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JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people(ISRAEL) and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(UPROOTED ISRAELIS AND DIVIDED JERUSALEM)(THIS BRINGS ON WW3 BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED,WARNING TO ARABS-MUSLIMS AND THE WORLD).
LAND FOR PEACE (THE FUTURE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH)
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people(ISRAEL) and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(UPROOTED ISRAELIS AND DIVIDED JERUSALEM)(THIS BRINGS ON WW3 BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED,WARNING TO ARABS-MUSLIMS AND THE WORLD).
THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS
Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
DANIEL 11:21-23
21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
23 And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant (PEACE TREATY) with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
ISAIAH 33:8
8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant,(7 YR TREATY) he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.(THE WORLD LEADER-WAR MONGER CALLS HIMSELF GOD)
ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.
12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE
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.
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HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS TUE DECEMBER 18,2012
09:30 AM +2.43
10:00 AM +7.08
10:30 AM +28.99
11:00 AM +61.43
11:30 AM +76.81
12:00 PM +74.37
12:30 PM +84.21
01:00 PM +113.25
01:30 PM +104.70
02:00 PM +111.25
02:30 PM +111.12
03:00 PM +104.63
03:30 PM +93.25
04:00 PM +115.57 13,350.96
S&P 500 1446.79 +16.43
NASDAQ 3054.53 +43.93
GOLD 1,670.00 - 28.00
OIL 87.93 +0.73
TSE 300 12,334.34 +52.99
CDNX 1176.00 -8.99
S&P/TSX/60 707.91 +4.18
MORNING,NEWS,STATS
YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +20 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow +1 points at low today.
Dow +81 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,698.30.OIL opens at $87.66 today.
AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow +1 points at low today so far.
Dow +115 points at high today so far.
WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow +1 points at low today.
Dow +115 points at high today.
GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,902.60 (NOT AT CLOSE)
DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TR BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).
MUSLIM NATIONS
GENESIS 12:1-3
1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I (GOD) will shew thee:
2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3 And I will bless them that bless thee,(ISRAELIS) and curse (DESTROY) him that curseth thee:(DESTROY THEM) and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
MATTHEW 25:32-34,40-41
32 And before him (JESUS) shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:
33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand,(ISRAEL SUPPORTERS) but the goats on the left.(ISRAEL HATERS)
34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren,(ISRAELIS) ye have done it unto me.
41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand,(ISRAEL HATERS) Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)
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 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.
EZEKIEL 39:1-8,11-18
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back,(RUSSIA-ARAB MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS) and leave but the sixth part of thee,(5/6TH OR 300 MILLION DEAD I BELIEVE) and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog (RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS) a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers (EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN JORDAN VALLEY) on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog (RUSSIAN) and all his multitude:(ARAB/MUSLIM HORDE) and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.(BURIEL SITE OF THE 300 MILLION,RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS)
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.(OF ISRAEL)
13 Yea, all the people of the land (OF ISRAEL) shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I (GOD-JESUS) shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment,(NUCLEAR BOMB EXPERTS) passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
15 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it,(WON'T TOUCH IT) till the buriers have buried it (PROPERLY) in the valley of Hamongog.(RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS NEW BURIEL SITE)
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.(OF THE ISRAEL-GOD HATERS)
17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl,(500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS THREW ISRAEL EVERY SPRING,FALL) and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.(OF THE RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ARMIES)
18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19 And ye (MIGRATING BIRDS IN ISRAEL) shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.(RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS)
20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
21 And I (GOD-JESUS) will set my glory among the heathen,(WORLD NATIONS) and all the heathen (WORLD NATIONS) shall see my judgment that I have executed,(AGAINST ISRAELS ENEMIES) and my (GODS) hand that I have laid upon them.(ISRAELS HATER ENEMIES)
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.
EZEKIEL 35:3-6,11-15
3 And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O mount Seir,(ARABS) I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate.
4 I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
5 Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred,(AGAINST ISRAEL) and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:
6 Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.
11 Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged thee.
12 And thou shalt know that I am the LORD, and that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume.
13 Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard them.
14 Thus saith the Lord GOD; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate.(ARAB,MUSLIMS)
15 As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir,(ARABS) and all Idumea,(ARAB,MUSLIMS) even all of it: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
JEREMEIAH 49:23-27
23 Concerning Damascus.(SYRIA) Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea;(WAR SHIPS WITH NUKES COMING ON SYRIA) it cannot be quiet.
24 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
27 And I will kindle a fire (NUKES OR BOMBS) in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.(ASSADS PALACES POSSIBLY IN DAMASCUS)
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
JEREMIAH 47:1-7
1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines,(PALESTINIAN/ARABS) before that Pharaoh smote Gaza.
2 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north,(NORTHERN TSUNAMI POSSIBLY) and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.
3 At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses,(ISRAELS ARMY) at the rushing of his chariots, and at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to their children for feebleness of hands;(ISRAEL POSSIBLY NUKES GAZA)
4 Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines,(PALESTINIAN FAKE ARABS) and to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that remaineth: for the LORD will spoil the Philistines, the remnant of the country of Caphtor.
5 Baldness is come upon Gaza;(NUKED POSSIBLY) Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?
6 O thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.
7 How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD hath given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? (MEDITTERANEAN SEA) there hath he appointed it.
DANIEL 11:40-43
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south ( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS-MUSLIMS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them,(BEFORE THE NUKE GOES OFF) and behind them a desolate wilderness;(AFTER THE ATOMIC BOMB GOES OFF) yea, and nothing shall escape them.(EVERYTHING NUKED)
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,ARAB,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate,(SIBERIAN DESERT) with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(FOR COMING AGAINST ISRAEL)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
JEREMIAH 8:7
7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times;(MIGRATION TIME) and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming;(IN MIGRATION SEASON) but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.(WW3 MIGRATING BIRDS EAT ISRAELS ENEMIES FLESH AND BLOOD)
"NEITHER SIDE CAN WIN"
Syrian Vice President Farouq al-Sharaa said in a newspaper interview published on Monday that neither Assad's forces nor rebels seeking to overthrow him can win the war.Sharaa, a Sunni Muslim in a power structure dominated by Assad's Alawite minority, has rarely been seen since the revolt erupted in March 2011 and is not part of the president's inner circle directing the fight against Sunni rebels. But he is the most prominent figure to say in public that Assad will not win.Sharaa said the situation in Syria was deteriorating and a "historic settlement" was needed to end the conflict, involving regional powers and the U.N. Security Council and the formation of a national unity government "with broad powers"."With every passing day the political and military solutions are becoming more distant. We should be in a position defending the existence of Syria. We are not in a battle for an individual or a regime," Sharaa was quoted as telling Al-Akhbar newspaper."The opposition cannot decisively settle the battle and what the security forces and army units are doing will not achieve a decisive settlement," he said, adding that insurgents fighting to topple Syria's leadership could plunge it into "anarchy and an unending spiral of violence".Sources close to the Syrian government say Sharaa had pushed for dialogue with the opposition and objected to the military response to an uprising that began peacefully.In a veiled criticism of the crackdown, he said there was a difference between the state's duty to provide security to its citizens, and "pursuing a security solution to the crisis".
The draft resolution, which is due to be adopted by the 15-member council on Wednesday, expresses concern at the presence of the Syrian army, armed opposition groups and unauthorized military equipment in the so-called area of separation.
Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria in a 1967 war. Syrian troops are not allowed in the area of separation under a 1973 ceasefire formalized in 1974. Israel and Syria are still technically at war.
Syria's 20-month civil war recently began to spill over into the zone, which had been largely quiet since the 1973 ceasefire. Stray shells and bullets have landed on the Israeli-controlled side and Israeli troops have fired shells into Syria in response.
Last month a convoy of U.N. peacekeepers came under fire near the airport in Damascus. The draft Security Council resolution condemns the incident in which it says five peacekeepers were injured.
"Recent incidents across the ceasefire line have shown the potential for escalation of tensions between Israel and the Syrian Arab Republic, and jeopardize the ceasefire between the two countries," says the draft obtained by Reuters on Monday.
The draft text proposes extending the U.N. peacekeeping force, known as UNDOF, for six months.
It also agrees with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's "finding that the military operations carried out by the Syrian Arab Armed Forces have effected adversely the efforts of UNDOF to effectively carry out the mandated tasks."
More than 40,000 people have been killed in Syria since a government crackdown on peaceful pro-democracy protests in March 2011 grew into a civil war.
The Security Council has been incapable of taking any meaningful action to end the war. Veto-holding powers Russia and China refuse to condemn Syria's President Bashar al-Assad or support sanctions.
(Reporting by Michelle Nichols and Louis Charbonneau; Editing by Paul Simao)
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Funerals begin for Newtown victims as schools confront tragedy
By Bill Berkrot and Chris Kaufman | Reuters – 13 hrs ago DEC 18,12
FAIRFIELD/NEWTOWN, Connecticut
(Reuters) - One boy was buried in his hero's football jersey in a small
white coffin. Balloons and a teddy bear welcomed mourners to the
funeral of his first grade schoolmate.
The two funerals on Monday ushered in what will be a
week of memorial services and burials for the 20 children and six adults
massacred at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.The shooting sent waves of anxiety across the country
on the first school day since a 20-year-old gunman opened fire on the
students and teachers in the close-knit community last week.Within hours of the school starting bell on Monday, lockdowns were declared in nearby Connecticut
and New York towns on fears of danger. And in southern California,
Indiana and Tennessee, authorities arrested men on Sunday for making
threats against schools.Newtown's schools remained closed after a weekend of mourning that followed Adam Lanza's shooting spree on Friday that claimed 28 lives, including his mother's and his own.Miniature caskets marked the first wave of funerals as Noah Pozner and Jack Pinto,
both 6 years old, were laid to rest on Monday afternoon. Noah was the
youngest victim of rampage and his twin sister, Arielle, escaped unhurt.Under chilly, leaden skies, police and bomb-sniffing
dogs conducted a precautionary search of the street lined with white
balloons outside the Fairfield, Connecticut, funeral home where Noah's
brief life was remembered.A teddy bear and bouquet of white flowers lay at the
base of an oak tree outside the Jewish service that was packed with
mourners, including Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy, U.S. Senator
Richard Blumenthal and Senator-elect Chris Murphy."Every time I told Noah, 'I love you,' he always
answered, 'Not as much as I love you,'" his mother, Veronique Pozner,
told mourners at his funeral, recalled Rabbi Edgar Gluck after the
burial service.In Noah's obituary in the Newtown Bee newspaper, his
parents and four siblings said, "Noah was an impish, larger-than-life
little boy. Everything he did conveyed action and energy through love.
He was the light of our family, a little soul devoid of spite and
meanness."At Jack Pinto's funeral in Newtown,
about a half dozen children wearing a wrestling's club gold medals took
off the awards and gave them to their teammate's parents. A New York
Giants fan, Jack was wearing a red-and-white jersey with receiver Victor
Cruz's number 80 as he lay in an open white casket at the service.
During Sunday's game, Cruz wore shoes with "R.I.P. Jack Pinto" written on the side."Jack was an incredibly loving and vivacious young boy,
appreciated by all who knew him for his lively and giving spirit and
steely determination," his parents, Dean and Tricia Pinto, and brother
said in his obituary in the Newtown Bee.Active in sports from football to skiing, he was
remembered "for the immeasurable joy he brought to all who had the
pleasure of knowing him, a joy whose wide reach belied his six short
years."Their funerals came a day after President Barack Obama visited Newtown
to comfort the families, promising action to stop future tragedies.
Obama's remarks were heralded on Monday morning by relatives of teacher
Victoria Soto, 27, who was killed as she tried to protect her
first-grade students."He really made us feel like she really was a hero and
that everyone should know it," her younger brother, Carlos Soto, told
CBS "This Morning."Later Monday, White House spokesman said Obama's plan
for action to curb violence includes gun control "but is far from all of
it."All the dead children were 6 or 7 years old. The school
principal of Sandy Hook Elementary, the school psychologist and four
teachers were also gunned down.With Newtown schools closed on Monday, about 200
volunteers set up an indoor play day to keep children busy on a drizzly
Monday. Inside a local youth academy, whose doorway was marked by
holiday wreaths and 26 black ribbons, volunteers urged a boy wearing
Spider-Man sneakers, a girl carrying a stuffed Dalmatian toy and about
1,000 other children to join in athletics, board games and arts and
crafts.A more detailed picture of Lanza's stunning attack has emerged.After killing his mother, Nancy Lanza, at home, Adam Lanza shot his way into the school. He had attended Sandy Hook as a child, according to former classmates, but authorities said on Monday he had no current connection with the school.Police said Lanza was armed with hundreds of bullets in
high-capacity magazines of about 30 rounds each for the Bushmaster AR
15 rifle and two handguns he carried into the school, and had a fourth
weapon, a shotgun, in his car outside. He killed himself in the school.In Washington, a growing number of U.S. lawmakers -
including a leading pro-gun senator - called for a look at curbing
assault weapons like the one used in the massacre, a sign that attitudes
toward gun control could be shifting."Never before have we seen our babies slaughtered. This
never happened in America, that I can recall, ever seeing this kind of
carnage," said Senator Joe Manchin, a West Virginia Democrat who has
earned top marks from the gun industry. "This has changed where we go
from here."(Additional reporting by Peter Rudegeair, Ed Krudy, Dan
Burns, Hilary Russ, Dan Trotta and; Susan Heavey in Washington; Writing
by Barbara Goldberg; Editing by Doina Chiacu and Jackie Frank) Noah would have become a great man,’ uncle tells mourners
Thousands of local residents line up outside the funeral home where Noah Pozner, who turned 6 just last month, is the first of the Sandy Hook victims to be laid to rest Monday afternoon
NEW YORK — The youngest of the
26 victims killed in Sandy Hook Elementary School late last week was
laid to rest Monday, in the first of dozens of tearful services planned
in the shattered town.Noah Pozner, who turned 6 in November, was
killed when a 20-year-old gunman went on a shooting spree at the Sandy
Hook Elementary School on Friday. All 20 children murdered in the
rampage were in the first grade at the well-regarded school.Noah was the first child to be buried after
the Friday attack, in keeping with Jewish tradition that requires quick
burial. Jack Pinto, also 6, was being buried shortly afterward on
Monday.
A rabbi presided at Noah’s service, and in
keeping with Jewish tradition, the boy was laid to rest in a simple
brown wooden casket adorned with a Star of David.“If Noah had not been taken from us, he would
have become a great man. He would been a wonderful husband and a loving
father,” Noah’s uncle Alexis Haller told mourners.Haller described a smart, funny and
mischievous child who loved animals and Mario Brothers video games, and
liked to tease his sisters by telling them he worked in a taco factory.“It is unspeakably tragic that none of us can
bring Noah back,” Haller said. “We would go to the ends of the earth to
do so, but none of us can. What we can do is carry Noah within us,
always. We can remember the joy he brought to us. We can hold his memory
close to our hearts. We can treasure him forever.”In front of the funeral home where relatives
were mourning Noah, well-wishers placed two teddy bears, a bouquet of
white flowers and a single red rose at the base of a maple tree.Rabbi Yisrael Deren, regional director for
Chabad-Lubavitch in New England, said thousands of local residents lined
up outside the funeral home shortly before Noah’s funeral to pay their
respects.“The streets are blocked off in all
directions. There are unquestionably thousands of people. Streets are
jammed,” he told The Times of Israel.
Deren has accompanied the Pozner family since
Sunday, offering consolation and prayer. He is no stranger to the Pozner
family’s experience. He lost three children to cancer and other
illness. A friend of the Pozners asked him to come to Newtown to help
comfort the bereaved family.The family is reeling from the shock, he related.“At this point, the parents are devastated.
It’s an unbearable loss. There are no words to describe the depths of
the pain. The mom especially is just absolutely… beyond words.”But, he said, they have each other, and they seem to understand that.“You have to pull yourself together. They have [four] other children.”
Noah had a twin sister, and the school’s
decision to separate the children into different classrooms saved her
life on that fateful Friday.“She’s a 6-year-old and it’s very difficult to
know what goes on in a child’s mind,” Deren said of the twin.
“Outwardly you see tears, but she’s a happy little girl.“We’ve found that the only way you can truly
alleviate the pain in your own life,” Deren said, “is by alleviating it
in others’ lives. The first thing we resolved” after each child passed
away, “was we would do everything possible that we could to take away
other people’s pain. For us to reach out to another family in these
horrible, horrible circumstances, and offer what support we can,
watching not just their pain but at the same time their courage, never
fails to give us courage as well. I think it’s true of every aspect of
life.”Deren was also present when President Barack
Obama’s visited with the families on Sunday in an interfaith vigil for
the victims. He praised the president’s “compassion and humanity.”“I was overwhelmed actually by the way he
interacted with the family members. He was speaking from his heart, and
you could see he was fully with them.”The attack shook the nation Friday, eliciting
heartfelt responses from national leaders and trending for days on
Twitter as millions reacted on social media.
There are few in Newtown untouched by the disaster.“Within probably half-a-mile radius of my house, four victims,” one resident told an ABC affiliate station Sunday.“You went to school with them, you had church
services, and soccer practices,” said Taylor Ansbro, a former Sandy Hook
Elementary student.“We’ve known these children since they were in daycare,” said local resident Rebekah Stites, “and they are our family.”Along with the outpouring of support and
grief, some help is coming as well. Stites is among the founders of the
My Sandy Hook Family Fund, established to help families cope with the
long-term effects of losing a child.“We’re so limited in what we have to offer, but this is something that we can do,” cofounder Judy Destefano said.The Jewish community, too, announced
immediately after the shooting it would be looking to raise funds to
help families with their immediate needs, including funerals for the
first-grade victims.
“The Jewish family service has created a list
of available therapists in the community. I’m sure we’re going to open a
[fundraising] line to help families [pay for] burials and things like
that, things they never planned for with kids at this young age,” Jewish
Federation of Western Connecticut executive director Shelly Katz told
The Times of Israel Friday.Memorials, some small, have been established
throughout the town. On Sunday, the community erected 26 decorated
Christmas trees for the victims. Residents have been leaving gifts for
the victims under the town Christmas tree.The attack was also dragged into a tiff by the attention hounds of American popular culture, with the Westboro Baptist Church promising to picket
Sandy Hook Elementary School and Sunday’s vigil “to sing praise to God
for the glory of his work in executing his judgment,” and the online
hacker group Anonymous retaliating by making public Westboro members’ identities, including home addresses and phone numbers.A petition
to recognize Westboro as a hate group garnered over 103,000 signatures
by Monday morning on the White House’s “We the People” website.In his own moment with Obama, Deren raised a
suggestion originally made by Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the late
Lubavitcher Rebbe, “that every school begin the day with a moment of
silence, where a child could pray if they wish, or focus on a higher
good. Of course we have separation of church and state in this country.
But children should still grow up with the understanding that there is
more to living than amassing wealth, prestige or pleasure.”The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Egyptian Cleric Condemns Christianity for Teaching Gender Equality
Tue, November 20, 2012
A recent talk show on the Egyptian station Al Hafiz
partially explains why it is that Islam’s clerics are staunchly against
discussing Christian or biblical teachings in Egyptian schoolrooms—even
as the teaching of the Quran is mandatory, for both Muslim and
Christian students.Discussing Christianity’s teachings concerning women, one of the
guests, a sheikh dressed in traditional cleric garb, said they “truly
stab at the rulings of Islam.”To exemplify, he read from a text that said, “the Christian religion
does not differentiate between women and men, but it confirms their
perfect equality: It gives them an equal share in inheritance, it bans
divorce, and it bans polygamy.”“Now,”
said the sheikh, “if my son hears such things while he’s in school,
he’ll come home and say to me, ‘Father why do you have many wives? You
are unjust—unlike Christianity which is full of justice’!He
went on to say that such teachings completely contradict “the religion
of the prophet,” who of course had many wives—more than the Quran’s
prescribed four—made divorce a simple matter for men and decreed that
females only inherit half of what males inherit.The cleric complained that, based on such Christian teachings, Muslim
men who try to exercise their Islamic rights — including polygamy,
double-inheritance and easy divorce (recent examples include via text-messaging)— become “criminals, and the religion [Islam] that taught them such things taught them crimes.”The cleric concluded by saying it is impermissible “to produce texts
that contradict the teachings of the Quran, or the practices we’ve been
raising our children on for a million years [a figure of speech: Islam
is less than 1400 years old].”-- Raymond Ibrahim
http://www.radicalislam.org/news/egyptian-cleric-condemns-christianity-teaching-gender-equality
http://www.radicalislam.org/news/egyptian-cleric-condemns-christianity-teaching-gender-equality
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people(ISRAEL) and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(UPROOTED ISRAELIS AND DIVIDED JERUSALEM)(THIS BRINGS ON WW3 BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED,WARNING TO ARABS-MUSLIMS AND THE WORLD).
Israel to evict settlers from 4 Hebron homes
– 22 hrs ago DEC 18,12
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli government says it will evict two Jewish settler families from property they seized in the volatile West Bank city of Hebron.As part of a campaign to tighten Jewish control
of Hebron, two settler families took over four stalls in the town's
Arab wholesale market a decade ago and turned them into homes.The plots are owned by a Jewish family that left the city before Jordan took it over in the late 1940s. Palestinians have been renting it since as protected tenants.On Monday, Israel it would clear
the homes by April 24. It did not rule out the settlers' request to
transfer the property to other Jews because the property belongs to
Jews.Hebron is home to 180,000 Palestinians. Several hundred ultranationalist settlers also live there.
ISRAELI ARABS HAPPY IN ISRAEL
http://cifwatch.com/2012/12/13/what-the-guardian-wont-report-happy-and-successful-arab-citizens-of-israel/
ISRAELI ARABS HAPPY IN ISRAEL
http://cifwatch.com/2012/12/13/what-the-guardian-wont-report-happy-and-successful-arab-citizens-of-israel/
LAND FOR PEACE (THE FUTURE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH)
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people(ISRAEL) and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(UPROOTED ISRAELIS AND DIVIDED JERUSALEM)(THIS BRINGS ON WW3 BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED,WARNING TO ARABS-MUSLIMS AND THE WORLD).
THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS
Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
DANIEL 11:21-23
21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
23 And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant (PEACE TREATY) with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
ISAIAH 33:8
8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant,(7 YR TREATY) he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.(THE WORLD LEADER-WAR MONGER CALLS HIMSELF GOD)
ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.
12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE
Israel pushes on with east Jerusalem building plan
By | Associated Press – 14 hrs ago DEC 18,12
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel on Monday said it was pushing forward with plans to build hundreds of homes in a Jewish settlement of east Jerusalem, risking renewed tensions with the Palestinians and its Western allies over the contentious project.The announcement was part of a new Israeli settlement
push announced earlier this month as retaliation for the Palestinians'
success in winning U.N. recognition for a state at the United Nations.
Israel was widely criticized internationally for the settlement plans,
though actual construction would be far in the future.An Interior Ministry committee on
Monday approved an intermediate stage of planning for the construction
of 1,500 apartments in the Ramat Shlomo neighborhood, a part of the city
Palestinians claim for a future capital. The plan had been in the
pipeline since it was first announced in 2010 during a visit to Israel
by Vice President Joe Biden, causing a major diplomatic rift with Washington that took months to mend.Ministry spokeswoman Efrat Orbach said the project still must go
through several additional planning stages, and it could be years before
final approval and construction.Nabil Abu Rdeneh, a spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, condemned the move, calling it a "stark challenge to the entire international community."There was no immediate American reaction.Israel announced plans early this month to build thousands of
settlement homes, including in Ramat Shlomo, in response to the U.N.
General Assembly's recognition of a Palestinian state in the West Bank,
east Jerusalem and Gaza Strip, territories captured by Israel in the
1967 Mideast war. The U.S., Israel's closest ally, condemned the
construction plans, and several European allies summoned Israeli
ambassadors to lodge formal protests.Israel strongly objected to the Palestinian's U.N. bid, saying it was an attempt to bypass negotiations. Israel rejects a return to its 1967 lines.Israel annexed east Jerusalem following the 1967 war and claims the
area, home to sensitive Jewish, Christian and Muslim holy sites, as an
inseparable part of its capital. The Palestinians also claim east
Jerusalem as the capital of their hoped-for state. About 200,000 Jews
and roughly 250,000 Palestinians live in east Jerusalem.While Israelis consider its east Jerusalem enclaves to be
neighborhoods like others in the city, the international does not
recognize Israel's annexation of the area and rejects the sections as
illegal or illegitimate settlements.Abbas has refused to negotiate with Israel so long as settlement
construction continues, leading to a four-year lull in talks. Abbas has
said that a stalemate in talks urged him to turn to the U.N.Support is growing for his
political opponents, Gaza's militant Islamic Hamas rulers, following
eight days of fighting with Israel last month. Hamas leader Ismail
Haniyeh might defeat Abbas if an election were held today for the
presidency, according to a poll published Monday by the Palestinian
Center for Policy and Survey Research.The survey said Haniyeh would
receive 48 percent of the Palestinian vote and 46 percent for Abbas, a
virtual tie. Just three months ago, Abbas received the support of 51
percent and Haniyeh 40 percent.The poll surveyed 1,270 Palestinians and had a margin of error of three percentage points.
ZECHARIAH 12:1-5 King James Bible
1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(WW3 STARTS BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AND ISRAELIS UPROOTED FROM THEIR GOD GIVIN LAND)
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)
1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(WW3 STARTS BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AND ISRAELIS UPROOTED FROM THEIR GOD GIVIN LAND)
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)
Vatican hopes UN Palestinian vote brings peace
– 2 hrs ago DEC 18,12
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, has met with Pope Benedict XVI to thank him for supporting the recent U.N. resolution recognizing a Palestinian state.Abbas chatted privately with Benedict for 25 minutes Monday and then met with the Vatican's
top diplomats. Abbas gave Benedict a mosaic of the church of the Holy
Sepulchre in Jerusalem, with the inscription saying it was presented by
the "President of the state of Palestine."The Vatican
said the discussions referred to the Nov. 29 U.N. vote upgrading the
Palestinians to the same status as the Holy See: nonmember state
observer. The Vatican had warmly welcomed the vote, and a Vatican
statement said "it is hoped that this initiative will encourage the
commitment of the international community to finding a fair and lasting
solution" to the conflict.
SIGNS IN THE SUN, MOON AND STARS-CHEMICAL WEAPONS
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences;(BIOLOGICAL/CHEMICAL/NUCLEAR) and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences;(BIOLOGICAL/CHEMICAL/NUCLEAR) and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
NASA crashes two probes into a mountain on the moon
By Irene Klotz | Reuters – 9 hrs ago DEC 18,12
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - A pair of NASA
moon-mapping probes smashed themselves into a lunar mountain on Monday,
ending a year-long mission that is shedding light on how the solar
system formed.The Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory,
or GRAIL, spacecraft had been flying around the moon, enabling
scientists to make detailed gravity maps. The probes sped up slightly as
they encountered stronger gravity from denser regions and slowed down
as they flew over less-dense areas.By precisely measuring the distance between the two
probes, scientists discovered that the moon's crust is thinner than
expected and that the impacts that battered its surface did even more
damage underground.Out of fuel and edging closer to the lunar surface,
the probes were commanded to smash themselves into a mountain near the
moon's north pole, avoiding a chance encounter with any Apollo or other
relics left on the surface during previous expeditions."We do feel the angst about the end of the mission," said Charles Elachi, director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, which oversaw the mission. "On the other hand, it is a celebration because this mission has accomplished tremendous science."The U.S. space
agency lost radio communications with the first spacecraft at 5:28 p.m.
EST (2228 GMT) and the second about 20 seconds later, a NASA mission commentator said.The probes' final resting place was named after the
first U.S. woman in space, Sally Ride, who orchestrated GRAIL's
educational outreach program before her death in July. The spacecraft
included cameras that were operated by students.After completing their primary mission in May, the
GRAIL twins, each about the size of a small washing machine, moved
closer to the lunar surface, dropping their orbits from about 34 miles
to less than half that altitude to increase their sensitivity.
On December 6, the probes, nicknamed Ebb and Flow, flew
down to about 7 miles to make one last detailed map of the moon's
youngest crater."Ebb and Flow have removed a veil from the moon," said lead researcher Maria Zuber, with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.The discoveries not
only will help scientists better understand how the moon formed and
evolved, but what happened to Earth and the other inner planets which
were similarly showered with comets and asteroids early in their
history.Several follow-up studies are planned, including
coordinating the moon's new gravity maps with the locations where Apollo
soil and rock samples were collected, Zuber said.(Editing by Kevin Gray and Phil Berlowitz)
Crippled NKorean probe could orbit for years
By | Associated Press – 5 hrs ago DEC 18,12
TOKYO (AP) — A North Korean satellite
launched into space last week appears to be malfunctioning but could
remain in orbit for several years, a leading expert in the United States said Tuesday.North Korea says the satellite
is working. U.S. officials have said it is tumbling in orbit, but even
so, its successful launch into space marks a milestone in the
impoverished country's technological advances, especially given
accusations that the rocket launch was actually a test of systems that
could be used to launch long-range missiles targeting the U.S.Data from trackers in South Africa and Britain suggest the brightness
of the satellite has been fluctuating, which indicates it is tumbling
as it orbits. That likely means a malfunction in the probe's stabilizers
because it was designed to constantly point toward the Earth.Even so, the probe is continuing to complete orbits and could do so
for several years, said Jonathan McDowell of the Harvard-Smithsonian
Center for Astrophysics. McDowell said that since the cause of the
malfunction remains unclear, it is conceivable that North Korea could
determine how to fix it and regain control."The best guess at this point is that it is probably broken,'" he
said by telephone from Cambridge, Massachusetts. "It is certainly
continuing to complete orbits. It is up there and it will be up there
for years. But the thing is sort of twirling around. It seems to me the
satellite is not working."North Korea has hailed the launch as a gift to the nation's late leader, Kim Jong Il, and proof that his young son, Kim Jong Un, has the strength and vision to lead the country.State news agency KCNA said Wednesday that the satellite is
transmitting signals of revolutionary hymns such as 'Song of General Kim
Il Sung," referring to the founder of North Korea, who is the
grandfather of the current leader.The United States, Japan, Britain and others see the launch as a
provocation and violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions banning
North Korea from developing its nuclear and missile programs. The
Security Council has said it would urgently consider "an appropriate
response."
Wet snow pellets that looked like hail hit an area of south Everett during the Monday evening commute, depositing ice along Interstate 5, said Greg Phipps, a Washington state Transportation Department spokesman. That snarled commuter traffic in both directions.The highest winds hit Sunday evening with an 84 mph gust recorded at the mouth of the Columbia River and an 81 mph gust on the central Oregon coast, said meteorologist Scott Weishaar in Portland.Winds early Monday hit 60 mph on the Washington coast and 55 mph in the south Puget Sound area, said meteorologist Ted Buehner in Seattle.Winds brought tree limbs down on power lines. Seattle City Light had 11,000 customers out of service at one time. Puget Sound Energy had 17,000 outages, mostly in the south King County area, southeast of Seattle.Portland General Electric responded to dozens of power outages in the metro area. Pacific Power had about 10,000 outages throughout western Oregon.Winds knocked a tree onto a home in Lakewood, Wash., near where a 2-year-old was sleeping, but it missed the baby's crib. Winds also were blamed for sinking two boats on Lake Washington at Kirkland, Wash., and the fire department helped two people who were sleeping on one of the boats, KOMO Radio reported.Heavy snow fell in the mountains. Accumulations from the storm that started Sunday were likely to total 2 to 3 feet by Tuesday morning in the Washington Cascades, Buehner said.Snow is already on the ground in parts of Eastern Washington, including Spokane, but downtown streets were clear by Monday afternoon."A wide variety of winter weather is clearly affecting the entire state," Buehner said. "It's the strongest storm of the year, so far."Wind speeds of more than 60 mph were reported in Eastern Washington at Pullman on Monday morning, and power company Avista reported thousands of customers without power in its large service area. Winds of more than 50 mph were reported in Spokane, and a tree fell on two homes. No injuries were reported.Winds delayed work on the Hanford nuclear reservation in southeast Washington. A large accumulation of tumbleweeds blocked some roadways, the Tri-City Herald reported. Washington Closure Hanford canceled outdoor environmental cleanup work because of the winds.Snow accumulations in the Oregon Cascades will total 1 to 2 feet, Weishaar said.
"This launch is about a weapons program, not peaceful use of space,"
U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said. Even the North's
most important ally, China, expressed regret.Though missile and satellite
launch technologies overlap significantly, and Pyongyang is clearly
hoping to use the rocket launches to develop a deployable nuclear-tipped
missile capable of threatening the United States, McDowell said its
apparent success in getting the satellite into orbit may cloud efforts
to further punish the North."For North Korea, it lets them
say to their people that they are an advanced 21st century country,
although they can't feed their people," he added. "They can say that
this was not a missile, it was a satellite launch. That gives them potentially more credibility on the international stage that they are being unfairly treated."A similar attempt in April failed about two minutes after takeoff.North Korean officials say a 2009
launch put a satellite into orbit, but the U.S. and other outside
observers say they have seen no evidence that it did so.
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.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)
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.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)
High winds, mountain snows hits Northwest
By | Associated Press – 3 hrs ago DEC 18,12
SEATTLE (AP) — The strongest Northwest storm of the
season blew in early Monday on winds that gusted to more than 80 mph on
the coast, knocking out power in places and creating blizzard-like
conditions in the mountains.The storm is headed east along the U.S.-Canada border, said meteorologist Danny Mercer.
"It doesn't look like a big snow or wind producer for the rest of the U.S. It looks like the biggest impact was here," he said.But another storm is splitting off from that — "part of the same
trough" — and heading south. It's likely to bring snow along the
Rockies, include the Boulder-Denver area, late Tuesday into Wednesday,
Mercer said.Weather in much of western Washington and western Oregon remained unsettled Monday.Wet snow pellets that looked like hail hit an area of south Everett during the Monday evening commute, depositing ice along Interstate 5, said Greg Phipps, a Washington state Transportation Department spokesman. That snarled commuter traffic in both directions.The highest winds hit Sunday evening with an 84 mph gust recorded at the mouth of the Columbia River and an 81 mph gust on the central Oregon coast, said meteorologist Scott Weishaar in Portland.Winds early Monday hit 60 mph on the Washington coast and 55 mph in the south Puget Sound area, said meteorologist Ted Buehner in Seattle.Winds brought tree limbs down on power lines. Seattle City Light had 11,000 customers out of service at one time. Puget Sound Energy had 17,000 outages, mostly in the south King County area, southeast of Seattle.Portland General Electric responded to dozens of power outages in the metro area. Pacific Power had about 10,000 outages throughout western Oregon.Winds knocked a tree onto a home in Lakewood, Wash., near where a 2-year-old was sleeping, but it missed the baby's crib. Winds also were blamed for sinking two boats on Lake Washington at Kirkland, Wash., and the fire department helped two people who were sleeping on one of the boats, KOMO Radio reported.Heavy snow fell in the mountains. Accumulations from the storm that started Sunday were likely to total 2 to 3 feet by Tuesday morning in the Washington Cascades, Buehner said.Snow is already on the ground in parts of Eastern Washington, including Spokane, but downtown streets were clear by Monday afternoon."A wide variety of winter weather is clearly affecting the entire state," Buehner said. "It's the strongest storm of the year, so far."Wind speeds of more than 60 mph were reported in Eastern Washington at Pullman on Monday morning, and power company Avista reported thousands of customers without power in its large service area. Winds of more than 50 mph were reported in Spokane, and a tree fell on two homes. No injuries were reported.Winds delayed work on the Hanford nuclear reservation in southeast Washington. A large accumulation of tumbleweeds blocked some roadways, the Tri-City Herald reported. Washington Closure Hanford canceled outdoor environmental cleanup work because of the winds.Snow accumulations in the Oregon Cascades will total 1 to 2 feet, Weishaar said.
Four construction workers at a cellphone tower project on Steens
Mountain in southeast Oregon were stranded when their snow cat became
stuck in a drift Saturday. They waded through waist-deep snow to reach a
heated shelter with electricity.Harney County rescuers were turned back both Sunday and Monday by
white-out conditions. The weather was expected to improve Tuesday, said
Matt Fine, Harney County search and rescue coordinator.___Tim Fought in Portland and Nicholas K. Geranios in Spokane contributed to this report.
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.
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HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS TUE DECEMBER 18,2012
09:30 AM +2.43
10:00 AM +7.08
10:30 AM +28.99
11:00 AM +61.43
11:30 AM +76.81
12:00 PM +74.37
12:30 PM +84.21
01:00 PM +113.25
01:30 PM +104.70
02:00 PM +111.25
02:30 PM +111.12
03:00 PM +104.63
03:30 PM +93.25
04:00 PM +115.57 13,350.96
S&P 500 1446.79 +16.43
NASDAQ 3054.53 +43.93
GOLD 1,670.00 - 28.00
OIL 87.93 +0.73
TSE 300 12,334.34 +52.99
CDNX 1176.00 -8.99
S&P/TSX/60 707.91 +4.18
MORNING,NEWS,STATS
YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +20 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow +1 points at low today.
Dow +81 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,698.30.OIL opens at $87.66 today.
AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow +1 points at low today so far.
Dow +115 points at high today so far.
WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow +1 points at low today.
Dow +115 points at high today.
GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,902.60 (NOT AT CLOSE)
DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TR BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).
Draghi says EU bank union to break 'vicious' circle
Today @ 09:31 DEC 18,12 By Benjamin Fox
BRUSSELS - Legislation for a eurozone
banking union will restore economic confidence and break the link
between banks and public debt, Mario Draghi, President of the
Frankfurt-based European Central Bank (ECB), has told MEPs.Speaking at his quarterly hearing with the parliament's economic and
monetary affairs committee on Monday (17 December), Draghi said that
"combined with possible direct recapitalisation of banks by the European
Stability Mechanism (ESM) and an envisaged single resolution mechanism
the SSM [Single Supervisory Mechanism] will go a long way towards
breaking the vicious feedback loops between sovereigns and banks."The "ECB will have supervision over all banks ... with something of
the order of 130-150 banks under direct supervision," he added.Talks between ministers and MEPs on the first planks of banking union
legislation will begin on Tuesday (18 December) in a bid to agree on
the legal framework early in 2013.According to a deal struck by finance ministers in Brussels last
week, the SSM will give the ECB oversight on the eurozone banking sector
from March 2014. Attention is then expected to shift in 2013 towards
adopting legislation to harmonise national deposit guarantee schemes and
to create a bank resolution mechanism.Draghi's remarks came against the backdrop of fresh scepticism from Germany about the banking union plans.A legal opinion by the Bundesbank warned that the deal agreed by
ministers in Brussels last week lacked "a long-term solid legal basis."Meanwhile, Bundesbank chief Jens Weidmann said that he was "not
convinced that the ECB council is the optimal authority to decide when a
bank has to be closed down or not."Speaking at the hearing in Brussels, German Christian Democrat MEP,
Werner Langen, said that ECB control over the entire eurozone banking
sector is "hard to stomach" and would impinge on the role of domestic
regulators.The ECB chief also refuted claims that the bank's supervisory role
would create a conflict of interest with its decisions on monetary
policy."The ECB's involvement in financial supervision has no bearing
whatsoever on our primary objective of price stability," he said, adding
that a newly created supervisory board would have an independent chair
and vice-chair."Banking supervision and monetary policy must be rigorously separated," he added.Draghi painted a stark picture of the weakness of the eurozone
economy, commenting that "we expect economic weakness to extend into
next year with a very gradual recovery in the second half of the year."He also called on governments to pursue structural reforms.
"Economic reforms bear fruit, even if, in the short term, the costs to individual citizens can be considerable. But the reforms are the rights path. Governments should persevere," he said, pointing to data indicating that exports of goods and services from Spain, Ireland, Italy and Portugal had recently increased by between 14 percent and 27 percent.But for her part, Elisa Ferreira, the Socialist group spokesperson on the committee, said that the profits from the ECB's bond-buying programmes should be pumped back into the weaker EU countries.She also urged the ECB to back "a softer implementation" of domestic austerity regimes.
"Economic reforms bear fruit, even if, in the short term, the costs to individual citizens can be considerable. But the reforms are the rights path. Governments should persevere," he said, pointing to data indicating that exports of goods and services from Spain, Ireland, Italy and Portugal had recently increased by between 14 percent and 27 percent.But for her part, Elisa Ferreira, the Socialist group spokesperson on the committee, said that the profits from the ECB's bond-buying programmes should be pumped back into the weaker EU countries.She also urged the ECB to back "a softer implementation" of domestic austerity regimes.
Merkel: 'loves' Europe, insists on 'homework'
Today @ 09:27 DEC 18,12 By Valentina Pop
BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela
Merkel has declared her love for Europe, but warned that more "homework"
is needed to fix the eurozone."Over the past two-to-three years a great deal was achieved in
Europe, but we are still not at the end of the road, we still have a
stretch to go. The road is the right one, even if for many it's a great
challenge," Merkel told foreign journalists in Berlin on Monday (17
December).
She added that conceptual errors in the eurozone still have to be fixed, noting that back in 1989 the then European Commission president Jacques Delors asked for more economic co-ordination and supervision of the rules underpinning monetary union.Here, too, Europe is slowly moving ahead, Merkel said.After approving stricter budgetary discipline in the so-called fiscal compact - a German demand to agree to the eurozone bailout fund (the ESM) - EU leaders recently agreed to set up a new tool to improve economic co-ordination: contracts between governments and the EU commission on reforms for improving competitiveness which are to be rewarded with funds from a "pot for euro countries."Banking supervision - to be completed with direct access for banks to the eurozone bailout fund - is also in the making and due to be "fully functional by March 2014."Asked if Europe is more of a pragmatic issue to her than a matter of the heart as it was for historic figures like Konrad Adenauer or Helmut Kohl, Merkel - a scientist and the first woman to run modern Germany - said: "People have different personalities, but caring and love for Europe are not something I am lacking.""I am a complete personality, my heart is constantly needed for my reason to think things out. Heart and mind, everything belongs together. Everyone has their own image about how us politicians deal with the tasks still ahead of us in Europe, but this is the one single topic that has preoccupied me the most since [German] reunification," she noted.The same goes for Greece, she said.She noted that ever since February 2010 when Greece became the first eurozone member to ask for a bailout, up until its most recent EU payment was agreed last week: "I can say I have never thought about Greece so much in my entire life. And this is not possible without a certain inner involvement.""Europe is so connected that Greece, Spain, Portugal and Germany cannot be held separately, we are all in the same boat. My entire personality is devoted to this, because I want Europe to be successful, especially when it comes to globalisation," she added.Merkel pointed to realities that she said many people forget: that Europe represents seven percent of the world population, 25 percent of world GDP and about 40-50 percent of the total social expenditure in the world."If in 1980 we were the ones deciding in the world, it's not going to be automatically the same in 2030, we will have to work for it," she said."If one day we'll have so much debt that nobody will trust us to ever pay it back, then we'll be in a very difficult situation. And I don't want us to become dependent on other parts of the world, but to determine our own future," she added.She urged governments to keep on cutting spending to "make our social systems more compatible in the EU."Youth unemployment, soaring in countries like Spain and Greece, can also not be tackled "through programmes funded by the state," Merkel argued.
"I want Europe's youth to be in a better position than now, I am convinced we can do it, but only if we do our homework," she said.
She added that conceptual errors in the eurozone still have to be fixed, noting that back in 1989 the then European Commission president Jacques Delors asked for more economic co-ordination and supervision of the rules underpinning monetary union.Here, too, Europe is slowly moving ahead, Merkel said.After approving stricter budgetary discipline in the so-called fiscal compact - a German demand to agree to the eurozone bailout fund (the ESM) - EU leaders recently agreed to set up a new tool to improve economic co-ordination: contracts between governments and the EU commission on reforms for improving competitiveness which are to be rewarded with funds from a "pot for euro countries."Banking supervision - to be completed with direct access for banks to the eurozone bailout fund - is also in the making and due to be "fully functional by March 2014."Asked if Europe is more of a pragmatic issue to her than a matter of the heart as it was for historic figures like Konrad Adenauer or Helmut Kohl, Merkel - a scientist and the first woman to run modern Germany - said: "People have different personalities, but caring and love for Europe are not something I am lacking.""I am a complete personality, my heart is constantly needed for my reason to think things out. Heart and mind, everything belongs together. Everyone has their own image about how us politicians deal with the tasks still ahead of us in Europe, but this is the one single topic that has preoccupied me the most since [German] reunification," she noted.The same goes for Greece, she said.She noted that ever since February 2010 when Greece became the first eurozone member to ask for a bailout, up until its most recent EU payment was agreed last week: "I can say I have never thought about Greece so much in my entire life. And this is not possible without a certain inner involvement.""Europe is so connected that Greece, Spain, Portugal and Germany cannot be held separately, we are all in the same boat. My entire personality is devoted to this, because I want Europe to be successful, especially when it comes to globalisation," she added.Merkel pointed to realities that she said many people forget: that Europe represents seven percent of the world population, 25 percent of world GDP and about 40-50 percent of the total social expenditure in the world."If in 1980 we were the ones deciding in the world, it's not going to be automatically the same in 2030, we will have to work for it," she said."If one day we'll have so much debt that nobody will trust us to ever pay it back, then we'll be in a very difficult situation. And I don't want us to become dependent on other parts of the world, but to determine our own future," she added.She urged governments to keep on cutting spending to "make our social systems more compatible in the EU."Youth unemployment, soaring in countries like Spain and Greece, can also not be tackled "through programmes funded by the state," Merkel argued.
"I want Europe's youth to be in a better position than now, I am convinced we can do it, but only if we do our homework," she said.
MUSLIM NATIONS
GENESIS 12:1-3
1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I (GOD) will shew thee:
2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3 And I will bless them that bless thee,(ISRAELIS) and curse (DESTROY) him that curseth thee:(DESTROY THEM) and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
MATTHEW 25:32-34,40-41
32 And before him (JESUS) shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:
33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand,(ISRAEL SUPPORTERS) but the goats on the left.(ISRAEL HATERS)
34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren,(ISRAELIS) ye have done it unto me.
41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand,(ISRAEL HATERS) Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)
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 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.
EZEKIEL 39:1-8,11-18
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back,(RUSSIA-ARAB MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS) and leave but the sixth part of thee,(5/6TH OR 300 MILLION DEAD I BELIEVE) and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog (RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS) a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers (EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN JORDAN VALLEY) on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog (RUSSIAN) and all his multitude:(ARAB/MUSLIM HORDE) and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.(BURIEL SITE OF THE 300 MILLION,RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS)
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.(OF ISRAEL)
13 Yea, all the people of the land (OF ISRAEL) shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I (GOD-JESUS) shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment,(NUCLEAR BOMB EXPERTS) passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
15 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it,(WON'T TOUCH IT) till the buriers have buried it (PROPERLY) in the valley of Hamongog.(RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS NEW BURIEL SITE)
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.(OF THE ISRAEL-GOD HATERS)
17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl,(500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS THREW ISRAEL EVERY SPRING,FALL) and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.(OF THE RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ARMIES)
18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19 And ye (MIGRATING BIRDS IN ISRAEL) shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.(RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS)
20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
21 And I (GOD-JESUS) will set my glory among the heathen,(WORLD NATIONS) and all the heathen (WORLD NATIONS) shall see my judgment that I have executed,(AGAINST ISRAELS ENEMIES) and my (GODS) hand that I have laid upon them.(ISRAELS HATER ENEMIES)
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.
EZEKIEL 35:3-6,11-15
3 And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O mount Seir,(ARABS) I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate.
4 I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
5 Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred,(AGAINST ISRAEL) and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:
6 Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.
11 Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged thee.
12 And thou shalt know that I am the LORD, and that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume.
13 Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard them.
14 Thus saith the Lord GOD; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate.(ARAB,MUSLIMS)
15 As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir,(ARABS) and all Idumea,(ARAB,MUSLIMS) even all of it: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
JEREMEIAH 49:23-27
23 Concerning Damascus.(SYRIA) Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea;(WAR SHIPS WITH NUKES COMING ON SYRIA) it cannot be quiet.
24 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
27 And I will kindle a fire (NUKES OR BOMBS) in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.(ASSADS PALACES POSSIBLY IN DAMASCUS)
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
JEREMIAH 47:1-7
1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines,(PALESTINIAN/ARABS) before that Pharaoh smote Gaza.
2 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north,(NORTHERN TSUNAMI POSSIBLY) and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.
3 At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses,(ISRAELS ARMY) at the rushing of his chariots, and at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to their children for feebleness of hands;(ISRAEL POSSIBLY NUKES GAZA)
4 Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines,(PALESTINIAN FAKE ARABS) and to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that remaineth: for the LORD will spoil the Philistines, the remnant of the country of Caphtor.
5 Baldness is come upon Gaza;(NUKED POSSIBLY) Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?
6 O thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.
7 How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD hath given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? (MEDITTERANEAN SEA) there hath he appointed it.
DANIEL 11:40-43
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south ( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS-MUSLIMS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them,(BEFORE THE NUKE GOES OFF) and behind them a desolate wilderness;(AFTER THE ATOMIC BOMB GOES OFF) yea, and nothing shall escape them.(EVERYTHING NUKED)
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,ARAB,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate,(SIBERIAN DESERT) with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(FOR COMING AGAINST ISRAEL)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
JEREMIAH 8:7
7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times;(MIGRATION TIME) and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming;(IN MIGRATION SEASON) but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.(WW3 MIGRATING BIRDS EAT ISRAELS ENEMIES FLESH AND BLOOD)
Assad’s chemical stockpile ‘has reached similar levels to Israel’s nuclear weapons,’ defected Syrian general says
Adnan Sillu warns that ‘anyone from the Free Syrian Army or any Islamic extremist group’ could take over arsenal at any time
December 18, 2012, 11:28 am
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The chemical weapons arsenal in
the hands of the Bashar Assad regime, believed to be one of the largest
in the world, is a match for Israel’s alleged stockpile of nuclear
weapons, a Syrian general who defected to the West earlier this year
said Monday.Major-General Adnan Sillu, who was reportedly
participating in “top-level” talks about the use of chemical weapons on
civilians and insurgents, told Al Arabiya that the Syrian government had stashed chemical weapons in various cities, specifically in Homs and Aleppo.
“Syria’s chemical arsenal has reached similar
levels to Israel’s nuclear weapons,” he said in an interview to the
Saudi-owned website.Sillu, who was reportedly charged with
overseeing Syria’s chemical weapons training program, in June warned
that the central storage sites for sarin and mustard gas could easily be
captured by rebel forces, despite being guarded by thousands of Syrian
Army troops.“Probably anyone from the Free Syrian Army or any Islamic extremist group could take them over,” he was quoted as saying.
The Syrian government has been careful to never actually confirm it possesses chemical weapons.
According to foreign reports, Israel possesses
hundreds of nuclear warheads, as well as the ballistic missile
technology to deliver them and a “second-strike” capability in the form
of atomic-tipped cruise missiles.
More than 40,000 people have died during
Assad’s two-year crackdown on rebels, according to activists. Opposition
fighters have seized large swaths of territory in northern Syria along
the border with Turkey and appear to be expanding their control outside
Damascus, pushing the fight closer to Assad’s seat of power in the
capital.As Assad has come under greater pressure, he
has steadily escalated his methods for fighting insurgents. US officials
said the Syrian regime launched more than a half-dozen Scud missiles in recent days. It’s the first time the Assad government has used such weapons.Recent US intelligence reports
showed the Syrian regime may be readying its chemical weapons and could
be desperate enough to use them. Those reports drew a sharp warning
from US President Barack Obama, but administration officials said the
intelligence fell short of the president’s threshold for more direct US
intervention in the conflict.UN peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous told
reporters after briefing the Security Council on Monday that the UN is
sending in kits to protect soldiers in the UN peacekeeping force on
Syria’s border with Israel from the effects of a possible chemical
attack.The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Syrian rebels take control of Damascus Palestinian camp
By Mariam Karouny | Reuters – 11 hrs ago DEC 18,12
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian rebels took full control of the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp on Monday after fighting raged for days in the district on the southern edge of President Bashar al-Assad's Damascus powerbase, rebel and Palestinian sources said.The battle had pitted rebels,
backed by some Palestinians, against Palestinian fighters of the
pro-Assad Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command
(PFLP-GC). Many PFLP-GC fighters defected to the rebel side and their
leader Ahmed Jibril left the camp two days ago, rebel sources said."All of the camp is under the control of the (rebel) Free Syrian Army," said a Palestinian activist in Yarmouk. He said clashes had stopped and the remaining PFLP fighters retreated to join Assad's forces massed on the northern edge of the camp.The battle in Yarmouk is one of a series of conflicts
on the southern fringes of Assad's capital, as rebels try to choke the
power of the 47-year-old leader after a 21-month-old uprising in which
40,000 people have been killed.Government forces
have used jets and artillery to try to dislodge the fighters but the
violence has crept into the heart of the city and activists say rebels
overran three army stations in a new offensive in the central province
of Hama on Monday.
On the border with Lebanon, hundreds of Palestinian
families fled across the frontier following the weekend violence in
Yarmouk, a Reuters witness said.Syria
hosts half a million Palestinian refugees, most living in Yarmouk,
descendants of those admitted after the creation of Israel in 1948, and
has always cast itself as a champion of the Palestinian struggle,
sponsoring several guerrilla factions.Both Assad's government and the mainly Sunni Muslim
Syrian rebels have enlisted and armed divided Palestinian factions as
the uprising has developed into a civil war."NEITHER SIDE CAN WIN"
Syrian Vice President Farouq al-Sharaa said in a newspaper interview published on Monday that neither Assad's forces nor rebels seeking to overthrow him can win the war.Sharaa, a Sunni Muslim in a power structure dominated by Assad's Alawite minority, has rarely been seen since the revolt erupted in March 2011 and is not part of the president's inner circle directing the fight against Sunni rebels. But he is the most prominent figure to say in public that Assad will not win.Sharaa said the situation in Syria was deteriorating and a "historic settlement" was needed to end the conflict, involving regional powers and the U.N. Security Council and the formation of a national unity government "with broad powers"."With every passing day the political and military solutions are becoming more distant. We should be in a position defending the existence of Syria. We are not in a battle for an individual or a regime," Sharaa was quoted as telling Al-Akhbar newspaper."The opposition cannot decisively settle the battle and what the security forces and army units are doing will not achieve a decisive settlement," he said, adding that insurgents fighting to topple Syria's leadership could plunge it into "anarchy and an unending spiral of violence".Sources close to the Syrian government say Sharaa had pushed for dialogue with the opposition and objected to the military response to an uprising that began peacefully.In a veiled criticism of the crackdown, he said there was a difference between the state's duty to provide security to its citizens, and "pursuing a security solution to the crisis".
He said even Assad could not be certain where events in
Syria were leading, but that anyone who met him would hear that "this
is a long struggle...and he does not hide his desire to settle matters
militarily to reach a final solution."In Hama province, rebels and the army clashed in a new
campaign launched on Sunday by rebels to block off the country's north,
activists said.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an
opposition-linked violence monitor, said fighting raged through the
provincial towns of Karnaz, Kafar Weeta, Halfayeh and Mahardeh.It said there were
no clashes reported in Hama city, which lies on the main north-south
highway connecting the capital with Aleppo, Syria's second city.Qassem Saadeddine, a
member of the newly established rebel military command, said on Sunday
fighters had been ordered to surround and attack army positions across
the province. He said Assad's forces were given 48 hours to surrender or
be killed.In 1982 Hafez
al-Assad, father of the current ruler, crushed an uprising in Hama city,
killing up to 30,000 civilians.Qatiba al-Naasan, a
rebel from Hama, said the offensive would bring retaliatory air strikes
from the government but that the situation is "already getting
miserable".(Additional
reporting by Oliver Holmes, Erika Solomon and Dominic Evans in Beirut,
Afif Diab at Masnaa, Lebanon; editing by Philippa Fletcher)
Iran defiant on enrichment ahead of possible nuclear talks
Reuters – 20 mins ago DEC 18,12
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran will not stop higher-grade enrichment of uranium in response to external demands, Tehran's
top nuclear official was quoted as saying on Tuesday, signaling a tough
bargaining stance ahead of planned new talks with world powers.Western powers want
Iran to halt enrichment of uranium to a fissile concentration of 20
percent as it represents a significant step closer to the level that
would be required to make nuclear bombs. Iran says it needs uranium
refined to 20 percent to run its medical research reactor in Tehran."The Islamic
Republic of Iran will not suspend 20 percent uranium enrichment because
of the demands of others," said Fereydoun Abbasi-Davani, head of the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran,
according to the Iranian Students' News Agency (ISNA). "The Islamic
Republic of Iran will produce 20 percent enriched uranium to meet its
needs and for however long it is required."He did not specify
what he meant by Iran's needs. Western diplomats say Iran already has
produced sufficient quantities to fuel its Tehran Research Reactor for
several years. Abbasi-Davani has in the past said Iran plans to build
another research reactor."Twenty percent enrichment is the right of the Iranian nation for use in the Tehran reactor and it will defend this right with authority," Abbasi-Davani said.His comments
renewed Iranian defiance in negotiations with world powers that are
expected to resume soon, aimed at finding a peaceful solution to the
decade-old dispute over Tehran's nuclear ambitions. But he did not
appear to categorically rule out that Tehran at some point could shelve
the activity.(Reporting By Yeganeh Torbati in Dubai and Fredrik Dahl in Vienna; Editing by Mark Heinrich)
U.N. sees risk of escalation in Syrian-Israeli tensions in Golan
UNITED NATIONS |
(Reuters) - A U.S. and Russian-drafted
U.N. Security Council resolution to extend a peacekeeping mission in a
demilitarized zone between Syria and Israel warns that tensions between
the neighbours could escalate as Syria's civil war spills into the area.The draft resolution, which is due to be adopted by the 15-member council on Wednesday, expresses concern at the presence of the Syrian army, armed opposition groups and unauthorized military equipment in the so-called area of separation.
Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria in a 1967 war. Syrian troops are not allowed in the area of separation under a 1973 ceasefire formalized in 1974. Israel and Syria are still technically at war.
Syria's 20-month civil war recently began to spill over into the zone, which had been largely quiet since the 1973 ceasefire. Stray shells and bullets have landed on the Israeli-controlled side and Israeli troops have fired shells into Syria in response.
Last month a convoy of U.N. peacekeepers came under fire near the airport in Damascus. The draft Security Council resolution condemns the incident in which it says five peacekeepers were injured.
"Recent incidents across the ceasefire line have shown the potential for escalation of tensions between Israel and the Syrian Arab Republic, and jeopardize the ceasefire between the two countries," says the draft obtained by Reuters on Monday.
The draft text proposes extending the U.N. peacekeeping force, known as UNDOF, for six months.
It also agrees with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's "finding that the military operations carried out by the Syrian Arab Armed Forces have effected adversely the efforts of UNDOF to effectively carry out the mandated tasks."
More than 40,000 people have been killed in Syria since a government crackdown on peaceful pro-democracy protests in March 2011 grew into a civil war.
The Security Council has been incapable of taking any meaningful action to end the war. Veto-holding powers Russia and China refuse to condemn Syria's President Bashar al-Assad or support sanctions.
(Reporting by Michelle Nichols and Louis Charbonneau; Editing by Paul Simao)
China detains 100-plus people for doomsday rumors
– 5 hrs ago DEC 18,12
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese police
have detained more than 100 people, among them members of a fringe
Christian group, for spreading rumors about the world's impending end,
state media reported Tuesday.
Police seized leaflets, video
discs, books and other apocalyptic materials in the recent arrests of
101 people across eight provinces and regions, from the prosperous east
coast to less developed western China, the Xinhua News Agency said.The detentions come ahead of
Friday, Dec. 21 — a date some say the Mayans prophesized would be the
end of the world and which was the subject of the apocalyptic movie
"2012."
Nearly half those detained are reported to be members of the group Almighty God, which is also called Eastern Lightning, after a phrase from the Bible's Book of Matthew. Widely regarded as a heretical Christian sect,
the group preaches that Jesus has reappeared as a woman in central
China. It has been accused of targeting Christians, kidnapping and
beating them to force conversions.Chinese society
has been in tumult as decades of rapid free-market economic growth
discredit communist ideology, loosen social controls and pull hundreds
of millions from the countryside to the cities. Into the spiritual void
have rushed traditional Buddhist groups and Daoist practices, as well as
evangelical Christian churches and other spiritual groups, some with
unorthodox and apocalyptic visions.Eastern Lightning first appeared
around 20 years ago, and Xinhua said that its members had "recently
latched on to the Mayan doomsday prophesy to predict that the sun will
not shine and electricity will not work for three days beginning on Dec.
21."The state-run Huashang website
last week, citing local authorities, reported that the group is urging
followers to "exterminate the great red dragon" — a reference to the
Communist Party — "and found a country under the rule of Almighty God."