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6/28/06

 

If you are unsaved, or unsure if you have eternal life, please go to our  "Road to Salvation" page now, and be sure before it is too late!  As long as you draw breath, you have to opportunity to know for SURE where you will spend eternity, but once you die, or the Lord returns at the end of the Great Tribulation, it will be too late... you will have made your choice by then!  Be blessed by all, and have a blessed, peaceful day in the Lord!

Today we have the following updates:

• Scriptures: "God's Promises & Answers", Chapter 20 (new chapter added every Monday)

• New article: Planet Earth's Wake Up Call by Hal Lindsey

• Today's Prayer Requests - Updates on my daughter and Karen Scott's aunt on Prayers for Illness, as well as a new request on the same page.

• New Recipe - "Festive Rice Pudding"

• Today's Cute Animal picture!

• June, 2006 - Monthly calendar

• Download Richard's SONGS of praise for free!!!

• Don Francisco MP3's [My goal in life is to get all the way through "He's Alive" without crying! <smiles>]

• My POETRY of praise for free!!!

• SHARING PAGE SITE MAP!!!

• My FAVORITE SCRIPTURES (categorized)

• HEBREW/AMERICAN CALENDAR

NEW FOR TODAY:

AMERICA:

• Life in an Islamist US
  In truth, though, most Americans have never thought about what it would mean if the terrorists really did win — if militant Islamists were to succeed in their quest for political control of the United States.

CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION:

• Chaplain faces punishment for gospel message
  Navy officer already subject to court-martial for 'praying in Jesus name'

EZEKIEL 38-39 PLAYERS:

• Iran's Ahmadinejad To Visit Iraq
  Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad is scheduled to pay a visit to Iraq in the near future to hold a meeting with his Iraqi counterpart Jalal Talebani.

• 'Russia to increase nuclear safety budget 10-fold'
  The increase to US$111 million in 2007 will go toward civilian nuclear and radiation safety programs, Atomic Energy Agency Chief Sergei Kiriyenko said.

ISRAEL HAPPENINGS:

• Israeli Forces Mass Near Gaza <- FEATURE!
  Israeli tanks and troops massed near Gaza on Tuesday for a threatened offensive against Palestinian militants as the government said it would target top Hamas leaders if an abducted soldier was not freed.

• Israeli Troops Enter Gaza; Bridges Hit
  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Israeli tanks and troops entered southern Gaza and planes attacked three bridges and knocked out electricity to the coastal strip early Wednesday, stepping up the pressure on Palestinian militants holding captive a 19-year-old Israeli soldier.

• Palestinians brace for Israeli invasion
  Palestinian bulldozers on Tuesday blocked roads in northern Gaza with sand piles, bracing for an Israeli invasion after the recent abduction of an Israeli soldier.

The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
(Isaiah 17:1)...

• US Ambassador To Israel: Soldier's Capture Problem Is In Damascus <- FEATURE!!!!!!!!!!!
  The US ambassador to Israel on Tuesday said that the problem behind the Israeli hostage crisis lay in Damascus, the home of Hamas's exiled political supreme Khaled Meshaal. Ambassador Richard Jones told reporters in Tel Aviv when asked about US reaction to the capturing of an Israeli soldier by Palestinian Resistance on Sunday "The problem is in Damascus and that's where I think we should focus the world's attention."

MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGHS:

• Colonoscopy: Not Just for Colon Cancer
  Virtual colonoscopy is being hailed as a life-saving diagnostic tool. In fact, a new study shows it's invaluable for spotting colon cancer. But now, it may also help diagnose other diseases ... And one man may owe his life to it.

• Detecting Coronary Artery Disease
  According to a report in the journal Radiology, cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can detect blocked arteries with 88-percent accuracy without the need for an invasive procedure.

• Hot Flashes Linked to Insomnia
  Hot flashes can be a frustrating part of life for menopausal women. Now, researchers say they have a related side effect to deal with -- insomnia.

• Possible Relief From Arthritis
  After a year of treatment, researchers found patients treated with rituximab had a reduction in their overall bone erosion as well as the narrowing of their joint spaces as compared to patients on a placebo.

• Slowing Scleroderma
  For patients with scleroderma, the prognosis is rarely encouraging. There may now be hope for this group. A study sponsored by the National Institutes of Health shows it may be possible to slow the deterioration caused by the disease.

• Targeting Arthritis
  Despite some controversy over its effectiveness, a new study supports the recommendation by the European League Against Rheumatism for the use of steroid injections to treat hip osteoarthritis (OA).

• The Upside of Coffee
  Good news for coffee drinkers. It appears your morning java may help reduce your risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

NATURAL DISASTERS:

• Tropical depression could form south of Carolinas: NHC
  At 7:30 a.m. EDT (1130 GMT), the NHC said a small low-pressure system could be forming that has the potential to develop into a tropical depression at any time as it moves north to north-northeastward at 15 to 20 miles per hour.

• Waters Swamp Government Buildings as East Coast Braces for More Heavy Rains
  The more than 7 inches of rain fell on the nation's capital in a 24-hour period Sunday and Monday, shutting down several federal buildings and closing some of the city's busiest tourist attractions just days before the Fourth of July weekend, and forecasters warned that more rain was likely every day this week.

• Wildfires Strand Grand Canyon Visitors, Scorch Nevada
  Lightning started a half-dozen new wildfires early Tuesday, adding to blazes that already had charred more than 50,000 acres of northern Nevada.

NEW WORLD ORDER/ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT:

• Dick Marty recommends a world legal order to combat terrorism <- FEATURE!
  What is needed to win the battle against terrorism, he proposed, is ''a world legal order, with the United States but built on sound values, especially those upheld by the Council of Europe''. European Commission Vice-President Franco Frattini welcomed the ''exemplary inter-European co-ordination'' that had been demonstrated here.

TERRORISM/TERRORISTS:

• Abbas to Haniyeh: Israel will target you if kidnapped soldier comes to harm
  Exiled Hamas leader says Palestinians should seize more soldiers

• California Port Shut Down Over Possible Terrorist Threat
  There was some discrepancy in the exact phrasing of the message. Berg said it read: "This nitro is for you Mr. George W. Bush and your Jewish cronies." Federal authorities said it read: "Nitro + glycerin my gift for G. W. Bush and his Jewish gang."

• Hamas, Fatah Reach Deal On Plan That Implicitly Recognizes Israel <- If you believe this, I have a bridge to sell you!
  The rival Hamas and Fatah movements agreed on a plan implicitly recognizing Israel, a top Palestinian official said Tuesday after weeks of acrimonious negotiations aiming to lift crippling international aid sanctions.

• Palestinian factions sign unity document
  Palestinian sources say Fatah, Hamas representative sign agreement based on prisoners document

NEW FOR YESTERDAY:

2 TIMOTHY 3:

• Gay Pride Parades Held Across Nation
  Hundreds of thousands of raucous parade-goers took to the streets from New York to San Francisco on Sunday for annual gay pride parades, just weeks after an attack on a popular gay singer in New York and the 25th anniversary of the start of the AIDS epidemic.

• Students names, social security numbers captured by GOOGLE... <- FEATURE!
  In short, schools say Google grabbed information they shouldn’t have.

• Transvestite gang pesters Magazine Street
  Davis said it wasn’t supposed to be like this. They survived Hurricane Katrina’s Category 3 winds and the ensuing looters. They reopened despite the long odds of doing business in a devastated city. The last thing the Magazine Street shop owners expected to threaten their survival was a crime ring of transvestites.

GLOBALIZATION:

• Mexican trucks to enter U.S. freely? <- FEATURE!
  Bush administration refuses to answer WND's questions

ISRAEL HAPPENINGS:

• Israel 'Will Ensure Hamas Govt Toppled' If soldier Slain
  Israel will work to ensure the Hamas-led government falls if a soldier kidnapped by Palestinian militants is not released alive, a high-ranking security official said.

• Israeli Tanks Awaiting Orders To Attack Gaza
  The Israeli Prime Minister said this morning that he was ready to give the go-ahead for a full scale military operation against Gaza to free an Israeli soldier kidnapped by Palestinian militants.

• Return of the partner
  Sharon invested the best of his final years in politics in selling the idea that the PA has been eliminated as a partner to the disengagement plan, and here Ehud Olmert is going as far as Petra to shake hands with the Palestinian chairman.

• The 3rd Option: Jews Can Become Residents of PA State <- FEATURE!
  PM Ehud Olmert briefly acknowledged Thursday a new option for residents of Yesha communities on the chopping block: Remain to become new citizens of the Palestinian Authority.

LAST DAYS DELUSIONS:

• Lab tuned to gravity's 'ripples'
  The Hanover lab is trying to detect the ripples created in the fabric of space-time that sweep out from merging black holes or exploding stars. Success would confirm fundamental physical theories and open a new window on the Universe, enabling scientists to probe the moment of creation itself.  

MARK OF THE BEAST PRECURSOR:

• Children to be given electronic identity cards
  Brussels: Electronic identity cards for all children under 12 are to be introduced in Belgium. They will bear a code designed to allow parents of missing children to be traced instantly.

MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGHS:

• Better Approach to Colon Cancer <- FEATURE!
  Some colon cancer patients may soon be spared unnecessary chemotherapy thanks to a new study out of the John Wayne Cancer Institute in Santa Monica, California. Researchers say the answer is in the lymph nodes.

• Blood Transfusion Safety
  Each year about 350,000 coronary artery bypass graft surgeries are performed. For those patients who have repeat procedures, blood transfusions are routine. Now, doctors are asking how safe it is to use blood that has been sitting on a shelf for those procedures.

• Clearer MRI
  Every photographer knows it's difficult to take a clear picture if your subject won't sit still. For doctors, clear images are not only essential tools for diagnosing patients, but critical road maps that guide them through surgery. Now a new invention is helping doctors get the clearest images possible.

• Exercise for Serious Illnesses
  "One of the things that they told me was to not exercise because it would overheat you," Pooser says. But new research shows exercise may actually strengthen patients with illnesses like these.

• Implants Help Sleep Apnea -- In-Depth Doctor's Interview <- FEATURE!
  When you sleep, you breathe through your nose and mouth. When you have sleep apnea, you can't breathe through your nose or mouth. The airway's closed. Your body tries to get a breath and no oxygen goes in.

• In-Vitro More Cost-Effective Than Artificial Insemination
  For some couples trying to get pregnant, in-vitro fertilization may actually be more cost-effective than artificial insemination. A new study from researchers in England reports the less-expensive option, artificial insemination, must be repeated many times for some couples, making it more expensive.

• Tick-Tock! How Fast is Your Clock?
  The biological clock ticks for every woman. How fast or how slow it goes is different for each one of them. Now there's a new way for women to know if they're running out of time, before it's too late to have children.

NATURAL DISASTERS:

• Roads, Rails, Federal Offices Deluged
  A rare tropical deluge that began Sunday and could continue through midweek unleashed floods that swamped homes and highways, closed several federal buildings in Washington and forced some people to swim for their lives.

RUMORS OF WAR:

• U.S. May Deploy Missiles in Japan
  The United States plans to deploy advanced Patriot missiles at its facilities in southern Japan by the end of the year, a Japanese newspaper reported today. The U.S. government notified Japan this month that it would deploy the surface-to-surface Patriot Advanced Capability-3 missiles in Japan for the first time, amid signs that North Korea plans to test-fire a ballistic missile, Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper reported.

STRANGE EARTH SIGNS:

• Glaciers are melting at their fastest rate for 5,000 years <- FEATURE!
  Mountain glaciers are melting faster now than at any time in the past 5,000 years because of an unprecedented period of global warming, a study has found.

STRANGE HEAVENLY SIGNS:

• Huge Asteroid to Fly Past Earth July 3 <- FEATURE!
  An asteroid possibly as large as a half-mile or more in diameter is rapidly approaching the Earth. There is no need for concern, for no collision is in the offing, but the space rock will make an exceptionally close approach to our planet early on Monday, July 3, passing just beyond the Moon's average distance from Earth.

TERRORISM/TERRORISTS:

• Palestinians: Chemical warfare if Israel invades Gaza
  But terrorist sources admit current toxic arsenal 'primitive'

• Possible Terror Threat Closes Calif. Port
  Federal authorities said the message was written in English and read: "Nitro + glycerin my gift for G. W. Bush and his Jewish gang."

Have a blessed, peaceful day in the Lord!  Peg.

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