KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.
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.
By Annie Lubin First Publish: 1/17/2013, 3:05 PM-Israelnationalnews
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(THE FALSE POPE WHO DEFECTED FROM THE CHRISTIAN FAITH) causeth all,(IN THE WORLD ) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(MICROCHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark,(MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the name of the beast,(WORLD DICTATORS NAME INGRAVED ON YOUR SKIN OR TATTOOED ON YOU OR IN THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the number of his name.(THE NUMBERS OF HIS NAME INGRAVED IN THE MICROCHIP IMLPLANT)-(ALL THESE WILL TELL THE WORLD DICTATOR THAT YOUR WITH HIM AND AGAINST KING JESUS-GOD)
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast:(WORLD LEADER) for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM (6006006)OR(60020202006)(SOME KIND OF NUMBER IMPLANTED IN THE MICROCHIP THAT TELLS THE WORLD DICTATOR AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER THAT YOU GIVE YOUR TOTAL ALLIGIENCE TO HIM AND NOT JESUS)(ITS AN ETERNAL DECISION YOU MAKE)(YOU CHOOSE YOUR OWN DESTINY)(YOU TAKE THE DICTATORS NAME OR NUMBER UNDER YOUR SKIN,YOUR DOOMED TO THE LAKE OF FIRE AND TORMENTS FOREVER,NEVER ENDING MEANT ONLY FOR SATAN AND HIS ANGELS,NOT HUMAN BEINGS).OR YOU REFUSE THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT AND GO ON THE SIDE OF KING JESUS AND RULE FOREVER WITH HIM ON EARTH.YOU CHOOSE,ITS YOUR DECISION.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYUgVL9PdxM&list=UU4SH8rh0OjYV3zwqnIfqNbA&index=1&feature=plcp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PX-vW4VccY&feature=player_embedded#!
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/markets/indexes/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfPX59y4KxE&feature=related
HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS THU JANUARY 17,2013
09:30 AM +2.43
10:00 AM +35.65
10:30 AM +63.31
11:00 AM +58.25
11:30 AM +53.85
12:00 PM +70.55
12:30 PM +90.70
01:00 PM +91.81
01:30 PM +89.22
02:00 PM +109.12
02:30 PM +115.04
03:00 PM +100.50
03:30 PM +100.28
04:00 PM +84.79 13,596.02
S&P 500 1480.93 +8.30
NASDAQ 3136.02 +18.45
GOLD 1,688.30 +5.10
OIL 95.40 +1.16
TSE 300 12,674.73 +65.91
CDNX 1233.15 +2.95
S&P/TSX/60 726.90 +3.67
MORNING,NEWS,STATS
YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +38 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow +1 points at low today.
Dow +90 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,670.30.OIL opens at $95.31 today.
AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow +1 points at low today so far.
Dow +116 points at high today so far.
WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow +1 points at low today.
Dow +116 points at high today.
GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,902.60 (NOT AT CLOSE)
NATURAL GAS-THU -148 BCF
MORSI - ARAB/MUSLIMS RAISE YOUR KIDS TO HATE JEWS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=RCopdzv29WY
By Maayana Miskin First Publish: 1/17/2013, 4:23 PM-Israelnationalnews
Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovich, Rabbi of the Western Wall and Holy Sites,
issued a plea Thursday for protection for Jewish worshipers. He turned
to police commanders in the Jerusalem region and asked them to take immediate action to restore calm and safety to Jewish holy sites.Rabbi Yosef Shwinger of the National Center for Development of Holy Sites joined his call to police to ensure worshipers’ safety.The rabbis’ cry follows several recent incidents in which Arab terrorists have launched large-scale assaults
on Rachel’s Tomb (Kever Rachel) as Jews were praying at the holy site.
Worshipers have been forced to remain inside the tomb as firebombs and
rocks rain down on the surrounding walls.While no terrorist group claimed responsibility for the mass attacks,
similar attacks portrayed as “spontaneous uprisings” have in the past
been found to have been coordinated by local terror cells.Major assaults on the tomb began months ago
after years of relative quiet at the holy site. A short time earlier
the Palestinian Authority announced that it would ask the UNESCO to
recognize Rachel’s Tomb as a PA heritage site. The PA has previously claimed that the 3,500 tomb, the burial place of the Biblical matriarch Rachel, is actually a mosque.Sources in the National Center for Development of Holy Sites noted that the attacks threaten to undo years of hard work. Over recent years much time and money has been invested
in the Rachel’s Tomb compound in an effort to ease the visiting
experience for the hundreds of thousands of worshipers who come to the
site each year.Jerusalem Police Chief Yossi Pariente said Thursday that police are working with the IDF to stop the phenomenon of assaults on worshipers. Police will use more of the means at their disposal in order to drive attackers away from the holy site and arrest them, he said.
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.
France Calls for Renewed Peace Talks Immediately After Elections
Hollande
announced that "immediately after the Israeli elections you should
expect a French-brokered peace initiative in the Middle East."
French President Francois Hollande-AFP/Pool
Amid a tiring military
effort to stop islamist terrorists from gaining control of Mali, French
President Francois Hollande spoke at a press conference Wednesday and touched on an entirely different topic relating to the Middle East -ֲֲ the Israeli-PA peace process.ֲֲ
Hollande announced that
"immediately after the Israeli elections you should expect a
French-brokered peace initiative in the Middle East, in order to bring
Israel and the Palestinians to the negotiating table," the newspaper "Ma'ariv" reported on Wednesday.ֲֲWith the Israeli
election in less than a week, the international community is paying
close attention to the outcome of the January 22nd voteֲֲ and are
patiently waiting to find out what kind of coalition will be formed
before they make any official pleas for negotiations to resume. Hollande said he hopes that an agreement to return to the negotiation table will come as early as March."The year 2013 should be the decision year on the issue of peace in the Middle East," he said.Holland's statement
came after insiders in his government denied previous reports about a
potential peace initiative brokered by France and Great Britain.ֲֲ Sources
in the French government said that although the actions of France tend
to be coordinated with the British government "because of the close
proximity of the two countries", they stressed,ֲֲ "There is nothing
currently on the table, contrary to reports published, as to a joint
initiative between France and Britiain and there has been no formulation
of this initiative."Against the backdrop of
seemingly continuous rifts between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu
and U.S. President Barack Obama, the United States is also likelyֲֲ to
increase pressure on Jerusalem. White House spokesman Tommy Vitor said yesterday,ֲֲ "Itֲֲ is up to the two sides, the Israelis and the Palestinians, to be serious and resume
talks. This is in order to deal with the difficult issues that separate
them and to make significant progress towards sustainable, lasting
peace."ֲֲ
Vitor added: "The United States will continue to assist both sides in these efforts."
ISAIAH 51:3-4
3 For the LORD shall comfort Zion:(JERUSALEM) he will comfort all her waste places;(FROM NUCLEAR WAR) and he will make her wilderness like Eden,(I BELIEVE THE EZEKIEL-4TH TEMPLE WILL BE BUILT 25 MILES FROM THE CURRENT TEMPLE MOUNT AFTER JESUS RULE FOR THE 1,000 YRS FROM JERUSALEM) and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.(PRAISE TO JESUS IN THE DESERT-COULD BE THE NEW JERUSALEM-4TH TEMPLE BUILT 25 MILES INTO THE DESERT FROM THE CURRENT TEMPLE MOUNT.SINCE EZEKIELS TEMPLE IS WAY TO BIG FOR THE CURRENT TEMPLE MOUNT)
4 Hearken unto me, my people;(ISRAEL) and give ear unto me, O my nation:(ISRAEL) for a law shall proceed from me,(JESUS IN JERUSALEM) and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people.(ISRAEL AND THE WORLD)
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
3 For the LORD shall comfort Zion:(JERUSALEM) he will comfort all her waste places;(FROM NUCLEAR WAR) and he will make her wilderness like Eden,(I BELIEVE THE EZEKIEL-4TH TEMPLE WILL BE BUILT 25 MILES FROM THE CURRENT TEMPLE MOUNT AFTER JESUS RULE FOR THE 1,000 YRS FROM JERUSALEM) and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.(PRAISE TO JESUS IN THE DESERT-COULD BE THE NEW JERUSALEM-4TH TEMPLE BUILT 25 MILES INTO THE DESERT FROM THE CURRENT TEMPLE MOUNT.SINCE EZEKIELS TEMPLE IS WAY TO BIG FOR THE CURRENT TEMPLE MOUNT)
4 Hearken unto me, my people;(ISRAEL) and give ear unto me, O my nation:(ISRAEL) for a law shall proceed from me,(JESUS IN JERUSALEM) and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people.(ISRAEL AND THE WORLD)
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
Op-Ed: WESTERN FRONT:Young Israelis Increasingly Turning Right
Published: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 9:35 AM
Bayit Yehudi is draining Lapid and Shas, not Likud anymore, says the writer.
Daniel Greenfield
Arutz Sheva frequently posts op-ed column by this popular New York City based writer and freelance commentator, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He blogs at sultanknish.blogspot.com
The children of a nation are its future and Israel is one of
the few First World countries where the youth trends conservative. This
may be in part a demographic issue. The Israeli left is identified with
the upper class bohos who don't have many children, while the Israeli
working class and traditional religious populations do.
But it's also the consequence of generations coming of age in the shadow of terror.Current polling shows that the conservative Likud (think Republicans or Tories) has the support of 16 percent of Israelis aged 18-34. Bayit Yehudi/Jewish Home (think third party conservative split) is close behind with 15 percent. And the Labor Party, (think Democrats/Labour) is a distant third with nine percent.Israel is a young country in more ways than one and these voters make up 37 percent of registered voters. And more interestingly, secular young voter support for Jewish Home has ticked up by 20 percent.That's not the only good news on the table. Bayit Yehudi isn't draining Likud votes anymore, it's draining votes from Yesh Atid, the fake left-wing party fronted by an idiot anchorman, the son of a famous leftist with delusions of grandeur. And in even better news, it's draining votes from Shas.The corrupt Shas Mafia enabled the left to pull off the Peace Process, siphoning votes from Middle Eastern Jews in various manipulative ways. Its evil genius, Aryeh Deri was locked up and a law was passed specifically to prevent him from returning to politics, but he's back and cheerfully announcing that he intends to move Shas way to the left calling for a long-term interim agreement with the Palestinian Authority."Shas is not right or left," Deri announced, which means it's left. But Deri's genius plan of class warfare and soliciting Arab votes has not exactly taken off.Shas ads claim that the party is here for "the Have Nots", which is a laughable joke. And Deri went to campaign in an Arab village.The Galilee village of Abu Sanan became an unlikely host to a campaign, event held by the haredi Shas party one Wednesday night.Shas leader Aryeh Deri insisted during the event that he "feels at home here," and called for a joint Jewish-Arab fight for equality.Interior Minister Eli Yishai, who was in attendance as well, said that "Inshallah, God willing, we will have our victory party right here."One sure vote comes from Muhammad Taha of the Manda village, who has been faithfully voting for Shas for the past 20 years. "Some 500 votes in the village are already guaranteed," he declared with confidence. "This time I promise a surprise for Shas."It's a wonder that Yediot actually published this with a straight face considering that votes in many Arab villages are "bought" beforehand, both in party primaries and general elections. These votes have nothing to do with party merit or actual support. Guaranteed votes are actually "guaranteed", signed, sealed and delivered. This was how the Israeli left stayed in power for so long and how it still manages to win far more than its share.Shas pulling stunts like these is a sign of desperation and the party has something to be desperate about. Ovadya Yosef is 92 and without him, the party will lose much of its influence and split between conservative Sephardic elders and apparatchiks like Deri.Current polling shows Shas pulling in only 8 seats, suggesting that many of its voters are disregarding its holy app and amulets and looking for real change and security.But all this would not be sufficient without a dumb stunt by the Israeli Anti-Israel Left and this one is a real doozy.On December 26, 2012, a new Facebook page was created, called "Real Democracy." The basic idea behind it is that Israelis "give up" their vote in the upcoming elections to any of the millions of Palestinians under Israeli rule who have no right to vote. It's all done on Facebook. The Israeli posts a status saying he/she's willing to do it, the Palestinian tells him/her who to vote for.Some of them took part in a similar campaign called "Give your vote" in the 2010 elections in England. In that campaign, thousands of Englishmen gave their votes to people in Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Ghana "who are directly affected by UK policies."Setting aside the moral and ethical issues with this, not to mention the common sense problem that Palestinian Arab nationalists claim to want a state, not a vote in Israeli elections, that could have been achieved if they had agreed to annexation, here's the practical result.The sort of people doing this would likely vote for Meretz, a leftist Jewish party that does form coalition with Labor. The Palestinian Arabs are likely to vote for Balad, an Arab/Jewish Communist party that does not enter into coalitions, making this entire exercise a wasted vote that further diminishes the influence of the left.But this whole election is a case study in the diminishing influence of the Israeli left.Reposted with writer's permission: http://frontpagemag.com/2013/d
But it's also the consequence of generations coming of age in the shadow of terror.Current polling shows that the conservative Likud (think Republicans or Tories) has the support of 16 percent of Israelis aged 18-34. Bayit Yehudi/Jewish Home (think third party conservative split) is close behind with 15 percent. And the Labor Party, (think Democrats/Labour) is a distant third with nine percent.Israel is a young country in more ways than one and these voters make up 37 percent of registered voters. And more interestingly, secular young voter support for Jewish Home has ticked up by 20 percent.That's not the only good news on the table. Bayit Yehudi isn't draining Likud votes anymore, it's draining votes from Yesh Atid, the fake left-wing party fronted by an idiot anchorman, the son of a famous leftist with delusions of grandeur. And in even better news, it's draining votes from Shas.The corrupt Shas Mafia enabled the left to pull off the Peace Process, siphoning votes from Middle Eastern Jews in various manipulative ways. Its evil genius, Aryeh Deri was locked up and a law was passed specifically to prevent him from returning to politics, but he's back and cheerfully announcing that he intends to move Shas way to the left calling for a long-term interim agreement with the Palestinian Authority."Shas is not right or left," Deri announced, which means it's left. But Deri's genius plan of class warfare and soliciting Arab votes has not exactly taken off.Shas ads claim that the party is here for "the Have Nots", which is a laughable joke. And Deri went to campaign in an Arab village.The Galilee village of Abu Sanan became an unlikely host to a campaign, event held by the haredi Shas party one Wednesday night.Shas leader Aryeh Deri insisted during the event that he "feels at home here," and called for a joint Jewish-Arab fight for equality.Interior Minister Eli Yishai, who was in attendance as well, said that "Inshallah, God willing, we will have our victory party right here."One sure vote comes from Muhammad Taha of the Manda village, who has been faithfully voting for Shas for the past 20 years. "Some 500 votes in the village are already guaranteed," he declared with confidence. "This time I promise a surprise for Shas."It's a wonder that Yediot actually published this with a straight face considering that votes in many Arab villages are "bought" beforehand, both in party primaries and general elections. These votes have nothing to do with party merit or actual support. Guaranteed votes are actually "guaranteed", signed, sealed and delivered. This was how the Israeli left stayed in power for so long and how it still manages to win far more than its share.Shas pulling stunts like these is a sign of desperation and the party has something to be desperate about. Ovadya Yosef is 92 and without him, the party will lose much of its influence and split between conservative Sephardic elders and apparatchiks like Deri.Current polling shows Shas pulling in only 8 seats, suggesting that many of its voters are disregarding its holy app and amulets and looking for real change and security.But all this would not be sufficient without a dumb stunt by the Israeli Anti-Israel Left and this one is a real doozy.On December 26, 2012, a new Facebook page was created, called "Real Democracy." The basic idea behind it is that Israelis "give up" their vote in the upcoming elections to any of the millions of Palestinians under Israeli rule who have no right to vote. It's all done on Facebook. The Israeli posts a status saying he/she's willing to do it, the Palestinian tells him/her who to vote for.Some of them took part in a similar campaign called "Give your vote" in the 2010 elections in England. In that campaign, thousands of Englishmen gave their votes to people in Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Ghana "who are directly affected by UK policies."Setting aside the moral and ethical issues with this, not to mention the common sense problem that Palestinian Arab nationalists claim to want a state, not a vote in Israeli elections, that could have been achieved if they had agreed to annexation, here's the practical result.The sort of people doing this would likely vote for Meretz, a leftist Jewish party that does form coalition with Labor. The Palestinian Arabs are likely to vote for Balad, an Arab/Jewish Communist party that does not enter into coalitions, making this entire exercise a wasted vote that further diminishes the influence of the left.But this whole election is a case study in the diminishing influence of the Israeli left.Reposted with writer's permission: http://frontpagemag.com/2013/d
Polls give hard-line bloc edge in Israel elections
– 8 hrs ago JAN 17,13
JERUSALEM (AP) — Polls give hawkish and religious parties led by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a comfortable edge over their center-left rivals ahead of next week's parliamentary elections.
Surveys published Wednesday night and on Thursday have Netanyahu's Likud Beiteinu list winning 32 to 37 of parliament's 120 seats, making it the best positioned to form Israel's next government.A Dialog service poll gives Netanyhu's bloc 64 seats, versus 56 for the opposing camp. A total of 756 people were polled; the error margin was 3.7 percent points.New Wave Research's poll gave the hard-line bloc 67 seats. Its survey of 810 people had a 3.5 percentage point error margin.The Maagar Mohot survey gave the hawkish bloc 72 seats. Its poll of 596 people had an error margin of 4.5 percentage points.
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 THU JANUARY 17,2013
09:30 AM +2.43
10:00 AM +35.65
10:30 AM +63.31
11:00 AM +58.25
11:30 AM +53.85
12:00 PM +70.55
12:30 PM +90.70
01:00 PM +91.81
01:30 PM +89.22
02:00 PM +109.12
02:30 PM +115.04
03:00 PM +100.50
03:30 PM +100.28
04:00 PM +84.79 13,596.02
S&P 500 1480.93 +8.30
NASDAQ 3136.02 +18.45
GOLD 1,688.30 +5.10
OIL 95.40 +1.16
TSE 300 12,674.73 +65.91
CDNX 1233.15 +2.95
S&P/TSX/60 726.90 +3.67
MORNING,NEWS,STATS
YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +38 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow +1 points at low today.
Dow +90 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,670.30.OIL opens at $95.31 today.
AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow +1 points at low today so far.
Dow +116 points at high today so far.
WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow +1 points at low today.
Dow +116 points at high today.
GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,902.60 (NOT AT CLOSE)
NATURAL GAS-THU -148 BCF
MORSI - ARAB/MUSLIMS RAISE YOUR KIDS TO HATE JEWS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=RCopdzv29WY
Rabbis’ Plea as Terrorists Attack Jewish Worshipers
Rabbis pleads for protection of Jewish worshipers as terrorists launch assault on Rachel’s Tomb.
Women pray at Rachel's Tomb-Israel news photo: Flash 90
Hebrew U. stakes claim in space with namesake asteroid
Asteroid 271,763, now known as ‘Hebrewu,’ was found by one of the world’s most prolific asteroid discoverers and an alumnus of the university
January 17, 2013, 4:09 pm
0-The Times of Israel
Illustrative asteroid (photo credit: Courtesy NASA)
Hebrew University has made a
name for itself as one of earth’s top universities — and now its fame
has spread to space. The university has joined the ranks of people and
places whose names appear on minor planets, with the International
Astronomical Union (IAU) naming an asteroid in honor of the university –
with the asteroid appropriately name “Hebrewu.”Asteroid 271,763 was discovered by David H.
Levy and Wendee Levy from Arizona, and Tom Glinos from Canada. Levy is a
Canadian astronomer and science writer famous for his co-discovery of
the Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9, which collided with the planet Jupiter in
1994 in the first collision of two solar system bodies ever observed.Levy wanted to name an asteroid after the
Hebrew University since completing a PhD at its English Department in
June 2010. His dissertation explored the relationship between the night
sky and the works of Shakespeare and other writers in the early modern
period of English literature.In a letter to the university describing the
naming, Levy wrote, “Congratulations on being one of the few
universities to be honored with a world in space. We have wanted to do
this ever since I was awarded a PhD in June 2010 by the Hebrew
University, one of the leading research institutions in the world.
Perhaps someday the university, which I am proud to call an alma mater,
will be able to put this new piece of real estate to good academic use.
In the meantime, it is a world with sunrises and sunsets, much smaller
but similar to our own.”Hebrew University President Prof. Menahem
Ben-Sasson said, “The Hebrew University is delighted by Dr. Levy’s
extraordinary gesture and proud to join the exclusive list of
institutions whose names are recorded among the stars. Alluding to that
which transpires beyond our planet’s atmosphere, this gesture aptly
symbolizes the Hebrew University’s ambition to break through the limits
of knowledge and research.”Only a few asteroids have been named for
people or places in Israel, including its capital city Jerusalem, its
first astronaut Ilan Ramon, and the writer and satirist Ephraim Kishon.
It’s estimated that fewer than 20 universities worldwide have an
asteroid named after them.
Located in the asteroid belt that stretches
between the orbit of Mars and Jupiter, Hebrewu poses no threat to Planet
Earth and is not expected to draw near any time soon, the IAU said.One of the most successful comet discoverers
in history, Levy has discovered or co-discovered 22 comets — nine of
them using his own backyard telescopes — and more than 150 asteroids.
ISAIAH 17:1,12-14
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
12 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations,(USELESS U.N) that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14 And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not.(ASSAD) This is the portion of them that spoil us,(ISRAEL) and the lot of them that rob us.
JEREMEIAH 49:23-27
23 Concerning Damascus.(SYRIA) Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea;(WAR SHIPS WITH NUKES COMING ON SYRIA) it cannot be quiet.
24 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
27 And I will kindle a fire (NUKES OR BOMBS) in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.(ASSADS PALACES POSSIBLY IN DAMASCUS)
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
12 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations,(USELESS U.N) that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14 And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not.(ASSAD) This is the portion of them that spoil us,(ISRAEL) and the lot of them that rob us.
JEREMEIAH 49:23-27
23 Concerning Damascus.(SYRIA) Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea;(WAR SHIPS WITH NUKES COMING ON SYRIA) it cannot be quiet.
24 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
27 And I will kindle a fire (NUKES OR BOMBS) in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.(ASSADS PALACES POSSIBLY IN DAMASCUS)
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
Massacre of over 100 reported in Syria's Homs
By Oliver Holmes | Reuters – 7 mins ago JAN 17,13
BEIRUT (Reuters) - More than 100 people were shot, stabbed or possibly burned to death by government forces in the Syrian city of Homs, a monitoring group said on Thursday, and fierce fighting raged across the country.The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said women and children were among the 106 people killed by forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad forces who stormed Basatin al-Hasawiya, a poor district on the edge of Homs, on Tuesday.The massacre in the central city came the same day twin explosions killed over 80 people at Aleppo's university in the north, according to the group.Reuters cannot independently confirm reports due to reporting restrictions in Syria.Syrian warplanes and troops pursued a countrywide
offensive on Thursday, activists and state media said, bombing
rebel-held areas and clashing with insurgents who have pushed into
cities.Government forces
clashed on Thursday with insurgents in the cities of Deraa, Hama, Homs,
Aleppo, Damascus and east of Deir al-Zor, the Observatory said. Only the coastal Assad strongholds of Latakia and Tartous were spared violence.Opposition activists said 15 people, including 7
children, were killed when an air strike hit a family home in
Husseiniyeh, a suburb on the outskirts of the capital.They sent Reuters footage of people dragging the limp bodies of children out of the rubble.
In Hama province, the government said it had secured some areas and displaced families were returning to the area of Zor Abi Zaid after armed forces "cleansed the area completely of terrorists", a term authorities use for the rebels.Activists and Turkish news agencies reported renewed clashes on the Syrian border town of Ras al-Ain, where rebel forces have been fighting armed Kurdish groups for control.The local Turkish Dogan news agency said one man on the Turkish side of the border was wounded by a stray bullet overnight and that schools in the area had been closed due to the clashes on the Syrian side.In the power vacuum, some Kurdish groups are trying to assert control over parts of Syria through fights with rebels and government forces. The Observatory said clashes broke out between Kurdish militants and the Syrian army in Rameilan, a town in the northeast.
FAMILY OF 17 REPORTED KILLED
Activists said 17 members of the Khazam family had been killed during Tuesday's raid on Basatin al-Hasawiya."The Observatory has the names of 14 members of one family, including three children, and information on other families who were completely killed, including one of 32 people," Rami Abdelrahman, head of the Observatory, told Reuters."This needs to be investigated by the United Nations," said Abdelrahman, a Syrian who has documented human rights violations in Syria since 2006 and now reports on killings by both sides.The United Nations says 60,000 have been killed in the 22-month-old conflict. Several massacres have been reported, most blamed on pro-Assad forces but some also on rebel fighters.The town of Houla in Homs province was the scene in May 2011 of the killings of 108 people, including nine children and 34 women, which U.N. monitors blamed on the army and pro-Assad militia.The United Nations sent observers to Syria in April 2011 but after several attacks on their convoys they left in August, complaining both sides had chosen the path of war.Abu Yazen, an opposition activist in Homs, said the rebel Free Syrian Army occasionally entered the farmland of Basatin al-Hasawiya to attack a nearby military academy.
"Assad's forces punish civilians for allowing the rebels to enter the area," he said. Other activists said the raid was carried out by pro-Assad militia.The government and opposition blame each other for two explosions at Aleppo's university on Tuesday which killed at least 87 people, many of them students attending exams, in the deadliest attack on civilians to hit the commercial hub since rebels laid siege to it over the summer.
U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice said the attack was "beyond horrific"."According to eyewitnesses, regime jets launched the strikes," she said on her Twitter account.Russia, which has backed Assad throughout the revolt both in rhetoric and through its veto of U.N. Security Council resolutions condemning Assad, dismissed suggestions Damascus was behind the explosions."I cannot imagine any bigger blasphemy," Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told journalists during a visit to Tajikistan.
NUMBERS UNCONFIRMED
The precise number and nationalities of foreign hostages could not be confirmed, with some countries reluctant to release information that could be useful to the captors.Britain said one of its citizens was killed in the initial storming on Wednesday and "a number" of others were held.The militants said seven Americans were among their hostages, a figure U.S. officials said they could not confirm.Norwegian oil company Statoil said nine of its Norwegian staff and three Algerian employees were captive. Britain's BP, which operates the plant with Statoil and Algerian state oil company Sonatrach, said some of its staff were held but would not say how many or their nationalities.Japanese media said five workers from Japanese engineering firm JGC Corp. were held, a number the company did not confirm. Paris has not said whether any hostages were French. Vienna said one hostage was Austrian, Dublin said one was Irish and Bucharest said an unspecified number were Romanian.Spanish oil company Cepsa said it had begun to evacuate personnel from elsewhere in Algeria.Paris said the Algeria attack demonstrated it was right to intervene in Mali: "We have the flagrant proof that this problem goes beyond just the north of Mali," French ambassador to Mali Christian Rouyer told France Inter radio.President Francois Hollande has received public backing from Western and African allies who fear that al Qaeda, flush with men and arms from the defeated forces of Libya's Muammar Gaddafi, is building a desert haven in Mali, a poor country helpless to combat fighters who seized its north last year.However, there is also some concern in Washington and other capitals that the French action in Mali could provoke a backlash worse than the initial threat by militants in the remote Sahara.The militants, communicating through established contacts with media in neighboring Mauritania, said they had dozens of men armed with mortars and anti-aircraft missiles in the compound and had rigged it with explosives.
"We hold the Algerian government and the French government and the countries of the hostages fully responsible if our demands are not met, and it is up to them to stop the brutal aggression against our people in Mali," read one statement carried by Mauritanian media.They condemned Algeria's secularist government for letting French warplanes fly over its territory to Mali and shutting its border to Malian refugees.
PRESSING ON
In Hama province, the government said it had secured some areas and displaced families were returning to the area of Zor Abi Zaid after armed forces "cleansed the area completely of terrorists", a term authorities use for the rebels.Activists and Turkish news agencies reported renewed clashes on the Syrian border town of Ras al-Ain, where rebel forces have been fighting armed Kurdish groups for control.The local Turkish Dogan news agency said one man on the Turkish side of the border was wounded by a stray bullet overnight and that schools in the area had been closed due to the clashes on the Syrian side.In the power vacuum, some Kurdish groups are trying to assert control over parts of Syria through fights with rebels and government forces. The Observatory said clashes broke out between Kurdish militants and the Syrian army in Rameilan, a town in the northeast.
FAMILY OF 17 REPORTED KILLED
Activists said 17 members of the Khazam family had been killed during Tuesday's raid on Basatin al-Hasawiya."The Observatory has the names of 14 members of one family, including three children, and information on other families who were completely killed, including one of 32 people," Rami Abdelrahman, head of the Observatory, told Reuters."This needs to be investigated by the United Nations," said Abdelrahman, a Syrian who has documented human rights violations in Syria since 2006 and now reports on killings by both sides.The United Nations says 60,000 have been killed in the 22-month-old conflict. Several massacres have been reported, most blamed on pro-Assad forces but some also on rebel fighters.The town of Houla in Homs province was the scene in May 2011 of the killings of 108 people, including nine children and 34 women, which U.N. monitors blamed on the army and pro-Assad militia.The United Nations sent observers to Syria in April 2011 but after several attacks on their convoys they left in August, complaining both sides had chosen the path of war.Abu Yazen, an opposition activist in Homs, said the rebel Free Syrian Army occasionally entered the farmland of Basatin al-Hasawiya to attack a nearby military academy.
"Assad's forces punish civilians for allowing the rebels to enter the area," he said. Other activists said the raid was carried out by pro-Assad militia.The government and opposition blame each other for two explosions at Aleppo's university on Tuesday which killed at least 87 people, many of them students attending exams, in the deadliest attack on civilians to hit the commercial hub since rebels laid siege to it over the summer.
U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice said the attack was "beyond horrific"."According to eyewitnesses, regime jets launched the strikes," she said on her Twitter account.Russia, which has backed Assad throughout the revolt both in rhetoric and through its veto of U.N. Security Council resolutions condemning Assad, dismissed suggestions Damascus was behind the explosions."I cannot imagine any bigger blasphemy," Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told journalists during a visit to Tajikistan.
(Additional
reporting by Erika Solomon and Alex Dziadosz in Beirut, Roman
Kozhevnikov in Dushanbe, Russia, Michelle Nichols at the United Nations
and Jonathon Burch in Ankara; Editing by Andrew Roche)
Algerian forces launch operation to break desert siege
By Lamine Chikhi | Reuters – 39 mins ago JAN 17,13
ALGIERS (Reuters) - Twenty-five foreign hostages escaped and six were killed on Thursday when Algerian forces
launched an operation to free them at a remote desert gas plant,
Algerian sources said, as one of the biggest international hostage
crises in decades unfolded.Fast-moving details of the military operation to free the hostages were difficult to confirm. Algeria's official APS news agency said that the military had freed four foreign hostages, giving no further information.A local source told Reuters six foreign hostages were killed along with eight captors when the Algerian military fired on a vehicle being used by the gunmen. An Algerian security source said the 25 foreign hostages had escaped.Mauritania's ANI news agency, which has been in
constant contact with the kidnappers, said seven hostages were still
being held: two Americans, three Belgians, one Japanese and one British
citizen.The standoff began
when gunmen calling themselves the Battalion of Blood stormed the gas
plant on Wednesday morning. They said they were holding 41 foreigners
and demanded a halt to a French military operation against fellow al Qaeda-linked Islamist militants in neighboring Mali.ANI and Qatar-based Al Jazeera reported that 34 of the
captives and 15 of their captors had been killed when government forces
fired from helicopters at a vehicle. Those death tolls, far higher than
confirmed by the local source, would contradict the reports that large
numbers of foreigners escaped alive.
Britain and Norway, whose oil firms BP and Statoil run the plant jointly with the Algerian state oil company, said they had been informed by the Algerian authorities that a military operation was under way but did not provide details.As many as 180 Algerian hostages had also been held but managed to flee, the local source said.The incident dramatically raises the stakes in the
French military campaign in neighboring Mali, where hundreds of French
paratroopers and marines are launching a ground offensive against rebels
after air strikes began last week.Algerian Interior Minister Daho Ould Kablia said the
kidnappers were led by Mokhtar Belmokhtar, a veteran Islamist guerrilla
who fought Soviet forces in Afghanistan in the 1980s and had set up his
own group in the Sahara after falling out with other local al Qaeda
leaders.A holy
warrior-cum-smuggler dubbed "The Uncatchable" by French intelligence and
"Mister Marlboro" by some locals for his illicit cigarette-running
business, Belmokhtar's links to those who seized towns across northern Mali last year are unclear.The hostage takers
earlier allowed some prisoners to speak to the media, apparently to put
pressure on Algerian forces not to storm the compound. An unidentified hostage
who spoke to France 24 television said prisoners were forced to wear
explosive belts and captors had threatened to blow up the plant.
Two hostages, identified as British and Irish, spoke to
Al Jazeera television and called on the Algerian army to withdraw from
the area to avoid casualties."We are receiving care and good treatment from the
kidnappers. The (Algerian) army did not withdraw and they are firing at
the camp," the British man said. "There are around 150 Algerian
hostages. We say to everybody that negotiations is a sign of strength
and will spare many any loss of life."
NUMBERS UNCONFIRMED
The precise number and nationalities of foreign hostages could not be confirmed, with some countries reluctant to release information that could be useful to the captors.Britain said one of its citizens was killed in the initial storming on Wednesday and "a number" of others were held.The militants said seven Americans were among their hostages, a figure U.S. officials said they could not confirm.Norwegian oil company Statoil said nine of its Norwegian staff and three Algerian employees were captive. Britain's BP, which operates the plant with Statoil and Algerian state oil company Sonatrach, said some of its staff were held but would not say how many or their nationalities.Japanese media said five workers from Japanese engineering firm JGC Corp. were held, a number the company did not confirm. Paris has not said whether any hostages were French. Vienna said one hostage was Austrian, Dublin said one was Irish and Bucharest said an unspecified number were Romanian.Spanish oil company Cepsa said it had begun to evacuate personnel from elsewhere in Algeria.Paris said the Algeria attack demonstrated it was right to intervene in Mali: "We have the flagrant proof that this problem goes beyond just the north of Mali," French ambassador to Mali Christian Rouyer told France Inter radio.President Francois Hollande has received public backing from Western and African allies who fear that al Qaeda, flush with men and arms from the defeated forces of Libya's Muammar Gaddafi, is building a desert haven in Mali, a poor country helpless to combat fighters who seized its north last year.However, there is also some concern in Washington and other capitals that the French action in Mali could provoke a backlash worse than the initial threat by militants in the remote Sahara.The militants, communicating through established contacts with media in neighboring Mauritania, said they had dozens of men armed with mortars and anti-aircraft missiles in the compound and had rigged it with explosives.
"We hold the Algerian government and the French government and the countries of the hostages fully responsible if our demands are not met, and it is up to them to stop the brutal aggression against our people in Mali," read one statement carried by Mauritanian media.They condemned Algeria's secularist government for letting French warplanes fly over its territory to Mali and shutting its border to Malian refugees.
PRESSING ON
The attack in Algeria did not stop France from pressing
on with its campaign in Mali. It said on Thursday it now had 1,400
troops on the ground in Mali, and combat was underway against the rebels
that it first began targeting from the air last week."There was combat yesterday, on the ground and in the
air. It happened overnight and is under way now," said Le Drian.
Residents said a column of about 30 French Sagaie armored vehicles set
off on Wednesday toward rebel positions from the town of Niono, 300 km
(190 miles) from the capital, Bamako.The French action last week came as a surprise but
received widespread international support in public. Neighboring African
countries planning to provide ground troops for a U.N. force by
September have said they will move faster to deploy them.Nigeria, the strongest regional power, sent 162 soldiers on Thursday, the first of an anticipated 906."The whole world clearly needs to unite and do much
more than is presently being done to contain terrorism, with its very
negative impact on global peace and security," President Goodluck
Jonathan said.Germany, Britain and the Netherlands have offered
transport aircraft to help ferry in African troops. Washington has said
it is considering what support it can offer.Many inhabitants of northern Mali have welcomed the
French action, though some also fear being caught in the cross-fire. The
Mali rebels who seized Timbuktu and other oasis towns in northern Mali
last year imposed Islamic law, including public amputations and
beheadings that angered many locals.A day after
launching the campaign in Mali, Hollande also ordered a failed rescue in
Somalia on Saturday to free a French hostage held by al Qaeda-linked al
Shabaab militants since 2009. Al Shabaab said on Thursday it had
executed hostage Denis Allex. France said it believed he died in the
rescue.(Reporting by Lamine Chikhi; Writing by Peter Graff; Editing by Giles Elgood)
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)
Floods paralyze Indonesian capital, heavy rains continue
By Fergus Jensen and Rieka Rahadiana | Reuters – 7 hrs ago JAN 17,13
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Heavy monsoon rain triggered severe flooding in large swathes of the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, on Thursday, bringing the city to a halt with many government offices and businesses forced to close because staff could not get to work.At least 20,000 people were forced from their homes in
the capital and weather officials warned the rain could get worse over
the next few days."Rain will continue
to fall in the greater Jakarta area ... the potential for flooding
remains," a spokesman for the Meteorology Climatology Meteorology and Geophysics Agency told Reuters. He said rain was expected to remain heavy in mountains above Jakarta, often the source of floodwater.Four people were reported to have been killed, according to the National Disaster Prevention Agency, which urged residents to stay at home to reduce traffic congestion on blocked roads.Torrential rain was reported across much of the country, including the main island of Java and heavily agricultural area of southern Sumatra.However, officials said there had been no reports of
any serious damage to key crops such as rice, sugar and palm oil.An estimated more than 175 mm (7 inches) of rain fell in one part of west Jakarta between 7 a.m. and midday."In 30 years of my life here it has never flooded,
ever. This is the very first time," said Ninuk, 30, a resident of
central Jakarta.Floods even forced the country's anti-corruption agency
to move some of its most prominent prison inmates, including a former
deputy head of the central bank, to a notorious women's prison, Pondok
Bambu, in east Jakarta, a spokesman said.The flooding will put pressure on the capital's popular
new governor, Joko Widodo, who came to office last October with
promises to work to fix a huge array of basic infrastructure problems
that bedevil the city of about 10 million people."The government has to do something to prevent floods
... If it needs to build stronger dykes, then build them," said Syaiful
Bakhri, a taxi driver whose car was stuck in the flood.In the centre of Jakarta, where streets are jammed at
the best of times, long lines of idled cars waited for waist-deep water
to recede. An inflatable dinghy provided by emergency services ferried
people to safety across water dividing the heart of the city.The city's main airport was open but many roads leading
to it were reportedly blocked. Most commuter trains and buses were
suspended.The Jakarta Stock Exchange did open but trading was light.Flooding was even
reported at the presidential palace, forcing the postponement of a
meeting between President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and his visiting
Argentine counterpart, Cristina Fernandez.(Additional reporting by Michael Taylor and Janeman Latul; Writing by Jonathan Thatcher; Editing by Robert Birsel)
