KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.
REBUILT 3RD TEMPLE (THE EU DICTATORS TEMPLE)
ISAIAH 30:10-15
10 Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
12 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
14 And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters’ vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.
15 For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.
16 But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.
REVELATION 11:1-2
1 And there was given me a(MEASURING) reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
2 But the court which is without the temple leave out,(TO THE WORLD NATIONS) and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.(JERUSALEM DIVIDED BUT THE 3RD TEMPLE ALLOWED TO BE REBUILT)
DANIEL 9:27
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
GET USED TO IT WORLD THE 3RD TEMPLE WHEN REBUILT WILL BE SACRIFICING TO JESUS.ANIMAL SACRIFICES WILL BE DONE.
Israel has summoned the Polish ambassador to Jerusalem to register a formal protest against that nation’s ban against ritual slaughter (shechitah).
In a harsh statement condemning the decision of a foreign democratic nation, Israel’s Foreign Ministry said “Israel is disappointed that Poland has chosen to forbid an important religious ritual which has been common practice among millions of Jews since ancient times. The Parliament’s decision to reject a bill allowing kosher slaughter in Poland is totally unacceptable," the statement read.“Poland’s history is intertwined with the history of the Jewish People. This decision seriously harms the process of restoring Jewish life in Poland. We are astonished that Poland, of all EU countries, should be the one where kosher slaughter will be forbidden.”
The decision is not “in line with the openness and modernity that democratic Poland boasts,” the statement added.Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein had already sent a letter of protest Sunday to his Polish counterpart after the lower house of the Polish parliament, the Sejm, rejected a government-sponsored bill to enable the contnuation of kosher shechita, or slaughter of animals intended for food.Poland’s Chief Rabbi Michael Schudrich also was not silent over the issue, and threatened on Sunday to resign his post after the parliament voted 222 to 178 to reject a bill that would legalized kosher ritual slaughter.Shechitah has been banned since January 1, when the country’s Constitutional Court deemed the practice a violation of animal rights.
Schudrich warned in a statement to Jewish media that if the legal right of kosher ritual slaughter is not restored, “I will be forced to give up my function... as I would not be able to serve my co-religionists properly.”World Jewish Congress president Ronald S. Lauder added on Friday in a statement that the decision was a “slap in the face of Jews and Muslims alike.” Lauder called it a “bitter blow” for all those who have made efforts to bring about a “renaissance” of Jewish life in Poland. “I am wondering what sort of message those who voted in favour of the ban wanted to send to their non-Christian citizens,” he commented.The ban has been protested by Muslims as well as Jews, because Muslims engage in halal, the practice of ritual slaughter that is similar to shechitah. Moreover, farmers are also protesting the ban, inasmuch as they stand to lose much business, since Poland was a major exporter of kosher meat to other European nations. Sales have been estimated at some half a billion euros per year.
THE ARABS DON'T DARE SHOOT ROCKETS INTO JERUSALEM.THERE INSTANT END WOULD BE NEAR.JUST WATCH THE GAMES USE TRY ARABS.ONE OF THESE DAYS IT WILL BE NUKE AND END FOR GAZA.JUST TEST ISRAEL ENOUGH.
By Chana Ya'ar-First Publish: 7/15/2013, 4:10 PM-israelnationalnews
The Islamist Hamas organization is testing locally-made M75 missiles that can reach Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, according to military sources.
The medium-to-long range missiles were used against Israel by the terrorist organization during last year’s eight-day Pillar of Defense counter terrorist operation in Gaza.The M75s, produced using Iranian technology and assembled with Iranian parts, were fired at the Knesset in Jerusalem, but missed the target. Instead, at least one landed in Gush Etzion, exploding on the outskirts of an Arab village. The locally-produced missiles were also fired at Rishon Letzion.During that conflict, Hamas also fired a number of Iranian Fajr-5 missiles (range: up to 47 miles or 75 kilometers) at Tel Aviv and Rishon Letzion, missing the mark in most cases. These missiles were also manufactured with Iranian technology and parts. One struck a residential building in Rishon Letzion, causing severe damage to the structure and physically wounding two people. Many others were traumatized in the attack.Children in Jerusalem near the Temple Mount later built a snow model of the M75 missile that had terrorized their lives just a few weeks earlier, instead of building the typical snow man or snow cave. Although many saw the move as the glorification of the missile and its murderous mission, for most children it was more likely a means of processing the terror of being at the business end of a missile attack over which they had no control, New York-based trauma specialist Dr. Simone Gordon told Arutz Sheva on Monday.However, such is not the case in Gaza where “M75 perfume” is still the latest fashion hit to strike the region, with brisk sales at one of the most expensive shops in Gaza City that features the scent that was named for the missile.
Hundreds of Jews came to the Temple Mount Monday in honor of Tisha B'Av, the anniversary of the destruction of the two Jewish Temples by the Babylonian and Roman empires respectively.But their visit was cut short as Muslim worshippers physically blocked them and appeared to be preparing a riot.
Michael Fua, of the Jewish Leadership faction of the Israeli Likud Party, was at the Mount.“Today, on the eve of Tisha B'Av, the Israel Police failed do discharge its duties again,” Fua accused. “Hundreds of Jews who came to the Mount from all parts of the Land of Israel, were kept waiting for a long time at the entrance to the Mount, at the only gate where Jews are allowed to pass, while hundreds of Muslims entered from the other gates without any check or delay."As the third group that the police allowed inside entered the Mount, many Muslims began to gather and shout. As usual, instead of preventing the rioters from ascending to the Mount and grouping together, the police quickly informed the Jewish pilgrims that it will not allow them to carry out a full tour of the Mount, and quickly made them leave through the nearest gate.”Fua, who videotaped the event, explained: “The video shows Dr. Yoel Elitzur and some of the ascenders, faced by the Muslim mob that is familiar to us from the previous days. It s amazing to see how the Israel Police plays into the hands of the Muslim rioters, and actually encourages them to threaten and run amok."This scenario is one that is known in advance and it is time that the police change their behavior, so that the scenario may change, too.”
"Freedom of religion"
This latest incident comes as Likud-Beyteinu MK Moshe Feiglin challenges a ban preventing him from ascending the Temple Mount.In the letter to Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein, Feiglin said the ban was in contradiction to three basic laws: the Jerusalem Basic Law, the Knesset Basic Law and the Basic Law on Human Dignity and Freedom. Feiglin also claimed the prohibition went against the freedom-of-religion clauses of the Declaration of Independence.The Temple Mount is Judaism's holiest site, where the two holy Temples once stood before being destroyed by the Babylonian and Roman empires respectively. This Tuesday marks the anniversary of the destruction of both temples (which occurred on the same day in the Hebrew calendar - the 9th of Av).Despite its supreme importance to Jews worldwide, Jews are subject to draconian limitations on the Mount, including a ban on praying, due to the presence of an Islamic complex, administered by the Waqf Islamic Trust, and threats by Islamist groups. The Israeli police are able to bypass court decisions upholding the Jewish right to prayer there by citing unspecifiied "security concerns", either to ban individual activists or even to issue blanket prohibitions on Jews ascending at all.Religious Jews are followed closely by Israeli police and Waqf guards to prevent them from praying, or from carrying out any other religious rituals.Non-Jewish visitors are not subject to such restrictions.Apart from pressuring authorities to ban Jewish prayer, the Waqf has also been accused of destroying Jewish artefacts on the mount, in a concerted effort to Islamize the site and deny all Jewish connection to it.Palestinian Media Watch, an NGO set up to monitor extremism within the Palestinian media, reports regularly on what it claims is a campaign by the Palestinian Authority and Islamist groups to erase the Jewish connection to Jerusalem entirely.
ISAIAH 17:1,11-14
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
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 evening tide trouble; and before the morning he is not.(ASSAD) This is the portion of them that spoil us,(ISRAEL) and the lot of them that rob us.
JEREMEIAH 49:23-27
23 Concerning Damascus.(SYRIA) Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea;(WAR SHIPS WITH NUKES COMING ON SYRIA) it cannot be quiet.
24 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
27 And I will kindle a fire (NUKES OR BOMBS) in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.(ASSADS PALACES POSSIBLY IN DAMASCUS)
EGYPT
ISAIAH 19:1-5
1 The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
2 And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
4 And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts.
5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
JEREMIAH 47:1-7
1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines,(PALESTINIAN/ARABS) before that Pharaoh smote Gaza.
2 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north,(NORTHERN TSUNAMI POSSIBLY) and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.
3 At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses,(ISRAELS ARMY) at the rushing of his chariots, and at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to their children for feebleness of hands;(ISRAEL POSSIBLY NUKES GAZA)
4 Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines,(PALESTINIAN FAKE ARABS) and to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that remaineth: for the LORD will spoil the Philistines, the remnant of the country of Caphtor.
5 Baldness is come upon Gaza;(NUKED POSSIBLY) Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?
6 O thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.
7 How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD hath given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? (MEDITTERANEAN SEA) there hath he appointed it.
DANIEL 11:40-43
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south ( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS-MUSLIMS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them,(BEFORE THE NUKE GOES OFF) and behind them a desolate wilderness;(AFTER THE ATOMIC BOMB GOES OFF) yea, and nothing shall escape them.(EVERYTHING NUKED)
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,ARAB,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate,(SIBERIAN DESERT) with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(FOR COMING AGAINST ISRAEL)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
JEREMIAH 8:7
7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times;(MIGRATION TIME) and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming;(IN MIGRATION SEASON) but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.(WW3 MIGRATING BIRDS EAT ISRAELS ENEMIES FLESH AND BLOOD)
By Khaled Yacoub Oweis-july 15,13
AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian troops backed by tanks and artillery moved into a rebel-held district of Damascus on Monday, stepping up efforts to drive opposition fighters from the capital and build on battlefield gains elsewhere in the country, a rebel commander said.Opposition sources said troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad advanced into the neighborhood of Qaboun after subjecting the Sunni Muslim district to heavy shelling. Two adjacent rebel-held neighborhoods have been under sustained fire in recent weeks to cut off the movement of rebel fighters.Diplomats and security sources said Assad appeared intent on securing the capital from rebels that pose a threat to his troops, who are dug into positions in the centre of the city.Backed by guerrillas from the Lebanese Shi'ite group Hezbollah, Assad has recaptured important regions in central Syria in the past two months, linking Damascus to his Alawite heartland on the coast. His troops now appear focused on eliminating the rebel threat to the capital.Assad's gains, after more than two years of a war that has killed more than 90,000 people, come amid growing signs of rebel infighting that has pitted Islamist fighters against the Western- and Arab-backed Free Syrian Army.In Qaboun, Republican Guards troops detained hundreds of people in public places to prevent rebel fighters from hitting government troops as they breached rebel defenses and entered the district, activists said.There was no immediate comment on the fighting from the Syrian government and Reuters was not able to verify opposition accounts.
REPUBLICAN GUARDS
Qaboun contains an industrial area through which rebels had been linking up with opposition units in the north-eastern suburb of Harasta.Republican Guards units overran the industrial area and besieged Qaboun with T-72 tanks while units on high ground in the centre of the capital hit Qaboun with rockets and artillery, according to a rebel commander there."They made inroads into Qaboun. We are still on the high buildings but they took lots of civilians to prevent us from hitting them," said Mohammad Abu al-Hoda of the Free Syrian Army.He said the hostages were being held in a mosque and two schools.The Qaboun Coordination Committee, an activist group, said at least 60 people had been killed in Qaboun over the last few days by the shelling and subsequent clashes.A working class district, Qaboun was one of the first areas of Damascus to demonstrate against four decades of rule by Assad and his late father before becoming a centre of armed resistance after security forces killed dozens of Sunni Muslim protesters.The conflict has taken on a sectarian dimension seen elsewhere in Syria, with Sunni Qaboun pitted against an adjacent neighborhood inhabited by members Assad's Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam that has dominated the state since the 1960s.
The opposition Syrian National Coalition said in a statement that 200 people were trapped in a mosque in Qaboun and 40,000 civilians in Qaboun and nearby Barzeh have been under siege for the last seven months and face the threat of being wiped out by indiscriminate shelling.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a pro-opposition monitoring group, said that the detained residents were able to flee the mosque on Saturday. But it said locals were struggling to cope with shortages of food and medicine and the presence of snipers.
(Editing by Giles Elgood)
By Maggie Fick and Yasmine Saleh | Reuters – 30 minutes ago-july15,13
CAIRO (Reuters) - The first senior U.S. official to visit Egypt
since the army toppled its elected president was snubbed by both
Islamists and their opponents on Monday.Deputy Secretary of State William Burns arrived in a divided capital
where both sides are furious at the United States, the superpower which
supports Egypt with $1.5 billion in annual aid, mostly for the army
that deposed Islamist President Mohamed Mursi two weeks ago.Crisis in the Arab world's most populous state, which has a peace
treaty with Israel and controls the strategic Suez Canal, has alarmed
allies in the region and the West. Thousands of supporters of the ousted
leader took to the streets on Monday.Washington, never comfortable with the rise of Mursi's Muslim
Brotherhood, has so far refused to say whether it views Mursi's removal
as a coup, which would require it to halt aid.The State Department said Burns would meet "civil society groups" as
well as government officials, but the Islamist Nour Party and the
Tamarud anti-Mursi protest movement both said they had turned down
invitations to meet Burns."First, they need to acknowledge the new system," Tamarud founder
Mahmoud Badr said of the Americans. "Secondly, they must apologize for
their support for the Muslim Brotherhood's party and terrorism. Then we
can think about it," he told Reuters.In a further slight, Badr posted a copy of his invitation, including the U.S. embassy's telephone number, on the Internet.
Nour, sometime allies of Mursi's Brotherhood who have accepted the army takeover, said they had rejected meeting Burns because of "unjustified" U.S. meddling in Egypt's affairs.The Brotherhood's political party said it had no meeting planned with Burns. It was not immediately clear whether it was invited. While its opponents accuse Washington of backing Mursi, the Brotherhood suspects U.S. involvement in his removal.
PROTESTS
Burns did meet Adli Mansour, a judge installed as interim president by the army, and Hazem el-Beblawi, a liberal economist named interim prime minister. Beblawi is setting up a temporary cabinet staffed mainly by technocrats to lead the country under a "road map" foreseeing elections in about six months.Islamists, who have maintained a vigil demanding Mursi be reinstated, called a mass protest for Monday. Demonstrations in Cairo have been largely peaceful for the past week after at least 92 people were killed in the days after Mursi was toppled.Two rows of armored personnel carriers were in place near the mosque square in northeast Cairo where Mursi supporters have maintained their vigil. Barbed wire was blocking the street leading from the protest site to the Republican Guard barracks, scene of the worst violence a week ago when uniformed snipers were filmed firing from the rooftops into crowds.As thousands of protesters assembled on Monday, a group of women clapped and chanted: "Down with the military regime! Down with the dictator! President Mursi, no one else!"Demonstrators fasting for the holy month of Ramadan rested in the shadow of tents reading the Koran. Army helicopters had flown above overnight, dropping fliers exhorting the crowd to renounce violence and end their sit-in.Abdel Khalid Abu Zeinia, a 50-year-old accountant camped at the square for 11 days in support of Mursi, said of Burns's visit: "America works against the Egyptian people's interests. America's only concern is its interests, and Israel's. America offers only words, not practical support to democracy."If Burns drove through downtown a few miles away, he might have seen a giant banner with a portrait of U.S. ambassador Anne Patterson and the message "Go home, witch!". It was hung by Mursi's foes, who are as angry with America as his supporters.
INCOMMUNICADO
Mursi is being held incommunicado at an undisclosed location.He has not been charged with a crime but the authorities say they are investigating him over complaints of inciting violence, spying and wrecking the economy. Scores of Mursi supporters were rounded up after violence last week.Most of the top Brotherhood leaders have been charged with inciting violence but are still at large with the police not following through on arrest warrants.Mursi's foes have also called for a demonstration on Monday, but their rallies have become sparsely attended since they achieved their objective of bringing him down.Beblawi has been naming ministers for his interim cabinet, including a former ambassador to the United States as foreign minister, a sign of the importance Cairo places in its relationship with its superpower sponsor.U.S.-educated economist Ahmed Galal, as finance minister, has the task of rescuing an economy and state finances wrecked by two and a half years of turmoil.That task became easier, at least in the short term, after Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait, Arab states happy at the downfall of the Brotherhood, promised a total of $12 billion in cash, loans and fuel.The new planning minister, Ashraf al-Arabi, an economist who also served in that role for a time under Mursi, said the Arab money would be enough to sustain Egypt through its transition period, and it was "not appropriate" now for Egypt to restart talks with the International Monetary Fund.Egypt had sought $4.8 billion in IMF aid last year, but months of talks ran aground with the government unable to agree steep cuts in unaffordable food and fuel subsidies. Arabi's comments could worry investors who want IMF talks as a spur to prod Egypt to make economic reforms."It think it's inappropriate to be making such a strong statement, given how new he is to the position," Angus Blair, president of Signet Institute, an economic think-tank for the Middle East and North Africa, said of Arabi's remarks."I think it would encourage all investors if the IMF funding and its additional contingent aid would be viewed as part of the overall financial equation for Egypt. There's so much to be done to boost economic growth."Beblawi also placed a police general in charge of the supply ministry which manages the huge distribution network for subsidized goods, a sign the government may focus on cleaning up a notoriously corrupt system.
U.S. CRITICISED
A lack of clarity over the U.S. position has fuelled anti-Americanism on both sides. U.S. ambassador Patterson angered Mursi's enemies in the weeks before he was ousted by emphasizing his electoral legitimacy and discouraging protests against him.Last week, the State Department further muddied the waters by saying Mursi's rule was undemocratic, a comment interpreted in Cairo as implying his removal was legitimate. Washington has also called for him to be freed and political detentions halted."The goal of his trip is to engage with and hear directly from interim Egyptian officials and civil society as part of our ongoing efforts to see Egypt transition to an inclusive, pluralistic, democratically elected civilian government," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said ahead of Burns's trip.The interim authorities say the new government is open to all, including even the Brotherhood, an invitation spurned by Mursi's backers who refuse to have any dealings with "usurpers".The political turmoil and unrest in major cities has also fuelled violence in Egypt's lawless North Sinai province bordering Israel and the Palestinian Gaza Strip, where Islamist militants have called for people to rise up against the army.A series of attacks in the area have claimed at least 13 lives, mainly security personnel, since July 3. In the latest assault, suspected militants fired rocket-propelled grenades at a bus carrying workers from a cement factory in the Sinai city of El Arish, killing three and wounding 17.(Additional reporting by Peter Graff, Shadia Nasralla, Noah Browning, Ulf Laessing, Ali Abdelaty, Patrick Werr and Mike Collett-White in Cairo and Arshad Mohammed in Washington; Writing by Peter Graff; Editing by Alastair Macdonald)
july 15,13
CAIRO (Reuters) - At least three people were killed and 17
wounded when suspected militants fired rocket-propelled grenades at a
bus carrying workers in Egypt's North Sinai province early on Monday,
security and medical sources said.Witnesses said the attackers
shouted "Allahu akbar!" (God is greatest) after hitting the vehicle in
the city of El Arish, at the center of a sharp rise in Islamist militant
attacks since Egypt's President Mohamed Mursi was ousted by the
military on July 3.Egypt's army said a "terrorist group" had
meant to hit a police vehicle but missed and hit the bus instead. The
military statement on its spokesman's Facebook page said the attack took
place on the road to El Arish.Hardline Islamist groups based in
North Sinai, a lawless region bordering Israel and the Gaza Strip, have
intensified attacks on police and soldiers over the past two years,
exploiting a security vacuum following the 2011 uprising that ousted
autocratic President Hosni Mubarak.The violence has spiked again
since Mursi's overthrow, and militants have attacked security
checkpoints and other targets on an almost daily basis, killing at least
13 people and wounding dozens.Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood suggested the increase in violence could have been be engineered by the army itself."We do not rule out that the violence on the ground in beloved Sinai
are contrived events," said Brotherhood spokesman Ahmed Aref in a
statement posted online."Incidents of violence against civilians
and the police and the army in Sinai are the work of the intelligence
service intended to distort ... revolutionary peaceful protests by our
people in Sinai against the military coup," senior Brotherhood leader
Essam El-Erian said in a statement posted on his Facebook page.No one was immediately available from the army to respond to the accusation.The workers on the bus attacked on Monday were employed at a cement factory, said security sources.(Reporting by Yusri Mohamed in Ismailia and Yasmine Saleh, Shadia
Nasralla and Ali Abdelaty in Cairo; Writing by Mike Collett-White;
Editing by Christopher Wilson and Andrew Heavens)
EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH(BECAUSE OF SIN AND GODLESS PEOPLE)
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
HOSEA 4:1-3
1 Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
At least 200 people have been forced to leave their homes after a volcano in Ecuador erupted and spewed ash miles into the air.The "strong explosion" at the Tungurahua volcano could be felt hundreds of miles away, the Geophysics Institute reported.It spewed stones, gases and ash more than 5km (3.1 miles) into the sky, authorities said.The clouds of ash and gas could be seen as far away as the capital Quito, about 153km (95 miles) north of the volcano.There were no reported deaths, according to local media.Authorities declared an "orange alert", the second highest warning
level after red, following the eruption at 6.47am local time on Sunday.Villages near the volcano on the eastern Andean range were evacuated,
said Lourdes Mayorga from the National Risk Management Secretariat.Some residents had problems leaving because of the volcanic rocks and minor flooding following heavy rains.After remaining dormant for eight decades, Tungurahua - which means
"throat of fire" - rumbled back to life in 1999 and has been active ever
since.
FAMINE
EZEKIEL 5:16
16 When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:
REVELATION 6:5-6
5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.(A DAYS WAGES FOR A LOAF OF BREAD)
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
By Polina Devitt and Maha El Dahan-july 15,13
MOSCOW/ABU DHABI (Reuters) - Russia's Agriculture ministry offered to hold discussions on possible humanitarian deliveries of wheat to Egypt, a reversal of policy that Egyptian officials and traders interpreted as a sign of political support.Egypt, the world's biggest wheat importer, has less than two months' supply of imported wheat left in its stocks, ousted President Mohamed Mursi's minister of supplies said last week.
"We need to discuss questions related to humanitarian aid deliveries to Egypt with the world community ... There have been no requests (from Egypt) yet," Russia's Deputy Agriculture Minister Ilya Shestakov told a news briefing in Moscow on Monday.Shestakov's remark appeared to be a reversal of policy since Russia rejected a request from former president Mursi in April when he visited Moscow for help securing supplies of vital commodities on concessionary terms.Officials and traders in Egypt saw the proposal as a political statement to help support Egypt at a time that a military-backed interim government is taking over.
"Politics has entered into economics here," a source in Egyptian government said."The previous government, before the mass protests of June 30 and the events that followed, had tried to get some kind of wheat aid from Russia but was refused, and now that the situation has changed, this is a political statement more than anything," he added.The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Egyptian government source said Egypt, meanwhile, was not in urgent need of wheat aid after receiving financial help from Gulf countries.Since the army ousted Mursi last week, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait have promised $12 billion in cash, loans and fuel, which economists say buys Cairo several months to fix its finances.Abdolreza Abbassian, a senior FAO economist said, "We do not see any urgent disruption in the food chain as a result of the domestic political problem for the time being."
BIG COMMERCIAL SUPPLIER
Even so, a Cairo-based trader said that from the market point of view, if Russia supplies wheat aid for free or as a long-term financing, Egypt will definitely accept it."Right now economically, with the money from the Gulf, Egypt is in a better position compared with two weeks ago," the trader added.The idea that Russia could send wheat as humanitarian aid came as a surprise also because of Russia's status as a big commercial supplier to Egypt and the fact that its own wheat stocks are low after last year's drought."It wouldn't make much sense really, because the wheat trade is in the hands of the private sector rather than the government, unless they have some old crop wheat that they would like to give as aid when they are cleaning up their silos," a second Cairo-based trader said.As of last week, Egypt, which usually imports about 10 million tons a year, with Russia as a major supplier, had just 500,000 tons of imported wheat left. [ID:nL6N0FH3YJ] The government's total stocks including wheat from the domestic crop amounted to about 3.5 million tons.
Earlier this month, Egypt bought 180,000 tons from Romania and Ukraine on the international market on commercial terms for delivery in early August.Grain traders expect Egypt's state grain buyer, the General Authority for Supply Commodities (GASC) to issue a new tender to purchase wheat soon, although GASC's vice chairman said last week that high prices and availability of stocks made that unlikely.The Russian government, meanwhile, plans to start buying grain on the domestic market to replenish state stocks after the end of harvesting campaign in late September or October, Shestakov said. Officials said previously that Russia might buy 6 million tons of grain for its stocks this year.Taking into account state restocking campaign and low carryover stocks, Russia's supply and demand balance of grain will be tight this 2013/14 marketing year, which started on July 1, Shestakov said.He kept the ministry's 2013 grain crop forecast unchanged at 95 million tons and said that from this amount 71 million tons would be used to cover domestic demand. He pegged the 2013/14 exportable grain surplus at 20 million tons.(Additional reporting by Sarah McFarlane in Cairo and Agnieszka Flak in Milan; Writing by Polina Devitt and Lidia Kelly; Editing by Douglas Busvine and Jane Baird)
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.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India officially declared on Monday
that nearly 6,000 people were missing a month after flash floods ravaged
large parts of its northern state of Uttarakhand, but stopped short of
saying they were presumed dead.The figure of 5,748, based on tallies of missing persons from around
the country, was the first official estimate following weeks in which
the numbers of dead and missing fluctuated wildly from a few hundred to
several thousand.Their families will now be eligible for financial relief,
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna told a news conference, adding
that his government would pay 150,000 rupees ($2,500) to families in
the state, besides compensation from the federal government."We are not getting into the controversy whether the missing persons
are dead or not," said Bahuguna. "We are abiding by what the families
of the victims say, and if they think that they haven't come back and
have no hope as well, (then) we are providing them monetary relief."The official death toll still stands at 580, an official of the
National Disaster Management Authority told Reuters. More than 4,600 of
the missing in Uttarakhand had come from elsewhere in India, said the
official, who declined to be identified as he was not authorized to
speak to the media.Record rains in June caused devastating landslides and flooded
rivers in Uttarakhand, trapping tens of thousands of Hindu devotees, who
flock there each year on a pilgrimage to the temple towns of Kedarnath,
Gangotri, Badrinath and Yamunotri.The rains buried villages in silt and washed away roads, while raging rivers like the Ganges swept away homes on their banks.The disaster, dubbed a "Himalayan tsunami" by officials and media,
prompted one of the largest airlifts in the history of the Indian air
force, as helicopters flew hundreds of sorties to rescue residents and
pilgrims and drop thousands of kilograms of relief material.More than 100,000 people were rescued by the air force and security force personnel on the ground, officials said.($1=59.9250 Indian rupees)(Refile to fix typo in name of pilgrim town Badrinath in paragraph 6)(Additional reporting by Nita Bhalla,; Writing by Sruthi Gottipati, Editing by Ross Colvin and Clarence Fernandez)
REBUILT 3RD TEMPLE (THE EU DICTATORS TEMPLE)
ISAIAH 30:10-15
10 Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
12 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
14 And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters’ vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.
15 For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.
16 But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.
REVELATION 11:1-2
1 And there was given me a(MEASURING) reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
2 But the court which is without the temple leave out,(TO THE WORLD NATIONS) and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.(JERUSALEM DIVIDED BUT THE 3RD TEMPLE ALLOWED TO BE REBUILT)
DANIEL 9:27
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
GET USED TO IT WORLD THE 3RD TEMPLE WHEN REBUILT WILL BE SACRIFICING TO JESUS.ANIMAL SACRIFICES WILL BE DONE.
Israel Summons Polish Ambassador Over Shechitah Ban
Poland's
ambassador was summoned to Jerusalem to register a formal protest
against that nation’s ban against ritual slaughter (shechitah).-By Chana Ya'ar-First Publish: 7/15/2013, 5:45 PM-inn
Polish Amb. Jacek Chodorowic meets Pres.Peres-Flash 90
In a harsh statement condemning the decision of a foreign democratic nation, Israel’s Foreign Ministry said “Israel is disappointed that Poland has chosen to forbid an important religious ritual which has been common practice among millions of Jews since ancient times. The Parliament’s decision to reject a bill allowing kosher slaughter in Poland is totally unacceptable," the statement read.“Poland’s history is intertwined with the history of the Jewish People. This decision seriously harms the process of restoring Jewish life in Poland. We are astonished that Poland, of all EU countries, should be the one where kosher slaughter will be forbidden.”
The decision is not “in line with the openness and modernity that democratic Poland boasts,” the statement added.Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein had already sent a letter of protest Sunday to his Polish counterpart after the lower house of the Polish parliament, the Sejm, rejected a government-sponsored bill to enable the contnuation of kosher shechita, or slaughter of animals intended for food.Poland’s Chief Rabbi Michael Schudrich also was not silent over the issue, and threatened on Sunday to resign his post after the parliament voted 222 to 178 to reject a bill that would legalized kosher ritual slaughter.Shechitah has been banned since January 1, when the country’s Constitutional Court deemed the practice a violation of animal rights.
Schudrich warned in a statement to Jewish media that if the legal right of kosher ritual slaughter is not restored, “I will be forced to give up my function... as I would not be able to serve my co-religionists properly.”World Jewish Congress president Ronald S. Lauder added on Friday in a statement that the decision was a “slap in the face of Jews and Muslims alike.” Lauder called it a “bitter blow” for all those who have made efforts to bring about a “renaissance” of Jewish life in Poland. “I am wondering what sort of message those who voted in favour of the ban wanted to send to their non-Christian citizens,” he commented.The ban has been protested by Muslims as well as Jews, because Muslims engage in halal, the practice of ritual slaughter that is similar to shechitah. Moreover, farmers are also protesting the ban, inasmuch as they stand to lose much business, since Poland was a major exporter of kosher meat to other European nations. Sales have been estimated at some half a billion euros per year.
THE ARABS DON'T DARE SHOOT ROCKETS INTO JERUSALEM.THERE INSTANT END WOULD BE NEAR.JUST WATCH THE GAMES USE TRY ARABS.ONE OF THESE DAYS IT WILL BE NUKE AND END FOR GAZA.JUST TEST ISRAEL ENOUGH.
Hamas Testing Missiles That Can Reach Jerusalem
Gaza's Hamas rulers are testing locally-produced M75 missiles, according to military sources
Hamas terrorists training in Gaza, Oct. 2012-Flash 90
The medium-to-long range missiles were used against Israel by the terrorist organization during last year’s eight-day Pillar of Defense counter terrorist operation in Gaza.The M75s, produced using Iranian technology and assembled with Iranian parts, were fired at the Knesset in Jerusalem, but missed the target. Instead, at least one landed in Gush Etzion, exploding on the outskirts of an Arab village. The locally-produced missiles were also fired at Rishon Letzion.During that conflict, Hamas also fired a number of Iranian Fajr-5 missiles (range: up to 47 miles or 75 kilometers) at Tel Aviv and Rishon Letzion, missing the mark in most cases. These missiles were also manufactured with Iranian technology and parts. One struck a residential building in Rishon Letzion, causing severe damage to the structure and physically wounding two people. Many others were traumatized in the attack.Children in Jerusalem near the Temple Mount later built a snow model of the M75 missile that had terrorized their lives just a few weeks earlier, instead of building the typical snow man or snow cave. Although many saw the move as the glorification of the missile and its murderous mission, for most children it was more likely a means of processing the terror of being at the business end of a missile attack over which they had no control, New York-based trauma specialist Dr. Simone Gordon told Arutz Sheva on Monday.However, such is not the case in Gaza where “M75 perfume” is still the latest fashion hit to strike the region, with brisk sales at one of the most expensive shops in Gaza City that features the scent that was named for the missile.
Muslim Extremists Force Jews From Temple Mount
Hundreds of pilgrims forced from Judaism's holiest site by Muslim mob. Activist: "Police failed to carry out their duties again"-By Gil Ronen and Ari Soffer-irst Publish: 7/15/2013, 1:46 PM-inn
Hundreds of Jews came to the Temple Mount Monday in honor of Tisha B'Av, the anniversary of the destruction of the two Jewish Temples by the Babylonian and Roman empires respectively.But their visit was cut short as Muslim worshippers physically blocked them and appeared to be preparing a riot.
Michael Fua, of the Jewish Leadership faction of the Israeli Likud Party, was at the Mount.“Today, on the eve of Tisha B'Av, the Israel Police failed do discharge its duties again,” Fua accused. “Hundreds of Jews who came to the Mount from all parts of the Land of Israel, were kept waiting for a long time at the entrance to the Mount, at the only gate where Jews are allowed to pass, while hundreds of Muslims entered from the other gates without any check or delay."As the third group that the police allowed inside entered the Mount, many Muslims began to gather and shout. As usual, instead of preventing the rioters from ascending to the Mount and grouping together, the police quickly informed the Jewish pilgrims that it will not allow them to carry out a full tour of the Mount, and quickly made them leave through the nearest gate.”Fua, who videotaped the event, explained: “The video shows Dr. Yoel Elitzur and some of the ascenders, faced by the Muslim mob that is familiar to us from the previous days. It s amazing to see how the Israel Police plays into the hands of the Muslim rioters, and actually encourages them to threaten and run amok."This scenario is one that is known in advance and it is time that the police change their behavior, so that the scenario may change, too.”
"Freedom of religion"
This latest incident comes as Likud-Beyteinu MK Moshe Feiglin challenges a ban preventing him from ascending the Temple Mount.In the letter to Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein, Feiglin said the ban was in contradiction to three basic laws: the Jerusalem Basic Law, the Knesset Basic Law and the Basic Law on Human Dignity and Freedom. Feiglin also claimed the prohibition went against the freedom-of-religion clauses of the Declaration of Independence.The Temple Mount is Judaism's holiest site, where the two holy Temples once stood before being destroyed by the Babylonian and Roman empires respectively. This Tuesday marks the anniversary of the destruction of both temples (which occurred on the same day in the Hebrew calendar - the 9th of Av).Despite its supreme importance to Jews worldwide, Jews are subject to draconian limitations on the Mount, including a ban on praying, due to the presence of an Islamic complex, administered by the Waqf Islamic Trust, and threats by Islamist groups. The Israeli police are able to bypass court decisions upholding the Jewish right to prayer there by citing unspecifiied "security concerns", either to ban individual activists or even to issue blanket prohibitions on Jews ascending at all.Religious Jews are followed closely by Israeli police and Waqf guards to prevent them from praying, or from carrying out any other religious rituals.Non-Jewish visitors are not subject to such restrictions.Apart from pressuring authorities to ban Jewish prayer, the Waqf has also been accused of destroying Jewish artefacts on the mount, in a concerted effort to Islamize the site and deny all Jewish connection to it.Palestinian Media Watch, an NGO set up to monitor extremism within the Palestinian media, reports regularly on what it claims is a campaign by the Palestinian Authority and Islamist groups to erase the Jewish connection to Jerusalem entirely.
ISAIAH 17:1,11-14
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
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 evening tide trouble; and before the morning he is not.(ASSAD) This is the portion of them that spoil us,(ISRAEL) and the lot of them that rob us.
JEREMEIAH 49:23-27
23 Concerning Damascus.(SYRIA) Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea;(WAR SHIPS WITH NUKES COMING ON SYRIA) it cannot be quiet.
24 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
27 And I will kindle a fire (NUKES OR BOMBS) in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.(ASSADS PALACES POSSIBLY IN DAMASCUS)
EGYPT
ISAIAH 19:1-5
1 The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
2 And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
4 And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts.
5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
JEREMIAH 47:1-7
1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines,(PALESTINIAN/ARABS) before that Pharaoh smote Gaza.
2 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north,(NORTHERN TSUNAMI POSSIBLY) and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.
3 At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses,(ISRAELS ARMY) at the rushing of his chariots, and at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to their children for feebleness of hands;(ISRAEL POSSIBLY NUKES GAZA)
4 Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines,(PALESTINIAN FAKE ARABS) and to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that remaineth: for the LORD will spoil the Philistines, the remnant of the country of Caphtor.
5 Baldness is come upon Gaza;(NUKED POSSIBLY) Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?
6 O thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.
7 How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD hath given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? (MEDITTERANEAN SEA) there hath he appointed it.
DANIEL 11:40-43
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south ( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS-MUSLIMS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them,(BEFORE THE NUKE GOES OFF) and behind them a desolate wilderness;(AFTER THE ATOMIC BOMB GOES OFF) yea, and nothing shall escape them.(EVERYTHING NUKED)
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,ARAB,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate,(SIBERIAN DESERT) with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(FOR COMING AGAINST ISRAEL)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
JEREMIAH 8:7
7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times;(MIGRATION TIME) and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming;(IN MIGRATION SEASON) but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.(WW3 MIGRATING BIRDS EAT ISRAELS ENEMIES FLESH AND BLOOD)
Assad's forces advance into rebel-held district of Damascus
AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian troops backed by tanks and artillery moved into a rebel-held district of Damascus on Monday, stepping up efforts to drive opposition fighters from the capital and build on battlefield gains elsewhere in the country, a rebel commander said.Opposition sources said troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad advanced into the neighborhood of Qaboun after subjecting the Sunni Muslim district to heavy shelling. Two adjacent rebel-held neighborhoods have been under sustained fire in recent weeks to cut off the movement of rebel fighters.Diplomats and security sources said Assad appeared intent on securing the capital from rebels that pose a threat to his troops, who are dug into positions in the centre of the city.Backed by guerrillas from the Lebanese Shi'ite group Hezbollah, Assad has recaptured important regions in central Syria in the past two months, linking Damascus to his Alawite heartland on the coast. His troops now appear focused on eliminating the rebel threat to the capital.Assad's gains, after more than two years of a war that has killed more than 90,000 people, come amid growing signs of rebel infighting that has pitted Islamist fighters against the Western- and Arab-backed Free Syrian Army.In Qaboun, Republican Guards troops detained hundreds of people in public places to prevent rebel fighters from hitting government troops as they breached rebel defenses and entered the district, activists said.There was no immediate comment on the fighting from the Syrian government and Reuters was not able to verify opposition accounts.
REPUBLICAN GUARDS
Qaboun contains an industrial area through which rebels had been linking up with opposition units in the north-eastern suburb of Harasta.Republican Guards units overran the industrial area and besieged Qaboun with T-72 tanks while units on high ground in the centre of the capital hit Qaboun with rockets and artillery, according to a rebel commander there."They made inroads into Qaboun. We are still on the high buildings but they took lots of civilians to prevent us from hitting them," said Mohammad Abu al-Hoda of the Free Syrian Army.He said the hostages were being held in a mosque and two schools.The Qaboun Coordination Committee, an activist group, said at least 60 people had been killed in Qaboun over the last few days by the shelling and subsequent clashes.A working class district, Qaboun was one of the first areas of Damascus to demonstrate against four decades of rule by Assad and his late father before becoming a centre of armed resistance after security forces killed dozens of Sunni Muslim protesters.The conflict has taken on a sectarian dimension seen elsewhere in Syria, with Sunni Qaboun pitted against an adjacent neighborhood inhabited by members Assad's Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam that has dominated the state since the 1960s.
The opposition Syrian National Coalition said in a statement that 200 people were trapped in a mosque in Qaboun and 40,000 civilians in Qaboun and nearby Barzeh have been under siege for the last seven months and face the threat of being wiped out by indiscriminate shelling.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a pro-opposition monitoring group, said that the detained residents were able to flee the mosque on Saturday. But it said locals were struggling to cope with shortages of food and medicine and the presence of snipers.
(Editing by Giles Elgood)
U.S. envoy spurned by both sides on Egypt visit
By Maggie Fick and Yasmine Saleh | Reuters – 30 minutes ago-july15,13Nour, sometime allies of Mursi's Brotherhood who have accepted the army takeover, said they had rejected meeting Burns because of "unjustified" U.S. meddling in Egypt's affairs.The Brotherhood's political party said it had no meeting planned with Burns. It was not immediately clear whether it was invited. While its opponents accuse Washington of backing Mursi, the Brotherhood suspects U.S. involvement in his removal.
PROTESTS
Burns did meet Adli Mansour, a judge installed as interim president by the army, and Hazem el-Beblawi, a liberal economist named interim prime minister. Beblawi is setting up a temporary cabinet staffed mainly by technocrats to lead the country under a "road map" foreseeing elections in about six months.Islamists, who have maintained a vigil demanding Mursi be reinstated, called a mass protest for Monday. Demonstrations in Cairo have been largely peaceful for the past week after at least 92 people were killed in the days after Mursi was toppled.Two rows of armored personnel carriers were in place near the mosque square in northeast Cairo where Mursi supporters have maintained their vigil. Barbed wire was blocking the street leading from the protest site to the Republican Guard barracks, scene of the worst violence a week ago when uniformed snipers were filmed firing from the rooftops into crowds.As thousands of protesters assembled on Monday, a group of women clapped and chanted: "Down with the military regime! Down with the dictator! President Mursi, no one else!"Demonstrators fasting for the holy month of Ramadan rested in the shadow of tents reading the Koran. Army helicopters had flown above overnight, dropping fliers exhorting the crowd to renounce violence and end their sit-in.Abdel Khalid Abu Zeinia, a 50-year-old accountant camped at the square for 11 days in support of Mursi, said of Burns's visit: "America works against the Egyptian people's interests. America's only concern is its interests, and Israel's. America offers only words, not practical support to democracy."If Burns drove through downtown a few miles away, he might have seen a giant banner with a portrait of U.S. ambassador Anne Patterson and the message "Go home, witch!". It was hung by Mursi's foes, who are as angry with America as his supporters.
INCOMMUNICADO
Mursi is being held incommunicado at an undisclosed location.He has not been charged with a crime but the authorities say they are investigating him over complaints of inciting violence, spying and wrecking the economy. Scores of Mursi supporters were rounded up after violence last week.Most of the top Brotherhood leaders have been charged with inciting violence but are still at large with the police not following through on arrest warrants.Mursi's foes have also called for a demonstration on Monday, but their rallies have become sparsely attended since they achieved their objective of bringing him down.Beblawi has been naming ministers for his interim cabinet, including a former ambassador to the United States as foreign minister, a sign of the importance Cairo places in its relationship with its superpower sponsor.U.S.-educated economist Ahmed Galal, as finance minister, has the task of rescuing an economy and state finances wrecked by two and a half years of turmoil.That task became easier, at least in the short term, after Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait, Arab states happy at the downfall of the Brotherhood, promised a total of $12 billion in cash, loans and fuel.The new planning minister, Ashraf al-Arabi, an economist who also served in that role for a time under Mursi, said the Arab money would be enough to sustain Egypt through its transition period, and it was "not appropriate" now for Egypt to restart talks with the International Monetary Fund.Egypt had sought $4.8 billion in IMF aid last year, but months of talks ran aground with the government unable to agree steep cuts in unaffordable food and fuel subsidies. Arabi's comments could worry investors who want IMF talks as a spur to prod Egypt to make economic reforms."It think it's inappropriate to be making such a strong statement, given how new he is to the position," Angus Blair, president of Signet Institute, an economic think-tank for the Middle East and North Africa, said of Arabi's remarks."I think it would encourage all investors if the IMF funding and its additional contingent aid would be viewed as part of the overall financial equation for Egypt. There's so much to be done to boost economic growth."Beblawi also placed a police general in charge of the supply ministry which manages the huge distribution network for subsidized goods, a sign the government may focus on cleaning up a notoriously corrupt system.
U.S. CRITICISED
A lack of clarity over the U.S. position has fuelled anti-Americanism on both sides. U.S. ambassador Patterson angered Mursi's enemies in the weeks before he was ousted by emphasizing his electoral legitimacy and discouraging protests against him.Last week, the State Department further muddied the waters by saying Mursi's rule was undemocratic, a comment interpreted in Cairo as implying his removal was legitimate. Washington has also called for him to be freed and political detentions halted."The goal of his trip is to engage with and hear directly from interim Egyptian officials and civil society as part of our ongoing efforts to see Egypt transition to an inclusive, pluralistic, democratically elected civilian government," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said ahead of Burns's trip.The interim authorities say the new government is open to all, including even the Brotherhood, an invitation spurned by Mursi's backers who refuse to have any dealings with "usurpers".The political turmoil and unrest in major cities has also fuelled violence in Egypt's lawless North Sinai province bordering Israel and the Palestinian Gaza Strip, where Islamist militants have called for people to rise up against the army.A series of attacks in the area have claimed at least 13 lives, mainly security personnel, since July 3. In the latest assault, suspected militants fired rocket-propelled grenades at a bus carrying workers from a cement factory in the Sinai city of El Arish, killing three and wounding 17.(Additional reporting by Peter Graff, Shadia Nasralla, Noah Browning, Ulf Laessing, Ali Abdelaty, Patrick Werr and Mike Collett-White in Cairo and Arshad Mohammed in Washington; Writing by Peter Graff; Editing by Alastair Macdonald)
Three killed in attack on bus in Egypt's Sinai
EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH(BECAUSE OF SIN AND GODLESS PEOPLE)
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
HOSEA 4:1-3
1 Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
Ecuador Volcano Tungurahua Erupts And Explodes
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FAMINE
EZEKIEL 5:16
16 When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:
REVELATION 6:5-6
5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.(A DAYS WAGES FOR A LOAF OF BREAD)
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
Russia urges discussion on providing wheat aid to Egypt
MOSCOW/ABU DHABI (Reuters) - Russia's Agriculture ministry offered to hold discussions on possible humanitarian deliveries of wheat to Egypt, a reversal of policy that Egyptian officials and traders interpreted as a sign of political support.Egypt, the world's biggest wheat importer, has less than two months' supply of imported wheat left in its stocks, ousted President Mohamed Mursi's minister of supplies said last week.
"We need to discuss questions related to humanitarian aid deliveries to Egypt with the world community ... There have been no requests (from Egypt) yet," Russia's Deputy Agriculture Minister Ilya Shestakov told a news briefing in Moscow on Monday.Shestakov's remark appeared to be a reversal of policy since Russia rejected a request from former president Mursi in April when he visited Moscow for help securing supplies of vital commodities on concessionary terms.Officials and traders in Egypt saw the proposal as a political statement to help support Egypt at a time that a military-backed interim government is taking over.
"Politics has entered into economics here," a source in Egyptian government said."The previous government, before the mass protests of June 30 and the events that followed, had tried to get some kind of wheat aid from Russia but was refused, and now that the situation has changed, this is a political statement more than anything," he added.The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Egyptian government source said Egypt, meanwhile, was not in urgent need of wheat aid after receiving financial help from Gulf countries.Since the army ousted Mursi last week, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait have promised $12 billion in cash, loans and fuel, which economists say buys Cairo several months to fix its finances.Abdolreza Abbassian, a senior FAO economist said, "We do not see any urgent disruption in the food chain as a result of the domestic political problem for the time being."
BIG COMMERCIAL SUPPLIER
Even so, a Cairo-based trader said that from the market point of view, if Russia supplies wheat aid for free or as a long-term financing, Egypt will definitely accept it."Right now economically, with the money from the Gulf, Egypt is in a better position compared with two weeks ago," the trader added.The idea that Russia could send wheat as humanitarian aid came as a surprise also because of Russia's status as a big commercial supplier to Egypt and the fact that its own wheat stocks are low after last year's drought."It wouldn't make much sense really, because the wheat trade is in the hands of the private sector rather than the government, unless they have some old crop wheat that they would like to give as aid when they are cleaning up their silos," a second Cairo-based trader said.As of last week, Egypt, which usually imports about 10 million tons a year, with Russia as a major supplier, had just 500,000 tons of imported wheat left. [ID:nL6N0FH3YJ] The government's total stocks including wheat from the domestic crop amounted to about 3.5 million tons.
Earlier this month, Egypt bought 180,000 tons from Romania and Ukraine on the international market on commercial terms for delivery in early August.Grain traders expect Egypt's state grain buyer, the General Authority for Supply Commodities (GASC) to issue a new tender to purchase wheat soon, although GASC's vice chairman said last week that high prices and availability of stocks made that unlikely.The Russian government, meanwhile, plans to start buying grain on the domestic market to replenish state stocks after the end of harvesting campaign in late September or October, Shestakov said. Officials said previously that Russia might buy 6 million tons of grain for its stocks this year.Taking into account state restocking campaign and low carryover stocks, Russia's supply and demand balance of grain will be tight this 2013/14 marketing year, which started on July 1, Shestakov said.He kept the ministry's 2013 grain crop forecast unchanged at 95 million tons and said that from this amount 71 million tons would be used to cover domestic demand. He pegged the 2013/14 exportable grain surplus at 20 million tons.(Additional reporting by Sarah McFarlane in Cairo and Agnieszka Flak in Milan; Writing by Polina Devitt and Lidia Kelly; Editing by Douglas Busvine and Jane Baird)
Madagascar Battling Worst Locust Plague Since 1950s
By Mark Tran, 12 July 2013
Locusts threatening livelihood of 60% of population, and have already destroyed a quarter of Madagascar's food crops
Madagascar is in a race against time to raise enough money to tackle its worst plague of locusts since the 1950s. Locusts have already infested over half of the island's cultivated land and pastures, causing the loss of 630,000 tonnes of rice, corresponding to 25% of food consumption.At least 1.5m hectares (3.7m acres) could be infested by locusts in two-thirds of the country by September, warns the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). Findings from a damage assessment indicate that rice and maize crop losses due to locusts in the mid- and south-western parts of Madagascar vary, on average, from 40% to 70%, reaching up to 100% in some plots.Madagascar's agriculture ministry declared a national disaster in November. The food security and livelihoods of 13 million people are at stake, about 60% of the island's population. Around 9 million people depend directly on agriculture for food and income."We don't have enough funds for pesticide, helicopters and training," said Alexandre Huynh, the FAO's representative in Madagascar. "What is extremely costly is to run helicopters [needed to spray pesticides]. We have to start in September, and we have two to three months to prepare.We need $22.4m [£15.1m] but we are quite short of that. Discussions are going on with donors." MDG Locusts in Madagascar Adults locusts on a rock in Isalo national park, Madagascar. Photograph: Tiphaine Desjardin/FAO
The FAO has been issuing warnings since August last year, calling for financial support. José Graziano da Silva, its director general, said prevention and early action are key: "If we don't act now, the plague could last years and cost hundreds of millions of dollars. This could very well be a last window of opportunity to avert an extended crisis."Control of the locust upsurge would have cost $14.5m (£9.8m) in 2011-12, but the FAO received only half the funding. The timing of this infestation could hardly be worse for Madagascar, which has been in the grip of a political and economic crisis since a coup in 2009, when Andry Rajoelina, the mayor of the capital Antananarivo, seized power.Rajoelina's coup turned Madagascar into a pariah state. The EU, US and other countries suspended aid and the African Union suspended Madagascar's membership until a return to the staMadagascarte of law.The first elections since the coup were scheduled for 24 July, but, faced with sorting out the legitimacy of contested candidates, the government has postponed elections to 23 August.
Poverty has risen sharply in the past five years. According to the World Bank, the proportion of people living below the poverty line - already high before the crisis - may have risen by more than 10 percentage points. With 92% of the population living on $2 a day, Madagascar is one of the world's poorest countries. A subsequent drop in tourism has led people to plunder the forests that sustain the island's biodiversity.
The aid cut-off contributed to the locust crisis as the government allowed its locust surveillance programme to be run down. Those employed by the anti-locust national centre, part of the department of agriculture, to monitor the locust populations in the swamps in the south stopped receiving salaries, and the monitoring programme effectively ground to a halt. Normally, once the locust population starts to rise, people spray pesticide to bring the numbers down to safe levels.MDG A closeup of a locust A closeup of a locust. Photograph: Ministry of Agriculture in Madagascar."When we were aware of the issue, it was too late," said Huynh, who has been in Madagascar since 2009. The FAO has focused on the most important swamps in the south, but managed only to restrain the spread of locusts."There were not enough funds for a full programme. We avoided a major human crisis, but not enough to get rid of the problem, which has reached alarming proportions," he said. The FAO is now looking for funding for an intensive spraying campaign involving three helicopters.Once locust outbreaks get out of hand, the cost can be extremely high.Madagascar's last outbreak in the 1990s took five years to contain and cost $50.6m. The FAO says a three-year programme to return the locust plague to safe levels requires more than $41.5m over the next three years.Norway has agreed to contribute $513,000, and the FAO and Madagascar are in negotiations with the World Bank over a $10m grant.
DISEASES
REVELATION 6:7-8
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).
Madagascar is in a race against time to raise enough money to tackle its worst plague of locusts since the 1950s. Locusts have already infested over half of the island's cultivated land and pastures, causing the loss of 630,000 tonnes of rice, corresponding to 25% of food consumption.At least 1.5m hectares (3.7m acres) could be infested by locusts in two-thirds of the country by September, warns the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). Findings from a damage assessment indicate that rice and maize crop losses due to locusts in the mid- and south-western parts of Madagascar vary, on average, from 40% to 70%, reaching up to 100% in some plots.Madagascar's agriculture ministry declared a national disaster in November. The food security and livelihoods of 13 million people are at stake, about 60% of the island's population. Around 9 million people depend directly on agriculture for food and income."We don't have enough funds for pesticide, helicopters and training," said Alexandre Huynh, the FAO's representative in Madagascar. "What is extremely costly is to run helicopters [needed to spray pesticides]. We have to start in September, and we have two to three months to prepare.We need $22.4m [£15.1m] but we are quite short of that. Discussions are going on with donors." MDG Locusts in Madagascar Adults locusts on a rock in Isalo national park, Madagascar. Photograph: Tiphaine Desjardin/FAO
The FAO has been issuing warnings since August last year, calling for financial support. José Graziano da Silva, its director general, said prevention and early action are key: "If we don't act now, the plague could last years and cost hundreds of millions of dollars. This could very well be a last window of opportunity to avert an extended crisis."Control of the locust upsurge would have cost $14.5m (£9.8m) in 2011-12, but the FAO received only half the funding. The timing of this infestation could hardly be worse for Madagascar, which has been in the grip of a political and economic crisis since a coup in 2009, when Andry Rajoelina, the mayor of the capital Antananarivo, seized power.Rajoelina's coup turned Madagascar into a pariah state. The EU, US and other countries suspended aid and the African Union suspended Madagascar's membership until a return to the staMadagascarte of law.The first elections since the coup were scheduled for 24 July, but, faced with sorting out the legitimacy of contested candidates, the government has postponed elections to 23 August.
Poverty has risen sharply in the past five years. According to the World Bank, the proportion of people living below the poverty line - already high before the crisis - may have risen by more than 10 percentage points. With 92% of the population living on $2 a day, Madagascar is one of the world's poorest countries. A subsequent drop in tourism has led people to plunder the forests that sustain the island's biodiversity.
The aid cut-off contributed to the locust crisis as the government allowed its locust surveillance programme to be run down. Those employed by the anti-locust national centre, part of the department of agriculture, to monitor the locust populations in the swamps in the south stopped receiving salaries, and the monitoring programme effectively ground to a halt. Normally, once the locust population starts to rise, people spray pesticide to bring the numbers down to safe levels.MDG A closeup of a locust A closeup of a locust. Photograph: Ministry of Agriculture in Madagascar."When we were aware of the issue, it was too late," said Huynh, who has been in Madagascar since 2009. The FAO has focused on the most important swamps in the south, but managed only to restrain the spread of locusts."There were not enough funds for a full programme. We avoided a major human crisis, but not enough to get rid of the problem, which has reached alarming proportions," he said. The FAO is now looking for funding for an intensive spraying campaign involving three helicopters.Once locust outbreaks get out of hand, the cost can be extremely high.Madagascar's last outbreak in the 1990s took five years to contain and cost $50.6m. The FAO says a three-year programme to return the locust plague to safe levels requires more than $41.5m over the next three years.Norway has agreed to contribute $513,000, and the FAO and Madagascar are in negotiations with the World Bank over a $10m grant.
DISEASES
REVELATION 6:7-8
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).
Cyclospora Parasite Outbreak Taking Place In Iowa And Nebraska
July 15, 2013
Image Caption: Stained micrograph shows four Cyclospora oocysts in a stool sample. Credit: CDC/ DPDx - Melanie Moser
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A rare parasite known as Cyclospora derived from fresh vegetables has sickened nearly 80 people.
The outbreak has climbed from 35 people to 80 in just a week in Midwestern states. So far, Iowa and Nebraska are the only states reporting problems.The parasitic disease spreads through contaminated food and water and can cause unusually long watery diarrhea, which could last up to 57 days if it goes untreated. According to the University of Minnesota, Cyclospora can also cause fatigue, anorexia, bloating, stomach cramps, vomiting, muscle aches, and a low-grade fever.The Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH) said that 45 cases of the parasite have been reported in 15 counties, so far. However, the IDPH said that nearly half of the cases have been reported in Linn County.“Most people’s illness began in mid to late June and at least one person has been hospitalized. Many people report still being ill with diarrhea and some have had relapses,” the IDPH said. “Specific treatment is available (but it is not typically used for more common diarrheal illnesses). Also, very specific laboratory testing (not commonly ordered) must be done to detect Cyclospora.”According to Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services (NDHHS), Nebraska has identified 35 cases.“We’re currently investigating and trying to identify the source of infection,” said Leah Brucco-White, a public information officer for NDHHS.Although health officials haven’t pinpointed the cause of the breakout yet, Iowa’s investigation is pointing to fresh vegetables as the likely culprit. The IDPH said it conducted interviews with patients who have been sick for its investigation. Past Cyclospora outbreaks have been linked to imported produce items like raspberries, basil, snow peas, and mesclun lettuce.Patricia Quinlisk, MD, MPH, medical director for the IDPH, said investigators were conducting follow-up interviews with sick patients. IDHS has discussed case-control studies, but the sample size needed to help identify a specific fruit or vegetable would need to be large.Quinlisk said the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as other experts, recommend that researchers focus on a cluster analysis when sample sizes are small.The IDPH issued an epidemiologic alert to clinicians about the Cyclospora outbreak on July 3, when seven cases had been detected. The agency has advised clinicians to test patients for the parasite if they have diarrhea lasting more than a few days accompanied by anorexia and fatigue.
In the past 20 years, only 10 previous Cyclospora infections have been identified in Iowa.
A rare parasite known as Cyclospora derived from fresh vegetables has sickened nearly 80 people.
The outbreak has climbed from 35 people to 80 in just a week in Midwestern states. So far, Iowa and Nebraska are the only states reporting problems.The parasitic disease spreads through contaminated food and water and can cause unusually long watery diarrhea, which could last up to 57 days if it goes untreated. According to the University of Minnesota, Cyclospora can also cause fatigue, anorexia, bloating, stomach cramps, vomiting, muscle aches, and a low-grade fever.The Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH) said that 45 cases of the parasite have been reported in 15 counties, so far. However, the IDPH said that nearly half of the cases have been reported in Linn County.“Most people’s illness began in mid to late June and at least one person has been hospitalized. Many people report still being ill with diarrhea and some have had relapses,” the IDPH said. “Specific treatment is available (but it is not typically used for more common diarrheal illnesses). Also, very specific laboratory testing (not commonly ordered) must be done to detect Cyclospora.”According to Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services (NDHHS), Nebraska has identified 35 cases.“We’re currently investigating and trying to identify the source of infection,” said Leah Brucco-White, a public information officer for NDHHS.Although health officials haven’t pinpointed the cause of the breakout yet, Iowa’s investigation is pointing to fresh vegetables as the likely culprit. The IDPH said it conducted interviews with patients who have been sick for its investigation. Past Cyclospora outbreaks have been linked to imported produce items like raspberries, basil, snow peas, and mesclun lettuce.Patricia Quinlisk, MD, MPH, medical director for the IDPH, said investigators were conducting follow-up interviews with sick patients. IDHS has discussed case-control studies, but the sample size needed to help identify a specific fruit or vegetable would need to be large.Quinlisk said the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as other experts, recommend that researchers focus on a cluster analysis when sample sizes are small.The IDPH issued an epidemiologic alert to clinicians about the Cyclospora outbreak on July 3, when seven cases had been detected. The agency has advised clinicians to test patients for the parasite if they have diarrhea lasting more than a few days accompanied by anorexia and fatigue.
In the past 20 years, only 10 previous Cyclospora infections have been identified in Iowa.
EARTHQUAKES
ISAIAH 42:15
15 I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
ISAIAH 42:15
15 I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ Worldwide
41 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2013-07-15 11:00:49 UTC-04:00Showing event times using Local System Time (UTC-04:00)- 2.5 173km E of Chitina, Alaska 2013-07-15 10:40:47 UTC-04:00 0.0 km
- 7.3 216km SSE of Bristol Island, South Sandwich Islands 2013-07-15 10:03:42 UTC-04:00 31.3 km
- 4.9 8km NNW of Pimentel, Dominican Republic 2013-07-15 10:02:31 UTC-04:00 24.8 km
- 5.8 89km NE of Hihifo, Tonga 2013-07-15 09:59:03 UTC-04:00 6.2 km
- 3.3 178km E of Chitina, Alaska 2013-07-15 09:53:48 UTC-04:00 1.0 km
- 5.3 75km S of Yonakuni, Japan 2013-07-15 09:41:38 UTC-04:00 31.4 km
- 4.2 178km E of Chitina, Alaska 2013-07-15 09:16:56 UTC-04:00 1.0 km
- 2.6 111km W of Talkeetna, Alaska 2013-07-15 09:13:33 UTC-04:00 133.1 km
- 2.5 11km SSW of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico 2013-07-15 08:15:02 UTC-04:00 6.0 km
- 4.5 259km SE of Lambasa, Fiji 2013-07-15 08:07:59 UTC-04:00 528.8 km
- 4.5 231km E of Ittoqqortoormiit, Greenland 2013-07-15 07:34:26 UTC-04:00 10.0 km
- 4.4 242km E of Ittoqqortoormiit, Greenland 2013-07-15 07:17:33 UTC-04:00 10.0 km
- 2.5 82km SW of Homer, Alaska 2013-07-15 05:46:50 UTC-04:00 73.2 km
- 4.6 Off the coast of Central America 2013-07-15 05:09:37 UTC-04:00 14.6
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.
India says nearly 6,000 missing a month after devastating floods
07/15/2013 VATICAN INSIDER
Francis to spend summer working
Pope Francis
The Pope’s only trip abroad this summer will be to Brazil for the World Youth Day this July. He will be spending August in the Vatican
Giacomo Galeazzi vatican city Yesterday he paid a brief visit to Castel Gandolfo where he will also be going in August, but a part from his visit to Brazil for the World Youth Day celebrations at the end of July, Francis won’t be straying far from home this summer. His choice echoes the general mood of austerity: many faithful will not be going on holiday this summer and neither will the Pope who plans to stay in St. Martha’s House, attend meetings and plan his radical reform of the Roman Curia which will be discussed by Francis’ 8-cardinal commission at their first meeting in October.But the parish of St. Thomas of Villanova in Castel Gandolfo is still hoping for a last minute change of plan. “We will be waiting for him. We feel as though he is part of the family; we see him as a friend we hope to see soon,” said Castel Gandolfo’s parish priest, Pietro Diletti. After his meeting with Benedict XVI on 23 March, Castel Gandolfo was again swarming with people who came for Francis’ second but first public visit.He recited the Angelus prayer before an audience of twenty thousand people and lunched with the Jesuit scientists who work at the Vatican Observatory. He then returned straight to St. Martha’s House. The Pope will not be spending his holiday in “Castello” as Castel Gandolfo is called in local Roman dialect, but will return there on 15 August for the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, to celebrate mass. Curia members pointed out that he never went on holiday even when he was Archbishop of Buenos Aires. Pope Francis’ first World Youth day will say a lot about his relationship with the younger generations, who represent a challenge and a hope for Catholicism in today’s globalised and dechristianised society. World Youth Days, which are the brainchild of the Blessed John Paul II, are more similar to the big inclusive events promoted by Protestants and Pentecostals in Latin America than to the daily mission which the the Argentinean prelate-turned Pope has successfully sought. So WYD 2013 in Rio (22-28 July) promises to be very interesting in terms of helping us interpret the direction of Francis’ pontificate.Francis spoke about Word Youth Day during yesterday’s Angelus, recited in the small town of Castel Gandolfo on Lake Albano, just a short distance from the Italian capital. This will be the first time Latin America welcomes a Latin American Pope for the big international youth gathering, Francis’ first papal visit abroad.The mission is a topic that is very close to Francis’ heart and one he is keen to discuss with the world’s youth (there are 2 million young people expected in Rio). Our Lady of Aparecida, to whom the second most visited shrine in Latin America – after Guadalupe – is dedicated, was also mentioned by the Pope yesterday. Aparecida was the location chosen for the Latin American Episcopal Conference’s last general assembly held in 2007. Aparecida’s concluding document echoes Francis’ message to the clergy, to “go out to find people, not [sit] in the Curia or the presbytery waiting for people to come to us.”Merkel calls for EU data law after US spy affair
Today @ 10:05 JULY 15,13
Berlin - Germany wants stricter EU data
protection rules forcing companies like Facebook and Google to tell
Europeans what they are doing with their data, German Chancellor Angela
Merkel said Sunday (14 July).
"Germany will make it very clear at a meeting of justice and home affairs ministers on Thursday-Friday that we want these companies to tell us who they pass on the data," Merkel told public broadcaster ARD.
"We have a great data protection law here in Germany, but if Facebook is registered in Ireland, then Irish law applies. So we need a unified EU regulation," she said.Talks on renewing EU data protection rules have stalled precisely because member states are unable to agree on this matter, the chancellor added.She also said that her government prefers to wait and see what the verdict of the European Court of Justice is on a controversial EU law obliging telecommunication companies in member states to store phone and internet data for at least six months.Germany has not implemented the law because its top court ruled it was disproportionate."We are open, if changes are needed to this law, they have to be done. The bigger issue however is what happens to data outside our jurisdiction," Merkel said.The revelations that a large secret surveillance programme run by the US government tapped into the servers of companies such as Facebook has put pressure on Merkel to show some initiative ahead of general elections in September in a country where data privacy is more sensitive than in other EU states."We are inquiring whether the US has broken German law. So far, there is no evidence in this regard," Merkel said, while adding that secret services in Germany and the US have a long tradition of cooperating with each other."The end does not justify the means. We expect a clear commitment from the American government for the future that they will stick to German law on German territory," the chancellor said."We have to be able to rely on each other."Her interior minister, Hans-Peter Friedrich, was in Washington last week to seek clarifications. But he was immediately criticised by the opposition as "immensely naive" and as failing to stand up to the Americans.Earlier on Sunday SPD chancellor candidate Peer Steinbrueck accused Merkel of breaking her oath of office over the spy affair."Merkel swore the oath of office to protect the German people from harm. Now it emerges that German citizens' basic rights were massively abused," Steinbrueck told Bild am Sonntag.Meanwhile, the Green and leftist opposition is calling for a standing committee in the German Parliament to investigate how the German secret service, the BND, fed its US counterpart with data, as revealed by the fugitive whistleblower Edward Snowden.The issue is likely to have an impact on the 22 September elections. The latest polls show Merkel's Christian Democrats have lost 1-2 percentage points over the handling of the affair. But they still have a comfortable lead (41%) over the Social Democrats (26%).
"Germany will make it very clear at a meeting of justice and home affairs ministers on Thursday-Friday that we want these companies to tell us who they pass on the data," Merkel told public broadcaster ARD.
"We have a great data protection law here in Germany, but if Facebook is registered in Ireland, then Irish law applies. So we need a unified EU regulation," she said.Talks on renewing EU data protection rules have stalled precisely because member states are unable to agree on this matter, the chancellor added.She also said that her government prefers to wait and see what the verdict of the European Court of Justice is on a controversial EU law obliging telecommunication companies in member states to store phone and internet data for at least six months.Germany has not implemented the law because its top court ruled it was disproportionate."We are open, if changes are needed to this law, they have to be done. The bigger issue however is what happens to data outside our jurisdiction," Merkel said.The revelations that a large secret surveillance programme run by the US government tapped into the servers of companies such as Facebook has put pressure on Merkel to show some initiative ahead of general elections in September in a country where data privacy is more sensitive than in other EU states."We are inquiring whether the US has broken German law. So far, there is no evidence in this regard," Merkel said, while adding that secret services in Germany and the US have a long tradition of cooperating with each other."The end does not justify the means. We expect a clear commitment from the American government for the future that they will stick to German law on German territory," the chancellor said."We have to be able to rely on each other."Her interior minister, Hans-Peter Friedrich, was in Washington last week to seek clarifications. But he was immediately criticised by the opposition as "immensely naive" and as failing to stand up to the Americans.Earlier on Sunday SPD chancellor candidate Peer Steinbrueck accused Merkel of breaking her oath of office over the spy affair."Merkel swore the oath of office to protect the German people from harm. Now it emerges that German citizens' basic rights were massively abused," Steinbrueck told Bild am Sonntag.Meanwhile, the Green and leftist opposition is calling for a standing committee in the German Parliament to investigate how the German secret service, the BND, fed its US counterpart with data, as revealed by the fugitive whistleblower Edward Snowden.The issue is likely to have an impact on the 22 September elections. The latest polls show Merkel's Christian Democrats have lost 1-2 percentage points over the handling of the affair. But they still have a comfortable lead (41%) over the Social Democrats (26%).
