited by Richard (John Boy Walton) Thomas is also available on compact disc.

Popular author Wayne Dyer told his PBS television audience that the brilliant writing of A Course in Miracles would produce more peace in the world.21 Williamson’s New Age colleague, Neale Donald Walsch, said his God stated that the era of the Single Saviour is over and that he (God) was responsible for authoring the teachings of A Course in Miracles.Meanwhile, Gerald Jampolsky’s Course in Miracles-based book, Forgiveness, continues to be sold in Robert Schuller’s Crystal Cathedral bookstore as Schuller prepares to host a January 17-19, 2008, Rethink Conference at his Crystal Cathedral.At this critical time in the history of the world, the New Gospel/New Spirituality is coming right at the world and the church with its New Age teachings and its New Age Peace Plan. But this New Age Peace Plan has at its deceptive core the bottom-line teaching from A Course in Miracles that we are all one because God is in everyone and everything. But the Bible is clear that we are not God (Ezekiel 28:2; Hosea 11:9). And per Galatians 3:26-28, our only oneness is in Jesus Christ—not in ourselves as God and Christ.What Oprah and Marianne Williamson and the world will learn one day is that humanity’s only real and lasting peace is with the true Jesus Christ who is described and quoted in the Holy Bible (Romans 5:1).Oprah Winfrey’s misplaced faith in Marianne Williamson and the New Age teachings of A Course in Miracles is a sure sign of the times. But an even surer sign of the times is that most Christians are not taking heed to what is happening in the world and in the church. We are not contending for the faith as the Bible admonishes us to do (Jude 3).

It is time for all of our Purpose-Driven and Emerging church pastors to address the real issue of the day. Our true Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ is being reinvented, redefined, and blasphemed right in front of our eyes and hardly anyone seems to notice or care. If we want the world to know who Jesus Christ is, we need to also warn them about who He is not. There is a false New Age Christ making huge inroads into the world and into the church. The Apostle Paul said that it is a shame we have to even talk about these things, but talk about them we must (Ephesians 5:12-16). If people want to follow Oprah Winfrey and the New Age Christ of A Course in Miracles they certainly have that right. But let them be warned that the New Age Christ they are following is not the same Jesus Christ who is so clearly and authoritatively presented in the pages of the Bible.

Warren Smith is a former New Age follower who at one time was deeply involved in the New Age teachings of A Course in Miracles. He is the author of The Light That Was Dark: From the New Age to Amazing Grace and Deceived on Purpose: The New Age Implications of the Purpose-Driven Church. His book Reinventing Jesus Christ: The New Gospel is available free online at www.reinventingjesuschrist.com

WAS JESUS BORN IN 6BC

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.

Two tornadoes verified in Pine Belt From staff reports DEC 21,07

Officials confirmed today that a tornado struck Jones County on Thursday.The National Weather Service said an EF2 tornado with winds of 125 mph touched down about five miles northwest of Pleasant Ridge. The tornado extended three miles and was about 150 yards wide.

Two injuries were reported.

Also, the National Weather Service has confirmed that a tornado touched down in Covington County on Thursday about one mile south of Collins. The EFI tornado had winds of 105 mph and extended about eight miles.In Jeff Davis County, no confirmation has been made yet of a tornado. The National Weather Service said trees were down around Bassfield and 1/4-inch sized hail was reported.

Winter storm walloping Great Lakes Buzz Bernard
Sun Dec 23, 7:18 PM ET

A winter storm is walloping the Great Lakes with high winds, plunging temperatures and snow. Parts of northeast Minnesota and northwest Wisconsin have picked up between 14 and 16 inches of snow with more on the way. Heavy snow is falling across western Lower Michigan. Snowfall through Monday morning will be heaviest in westernmost Upper Michigan and adjacent counties of northern Wisconsin along with the western counties of Lower Michigan. Additional snowfall could locally approach 1 foot. Farther east, heavy, wind-driven lake-effect snow will develop overnight and Monday off of Lakes Erie and Ontario. Winds around the storm and its attendant cold front are gusting as high as 40 to 50 mph. In the West, mountain snow continues to pile up. A heavy snow warning is posted for the Washington Cascades as snow levels drop from 6000 feet to 1500 feet and for northeastern Washington state and northern Idaho above 3000 feet. Winter storm warnings and watches plus snow and blowing snow advisories are in effect for various other locations in Oregon, Idaho, western Montana, western Wyoming and Utah into Monday. In the higher elevations, one to two feet of snow are possible.

Five dead in US snow storm: reports Sun Dec 23, 3:28 AM ET

WASHINGTON (AFP) - A snow storm packing strong winds caused flight delays and closed highways across the central United States, leaving at least five dead in road accidents, US media reported on Sunday. The National Weather Service warned travel conditions had deteriorated at the weekend in Midwestern states stretching from northern Missouri to Michigan due to snow and high wind.A combination of heavy snow, strong winds and bitter windchills will make any form of travel dangerous if not impossible in some areas, the service said early Sunday in a warning for parts of Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota.The harsh weather posed a potential hazard for travellers ahead of the Christmas holiday Tuesday and for presidential candidates campaigning in the state of Iowa, which on January 3 holds the first contest for each party's nomination race.

A heavy winter storm warning was issued for upper Michigan near the US border with Canada, where the weather service said total snowfall through Sunday night will be four to seven inches (10 to 17 centimeters).In Texas, blowing snow reduced visibility and caused a massive pile-up of cars and trucks on Saturday morning, leaving one dead and five others seriously injured, according to the Amarillo Globe-News.The accident involved some 80 vehicles and shutdown Interstate 40 and another highway for hours, the paper reported.Snowy and slippery roads triggered more than 300 car accidents in the Midwestern state of Minnesota, causing at least three deaths, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported.And wet roads caused a deadly accident in Missouri, with a 62-year-old man dying when his sport utility vehicle slid off a highway and struck a sign near Kansas City, the Kansas City Star reported.The storm dropped a blanket of fog on Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, causing the cancellation of at least 170 flights and numerous delays on Saturday, the Chicago Tribune reported.Despite the wave of cold weather, 2007 was likely to be one of the 10 warmest years on the US mainland since 1895 according to preliminary data, the National Weather Service said.

YEARENDER: Spanish king experiences his 'annus horribilis' in 2007 Sun, 23 Dec 2007 05:08:05 GMT Author : DPA Europe (World)

Madrid - For Spain's King Juan Carlos, the year 2007 may not have been an annus horribilis, to use the British queen's famous expression, but it was certainly a stressful one. The royal family had never become entangled in as much controversy since the 69-year-old monarch acceded to the throne 32 years ago. The monarchy has now become an object of political wrangling ahead of general elections in March 2008, with the opposition conservatives seeking the role of its defender against Catalan republicans. The untouchable aura surrounding the royals has been shattered by a scandal over a sex caricature on Crown Prince Felipe, and Princess Elena's separation from her husband has dented the idyllic image of the royal family. The pressure from Catalan anti-monarchists, some other critics and the gossipy media is thought to have influenced the attitude of King Juan Carlos, who has become more outspoken and politically active, even telling Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to shut up.

Juan Carlos did not inherit his throne from his father, but acceded to it by the will of dictator Francisco Franco after the latter's death in 1975. The general's dictatorship had followed the 1931-36 Second Republic and the 1936-39 Civil War. Initially regarded as the dictator's puppet, Juan Carlos won the hearts of Spaniards by thwarting a coup attempt in 1981 and by helping to consolidate democracy. Juan Carlos, Greek-born Queen Sofia and their children Felipe, Elena and Cristina have enjoyed reverential treatment from the media, which has helped to maintain their popularity - at least until 2007. In the summer, the satirical magazine El Jueves published a caricature showing Felipe having sex with his wife and saying to her: If you get pregnant, that will be the closest to real work I have ever done in my life.The authors of the caricature were handed fines of 3,000 euros (4,200 dollars) each, but media treatment of the royals had meanwhile grown bolder, with some television talk shows indirectly criticizing their privileged lifestyle. At the same time, republican currents became more visible in north-eastern Catalonia, where small separatist groups burned pictures of the royal couple as a symbol of Spanish power over the region.

The small Catalan separatist party ERC raised the issue of the royal family's lack of financial transparency, apparently contributing to the king's decision to appoint an auditor to monitor his spending. The rise of Catalan republicanism made the main parties rush to defend the monarchy which, as Juan Carlos himself said in an unusual speech, had presided over the longest period of stability and prosperity in democracy ever experienced by Spain.Yet the parties also drew the monarchy into the electoral battle, with the opposition conservatives seeking the role of champions of Spanish nationalism and unity opposing the Socialist government, which had made concessions to regions seeking more autonomy. The king himself adopted a higher political profile, making a controversial visit to the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla on the Moroccan coast and sparking a diplomatic crisis with Rabat, which claims the enclaves. The visit was the king's own idea, press reports quoted diplomatic sources as saying. Juan Carlos has also become more outspoken, telling Madrid regional premier Esperanza Aguirre that the Catholic Church should exercise tighter control over its radio station Cope.

The king said the church should pray less for me and the monarchy and watch more over the highly conservative Cope, where a commentator had described Juan Carlos as being close to the Socialists and advised him to abdicate in favour of the crown prince. Then in November, the king was involved in a diplomatic incident with Venezuela after Chavez slammed former Spanish premier Jose Maria Aznar as a fascist at an Ibero-American summit in Chile. Why don't you shut up, Juan Carlos snapped at Chavez. The phrase soon became so popular that it sparked a multi-million euro business of selling it in ringtones, T-shirts, websites and the like. A few days after the king's outburst at Chavez, the royal family made other kinds of uncomfortable headlines by announcing that Juan Carlos' eldest child Elena was separating from aristocrat Jaime de Marichalar, her husband of 12 years. The year 2007 was clearly one of change for the Spanish monarchy, but analysts disagreed on whether it would strengthen or weaken the institution in the long run. Some commentators welcomed what they saw as the emergence of a strong crown that acts, arbitrates, intervenes, as historian Santos Julia put it. Others, however, warned that it could be risky for the monarch to be seen as overstepping the boundaries set by the constitution. The king reigns, but does not govern, the daily El Pais pointed out, advising Juan Carlos to stick to his traditional discreet role.

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)

EU Mideast envoy: international force may be set up quickly in Gaza EJP Updated: 21/Dec/2007 15:23

Marc Otte, the European Union's Middle East envoy.

JERUSALEM (EJP)---An international force may be set up quickly in Gaza if Israel and the Palestinians reach an agreement on the matter, an EU envoy said. Marc Otte, the European Union Middle East envoy told the Jerusalem Post this week that there is definitely more interest than in the past for the idea of such a force from the Israeli and Palestinian sides. After the second Lebanon War, the sides see the merit in an international security presence, Otte said, referring to the international force in southern Lebanon. At the same time, he said, we are a long way away from implementation.

Otte said that the EU was currently in a listening mode on the matter, adding: We must make sure that all the parties are interested.Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni have spoken positively about an international force. French President Nicolas Sarkozy said at last Monday’s donors’ conference in Paris that France proposes the deployment, when the time and conditions are right, of an international force to assist the Palestinian security services.

Abbas said he supported Sarkozy’s proposal.

We are working for this to become the international position in the near future, he said. Livni hinted at a NATO meeting in Brussels earlier this month that the Atlantic organization would have to play a part in ensuring security if Israel were to carry out significant territorial concessions.

FOREIGN MINISTER SAYS EU, NATO PUT THEMSELVES ABOVE THE LAW

Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told Vremya novostei of December 21 that only the UN can achieve a political settlement in Kosova and that any unilateral declaration of independence will be illegal. He stressed that if NATO and the EU now state, after ignoring all legitimate legal mechanisms that exist in the UN, that they will decide on how to divide Serbia, how to bite Kosovo off from it, and how to prevent Serbs who live in Kosovo from expressing their opinion on the issue, they will put themselves above international law. He called this a very dangerous game. He did not specify which dangers are involved. Lavrov charged that the Kosova issue marks the first time that Western countries have in effect said they are no longer interested in the UN and will resolve complex issues outside it. He stressed that Russia will veto any move in the UN to grant Kosova independence without Serbia's agreement. Deutsche Welle noted on December 21 that German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been at pains to find out from Moscow what it wants in return for cooperation on a host of issues. The broadcast added that some German experts have concluded that Russia is interested only in obstruction. PM

EU is increasingly perceived worldwide as a global player
International opinion survey: US experiences dramatic loss of stature - Rapidly growing awareness of environmental threats - EU recognized as world power

The European Union is increasingly perceived all over the world as a global power, and is anticipated to play a major role on the international stage in 2020 after the US, China and Russia. The US's superpower image is fading, while China and Russia have risen enormously in stature. There was a spike in many parts of the world in people's awareness of the dangers of climate change and environmental devastation. Climate protection and poverty are currently seen as the most important tasks facing international policy makers. These are some of the findings of a worldwide opinion poll conducted by the German foundation, the Bertelsmann Stiftung.

According to the poll, the European Union already enjoys the reputation of a global player, and was ranked fifth on average by all international respondents. This picture improves for the Europeans as time goes on. When asked which nations and organizations would be global powers in 2020, every third person mentioned the EU. On the other hand, the US lost its undisputed leadership position. While 81 percent of people would still call the US a world power today, only 61 percent expect it to retain this position into 2020. Once again, China, India and - more recently - Russia have greatly boosted their own profiles as global players. With a 57 percent response rate, China was mentioned almost as frequently as the US as a future superpower. They were followed further down by Russia with 37 percent, the EU with 33 percent, Japan with 33 percent and India with 29 percent.

Compared to the United Nations, the EU is perceived as a very strong player in global politics. This applies in all countries surveyed except India, where the UN has a higher standing. And in China, the perception of the EU as a world power rose significantly - by 15 percentage points in the past two years.

When asked if their own country should cooperate more closely with the EU, the vast majority of the international respondents - 74 percent on average - said yes. This desire is particularly strong in China and Russia, where stronger ties with the EU are favoured by 98 percent and 91 percent of respondents, respectively. In the US, these numbers were 78 percent, in Brazil 70 percent, in India 68 percent and in Japan 48 percent.

Recent years have seen a shift in perceptions of what challenges face the world and what goals global players should work towards. For example, in almost all the countries surveyed, awareness of environmental threats skyrocketed, while dangers such as global terrorism were viewed as less urgent. Awareness of environmental problems has risen more than 10 percentage points worldwide since 2005. The percentage of people who viewed climate change and environmental devastation as global threats rose in all countries surveyed, but especially in the US (+22 percentage points), China (+17 percentage points) and Japan (+16 percentage points). On average, 54 percent of all people viewed environmental destruction as the most important threat. Only in Russia (31 percent) and India (28 percent) did a minority of the population view this problem as a major threat. At the same time, the perceived significance of global terrorism showed no change compared to two years ago. The other key challenges cited by respondents were poverty and overpopulation, war, resource scarcity, and religious conflicts and fundamentalism.

What global threats predominate in people's views varies considerably from country to country. In India, poverty and overpopulation are mentioned most often, while Russians cite the dangers of war, the Chinese resource scarcity and the French religious fundamentalism.

Summarizing the study, Josef Janning, Head of International Relations at the Bertelsmann Stiftung, noted, People's future expectations hold enormous sway over policymaking. All over the world, people see the US losing its dominant position and China gaining ground. However, they don't expect the kind of harmonious, balanced world order you might expect from a global government run by the United Nations. Instead, in almost every country, people plan to rely on their own strength in global competition and want their own countries to play larger roles in spreading peace and stability. If this perspective and expectation takes hold in global politics, we may see a resurgence of the sort of nationalistic brinkmanship between current and future global powers that we experienced so disastrously in 20th century Europe. However, the threat of climate change appears to be encouraging greater political cooperation at the international level.

Gallup International/TNS-EMNID, an opinion research firm, recently questioned 9,000 people in the US, Russia, Brazil, China, India, Japan, Germany, France and the UK for the Bertelsmann Stiftung study. As a benchmark, the findings were compared with a similar Bertelsmann Stiftung survey from 2005. The results of the world power survey were presented at the second meeting of the Bertelsmann Stiftung's Global Policy Council in Berlin. The council brings together high-calibre experts from various fields and regions to analyze the challenges and opportunities inherent in the dynamics of globalization, the rise of new powers and the emergence of new security risks.

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

Caribbean-EU trade pact comprehensive, innovative
Sunday | December 23, 2007 David Jessop, Contributor

At about 1:30 a.m. on the morning of Sunday, December 16, weary Carib-bean and European negotiators finally initialled the text of an economic partnership agreement (EPA) between Europe and Cariforum.The final text is complex and daunting - it runs to well over a thousand pages - but it is comprehensive and sometimes innovative.For the average reader, a more accessible version of what was agreed and a good measure of the level of Caribbean negotiators' achievement is contained in a six- page note sent to the regional private sector by the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery (CRNM).In outline, the Caribbean EPA offers duty- and quota-free treatment for all Cariforum goods entering Europe as of January 1, 2008, except for rice and sugar. In their case, there will be a two-year transition period and increased quotas before they, too, have quota free and duty-free status.

In return, Cariforum will remove tariffs from 80 per cent of EU imports into the region over a 15-year period, with sensitive goods receiving protection for up to 25 years or indefinitely. In implementing this, Cariforum has a three-year moratorium and will, during this period, continue to charge customs duties on all items other than vehicles and gasolene, for which a different phasing was agreed. Cariforum retained the right to maintain other duties and charges that make up an important part of Government revenues for up to 10 years.There is also extensive language on services industries that implicitly recognises how important such industries have become for the region, and an unprecedented provision that allows Haiti and The Bahamas to be signatories to the full EPA, while being granted extra time to complete their services offer.

Investors to get national treatment

In the European Union (EU), Cariforum investors will get national treatment and most favoured nation treatment. The same applies in reverse. Public services and utilities and other sensitive sectors have not been opened to foreign participation, and Cariforum maintained special reservations for small and medium enterprises in some sectors.In the case of services, there are comprehensive rules in the EPA for the tourism sector, e-commerce, couriers, telecommunications, financial services, and maritime transport. In the case of tourism, large firms will be prevented from behaving in an anti-competitive manner in order to safeguard the interests of the mainly small firms in the Caribbean. The EPA also has special provisions for short-term visitors to Europe for business purposes.In return for most of Europe opening immediately more than 90 per cent of its services sector, Cariforum is opening between 65 and 75 per cent with, in its case, the Dominican Republic's opening more than 90 per cent. In the case of investment, the EC has liberalised almost all sectors for Cariforum firms and has agreed to grant temporary access for Caribbean professionals in 29 sectors.

In an important concession not made before by Europe, there are no quotas on the number of service suppliers that can enter the EU market. In addition, 25 European states will liberalise entertainment services. Again, this is a first for any trade agreement with the EU, and is complemented by an innovative protocol on cultural cooperation.What all this means is that unlike every other region of the ACP, the Caribbean has remained true to its word and has achieved the only comprehensive EPA with Europe. This is astonishing for a region with countries at very different levels of development and capacity, to say nothing of the technical and cultural problems of incorporating the Dominican Republic, when right up to the very end, it was quite possible that its government might seek an arrangement of its own.Moreover, the Caribbean EPA was achieved in the face of a very real threat that the region's exports would be disadvantaged by the introduction of a European tariff regime on January 1, 2008. In this respect, it is worth recording that this was no idle threat as on December 20, customs and revenue authorities across Europe issued notices to importers listing 10 of the more developed ACP nations and another 12 less developed nations, that for technical reasons, would now be subject to tariffs on their exports to Europe.

The turning point came when Caribbean heads of government met in Georgetown on December 7.

Negotiations with the EC

There, faced with the real possibility that the region would be disadvantaged by the EC, the region's political leadership agreed to return to negotiations with the EC on December 14, to conclude a full EPA based on changes to its trade- in-goods offer in return for improved concessions in a number of areas. It was the moment when it was necessary, according to one Caribbean leader, to accept convenience over principle.

Europe's negotiators, too, were prepared for compromise on this basis.

Speaking a few days after the final EPA had been reached, Ambassador Richard Bernal, the region's chief trade negotiator, told me that finishing on its own terms should be seen as an extraordinary confidence-building accomplishment for the region.

The Caribbean EPA was, he said, unique. No one else in the ACP had been able to achieve a full agreement. The region had been able to obtain duty-free and quota-free treatment for all goods; less than full reciprocity; an asymmetrical phase of up to 25 years; the exclusion of 20 per cent of products sensitive to the region; and, comprehensive and sometimes ground- breaking language on services.

Europe, Bernal said, had failed in its attempt to extract concessions. The Caribbean remained sovereign in important areas such as governance and taxation; the free circulation of goods in CARICOM; government procurement; and the region's right to retain import duties and charges. He concluded by noting that the banana, sugar, rice and rum industries were largely satisfied, even if they not achieved all that they had wanted.There remain, of course, doubters who do not share these views and justified concerns about the EPA's development component and its delivery and funding.However, the reality is that at an economic level, the EPA means that Cariforum, an abstract concept, has become one, and its governments and private sector now have between 12 to 15 years to make the single market and economy function. In effect, the EPA will drive integration if the region is not to cede economic control to Europe.

In another column, I will reflect more on this and the lessons learnt; why success in the negotiating process should give the region greater confidence in the world; the dangerous longer-term implications of the lack of understanding shown throughout at the highest political levels of the European Com-mission; and the challenge and the change in thinking needed if the region is to take advantage of what has been agreed.But for now, I, like every one else, will be stopping for Christ-mas, but taking a moment to celebrate the remarkable achievement of Caribbean ministers and the region's trade-negotiating team in reaching agreement on a full EPA despite the many difficulties placed in their way.
David Jessop is director of the Caribbean Council. Email: david.jessop@caribbean-coun cil.org

From The Sunday TimesDecember 23, 2007
Tony Blair finally becomes a Catholic
Robert Watts and Steven Swinford

TONY Blair, who announced his conversion to Catholicism this weekend, has come under pressure from fellow believers to explain his untenable record on issues such as gay rights, abortion and stem cell research during his decade in power.As prime minister, Blair angered Catholics by legalising homosexual civil partnerships and gay adoption, championing stem cell research using embryos and voting against lowering the time limit on abortions. The invasion of Iraq also drew criticism from Pope Benedict XVI.Ann Widdecombe, the Conservative MP who is also a convert, said: He has voted three times in the Commons against some of the core beliefs of the Roman Catholic church on abortion, embryo research and Sunday trading. Since he has made a public conversion to Catholicism we are entitled to ask how he reconciles these actions with such teaching.There were also questions about the role his wife Cherie played in his conversion. She is her husband’s sponsor, charged with providing spiritual support and guidance. One senior churchman said: It’s quite wrong for a spouse to be a sponsor.On Friday evening, at a small service attended by family and friends in the archbishop’s Westminster home, Blair accepted all that the holy Catholic church believes, teaches and proclaims to be revealed by God.

Portugal symbolically hands over EU presidency to Slovenia
www.chinaview.cn 2007-12-23 03:27:00

BELGRADE, Dec. 22 (Xinhua) -- Portugal symbolically handed over the EU presidency to Slovenia on Saturday, as Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates gave Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa an astrolabe, said reports reaching here from Slovenia. Socrates said with the seafaring navigation instrument, Slovenia could successfully steer the EU ship when it officially assumes the rotating EU presidency on Jan. 1, the Slovenian national news agency STA reported. The symbolical handing over took place at a celebration at the Skofije/Rabuiese border crossing between Slovenia and Italy of the expansion of the Schengen no-border zone to nine EU countries, including Slovenia. At midnight on Friday, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia joined the15 countries already in the border-free zone. A total of 400 million people from 24 countries are now able to move freely throughout Europe.

Slovenia, the first former Yugoslav state to join the European Union, the eurozone and the Schengen zone, will assume the leadership of the 27-nation, 490-million-people European Union during the first half of 2008. Jansa thanked Socrates and praised the excellent cooperation of the EU presiding trio of Germany, Portugal and Slovenia. He said Germany as well as Portugal had proven they are capable of strategic steps, the former with the content of the Lisbon Treaty and the latter with the successful inter-governmental conference and the signing of the document.

According to Jansa, Slovenia will continue down the same path, doing its utmost to ensure that the Lisbon Treaty will be ratified where this is possible in the first half of 2008. Moreover, it would harness the optimism created by the Schengen zone expansion for steps that improve the lives of European citizens, said Jansa.
Editor: Yan Liang

OUR AWESOME GOD WILL REVEAL THE TRUTH TO THE WORLD WHETHER THEY WANT TO BELIEVE IT OR NOT. THE WHEAT AND CHAFF ARE BEING SEPARATED GETTING READY FOR THE ULTIMATE DECIEVER TO COME ON THE WORLD SCENE TO DECIEVE THE ONES THAT WON"T ACCEPT THE TRUTH BUT BELIEVE THE LIES.

Astrophysicist researches Biblical star of Bethlehem
Tom Coyne - Associated Press Writer
OneNewsNow.com December 22, 2007

SOUTH BEND, Ind. - It's long been a puzzle for Christian astronomers, and now a professor from the University of Notre Dame thinks he has it figured out - almost, anyway.His quest: discovering just what the star in the East was that led wise men to travel to Bethlehem 2,000 years ago.As a theoretical astrophysicist, Grant Mathews had hoped the answer would be spectacular - something like a supernova. But two years of research have led him to a more ordinary conclusion. The heavenly sign around the time of the birth of Jesus Christ was likely an unusual alignment of planets, the sun and the moon.Not a lot was written about the star in the Bible. In the Gospel of Matthew it says: Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we have seen his star in the East, and have come to worship him.

The star, though, has long been immortalized in Christmas songs, plays and movies. Astronomers, theologians and historians for hundreds of years have been trying to determine exactly which star might have inspired the biblical writing. German astronomer Johannes Kepler proposed in 1604 that the star was a conjunction of Mars, Jupiter and Saturn in 7 B.C.The advantage Mathews has over Kepler and others who have pondered the question is that he had access to NASA's databases.In principle, we can see any star that was ever made from the beginning of time if we knew where to look. So the question is, could we find a star that could be a good candidate for what showed up then? he said.Mathews found several possibilities. He began by posing three questions he would ask when trying to find the answer to any astronomical event: When did it occur? What were its characteristics? Did anyone else see it? The Gospel of Matthew indicates Jesus was born in Bethlehem when Herod was king. Roman historian Flavius Josephus wrote that Herod died after an eclipse of the moon before the Passover. Mathews said among the possibilities are 6 B.C., 5 B.C., 1 B.C. or 1 A.D. The star could have appeared up to two years before the wise men arrived in Jerusalem, he said.Mathews believes that means the Christmas star could have appeared anywhere from 8 to 4 B.C.

Among the characteristics written about the star was that it appeared before sunrise and that it appeared to rest in the sky. Mathews also found writings from Korean and Chinese astronomers of an event about 4 B.C. which described a comet with no tail that didn't move.Using that set of facts, Mathews found several possibilities, including supernovas, novas and planetary alignments.Mathews found two possible supernovas in the right period, but said one was probably too low on the horizon to be seen. The other supernova is known as Kes 75. But it was 60,000 light years away and may not have been particularly spectacular.

There's no real convincing evidence this happened right at 2000 years ago, but it could be in the range of being right because it's in the right location, he said.He also found a number of nova that also could have been the Christmas star. The one he thinks is the most likely candidate is known as Nova Aquilae V603. The problem with novas and comets, though, is that they were believed in ancient times to be a sign of disaster, not a portent of good things to come.For that reason, Mathews believes the Christmas star is most likely an alignment of planets. He said there are three likely times for this:

-Feb. 20, 6 B.C., when Mars, Jupiter and Saturn aligned in the constellation Pisces.

-April 17, 6 B.C., when the sun, Jupiter, the moon and Saturn aligned in the constellation Aries while Venus and Mars were in neighboring constellations.

-June 17, 2 B.C., when Jupiter and Venus were closely aligned in Leo.

Mathews believes the April 17, 6 B.C., alignment is the most likely candidate. It makes sense because he believes the wise men were Zoroastrian astrologers who would have recognized the planetary alignment in Aries as a sign a powerful leader was born.
In fact it would have even meant that (the leader was) destined to die at an appointed time, which of course would have been significant for the Christ child, and may have been why they brought myrrh, which was an embalming fluid, Mathews said. Saturn there would have made whoever was born as a leader a most powerful leader because Saturn had the strength to do it, in their view.
Mathews has been sharing his findings in public lectures at Notre Dame and plans to write a paper to submit to the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society. He's also considering writing a book.Mathews concedes, though, that any of the other events could have been the famed star. Unless a document is discovered that allows historians to more accurately estimate exactly when Jesus was born, it will be impossible to say what caused the light with absolute certainty, Mathews said.I think it would take more of a historical reference more than an astrophysics, he said. There are plenty of strong opinions out there. I think this is as good as you can do for now.2007 American Family News Network.

Is a New Solar Cycle Beginning?

Dec. 14, 2007: The solar physics community is abuzz this week. No, there haven't been any great eruptions or solar storms. The source of the excitement is a modest knot of magnetism that popped over the sun's eastern limb on Dec. 11th, pictured below in a pair of images from the orbiting Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO).
It may not look like much, but this patch of magnetism could be a sign of the next solar cycle, says solar physicist David Hathaway of the Marshall Space Flight Center.

Above: From SOHO, a UV-wavelength image of the sun and a map showing positive (white) and negative (black) magnetic polarities. The new high-latitude active region is magnetically reversed, marking it as a harbinger of a new solar cycle.

For more than a year, the sun has been experiencing a lull in activity, marking the end of Solar Cycle 23, which peaked with many furious storms in 2000--2003. Solar minimum is upon us, he says. The big question now is, when will the next solar cycle begin?

It could be starting now.

New solar cycles always begin with a high-latitude, reversed polarity sunspot, explains Hathaway. Reversed polarity means a sunspot with opposite magnetic polarity compared to sunspots from the previous solar cycle. High-latitude refers to the sun's grid of latitude and longitude. Old cycle spots congregate near the sun's equator. New cycle spots appear higher, around 25 or 30 degrees latitude.The region that appeared on Dec. 11th fits both these criteria. It is high latitude (24 degrees N) and magnetically reversed. Just one problem: There is no sunspot. So far the region is just a bright knot of magnetic fields. If, however, these fields coalesce into a dark sunspot, scientists are ready to announce that Solar Cycle 24 has officially begun.

Below: Solar Cycle 23 is coming to an end. What's next? Image credit: NOAA/Space Weather Prediction Center.

Many forecasters believe Solar Cycle 24 will be big and intense. Peaking in 2011 or 2012, the cycle to come could have significant impacts on telecommunications, air traffic, power grids and GPS systems. (And don't forget the Northern Lights!) In this age of satellites and cell phones, the next solar cycle could make itself felt as never before.The furious storms won't start right away, however. Solar cycles usually take a few years to build to a frenzy and Cycle 24 will be no exception. We still have some quiet times ahead, says Hathaway. Meanwhile, all eyes are on a promising little active region. Will it become the first sunspot of a new solar cycle? Stay tuned for updates from Science@NASA.