KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.
DECIEVERS WAXING WORSE AND WORSE.
2 TIMOTHY 3:13
13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
Obama's "Deeply Disturbing" Family Background with Director Joel Gilbert
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RenQQkBjJ0&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmDapBOqjGY&feature=player_embedded
FOX NEWS QUESTIONS BATMAN NARRATIVE
http://www.infowars.com/fox-news-channel-questions-narrative-of-batman-massacre/
EXODUS 20:13
13 Thou shalt not kill.(Murder)(THAT INCLUDES ABORTION)
July 24, 2012
A fishing trip in Russia’s Urals ended with cries of horror as a man found canisters filled with human embryos, some already shaped to baby bodies.Lids on the bright blue containers apparently unlocked as the canisters hit the ground, and many embryos spilled out. The little bodies, no longer than 15 centimeters, shrank, turning into mummies.“A friend of mine called at night and said he went finishing and wanted to get some wood for his fire. He found some abandoned water canisters and wanted to take them for his house. And when he came up, he saw… little baby bodies,” a local told Russia’s Channel 4.
Arriving Monday morning, police found 248 embryos aged 12-16 weeks in and around the four canisters. Labels attached to tiny hands and legs listed family names of assumed mothers and some digit codes, which may refer to the pregnancy period, date of abortion or the hospital where the body originated from.
The 50-liter canisters filled with formalin seem to have been thrown out of a vehicle not far from a road leading to Nevyansk, a town on the slopes of the Ural Mountains.Nevyansk authorities immediately said the canisters could not have originated in their town.“Our area is too small; we can’t have so many stillborns, miscarriages or artificial abortions,” they said.Later it was revealed that the horrifying content was “biological waste” from at least three hospitals in Ekaterinburg, the region’s major city.“It appears a waste disposal company has failed to carry out its duties properly,” remark local authorities as the investigation continues. The Ministry of Health has been requested to determine which companies provide embryo disposal services to Ekaterinburg hospitals.In Russia, embryos are subject to immediate disposal as they are classified high hazard waste. Prior to disposal, they are to be kept in special packages, not in canisters with formalin. It is also out of practice to attach labels with any information, at least in Ekaterinburg hospitals.
But the bodies found near the Urals not only fall out of this description – the labels show they may have been stored for over ten years.Some medical experts believe the embryos might have been meant for studies or other purposes, as they contain stem cells. The cells are widely used for immune illnesses treatment and in cosmetic procedures.Prosecutors are talking tentatively of criminal charges, but most probably the guilty party will bear an administrative punishment.
Warning! Graphic images.
The embryos were found in and around four water containers (Still from NTV coverage video)
Police spent whole Monday studying the scene not far from the town of Nevyansk (Still from NTV coverage video)
Many embryos were full shaped baby bodies (Still from NTV coverage video)
Some embryos might have been stored for ten years (Still from NTV coverage video)
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(THE FALSE POPE WHO DEFECTED FROM THE CHRISTIAN FAITH) causeth all,(IN THE WORLD ) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(MICROCHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark,(MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the name of the beast,(WORLD DICTATORS NAME INGRAVED ON YOUR SKIN OR TATTOOED ON YOU OR IN THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the number of his name.(THE NUMBERS OF HIS NAME INGRAVED IN THE MICROCHIP IMLPLANT)-(ALL THESE WILL TELL THE WORLD DICTATOR THAT YOUR WITH HIM AND AGAINST KING JESUS-GOD)
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast:(WORLD LEADER) for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM (6006006)OR(60020202006)(SOME KIND OF NUMBER IMPLANTED IN THE MICROCHIP THAT TELLS THE WORLD DICTATOR AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER THAT YOU GIVE YOUR TOTAL ALLIGIENCE TO HIM AND NOT JESUS)(ITS AN ETERNAL DECISION YOU MAKE)(YOU CHOOSE YOUR OWN DESTINY)(YOU TAKE THE DICTATORS NAME OR NUMBER UNDER YOUR SKIN,YOUR DOOMED TO THE LAKE OF FIRE AND TORMENTS FOREVER,NEVER ENDING MEANT ONLY FOR SATAN AND HIS ANGELS,NOT HUMAN BEINGS).OR YOU REFUSE THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT AND GO ON THE SIDE OF KING JESUS AND RULE FOREVER WITH HIM ON EARTH.YOU CHOOSE,ITS YOUR DECISION.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PX-vW4VccY&feature=player_embedded#!
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/markets/indexes/
HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS WED JULY 25,2012
09:30 AM +2.43
10:00 AM +52.70
10:30 AM +54.34
11:00 AM +20.07
11:30 AM +50.52
12:00 PM +46.09
12:30 PM +35.31
01:00 PM +47.79
01:30 PM +80.30
02:00 PM +107.43
02:30 PM +106.34
03:00 PM +92.48
03:30 PM +57.43
04:00 PM +58.73 12,676.05
S&P 500 1337.89 -0.42
NASDAQ 2854.24 -8.75
GOLD 1,605.50 +29.30
OIL 88.86 +0.45
TSE 300 11,492.51 +25.56
CDNX 1172.32 +5.85
S&P/TSX/60 655.86 +0.95
MORNING,NEWS,STATS
YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +70 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow +1 points at low today.
Dow +95 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,601.10.OIL opens at $88.66 today.
AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow +1 points at low today so far.
Dow +110 points at high today so far.
WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow +1 points at low today.
Dow +110 points at high today.
GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,902.60 (NOT AT CLOSE)
CRUDE OIL +2.72 MILLION BARRELS
GASOLINE +4.1 MILLION BARRELS
DISTILLATE INVENTORIES +1.7 MILLION BARRELS
Infowars.com
July 24, 2012
Appearing on the Alex Jones Show today, investigative journalist Wayne Madsen said accused shooter James Holmes had a number of links to U.S. government-funded research centers, including the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency, or DARPA.
James
Holmes was one of six recipients of a National Institutes of Health
Neuroscience Training Grant at the University of Colorado Anschutz
Medical Campus in Denver, Madsen writes for the Wayne Madsen Report.“The Anschutz Medical Campus is on the recently de-commisioned site
of the U.S. Army’s Fitzsimons Army Medical Center and is named after
Philip Anschutz, the billionaire Christian fundamentalist oil and
railroad tycoon who also owns The Examiner newspaper chain and website
and the neo-conservative Weekly Standard,” Madsen explains. “The
Anschutz Medical Campus was built by a $91 million grant from the
Anschutz Foundation.”Holmes also worked as a research assistant intern at the Salk
Institute at the University of California at San Diego in La Jolla. The
Salk Institute teamed up with DARPA, Columbia University, University of
California at San Francisco, University of Wisconsin at Madison, Wake
Forest University, and the candy bar company Mars “to prevent fatigue in
combat troops through the enhanced use of epicatechina, a blood
flow-increasing and blood vessel-dilating anti-oxidant flavanol found in
cocoa and, particularly, in dark chocolate,” according to Madsen’s
research.
The DARPA program was part of the military’s “Peak Soldier Performance Program,” which involved engineering brain-machine interfaces for battlefield use and other bionic projects.In addition, James Holmes’ father, Dr. Robert Holmes, worked for San Diego-based HNC Software, Inc., a company that worked with DARPA to develop “cortronic neural networks” that enable machines to translate aural and visual stimuli and simulate human thinking.The Holmes family appears to have deep connections to the military-industrial complex. Lt. Col. Robert Holmes, the grandfather of James Holmes, was a graduate Turkish language graduates of the Army Language School, later the Defense Language Institute, in Monterey, California (the same military installation, incidentally, where alleged 9/11 hijacker Saeed Alghamdi trained).The elder Holmes, Madsen notes, more than likely worked in intelligence. “Typically, U.S. military officers conversant in Turkish served with either the Defense Intelligence Agency or the Central Intelligence Agency at either the U.S. embassy in Ankara or the Consulate General in Istanbul, or both,” he writes.“Was James Holmes engaged in a real-life Jason Bourne TREADSTONE project that broke down and resulted in deadly consequences in Aurora, Colorado?” Madsen concludes. Operation Treadstone was a fictional top-secret CIA project under which the character Jason Bourne underwent behavioral modification.
EARTH WORSHIP
DEUTERONOMY 17:3-4
3 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;
4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel:
DEUTORONOMY 4:15-19
15 Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:
16 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
17 The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,
18 The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:
19 And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
2 KINGS 23:5
5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
DECIEVERS WAXING WORSE AND WORSE.
2 TIMOTHY 3:13
13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
Obama's "Deeply Disturbing" Family Background with Director Joel Gilbert
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RenQQkBjJ0&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmDapBOqjGY&feature=player_embedded
FOX NEWS QUESTIONS BATMAN NARRATIVE
http://www.infowars.com/fox-news-channel-questions-narrative-of-batman-massacre/
EXODUS 20:13
13 Thou shalt not kill.(Murder)(THAT INCLUDES ABORTION)
Shock discovery: 248 human embryos found trashed in Russian forest (GRAPHIC PHOTOS)
RT.comJuly 24, 2012
A fishing trip in Russia’s Urals ended with cries of horror as a man found canisters filled with human embryos, some already shaped to baby bodies.Lids on the bright blue containers apparently unlocked as the canisters hit the ground, and many embryos spilled out. The little bodies, no longer than 15 centimeters, shrank, turning into mummies.“A friend of mine called at night and said he went finishing and wanted to get some wood for his fire. He found some abandoned water canisters and wanted to take them for his house. And when he came up, he saw… little baby bodies,” a local told Russia’s Channel 4.
Arriving Monday morning, police found 248 embryos aged 12-16 weeks in and around the four canisters. Labels attached to tiny hands and legs listed family names of assumed mothers and some digit codes, which may refer to the pregnancy period, date of abortion or the hospital where the body originated from.
The 50-liter canisters filled with formalin seem to have been thrown out of a vehicle not far from a road leading to Nevyansk, a town on the slopes of the Ural Mountains.Nevyansk authorities immediately said the canisters could not have originated in their town.“Our area is too small; we can’t have so many stillborns, miscarriages or artificial abortions,” they said.Later it was revealed that the horrifying content was “biological waste” from at least three hospitals in Ekaterinburg, the region’s major city.“It appears a waste disposal company has failed to carry out its duties properly,” remark local authorities as the investigation continues. The Ministry of Health has been requested to determine which companies provide embryo disposal services to Ekaterinburg hospitals.In Russia, embryos are subject to immediate disposal as they are classified high hazard waste. Prior to disposal, they are to be kept in special packages, not in canisters with formalin. It is also out of practice to attach labels with any information, at least in Ekaterinburg hospitals.
But the bodies found near the Urals not only fall out of this description – the labels show they may have been stored for over ten years.Some medical experts believe the embryos might have been meant for studies or other purposes, as they contain stem cells. The cells are widely used for immune illnesses treatment and in cosmetic procedures.Prosecutors are talking tentatively of criminal charges, but most probably the guilty party will bear an administrative punishment.
Warning! Graphic images.
The embryos were found in and around four water containers (Still from NTV coverage video)
Police spent whole Monday studying the scene not far from the town of Nevyansk (Still from NTV coverage video)
Many embryos were full shaped baby bodies (Still from NTV coverage video)
Some embryos might have been stored for ten years (Still from NTV coverage video)
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(THE FALSE POPE WHO DEFECTED FROM THE CHRISTIAN FAITH) causeth all,(IN THE WORLD ) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(MICROCHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark,(MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the name of the beast,(WORLD DICTATORS NAME INGRAVED ON YOUR SKIN OR TATTOOED ON YOU OR IN THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the number of his name.(THE NUMBERS OF HIS NAME INGRAVED IN THE MICROCHIP IMLPLANT)-(ALL THESE WILL TELL THE WORLD DICTATOR THAT YOUR WITH HIM AND AGAINST KING JESUS-GOD)
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast:(WORLD LEADER) for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM (6006006)OR(60020202006)(SOME KIND OF NUMBER IMPLANTED IN THE MICROCHIP THAT TELLS THE WORLD DICTATOR AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER THAT YOU GIVE YOUR TOTAL ALLIGIENCE TO HIM AND NOT JESUS)(ITS AN ETERNAL DECISION YOU MAKE)(YOU CHOOSE YOUR OWN DESTINY)(YOU TAKE THE DICTATORS NAME OR NUMBER UNDER YOUR SKIN,YOUR DOOMED TO THE LAKE OF FIRE AND TORMENTS FOREVER,NEVER ENDING MEANT ONLY FOR SATAN AND HIS ANGELS,NOT HUMAN BEINGS).OR YOU REFUSE THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT AND GO ON THE SIDE OF KING JESUS AND RULE FOREVER WITH HIM ON EARTH.YOU CHOOSE,ITS YOUR DECISION.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PX-vW4VccY&feature=player_embedded#!
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/markets/indexes/
HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS WED JULY 25,2012
09:30 AM +2.43
10:00 AM +52.70
10:30 AM +54.34
11:00 AM +20.07
11:30 AM +50.52
12:00 PM +46.09
12:30 PM +35.31
01:00 PM +47.79
01:30 PM +80.30
02:00 PM +107.43
02:30 PM +106.34
03:00 PM +92.48
03:30 PM +57.43
04:00 PM +58.73 12,676.05
S&P 500 1337.89 -0.42
NASDAQ 2854.24 -8.75
GOLD 1,605.50 +29.30
OIL 88.86 +0.45
TSE 300 11,492.51 +25.56
CDNX 1172.32 +5.85
S&P/TSX/60 655.86 +0.95
MORNING,NEWS,STATS
YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +70 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow +1 points at low today.
Dow +95 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,601.10.OIL opens at $88.66 today.
AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow +1 points at low today so far.
Dow +110 points at high today so far.
WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow +1 points at low today.
Dow +110 points at high today.
GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,902.60 (NOT AT CLOSE)
CRUDE OIL +2.72 MILLION BARRELS
GASOLINE +4.1 MILLION BARRELS
DISTILLATE INVENTORIES +1.7 MILLION BARRELS
Shooter James Holmes and DARPA Weird Science
Kurt NimmoInfowars.com
July 24, 2012
Appearing on the Alex Jones Show today, investigative journalist Wayne Madsen said accused shooter James Holmes had a number of links to U.S. government-funded research centers, including the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency, or DARPA.
James
Holmes was one of six recipients of a National Institutes of Health
Neuroscience Training Grant at the University of Colorado Anschutz
Medical Campus in Denver, Madsen writes for the Wayne Madsen Report.“The Anschutz Medical Campus is on the recently de-commisioned site
of the U.S. Army’s Fitzsimons Army Medical Center and is named after
Philip Anschutz, the billionaire Christian fundamentalist oil and
railroad tycoon who also owns The Examiner newspaper chain and website
and the neo-conservative Weekly Standard,” Madsen explains. “The
Anschutz Medical Campus was built by a $91 million grant from the
Anschutz Foundation.”Holmes also worked as a research assistant intern at the Salk
Institute at the University of California at San Diego in La Jolla. The
Salk Institute teamed up with DARPA, Columbia University, University of
California at San Francisco, University of Wisconsin at Madison, Wake
Forest University, and the candy bar company Mars “to prevent fatigue in
combat troops through the enhanced use of epicatechina, a blood
flow-increasing and blood vessel-dilating anti-oxidant flavanol found in
cocoa and, particularly, in dark chocolate,” according to Madsen’s
research.The DARPA program was part of the military’s “Peak Soldier Performance Program,” which involved engineering brain-machine interfaces for battlefield use and other bionic projects.In addition, James Holmes’ father, Dr. Robert Holmes, worked for San Diego-based HNC Software, Inc., a company that worked with DARPA to develop “cortronic neural networks” that enable machines to translate aural and visual stimuli and simulate human thinking.The Holmes family appears to have deep connections to the military-industrial complex. Lt. Col. Robert Holmes, the grandfather of James Holmes, was a graduate Turkish language graduates of the Army Language School, later the Defense Language Institute, in Monterey, California (the same military installation, incidentally, where alleged 9/11 hijacker Saeed Alghamdi trained).The elder Holmes, Madsen notes, more than likely worked in intelligence. “Typically, U.S. military officers conversant in Turkish served with either the Defense Intelligence Agency or the Central Intelligence Agency at either the U.S. embassy in Ankara or the Consulate General in Istanbul, or both,” he writes.“Was James Holmes engaged in a real-life Jason Bourne TREADSTONE project that broke down and resulted in deadly consequences in Aurora, Colorado?” Madsen concludes. Operation Treadstone was a fictional top-secret CIA project under which the character Jason Bourne underwent behavioral modification.
EARTH WORSHIP
DEUTERONOMY 17:3-4
3 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;
4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel:
DEUTORONOMY 4:15-19
15 Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:
16 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
17 The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,
18 The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:
19 And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
2 KINGS 23:5
5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
Brussels moves to tackle slumped carbon market
Today @ 15:51 JULY 25,12 By Honor Mahony
BRUSSELS - The European Commission on
Wednesday (25 July) announced short-term plans to bolster the carbon
Emissions Trading Scheme, its flagship environment project undermined by
rock bottom carbon prices.The scheme, which allows companies to buy and trade pollution
allowances, has suffered from an over-allocation of allowances
compounded by the economic downturn and drop in manufacturing output.
In April carbon prices dropped to their lowest level - €5.99 - since trading started in 2005. They are currently trading at around €7.00 down from a high of €20 in 2008."The EU ETS has a growing surplus of allowances built up over the last few years,” Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard said. “It is not wise to deliberately continue to flood a market that is already oversupplied.”She has proposed delaying the sales of new allowances – known as backloading - in the next phase of the scheme, starting in 2013.There are no firm proposals in Wednesday’s plans on how many allowances should be withdrawn from sale, but the commission’s own analysis mentions 400 million, 900 million or 1.2 billion of them.MEPs have called for 1.4bn allowances to be withdrawn permanently – a number supported by industry, including giants Shell and GDF Suez.“This re-profiling of the auctioning calendar should, at a minimum, reflect the European Parliament Environment Committee’s position calling for the withdrawal of 1.4 billion ETS Allowances,” they said in a statement on Wednesday along with nine other companies.But the lack of specific figures in the Wednesday’s proposal reflects internal wrangling in the commission. The industry directorate general has been pushing for an impact assessment to be carried out first. Industry organization BusinessEurope last month warned in a letter to the commission that changing the auctioning schedule could hurt companies, already under strain due to the economic crisis.The disagreement has meant that the commission will now only publish suggest specific figures as well as long term structural changes to the ETS system after the summer recess.
This leaves a tight window to get the proposed change in allowances through parliament and member states before the new auctioning phase in 2013.“Despite the urgent need to repair the misfiring emissions trading scheme, the Commission is tiptoeing towards action,” said Dutch Green MEP Bas Eickhout.The commission says it can be done if there is "political will." "It is up to the European Parliament and Member States to deliver," said Hedegaard.But the issue is controversial among member states too.“When the rules of the next phase of the ETS were negotiated in 2008 it was agreed that it will be a market mechanism,” Polish environment minister Marcin Korolec told Bloomberg earlier this month.“Let’s stick to this rule. Backloading would be aimed at eventually tightening the emissions target and that’s not a move Poland could back,” he added.
In April carbon prices dropped to their lowest level - €5.99 - since trading started in 2005. They are currently trading at around €7.00 down from a high of €20 in 2008."The EU ETS has a growing surplus of allowances built up over the last few years,” Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard said. “It is not wise to deliberately continue to flood a market that is already oversupplied.”She has proposed delaying the sales of new allowances – known as backloading - in the next phase of the scheme, starting in 2013.There are no firm proposals in Wednesday’s plans on how many allowances should be withdrawn from sale, but the commission’s own analysis mentions 400 million, 900 million or 1.2 billion of them.MEPs have called for 1.4bn allowances to be withdrawn permanently – a number supported by industry, including giants Shell and GDF Suez.“This re-profiling of the auctioning calendar should, at a minimum, reflect the European Parliament Environment Committee’s position calling for the withdrawal of 1.4 billion ETS Allowances,” they said in a statement on Wednesday along with nine other companies.But the lack of specific figures in the Wednesday’s proposal reflects internal wrangling in the commission. The industry directorate general has been pushing for an impact assessment to be carried out first. Industry organization BusinessEurope last month warned in a letter to the commission that changing the auctioning schedule could hurt companies, already under strain due to the economic crisis.The disagreement has meant that the commission will now only publish suggest specific figures as well as long term structural changes to the ETS system after the summer recess.
This leaves a tight window to get the proposed change in allowances through parliament and member states before the new auctioning phase in 2013.“Despite the urgent need to repair the misfiring emissions trading scheme, the Commission is tiptoeing towards action,” said Dutch Green MEP Bas Eickhout.The commission says it can be done if there is "political will." "It is up to the European Parliament and Member States to deliver," said Hedegaard.But the issue is controversial among member states too.“When the rules of the next phase of the ETS were negotiated in 2008 it was agreed that it will be a market mechanism,” Polish environment minister Marcin Korolec told Bloomberg earlier this month.“Let’s stick to this rule. Backloading would be aimed at eventually tightening the emissions target and that’s not a move Poland could back,” he added.
Spain in political blunder as bailout likelihood increases
Today @ 09:29 JULY 25,12 By Valentina Pop
BRUSSELS - A Spanish minister angered
Italy and France after claiming the two countries backed Spain in
demands for speedier actions by the eurozone to bring down its
record-high borrowing costs.Both Rome and Paris on Tuesday (24 July) denied ever having issued a
joint statement with Spain. The statement asked for the immediate
application of a June deal, whereby banks could be funded directly by
the eurozone bailout fund.The Italian government said it was "astonished" by the Spanish
announcement, while French EU affairs minister Bernard Cazeneuve denied
ever having signed it."I have not asked for the immediate application of the accords. It
makes no sense to say that. We are following the decisions taken at the
European summit and are working on them," Cazeneuve told AFP.The Spanish EU affairs minister, Inigo Mendez de Vigo, later that day
backtracked, saying he did not intend to say informal talks with Italy
and France meant they had signed up to a joint statement.Spain's borrowing costs hit 7.6 percent on Tuesday. This raises the
pressure on Madrid to ask for a full-blown bailout, as the €100 billion
earmarked for its banks failed to calm market fears that the country
will go bust.German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, who on Tuesday received
Spain's economy minister Luis de Guindos in Berlin, said the record-high
borrowing costs mirroring "neither the economic fundamentals of Spain,
nor its growth potential or the sustainability of its public debt."De Guindos has so far strongly denied the need for a full-blown
bailout. But so did Greek, Irish and Portuguese ministers before
applying for help. The Spanish politician on Wednesday is travelling to
Paris to meet French finance minister, Laurent Fabius.The problem with a full-blown bailout is that the eurozone could
barely afford it. The permanent rescue fund worth €500bn is not up and
running yet, pending a decision of the German constitutional court in
September.And even when it is established, cash will be transferred gradually,
so that only about €200bn will be made available by the end of this
year. The temporary bailout fund, set up in 2010, is also running out of
money after having allocated more than half of its €440bn loan
guarantees on existing rescue programmes in Greece, Portugal and Ireland
and the recently-agreed bank bailout for Spain.
Direct bank recapitalisation from the bailout funds - as agreed in June - would take the debt burden off the government's books and help lower its borrowing costs. But that move is only expected to happen at the earliest next year, after the European Central Bank is re-arranged so it supervises eurozone's banks.
The only way around a bailout would be if the ECB started buying up Spanish bonds again, as it did last year. A decision on this may be taken next week at a regular meeting of the ECB board.Meanwhile, a panel of 17 leading economists at the New York-based Institute for New Economic Thinking issued a report in New York warning that "Europe is sleepwalking toward a disaster of incalculable proportions," with Spain, "the last domino", only "days away from a liquidity crisis.""A successful crisis response must be collective and embody some burden sharing across countries. Absent this collective constructive response, the euro will disintegrate," they warn.
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
THE FIRST JUDGEMENT OF THE EARTH STARTED WITH WATER-IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THE LAST GENERATION WILL BE HAVING FLOODING
GENESIS 7:6-12
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
GOD PROMISED BY A RAINBOW-THE EARTH WOULD NEVER BE DESTROYED TOTALLY WITH A FLOOD AGAIN.BUT FLOODIING IS A SIGN OF JUDGEMENT.
By AFP | AFP – Mon, Jul 23, 2012 6:49 PM EDT
Direct bank recapitalisation from the bailout funds - as agreed in June - would take the debt burden off the government's books and help lower its borrowing costs. But that move is only expected to happen at the earliest next year, after the European Central Bank is re-arranged so it supervises eurozone's banks.
The only way around a bailout would be if the ECB started buying up Spanish bonds again, as it did last year. A decision on this may be taken next week at a regular meeting of the ECB board.Meanwhile, a panel of 17 leading economists at the New York-based Institute for New Economic Thinking issued a report in New York warning that "Europe is sleepwalking toward a disaster of incalculable proportions," with Spain, "the last domino", only "days away from a liquidity crisis.""A successful crisis response must be collective and embody some burden sharing across countries. Absent this collective constructive response, the euro will disintegrate," they warn.
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
THE FIRST JUDGEMENT OF THE EARTH STARTED WITH WATER-IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THE LAST GENERATION WILL BE HAVING FLOODING
GENESIS 7:6-12
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
GOD PROMISED BY A RAINBOW-THE EARTH WOULD NEVER BE DESTROYED TOTALLY WITH A FLOOD AGAIN.BUT FLOODIING IS A SIGN OF JUDGEMENT.
Flooding in central Nigeria's Jos kills at least 35
By AFP | AFP – Mon, Jul 23, 2012 6:49 PM EDT
Heavy
rainfall in central Nigeria forced a dam to overflow, causing flooding
that left at least 35 people dead and destroyed or damaged some 200
homes, the Red Cross said Monday."We have recovered the bodies of
35 people that drowned in the overnight flooding," said Manasie Phampe,
head of the Red Cross in Plateau state, where Jos is the capital.
"About 200 homes have either been submerged or destroyed."
The confirmed victims so far included a 90-year-old woman and a three-month-old baby, adding that the toll could rise, he said."Rainwater and water from the Lamingo dam which overflowed swept across several neighbourhoods in the city," he explained. "We are still searching for more bodies as many people have been declared missing."The downpour in Jos began at roughly 9:00 pm (2000 GMT) Sunday when many of the city's residents were at home for the night."I have lost seven of my children in this disaster," said Alhaji Abdulhamid Useini, who described heavy rain pounding his neighbourhood for nearly three hours, which also swept away some of his livestock.The area coordinator for the National Emergency Agency (NEMA), Alhassan Danjuma Aliyu, called the flood "devastating" and said police and other rescue bodies were searching the affected areas in hopes of finding survivors.NEMA was also trying to quickly bring in added relief materials to care for those who lost their homes, Aliyu explained."We hope to get these materials to them before the end of today," he said.The head of search and rescue committee of the Muslim community in Jos, Sani Shuaibu, said the search was still on for 25 bodies still missing."We are still looking for 25 other bodies that are still missing and the figure of the missing may rise as families come forward to register their missing family members," he said."Most of the dead were children between three months and 13 years that were swept away by the flooding in their sleep. We picked the drowned along the river bank... We have two camps where around 700 displaced people are sheltering with little food and water supplies."Much of the country has been affected by heavy seasonal rainfall, including Jos in the centre of the country and the economic capital Lagos in the south, where flooding has caused several road closures and other damage.
The rainy season typically runs from March to September.Last week, at least three people were killed by flood waters some 150 kilometres (90 miles) north of Lagos in Ibadan, an area where 102 people died following torrential rains last year.At least 20 people died from flooding in Lagos last year, while 24 were killed after rains inundated a neighbourhood in Nigeria's largest northern city of Kano.Nigerian papers have in recent weeks been filled with commentary criticising officials for failing to put in place measures to mitigate the impact of the annual, often severe floods.The largest cities in Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation, are overcrowded, with many residents living in haphazardly constructed slums.Drainage systems are also often poorly maintained and contribute to the problem of floods.In 2010, flooding affected roughly half a million people in two-thirds of Nigeria's 36 states.
FAMINE
REVELATION 6:5-6
5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.(A DAYS WAGES FOR A LOAF OF BREAD)
FAMINE
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
Twice in the last five years, rising food prices triggered global
waves of social unrest. With drought baking U.S. crops, another round of
soaring, society-straining price spikes may happen in coming months.
According to researchers from the New England Complex Systems Institute, commodity speculation — investors betting on food prices — will amplify the drought’s market signals, creating a new food bubble and the crises that follow.“The drought is clearly going to kick prices up. It already has. What happens when you have speculators is that it goes through the roof,” said NECSI president Yaneer Bar-Yam. “We’ve created an unstable system. Globally, we are very vulnerable.”
The ongoing drought, the United States’ worst since the Dust Bowl, is expected to last until October and will decimate U.S. harvests. America is the world’s largest exporter of corn, wheat and soy beans; global prices for those commodities have already surged to record levels.
FAO
Food Price Index (blue line) and NECSI’s model of food market behavior
(red line). Grey line is July 2012; lines beyond that point show NECSI’s
predictions of food price behavior without the drought (yellow), with
the drought and low speculation (green) or current speculation (red). Image: NECSI While the United States is relatively insulated from food price
increases, people in developing countries, who spend far more of their
budgets on food and rely on agricultural imports, are extremely
vulnerable. For them, high prices are a catastrophe.Since 2004, global food prices have slowly but steadily increased,
with drastic and socially destabilizing spikes in 2007 and again in
2010. Economists argued over the causes, with blame cast on poor
regional harvests, supply shortages caused by converting food crops to
biofuels, and — most controversially — speculation.Until the late 1990s, food markets in the United States were mostly
limited to people with direct interests in food prices, such as farmers
and crop buyers. Deregulation allowed hedge funds and investment banks
to start betting, changing market dynamics and making them prone to sudden, massive fluctuations.
In earlier research, Bar-Yam’s group developed mathematical models of global food market behavior
that found biofuels responsible for a slow upwards rise in prices, and
speculation for the spikes. That model anticipated a new food bubble in
early 2013, but couldn’t have foreseen the drought.In the new analysis, released July 23 on NECSI’s website,
Bar-Yam’s group added drought-triggered price increases to the model.
With those figures included, the already grim forecast becomes even
darker. “The drought may trigger the third massive price spike to occur
earlier than otherwise expected, beginning immediately,” wrote the NECSI
team.'We've created an unstable system. Globally, we are very vulnerable.'According
to Bar-Yam, excessive speculation acts as an amplifier, exaggerating
whatever signal the market receives. Left alone, a highly speculative
market would naturally experience boom-and-bust cycles, but this
summer’s drought-precipitated surge in food prices will accelerate the
next bubble’s formation.Models are, to be sure, always tricky, but this one does seem to have predictive power.“The work they are doing on food prices is pathbreaking,” said
agricultural economist Peter Timmer of the Center for Global
Development, who is familiar with NECSI’s modeling. “I don’t think their
empirical model ‘proves’ that biofuels and speculation are the main
causes of volatile food prices, but their model is the only one that’s
empirically tracked those prices accurately over the last eight years.”What happens after another bubble is a pressing question, said
Bar-Yam. In both 2007 and 2010, massive unrest almost immediately
followed food price surges, tracking market behavior with uncanny synchronization. Some Middle East experts say that rising prices even triggered the Arab Spring, providing a spark that ignited long-simmering tensions and resentments.
While the exact role played by food is difficult to isolate, a new NECSI analysis of the 2008 Yemeni uprising supports the spark hypothesis. In a paper released July 24, NECSI found that the geographical character of violence changed immediately after the price spikes, shifting from ethnically localized to widespread.
“I think the analysis has merit,” said political geographer Charles
Schmitz of Towson University. “The food prices did disturb things. The
legitimacy of the government was undermined.”While some might see the Arab Spring’s catalysis as a positive side
effect, food shortages and panicked riots are hardly the most desirable
path to social change. To keep prices under control, experts have
recommended limiting financial speculation in commodity markets and
using biofuel crops for food instead.“In the short run, USDA needs to figure out a way to remove the
mandate on ethanol use from corn,” said Timmer. “If we could free up 20
to 30 percent of the U.S. crop, reduced as it is, it would bring corn
prices down very quickly.”New speculation limits are scheduled to be enacted by year’s end, but
drought means that may be too late, said Bar-Yam. In the meantime, the
USDA has rebuffed all requests to reduce corn biofuel allotments.“These are new tools for understanding social change,” said Bar-Yam
of NECSI’s modeling. “The thing we’re worried about is that they’re
pointing to global catastrophe in a short period of time.”
EARTHQUAKES
ISAIAH 42:15
15 I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
JEREMEIAH 49:23-27
23 Concerning Damascus.(SYRIA) Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea;(WAR SHIPS WITH NUKES COMING ON SYRIA) it cannot be quiet.
24 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
27 And I will kindle a fire (NUKES OR BOMBS) in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.(ASSADS PALACES POSSIBLY IN DAMASCUS)
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
Syrian human rights activists report that rebels this week uncovered
evidence of a Syrian government massacre in a suburb of Damascus. The gruesome discovery of the bodies of at least 24 men showed that
all had apparently been tortured prior to their execution. The men were
probably killed where they were left by forces loyal to President Bashar
al-Assad, in the fields surrounding the capital in the surburb of
Deriya'a.
The Arabic Human Rights Information Network has reported the massacre, according to the U.S.-based Syrian Expatriate Organization which recently began sending statements to media. A Facebook page has been posted showing the photos of the massacre and a poster of at least 13 of the bodies that were found. Readers who understand Arabic are being asked if they recognize and can identify any of those who were murdered.Activists said Wednesday that 11 men were executed by government forces in Damascus as well, and provided video of men with bullet holes in the side of their heads. They said they found on Wednesday the bodies of the 11 men, who were executed by Assad forces in the Damascus district of Qaboun.Footage showed 11 bloodied bodies, some in an alleyway and some inside a building. Three appeared to have been shot through their shirts, which were pulled above their heads, and one was kneeling against a wall.Rania al-Midani, an opposition activist who lives near Qaboun, said that the men were arrested five days ago in a nearby district."Activists found them today in Tishreen alley. They thought these men were in jail. They could only enter the alleyway today to find their bodies as it was previously occupied by (pro-Assad militia) shabbiha," she told Reuters over Skype.Assad's forces and plain-clothed shabbiha militiamen are accused of several massacres, including the May 25 killing of at least 108 people, nearly half of them children, in Homs province, which was later verified by United Nations monitors on the ground.
By Jonathon Burch | Reuters – 22 mins ago JULY 25,12
ARTILLERY AND ROCKETS
Further south, Syrian forces used artillery and fired rockets on Wednesday on the northern Damascus suburb of al-Tel in an attempt to seize it from rebels, forcing hundreds of families to flee, residents and opposition activists said."Military helicopters are flying now over the town. People were awakened by the sound of explosions and are running away," Rafe Alam, one of the activists, said by phone from a hill overlooking Tel. "Electricity and telephones have been cut off."Opposition sources also reported helicopters and machineguns were firing on the neighborhood of Hajar al-Aswad. The slum lies on the southern outskirts of the capital and has been a haven for rebels sneaking into Damascus from the suburbs.In the north, opposition activists said thousands of troops had withdrawn with their tanks and armored vehicles from Idlib province near the Turkish border and were heading towards Aleppo. Rebels attacked the rear of the troops withdrawing from the north, activist Abdelrahman Bakran said from the area.Military experts believe an overstretched Syrian army is pulling back to concentrate on fighting insurgents in Aleppo and Damascus, important power centers for the government, while leaving outlying areas in the hands of rebels.
HELICOPTERS FIRING
In Aleppo, helicopters were seen firing missiles throughout Tuesday, residents said. Rebels were battling government forces by the gates of the historic old city. Troops fired mortars and shells at rebels armed with rifles and machine guns."I heard at least 20 rockets fired, I think from helicopters, and also a lot of machine gun fire," a resident near one of the areas being shelled, who asked to be identified only by his first name Omar, said by telephone.Residents said fixed-wing jets had also flown over the city, followed by loud noises, although there were contradictory reports as to whether they had opened fire. Video footage posted by activists appeared to show a warplane firing its guns.Assad's forces have occasionally launched air strikes from fixed-wing jets on other cities during the uprising, but tend to rely on helicopters for air strikes in urban areas.The uprising has entered a more violent phase in the past 10 days since rebels poured into Damascus in large numbers.Last Wednesday, an explosion killed four members of Assad's inner circle inside a security headquarters, a blow that wiped out much of the top echelon of his military command structure and shattered the reputation for invulnerability that his family has held since his father seized power in a coup in 1970.
– 15 mins ago JULY 25,12
AFP – 20 hrs ago JULY 25,12
By | Associated Press – 2 hrs 4 mins ago JULY 25,12
The confirmed victims so far included a 90-year-old woman and a three-month-old baby, adding that the toll could rise, he said."Rainwater and water from the Lamingo dam which overflowed swept across several neighbourhoods in the city," he explained. "We are still searching for more bodies as many people have been declared missing."The downpour in Jos began at roughly 9:00 pm (2000 GMT) Sunday when many of the city's residents were at home for the night."I have lost seven of my children in this disaster," said Alhaji Abdulhamid Useini, who described heavy rain pounding his neighbourhood for nearly three hours, which also swept away some of his livestock.The area coordinator for the National Emergency Agency (NEMA), Alhassan Danjuma Aliyu, called the flood "devastating" and said police and other rescue bodies were searching the affected areas in hopes of finding survivors.NEMA was also trying to quickly bring in added relief materials to care for those who lost their homes, Aliyu explained."We hope to get these materials to them before the end of today," he said.The head of search and rescue committee of the Muslim community in Jos, Sani Shuaibu, said the search was still on for 25 bodies still missing."We are still looking for 25 other bodies that are still missing and the figure of the missing may rise as families come forward to register their missing family members," he said."Most of the dead were children between three months and 13 years that were swept away by the flooding in their sleep. We picked the drowned along the river bank... We have two camps where around 700 displaced people are sheltering with little food and water supplies."Much of the country has been affected by heavy seasonal rainfall, including Jos in the centre of the country and the economic capital Lagos in the south, where flooding has caused several road closures and other damage.
The rainy season typically runs from March to September.Last week, at least three people were killed by flood waters some 150 kilometres (90 miles) north of Lagos in Ibadan, an area where 102 people died following torrential rains last year.At least 20 people died from flooding in Lagos last year, while 24 were killed after rains inundated a neighbourhood in Nigeria's largest northern city of Kano.Nigerian papers have in recent weeks been filled with commentary criticising officials for failing to put in place measures to mitigate the impact of the annual, often severe floods.The largest cities in Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation, are overcrowded, with many residents living in haphazardly constructed slums.Drainage systems are also often poorly maintained and contribute to the problem of floods.In 2010, flooding affected roughly half a million people in two-thirds of Nigeria's 36 states.
FAMINE
REVELATION 6:5-6
5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.(A DAYS WAGES FOR A LOAF OF BREAD)
FAMINE
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
U.S. Drought Could Cause Global Unrest By Brandon Keim July 24, 2012 | 11:26 am |
Aerial view of drought-affected farmland near Strasburg, Colorado, on July 21, 2012. Image: USDA/Lance Cheung/Flickr
According to researchers from the New England Complex Systems Institute, commodity speculation — investors betting on food prices — will amplify the drought’s market signals, creating a new food bubble and the crises that follow.“The drought is clearly going to kick prices up. It already has. What happens when you have speculators is that it goes through the roof,” said NECSI president Yaneer Bar-Yam. “We’ve created an unstable system. Globally, we are very vulnerable.”
The ongoing drought, the United States’ worst since the Dust Bowl, is expected to last until October and will decimate U.S. harvests. America is the world’s largest exporter of corn, wheat and soy beans; global prices for those commodities have already surged to record levels.
FAO
Food Price Index (blue line) and NECSI’s model of food market behavior
(red line). Grey line is July 2012; lines beyond that point show NECSI’s
predictions of food price behavior without the drought (yellow), with
the drought and low speculation (green) or current speculation (red). Image: NECSI While the United States is relatively insulated from food price
increases, people in developing countries, who spend far more of their
budgets on food and rely on agricultural imports, are extremely
vulnerable. For them, high prices are a catastrophe.Since 2004, global food prices have slowly but steadily increased,
with drastic and socially destabilizing spikes in 2007 and again in
2010. Economists argued over the causes, with blame cast on poor
regional harvests, supply shortages caused by converting food crops to
biofuels, and — most controversially — speculation.Until the late 1990s, food markets in the United States were mostly
limited to people with direct interests in food prices, such as farmers
and crop buyers. Deregulation allowed hedge funds and investment banks
to start betting, changing market dynamics and making them prone to sudden, massive fluctuations.While the exact role played by food is difficult to isolate, a new NECSI analysis of the 2008 Yemeni uprising supports the spark hypothesis. In a paper released July 24, NECSI found that the geographical character of violence changed immediately after the price spikes, shifting from ethnically localized to widespread.
FAO food price index between 2004 and 2012, with incidents of social unrest plotted against prices. Image: NECSI
EARTHQUAKES
ISAIAH 42:15
15 I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
| MAP | 4.0 | 58.977 | -139.730 | 25.0 | OFF THE COAST OF SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA | |
| MAP | 4.6 | -7.712 | 127.026 | 232.1 | KEPULAUAN BARAT DAYA, INDONESIA | |
| MAP | 4.8 | 5.532 | 126.458 | 136.3 | MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES | |
| MAP | 6.5 | -9.721 | 159.730 | 22.9 | SOLOMON ISLANDS | |
| MAP | 4.6 | -20.141 | -177.695 | 487.4 | FIJI REGION | |
| MAP | 3.7 | 33.964 | -118.407 | 10.8 | GREATER LOS ANGELES AREA, CALIFORNIA | |
| MAP | 4.5 | 5.600 | 127.070 | 114.5 | PHILIPPINE ISLANDS REGION | |
| MAP | 4.7 | 11.709 | 125.494 | 69.0 | SAMAR, PHILIPPINES | |
| MAP | 4.9 | 1.941 | 89.704 | 10.0 | NORTH INDIAN OCEAN | |
| MAP | 4.6 | -28.043 | -66.574 | 167.1 | CATAMARCA, ARGENTINA | |
| MAP | 3.0 | 38.838 | -122.786 | 2.4 | NORTHERN CALIFORNIA | |
| MAP | 2.6 | 60.858 | -149.425 | 19.9 | KENAI PENINSULA, ALASKA | |
| MAP | 2.7 | 51.079 | 179.135 | 15.7 | RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA | |
| MAP | 6.4 | 2.657 | 96.126 | 22.0 | SIMEULUE, INDONESIA |
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
JEREMEIAH 49:23-27
23 Concerning Damascus.(SYRIA) Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea;(WAR SHIPS WITH NUKES COMING ON SYRIA) it cannot be quiet.
24 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
27 And I will kindle a fire (NUKES OR BOMBS) in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.(ASSADS PALACES POSSIBLY IN DAMASCUS)
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
Massacre of Syrians Discovered in Fields Around Damascus
Syrian human rights activists report that rebels this week uncovered evidence of a Syrian government massacre.
By Chana Ya'ar and Reuters First Publish: 7/25/2012, 2:46 PM
Syrian execution victims in Qaboun
Reuters
The Arabic Human Rights Information Network has reported the massacre, according to the U.S.-based Syrian Expatriate Organization which recently began sending statements to media. A Facebook page has been posted showing the photos of the massacre and a poster of at least 13 of the bodies that were found. Readers who understand Arabic are being asked if they recognize and can identify any of those who were murdered.Activists said Wednesday that 11 men were executed by government forces in Damascus as well, and provided video of men with bullet holes in the side of their heads. They said they found on Wednesday the bodies of the 11 men, who were executed by Assad forces in the Damascus district of Qaboun.Footage showed 11 bloodied bodies, some in an alleyway and some inside a building. Three appeared to have been shot through their shirts, which were pulled above their heads, and one was kneeling against a wall.Rania al-Midani, an opposition activist who lives near Qaboun, said that the men were arrested five days ago in a nearby district."Activists found them today in Tishreen alley. They thought these men were in jail. They could only enter the alleyway today to find their bodies as it was previously occupied by (pro-Assad militia) shabbiha," she told Reuters over Skype.Assad's forces and plain-clothed shabbiha militiamen are accused of several massacres, including the May 25 killing of at least 108 people, nearly half of them children, in Homs province, which was later verified by United Nations monitors on the ground.
Syrian armored column closes in on Aleppo
By Jonathon Burch | Reuters – 22 mins ago JULY 25,12
AZAZ, Syria (Reuters) - The Syrian army turned its forces on Aleppo
on Wednesday, ordering an armored column to advance on the country's
second biggest city and pounding rebels there with artillery and attack helicopters, opposition activists said.As hostilities intensified near the Turkish border,
Ankara said it was closing its crossing posts, although the United
Nations said refugees fleeing Syria would be allowed through.
At the Syrian town
of Azaz, a few miles south of the Turkish border, rebels appeared in
control after heavy clashes over the past month in which they succeeded
in driving out government forces, leaving the place a rubble-strewn ghost-town.Syria's ambassadors
to the United Arab Emirates and Cyprus, who are married, have deserted
their posts, becoming the latest officials to abandon the Damascus government, rebels said.
The 16-month revolt against President Bashar al-Assad
has been transformed from an insurgency in remote provinces into a
battle for control of the two main cities, Aleppo and the capital,
Damascus, where fighting exploded last week.Assad's forces have launched massive counter assaults
in both cities. They appear to have beaten rebels back from
neighborhoods in the capital and are turning towards Aleppo, a
commercial hub in the north.North of Aleppo, the town of Azaz has been almost
completely destroyed by heavy fighting. Burnt-out armored personnel
carriers sat on the roads where rebels hit them with rocket-propelled
grenades. Bullet casings were scattered everywhere.Most residents fled during the latest fighting, which
drove Assad's forces out over the past month and ended in the rebels
taking the Bab al-Salam border crossing with Turkey on Sunday.Fighting in and around Aleppo is expected to prompt an
exodus across the Turkish border, where some Syrian refugees are already
complaining about poor conditions and have clashed with riot police in
disputes over food."There is not enough food. They have broken our hearts,
the Turks. Why are they doing this to us?" said a sobbing woman called
Umm Omar, with her four children huddled next to her in a camp near the
border.ARTILLERY AND ROCKETS
Further south, Syrian forces used artillery and fired rockets on Wednesday on the northern Damascus suburb of al-Tel in an attempt to seize it from rebels, forcing hundreds of families to flee, residents and opposition activists said."Military helicopters are flying now over the town. People were awakened by the sound of explosions and are running away," Rafe Alam, one of the activists, said by phone from a hill overlooking Tel. "Electricity and telephones have been cut off."Opposition sources also reported helicopters and machineguns were firing on the neighborhood of Hajar al-Aswad. The slum lies on the southern outskirts of the capital and has been a haven for rebels sneaking into Damascus from the suburbs.In the north, opposition activists said thousands of troops had withdrawn with their tanks and armored vehicles from Idlib province near the Turkish border and were heading towards Aleppo. Rebels attacked the rear of the troops withdrawing from the north, activist Abdelrahman Bakran said from the area.Military experts believe an overstretched Syrian army is pulling back to concentrate on fighting insurgents in Aleppo and Damascus, important power centers for the government, while leaving outlying areas in the hands of rebels.
HELICOPTERS FIRING
In Aleppo, helicopters were seen firing missiles throughout Tuesday, residents said. Rebels were battling government forces by the gates of the historic old city. Troops fired mortars and shells at rebels armed with rifles and machine guns."I heard at least 20 rockets fired, I think from helicopters, and also a lot of machine gun fire," a resident near one of the areas being shelled, who asked to be identified only by his first name Omar, said by telephone.Residents said fixed-wing jets had also flown over the city, followed by loud noises, although there were contradictory reports as to whether they had opened fire. Video footage posted by activists appeared to show a warplane firing its guns.Assad's forces have occasionally launched air strikes from fixed-wing jets on other cities during the uprising, but tend to rely on helicopters for air strikes in urban areas.The uprising has entered a more violent phase in the past 10 days since rebels poured into Damascus in large numbers.Last Wednesday, an explosion killed four members of Assad's inner circle inside a security headquarters, a blow that wiped out much of the top echelon of his military command structure and shattered the reputation for invulnerability that his family has held since his father seized power in a coup in 1970.
Western powers have been calling for Assad to be
removed from power for many months, and now say they believe his days
are numbered. But they fear that he will fight to the end, raising the
risk of sectarian warfare spreading across one of the world's most
volatile regions.Syria raised the alarm even further on Monday by
confirming that it had chemical and biological weapons, prompting
warnings from Washington and Moscow against using the arsenal.Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov said on
Wednesday that Moscow, an ally of Assad, had received "firm assurances"
from Damascus that its chemical arsenal is "fully safeguarded".But Israel said that if Syrian-backed Hezbollah
guerrillas used the situation to take control of the weapons, it would
"act immediately and with utmost force".As the revolt against Assad intensifies, top Syrian
officials have started to abandon their posts. Syria's ambassador to the
United Arab Emirates, Abdelatif al-Dabbagh, and his wife, who is
Damascus's envoy to Cyprus, Lamia al-Hariri, have defected and are both
now in Qatar, the opposition Syrian National Council said on Wednesday.Brigadier General Manaf Tlas, a member of Assad's inner
circle who fled Syria this month, appeared on television in his first
public comments since defecting. He called on troops to abandon the
government.Elsewhere in the country, activists reported a series of killings by government troops and pro-Assad militia.They reported an
attack on a mosque in a village northwest of the city of Hama, with at
least 15 confirmed dead. At least nine people were killed in army
shelling of al-Herak, a town south of Deraa. In Damascus, activists said
they found the bodies of 11 men executed by government forces in the
district of Qaboun.The accounts, like
others from activists, could not be confirmed. Syria restricts access by
international journalists.The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights,
which compiles reports from activists, said 1,261 people had been killed
since the fighting intensified in Damascus on July 15. That made last
week by far the bloodiest in an uprising in which activists say at least
18,000 people have been killed.(Writing by Giles Elgood; editing by Anna Willard/David Stamp)
JERUSALEM - The Syrian government is still in full control of
its chemical weapons stockpiles, Israeli defence officials said on
Tuesday, in an apparent bid to calm fears that a non-conventional war
could be looming.Syria’s 16-month-old conflict has spread concern that the chemical
arsenal, acknowledged by Damascus for the first time on Monday, could
fall into the hands of Hezbollah, the Lebanese Islamist group allied to
Iran and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, or that Assad could use then
in a desperate last stand.
The Assad government said such weapons are secure and could be used only as a last resort against Syria’s foreign enemies - an allusion to outside military intervention.The rhetoric stoked demand in Israel for state-funded gas masks, which have been distributed over the last few years as part of the country’s wider preparations for a possible showdown over arch-foe Iran’s disputed nuclear programme.“The worry, of course, is that the (Assad) regime will destabilise and the control will also destabilise,” Amos Gilad, adviser to Defence Minister Ehud Barak, told Israel Radio.But he added: “At the moment, the entire non-conventional weapons system is under the full control of the regime.”Israeli armed forces chief Lieutenant-General Benny Gantz concurred that Assad had control of the stockpiles and was also stepping up security over them.“To the best of my knowledge, they have not yet reached negative hands,” he told a parliamentary panel on security.“This does not mean it will not happen,” Gantz said. “They could used them against civilians or transfer specific components of the weapons to Hezbollah.”Taking a different tone during a visit to Brussels, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said any indication that Syrian chemical or biological weapons were about to reach Hezbollah would be a “red line” and a “clear casus belli”.“We will act decisively and without hesitation or restraint. We hope for understanding from the international community,” he told reporters.
SMELL OF WAR
Israel is technically at war with Syria and occupies the Golan Heights. While they have not traded blows in three decades, the Assad government’s disclosure suggested there would be no holds barred if its survival were to be threatened by foreign forces.Underpinning Israel’s concerns are holes in its homefront defences exposed during the 2006 Lebanon war by Hezbollah rockets. Those rockets are dwarfed by Syria’s Scud missiles.Since being hit by Iraqi Scuds during the 1991 Gulf war, Israel has required new homes be built with dual-use fortified rooms that can be sealed off as bomb shelters. But around a fifth of citizens still lack these or a public shelter in reach.Gas masks are another precaution. Some critics say the kits, costing the state $60 to $175 are a pricey item with limited value against nerve agents.But Israelis are taking up the offer, just in case.“There’s a smell of chemical weapons in the air, the sense that a war could be triggered,” said Maya Knobler, 65, who collected masks for herself and her daughter in a shopping mall in Mevasseret Zion, a town outside Jerusalem.The Israel Postal Company, which distributes them for the military, said 3,700 gas masks were handed out on Monday, up from the daily average of 2,200.“The increase was without a doubt connected to Syria,” said company spokesman Merav Lapidot.She said there had been swings in demand in the past and she knew of no orders to boost supply now. Of Israel’s 7.8 million citizens, 4.2 million had been kitted out, Lapidot said, and the rest would be reached within six months.Among detractors of the drive was Amos Yadlin, former commander of Israel’s military intelligence.“I think that the panic which is being instilled in the public concerning Syrian chemical weapons is superfluous and it would be best to turn down the volume,” said Yadlin, who runs Tel Aviv University’s Institute for National Security Studies.“Against the non-conventional threat it would be better to best to play up Israel’s deterrent factor,” he told Army radio, in an apparent reference to superior Israeli weaponry including missile shields and what is thought to be the region’s only atomic arsenal.
Gasmasks in demand as Israel tracks Syria chemical arms
The Assad government said such weapons are secure and could be used only as a last resort against Syria’s foreign enemies - an allusion to outside military intervention.The rhetoric stoked demand in Israel for state-funded gas masks, which have been distributed over the last few years as part of the country’s wider preparations for a possible showdown over arch-foe Iran’s disputed nuclear programme.“The worry, of course, is that the (Assad) regime will destabilise and the control will also destabilise,” Amos Gilad, adviser to Defence Minister Ehud Barak, told Israel Radio.But he added: “At the moment, the entire non-conventional weapons system is under the full control of the regime.”Israeli armed forces chief Lieutenant-General Benny Gantz concurred that Assad had control of the stockpiles and was also stepping up security over them.“To the best of my knowledge, they have not yet reached negative hands,” he told a parliamentary panel on security.“This does not mean it will not happen,” Gantz said. “They could used them against civilians or transfer specific components of the weapons to Hezbollah.”Taking a different tone during a visit to Brussels, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said any indication that Syrian chemical or biological weapons were about to reach Hezbollah would be a “red line” and a “clear casus belli”.“We will act decisively and without hesitation or restraint. We hope for understanding from the international community,” he told reporters.
SMELL OF WAR
Israel is technically at war with Syria and occupies the Golan Heights. While they have not traded blows in three decades, the Assad government’s disclosure suggested there would be no holds barred if its survival were to be threatened by foreign forces.Underpinning Israel’s concerns are holes in its homefront defences exposed during the 2006 Lebanon war by Hezbollah rockets. Those rockets are dwarfed by Syria’s Scud missiles.Since being hit by Iraqi Scuds during the 1991 Gulf war, Israel has required new homes be built with dual-use fortified rooms that can be sealed off as bomb shelters. But around a fifth of citizens still lack these or a public shelter in reach.Gas masks are another precaution. Some critics say the kits, costing the state $60 to $175 are a pricey item with limited value against nerve agents.But Israelis are taking up the offer, just in case.“There’s a smell of chemical weapons in the air, the sense that a war could be triggered,” said Maya Knobler, 65, who collected masks for herself and her daughter in a shopping mall in Mevasseret Zion, a town outside Jerusalem.The Israel Postal Company, which distributes them for the military, said 3,700 gas masks were handed out on Monday, up from the daily average of 2,200.“The increase was without a doubt connected to Syria,” said company spokesman Merav Lapidot.She said there had been swings in demand in the past and she knew of no orders to boost supply now. Of Israel’s 7.8 million citizens, 4.2 million had been kitted out, Lapidot said, and the rest would be reached within six months.Among detractors of the drive was Amos Yadlin, former commander of Israel’s military intelligence.“I think that the panic which is being instilled in the public concerning Syrian chemical weapons is superfluous and it would be best to turn down the volume,” said Yadlin, who runs Tel Aviv University’s Institute for National Security Studies.“Against the non-conventional threat it would be better to best to play up Israel’s deterrent factor,” he told Army radio, in an apparent reference to superior Israeli weaponry including missile shields and what is thought to be the region’s only atomic arsenal.
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)
HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
LUKE 17:34-37
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other shall be left.
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten by the birds).
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)
HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
LUKE 17:34-37
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other shall be left.
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten by the birds).
Official: Israel to act if Syria arsenal breached
– 15 mins ago JULY 25,12
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's foreign minister warned on Wednesday his country will act immediately if it discovers Islamic militants are raiding Syria's chemical or biological weapons stocks, while Israelis rushed to stock up on gas masks as the bellicose rhetoric swells.Israeli political
and security leaders have been watching the intensified bloodletting in
neighboring Syria with mounting concern, afraid that Lebanon's
Hezbollah and other militant groups could raid these arsenals should the
central government in Damascus collapse. In recent days, Israeli
political leaders have said they would be prepared to strike weapons
depots to prevent this from happening.Reflecting
the fears, Israeli officials reported a run on gas masks in recent
days. Demand has almost doubled in the past few days, to 4,200 requests
on Tuesday from a years-old average of about 2,200, said Merav Lapidot, a spokeswoman for the Israeli postal service, which distributes the masks.Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman told Israel Radio that the government would not tolerate seeing Syria's chemical weapons fall into militant hands as tensions rise along his country's northern border.
"For us, that's a casus belli, a red line," he said.Israel's
military chief Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz, however, counseled restraint on
Tuesday, warning that an attack on Syrian chemical weapons depots could
drag Israel into a broader war.At this point, Israel's assessment is that Syria retains control over these arsenals.On Monday, the Syrian regime threatened to unleash its chemical and biological weapons if it faces a foreign attack, a threat widely believed to be directed at Israel.
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:TOBOLSK)
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
JEREMEIAH 49:35-37 (IN IRAN AT THE BUSHEHR NUKE SITE SOME BELIEVE)
35 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,(IRAN/BUSHEHR NUCLEAR SITE) the chief of their might.(MOST DANGEROUS NUKE SITE IN IRAN)
36 And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven,(IRANIANS SCATTERED OR MASS IMIGARATION) and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.(WORLD IMMIGRATION)
37 For I will cause Elam (IRAN-BUSHEHR NUKE SITE) to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger,(ISRAELS NUKES POSSIBLY) saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:(IRAN AND ITS NUKE SITES DESTROYED)
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:TOBOLSK)
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
JEREMEIAH 49:35-37 (IN IRAN AT THE BUSHEHR NUKE SITE SOME BELIEVE)
35 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,(IRAN/BUSHEHR NUCLEAR SITE) the chief of their might.(MOST DANGEROUS NUKE SITE IN IRAN)
36 And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven,(IRANIANS SCATTERED OR MASS IMIGARATION) and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.(WORLD IMMIGRATION)
37 For I will cause Elam (IRAN-BUSHEHR NUKE SITE) to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger,(ISRAELS NUKES POSSIBLY) saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:(IRAN AND ITS NUKE SITES DESTROYED)
Russian flotilla headed for Syria enters Mediterranean
AFP – 20 hrs ago JULY 25,12
A Russian naval flotilla of warships destined for the Syrian port of Tartus has entered the Mediterranean, Russia's defence ministry said Tuesday."The Russian ships today passed the Strait of Gibraltar and entered the Mediterranean at 1200 GMT," said a defence ministry spokesman, quoted by Itar-Tass agency.
Led by the Admiral Chabanenko
anti-submarine destroyer, the three landing craft left their home port
of Severomorsk in the Arctic Circle earlier this month. They are due to
be joined in the Mediterranean by the Russian patrol ship Yaroslav Mudry as well as an assistance vessel.The ships will perform "planned military manoeuvres", said the
ministry. Earlier in the month a military source said the ships would be
topping up on supplies of fuel, water and foodstuffs.Russia has denied that the deployment is linked to the escalating conflict in Syria.
Iran's leader says sanctions won't alter policies
By | Associated Press – 2 hrs 4 mins ago JULY 25,12
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Western-led sanctions and diplomatic pressure will not force Iran to halt its nuclear program, Iran's Supreme Leader said Wednesday.Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,
who has the final say on all state matters in Iran, voiced confidence
that the Islamic Republic can beat the latest punitive measures aimed at
blocking the country's vital oil and banking industries over the
disputed program."They (the
West) explicitly say they need to increase pressures, tighten sanctions
to force Iranian authorities to reconsider their calculations," Khamenei
said in comments broadcast on state television. "But a look at the
facts leads us not only to avoid reconsidering our calculations, but to
move on our intended path with greater confidence."
The
latest European Union sanctions against Iran's vital oil industry came
into effect on July 1, three days after the U.S. tightened measures that
prohibit international banks from completing oil transactions with
Iranian banks. The moves, a response to Iran's refusal to suspend uranium enrichment, further complicate the country's ability to conduct trade abroad.The West suspects Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapon. Iran says the program is for peaceful purposes such as power generation and medical treatment.In
his remarks, Khamenei said he felt some countries partaking in the
U.S.-led sanctions will not continue them over the long term because of
economic drawbacks, calling the sanctions a challenge that could be
overcome."Although there are challenges in the path of the Iranian nation, there is no dead-end," he said.Khamenei
said Iran has offered some concessions in the past, but claimed the
West is unwilling to allow what Iran calls a peaceful nuclear program.He
was referring to a period between 2003 and 2005 when Iran agreed under
former reformist president Mohammad Khatami to suspend uranium
enrichment and all related activities as part of confidence building
measures to dispel fears that Tehran was not seeking nuclear weapons."The
West became so arrogant during that period that they opposed possession
of three centrifuges which our officials had agreed. But now there are
11,000 centrifuges operating in the country," he said.Centrifuges
are machines that spin at supersonic speed to purify uranium. Uranium
enriched to low level is used to fuel a nuclear reactor but higher
enrichment makes it suitable for use in building a nuclear weapon.Iran's
suspension of nuclear advancements coincided with a period of small
steps toward easing the diplomatic freeze between Tehran and Washington,
but tensions quickly returned following the election in 2005 of
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and moves to restart Iran's nuclear
efforts.The U.S. and its allies accuse Iran of using its civilian
nuclear program as a cover to develop an atomic bomb, but Iran has
denied the charges and says its nuclear program aims at producing
electricity and radioisotopes used to treat cancer patients.Khamenei
also urged Iran's politicians to show unity and avoid bickering in
efforts to overcome the sanctions, which experts say have driven up the
cost of imports by 20 to 30 percent.Ahmadinejad's
conservative rivals in parliament are openly criticizing the handling
of the economy and failing to prevent a sharp rise in food prices in
recent months."The reality is
that there are problems but one should not blame this or that. It must
be resolved through unity and wisdom," Khamenei said. "You should avoid
useless disputes and publicizing these disputes in order to protect the
nation's unity."Iran's
parliament speaker has acknowledged that 20 percent of Iran's economic
problems are due to sanctions, a rare public acknowledgment by a top
official that sanctions are biting.
