JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER.
1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
LUKE 21:28-29
28 And when these things begin to come to pass,(ALL THE PROPHECY SIGNS FROM THE BIBLE) then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption (RAPTURE) draweth nigh.
29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree,(ISRAEL) and all the trees;(ALL INDEPENDENT COUNTRIES)
30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.(ISRAEL LITERALLY BECAME AND INDEPENDENT COUNTRY JUST BEFORE SUMMER IN MAY 14,1948.)
JOEL 2:3,30
3 A fire devoureth (ATOMIC BOMB) before them;(RUSSIAN-ARAB-MUSLIM ARMIES AGAINST ISRAEL) 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.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(ATOMIC BOMB AFFECT)
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,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB)(BECAUSE NUKES HAVE BEEN USED ON ISRAELS ENEMIES)(GOD PROTECTS ISRAEL AND ALWAYS WILL)
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.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)
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;(FROM ATOMIC BOMBS) 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.
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE
US envoy hails Netanyahu meeting with Jordan king on peace talks-Ahead of his Middle East trip, Jason Greenblatt says sit-down in Amman 'very important to both countries and to the entire region'-By TOI staff-JUN 19,18
The US envoy for Israeli-Palestinian peace on Tuesday hailed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting the previous day with Jordan’s King Abdullah II, ahead of his visit to the region to promote the American proposal.“Happy to see King Abdullah and Prime Minister Netanyahu resuming meetings with regard to key issues. Very important to both countries and to the entire region,” Jason Greenblatt tweeted.Greenblatt and Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law, are set to visit Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, and Israel this week ahead of the expected unveiling of Trump’s plan to broker Mideast peace.Netanyahu traveled Monday to Amman to meet with Abdullah for their first publicly confirmed meeting in four years.“The king and the prime minister discussed regional developments and advancing the peace process and bilateral relations. Prime Minister Netanyahu reiterated Israel’s commitment to maintaining the status quo at the holy sites in Jerusalem,” Netanyahu’s office said in a statement.The rare meeting came after months of strained ties between Jerusalem and Amman over the killing of two Jordanians by an Israeli embassy guard.The two leaders are reported to have last spoken in July 2017 as Netanyahu sought Abdullah’s help in calming protests over metal detectors placed on the Temple Mount.Although Kushner and Greenblatt are set to meet with regional leaders to iron out details of the Trump peace plan, they are not scheduled to hold talks with the Palestinians, who have refused to meet with US officials ever since Trump recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in December, and then moved the US Embassy to the city last month.An aide to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday condemned the US peace push and a reported plan to raise hundreds of millions of dollars from Gulf donors to rehabilitate the Gaza Strip.In a statement, Nabil Abu Rudeineh warned Mideast countries “against cooperating with a move whose goal is to perpetuate the separation between Gaza and the West Bank and lead to concessions on Jerusalem and the holy sites.”
US envoys Kushner, Greenblatt hold talks with Jordanian king-White House officials discuss Gaza, seek Arab pressure on Palestinians to begin dialogue based on soon-to-be-unveiled US proposal-By AP and TOI staff-JUN 19,18
AMMAN, Jordan — US President Donald Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner held talks Tuesday with Jordan’s king ahead of an expected Israeli-Palestinian peace push.Kushner, along with White House peace envoy Jason Greenblatt, arrived in Jordan on Tuesday for talks with King Abdullah II, a key US ally. The meeting came a day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a rare trip to Amman for talks with Abdullah, after months of strained ties.A White House statement said Tuesday’s talks included discussions on the Gaza humanitarian situation and US efforts to “facilitate peace between the Israelis and Palestinians.”US officials have said their plan is near completion and could be released this summer. But it faces resistance from the Palestinians, who have cut off ties since Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in December, and then moved the US embassy there in May.Kushner’s team has also planned stops in Israel, Qatar, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. No talks with the Palestinians are scheduled.The Trump administration is seeking to convince moderate Arab allies to put pressure on the Palestinians to negotiate on the basis of the US peace proposal.Greenblatt earlier hailed the Netanyahu-Abdullah meeting, the first publicly announced meeting between the two leaders since 2014.“Happy to see King Abdullah and Prime Minister Netanyahu resuming meetings with regard to key issues. Very important to both countries and to the entire region,” Greenblatt tweeted.Netanyahu’s office issued its own statement Monday about his meeting with the Jordanian king, saying, “The king and the prime minister discussed regional developments and advancing the peace process and bilateral relations. Prime Minister Netanyahu reiterated Israel’s commitment to maintaining the status quo at the holy sites in Jerusalem.”The rare meeting came after months of frayed ties between Jerusalem and Amman over the killing of two Jordanians by an Israeli embassy guard.The two leaders are reported to have last spoken in July 2017 as Netanyahu sought Abdullah’s help in calming protests over metal detectors placed on the Temple Mount.An aide to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday condemned the US peace push and a reported plan to raise hundreds of millions of dollars from Gulf donors to rehabilitate the Gaza Strip.In a statement, Nabil Abu Rudeineh warned Mideast countries “against cooperating with a move whose goal is to perpetuate the separation between Gaza and the West Bank and lead to concessions on Jerusalem and the holy sites.”Agencies contributed to this report.
Revolutionary Guard chief says Iran won’t increase its missile range-'We have the scientific ability... but it is not our current policy' as most enemies already within range, claims Mohammad Ali Jafari-By Agencies-TOI-JUN 19,18
Iran has no plan to increase the range of its missiles, the country’s semi-official Tasnim news agency has reported.The Tuesday report quoted the chief of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard, Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari, as saying: “We have the scientific ability to increase our missile ranges, but it is not our current policy.”Gen. Jafari added that most of Iran’s enemies are already situated within a 2,000-kilometer (1,240-mile) radius of Iran.In 2017, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered limits on the country’s ballistic missile program to 2,000 kilometers.This range would encompass much of the Middle East, including Israel and American bases in the region. However, such limits come as Iran routinely says its ballistic missile program is only for defensive purposes against regional adversaries.Although there are no restrictions in place on the range of Iranian missiles, US President Donald Trump had insisted that limitations be placed on Tehran’s missile program as a prerequisite for Washington remaining in the landmark 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. He ultimately pulled out of it on May 12.The New York Times reported last month that weapons researchers have identified activity at a remote secret facility in the Iranian desert that points to the covert development of long-range missiles that could be used to attack the United States.Satellite images appeared to show, among other things, activity around a tunnel leading underground and evidence of powerful rocket engine tests that scorched telltale marks in the desert sand near the city of Shahrud, the report said.The US and its allies have been demanding that Iran curb its production of ballistic missiles, which can reach parts of Europe and could soon reach the US as well. Western officials have maintained that the only reason Tehran could have for manufacturing such missiles would be to fit them with non-conventional, including atomic, warheads.Tehran insists that it sees the missile program as crucial to its defensive posture, and says its existence is non-negotiable.Iranian leaders have previously said they are not working on missiles with a range beyond the Middle East. The Islamic Republic has so far produced a missile with a range of 2,000 kilometers (1,240 miles), putting all of Israel in range as well as much of Eastern Europe.The 2015 nuclear deal saw heavy sanctions lifted on Iran in return for Tehran freezing much of its nuclear program. Having pulled out of the deal in May, the US has vowed to apply the “strongest sanctions in history” on Iran.United Nations Security Council Resolution 2231, which affirmed the Iran nuclear deal, called on Iran to refrain from developing missiles capable of carrying nuclear weapons. Iran has maintained that it never intended to develop nuclear weapons and therefore its missile development doesn’t violate the agreement.However, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in April presented a vast archive of Iranian documents, obtained by the Mossad spy agency, which he said detailed Iranian efforts and research programs specifically aimed at producing an atomic weapon.Netanyahu said at the time the evidence proved Iran had lied about its nuclear ambitions. In announcing his withdrawal from the nuclear agreement, Trump cited the Israeli intelligence haul as among the reasons for his decision.Stuart Winer contributed to this report.
Syrian Druze city shelled for first time in years as fighting intensifies-Last time Sweida came under assault from Syrian rebels, the Israeli Druze community called on Israel to intervene-By AFP and TOI staff-JUN 19,18
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Rebel shellfire slammed into the Druze-majority southern Syrian city of Sweida on Tuesday for the first time in three years, a monitor said, as fresh regime reinforcements arrived in the area.The government holds most of Sweida province but rebels still control much of the nearby Daraa and Quneitra governorates near the Syrian Golan Heights.On Tuesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said opposition forces fired shells into Sweida city, “which led to loud blasts but no casualties.”“It is the first time since 2015 that the city has been subjected to shellfire,” said Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman.Syrian state news agency SANA also blamed rebels “spread out in the towns and villages in eastern parts of Daraa province” for firing shells on Sweida.Sweida has remained relatively insulated from seven years of war that ravaged the rest of the country.A 2015 rebel advance in the area, and in Druze-majority areas on the Syrian Golan Heights, led to concerns among Israeli Druze that their brethren could see the bloodshed reach their doorstep.At the time, Israel’s Druze rallied to urge Israeli leaders to intervene to aid the Syrian Druze community and help prevent them from being massacred by either regime or rebel forces.The war moved on from Sweida by the end of 2015 and largely passed by the Druze community.But rebels now hold a sliver of territory in western Sweida that borders their main bastion in the province of Daraa, and clashes and exchanges of fire have erupted in that area in recent days.Syria’s government has set its sights on ousting rebels from the south and has been dispatching troops and equipment there for weeks.On Tuesday, they dropped new flyers on the rebel-held half of Daraa city, calling on residents to expel rebels, “like your brothers did in Eastern Ghouta and Qalamun,” referring to two areas near Damascus recently recaptured from the opposition.Rebels appeared to fear the regime would use Sweida’s civilian population as justification for the assault, and issued a message addressed to them on Tuesday.“We call on our people in Sweida province not to serve as bait for the goals of the regime, sectarian militias from Iran, and Hezbollah, which are trying to occupy this land and divide its people,” they said in a statement.But the government has also hinted that a political settlement over the south’s fate could be reached.“We have moved towards the south and we are giving the political process a chance,” Syrian President Bashar Assad said last week.“If that doesn’t succeed, we have no other option but to liberate it by force.”The Druze are followers of a secretive offshoot of Shiite Islam, and made up around three percent of Syria’s pre-war population of 23 million, or some 700,000 people.The community has been somewhat divided during the war, with some members fighting on the government side and others expressing sympathy for the opposition. Mostly, the Druze have taken up arms only in defense of their own areas. Sweida’s Druze formed a local militia in the war’s early years to protect themselves from the rebels.There are an estimated 100,000 Druze in Israel, mostly in the country’s north.Agencies contributed to this report.
U.S. to pull out of U.N. human rights body: source-[Reuters]-By Lesley Wroughton and Steve Holland-YAHOONEWSJune 19, 2018
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley will announce on Tuesday that the United Sates is pulling out of the United Nations Human Rights Council, a Trump administration source told Reuters.The United States is half-way through a three-year term on the main U.N. rights body and had long threatened to quit if it was not reformed, accusing the 47-member Geneva-based body of being anti-Israel.Reuters reported last week that activists and diplomats said talks with the United States on reforms had failed to meet Washington's demands, suggesting that the Trump administration would quit.Washington's pullout would be the latest U.S. rejection of multilateral engagement after it pulled out of the Paris climate agreement and the Iran nuclear deal.It also comes as the United States faces intense criticism for detaining children separated from their immigrant parents at the U.S.-Mexico border. U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein on Monday called on Washington to halt its "unconscionable" policy.U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric declined to comment until a U.S. decision was announced, but added: "The Secretary-General is a strong believer in the human rights architecture of the U.N. and the active participation of all states."When the Human Rights Council was created in 2006, U.S. President George W. Bush's administration shunned the body.Then under President Barack Obama the United States was elected to the body for a maximum two consecutive terms on the council by the U.N. General Assembly. After a year off, Washington was re-elected in 2016 for its current third term.In March 2011, the U.N. General Assembly unanimously suspended Libya's membership in the council because of violence against protesters by forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. But U.N. officials said no member has withdrawn.Haley said a year ago that Washington was reviewing its membership and called for reform and elimination of a "chronic anti-Israel bias." The body has a permanent standing agenda item on suspected violations committed by Israel in the occupied Palestinian territories that Washington wants removed."The U.N. Human Rights Council has played an important role in such countries as North Korea, Syria, Myanmar and South Sudan, but all Trump seems to care about is defending Israel," said Human Rights Watch executive director Ken Roth.The council last month voted to probe killings in Gaza and accused Israel of excessive use of force. The United States and Australia cast the only "no" votes. Israel's ambassador in Geneva castigated the council for "spreading lies against Israel."(Additional reporting by Michelle Nichols at the United Nations and Stephanie Nebehay in Geneva; Editing by Steve Orlofsky and James Dalgleish)
Iran says it knows nothing of Israeli ex-minister charged as spy-In first comments on case, Rouhani aide says arrest of Gonen Segev, accused of passing intel to Iran, should be ignored-By Stuart Winer and TOI staff-JUN 19,18
A senior political aide to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani dismissed Israel’s arrest of an ex-minister accused of spying for Tehran and said it should be ignored Tuesday.Iran has mostly remained mum since the Shin Bet security service said Monday it had charged former energy minister Gonen Segev with knowingly providing sensitive information to Iranian agents for the last six years, making him the most high-profile figure to be accused of spying in the country’s history.Iranian government spokesman Mohammad Bagher Nobakht told reporters at a press conference in Tehran that the “Zionist regime uses every tool to blame the Islamic Republic of Iran,” according to a translation of his comments.“It’s not clear what this is, but we must ignore it,” said Nobakht, who is also strategic adviser to Rouhani.The comment was the first official Iranian reaction to the arrest of Segev. On Monday night, ISNA was the only news site in Iran’s tightly controlled media to report on the arrest, dismissing it as a fraud.“The Zionist regime is famous for faking files against Iran, and, after the violation of the [Iran nuclear deal] by the US government, has recently launched a new round of Iranophobia. The experts have assessed this accusation [against Segev] as part of Netanyahu’s effort to create fake files against Iran,” the site wrote.After news broke of Segev’s arrest Iranian social media users posted messages of support for Segev along with the hashtag #freeGonenSegev, a method used to identify topics of interest on the internet.Some also tagged their posts with an attempt at a Hebrew translation of the hashtag but the resulting tag used the Hebrew adjective meaning at no cost rather than the verb to liberate. Amused Israeli social media activists then shared the erroneous Hebrew tag along with satirical comments poking fun at the price of “a Segev.”Summer sale is on at Shuk Hacarmel! #freeGonenSegev when you buy kilogram of Iranian pistachios.Segev, a former doctor who served time in an Israeli prison for drug smuggling, moved to Nigeria upon his release in 2007. He had briefly served in the Knesset and as a minister of energy and infrastructure under Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres in 1995 and 1996.According to the Shin Bet, Segev has knowingly been in contact with Iranian intelligence officials since 2012, making first contact with them at Iran’s embassy in Nigeria.“Segev gave his operators information about [Israel’s] energy sector, about security locations in Israel, and about buildings and officials in diplomatic and security bodies, and more,” the Shin Bet said in a statement Monday.The security service said Segev met with his Iranian handlers in hotels and safe houses around the world and used a special encrypted device to send them messages in secret.He was also accused of making contact with Israeli figures in security, defense and diplomacy in order to mine them for information to send to Iran.According to the Shin Bet, Segev also tried to make direct connections between his Israeli contacts and Iranian handlers, presenting the spies as businesspeople.In mid-May, Segev traveled from Nigeria to Equatorial Guinea where he was arrested by local police and extradited to Israel, the intelligence agency said.On Friday, he was indicted in a Jerusalem court on charges of assisting the enemy in wartime, spying, and a number of other related crimes, but the case remained under a gag order until Monday. Some details of the case remain sealed.Segev’s lawyers said in a statement to the press that the full charge sheet painted a “different picture” from that which can be seen from only the parts cleared for publication.According to reports in Hebrew media, Segev claims he was seeking to mislead the Iranians and hoped to return home to Israel a hero.Segev, who reportedly was being held in a Shin Bet facility, was moved Tuesday to Gilboa Prison in northern Israel.His next court hearing is set to take place on July 9.
National security adviser in Russia for talks on Iran troops in Syria — report-Meir Ben-Shabbat said to discuss with Russian counterpart plans for southern Syria, Israeli demand for withdrawal of Iran's forces-By TOI staff-JUN 19,18
Israel’s national security adviser secretly traveled to Moscow on Monday, an Israeli TV report said, where he met with Russian officials regarding Iran’s military presence in Syria.According to Channel 10, Meir Ben-Shabbat met with his Russian counterpart Nikolai Patrushev and other Russian officials. They discussed Russian efforts to formulate a plan for southern Syria and Israel’s demand for Iranian forces to leave the country, the report said.The Prime Minister’s Office confirmed the meeting but would not comment on its content.Ben-Shabbat’s trip to Moscow came after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke by phone Friday with Russian President Vladimir Putin about Syria and the security coordination between the two countries there.Netanyahu said during Sunday’s weekly cabinet meeting that he reiterated the importance of booting Iran from Syria during his talks with Putin and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo over the weekend.“I made clear to them our principles on this matter,” he said. “Iran must leave Syria and we will act and are already acting against Iran’s attempts to establish itself in that country.”The Kremlin said Putin and Netanyahu talked about “joint efforts to provide security near the Syrian-Israeli border” during their phone call. They also “expressed readiness to boost the coordination of their actions with regard to Syria, including in countering international terrorism,” the Kremlin said.Pompeo and Netanyahu met in Tel Aviv in April, when the two discussed concerns regarding Iranian troops and Iran-backed militia operating in Syria.Netanyahu has spoken and met with Putin regularly in recent years regarding Syria, where Russia is fighting on behalf of Syrian President Bashar Assad.The two most recently met in Moscow last month. Shortly after that meeting, an airstrike in Syria attributed to Israel targeted an Iranian military base. Like Russia, Iran is a key backer of the Syrian regime.Israel has repeatedly vowed it will not tolerate an Iranian military presence in Syria and has carried out strikes against Iran-backed forces and attempts to smuggle advanced weapons to the Lebanon-based Hezbollah terror group.Reports earlier this month said Israel and Russia reached an agreement for the withdrawal of Iranian forces from southern Syria. An Israeli official later told Channel 10 that no such deal had been reached, with Netanyahu stressing to Putin that Israel wants Iran out of all of Syria, not just the area near the Israeli-Syrian border.While the official acknowledged that talks have progressed and that the Kremlin appears more understanding of the Israeli position, Netanyahu still made clear that his government will not shy away from using military force to keep Iran completely out of Syria.
In rare move, Egypt said to keep Gaza crossing open for 2 more months-Rafah crossing was open for month of Ramadan and now reportedly will stay open throughout summer for humanitarian reasons-By Michael Bachner-JUN 19,18
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi has reportedly ordered that the Rafah crossing on the border with the Gaza Strip remain open for humanitarian reasons until the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha in late August.Egypt had already opened the crossing longer than any other time in recent years, after last month it granted access in both directions for the entire month of Ramadan.On Tuesday, Egyptian security sources, quoted by local media, said people and goods will be able to pass through the crossing for another two months to ease the burden on Gaza’s population.For years, Egypt opened its sole border crossing with the Gaza Strip only sporadically and for short intervals, as it has fought an insurgency in north Sinai bordering the Palestinian enclave.Eid al-Adha, or the “Festival of Sacrifice,” is planned to be marked this year by Muslims worldwide on August 21-25, although the exact dates may vary.Hamas, the Palestinian terror group which rules the Strip, hailed the decision and said that “the residents of Gaza thank President Sissi and call for the Rafah Crossing to remain open.”Since 2007, Israel and Egypt have enforced a blockade of Gaza, which Israel says is necessary to prevent Hamas from smuggling weapons into Strip. Currently, goods arrive at Israeli ports, where they are screened and then brought to Gaza on hundreds of trucks a day.Deteriorating living conditions in the Strip have been cited by security officials as a major factor fueling violent clashes on the Israel-Gaza border, as well as a debilitating sense of desperation.On Monday, Haaretz reported that the United States is seeking to raise over $500 million from Gulf states to fund energy and economic development projects aimed at improving the humanitarian situation in Gaza, as a prelude to revealing US President Donald Trump’s plan for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.Times of Israel staff and agencies contributed to this report.
EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH IN NOAHS DAY(BECAUSE OF SIN,VIOLENCE AND GODLESS PEOPLE)
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
HOSEA 4:1-3
1 Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
DEUTORONOMY 28:22-24
22 The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.
23 And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.
24 The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
High heat, chance of flash floods lingers for parts of U.S.-[Reuters]-YAHOONEWS-June 19, 2018
(Reuters) - Hot, humid weather on Tuesday is expected to bring thunderstorms and a risk of flash floods from Texas to the southeastern United States, after damaging overnight storms in the Northeast region of the country, the National Weather Service said.The biggest flooding threat will be in southern and southeastern Texas, which could see several more inches of rain after getting drenched overnight, the NWS said.Much of the northern part of the central and eastern United States had record-setting temperatures on Monday followed by strong overnight thunderstorms that downed some trees and caused flooding.Rockford, Illinois, is expected to get more rain after flash floods on Monday night when storms dumped as much as five inches (13 centimeters) of rain in less than four hours. Emergency crews rescued people from numerous submerged vehicles.Local power companies reported 18,000 outages in Michigan and 7,000 in New Hampshire, after overnight storms. Storms also caused scattered outages in Maryland, local media reported.A slight-to-moderate risk of flooding remains in effect for Tuesday for areas along a front stretching from northern Illinois through the middle of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, the weather service said."Along that boundary we keep getting storms to fire up," said Brian Hurley, a meteorologist with the NWS's Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland. "The heaviest rainfall is going to be along that front on either side of it."As the front drifts slowly south, it is bringing relief to areas north of it, including New England, New York, northern Pennsylvania, Indiana and Illinois, after those areas sweltered on Monday, Hurley said.On Monday, record-high temperatures were tied or broken in 11 places in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions, including Washington Dulles International Airport at 94 degrees Fahrenheit (34 degrees Celsius), Allentown, Pennsylvania, at 95 degrees and Albany, New York, at 97 degrees, the weather service said.Temperatures south of the front are forecast to remain 5 to 10 degrees above normal during the middle of the week, with heat advisories in effect for the eastern Carolinas, southeastern Virginia and parts of Missouri and Illinois, the weather service said. An excessive heat warning was in place on Tuesday for the St. Louis area, it added.(Reporting by Peter Szekely in New York; Editing by Scott Malone and Paul Simao)
Guatemala volcano search called off with nearly 200 unaccounted for-[AFP]-YAHOONEWS-June 18, 2018
Guatemala City (AFP) - Authorities on Sunday called off a search for the nearly 200 people missing since Guatemala's Fuego volcano erupted earlier this month, devastating the surrounding countryside.Officials have confirmed the deaths of 110 people as a result of the volcanic eruption on June 3, but another 197 remain unaccounted for.A spokesman for the government's civil protection agency, David de Leon, said the agencies involved decided to end the search "due to the fact that the area is uninhabitable and of high risk."The volcano, 35 kilometers (about 22 miles) southwest of the capital, is still generating four or five weak explosions an hour, sending a column of gray ash more than 3,000 feet (1,000 meters) into the sky.Guatemala's south-central region was also shaken on Sunday night by a 5.8-magnitude earthquake with its epicenter at Iztapa, on the Pacific coast near neighboring El Salvador, the civil protection agency said.There were no reports of injuries or damage.Additionally, rains were forecast for Sunday, posing a danger of volcanic mudflows.More than 3,600 villagers have been forced to take temporary refuge in schools and community halls.The suspended search had been focused on the hardest-hit communities of San Miguel Los Lotes and El Recreo.The only exception to the suspension is in the area of Alotenango, where volunteer firefighters continued to search for two colleagues who went missing on the day of the disaster.
Judge cancels hearing in Stormy Daniels case against Trump, Cohen-[Reuters]-By Jonathan Stempel-YAHOONEWS-June 18, 2018
(Reuters) - A Los Angeles judge has canceled a June 21 hearing at which a lawyer for adult film actress Stormy Daniels planned to seek the resumption of her lawsuit there against U.S. President Donald Trump and his longtime lawyer Michael Cohen.According to an order issued on Monday, U.S. District Judge James Otero decided it was unnecessary to hear arguments on the request by Daniels' lawyer Michael Avenatti to lift a 90-day stay imposed on April 28.Otero will rule on the request later. In imposing the stay, the judge cited the potential overlap between Daniels' lawsuit and a separate criminal probe by federal prosecutors in Manhattan that he said could result in Cohen's indictment.Daniels is suing to end an agreement under which Cohen paid her $130,000 not to discuss an alleged intimate relationship she had with Trump beginning in 2006 and continuing in 2007.Her lawsuit also includes a claim that Cohen defamed her by implying that she had lied about her relationship with Trump.The president has denied having sex with Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford.Avenatti posted Otero's order on his Twitter feed, without discussing its substance.Otero has yet to rule on Cohen's bid for a restraining order to stop Avenatti from maligning him, in a "seemingly unquenchable thirst for publicity" that has included dozens of television appearances and hundreds of tweets.The criminal probe in Manhattan concerns Cohen's business dealings. Daniels filed a separate defamation lawsuit there against Trump in April.The case is Clifford v Trump et al, U.S. District Court, Central District of California, No. 18-02217.(Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by Richard Chang)
DRUG PUSHERS AND ADDICTS
1 PET 5:8
8 Be sober,(NOT DRUGED UP OR ALCOHOLICED) be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
REVELATION 18:23
23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries (DRUGS) were all nations deceived.
REVELATION 9:21
21 Neither repented they of their murders,(KILLING) nor of their sorceries (DRUG ADDICTS AND DRUG PUSHERS), nor of their fornication,(SEX OUTSIDE MARRIAGE OR PROSTITUTION FOR MONEY) nor of their thefts.(STEALING)
Opioid death toll in Canada nearly 4,000 last year, new data shows-[The Canadian Press]-YAHOONEWS-June 19, 2018
OTTAWA — Nearly 4,000 Canadians died from apparent opioid overdoses last year, with men the most likely victims and fentanyl the clear culprit, new government figures show.The numbers released Tuesday came as the federal government announced plans to severely restrict the way drug companies market opioids to doctors.The death toll rose to almost 4,000 in 2017 from about 3,000 in 2016.The figures show that 78 per cent of victims were male and that fentanyl or fentanyl analogues were blamed for 72 per cent of all overdose deaths.For some, overdoses have became a major cause of death, said Dr. Theresa Tam, chief public health officer of Canada."The number of apparent opioid related deaths among 30 to 39-year-olds in 2017 was greater than the number of deaths due to any of the other leading causes of death for this age group," TAM said.She said the federal government is working with provinces and others to rein in the problem."These data represent the loss of valuable lives," she said. "They represent the loss of family members, loved ones and friends and highlights how this crisis is devastating for Canadians from all walks of life in communities across Canada."We know that we need to reverse the trend of this crisis."Supriya Sharma of Health Canada said marketing practices can influence the way health professionals dispense prescriptions and tighter rules will help reduce over-prescribing.She said drug companies use a number of methods, from ads in medical journals to presentations at conferences to sales pitches in doctors' offices.For the next month, the department will seek comments on restricting marketing practices and will ask drug companies to voluntarily stop marketing activities associated with opioids until regulations are in place.The department said the new rules will have teeth, ranging from administrative fines that can be quickly levelled, to possible criminal charges.The numbers for apparent opioid-related fatalities show a national death rate of 10.9 for every 100,000 people in the population in 2017, up from 8.2 in 2016.British Columbia remains the province hardest hit by the opioid crisis, with 1,399 deaths. The toll was up from 974 recorded in 2016.The B.C. deaths came to a rate of 29 for every 100,000 population.Ontario had 1,125 deaths last year, an increase from 726 in 2016. The Ontario figure represented a death rate of 7.9 for every 100,000 people.The Canadian Press.
Marijuana bill inches closer to passage with House vote-[CBC]-YAHOONEWS-June 18, 2018
The Liberal government's bill to legalize recreational marijuana has cleared another vote in the House of Commons — but it still has to get a final stamp of approval from an unpredictable Senate before it can become law.The Senate had proposed 46 amendments to The Cannabis Act but the Liberal government rejected several major ones last week — including one provision that would have affirmed the provinces' right to ban home cultivation of marijuana.MPs spent a portion of Monday and last week debating the Senate's amendments before 205 of them voted today in favour of rejecting 13 of the proposed changes.NDP members supported the bill while those on the Conservative benches voted against it.The updated bill now heads back to the Senate, where it could be up for debate as early as Monday night.If senators aren't happy that the government passed on their recommendations, they could send the bill back down to the House — ultimately delaying its passage.Sen. Yuen Pau Woo, head of the Independent Senators Group, said that after a year of studying the legislation — a marquee election promise from the Liberals — the Red Chamber made thoughtful and serious changes."The job of senators is to listen to signals as well. It's not just to propose amendments willy-nilly with no sense of where the government position is," he told CBC Radio's The House last week. "The Senate does not regularly insist and create a ping-pong between the House and the Upper Chamber. It's only happened a few times in our history and on very, very consequential bills. I don't know if this one qualifies ... but if senators decide that the explanations are not sufficient and we get to it, then we are in that world again."If senators are satisfied with the government's response and approve the bill as-is, it will be sent to the Governor General for royal assent.It's up to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet to choose the actual date when legalization takes effect. Bill C-45 comes with a provisional buffer period of eight to 12 weeks to give provinces time to prepare for the actual sale of recreational marijuana.Liberal MP Bill Blair, the federal point man on pot, told CTV News that if the bill receives royal assent this week, it could be legal to smoke marijuana recreationally in September.
Defeated Ontario Liberals must begin soul-searching: interim leader-[The Canadian Press]-YAHOONEWS-June 18, 2018
TORONTO — Ontario's Liberals must do some soul-searching in the wake of the devastating defeat they suffered in the provincial election in order to understand where things went wrong, the party's new interim leader said Monday.John Fraser, an Ottawa-are legislator first elected in 2013, said the party respects the electorate's decision and must now look internally for answers."The people of Ontario sent the Liberal party a very clear message," he said in an interview. "They want us to take a break and they want us to do some soul-searching."Fraser was appointed interim leader last week following outgoing Premier Kathleen Wynne's resignation. The Liberals, who have been in power in Ontario for 15 years, won only seven seats in the June 7 election, one short of the eight seats required to maintain official party status in the legislature.His mission as interim leader will be to begin the rebuild of the party brand, Fraser said, describing himself as a "caretaker." Chief amongst his concerns will be getting the party's financial house in order and addressing millions in debt accumulated through the election."We spent approximately $10 million to get seven seats," Fraser said. "I think Liberals want an answer in that regard. They want us to take a look at the campaign and pre-campaign and look at where we made mistakes."Fraser said the party also needs to address its lack of party status at the legislature, which means they've also lost funding for research, staffing and designated speaking time.Fraser said he hopes to have discussions with incoming premier Doug Ford, whose Progressive Conservatives won a majority of seats, about the Tory government granting the Liberals party status."We're going to try to establish with the government our status in the legislature," he said. "I think one million Ontarians voted for us. It's important their voice be effective in the legislature."Fraser said it's too early to talk about a leadership race, adding that in the meantime, the party has to begin the process of becoming competitive in time for the next provincial vote in 2022."It's going to take a lot of work," he said. "Ontarians sent us a very clear message. What comes along with that message is the fact that we've got work to do."University of Ottawa political science professor Geneviève Tellier said while the road ahead for the Ontario Liberals will be difficult, the party brand has not been irreparably damaged. It will take years but it can come back from this defeat, she said."I think the results of the election show that people weren't ready to head further to the left with the NDP," she said. "There is room for an alternative that is in the middle. That would be the branding of the Liberals. ... In the last year the Liberals were not the traditional party of the centre that they used to be."Tellier said the party must now conduct a deep "post-mortem" of the election and learn from their errors. The focus must gradually shift to selecting a new leader but the party should take its time and avoid infighting, she added."Even if we don't see them too much now during this session, I wouldn't be too concerned about that, that's very short-term," she said. "The more long-term rebuilding based on the ideas of the new leader will be important."Shawn Jeffords, The Canadian Press.
Beijing subway to get 'bio-ID' tracking systems: China Daily-[Reuters]-YAHOONEWS-June 18, 2018
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - The Chinese capital, Beijing, is looking at introducing "bio-recognition technology", including palm scanners and facial recognition cameras, to speed up passenger flow through subway stations at peak times, state media reported on Tuesday.China is increasingly using surveillance technology for everything from bolstering domestic security to speeding up orders at fast-food restaurants. However, that kind of monitoring is stoking concerns from human rights groups that it is building a nationwide surveillance system to quell dissent.Beijing's sprawling underground transport system plans to introduce the technologies this year, the state-run China Daily newspaper said, citing Zhang Huabing, head of enterprise development for the main operator, Beijing Subway.The facial recognition cameras would be able to detect people's faces, potentially allowing them to bypass normal ticketing channels, while the palm scanners would enable some people to swipe their hands to get through ticket turnstiles.The China Daily said palm scanners were already being used on the Shanghai subway system, which compared scanned images with a database of prints in seconds.It said Beijing has 22 urban railway lines and that more than 10 million passengers ride the city's subway trains on an average working day.(Reporting by Adam Jourdan; Editing by Paul Tait)
WORLD POWERS IN THE LAST DAYS (END OF AGE OF GRACE NOT THE WORLD)
EUROPEAN UNION-KING OF WEST-DAN 9:26-27,DAN 7:23-24,DAN 11:40,REV 13:1-10
EGYPT-KING OF THE SOUTH-DAN 11:40
RUSSIA-KING OF THE NORTH-EZEK 38:1-2,EZEK 39:1-3
CHINA-KING OF THE EAST-DAN 11:44,REV 9:16,18
VATICAN-RELIGIOUS LEADER-REV 13:11-18,REV 17:4-5,9,18
WORLD TERRORISM
OH BY THE WAY WHEN THE MEDIA SAYS ALLU-AK-BAR MEANS GOD IS GREAT LIE. IN ISLAM ALLU-AK-BAR MEANS OUR GOD IS GREATER OR GREATEST. THIS IS HOW THE MEDIA SUCK HOLES UP TO ISLAMIC-QURANIC-MUSLIMS. BY WATERING DOWN THE REAL MEANING OF THE SEX FOR MURDER DEATH CULT ISLAM. TO MAKE IT SOUND LIKE A PEACEFUL RELIGION (CULT OF DEATH AND WORLD DOMINATION).
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her,(HAGAR) Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he (ISHMAEL-FATHER OF THE ARAB-MUSLIMS) will be a wild (DONKEY-JACKASS) man;(ISLAM IS A FAKE AND DANGEROUS SEX FOR MURDER CULT) his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against him;(PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM BEING BEHEADED) and he (ISHMAEL ARAB/MUSLIM) shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)
ISAIAH 14:12-14
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,(SATAN) son of the morning!(HEBREW-CRECENT MOON-ISLAM) how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I (SATAN HAS EYE TROUBLES) will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(AND 1/3RD OF THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN FELL WITH SATAN AND BECAME DEMONS)
JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.(ISLAM MURDERS IN THE NAME OF MOON GOD ALLAH OF ISLAM)
U.S.-led coalition says kills Islamic State oil and gas head in Syria-[Reuters]-YAHOONEWS-June 19, 2018
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The U.S.-led coalition in Syria said on Tuesday it had disrupted Islamic State's funding by killing the man who ran its oil and gas network and other members of the group last month."The death of these (Islamic State) members hinders the terrorist group's ability to finance operations throughout Iraq and Syria ... the ability to pay fighters, procure weapons, and maintain equipment will be degraded," it said in a statement.The coalition said it killed the oil and gas network leader Abu Khattab al-Iraqi and three other Islamic State members on May 26 in the "Middle Euphrates River valley".Al-Iraqi had "managed revenue generation through the illicit sale of oil and gas", it said.In Syria the U.S.-led coalition uses air power and special forces to back the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias, in their fight against Islamic State.The SDF took swathes of northern and eastern Syria from Islamic State last year, including the jihadists' Syrian capital of Raqqa. It continues to fight Islamic State in some desert areas east of the Euphrates.(Writing by Lisa Barrington; Editing by Alexander Smith)
Turkish air strikes kill 26 militants in southeast Turkey, Iraq: army-[Reuters]-YAHOONEWS-June 19, 2018
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish air strikes killed 26 militants and destroyed their gun positions, shelters and ammunition stores in southeastern Turkey and northern Iraq this week, Turkey's military said on Tuesday.The strikes were carried out on Sunday and Monday in Diyarbakir and Sirnak provinces and an area of northern Iraq where the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) has bases, the military said in a statement on Twitter.The Turkish military has ramped up air strikes in northern Iraq, targeting PKK bases in Qandil, close to the Iraq-Iran border, where Ankara suspects high-ranking members of the outlawed group are located.Ankara has also recently stepped up warnings of a potential ground offensive into the Qandil region, with President Tayyip Erdogan vowing to "drain the terror swamp" there."We will continue to topple Qandil on the heads of the separatist terrorist organization," Erdogan told an election rally in the southern province of Adana.The PKK, which has waged an insurgency in the mainly Kurdish southeast of Turkey since 1984, is designated a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and European Union.Turkey has carried out two cross-border military operations in northern Syria since 2016. Since January, Turkey has been waging an offensive against the Kurdish YPG militia, which Ankara deems an extension of the PKK, in Syria's Afrin region.Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Tuesday Turkish troops were advancing on Qandil with "determined steps".Separately, a Turkish soldier was killed and two wounded on Tuesday by an improvised explosive device planted by the PKK in the southeastern province of Siirt, the governor's office said.In the neighboring province of Sirnak, bordering Iraq, two Turkish soldiers were killed and three others wounded in two separate explosions, a security source said.(Reporting by Daren Butler, writing by Ali Kucukgocmen, editing by David Dolan/Larry King)
28 And when these things begin to come to pass,(ALL THE PROPHECY SIGNS FROM THE BIBLE) then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption (RAPTURE) draweth nigh.
29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree,(ISRAEL) and all the trees;(ALL INDEPENDENT COUNTRIES)
30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.(ISRAEL LITERALLY BECAME AND INDEPENDENT COUNTRY JUST BEFORE SUMMER IN MAY 14,1948.)
JOEL 2:3,30
3 A fire devoureth (ATOMIC BOMB) before them;(RUSSIAN-ARAB-MUSLIM ARMIES AGAINST ISRAEL) 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.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(ATOMIC BOMB AFFECT)
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,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB)(BECAUSE NUKES HAVE BEEN USED ON ISRAELS ENEMIES)(GOD PROTECTS ISRAEL AND ALWAYS WILL)
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.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)
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;(FROM ATOMIC BOMBS) 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.
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE
US envoy hails Netanyahu meeting with Jordan king on peace talks-Ahead of his Middle East trip, Jason Greenblatt says sit-down in Amman 'very important to both countries and to the entire region'-By TOI staff-JUN 19,18
The US envoy for Israeli-Palestinian peace on Tuesday hailed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting the previous day with Jordan’s King Abdullah II, ahead of his visit to the region to promote the American proposal.“Happy to see King Abdullah and Prime Minister Netanyahu resuming meetings with regard to key issues. Very important to both countries and to the entire region,” Jason Greenblatt tweeted.Greenblatt and Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law, are set to visit Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, and Israel this week ahead of the expected unveiling of Trump’s plan to broker Mideast peace.Netanyahu traveled Monday to Amman to meet with Abdullah for their first publicly confirmed meeting in four years.“The king and the prime minister discussed regional developments and advancing the peace process and bilateral relations. Prime Minister Netanyahu reiterated Israel’s commitment to maintaining the status quo at the holy sites in Jerusalem,” Netanyahu’s office said in a statement.The rare meeting came after months of strained ties between Jerusalem and Amman over the killing of two Jordanians by an Israeli embassy guard.The two leaders are reported to have last spoken in July 2017 as Netanyahu sought Abdullah’s help in calming protests over metal detectors placed on the Temple Mount.Although Kushner and Greenblatt are set to meet with regional leaders to iron out details of the Trump peace plan, they are not scheduled to hold talks with the Palestinians, who have refused to meet with US officials ever since Trump recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in December, and then moved the US Embassy to the city last month.An aide to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday condemned the US peace push and a reported plan to raise hundreds of millions of dollars from Gulf donors to rehabilitate the Gaza Strip.In a statement, Nabil Abu Rudeineh warned Mideast countries “against cooperating with a move whose goal is to perpetuate the separation between Gaza and the West Bank and lead to concessions on Jerusalem and the holy sites.”
US envoys Kushner, Greenblatt hold talks with Jordanian king-White House officials discuss Gaza, seek Arab pressure on Palestinians to begin dialogue based on soon-to-be-unveiled US proposal-By AP and TOI staff-JUN 19,18
AMMAN, Jordan — US President Donald Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner held talks Tuesday with Jordan’s king ahead of an expected Israeli-Palestinian peace push.Kushner, along with White House peace envoy Jason Greenblatt, arrived in Jordan on Tuesday for talks with King Abdullah II, a key US ally. The meeting came a day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a rare trip to Amman for talks with Abdullah, after months of strained ties.A White House statement said Tuesday’s talks included discussions on the Gaza humanitarian situation and US efforts to “facilitate peace between the Israelis and Palestinians.”US officials have said their plan is near completion and could be released this summer. But it faces resistance from the Palestinians, who have cut off ties since Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in December, and then moved the US embassy there in May.Kushner’s team has also planned stops in Israel, Qatar, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. No talks with the Palestinians are scheduled.The Trump administration is seeking to convince moderate Arab allies to put pressure on the Palestinians to negotiate on the basis of the US peace proposal.Greenblatt earlier hailed the Netanyahu-Abdullah meeting, the first publicly announced meeting between the two leaders since 2014.“Happy to see King Abdullah and Prime Minister Netanyahu resuming meetings with regard to key issues. Very important to both countries and to the entire region,” Greenblatt tweeted.Netanyahu’s office issued its own statement Monday about his meeting with the Jordanian king, saying, “The king and the prime minister discussed regional developments and advancing the peace process and bilateral relations. Prime Minister Netanyahu reiterated Israel’s commitment to maintaining the status quo at the holy sites in Jerusalem.”The rare meeting came after months of frayed ties between Jerusalem and Amman over the killing of two Jordanians by an Israeli embassy guard.The two leaders are reported to have last spoken in July 2017 as Netanyahu sought Abdullah’s help in calming protests over metal detectors placed on the Temple Mount.An aide to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday condemned the US peace push and a reported plan to raise hundreds of millions of dollars from Gulf donors to rehabilitate the Gaza Strip.In a statement, Nabil Abu Rudeineh warned Mideast countries “against cooperating with a move whose goal is to perpetuate the separation between Gaza and the West Bank and lead to concessions on Jerusalem and the holy sites.”Agencies contributed to this report.
Revolutionary Guard chief says Iran won’t increase its missile range-'We have the scientific ability... but it is not our current policy' as most enemies already within range, claims Mohammad Ali Jafari-By Agencies-TOI-JUN 19,18
Iran has no plan to increase the range of its missiles, the country’s semi-official Tasnim news agency has reported.The Tuesday report quoted the chief of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard, Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari, as saying: “We have the scientific ability to increase our missile ranges, but it is not our current policy.”Gen. Jafari added that most of Iran’s enemies are already situated within a 2,000-kilometer (1,240-mile) radius of Iran.In 2017, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered limits on the country’s ballistic missile program to 2,000 kilometers.This range would encompass much of the Middle East, including Israel and American bases in the region. However, such limits come as Iran routinely says its ballistic missile program is only for defensive purposes against regional adversaries.Although there are no restrictions in place on the range of Iranian missiles, US President Donald Trump had insisted that limitations be placed on Tehran’s missile program as a prerequisite for Washington remaining in the landmark 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. He ultimately pulled out of it on May 12.The New York Times reported last month that weapons researchers have identified activity at a remote secret facility in the Iranian desert that points to the covert development of long-range missiles that could be used to attack the United States.Satellite images appeared to show, among other things, activity around a tunnel leading underground and evidence of powerful rocket engine tests that scorched telltale marks in the desert sand near the city of Shahrud, the report said.The US and its allies have been demanding that Iran curb its production of ballistic missiles, which can reach parts of Europe and could soon reach the US as well. Western officials have maintained that the only reason Tehran could have for manufacturing such missiles would be to fit them with non-conventional, including atomic, warheads.Tehran insists that it sees the missile program as crucial to its defensive posture, and says its existence is non-negotiable.Iranian leaders have previously said they are not working on missiles with a range beyond the Middle East. The Islamic Republic has so far produced a missile with a range of 2,000 kilometers (1,240 miles), putting all of Israel in range as well as much of Eastern Europe.The 2015 nuclear deal saw heavy sanctions lifted on Iran in return for Tehran freezing much of its nuclear program. Having pulled out of the deal in May, the US has vowed to apply the “strongest sanctions in history” on Iran.United Nations Security Council Resolution 2231, which affirmed the Iran nuclear deal, called on Iran to refrain from developing missiles capable of carrying nuclear weapons. Iran has maintained that it never intended to develop nuclear weapons and therefore its missile development doesn’t violate the agreement.However, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in April presented a vast archive of Iranian documents, obtained by the Mossad spy agency, which he said detailed Iranian efforts and research programs specifically aimed at producing an atomic weapon.Netanyahu said at the time the evidence proved Iran had lied about its nuclear ambitions. In announcing his withdrawal from the nuclear agreement, Trump cited the Israeli intelligence haul as among the reasons for his decision.Stuart Winer contributed to this report.
Syrian Druze city shelled for first time in years as fighting intensifies-Last time Sweida came under assault from Syrian rebels, the Israeli Druze community called on Israel to intervene-By AFP and TOI staff-JUN 19,18
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Rebel shellfire slammed into the Druze-majority southern Syrian city of Sweida on Tuesday for the first time in three years, a monitor said, as fresh regime reinforcements arrived in the area.The government holds most of Sweida province but rebels still control much of the nearby Daraa and Quneitra governorates near the Syrian Golan Heights.On Tuesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said opposition forces fired shells into Sweida city, “which led to loud blasts but no casualties.”“It is the first time since 2015 that the city has been subjected to shellfire,” said Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman.Syrian state news agency SANA also blamed rebels “spread out in the towns and villages in eastern parts of Daraa province” for firing shells on Sweida.Sweida has remained relatively insulated from seven years of war that ravaged the rest of the country.A 2015 rebel advance in the area, and in Druze-majority areas on the Syrian Golan Heights, led to concerns among Israeli Druze that their brethren could see the bloodshed reach their doorstep.At the time, Israel’s Druze rallied to urge Israeli leaders to intervene to aid the Syrian Druze community and help prevent them from being massacred by either regime or rebel forces.The war moved on from Sweida by the end of 2015 and largely passed by the Druze community.But rebels now hold a sliver of territory in western Sweida that borders their main bastion in the province of Daraa, and clashes and exchanges of fire have erupted in that area in recent days.Syria’s government has set its sights on ousting rebels from the south and has been dispatching troops and equipment there for weeks.On Tuesday, they dropped new flyers on the rebel-held half of Daraa city, calling on residents to expel rebels, “like your brothers did in Eastern Ghouta and Qalamun,” referring to two areas near Damascus recently recaptured from the opposition.Rebels appeared to fear the regime would use Sweida’s civilian population as justification for the assault, and issued a message addressed to them on Tuesday.“We call on our people in Sweida province not to serve as bait for the goals of the regime, sectarian militias from Iran, and Hezbollah, which are trying to occupy this land and divide its people,” they said in a statement.But the government has also hinted that a political settlement over the south’s fate could be reached.“We have moved towards the south and we are giving the political process a chance,” Syrian President Bashar Assad said last week.“If that doesn’t succeed, we have no other option but to liberate it by force.”The Druze are followers of a secretive offshoot of Shiite Islam, and made up around three percent of Syria’s pre-war population of 23 million, or some 700,000 people.The community has been somewhat divided during the war, with some members fighting on the government side and others expressing sympathy for the opposition. Mostly, the Druze have taken up arms only in defense of their own areas. Sweida’s Druze formed a local militia in the war’s early years to protect themselves from the rebels.There are an estimated 100,000 Druze in Israel, mostly in the country’s north.Agencies contributed to this report.
U.S. to pull out of U.N. human rights body: source-[Reuters]-By Lesley Wroughton and Steve Holland-YAHOONEWSJune 19, 2018
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley will announce on Tuesday that the United Sates is pulling out of the United Nations Human Rights Council, a Trump administration source told Reuters.The United States is half-way through a three-year term on the main U.N. rights body and had long threatened to quit if it was not reformed, accusing the 47-member Geneva-based body of being anti-Israel.Reuters reported last week that activists and diplomats said talks with the United States on reforms had failed to meet Washington's demands, suggesting that the Trump administration would quit.Washington's pullout would be the latest U.S. rejection of multilateral engagement after it pulled out of the Paris climate agreement and the Iran nuclear deal.It also comes as the United States faces intense criticism for detaining children separated from their immigrant parents at the U.S.-Mexico border. U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein on Monday called on Washington to halt its "unconscionable" policy.U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric declined to comment until a U.S. decision was announced, but added: "The Secretary-General is a strong believer in the human rights architecture of the U.N. and the active participation of all states."When the Human Rights Council was created in 2006, U.S. President George W. Bush's administration shunned the body.Then under President Barack Obama the United States was elected to the body for a maximum two consecutive terms on the council by the U.N. General Assembly. After a year off, Washington was re-elected in 2016 for its current third term.In March 2011, the U.N. General Assembly unanimously suspended Libya's membership in the council because of violence against protesters by forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. But U.N. officials said no member has withdrawn.Haley said a year ago that Washington was reviewing its membership and called for reform and elimination of a "chronic anti-Israel bias." The body has a permanent standing agenda item on suspected violations committed by Israel in the occupied Palestinian territories that Washington wants removed."The U.N. Human Rights Council has played an important role in such countries as North Korea, Syria, Myanmar and South Sudan, but all Trump seems to care about is defending Israel," said Human Rights Watch executive director Ken Roth.The council last month voted to probe killings in Gaza and accused Israel of excessive use of force. The United States and Australia cast the only "no" votes. Israel's ambassador in Geneva castigated the council for "spreading lies against Israel."(Additional reporting by Michelle Nichols at the United Nations and Stephanie Nebehay in Geneva; Editing by Steve Orlofsky and James Dalgleish)
Iran says it knows nothing of Israeli ex-minister charged as spy-In first comments on case, Rouhani aide says arrest of Gonen Segev, accused of passing intel to Iran, should be ignored-By Stuart Winer and TOI staff-JUN 19,18
A senior political aide to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani dismissed Israel’s arrest of an ex-minister accused of spying for Tehran and said it should be ignored Tuesday.Iran has mostly remained mum since the Shin Bet security service said Monday it had charged former energy minister Gonen Segev with knowingly providing sensitive information to Iranian agents for the last six years, making him the most high-profile figure to be accused of spying in the country’s history.Iranian government spokesman Mohammad Bagher Nobakht told reporters at a press conference in Tehran that the “Zionist regime uses every tool to blame the Islamic Republic of Iran,” according to a translation of his comments.“It’s not clear what this is, but we must ignore it,” said Nobakht, who is also strategic adviser to Rouhani.The comment was the first official Iranian reaction to the arrest of Segev. On Monday night, ISNA was the only news site in Iran’s tightly controlled media to report on the arrest, dismissing it as a fraud.“The Zionist regime is famous for faking files against Iran, and, after the violation of the [Iran nuclear deal] by the US government, has recently launched a new round of Iranophobia. The experts have assessed this accusation [against Segev] as part of Netanyahu’s effort to create fake files against Iran,” the site wrote.After news broke of Segev’s arrest Iranian social media users posted messages of support for Segev along with the hashtag #freeGonenSegev, a method used to identify topics of interest on the internet.Some also tagged their posts with an attempt at a Hebrew translation of the hashtag but the resulting tag used the Hebrew adjective meaning at no cost rather than the verb to liberate. Amused Israeli social media activists then shared the erroneous Hebrew tag along with satirical comments poking fun at the price of “a Segev.”Summer sale is on at Shuk Hacarmel! #freeGonenSegev when you buy kilogram of Iranian pistachios.Segev, a former doctor who served time in an Israeli prison for drug smuggling, moved to Nigeria upon his release in 2007. He had briefly served in the Knesset and as a minister of energy and infrastructure under Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres in 1995 and 1996.According to the Shin Bet, Segev has knowingly been in contact with Iranian intelligence officials since 2012, making first contact with them at Iran’s embassy in Nigeria.“Segev gave his operators information about [Israel’s] energy sector, about security locations in Israel, and about buildings and officials in diplomatic and security bodies, and more,” the Shin Bet said in a statement Monday.The security service said Segev met with his Iranian handlers in hotels and safe houses around the world and used a special encrypted device to send them messages in secret.He was also accused of making contact with Israeli figures in security, defense and diplomacy in order to mine them for information to send to Iran.According to the Shin Bet, Segev also tried to make direct connections between his Israeli contacts and Iranian handlers, presenting the spies as businesspeople.In mid-May, Segev traveled from Nigeria to Equatorial Guinea where he was arrested by local police and extradited to Israel, the intelligence agency said.On Friday, he was indicted in a Jerusalem court on charges of assisting the enemy in wartime, spying, and a number of other related crimes, but the case remained under a gag order until Monday. Some details of the case remain sealed.Segev’s lawyers said in a statement to the press that the full charge sheet painted a “different picture” from that which can be seen from only the parts cleared for publication.According to reports in Hebrew media, Segev claims he was seeking to mislead the Iranians and hoped to return home to Israel a hero.Segev, who reportedly was being held in a Shin Bet facility, was moved Tuesday to Gilboa Prison in northern Israel.His next court hearing is set to take place on July 9.
National security adviser in Russia for talks on Iran troops in Syria — report-Meir Ben-Shabbat said to discuss with Russian counterpart plans for southern Syria, Israeli demand for withdrawal of Iran's forces-By TOI staff-JUN 19,18
Israel’s national security adviser secretly traveled to Moscow on Monday, an Israeli TV report said, where he met with Russian officials regarding Iran’s military presence in Syria.According to Channel 10, Meir Ben-Shabbat met with his Russian counterpart Nikolai Patrushev and other Russian officials. They discussed Russian efforts to formulate a plan for southern Syria and Israel’s demand for Iranian forces to leave the country, the report said.The Prime Minister’s Office confirmed the meeting but would not comment on its content.Ben-Shabbat’s trip to Moscow came after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke by phone Friday with Russian President Vladimir Putin about Syria and the security coordination between the two countries there.Netanyahu said during Sunday’s weekly cabinet meeting that he reiterated the importance of booting Iran from Syria during his talks with Putin and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo over the weekend.“I made clear to them our principles on this matter,” he said. “Iran must leave Syria and we will act and are already acting against Iran’s attempts to establish itself in that country.”The Kremlin said Putin and Netanyahu talked about “joint efforts to provide security near the Syrian-Israeli border” during their phone call. They also “expressed readiness to boost the coordination of their actions with regard to Syria, including in countering international terrorism,” the Kremlin said.Pompeo and Netanyahu met in Tel Aviv in April, when the two discussed concerns regarding Iranian troops and Iran-backed militia operating in Syria.Netanyahu has spoken and met with Putin regularly in recent years regarding Syria, where Russia is fighting on behalf of Syrian President Bashar Assad.The two most recently met in Moscow last month. Shortly after that meeting, an airstrike in Syria attributed to Israel targeted an Iranian military base. Like Russia, Iran is a key backer of the Syrian regime.Israel has repeatedly vowed it will not tolerate an Iranian military presence in Syria and has carried out strikes against Iran-backed forces and attempts to smuggle advanced weapons to the Lebanon-based Hezbollah terror group.Reports earlier this month said Israel and Russia reached an agreement for the withdrawal of Iranian forces from southern Syria. An Israeli official later told Channel 10 that no such deal had been reached, with Netanyahu stressing to Putin that Israel wants Iran out of all of Syria, not just the area near the Israeli-Syrian border.While the official acknowledged that talks have progressed and that the Kremlin appears more understanding of the Israeli position, Netanyahu still made clear that his government will not shy away from using military force to keep Iran completely out of Syria.
In rare move, Egypt said to keep Gaza crossing open for 2 more months-Rafah crossing was open for month of Ramadan and now reportedly will stay open throughout summer for humanitarian reasons-By Michael Bachner-JUN 19,18
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi has reportedly ordered that the Rafah crossing on the border with the Gaza Strip remain open for humanitarian reasons until the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha in late August.Egypt had already opened the crossing longer than any other time in recent years, after last month it granted access in both directions for the entire month of Ramadan.On Tuesday, Egyptian security sources, quoted by local media, said people and goods will be able to pass through the crossing for another two months to ease the burden on Gaza’s population.For years, Egypt opened its sole border crossing with the Gaza Strip only sporadically and for short intervals, as it has fought an insurgency in north Sinai bordering the Palestinian enclave.Eid al-Adha, or the “Festival of Sacrifice,” is planned to be marked this year by Muslims worldwide on August 21-25, although the exact dates may vary.Hamas, the Palestinian terror group which rules the Strip, hailed the decision and said that “the residents of Gaza thank President Sissi and call for the Rafah Crossing to remain open.”Since 2007, Israel and Egypt have enforced a blockade of Gaza, which Israel says is necessary to prevent Hamas from smuggling weapons into Strip. Currently, goods arrive at Israeli ports, where they are screened and then brought to Gaza on hundreds of trucks a day.Deteriorating living conditions in the Strip have been cited by security officials as a major factor fueling violent clashes on the Israel-Gaza border, as well as a debilitating sense of desperation.On Monday, Haaretz reported that the United States is seeking to raise over $500 million from Gulf states to fund energy and economic development projects aimed at improving the humanitarian situation in Gaza, as a prelude to revealing US President Donald Trump’s plan for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.Times of Israel staff and agencies contributed to this report.
EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH IN NOAHS DAY(BECAUSE OF SIN,VIOLENCE AND GODLESS PEOPLE)
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
HOSEA 4:1-3
1 Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
DEUTORONOMY 28:22-24
22 The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.
23 And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.
24 The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
High heat, chance of flash floods lingers for parts of U.S.-[Reuters]-YAHOONEWS-June 19, 2018
(Reuters) - Hot, humid weather on Tuesday is expected to bring thunderstorms and a risk of flash floods from Texas to the southeastern United States, after damaging overnight storms in the Northeast region of the country, the National Weather Service said.The biggest flooding threat will be in southern and southeastern Texas, which could see several more inches of rain after getting drenched overnight, the NWS said.Much of the northern part of the central and eastern United States had record-setting temperatures on Monday followed by strong overnight thunderstorms that downed some trees and caused flooding.Rockford, Illinois, is expected to get more rain after flash floods on Monday night when storms dumped as much as five inches (13 centimeters) of rain in less than four hours. Emergency crews rescued people from numerous submerged vehicles.Local power companies reported 18,000 outages in Michigan and 7,000 in New Hampshire, after overnight storms. Storms also caused scattered outages in Maryland, local media reported.A slight-to-moderate risk of flooding remains in effect for Tuesday for areas along a front stretching from northern Illinois through the middle of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, the weather service said."Along that boundary we keep getting storms to fire up," said Brian Hurley, a meteorologist with the NWS's Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland. "The heaviest rainfall is going to be along that front on either side of it."As the front drifts slowly south, it is bringing relief to areas north of it, including New England, New York, northern Pennsylvania, Indiana and Illinois, after those areas sweltered on Monday, Hurley said.On Monday, record-high temperatures were tied or broken in 11 places in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions, including Washington Dulles International Airport at 94 degrees Fahrenheit (34 degrees Celsius), Allentown, Pennsylvania, at 95 degrees and Albany, New York, at 97 degrees, the weather service said.Temperatures south of the front are forecast to remain 5 to 10 degrees above normal during the middle of the week, with heat advisories in effect for the eastern Carolinas, southeastern Virginia and parts of Missouri and Illinois, the weather service said. An excessive heat warning was in place on Tuesday for the St. Louis area, it added.(Reporting by Peter Szekely in New York; Editing by Scott Malone and Paul Simao)
Guatemala volcano search called off with nearly 200 unaccounted for-[AFP]-YAHOONEWS-June 18, 2018
Guatemala City (AFP) - Authorities on Sunday called off a search for the nearly 200 people missing since Guatemala's Fuego volcano erupted earlier this month, devastating the surrounding countryside.Officials have confirmed the deaths of 110 people as a result of the volcanic eruption on June 3, but another 197 remain unaccounted for.A spokesman for the government's civil protection agency, David de Leon, said the agencies involved decided to end the search "due to the fact that the area is uninhabitable and of high risk."The volcano, 35 kilometers (about 22 miles) southwest of the capital, is still generating four or five weak explosions an hour, sending a column of gray ash more than 3,000 feet (1,000 meters) into the sky.Guatemala's south-central region was also shaken on Sunday night by a 5.8-magnitude earthquake with its epicenter at Iztapa, on the Pacific coast near neighboring El Salvador, the civil protection agency said.There were no reports of injuries or damage.Additionally, rains were forecast for Sunday, posing a danger of volcanic mudflows.More than 3,600 villagers have been forced to take temporary refuge in schools and community halls.The suspended search had been focused on the hardest-hit communities of San Miguel Los Lotes and El Recreo.The only exception to the suspension is in the area of Alotenango, where volunteer firefighters continued to search for two colleagues who went missing on the day of the disaster.
Judge cancels hearing in Stormy Daniels case against Trump, Cohen-[Reuters]-By Jonathan Stempel-YAHOONEWS-June 18, 2018
(Reuters) - A Los Angeles judge has canceled a June 21 hearing at which a lawyer for adult film actress Stormy Daniels planned to seek the resumption of her lawsuit there against U.S. President Donald Trump and his longtime lawyer Michael Cohen.According to an order issued on Monday, U.S. District Judge James Otero decided it was unnecessary to hear arguments on the request by Daniels' lawyer Michael Avenatti to lift a 90-day stay imposed on April 28.Otero will rule on the request later. In imposing the stay, the judge cited the potential overlap between Daniels' lawsuit and a separate criminal probe by federal prosecutors in Manhattan that he said could result in Cohen's indictment.Daniels is suing to end an agreement under which Cohen paid her $130,000 not to discuss an alleged intimate relationship she had with Trump beginning in 2006 and continuing in 2007.Her lawsuit also includes a claim that Cohen defamed her by implying that she had lied about her relationship with Trump.The president has denied having sex with Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford.Avenatti posted Otero's order on his Twitter feed, without discussing its substance.Otero has yet to rule on Cohen's bid for a restraining order to stop Avenatti from maligning him, in a "seemingly unquenchable thirst for publicity" that has included dozens of television appearances and hundreds of tweets.The criminal probe in Manhattan concerns Cohen's business dealings. Daniels filed a separate defamation lawsuit there against Trump in April.The case is Clifford v Trump et al, U.S. District Court, Central District of California, No. 18-02217.(Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by Richard Chang)
DRUG PUSHERS AND ADDICTS
1 PET 5:8
8 Be sober,(NOT DRUGED UP OR ALCOHOLICED) be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
REVELATION 18:23
23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries (DRUGS) were all nations deceived.
REVELATION 9:21
21 Neither repented they of their murders,(KILLING) nor of their sorceries (DRUG ADDICTS AND DRUG PUSHERS), nor of their fornication,(SEX OUTSIDE MARRIAGE OR PROSTITUTION FOR MONEY) nor of their thefts.(STEALING)
Opioid death toll in Canada nearly 4,000 last year, new data shows-[The Canadian Press]-YAHOONEWS-June 19, 2018
OTTAWA — Nearly 4,000 Canadians died from apparent opioid overdoses last year, with men the most likely victims and fentanyl the clear culprit, new government figures show.The numbers released Tuesday came as the federal government announced plans to severely restrict the way drug companies market opioids to doctors.The death toll rose to almost 4,000 in 2017 from about 3,000 in 2016.The figures show that 78 per cent of victims were male and that fentanyl or fentanyl analogues were blamed for 72 per cent of all overdose deaths.For some, overdoses have became a major cause of death, said Dr. Theresa Tam, chief public health officer of Canada."The number of apparent opioid related deaths among 30 to 39-year-olds in 2017 was greater than the number of deaths due to any of the other leading causes of death for this age group," TAM said.She said the federal government is working with provinces and others to rein in the problem."These data represent the loss of valuable lives," she said. "They represent the loss of family members, loved ones and friends and highlights how this crisis is devastating for Canadians from all walks of life in communities across Canada."We know that we need to reverse the trend of this crisis."Supriya Sharma of Health Canada said marketing practices can influence the way health professionals dispense prescriptions and tighter rules will help reduce over-prescribing.She said drug companies use a number of methods, from ads in medical journals to presentations at conferences to sales pitches in doctors' offices.For the next month, the department will seek comments on restricting marketing practices and will ask drug companies to voluntarily stop marketing activities associated with opioids until regulations are in place.The department said the new rules will have teeth, ranging from administrative fines that can be quickly levelled, to possible criminal charges.The numbers for apparent opioid-related fatalities show a national death rate of 10.9 for every 100,000 people in the population in 2017, up from 8.2 in 2016.British Columbia remains the province hardest hit by the opioid crisis, with 1,399 deaths. The toll was up from 974 recorded in 2016.The B.C. deaths came to a rate of 29 for every 100,000 population.Ontario had 1,125 deaths last year, an increase from 726 in 2016. The Ontario figure represented a death rate of 7.9 for every 100,000 people.The Canadian Press.
Marijuana bill inches closer to passage with House vote-[CBC]-YAHOONEWS-June 18, 2018
The Liberal government's bill to legalize recreational marijuana has cleared another vote in the House of Commons — but it still has to get a final stamp of approval from an unpredictable Senate before it can become law.The Senate had proposed 46 amendments to The Cannabis Act but the Liberal government rejected several major ones last week — including one provision that would have affirmed the provinces' right to ban home cultivation of marijuana.MPs spent a portion of Monday and last week debating the Senate's amendments before 205 of them voted today in favour of rejecting 13 of the proposed changes.NDP members supported the bill while those on the Conservative benches voted against it.The updated bill now heads back to the Senate, where it could be up for debate as early as Monday night.If senators aren't happy that the government passed on their recommendations, they could send the bill back down to the House — ultimately delaying its passage.Sen. Yuen Pau Woo, head of the Independent Senators Group, said that after a year of studying the legislation — a marquee election promise from the Liberals — the Red Chamber made thoughtful and serious changes."The job of senators is to listen to signals as well. It's not just to propose amendments willy-nilly with no sense of where the government position is," he told CBC Radio's The House last week. "The Senate does not regularly insist and create a ping-pong between the House and the Upper Chamber. It's only happened a few times in our history and on very, very consequential bills. I don't know if this one qualifies ... but if senators decide that the explanations are not sufficient and we get to it, then we are in that world again."If senators are satisfied with the government's response and approve the bill as-is, it will be sent to the Governor General for royal assent.It's up to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet to choose the actual date when legalization takes effect. Bill C-45 comes with a provisional buffer period of eight to 12 weeks to give provinces time to prepare for the actual sale of recreational marijuana.Liberal MP Bill Blair, the federal point man on pot, told CTV News that if the bill receives royal assent this week, it could be legal to smoke marijuana recreationally in September.
Defeated Ontario Liberals must begin soul-searching: interim leader-[The Canadian Press]-YAHOONEWS-June 18, 2018
TORONTO — Ontario's Liberals must do some soul-searching in the wake of the devastating defeat they suffered in the provincial election in order to understand where things went wrong, the party's new interim leader said Monday.John Fraser, an Ottawa-are legislator first elected in 2013, said the party respects the electorate's decision and must now look internally for answers."The people of Ontario sent the Liberal party a very clear message," he said in an interview. "They want us to take a break and they want us to do some soul-searching."Fraser was appointed interim leader last week following outgoing Premier Kathleen Wynne's resignation. The Liberals, who have been in power in Ontario for 15 years, won only seven seats in the June 7 election, one short of the eight seats required to maintain official party status in the legislature.His mission as interim leader will be to begin the rebuild of the party brand, Fraser said, describing himself as a "caretaker." Chief amongst his concerns will be getting the party's financial house in order and addressing millions in debt accumulated through the election."We spent approximately $10 million to get seven seats," Fraser said. "I think Liberals want an answer in that regard. They want us to take a look at the campaign and pre-campaign and look at where we made mistakes."Fraser said the party also needs to address its lack of party status at the legislature, which means they've also lost funding for research, staffing and designated speaking time.Fraser said he hopes to have discussions with incoming premier Doug Ford, whose Progressive Conservatives won a majority of seats, about the Tory government granting the Liberals party status."We're going to try to establish with the government our status in the legislature," he said. "I think one million Ontarians voted for us. It's important their voice be effective in the legislature."Fraser said it's too early to talk about a leadership race, adding that in the meantime, the party has to begin the process of becoming competitive in time for the next provincial vote in 2022."It's going to take a lot of work," he said. "Ontarians sent us a very clear message. What comes along with that message is the fact that we've got work to do."University of Ottawa political science professor Geneviève Tellier said while the road ahead for the Ontario Liberals will be difficult, the party brand has not been irreparably damaged. It will take years but it can come back from this defeat, she said."I think the results of the election show that people weren't ready to head further to the left with the NDP," she said. "There is room for an alternative that is in the middle. That would be the branding of the Liberals. ... In the last year the Liberals were not the traditional party of the centre that they used to be."Tellier said the party must now conduct a deep "post-mortem" of the election and learn from their errors. The focus must gradually shift to selecting a new leader but the party should take its time and avoid infighting, she added."Even if we don't see them too much now during this session, I wouldn't be too concerned about that, that's very short-term," she said. "The more long-term rebuilding based on the ideas of the new leader will be important."Shawn Jeffords, The Canadian Press.
Beijing subway to get 'bio-ID' tracking systems: China Daily-[Reuters]-YAHOONEWS-June 18, 2018
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - The Chinese capital, Beijing, is looking at introducing "bio-recognition technology", including palm scanners and facial recognition cameras, to speed up passenger flow through subway stations at peak times, state media reported on Tuesday.China is increasingly using surveillance technology for everything from bolstering domestic security to speeding up orders at fast-food restaurants. However, that kind of monitoring is stoking concerns from human rights groups that it is building a nationwide surveillance system to quell dissent.Beijing's sprawling underground transport system plans to introduce the technologies this year, the state-run China Daily newspaper said, citing Zhang Huabing, head of enterprise development for the main operator, Beijing Subway.The facial recognition cameras would be able to detect people's faces, potentially allowing them to bypass normal ticketing channels, while the palm scanners would enable some people to swipe their hands to get through ticket turnstiles.The China Daily said palm scanners were already being used on the Shanghai subway system, which compared scanned images with a database of prints in seconds.It said Beijing has 22 urban railway lines and that more than 10 million passengers ride the city's subway trains on an average working day.(Reporting by Adam Jourdan; Editing by Paul Tait)
WORLD POWERS IN THE LAST DAYS (END OF AGE OF GRACE NOT THE WORLD)
EUROPEAN UNION-KING OF WEST-DAN 9:26-27,DAN 7:23-24,DAN 11:40,REV 13:1-10
EGYPT-KING OF THE SOUTH-DAN 11:40
RUSSIA-KING OF THE NORTH-EZEK 38:1-2,EZEK 39:1-3
CHINA-KING OF THE EAST-DAN 11:44,REV 9:16,18
VATICAN-RELIGIOUS LEADER-REV 13:11-18,REV 17:4-5,9,18
WORLD TERRORISM
OH BY THE WAY WHEN THE MEDIA SAYS ALLU-AK-BAR MEANS GOD IS GREAT LIE. IN ISLAM ALLU-AK-BAR MEANS OUR GOD IS GREATER OR GREATEST. THIS IS HOW THE MEDIA SUCK HOLES UP TO ISLAMIC-QURANIC-MUSLIMS. BY WATERING DOWN THE REAL MEANING OF THE SEX FOR MURDER DEATH CULT ISLAM. TO MAKE IT SOUND LIKE A PEACEFUL RELIGION (CULT OF DEATH AND WORLD DOMINATION).
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her,(HAGAR) Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he (ISHMAEL-FATHER OF THE ARAB-MUSLIMS) will be a wild (DONKEY-JACKASS) man;(ISLAM IS A FAKE AND DANGEROUS SEX FOR MURDER CULT) his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against him;(PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM BEING BEHEADED) and he (ISHMAEL ARAB/MUSLIM) shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)
ISAIAH 14:12-14
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,(SATAN) son of the morning!(HEBREW-CRECENT MOON-ISLAM) how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I (SATAN HAS EYE TROUBLES) will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(AND 1/3RD OF THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN FELL WITH SATAN AND BECAME DEMONS)
JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.(ISLAM MURDERS IN THE NAME OF MOON GOD ALLAH OF ISLAM)
U.S.-led coalition says kills Islamic State oil and gas head in Syria-[Reuters]-YAHOONEWS-June 19, 2018
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The U.S.-led coalition in Syria said on Tuesday it had disrupted Islamic State's funding by killing the man who ran its oil and gas network and other members of the group last month."The death of these (Islamic State) members hinders the terrorist group's ability to finance operations throughout Iraq and Syria ... the ability to pay fighters, procure weapons, and maintain equipment will be degraded," it said in a statement.The coalition said it killed the oil and gas network leader Abu Khattab al-Iraqi and three other Islamic State members on May 26 in the "Middle Euphrates River valley".Al-Iraqi had "managed revenue generation through the illicit sale of oil and gas", it said.In Syria the U.S.-led coalition uses air power and special forces to back the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias, in their fight against Islamic State.The SDF took swathes of northern and eastern Syria from Islamic State last year, including the jihadists' Syrian capital of Raqqa. It continues to fight Islamic State in some desert areas east of the Euphrates.(Writing by Lisa Barrington; Editing by Alexander Smith)
Turkish air strikes kill 26 militants in southeast Turkey, Iraq: army-[Reuters]-YAHOONEWS-June 19, 2018
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish air strikes killed 26 militants and destroyed their gun positions, shelters and ammunition stores in southeastern Turkey and northern Iraq this week, Turkey's military said on Tuesday.The strikes were carried out on Sunday and Monday in Diyarbakir and Sirnak provinces and an area of northern Iraq where the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) has bases, the military said in a statement on Twitter.The Turkish military has ramped up air strikes in northern Iraq, targeting PKK bases in Qandil, close to the Iraq-Iran border, where Ankara suspects high-ranking members of the outlawed group are located.Ankara has also recently stepped up warnings of a potential ground offensive into the Qandil region, with President Tayyip Erdogan vowing to "drain the terror swamp" there."We will continue to topple Qandil on the heads of the separatist terrorist organization," Erdogan told an election rally in the southern province of Adana.The PKK, which has waged an insurgency in the mainly Kurdish southeast of Turkey since 1984, is designated a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and European Union.Turkey has carried out two cross-border military operations in northern Syria since 2016. Since January, Turkey has been waging an offensive against the Kurdish YPG militia, which Ankara deems an extension of the PKK, in Syria's Afrin region.Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Tuesday Turkish troops were advancing on Qandil with "determined steps".Separately, a Turkish soldier was killed and two wounded on Tuesday by an improvised explosive device planted by the PKK in the southeastern province of Siirt, the governor's office said.In the neighboring province of Sirnak, bordering Iraq, two Turkish soldiers were killed and three others wounded in two separate explosions, a security source said.(Reporting by Daren Butler, writing by Ali Kucukgocmen, editing by David Dolan/Larry King)
