KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.
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Baghdad has warned Israel that it would respond to any attempts by
the Jewish state to use Iraqi airspace for a strike against Iran's
nuclear program, a top Iraqi minister told the AFP news agency.The remarks from Hussein al-Shahristani, deputy prime minister responsible for energy affairs, mark the first time a senior Iraqi official has publicly warned Israel against entering its airspace -- the most direct route -- to hit targets in Iran.
Shahristani also said that Iraq had received assurances from Washington that the United States would not use its airspace to attack Iran, which is trying to develop a nuclear weapon. "The (Americans) have assured us that they will never violate Iraqi airspace or Iraqi sovereignty by using our airspace to attack any of our neighbors," Shahristani said in an interview in his office in Baghdad's heavily-fortified Green Zone, according to AFP."We have also warned Israel that if they violate Iraqi airspace, they will have to bear the consequences."The minister said that the issue had been discussed in Iraq's national security council, and the warning had been passed to Israel "through countries that they have relations with".Asked how Iraq would react to any Israeli attempt to target Iran's nuclear program, Shahristani responded by saying, "Obviously, Iraq wouldn't be disclosing its reaction, to allow Israel to take that into account."Western powers led by Washington along with Israel are at loggerheads with Iran over allegations that its nuclear program is aimed at developing an atomic weapon.Tehran has repeatedly rejected the allegations, maintaining that its nuclear program remains solely for peaceful purposes, all the while threatening to obliterate the Jewish state.
HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
LUKE 17:34-37
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other shall be left.
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten by the birds).
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,(DISOLVED) and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED) and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED)(BECAUSE NUKES HAVE BEEN USED ON ISRAELS ENEMIES)(GOD PROTECTS ISRAEL AND ALWAYS WILL)
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)
By | Associated Press – JUNE 3,13
Many violence-wracked countries including Congo and South Sudan are also expected to sign. The coalition said their signature — and ratification — will make it more difficult for illicit arms to cross borders.The treaty covers battle tanks, armored combat vehicles, large-caliber artillery systems, combat aircraft, attack helicopters, warships, missiles and missile launchers, and small arms and light weapons.It prohibits states that ratify it from transferring conventional weapons if they violate arms embargoes or if they promote acts of genocide, crimes against humanity or war crimes. The treaty also prohibits the export of conventional arms if they could be used in attacks on civilians or civilian buildings such as schools and hospitals.In considering whether to authorize the export of arms, a country must evaluate whether the weapons would be used to violate international human rights laws or employed by terrorists or organized crime. A country must also determine whether the weapons would contribute to or undermine peace and security.In addition, the treaty requires countries to take measures to prevent the diversion of conventional weapons to the illicit market.
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 38:1-6
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.
By Fredrik Dahl | Reuters – 11 mins ago JUNE 3,13
In hard-hitting comments to the IAEA's 35-nation Board of Governors and later at a news conference, he also said Iranian advances in building a research reactor and in its uranium enrichment work were in "clear contravention" of U.N. Security Council resolutions calling for a suspension in such activities.The IAEA has been trying since early 2012 to engage with Iran over what the Vienna-based U.N. agency calls the "possible military dimensions" to the country's nuclear program.But 10 rounds of negotiations in the last 17 months have failed to achieve any breakthrough. Western diplomats accuse Iran of stonewalling the IAEA, an allegation Tehran rejects."To be frank, for some time now we have been going around in circles," Amano, a veteran Japanese diplomat, said.The IAEA's priority has been to gain access to Parchin, a sprawling military compound where it believes Iran may have carried out explosives tests applicable to developing a nuclear weapon, possibly a decade ago. Iran denies this.But Amano acknowledged for the first time that "extensive activities" by Iran - including removal of soil and asphalting - now meant inspectors may return empty-handed even if Iran were to allow them to visit. Iran says Parchin is a conventional military site and has dismissed the cleansing allegations."It may no longer be possible to find anything," he said, adding, however, that the IAEA still wanted to go to Parchin.
IRAN REACTOR WORRIES WEST
Amano spoke at a time of apparent deadlock in a broader diplomatic initiative by six world powers to find a peaceful solution to the decade-old dispute over Iran's nuclear ambitions. Western diplomats say they are awaiting the outcome of Iran's June 14 presidential election but still do not anticipate any notable rollback from its nuclear defiance.Iran, a big oil producer now under harsh Western sanctions against its lifeblood export sector, says its nuclear program aims to meet the electricity needs of a rapidly growing population and advance some areas of scientific research.But its refusal to suspend nuclear activity with both civilian and potential military applications in defiance of U.N. Security Council demands, and its lack of full openness with the IAEA, have fuelled suspicions abroad about its ultimate goals."Iran is not providing the necessary cooperation to enable us to provide credible assurance about the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities," Amano said.Western and Israeli worries about Iran are focused largely on its uranium enrichment work, as such material refined to a high level can provide the fissile core of an atomic bomb.But diplomats and experts say a heavy water research reactor being built near the town of Arak could give Iran an alternative ingredient - plutonium - for nuclear bombs, if it were to decide to build such weapons of mass destruction.An IAEA report issued to member states last month showed the Islamic Republic pressing ahead with the construction of Arak, including the delivery to the site of the reactor vessel."Iran continues to advance its heavy water-related projects," Amano said. The lack of updated design information about the plant "is having an increasingly adverse impact on our ability to ... implement an effective safeguards approach."(Editing by Mark Heinrich)
By | Associated Press – 43 mins ago JUNE 3,13
By Birsen Altayli and Ayla Jean Yackley | Reuters – 1 hr 21 mins ago JUNE 3,13
"FUEL TO THE FIRE"
FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS
REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
By | Associated Press – 1 hr 0 mins ago JUNE 3,13
"The flames really laid down overnight," said Nathan Judy, also of the Forest Service.The blaze has burned about 46 square miles in mountain and canyons areas, destroying at least six houses and damaging 15 more.
The fire was fueled in part by chaparral that was "extremely old and dry" and hadn't burned since 1929, U.S. Forest Service Incident Commander Norm Walker said Sunday at a news conference.More than 2,800 people and 700 homes were under evacuation orders that were expected to last until late Monday or Tuesday.About 2,100 firefighters took on the flames, aided by water-dropping aircraft, including three helicopters that stayed aloft through the night."We're putting everything that we have into this," Walker said.
The cause of the fire was under investigation. Three firefighters had minor injuries, but no one else was hurt.
Winds of about 25 mph and gusting as high as 40 mph had created "havoc" for firefighters for much of Sunday, LA County Deputy Chief David Richardson said.Propelled by the strong winds, the fire jumped an aqueduct west of Lancaster, officials said.George Ladd, 61, said among the structures burned was a cabin at Lake Hughes his family had owned since 1954 but sold just last week. He said he expected it may go up in flames sooner."We had always worried about that thing going off like a bomb," Ladd said.He walked through the ashes of his former cabin and the other destroyed homes Sunday."All of them are nothing," Ladd said by phone from his home in nearby Palmdale later Sunday night. "A few scraps, a few pieces of wood with nails sticking out, but mostly just broken up concrete."Also in the West, two major wildfires are burning in northern New Mexico, though increased humidity and cloud cover has improved conditions.The Thompson Ridge fire near Jemez Springs remains at nearly 3 square miles, according to a Monday morning status report. Forty to 50 houses were evacuated late last week.The Tres Lagunas fire north of Pecos in the Santa Fe National Forest had grown by Sunday evening to nearly 12 square miles, causing smoke to spread across much of the region. It prompted the evacuations of about 140 homes, most of them summer residences.
Gov. Susana Martinez will attend a briefing Monday in Pecos on the Tres Lagunas fire.___Weber reported from Los Angeles. Associated Press writer Andrew Dalton also contributed to this story from Los Angeles.
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,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)
THE FIRST JUDGEMENT OF THE EARTH STARTED WITH WATER-IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THE LAST GENERATION WILL BE HAVING FLOODING
GENESIS 7:6-12
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
GOD PROMISED BY A RAINBOW-THE EARTH WOULD NEVER BE DESTROYED TOTALLY WITH A FLOOD AGAIN.BUT FLOODIING IS A SIGN OF JUDGEMENT.
By | Associated Press – 1 hr 39 mins ago JUNE 3,13
The stormy weather in the New York City region shortened the Boston Red Sox-New York Yankees game to 5½ innings and produced backups at major airports. But by early Monday, delays were down to 15 minutes or less at airports on the East Coast.Patrick Herb, 34, was traveling from Washington Dulles International Airport with his 1- and 3-year-olds to his home in Wisconsin, and had his departure time for a connecting flight in Detroit moved back three times. He described the mood at Dulles as "frustration and fatigue."In other parts of the South, thunderstorms, high winds and hail rolled through as part of a slow-moving cold front.In Texas, the Coast Guard said its crews saved or helped rescue 17 people caught in storms along the Gulf Coast. Lt. Matthew J. Walter of Coast Guard Sector Houston/Galveston cited "the devastating effects of strong winds and heavy rains" as the reason for three separate boats capsizing.
Meanwhile, residents in Oklahoma cleaned up after the storms there killed 13 people, including three veteran storm chasers. Tim Samaras; his son, Paul Samaras; and Carl Young were killed Friday. The Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla., said the men were involved in tornado research.Authorities said five children and two adults remained missing and aren't expected to be found alive.Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin toured damage in El Reno, about 30 miles from Oklahoma City. She said the death toll could rise as emergency workers continue searching flooded areas for missing residents.The state Medical Examiner's Office spokeswoman Amy Elliott said the death toll had risen to 13 from Friday's EF3 tornado, which charged down a clogged Interstate 40 in the western suburbs. Among the dead were two children — an infant sucked out of the car with its mother and a 4-year-old boy who along with his family had sought shelter in a drainage ditch.In Arkansas, five people died in flash flooding late Thursday and early Friday in the rugged Ouachita Mountains near Y City, 125 miles west of Little Rock, authorities said Monday.In Missouri, areas west of St. Louis received significant damage from an EF3 tornado Friday that packed estimated winds of 150 mph. In St. Charles County, at least 71 homes were heavily damaged and 100 had slight to moderate damage, county spokeswoman Colene McEntee said.Northeast of St. Louis, the town of Roxana, Ill., also saw damage from an EF3 tornado. Weather service meteorologist Jayson Gosselin said it wasn't clear whether the damage in Missouri and Illinois came from the same twister or separate ones.Five tornadoes struck the Oklahoma City metro area on Friday, the weather service said. Fallin said Sunday that 115 people were injured.The storms formed out on the prairie west of Oklahoma City, giving residents plenty of advance notice. When told to seek shelter, many ventured out and snarled traffic across the metro area — perhaps remembering when a tornado hit Moore on May 20 and killed 24 people.Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper Betsy Randolph said roadways quickly became congested with the convergence of rush-hour traffic and fleeing residents."They had no place to go, and that's always a bad thing. They were essentially targets just waiting for a tornado to touch down," Randolph said. "I'm not sure why people do that sort of stuff, but it is very dangerous."___Associated Press writers Thomas Peipert in Denver, Jim Suhr in St. Louis, Sean Murphy in El Reno, Okla., Tom McElroy in New York and AP Radio correspondent Julie Walker contributed to this report.
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Op-Ed: Am I an Islamophobe?
Published: Monday, June 03, 2013 10:21 AM
Telling the stark reality is just not politically correct.
Dr. Avi Perry
The year was 2009. I was a guest at a talk show, discussing my newly released book: 72 Virgins. People in the audience called in, referring to me as an Islamophobe. It was the first time I was accused of prejudice against, hatred towards, or irrational fear of Muslims.Those who tried to characterize me as such had no idea what the book was about, but quickly jumped to conclusions, basing their judgment on the evocative title. Some even claimed mendaciously to have read the book, but turned nonverbal or entirely wide of the mark when asked to reflect on the book’s theme.
It does not matter if the Qur’an indeed calls for violence... It does not matter as long as the Jihadists claim that it does.
Throughout
the years that followed, I discussed the phenomenon of Islamic terror
on my own talk show, whenever the subject came to the fore due to
topical events covered by the major news media at the time. I always
tried to emphasize, right from the outset, that I did not regard all
Muslims as terrorists, and that I did recognize the fact that not all
terrorists were Muslims.My approach
to characterizing Islamic terror has always been based on the fact that
all reasonable people attributed it to “Radical Islam”—a global
movement comprising al-Qaeda, its self-regulating extensions, and even
some hot-headed, radicalized individuals with no direct ties to any of the larger Jihadi organizations.I have also noted that Islam comprises 50% of the term “Radical Islam”, and that Radical Islamists commit their crimes in the name
of their religion; they find proof, justification and reinforcement for
their acts of terror in their sacred texts. I do not have to become a
Qur’an or a Hadith expert to prove that point.It
does not matter if the Qur’an indeed calls for violence (which I
believe to be a true characterization). It does not matter as long as
the Jihadists claim that it does; they claim to abide by their prophet’s
edicts. They keep justifying their acts of terror and violence by
telling us that they follow their religious beliefs. What else is the
root cause for their acts of terror? Now, in the minds of many left-minded individuals,
this is where I have been crossing the red line. I have been linking
Islam with terror, they claim. The principal line of attack other than
calling me an Islamophobe, where the term is sandwiched between some
unprintable X-rated junk words, has always been consistent with my own
approach. Their attack has always been packaged by:“And what about
crimes and terror acts committed by Christians in the name of their religion?” and also: “I have a Muslim friend, yada, yada, yada…”Right;
I guess I need to say it one more time. Not all Muslims are terrorists,
and not all terrorists are Muslims. Nevertheless, there is a
significant segment of people among the Muslim population who commit
terror acts in the name of their religion, a larger segment who do not
resort to violence, but do support it wholeheartedly, and an even larger
silent segment who neither support it nor condemn it, and thus, let it
continue unchallenged.Fortunately, these three segments do not take account of all Muslims—there are also Muslims who view Radical Islam as alien to their interpretation of the Qur’an and to what they see as their peaceful religion.And then, the fact that Christians—mostly in the distant past and to a lesser degree in the present—committed crimes in the name
of their religion, should not be used to cover up the fact that in
today’s world, a significant number of terror acts are committed in the name of Islam.If
admitting to the cold reality, while steering clear of expressing
hatred towards, or irrational fear of all Muslims, (simply because they
happened to be born Muslim) makes me an Islamophobe, so be it.Trying
to cover up facts with the aim of protecting a criminal, ruthless
underdog (merely because that particular group is perceived as the
underdog) is not only corrupt. It is an ideology in need of being
condemned.
Throughout
the years that followed, I discussed the phenomenon of Islamic terror
on my own talk show, whenever the subject came to the fore due to
topical events covered by the major news media at the time. I always
tried to emphasize, right from the outset, that I did not regard all
Muslims as terrorists, and that I did recognize the fact that not all
terrorists were Muslims.My approach
to characterizing Islamic terror has always been based on the fact that
all reasonable people attributed it to “Radical Islam”—a global
movement comprising al-Qaeda, its self-regulating extensions, and even
some hot-headed, radicalized individuals with no direct ties to any of the larger Jihadi organizations.I have also noted that Islam comprises 50% of the term “Radical Islam”, and that Radical Islamists commit their crimes in the name
of their religion; they find proof, justification and reinforcement for
their acts of terror in their sacred texts. I do not have to become a
Qur’an or a Hadith expert to prove that point.It
does not matter if the Qur’an indeed calls for violence (which I
believe to be a true characterization). It does not matter as long as
the Jihadists claim that it does; they claim to abide by their prophet’s
edicts. They keep justifying their acts of terror and violence by
telling us that they follow their religious beliefs. What else is the
root cause for their acts of terror? Now, in the minds of many left-minded individuals,
this is where I have been crossing the red line. I have been linking
Islam with terror, they claim. The principal line of attack other than
calling me an Islamophobe, where the term is sandwiched between some
unprintable X-rated junk words, has always been consistent with my own
approach. Their attack has always been packaged by:“And what about
crimes and terror acts committed by Christians in the name of their religion?” and also: “I have a Muslim friend, yada, yada, yada…”Right;
I guess I need to say it one more time. Not all Muslims are terrorists,
and not all terrorists are Muslims. Nevertheless, there is a
significant segment of people among the Muslim population who commit
terror acts in the name of their religion, a larger segment who do not
resort to violence, but do support it wholeheartedly, and an even larger
silent segment who neither support it nor condemn it, and thus, let it
continue unchallenged.Fortunately, these three segments do not take account of all Muslims—there are also Muslims who view Radical Islam as alien to their interpretation of the Qur’an and to what they see as their peaceful religion.And then, the fact that Christians—mostly in the distant past and to a lesser degree in the present—committed crimes in the name
of their religion, should not be used to cover up the fact that in
today’s world, a significant number of terror acts are committed in the name of Islam.If
admitting to the cold reality, while steering clear of expressing
hatred towards, or irrational fear of all Muslims, (simply because they
happened to be born Muslim) makes me an Islamophobe, so be it.Trying
to cover up facts with the aim of protecting a criminal, ruthless
underdog (merely because that particular group is perceived as the
underdog) is not only corrupt. It is an ideology in need of being
condemned. Psychological Warfare against Syrian Missile Threats JUNE 3,13-INN
According to Globes, Assad has declared the opening of a
front on the Golan, but that is the last thing he needs. If anyone opens
a front on the Golan, it will be al Qaeda-affiliated rebel groups based
on villages along the border with Israel. Globes explains that those who want to open a front, shoot; they don’t boast about it on television. When deterrence is the name of the game, the whole neighborhood switches from strategy
to psychology. Deterrence is chiefly a psychological concept, existing
mainly in the mind, in awareness, and in hidden fears, says Globes, referring to DM Ya'alon's statement that 'Israel will know what to do', aimed at motivating Assad to avoid retaliation or further weapon transport.
Iraq Warns Israel Not to Use Its Airspace for Iran Strike
Baghdad warns Israel that it would respond to any attempts by the Jewish state to overfly Iraq for a strike against Iran.
By Arutz Sheva staff-First Publish: 6/3/2013, 2:33 PM-Israelnationalnews
Bushehr nuclear power plant-AFP photo
Shahristani also said that Iraq had received assurances from Washington that the United States would not use its airspace to attack Iran, which is trying to develop a nuclear weapon. "The (Americans) have assured us that they will never violate Iraqi airspace or Iraqi sovereignty by using our airspace to attack any of our neighbors," Shahristani said in an interview in his office in Baghdad's heavily-fortified Green Zone, according to AFP."We have also warned Israel that if they violate Iraqi airspace, they will have to bear the consequences."The minister said that the issue had been discussed in Iraq's national security council, and the warning had been passed to Israel "through countries that they have relations with".Asked how Iraq would react to any Israeli attempt to target Iran's nuclear program, Shahristani responded by saying, "Obviously, Iraq wouldn't be disclosing its reaction, to allow Israel to take that into account."Western powers led by Washington along with Israel are at loggerheads with Iran over allegations that its nuclear program is aimed at developing an atomic weapon.Tehran has repeatedly rejected the allegations, maintaining that its nuclear program remains solely for peaceful purposes, all the while threatening to obliterate the Jewish state.
HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
LUKE 17:34-37
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other shall be left.
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten by the birds).
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,(DISOLVED) and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED) and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED)(BECAUSE NUKES HAVE BEEN USED ON ISRAELS ENEMIES)(GOD PROTECTS ISRAEL AND ALWAYS WILL)
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)
UN Arms Trade Treaty opens for signature Monday
By | Associated Press – JUNE 3,13
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The first international treaty regulating the multibillion-dollar global arms trade opens for signature Monday with some key arms sellers and buyers expected to be among several dozen nations that sign.The U.N. General Assembly
overwhelmingly approved the treaty on April 2. It will require countries
that ratify it to establish national regulations to control the
transfer of conventional arms and components and to regulate arms brokers, but it will not control the domestic use of weapons in any country.
What impact the treaty will have in curbing the estimated $60 billion
global arms trade remains to be seen. The landmark U.N. treaty will
take effect after 50 countries ratify it, and a lot will depend on which
ones ratify and which ones don't, and how stringently it is
implemented.The United Nations
has organized a high-level signing ceremony at U.N. headquarters on
Monday — a sign of the treaty's global importance — and several dozen
countries are expected to sign, the first step to ratification.The Control Arms Coalition,
which includes hundreds of non-governmental organizations in over 100
countries that promoted an Arms Trade Treaty, said it expects many of
the world's top arms exporters including Britain, Germany and France to
sign alongside emerging exporters such as Brazil and Mexico. It said the
United States is expected to sign later this year.The coalition noted that more than 500,000 people are killed by armed
violence every year and predicted that "history will be made" when many
U.N. members sign the treaty, which it says is designed "to protect
millions living in daily fear of armed violence and at risk of rape,
assault, displacement and death.'Many violence-wracked countries including Congo and South Sudan are also expected to sign. The coalition said their signature — and ratification — will make it more difficult for illicit arms to cross borders.The treaty covers battle tanks, armored combat vehicles, large-caliber artillery systems, combat aircraft, attack helicopters, warships, missiles and missile launchers, and small arms and light weapons.It prohibits states that ratify it from transferring conventional weapons if they violate arms embargoes or if they promote acts of genocide, crimes against humanity or war crimes. The treaty also prohibits the export of conventional arms if they could be used in attacks on civilians or civilian buildings such as schools and hospitals.In considering whether to authorize the export of arms, a country must evaluate whether the weapons would be used to violate international human rights laws or employed by terrorists or organized crime. A country must also determine whether the weapons would contribute to or undermine peace and security.In addition, the treaty requires countries to take measures to prevent the diversion of conventional weapons to the illicit market.
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 38:1-6
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.
IAEA concerned will find nothing at Iran site after 'clean-up'
By Fredrik Dahl | Reuters – 11 mins ago JUNE 3,13
By Fredrik Dahl
VIENNA (Reuters) - U.N. nuclear investigators may no longer find anything if granted access to Iran's
Parchin military site, their chief said on Monday, in view of suspected
Iranian efforts to remove any traces of illicit atomic activity there.Yukiya Amano also said his agency's talks with Iran on unblocking an IAEA inquiry into possible nuclear arms research by Tehran had been "going around in circles" for some time.Amano was airing unusually blunt criticism that reflected the mounting tension over Iran's disputed nuclear energy program that has increased fears of a new Middle East war.Israel, widely assumed to be the Middle East's only nuclear-armed state, sees Iran's declared civil nuclear program as the most serious risk to its security and has threatened air strikes if diplomacy and sanctions fail to rein in Tehran.Amano, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency,
vented growing frustration at the lack of results in getting Iran to
address international concerns. Tehran denies its nuclear energy quest
is a disguised bid for atomic bombs.In hard-hitting comments to the IAEA's 35-nation Board of Governors and later at a news conference, he also said Iranian advances in building a research reactor and in its uranium enrichment work were in "clear contravention" of U.N. Security Council resolutions calling for a suspension in such activities.The IAEA has been trying since early 2012 to engage with Iran over what the Vienna-based U.N. agency calls the "possible military dimensions" to the country's nuclear program.But 10 rounds of negotiations in the last 17 months have failed to achieve any breakthrough. Western diplomats accuse Iran of stonewalling the IAEA, an allegation Tehran rejects."To be frank, for some time now we have been going around in circles," Amano, a veteran Japanese diplomat, said.The IAEA's priority has been to gain access to Parchin, a sprawling military compound where it believes Iran may have carried out explosives tests applicable to developing a nuclear weapon, possibly a decade ago. Iran denies this.But Amano acknowledged for the first time that "extensive activities" by Iran - including removal of soil and asphalting - now meant inspectors may return empty-handed even if Iran were to allow them to visit. Iran says Parchin is a conventional military site and has dismissed the cleansing allegations."It may no longer be possible to find anything," he said, adding, however, that the IAEA still wanted to go to Parchin.
IRAN REACTOR WORRIES WEST
Amano spoke at a time of apparent deadlock in a broader diplomatic initiative by six world powers to find a peaceful solution to the decade-old dispute over Iran's nuclear ambitions. Western diplomats say they are awaiting the outcome of Iran's June 14 presidential election but still do not anticipate any notable rollback from its nuclear defiance.Iran, a big oil producer now under harsh Western sanctions against its lifeblood export sector, says its nuclear program aims to meet the electricity needs of a rapidly growing population and advance some areas of scientific research.But its refusal to suspend nuclear activity with both civilian and potential military applications in defiance of U.N. Security Council demands, and its lack of full openness with the IAEA, have fuelled suspicions abroad about its ultimate goals."Iran is not providing the necessary cooperation to enable us to provide credible assurance about the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities," Amano said.Western and Israeli worries about Iran are focused largely on its uranium enrichment work, as such material refined to a high level can provide the fissile core of an atomic bomb.But diplomats and experts say a heavy water research reactor being built near the town of Arak could give Iran an alternative ingredient - plutonium - for nuclear bombs, if it were to decide to build such weapons of mass destruction.An IAEA report issued to member states last month showed the Islamic Republic pressing ahead with the construction of Arak, including the delivery to the site of the reactor vessel."Iran continues to advance its heavy water-related projects," Amano said. The lack of updated design information about the plant "is having an increasingly adverse impact on our ability to ... implement an effective safeguards approach."(Editing by Mark Heinrich)
Syrian doctor says 300 wounded trapped in Qusair
By | Associated Press – 43 mins ago JUNE 3,13
BEIRUT (AP) — At least 300 seriously wounded residents of an embattled Syrian town near the border with Lebanon need to be evacuated for medical treatment, a doctor told The Associated Press on Monday, as fighting in Qusair raged for the third straight week.Kasem Alzein,
who coordinates treatment in several makeshift hospitals in Qusair,
said the wounded are being treated in private homes after the town's
main hospital was destroyed during fighting between the Syrian army —
backed by Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas — and rebels fighting to topple President Bashar Assad's regime.Speaking to the AP from Qusair via Skype, Alzein pleaded for help,
saying evacuation efforts by local medical teams had failed after a
convoy was attacked last week and 13 of the wounded were killed. He said
medical supplies are running out and doctors treating the wounded most
urgently need oxygen to keep the 300 people — mostly women, children and
elderly — alive."The humanitarian and medical conditions are terrible," Alzein said,
adding that no medical supplies have reached the town since the
government launched an offensive on Qusair May 19. "We are treating
people in homes in an unsterilized environment. We tried to evacuate the
wounded and we can't. No one is helping us."Alzein said 50 abandoned homes around Qusair have been turned into
makeshift hospitals. Four of the homes have been converted into
operating theatres. He said the doctors had stocked up on medical
supplies, but they are running out of antibiotics, bandages and
anesthetics. Oxygen supplies are already exhausted, he added.The shelling of the town continued Monday, Alzein said. "Every day we have new wounded."Appeals by the United Nations and other aid organizations to allow
humanitarian workers to enter Qusair have gone unheeded by authorities
in Damascus as fighting drags on and neither side has been able to
deliver a decisive blow. Syrian regime troops and fighters from
Hezbollah have gained ground, but rebels have been able to defend some
positions and appear to be dug in the north and west of the town.
On Sunday, U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon called Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem to express concern over the situation in Qusair, according to Syria's state-run news agency SANA. However, al-Moallem told the U.N. chief that the Red Cross and other aid agencies will only be able to enter Qusair "after the end of military operations there," SANA said.The European Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response, Kristalina Georgieva, on Monday said she was joining the U.N and the Red Cross in appealing for a safe passage for civilians in the town, describing the situation in Qusair as a "tragedy.""All right-thinking people will join me in appealing for all parties to this savage conflict to respect the fundamental rights of civilians to safe passage," she said in statement. "These appeals have been falling on deaf ears. In a moment like this we must together all raise our voices ever more loudly until our protests can no longer be ignored."Also on Monday, Hezbollah guerrillas fought Lebanese Sunni militants trying to reach Qusair to join the Syrian rebels. Residents said clashes were taking place in the Syrian village of Jousih, about 13 kilometers (eight miles) from Qusair. There were no immediate reports on casualties.Over the weekend, three rockets from Syria struck Lebanon's northeast and 18 rockets and mortar rounds hit its eastern Baalbek region, a Hezbollah stronghold.From Saturday night into Sunday, Hezbollah fighters inside Lebanon ambushed Syrian rebels and allied Lebanese fighters whom they suspected of rocketing Baalbek, a Lebanese security official said. The clashes were the worst yet inside Lebanon, where the Syrian conflict has intensified since Hezbollah's involvement in Qusair fighting has been public recent weeks.A Hezbollah fighter and several rebels were killed in Monday's clashes, which happened in a remote area near the Syrian border, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations.Elsewhere in Lebanon, gunmen fired on a prominent pro-Hezbollah Sunni cleric in the port city of Sidon on Monday but failed to hit him, security officials said. The attack on Sheik Maher Hammoud increased fears that the Syrian conflict could re-ignite the country's explosive sectarian mix that mirrors the one in Syria. Lebanon's 15-year civil war ended in 1990.Hammoud was fired on by assailants in a moving vehicle as he walked from his home to the al-Quds Mosque where he preaches, the officials said. His bodyguards returned fire but no one on either side was hurt, they said, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with regulations.Hammoud is a longtime supporter of Hezbollah, whose power base lies in Lebanon's Shiite Muslim community and which is supported by Iran. The group's role in Syria's civil war has become more apparent in recent weeks as the group buried dozens of fighters who have been in an ongoing battle for Qusair.They fight on behalf of President Bashar Assad's regime, dominated by his Alawite sect that is an offshoot of Shiite Islam.
Sidon is a majority Sunni Muslim city, and many Lebanese Sunnis back Syria's Sunni-dominated rebels. It was not clear who was behind the shooting. Hammoud told Lebanon's private Al-Mayadeen TV that he assumed it was linked to his support for "Hezbollah's jihad" in Syria.Rival sectarian factions have frequently clashed inside Lebanon during the 2-year-old Syrian conflict.In the north, fighting between Sunnis and Alawites in the city of Tripoli raged overnight into the early hours of Monday. Security officials said five people have been killed and 34 wounded since Sunday. They spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations.By daytime, fighting had largely subsided although snipers were still active in the most affected neighborhoods, Lebanon's official news service said. The army was patrolling the city, and universities, schools and business had opened, it added.___Associated Press writer Zeina Karam contributed to this report.
On Sunday, U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon called Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem to express concern over the situation in Qusair, according to Syria's state-run news agency SANA. However, al-Moallem told the U.N. chief that the Red Cross and other aid agencies will only be able to enter Qusair "after the end of military operations there," SANA said.The European Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response, Kristalina Georgieva, on Monday said she was joining the U.N and the Red Cross in appealing for a safe passage for civilians in the town, describing the situation in Qusair as a "tragedy.""All right-thinking people will join me in appealing for all parties to this savage conflict to respect the fundamental rights of civilians to safe passage," she said in statement. "These appeals have been falling on deaf ears. In a moment like this we must together all raise our voices ever more loudly until our protests can no longer be ignored."Also on Monday, Hezbollah guerrillas fought Lebanese Sunni militants trying to reach Qusair to join the Syrian rebels. Residents said clashes were taking place in the Syrian village of Jousih, about 13 kilometers (eight miles) from Qusair. There were no immediate reports on casualties.Over the weekend, three rockets from Syria struck Lebanon's northeast and 18 rockets and mortar rounds hit its eastern Baalbek region, a Hezbollah stronghold.From Saturday night into Sunday, Hezbollah fighters inside Lebanon ambushed Syrian rebels and allied Lebanese fighters whom they suspected of rocketing Baalbek, a Lebanese security official said. The clashes were the worst yet inside Lebanon, where the Syrian conflict has intensified since Hezbollah's involvement in Qusair fighting has been public recent weeks.A Hezbollah fighter and several rebels were killed in Monday's clashes, which happened in a remote area near the Syrian border, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations.Elsewhere in Lebanon, gunmen fired on a prominent pro-Hezbollah Sunni cleric in the port city of Sidon on Monday but failed to hit him, security officials said. The attack on Sheik Maher Hammoud increased fears that the Syrian conflict could re-ignite the country's explosive sectarian mix that mirrors the one in Syria. Lebanon's 15-year civil war ended in 1990.Hammoud was fired on by assailants in a moving vehicle as he walked from his home to the al-Quds Mosque where he preaches, the officials said. His bodyguards returned fire but no one on either side was hurt, they said, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with regulations.Hammoud is a longtime supporter of Hezbollah, whose power base lies in Lebanon's Shiite Muslim community and which is supported by Iran. The group's role in Syria's civil war has become more apparent in recent weeks as the group buried dozens of fighters who have been in an ongoing battle for Qusair.They fight on behalf of President Bashar Assad's regime, dominated by his Alawite sect that is an offshoot of Shiite Islam.
Sidon is a majority Sunni Muslim city, and many Lebanese Sunnis back Syria's Sunni-dominated rebels. It was not clear who was behind the shooting. Hammoud told Lebanon's private Al-Mayadeen TV that he assumed it was linked to his support for "Hezbollah's jihad" in Syria.Rival sectarian factions have frequently clashed inside Lebanon during the 2-year-old Syrian conflict.In the north, fighting between Sunnis and Alawites in the city of Tripoli raged overnight into the early hours of Monday. Security officials said five people have been killed and 34 wounded since Sunday. They spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations.By daytime, fighting had largely subsided although snipers were still active in the most affected neighborhoods, Lebanon's official news service said. The army was patrolling the city, and universities, schools and business had opened, it added.___Associated Press writer Zeina Karam contributed to this report.
Turkish premier brands protesters extremists
By Birsen Altayli and Ayla Jean Yackley | Reuters – 1 hr 21 mins ago JUNE 3,13
By Birsen Altayli and Ayla Jean Yackley
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan
accused anti-government protesters on Monday of walking "arm-in-arm
with terrorism", remarks that could further inflame public anger after
three days of some of the most violent riots in decades.Hundreds of police and protesters have been injured since Friday in
the riots, which began with a demonstration to halt construction in a
park in an Istanbul square and grew into mass protests against what
opponents call Erdogan's authoritarianism.He has dismissed the protests as
the work of secularist enemies who never reconciled to the mandate of
his Islamist AKP party, which has won three straight elections, overseen
an economic boom and raised Turkey's profile in the region.
"This is a protest organized by extremist elements," Erdogan said at
a news conference before departing on a trip to North Africa. "We will
not give away anything to those who live arm in arm with terrorism.""Many things have happened in this country, they've hanged, they've
poisoned, but we will walk towards the future with determination and
through holding onto our values," he added, an allusion to Turkey's
murky past of military coups and covert action by militant secularist
forces.The unrest has delivered a blow to Turkish financial markets that
have thrived under Erdogan. Shares fell more than six percent and the
lira fell to 16-month lows.Erdogan said the protesters had no support in the general population
and he gave no indication he was preparing any concessions.Protesters accuse Erdogan of furthering a hidden Islamist agenda in a
country with a secularist constitution. Some object to tightening
restrictions on alcohol sales and other measures seen as religiously
motivated. Others complain of the costs from Erdogan's support of rebels
in neighboring Syria's civil war.Still others have economic grievances, viewing the disputed
development project in Istanbul's Taksim Square as emblematic of wild
greed among those who have benefited from Turkey's boom.Protesters gathered in Taksim again on Monday. Barricades of rubble
hindered traffic along the Bosphorus waterway and blocked entry into the
area. Leftist groups hung out red and black flags. Tear gas lingered in
the warm, damp air.Banners called on Erdogan to resign and declared: "Whatever happens, there is no going back."Nearby walls were plastered with cartoon posters of an image
borrowed from a photograph of a policeman spraying tear gas at a young
woman in a red summer dress, adopted as an emblem of aggressive police
conduct. The caption read: "The more they spray, the bigger we get."Istanbul police kept a low profile on Monday morning and were not to
be seen around the main gathering points at Taksim and the area of
Besiktas. In the capital Ankara, however, police again fired tear gas
again at protesters.Erdogan appeared to reject accusations by the United States and the
European Union, sensitive to Turkey's strategic position on the edge of
the Middle East and bordering Syria and Iraq, of heavy handed police
action."We...are behaving in a very restrained way," he said."Be calm, relax," he advised the public. "All this will be overcome.""FUEL TO THE FIRE"
The protests had appeared to ease off on Saturday night, but were
re-ignited by defiant comments by Erdogan on Sunday afternoon describing
the protesters as "a few looters" driven on by the opposition
Republican People's Party (CHP)."Rather than try to calm the situation...some of Mr Erdogan's
public statements about the protesters have added fuel to the fire,"
Robert O'Daly, Turkey Analyst at The Economist Intelligence Unit, said.
"Mr Erdogan appears to have underestimated the mood in the country.
"The absence of an effective opposition in parliament during the ten
years that the AKP and Mr Erdogan have been in power has reduced the
constraints on government. As a result, Mr Erdogan and his government
appear out of touch, going ahead with pieces of legislation or in this
case an urban development project without much consultation."The CHP said it was being used as a scapegoat for Erdogan's failure to read the public mood."The people on the street across Turkey are not exclusively from the
CHP, but form all ideologies and all parties," senior CHP member Mehmet
Akif Hamzacebi told Reuters. "What Erdogan has to do is not to blame
CHP but draw the necessary lessons from what happened."Erdogan has given no indication he is preparing any concessions.
Certainly, with his strong support, especially in the heartland of
Anatolia, he seems for now safe in his post.He said plans would go ahead to re-make Taksim Square, long a
rallying point for demonstrations, including construction of a new
mosque and the rebuilding of a replica Ottoman-era barracks.Protests have involved a broad spectrum in dozens of cities, from
students to professionals, trade unionists, Kurdish activists and
hardline secularists who see Erdogan seeking to overthrow the secularist
state set up by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in 1923 in the ruins of the
Ottoman Empire.
Since taking office, Erdogan has dramatically cut back the power of
the army, which ousted four governments in the second half of the 20th
century and which hanged and jailed many, including a prime minister. In
1997 Turkey's first Islamist government was eased from office by the
military.Hundreds of officers, including senior generals, have been jailed in
the last year over an alleged coup plot against Erdogan and his AK
Party. Journalists, artists and businessmen have also been locked up.Erdogan remains far and away the most popular politician, and
pointed to his electoral mandate, won since 2002 on the virtual ruin of
traditional parties mired in corruption and mismanagement scandals."The fact the AK Party has increased its votes at three elections in
a row and has successfully won two referendums, shows how the people of
this nation have embraced the AK Party," he said.Turkey
remains in many ways a country divided into a more conservative
religious heartland and a liberal elite wary of religious inroads. They
view with particular suspicion Erdogan's moves to end restrictions on
the Islamic headscarf, increase restrictions on alcohol and his
enthusiastic advocacy of a huge new mosque to be built on the banks of
the Bosphorus.
(Writing by Ralph Boulton; Editing by Nick Tattersall and Peter Graff) EU arms to Syria: what, how and if
Today @ 16:27 JUNE 3,13
BRUSSELS - The EU officially lifted its arms embargo on Syria on Saturday (1 June).The EU hawks which pushed for it, Britain and France, promise they
will not ship anything if Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad gets serious in
peace talks.But if the talks - due to start in Geneva this month - fail, they will have some hard choices to make.Defence analysts say what the rebels really need are shoulder-fired anti-aircraft and anti-tank missiles.They listed four Western-made anti-aircraft models - the Stinger, the
Mistral, the Blowpipe and the Starstreak - as potential choices.They also listed three Western anti-tank models - the Carl Gustav, the Panzerfaust and the Panzerabwehrrichtmine - as options.They said Britain and France might instead buy Russian-made equivalents on the open market.Russian choices include the Strela and Igla anti-aircraft missiles and the RPG7, RPG18 or RPG29 anti-tank weapons."Even low-tech anti-aircraft systems would make Assad's forces keep
their distance. They would no longer have the free run of the
battlefield," Edward Hunt, from the British defence consultancy Janes,
told this website."Syria uses helicopters to rapidly deploy crack units from east to
west or vice versa to hit back at rebels. Shoulder-fired missiles would
make this impossible. The ability to shoot down helicopters means the
Syrian military would be confined to moving its troops using [ground]
convoys," Jonathan Eyal, from the UK military think tank Rusi, noted.It might make a big difference whether they send Western or Russian material.They would have to train rebels to use Western equipment and keep them supplied with ammunition and spare parts.But Assad soldiers-turned-rebels are familiar with Russian weapons and can loot ammunition from the Russian-armed regime.Eliot Higgins, who writes the Brown Moses blog on Syria, told this
website the rebels have already been using high-tech Russian anti-tank
weapons "in increasing numbers over the last nine months, in line with
increasing captures of ammo dumps and bases."Russian arms are also better for propaganda purposes."You don't want to send material which is easily recognisable as your own," Jane's Hunt said."You don't want the Syrians to show a British rifle on TV and say:
'Look. This is what killed this poor boy's mother.' If you're trying to
keep the moral high ground, you don't want your bullets showing up in
the bodies of civilians," he noted.Otfried Nassauer, from the German arms-control NGO Bits, added that
Western weapons are harder to get back once a conflict ends.The US supplied Stingers to anti-Russian guerrillas in Afghanistan in
the 1980s. They cost $30,000-or-so brand new. But when the US tried to
buy them back for more than $50,000 a piece, many Mujahideen fighters
preferred to "keep them under their bed.""Whoever has one is perceived to be very important," Nassauer said.Opinion is divided on the Western/Russian-made question.Rusi's Eyal said: "Time is a factor. In practice it would be
cumbersome to rely on Russian supplies in large quantities. What
happened in Libya is that countries [who supplied rebels in the 2011
Libya war] rustled up whatever they could get their hands on quickly
from their own arsenals."He added that the nature of the Syria war makes spare parts irrelevant."Spare parts are meaningful for an organised force with a logistics
back-up line to service weapons and bring them back into battle. There's
no such thing here. The rebels use weapons until they jam and then
throw them away," he said.The question of which models of weapon to ship is also key to the
biggest problem in the Anglo-French plan - the risk of proliferation.The main rebel group - the Free Syrian Army, described as "moderates"
by British and French diplomats - has a chain of command and has
pledged to create democracy.But if Islamist rebel groups - such as Ahrar al-Sham, Jabhat al-Nusra
or al-Qaeda - get their hands on Western equipment they might use them
against Western allies, such as Israel or Jordan.Individual extremists might also bring them back to Europe for terrorist attacks.Top-end anti-aircraft missiles - such as modern Stinger or Igla-type models - are a threat to the Israeli air force.
Top-end anti-tank weapons, such as RPG29s, are a threat to Israeli tanks.The anti-aircraft missiles also pose a danger to civilian planes on low flight paths or on take off and landing.Russian media reports that two rebel-fired missiles narrowly missed a passenger jet carrying 159 tourists from Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt to the Russian city of Kazan in April.If Britain and France go ahead, analysts expect them to ship arms via the Jordanian-Syrian border.They would fly them in using military cargo planes or civilian aircraft and use ground forces to control who gets what."Some special forces would have to be deployed in Syria to ensure the material gets to the right people. You can't just dump it on the border and hope for the best," Rusi's Eyal said.The Brown Moses blogger noted that rebel groups "trade and sell" arms to one another once they get them, however.Meanwhile, even Israeli intelligence has trouble telling who is who.Alon Ben-David, a defence expert at Israel's Channel 10 broadcaster, told this website: "Israeli intelligence has tried to build a picture of who the rebels are. But it's a riddle. Every town has its own armed gangs which act independently of each other and which are impossible to identify."He said: "Just because you meet a rebel commander who speaks good English and who doesn't have a beard doesn't mean you know who he really represents."Rusi's Eyal added: "You could end up creating a parallel army … You could end up creating another Taliban [anti-Western fighters in Afghanistan and Pakistan]."Amid the risks and doubts on what to send, analysts wonder if Britain and France will go ahead no matter what happens in the Geneva talks.For Eyal, the whole thing is "a bluff" designed to scare al-Assad to make concessions.For Nick Witney, an analyst at the British-based ECFR think tank, "they are hoping against hope that the Geneva talks are a success so they don't have to follow through."For Christopher Philips, from British think tank Chatham House, they are "posturing" on the world stage.He said Britain and France - former colonial powers in the Middle East - "have delusions of grandeur" and a "misplaced sense of their own importance."Philips noted that despite its tough talk, there are "divisions" inside the British foreign office on what to do."It's very questionable if they will send modern anti-aircraft missiles … The quantity and quality of weapons they might supply is negligible compared to what's coming in from [Assad's allies] the Russians and the Iranians. So it wouldn't solve anything. It would just be flooding the region with arms," he said.Julian Barnes-Dacey, another ECFR pundit, said EU countries should start talking to al-Assad and to Iran instead of playing "diplomacy-lite" and "intervention-lite."
"If they are going to intervene militarily, they should go in much more heavily, which they are clearly not willing to do," he said.Israel's Ben-David agreed."If they really want to help, they should create a safe zone in Syria where they can train the rebels and from which rebel forces can come out and fight the regime in an organised way," the Channel 10 analyst said.
Top-end anti-tank weapons, such as RPG29s, are a threat to Israeli tanks.The anti-aircraft missiles also pose a danger to civilian planes on low flight paths or on take off and landing.Russian media reports that two rebel-fired missiles narrowly missed a passenger jet carrying 159 tourists from Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt to the Russian city of Kazan in April.If Britain and France go ahead, analysts expect them to ship arms via the Jordanian-Syrian border.They would fly them in using military cargo planes or civilian aircraft and use ground forces to control who gets what."Some special forces would have to be deployed in Syria to ensure the material gets to the right people. You can't just dump it on the border and hope for the best," Rusi's Eyal said.The Brown Moses blogger noted that rebel groups "trade and sell" arms to one another once they get them, however.Meanwhile, even Israeli intelligence has trouble telling who is who.Alon Ben-David, a defence expert at Israel's Channel 10 broadcaster, told this website: "Israeli intelligence has tried to build a picture of who the rebels are. But it's a riddle. Every town has its own armed gangs which act independently of each other and which are impossible to identify."He said: "Just because you meet a rebel commander who speaks good English and who doesn't have a beard doesn't mean you know who he really represents."Rusi's Eyal added: "You could end up creating a parallel army … You could end up creating another Taliban [anti-Western fighters in Afghanistan and Pakistan]."Amid the risks and doubts on what to send, analysts wonder if Britain and France will go ahead no matter what happens in the Geneva talks.For Eyal, the whole thing is "a bluff" designed to scare al-Assad to make concessions.For Nick Witney, an analyst at the British-based ECFR think tank, "they are hoping against hope that the Geneva talks are a success so they don't have to follow through."For Christopher Philips, from British think tank Chatham House, they are "posturing" on the world stage.He said Britain and France - former colonial powers in the Middle East - "have delusions of grandeur" and a "misplaced sense of their own importance."Philips noted that despite its tough talk, there are "divisions" inside the British foreign office on what to do."It's very questionable if they will send modern anti-aircraft missiles … The quantity and quality of weapons they might supply is negligible compared to what's coming in from [Assad's allies] the Russians and the Iranians. So it wouldn't solve anything. It would just be flooding the region with arms," he said.Julian Barnes-Dacey, another ECFR pundit, said EU countries should start talking to al-Assad and to Iran instead of playing "diplomacy-lite" and "intervention-lite."
"If they are going to intervene militarily, they should go in much more heavily, which they are clearly not willing to do," he said.Israel's Ben-David agreed."If they really want to help, they should create a safe zone in Syria where they can train the rebels and from which rebel forces can come out and fight the regime in an organised way," the Channel 10 analyst said.
Turkish Spring' tests Erdogan's rule
Today @ 09:27 JUNE 3,13
A violent crackdown on a peaceful demonstration on Friday (31 May)
against plans to demolish a park and to erect a shopping centre in
Taksim Square in central Istanbul quickly prompted a larger protest.Pent-up public frustration against heavy-handed government rule and
perceived lack of accountability poured out into the streets in Turkey's
largest city to be met head on by battalions of police.The protest spread to 67 other cities and 81 provinces over the weekend, says the government.An estimated 1,000 people have been injured in Istanbul and another 700 in Ankara, reports the Associated Press.The streets around Taksim were on Monday littered with spent canisters of tear gas.One 23-year-old student from Istanbul Technical University lost an eye after being shot at close range by police.For her part, the EU’s foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said she
“regrets disproportionate use of force by members of the Turkish
police” in a statement on Sunday (2 June).She called for calm and restraint on all sides.Police eventually backed off on Sunday, as thousands remained in Taksim square.The mood later turned festive, with people chanting victory slogans and calling Erdogan a "dictator."But clashes were still reported late on Sunday evening in Istanbul's seaside neighbourhood of Besiktas.Protests the same day also turned violent in Ankara.The long-serving Prime Minister has won three mandates but is seen as
becoming increasingly autocratic and Islamist by his critics.Erdogan had imposed the Taksim construction project without public consultation despite widespread opposition.Legislators recently enacted a controversial law banning kissing in the public and restricted the sale of alcohol.The authorities have also tightened media control.Protestors turned to social media outlets like Twitter to get word
out on the demonstrations because Turkey's mass-media channels refused
to give them coverage.Meanwhile Erdogan deplored the online services, calling social media society’s worst menace.
"There is now a menace which is called Twitter … the best examples of lies can be found there,” he said in a live speech on national TV.His Justice and Development Party (AKP) government has been credited with turning around the country's economy and increasing its regional influence.But it has failed to address worsening domestic human rights and a democratic deficit.A 2012 progress report on Turkey by the European Union notes the excessive use of force and ill treatment by the police often goes unabated.
The public service has no judicial oversight.The report complains about the controversial appointment of a police chief, who had faced past charges of torture and rape, to a key position in a counter-terror squad.
It also voices concern on freedom of expression.The commission paper says the legal framework of Turkey’s anti-terrorism legislation is imprecise and open to abuse.“In short, writing an article or making a speech can still lead to a court case and a long prison sentence,” it notes.More than 2,800 students are in jail on terrorism-related charges.Journalist and left-wing Kurdish scholars have also been detained.
"There is now a menace which is called Twitter … the best examples of lies can be found there,” he said in a live speech on national TV.His Justice and Development Party (AKP) government has been credited with turning around the country's economy and increasing its regional influence.But it has failed to address worsening domestic human rights and a democratic deficit.A 2012 progress report on Turkey by the European Union notes the excessive use of force and ill treatment by the police often goes unabated.
The public service has no judicial oversight.The report complains about the controversial appointment of a police chief, who had faced past charges of torture and rape, to a key position in a counter-terror squad.
It also voices concern on freedom of expression.The commission paper says the legal framework of Turkey’s anti-terrorism legislation is imprecise and open to abuse.“In short, writing an article or making a speech can still lead to a court case and a long prison sentence,” it notes.More than 2,800 students are in jail on terrorism-related charges.Journalist and left-wing Kurdish scholars have also been detained.
FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS
REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
Containment of Calif. fire doubles to 40 percent
By | Associated Press – 1 hr 0 mins ago JUNE 3,13
LANCASTER, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters working in darkness doubled containment of a massive wildfire north of Los Angeles to 40 percent overnight, as cool, moist air moved in Monday to replace torrid weather.
The fire, which has fed on old brush that hasn't burned in decades, did grow, but the moderating weather conditions gave crews the opportunity to make major gains, U.S. Forest Spokesman Matt Correlli said.
Firefighters were able halt the
progress of the fire's northeastern front, which had been moving into
unoccupied desert lands north of Angeles National Forest.Crews remained in place to protect structures in the rural hamlets of
Lake Hughes and Lake Elizabeth, but flames were moving away from
residential areas."The flames really laid down overnight," said Nathan Judy, also of the Forest Service.The blaze has burned about 46 square miles in mountain and canyons areas, destroying at least six houses and damaging 15 more.
The fire was fueled in part by chaparral that was "extremely old and dry" and hadn't burned since 1929, U.S. Forest Service Incident Commander Norm Walker said Sunday at a news conference.More than 2,800 people and 700 homes were under evacuation orders that were expected to last until late Monday or Tuesday.About 2,100 firefighters took on the flames, aided by water-dropping aircraft, including three helicopters that stayed aloft through the night."We're putting everything that we have into this," Walker said.
The cause of the fire was under investigation. Three firefighters had minor injuries, but no one else was hurt.
Winds of about 25 mph and gusting as high as 40 mph had created "havoc" for firefighters for much of Sunday, LA County Deputy Chief David Richardson said.Propelled by the strong winds, the fire jumped an aqueduct west of Lancaster, officials said.George Ladd, 61, said among the structures burned was a cabin at Lake Hughes his family had owned since 1954 but sold just last week. He said he expected it may go up in flames sooner."We had always worried about that thing going off like a bomb," Ladd said.He walked through the ashes of his former cabin and the other destroyed homes Sunday."All of them are nothing," Ladd said by phone from his home in nearby Palmdale later Sunday night. "A few scraps, a few pieces of wood with nails sticking out, but mostly just broken up concrete."Also in the West, two major wildfires are burning in northern New Mexico, though increased humidity and cloud cover has improved conditions.The Thompson Ridge fire near Jemez Springs remains at nearly 3 square miles, according to a Monday morning status report. Forty to 50 houses were evacuated late last week.The Tres Lagunas fire north of Pecos in the Santa Fe National Forest had grown by Sunday evening to nearly 12 square miles, causing smoke to spread across much of the region. It prompted the evacuations of about 140 homes, most of them summer residences.
Gov. Susana Martinez will attend a briefing Monday in Pecos on the Tres Lagunas fire.___Weber reported from Los Angeles. Associated Press writer Andrew Dalton also contributed to this story from Los Angeles.
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,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)
THE FIRST JUDGEMENT OF THE EARTH STARTED WITH WATER-IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THE LAST GENERATION WILL BE HAVING FLOODING
GENESIS 7:6-12
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
GOD PROMISED BY A RAINBOW-THE EARTH WOULD NEVER BE DESTROYED TOTALLY WITH A FLOOD AGAIN.BUT FLOODIING IS A SIGN OF JUDGEMENT.
Worst storms over in East, South but more coming
By | Associated Press – 1 hr 39 mins ago JUNE 3,13
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The remnants of a violent storm that claimed 13 lives in Oklahoma sent punishing winds and torrential downpours to northern New England and a tornado to South Carolina. And there could be more coming, though meteorologists say the worst is over.The National Weather Service
said the work week could begin with storms bringing showers to the
Northeast and mid-Atlantic and large hail and high winds to the Great
Plains.But it won't be like Sunday, when storms flattened trees and utility poles in parts of northern New England, delayed flights in New York City and caused a tornado to touch down in South Carolina.The weather service issued a rare tornado warning
as a line of thunderstorms raced through New Hampshire into western
Maine. It said a tornado warning was issued as radar indicated a
possible tornado moving from Kingfield, Maine, to Bingham, Maine. The
tornado was not immediately confirmed.
By early Monday, nearly 12,000 customers were still without power in
Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine, down from more than 40,000 outages at
the peak.Weather service meteorologist Bill Goodman said a slow-moving cold
front across the Northeast and mid-Atlantic could bring more rain on
Monday. "We could get repeat showers over the same areas. It's a recipe
for flooding," he said.In northwestern South Carolina, a tornado knocked a home off its foundation and blew part of the roof off, said Taylor Jones,
director of emergency management for Anderson County. Some trees were
blown down and there was heavy rain, but no widespread damage. No
injuries were reported."It was an isolated incident," Jones said.The stormy weather in the New York City region shortened the Boston Red Sox-New York Yankees game to 5½ innings and produced backups at major airports. But by early Monday, delays were down to 15 minutes or less at airports on the East Coast.Patrick Herb, 34, was traveling from Washington Dulles International Airport with his 1- and 3-year-olds to his home in Wisconsin, and had his departure time for a connecting flight in Detroit moved back three times. He described the mood at Dulles as "frustration and fatigue."In other parts of the South, thunderstorms, high winds and hail rolled through as part of a slow-moving cold front.In Texas, the Coast Guard said its crews saved or helped rescue 17 people caught in storms along the Gulf Coast. Lt. Matthew J. Walter of Coast Guard Sector Houston/Galveston cited "the devastating effects of strong winds and heavy rains" as the reason for three separate boats capsizing.
Meanwhile, residents in Oklahoma cleaned up after the storms there killed 13 people, including three veteran storm chasers. Tim Samaras; his son, Paul Samaras; and Carl Young were killed Friday. The Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla., said the men were involved in tornado research.Authorities said five children and two adults remained missing and aren't expected to be found alive.Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin toured damage in El Reno, about 30 miles from Oklahoma City. She said the death toll could rise as emergency workers continue searching flooded areas for missing residents.The state Medical Examiner's Office spokeswoman Amy Elliott said the death toll had risen to 13 from Friday's EF3 tornado, which charged down a clogged Interstate 40 in the western suburbs. Among the dead were two children — an infant sucked out of the car with its mother and a 4-year-old boy who along with his family had sought shelter in a drainage ditch.In Arkansas, five people died in flash flooding late Thursday and early Friday in the rugged Ouachita Mountains near Y City, 125 miles west of Little Rock, authorities said Monday.In Missouri, areas west of St. Louis received significant damage from an EF3 tornado Friday that packed estimated winds of 150 mph. In St. Charles County, at least 71 homes were heavily damaged and 100 had slight to moderate damage, county spokeswoman Colene McEntee said.Northeast of St. Louis, the town of Roxana, Ill., also saw damage from an EF3 tornado. Weather service meteorologist Jayson Gosselin said it wasn't clear whether the damage in Missouri and Illinois came from the same twister or separate ones.Five tornadoes struck the Oklahoma City metro area on Friday, the weather service said. Fallin said Sunday that 115 people were injured.The storms formed out on the prairie west of Oklahoma City, giving residents plenty of advance notice. When told to seek shelter, many ventured out and snarled traffic across the metro area — perhaps remembering when a tornado hit Moore on May 20 and killed 24 people.Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper Betsy Randolph said roadways quickly became congested with the convergence of rush-hour traffic and fleeing residents."They had no place to go, and that's always a bad thing. They were essentially targets just waiting for a tornado to touch down," Randolph said. "I'm not sure why people do that sort of stuff, but it is very dangerous."___Associated Press writers Thomas Peipert in Denver, Jim Suhr in St. Louis, Sean Murphy in El Reno, Okla., Tom McElroy in New York and AP Radio correspondent Julie Walker contributed to this report.
