New items have been added to my Daily Update pages for Wednesday morning, located here:

http://www.his-forever.com/daily_update_09_27_06.htm
 

 

and are as follows:

2 TIMOTHY 3:

Nigeria campus gang beheads student, hacks another

A Nigerian campus gang chopped off the head of one student, hacked another to death and injured another before burying all three in a shallow grave, police said on Tuesday.

AMERICA:

Chevron, Los Alamos team up to develop oil shale <- FEATURE!

Thirty years after quitting one of America's most promising yet costly energy resources, Chevron Corp. wants to take another crack at unlocking shale oil from difficult rock formations in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.

EUROPEAN UNION:

EU: No New Members Until Constitution Resolved

The European Union's chief on Monday said no more countries should join the bloc - after Romania and Bulgaria - until the EU has decided what to do with its stalled constitution.

EZEKIEL 38-39 PLAYERS:

EU, Iran Close To Deal For Nuclear Talks: Report

Iran is close to a deal that would include a temporary suspension of uranium enrichment and clear the way for nuclear talks but Tehran wants to keep the agreement secret, The Washington Times reported on Tuesday.

Russia to deliver 80 tons of fuel to Iran NPP - Atomstroiexport
Russia and Iran signed Tuesday a supplementary agreement on the delivery of 80 metric tons of nuclear fuel to a nuclear power plant in southern Iran in March 2007, the head of Russia's nuclear exporter said.

ISRAEL HAPPENINGS:

Discoveries -

Archaeologist claims Jerusalem treasure mystery solved <- FEATURE!

Times Online reports that a specialist on the Holy Land, Sean Kingsley, claims to have traced the historical route of the collection, which is widely regarded as the greatest of biblical treasures and includes silver trumpets that were meant to herald the Coming of the Messiah.

NATURAL DISASTERS:

Catastrophic hydrothermal mudslide could last 100 years, say scientists

Mud, gas and boiling water that have been gushing out of the ground in East Java since May, submerging half a dozen villages and 20 factories, could continue for a century with "catastrophic consequences", European experts said yesterday. Efforts to seal the channels through which the mud is escaping are unlikely to succeed, and it is impossible to tell how much fluid remains underground, according to a University of Oslo geology team.

Gongo WildFires leave 10,000 homeless

Weekend Storms, Flooding Leave 13 Dead

PLAGUES:

29th Suspected Case of Mad Cow in Japan

Bird flu's spread around the globe

Giant Jumping Rats' Numbers Get Big Bounce In Madagascar
The rats, which can launch themselves three feet (a meter) into the air with their kangaroolike hind legs, were predicted in 2001 to become extinct on the African island by 2025.

NIGER: Cholera epidemic follows floods

SCIENCE:

Creepy "Shadow Person" Effect Conjured by Brain Shocks <- FEATURE!

The discovery could help scientists unravel the brain processes behind delusions of paranoia, persecution, and alien control.

STRANGE EARTH SIGNS:

Germany: global warming back on G8 agenda

Global Temperature Highest in Millennia
The Earth has been warming at a rate of 0.36 degree Fahrenheit per decade for the last 30 years, according to the research team led by James Hansen of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York.

Greenland's Ice Melt Grew by 250 Percent, Satellites Show <- FEATURE!
If all the ice on Greenland were to melt into the North Atlantic Ocean, scientists estimate that global sea levels would rise by 23 feet (7 meters).

Pundits contest climate change

Scientists Issue Strongest Coral Warning
Waters have reached 85.5 degrees around the U.S. Virgin Islands and 85.1 degrees around Puerto Rico - temperatures at which coral can be damaged if waters do not cool after a few weeks - said Al Strong, a scientist with the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Coral Reef Watch, in a telephone interview Monday.

TERRORISM/TERRORISTS:

Hamas And Fatah Call Off Unity Talks

Rivals Hamas and Fatah called off top-level talks Monday on forming a Palestinian unity government that might ease crippling international sanctions, the latest indication of difficulties in bridging their ideological differences.

Suicide bomb kills 18 in south Afghanistan
A suicide bomb killed 18 people outside the governor's office in the southern Afghan province of Helmand on Tuesday, provincial officials said.

Taliban bombs in Afghanistan kill 20, including Italian

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Wednesday's article, "Is Turkey Changing Sides?" by Jack Kelley, will also be linked to the Daily Update page.
 

 

EXCERPT:

Turkey has been legitimately afraid that in return for Kurdish assistance in deposing Saddam Hussein (it was the Kurds who located Saddam and tipped off US troops) the US would permit at least unofficial attempts to establish a Kurdish homeland on land that Turkey claims. Turkey has maintained up to 20,000 troops on its border with Iraq to prevent such a move.

And in fact the US has been vacillating on the Kurdish issue, even publishing a map of the region showing the presence of a Kurdish entity. US officials later claimed it didn't accurately reflect US policy. Turkey is skeptical.

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I pray you are blessed by all, and that you have a blessed day in the Lord!

YSIY!
Peggy
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