KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.
An Israel-Hater Heads to the U.N.
On Wednesday, President Obama
nominated
Samantha Power to be US Ambassador to the United Nations. Power has
“been a relentless advocate for American interests and values, building
partnerships on behalf of democracy and human rights, fighting the
scourge of anti-Semitism and combating human trafficking,” the president
contended. Power’s
record, however, tells a much different tale. Power is, unsurprisingly, not only a radical leftist who
believes America is evil and owes the world an apology, but someone with an egregious history of antipathy directed towards Israel.
In a March 2003
article
for the New Republic, Power engaged in the typically leftist
denigration of the United States, characterizing American foreign policy
as “an explicitly amoral enterprise.” She bemoaned the fact that
America’s “exceptionalist impulses,” had been “with us for a long time,”
and that they animated George W. Bush’s “militant moralism.” She was
further lamented that such “militant moralism” was left unchecked by
Congress, due in large part to the fact that America no longer sustained
enough war casualties to animate their concern “thanks to U.S.
technological supremacy.”In the same New Republic piece, Power reveals her true disdain for
the US “criminal” foreign policy: “U.S. foreign policy,” she said,needs not tweaking but overhauling. We need: a historical
reckoning with crimes committed, sponsored, or permitted by the United
States…A country has to look back before it can move forward.
Instituting a doctrine of the
mea culpa would enhance our credibility by showing that American decision-makers do not endorse the sins of their predecessors.
In 2009, Obama did exactly what Power recommended, and apologized to the Arab world for America’s “sins.” In 2011, the
Washington Post revealed
how well that approach worked out. “In most countries surveyed,
favorable attitudes toward the United States dropped to levels lower
than they were during the last year of the Bush administration,” the
paper reported.Power’s attitude towards Israel is also alarming and destructive. In
2001, she attended the United Nations’ World Conference Against Racism,
held in Durbin, South Africa. She remained there after the U.S. withdrew
most of its diplomatic participation, when it became apparent the
gathering would amount to little more than a platform for anti-American,
anti-Israel, and anti-Semitic tirades.
A
year later,
Power was interviewed by Harry Kreisler of Berkeley’s Institute of
International Studies. He asked Power to engage in a “thought
experiment” about how she would advise the president “to put a structure
in place” with regard to the Palestine-Israel problem to “monitor the
situation,” if one party or the other was “moving towards genocide.”Power appears quite comfortable with the obviously loaded question,
never once acknowledging that Kreisler was making no distinction between
the Palestinians, who were in the midst of waging an intifada against
Israel, and Israel’s right to defend itself from annihilation. After
noting there was an abundance of information that didn’t necessitate
some sort of “early warning mechanism,” Power insisted the United States
needed “a willingness to actually put something on the line in the
service of helping the situation. And putting something on the line
might mean alienating a domestic constituency of tremendous political
and
financial import.”The domestic constituency is plainly Jewish Americans. This
description in particular reveals Power’s sympathy with stereotypes of
Jewish
wealth and power. Yet
Power showed an even greater and darker anti-Semitic streak in the
followup, essentially advocating an invasion of Israeli territory on
behalf of the Palestinians to protect them from “major human rights
abuses”:It may mean, more crucially, sacrificing, or
investing I think more than sacrificing, literally billions of dollars, not in servicing Israel’s military but actually investing in the new state of Palestine; in investing
billions of dollars it would probably take also to support I think what
will have to be a mammoth a protection force—not of the old Srebrenica
kind or of the Rwanda kind, but a meaningful military presence. Because
it seems to me at this stage—and this is true of actual genocides as
well and not just major human rights abuses which we’re seeing
there—that is that you have to go in as if you’re serious, you have to
put something on the line.In a further cementing of her twisted moral equivocation, Power
describes terrorist leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon (who made tremendous concessions to the belligerent Arab
Palestinians), as morally comparable; as two men “politically destined
to destroy the lives of their own people,” and “dreadfully
irresponsible.”Power and her supporters
claim those remarks were taken out of context. Yet in 2003, a quote by Power contained in the book “Ethnic Violence and Justice,”
demonstrates a reflexive antipathy towards Israel as well. Power asks David Rohde, a
New York Times reporter who covered the intifada, the following question: I was struck by a headline that accompanied a news story on the publication of the
Human Rights Watch
report. The headline was, I believe: “Human Rights Report Finds
Massacre Did Not Occur in Jenin.” The second paragraph said, “Oh, but
lots of war crimes did.” Why wouldn’t they make the war crimes the
headline and the non-massacre the second paragraph?”In other words, despite the reality that the so-called Jenin massacre never happened, Power thought the
Times should juxtapose its headline to show that Israel was still guilty of war crimes.In a 2004 review of radical leftist Noam Chomsky’s book
Hegemony or Survival,
Power agreed with many of his criticisms of American’s foreign policy,
and lumped Israel with Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Pakistan, Russia, and
Uzbekistan in references to the “sins of our allies in the war on
terror.”Then in 2007, when Power was a professor at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, she
gave
an interview that has been scrubbed from the school’s website. “Another
longstanding foreign policy flaw is the degree to which special
interests dictate the way in which the ‘national interest’ as a whole is
defined and pursued…” Power contended.America’s important historic relationship with Israel has often led
foreign policy decision-makers to defer reflexively to Israeli security
assessments, and to replicate Israeli tactics which, as the war in
Lebanon last summer demonstrated, can turn out to be counter-productive.In addition to appealing to conspiracy theories of tiny Israel’s
control of US foreign policy, Power completely ignores the reality that
the “counter-productive” war in Lebanon was
precipitated
by Hezbollah in a cross-border assault, during which eight Israeli
soldiers were killed and two captured. Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan
Nasrallah admitted
the operation had been planned for months.In 2008, Power released a book,
Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira De Mello and the Fight to Save the World, a
biography
of the UN official killed in Baghdad in a 2003 terrorist bombing. When a
UN force sent to Lebanon in 1982 to stop a series of attacks emanating
from a mini-state created by the PLO in that country proved ineffective,
Israel forces remained there as well. Power argued that:Israeli forces refused to comply with the spirit of international demands to withdraw and the major powers on the
Security Council
were not prepared to deal with the gnarly issues that had sparked the
Israelis invasion in the first place: dispossessed Palestinians and
Israeli insecurity.Again, Power implied moral equivalency by ignoring the reality that Israel went into Lebanon to
destroy
a terrorist infrastructure on the Lebanese-Israeli border that had
attacked IDF forces and the Israeli communities near the border.Also in 2008, Power wrote a
Time magazine
column belittling concerns about Iran’s nuclear
program, characterizing it as a figment of George W. Bush’s imagination. And again in that same year, she completely
disavowed her 2002 “thought experiment” in an interview with
Miftah.org.,
a pro-Palestine sovereignty website. “Even I don’t understand it,” she
says. “This makes no sense to me. The quote seems so weird.”Power’s nomination as the US Ambassador to the UN make perfect sense,
of course, for an Obama administration that has made it clear there is
precious little in the way of moral clarity with regard to its
relationship with Israel, even as the disaster of the Arab Spring
threatens to destabilize the region in a manner that may pose an
unprecedented level of danger to the Jewish State.The last thing America needs is another representative willing to see the entire world, including Israel
and
the United States, in morally relative terms. Power’s clear disdain for
American exceptionalism is more than enough to disqualify her for the
job of UN Ambassador. Our enemies have no such misgivings about who they
are and what they want—and what they are willing to do to get it.
Surveillance & Intimidation by the Obama regime
The most important words I have written
4 June 2013: I have
been outspoken about Barack Hussein Obama (a/k/a Barry Soetoro) and his
list of lies and deception, but have not limited my investigation and
criticism to him or his administration alone. I have, however, reported
extensively on the murderous attacks at Benghazi and the entanglement of
lies involved in that attack. I have spoken to and interviewed
government whistle blowers, and now they are in danger. I have
developed certain contacts in the press, all which will remain
undisclosed. I will state, however, that some of my press contacts are
related to a certain “scandal” that has made national and international
news. While that “scandal” (read CRIME) is still percolating just below
the surface, too few have done and said too little.
Suddenly – without breaking any laws
whatsoever, in my quest for truth, I find myself in a rather
“uncomfortable” position – a situation that has pretty large
fingerprints and dire potential consequences for ALL journalists,
citizen journalists, bloggers, and ANYONE who is simply seeking the
truth. On the advice of counsel already contacted, I have been
instructed not to say much. Yet. But I will not be muzzled, nor shall
the truth.
Folks, we are at war… a war for the very
freedoms men and women before us have died. My search for the truth
will not be stopped by the Chicago mob, the Washington mob, or any other
criminal enterprise. YOUR freedoms are at stake. YOUR Constitutional
rights are at stake. It’s time to wake up and wake others up to what is
happening around them – around you… and soon, TO you.
More will follow… you can take that to the bank, err, I mean your mattress.
The Obama administration which treats its own citizens as peons has finally arrived at the overreach pinnacle
From Verizon’s ‘Can you hear me now’ to NSA’s “Yes, every eavesdropped word”
When “Big Brother is Watching You” was the cold war mantra of
the day, there were no cellphones, no iPads, no
satellite communications of any kind in the hands of the unwashed masses.
Today Big Brother is not watching you, he’s stalking and harassing you—right in the place you call home.
There’s nowhere to hide; nowhere to run to and no one to turn to in a
world where a government that has learned how to slip being held
accountable has all the tools on its side.Ask Canada Free Press (CFP) senior columnist Doug Hagmann of the
Hagmann-Hagmann radio show, a private investigator with 30 years
experience who’s been chasing down the truth for most of his adult life.
On May 30, Hagmann, who has since made a
sworn affidavit, had a third-party listening in—and apparently recording—a
telephone conversation he was having with a media colleague when he was started to see on his telephone caller ID screen: “
UT NSA DATA REC CTR”.The “
UT NSA DATA REC CTR” is, of course, the Utah
Data Center, a $2-billion (and still counting), 1.5-million square-ft.
facility on the outskirts of Salt Lake City in Bluffdale, Utah with
software that eavesdrops on the unsuspecting world.We don’t know how many readers understood when Hagmann colleague
Whistleblower author Marinka Peschmann took to the front page of CFP to write about
Hagmann being dragged into the Utah Data Center dragnet.CFP editors were hoping that other news sites would clue in to the story.Two days of stony silence followed, perplexing both writer and editor.Then today came the story from a British newspaper:
NSA collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily. This is one story that should have people up in arms worldwide, for
it is not only the U.SA. where the out-of-control Obama administration
is abusing private citizens’ privacy rights but that of the outside
world.“While the NSA (National Security Agency) has offered no specifics about the Utah Data Center’s operations, a 2012
Wired magazine article, citing former intelligence and NSA officials said computers at the data center will collect
electronic information—from emails to
cellphone records to purchasing receipts—
from all over the world—store it and look for threatening patterns.” (Emphasis CFP’s) So that there’s no mistaking who the bad guys are here, the Utah
facility for the three-times-bigger-than-CIA National Security Agency
went into construction shortly after Barack Obama’s first election in
January of 2010.Here’s hoping that the Guardian, the British newspaper that broke
today’s story will not make Verizon, which now has millions of U.S.
customers with compromised privacy a household word, because it is NSA
working round-the-clock at the Utah Center that should go down in
infamy.
Some news stories on the collection of
the phone records
of millions of U.S. Verizon customers are already dragging in the
“protecting the nation from terrorist threats to the U.S.” theory “as it
allows counterterrorism personnel to discover whether known or
suspected terrorists have been in contact with other persons who may be
engaged in terrorist
activities, particularly people located inside the United States.” (Fox News June 6, 2013) But the entire emphasis of the DHS and its agencies since 9/11 has
been branding American citizens including returning war vets as
terrorists rather than radical jihadists.According to the Guardian, the Obama administration has been collecting the phone records of millions of U.S. customers of Verizon under a top secret court order.“The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records
of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America’s largest
telecoms providers, under a top secret court order issued in April. (The
Guardian, June 6, 2013) “The order, a copy of which has been obtained by the Guardian,
requires Verizon on an “ongoing, daily basis” to give the NSA
information on all telephone calls in its systems, both within the US and between the US and other countries.“The document shows for the first time that under the Obama administration the communication records
of millions of US citizens are being collected indiscriminately and in
bulk – regardless of whether they are suspected of any wrongdoing.
“The secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (Fisa) granted
the order to the FBI on April 25, giving the government unlimited
authority to obtain the data for a specified three-month period ending
on July 19.
The court order expressly bars Verizon from disclosing to the public
either the existence of the FBI’s request for its customers’ records, or the court order itself.“We decline comment,” said Ed McFadden, a Washington-based Verizon spokesman.“The order, signed by Judge Roger Vinson, compels Verizon to produce to the NSA electronic copies of “all call detail records
or ‘telephony metadata’ created by Verizon for communications between
the United States and abroad” or “wholly within the United States,
including local telephone calls”.“The order directs Verizon to “continue production on an ongoing
daily basis thereafter for the duration of this order”. It specifies
that the records to be produced include “session identifying
information”, such as “originating and terminating number”, the duration
of each call, telephone
calling card
numbers, trunk identifiers, International Mobile Subscriber Identity
(IMSI) number, and “comprehensive communication routing information”.The Obama administration, which treats its own citizens as peons, has finally arrived at the overreach pinnacle. Millions of people going about their daily business far away from
Washington, DC would argue that Obama and his agencies have no right
spying on the lives of private citizens no matter how self-important
they perceive themselves.Perhaps Obama’s arrival at the pinnacle of overreach comes with a
silver lining: American patriots fighting him for five years are no
longer alone.
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ISRAEL SATAN COMES AGAINST
1 CHRONICLES 21:1
1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
ISRAELS TROUBLE
JEREMIAH 30:7
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble;(ISRAEL) but he shall be saved out of it.
DANIEL 12:1,4
1 And at that time shall Michael(ISRAELS WAR ANGEL) stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people:(ISRAEL) and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation(May 14,48) even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,(WORLD TRAVEL,IMMIGRATION) and knowledge shall be increased.(COMPUTERS,CHIP IMPLANTS ETC)
Concern after UN Golan Pullout: Hizbullah on Two Fronts?
After UN force pulls out of Golan, a security source says Hizbullah and jihadists might make trouble.
By Arutz Sheva-First Publish: 6/6/2013, 7:03 PM-Israelnationalnews
UNIFIL and IDF in Lebanon (file)-Flash 90
Syrian rebels on Thursday briefly seized
the only crossing along the Israel-Syria ceasefire line on the Golan,
before regime forces recaptured it using tanks, an AFP correspondent and Israeli sources said.
A security source told
AFP that Israel is worried by the
latest developments on the border, which could lead to a situation in
which Israel faces Hizbullah on the Syrian front as well as the Lebanese
one.The fighting took place at the Quneitra crossing and the nearby
village of the same name in the demilitarized zone between the Israeli
and Syrian parts of the strategic plateau.The clashes were very close to the headquarters of a UN peacekeeping
force, prompting Austria to announce it was withdrawing its troops from
the mission."The Syrian army has recovered control of the crossing," an Israeli security source told
AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity.An
AFP correspondent near the crossing also confirmed that
forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad had retaken Quneitra, saying
he could see regime tanks
moving inside the area.
Quneitra is the only crossing point between Syria and the Israeli
side of the Golan Heights which the Jewish state liberated during the
1967 Six-Day War.The Israeli military earlier confirmed that the crossing and the nearby town of the same name had fallen into rebel hands."We can confirm that opposition forces have overrun the town of Quneitra and the border post," said Captain Arye Shalicar.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based group that
monitors Syria's two-year conflict, had also confirmed the takeover.Following the clashes, in which two UN peacekeepers were slightly
injured, Austria announced it was withdrawing its 380 troops from the UN
Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) which has been monitoring the
ceasefire line since 1974."The Austrian army's participation in the UNDOF mission can no longer
be maintained for military reasons," an official statement said,
indicating the threat to its soldiers had "reached an unacceptable
level."The pullout will have a significant impact on the size of the UN
peacekeeping force, whose numbers dropped to around 900 in March after
Croatia became the latest country to withdraw its soldiers, following
similar moves by Canada and Japan.There was no immediate reaction from Israel which has long feared
that the violence could force UNDOF to completely pull out, leaving the
ceasefire zone open to infiltration by hardline militants."It is very worrying because on the one hand you have jihadists and
Islamists who are fighting there (with the rebels), and on the other
hand, you also have government forces which are allied with Hizbullah,"
said a security source of the Lebanese militia which has allied itself
with Assad's regime."We certainly don't want to have Hizbullah on two fronts," he said.Until now, Israel had no information suggesting Hizbullah forces were operating in the area, he added.But the army spokesman said they were watching the situation "very closely".“We have to be ready for any development," Shalicar told
AFP.The flareup prompted Israel to reinforce its military presence on the plateau, Israel's public radio said.Although the army refused to confirm the report,
AFP correspondents reported seeing tanks on
flatbed trucks in the Quneitra area.And Israel also lodged a formal
complaint with UNDOF over the entry of regime tanks into the demilitarized zone as they moved to retake Quneitra."A formal complaint was conveyed by the Israeli army to UNDOF
regarding the entrance of tanks to the non-military zone near Quneitra,"
a spokeswoman said.Also on Thursday, the army said three mortar rounds struck the central Golan Heights, causing no damage or injuries.And during the morning, two badly wounded Syrians were let in through
Quneitra and taken to Ziv hospital in the Galilee town of Safed.It was not clear whether they were rebels, government troops or
civilians, but Ziv hospital said that a "live hand grenade" had been
found on one of them, sparking a brief security scare."The grenade was found as doctors treated a seriously wounded and unconscious person," a hospital statement said."When they began removing his clothes they found the live grenade in his pocket."The area of the trauma room and the operating theater were both
evacuated but the grenade was quickly defused by bomb disposal experts,
it said.Syria remains formally at war with Israel and Quneitra crossing is
used almost exclusively by Druze residents from the Israeli-occupied
side who are allowed to cross over to study, work or get married.Israel controls some 1,200 square kilometers (460 sq miles) of the
strategic plateau, while around 510 square kilometers remain in Syrian
hands.
Report: S-300 Missiles Now on Their Way to Syria
A
report said that American intelligence units had observed Russian ships
on their way to Syria, possibly carrying S-300 missiles
By David Lev-First Publish: 6/6/2013, 11:04 AM-Israelnationalnews
Syria border-Israel news photo: Flash 90
Are S-300 missiles on their way to Syria right now? A report on CNN
Thursday said that American intelligence units had observed several
Russian warships on their way to Syria. The ships are currently in the
eastern Mediterranean, and information gathered by the intelligence
groups indicates that the ships are carrying parts for the S-300
missiles.According to the report, the U.S. has been keeping track of the
Russian ships for several days, ever since they left a military base in
Russia.
Satellite data indicates
that the ships are carrying cargo that appears to be suitable for use in
a weapons system, most likely the S-300.Several days ago,
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia had not yet begun shipping the missiles to Syria. However, in an
interview
on a Hizbullah-affiliated television channel last weekend, Syrian
President Bashar al-Assad hinted that Syria had already received some of
the missiles, the contract for which Damascus signed with Moscow
several years ago. In response, Russian officials said that the systems
had not yet been shipped to Syria.Earlier, the IDF verified reports Thursday morning that Syrian rebel
forces had conquered the Golan city of Kuneitra, placing them directly
on the border with Israel. IDF officials said that the takeover of the
area by rebel forces was a “significant development.”IDF officials have advised agricultural workers in the border area to
stay away from the border until the security situation can be
clarified. In addition, the road running near the border from the
southern to the northern Golan has been closed, in case fighting spills
over into Israel.
CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL 2ND WAVE OF WW3 (200 MILLION MAN ARMY)
REVELATION 16:12
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up,(AT THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY) that the way of the kings(CHINA,NORTH-SOUTH KOREA, of the east might be prepared.(THIS IS THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY,THEY CROSS OVER).
DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(4 WINDS OF THE WORLD-WORLDWIDE WAR)(TURKEY-IRAQ-SYRIA)(EUPHRATES RIVER CONSISTS OF 760 MILES IN TURKEY,440 MILES IN SYRIA AND 660 MILES IN IRAQ)
15 And the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels were loosed,(COULD ALSO MEAN THE 4 CORNERS OF THE EARTH OR WORLDWIDE WAR) which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
China frustration with NKorea offers hope for US
By MATTHEW PENNINGTON | Associated Press – 5 hrs ago JUNE 6,13
WASHINGTON (AP) — China's growing frustration with longtime ally North Korea
offers the United States a glimmer of hope about a once unthinkable
prospect: holding discussions between Washington and Beijing about what
to do if the government in Pyongyang collapses.There is no sign that the North Korean regime is in danger or that U.S. President Barack Obama
and Chinese President Xi Jinping will discuss that possibility when
they meet this week in California. Any such talk would alarm North Korea
if word got out.
But in China,
talk of a North Korean collapse is no longer the taboo subject it once
was. Academics are increasingly willing to discuss it and a former top
U.S. admiral said he has detected, during informal meetings, a
willingness of Chinese officials to consider such discussions.That reflects internal debate in China and dismay about North Korean
brinkmanship in the aftermath of rocket and nuclear tests this winter
that defied China, which supplies the North with crucial food, energy
and diplomatic support.Young North Korean leader Kim Jong Un appears to have consolidated
control since taking power a year-and-a-half ago, and the spike in
tension that followed its February nuclear test has eased in recent
weeks. But there's a perennial threat of fighting with South Korea on one of the world's most militarized frontiers. China would want to avoid any conflict that could draw in its forces from the North,
and U.S. forces from South Korea, as during the 1950-53 Korean War.
Both powers would be concerned about the fate of North Korea's arsenal
of chemical weapons, missiles and nuclear weapons and facilities.But China also has reason to fear a North Korean collapse. That could
trigger an exodus of hungry refugees across its border and lead to a
reunified Korea allied with the United States, hosting American troops
on China's doorstep.Analysts say that until Chinese leaders decide among themselves what
kind of outcome they are prepared to accept on the Korean Peninsula,
they won't discuss the subject with U.S. officials. Still, they see some
changes in China's attitude.
William Fallon,
a former chief of U.S. Pacific Command, said the U.S. and China would
have a shared interest in working together on North Korea and discussing
issues such as securing its nuclear weapons. He said that in unofficial
meetings in China this year with former and current Chinese government
and military officials, he raised that possibility in broad terms and
detected a willingness to consider it."I certainly suggested, and I know others have officially and
formally suggested that it's about time we sat down to talk because we
have common interest here," Fallon said. "I think that idea is not being
rejected. The heads are nodding and they are considering it. I would
expect that this would move forward, carefully."Such cooperation would require Beijing and Washington overcoming
deep, mutual suspicions that characterize their relations as China's
economic and military power grows and the U.S. looks to boost its
profile and long-established presence in Asia.But China is taking a tougher stance on North Korea, as the U.S.
hoped it would. It has supported tighter U.N. sanctions in response to
the February nuclear test and stepped up border inspections. Most
notably, a leading Chinese state bank shut accounts of North Korea's
Foreign Trade Bank, its main foreign exchange institution.Two weeks ago, China hosted a top North Korean envoy, a visit that
Brookings Institution scholar Cheng Li says was expedited in advance of
the U.S.-China summit that starts Friday. The North has since adopted a
less confrontational stance and declared a willingness to return to the
negotiating table.But the U.S. sees that as little progress by North Korea, noting that
the day after Vice Marshal Choe Ryong returned home, Pyongyang
repudiated the goal of denuclearization — a U.S. prerequisite for
restarting long-stalled aid-for-disarmament negotiations.While China is speaking out more against the North's nuclear
ambitions, it is not taking steps that could hasten the end of the Kim
regime, such as cutting supplies."Any chaos or armed conflict on the Korean Peninsula would have a
major impact on China's national security interests. We have to keep
that in mind all the time," China's ambassador to the U.S., Cui Tiankai,
told Foreign Policy magazine.While the more critical recent tone of Chinese scholars — and their
willingness to discuss once-forbidden issues like reunification — is
probably not the position of China's leaders, it reflects the
government's frustrations with North Korea and could be intended to send
a message for it not to push China too far, said former senior State
Department official Evans Revere.
China's own strategic interests have been affected by Pyongyang's
recent threats of pre-emptive nuclear strikes against the U.S. and its
allies. The U.S. scaled up military exercises with South Korea — staging
flights of nuclear-capable B-52 and B-2 bombers — and boosting its
missile defenses in China's backyard.
"The new Chinese leadership has been alarmed by how quickly North
Korea destabilized the entire region with its threats," said John Park, a
Northeast Asia expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
"It's presented them with a strategic dilemma."At unofficial talks on Northeast Asian security held in Germany last
week, government-linked Chinese academics signaled that Beijing's
long-held interest in maintaining stability at all costs in North Korea
is shifting, and it is putting increasing emphasis on denuclearization,
said Frank Jannuzi of Amnesty International USA, who attended the
conference.Yet the prospects for diplomacy remain bleak, if Pyongyang demands to
be treated as a nuclear power, and Washington insists on concrete signs
of the North's willingness to disarm before international negotiations
can restart."China feels they've done their part by convincing North Korea
to return to dialogue and now it's up to the U.S. and South Korea to do
their part and welcome them back," said Jannuzi, a former Asia policy
adviser to then Sen. John Kerry, now Washington's top diplomat. "They
feel like the ball is in our court."____Associated Press writer Charles Hutzler in Beijing contributed to this report
ISAIAH 17:1,12-14
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
12 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations,(USELESS U.N) that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14 And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not.(ASSAD) This is the portion of them that spoil us,(ISRAEL) and the lot of them that rob us.
JEREMEIAH 49:23-27
23 Concerning Damascus.(SYRIA) Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea;(WAR SHIPS WITH NUKES COMING ON SYRIA) it cannot be quiet.
24 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
27 And I will kindle a fire (NUKES OR BOMBS) in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.(ASSADS PALACES POSSIBLY IN DAMASCUS)
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 (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
JEREMIAH 47:1-7
1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines,(PALESTINIAN/ARABS) before that Pharaoh smote Gaza.
2 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north,(NORTHERN TSUNAMI POSSIBLY) and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.
3 At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses,(ISRAELS ARMY) at the rushing of his chariots, and at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to their children for feebleness of hands;(ISRAEL POSSIBLY NUKES GAZA)
4 Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines,(PALESTINIAN FAKE ARABS) and to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that remaineth: for the LORD will spoil the Philistines, the remnant of the country of Caphtor.
5 Baldness is come upon Gaza;(NUKED POSSIBLY) Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?
6 O thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.
7 How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD hath given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? (MEDITTERANEAN SEA) there hath he appointed it.
DANIEL 11:40-43
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south ( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS-MUSLIMS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them,(BEFORE THE NUKE GOES OFF) and behind them a desolate wilderness;(AFTER THE ATOMIC BOMB GOES OFF) yea, and nothing shall escape them.(EVERYTHING NUKED)
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,ARAB,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate,(SIBERIAN DESERT) 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.(FOR COMING AGAINST ISRAEL)
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.
JEREMIAH 8:7
7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times;(MIGRATION TIME) and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming;(IN MIGRATION SEASON) but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.(WW3 MIGRATING BIRDS EAT ISRAELS ENEMIES FLESH AND BLOOD)
Austria to quit U.N.'s Golan force over Syria violence
By Crispian Balmer | Reuters – 26 mins ago JUNE 6,13
By Crispian Balmer
BEIRUT (Reuters) -
Austria said on Thursday it would pull out of a
U.N. force on the
Golan Heights
after battles between Syrian troops and rebels there, in a blow to a
mission that has kept the Israeli-Syrian war front quiet for 40 years.
Israel
is anxious for the international mission to remain in place, worried
that the Golan will become a springboard for attacks on Israelis by
Islamist militants fighting to oust Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.But the departure of the Austrians, who make up about 380 of the 1,000-strong
United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (
UNDOF), threatens the whole operation."Austria has been a backbone of the mission, and their withdrawal
will impact the mission's operational capacity," said U.N. spokeswoman
Josephine Guerrero.Anti-Assad rebels briefly seized the sole crossing between Israel and
Syria
on Thursday morning, sending U.N. staff scurrying to their shelters,
before Syrian soldiers managed to push them back and reassert their
control of Quneitra.The rebel attack appeared to be an attempt to regain some momentum
after Assad's forces, backed up by well-trained Lebanese Hezbollah
guerrillas, on Wednesday seized control of Qusair, a town on a vital
supply route close to Lebanon.Pro-government troops have won a string of successes in recent
weeks, boosting Assad at a time when the United States and Russia are
struggling to organize a peace conference aimed at ending the civil war,
which has killed more than 80,000.Looking to ram home their victory, Assad's troops have turned their
fire on villages northeast of Qusair, where hundreds of rebels and
civilians were holed up, prompting one group of activists to issue a
desperate plea for rebel support."God has given us the strength to persevere, but until when only God
knows. We beg you to move as quickly as possible to rescue us," said a
message posted on social networking sites.Shortly afterwards, Syrian television announced that the army had
"restored security and stability" to one of the villages in its sights -
Debaa.France, which earlier this week accused Assad of deploying nerve gas
in the civil war, said on Wednesday the situation on the ground needed
to be "rebalanced" after the fall of Qusair, but did not say how that
could be achieved.Russia said on Thursday it was worried that allegations of gas attacks might be used as a pretext for foreign intervention."I do not rule out that somebody wants to use it to state that a red
line has been crossed and a foreign intervention is necessary," Russian
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told a news conference in Moscow with
his German and Finnish counterparts.
QUAGMIRE
Western countries have so far shown little appetite for getting
sucked into the Syrian conflict, but there is also a clear aversion to
letting Assad, heavily backed by Shi'ite Iran and their Hezbollah
associates, emerge victorious.France and Britain last month pushed the European Union to drop its
ban on arming the rebels, who are mainly Sunni Muslims. London and Paris
have not yet said if they plan to arm the fighters. They wanted the ban
lifted to apply pressure on Assad.The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said it was
negotiating with Syria to reach areas surrounding Qusair to deliver
medical assistance to the wounded. Humanitarian groups have estimated
that up to 1,500 people might need help."Today the conflict is extremely fragmented, and this is one of the biggest operational challenges for the ICRC," said
Robert Mardini, the head of ICRC operations in the Middle East.Qusair lies along a corridor through the central province of Homs,
linking the capital Damascus to the coastal heartland of Assad's
minority Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam.Many rebels and civilians fled the battered town early Wednesday,
heading to the villages of Debaa, 5 kilometers (3 miles) northeast, and
Buwayda, another 7 km in the same direction.
"We have a large number of civilians and wounded in Buwayda," said activist Mohammed al-Qusair.Russia, which has thrown its weight firmly behind Assad, to the
frustration of the West, cautioned Damascus on Thursday that the
conflict could only be resolved through diplomacy."The undoubted military success of the government forces should not
in our opinion be used by anyone to create the illusion about the
possibility of solving all the problems faced by Syria by force," the
foreign ministry said in a statement.With sectarian divisions widening in the region, the leader of Sunni
Islamist group Al Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahri, urged Syrians to unite
against Assad and thwart what he called U.S. plans to set up a client
state to safeguard Israel's security.Washington and its allies who have backed the rebels have become
alarmed in recent months by the rise of an increasingly powerful rebel
group that pledged its loyalty to al Qaeda.
NEIGHBOURING PROBLEMS
The longer the civil war has continued, the more neighboring countries have felt the spillover.Two men died after a gunfight with Lebanese soldiers near the Syrian
border early Thursday, while the Turkish military said one Turkish
soldier was wounded in a clash with gunmen who were part of a group of
about 500 people trying to reach Turkey.Israel has kept a wary eye on the Golan Heights, exchanging sporadic
fire with assailants in recent weeks and warning of swift retaliation
should its forces come under attack.The Israeli foreign ministry said on Thursday it regretted Austria's
decision to leave UNDOF, adding that it hoped it would not lead to
"further escalation in the region".It said it expected the United Nations to maintain the monitoring mission.
Austria defended its decision to leave the fertile Golan plateau, saying it could no longer justify its troop presence."Freedom of movement in the area de facto no longer exists. The
uncontrolled and immediate danger to Austrian soldiers has risen to an
unacceptable level," Chancellor Werner Faymann and his deputy Michael
Spindelegger said in a joint statement.In recent months Japanese and Croatian troops have left the
blue-helmeted ranks of UNDOF, while the Philippines, the other main
contributor, has said it might leave after several cases where Syrian
rebels held its peacekeepers captive. India also has soldiers there.(Additional reporting by Erika Solomon in Beirut, Stephanie Nebehay
in Geneva, Alissa de Carbonnel in Moscow and Michael Shields in Vienna;
Editing by Will Waterman)
Turkish PM accuses protesters of 'burn and destroy' tactics
By Tarek Amara and Nick Tattersall | Reuters – 2 hrs 50 mins ago JUNE 6,13
By Tarek Amara and Nick Tattersall
TUNIS/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish
Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan
condemned the "burn and destroy" tactics of some of those involved in
days of violent protests on Thursday, and promised to press ahead with
plans for an
Istanbul park which triggered the unrest.Speaking on a visit to Tunisia, Erdogan said "terror groups" were
manipulating what had started as an environmental campaign, and added
that seven foreigners were among those arrested."If you say: 'I will hold a meeting and burn and destroy', we will
not allow that," he told reporters after meeting his Tunisian
counterpart. "We are against the majority dominating the minority and we
cannot tolerate the opposite."By confining his comments to a group of
protesters,
Erdogan appeared softer in tone than before he left for North Africa at
the start of the week, when he described the demonstrators in blanket
terms as looters.Nevertheless, his defiance rattled nervous financial markets. The
main Istanbul stock index was down 4.7 percent by 1257 GMT while the
lira weakened to 1.8923 against the dollar. The two-year benchmark bond
yield rose to its highest in more than six months.Erdogan returns to Turkey later on Thursday to face demands he
apologize for a police crackdown on the six days of protests in which
three people have been killed and more than 4,000 injured in a dozen
cities, and to sack those who ordered it.What began as a campaign against the redevelopment of a leafy
Istanbul park has grown into an unprecedented show of defiance against
the perceived authoritarianism of Erdogan and his Islamist-rooted AK
Party.Police backed by armored vehicles have clashed with the protesters
night after night, while thousands have massed peacefully in recent days
on
Taksim Square, where the demonstrations first began.
A policeman who fell from a bridge in the southern city of Adana
while chasing protestors died of his injuries, Turkish television
stations reported, the third death in the protests.
AK Party Deputy Chairman Huseyin Celik called on members not to welcome Erdogan home at
Istanbul airport to avoid stirring trouble. "The prime minister does not need a show of strength," Celik said in a television interview.In Taksim Square, protesters remained defiant. "We have the
momentum, with people like me going to work every day and coming back to
attend the protests," said Cetin, a 29-year-old civil engineer who
declined to give his surname because he works for a company close to the
government."We should keep coming here to protest until we really feel we've
achieved something," he said, one of thousands gathered on Taksim Square
until late into the night.
"EVERYWHERE IS TAKSIM"
Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc, formally in charge while Erdogan
is away, has struck a conciliatory tone, apologizing for the initial
police crackdown on peaceful campaigners in Taksim's Gezi Park and
meeting a delegation of protesters in his office in Ankara.Around Ankara's Kugulu Park, a middle class area dotted with
restaurants and bars, people chanted "dictator resign" and "everywhere
is Taksim, everywhere is resistance" late on Wednesday as residents
banged pots and pans in support.But the situation was calmer around the 19th-century Dolmabahce Palace in
Istanbul,
the caliph's seat of power until the Ottoman empire collapsed in 1922
and now home to Erdogan's offices, where some of the fiercest clashes
have taken place.
Tourists picked their way along dirt paths where paving stones had been ripped up in the protests.Despite the unrest, Erdogan remains by far Turkey's most popular
politician, his assertive style and common touch resonating with the
conservative Islamic heartland.His AK Party has won an increasing share of the vote in three
successive elections and holds around two thirds of the seats in
parliament. A man who rarely bows to any opposition, he clearly has no
intention of stepping down and no obvious rivals inside or outside his
party.
But he, and those around him, face a challenge in calming the protests without appearing to lose face.
On Wednesday, a small group of people who read a statement in
support of the protests were set upon in the Black Sea city of Rize,
Erdogan's homeland and a stronghold of the AK Party, an attack that
ended only after police intervened."Erdogan cannot backtrack now. It would mean defeat," said Ali
Aydin, 38, a car dealer in the Tophane neighborhood of Istanbul, a
conservative bastion in the mostly Bohemian district around Taksim
Square. "Weakness would destroy the party."(Additional reporting by Parisa Hafezi, Ece Toksabay, Daren Butler
and Ayla Jean Yackley in Istanbul, Jonathon Burch in Ankara; Writing by
Nick Tattersall)
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