KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.
ITS 7PM MAR 28,13 AND NORTH KOREA HAS DONE AN EMERGENCY MEETING TO SET UP THE MISSSLES POINTING AT AMERICAN SITES IN GUAM,S KOREA,HAWAII ETC.TIME HAS COME TO TO SETTLE ACCOUNTS KIM JONG UN SAYS.LOOKOUT AMERICA THIS PHYCO IS READY TO MISSLE AMERICAN SITES IN ASIA.AND ESPECIALLY SINCE THE HOLIDAY IS HERE.NORTH KOREA IS PULLING A MUSLIM TRICK.ATTACK ON HOLY DAYS.
REGIONAL ROLE
Russia's modest naval maintenance and supply facility in Syria is its only military base outside the former Soviet Union, and the Defence Ministry recently announced plans to deploy a naval unit in the Mediterranean on a permanent basis.Russia has clashed diplomatically with the West throughout a two-year conflict that has killed more than 70,000 people in Syria, using its U.N. Security Council veto to block Western efforts to push President Bashar al-Assad from power.Moscow-based military analyst Alexander Golts said unannounced exercises are a good thing for Russia's military, but that the location could raise questions among Russia's neighbors about its intentions."We will be watching these exercises very closely as Georgia has its own experience with Russia," Tedo Japaridze, head of the Georgian parliament's foreign relations committee, told Reuters, referring to the 2008 war. However, he said all countries on the Black Sea have the right to hold exercises.The Kremlin portrays Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili as a bellicose leader, and Russia said last week that annual U.S.-Georgian training exercises that began this month in Georgia put peace at risk. Those exercises are being held far from Georgia's Black Sea coast.Meanwhile, disputes with Ukraine over Moscow's continued lease of the Black Sea navy base have been a thorn in relations with its former Soviet neighbor.Ukraine's foreign minister was in Moscow on Thursday. He could not immediately be reached for comment, and Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich's office declined to comment on the Russian exercises, as did the Defence Ministry.(Additional reporting by Gabriela Baczynska in Moscow and Pavel Polityuk in Kiev; Writing by Alissa de Carbonnel and Steve Gutterman; Editing by Douglas Busvine and Toby Chopra)
ITS 7PM MAR 28,13 AND NORTH KOREA HAS DONE AN EMERGENCY MEETING TO SET UP THE MISSSLES POINTING AT AMERICAN SITES IN GUAM,S KOREA,HAWAII ETC.TIME HAS COME TO TO SETTLE ACCOUNTS KIM JONG UN SAYS.LOOKOUT AMERICA THIS PHYCO IS READY TO MISSLE AMERICAN SITES IN ASIA.AND ESPECIALLY SINCE THE HOLIDAY IS HERE.NORTH KOREA IS PULLING A MUSLIM TRICK.ATTACK ON HOLY DAYS.
Putin flexes Russia's military muscle in Black Sea exercises
By Alexei Anishchuk | Reuters – 58 mins ago MAR 28,13- View PhotoReuters/Reuters - Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during closing remarks at the fifth BRICS Summit in Durban, March 27, 2013. REUTERS/Rogan Ward
By Alexei Anishchuk
MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin ordered the launch of large-scale military exercises in the Black Sea on Thursday, projecting Russian power towards Europe and the Middle East in a move that may vex its neighbors.Officials suggested the surprise drills were designed
to test the reaction speed and combat readiness of Russian forces, but
Putin's order also seemed aimed at sending a signal to the West that Russia is an important presence in the region.Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters
that Putin triggered the maneuvers as he flew back overnight from South
Africa after a summit of the BRICS emerging economies.Peskov said 36 warships and an unspecified number of
warplanes would take part, but did not say how long the exercises would
last.Putin has stressed the importance of a strong and agile
military since returning to the presidency last May. In 13 years in
power, he has often cited external threats when talking of the need for
reliable armed forces and Russian political unity.Late last month, Putin ordered military leaders to make
urgent improvements to the armed forces in the next few years, saying Russia
must thwart Western attempts to tip the balance of power. He said
maneuvers must be held with less advance warning, to keep soldiers on
their toes.Putin, 60, has also used his role as commander-in-chief
and calls for military might to cast himself as a strong leader for
whom the country's security is foremost. State media emphasized that he
had given the order for the exercises from an airplane in the dead of
night.Russia's Black Sea Fleet, whose main base is in the
Ukrainian port of Sevastopol, was instrumental in a war with ex-Soviet
neighbor Georgia in 2008 over the Russian-backed breakaway regions of
South Ossetia and Abkhazia.In addition to Georgia and Ukraine, Russia shares the Black Sea with Turkey, Bulgaria and Romania.But Russian foreign affairs analyst Fyodor Lukyanov
said the exercises were "more likely part of a wider attempt to
reconfirm that Russia's navy and military forces in the south are still
able to play a political and geopolitical role.""It is flexing muscles and may have more to do with
what is happening in the Mediterranean, around Syria, than in the Black
Sea," said Lukyanov, editor of the journal Russia in Global affairs.REGIONAL ROLE
Russia's modest naval maintenance and supply facility in Syria is its only military base outside the former Soviet Union, and the Defence Ministry recently announced plans to deploy a naval unit in the Mediterranean on a permanent basis.Russia has clashed diplomatically with the West throughout a two-year conflict that has killed more than 70,000 people in Syria, using its U.N. Security Council veto to block Western efforts to push President Bashar al-Assad from power.Moscow-based military analyst Alexander Golts said unannounced exercises are a good thing for Russia's military, but that the location could raise questions among Russia's neighbors about its intentions."We will be watching these exercises very closely as Georgia has its own experience with Russia," Tedo Japaridze, head of the Georgian parliament's foreign relations committee, told Reuters, referring to the 2008 war. However, he said all countries on the Black Sea have the right to hold exercises.The Kremlin portrays Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili as a bellicose leader, and Russia said last week that annual U.S.-Georgian training exercises that began this month in Georgia put peace at risk. Those exercises are being held far from Georgia's Black Sea coast.Meanwhile, disputes with Ukraine over Moscow's continued lease of the Black Sea navy base have been a thorn in relations with its former Soviet neighbor.Ukraine's foreign minister was in Moscow on Thursday. He could not immediately be reached for comment, and Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich's office declined to comment on the Russian exercises, as did the Defence Ministry.(Additional reporting by Gabriela Baczynska in Moscow and Pavel Polityuk in Kiev; Writing by Alissa de Carbonnel and Steve Gutterman; Editing by Douglas Busvine and Toby Chopra)
U.S. flies Stealth bombers over South Korea in warning to North
Reuters – 4 hrs ago MAR 28,13- View PhotoReuters/Reuters - A U.S. air force B-2 Spirit stealth bomber (L) flies over Pyeongtaek, south of Seoul March 28, 2013. REUTERS/Sin Young-keun/Yonhap
SEOUL (Reuters) - The United States flew two Stealth bomber practice runs over South Korea on Thursday, in a second show of force to North Korea after a B52 bomber made a similar run earlier this week amid rising tensions on the Korean peninsula.The flights came
after North Korea said it would attack American bases in the Pacific
following a U.S.-led drive to impose sanctions on North Korea for its
third nuclear weapons test.The North has also threatened U.S. "puppet" South Korea with war and the U.S. mainland with nuclear attack."This mission by
two B-2 Spirit bombers assigned to 509th Bomb Wing...demonstrates the
United States' ability to conduct long-range, precision strikes quickly
and at will," the United States Forces in Korea said in a statement.North Korea has put its armed forces on readiness to
fight what it says are "hostile" war drills by the United States and
South Korea. The U.S. says the annual drills are defensive.Pyongyang has also cancelled an armistice agreement
with the United States that ended the 1950-53 Korean War and cut all
communications hotlines with U.S. forces, the United Nations and South
Korea.The U.S. military said that its bombers had flown more
than 6,500 miles to stage a trial bombing raid from their bases in
Missouri as part of Foal Eagle war drills being held with South Korea.
The U.S. military announced on March 15 it was bolstering missile defenses in response to threats from the North, including a threat to conduct a preemptive nuclear strike against the United States.Despite the shrill words, few believe North Korea, formally known as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, will risk starting a full-out war.North and South Korea are still technically at war anyway after their 1950-53 civil conflict ended with the armistice, not a treaty.North Korea conducted a third nuclear weapons test in February in breach of U.N. sanctions and despite warnings from China, its one major diplomatic ally.
Despite the tide of hostile rhetoric from Pyongyang, it has kept a joint economic zone with the South open as it generates $2 billion a year in trade from the venture, money the impoverished state can ill-afford to lose.
North Korea will celebrate the anniversary of the birth of its founding father, Kim Il-sung, on April 15. The current ruler is Kim Jong-un, his 30-year old grandson.While the North has an armory of Soviet-era Scud missiles that can hit South Korea, its longer-range missiles remain untested.Independent assessments of its missile strike force suggest that it may have the theoretical capacity to hit U.S. bases in Japan and Guam, but the North has not tested these missiles.North Korea shelled a South Korean island in 2010 and is charged with the sinking of a South Korean naval vessel in the same year. Pyongyang denies it sank the ship.
(Reporting by David Chance; Editing by Nick Macfie)
Consider these arresting facts: They can eat their weight in crops every day; They can fly more than 80 miles a day – in swarms as dense as 200 million per square mile; And females can lay as many as 1,000 egg pods in roughly 10 square feet, according to a FAO fact sheet.To put the threat in practical terms, 1 ton of locusts (just a fraction of your average swarm) can eat about as much food as 2,500 people can in a single day, says FAO.The Israelis have sought to reverse the food chain this Passover, however, by grilling the kosher insects for a crunchy, high-protein delicacy. And they’re not alone. Locust recipes abound.A Mexican version from “Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects,” by Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio calls for roasting locust torsos and sprinkling them on homemade guacamole in a taco shell. Scrap that. Sprinkle and enjoy, the cookbook says.B’tayavon, as the Israelis would say. Bon appetit.
The U.S. military announced on March 15 it was bolstering missile defenses in response to threats from the North, including a threat to conduct a preemptive nuclear strike against the United States.Despite the shrill words, few believe North Korea, formally known as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, will risk starting a full-out war.North and South Korea are still technically at war anyway after their 1950-53 civil conflict ended with the armistice, not a treaty.North Korea conducted a third nuclear weapons test in February in breach of U.N. sanctions and despite warnings from China, its one major diplomatic ally.
Despite the tide of hostile rhetoric from Pyongyang, it has kept a joint economic zone with the South open as it generates $2 billion a year in trade from the venture, money the impoverished state can ill-afford to lose.
North Korea will celebrate the anniversary of the birth of its founding father, Kim Il-sung, on April 15. The current ruler is Kim Jong-un, his 30-year old grandson.While the North has an armory of Soviet-era Scud missiles that can hit South Korea, its longer-range missiles remain untested.Independent assessments of its missile strike force suggest that it may have the theoretical capacity to hit U.S. bases in Japan and Guam, but the North has not tested these missiles.North Korea shelled a South Korean island in 2010 and is charged with the sinking of a South Korean naval vessel in the same year. Pyongyang denies it sank the ship.
(Reporting by David Chance; Editing by Nick Macfie)
Bible comes to life as locusts swarm Israel
Israeli Jews celebrating Passover will easily relate to their ancestors this year – the country has been swarmed by millions of locusts, one of the 10 plagues visited on the Egyptians.
By Christa Case Bryant | Christian Science Monitor – 22 hrs ago MAR 27,13
Locusts have descended on Israel this week, just in time for Passover. As millions of Jews commemorate the story of the children of Israel’s exodus from Egypt,
including the 10 plagues that afflicted Pharaoh and his people,
millions of the crunchy buggers are creeping all over Israel’s southern
deserts.This is nothing like the eighth plague of biblical times, in which locusts
covered “the whole face of the earth” in a kind of collective
punishment for the Egyptians whose leader refused to let his Hebrew
slaves go free.But this year is the first time
since 2005 that modern-day Israel has had to combat locusts, which can
swarm so thickly that drivers can’t see beyond their windshield. Potato
farmers bemoaned the detrimental effect of a previous wave of the
grasshopper-like insects several weeks ago. The Israeli Ministry of Agriculture, which was on “locust alert,” has responded quickly to the latest wave with pesticides.But it’s not just Israel. Today the Palestinian Authority’s Ministry
of Agriculture sprayed pesticides in Hebron, in the southern West Bank.
And Egyptian farmers have suffered millions of dollars in damage after a
swarm of about 30 million locusts hit Cairo earlier this month.The most serious situation, however, appears to be in Sudan, where the United Nations Food & Agricultural Organization (FAO)
head has warned that immature “hoppers” are lining up along a
1,000-kilometer (621-mile) stretch of the Nile and could pose a serious
threat to Nile Valley crops in May.
OK, so locusts are not your average grasshopper. But still, how can they cause such massive damage?Consider these arresting facts: They can eat their weight in crops every day; They can fly more than 80 miles a day – in swarms as dense as 200 million per square mile; And females can lay as many as 1,000 egg pods in roughly 10 square feet, according to a FAO fact sheet.To put the threat in practical terms, 1 ton of locusts (just a fraction of your average swarm) can eat about as much food as 2,500 people can in a single day, says FAO.The Israelis have sought to reverse the food chain this Passover, however, by grilling the kosher insects for a crunchy, high-protein delicacy. And they’re not alone. Locust recipes abound.A Mexican version from “Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects,” by Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio calls for roasting locust torsos and sprinkling them on homemade guacamole in a taco shell. Scrap that. Sprinkle and enjoy, the cookbook says.B’tayavon, as the Israelis would say. Bon appetit.
