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FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS

REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

S. Calif. fire forces evacuation of mountain town

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GREG RISLING 9 hours ago -JULY 19,13

IDYLLWILD, Calif. (AP) — Artist Lewis Millett didn't need much more than an order to leave his longtime Idyllwild mountain home after seeing 100 foot flames marching toward the mile-high hamlet that draws tourists, summer campers and students to a year-round arts and music school.Millet and his wife scooped up the precious things that matter most from their three-story Southern California home: their two cats, his paintings and sculptures and one of his family's prized heirlooms — his father's Congressional Medal of Honor.Millet was among the 6,000 residents and tourists told to evacuate the community in the San Jacinto Mountains about 100 miles from Los Angeles as the wildfire grew to more than 35 square miles Thursday, wreathing a ridge about 2 to 3 miles from town, fire officials said. The blaze also was 2 miles away from Palm Springs, but no homes were threatened there.It had already destroyed at least six houses and mobile homes and several cars when winds shifted Wednesday and sent the blaze toward Idyllwild."It's never been this bad, and it's never been this close," Millett, 61, said as he sat on a cot in an evacuation center in Hemet, a nearby community. "I have high anxiety."Fire officials said the blaze was just 15 percent contained and had been growing in an atypical manner."Usually it cools down at night and we get more humidity. That hasn't happened," said Tina Rose, a spokeswoman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. "It's been burning like it's daytime for 72 hours in a row."Officials worried about continuing spikes in heat and the huge plume that hovered over the area."What we're concerned about is what you see right here," said U.S Forest Service Fire Chief Jeanne Pincha-Tulley, pointing to a hazy sky. "When you get a column that puts out this much smoke, embers get into the column and can drop anywhere."She added the column was expected to go right over Idyllwild for the next two days. While authorities said only 5 percent of the town rebuffed evacuating, they cautioned they might not be able to help those who remain if conditions worsen.
"We cannot guarantee your safety if the fire runs into town," said Idyllwild Fire Protection District Chief Patrick Reitz.But given the tough conditions and terrain, Forest Service spokesman John Miller said firefighters had made "great progress" by late Thursday night, and evacuations were called off for a few dozen homes in two small communities.The 22,800-acre fire spread in three directions through thick brush and trees. Roughly 4,000 houses, condos, cabins and several hotels in Idyllwild and surrounding communities were threatened. Fire crews struggled to carve fire lines around the town to block the towering flames.
Authorities said the fire was "human-caused" but they wouldn't say whether it was accidental or intentional. There have been no reports of any injuries.The small town on the other side of the mountains that tower over the desert community of Palm Springs is known for the arts and is surrounded by national forest popular with hikers and flanked by two large rocks that are favorites for climbers. Popular campgrounds, hiking trails and 30 mile section of the Pacific Crest Trail that runs 2,650 miles from the Mexican border to Canada were closed."That's going right down the middle of the fire," U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman Norma Bailey said of the trail.Millett packed his car with as many belongings as he could. The Congressional Medal of Honor was bestowed upon his father Col. Lewis Millett in 1951 for leading the last bayonet charge in U.S. history in the Korean War. Other mementos, however, such as autographed photos signed by several U.S. presidents his father had met were left behind.The evacuation center was alive with music Thursday as four teenage French horn players from Idyllwild Arts Academy rehearsed a piece by Austrian composer Anton Bruckner in a courtyard behind the cafeteria. They said they found it relaxing to play in an uncertain moment. On the other side of the building in the shade, a group of counselors picked at guitars and a ukulele."There were a lot of people practicing last night. I took out my piccolo and played a little bit," said Sophia Yurdin, 16, of Los Angeles.Grayson Hall, 17, a counselor at a Center for Spiritual Life camp that rents space from Camp Buckhorn said campers were aware a fire had been burning and were surprisingly calm when first told they had to leave."We had just done an emotional exercise about acknowledging your emotional baggage and letting it go. And right after we finished that, we got word that we had to evacuate. And we had to literally release our baggage," he said.Nearly 3,000 firefighters and more than a dozen aircraft were assigned to the fire. Two large firefighting aircraft were ready to help on request. Temperatures in the area could top 100 degrees.The blaze that began Monday destroyed three houses, damaged another and destroyed three mobile homes, a cabin, a garage and about a half-dozen vehicles, the Forest Service said. Five commercial buildings, 11 other buildings and several smaller structures were also lost."I've lived here for 30 years and built with my own hands," Lawrence Gotta, whose home in Pine Springs Ranch burned to the ground, told ABC News. "Uninsured. Paid for. Everything in the world I own is gone."The fire was about 12 miles from the site of the 2006 Esperanza wildfire that killed five U.S. Forest Service firefighters and destroyed 34 homes and burned an area that hadn't burned in many years."The slightest little spark is going to make a run and torch trees," Rose said. "It's just so bone dry."Firefighters went door-to-door Wednesday to make sure residents were leaving. Residents said they are fully aware of the constant threat of a major wildfire."It's just frightening," said Steve Hamlet, 65, a recent retiree who moved to Idyllwild three years ago. "It's in your bones. You know it's coming and you are hoping and praying it doesn't. It's really a helpless feeling."
___AP reporter Raquel Maria Dillon contributed to this report.

07/18/2013 VATICAN INSIDER

The new digital languages of World Youth Day

The Brazilian flag

Social networks, flash mobs and street art are the new communication channels of the Rio 2013 generation

Giorgio Bernardelli Rome Trying to organise a World Youth Day without using the language of young people is out of the question. A great effort has been made this year to include all forms of expression used by the young people of today in the World Youth Day celebrations about to kick off in Rio de Janeiro.Rio 2013 will be the first social network-oriented World Youth Day to date, with smart phones and tablets just a hand stretch away. Twitter was one of the main tools used by young Brazilians to prepare for the event. But social networks are not the only modern means of communication the organising committee has exploited. Graffiti and flash mobbing also have a part to play.World Youth Day 2013 will be the first to include a graffiti competition, announced several months ago. Thirty young people were selected from the group of applicants who sent in a sketch. Graffitists will have a wall each on which they will be able to give their won personal interpretations of the theme “Art without Borders”. A way for the World Youth Day to leave its mark on the city. The WYD organising committee will provide the young street artists with all the equipment they need to create their masterpieces. A critics’ panel will then choose a winner based on artistic quality, originality and relevance to the designated theme. The papaboy grafitti astists will be competing for a seven day trip to Rome, all expenses paid for.The flash mobbing initiative will involve all the young people gathered in Rio for this big international meeting with the Pope. The flash mob has been organised for Sunday 28 July and will take place in the Campus Fidei the Guaratiba plain where the prayer vigil will be held on the Saturday evening and boys and girls will spend the night, waiting for the final Mass celebration. The flash mob has been planned for Sunday morning, when the Pope arrives and looks to be the biggest ever, given the number of girls and boys who are expected to attend. The official Rio 2013 website has published a video of the choreography danced to the beat of Francisco, the song composed in honour of Pope Francis. The song promises to be a big hit at the prayer vigil on 27 July.In the video, two young people take it in turns to explain the steps “to the world’s biggest flash mob.” A WYD without dancing in the country that is home to samba was unthinkable. But the flash mob is more than just another way to celebrate the young people’s meeting with the Pope. Edson Erdmann, the event’s artistic director, said “the aim of the flash mob is to show that together we can make change happen and that we are able to get a message across to the world.” The purpose of the World Youth Day has always been to express the importance of togetherness, using any kind of language, old and new.

07/18/2013 VATICAN INSIDER

WYD: Bergoglio returns to Latin America

Young pilgrims will be staying in parishes and homes across Rio

Pope Francis faces a number of challenges on his upcoming apostolic visit to Brazil. Cardinal Raymundo Damasceno Assis expresses his hopes ahead of the event

Luca Rolandi Rome The Latin America that will be welcoming Pope Francis for the celebration of World Youth Day 2013, is not the same continent it was a few decades ago. The rise of religious sects and Evangelical Churches and the process of dechristianisation that has been set in motion as a result of the modern lifestyles led by today’s globalised society, mean Latin America is no longer being synonymous with Catholicism.Pope Francis’ visit to Rio to celebrate the event he inherited from Benedict XVI will give us a fundamental insight into the start of his pontificate. The first international visit by the first Latin American Pope in the history of the Catholic Church is to take place in a country that’s till has a strong Catholic presence and where the Church still plays a key role in society.The Pope has added some important events to the original programme put together by Ratzinger: a visit to the shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida, a visit to one of Rio’s favelas and to a hospital that specialises in treating drug addicts and a meeting with the coordinating committee of the Latin American bishops' council, CELAM. This meeting, which is taking place in the fist few months of Francis’ pontificate, is key.These events and his interviews with journalists on the flight to Rio will show us what a Francis-style World Youth Day is like and will reflect his relationship with young people who are the heart of Latin America and represent the future not just of this continent but of the whole world.In a statement to Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, the Metropolitan Archbishop of Aparecida, Cardinal Raymundo Damasceno Assis, said he hoped Francis’ presence among the Brazilian people “would encourage us in the work we do to promote the faith, solidarity and social justice.” “In Rio de Janeiro, we and young people from across the world, will have the chance to get even closer to Francis and take in the spirituality that emanates from his gestures and words.”He is coming here “to confirm his brothers in the faith” which is the task Christ gave Peter before entrusting it to his successors. Francis is going to Rio to encourage young people to align their lives with Jesus Christ, becoming his disciples and missionaries and committing to announcing Christ to all nations.”Brazil’s president, Dilma Roussef has invited all Latin American presidents to participate in the WYD events the Pope is scheduled to attend. It is not known how many will accept the invitation and many have in fact already met the Pope, but the initiative shows Latin America’s enormous interest in Pope Francis’ first visit abroad.The Pope does not seem concerned about the protests over the expenditure incurred in order to host the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics: "We are going with total peace of mind, knowing that these events do not have anything specific against the Pope or the Church and having total confidence in the ability of the Brazilian authorities to handle the situation," said Vatican spokesman Fr. Federico Lombardi.Before being elected Pope, the then Archbishop of Buenos Aires tried to introduce an urban pastoral care plan in his diocese, based on the missionary path set out by Latin America’s bishops at their meeting in  Aparecida in 2007.Bergoglio believes strongly in the importance of going outside churches and experiencing first hand the issues that are troubling big Latin American cities. These issues include the need to educate the poor, dealing with violence which threatens all social classes and fighting against corruption which is particularly devastating when it permeates political and institutional elites.As a bishop Francis’ retained the same pastoral sensitivity he showed as a priest. This sensitivity has brought him closer to poverty and Latin America’s troubles: His visit to the Varginha favela and the hospital of São Francisco de Assis na Providência de Deus are proof of his commitment to countering these forms of social marginalisation.As an archbishop, Bergoglio was aware that the issue here was more cultural that legal or political. In this case, a battle needs to be fought within society and depends on the Catholic Church’s ability to transmit its values to the world in an efficient way. The challenge faced by Francis’ Church and by Benedict XVI’s Church before him, is not limited to Latin America.Latin American episcopates have never been big fans of economies that thrive, forgetting the poor and allowing violence and corruption. Latin American episcopates look at ethical issues such as abortion and same-sex marriage in a different light compared to the continent’s governments.Today the Pope sent a new tweet ahead of his trip to Rio. It reads: “In this Year of Faith, let us remember that faith is not something we possess, but something we share. Every Christian is an apostle.”

07/18/2013 VATICAN INSIDER

The utter insecurity of papal “security”

A Vatican policeman

The history, events and oddities surrounding the organisation that oversees the Pope’s safety

Gianni Gennari Rome Last Sunday, Pope Francis calmly reminded the world that he would soon be in Brazil for the World Youth Day. Hundreds of thousands of the 2 million young people expected in Rio are already there waiting for him.Any security measures taken to ensure the Pope’s safety among the masses will probably be useless. Today more than ever, security is a big, unresolved problem, particularly given the choices made by the new Pope. History testifies to the fact that for two long centuries, the only security Peter’s Successors have enjoyed was martyrdom, followed by centuries and centuries of dramatic and sometimes dreadful incidents.There are cases of Popes being put in prison, exiled, poisoned and overthrown by force. In the 5^th century for example, Pope Vigilius was notoriously imprisoned in Rome, taken to Civitavecchia by force and then put on a ship to Constantinople, where he remained behind bars for almost 15 years. He died on the return trip, after the death of Theodora, the Empress who had wanted to keep him as far as possible, to defend the independence – doctrinal as well – of Constantinople’s archbishop.Going back 1400 years, we have the cases of Popes Pius VI and Pius VII who were imprisoned by Napoleon and deported to France. Others were killed and their bodies tossed from the top of Castel S. Angelo. This is what happened to John VIII, the first Pope to die a violent death and not a martyr, in 882.In terms security, the case of Pius IX comes to mind. He presided the Breach of Porta Pia and died in 1878. When his body was taken to St. Lawrence Outside the Walls for burial, there some staunch anti-papists attempted to throw his coffin over Sant’Angelo Bridge, into the Tiber. Wojtyla’s life was spared tank to a nun who got hold of the assassin’s hand and – according to John Paul II himself – Our Lady of Fatima, whose feast day was celebrated on that very day. John Paul II survived after a very risky five hour operation and eventually recovered. He continued his travels despite the risk.A year later, in 1982 Spanish “priest” Juan Maria Fernandez y Kron approached the Pope and threatened him with a bayonet: the priest, who called himself a supporter of the violent, traditionalist, pro-Nazi Lefebvrian circles, saw Karol Wojtyla as a Moscow agent who was ruining the Church by moving it further and further away from Catholic doctrine.The Italian Parliament addressed the issue of papal security abroad in 1992 but failed to find any concrete solutions. On John Paul II’s trip to Sarajevo in April 1997, 24 anti-tank bombs were discovered underground at the last minute. They could all be activated from a distance and set off via an electronic signal.The September 11 attacks undoubtedly had an enormous effect on security measures worldwide, including papal security.

THE SODOMITE RAINBOW GROUPERS CROWD ARE AT IT AGAIN.

NY official pushes feds to recognize gay marriages

MICHAEL GORMLEY 9 minutes ago -JULY 19,13

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli is using the power of the state's $160 billion pension system to urge President Barack Obama to order federal agencies and programs around the country to recognize gay marriages performed in New York.DiNapoli's idea is to adopt a "place of celebration" standard in federal government, meaning gay marriages that take place in New York would be recognized even in states that do not permit them. It could be a big push in DiNapoli's effort to get major companies that do business with the state pension fund to adopt anti-discrimination measures when providing benefits for gay couples.The U.S. Supreme Court last month struck down parts of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, a ruling that muddled the rights of gay couples married in New York who move to or work in states where gay marriage isn't legal.DiNapoli was scheduled to send his plea to Obama in a letter to be released Friday."It's good for business," said Susan Sommer, director of Constitutional Litigation and Senior Counsel Lambda Legal, which defends gay rights. "It will remove any lingering argument some companies have been hiding behind ... and it reflects some very well established principles."Stephen Hayford, legislative director of New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms, said he expects several lawsuits will seek to clarify or build on the Supreme Court's decision."Given the lack of clarity, it would be premature for the president to take Comptroller DiNapoli up on his request," Hayford said.DiNapoli is the sole trustee of the state's pension fund and has used it as leverage to persuade companies he invests in to bolster environmental protections, combat terrorism and disclose campaign donations. He argues recognizing gay marriages is just good business."I have become increasingly concerned that companies that refuse to protect their employees from discrimination based on their sexual orientation or gender identity, and those that exclude same-sex spouses from employee benefit plans that are available to opposite-sex spouses, are hurting their financial bottom line," DiNapoli wrote in the letter to Obama.DiNapoli said discrimination hurts a company's ability to recruit and retain top employees, and that could hurt the pension fund's investment in those companies.
He's asking for the federal government to treat all spouses the same when it comes to benefits, no matter where they live. DiNapoli notes some companies rely on federal law to define marriage when it comes to providing benefits.The July decision by the U.S. Supreme Court left intact a provision of the federal anti-gay marriage law that allows a state to not recognize a same-sex marriage performed elsewhere. That means 37 states may not have to recognize gay marriages performed in New York.DiNapoli's latest effort to leverage the pension fund to change the policies and practices of companies in which it is invested has drawn critics.
"It seems very political," said Margaret O'Keefe, project manager for the fiscally conservative Manhattan Institute's Proxy Monitor database. "DiNapoli should be more focused on getting a better return on the pension fund and not focus on these social issues."Using the fund's clout in the corporate world isn't new. The Manhattan Institute's Center for Legal Policy noted former Republican Comptroller Edward Regan in the 1980s pressured corporations who were doing business in South Africa, then under oppressive apartheid rule. He stopped short of divesting from those companies.DiNapoli took that step in 2009 and also ended $86.2 million investments from nine companies doing business in Iran and Sudan because of genocide and terrorism in those countries.But the Manhattan Institute's E.J. McMahon said DiNapoli's actions now "generally deal with comparatively less weighty domestic concerns, which are conveniently consistent with the goals of interest groups whose support DiNapoli will find handy when he seeks another term."

MUSLIM NATIONS (SLAUGHTERED BY NUKES FOR COMING AGAINST ISRAEL)

EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:TOBOLSK)
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY) of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages;(ISRAEL) I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil,(OIL IS IN SPOIL) and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.

EZEKIEL 39:1-8,11-18
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back,(RUSSIA-ARAB MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS) and leave but the sixth part of thee,(5/6TH OR 300 MILLION DEAD RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS I BELIEVE) and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog (RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS) a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers (EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN JORDAN VALLEY) on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog (RUSSIAN) and all his multitude:(ARAB/MUSLIM HORDE) and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.(BURIEL SITE OF THE 300 MILLION,RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS)
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.(OF ISRAEL)
13 Yea, all the people of the land (OF ISRAEL) shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I (GOD-JESUS) shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment,(NUCLEAR BOMB EXPERTS) passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
15 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it,(WON'T TOUCH IT) till the buriers have buried it (PROPERLY) in the valley of Hamongog.(RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS NEW BURIEL SITE)
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.(OF THE ISRAEL-GOD HATERS)
17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl,(500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS THREW ISRAEL EVERY SPRING,FALL) and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.(OF THE RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ARMIES)
18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19 And ye (MIGRATING BIRDS IN ISRAEL) shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.(RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS)
20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
21 And I (GOD-JESUS) will set my glory among the heathen,(WORLD NATIONS) and all the heathen (WORLD NATIONS) shall see my judgment that I have executed,(AGAINST ISRAELS ENEMIES) and my (GODS) hand that I have laid upon them.(ISRAELS HATER ENEMIES)

JEREMEIAH 49:35-37 (IN IRAN AT THE BUSHEHR NUKE SITE SOME BELIEVE)
35  Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,(IRAN/BUSHEHR NUCLEAR SITE) the chief of their might.(MOST DANGEROUS NUKE SITE IN IRAN)
36  And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven,(IRANIANS SCATTERED OR MASS IMIGARATION) and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.(WORLD IMMIGRATION)
37  For I will cause Elam (IRAN-BUSHEHR NUKE SITE) to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger,(ISRAELS NUKES POSSIBLY) saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:(IRAN AND ITS NUKE SITES DESTROYED)

ISAIAH 17:1,11-14
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.

Mursi supporters rally in Egypt, army shows muscle

By Alexander Dziadosz and Ulf Laessing-JULY 19,13
CAIRO (Reuters) - Thousands of supporters of deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi rallied in Cairo on Friday to demand the restoration of the ousted Islamist leader, with his opponents also planning protests nearby.Two formations of fighter jets screamed over the sun-baked city after noon prayers ended. Four army helicopters circled, while another five, trailing Egyptian flags, flew low over Cairo roof tops, in a clear show of strength by the military.More than two weeks after Egypt's powerful military shunted the contested Mursi from office, there was still no sign of a possible deal to defuse the crisis, which has divided the most populous Arab state and alarmed its Western allies.The Muslim Brotherhood has called for demonstrations around the country, accusing the head of the armed forces, General Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, of staging a coup to sweep Egypt's first freely elected president from power.The army said it had to intervene after mammoth street protests against Mursi, who was criticized as incompetent and partisan, and has installed an interim cabinet to prepare for elections. It includes no members of Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood or other Islamist parties previously in government.Mursi backers have set up a round-the-clock vigil outside a mosque in the Cairo suburb of Nasr City. Thousands flocked there on Friday to join protests that swelled after noon prayers."Tonight, tonight, tonight, Sisi is going down tonight," a man shouted out, leading the chants. A huge banner showed a picture of the bearded Mursi against Egyptian flags and read: "Together to support legitimacy."Scuffles broke out when Mursi supporters began chanting against Sisi, the army chief, after prayers near al-Azhar mosque in central Cairo, security sources said.Police fired shots in the air to disperse them and arrested two Brotherhood supporters after they fought opponents with fists and rocks, they said. No casualties were reported.Egypt's closest Western ally, the United States, has tried to tread softly through the crisis, still undecided whether to brand the downfall of Mursi a military coup - a move that would force Washington to suspend its large aid programs for Cairo.U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry telephoned Egypt's new foreign minister, Nabil Fahmy, expressing hopes that the transitional period of government would be successful, a spokesman for the Egyptian foreign ministry said on Friday.
CHAOS
In his first address since taking office, interim President Adli Mansour promised on Thursday night to fight people he said wanted to destabilize the nation."We are going through a critical stage and some want us to move towards chaos and we want to move towards stability. Some want a bloody path," he said in a televised address. "We will fight a battle for security until the end."Tamarud, the youth movement which organized enormous anti-Mursi protests on June 30, is also planning rallies on Friday, including one close to the Muslim Brotherhood's Nasr City vigil.It dubbed its protests as "the people against terrorism", blaming Mursi followers for recent violence.Policing was intensified on Friday and 10 armored personnel carriers were parked on a Nile bridge in central Cairo, a route Islamist protesters would have to cross if they tried to reach Tahrir Square, a focal point for the anti-Mursi camp.At least 99 people have died in violence since Mursi's removal, more than half of them when troops fired on Islamist protesters outside a Cairo barracks on July 8.Supporters of the ousted president said they had come from across the country to join Friday's rallies, underlining the Muslim Brotherhood's deep roots in the provinces."We are coming out today to restore legitimacy," said Tarek Yassin, 40, from the southern city of Sohag. "We consider what happened secular thuggery. It would never happen in any democratic country."Muslim Brotherhood leaders say they will not resort to violence in their campaign to reinstate Mursi, held by the army incommunicado since July 3, and insist they will not back down."The goal of our peaceful mass rallies and peaceful sit-ins in squares across Egypt is to force the coup plotters to reverse their action and force the coup supporters to change their position," Essam el-Erian, a senior Brotherhood official, said on his Facebook page.(Additional reporting by Maggie Fick and Yasmine Saleh; Writing by Crispian Balmer; Editing by Alistair Lyon)

Syria cracks down on Assad's non-violent opponents

Reuters – 1 hour 2 minutes ago-JULY 19,13

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian government forces have detained a dissident left-wing painter in a new wave of arrests of non-violent critics of President Bashar al-Assad, opposition groups said on Friday.Youssef Abdelki, 62, arrested in the port city of Tartous on Thursday, has long criticized Assad and his late father, Hafez al-Assad, who ruled Syria for 30 years until his death in 2000.Two prominent members of a banned communist party, the Workers' Party, Tawfiq Amran and Adnan Abbas, were arrested along with Abdelki and taken to an undisclosed location, the pro-opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. All three had served previous jail terms for political dissent.Opposition groups say several other civil rights activists have been arrested this week, in what they say is a sign that the Syrian government is ramping up pressure on those who eschew violence and advocate peaceful resistance to Assad.Syria's 28-month-old conflict began with peaceful protests that met a violent response from Assad's forces, gradually igniting an insurrection that has cost more than 90,000 lives."Assad's forces are intentionally targeting the groups that are not associated with the armed revolt. They want to make them feel the only choice is the rebels or the regime," Samer Aita, a member of the Syrian Democratic Forum, told Reuters in Beirut.The opposition Forum, which offers humanitarian aid to Syrian refugees and displaced families and advocates democracy in Syria, said two of its activists, Rami Suleiman and Badr Mansour, had been arrested this week. Young Syrian activists have begun a social media campaign demanding their release.They are also campaigning for Abdelki's release, calling him a gifted painter and a mentor for young artists and activists. His popular Facebook page is called "Art and Freedom".An artist friend of Abdelki, who asked not to be named, compared him to Picasso and said his paintings, caricatures of the Assad family and blogs in support of young artists had inspired many, saying: "This is a huge blow to our revolution."(Reporting by Erika Solomon; Editing by Alistair Lyon)

ISAIAH 34:10
10  It (AMERICA-POLITICAL BABYLON) shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.

JEREMIAH 51:29-32 (CYBER ATTACK 1ST)
29  And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon,(AMERICA-NEW YORK) to make the land of Babylon (AMERICA) a desolation without an inhabitant.
30  The mighty men of Babylon (AMERICA) have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.
31  One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon (NEW YORK) that his city is taken at one end,
32  And that the passages are stopped,(THE WAR COMPUTERS HACKED OR EMP'D) and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.(DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO)

COMPLETE SILENCE AFTER AN EMP GOES OFF
REVELATION 8:1
1 And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.

JEREMIAH 50:3,24
3 For out of the north (RUSSIA) there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.
24 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon,(AMERICA) and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD. (RUSSIA A SNEAK CYBER,EMP ATTACK,THEN NUKE ATTACK ON AMERICA)

REVELATION 18:3-6,19-21
3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication,(U.S.A) and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her,(U.S.A) and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her,(AMERICA) my people,(CHRISTIANS,JEWS) that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
6 Reward her even as she rewarded you,(WITH FALSE FLAG TERRORISM) and double unto her double according to her works:(DOUBLE-EMP 1ST,THEN RUSSIA NUKE ATTACKS U.S.A) in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.(PROBABLY A RUSSIAN CYBER ATTACK WILL SET THE WHOLE SITUATION UP AS RUSSIA HACKS THE USA ARMY COMPUTERS.THEN THE EMP,THEN THE NUKE ATTACK)
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
20 Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.
21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.

Japanese jets intercept Russian bombers, on heels of suspected practice runs against US bases

Published July 17, 2013

Washington Free Beacon

Russian strategic nuclear bombers taking part in large-scale military exercises flew practice strike missions in the western Pacific on Monday and were intercepted by Japanese fighters, according to Japanese and Russian officials. The bomber flights were the latest case of strategic saber rattling by Moscow and followed what U.S. defense officials said earlier this year were practice-bombing runs against U.S. and Japanese military bases in the region. Japan's Joint Staff said Monday that three Japanese fighters were scrambled to intercept the Tu-95 Bear H bombers that were detected flying north near the Korean peninsula and Japan's northern Hokkaido Island. A third Russian aircraft, an Il-20, flew over the disputed Kuril Islands controlled by Russia but claimed by Japan. The bombers flew over the Sea of Japan for a total of seven hours and 15 minutes, the military said in a statement carried by Kyodo News Agency.The bomber flight was part of one of Russia's largest military exercises, which is currently underway.
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CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL 2ND WAVE OF WW3 (200 MILLION MAN ARMY)

REVELATION 16:12
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up,(AT THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY) that the way of the kings(CHINA,NORTH-SOUTH KOREA, of the east might be prepared.(THIS IS THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY,THEY CROSS OVER).

DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)

REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(4 WINDS OF THE WORLD-WORLDWIDE WAR)(TURKEY-IRAQ-SYRIA)(EUPHRATES RIVER CONSISTS OF 760 MILES IN TURKEY,440 MILES IN SYRIA AND 660 MILES IN IRAQ)
15 And the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels were loosed,(COULD ALSO MEAN THE 4 CORNERS OF THE EARTH OR WORLDWIDE WAR) which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)

U.S. concerned over North Korean arms ship, Panama awaits U.N.

By Lomi Kriel and David Adams | Reuters – JULY 19,13

PANAMA CITY/MIAMI (Reuters) - A United Nations team is due to arrive in Panama next month to inspect a North Korean ship which was seized carrying arms from Cuba, a potential breach of U.N. sanctions that the United States said was "incredibly concerning."Panama on Wednesday asked for the U.N. Security Council to examine the ship, the Chong Chon Gang, whose cargo of Soviet-era weaponry is suspected of being in violation of a U.N. arms embargo that covers all exports by Pyongyang and most imports.The five-member team of U.N. experts will arrive on August 5, said Demetrio Olaciregui, a spokesman for Panama's Foreign Ministry. Panama's Security Ministry confirmed the date.North Korea is under a host of U.N., U.S. and other sanctions due to repeated nuclear and ballistic missile tests since 2006 in defiance of international demands that it stop.Pyongyang has asked for the ship and crew to be returned but Panama has not responded. The U.S. government has strongly backed Panama's seizure of the ship.
"There is a process in place and we are supportive of that process, because the bottom line is that any alleged violation of Security Council sanctions is incredibly concerning to us," U.S. State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf told reporters.Panama has been at pains to underline it acted alone in seizing the ship, though security experts say the United States, which operated the Panama Canal until a final withdrawal on December 31, 1999, is likely to have provided assistance.When asked whether information provided by the United States was used, a U.S. intelligence official said: "Yes."A Panamanian frigate stopped the ship off its coast last week and seized its cargo after a tense standoff with the North Korean crew. The 35 crew members were arrested and charged with attempting to smuggle undeclared arms through the canal.Authorities discovered weaponry aboard that Cuba said was "obsolete" Soviet-era missile equipment, MiG fighter jets and other arms being sent to North Korea for repair.Earlier on Thursday, Britain's ambassador to the United Nations said the U.N. Security Council sanctions committee would examine the case.The U.N. team of investigators heading to Panama will be drawn from an eight-member panel of experts appointed by U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to monitor the sanctions imposed on North Korea, according to diplomats within the Security Council.
TELLTALE SIGNS
Joe Reeder, former chairman of the Panama Canal Commission's Board of Directors and an ex-under secretary of the U.S. Army, said Panama's security apparatus cooperated closely with U.S. authorities, who may have shared intelligence on the ship.Panamanian Security Minister Jose Raul Mulino "works very closely with both our Defense Department, our Southern Command headquartered in Miami and with Homeland Security," he said.Officials were alerted by a number of suspicious factors, including where the ship was coming from and the fact that its transponder had been switched off in violation of shipping regulations for vessels over 300 tons, Reeder said."They ... were clearly trying not to be detected," he said.Panamanian officials said they had found the ship's electrical equipment burned and that access to its storage areas had been blocked when they boarded the Chong Chon Gang.Officials also noted that the ship's draft "was measurably lower coming back from Cuba than it was going out," Reeder said.He said the raid was sensitive due to the neutrality of the canal, and the decision would not have been taken lightly."If (Panama had) busted that thing and there was nothing on it, everybody would have egg on their face. The canal is not an arm of the CIA and the U.S. has to respect that," said Reeder, who is now with the law firm Greenberg Traurig in Washington, D.C.The U.S. Southern Command in Miami, the Pentagon's headquarters for operations in Latin America, declined to comment about the specifics of the Chong Chon Gang case, though incidents involving illegal maritime activity, from drug smuggling to human trafficking, fall within its responsibility.
"It's very routine for us to be working very closely with countries in the region and sharing information with partners," a spokesman for Southcom said.(Reporting by Lomi Kriel and David Adams; Additional reporting by Alexandra Alper, Louis Charbonneau, Michelle Nichols, Luc Cohen, Lesley Wroughton and Tabassum Zakaria; Writing by Dave Graham; Editing by Sandra Maler and Eric Beech)