KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.
MUSLIM NATIONS
EZEKIEL 12:25
25 For I am the LORD: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass; it shall be no more prolonged: will I say the word, and will perform it, saith the Lord GOD.
EZEKIEL 5:17
17 So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it.
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)
ISAIAH 17:1,12-14
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
12 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations,(USELESS U.N) that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14 And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not.(ASSAD) This is the portion of them that spoil us,(ISRAEL) and the lot of them that rob us.
JEREMEIAH 49:23-27
23 Concerning Damascus.(SYRIA) Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea;(WAR SHIPS WITH NUKES COMING ON SYRIA) it cannot be quiet.
24 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
27 And I will kindle a fire (NUKES OR BOMBS) in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.(ASSADS PALACES POSSIBLY IN DAMASCUS)
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
NEWS FROM ISRAEL - LEBANON WILL HIT ISRAEL IF SYRIA ATTACKED
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CpvOqbFdgk&list=UUGgWqfGP-NRr4JqQaTqnTpA&index=1&feature=plcp
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman criticized on Friday the decision
makers from the past decade, saying they failed to adopt the necessary
policy and thus allowed the Iranians to reach the capabilities they have
today."I talked about this back in 2001, when the Iranian nuclear
facilities were not underground and scattered as they are now,”
Lieberman said in a special interview with Channel 2 News.
“I was exposed to this issue for the first time in 1996, when I was
Director-General of the Prime Minister's Office. In 2001, we knew they
were planning to move all their nuclear facilities underground and
spread them out, but the decisions as they should have been made were
not made.Lieberman refused to directly answer the question of whether he was
among the ministers who support an attack on Iran, but stressed that he
views the current situation as being very serious.“As someone who has been engaged with this issue for many years, I
can say that, according to intelligence information, Israel cannot live
with a nuclear Iran,” he said, adding, “Whoever makes light of this
situation and brings, as an example, the fact that Pakistan, India and
North Korea are nuclear - does not know what he's talking about. There
is no way that the State of Israel can accept a nuclear Iran.”Lieberman pointed a finger at his partners in the government and the
coalition who he said are talking too much about an attack on Iran.“Some people are discussing this issue without having intelligence
information,” he said. “I think that this chatter is destructive and
reduces our deterrence.”On Thursday it was reported that Iran has accelerated its activities at the Fordo underground nuclear site near Qom.The information, revealed by international diplomats, comes several
days before the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog agency, the
International Atomic Energy
Agency (IAEA), is set to publish a new report on Iran’s nuclear program.
According to the diplomats, the report will say that Iran has installed
new centrifuges at the Fordo uranium enrichment facility.Strategic Affair Minister Moshe Ya’alon on Thursday placed the responsibility on the United States if the Islamic Republic realizes its nuclear ambitions.“History will judge whether the United States stood in the face of
the Shiite threat and prevented the Iranian military nuclear capability
in time,” Ya’alon said during a forum at the Gordon College of Education in Haifa. “A Middle East with a nuclear Iran is a Middle East with nuclear chaos.”Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met Friday with U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers
(R-MI), who is visiting the Middle East and told him, "Just yesterday,
we received additional proof of the fact that Iran is continuing to make
accelerated progress toward achieving nuclear weapons while totally
ignoring international demands."(Arutz Sheva’s North American Desk is keeping you updated until
the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all
Arutz Sheva articles, however, is Israeli time.)
A new satellite image
suggests that additional suspicious activity may be occurring at the
Parchin site in Iran, according to a Friday report by the Institute for
Science and International Security (ISIS).The new GeoEye image dated August 15, 2012 shows that additional
suspicious activity may be occurring at a building suspected of housing
high explosive experiments related to the development of nuclear weapons
and at an adjacent, northern building that may have also hosted suspect
activities.ISIS noted that the new image shows what appears to be pink tent-like
material over the two buildings, citing an article which concurrently
reported that “diplomatic sources said the building believed to be
housing an explosives chamber - if it is still there - had been
‘wrapped’ with scaffolding and tarpaulin, hiding any sanitization or
other activity there from satellite cameras.”In an August 1, 2012 report, ISIS assessed that apparent cleanup
activities at Parchin were complete, because imagery showed what
appeared to be the final result of considerable sanitization and earth
displacement activity. The latest satellite imagery clearly shows the suspected high explosive test building covered in a pink-colored material. A comparison
with previous satellite images of the building, ISIS noted, shows that
the size of the now covered building has visibly increased, especially
in its height. In consultation with experts ISIS said it believes that
the covering tarp is supported underneath by scaffolding which would
account for the increase in size as well as for the horizontal lines
appearing under the tarp.
Similar activities appear to be taking place at the northernmost building at the site, the report added. Currently only part of the roof appears covered by the pink-colored tarp; however, similarly colored material is visible on the ground next to the building suggesting that it may soon be covered.The purpose of covering the buildings could be to conceal further cleanup activity from overhead satellites or to contain the activity inside, the report noted. Depending on how effective of a seal the tarp provides, the goal could be continue sanitizing the inside and outside of the building that is suspected to contain particles indicative of nuclear weapons development work. Alternatively, ISIS said, tarps could provide a cover for the demolition of the buildings, or portions of them, while also containing the spread of potentially contaminated debris.A June report by ISIS indicated that Iran is continuing its suspected clean-up activity at the Parchin military complex.
ISIS presented satellite imagery from June 7, 2012, which shows continued activity at the site. The image shows heavy machinery tracks and earth displacement throughout the site. Satellite images taken at the end of May and exposed by ISIS confirmed the destruction of two buildings that inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have sought access to.Iran has refused to allow IAEA inspectors access to Parchin. Another round of talks in Vienna between the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog agency and Iran on an agreement which would see the IAEA entering sites of suspected nuclear activity in Iran ended without progress on Friday.International diplomats said Thursday that Iran has accelerated its activities at the Fordo underground nuclear facility near Qom.The information revealed by the diplomats came several days before the IAEA is to publish a new report on Iran’s nuclear program. According to the diplomats, the report will say that Iran has installed new centrifuges at the Fordo uranium enrichment facility.(Arutz Sheva’s North American Desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all Arutz Sheva articles, however, is Israeli time.)
MUSLIM NATIONS
EZEKIEL 12:25
25 For I am the LORD: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass; it shall be no more prolonged: will I say the word, and will perform it, saith the Lord GOD.
EZEKIEL 5:17
17 So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it.
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)
ISAIAH 17:1,12-14
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
12 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations,(USELESS U.N) that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14 And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not.(ASSAD) This is the portion of them that spoil us,(ISRAEL) and the lot of them that rob us.
JEREMEIAH 49:23-27
23 Concerning Damascus.(SYRIA) Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea;(WAR SHIPS WITH NUKES COMING ON SYRIA) it cannot be quiet.
24 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
27 And I will kindle a fire (NUKES OR BOMBS) in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.(ASSADS PALACES POSSIBLY IN DAMASCUS)
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
NEWS FROM ISRAEL - LEBANON WILL HIT ISRAEL IF SYRIA ATTACKED
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CpvOqbFdgk&list=UUGgWqfGP-NRr4JqQaTqnTpA&index=1&feature=plcp
Lieberman: No Way Can Israel Accept a Nuclear Iran
Foreign Minister Lieberman criticizes decision makers from the past decade, says they failed to take steps to stop Iran.By Elad Benari, Canada First Publish: 8/24/2012, 9:44 PM
Avigdor Lieberman
New Image Suggests More Suspicious Activity at Parchin
ISIS
exposes new satellite imagery which suggests that additional suspicious
activity may be occurring at the Parchin site in Iran.By Elad Benari, Canada First Publish: 8/25/2012, 12:52 AM
A section of the Parchin military facility in Iran
Reuters
Similar activities appear to be taking place at the northernmost building at the site, the report added. Currently only part of the roof appears covered by the pink-colored tarp; however, similarly colored material is visible on the ground next to the building suggesting that it may soon be covered.The purpose of covering the buildings could be to conceal further cleanup activity from overhead satellites or to contain the activity inside, the report noted. Depending on how effective of a seal the tarp provides, the goal could be continue sanitizing the inside and outside of the building that is suspected to contain particles indicative of nuclear weapons development work. Alternatively, ISIS said, tarps could provide a cover for the demolition of the buildings, or portions of them, while also containing the spread of potentially contaminated debris.A June report by ISIS indicated that Iran is continuing its suspected clean-up activity at the Parchin military complex.
ISIS presented satellite imagery from June 7, 2012, which shows continued activity at the site. The image shows heavy machinery tracks and earth displacement throughout the site. Satellite images taken at the end of May and exposed by ISIS confirmed the destruction of two buildings that inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have sought access to.Iran has refused to allow IAEA inspectors access to Parchin. Another round of talks in Vienna between the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog agency and Iran on an agreement which would see the IAEA entering sites of suspected nuclear activity in Iran ended without progress on Friday.International diplomats said Thursday that Iran has accelerated its activities at the Fordo underground nuclear facility near Qom.The information revealed by the diplomats came several days before the IAEA is to publish a new report on Iran’s nuclear program. According to the diplomats, the report will say that Iran has installed new centrifuges at the Fordo uranium enrichment facility.(Arutz Sheva’s North American Desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all Arutz Sheva articles, however, is Israeli time.)
Syrian rebels set free a kidnapped Lebanese
By | Associated Press – 1 hr 29 mins ago AUG 25,12
BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian rebels freed one of 11 Lebanese Shiite pilgrims
they have been holding for three months on Saturday, in a move aiming
to ease cross-border tensions after a wave of abductions of Syrian citizens in Lebanon.Hussein Ali Omar, 60, appeared healthy in an interview aired on Qatar's Al-Jazeera TV as he crossed into Turkey
after his release, urging the Lebanese and Arabs to support the Syrian
people in the midst of their country's escalating civil war.The
release came a week after Lebanese tribesmen kidnapped two Turks and
more than 20 Syrians to force the rebels to release Lebanese citizen
Hassane al-Mikdad, who the rebels captured near the Syrian capital of Damascus
and accused of being a member of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group.
The al-Mikdad clan, which later released most of the Syrians it was
holding except for four, is a powerful Shiite Muslim family in Lebanon.The Shiite pilgrims were abducted May 22 after crossing into Syria
from Turkey on their way to Lebanon. A previously unheard of group
calling itself "Syrian Rebels in Aleppo" claimed responsibility.The group demanded that the Hezbollah leader, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah,
apologize for his comments in support of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
Nasrallah, an ally of Assad's regime, has said the abduction would not
change his group's stance.Mohammed Nour, a rebel spokesman in the
Syrian northern town of Azaz, said in a statement read on TV that the
release was in response to a request by Lebanon's Association of Muslim
Scholars and an adviser to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Nour did not say what they will do with the remaining 10 pilgrims but
repeated his call for Hezbollah to "specify their stance regarding the
Syrian people and revolution."
Syria's 18-month crisis has spilled over into neighboring Lebanon, where pro- and anti-Syrian group have clashed since Monday in the northern city of Tripoli. The latest violence in Tripoli killed at least 17 and wounded more than a 100 wounded.In Syria, activists reported clashes between rebels and government troops and well as shelling in different areas including the northern province of Aleppo, the district of Idlib, the eastern region of Deir el-Zour and Daraa in the south. The activists also reported violence in some suburbs of the capital, Damascus, including Daraya which government troops entered on Thursday.
Syria's 18-month crisis has spilled over into neighboring Lebanon, where pro- and anti-Syrian group have clashed since Monday in the northern city of Tripoli. The latest violence in Tripoli killed at least 17 and wounded more than a 100 wounded.In Syria, activists reported clashes between rebels and government troops and well as shelling in different areas including the northern province of Aleppo, the district of Idlib, the eastern region of Deir el-Zour and Daraa in the south. The activists also reported violence in some suburbs of the capital, Damascus, including Daraya which government troops entered on Thursday.
State-run news agency
SANA reported heavy clashes in the northern city of Aleppo, Syria's
largest, saying that "many terrorists" were killed or wounded.The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said clashes in the eastern town of al-Bukamal, which borders Iraq, were concentrated near an air defense base. Al-Bukamal is in the oil-rich province of Deir el-Zour.The Observatory said 109 people were killed in Daraya alone over the past four days as a result of clashes and violence.The
Local Coordination Committees, another activist group, said army
helicopter gunships attacked the town of Qusair in the central province
of Homs.Activists say that more than 20,000 people have been killed since the country's crisis began in March last year.Earlier
Saturday, the head of a team of United Nations observers tasked to
monitor a cease-fire in Syria that failed left Damascus. Lt. Gen.
Babacar Gaye gave no statement before leaving for Lebanon.The
mission ended last Sunday but Gaye stayed for meetings. The U.N.
Security Council has agreed to back a small new liaison office to
support future peace efforts.The observers' deployment in April
was one of the only concrete achievements in Special Envoy Kofi Annan's
attempts to halt the country's escalating civil war. They had intended
to supervise a truce that never took hold.Annan abandoned the job earlier this month and was replaced by veteran Algerian diplomat and former U.N. envoy to Afghanistan and Iraq Lakhdar Brahimi.Brahimi
hinted Friday at the immense challenges he faces trying to negotiate an
end to the war, saying the mission left him "flattered, humbled and
scared."
Hamas team headed to Egypt for security talks
AFP – 3 hrs ago AUG 25,12
A Hamas
delegation was to head to Cairo for security talks later Saturday amid
Egyptian anger at a deadly raid on an army post near the Gaza border
earlier this month, officials from the Islamist group said."A security team from Gaza will leave for several meetings with Egyptian security," Hamas interior ministry spokesman Ihab al-Ghussein told AFP.He said that the object was "to coordinate completely on all security issues, including border security and events which happened in Sinai and the Rafah border crossing (between Gaza and Egypt)."Egypt closed the crossing --- Gaza's only gateway to the outside world that bypasses Israel -- after the August 5 attack and has since only partially reopened it.Egyptian officials
have charged that some of the 35 gunmen who stormed the army post
killing 16 soldiers had crossed from Gaza through the network of
smuggling tunnels that run under the Gaza border.But Gaza's Hamas rulers have said no Palestinians are suspected of involvement in the attack.Asked if the Hamas delegation
would take part in the Egyptian investigation, Ghussein said they would
not be "directly involved" but would coordinate with Egyptian
colleagues.A Hamas official said that the team would travel to Cairo later on Saturday, but did not say for how long.
Iranian invitation splits Palestinians
– 1 hr 11 mins ago AUG 25,12
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Palestinian foreign minister says President Mahmoud Abbas will not participate at the summit of non-aligned nations in Iran at the end of the month if Hamas also attends.
Riad Malki said Saturday the Palestinian Authority
is seeking clarifications from Iran after Hamas announced it had been
invited to the August summit and that Hamas' prime minister Ismail Haniyeh would attend.
Malki said Abbas will not attend if Hamas is taking part.Abbas' secular, Western-backed Fatah party and the militant Islamic Hamas
are bitter rivals. Violence between the two sides in 2007 left the
Palestinians divided with Hamas ruling Gaza and Fatah governing the West
Bank. Repeated attempts for reconciliation have failed.Iran is a major supporter of Hamas.
Netanyahu says Iran speeding up nuclear arms quest
AFP – 19 hrs ago AUG 25,12
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a visiting US congressman on Friday that Iran was speeding up its quest for nuclear weapons in defiance of international sanctions."Just yesterday, we received
additional proof of the fact that Iran is continuing to make accelerated
progress toward achieving nuclear weapons while totally ignoring
international demands," Netanyahu's office quoted him as telling Republican Congressman Mike Rogers.Netanyahu was referring to a story in Thursday's Washington Post that cited "diplomats and experts" as saying a forthcoming International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report would show Tehran had installed hundreds of new centrifuges "and may also be speeding up production of nuclear fuel."Netanyahu's comments came as IAEA
and Iranian officials met on Friday at the Iranian mission in Vienna to
discuss what the agency called "outstanding issues" over Tehran's
contested nuclear drive.
Israel and its ally, the United States, accuse Iran of seeking to develop an atomic arsenal but Tehran insists its nuclear programme is only for civilian purposes.Widely suspected to have the
region's sole, if undeclared, nuclear arsenal, Israel has warned that if
need be it will attack nuclear facilities in the Islamic republic to
prevent it becoming capable of producing nuclear weapons.
Dutch set to defy austerity as left takes poll lead
24.08.12 @ 19:54 By Benjamin Fox
BRUSSELS - The left-wing Socialist
party is expected to seize the largest gains in September's Dutch
elections, threatening to deprive German Chancellor Angela Merkel of one
of her closest allies in response to the eurozone debt crisis.With Dutch voters set to go to the polls on 12 September 12, opinion
polls indicated that the Socialist party, which has never formed part of
a government, is running marginally ahead of caretaker Prime Minister
Mark Rutte's Liberal party (VVD).According to a survey released on Wednesday (22 August) by opinion
pollsters TNS-Nipo, both parties are projected to win 34 seats in the
150 member Parliament, with the centre-left Labour party (PvdA) expected
to poll in third place with 21 seats. A poll of polls compiled this
week by the University of Leiden pegs the Socialist and VVD parties at
35 and 33 seats respectively.The election, which takes place on the same day as the German
constitutional court rules on whether the European Stability Mechanism,
the permanent EU bail-out fund, breaches national law, comes after the
centre-right coalition led by Liberal leader Mark Rutte collapsed in
April over budget cuts.
The Socialist party is more eurosceptic than the mainstream Dutch parties, leading opposition to the ill-fated Constitutional Treaty which was defeated in a 2005 referendum. It also opposed EU bail-out packages and the European Stability Mechanism, and is against further moves towards fiscal federalism in the eurozone.
Last week, the Socialist party leader Emile Roemer promised to hold a referendum on the fiscal compact treaty, describing it as "idiotic" to impose a 3% limit on budget deficits. The treaty, which was designed by Merkel and former French President Nikolas Sarkozy, and enthusiastically backed by Rutte, would put the deficit and debt brakes from the Stability and Growth Pact into national constitutions.Although Rutte's Liberal party are expected to make slight gains on the 31 seats claimed in 2010, with no party likely to score a decisive victory the election is likely to lead to lengthy negotiation to fashion a coalition government. The Rutte government was cobbled together in October 2010 after four months of negotiations.Geert Wilders' Freedom party (PVV) is expected to lose up to ten of their 24 seats. Wilders', whose party courted controversy earlier this year over its website calling on people to report unruly immigrants, toppled the Rutte administration in April by walking out of negotiations for further budget cuts demanded by the European Commission.Rutte had promised to make further spending cuts in a bid to reduce the country's 4.7% deficit in 2011 below the 3% threshold. Wilders's deputies had voted with the government to give it a parliamentary majority. Meanwhile, economic data released on Friday (24 August) by the Dutch Central Planning Bureau (CPB) forecast that the country's deficit would fall to 2.7% in 2013, with the economy expected to grow by 0.75%.
FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS
REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
By | Associated Press – 23 hours ago AUG 25,12
The Socialist party is more eurosceptic than the mainstream Dutch parties, leading opposition to the ill-fated Constitutional Treaty which was defeated in a 2005 referendum. It also opposed EU bail-out packages and the European Stability Mechanism, and is against further moves towards fiscal federalism in the eurozone.
Last week, the Socialist party leader Emile Roemer promised to hold a referendum on the fiscal compact treaty, describing it as "idiotic" to impose a 3% limit on budget deficits. The treaty, which was designed by Merkel and former French President Nikolas Sarkozy, and enthusiastically backed by Rutte, would put the deficit and debt brakes from the Stability and Growth Pact into national constitutions.Although Rutte's Liberal party are expected to make slight gains on the 31 seats claimed in 2010, with no party likely to score a decisive victory the election is likely to lead to lengthy negotiation to fashion a coalition government. The Rutte government was cobbled together in October 2010 after four months of negotiations.Geert Wilders' Freedom party (PVV) is expected to lose up to ten of their 24 seats. Wilders', whose party courted controversy earlier this year over its website calling on people to report unruly immigrants, toppled the Rutte administration in April by walking out of negotiations for further budget cuts demanded by the European Commission.Rutte had promised to make further spending cuts in a bid to reduce the country's 4.7% deficit in 2011 below the 3% threshold. Wilders's deputies had voted with the government to give it a parliamentary majority. Meanwhile, economic data released on Friday (24 August) by the Dutch Central Planning Bureau (CPB) forecast that the country's deficit would fall to 2.7% in 2013, with the economy expected to grow by 0.75%.
FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS
REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
Air crews make dent in massive Calif. wildfire
By | Associated Press – 23 hours ago AUG 25,12
MINERAL,
Calif. (AP) — Air tankers and helicopters flew repeatedly into a deep
rim rock canyon to douse the spearhead of a massive wildfire in Northern
California and stop it from driving into a nearby mountain community
and Lassen Volcanic National Park."This is the critical spot we
have on the fire now," CalFire Division Chief Scott Lindgren said
Thursday as he watched the air drops of fire retardant and water on
flames burning the steep timbered sides of the canyon, about 6 miles
west of Mineral.He was standing in a backyard on the edge of a
cliff, where the brush and dirt were colored orange-pink by a recent
drop of retardant."The further east we go, the harder it is to
stop this thing," he said. "The problem is, we catch it up on top (of
the basalt rim rock) at night, but we can't catch it on the bottom (of
the canyon) because of the cliff."It has helped to slow the
fire's spread so far, reducing the threat to miles of commercial
timberland, the mountain community of Mineral, and the park. A logging
road to the east was cleared to serve as a contingency line if the air
attacks don't stop the fire from running up the canyon.Sixty-four
homes and 20 other buildings have been destroyed, mostly in the Manton
area, since lightning ignited the blaze Saturday, state fire spokesman
Don Camp said. It was still threatening 900 other homes as it burned a
new front to the south.About 2,500 firefighters were battling the
blaze, which has grown to 44 square miles in the piney hills about 25
miles southeast of Redding.The Ponderosa Fire was 68 percent
contained Friday morning, up from 61 percent Thursday evening, said
CalFire spokesman Daniel Berlant. Full containment is expected early
next week"We've definitely turned the corner, and we're really
starting to make good progress in getting a handle on the fire," Berlant
said Friday.Watching the drops with the fire chief were Jane
Carney, Kelly Strong and Sherill Jenkins, who said they were ready to
leave their vacation home if necessary."We'll get out if we're told to get out," Strong said.They stayed because, Jenkins said, "It's beautiful up here."Mineral is a town of 187 vacation and year-round homes that serves as the gateway to the national park.Beth
Glenn, whose family owns area commercial buildings dating to 1896 said
she was not nervous, having grown up in a firefighting family and living
with the frequent fires in Southern California.Elsewhere in the
state, a large wildfire in Plumas National Forest expanded with help
from gusty winds. The blaze, about 120 miles north of Sacramento, has
consumed 99 square miles since it started at the end of July and
threatens about 900 homes. It was 55 percent contained Thursday night.The
California fires were among several stubborn wildfires in the West. In
Washington, crews were still working on a week-old wildfire that has
destroyed 51 homes and 26 outbuildings and damaged at least six other
homes, authorities said.The fire, about 75 miles east of Seattle, has caused an estimated $8.3 million in property damage.In
central Idaho, firefighters were burning and removing vegetation near
the town of Featherville in hopes of protecting hundreds of evacuated
homes from an approaching wildfire. Fire managers said that blaze
already has charred 164 square miles, forcing the residents to evacuate
due to heavy smoke.___Collins reported from San Francisco.
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.
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.
Isaac passes Haiti, heads toward Cuba, Florida
By | Associated Press – 11 mins ago AUG 25,12
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Tropical Storm Isaac
swept across Haiti's southern peninsula early Saturday, dousing a
capital city prone to flooding and adding to the misery of a poor nation
still trying to recover from the terrible 2010 earthquake.The storm was heading toward eastern Cuba and forecasters said it poses a threat to Florida Monday and Tuesday, just as the Republican Party gathers for its national convention in Tampa. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said a hurricane warning is in effect for the Florida Keys and for the west coast of Florida from Bonita Beach south to Florida Bay.At
least three people were reported dead. A woman and a child died in the
town of Souvenance, Sen. Francisco Delacruz told a local radio station. A
10-year-old girl died in Thomazeau when a wall fell on his, said Marie
Alta Jean-Baptiste, director of Haiti's Civil Protection Office.She said as many as 5,000 people were evacuated because of flooding.Many, however, stayed and suffered. The sprawling seaside shantytown of Cite Soleil was among the areas that flooded."From
last night, we're in misery," said Cite Soleil resident Jean-Gymar
Joseph. "All our children are sleeping in the mud, in the rain."More than 50 tents in a quake settlement collapsed, forcing people to scramble through the mud to try to save their belongings.Forecasters
said Isaac could dump as much as eight to 12 inches (30 centimeters)
and even up to 20 inches (51 centimeters) on Hispaniola, which is shared
by Haiti and the Dominican Republic, as well as produce a storm surge of up to 3 feet (0.9 meters).Isaac
was centered about 95 miles (150 kilometers) east-southeast of
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, early Saturday, with maximum sustained winds of 60
mph (95 kph). It was moving northwest at 14 mph (22 kph). Tropical
force winds extended nearly 200 miles (321 kilometers) from the storm's
center.
Forecasters said the storm was likely to march up the Gulf of Mexico, offshore of Florida's west coast, as a hurricane on Monday, just as the Republican National Convention is scheduled to start. Tampa was within the storm's possible strike zone, but the most likely course would carry it toward landfall on the Florida Panhandle late Tuesday or early Wednesday.Cuba declared a state of alert Friday for six eastern provinces and five central provinces were put on preliminary watch. Vacationers in tourist installations of those regions were evacuated.State television began an all-day transmission of news about the storm on Saturday.
Radio Baracoa, from the city of Baracoa on the northern coast of eastern Cuba, reported that high seas began topping the city's seawall Friday night. Reports said lower than normal rains had left reservoirs well below capacity and in good shape to absorb runoff.Cuba has a highly organized civil defense system that goes door-to-door to enforce evacuations of at-risk areas, largely averting casualties from storms even when they cause major flooding and significant damage to crops.In Port-au-Prince, a city of some 3 million ringed by mountains, authorities and aid workers tried to evacuate people from a tent camp to temporary shelters.
More than a hundred people were at a shelter in a school that President Michel Martelly toured Friday, but after the visit some people began to leave."They dragged me from the camp and brought me here," 38-year-old Marlene Charles, thirsty and hungry, said about the aid groups. "There's no way I'm going to spend the night here."In the Dominican Republic, authorities evacuated people from low-lying areas but, as in Haiti, they encountered resistance. Still, authorities said they evacuated nearly 2,900 people. The majority were transferred to the homes of relatives while about 300 were sent to government shelters.Flooding was reported in Santo Domingo and Santiago but no reports of injuries.Organizers of next week's Republican National Convention in Tampa were monitoring storm developments, and authorities said there were no plans to cancel the convention.Out in the eastern Atlantic, former Tropical Storm Joyce degenerated into a weak low pressure system Friday.___Associated Press writers Evens Sanon in Port-au-Prince, Haiti; Peter Orsi in Havana and APTN journalist Fernando Gonzalez in Santiago, Cuba; Danica Coto in San Juan, Puerto Rico; and Ezequiel Abiu Lopez in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, contributed to this report.
Forecasters said the storm was likely to march up the Gulf of Mexico, offshore of Florida's west coast, as a hurricane on Monday, just as the Republican National Convention is scheduled to start. Tampa was within the storm's possible strike zone, but the most likely course would carry it toward landfall on the Florida Panhandle late Tuesday or early Wednesday.Cuba declared a state of alert Friday for six eastern provinces and five central provinces were put on preliminary watch. Vacationers in tourist installations of those regions were evacuated.State television began an all-day transmission of news about the storm on Saturday.
Radio Baracoa, from the city of Baracoa on the northern coast of eastern Cuba, reported that high seas began topping the city's seawall Friday night. Reports said lower than normal rains had left reservoirs well below capacity and in good shape to absorb runoff.Cuba has a highly organized civil defense system that goes door-to-door to enforce evacuations of at-risk areas, largely averting casualties from storms even when they cause major flooding and significant damage to crops.In Port-au-Prince, a city of some 3 million ringed by mountains, authorities and aid workers tried to evacuate people from a tent camp to temporary shelters.
More than a hundred people were at a shelter in a school that President Michel Martelly toured Friday, but after the visit some people began to leave."They dragged me from the camp and brought me here," 38-year-old Marlene Charles, thirsty and hungry, said about the aid groups. "There's no way I'm going to spend the night here."In the Dominican Republic, authorities evacuated people from low-lying areas but, as in Haiti, they encountered resistance. Still, authorities said they evacuated nearly 2,900 people. The majority were transferred to the homes of relatives while about 300 were sent to government shelters.Flooding was reported in Santo Domingo and Santiago but no reports of injuries.Organizers of next week's Republican National Convention in Tampa were monitoring storm developments, and authorities said there were no plans to cancel the convention.Out in the eastern Atlantic, former Tropical Storm Joyce degenerated into a weak low pressure system Friday.___Associated Press writers Evens Sanon in Port-au-Prince, Haiti; Peter Orsi in Havana and APTN journalist Fernando Gonzalez in Santiago, Cuba; Danica Coto in San Juan, Puerto Rico; and Ezequiel Abiu Lopez in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, contributed to this report.
