JPMorgan to buy Bear for $2 a share By JOE BEL BRUNO and MADLEN READ, AP Business Writers MAR 17,08
NEW YORK - Just four days after Bear Stearns Chief Executive Alan Schwartz assured Wall Street that his company was not in trouble, he was forced on Sunday to sell the investment bank to competitor JPMorgan Chase for a bargain-basement price of $2 a share, or $236.2million. The stunning last-minute buyout was aimed at averting a Bear Stearns bankruptcy and a spreading crisis of confidence in the global financial system sparked by the collapse in the subprime mortgage market. Bear Stearns was the most exposed to risky bets on the loans; it is now the first major bank to be undone by that market's collapse.The Federal Reserve and the U.S. government swiftly approved the all-stock buyout, showing the urgency of completing the deal before world markets opened. The Fed also essentially made the takeover risk-free by saying it would guarantee up to $30 billion of the troubled mortgage and other assets that got the nation's fifth-largest investment bank into trouble.
This is going to go down in very historic terms, said Peter Dunay, chief investment strategist for New York-based Meridian Equity Partners. This is about credit being overextended, and how bad it is for major financial institutions and for individuals. This is why we're probably heading into a recession.JPMorgan Chase & Co. said it will guarantee all business — such as trading and investment banking — until Bear Stearns' shareholders approve the deal, which is expected to be completed during the second quarter. The acquisition includes Bear Stearns' midtown Manhattan headquarters.JPMorgan Chief Financial Officer Michael Cavanagh did not say what would happen to Bear Stearns' 14,000 employees worldwide or whether the 85-year-old Bear Stearns name would live on after surviving the Great Depression, two World Wars and a slew of recessions. He told analysts and investors on a conference call that JPMorgan was most interested in buying Bear Stearns' prime brokerage business, which completes trades for big investors such as hedge funds.At almost the same time as the deal for control of Bear Stearns was announced, the Federal Reserve said it approved a cut in its lending rate to banks to 3.25 percent from 3.50 percent and created another lending facility for big investment banks. The central bank's official meeting is on Tuesday. Before the emergency move to lower the discount rate, which is the rate at which banks lend each other money, the Fed was widely expected to again cut its headline rate by as much as a full point to 2 percent.
Having taking Bear Stearns out of the problem category, and the strong action by the Federal Reserve, we would anticipate the market will behave quite differently on Monday than it was Thursday or Friday,Cavanagh said.Some analysts expected it to be a brutal day for global stocks, nevertheless. Shortly after the news broke, Japan's benchmark Nikkei stock index plunged more than 3 percent in morning trading.A bankruptcy protection filing of Bear Stearns could have heightened anxiety in world financial markets amid a deepening credit crunch. So far, global banks have written down some $200 billion worth of securities slammed amid the credit crisis — more write-downs could come. Last week, a bond fund controlled by private equity firm Carlyle Group faltered near collapse because of investments linked to mortgage-backed securities.JPMorgan's acquisition of Bear Stearns represents roughly 1 percent of what the investment bank was worth just 16 days ago. It marked a 93.3 percent discount to Bear Stearns' market capitalization as of Friday, and roughly a 98.8 percent discount to its book value as of Feb. 29.The past week has been an incredibly difficult time for Bear Stearns, Schwartz said in a statement. This represents the best outcome for all of our constituencies based upon the current circumstances.Wall Street analysts say the bid to rescue Bear Stearns was more than just saving one of the world's largest investments banks — it was a prop for the U.S. economy and the global financial system. An outright failure would cause huge losses for banks, hedge funds and other investors to which Bear Stearns is connected.After days of denials that it had liquidity problems, Bear was forced into a JPMorgan-led, government-backed bailout on Friday. The arrangement, the first of its kind since the 1930s, resulted in Bear getting a 28-day loan from JPMorgan with the government's guarantee that JPMorgan would not suffer any losses on the deal.
This is not the first time Bear Stearns has earned a place in Wall Street history. A decade ago, Bear Stearns refused to help bail out a hedge fund that was deemed too big to fail. On Friday, the tables had turned, with the now-struggling investment bank in need of the same kind of aid.Bear Stearns was founded in 1923 and in recent years was best known for its aggressive investing in mortgage-backed securities — and what was once a cash cow turned into the investment bank's undoing.In June, two Bear-managed hedge funds worth billions of dollars collapsed. The funds were heavily invested in securities backed by subprime mortgages. Until that point, subprime mortgage-backed securities were immensely popular with investors because of their profitability.The funds' demise and subsequent problems in the credit markets called into question Bear Stearns' ability to manage its own risk and the leadership ability of then-Chief Executive James Cayne. Critics of the company said Cayne spent too much time away from the office last year playing golf and bridge as the problems unfolded. Cayne is the same executive who refused to let Bear Stearns provide support as part of a Federal Reserve-led plan to rescue Long-Term Capital Management in 1998. His reticence was said to deeply anger some of his fellow Wall Street CEOs, and the episode came up every time Bear was reported to be in trouble in recent months.
Cayne took over from the legendary Alan Ace Greenberg in 1993. Greenberg joined Bear Stearns as a clerk, working his way up through the ranks to eventually take over as CEO in 1978. Greenberg was known for his irreverent style, and his regular memos to employees were turned into a book called Memos from the Chairman.
Before Greenberg's ascendancy to CEO, Bear Stearns began to expand from its New York roots throughout the 1950s and 1960s, opening international offices and expanding its U.S. operations. AP Business Writers Jeannine Aversa in Washington and Stephen Bernard contributed to this story.
HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
Asian stocks tumble on Bear Stearns news By KELLY OLSEN, AP Business Writer MAR 17,08
SEOUL, South Korea - Asian stocks plunged and the dollar sank Monday after JPMorgan Chase said it would acquire troubled U.S. investment bank Bear Stearns, signaling to investors the depths of the credit crisis. Oil prices hit a record in Asian trading and U.S. stock index futures were down sharply, suggesting Wall Street would open lower later Monday.JPMorgan said Sunday it would acquire Bear Stearns for $236.2 million — or $2 a share — in a deal that represents a stunning collapse for one of the world's largest and most venerable investment banks.The buyout was aimed at averting a bankruptcy and a spreading crisis of confidence in the global financial system.But to Asian investors the move suggested that the credit problems, triggered by defaults on risky U.S. mortgages, are far from over — and fanned worries that other big American banks could face serious troubles.There is persistent credit uncertainty. Market players have been repeatedly let down which shows the subprime mortgage problems are so deep-rooted, said Atsuji Ohara, global strategist of Shinko Securities in Tokyo.Just buying an investment bank does not solve the problem, he said. Markets are prodding (the U.S. government) to inject public funds.News of the acquisition of Bear Stearns stunned investors just before markets opened in Tokyo and Seoul.
Japan's benchmark 225 index sank 4.5 percent in early afternoon trading to 11,691.00 points, its lowest since July 2005. Hong Kong's Hang Seng index plunged as much as 5.4 percent before trimming some losses to trade at 21,304.38, down 4.2 percent.Across Asia, all major stock indexes were down, including markets in Australia, China, Indonesia and South Korea.We are worried about what comes next, Shim Jae-youb, a strategist at Meritz Securities in Seoul, said of concerns that other banks may face collapse.He said investors were on guard ahead of the release of quarterly earnings reports from big U.S. investment banks this week, including Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., Goldman Sachs Group Inc., and Morgan Stanley. Bear Stearns had been scheduled to report its results Monday, though it wasn't clear if it would go ahead with that plan.In an extraordinarily rare weekend move, the Federal Reserve took bold action Sunday evening by cutting the discount rate, its lending rate to financial institutions, to 3.25 percent from 3.5 percent, effective immediately. The Fed also created another lending facility for big investment banks to secure short-term loans that would be available to big Wall Street firms on Monday.The Fed was also widely expected to again cut its headline interest rate by as much as a full percentage point to 2 percent at a regular meeting set for Tuesday.In currency trading, the dollar plunged to 95.72 yen — its lowest since August 1995 — driven down by a gloomy outlook for the American economy and prospects for lower interest rates. The euro rose to $1.5839.
Oil prices, meanwhile, hit an all-time trading high in Asia as the greenback's tumble and decline in stock markets prompted investors to seek shelter in commodities such as crude oil. Light, sweet crude for April delivery spiked to a record $111.42 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.On Friday, U.S. stocks sank after the announcement of a Fed plan in conjunction with JPMorgan to alleviate the liquidity crisis at Bear Stearns touched off concerns about the severity of credit troubles in the world's largest economy. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 194.65, or 1.60 percent, to 11,951.09.Wall Street appeared poised for another drop when trading resumed Monday morning. Dow index futures were down 232 points, or 1.9 percent, to 11,750, while the Standard & Poor's 500 index was down 21.7 points or 1.65 percent, to 1,291.6. Associated Press writers Chisaki Watanabe in Tokyo, Gillian Wong in Singapore and Anthony Deutsch in Jakarta contributed to this report.
Fed takes new steps to ease crisis By JEANNINE AVERSA, AP Economics Writer MAR 17,08
WASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve, in an extraordinarily rare weekend move, took bold action Sunday evening to provide cash to financially squeezed Wall Street investment houses, a fresh effort to prevent a spreading credit crisis from sinking the U.S. economy.
The central bank approved a cut in its emergency lending rate to financial institutions to 3.25 percent from 3.50 percent, effective immediately, and created a lending facility for big investment banks to secure short-term loans. The new lending facility will be available to big Wall Street firms on Monday.These steps will provide financial institutions with greater assurance of access to funds, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told reporters in a brief conference call Sunday evening.The Fed acted just after JP Morgan Chase & Co. agreed to buy rival Bear Stearns Cos. for $236.2 million in a deal that represents a stunning collapse for one of the world's largest and most venerable investment banks. Just on Friday the Fed had raced to provide emergency financing to cash-strapped Bear Stearns through JP Morgan. Days earlier the Fed announced a set of other unconventional steps to thaw out a credit market in danger of freezing shut.It seems as if Bernanke & Co. are pulling out all the stops to avoid a serious financial market meltdown, Richard Yamarone, an economist at Argus Research, said Sunday evening.On world financial markets, Asian stocks plunged early Monday after the JPMorgan and Fed announcements. Markets in Australia and New Zealand also fell.The new lending facility — described as a cousin to the Fed's emergency lending discount window for banks — is geared to give major investment houses a source of short-term cash on a regular basis — if they need it.
It will be in place for at least six months and may be extended as conditions warrant, the Fed said. The interest rate will be 3.25 percent and a range of collateral — including investment-grade mortgage backed securities — will be accepted to back the overnight loans.This is the Fed as the Yucca Mountain of securitized debt, but it is no doubt necessary, said Terry Connelly, dean of Golden Gate University's Ageno School of Business, referring to the government's underground dump in Nevada for nuclear waste.Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said he was pleased by Sunday's developments.Last Friday, I said that market participants are addressing challenges and I am pleased with recent developments. I appreciate the additional actions taken this evening by the Federal Reserve to enhance the stability, liquidity and orderliness of our markets, he said.We appreciate the actions taken by the Federal Reserve this evening, said White House press secretary Dana Perino. Secretary Paulson and Chairman Bernanke are actively engaged in addressing issues affecting our financial markets. Secretary Paulson has kept the president briefed on recent developments. The discount rate cut announced Sunday applies only to the short-term loans that financial institutions get directly from the Federal Reserve. It doesn't apply to individual borrowers.
The Fed's actions are the latest in a recent string of innovative steps to deal with a worsening credit crisis that has unhinged Wall Street. And, the action comes just two days before the central bank's scheduled meeting on Tuesday, where another big cut to a key interest rate that affects millions of people and businesses is expected to be ordered. That key rate is now at 3 percent and is expected to be cut by at least one-half percentage point on Tuesday. Analysts said the Fed's new steps may lessen pressure for a super-sized cut to that rate.The Fed said in a statement that the steps are designed to bolster market liquidity and promote orderly market functioning ... essential for the promotion of economic growth.Even with the Fed's aggressive moves, economic and financial conditions keep deteriorating. An increasing number of economists believe the country already has slipped into its first recession since 2001. Many economists think that the economy is shrinking now in the January-to-March quarter. The first government figures on first-quarter economic activity will be released in late April.
The Fed on Sunday also approved the financing arrangement through which JPMorgan will acquire Bear Stearns. JP Morgan said the Fed will provide special financing for the deal. The central bank has agreed to fund up to $30 billion of Bear Stearns' less liquid assets, according to JP Morgan.The housing collapse and credit crisis has dealt a one-two punch against financial companies and the economy as a whole. Financial institutions have racked up multibillion-dollar losses when mortgage-backed investments soured. Foreclosures have hit record highs as distressed borrowers — hit by slumping home prices and higher mortgage rates — couldn't make their monthly payments. It has become a vicious cycle. The Fed this past week said it would pour as much as $200 billion into big Wall Street banks and investment houses and allow them to put up risky home-loan packages as collateral to borrow much-in-demand Treasury securities. This maneuver — slated to start on March 27 — was intended to bring sorely needed relief in the market for mortgage securities. The Fed also has offered as much as $200 billion in short-term loans to banks and large financial institutions. AP Business writers Joe Bel Bruno and Madlen Read contributed to this report from New York.
INVENTION OF THE ATOMIC BOMB.
2 PETER 3:10-11
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE USED.
REVELATION 14:18-20
18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
20 And the winepress was trodden without the city,(JERUSALEM) and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.(200 MILES) (THE SIZE OF ISRAEL)
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.
Israel test-fires missile to intercept Gaza rockets Sun Mar 16, 4:05PM ET
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel last week test-fired a missile capable of intercepting short-range rockets like those fired by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip, Channel 10 television reported Sunday. This weapons system will be operational in 2010, said General Dany Gotlib, who is in charge of research at the Israeli defence ministry.Television showed pictures of the test-firing which it said took place in southern Israel.In December the Israeli government earmarked more than 200 million dollars (140 million euros) for the development of an advanced defence system dubbed Iron Dome aimed at countering rocket fire from Gaza and Lebanon.
Israel's Rafael Advanced Defence Systems arms firm is developing the system which is capable of knocking down rockets with a range from 4-70 kilometres (2.5-43.4 miles), such as the homemade Qassam used by Palestinian militants.Iron Dome is part of a multi-layered defence system aimed at protecting Israel from short-range missiles and rockets fired by militants in Gaza or Lebanon, and longer-range missiles in the arsenals of regional foes Iran and Syria.The Israeli army has had little success in ending the nearly daily rocket fire from the Gaza Strip, which has killed 14 people in southern Israel since the start of the second Palestinian uprising in September 2000.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Monday, March 17, 2008
SANHEDRIN GETS 1ST CASE
SANHEDRINS FIRST CASE
THE SANHEDRIN IN ISRAEL HAD THEIR FIRST CASE OF SETTING AN INNOCENT 18 YEAR OLD ISRAELI WOMEN FREE FROM JAIL.
THE BIBLE SAYS THESE ISRAELI JUDGES (71) WILL ONCE AGAIN RULE IN ISRAEL IN THE DAYS LEADING TO THE COMING OF THE MESSIAH TO EARTH KING JESUS
Israeli Court Refers Case of Jailed Teen to Sanhedrin Court
by Ezra HaLevi MAR 14,08
(IsraelNN.com) Tzviya Sariel of Elon Moreh, who has been held in jail since December for refusing to recognize the authority of the secular court system, was allowed to testify before a Torah court set up by the nascent Sanhedrin Friday. The Sanhedrin Court for Matters of People and State ordered her immediate release.The court, headed by Rabbi Yisrael Ariel, heard Sariel’s testimony after a judge from Netanya’s Magistrates Court ordered that she be allowed to attend the hearing on the limits of the youth’s struggle against the Israeli judicial system. It is presumed that Netanya Magistrates Court Judge Smadar Kolander-Abramovitch hoped the Sanhedrin court would instruct Sariel to put and end to her struggle and recognize the civil courts. The Court For Matters of People and State also heard testimony from the girl’s mother, as well as Shmuel Medad of the Honenu legal assistance organization. The court concluded that Sariel’s right to refuse to recognize Israel’s current justice system is justified and ruled that the only limitation to the struggle is the ability of each individual to withstand the difficulties of prison. The court also ordered that Sariel be released immediately, without any limitations. Every day and every hour that Tzvia Sariel spends behind bars is a wrongdoing to this girl, Rabbi Ariel ruled. Justice demands to release her immediately. It is a serious stain on the judiciary system in Israel. According to the Torah law of Israel, we are demanding her immediate release without conditions and to erase the indictment.
The hearing was marked by uncertainty over legal procedure, according to IsraelJustice.com. Attorneys did not understand what role was given to the rabbinical court in a criminal case and whether the rabbis were granted any authority over the civil court judge who approved the procedure. Usually, Rabbinical courts are only authorized to hear cases that concern marriage and divorce. There is a question of authorities, Honenu's Meidad explained.
Sariel was arrested in December and has been held for three months for allegedly pushing an Arab who entered her town to pick olives. Judges decided to keep her in prison without formal charges after she refused to cooperate with the secular justice system. Sariel, 18, remains in prison even after two Arab men, witnesses called by the prosecution, testified that she was not involved in the alleged physical assault.
Jabber Mahmoud Hussein, called to the stand by the Prosecution, said: I managed to come to court twice, despite the fact that the accused didn't hit me or do anything bad to us at all...we are prepared to close this case because all we want is to harvest olives in peace.
Precedent: State of Israel Recognizes Sanhedrin
The Sanhedrin court called for the establishment of a committee to act as bridge between the state's law and Torah law, in light of the legal precedent set by the Israeli court’s recognition of the court and its findings. It is no coincidence that the hearing took place on the anniversary of the passing of Moses our teacher, the father of Hebrew law, and close to the days of Purim, when it is said that the Jews reaccepted and affirmed their commitment to the law of the Torah, a statement from the court said.After the verdict was read, the court's rabbis, wrapped in prayer shawls, stood and recited the special prayers accepting the justice of the Almighty, according to IsraelJustice.com: Everyone in the courtroom followed in a loud chant to say the words, Hear O' Israel, the L-rd is our G-d, the L-rd is One,despite an attempt by prison guards to prevent supporters, including Ruth Sariel, Tzvia's mother, from entering the hearing.Following the hearing, the officials present from the Prisons Authority affirmed their commitment to carry out the verdict of the Sanhedrin court. Prisons' Authority warden Hila Furis reportedly told those present: The Prisons' Authority recognizes the authority of the [Sanhedrin] court and will act to implement the verdict.They removed Sariel's leg restraints and claimed she was being brought to the Ramle Magistrates court, where she would be released before the Sabbath.
Sariel was returned to Neve Tirza Prison, however, where she spent the Sabbath. Her parents say she has been placed in solitary confinement. Rabbi Ariel said the court would continue to follow the case and work for Sariel’s release, in accordance with the directives of the Netanya court.The nascent Sanhedrin, headed by Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz, was established in 2004, with the renewal of Semikha (ordination) in order to create the infrastructure necessary to fulfill the Torah obligation of reestablishing the supreme Jewish legal body of 71 Torah scholars. The Court for People and State has been one of the most active projects of the nascent Sanhedrin. The Sanhedrin court is not, as of yet, universally accepted, even among the many streams of observant Judaism. Those now participating are committed to stepping aside when greater or more prominent scholars take their seats.
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).
REVELATION 13:1
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea,(MEDITERRANEAN) and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads (POSSIBLY THE 7 SANHEDRIN JUDGES) and ten horns, (10 WORLD REGIONS TRADING BLOCKS) and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. (ALL HEADED BY THE E.U (EUROPEAN UNION).
I WONDER COULD THE 7 JUDGES BE THE 7 HEADS ALSO TO GO WITH THE 10 HORNS AND TOES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION. INTERESTING. SINCE ISRAEL WILL BE A MAJOR PART OF THE SCENE IN THE FUTURE.
Current members of the Nascent Sanhedrin
From The Sanhedrin - en Background Information 7 JUDGES
The members of the Sanhedrin can generally be characterized as people who are extremely dedicated to their work They fall under the category of our Mishnah – Those who love the effort and hate the [pride that comes with the] Rabbinut. (Pirke Avot) Many of them try to fulfill the words of the Rambam, to endeavor in Torah without receiving compensation for such. Many distance themselves from serving in appointed positions as rabbis. The following material is based on publicly available information, and thus is not always complete.
Due to concerns that external pressure would be brought to bear upon individuals not to take part in the establishment of a Sanhedrin, the names of most participants have been withheld up to this point, upon the request of the Sanhedrin's spokesmen.
The Sanhedrin selected of a group of seven individuals from among themselves to represent the institution in dealings with the public and with Gedolei Yisrael - recognized spiritual leaders of Israel. It was decided to release the names for purposes of transparency as well. It is hoped that the release of the seven names will encourage those who believe that their own rabbis or teachers can contribute to the endeavor, to propose that they also be included in the legislature.
The authorized representatives of the Sanhedrin are as follows:
Rabbi Adin Steinzaltz Teacher, philosopher, social critic and prolific author who has been hailed by Time magazine as a once-in-a-millennium scholar. His lifelong work in Jewish education earned him the Israel Prize, his country’s highest honor. Born in Jerusalem in 1937, Rabbi Steinsaltz studied physics and chemistry at the Hebrew University. Following graduation, he established several experimental schools and, at the age of 24, became Israel’s youngest school principal.
In 1965, he began his monumental Hebrew translation and commentary on the Talmud. To date, he has published 38 of the anticipated 46 volumes. The Rabbi’s classic work of Kabbalah, The Thirteen Petalled Rose, was first published in 1980 and now appears in eight languages. In all, Rabbi Steinsaltz has authored some 60 books and hundreds of articles on subjects ranging from theology to social commentary.
Continuing his work as a teacher and spiritual mentor, Rabbi Steinsaltz established a network of schools and educational institutions in Israel and the former Soviet Union. He has served as scholar in residence at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Studies in Washington, D.C. and the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton University. His honorary degrees include doctorates from Yeshiva University, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Bar Ilan University, Brandeis University, and Florida International University.
Rabbi Yoel Shwartz An outstanding Torah scholar and prolific writer has published over 200 seforim. He is a product of the great Yeshivot Poneviz and Mir and merited to study with the famous Mashgiach of Yeshivat Mir, Rabbi Chaim Shmuelevitch zt l. As a past Mashgiach in Yeshivat Itri and currently a Ram in Yeshivat Dvar Yerushalayim, Rabbi Schwartz brings scores of years of experience in Torah education to the Nahal Haredi. Rabbi Schwartz has served as a spiritual advisor and educator since the inception of the program in 1999. He resides in Jerusalem with his wife, children and grandchildren.
Directly under these are four more rabbis who, together with the above three, are the democratically-elected leadership council of the Sanhedrin. They are (not in order of seniority):
Rabbi Dov Levanoni Torah scholar and author of ha-Mikdash: Teur Bet ha-Mikdash ha-Sheni lefi shitat ha-Rambam HaMikdash : a description of the Second Temple according to the Rambam.
Rabbi Yisrael Ariel A former Yeshiva head and founder of the Machon Hamikdash. Rabbi Ariel was the Rosh Yeshiva and spiritual leader of Yamit. Rabbi Ariel is a scholar of great renown, and is also the author of many Hebrew works, including the highly acclaimed Atlas of the Biblical Boundaries of the Land of Israel. He served in the paratrooper brigade which liberated the Western Wall in the Six Day War of 1967, and was one of the first soldiers to reach the Wall.
Rabbi Yehudah 'Edri Torah Scholar and accomplished writer, a principal and educational supervisor for the hareidi Shas Party´s El HaMa´yan educational system Expert on the various opinions regarding the history and location of the Mikdash and its measures.
Rabbi Dov Meir Stein Received semikha for the Rabbinut from Rav Sternberg of Edas Hareidi. A pioneer in the Sanhedrin's renewal for the last 20 years, he has been secretary of the Sanhedrin since its inception, dealing with logistical aspects as well as interacting with recognized Torah scholars and inviting rabbis to join the body.
The seven-member leadership council (above) convenes on weekly basis within a larger court of ordained rabbis from the general ranks of the Sanhedrin that grows steadily, in the ongoing development of a full Sanhedrin Qe`tanah (small Sanhedrin) to lead the Sanhedrin.
The leadership of the developing Sanhedrin stress that they are still in a transitional phase, and that though today's members are Torah scholars and experts in many secular and scientific fields, every one of them has agreed to step aside the moment a more deserving candidate should step forward.
Retrieved from http://www.thesanhedrin.org/en/index.php/Current_members_of_the_Nascent_Sanhedrin
THE SANHEDRIN IN ISRAEL HAD THEIR FIRST CASE OF SETTING AN INNOCENT 18 YEAR OLD ISRAELI WOMEN FREE FROM JAIL.
THE BIBLE SAYS THESE ISRAELI JUDGES (71) WILL ONCE AGAIN RULE IN ISRAEL IN THE DAYS LEADING TO THE COMING OF THE MESSIAH TO EARTH KING JESUS
Israeli Court Refers Case of Jailed Teen to Sanhedrin Court
by Ezra HaLevi MAR 14,08
(IsraelNN.com) Tzviya Sariel of Elon Moreh, who has been held in jail since December for refusing to recognize the authority of the secular court system, was allowed to testify before a Torah court set up by the nascent Sanhedrin Friday. The Sanhedrin Court for Matters of People and State ordered her immediate release.The court, headed by Rabbi Yisrael Ariel, heard Sariel’s testimony after a judge from Netanya’s Magistrates Court ordered that she be allowed to attend the hearing on the limits of the youth’s struggle against the Israeli judicial system. It is presumed that Netanya Magistrates Court Judge Smadar Kolander-Abramovitch hoped the Sanhedrin court would instruct Sariel to put and end to her struggle and recognize the civil courts. The Court For Matters of People and State also heard testimony from the girl’s mother, as well as Shmuel Medad of the Honenu legal assistance organization. The court concluded that Sariel’s right to refuse to recognize Israel’s current justice system is justified and ruled that the only limitation to the struggle is the ability of each individual to withstand the difficulties of prison. The court also ordered that Sariel be released immediately, without any limitations. Every day and every hour that Tzvia Sariel spends behind bars is a wrongdoing to this girl, Rabbi Ariel ruled. Justice demands to release her immediately. It is a serious stain on the judiciary system in Israel. According to the Torah law of Israel, we are demanding her immediate release without conditions and to erase the indictment.
The hearing was marked by uncertainty over legal procedure, according to IsraelJustice.com. Attorneys did not understand what role was given to the rabbinical court in a criminal case and whether the rabbis were granted any authority over the civil court judge who approved the procedure. Usually, Rabbinical courts are only authorized to hear cases that concern marriage and divorce. There is a question of authorities, Honenu's Meidad explained.
Sariel was arrested in December and has been held for three months for allegedly pushing an Arab who entered her town to pick olives. Judges decided to keep her in prison without formal charges after she refused to cooperate with the secular justice system. Sariel, 18, remains in prison even after two Arab men, witnesses called by the prosecution, testified that she was not involved in the alleged physical assault.
Jabber Mahmoud Hussein, called to the stand by the Prosecution, said: I managed to come to court twice, despite the fact that the accused didn't hit me or do anything bad to us at all...we are prepared to close this case because all we want is to harvest olives in peace.
Precedent: State of Israel Recognizes Sanhedrin
The Sanhedrin court called for the establishment of a committee to act as bridge between the state's law and Torah law, in light of the legal precedent set by the Israeli court’s recognition of the court and its findings. It is no coincidence that the hearing took place on the anniversary of the passing of Moses our teacher, the father of Hebrew law, and close to the days of Purim, when it is said that the Jews reaccepted and affirmed their commitment to the law of the Torah, a statement from the court said.After the verdict was read, the court's rabbis, wrapped in prayer shawls, stood and recited the special prayers accepting the justice of the Almighty, according to IsraelJustice.com: Everyone in the courtroom followed in a loud chant to say the words, Hear O' Israel, the L-rd is our G-d, the L-rd is One,despite an attempt by prison guards to prevent supporters, including Ruth Sariel, Tzvia's mother, from entering the hearing.Following the hearing, the officials present from the Prisons Authority affirmed their commitment to carry out the verdict of the Sanhedrin court. Prisons' Authority warden Hila Furis reportedly told those present: The Prisons' Authority recognizes the authority of the [Sanhedrin] court and will act to implement the verdict.They removed Sariel's leg restraints and claimed she was being brought to the Ramle Magistrates court, where she would be released before the Sabbath.
Sariel was returned to Neve Tirza Prison, however, where she spent the Sabbath. Her parents say she has been placed in solitary confinement. Rabbi Ariel said the court would continue to follow the case and work for Sariel’s release, in accordance with the directives of the Netanya court.The nascent Sanhedrin, headed by Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz, was established in 2004, with the renewal of Semikha (ordination) in order to create the infrastructure necessary to fulfill the Torah obligation of reestablishing the supreme Jewish legal body of 71 Torah scholars. The Court for People and State has been one of the most active projects of the nascent Sanhedrin. The Sanhedrin court is not, as of yet, universally accepted, even among the many streams of observant Judaism. Those now participating are committed to stepping aside when greater or more prominent scholars take their seats.
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).
REVELATION 13:1
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea,(MEDITERRANEAN) and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads (POSSIBLY THE 7 SANHEDRIN JUDGES) and ten horns, (10 WORLD REGIONS TRADING BLOCKS) and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. (ALL HEADED BY THE E.U (EUROPEAN UNION).
I WONDER COULD THE 7 JUDGES BE THE 7 HEADS ALSO TO GO WITH THE 10 HORNS AND TOES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION. INTERESTING. SINCE ISRAEL WILL BE A MAJOR PART OF THE SCENE IN THE FUTURE.
Current members of the Nascent Sanhedrin
From The Sanhedrin - en Background Information 7 JUDGES
The members of the Sanhedrin can generally be characterized as people who are extremely dedicated to their work They fall under the category of our Mishnah – Those who love the effort and hate the [pride that comes with the] Rabbinut. (Pirke Avot) Many of them try to fulfill the words of the Rambam, to endeavor in Torah without receiving compensation for such. Many distance themselves from serving in appointed positions as rabbis. The following material is based on publicly available information, and thus is not always complete.
Due to concerns that external pressure would be brought to bear upon individuals not to take part in the establishment of a Sanhedrin, the names of most participants have been withheld up to this point, upon the request of the Sanhedrin's spokesmen.
The Sanhedrin selected of a group of seven individuals from among themselves to represent the institution in dealings with the public and with Gedolei Yisrael - recognized spiritual leaders of Israel. It was decided to release the names for purposes of transparency as well. It is hoped that the release of the seven names will encourage those who believe that their own rabbis or teachers can contribute to the endeavor, to propose that they also be included in the legislature.
The authorized representatives of the Sanhedrin are as follows:
Rabbi Adin Steinzaltz Teacher, philosopher, social critic and prolific author who has been hailed by Time magazine as a once-in-a-millennium scholar. His lifelong work in Jewish education earned him the Israel Prize, his country’s highest honor. Born in Jerusalem in 1937, Rabbi Steinsaltz studied physics and chemistry at the Hebrew University. Following graduation, he established several experimental schools and, at the age of 24, became Israel’s youngest school principal.
In 1965, he began his monumental Hebrew translation and commentary on the Talmud. To date, he has published 38 of the anticipated 46 volumes. The Rabbi’s classic work of Kabbalah, The Thirteen Petalled Rose, was first published in 1980 and now appears in eight languages. In all, Rabbi Steinsaltz has authored some 60 books and hundreds of articles on subjects ranging from theology to social commentary.
Continuing his work as a teacher and spiritual mentor, Rabbi Steinsaltz established a network of schools and educational institutions in Israel and the former Soviet Union. He has served as scholar in residence at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Studies in Washington, D.C. and the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton University. His honorary degrees include doctorates from Yeshiva University, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Bar Ilan University, Brandeis University, and Florida International University.
Rabbi Yoel Shwartz An outstanding Torah scholar and prolific writer has published over 200 seforim. He is a product of the great Yeshivot Poneviz and Mir and merited to study with the famous Mashgiach of Yeshivat Mir, Rabbi Chaim Shmuelevitch zt l. As a past Mashgiach in Yeshivat Itri and currently a Ram in Yeshivat Dvar Yerushalayim, Rabbi Schwartz brings scores of years of experience in Torah education to the Nahal Haredi. Rabbi Schwartz has served as a spiritual advisor and educator since the inception of the program in 1999. He resides in Jerusalem with his wife, children and grandchildren.
Directly under these are four more rabbis who, together with the above three, are the democratically-elected leadership council of the Sanhedrin. They are (not in order of seniority):
Rabbi Dov Levanoni Torah scholar and author of ha-Mikdash: Teur Bet ha-Mikdash ha-Sheni lefi shitat ha-Rambam HaMikdash : a description of the Second Temple according to the Rambam.
Rabbi Yisrael Ariel A former Yeshiva head and founder of the Machon Hamikdash. Rabbi Ariel was the Rosh Yeshiva and spiritual leader of Yamit. Rabbi Ariel is a scholar of great renown, and is also the author of many Hebrew works, including the highly acclaimed Atlas of the Biblical Boundaries of the Land of Israel. He served in the paratrooper brigade which liberated the Western Wall in the Six Day War of 1967, and was one of the first soldiers to reach the Wall.
Rabbi Yehudah 'Edri Torah Scholar and accomplished writer, a principal and educational supervisor for the hareidi Shas Party´s El HaMa´yan educational system Expert on the various opinions regarding the history and location of the Mikdash and its measures.
Rabbi Dov Meir Stein Received semikha for the Rabbinut from Rav Sternberg of Edas Hareidi. A pioneer in the Sanhedrin's renewal for the last 20 years, he has been secretary of the Sanhedrin since its inception, dealing with logistical aspects as well as interacting with recognized Torah scholars and inviting rabbis to join the body.
The seven-member leadership council (above) convenes on weekly basis within a larger court of ordained rabbis from the general ranks of the Sanhedrin that grows steadily, in the ongoing development of a full Sanhedrin Qe`tanah (small Sanhedrin) to lead the Sanhedrin.
The leadership of the developing Sanhedrin stress that they are still in a transitional phase, and that though today's members are Torah scholars and experts in many secular and scientific fields, every one of them has agreed to step aside the moment a more deserving candidate should step forward.
Retrieved from http://www.thesanhedrin.org/en/index.php/Current_members_of_the_Nascent_Sanhedrin
EU AGREES ON MEDITERRANEAN UNION
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 dead as fresh storms spawn tornado near Atlanta
Sat Mar 15, 9:27 PM By Matthew Bigg
ATLANTA (Reuters) - A tornado in northwest Georgia killed two people and left others seriously injured on Saturday, one day after a twister battered Atlanta's downtown, officials said.One person died in Polk county and a second died in Floyd county, said Buzz Weiss of the Georgia Emergency Management Agency. Both counties are on Georgia's border with Alabama.The National Weather Service issued a string of tornado warnings moving east across north Georgia throughout the day. It said there was a risk of isolated tornadoes across central Georgia and South Carolina, where local media said storms left thousands without power.Workers were clearing debris in the heart of Atlanta following Friday night's storm, which damaged landmark buildings, overturned cars and injured dozens of people.It was a very significant, very serious storm. There's lots of damage, said Weiss.Some 30 people were taken to hospitals and one was in serious condition after the storm, which packed winds of 130 mph (216 kph), police and Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin said.Damage could be up to $150 million, according to an initial estimate by John Oxendine, state insurance commissioner, who was quoted in local media.Franklin declared a state of emergency in the city after the storm, which local media said was the first recorded tornado in Atlanta's history.It powered through as tens of thousands of basketball fans packed area stadiums to watch big games.Police evacuated the multistory Omni Hotel, which shares a building with the CNN Center, after high winds shattered windows and spilled debris onto the street.Winds also broke windows and caused damage at CNN Center, the television network's headquarters, CNN said.
The storm struck the most prominent section of downtown Atlanta, which houses attractions including CNN, the Georgia Dome, the Georgia World Congress Center, the Georgia Aquarium and the new World of Coca-Cola.
LIKE A FREIGHT TRAIN
Those buildings are clustered around Centennial Olympic Park, built for the 1996 Summer Olympics.Officials temporarily halted the game between Mississippi State and the University of Alabama at the Georgia Dome after high winds damaged the roof and caused a large monitor hanging above the court to sway ominously.Thousands of people were attending a National Basketball Association game between the Los Angeles Clippers and the Atlanta Hawks at the Philips Arena, adjacent to the CNN Center complex. But the game was not suspended.Friday's storm started north of the city and swept through downtown at about 9:45 p.m. (0145 GMT on Saturday) Emergency services were searching a building in a suburb of metropolitan Atlanta that partially collapsed.Witnesses said they heard a sound like a freight train when the storm hit and saw a funnel-shaped cloud. One woman told a local television station she saw a whirling circle of debris higher than her hotel room on the 12th floor.Tornadoes are common in parts of the U.S. South, often leaving a trail of death and devastation. But they usually strike rural areas. The deadliest tornado in a U.S. city in recent decades hit Waco, Texas, in May 1953, killing 114.(Editing by Todd Eastham)
Tornado leaves path of destruction in downtown Atlanta
Sat Mar 15, 2:58 PM
The U.S. National Weather Service has confirmed that a strong tornado tore through downtown Atlanta, Ga., on Friday night, leaving a trail of destruction and injuring at least 30 people.The tornado moved through the city's centre, first packing winds clocked at 177 km/h, before it grew into a force with winds of up to 209 km/h, the weather service said on Saturday.This was clearly a tornado. We are going to be ranking it as an EF-2, weather service meteorologist Lans Rothfusz told reporters.The path length was about six miles [10 kilometres] long for the duration, although there were spots in there where it kind of went down and came back up again, he said.High winds smashed skyscraper windows and sucked furniture and luggage out of hotel rooms. The tornado also tore the roofs from several buildings and rattled the rafters of two major sports arenas that were filled with basketball fans.Officials stopped one game at the Georgia Dome and cancelled a second planned for the Southeastern Conference tournament after the building shook. There were at least two rips in the fabric of the dome’s roof.A number of windows were shattered at the headquarters of the Cable News Network. On its website, CNN said damage to the roof and ceiling allowed water to pour into the atrium.Power lines and trees were ripped down in the city's historic Cabbagetown neighbourhood. Heavy damage is reported at a mill that was converted into lofts in the residential area. There was also damage to the Georgia World Congress Center.
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REBUILT 3RD TEMPLE (THE EU DICTATORS 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.
REBUILT 4TH TEMPLE (THE TRUE MESSIAHS TEMPLE)
ZECHARIAH 6:12-13
12 And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD:
13 Even he shall build the temple of the LORD; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.
ISAIAH 60:9-10
9 Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.
10 And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee.
ISAIAH 2:1-5
1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.
MARK 11:9-10,15-17
9 And they that went before, and they that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna; Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord:
10 Blessed be the kingdom of our father David, that cometh in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest.
15 And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves;
16 And would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple.
17 And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves.
EZEKIEL 40 TO 48 IS THIS 4TH TEMPLE TO BIG FOR THE MOUNT I BELIEVE TO BE BUILT 25 MILES FROM JERUSALEM.
Preparing to Rebuild The Temple - Temple Institute prepares linen garments for descendents of Aaron
For Aaron's sons, make tunics and sashes. Also make them hats that are both dignified and beautiful. Place these [vestments] on Aaron and his sons. Then anoint them, and install them, sanctifying them to be priests to Me. Also make linen pants to cover their nakedness, reaching from their waists to their thighs. [All these vestments] must be worn by Aaron and his sons whenever they enter the Communion Tent or offer sacrifice on the altar, performing the divine service in the sanctuary; otherwise they will have committed a sin and they will die. This shall be a law for [Aaron] and his descendants after him for all time. (Exodus 28:40-43) They made the tunics for Aaron and his sons by weaving them out of fine linen. [They made] the linen turban, the fine linen hats, and the line pants, [all out of] twined linen. [They made] the belt, embroidered out of twined linen, and sky-blue, dark red and crimson wool. (Exodus 39:28-29)
For the first time in 1,938 years the linen garments of the lay priests are being produced in preparation for the rebuilding of the Holy Temple and the renewal of the Divine service.The last priestly garments to have been worn were those worn by the priests who were martyred by the Roman legions who brutally invaded and destroyed the Holy Temple on the ninth day of the month of Av, in the year 70 AD.The Temple Institute has spared no effort in procuring the necessary materials for the performing of this Torah commandment, and once again has enlisted 21st century technology in order to do so in a manner befitting the Torah injunction that these priestly garments be both dignified and beautiful. (Exodus 28:40)
Specially prepared flaxen thread , wound into six-ply strands, according to the Torah prescribed requirement, (twined linen - shesh mushzar), has been imported from India. These individual spools of thread are presently being spun into larger 1.7 meter long spindles in order to accommodate the next step: the weaving of bolts of fabric 1.7 meters wide. Before commencing this process, (known in Hebrew as hashtayah), of creating the 1.7 meter spindles, Rabbi Yisrael Ariel, founder of the Temple Institute made the traditional shechechiyanu blessing expressing gratitude to God ...for keeping us alive and preserving us and permitting us to behold this day.In addition, before every step of the manufacturing process, a special statement of intent must be uttered in Hebrew: L'shem mitzvat assei assiyat bigdei hakehuna: for the sake of the positive commandment to make the priestly garments.The prepared spindles are then being transported from the textile factory in the town of Gedera to a second factory in the city of Tel Aviv. There they will be woven into kilometer (3,280 foot) long bolts. The weaving process, (known in Hebrew as arigah), creates the checkerboard pattern described in Torah, (ibid 28:39).The final states of the manufacture of the garments involves the cutting, sewing and embroidering of the woven fabric, creating the tunic (ketonet), pants (michnasayim), turban (mitznefet) and belt (avnet).
The turban (mitznefet) is eight meters (26 feet) in length, and is wrapped around the priest's head. Each belt (avnet) requires a sixteen meter (52 feet) length of linen, which is wrapped around the priest's waist. (During the time of the Second Temple, when preparing to serve in the Holy Temple, the priests dressed in the chamber known as the chamber of Pinchas the Wardrober, and each priest was assisted by a fellow priest with the turban and belt.)
As always, in recreating temple-ready vessels and garments, the Temple Institute research department initiates the process with intensive research, assuring in this case that the priestly garments will be created in strict accordance to the halachic requirements as described in Torah and in the unbroken oral tradition received at Sinai and preserved by Jewish sages throughout the generations.
Each set of priestly garments will be tailored to fit its individual purchaser. The garments being created are not museum pieces or collector's items. Their cost is 2,500 shekel, (approximately $695). They will be sold only to true descendants of the High Priest Aharon, who aspire to be fully prepared for the day when they can once again perform the Divine service in the Holy Temple, may we merit to rebuild it soon! Incredibly, this is our first public announcement of the production of the priestly garments and we have already registered our first orders. A second production run is already being planned to accommodate the anticipated demand. In these very difficult and trying times we witness the enemies of the God of Israel arrayed to the north and to the south and to the east and to the west of the land of Israel, shamelessly boasting of their wicked intentions, and even Israel's friends are calling upon her to relinquish control over the Temple Mount, the one place chosen on earth by God for His presence to dwell, and for all mankind to be seen in His service.
The demand by the descendents of Aharon for the garments that they will wear while tending to their daily responsibilities in the Holy Temple can only be understood as an expression of unshakable faith in the unfolding trajectory of Jewish history and in God's promise for all mankind: And My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations.(Isaiah 56:7)
Scholars continue to debate location of Ark of Covenant
Like another famous swashbuckling treasure hunter, he has a fear of snakes. And he's not averse to associating with mystics, charlatans and crooks in his quest for prized artifacts.But unlike his fictional alter-ego, the British Indiana Jones claims he's discovered the genuine Ark of the Covenant — or at least a direct descendant of the vessel constructed to hold the original tablets inscribed with the Ten Commandments.In a newly released book, University of London professor Tudor Parfitt claims to have located the treasured artifact on a dusty shelf of an out-of-the-way museum in Harare, Zimbabwe.It was just by chance that I finally managed to track it down to a storeroom in Harare, was able to analyze it and discover that, quite apart from anything else, it's quite probably the oldest wooden object in sub-Sahara Africa, said Parfitt, an expert in Oriental and African studies. It's massively important in terms of history, even apart from its status as the last surviving link to the original Ark of Moses.
In his book, The Lost Ark of the Covenant: Solving the 2,500 Year Old Mystery of the Fabled Biblical Ark, Parfitt describes traipsing around the globe, decoding ancient texts and deciphering numerous clues to locate the enigmatic object.Along the way, the man dubbed the British Indiana Jones by friends, colleagues and the Wall Street Journal uncovered genetic evidence confirming claims by the Lemba tribe that its members are descendants of ancient Israelite priests, the lost Ark's caretakers.Among a host of similarities with the Israelites, the Lemba priests have been the guardians of the ngoma lungundu, a sacred but unassuming wooden drum they say came from the great temple in Jerusalem.Based on radiocarbon testing dating it to A.D. 1350, Parfitt believes a replacement was constructed from a piece of the original ngoma, which legend says destroyed itself or was destroyed in a pyrotechnic explosion.But some Bible scholars, archaeologists and Ark experts are skeptical of Parfitt's claims and even of the Ark's existence. Others say the ngoma could be one of multiple replicas constructed in ancient times.Still others say the description of the drum is a far cry from the gold-covered Ark of the Covenant described in Exodus, complete with its golden cherubim.
J. Edward Wright, a professor of Hebrew Bible and early Judaism at the University of Arizona, conceded it's possible the Babylonians stripped the gold from the Ark after invading Jerusalem in 586 B.C. The Ark is believed to have disappeared from the temple in Jerusalem around that time.In the ensuing 2,500 years, many treasure seekers have risked their lives and fortunes trying to locate it. And many claims have been made about the location of arguably the most important religious artifact in history.The most dominant theory has to do with the St. Mary of Zion Church in Aksum, Ethiopia, said Beatrice Lawrence, an instructor at Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles. The theories abound, but there is no evidence to support any theory over the other.Grant R. Jeffrey, author of The New Temple and the Second Coming and 24 other books, said Jewish writings and the Ethiopian Royal Chronicles indicate a replica of the Ark was made before the Babylonians destroyed Jerusalem.The original, they say, was hidden in Ethiopia until 1991, when it was transported to Israel.The Temple Institute, a group of orthodox rabbis in Jerusalem dedicated to rebuilding the temple, claim the Ark is safely stored in a hidden chamber under the Temple Mount complex, according to the institute's Web site.Meanwhile, the Sanhedrin Court, the only religious body authorized to determine the temple's correct location, reconvened in 2005.And renowned biblical archaeologist Vendyl Jones, who claims to be the inspiration for the fictional Indiana Jones, is trying to raise $88,000 to return to Qumran to remove 40 stones blocking entrance to an inner cave where he believes the Ark and other temple treasures are located.
If the Ark is found and authenticated, biblical scholars say, it would be one of the most important archaeological discoveries in history.I suppose if they found it, it would be on par with something like the discovery of the treasures of King Tut, said William M. Schniedewind, a professor of biblical studies and northwest Semitic languages at the University of California, Los Angeles.Parfitt, whose work tracking down the lost tribes of Israel has been featured on 60 Minutes and the BBC, began to suspect the Lemba tribe possessed the Ark after attending a tribal ceremony in 1987.At the time, tribal leaders told him about the ngoma, which they said was guarded by the white lions of God and a two-headed snake inside a nearby mountain cave.Over the next two decades, Parfitt traveled from Israel to Egypt, Ethiopia and the ruins of Great Zimbabwe in search of the ngoma and its secrets. He encountered a cannibalistic tribe in Papua New Guinea, was ambushed and shot at in Africa and narrowly escaped being kidnapped by Islamic outlaws in Yemen.He experienced a major breakthrough in 1999 when he took DNA samples from 136 male members of the Lemba tribe. In a finding that drew worldwide publicity, a genetic analysis confirmed they were descendents of Aaron, the brother of Moses.
In 2001, Parfitt returned to the Dumghe Mountain cave, but he didn't find the ngoma. He was later told the ngoma had been moved, and he kept searching.Finally, based on a tip about the transport of artifacts in war-ravaged areas and using a photo of the ngoma taken in the 1940s by a missionary scholar, Parfitt located the sacred object in a storeroom in the Harare Museum of Human Science in Zimbabwe.The wooden drum had a blackened hole in the bottom and the shattered remnants of wooden rings on each corner. Parfitt also noticed a carved, interlaced pattern described in the biblical Book of Exodus.While the ngoma still is stored at the museum in Harare, Parfitt is concerned the highly valuable artifact once again may disappear in a nation plagued by violence and corruption.Parfitt, who was inspired to search for the Ark by a friend, hopes the discovery will bring peace.My friend Reuven is a very peaceful man and something of a mystic and visionary, Parfitt said. His whole excitement about the Ark was based on the idea that the Quran talks about it as being in some way a symbol of legitimacy for Israel. He was always convinced before his death if it was ever found that somehow the Ark might pave the way for peace in the Middle East.
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.(TRADING 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).
REVELATION 13:1
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea,(MEDITERRANEAN SEAS) 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)
REVELATION 12:3
3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.
REVELATION 17:3,12-13
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.
12 And the ten horns (NATIONS) which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
13 These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
Israel in favor of Sarkozy’s plan for launch of Mediterranean Union July 13
Israeli President Shimon Peres on Wednesday expressed his support for French President Nicolas Sarkozy's plans for the creation of a Mediterranean Union to promote trade and cooperation.I support 100 percent the plan, Peres, who is on a five-day state visit to France, said in an interview with French radio Europe 1.The entire Israeli government is in favour of Sarkozy’s initiative of course, he added.North Europe countries, the Maghreb countries in the south and the Arab countries in the middle, why not cooperate on what is possiblre?, he asked, recalling that Europe started with a union on coal and steel.A summit meeting between the EU countries and Mediterranean countries, including Israel, is scheduled to take place on 13 July in Paris when France takes over the six-month EU presidency.Ahead of a EU summit meeting at the end of this week, France and Germany settled their differences over President Sarkozy's plan to create the EU-Mediterranean new forum.Merkel would also travel to Paris for the ceremony launching the Mediterranean Union on July 13, the spokesman added.Sarkozy is expected to outline the compromise at the meeting of European Union leaders in Brussels on Thursday.The French president originally envisaged setting up an organisation exclusively for states bordering the Mediterranean but Germany balked at the idea fearing it would freeze out northern EU countries from a vital geo-political region.German Chancellor Angela Merkel forced Sarkozy last week to open up the club to all 27 EU states. The new union is intended to replace the so-called Barcelona Process which was launched in 1995 with much fanfare but which has made little headway in building cross-border business.s
EU leaders agree to weakened Mediterranean Union plan
14.03.2008 - 09:14 CET | By Elitsa Vucheva
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - EU leaders on Thursday (13 March) approved a watered-down version of a plan put forward by French President Nicolas Sarkozy for a grand Mediterranean Union stretching from Morocco to Turkey and aiming to foster cooperation with the EU's southern neighbours.Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa called the proposal an upgrade of the Barcelona process – the mechanism currently regulating the relations between the EU and the Mediterranean countries – and said it had received support during the EU leaders' meeting in Brussels.It is now a question of working on this in different forums. It's now a question of doing what is needed so that this project can see the light of day, he said.
An agreement was reached to launch the project as soon as possible, with the principle that all member states will participate, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso also said.A formal decision to transform the Barcelona Process into a Union for the Mediterranean is expected to be taken on Friday (14 March), Mr Sarkozy told journalists late on Thursday night.After strongly criticising Mr Sarkozy's original version of the plan, which was only to involve certain EU member states but be funded by EU money, Germany gave its support, allowing the project to go ahead after Paris agreed a milder all inclusive version of the plan.We are in favour of further developing the Barcelona process, German chancellor Angela Merkel said on her arrival at a traditional gathering of conservative leaders prior to the summit, as it was slowing down and must be revitalised, the German leader added.Both countries agreed on a compromise last week during a meeting in Hanover.Mr Sarkozy praised the efficiency of the Franco-German axis and said he had passed a very happy moment hearing Ms Merkel defending the Mediterranean project as she did [during the meeting].
Mr Sarkozy also rejected claims that his initial proposal had been considerably weakened, saying that it was not very different from what was eventually agreed upon.There is still one secretariat, a joint north-south presidency, and periodical summit meetings foreseen, so I do not think I have renounced anything, he said, adding that he was happy the principle of a closer partnership with the Mediterranean countries was taken up with great enthusiasm by the other member states, as the Barcelona [process] simply did not work.
Cool reception by some
The proposal sparked ideas for other EU states as well, with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk saying that the EU should now commit more to eastern states, particularly Ukraine, which should be given a clear European perspective.We accept this agreement in general, but we also have our own proposal about Ukraine, he said.Meanwhile, Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek said that key points, such as what exactly the role of the new Mediterranean set up would be, remained unanswered and suggested the French president was working to reach national goals above all.It is obvious that Sarkozy wants to make a name for himself during the French presidency and is focusing on a subject in which he has an economic interest, Mr Topolanek was quoted as saying by CNN.For his part, European Parliament President Hans-Gert Poettering underlined that MEPs also want to be involved.He expressed amazement that up to now, the parliamentary component of the Barcelona Process, the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly, has been completely ignored in the proposals.The European Parliament is equally astonished that a decision appears to have been taken to convene a summit in Paris on 13 July, without parliament being mentioned as a participant. I hope this was a mere technical oversight, he added.The details of the plan are to be worked out by June, before a summit on 13 July in Paris under the French EU presidency, which would formally launch the Union for the Mediterranean.The fledgling union is to involve some 39 countries - the EU's 27 members and around 12 southern states, such as Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Israel, Syria and Turkey.
EU treaty bill clears the Commons MAE 14,08
The government says a referendum is not needed on the treaty
The controversial bill which will ratify the Lisbon Treaty has cleared its final Commons stages. MPs voted by 346 votes to 206 to approve the EU (Amendment) Bill, after topic-by-topic debates over six weeks. For the Conservatives, William Hague accused ministers of ramming through the bill without a referendum. But Foreign Secretary David Miliband said the treaty was good for the UK and said Conservative scaremongering was dangerous and deluded. The Bill, which will now go to the Lords, will ratify the Lisbon Treaty - which was drawn up to replace the EU constitution, after that was rejected by French and Dutch voters in 2005.
Prosperity agenda
Last week the Conservatives lost a vote on their proposal to put the treaty to a referendum - something opposed by the government and Lib Dems who say the treaty does not have constitutional implications. Opening the final day of the lengthy Commons debate, Mr Miliband told MPs: Last week we debated how to pass the treaty into law. Today we debate whether to do so.The truth is the foreign secretary and prime minister now believe the former prime minister (Tony Blair) made a serious error when he promised a referendum
William Hague
Shadow Foreign Secretary
He said every mainstream political party in Europe believed it was good for the UK and good for Europe, because it reformed the EU's foundations and would allow us to move on to the agenda of prosperity and development and climate change. He said the only major opposition party in Europe resisting it was the Conservatives who were stuck in the past and obsessed with myths about the EU. But shadow foreign secretary Mr Hague said the treaty would give the EU unwarranted power over Britain's national life.
Referendum refusal
He accused the government of ramming through the legislation without a referendum, in clear breach of its election promises , without a democratic mandate for the treaty. The truth is the foreign secretary and prime minister now believe the former prime minister (Tony Blair) made a serious error when he promised a referendum and it was that error which has reduced them to arguing that something which is 90% the same is fundamentally different, he said. This is a treaty which genuine Euro-sceptics should be coming to praise - not to bury
Edward Davey
Liberal Democrats
He said the promising of a referendum and refusal to give one were nothing to do with constitutional practice, but everything to do with the sharp practice of ministers focused solely on what they could or could not get away with. He urged Lib Dem peers to stand by the party's manifesto commitment when the bill is debated in the Lords. But Labour former health secretary Patricia Hewitt said the Conservative Party was talking to itself, not to the British people and certainly not to our partners in the European Union. And for the Liberal Democrats, Edward Davey said the Commons debates had shown the treaty was sensible and modest. He told MPs there were many firsts in the treaty, including member states having the right to leave the EU and national parliaments being given a mechanism for calling a halt to EU legislation. This is a treaty which genuine Euro-sceptics should be coming to praise - not to bury, he said. The fact that they don't now back these reforms that they used to call for reflects the reality that the vast majority of Euro-sceptics aren't genuinely sceptical but actually are closed minded and pre-determined in their opposition in everything European.But Democratic Unionist Sammy Wilson warned that by passing the legislation, MPs would be doing irreparable damage to their image and the powers of Parliament.
The CARMEL ALERT Mar 14th 2008
A compilation of news reports from the past week for the information of those committed to praying for Israel and the salvation of the Jewish people.
David's Comment: Why Is Israel Always Under Attack ?
Rev 12:1-2 Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a garland of twelve stars. Then being with child, she cried out in labor and in pain to give birth.
Many people alive today think of Israel as a new nation that appeared on the world stage only 60 years ago and they blame many of the world's problems, terror and the price of oil, on the tiny nation of 6 million Jewish people that sits on a postage size piece of land at the crossroads of Africa, Asia and Europe. Such people are ignorant of the Bible, unaware or mistaken about the existence and/or identity of God, and they are ignorant of world history.
As we all know Israel has existed before most of the nations that we now live in. Israel 's history extends far back into man's tenure on planet Earth. More than 4000 years ago, God cut an unconditional, blood sealed covenant with a man called Abraham, promising him a clearly defined land, everlasting nationhood, and descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky or the sand of the seashore.
This covenant wasn't just for Abraham's sake, but for the sake of all the nations and a key element of the covenant was that Abraham's descendants would be a blessing and a light to the rest of the human race. Sounds like a great idea ! Only one problem - there is another powerful spirit being out there who doesn't want YHVH's plan to succeed. From the time of Adam & Eve, 6000 years ago, he has been reigning over the Earth and all who dwell upon it, in rebellion against God, deceiving mankind into the same rebellion against God, and attempting to set up his own kingdom, instead of serving the Kingdom of YHVH .
We read in Rev 12:7 that war broke out in Heaven, resulting in Satan & the other rebellious angels being cast down to the earth, bringing the war with them. Ever since the day that Cain killed his brother Abel, we human beings have been killing each other by the millions, and it continues even into the enlightened 20th and 21st centuries. We are all merely pawns in a spiritual war being waged in the Heavenlies. As the scale of death and destruction testifies to, this war is a very serious matter indeed. It is not about the here and now, but it is about eternity. It is about which kingdom will prevail and who will sit upon the Throne in Heaven and upon the Throne in the Temple in Jerusalem .
To direct out focus back to this week's title - Why is Israel always under attack ? - the answer is so simple. So simple that most people can' see it ! Since the beginning of time, YHVH chose to establish and maintain His Kingdom in the city of Jerusalem , the undivided capital of His nation of Israel . Contrary to the large number of Christians who are deceived by Replacement Theology to believe that the Kingdom of God is just a spiritual kingdom, the truth is that YHVH has resurrected the Dry Bones to the land of their forefathers as a preparation to restore His Kingdom on the Earth. Yeshua will soon return to the physical city of Jerusalem to sit upon the Throne of David in the precise location that the Spirit of God dwelt in the Ark of the Covenant in the Holy of Holies.
Satan well knows the ultimate destiny of Israel , and he knows that the continuing restoration of Israel spells his end. That is why he has waged a war against Israel and the Jewish people throughout the last 6000 years. That is why Israel has always been under attack and will continue to be under attack until the day that Yeshua comes to destroy the enemies of God. Israel , specifically Jerusalem will become the capital of God's Kingdom, and will be the capital city of the whole world.
Whether the Muslim world, the UN, the US State Department, the EU or many church leaders understand or believe that fact, it will happen! Our part as Believers is to first of all BELIEVE, and then to play our part in hastening the day of the Lord's return (2 Pet 3:12), by standing up for Israel's right to exist in all of the Promised Land, and to pray for the real peace of Jerusalem - the return of the Messiah - Yeshua. MARANATHA !
The Lord bless you as you bless Israel by standing in defense of her right to exist on the land given to the Jewish people by the God of Israel . Lets pray that Israel will turn back to their God. Do not be silent, but share this with your fellow Christians, share it with your pastors, and with anyone you have a chance to speak to. Lets also pray for that breakthrough to the Muslims, and please remember to pray for our son Jordan, and all of his fellow soldiers in the IDF.
Please make your voice heard by signing the petition to save Jerusalem www.savejerusalem.org
Shabbat Shalom ... David & Josie
A MESSAGE OF HOPE FROM DR. JACK VAN IMPE
What about nuclear war? The Bible says the
elements shall melt with fervent heat.
Would this refer to nuclear devastation?
Let's look at what the Bible says about this kind of firepower-and when such annihilation might occur. We read in 2 Peter 3:10 a clear description of the last days: But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. God does not need man's modern inventions to produce the mass devastation mentioned in this text. Atoms have been here since God created heaven and earth (Genesis 1:1). Only in our day has science learned to harness what has always existed. God could have brought the components together at any time to produce the effects predicted in this prophecy. This text pictures the renovation of the world. Since God's Word promises a final day of rest, there can be no complete renovation of the earth until Christ has reigned for one thousand years. Therefore, this text refers to events to be fulfilled after the Millennium-the thousand-year reign of Christ. However, scores of other texts predict nuclear war for the Tribulation Hour.
Here's the startling truth portrayed in this portion of scripture: Humanity today has the potential to carry out that which prophecy has long predicted for the human race. Because science has harnessed this power, and because God's predictions for the Tribulation Hour promise massive fiery devastation, the hour is most certainly at hand. God is able to carry out everything mentioned in Revelation 8:7 and 9:18. He, the omnipotent One, needs no assistance from the world's Atomic Energy Commissions or the Pentagon. These verses indicate that humans will use atoms during the Tribulation period and at the end of the Millennium. Modem science tells us there are three primary effects of an A- or H-bomb blast. First, there is the tremendous mushrooming effect as it ascends into the heavens upon detonation. Second, as the blast begins its descent, it disintegrates, dissolves, and melts even steel. In fact, a five-hundred-foot steel tower melted into nothingness in the desert of New Mexico during past experiments. Finally, the heat made the same desert a blazing inferno.
Now, observe the statement Peter made under the direction of the Holy Spirit nineteen centuries ago. First, the heavens shall pass away with a great noise. Second, the elements shall melt with fervent heat. God said that the elements would melt. Go to any library and make a study of atomic weaponry. The materials will be classified under the letter E under the term elements-the very word God used. Think of it! Twentieth-century scientists continue to use the same language God employed nineteen hundred years ago. Finally, Peter states, The earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up (2 Peter 3:10). The three major effects of nuclear detonations are identical to Peter's prophecies and the catastrophic bombardments of earth predicted for the coming Tribulation Hour. In numerous other scriptural texts, undoubtedly, World War HI will be one of incineration. Revelation 9:18 states, By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone. I have stood in Japan, near Hiroshima, and remembered with sadness the reports of mayhem and destruction that emanated from the two Japanese cities struck by the atomic bomb during World War II. My mind was troubled. Then I thought about the Tribulation Hour. Zechariah 14:12 pictures an atomic devastation beyond comprehension. The prophet said, 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. This is the precise effect of humankind's newest weapon-the neutron bomb that destroys people but not property! All of this could take place in the near future. Then, after the millennial reign of Christ, the final atomic renovation of 2 Peter 3:10 will occur.
While believers will not endure the horror of the Tribulation, we must know the times so as to be faithful witnesses. That is why we must study and take the time to understand the prophecies in this startling chapter. They are vivid reminders that the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ is near. At a time when the world mocks His return, reveling in its atomic weaponry and false sense of security, and during an era when the sixth day is about to expire, Christ could return momentarily. The clock is ticking away its last fateful seconds. Little time remains. If you do not have a relationship with Jesus Christ and have not accepted Him as your Savior and Lord, you, too, will be left behind with those who refuse to believe. All laughter will end when the fire begins to fall (Genesis 19:14, 24, 25; Luke 17:28-30). It will then be eternally too late. Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation (2 Corinthians 6:2).
In Conclusion ...
I have an important question for you.
In Matthew 24:3, Christ's disciples asked, What shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world [literally, age]? The Savior proceeded to provide a list of cataclysmic world events, which would both usher in His return and culminate in the Day of the Lord. He added in Luke 21:28, And when these things begin to come to pass [or begin to occur simultaneously], then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh. Concerning this great day, the apostle Paul writes in 1 Thessalonians 5:1-3, But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them.
Never in the pages of world history have we witnessed such a proliferation of the signs Jesus predicted would be in place immediately before His return. No longer are the days of simultaneous war, famine, pestilence, earthquakes, and cultic activity limited to the pages of the Bible. All we need to do today is glance at the morning headlines or listen for five minutes to CNN (or watch the tawdry afternoon television peep shows) to realize that these signs of Christ's return are in evidence worldwide and increasing both in frequency and intensity. Is it any wonder that the scientists who control the famed doomsday clock are moving its hands ever closer to midnight?
Prophecy: History Written in Advance
The questions I have tried my best to answer in the preceding newsletters have dealt with the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the stream of end-time events that will usher in the Tribulation-a period of unparalleled terror. I remind you, Christians will not be a part of this horrendous time (Revelation 3:10). In answer to your many questions, I have endeavored to deal with most of the major New Testament prophecies that relate to the return of our Lord in the light of current international events. Remember that prophecy is simply history written in advance. It is God's declaration and description of future events. As such, prophecy cannot, has not, and will never fail in even the smallest detail until all has been fulfilled. The day of that ultimate fulfillment is upon us. My personal prayer is that, upon completing this book, you will renew your vow of love, service, and allegiance to the Savior. If you do not yet know the Lord of lords and King of kings, it is my earnest prayer that you will open your heart and your life to Jesus today. Do not be left behind. Do not say, I wish I had taken the words of prophecy more seriously.
Will it be easy for us in the years before the Tribulation? I think not. We will still be compelled to deal with runaway crime, abortions, drug abuse, plagues, pestilence, AIDS, wars, and rumors of wars, and an unprecedented hostility toward the gospel. The question is, Will you be strong in your love for Christ, or will you sell your birthright for a few thrills during the challenging times that are sure to lie ahead? Will you be an end-time hero for the faith? Alternatively, will you be found wanting? The apostle John, thrown into a cauldron of boiling oil, survived the painful ordeal but was disfigured for life and banned to the isle of Patmos. The beloved apostle Paul was beheaded. Two of the New Testament writers, Jude and Peter, were crucified. Another Gospel writer, James, was battered to death with a fuller's club.
Now let us look at the larger picture: Soon the great hour will have arrived, and all God's children will be present as the investigation begins. What will you say as you stand with such an array of heroes-believers who gave their all and who proved their first love for Christ during an entire lifetime and even unto death? Only you know the answer. Christ's return may be tomorrow, next week, next month, or next year. We do not know the day or the hour when Jesus will break through the blue to call us home. However, we do know that it is near, even at the doors. Therefore, my closing questions to you are: Are you ready for Christ's imminent return? Could you bear the investigative judgment if it were to take place tomorrow? Would you be ashamed, embarrassed, red-faced, even brokenhearted? Would tears of sorrow flow from your eyes for an entire millennial age? Is your present disobedience worth such heartache? Would you not rather serve God with all your heart and hear Him say with a loud voice: Well done, thou good and faithful servant (Matthew 25:21)? It is not too late to make a change, to reverse your lifestyle, and put Christ first in your life. If you do not know the Savior, I urge you to obey John 1:12 and Romans 10:13. If you are away from the Lord, I plead with you to act upon 1 John 1:9, If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Do it. Make the right decision. Then live the remainder of your days for Him, short as those days might be. It will be worth it all when we see Jesus. Maranatha! The King is coming!
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 dead as fresh storms spawn tornado near Atlanta
Sat Mar 15, 9:27 PM By Matthew Bigg
ATLANTA (Reuters) - A tornado in northwest Georgia killed two people and left others seriously injured on Saturday, one day after a twister battered Atlanta's downtown, officials said.One person died in Polk county and a second died in Floyd county, said Buzz Weiss of the Georgia Emergency Management Agency. Both counties are on Georgia's border with Alabama.The National Weather Service issued a string of tornado warnings moving east across north Georgia throughout the day. It said there was a risk of isolated tornadoes across central Georgia and South Carolina, where local media said storms left thousands without power.Workers were clearing debris in the heart of Atlanta following Friday night's storm, which damaged landmark buildings, overturned cars and injured dozens of people.It was a very significant, very serious storm. There's lots of damage, said Weiss.Some 30 people were taken to hospitals and one was in serious condition after the storm, which packed winds of 130 mph (216 kph), police and Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin said.Damage could be up to $150 million, according to an initial estimate by John Oxendine, state insurance commissioner, who was quoted in local media.Franklin declared a state of emergency in the city after the storm, which local media said was the first recorded tornado in Atlanta's history.It powered through as tens of thousands of basketball fans packed area stadiums to watch big games.Police evacuated the multistory Omni Hotel, which shares a building with the CNN Center, after high winds shattered windows and spilled debris onto the street.Winds also broke windows and caused damage at CNN Center, the television network's headquarters, CNN said.
The storm struck the most prominent section of downtown Atlanta, which houses attractions including CNN, the Georgia Dome, the Georgia World Congress Center, the Georgia Aquarium and the new World of Coca-Cola.
LIKE A FREIGHT TRAIN
Those buildings are clustered around Centennial Olympic Park, built for the 1996 Summer Olympics.Officials temporarily halted the game between Mississippi State and the University of Alabama at the Georgia Dome after high winds damaged the roof and caused a large monitor hanging above the court to sway ominously.Thousands of people were attending a National Basketball Association game between the Los Angeles Clippers and the Atlanta Hawks at the Philips Arena, adjacent to the CNN Center complex. But the game was not suspended.Friday's storm started north of the city and swept through downtown at about 9:45 p.m. (0145 GMT on Saturday) Emergency services were searching a building in a suburb of metropolitan Atlanta that partially collapsed.Witnesses said they heard a sound like a freight train when the storm hit and saw a funnel-shaped cloud. One woman told a local television station she saw a whirling circle of debris higher than her hotel room on the 12th floor.Tornadoes are common in parts of the U.S. South, often leaving a trail of death and devastation. But they usually strike rural areas. The deadliest tornado in a U.S. city in recent decades hit Waco, Texas, in May 1953, killing 114.(Editing by Todd Eastham)
Tornado leaves path of destruction in downtown Atlanta
Sat Mar 15, 2:58 PM
The U.S. National Weather Service has confirmed that a strong tornado tore through downtown Atlanta, Ga., on Friday night, leaving a trail of destruction and injuring at least 30 people.The tornado moved through the city's centre, first packing winds clocked at 177 km/h, before it grew into a force with winds of up to 209 km/h, the weather service said on Saturday.This was clearly a tornado. We are going to be ranking it as an EF-2, weather service meteorologist Lans Rothfusz told reporters.The path length was about six miles [10 kilometres] long for the duration, although there were spots in there where it kind of went down and came back up again, he said.High winds smashed skyscraper windows and sucked furniture and luggage out of hotel rooms. The tornado also tore the roofs from several buildings and rattled the rafters of two major sports arenas that were filled with basketball fans.Officials stopped one game at the Georgia Dome and cancelled a second planned for the Southeastern Conference tournament after the building shook. There were at least two rips in the fabric of the dome’s roof.A number of windows were shattered at the headquarters of the Cable News Network. On its website, CNN said damage to the roof and ceiling allowed water to pour into the atrium.Power lines and trees were ripped down in the city's historic Cabbagetown neighbourhood. Heavy damage is reported at a mill that was converted into lofts in the residential area. There was also damage to the Georgia World Congress Center.
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I have just finished reading one of the most shocking and spiritually uplifting books ever. Let me tell you why.First, because the author, Mark A. Gabriel, Ph.D., grew up as a devout Muslim in Egypt, went on to earn a Doctorate in Islamic studies, and taught at Al-Azar University in Cairo, Egypt, the most prestigious and powerful Muslim university in the world.His uncle was the leader of one of the largest mosques and was revered by all devout Muslims. The author of the book I devoured -- entitled Jesus and Muhammad was also extremely devoted and literally sold out to Islam.For seven years he memorized the Koran verse by verse, and in the eyes of Muslims was considered a holy person because he carried the entire Koran in his mind. But as an Islamic scholar and educator, he doubted much of what he taught. For example,He asked one professor, Why did Muhammad tell us first to get along with Christians, and then told us to kill them?
He asked another professor, Why was the prophet Muhammad permitted to marry thirteen women, and we are commanded not to marry more than four? Doesn’t the Koran say that Muhammad was just a human being? So why did he have extra rights? He had so many doubts, to which he could find no answers in the Koran, that he began losing faith in his Islamic religion. Soon the school’s Islamic leaders heard about his questions, and he was summoned to meet with them for a session of interrogation. When he expressed sincere doubts, here’s what happened:The mood in this meeting changed. One man became enraged. He got up from his seat, stood in front of him, and spit in my face. You blasphemer! he snarled. I swear your mother is a bastard. I could see by the look on his face that had we not been in a meeting with other people, he would have killed me at that moment. Get out,he commanded.At three o’clock in the morning that same night, my father heard knocking at the entrance of our house. When he opened the door, fifteen to twenty men rushed past him carrying Russian Kalashnikov assault weapons. They ran upstairs and looked throughout the house, waking people up as they looked for me ... I was in the hands of the Egyptian secret police.Even his own family turned against him. At one point his father took a pistol in his hands and tried to kill him. Only the true God kept him alive.
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REBUILT 3RD TEMPLE (THE EU DICTATORS 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.
REBUILT 4TH TEMPLE (THE TRUE MESSIAHS TEMPLE)
ZECHARIAH 6:12-13
12 And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD:
13 Even he shall build the temple of the LORD; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.
ISAIAH 60:9-10
9 Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.
10 And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee.
ISAIAH 2:1-5
1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.
MARK 11:9-10,15-17
9 And they that went before, and they that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna; Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord:
10 Blessed be the kingdom of our father David, that cometh in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest.
15 And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves;
16 And would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple.
17 And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves.
EZEKIEL 40 TO 48 IS THIS 4TH TEMPLE TO BIG FOR THE MOUNT I BELIEVE TO BE BUILT 25 MILES FROM JERUSALEM.
Preparing to Rebuild The Temple - Temple Institute prepares linen garments for descendents of Aaron
For Aaron's sons, make tunics and sashes. Also make them hats that are both dignified and beautiful. Place these [vestments] on Aaron and his sons. Then anoint them, and install them, sanctifying them to be priests to Me. Also make linen pants to cover their nakedness, reaching from their waists to their thighs. [All these vestments] must be worn by Aaron and his sons whenever they enter the Communion Tent or offer sacrifice on the altar, performing the divine service in the sanctuary; otherwise they will have committed a sin and they will die. This shall be a law for [Aaron] and his descendants after him for all time. (Exodus 28:40-43) They made the tunics for Aaron and his sons by weaving them out of fine linen. [They made] the linen turban, the fine linen hats, and the line pants, [all out of] twined linen. [They made] the belt, embroidered out of twined linen, and sky-blue, dark red and crimson wool. (Exodus 39:28-29)
For the first time in 1,938 years the linen garments of the lay priests are being produced in preparation for the rebuilding of the Holy Temple and the renewal of the Divine service.The last priestly garments to have been worn were those worn by the priests who were martyred by the Roman legions who brutally invaded and destroyed the Holy Temple on the ninth day of the month of Av, in the year 70 AD.The Temple Institute has spared no effort in procuring the necessary materials for the performing of this Torah commandment, and once again has enlisted 21st century technology in order to do so in a manner befitting the Torah injunction that these priestly garments be both dignified and beautiful. (Exodus 28:40)
Specially prepared flaxen thread , wound into six-ply strands, according to the Torah prescribed requirement, (twined linen - shesh mushzar), has been imported from India. These individual spools of thread are presently being spun into larger 1.7 meter long spindles in order to accommodate the next step: the weaving of bolts of fabric 1.7 meters wide. Before commencing this process, (known in Hebrew as hashtayah), of creating the 1.7 meter spindles, Rabbi Yisrael Ariel, founder of the Temple Institute made the traditional shechechiyanu blessing expressing gratitude to God ...for keeping us alive and preserving us and permitting us to behold this day.In addition, before every step of the manufacturing process, a special statement of intent must be uttered in Hebrew: L'shem mitzvat assei assiyat bigdei hakehuna: for the sake of the positive commandment to make the priestly garments.The prepared spindles are then being transported from the textile factory in the town of Gedera to a second factory in the city of Tel Aviv. There they will be woven into kilometer (3,280 foot) long bolts. The weaving process, (known in Hebrew as arigah), creates the checkerboard pattern described in Torah, (ibid 28:39).The final states of the manufacture of the garments involves the cutting, sewing and embroidering of the woven fabric, creating the tunic (ketonet), pants (michnasayim), turban (mitznefet) and belt (avnet).
The turban (mitznefet) is eight meters (26 feet) in length, and is wrapped around the priest's head. Each belt (avnet) requires a sixteen meter (52 feet) length of linen, which is wrapped around the priest's waist. (During the time of the Second Temple, when preparing to serve in the Holy Temple, the priests dressed in the chamber known as the chamber of Pinchas the Wardrober, and each priest was assisted by a fellow priest with the turban and belt.)
As always, in recreating temple-ready vessels and garments, the Temple Institute research department initiates the process with intensive research, assuring in this case that the priestly garments will be created in strict accordance to the halachic requirements as described in Torah and in the unbroken oral tradition received at Sinai and preserved by Jewish sages throughout the generations.
Each set of priestly garments will be tailored to fit its individual purchaser. The garments being created are not museum pieces or collector's items. Their cost is 2,500 shekel, (approximately $695). They will be sold only to true descendants of the High Priest Aharon, who aspire to be fully prepared for the day when they can once again perform the Divine service in the Holy Temple, may we merit to rebuild it soon! Incredibly, this is our first public announcement of the production of the priestly garments and we have already registered our first orders. A second production run is already being planned to accommodate the anticipated demand. In these very difficult and trying times we witness the enemies of the God of Israel arrayed to the north and to the south and to the east and to the west of the land of Israel, shamelessly boasting of their wicked intentions, and even Israel's friends are calling upon her to relinquish control over the Temple Mount, the one place chosen on earth by God for His presence to dwell, and for all mankind to be seen in His service.
The demand by the descendents of Aharon for the garments that they will wear while tending to their daily responsibilities in the Holy Temple can only be understood as an expression of unshakable faith in the unfolding trajectory of Jewish history and in God's promise for all mankind: And My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations.(Isaiah 56:7)
Scholars continue to debate location of Ark of Covenant
Like another famous swashbuckling treasure hunter, he has a fear of snakes. And he's not averse to associating with mystics, charlatans and crooks in his quest for prized artifacts.But unlike his fictional alter-ego, the British Indiana Jones claims he's discovered the genuine Ark of the Covenant — or at least a direct descendant of the vessel constructed to hold the original tablets inscribed with the Ten Commandments.In a newly released book, University of London professor Tudor Parfitt claims to have located the treasured artifact on a dusty shelf of an out-of-the-way museum in Harare, Zimbabwe.It was just by chance that I finally managed to track it down to a storeroom in Harare, was able to analyze it and discover that, quite apart from anything else, it's quite probably the oldest wooden object in sub-Sahara Africa, said Parfitt, an expert in Oriental and African studies. It's massively important in terms of history, even apart from its status as the last surviving link to the original Ark of Moses.
In his book, The Lost Ark of the Covenant: Solving the 2,500 Year Old Mystery of the Fabled Biblical Ark, Parfitt describes traipsing around the globe, decoding ancient texts and deciphering numerous clues to locate the enigmatic object.Along the way, the man dubbed the British Indiana Jones by friends, colleagues and the Wall Street Journal uncovered genetic evidence confirming claims by the Lemba tribe that its members are descendants of ancient Israelite priests, the lost Ark's caretakers.Among a host of similarities with the Israelites, the Lemba priests have been the guardians of the ngoma lungundu, a sacred but unassuming wooden drum they say came from the great temple in Jerusalem.Based on radiocarbon testing dating it to A.D. 1350, Parfitt believes a replacement was constructed from a piece of the original ngoma, which legend says destroyed itself or was destroyed in a pyrotechnic explosion.But some Bible scholars, archaeologists and Ark experts are skeptical of Parfitt's claims and even of the Ark's existence. Others say the ngoma could be one of multiple replicas constructed in ancient times.Still others say the description of the drum is a far cry from the gold-covered Ark of the Covenant described in Exodus, complete with its golden cherubim.
J. Edward Wright, a professor of Hebrew Bible and early Judaism at the University of Arizona, conceded it's possible the Babylonians stripped the gold from the Ark after invading Jerusalem in 586 B.C. The Ark is believed to have disappeared from the temple in Jerusalem around that time.In the ensuing 2,500 years, many treasure seekers have risked their lives and fortunes trying to locate it. And many claims have been made about the location of arguably the most important religious artifact in history.The most dominant theory has to do with the St. Mary of Zion Church in Aksum, Ethiopia, said Beatrice Lawrence, an instructor at Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles. The theories abound, but there is no evidence to support any theory over the other.Grant R. Jeffrey, author of The New Temple and the Second Coming and 24 other books, said Jewish writings and the Ethiopian Royal Chronicles indicate a replica of the Ark was made before the Babylonians destroyed Jerusalem.The original, they say, was hidden in Ethiopia until 1991, when it was transported to Israel.The Temple Institute, a group of orthodox rabbis in Jerusalem dedicated to rebuilding the temple, claim the Ark is safely stored in a hidden chamber under the Temple Mount complex, according to the institute's Web site.Meanwhile, the Sanhedrin Court, the only religious body authorized to determine the temple's correct location, reconvened in 2005.And renowned biblical archaeologist Vendyl Jones, who claims to be the inspiration for the fictional Indiana Jones, is trying to raise $88,000 to return to Qumran to remove 40 stones blocking entrance to an inner cave where he believes the Ark and other temple treasures are located.
If the Ark is found and authenticated, biblical scholars say, it would be one of the most important archaeological discoveries in history.I suppose if they found it, it would be on par with something like the discovery of the treasures of King Tut, said William M. Schniedewind, a professor of biblical studies and northwest Semitic languages at the University of California, Los Angeles.Parfitt, whose work tracking down the lost tribes of Israel has been featured on 60 Minutes and the BBC, began to suspect the Lemba tribe possessed the Ark after attending a tribal ceremony in 1987.At the time, tribal leaders told him about the ngoma, which they said was guarded by the white lions of God and a two-headed snake inside a nearby mountain cave.Over the next two decades, Parfitt traveled from Israel to Egypt, Ethiopia and the ruins of Great Zimbabwe in search of the ngoma and its secrets. He encountered a cannibalistic tribe in Papua New Guinea, was ambushed and shot at in Africa and narrowly escaped being kidnapped by Islamic outlaws in Yemen.He experienced a major breakthrough in 1999 when he took DNA samples from 136 male members of the Lemba tribe. In a finding that drew worldwide publicity, a genetic analysis confirmed they were descendents of Aaron, the brother of Moses.
In 2001, Parfitt returned to the Dumghe Mountain cave, but he didn't find the ngoma. He was later told the ngoma had been moved, and he kept searching.Finally, based on a tip about the transport of artifacts in war-ravaged areas and using a photo of the ngoma taken in the 1940s by a missionary scholar, Parfitt located the sacred object in a storeroom in the Harare Museum of Human Science in Zimbabwe.The wooden drum had a blackened hole in the bottom and the shattered remnants of wooden rings on each corner. Parfitt also noticed a carved, interlaced pattern described in the biblical Book of Exodus.While the ngoma still is stored at the museum in Harare, Parfitt is concerned the highly valuable artifact once again may disappear in a nation plagued by violence and corruption.Parfitt, who was inspired to search for the Ark by a friend, hopes the discovery will bring peace.My friend Reuven is a very peaceful man and something of a mystic and visionary, Parfitt said. His whole excitement about the Ark was based on the idea that the Quran talks about it as being in some way a symbol of legitimacy for Israel. He was always convinced before his death if it was ever found that somehow the Ark might pave the way for peace in the Middle East.
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.(TRADING 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).
REVELATION 13:1
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea,(MEDITERRANEAN SEAS) 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)
REVELATION 12:3
3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.
REVELATION 17:3,12-13
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.
12 And the ten horns (NATIONS) which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
13 These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
Israel in favor of Sarkozy’s plan for launch of Mediterranean Union July 13
Israeli President Shimon Peres on Wednesday expressed his support for French President Nicolas Sarkozy's plans for the creation of a Mediterranean Union to promote trade and cooperation.I support 100 percent the plan, Peres, who is on a five-day state visit to France, said in an interview with French radio Europe 1.The entire Israeli government is in favour of Sarkozy’s initiative of course, he added.North Europe countries, the Maghreb countries in the south and the Arab countries in the middle, why not cooperate on what is possiblre?, he asked, recalling that Europe started with a union on coal and steel.A summit meeting between the EU countries and Mediterranean countries, including Israel, is scheduled to take place on 13 July in Paris when France takes over the six-month EU presidency.Ahead of a EU summit meeting at the end of this week, France and Germany settled their differences over President Sarkozy's plan to create the EU-Mediterranean new forum.Merkel would also travel to Paris for the ceremony launching the Mediterranean Union on July 13, the spokesman added.Sarkozy is expected to outline the compromise at the meeting of European Union leaders in Brussels on Thursday.The French president originally envisaged setting up an organisation exclusively for states bordering the Mediterranean but Germany balked at the idea fearing it would freeze out northern EU countries from a vital geo-political region.German Chancellor Angela Merkel forced Sarkozy last week to open up the club to all 27 EU states. The new union is intended to replace the so-called Barcelona Process which was launched in 1995 with much fanfare but which has made little headway in building cross-border business.s
EU leaders agree to weakened Mediterranean Union plan
14.03.2008 - 09:14 CET | By Elitsa Vucheva
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - EU leaders on Thursday (13 March) approved a watered-down version of a plan put forward by French President Nicolas Sarkozy for a grand Mediterranean Union stretching from Morocco to Turkey and aiming to foster cooperation with the EU's southern neighbours.Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa called the proposal an upgrade of the Barcelona process – the mechanism currently regulating the relations between the EU and the Mediterranean countries – and said it had received support during the EU leaders' meeting in Brussels.It is now a question of working on this in different forums. It's now a question of doing what is needed so that this project can see the light of day, he said.
An agreement was reached to launch the project as soon as possible, with the principle that all member states will participate, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso also said.A formal decision to transform the Barcelona Process into a Union for the Mediterranean is expected to be taken on Friday (14 March), Mr Sarkozy told journalists late on Thursday night.After strongly criticising Mr Sarkozy's original version of the plan, which was only to involve certain EU member states but be funded by EU money, Germany gave its support, allowing the project to go ahead after Paris agreed a milder all inclusive version of the plan.We are in favour of further developing the Barcelona process, German chancellor Angela Merkel said on her arrival at a traditional gathering of conservative leaders prior to the summit, as it was slowing down and must be revitalised, the German leader added.Both countries agreed on a compromise last week during a meeting in Hanover.Mr Sarkozy praised the efficiency of the Franco-German axis and said he had passed a very happy moment hearing Ms Merkel defending the Mediterranean project as she did [during the meeting].
Mr Sarkozy also rejected claims that his initial proposal had been considerably weakened, saying that it was not very different from what was eventually agreed upon.There is still one secretariat, a joint north-south presidency, and periodical summit meetings foreseen, so I do not think I have renounced anything, he said, adding that he was happy the principle of a closer partnership with the Mediterranean countries was taken up with great enthusiasm by the other member states, as the Barcelona [process] simply did not work.
Cool reception by some
The proposal sparked ideas for other EU states as well, with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk saying that the EU should now commit more to eastern states, particularly Ukraine, which should be given a clear European perspective.We accept this agreement in general, but we also have our own proposal about Ukraine, he said.Meanwhile, Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek said that key points, such as what exactly the role of the new Mediterranean set up would be, remained unanswered and suggested the French president was working to reach national goals above all.It is obvious that Sarkozy wants to make a name for himself during the French presidency and is focusing on a subject in which he has an economic interest, Mr Topolanek was quoted as saying by CNN.For his part, European Parliament President Hans-Gert Poettering underlined that MEPs also want to be involved.He expressed amazement that up to now, the parliamentary component of the Barcelona Process, the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly, has been completely ignored in the proposals.The European Parliament is equally astonished that a decision appears to have been taken to convene a summit in Paris on 13 July, without parliament being mentioned as a participant. I hope this was a mere technical oversight, he added.The details of the plan are to be worked out by June, before a summit on 13 July in Paris under the French EU presidency, which would formally launch the Union for the Mediterranean.The fledgling union is to involve some 39 countries - the EU's 27 members and around 12 southern states, such as Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Israel, Syria and Turkey.
EU treaty bill clears the Commons MAE 14,08
The government says a referendum is not needed on the treaty
The controversial bill which will ratify the Lisbon Treaty has cleared its final Commons stages. MPs voted by 346 votes to 206 to approve the EU (Amendment) Bill, after topic-by-topic debates over six weeks. For the Conservatives, William Hague accused ministers of ramming through the bill without a referendum. But Foreign Secretary David Miliband said the treaty was good for the UK and said Conservative scaremongering was dangerous and deluded. The Bill, which will now go to the Lords, will ratify the Lisbon Treaty - which was drawn up to replace the EU constitution, after that was rejected by French and Dutch voters in 2005.
Prosperity agenda
Last week the Conservatives lost a vote on their proposal to put the treaty to a referendum - something opposed by the government and Lib Dems who say the treaty does not have constitutional implications. Opening the final day of the lengthy Commons debate, Mr Miliband told MPs: Last week we debated how to pass the treaty into law. Today we debate whether to do so.The truth is the foreign secretary and prime minister now believe the former prime minister (Tony Blair) made a serious error when he promised a referendum
William Hague
Shadow Foreign Secretary
He said every mainstream political party in Europe believed it was good for the UK and good for Europe, because it reformed the EU's foundations and would allow us to move on to the agenda of prosperity and development and climate change. He said the only major opposition party in Europe resisting it was the Conservatives who were stuck in the past and obsessed with myths about the EU. But shadow foreign secretary Mr Hague said the treaty would give the EU unwarranted power over Britain's national life.
Referendum refusal
He accused the government of ramming through the legislation without a referendum, in clear breach of its election promises , without a democratic mandate for the treaty. The truth is the foreign secretary and prime minister now believe the former prime minister (Tony Blair) made a serious error when he promised a referendum and it was that error which has reduced them to arguing that something which is 90% the same is fundamentally different, he said. This is a treaty which genuine Euro-sceptics should be coming to praise - not to bury
Edward Davey
Liberal Democrats
He said the promising of a referendum and refusal to give one were nothing to do with constitutional practice, but everything to do with the sharp practice of ministers focused solely on what they could or could not get away with. He urged Lib Dem peers to stand by the party's manifesto commitment when the bill is debated in the Lords. But Labour former health secretary Patricia Hewitt said the Conservative Party was talking to itself, not to the British people and certainly not to our partners in the European Union. And for the Liberal Democrats, Edward Davey said the Commons debates had shown the treaty was sensible and modest. He told MPs there were many firsts in the treaty, including member states having the right to leave the EU and national parliaments being given a mechanism for calling a halt to EU legislation. This is a treaty which genuine Euro-sceptics should be coming to praise - not to bury, he said. The fact that they don't now back these reforms that they used to call for reflects the reality that the vast majority of Euro-sceptics aren't genuinely sceptical but actually are closed minded and pre-determined in their opposition in everything European.But Democratic Unionist Sammy Wilson warned that by passing the legislation, MPs would be doing irreparable damage to their image and the powers of Parliament.
The CARMEL ALERT Mar 14th 2008
A compilation of news reports from the past week for the information of those committed to praying for Israel and the salvation of the Jewish people.
David's Comment: Why Is Israel Always Under Attack ?
Rev 12:1-2 Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a garland of twelve stars. Then being with child, she cried out in labor and in pain to give birth.
Many people alive today think of Israel as a new nation that appeared on the world stage only 60 years ago and they blame many of the world's problems, terror and the price of oil, on the tiny nation of 6 million Jewish people that sits on a postage size piece of land at the crossroads of Africa, Asia and Europe. Such people are ignorant of the Bible, unaware or mistaken about the existence and/or identity of God, and they are ignorant of world history.
As we all know Israel has existed before most of the nations that we now live in. Israel 's history extends far back into man's tenure on planet Earth. More than 4000 years ago, God cut an unconditional, blood sealed covenant with a man called Abraham, promising him a clearly defined land, everlasting nationhood, and descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky or the sand of the seashore.
This covenant wasn't just for Abraham's sake, but for the sake of all the nations and a key element of the covenant was that Abraham's descendants would be a blessing and a light to the rest of the human race. Sounds like a great idea ! Only one problem - there is another powerful spirit being out there who doesn't want YHVH's plan to succeed. From the time of Adam & Eve, 6000 years ago, he has been reigning over the Earth and all who dwell upon it, in rebellion against God, deceiving mankind into the same rebellion against God, and attempting to set up his own kingdom, instead of serving the Kingdom of YHVH .
We read in Rev 12:7 that war broke out in Heaven, resulting in Satan & the other rebellious angels being cast down to the earth, bringing the war with them. Ever since the day that Cain killed his brother Abel, we human beings have been killing each other by the millions, and it continues even into the enlightened 20th and 21st centuries. We are all merely pawns in a spiritual war being waged in the Heavenlies. As the scale of death and destruction testifies to, this war is a very serious matter indeed. It is not about the here and now, but it is about eternity. It is about which kingdom will prevail and who will sit upon the Throne in Heaven and upon the Throne in the Temple in Jerusalem .
To direct out focus back to this week's title - Why is Israel always under attack ? - the answer is so simple. So simple that most people can' see it ! Since the beginning of time, YHVH chose to establish and maintain His Kingdom in the city of Jerusalem , the undivided capital of His nation of Israel . Contrary to the large number of Christians who are deceived by Replacement Theology to believe that the Kingdom of God is just a spiritual kingdom, the truth is that YHVH has resurrected the Dry Bones to the land of their forefathers as a preparation to restore His Kingdom on the Earth. Yeshua will soon return to the physical city of Jerusalem to sit upon the Throne of David in the precise location that the Spirit of God dwelt in the Ark of the Covenant in the Holy of Holies.
Satan well knows the ultimate destiny of Israel , and he knows that the continuing restoration of Israel spells his end. That is why he has waged a war against Israel and the Jewish people throughout the last 6000 years. That is why Israel has always been under attack and will continue to be under attack until the day that Yeshua comes to destroy the enemies of God. Israel , specifically Jerusalem will become the capital of God's Kingdom, and will be the capital city of the whole world.
Whether the Muslim world, the UN, the US State Department, the EU or many church leaders understand or believe that fact, it will happen! Our part as Believers is to first of all BELIEVE, and then to play our part in hastening the day of the Lord's return (2 Pet 3:12), by standing up for Israel's right to exist in all of the Promised Land, and to pray for the real peace of Jerusalem - the return of the Messiah - Yeshua. MARANATHA !
The Lord bless you as you bless Israel by standing in defense of her right to exist on the land given to the Jewish people by the God of Israel . Lets pray that Israel will turn back to their God. Do not be silent, but share this with your fellow Christians, share it with your pastors, and with anyone you have a chance to speak to. Lets also pray for that breakthrough to the Muslims, and please remember to pray for our son Jordan, and all of his fellow soldiers in the IDF.
Please make your voice heard by signing the petition to save Jerusalem www.savejerusalem.org
Shabbat Shalom ... David & Josie
A MESSAGE OF HOPE FROM DR. JACK VAN IMPE
What about nuclear war? The Bible says the
elements shall melt with fervent heat.
Would this refer to nuclear devastation?
Let's look at what the Bible says about this kind of firepower-and when such annihilation might occur. We read in 2 Peter 3:10 a clear description of the last days: But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. God does not need man's modern inventions to produce the mass devastation mentioned in this text. Atoms have been here since God created heaven and earth (Genesis 1:1). Only in our day has science learned to harness what has always existed. God could have brought the components together at any time to produce the effects predicted in this prophecy. This text pictures the renovation of the world. Since God's Word promises a final day of rest, there can be no complete renovation of the earth until Christ has reigned for one thousand years. Therefore, this text refers to events to be fulfilled after the Millennium-the thousand-year reign of Christ. However, scores of other texts predict nuclear war for the Tribulation Hour.
Here's the startling truth portrayed in this portion of scripture: Humanity today has the potential to carry out that which prophecy has long predicted for the human race. Because science has harnessed this power, and because God's predictions for the Tribulation Hour promise massive fiery devastation, the hour is most certainly at hand. God is able to carry out everything mentioned in Revelation 8:7 and 9:18. He, the omnipotent One, needs no assistance from the world's Atomic Energy Commissions or the Pentagon. These verses indicate that humans will use atoms during the Tribulation period and at the end of the Millennium. Modem science tells us there are three primary effects of an A- or H-bomb blast. First, there is the tremendous mushrooming effect as it ascends into the heavens upon detonation. Second, as the blast begins its descent, it disintegrates, dissolves, and melts even steel. In fact, a five-hundred-foot steel tower melted into nothingness in the desert of New Mexico during past experiments. Finally, the heat made the same desert a blazing inferno.
Now, observe the statement Peter made under the direction of the Holy Spirit nineteen centuries ago. First, the heavens shall pass away with a great noise. Second, the elements shall melt with fervent heat. God said that the elements would melt. Go to any library and make a study of atomic weaponry. The materials will be classified under the letter E under the term elements-the very word God used. Think of it! Twentieth-century scientists continue to use the same language God employed nineteen hundred years ago. Finally, Peter states, The earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up (2 Peter 3:10). The three major effects of nuclear detonations are identical to Peter's prophecies and the catastrophic bombardments of earth predicted for the coming Tribulation Hour. In numerous other scriptural texts, undoubtedly, World War HI will be one of incineration. Revelation 9:18 states, By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone. I have stood in Japan, near Hiroshima, and remembered with sadness the reports of mayhem and destruction that emanated from the two Japanese cities struck by the atomic bomb during World War II. My mind was troubled. Then I thought about the Tribulation Hour. Zechariah 14:12 pictures an atomic devastation beyond comprehension. The prophet said, 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. This is the precise effect of humankind's newest weapon-the neutron bomb that destroys people but not property! All of this could take place in the near future. Then, after the millennial reign of Christ, the final atomic renovation of 2 Peter 3:10 will occur.
While believers will not endure the horror of the Tribulation, we must know the times so as to be faithful witnesses. That is why we must study and take the time to understand the prophecies in this startling chapter. They are vivid reminders that the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ is near. At a time when the world mocks His return, reveling in its atomic weaponry and false sense of security, and during an era when the sixth day is about to expire, Christ could return momentarily. The clock is ticking away its last fateful seconds. Little time remains. If you do not have a relationship with Jesus Christ and have not accepted Him as your Savior and Lord, you, too, will be left behind with those who refuse to believe. All laughter will end when the fire begins to fall (Genesis 19:14, 24, 25; Luke 17:28-30). It will then be eternally too late. Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation (2 Corinthians 6:2).
In Conclusion ...
I have an important question for you.
In Matthew 24:3, Christ's disciples asked, What shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world [literally, age]? The Savior proceeded to provide a list of cataclysmic world events, which would both usher in His return and culminate in the Day of the Lord. He added in Luke 21:28, And when these things begin to come to pass [or begin to occur simultaneously], then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh. Concerning this great day, the apostle Paul writes in 1 Thessalonians 5:1-3, But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them.
Never in the pages of world history have we witnessed such a proliferation of the signs Jesus predicted would be in place immediately before His return. No longer are the days of simultaneous war, famine, pestilence, earthquakes, and cultic activity limited to the pages of the Bible. All we need to do today is glance at the morning headlines or listen for five minutes to CNN (or watch the tawdry afternoon television peep shows) to realize that these signs of Christ's return are in evidence worldwide and increasing both in frequency and intensity. Is it any wonder that the scientists who control the famed doomsday clock are moving its hands ever closer to midnight?
Prophecy: History Written in Advance
The questions I have tried my best to answer in the preceding newsletters have dealt with the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the stream of end-time events that will usher in the Tribulation-a period of unparalleled terror. I remind you, Christians will not be a part of this horrendous time (Revelation 3:10). In answer to your many questions, I have endeavored to deal with most of the major New Testament prophecies that relate to the return of our Lord in the light of current international events. Remember that prophecy is simply history written in advance. It is God's declaration and description of future events. As such, prophecy cannot, has not, and will never fail in even the smallest detail until all has been fulfilled. The day of that ultimate fulfillment is upon us. My personal prayer is that, upon completing this book, you will renew your vow of love, service, and allegiance to the Savior. If you do not yet know the Lord of lords and King of kings, it is my earnest prayer that you will open your heart and your life to Jesus today. Do not be left behind. Do not say, I wish I had taken the words of prophecy more seriously.
Will it be easy for us in the years before the Tribulation? I think not. We will still be compelled to deal with runaway crime, abortions, drug abuse, plagues, pestilence, AIDS, wars, and rumors of wars, and an unprecedented hostility toward the gospel. The question is, Will you be strong in your love for Christ, or will you sell your birthright for a few thrills during the challenging times that are sure to lie ahead? Will you be an end-time hero for the faith? Alternatively, will you be found wanting? The apostle John, thrown into a cauldron of boiling oil, survived the painful ordeal but was disfigured for life and banned to the isle of Patmos. The beloved apostle Paul was beheaded. Two of the New Testament writers, Jude and Peter, were crucified. Another Gospel writer, James, was battered to death with a fuller's club.
Now let us look at the larger picture: Soon the great hour will have arrived, and all God's children will be present as the investigation begins. What will you say as you stand with such an array of heroes-believers who gave their all and who proved their first love for Christ during an entire lifetime and even unto death? Only you know the answer. Christ's return may be tomorrow, next week, next month, or next year. We do not know the day or the hour when Jesus will break through the blue to call us home. However, we do know that it is near, even at the doors. Therefore, my closing questions to you are: Are you ready for Christ's imminent return? Could you bear the investigative judgment if it were to take place tomorrow? Would you be ashamed, embarrassed, red-faced, even brokenhearted? Would tears of sorrow flow from your eyes for an entire millennial age? Is your present disobedience worth such heartache? Would you not rather serve God with all your heart and hear Him say with a loud voice: Well done, thou good and faithful servant (Matthew 25:21)? It is not too late to make a change, to reverse your lifestyle, and put Christ first in your life. If you do not know the Savior, I urge you to obey John 1:12 and Romans 10:13. If you are away from the Lord, I plead with you to act upon 1 John 1:9, If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Do it. Make the right decision. Then live the remainder of your days for Him, short as those days might be. It will be worth it all when we see Jesus. Maranatha! The King is coming!
Sunday, March 16, 2008
NORTH AMERICAN UNION - EU LINKS
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.
Freak Wave Wipes Out Cars, Pedestrians
3/14/2008 4:49:51 PM
http://video.nbc5i.com/player/?id=229136 (FREAK WAVE - VIDEO)
Cyclone Jokwe calms to a tropical depression Fri Mar 14, 7:06 AM
VILANKULO, Mozambique (AFP) - Cyclone Jokwe, which has wreaked havoc in Mozambique, was downgraded Friday to a tropical depression, allaying fears of a damaging hit to the tourism town of Vilankulo.However the cyclone, now heading towards Madagascar, still had Mozambique's coastal regions on yellow alert in case it regained momentum, said Joao Ribeiro, national disaster management institute deputy director.I think the cyclone's pressure has decreased due to a cold front on the Mozambican Channel, Ribeiro said.We are waiting for official information from the national meteorological services department in order to reclassify the cyclone properly, he told AFP.He warned the pressure on the cyclone could build up and return to affect coastal parts of Mozambique.
Weather experts were predicting Jokwe would hit Mozambique's southern coastal areas on Friday after it changed course on Thursday and returned to central part of the Mozambican channel. This prompted fears among residents of Vilankulo, the country's main tourist spot, of a repeat of the extensive damage caused by cyclone Favio in 2007.Cyclone Jokwe has resulted in the deaths of at least 17 people and displaced thousands more since it hit the southern African country last Saturday.
Snow, ice building up on roofs may pose problem
Fri Mar 14, 5:18 AM
TORONTO (CBC) - Toronto homeowners and business are being advised to check and remove any heavy snow from their roofs before it's too late. Steve Meltz, a roofer, said he's been busy all winter dealing with collapsed roofs, caved-in ceilings and indoor leaks.He said there is an easy way to tell if a roof is bearing too much weight.
Normally engineers, what they will do is they will build into the design when the roof gets too much weight something that will show telltale signs inside the house, and that's usually cracks in your ceiling, he said.So as soon as you see that, you know you have too much weight load on your roof.Homeowner Janine Thaler said getting rid of the snow and reinforcing her flat roof was the smartest thing she could have done, especially after the tragic roof collapse earlier this week in Quebec in which three women died.
We were so lucky
Just the other day, I told my husband we were so lucky, we called the right person and they came and fixed the problem, she said.With the snow we had on Saturday, it builds up to many, many, many feet, particularly if it's windy, because it drifts, said Mike Crellin, another Toronto roofer.Every hundred square feet [of] snow, just two feet deep, weighs half a tonne. If you have a couple inches of ice in addition, it's another half tonne, he said.Meltz said he's never been as busy as he is this winter.He just finished a big repair job, fixing the roof of a large grocery store. The company noticed signs of stress and realized there was too much snow the roof.He recommends anyone seeing signs of heavy snow to have their roof checked.
Warnings for spring flooding issued in N.B.
Thu Mar 13, 6:36 AM
NEW.BRUNSWICK (CBC) - New Brunswick's Emergency Measures Organization is warning that the winter's heavy snowfalls will likely lead to hazardous flooding conditions this spring.Officials are concerned about ice jams that will come when the Saint John River begins to break up in coming weeks, said Andy Morton, deputy director of public safety.But the real problems for the province may be later in the spring when the snow's meltwater ends up in the river system, Morton said.Once the ice is out of the system, there's usually a bit of a lull and then we'll see the impact from the snow melt, he said. That's when we'll see what we call the open water season where open water flooding will occur.Morton said there is concern about that period of time as the flood waters will have the potential of covering a large area.In 1998, there was widespread flooding from St. George to Sussex Corner in the province's south.There are more than 134 centimetres of snow on the ground in the province's northwest. It is the most snow in the region's recorded weather history.The province can still expect to get about 20 centimetres more in snowfall accumulation before the winter weather is over, said Claude C?t?, a meteorologist with Environment Canada.We're not going to get much melting of the snow pack we have right now until early to mid-April, C?t? said.
FAMINE
REVELATION 6:5-6
5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.(A DAYS WAGES FOR A LOAF OF BREAD)
High wheat prices raise grocery costs By BETSY BLANEY, Associated Press Writer MAR 14,08
LUBBOCK, Texas - If you think the cost of gassing up your car is outrageous, wait until you need to restock your pantry. The price of wheat has more than tripled during the past 10 months, making Americans' daily bread — and bagels and pizza and pasta — feel a little like luxury items. And baked goods aren't the only ones getting more expensive: Experts expect some 80 percent of grocery prices will spike, too, because wheat and other grains are used to feed cattle, poultry and dairy cows.It's going to affect everything ... impact on every section of the grocery store, said Michael Bittel, senior vice president of King Arthur Flour Co. in Norwich, Vt.Consumers such as Maria Cardena feel trapped by the prices. She said the bread she buys has jumped from 69 cents a loaf to $1.09 in recent weeks.You have to buy it, said the 29-year-old mother from Lubbock, Texas. You can't go without it. Everything has gone up.The wheat market has been pushed higher by a combination of agricultural, financial and energy issues.Poor wheat harvests in Australia and parts of Europe and the U.S. have caused China and other Asian countries to buy up more American crops, which are especially attractive because of the weak U.S. dollar.
At the same time, the American crop is shrinking because of federal incentives to grow corn for ethanol. And skyrocketing gas prices make it costlier to get any wheat to market. Those same pressures have also made it more expensive to supply feed grains for livestock.At Bob's Red Mill flour company, wheat flour has typically been subject to retail price adjustments every five years. Now those increases are happening almost monthly.You look at the price and you say, Oh, my gosh,said Dennis Gilliam, executive vice president of sales and marketing for the company in Milwaukie, Ore. It keeps climbing every day.Wheat historically trades at $3 to $7 a bushel.But this week, futures of spring wheat — which produces the flour used in hearth breads, rolls, croissants, bagels and pizza crust — were close to $18 a bushel on the Minneapolis Grain Exchange. They climbed as high as $24 in late February.
Consumers pay an additional penny on wheat products for each dollar the price-per-bushel increases. It's a huge impact, said Steve Mercer, spokesman for U.S. Wheat Associates, an industry group. White bread cost an average of 85 cents a pound in 1998 and $1.03 in February 2006. The price rose to $1.32 a pound last month, according to federal data.And that's on top of overall food price increases of 4 percent last year and an additional 3.5 to 4.5 percent expected this year, according to federal data. Most years see 2.5 percent increases.During the past few months, the price of cereals and baked goods has risen nearly 6 percent over the same time last year, federal officials reported.Consumers can try to minimize costs by buying fewer wheat products, but the nation's bakers, pizzerias and other flour-dependent industries don't have that luxury.Panera Bread Company is paying more than double what it paid for wheat in 2007 — an additional $26.5 million this year, according to its latest earnings report. At Kraft Foods Inc., producer of Ritz crackers and Chips Ahoy cookies, the cost of commodities including wheat were up 9 percent last year, or about $1.3 billion. Spokeswoman Lisa Gibbons called that unprecedented and said the company doesn't expect prices to ease anytime soon.
The company has offset most of those costs by finding savings elsewhere, such as switching its Miracle Whip sandwich spread from glass to cheaper plastic bottles. At the online baked goods retailer 1-800-Bakery.com, the price of wheat has meant a hiring freeze and curbing low-profit products. So far, those measures have been enough to avoid price increases. But Stephen Pazyra, the company's chief executive, said prices will go up unless there is relief soon. Sometimes the only option is to bake less. Four months ago, Tony's Old Fashioned Bakery in Midland, Texas, was paying $7.50 for a 25-pound bag of flour. This week the cost was $23 a bag — for a company that uses 25 to 30 bags a week. To stretch their dollar and flour, Carmina Aguilar said her family's bakery is making fewer pastries for display and stopped taking many last-minute orders. Meanwhile, some consumers are taking the opposite path — baking more. King Arthur's Bittel said that while store-bought bread is running between $3 and $5, a home baked loaf will cost about 60 cents. That's up from 40 cents from a year ago, but Bittel said his company nevertheless has seen growing sales of bread-making machines. Some experts said wheat prices may be close to topping out. But whether prices come down, and when, is a guessing game.
Global wheat stocks have hit a 30-year low following seven of eight years in which world consumption exceeded production. Federal projections show America's supplies at their lowest levels since the late 1940s. Earlier this week, representatives of the U.S. baking industry went to Washington to ask the Bush administration and Congress to address the record wheat prices. Lee Sanders, senior vice president of the American Bakers Association, said her group isn't asking for a wheat export moratorium, which countries such as Ukraine, Russia and Argentina have enacted. But the industry does want export policies reviewed to ensure domestic bakers have enough affordable flour.
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).
PREMEDITATED MERGER Inside the hush-hush North American Union confab State Department talks open borders, EU links March 13, 2008 1:00 am Eastern By Jerome R. Corsi 2008 WorldNetDaily
U.S. State Department
WASHINGTON -- A largely unreported meeting held at the State Department discussed integration of the U.S., Mexico and Canada in concert with a move toward a transatlantic union, linking a North American community with the European Union.The meeting was held Monday under the auspices of the Advisory Committee onInternational Economic Policy, or ACIEP. WND obtained press credentials and attended as an observer. The meeting was held under Chatham House rules that prohibit reporters from attributing specific comments to individual participants.The State Department website noted the meeting was opened by Assistant Secretary of State for Economic, Energy and Business Affairs Daniel S. Sullivan and ACIEP Chairman Michael Gadbaw, vice president and senior counsel for General Electric's International Law & Policy group since December 1990.
WND observed about 25 ACIEP members, including U.S. corporations involved in international trade, prominent U.S. business trade groups, law firms involved with international business law, international investment firms and other international trade consultants.
No members of Congress attended the meeting.
The agenda for the ACIEP meeting was not published, and State Department officials in attendance could not give WND permission under Chatham House rules to publish the agenda.The meeting agenda included topics reviewing the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, or SPP, and the U.S.-EU Transatlantic Economic Council, or TEC.The SPP, declared by the U.S., Canada and Mexico at a summit meeting in 2005, has 20 trilateral bureaucratic working groups that seek to integrate and harmonize administrative rules and regulations on a continental basis.Several participants said the premise of the SPP is to create a North American business platform to benefit North America-based multi-national companies the way the European Union benefits its own.Others noted the premise of the TEC is to create a convergence of administrative rules and regulations between Europe and North America, anticipating the creation of a Transatlantic Economic Union between the European Union and North America.Participants pointed out that transatlantic trade is currently 40 percent of all world trade. They argue that trade and non-trade barriers need to be further reduced to maintain that market share as a framework is put in place to advance transatlantic economic integration.Still, some participants argued that many corporations in North America already have moved beyond a North American focus to adopt a global perspective that transcends even the Transatlantic market.
Supply chains and markets are everywhere, one participant asserted. What's to stop global corporations from going after the cheapest labor available globally, wherever they can find it, provided the cost of transporting goods globally can be managed economically?
Other participants argued regional alliances were still important, if only to put in place the institutional bases that ultimately would lead to global governance on uniform global administrative regulations favorable to multi-national corporations.North America should be a premiere platform to establish continental institutions, a participant said. That's why we need to move the security perimeters to include the whole continent, especially as we open the borders between North American countries for expanding free trade.One presentation on the agenda identified four reasons why administrative rules and regulations need to be integrated by SPP in North America and by the Transatlantic Economic Council, bridging together European Union and North American markets:
Standardization – to keep prices low and productivity high;
Investment – for every $1 traded, $4 is invested; right now 75 percent of investment in the U.S. comes from the EU, and 52 percent of the investment in the EU comes from the U.S.; Productivity Improvements – to lower production costs and stimulate trade; and
Open Borders – to facilitate the free movement of labor to markets where employment opportunities are available. The discussion pointed out the SPP trilateral working groups and the Transatlantic Economic Council were being supported by top-level Cabinet officers and the heads of state in both the EU and in North America.
Progress in EU-U.S. regulatory integration was noted in financial market coordination, investment rule cohesion, trade security measures and efforts undertaken recently to preserve intellectual property rights.Before the meeting began, concerns were raised informally by participants worried that the Ohio Democratic Party primary had prompted both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to talk of renegotiating NAFTA.Participants at the State Department meeting pointed out U.S. political candidates could be expected to argue protectionist themes opposed to global economic integration as a tactic, without necessarily being committed to taking aggressive steps once in office.The political dialogue misses the point of economic reality, one participant argued. There is a J-curve correlation between when a currency like the U.S. dollar depreciates and when exports kick in to increase. We should accelerate the J-curve and our discussion about it, to help the local politics catch up with the international reality.Part of the discussion was devoted to concerns that national regulators in North America and Europe were too reluctant to abandon provincial regulatory advantages.Regulators by nature are advocates, and they are hard to move, one participant grumbled. What we need is more diplomats and negotiators to identify solutions, otherwise the bureaucrats will bog down the progress we need to see coming out of the SPP and TEC.North America is already an integrated continental economy and a continental-wide business platform, another said. What we need now is more regulatory convergence. Harmonized should mean that once approved, the same set of administrative regulations and procedures ought to be ready throughout NAFTA, SPP and the TEC.
As WND previously reported, the Transatlantic Economic Council, or TEC, was created by President Bush at an April 30 summit meeting at the White House with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the current president of the European Council, and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso.WND also reported the Transatlantic Policy Network, a non-governmental organization headquartered in Washington and Brussels and advised by a bi-partisan congressional policy group chaired by Sen. Robert Bennett, R-Utah, has called for the creation of a Transatlantic Common Market between the U.S. and the European Union by 2015.A complete membership list of the current 60-person Advisory Committee on International Policy is published on the State Department website.ACIEP members include corporate officers from General Electric, Exxon Mobil, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Archer Daniels Midland, United Parcel Service, Citibank, Proctor & Gamble, Hunt Oil, CMS Energy, Boeing, 3M, Goldman Sachs and Cargill.The most recent Summary of Discussions published on the Department of State website was for the Dec. 18 ACIEP meeting.A published article on the State Department website includes photographs of the Dec. 18 ACIEP meeting, listing by name several participants who were photographed in attendance.
HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
Dollar demise: 111 per barrel of oil and 1,000 per ounce of gold 14.03.2008 Source: Pravda.Ru
The euro reached another high in London – 1.5624 per dollar. The demise of the dollar accelerated after Carlyle Capital Corp. said that it defaulted on $16.6 billion of its debts. The fear of new losses from the mortgage crisis and the declining dollar rate led to the collapse of stock markets. The cost of gold reached the level of $1,000 per ounce for the first time in history. Crude oil prices set another record too: West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude for April delivery was up to $110 and then $100 dollars per barrel.
Japan’s Nikkei index dropped by 3.3 percent on March 13, Britain’s FTSE 100 – by 1.5 percent, Europe’s DJ Stoxx – by 1.3 percent, Russia’s RTS – by 1 percent. According to The Wall Street Journal, many chief financial officers of US companies believe that the recession in the US economy has already started. They say that the economic situation in the United States will not improve in 2008. A survey conducted by Duke University showed that more and more finance chiefs tend to become pessimistic about the US economy. The survey also revealed that the current recession in the USA would be more serious than the previous two recessions, each of which lasted eight months. Michael Woolfolk, senior currency strategist at the Bank of New York, said he expects the dollar to keep dropping ahead of the Federal Reserve's meeting next week. Speculation has been growing that the Fed might cut rates by as much as three-quarters of a percentage point. Other currencies have rallied too far, too fast, Woolfolk said. The Fed has turned a blind eye to inflation, and as the expectations fall for the U.S. economy and global equities, we will continue to see that undermine the dollar.The yen's strength is bad news for Japan's economy, which has been showing signs of weakening, because it makes exporters' products more expensive abroad and erodes the value of their overseas earnings, the AP reports. Japanese leaders quickly cautioned against instability in currency markets, but made no mention of any intervention to stem the dollar's slide. Prepared by Dmitry Sudakov
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Stocks retreat on credit fears By TIM PARADIS, AP Business Writer MAR 14,08
NEW YORK - Wall Street plunged anew Friday after a near meltdown at Bear Stearns Cos. handed investors the unwelcome confirmation that the credit market's troubles are far from over. Word that the investment bank needed rescuing touched off a wave of selling that left each of the major indexes down more than 1.5 percent on the day; the Dow Jones industrial average fell nearly 200 points. The plan by the New York Federal Reserve and JPMorgan Chase & Co. offers Bear Stearns relief from a sudden liquidity crunch that analysts surmised could have felled the investment bank. But the company's position on the precipice of financial disaster left many investors shaken and spoiled some hopes that troubles in the moribund credit market are on the mend.Stocks showed moderate increases in the early going after a Labor Department report showed the Consumer Price Index remained flat for February. Wall Street has been expecting inflation would show an increase. But the gains quickly disappeared after investors learned about the severity of troubles at Bear Stearns.
This is another chapter in a book rather than a one-act play, said Phil Orlando, chief equity market strategist at Federated Investors. He said the market is worried that further trouble in the credit markets will emerge and that the ramifications of the credit strains and a slowing economy could result in recession.
Investors thought they are probably more than norm than the exception and maybe this is the tip of the iceberg, he said, referring to Bear Stearns. Our sense is that this is sort of an amoeba here and this is sort of a broadly spreading situation.The Dow fell 194.65, or 1.60 percent, to 11,951.09. The Dow had been down as much as 313 points.Broader stock indicators also declined but pulled off their lows. The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 27.34, or 2.08 percent, to 1,288.14, and the Nasdaq composite index fell 51.12, or 2.26 percent, to 2,212.49.
For the week, the major indexes were mixed, with the Dow showing a modest gain, the Standard & Poor's 500 index slipping and the Nasdaq composite index showing no change, finishing exactly where it began.The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies fell 16.81, or 2.47 percent, to 662.90.Bond prices jumped as stocks retreated. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note, which moves opposite its price, fell to 3.42 percent from 3.53 percent late Thursday.
Elisa Parisi, economic analyst at RGE Monitor.com, contends the bond market has recently shown more concern about the economy.The stock market is increasingly catching up with signals from the bond market. Somehow the stock market could delude itself into thinking that they have nothing to do with the mortgage fallout, she said.
Comments from the Fed might have helped corral some of investors' nervousness Friday. The central bank said it voted unanimously to sign off on the arrangement between JPMorgan and Bear Stearns and that it is ready to provide further resources to stave off further credit troubles. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke also said Friday he would do what was possible to aid struggling homeowners.Still, investors remained nervous. The Chicago Board Options Exchange's volatility index, known as the VIX, and often referred to as the fear index, jumped 18.7 percent.Declining issues outnumbered advancers by about 5 to 1 on the New York Stock Exchange, where volume came to 1.86 billion shares compared with 1.84 billion shares traded Thursday.The Bear Stearns news reversed the early positive sentiment from the inflation data, said Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at Avalon Partners. There had been nervousness about Bear Stearns for some time and now the market's concerns about the company have been proven true.Friday's stock market pullback comes a day after an anxious stock market rebounded from an early plunge following a Standard & Poor's prediction that financial companies are nearing the end of the massive asset write-downs that have pummeled the stock and credit markets for months. The S&P projection had given investors some hope that the seemingly unrelenting losses from the mortgage and credit crisis could have been bottoming out.Bear Stearns woes rekindled investors' nervousness about the troubles in the financial sector. The company's shares skidded $27, or 47 percent, to $30, while JP Morgan fell $1.57, or 4.1 percent, to $36.54. Other financial names declined as well. Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. fell $6.73, or 15 percent, to $39.26 and Merrill Lynch & Co. slid $2.75, or 5.9 percent, to $43.51. Stock market investors Friday were also eyeing the dwindling dollar and events in the soaring commodities market. Gold prices touched another fresh record Friday. Light, sweet crude, which set a fresh record Thursday, fell 12 cents to $110.21 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Oil came close to its record of $111 set Thursday. The market's fall Friday caps a big week for the markets. On Monday, stocks continued a sell-off from last week, falling more than 1 percent as oil again moved into record territory. Then, on Tuesday, stocks surged after the Fed said it would put up $200 billion to loosen tight credit markets. The Dow surged nearly 417 points, its biggest one-day percentage gain in five years. Stocks posted more modest losses and gains Wednesday and Thursday as investors speculated over how much help the Fed's plan would ultimately provide. On top of Friday's concerns, Wall Street remains anxious for Tuesday's Fed meeting at which the central bank is still expected to lower interest rates. While Wall Street would welcome cheaper access to cash to help consumers and businesses, the freer flow of money could would likely fan inflation concerns and could further weaken the dollar.
The rate reductions make the dollar less attractive to investors than, for example, the higher-yield euro. On Thursday new consumer price data from the euro zone left many observers saying the European Central Bank will not soon reduce rates. Overseas, Japan's Nikkei stock average finished down 1.54 percent. Britain's FTSE 100 closed down 1.07 percent, Germany's DAX index fell 0.75 percent, and France's CAC-40 lost 0.82 percent. On the Net: New York Stock Exchange: http://www.nyse.com Nasdaq Stock Market: http://www.nasdaq.com
WE WILL SOON SEE IF OBAMA IS FOR ISRAEL OR NOT WHEN HE GETS IN POWER.
Obama tries to allay Jewish concerns By PHILIP ELLIOTT, Associated Press Writer Fri Mar 14, 7:57 AM ET
CLEVELAND - Barack Obama has a solid Senate record in support of Israel. He sings the praises, too, of Jewish civil rights workers who fought for blacks' rights in the U.S. And he says he wants to patch up a historically powerful bond between the African-American and Jewish communities.Yet there is unease among some Jewish voters about the Illinois senator and Democratic presidential contender.
Why?
Part of it is a division between blacks and Jews that's been growing for years, a split that Obama has challenged fellow blacks to confront.Another element is the praise Obama has received from Black Muslim leader Louis Farrakhan, whose disparaging comments about Judaism are toxic to many voters. Obama's own pastor has a history of supporting Palestinian causes.And there are questions about Obama advisers who some U.S. Jews see as less than ardent advocates of Israel.Finally, there are rumors and outright lies about the candidate that have gained an audience through repetition in e-mails and on Web sites.Obama is working hard to win over this vocal, powerful and reliably Democratic voting bloc.Jews have accounted for about 4 percent of Democratic primary voters so far this year, and Clinton has held a 52-46 percent edge over Obama among them, according to exit polls.
On the day of the Mississippi primary this week, Obama took time to call Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni to express condolences over the deadly terrorist attack on a rabbinical seminary in Jerusalem. He also reaffirmed his support for Israel's right to defend itself and for its commitment to negotiations with Palestinians and underscored the need to stop Iran from supporting terrorism or getting nuclear weapons.The effort by the candidate and his advisers to calm disquiet among Jewish voters began more than a year ago.The Jewish community cannot be taken for granted, said Rep. Robert Wexler of Florida, one of Obama's chief surrogates before Jewish audiences. Wexler sent an e-mail last March to supporters urging them not to be swayed by rumors, a message he repeated during a recent forum in Cleveland.Obama used a speech in January at Martin Luther King Jr.'s church in Atlanta to chastise blacks for latent anti-Semitism. And during a recent debate, Obama alluded to James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, one black and two Jewish civil rights workers murdered in Mississippi in 1964 as they worked together on a campaign to register black voters.You know, I would not be sitting here were it not for a whole host of Jewish-Americans who supported the civil rights movement and helped to ensure that justice was served in the South, Obama said. And that coalition has frayed over time around a whole host of issues, and part of my task in this process is making sure that those lines of communication and understanding are reopened.
Still, there remains some nervousness over Senator Obama among Jewish voters, said Rabbi Joshua Skoff, who attended a private meeting with Obama in Cleveland last month. The rumors still have some legs.At the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, President Howard Friedman said Obama's Senate record on Israel has given his critics no reason to doubt him.But that record is thin. Just a little over three years ago, Obama was a state legislator in Illinois. Right now, Obama's big problem with the Jewish community is similar to his problem with other communities: He's just not clearly defined among any voter groups, said Kenneth Wald, director of Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Florida-Gainesville. The fact he has a name that sounds Muslim and has a Muslim father underlines questions about what we do and what we do not know about him.Some critics on the Internet have gone far beyond raising questions. Contrary to some e-mails, Obama is a Christian, not a Muslim. He took his oath of office on the family Bible, not a Quran. There has been a concerted effort, largely out of the conservative Web sites and anonymous e-mails, says Ira Forman, executive director of the National Jewish Democratic Council, which set up a Stop The Smears Web site to correct the rumors. I don't think it moves tons and tons of votes, but at the fringes, if left unchecked, it could move a few, he said.
In the private meeting in Cleveland with 100 Jewish leaders last month, Obama talked about his 2005 trip to Israel, his views on a Palestinian state and regional Middle East security. He was quickly questioned about his own pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and an award his church magazine gave last year that said Farrakhan truly epitomized greatness.Farrakhan is intolerable to Jewish voters because of a history of anti-Semitic remarks, like calling Judaism a gutter religion.Obama, who has rejected support from Farrakhan, assured voters his Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago does not endorse such messages. I have never heard an anti-Semitic (remark) made inside of our church. I have never heard anything that would suggest anti-Semitism on the part of the pastor, Obama said in a transcript of his remarks released later. He (Wright) is like an old uncle who sometimes will say things that I don't agree with. And I suspect there are some of the people in this room who have heard relatives say some things that they don't agree with — including, on occasion, directed at African-Americans.Obama took the title of his 2006 book The Audacity of Hope from a Wright sermon. But last year, he asked Wright not to offer a prayer at his campaign's kickoff in Springfield, Ill. The questioners in Cleveland also raised Obama's use of foreign policy advisers the doubters say are foes of Israel, including former President Carter's national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. Obama replied that Brzezinski is an informal, not a key, adviser, and I do not share his views with respect to Israel.He said he has other foreign policy advisers from the Clinton administration who share his belief that Israel has to remain a Jewish state with special ties to the U.S. and that the Palestinians have been irresponsible. And he said critics' e-mails never mention Lester Crown, a member of his national finance committee who is considered about as hawkish and tough when it comes to Israel as anybody in the country.
This is where I get to be honest, and I hope I'm not out of school here, Obama told Jewish leaders at the private meeting. I think there is a strain within the pro-Israel community that says unless you adopt an unwavering, pro-Likud approach to Israel that you're anti-Israel, and that can't be the measure of our friendship with Israel.On the Net: National Jewish Democratic Council:
http://njdc.typepad.com/stopthesmears/
AMERICA (POLITICAL BABYLON)
EZEKIEL 39:21
21 And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.
ISAIAH 18:1-2
1 Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:
2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!
JEREMIAH 50:11,37,12
11 Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;(BACKSLIDERS)
37 A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.(A NATION OF MINGLED PEOPLE)
12 Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed:(MOTHER ENGLAND) behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
JEREMIAH 51:13,7,53
13 O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.
7 Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD's hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.
53 Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD.
REVELATION 18:3,5,7
3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
7 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
JEREMIAH 50:3,24
3 For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.
24 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD. (RUSSIA A SNEAK ATTACK)
REVELATION 18:10
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
USA to deploy another radar system in Turkey in addition to Poland and Czech Republic 13.03.2008 Source: Pravda.Ru
The US administration has been conducting secret talks on the deployment of a mobile radar of its missile defense system in another European country – Turkey. The USA may start official negotiations on the matter during the NATO summit. For the time being it is known that US Defense Secretary Robert Gates touched upon the issue during his recent visit to Turkey. The new plans of the US administration may seriously aggravate its relations with Moscow. USA to deploy another radar system in Turkey in addition to Poland and Czech Republic.
The fact of USA’s negotiations with Turkey has been officially confirmed only on March 13, 2008. Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell told reporters of Gates’s recent visit to Ankara, the capital of Turkey. US and Turkish officials discussed the military operation of the Turkish Army in Iraq. In addition, Morrell said, the parties discussed plans on the establishment of the missile defense system in Turkey. John Rood, acting Undersecretary of State, previously rejected the fact of the negotiations. Rood particularly stated in Washington that the USA was not planning any missile defense talks with any countries other than Poland and the Czech Republic. As it turns out, Robert Gates urged Turkey to cooperate in the creation of the third center of the missile defense system. The Pentagon head promised to render financial help to Turkey in terms of army modernization. According to Gates, investments in Turkey’s defense sector may reach one billion dollars. The US-based Missile Defense Agency intends to deploy a mobile radar system in Turkey, the Austrian newspaper Die Presse wrote. For the time being, the USA uses only one such radar, which is located in California. Apparently, the systems, which the USA intends to build in Poland and the Czech Republic, will not be able to protect all allies. Greece, Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey may suffer from a possible missile attack from Iran, US officials believe. The NATO summit is to discuss the problem at a meeting in Bucharest, in April. Translated by Dmitry Sudakov Pravda.ru
I DON'T KNOW WHY AMERICA WON'T KEEP ITS NOSE OUT OF ISRAELIS BUSINESS. THEY WILL PAY IN THE FUTURE.
US mediates first Mideast peace meeting By MATTI FRIEDMAN, Associated Press Writer MAR 14,08
JERUSALEM - The Bush administration's Mideast envoy pushed Israel and the Palestinians to speed up peace negotiations Friday at the first meeting the U.S. has attended since talks resumed nearly four months ago. Lt. Gen. William Fraser III took a hands-off approach during his first few months on the job, preferring to let moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert negotiate on their own.But the talks stalled after an upsurge in violence between the sides last month, and Fraser came from Washington to oversee the meeting at Jerusalem's King David Hotel between Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad and Amos Gilad, a lower-level Israeli Defense Ministry official.We examined areas where the parties are not meeting their commitments and the reasons why, and explored ways to accelerate the process, Fraser said in a statement released through the U.S. consulate.Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday that not enough has been done by the Israelis or the Palestinians to demonstrate their commitment to peace.I have not hidden the fact that I think that there is a lot of room for improvement on both sides concerning both their obligations, Rice said in Santiago, Chile, during a two-day visit to Latin America.Frankly, not nearly enough has happened to demonstrate that the Israelis and Palestinians Without following 'road map' obligations and without improvements on the ground, it's very hard to sustain this process.Neither the Israelis nor the Palestinians have fulfilled their obligations under the road map peace plan promoted by President Bush, who called a regional summit in Annapolis, Md. in November with the goal of seeing a deal struck by the time he leaves office.In the plan's first stage, the Palestinians were to dismantle armed groups. The Israelis were to freeze construction in West Bank settlements and remove some of the more than 100 unauthorized outposts set up by settlers since the 1990s.Israel recently announced several new building projects in east Jerusalem and the West Bank, areas the Palestinians want for their future state. The Israeli moves angered the Palestinians and were criticized by the U.S. and the international community.Israeli defense officials said they were concerned Fraser might reprimand Israel at Friday's meeting. Instead, his statement spoke of failings by both the Palestinians and Israelis.A statement from Fayyad's office said he was frustrated by Israel's failure to implement a settlement moratorium.
A freeze on settlement activity is crucial to preserving the possibility of a Palestinian state, the statement quoted him as saying. By freeze, I mean not one more brick.It went on to praise Fraser, saying he showed seriousness and commitment.Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said Israel's decision to send Gilad to deal with Fayyad rather than Defense Minister Ehud Barak himself showed a lack of respect.It would have been very appropriate for Barak to go. Maybe Barak couldn't go because he is busy planning more (settlement construction) and more incursions, Erekat said.
Israel's Defense Ministry released no official statement after the meeting, but Israel Radio quoted Barak aides as saying that his attendance never had been scheduled and there was no slight intended.Palestinian militants launched another four rockets from Gaza into Israel Friday, causing no injuries, the Israeli military said. Palestinians said an Israeli helicopter attacked a rocket launching site in northern Gaza, but caused no casualties. The military confirmed a strike but gave no details. During the strike the Israeli aircraft was hit by Palestinian gunfire, Hamas said. Israeli security officials said the chopper suffered only light damage and landed safely in Israel with its crew unharmed. AP writer Anne Flaherty reporting from Santiago, Chile, contributed to this article.
MUSLIM NATIONS
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
EZEKIEL 39:1-8
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
READ VERSE 38:6 WHOS IN WITH THE RUSSIA - MUSLIMS WHEN THEY MARCH BUT GERMANY..
Germany to host conference on help for Palestinians MAR 14,08
BERLIN (AFP) - Berlin will host an international conference on assistance to the Palestinian police and judiciary at the start of June, a German foreign ministry spokesman said Friday. According to a statement from the ministry, Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas has welcomed the idea of the conference, which will look at ways to help authorities in the Palestinian territories prepare themselves for statehood.German Chancellor Angela Merkel will open the conference to help establish the rule of law in the Palestinian territories. Foreign ministers from Europe, the United States and Russia and UN and Arab delegates are invited.Merkel is due to visit Israel on Sunday and on Friday she talked to Abbas by telephone. The Palestinian leader briefed her on the state of the peace process between his authority and the Israeli government, the ministry said.Abbas asked the chancellor to bring up with Israel the question of Jewish settlement building, which considerably complicates bilateral negotiations and the application of the road map,according to the statement.The so-called road map was drawn up by Israel and the Palestinians under the auspices of the Quartet -- the United States, United Nations, European Union and Russia -- as a guide towards a two-state solution to their crisis.
It forsees an end to Palestinian militant attacks on Israel and an end to Israeli raids and settlement building on Palestinian land, but has seen scant progress since it was drawn up in 2003 amid ongoing violence.The peace process was further complicated when the radical Islamist group Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip after fighting with Abbas' Fatah movement. Hamas and Israel do not recognise each other.Merkel in turn promised to brief Abbas on her return from the visit, which will be a first of its kind to involve several senior German ministers taking part in direct intergovernmental discussions, the statement continued.The chancellor will become the first German leader to address the Israeli parliament, the Knesset.
Islamic summit seeks dialogue with Christian world By Daniel Flynn and Lamine Ghanmi MAR 14,08
DAKAR (Reuters) - World Muslim leaders on Friday condemned extremism and terrorism as incompatible with Islam and proposed a high-level international meeting to promote a dialogue of civilizations with the Christian world. Leaders of the 57-nation Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), which represents 1.5 billion Muslims from across the Middle East, Africa and Asia, made the Dakar Declaration after a two-day summit in Senegal's capital.
We continue to strongly condemn all forms of extremism and dogmatism which are incompatible with Islam, a religion of moderation and peaceful coexistence, the declaration said.We believe that it is important to plan along such lines a preparatory phase by organizing a major international gathering on Islamic-Christian dialogue that involves governments among other players, it said.The Muslim body condemned acts of terrorism committed in the name of Islam, one of the biggest preoccupations of the international community since the September 11, 2001 attacks by al Qaeda in the United States.But, in an apparent reference to the Palestinian fight against Israel, it said terrorism should be differentiated from legitimate resistance against foreign occupation.As is customary at an Islamic summit, leaders of the OIC -- the second largest inter-governmental bloc after the United Nations -- had harsh words for Israel, condemning it for war crimes against Palestinian civilians.The conference denounces the current and increasing Israeli military campaign against the Palestinian people and the serious violation of human rights and war crimes including the killing and injuring of Palestinian civilians, an OIC statement said.It called Israel's collective punishment of civilians a violation of international human rights law and said the occupying forces must be held responsible for these war crimes.
The body also expressed concern over what it called increasing pressure on Iran in its nuclear dispute with the West, which it said should be resolved peacefully. It also called for Iraq's sovereignty and security to be respected.
PROGRESSIVE PATH
The summit denounced economic sanctions imposed by the U.S. government against Syria for supporting anti-U.S. groups in the Middle East. But this was the only anti-U.S. public statement.The U.S. envoy to the OIC, Sada Cumber, said he saw the Islamic body moving to defuse a potential clash of civilizations stoked by Western fears over Islamic terrorism and Muslims' anger at perceived insults against their faith.The Islamic Ummah (community) is moving in a moderate direction and almost on a progressive path, we're all moving in the same path, said Cumber, who was appointed by President George W. Bush last month.Cumber said the risk from religious bigotry and extremism came not so much from a clash of civilizations, as from a clash of ignorance on the part of Muslims to learn more about America and us, the Americans, to learn more about Islam.Muslim leaders acknowledged the challenge.We the Kings and heads of state and governments of the OIC renew our pledge to work harder to make sure Islam's true image is better projected the world over ... to combat an Islamophobia with designs to distort our religion, their communique said.The summit called on wealthy member states to finance a $10 billion solidarity fund aimed at fighting poverty, especially in Africa. Only $2.6 billion has been contributed so far, to the disappointment of African leaders.
If it's true that we belong to the same community ... then we should be showing more solidarity to each other, Guinea's prime minister, Lansana Kouyate, told reporters. But the summit approved a project to build a railway stretching across the continent from Senegal to Sudan. One success on the sidelines of the summit was a peace agreement between Sudan and Chad, meant to end cross-border rebel attacks in a region that includes Sudan's war-torn Darfur. But Chadian rebels said they would fight on regardless. After days of difficult negotiations, OIC leaders approved a new charter to give a more active role to the body, which has in the past been accused of failing to back up words with actions. (Additional reporting by Alistair Thomson, Emmanuel Braun and Gabriela Matthews; Writing by Nick Tattersall and Pascal Fletcher; Editing by Jon Boyle) (For full Reuters Africa coverage and to have your say on the top issues, visit: http://africa.reuters.com/)
TROUBLE IN THE HOLY LAND
Hamas terrorists brag of hiding behind kids Palestinian people have developed methods of death and death-seeking' March 13, 2008
10:19 pm Eastern 2008 WorldNetDaily
Hamas MP Fathi Hammad
A prominent member of Hamas, a recognized terrorist group, has been captured on video boasting of using women, children and the elderly as human shields in its firefights with Israeli soldiers.WND reported at the time, just two weeks ago that the Israeli government had described Hamas' use of human shields as Israel pressed ahead with its battles against rocket-fire from Gaza into Israel.Israel launched ground and air assaults on Hamas positions in Gaza following massive rocket bombardments of Jewish cities by Palestinian terrorists at the end of February and early March.Hamas had been firing long-range Grad rockets at the strategic port city of Ashkelon, home to about 125,000 Israelis. Ashkelon houses a major electrical plant that powers most of the Gaza Strip.During the fighting, focused largely on the minor Hamas infrastructure in the city of Jabaliya about one mile into the Gaza Strip, an Israeli commander speaking to WND Jerusalem Bureau Chief Aaron Klein from inside Gaza said Hamas has been drawing Israeli forces into populated civilian areas, shooting at Jewish fighters from occupied civilian homes while women and children were inside.Now a video posted by the Middle East Media Research Institute revealS Hamas MP Fathi Hammad boasting of using such human shields.
The video, which was aired on Al-Aqsa TV on Feb. 29, revealed Hammad saying the enemies of Allah do not know that the Palestinian people has developed its [methods] of death and death-seeking. For the Palestinian people, death has become an industry, at which women excel, and so do all the people living on this land.The elderly excel at this, and so do the mujahideen and the children. This is why they have formed human shields of the women, the children, the elderly, and the mujahideen, in order to challenge the Zionist bombing machine, he continued. It is as if they were saying to the Zionest enemy: We desire death like you desire life.
WND earlier reported on once case in which Hamas sent a 10-year old boy into the battlefield in full view of the Israeli military to remove a gun from a felled terrorist and then pass the weapon to another terrorist. The commander at the scene said he ordered his troops to halt their fire as the Israeli military watched the boy remove and then transfer the weapon to another gunman.Another commander speaking to WND said Hamas snipers used the windows of a Jabiliya house that was clearly occupied by women and children to shoot at his unit.The aim is to draw us into killing civilians to bring about international pressure to end our operation, the commander said, speaking on condition his name be withheld due to Israeli military restrictions on media interviews by fighting forces.MEMRI is an independent, non-profit organizations that translates and analyzes the media of the Middle East.
LIKE I ALWAYS SAY ISLAM IS SUCH A PEACEFUL RELIGION THAT THEY ABUSE THEIR WOMEN AND CHILDREN. SOME PEACEFUL RELIGION.
WHISTLEBLOWER MAGAZINE
DEATH CULT How radical Islam abuses women and children March 06, 2008 11:00 pm Eastern 2008 WorldNetDaily
Almost everyone agrees that there's nothing more beautiful than a young child – the brightness of spirit, the innocence, the natural intelligence are breathtaking.What, then, possesses an angelic little girl to chant confidently in front of television cameras: When I wander into Jerusalem, I will become a suicide bomber? Or a little boy to exclaim: We will destroy the chair of the despots, so they will taste the flame of death? What has happened to these children in their earliest, most vulnerable and tender years to poison their souls and set many on the path ultimately to madness and murder? What goes on in their homes, schools and mosques that induces them to strap on explosive belts and kill themselves and countless unsuspecting innocents in a pizza parlor?
How, after growing up in a home with a mother and father and brothers and sisters, can a young man suddenly stab his own sister to death – knifing her not just once or twice, but dozens and dozens of times, like a maniacal serial murderer – just because she supposedly held hands or was seen in public with a male who wasn't a relative? In a spine-straightening investigative report titled CHILD SACRIFICE, WND's acclaimed Whistleblower magazine shines a 1,000-watt spotlight on the mind-numbing barbarism of radical Islam.
Subtitled, How the Islamist death cult is destroying a generation of youth, this groundbreaking edition unveils shocking insight into what's really behind:Reports of children's television programs that feature demonic clones of Mickey Mouse, Sesame Street characters and other kids' favorites, in which the lovable stars teach children lies, hatred and murder.Reports of rape victims being flogged and imprisoned, as when a Saudi court recently sentenced a 20-year-old female victim, who had been gang-raped by seven men, to 200 lashes and six months in prison for the crime of being in a car with a man not her husband, brother, or father. (Thanks to intense international pressure, Saudi King Abdullah finally pardoned the rape victim.)Reports of sermons delivered by top Islamic clerics openly calling for mass murder, such as this one by Dr. Ahmad Abu Halabita, former acting rector of the Islamic University in Gaza: O brother believers, the criminals, the terrorists, are the Jews, who have butchered our children, orphaned them, widowed our women and desecrated our holy places and sacred sites. They are the terrorists. They are the ones who must be butchered and killed, as Allah the Almighty said: Fight them: Allah will torture them at your hands, and will humiliate them and will help you to overcome them, and will relieve the minds of the believers ... Have no mercy on the Jews, no matter where they are, in any country. Fight them, wherever you are. Wherever you meet them, kill them. Wherever you are, kill those Jews and those Americans who are like them …
Reports – perhaps 5,000 every year, according to the U.N. – of honor killings in which fathers, brothers or mothers brutally murder their own daughter/sister merely for being seen in public with a male or similar offense. For example, two Jordanian brothers used axes to hack to death their two sisters, aged 20 and 27, in an honor killing after the older sister left home to marry a man without her family's permission. Her younger sister later ran away to join her. It was a brutal scene, one official said, according to the Jordan Times. One victim's head was nearly cut clean off.
Reports of young girls tortured and raped into converting to Islam. Mary, an 18-year-old Egyptian girl, was brutally abducted, raped and held captive for nine months by Islamic kidnappers who poured sulfuric acid on her wrist to remove the tattooed cross she wore as a statement of her Christian faith. Along with enduring the sexual abuse, she was required to fast, pray and memorize portions of the Quran. Though at first she refused to wear the traditional Islamic veil, Mary later told reporters, They warned me that if I removed it they would throw acid on my face. Eventually, under unbearable pressure and abuse from her captors, she signed official papers of conversion to Islam. Reports of maniacal religious police, such as those in Saudi Arabia who on March 11, 2002, allowed 15 young girls to die horrible deaths when a fire broke out in their school in Mecca. The religious police literally stopped firefighters from saving the girls because they weren't dressed in the proper Islamic way for girls and women to be seen outdoors. With helpless firemen watching, the religious police literally beat the girls – those who were not wearing their headscarves or abayas – back into the inferno.
This is full-fledged, criminally pathological madness, says WND and Whistleblower Managing Editor David Kupelian. It's rooted in a lethal combination of hatred and insane philosophy, both so deeply implanted and so massively reinforced that there is barely a person reading these words that can even begin to comprehend such extreme child abuse.
Issue highlights include:No more Islamo-fascist terror states! by Joseph Farah.Palestinian kids raised for war, documenting how children are taught to hate and desire to kill Jews through Sesame Street-type TV shows.Kindergarteners choose death for the sake of Allah – depicting how armed 5-year-old boys in camouflage and ski masks declare devotion to jihad. 6-year-old recruited as suicide bomber.Mickey Mouse promotes jihad, in which the Disney character's evil twin teaches kids to fight for Islam's world domination. Kids' hate letters win contest – profiling a competition rewarding the angriest hate-letters written by Palestinian school children. Pentagon sees 5 million child terrorists in Iraq – shocking report shows the next generation of children could join jihad if reconstruction efforts fail.Al-Qaida training young boys as terrorists – newly captured propaganda tapes reveal debauched strategy of recruiting, training children.Hi, my name is Ahmed and I want to be a suicide bomber by Aaron Klein, in which a recruited suicide bomber talks about serving Allah by blasting unbelievers to hell
Toddler terrorist touted by jihadis.Mom of martyr: Sacrifice more of my children.Understanding the Islamist death cult by David Kupelian, who explains why devout jihadists sacrifice their own children.Palestinian official: Women must martyr themselves, in which Islamic authorities praise females who make Jews – the brothers of apes and pigs – taste the bitterness of death.Mother sad daughter didn't carry out bombing, a shocking interview with the mother of a 21-year-old Palestinian arrested on her way to carry out suicide attack at hospital.Female suicide bombers: Why they do it by Marylou Barry.Honor killing survivor describes ordeal by Jamie Glazov, a heart-rending profile of the author of Burned Alive, who tells how her own family tried repeatedly to kill her
A tender story of death by stoning by Yagmur Dursun, a stunning eyewitness account of her own sister's execution by stoning for the crime of getting pregnant out of wedlock.Islam's abuse of women by Parvin Darabi, a devastating look at Islam's barbaric and inhumane treatment of the fairer sex.
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.
Freak Wave Wipes Out Cars, Pedestrians
3/14/2008 4:49:51 PM
http://video.nbc5i.com/player/?id=229136 (FREAK WAVE - VIDEO)
Cyclone Jokwe calms to a tropical depression Fri Mar 14, 7:06 AM
VILANKULO, Mozambique (AFP) - Cyclone Jokwe, which has wreaked havoc in Mozambique, was downgraded Friday to a tropical depression, allaying fears of a damaging hit to the tourism town of Vilankulo.However the cyclone, now heading towards Madagascar, still had Mozambique's coastal regions on yellow alert in case it regained momentum, said Joao Ribeiro, national disaster management institute deputy director.I think the cyclone's pressure has decreased due to a cold front on the Mozambican Channel, Ribeiro said.We are waiting for official information from the national meteorological services department in order to reclassify the cyclone properly, he told AFP.He warned the pressure on the cyclone could build up and return to affect coastal parts of Mozambique.
Weather experts were predicting Jokwe would hit Mozambique's southern coastal areas on Friday after it changed course on Thursday and returned to central part of the Mozambican channel. This prompted fears among residents of Vilankulo, the country's main tourist spot, of a repeat of the extensive damage caused by cyclone Favio in 2007.Cyclone Jokwe has resulted in the deaths of at least 17 people and displaced thousands more since it hit the southern African country last Saturday.
Snow, ice building up on roofs may pose problem
Fri Mar 14, 5:18 AM
TORONTO (CBC) - Toronto homeowners and business are being advised to check and remove any heavy snow from their roofs before it's too late. Steve Meltz, a roofer, said he's been busy all winter dealing with collapsed roofs, caved-in ceilings and indoor leaks.He said there is an easy way to tell if a roof is bearing too much weight.
Normally engineers, what they will do is they will build into the design when the roof gets too much weight something that will show telltale signs inside the house, and that's usually cracks in your ceiling, he said.So as soon as you see that, you know you have too much weight load on your roof.Homeowner Janine Thaler said getting rid of the snow and reinforcing her flat roof was the smartest thing she could have done, especially after the tragic roof collapse earlier this week in Quebec in which three women died.
We were so lucky
Just the other day, I told my husband we were so lucky, we called the right person and they came and fixed the problem, she said.With the snow we had on Saturday, it builds up to many, many, many feet, particularly if it's windy, because it drifts, said Mike Crellin, another Toronto roofer.Every hundred square feet [of] snow, just two feet deep, weighs half a tonne. If you have a couple inches of ice in addition, it's another half tonne, he said.Meltz said he's never been as busy as he is this winter.He just finished a big repair job, fixing the roof of a large grocery store. The company noticed signs of stress and realized there was too much snow the roof.He recommends anyone seeing signs of heavy snow to have their roof checked.
Warnings for spring flooding issued in N.B.
Thu Mar 13, 6:36 AM
NEW.BRUNSWICK (CBC) - New Brunswick's Emergency Measures Organization is warning that the winter's heavy snowfalls will likely lead to hazardous flooding conditions this spring.Officials are concerned about ice jams that will come when the Saint John River begins to break up in coming weeks, said Andy Morton, deputy director of public safety.But the real problems for the province may be later in the spring when the snow's meltwater ends up in the river system, Morton said.Once the ice is out of the system, there's usually a bit of a lull and then we'll see the impact from the snow melt, he said. That's when we'll see what we call the open water season where open water flooding will occur.Morton said there is concern about that period of time as the flood waters will have the potential of covering a large area.In 1998, there was widespread flooding from St. George to Sussex Corner in the province's south.There are more than 134 centimetres of snow on the ground in the province's northwest. It is the most snow in the region's recorded weather history.The province can still expect to get about 20 centimetres more in snowfall accumulation before the winter weather is over, said Claude C?t?, a meteorologist with Environment Canada.We're not going to get much melting of the snow pack we have right now until early to mid-April, C?t? said.
FAMINE
REVELATION 6:5-6
5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.(A DAYS WAGES FOR A LOAF OF BREAD)
High wheat prices raise grocery costs By BETSY BLANEY, Associated Press Writer MAR 14,08
LUBBOCK, Texas - If you think the cost of gassing up your car is outrageous, wait until you need to restock your pantry. The price of wheat has more than tripled during the past 10 months, making Americans' daily bread — and bagels and pizza and pasta — feel a little like luxury items. And baked goods aren't the only ones getting more expensive: Experts expect some 80 percent of grocery prices will spike, too, because wheat and other grains are used to feed cattle, poultry and dairy cows.It's going to affect everything ... impact on every section of the grocery store, said Michael Bittel, senior vice president of King Arthur Flour Co. in Norwich, Vt.Consumers such as Maria Cardena feel trapped by the prices. She said the bread she buys has jumped from 69 cents a loaf to $1.09 in recent weeks.You have to buy it, said the 29-year-old mother from Lubbock, Texas. You can't go without it. Everything has gone up.The wheat market has been pushed higher by a combination of agricultural, financial and energy issues.Poor wheat harvests in Australia and parts of Europe and the U.S. have caused China and other Asian countries to buy up more American crops, which are especially attractive because of the weak U.S. dollar.
At the same time, the American crop is shrinking because of federal incentives to grow corn for ethanol. And skyrocketing gas prices make it costlier to get any wheat to market. Those same pressures have also made it more expensive to supply feed grains for livestock.At Bob's Red Mill flour company, wheat flour has typically been subject to retail price adjustments every five years. Now those increases are happening almost monthly.You look at the price and you say, Oh, my gosh,said Dennis Gilliam, executive vice president of sales and marketing for the company in Milwaukie, Ore. It keeps climbing every day.Wheat historically trades at $3 to $7 a bushel.But this week, futures of spring wheat — which produces the flour used in hearth breads, rolls, croissants, bagels and pizza crust — were close to $18 a bushel on the Minneapolis Grain Exchange. They climbed as high as $24 in late February.
Consumers pay an additional penny on wheat products for each dollar the price-per-bushel increases. It's a huge impact, said Steve Mercer, spokesman for U.S. Wheat Associates, an industry group. White bread cost an average of 85 cents a pound in 1998 and $1.03 in February 2006. The price rose to $1.32 a pound last month, according to federal data.And that's on top of overall food price increases of 4 percent last year and an additional 3.5 to 4.5 percent expected this year, according to federal data. Most years see 2.5 percent increases.During the past few months, the price of cereals and baked goods has risen nearly 6 percent over the same time last year, federal officials reported.Consumers can try to minimize costs by buying fewer wheat products, but the nation's bakers, pizzerias and other flour-dependent industries don't have that luxury.Panera Bread Company is paying more than double what it paid for wheat in 2007 — an additional $26.5 million this year, according to its latest earnings report. At Kraft Foods Inc., producer of Ritz crackers and Chips Ahoy cookies, the cost of commodities including wheat were up 9 percent last year, or about $1.3 billion. Spokeswoman Lisa Gibbons called that unprecedented and said the company doesn't expect prices to ease anytime soon.
The company has offset most of those costs by finding savings elsewhere, such as switching its Miracle Whip sandwich spread from glass to cheaper plastic bottles. At the online baked goods retailer 1-800-Bakery.com, the price of wheat has meant a hiring freeze and curbing low-profit products. So far, those measures have been enough to avoid price increases. But Stephen Pazyra, the company's chief executive, said prices will go up unless there is relief soon. Sometimes the only option is to bake less. Four months ago, Tony's Old Fashioned Bakery in Midland, Texas, was paying $7.50 for a 25-pound bag of flour. This week the cost was $23 a bag — for a company that uses 25 to 30 bags a week. To stretch their dollar and flour, Carmina Aguilar said her family's bakery is making fewer pastries for display and stopped taking many last-minute orders. Meanwhile, some consumers are taking the opposite path — baking more. King Arthur's Bittel said that while store-bought bread is running between $3 and $5, a home baked loaf will cost about 60 cents. That's up from 40 cents from a year ago, but Bittel said his company nevertheless has seen growing sales of bread-making machines. Some experts said wheat prices may be close to topping out. But whether prices come down, and when, is a guessing game.
Global wheat stocks have hit a 30-year low following seven of eight years in which world consumption exceeded production. Federal projections show America's supplies at their lowest levels since the late 1940s. Earlier this week, representatives of the U.S. baking industry went to Washington to ask the Bush administration and Congress to address the record wheat prices. Lee Sanders, senior vice president of the American Bakers Association, said her group isn't asking for a wheat export moratorium, which countries such as Ukraine, Russia and Argentina have enacted. But the industry does want export policies reviewed to ensure domestic bakers have enough affordable flour.
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).
PREMEDITATED MERGER Inside the hush-hush North American Union confab State Department talks open borders, EU links March 13, 2008 1:00 am Eastern By Jerome R. Corsi 2008 WorldNetDaily
U.S. State Department
WASHINGTON -- A largely unreported meeting held at the State Department discussed integration of the U.S., Mexico and Canada in concert with a move toward a transatlantic union, linking a North American community with the European Union.The meeting was held Monday under the auspices of the Advisory Committee onInternational Economic Policy, or ACIEP. WND obtained press credentials and attended as an observer. The meeting was held under Chatham House rules that prohibit reporters from attributing specific comments to individual participants.The State Department website noted the meeting was opened by Assistant Secretary of State for Economic, Energy and Business Affairs Daniel S. Sullivan and ACIEP Chairman Michael Gadbaw, vice president and senior counsel for General Electric's International Law & Policy group since December 1990.
WND observed about 25 ACIEP members, including U.S. corporations involved in international trade, prominent U.S. business trade groups, law firms involved with international business law, international investment firms and other international trade consultants.
No members of Congress attended the meeting.
The agenda for the ACIEP meeting was not published, and State Department officials in attendance could not give WND permission under Chatham House rules to publish the agenda.The meeting agenda included topics reviewing the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, or SPP, and the U.S.-EU Transatlantic Economic Council, or TEC.The SPP, declared by the U.S., Canada and Mexico at a summit meeting in 2005, has 20 trilateral bureaucratic working groups that seek to integrate and harmonize administrative rules and regulations on a continental basis.Several participants said the premise of the SPP is to create a North American business platform to benefit North America-based multi-national companies the way the European Union benefits its own.Others noted the premise of the TEC is to create a convergence of administrative rules and regulations between Europe and North America, anticipating the creation of a Transatlantic Economic Union between the European Union and North America.Participants pointed out that transatlantic trade is currently 40 percent of all world trade. They argue that trade and non-trade barriers need to be further reduced to maintain that market share as a framework is put in place to advance transatlantic economic integration.Still, some participants argued that many corporations in North America already have moved beyond a North American focus to adopt a global perspective that transcends even the Transatlantic market.
Supply chains and markets are everywhere, one participant asserted. What's to stop global corporations from going after the cheapest labor available globally, wherever they can find it, provided the cost of transporting goods globally can be managed economically?
Other participants argued regional alliances were still important, if only to put in place the institutional bases that ultimately would lead to global governance on uniform global administrative regulations favorable to multi-national corporations.North America should be a premiere platform to establish continental institutions, a participant said. That's why we need to move the security perimeters to include the whole continent, especially as we open the borders between North American countries for expanding free trade.One presentation on the agenda identified four reasons why administrative rules and regulations need to be integrated by SPP in North America and by the Transatlantic Economic Council, bridging together European Union and North American markets:
Standardization – to keep prices low and productivity high;
Investment – for every $1 traded, $4 is invested; right now 75 percent of investment in the U.S. comes from the EU, and 52 percent of the investment in the EU comes from the U.S.; Productivity Improvements – to lower production costs and stimulate trade; and
Open Borders – to facilitate the free movement of labor to markets where employment opportunities are available. The discussion pointed out the SPP trilateral working groups and the Transatlantic Economic Council were being supported by top-level Cabinet officers and the heads of state in both the EU and in North America.
Progress in EU-U.S. regulatory integration was noted in financial market coordination, investment rule cohesion, trade security measures and efforts undertaken recently to preserve intellectual property rights.Before the meeting began, concerns were raised informally by participants worried that the Ohio Democratic Party primary had prompted both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to talk of renegotiating NAFTA.Participants at the State Department meeting pointed out U.S. political candidates could be expected to argue protectionist themes opposed to global economic integration as a tactic, without necessarily being committed to taking aggressive steps once in office.The political dialogue misses the point of economic reality, one participant argued. There is a J-curve correlation between when a currency like the U.S. dollar depreciates and when exports kick in to increase. We should accelerate the J-curve and our discussion about it, to help the local politics catch up with the international reality.Part of the discussion was devoted to concerns that national regulators in North America and Europe were too reluctant to abandon provincial regulatory advantages.Regulators by nature are advocates, and they are hard to move, one participant grumbled. What we need is more diplomats and negotiators to identify solutions, otherwise the bureaucrats will bog down the progress we need to see coming out of the SPP and TEC.North America is already an integrated continental economy and a continental-wide business platform, another said. What we need now is more regulatory convergence. Harmonized should mean that once approved, the same set of administrative regulations and procedures ought to be ready throughout NAFTA, SPP and the TEC.
As WND previously reported, the Transatlantic Economic Council, or TEC, was created by President Bush at an April 30 summit meeting at the White House with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the current president of the European Council, and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso.WND also reported the Transatlantic Policy Network, a non-governmental organization headquartered in Washington and Brussels and advised by a bi-partisan congressional policy group chaired by Sen. Robert Bennett, R-Utah, has called for the creation of a Transatlantic Common Market between the U.S. and the European Union by 2015.A complete membership list of the current 60-person Advisory Committee on International Policy is published on the State Department website.ACIEP members include corporate officers from General Electric, Exxon Mobil, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Archer Daniels Midland, United Parcel Service, Citibank, Proctor & Gamble, Hunt Oil, CMS Energy, Boeing, 3M, Goldman Sachs and Cargill.The most recent Summary of Discussions published on the Department of State website was for the Dec. 18 ACIEP meeting.A published article on the State Department website includes photographs of the Dec. 18 ACIEP meeting, listing by name several participants who were photographed in attendance.
HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
Dollar demise: 111 per barrel of oil and 1,000 per ounce of gold 14.03.2008 Source: Pravda.Ru
The euro reached another high in London – 1.5624 per dollar. The demise of the dollar accelerated after Carlyle Capital Corp. said that it defaulted on $16.6 billion of its debts. The fear of new losses from the mortgage crisis and the declining dollar rate led to the collapse of stock markets. The cost of gold reached the level of $1,000 per ounce for the first time in history. Crude oil prices set another record too: West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude for April delivery was up to $110 and then $100 dollars per barrel.
Japan’s Nikkei index dropped by 3.3 percent on March 13, Britain’s FTSE 100 – by 1.5 percent, Europe’s DJ Stoxx – by 1.3 percent, Russia’s RTS – by 1 percent. According to The Wall Street Journal, many chief financial officers of US companies believe that the recession in the US economy has already started. They say that the economic situation in the United States will not improve in 2008. A survey conducted by Duke University showed that more and more finance chiefs tend to become pessimistic about the US economy. The survey also revealed that the current recession in the USA would be more serious than the previous two recessions, each of which lasted eight months. Michael Woolfolk, senior currency strategist at the Bank of New York, said he expects the dollar to keep dropping ahead of the Federal Reserve's meeting next week. Speculation has been growing that the Fed might cut rates by as much as three-quarters of a percentage point. Other currencies have rallied too far, too fast, Woolfolk said. The Fed has turned a blind eye to inflation, and as the expectations fall for the U.S. economy and global equities, we will continue to see that undermine the dollar.The yen's strength is bad news for Japan's economy, which has been showing signs of weakening, because it makes exporters' products more expensive abroad and erodes the value of their overseas earnings, the AP reports. Japanese leaders quickly cautioned against instability in currency markets, but made no mention of any intervention to stem the dollar's slide. Prepared by Dmitry Sudakov
Pravda.ru
Stocks retreat on credit fears By TIM PARADIS, AP Business Writer MAR 14,08
NEW YORK - Wall Street plunged anew Friday after a near meltdown at Bear Stearns Cos. handed investors the unwelcome confirmation that the credit market's troubles are far from over. Word that the investment bank needed rescuing touched off a wave of selling that left each of the major indexes down more than 1.5 percent on the day; the Dow Jones industrial average fell nearly 200 points. The plan by the New York Federal Reserve and JPMorgan Chase & Co. offers Bear Stearns relief from a sudden liquidity crunch that analysts surmised could have felled the investment bank. But the company's position on the precipice of financial disaster left many investors shaken and spoiled some hopes that troubles in the moribund credit market are on the mend.Stocks showed moderate increases in the early going after a Labor Department report showed the Consumer Price Index remained flat for February. Wall Street has been expecting inflation would show an increase. But the gains quickly disappeared after investors learned about the severity of troubles at Bear Stearns.
This is another chapter in a book rather than a one-act play, said Phil Orlando, chief equity market strategist at Federated Investors. He said the market is worried that further trouble in the credit markets will emerge and that the ramifications of the credit strains and a slowing economy could result in recession.
Investors thought they are probably more than norm than the exception and maybe this is the tip of the iceberg, he said, referring to Bear Stearns. Our sense is that this is sort of an amoeba here and this is sort of a broadly spreading situation.The Dow fell 194.65, or 1.60 percent, to 11,951.09. The Dow had been down as much as 313 points.Broader stock indicators also declined but pulled off their lows. The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 27.34, or 2.08 percent, to 1,288.14, and the Nasdaq composite index fell 51.12, or 2.26 percent, to 2,212.49.
For the week, the major indexes were mixed, with the Dow showing a modest gain, the Standard & Poor's 500 index slipping and the Nasdaq composite index showing no change, finishing exactly where it began.The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies fell 16.81, or 2.47 percent, to 662.90.Bond prices jumped as stocks retreated. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note, which moves opposite its price, fell to 3.42 percent from 3.53 percent late Thursday.
Elisa Parisi, economic analyst at RGE Monitor.com, contends the bond market has recently shown more concern about the economy.The stock market is increasingly catching up with signals from the bond market. Somehow the stock market could delude itself into thinking that they have nothing to do with the mortgage fallout, she said.
Comments from the Fed might have helped corral some of investors' nervousness Friday. The central bank said it voted unanimously to sign off on the arrangement between JPMorgan and Bear Stearns and that it is ready to provide further resources to stave off further credit troubles. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke also said Friday he would do what was possible to aid struggling homeowners.Still, investors remained nervous. The Chicago Board Options Exchange's volatility index, known as the VIX, and often referred to as the fear index, jumped 18.7 percent.Declining issues outnumbered advancers by about 5 to 1 on the New York Stock Exchange, where volume came to 1.86 billion shares compared with 1.84 billion shares traded Thursday.The Bear Stearns news reversed the early positive sentiment from the inflation data, said Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at Avalon Partners. There had been nervousness about Bear Stearns for some time and now the market's concerns about the company have been proven true.Friday's stock market pullback comes a day after an anxious stock market rebounded from an early plunge following a Standard & Poor's prediction that financial companies are nearing the end of the massive asset write-downs that have pummeled the stock and credit markets for months. The S&P projection had given investors some hope that the seemingly unrelenting losses from the mortgage and credit crisis could have been bottoming out.Bear Stearns woes rekindled investors' nervousness about the troubles in the financial sector. The company's shares skidded $27, or 47 percent, to $30, while JP Morgan fell $1.57, or 4.1 percent, to $36.54. Other financial names declined as well. Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. fell $6.73, or 15 percent, to $39.26 and Merrill Lynch & Co. slid $2.75, or 5.9 percent, to $43.51. Stock market investors Friday were also eyeing the dwindling dollar and events in the soaring commodities market. Gold prices touched another fresh record Friday. Light, sweet crude, which set a fresh record Thursday, fell 12 cents to $110.21 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Oil came close to its record of $111 set Thursday. The market's fall Friday caps a big week for the markets. On Monday, stocks continued a sell-off from last week, falling more than 1 percent as oil again moved into record territory. Then, on Tuesday, stocks surged after the Fed said it would put up $200 billion to loosen tight credit markets. The Dow surged nearly 417 points, its biggest one-day percentage gain in five years. Stocks posted more modest losses and gains Wednesday and Thursday as investors speculated over how much help the Fed's plan would ultimately provide. On top of Friday's concerns, Wall Street remains anxious for Tuesday's Fed meeting at which the central bank is still expected to lower interest rates. While Wall Street would welcome cheaper access to cash to help consumers and businesses, the freer flow of money could would likely fan inflation concerns and could further weaken the dollar.
The rate reductions make the dollar less attractive to investors than, for example, the higher-yield euro. On Thursday new consumer price data from the euro zone left many observers saying the European Central Bank will not soon reduce rates. Overseas, Japan's Nikkei stock average finished down 1.54 percent. Britain's FTSE 100 closed down 1.07 percent, Germany's DAX index fell 0.75 percent, and France's CAC-40 lost 0.82 percent. On the Net: New York Stock Exchange: http://www.nyse.com Nasdaq Stock Market: http://www.nasdaq.com
WE WILL SOON SEE IF OBAMA IS FOR ISRAEL OR NOT WHEN HE GETS IN POWER.
Obama tries to allay Jewish concerns By PHILIP ELLIOTT, Associated Press Writer Fri Mar 14, 7:57 AM ET
CLEVELAND - Barack Obama has a solid Senate record in support of Israel. He sings the praises, too, of Jewish civil rights workers who fought for blacks' rights in the U.S. And he says he wants to patch up a historically powerful bond between the African-American and Jewish communities.Yet there is unease among some Jewish voters about the Illinois senator and Democratic presidential contender.
Why?
Part of it is a division between blacks and Jews that's been growing for years, a split that Obama has challenged fellow blacks to confront.Another element is the praise Obama has received from Black Muslim leader Louis Farrakhan, whose disparaging comments about Judaism are toxic to many voters. Obama's own pastor has a history of supporting Palestinian causes.And there are questions about Obama advisers who some U.S. Jews see as less than ardent advocates of Israel.Finally, there are rumors and outright lies about the candidate that have gained an audience through repetition in e-mails and on Web sites.Obama is working hard to win over this vocal, powerful and reliably Democratic voting bloc.Jews have accounted for about 4 percent of Democratic primary voters so far this year, and Clinton has held a 52-46 percent edge over Obama among them, according to exit polls.
On the day of the Mississippi primary this week, Obama took time to call Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni to express condolences over the deadly terrorist attack on a rabbinical seminary in Jerusalem. He also reaffirmed his support for Israel's right to defend itself and for its commitment to negotiations with Palestinians and underscored the need to stop Iran from supporting terrorism or getting nuclear weapons.The effort by the candidate and his advisers to calm disquiet among Jewish voters began more than a year ago.The Jewish community cannot be taken for granted, said Rep. Robert Wexler of Florida, one of Obama's chief surrogates before Jewish audiences. Wexler sent an e-mail last March to supporters urging them not to be swayed by rumors, a message he repeated during a recent forum in Cleveland.Obama used a speech in January at Martin Luther King Jr.'s church in Atlanta to chastise blacks for latent anti-Semitism. And during a recent debate, Obama alluded to James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, one black and two Jewish civil rights workers murdered in Mississippi in 1964 as they worked together on a campaign to register black voters.You know, I would not be sitting here were it not for a whole host of Jewish-Americans who supported the civil rights movement and helped to ensure that justice was served in the South, Obama said. And that coalition has frayed over time around a whole host of issues, and part of my task in this process is making sure that those lines of communication and understanding are reopened.
Still, there remains some nervousness over Senator Obama among Jewish voters, said Rabbi Joshua Skoff, who attended a private meeting with Obama in Cleveland last month. The rumors still have some legs.At the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, President Howard Friedman said Obama's Senate record on Israel has given his critics no reason to doubt him.But that record is thin. Just a little over three years ago, Obama was a state legislator in Illinois. Right now, Obama's big problem with the Jewish community is similar to his problem with other communities: He's just not clearly defined among any voter groups, said Kenneth Wald, director of Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Florida-Gainesville. The fact he has a name that sounds Muslim and has a Muslim father underlines questions about what we do and what we do not know about him.Some critics on the Internet have gone far beyond raising questions. Contrary to some e-mails, Obama is a Christian, not a Muslim. He took his oath of office on the family Bible, not a Quran. There has been a concerted effort, largely out of the conservative Web sites and anonymous e-mails, says Ira Forman, executive director of the National Jewish Democratic Council, which set up a Stop The Smears Web site to correct the rumors. I don't think it moves tons and tons of votes, but at the fringes, if left unchecked, it could move a few, he said.
In the private meeting in Cleveland with 100 Jewish leaders last month, Obama talked about his 2005 trip to Israel, his views on a Palestinian state and regional Middle East security. He was quickly questioned about his own pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and an award his church magazine gave last year that said Farrakhan truly epitomized greatness.Farrakhan is intolerable to Jewish voters because of a history of anti-Semitic remarks, like calling Judaism a gutter religion.Obama, who has rejected support from Farrakhan, assured voters his Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago does not endorse such messages. I have never heard an anti-Semitic (remark) made inside of our church. I have never heard anything that would suggest anti-Semitism on the part of the pastor, Obama said in a transcript of his remarks released later. He (Wright) is like an old uncle who sometimes will say things that I don't agree with. And I suspect there are some of the people in this room who have heard relatives say some things that they don't agree with — including, on occasion, directed at African-Americans.Obama took the title of his 2006 book The Audacity of Hope from a Wright sermon. But last year, he asked Wright not to offer a prayer at his campaign's kickoff in Springfield, Ill. The questioners in Cleveland also raised Obama's use of foreign policy advisers the doubters say are foes of Israel, including former President Carter's national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. Obama replied that Brzezinski is an informal, not a key, adviser, and I do not share his views with respect to Israel.He said he has other foreign policy advisers from the Clinton administration who share his belief that Israel has to remain a Jewish state with special ties to the U.S. and that the Palestinians have been irresponsible. And he said critics' e-mails never mention Lester Crown, a member of his national finance committee who is considered about as hawkish and tough when it comes to Israel as anybody in the country.
This is where I get to be honest, and I hope I'm not out of school here, Obama told Jewish leaders at the private meeting. I think there is a strain within the pro-Israel community that says unless you adopt an unwavering, pro-Likud approach to Israel that you're anti-Israel, and that can't be the measure of our friendship with Israel.On the Net: National Jewish Democratic Council:
http://njdc.typepad.com/stopthesmears/
AMERICA (POLITICAL BABYLON)
EZEKIEL 39:21
21 And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.
ISAIAH 18:1-2
1 Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:
2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!
JEREMIAH 50:11,37,12
11 Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;(BACKSLIDERS)
37 A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.(A NATION OF MINGLED PEOPLE)
12 Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed:(MOTHER ENGLAND) behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
JEREMIAH 51:13,7,53
13 O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.
7 Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD's hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.
53 Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD.
REVELATION 18:3,5,7
3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
7 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
JEREMIAH 50:3,24
3 For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.
24 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD. (RUSSIA A SNEAK ATTACK)
REVELATION 18:10
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
USA to deploy another radar system in Turkey in addition to Poland and Czech Republic 13.03.2008 Source: Pravda.Ru
The US administration has been conducting secret talks on the deployment of a mobile radar of its missile defense system in another European country – Turkey. The USA may start official negotiations on the matter during the NATO summit. For the time being it is known that US Defense Secretary Robert Gates touched upon the issue during his recent visit to Turkey. The new plans of the US administration may seriously aggravate its relations with Moscow. USA to deploy another radar system in Turkey in addition to Poland and Czech Republic.
The fact of USA’s negotiations with Turkey has been officially confirmed only on March 13, 2008. Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell told reporters of Gates’s recent visit to Ankara, the capital of Turkey. US and Turkish officials discussed the military operation of the Turkish Army in Iraq. In addition, Morrell said, the parties discussed plans on the establishment of the missile defense system in Turkey. John Rood, acting Undersecretary of State, previously rejected the fact of the negotiations. Rood particularly stated in Washington that the USA was not planning any missile defense talks with any countries other than Poland and the Czech Republic. As it turns out, Robert Gates urged Turkey to cooperate in the creation of the third center of the missile defense system. The Pentagon head promised to render financial help to Turkey in terms of army modernization. According to Gates, investments in Turkey’s defense sector may reach one billion dollars. The US-based Missile Defense Agency intends to deploy a mobile radar system in Turkey, the Austrian newspaper Die Presse wrote. For the time being, the USA uses only one such radar, which is located in California. Apparently, the systems, which the USA intends to build in Poland and the Czech Republic, will not be able to protect all allies. Greece, Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey may suffer from a possible missile attack from Iran, US officials believe. The NATO summit is to discuss the problem at a meeting in Bucharest, in April. Translated by Dmitry Sudakov Pravda.ru
I DON'T KNOW WHY AMERICA WON'T KEEP ITS NOSE OUT OF ISRAELIS BUSINESS. THEY WILL PAY IN THE FUTURE.
US mediates first Mideast peace meeting By MATTI FRIEDMAN, Associated Press Writer MAR 14,08
JERUSALEM - The Bush administration's Mideast envoy pushed Israel and the Palestinians to speed up peace negotiations Friday at the first meeting the U.S. has attended since talks resumed nearly four months ago. Lt. Gen. William Fraser III took a hands-off approach during his first few months on the job, preferring to let moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert negotiate on their own.But the talks stalled after an upsurge in violence between the sides last month, and Fraser came from Washington to oversee the meeting at Jerusalem's King David Hotel between Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad and Amos Gilad, a lower-level Israeli Defense Ministry official.We examined areas where the parties are not meeting their commitments and the reasons why, and explored ways to accelerate the process, Fraser said in a statement released through the U.S. consulate.Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday that not enough has been done by the Israelis or the Palestinians to demonstrate their commitment to peace.I have not hidden the fact that I think that there is a lot of room for improvement on both sides concerning both their obligations, Rice said in Santiago, Chile, during a two-day visit to Latin America.Frankly, not nearly enough has happened to demonstrate that the Israelis and Palestinians Without following 'road map' obligations and without improvements on the ground, it's very hard to sustain this process.Neither the Israelis nor the Palestinians have fulfilled their obligations under the road map peace plan promoted by President Bush, who called a regional summit in Annapolis, Md. in November with the goal of seeing a deal struck by the time he leaves office.In the plan's first stage, the Palestinians were to dismantle armed groups. The Israelis were to freeze construction in West Bank settlements and remove some of the more than 100 unauthorized outposts set up by settlers since the 1990s.Israel recently announced several new building projects in east Jerusalem and the West Bank, areas the Palestinians want for their future state. The Israeli moves angered the Palestinians and were criticized by the U.S. and the international community.Israeli defense officials said they were concerned Fraser might reprimand Israel at Friday's meeting. Instead, his statement spoke of failings by both the Palestinians and Israelis.A statement from Fayyad's office said he was frustrated by Israel's failure to implement a settlement moratorium.
A freeze on settlement activity is crucial to preserving the possibility of a Palestinian state, the statement quoted him as saying. By freeze, I mean not one more brick.It went on to praise Fraser, saying he showed seriousness and commitment.Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said Israel's decision to send Gilad to deal with Fayyad rather than Defense Minister Ehud Barak himself showed a lack of respect.It would have been very appropriate for Barak to go. Maybe Barak couldn't go because he is busy planning more (settlement construction) and more incursions, Erekat said.
Israel's Defense Ministry released no official statement after the meeting, but Israel Radio quoted Barak aides as saying that his attendance never had been scheduled and there was no slight intended.Palestinian militants launched another four rockets from Gaza into Israel Friday, causing no injuries, the Israeli military said. Palestinians said an Israeli helicopter attacked a rocket launching site in northern Gaza, but caused no casualties. The military confirmed a strike but gave no details. During the strike the Israeli aircraft was hit by Palestinian gunfire, Hamas said. Israeli security officials said the chopper suffered only light damage and landed safely in Israel with its crew unharmed. AP writer Anne Flaherty reporting from Santiago, Chile, contributed to this article.
MUSLIM NATIONS
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
EZEKIEL 39:1-8
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
READ VERSE 38:6 WHOS IN WITH THE RUSSIA - MUSLIMS WHEN THEY MARCH BUT GERMANY..
Germany to host conference on help for Palestinians MAR 14,08
BERLIN (AFP) - Berlin will host an international conference on assistance to the Palestinian police and judiciary at the start of June, a German foreign ministry spokesman said Friday. According to a statement from the ministry, Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas has welcomed the idea of the conference, which will look at ways to help authorities in the Palestinian territories prepare themselves for statehood.German Chancellor Angela Merkel will open the conference to help establish the rule of law in the Palestinian territories. Foreign ministers from Europe, the United States and Russia and UN and Arab delegates are invited.Merkel is due to visit Israel on Sunday and on Friday she talked to Abbas by telephone. The Palestinian leader briefed her on the state of the peace process between his authority and the Israeli government, the ministry said.Abbas asked the chancellor to bring up with Israel the question of Jewish settlement building, which considerably complicates bilateral negotiations and the application of the road map,according to the statement.The so-called road map was drawn up by Israel and the Palestinians under the auspices of the Quartet -- the United States, United Nations, European Union and Russia -- as a guide towards a two-state solution to their crisis.
It forsees an end to Palestinian militant attacks on Israel and an end to Israeli raids and settlement building on Palestinian land, but has seen scant progress since it was drawn up in 2003 amid ongoing violence.The peace process was further complicated when the radical Islamist group Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip after fighting with Abbas' Fatah movement. Hamas and Israel do not recognise each other.Merkel in turn promised to brief Abbas on her return from the visit, which will be a first of its kind to involve several senior German ministers taking part in direct intergovernmental discussions, the statement continued.The chancellor will become the first German leader to address the Israeli parliament, the Knesset.
Islamic summit seeks dialogue with Christian world By Daniel Flynn and Lamine Ghanmi MAR 14,08
DAKAR (Reuters) - World Muslim leaders on Friday condemned extremism and terrorism as incompatible with Islam and proposed a high-level international meeting to promote a dialogue of civilizations with the Christian world. Leaders of the 57-nation Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), which represents 1.5 billion Muslims from across the Middle East, Africa and Asia, made the Dakar Declaration after a two-day summit in Senegal's capital.
We continue to strongly condemn all forms of extremism and dogmatism which are incompatible with Islam, a religion of moderation and peaceful coexistence, the declaration said.We believe that it is important to plan along such lines a preparatory phase by organizing a major international gathering on Islamic-Christian dialogue that involves governments among other players, it said.The Muslim body condemned acts of terrorism committed in the name of Islam, one of the biggest preoccupations of the international community since the September 11, 2001 attacks by al Qaeda in the United States.But, in an apparent reference to the Palestinian fight against Israel, it said terrorism should be differentiated from legitimate resistance against foreign occupation.As is customary at an Islamic summit, leaders of the OIC -- the second largest inter-governmental bloc after the United Nations -- had harsh words for Israel, condemning it for war crimes against Palestinian civilians.The conference denounces the current and increasing Israeli military campaign against the Palestinian people and the serious violation of human rights and war crimes including the killing and injuring of Palestinian civilians, an OIC statement said.It called Israel's collective punishment of civilians a violation of international human rights law and said the occupying forces must be held responsible for these war crimes.
The body also expressed concern over what it called increasing pressure on Iran in its nuclear dispute with the West, which it said should be resolved peacefully. It also called for Iraq's sovereignty and security to be respected.
PROGRESSIVE PATH
The summit denounced economic sanctions imposed by the U.S. government against Syria for supporting anti-U.S. groups in the Middle East. But this was the only anti-U.S. public statement.The U.S. envoy to the OIC, Sada Cumber, said he saw the Islamic body moving to defuse a potential clash of civilizations stoked by Western fears over Islamic terrorism and Muslims' anger at perceived insults against their faith.The Islamic Ummah (community) is moving in a moderate direction and almost on a progressive path, we're all moving in the same path, said Cumber, who was appointed by President George W. Bush last month.Cumber said the risk from religious bigotry and extremism came not so much from a clash of civilizations, as from a clash of ignorance on the part of Muslims to learn more about America and us, the Americans, to learn more about Islam.Muslim leaders acknowledged the challenge.We the Kings and heads of state and governments of the OIC renew our pledge to work harder to make sure Islam's true image is better projected the world over ... to combat an Islamophobia with designs to distort our religion, their communique said.The summit called on wealthy member states to finance a $10 billion solidarity fund aimed at fighting poverty, especially in Africa. Only $2.6 billion has been contributed so far, to the disappointment of African leaders.
If it's true that we belong to the same community ... then we should be showing more solidarity to each other, Guinea's prime minister, Lansana Kouyate, told reporters. But the summit approved a project to build a railway stretching across the continent from Senegal to Sudan. One success on the sidelines of the summit was a peace agreement between Sudan and Chad, meant to end cross-border rebel attacks in a region that includes Sudan's war-torn Darfur. But Chadian rebels said they would fight on regardless. After days of difficult negotiations, OIC leaders approved a new charter to give a more active role to the body, which has in the past been accused of failing to back up words with actions. (Additional reporting by Alistair Thomson, Emmanuel Braun and Gabriela Matthews; Writing by Nick Tattersall and Pascal Fletcher; Editing by Jon Boyle) (For full Reuters Africa coverage and to have your say on the top issues, visit: http://africa.reuters.com/)
TROUBLE IN THE HOLY LAND
Hamas terrorists brag of hiding behind kids Palestinian people have developed methods of death and death-seeking' March 13, 2008
10:19 pm Eastern 2008 WorldNetDaily
Hamas MP Fathi Hammad
A prominent member of Hamas, a recognized terrorist group, has been captured on video boasting of using women, children and the elderly as human shields in its firefights with Israeli soldiers.WND reported at the time, just two weeks ago that the Israeli government had described Hamas' use of human shields as Israel pressed ahead with its battles against rocket-fire from Gaza into Israel.Israel launched ground and air assaults on Hamas positions in Gaza following massive rocket bombardments of Jewish cities by Palestinian terrorists at the end of February and early March.Hamas had been firing long-range Grad rockets at the strategic port city of Ashkelon, home to about 125,000 Israelis. Ashkelon houses a major electrical plant that powers most of the Gaza Strip.During the fighting, focused largely on the minor Hamas infrastructure in the city of Jabaliya about one mile into the Gaza Strip, an Israeli commander speaking to WND Jerusalem Bureau Chief Aaron Klein from inside Gaza said Hamas has been drawing Israeli forces into populated civilian areas, shooting at Jewish fighters from occupied civilian homes while women and children were inside.Now a video posted by the Middle East Media Research Institute revealS Hamas MP Fathi Hammad boasting of using such human shields.
The video, which was aired on Al-Aqsa TV on Feb. 29, revealed Hammad saying the enemies of Allah do not know that the Palestinian people has developed its [methods] of death and death-seeking. For the Palestinian people, death has become an industry, at which women excel, and so do all the people living on this land.The elderly excel at this, and so do the mujahideen and the children. This is why they have formed human shields of the women, the children, the elderly, and the mujahideen, in order to challenge the Zionist bombing machine, he continued. It is as if they were saying to the Zionest enemy: We desire death like you desire life.
WND earlier reported on once case in which Hamas sent a 10-year old boy into the battlefield in full view of the Israeli military to remove a gun from a felled terrorist and then pass the weapon to another terrorist. The commander at the scene said he ordered his troops to halt their fire as the Israeli military watched the boy remove and then transfer the weapon to another gunman.Another commander speaking to WND said Hamas snipers used the windows of a Jabiliya house that was clearly occupied by women and children to shoot at his unit.The aim is to draw us into killing civilians to bring about international pressure to end our operation, the commander said, speaking on condition his name be withheld due to Israeli military restrictions on media interviews by fighting forces.MEMRI is an independent, non-profit organizations that translates and analyzes the media of the Middle East.
LIKE I ALWAYS SAY ISLAM IS SUCH A PEACEFUL RELIGION THAT THEY ABUSE THEIR WOMEN AND CHILDREN. SOME PEACEFUL RELIGION.
WHISTLEBLOWER MAGAZINE
DEATH CULT How radical Islam abuses women and children March 06, 2008 11:00 pm Eastern 2008 WorldNetDaily
Almost everyone agrees that there's nothing more beautiful than a young child – the brightness of spirit, the innocence, the natural intelligence are breathtaking.What, then, possesses an angelic little girl to chant confidently in front of television cameras: When I wander into Jerusalem, I will become a suicide bomber? Or a little boy to exclaim: We will destroy the chair of the despots, so they will taste the flame of death? What has happened to these children in their earliest, most vulnerable and tender years to poison their souls and set many on the path ultimately to madness and murder? What goes on in their homes, schools and mosques that induces them to strap on explosive belts and kill themselves and countless unsuspecting innocents in a pizza parlor?
How, after growing up in a home with a mother and father and brothers and sisters, can a young man suddenly stab his own sister to death – knifing her not just once or twice, but dozens and dozens of times, like a maniacal serial murderer – just because she supposedly held hands or was seen in public with a male who wasn't a relative? In a spine-straightening investigative report titled CHILD SACRIFICE, WND's acclaimed Whistleblower magazine shines a 1,000-watt spotlight on the mind-numbing barbarism of radical Islam.
Subtitled, How the Islamist death cult is destroying a generation of youth, this groundbreaking edition unveils shocking insight into what's really behind:Reports of children's television programs that feature demonic clones of Mickey Mouse, Sesame Street characters and other kids' favorites, in which the lovable stars teach children lies, hatred and murder.Reports of rape victims being flogged and imprisoned, as when a Saudi court recently sentenced a 20-year-old female victim, who had been gang-raped by seven men, to 200 lashes and six months in prison for the crime of being in a car with a man not her husband, brother, or father. (Thanks to intense international pressure, Saudi King Abdullah finally pardoned the rape victim.)Reports of sermons delivered by top Islamic clerics openly calling for mass murder, such as this one by Dr. Ahmad Abu Halabita, former acting rector of the Islamic University in Gaza: O brother believers, the criminals, the terrorists, are the Jews, who have butchered our children, orphaned them, widowed our women and desecrated our holy places and sacred sites. They are the terrorists. They are the ones who must be butchered and killed, as Allah the Almighty said: Fight them: Allah will torture them at your hands, and will humiliate them and will help you to overcome them, and will relieve the minds of the believers ... Have no mercy on the Jews, no matter where they are, in any country. Fight them, wherever you are. Wherever you meet them, kill them. Wherever you are, kill those Jews and those Americans who are like them …
Reports – perhaps 5,000 every year, according to the U.N. – of honor killings in which fathers, brothers or mothers brutally murder their own daughter/sister merely for being seen in public with a male or similar offense. For example, two Jordanian brothers used axes to hack to death their two sisters, aged 20 and 27, in an honor killing after the older sister left home to marry a man without her family's permission. Her younger sister later ran away to join her. It was a brutal scene, one official said, according to the Jordan Times. One victim's head was nearly cut clean off.
Reports of young girls tortured and raped into converting to Islam. Mary, an 18-year-old Egyptian girl, was brutally abducted, raped and held captive for nine months by Islamic kidnappers who poured sulfuric acid on her wrist to remove the tattooed cross she wore as a statement of her Christian faith. Along with enduring the sexual abuse, she was required to fast, pray and memorize portions of the Quran. Though at first she refused to wear the traditional Islamic veil, Mary later told reporters, They warned me that if I removed it they would throw acid on my face. Eventually, under unbearable pressure and abuse from her captors, she signed official papers of conversion to Islam. Reports of maniacal religious police, such as those in Saudi Arabia who on March 11, 2002, allowed 15 young girls to die horrible deaths when a fire broke out in their school in Mecca. The religious police literally stopped firefighters from saving the girls because they weren't dressed in the proper Islamic way for girls and women to be seen outdoors. With helpless firemen watching, the religious police literally beat the girls – those who were not wearing their headscarves or abayas – back into the inferno.
This is full-fledged, criminally pathological madness, says WND and Whistleblower Managing Editor David Kupelian. It's rooted in a lethal combination of hatred and insane philosophy, both so deeply implanted and so massively reinforced that there is barely a person reading these words that can even begin to comprehend such extreme child abuse.
Issue highlights include:No more Islamo-fascist terror states! by Joseph Farah.Palestinian kids raised for war, documenting how children are taught to hate and desire to kill Jews through Sesame Street-type TV shows.Kindergarteners choose death for the sake of Allah – depicting how armed 5-year-old boys in camouflage and ski masks declare devotion to jihad. 6-year-old recruited as suicide bomber.Mickey Mouse promotes jihad, in which the Disney character's evil twin teaches kids to fight for Islam's world domination. Kids' hate letters win contest – profiling a competition rewarding the angriest hate-letters written by Palestinian school children. Pentagon sees 5 million child terrorists in Iraq – shocking report shows the next generation of children could join jihad if reconstruction efforts fail.Al-Qaida training young boys as terrorists – newly captured propaganda tapes reveal debauched strategy of recruiting, training children.Hi, my name is Ahmed and I want to be a suicide bomber by Aaron Klein, in which a recruited suicide bomber talks about serving Allah by blasting unbelievers to hell
Toddler terrorist touted by jihadis.Mom of martyr: Sacrifice more of my children.Understanding the Islamist death cult by David Kupelian, who explains why devout jihadists sacrifice their own children.Palestinian official: Women must martyr themselves, in which Islamic authorities praise females who make Jews – the brothers of apes and pigs – taste the bitterness of death.Mother sad daughter didn't carry out bombing, a shocking interview with the mother of a 21-year-old Palestinian arrested on her way to carry out suicide attack at hospital.Female suicide bombers: Why they do it by Marylou Barry.Honor killing survivor describes ordeal by Jamie Glazov, a heart-rending profile of the author of Burned Alive, who tells how her own family tried repeatedly to kill her
A tender story of death by stoning by Yagmur Dursun, a stunning eyewitness account of her own sister's execution by stoning for the crime of getting pregnant out of wedlock.Islam's abuse of women by Parvin Darabi, a devastating look at Islam's barbaric and inhumane treatment of the fairer sex.
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