KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.
By Julie Gordon-July 11,13
LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec (Reuters) - Residents of the town of Lac-Megantic in Quebec were coming to grips on Thursday with the reality that 50 of their own were most likely dead in the aftermath of the worst railway disaster in North American in more than two decades.Five days after a train hauling 72 cylinders of crude oil jumped the track and exploded into a wall of fire, provincial police said they had recovered 20 bodies, with another 30 people still missing and presumed dead, confirming the worst fears of a community that had all but given up hope."She's dead," said Jean-Guy Lapierre of his niece, holding a copy of a Quebec tabloid that had printed pictures of some of the town's missing young people on its front page. "She was just 28."The crash and subsequent explosions rocked the eastern Canadian town of Lac-Megantic shortly after 1 a.m. (0500 GMT) on Saturday, leveling its historic downtown strip.Numerous houses and businesses were burned to the ground, including the Musi-Cafe, a popular bar that was packed with people, eyewitnesses told Reuters.On Wednesday, the head of the railway company said the engineer probably did not set enough handbrakes when he parked his train some eight miles west of town late on Friday, leading to the deadly accident. The official apologized to residents of the town of about 6,000.The words of remorse came too late for many locals who remain angry at the company - Montreal Maine and Atlantic - and accuse chairman Ed Burkhardt of shirking responsibility for the accident."They still aren't taking the blame," said Christiane, a woman who lived near the blast site and declined to give her last name. "First it's the firemen, now the engineer, who will they blame tomorrow?"Burkhardt had previously said that the air brakes that would have prevented the disaster failed because they were powered by an engine that was shut down by firefighters as they dealt with a fire shortly before the catastrophe occurred.On Wednesday, his focus was squarely on the engineer."It's very questionable whether the hand brakes were properly applied on this train," he told a crush of reporters. "As a matter of fact, I'll say they weren't, or we wouldn't have had this incident."More than 200 investigators are working day and night to sift through the charred wreckage in the center of town in what authorities say is a crime scene. They have made no arrests.A death toll of 50 would make the accident Canada's deadliest since in 1998, when a Swissair jet crashed into the Atlantic off the coast of Nova Scotia, killing 229 people.It would also be North America's worst rail crash since 1989, when 112 people died when an 11-car passenger train plunged off a bridge in Mexico.
STILL ALIVE
But there were glimmers of hope too.Nicole Carrier, who works at a local hospital, was shocked to open a newspaper Wednesday morning and see her own face under the headline: 'Have you seen these people?'
"It's Facebook's fault," said Carrier, explaining that a friend's daughter had posted a frantic message on the social media service asking if she and her partner were still alive. The couple, who were evacuated from their home and did not have access to the Internet, did not respond.Her partner, Bernard Fortier, added that their faces were still being broadcast on television as part of the missing."This morning, I went to the police station, and they said, 'oh, we're so happy to see you alive, Mr. Fortier,'" he said with a smile.MMA is one of many North American railroads that have stepped up crude-by-rail deliveries as producers seek alternatives to pipelines that have been stretched to capacity by higher U.S. and Canadian output.That has led to a shift in the type of rail cars passing through small towns like Lac-Megantic. According to residents, the trains used to carry mainly lumber, but now they carry various hazardous materials.(Reporting by Julie Gordon; Editing by Richard Valdmanis and Stacey Joyce)
REVELATION 6:9-11
9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain(BEHEADED) for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.
REVELATION 20:4
4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands;(WILLINGLY-THEY CHOSE THE IMPLANT) and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her,(HAGAR) Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he (ISHMAEL) will be a wild man;(ISLAM IS A FAKE AND DANGEROUS SEX FOR MURDER CULT) his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against him;(PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM BEING BEHEADED) and he (ISHMAEL ARAB/MUSLIM) shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)
JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.(ISLAM MURDERS IN THE NAME OF MOON GOD ALLAH OF ISLAM)
Amidst continuing unrest in Egypt, the country's Coptic Christian minority is facing an alarming campaign of violence at the hands of Islamist extremists.
In the most recent case, the decapitated body of 60 year old Magdy Habashi was found early Thursday in a cemetery in the town of Sheikh Zweid, in northern Sinai, after being abducted last Saturday by suspected Islamist radicals. He was the second Christian to be killed in northern Sinai in less than a week, following the assassination of Coptic Christian priest Mena Aboud Sharoben in the coastal city of Arish by suspected Islamist gunmen last Saturday.Elsewhere, Christian groups have reported numerous attacks against churches and Christian-owned homes by violent mobs. In one particularly grave incident, the murder of a Muslim in the southern village of Nagaa Hassan triggered claims that local Christians were responsible. Seizing the opportunity, a mob of Muslim extremists armed with axes, knives and clubs descended on the Christian community, murdering at least four people, injuring dozens and setting fire to scores of homes. Coptic Christians comprise only 10 percent of Egypt, which has boiled over with intrigue and rage since the January 25 revolution in 2011 that toppled the 30-year regime of former President Hosni Mubarak.The new Coptic pope, Tawadros II, has been unusually vocal in his criticism of the Muslim Brotherhood and in supporting the ouster of the Brotherhood-backed president Mohammed Morsi. His predecessor had discouraged Copts from involving themselves in politics, fearing a backlash from the country's Muslim majority. Those concerns appear to have been well-founded.A day after the first anniversary of Morsi’s election as president, the coup d’etat by the Egyptian Army deposed the new leader following a groundswell of protests and a petition signed by 22 million citizens, including many Christians.Morsi was replaced with a tripartate presidential council appointed by General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, head of Egyptian intelligence. The new government is to be headed by a interim President Adly al-Mansour, Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi and Vice President Mohamed ElBaradei, all leaders of opposition movements that are moderate and in many cases secularist. Ministerial positions will be offered to the Muslim Brotherhood’s political wing, the Freedom and Justice Party, according to a report in USA Today.None are Christian, but that doesn't seem to matter to the Egypt's radical Islamists, whose scapegoating of the Christian minority appears to be escalating on a daily basis.
ISRAEL SATAN COMES AGAINST
1 CHRONICLES 21:1
1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
ISRAELS TROUBLE
JEREMIAH 30:7
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble;(ISRAEL) but he shall be saved out of it.
DANIEL 12:1,4
1 And at that time shall Michael(ISRAELS WAR ANGEL) stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people:(ISRAEL) and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation(May 14,48) even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,(WORLD TRAVEL,IMMIGRATION) and knowledge shall be increased.(COMPUTERS,CHIP IMPLANTS ETC)
ISAIAH 14:12-15
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,(SATAN) son of the morning!(HEBREW-CRECENT MOON-ISLAM) how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(SATAN HAS PROUD I PROBLEMS)
15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
Oday Aboushi, touted as the first “Palestinian” football player in the NFL by the New York Jets,
the team who drafted him, is also one of the most politically oriented
NFL players – with his orientation anti-Israel. During his three months
on the team, Aboushi has attended numerous anti-Israel conferences, and
his Facebook page is peppered with tales of Israeli “apartheid” and “persecution of helpless Palestinians.”
Aboushi's activities were revealed by Frontpage Magazine, where security expert Joe Kaufman cataloged some of his excesses. “Problems in the NFL usually revolve around drugs or alcohol abuse or players being bad influences in the locker rooms. Aboushi’s problem is an unusual one for pro sports. He’s a Muslim extremist,” wrote Kaufman in the Frontpage piece.The article details Aboushi's increasingly bold forays into extremist politics. The American-born Aboushi (he was born in Brooklyn to parents who immigrated from Beit Hanina in Jerusalem) spoke at several events recently, including at an event sponsored by an extremist group, “The El-Bireh Palestine Society.” Past guests at the annual event have included Fouad Rafeedie, a high-ranking member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist group, and Osama Siblani, publisher of The Arab American News and a supporter of Hizbullah and Hamas.Aboushi was the featured speaker at this year's event, which took place in Virginia, where he played his college football, on June 28. “Also participating in the conference was Nitham Hasan, the President of the Islamic Center of South Florida (ICOSF),” wrote Kaufman. “ICOSF’s mosque property is owned by the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT), a group named by the U.S. Justice Department as being a party to the financing of millions of dollars to Hamas.“On the same El-Bireh Facebook site as the conference, there are contained different images of Hitler and rabid anti-Christian cleric Ahmed Deedat, who authored the infamous work CRUCIFIXION OR CRUCI-FICTION?,” continued Kaufman. “There are terrorist memorials for Hamas leader Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi, PLO leader Yasser Arafat, Hamas founder Ahmed Yassin and Hamas bomb maker Yahya Ayyash. About Arafat and Yassin, the site states in Arabic, 'The martyr leader Yasser Arafat with the Mujahid Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. G-d have mercy on them,'” he wrote.The Jets are aware of Aboushi's extremism, but have chosen not to address it as of yet, wrote Kaufman. Other players on the team have ignored Aboushi's extra-cirricular behavior as well, he adds, but that is unlikely to continue. “This author, however, believes that the Jets have much more to worry about than whether or not Aboushi can create holes in the opposing team’s defense or if he can provide protection for the quarterback,” wrote Kaufman. “Given the actions he continues to engage in and the dangerous persons and groups he chooses to surround himself with, the Jets must change the game plan they originally had when they took Oday Aboushi in the 2013 NFL Draft and release this player. In the end, those individuals Aboushi truly wishes to protect may very well be the ones we have to worry about the most.”
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)
By Yasmine Saleh and Sarah McFarlane
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's interim rulers welcomed on Thursday remarks from the U.S. State department describing the rule of toppled leader Mohamed Mursi as undemocratic, clearly hoping they signaled Washington would not cut off its $1.5 billion in annual aid.In a stark illustration of the desperate state of Egypt's economy, a former minister from Mursi's ousted government said Egypt has less than two months' supply left of imported wheat, revealing a far worse shortage than previously disclosed.The army's removal of Egypt's first democratically elected leader last week, after millions took to the streets to protest against him, has left the Arab world's most populous country polarized by divisions unseen in its modern history.
Violence between supporters of Mursi and soldiers at a military compound this week has deepened the fissures.Washington has been treading a careful line. U.S. law bars aid to countries where a democratic government is removed in a coup. So far Washington has said it is too early to say whether the Egyptian events met that description.Nevertheless, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said on Wednesday, Mursi's government "wasn't a democratic rule"."What I mean is what we've been referencing about the 22 million people who have been out there voicing their views and making clear that democracy is not just about simply winning the vote at the ballot box."Egypt's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Badr Abdelatty, said the comments "reflect understanding and realization ... about the political developments that Egypt is witnessing in the recent days, as embodying the will of the millions of Egyptians who took to the streets starting on June 30 to ask for their legitimate rights and call for early elections".In the days before Mursi's downfall, the U.S. ambassador in Cairo attracted sharp criticism from Mursi's opponents for a speech that stressed that Mursi was democratically elected and discouraged street protests against him.The White House on Monday refused to label the ouster of Egypt's president a military coup and said there would be no immediate cut-off in U.S. aid to Egypt. U.S. officials have since said they are still reviewing the matter. In the past, the U.S. government has taken more than two months to make up its mind on such questions.
VIOLENCE
Two and a half years of political turmoil has left Egypt on the brink of economic collapse, scaring away tourists and investors, shriveling hard currency reserves and threatening its ability to import food and fuel for its 84 million people.Speaking to Reuters near midnight in a tent at a vigil by thousands of Mursi supporters, the ousted president's supply minister, Bassem Ouda, revealed that government stocks held just 500,000 metric tons of imported wheat.Egypt, the world's biggest buyer, usually imports about 10 million metric tons of wheat a year, half of which is given out by the state in the form of subsidized bread sold for less than one U.S. cent a loaf.The imported wheat stock figure, previously a closely-guarded secret, means Egypt will need to urgently start spending a $12 billion financial aid lifeline it has been given in the past two days by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait, rich Gulf states that welcomed Mursi's downfall.
Egypt had not bought any imported wheat since February, its longest absence from the market in years, until the eve of Mursi's downfall when it bought 180,000 metric tons.The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization said in a report that Egypt risked serious food security problems if insecurity and a shortage of foreign currency hinder imports."I think the aim of the Arab countries is to make sure Egypt doesn't fail with respect to food security and financial commitments with the international banking system, so I would think they will push to get the aid through quickly," said Kisan Gunjal, economist and food emergency Officer at the FAO.
ROAD MAP
Adli Mansour, the interim president named by the general who removed Mursi, has moved briskly to implement an army "road map" to restore civilian rule. This week he announced a temporary constitution, plans to amend it and a faster-than-expected schedule for parliamentary elections in about six months.
He also named 76-year-old liberal economist Hazem el-Beblawi as interim prime minister. Beblawi held his first meetings with political leaders on Wednesday and told Reuters that he expects the transitional cabinet to be in place early next week.Negotiations are difficult, with the authorities trying to attract support from groups that range from secularists to ultra-orthodox Muslims, nearly all of whom expressed deep dissatisfaction with elements of the interim constitution.Those political moves have been accompanied by a crackdown on the Brotherhood, the Islamist movement which worked in the shadows for 85 years before emerging as Egypt's best-organized political force when autocrat Hosni Mubarak was toppled in 2011.
On Wednesday, Egypt's public prosecutor ordered the arrest of Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie and several other senior Islamists, accusing them of inciting violence on Monday when 53 Mursi supporters and four members of the security forces were killed in a dawn clash near a barracks.
Mursi's supporters say those killed were peacefully praying when fired upon. The army says terrorists provoked the violence by attacking its troops.Mursi's whereabouts have not been revealed. The government says he is safe at an undisclosed location.Thousands of Brotherhood supporters have maintained an around-the-clock vigil near a mosque in northeast Cairo demanding he be reinstated, an aim that now seems in vain.
The start of the Ramadan Muslim fasting month has done little to dampen the Brotherhood protest. Supporters are sheltering in tents from the summer heat during daylight hours when they are forbidden to eat or drink, and coming out in greater numbers in the evening.They have called for protest marches on Friday, the Muslim prayer day, as has the anti-Mursi Tamarud group, raising the risk of more violence. Fighting between Mursi's supporters and foes killed 35 people last Friday, although the situation in Cairo and other cities has been calmer since Monday's clash.Both sides in Egypt have become more anti-American in recent weeks. Mursi's opponents say President Barack Obama's administration supported the Muslim Brotherhood in power, while Mursi's supporters believe Washington was behind the plot to unseat him."Obama supports democracy, but only if it goes to those who aren't Islamists," heavily bearded Mursi supporter El-Sayyed Abdel Rabennabi said at the Brotherhood vigil.On Tahrir Square, where Mursi's opponents gather, the animosity is no less fierce."America made an alliance with the Brotherhood against the Egyptian people," said aircraft mechanic Tawfiq Munir at a recent rally there. "Now the Brotherhood are fighting us in the streets, fighting to take back power, and America is sitting on the fence."(Additional reporting by Alexander Dziadosz, Maggie Fick, Mike Collett-White, Tom Perry, Peter Graff, Ali Saed, Seham el-Oraby and Shadia Nasralla; writing by Peter Graff; editing by Philippa Fletcher)
BEIRUT (AP) — Syria's main Western-backed opposition group on
Wednesday rejected Russian accusations that rebels made sarin nerve gas
and used it in a deadly chemical attack outside Aleppo in March.The
Syrian National Coalition called the charges "desperate" and
"fabricated." Russia is a key ally of President Bashar Assad's regime.Use
of chemical weapons is an explosive issue, potentially guiding whether
the West increases its aid to rebel forces. President Barack Obama
called chemical weapons use by the Assad government a "red line," while
such accusations against the rebels could reinforce Western misgivings
about arming them.Russia's U.N. ambassador, Vitaly Churkin,
blamed opposition fighters for the March 19 attack in the
government-controlled Aleppo suburb of Khan al-Assal, which he said
killed 26 people, including 16 government troops, and injured 86 others.The
rebels have blamed the government for the attack. The U.S., Britain and
France have said they have seen no evidence that the opposition has
acquired or used chemical weapons."Evidence provided by parties
that support Assad's tyrannical regime with money, weapons, and
ammunition is false and clearly fabricated," said the statement by the
SNC, a group made up mostly of exiled dissidents."The recent
Russian analysis on the use of chemical weapons in Khan al-Assal is a
desperate attempt by Russia to deceive the world and justify Assad's
crimes," it added. "The Syrian people consider Russia (to be) Assad's
partner in the murder of innocent Syrian civilians."The Coalition
invited a U.N. fact-finding mission to enter areas under rebel control
in Syria to investigate the alleged use of chemical weapons by the
Syrian regime.On Monday, the Syrian government also invited Ake
Sellstrom, the Swedish head of the U.N. fact-finding mission on
allegations of chemical weapons use in Syria, and U.N. disarmament chief
Angela Kane to visit Damascus for foreign minister level talks on
conducting an inquiry into the Khan al-Assal attack alone. The U.N. has
sought wider access.Up to now the government and U.N. have not
been able to agree on the scope of an inquiry, and there has been no
independent investigation.
Sellstrom was expected to meet Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at U.N. in New York later Wednesday. A U.N. diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief reporters, said Sellstrom and U.N. disarmament chief Angela Kane are likely to visit Damascus "quite quickly" for high-level talks on a possible U.N. investigation.Churkin delivered an 80-page report to U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Tuesday. He said Syria asked its ally Russia to investigate the attack because of the impasse with the U.N.The samples taken from the impact site were analyzed at a Russian laboratory, Churkin said, and "there is every reason to believe that it was the armed opposition fighters who used the chemical weapons in Khan al-Assal."British U.N. Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant told reporters Wednesday, "It's nice that the Syrian regime has given access to Russian experts to collect samples of alleged chemical weapons use, but it is considerably more important that they give access to independent and credible U.N. investigators."
In Washington, White House spokesman Jay Carney replied, "We have yet to see any evidence that backs up the assertion that anybody besides the Syrian government has had the ability to use chemical weapons or has used chemical weapons."State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki accused Russia of blocking the effort to allow the U.N. "unfettered access" to Syria to investigate all allegations of chemical weapons use.
The U.S. says it has "high confidence" that Assad's forces have killed up to 150 people with sarin gas.
In violence Wednesday, woman and her four children were killed as they fled shelling near Damascus, the Observatory said.Residents of two northern Syrian towns demonstrated against al-Qaida-linked rebels, an activist said Wednesday, suggesting growing discontent in opposition areas toward Islamic fighters in the rebellion.There have been similar protests over the past month in rebel-held areas, said Rami Abdul-Rahman of the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The organization receives its information through a wide network of activists on the ground."There's clear dissatisfaction against them," Abdul-Rahman said. He said most residents' anger was directed against one specific group, "The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant," an al-Qaida-linked coalition announced by the head of Iraq's al-Qaida arm, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, in April.The Syrian al-Qaida element, the Al-Nusra Front, rejected the merger. Last month Al-Qaida's global leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, was said to be trying to end the squabbling, ordering that the merger be dissolved.Hard-line Sunni fighters, some from other countries, form the most organized part of the chaotic brigades battling Assad's rule. The war in Syria is now in its third year, and different groups of rebels control northern and southern parts of the country.Abdul-Rahman said it seemed residents were angry because fighters had been arresting youths on flimsy pretexts."They are trying to show their muscle," he said.
Similar demonstrations took place in Aleppo province.___Associated Press writers Edith M. Lederer at the U.N. and Deb Riechmann in Washington contributed this report.___Follow Hadid on twitter.com/diaahadid
Quebec town grapples with loss in train wreck aftermath
LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec (Reuters) - Residents of the town of Lac-Megantic in Quebec were coming to grips on Thursday with the reality that 50 of their own were most likely dead in the aftermath of the worst railway disaster in North American in more than two decades.Five days after a train hauling 72 cylinders of crude oil jumped the track and exploded into a wall of fire, provincial police said they had recovered 20 bodies, with another 30 people still missing and presumed dead, confirming the worst fears of a community that had all but given up hope."She's dead," said Jean-Guy Lapierre of his niece, holding a copy of a Quebec tabloid that had printed pictures of some of the town's missing young people on its front page. "She was just 28."The crash and subsequent explosions rocked the eastern Canadian town of Lac-Megantic shortly after 1 a.m. (0500 GMT) on Saturday, leveling its historic downtown strip.Numerous houses and businesses were burned to the ground, including the Musi-Cafe, a popular bar that was packed with people, eyewitnesses told Reuters.On Wednesday, the head of the railway company said the engineer probably did not set enough handbrakes when he parked his train some eight miles west of town late on Friday, leading to the deadly accident. The official apologized to residents of the town of about 6,000.The words of remorse came too late for many locals who remain angry at the company - Montreal Maine and Atlantic - and accuse chairman Ed Burkhardt of shirking responsibility for the accident."They still aren't taking the blame," said Christiane, a woman who lived near the blast site and declined to give her last name. "First it's the firemen, now the engineer, who will they blame tomorrow?"Burkhardt had previously said that the air brakes that would have prevented the disaster failed because they were powered by an engine that was shut down by firefighters as they dealt with a fire shortly before the catastrophe occurred.On Wednesday, his focus was squarely on the engineer."It's very questionable whether the hand brakes were properly applied on this train," he told a crush of reporters. "As a matter of fact, I'll say they weren't, or we wouldn't have had this incident."More than 200 investigators are working day and night to sift through the charred wreckage in the center of town in what authorities say is a crime scene. They have made no arrests.A death toll of 50 would make the accident Canada's deadliest since in 1998, when a Swissair jet crashed into the Atlantic off the coast of Nova Scotia, killing 229 people.It would also be North America's worst rail crash since 1989, when 112 people died when an 11-car passenger train plunged off a bridge in Mexico.
STILL ALIVE
But there were glimmers of hope too.Nicole Carrier, who works at a local hospital, was shocked to open a newspaper Wednesday morning and see her own face under the headline: 'Have you seen these people?'
"It's Facebook's fault," said Carrier, explaining that a friend's daughter had posted a frantic message on the social media service asking if she and her partner were still alive. The couple, who were evacuated from their home and did not have access to the Internet, did not respond.Her partner, Bernard Fortier, added that their faces were still being broadcast on television as part of the missing."This morning, I went to the police station, and they said, 'oh, we're so happy to see you alive, Mr. Fortier,'" he said with a smile.MMA is one of many North American railroads that have stepped up crude-by-rail deliveries as producers seek alternatives to pipelines that have been stretched to capacity by higher U.S. and Canadian output.That has led to a shift in the type of rail cars passing through small towns like Lac-Megantic. According to residents, the trains used to carry mainly lumber, but now they carry various hazardous materials.(Reporting by Julie Gordon; Editing by Richard Valdmanis and Stacey Joyce)
REVELATION 6:9-11
9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain(BEHEADED) for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.
REVELATION 20:4
4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands;(WILLINGLY-THEY CHOSE THE IMPLANT) and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her,(HAGAR) Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he (ISHMAEL) will be a wild man;(ISLAM IS A FAKE AND DANGEROUS SEX FOR MURDER CULT) his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against him;(PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM BEING BEHEADED) and he (ISHMAEL ARAB/MUSLIM) shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)
JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.(ISLAM MURDERS IN THE NAME OF MOON GOD ALLAH OF ISLAM)
Egypt: Christian Beheaded as Islamist Violence Escalates
Hostage "beheaded" as Egyptian Islamists take advantage of unrest to target the country's Coptic Christian minority-By Chana Ya'ar and Ari Soffer-First Publish: 7/11/2013, 4:22 PM-israelnationalnews
Egyptian Islamists protest Morsi Ouster-Reuters
In the most recent case, the decapitated body of 60 year old Magdy Habashi was found early Thursday in a cemetery in the town of Sheikh Zweid, in northern Sinai, after being abducted last Saturday by suspected Islamist radicals. He was the second Christian to be killed in northern Sinai in less than a week, following the assassination of Coptic Christian priest Mena Aboud Sharoben in the coastal city of Arish by suspected Islamist gunmen last Saturday.Elsewhere, Christian groups have reported numerous attacks against churches and Christian-owned homes by violent mobs. In one particularly grave incident, the murder of a Muslim in the southern village of Nagaa Hassan triggered claims that local Christians were responsible. Seizing the opportunity, a mob of Muslim extremists armed with axes, knives and clubs descended on the Christian community, murdering at least four people, injuring dozens and setting fire to scores of homes. Coptic Christians comprise only 10 percent of Egypt, which has boiled over with intrigue and rage since the January 25 revolution in 2011 that toppled the 30-year regime of former President Hosni Mubarak.The new Coptic pope, Tawadros II, has been unusually vocal in his criticism of the Muslim Brotherhood and in supporting the ouster of the Brotherhood-backed president Mohammed Morsi. His predecessor had discouraged Copts from involving themselves in politics, fearing a backlash from the country's Muslim majority. Those concerns appear to have been well-founded.A day after the first anniversary of Morsi’s election as president, the coup d’etat by the Egyptian Army deposed the new leader following a groundswell of protests and a petition signed by 22 million citizens, including many Christians.Morsi was replaced with a tripartate presidential council appointed by General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, head of Egyptian intelligence. The new government is to be headed by a interim President Adly al-Mansour, Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi and Vice President Mohamed ElBaradei, all leaders of opposition movements that are moderate and in many cases secularist. Ministerial positions will be offered to the Muslim Brotherhood’s political wing, the Freedom and Justice Party, according to a report in USA Today.None are Christian, but that doesn't seem to matter to the Egypt's radical Islamists, whose scapegoating of the Christian minority appears to be escalating on a daily basis.
ISRAEL SATAN COMES AGAINST
1 CHRONICLES 21:1
1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
ISRAELS TROUBLE
JEREMIAH 30:7
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble;(ISRAEL) but he shall be saved out of it.
DANIEL 12:1,4
1 And at that time shall Michael(ISRAELS WAR ANGEL) stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people:(ISRAEL) and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation(May 14,48) even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,(WORLD TRAVEL,IMMIGRATION) and knowledge shall be increased.(COMPUTERS,CHIP IMPLANTS ETC)
ISAIAH 14:12-15
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,(SATAN) son of the morning!(HEBREW-CRECENT MOON-ISLAM) how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(SATAN HAS PROUD I PROBLEMS)
15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
NY Jet Makes His Mark as Hater of Israel
Oday Aboushi, touted as the first “Palestinian” football player in the NFL, is also rabidly anti-Israel, Frontpage Magazine says-By David Lev-irst Publish: 7/11/2013, 2:42 PM-israelnationalnews
Stadium-Courtesy Yad Eliyahu
Aboushi's activities were revealed by Frontpage Magazine, where security expert Joe Kaufman cataloged some of his excesses. “Problems in the NFL usually revolve around drugs or alcohol abuse or players being bad influences in the locker rooms. Aboushi’s problem is an unusual one for pro sports. He’s a Muslim extremist,” wrote Kaufman in the Frontpage piece.The article details Aboushi's increasingly bold forays into extremist politics. The American-born Aboushi (he was born in Brooklyn to parents who immigrated from Beit Hanina in Jerusalem) spoke at several events recently, including at an event sponsored by an extremist group, “The El-Bireh Palestine Society.” Past guests at the annual event have included Fouad Rafeedie, a high-ranking member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist group, and Osama Siblani, publisher of The Arab American News and a supporter of Hizbullah and Hamas.Aboushi was the featured speaker at this year's event, which took place in Virginia, where he played his college football, on June 28. “Also participating in the conference was Nitham Hasan, the President of the Islamic Center of South Florida (ICOSF),” wrote Kaufman. “ICOSF’s mosque property is owned by the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT), a group named by the U.S. Justice Department as being a party to the financing of millions of dollars to Hamas.“On the same El-Bireh Facebook site as the conference, there are contained different images of Hitler and rabid anti-Christian cleric Ahmed Deedat, who authored the infamous work CRUCIFIXION OR CRUCI-FICTION?,” continued Kaufman. “There are terrorist memorials for Hamas leader Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi, PLO leader Yasser Arafat, Hamas founder Ahmed Yassin and Hamas bomb maker Yahya Ayyash. About Arafat and Yassin, the site states in Arabic, 'The martyr leader Yasser Arafat with the Mujahid Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. G-d have mercy on them,'” he wrote.The Jets are aware of Aboushi's extremism, but have chosen not to address it as of yet, wrote Kaufman. Other players on the team have ignored Aboushi's extra-cirricular behavior as well, he adds, but that is unlikely to continue. “This author, however, believes that the Jets have much more to worry about than whether or not Aboushi can create holes in the opposing team’s defense or if he can provide protection for the quarterback,” wrote Kaufman. “Given the actions he continues to engage in and the dangerous persons and groups he chooses to surround himself with, the Jets must change the game plan they originally had when they took Oday Aboushi in the 2013 NFL Draft and release this player. In the end, those individuals Aboushi truly wishes to protect may very well be the ones we have to worry about the most.”
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)
Egypt 'Set to Launch Major Sinai Operation'
Reports: Egypt killed 32 Hamas terrorists in recent days and plans a larger offensive, with Israel's approval.
By Gil Ronen-First Publish: 7/11/2013, 5:12 PM-israelnationalnews
Egyptian soldiers-Flash 90
Egypt is planning a
large scale offensive against Sinai terrorists, where it has already
killed scores of Islamist fighters - including 32 Hamas men - in recent
days, according to reports.
Egyptian forces also arrested
several others over the past few days in the Sinai Peninsula, an
Egyptian military source told the London-based Arabic-language al-Hayat newspaper Thursday morning.
According to the newspaper,
the Egyptian army's military operations in Sinai killed 32 Hamas
militants and arrested 45 of the group's members, as well as about 200
other gunmen.The Egyptian military source
said Hamas terrorists cooperate with jihadist elements in Sinai. They
enter Sinai through the tunnels that connect Gaza with Sinai, he said,
carry out attacks and then escape through the tunnels. "They take
advantage of the terrain and hide in the mountains," the source added.Another report claims that the military leadership in Cairo is planning a wider offensive in Sinai. The London Times said that Egypt will ask Israel to allow it to send a sizeable military force into Sinai for a limited period of time. "Jihadist groups have sought
to exploit the political crisis in Cairo by launching attacks against
Egyptian and Israeli targets in Sinai over recent days," noted the Times.Current treaties between the
two countries prohibit large-scale military mobilisations in the Sinai
Peninsula, but Israel is unlikely to oppose such an operation, intended
to clear Sinai from extremist terror groups that have gained a foothold
there since the fall of the Mubarak regime in 2011, and who pose a
serious threat to Israel's southern regions.The operation is scheduled to begin in a few days' time, the report added.Hamas is the Palestinian
offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, whose supporters have recently
called for an "uprising" following the removal of President Mohammed Morsi by the Egyptian military.Hamas has in the past been accused by the Egyptian military establishment of working with other Islamist terrorist groups to destabilise the country.
Egypt welcomes U.S. remarks on Mursi; food stocks dwindle
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's interim rulers welcomed on Thursday remarks from the U.S. State department describing the rule of toppled leader Mohamed Mursi as undemocratic, clearly hoping they signaled Washington would not cut off its $1.5 billion in annual aid.In a stark illustration of the desperate state of Egypt's economy, a former minister from Mursi's ousted government said Egypt has less than two months' supply left of imported wheat, revealing a far worse shortage than previously disclosed.The army's removal of Egypt's first democratically elected leader last week, after millions took to the streets to protest against him, has left the Arab world's most populous country polarized by divisions unseen in its modern history.
Violence between supporters of Mursi and soldiers at a military compound this week has deepened the fissures.Washington has been treading a careful line. U.S. law bars aid to countries where a democratic government is removed in a coup. So far Washington has said it is too early to say whether the Egyptian events met that description.Nevertheless, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said on Wednesday, Mursi's government "wasn't a democratic rule"."What I mean is what we've been referencing about the 22 million people who have been out there voicing their views and making clear that democracy is not just about simply winning the vote at the ballot box."Egypt's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Badr Abdelatty, said the comments "reflect understanding and realization ... about the political developments that Egypt is witnessing in the recent days, as embodying the will of the millions of Egyptians who took to the streets starting on June 30 to ask for their legitimate rights and call for early elections".In the days before Mursi's downfall, the U.S. ambassador in Cairo attracted sharp criticism from Mursi's opponents for a speech that stressed that Mursi was democratically elected and discouraged street protests against him.The White House on Monday refused to label the ouster of Egypt's president a military coup and said there would be no immediate cut-off in U.S. aid to Egypt. U.S. officials have since said they are still reviewing the matter. In the past, the U.S. government has taken more than two months to make up its mind on such questions.
VIOLENCE
Two and a half years of political turmoil has left Egypt on the brink of economic collapse, scaring away tourists and investors, shriveling hard currency reserves and threatening its ability to import food and fuel for its 84 million people.Speaking to Reuters near midnight in a tent at a vigil by thousands of Mursi supporters, the ousted president's supply minister, Bassem Ouda, revealed that government stocks held just 500,000 metric tons of imported wheat.Egypt, the world's biggest buyer, usually imports about 10 million metric tons of wheat a year, half of which is given out by the state in the form of subsidized bread sold for less than one U.S. cent a loaf.The imported wheat stock figure, previously a closely-guarded secret, means Egypt will need to urgently start spending a $12 billion financial aid lifeline it has been given in the past two days by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait, rich Gulf states that welcomed Mursi's downfall.
Egypt had not bought any imported wheat since February, its longest absence from the market in years, until the eve of Mursi's downfall when it bought 180,000 metric tons.The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization said in a report that Egypt risked serious food security problems if insecurity and a shortage of foreign currency hinder imports."I think the aim of the Arab countries is to make sure Egypt doesn't fail with respect to food security and financial commitments with the international banking system, so I would think they will push to get the aid through quickly," said Kisan Gunjal, economist and food emergency Officer at the FAO.
ROAD MAP
Adli Mansour, the interim president named by the general who removed Mursi, has moved briskly to implement an army "road map" to restore civilian rule. This week he announced a temporary constitution, plans to amend it and a faster-than-expected schedule for parliamentary elections in about six months.
He also named 76-year-old liberal economist Hazem el-Beblawi as interim prime minister. Beblawi held his first meetings with political leaders on Wednesday and told Reuters that he expects the transitional cabinet to be in place early next week.Negotiations are difficult, with the authorities trying to attract support from groups that range from secularists to ultra-orthodox Muslims, nearly all of whom expressed deep dissatisfaction with elements of the interim constitution.Those political moves have been accompanied by a crackdown on the Brotherhood, the Islamist movement which worked in the shadows for 85 years before emerging as Egypt's best-organized political force when autocrat Hosni Mubarak was toppled in 2011.
On Wednesday, Egypt's public prosecutor ordered the arrest of Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie and several other senior Islamists, accusing them of inciting violence on Monday when 53 Mursi supporters and four members of the security forces were killed in a dawn clash near a barracks.
Mursi's supporters say those killed were peacefully praying when fired upon. The army says terrorists provoked the violence by attacking its troops.Mursi's whereabouts have not been revealed. The government says he is safe at an undisclosed location.Thousands of Brotherhood supporters have maintained an around-the-clock vigil near a mosque in northeast Cairo demanding he be reinstated, an aim that now seems in vain.
The start of the Ramadan Muslim fasting month has done little to dampen the Brotherhood protest. Supporters are sheltering in tents from the summer heat during daylight hours when they are forbidden to eat or drink, and coming out in greater numbers in the evening.They have called for protest marches on Friday, the Muslim prayer day, as has the anti-Mursi Tamarud group, raising the risk of more violence. Fighting between Mursi's supporters and foes killed 35 people last Friday, although the situation in Cairo and other cities has been calmer since Monday's clash.Both sides in Egypt have become more anti-American in recent weeks. Mursi's opponents say President Barack Obama's administration supported the Muslim Brotherhood in power, while Mursi's supporters believe Washington was behind the plot to unseat him."Obama supports democracy, but only if it goes to those who aren't Islamists," heavily bearded Mursi supporter El-Sayyed Abdel Rabennabi said at the Brotherhood vigil.On Tahrir Square, where Mursi's opponents gather, the animosity is no less fierce."America made an alliance with the Brotherhood against the Egyptian people," said aircraft mechanic Tawfiq Munir at a recent rally there. "Now the Brotherhood are fighting us in the streets, fighting to take back power, and America is sitting on the fence."(Additional reporting by Alexander Dziadosz, Maggie Fick, Mike Collett-White, Tom Perry, Peter Graff, Ali Saed, Seham el-Oraby and Shadia Nasralla; writing by Peter Graff; editing by Philippa Fletcher)
Syrian rebels reject Russian claims on chemicals
Sellstrom was expected to meet Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at U.N. in New York later Wednesday. A U.N. diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief reporters, said Sellstrom and U.N. disarmament chief Angela Kane are likely to visit Damascus "quite quickly" for high-level talks on a possible U.N. investigation.Churkin delivered an 80-page report to U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Tuesday. He said Syria asked its ally Russia to investigate the attack because of the impasse with the U.N.The samples taken from the impact site were analyzed at a Russian laboratory, Churkin said, and "there is every reason to believe that it was the armed opposition fighters who used the chemical weapons in Khan al-Assal."British U.N. Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant told reporters Wednesday, "It's nice that the Syrian regime has given access to Russian experts to collect samples of alleged chemical weapons use, but it is considerably more important that they give access to independent and credible U.N. investigators."
In Washington, White House spokesman Jay Carney replied, "We have yet to see any evidence that backs up the assertion that anybody besides the Syrian government has had the ability to use chemical weapons or has used chemical weapons."State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki accused Russia of blocking the effort to allow the U.N. "unfettered access" to Syria to investigate all allegations of chemical weapons use.
The U.S. says it has "high confidence" that Assad's forces have killed up to 150 people with sarin gas.
In violence Wednesday, woman and her four children were killed as they fled shelling near Damascus, the Observatory said.Residents of two northern Syrian towns demonstrated against al-Qaida-linked rebels, an activist said Wednesday, suggesting growing discontent in opposition areas toward Islamic fighters in the rebellion.There have been similar protests over the past month in rebel-held areas, said Rami Abdul-Rahman of the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The organization receives its information through a wide network of activists on the ground."There's clear dissatisfaction against them," Abdul-Rahman said. He said most residents' anger was directed against one specific group, "The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant," an al-Qaida-linked coalition announced by the head of Iraq's al-Qaida arm, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, in April.The Syrian al-Qaida element, the Al-Nusra Front, rejected the merger. Last month Al-Qaida's global leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, was said to be trying to end the squabbling, ordering that the merger be dissolved.Hard-line Sunni fighters, some from other countries, form the most organized part of the chaotic brigades battling Assad's rule. The war in Syria is now in its third year, and different groups of rebels control northern and southern parts of the country.Abdul-Rahman said it seemed residents were angry because fighters had been arresting youths on flimsy pretexts."They are trying to show their muscle," he said.
Similar demonstrations took place in Aleppo province.___Associated Press writers Edith M. Lederer at the U.N. and Deb Riechmann in Washington contributed this report.___Follow Hadid on twitter.com/diaahadid
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS-10 WORLD REGIONS/TRADE BLOCS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS-10 WORLD DIVISION WORLD GOVERNMENT) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(TAKE OVER 3 WORLD REGIONS)
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS-10 WORLD REGIONS/TRADE BLOCS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS-10 WORLD DIVISION WORLD GOVERNMENT) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(TAKE OVER 3 WORLD REGIONS)
Brussels on collision course with Germany on banking union
10.07.13 @ 18:59
By Benjamin Fox
BRUSSELS - The European Commission put
itself on a collision course with Germany on Wednesday (10 July) after
it proposed a common eurozone authority backed by a fund to decide on
the fate of ailing banks.
Under the proposal, an EU agency with 300 staff would be set up to supervise national regulators on ailing banks and to prepare plans to wind them down. The commission would then make the final decision on whether and when to put a bank into resolution.The new regime would cover the roughly 6,000 banks falling under the single supervisory mechanism agreed earlier this year, which is being set up as part of the European Central Bank.Just as controversial is the concept of a single bank resolution fund for the eurozone, which would pool funds collected at national level from levies on the banks.The total size of the fund would eventually be around €55 billion, equivalent to 1 percent of total deposits held by banks, according to the EU executive. However, the fund would be built up gradually over a ten year period.The German government has made clear that the power to take a bank into resolution should still lie in the hands of national authorities.
Meanwhile, they have also argued that a common resolution fund could become another de facto bailout mechanism and could not be created without treaty change.Berlin lost no time in shooting down the commission's draft law."This proposal gives the European Commission a competence it cannot have based on the current treaties," a German government spokesman said Wednesday.However, leading German MEP Sven Giegold, the Green group's economic affairs spokesman and co-rapporteur on banking union, accused his government of using "spurious legal arguments", adding that "Germany has not found any allies to support its legal position.""This is irresponsible because effective banking resolution is a vital part of the banking union which is a vitally important tool to face the European crisis," he added.For his part, EU financial services commissioner Michel Barnier, who presented the proposals, dismissed suggestions that the commission text had overstepped the mark."We have very carefully analysed the legal certainty in this text," he said.Barnier said the proposal was based on article 114 of the EU treaty regarding harmonisation of national laws for the aim of creating a single market.He said the establishment of this fund was necessary "because the banking sector and the euro and their stability are crucial to the edifice of the EU."Barnier also rejected the idea of waiting for treaty change before pushing ahead with the completion of banking union. "We have immediate responsibilities…..we can't wait for such a change because we know what our problems are."A paper released by the commission on Wednesday argued that neither the European Central Bank nor the European Banking Authority could legally be responsible for triggering a bank resolution procedure.The resolution proposal comes just weeks after EU finance ministers agreed their position on the commission's draft bank resolution and recovery directive, a looser set of rules for all 28 member states.Although EU leaders recently committed themselves to agreeing a position on Wednesday's proposal by the end of the year, German Federal elections in September is likely to slow the process down in the bloc's largest member state. Ministers will then face a race against time to agree the regulation with MEPs before the European elections next May.
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.
BEIJING (AP) — Floodwaters surging through Himalayan
foothills in western China have swept bridges, houses and hillsides into
roiling brown rivers, leaving at least 25 people dead and dozens
missing Thursday, as heavy rains buffet many parts of the country.Flooding
in the western province of Sichuan was the worst in 50 years for some
areas, with more than 100,000 people forced to evacuate.Nationwide,
at least 44 people have died, around 66 were missing, and at least 1.6
million have been otherwise affected since Sunday, according to figures
from the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the official Xinhua News Agency.
Thousands of homes have been destroyed or damaged and transportation
brought to a virtual standstill in hard-hit areas.
Many of the casualties in Sichuan were from a massive landslide that struck a scenic resort outside the city of Dujiangyan. An entire hillside collapsed onto clusters of holiday cottages where city dwellers escape summer heat, a survivor told the official Xinhua News Agency."The noise was like thunder and went on for two or three minutes. My first thought was that I too would be buried," Gao Quanshi, 47, was quoted as saying. Phone lines were cut, so villagers had to trek to nearby government offices to call for help, he said.Images from the scene showed a valley filled with mud and rocks with only the tops of trees sticking through. Drenched rescuers wearing helmets and life jackets worked mostly with hand tools to prevent harming any survivors still trapped beneath.A total of 352 tourists had been rescued from the area as of Wednesday night, Xinhua said. Overall in Sichuan, there were are least 25 dead and around 50 missing, state media reports said.Mudslides and flooding are common in China's mountainous areas, killing hundreds of people every year, but in some areas the current floods are already the worst in half a century. Reports said the 94 centimeters (37 inches) of rainfall that fell on Dujiangyan over 40 hours beginning on Monday was the heaviest since records began being kept in 1954.Also in the west, more than 2,000 people were rescued after being trapped for several hours Wednesday in a highway tunnel between Dujiangyan and Wenchuan — the epicenter of the Sichuan earthquake five years ago that left 90,000 people dead or missing.
Bridges have been closed and train service suspended in some parts of the province.In nearby Beichuan county, flooding destroyed buildings and wrecked exhibits at a memorial for earthquake victims.The flooding also caused the collapse of an almost 50-year-old bridge in a neighboring county, sending six vehicles into the raging waters and leaving 12 people missing.The region lies in the foothills of the Tibetan Plateau, where mountains rise sharply from the densely populated Sichuan basin. Fast-running rivers quickly overflowed their banks, flooding scores of towns and parts of the provincial capital of Chengdu, where the waters rose to the second floor and covered the tops of cars.In Chengdu, stone bridges and brick houses along river banks were swept away, including one in which the residents were taking shelter, while others crumbled into the saturated earth already rent with fissures from the 8.9 magnitude 2008 earthquake.In the northern province of Shanxi, meanwhile, at least 12 workers were killed Tuesday when a violent rainstorm caused the collapse of an unfinished coal mine workshop they were building.Another three people were drowned in a car in Hebei province outside the capital, while an additional 11 people were reported dead or missing in Yunnan province, Beijing, Inner Mongolia, and Gansu province.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Tropical Storm Chantal skirted
the southern coasts of the Dominican Republic and Haiti on Wednesday,
losing force but heavy rain still posed a threat to some of the region's
most vulnerable people.The storm did not make landfall on the
island of Hispaniola shared by the two nations. But Chantal brought
heavy rain to areas prone to flooding and landslides in places where
many people live in flimsy homes of plywood and corrugated steel.In
both countries, people fortified houses with tarps and wood and
gathered supplies, largely ignoring warnings to leave their
neighborhoods."We're going to wait until it's over. We're already
used to this," said 36-year-old Sergio Guzman, who along the banks of a
river near Santo Domingo.A Dominican firefighter was killed in
the community of Maimon, about 50 miles (85 kilometers) north of the
capital, Santo Domingo, when he was swept away by floodwaters as he
tried to clear a storm drain, said Luis Luna, director of the country's
civil defense agency. The death of 26-year-old Juan Ramon Rodriguez was
believed to be the first caused by Chantal, which began moving through
the Caribbean on Tuesday.Authorities
were evacuating thousands of people from communities considered at high
risk for flooding as rivers near the capital and along the southern
coast reached dangerously high levels as heavy rains from the storm
continued to fall."We're not in the clear yet," said Juan Manuel Mendez, the director of the Emergency Operations Center.As
showers began falling along Haiti's southern coast Wednesday afternoon,
officials took to the radio airwaves to urge people to move away from
ravines, secure important records and stock up on food and water."There's
not much I can do," Stevenson Etienne, a 40-year-old welder, said from
his garage in downtown Port-au-Prince. "Still, I will try to protect
myself and my children."Chantal was about 145 miles (235
kilometers) south of the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince Wednesday
afternoon, moving west at 29 mph (46 kph), with maximum sustained winds
of 45 mph (75 kph), according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center in
Miami. It was on track to head north across Cuba and toward the Bahamas
and Florida, but forecasters said the storm would likely weaken to a
tropical depression by Thursday.A
tropical storm warning was in effect Wednesday for Haiti, Turks and
Caicos and the southeastern Bahamas. A tropical storm watch was in
effect for Jamaica and the central Bahamas.
Even a weaker Chantal could create problems for the rural southern peninsula of Haiti and southwestern Dominican Republic.Storms often trigger flooding and landslides on Hispaniola, and severe deforestation and makeshift housing make Haiti especially vulnerable.Port-au-Prince is a hilly city on the ocean that's surrounded by vast concrete shanties that collapse in mudslides, sometimes killing people. Also, about 279,000 Haitians still live in ramshackle settlements established after a devastating 2010 earthquake.
Last year, a hurricane and a tropical storm separately caused widespread flooding after merely brushing Haiti.Marie Alta Jean-Baptiste, general director for Haiti's Civil Protection Department, said the government had prepared 400 emergency shelters nationwide. She urged people to tie up livestock, monitor the radio for updates and avoid crossing rivers.American Airlines canceled flights to Haiti and elsewhere in the Caribbean.
Chantal raced through the eastern Caribbean early Tuesday, with officials in Dominica reporting that heavy winds ripped the roofs off several homes. No injuries were reported there or anywhere else in the region.
Overnight, the storm passed south of Puerto Rico, leaving about 7,000 people without power and more than 2,500 people without water. Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla ordered public employees in the U.S. territory to return to work on Wednesday.The U.S. Coast Guard said all Puerto Rican ports had reopened except those on the southern and western coasts.___Associated Press writers Daniel and Evens Sanon reported from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and Lopez from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Danica Coto in San Juan, Puerto Rico contributed to this report.
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.
Under the proposal, an EU agency with 300 staff would be set up to supervise national regulators on ailing banks and to prepare plans to wind them down. The commission would then make the final decision on whether and when to put a bank into resolution.The new regime would cover the roughly 6,000 banks falling under the single supervisory mechanism agreed earlier this year, which is being set up as part of the European Central Bank.Just as controversial is the concept of a single bank resolution fund for the eurozone, which would pool funds collected at national level from levies on the banks.The total size of the fund would eventually be around €55 billion, equivalent to 1 percent of total deposits held by banks, according to the EU executive. However, the fund would be built up gradually over a ten year period.The German government has made clear that the power to take a bank into resolution should still lie in the hands of national authorities.
Meanwhile, they have also argued that a common resolution fund could become another de facto bailout mechanism and could not be created without treaty change.Berlin lost no time in shooting down the commission's draft law."This proposal gives the European Commission a competence it cannot have based on the current treaties," a German government spokesman said Wednesday.However, leading German MEP Sven Giegold, the Green group's economic affairs spokesman and co-rapporteur on banking union, accused his government of using "spurious legal arguments", adding that "Germany has not found any allies to support its legal position.""This is irresponsible because effective banking resolution is a vital part of the banking union which is a vitally important tool to face the European crisis," he added.For his part, EU financial services commissioner Michel Barnier, who presented the proposals, dismissed suggestions that the commission text had overstepped the mark."We have very carefully analysed the legal certainty in this text," he said.Barnier said the proposal was based on article 114 of the EU treaty regarding harmonisation of national laws for the aim of creating a single market.He said the establishment of this fund was necessary "because the banking sector and the euro and their stability are crucial to the edifice of the EU."Barnier also rejected the idea of waiting for treaty change before pushing ahead with the completion of banking union. "We have immediate responsibilities…..we can't wait for such a change because we know what our problems are."A paper released by the commission on Wednesday argued that neither the European Central Bank nor the European Banking Authority could legally be responsible for triggering a bank resolution procedure.The resolution proposal comes just weeks after EU finance ministers agreed their position on the commission's draft bank resolution and recovery directive, a looser set of rules for all 28 member states.Although EU leaders recently committed themselves to agreeing a position on Wednesday's proposal by the end of the year, German Federal elections in September is likely to slow the process down in the bloc's largest member state. Ministers will then face a race against time to agree the regulation with MEPs before the European elections next May.
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.
At least 25 dead in western China flooding
Many of the casualties in Sichuan were from a massive landslide that struck a scenic resort outside the city of Dujiangyan. An entire hillside collapsed onto clusters of holiday cottages where city dwellers escape summer heat, a survivor told the official Xinhua News Agency."The noise was like thunder and went on for two or three minutes. My first thought was that I too would be buried," Gao Quanshi, 47, was quoted as saying. Phone lines were cut, so villagers had to trek to nearby government offices to call for help, he said.Images from the scene showed a valley filled with mud and rocks with only the tops of trees sticking through. Drenched rescuers wearing helmets and life jackets worked mostly with hand tools to prevent harming any survivors still trapped beneath.A total of 352 tourists had been rescued from the area as of Wednesday night, Xinhua said. Overall in Sichuan, there were are least 25 dead and around 50 missing, state media reports said.Mudslides and flooding are common in China's mountainous areas, killing hundreds of people every year, but in some areas the current floods are already the worst in half a century. Reports said the 94 centimeters (37 inches) of rainfall that fell on Dujiangyan over 40 hours beginning on Monday was the heaviest since records began being kept in 1954.Also in the west, more than 2,000 people were rescued after being trapped for several hours Wednesday in a highway tunnel between Dujiangyan and Wenchuan — the epicenter of the Sichuan earthquake five years ago that left 90,000 people dead or missing.
Bridges have been closed and train service suspended in some parts of the province.In nearby Beichuan county, flooding destroyed buildings and wrecked exhibits at a memorial for earthquake victims.The flooding also caused the collapse of an almost 50-year-old bridge in a neighboring county, sending six vehicles into the raging waters and leaving 12 people missing.The region lies in the foothills of the Tibetan Plateau, where mountains rise sharply from the densely populated Sichuan basin. Fast-running rivers quickly overflowed their banks, flooding scores of towns and parts of the provincial capital of Chengdu, where the waters rose to the second floor and covered the tops of cars.In Chengdu, stone bridges and brick houses along river banks were swept away, including one in which the residents were taking shelter, while others crumbled into the saturated earth already rent with fissures from the 8.9 magnitude 2008 earthquake.In the northern province of Shanxi, meanwhile, at least 12 workers were killed Tuesday when a violent rainstorm caused the collapse of an unfinished coal mine workshop they were building.Another three people were drowned in a car in Hebei province outside the capital, while an additional 11 people were reported dead or missing in Yunnan province, Beijing, Inner Mongolia, and Gansu province.
First death from Tropical Storm Chantal
Even a weaker Chantal could create problems for the rural southern peninsula of Haiti and southwestern Dominican Republic.Storms often trigger flooding and landslides on Hispaniola, and severe deforestation and makeshift housing make Haiti especially vulnerable.Port-au-Prince is a hilly city on the ocean that's surrounded by vast concrete shanties that collapse in mudslides, sometimes killing people. Also, about 279,000 Haitians still live in ramshackle settlements established after a devastating 2010 earthquake.
Last year, a hurricane and a tropical storm separately caused widespread flooding after merely brushing Haiti.Marie Alta Jean-Baptiste, general director for Haiti's Civil Protection Department, said the government had prepared 400 emergency shelters nationwide. She urged people to tie up livestock, monitor the radio for updates and avoid crossing rivers.American Airlines canceled flights to Haiti and elsewhere in the Caribbean.
Chantal raced through the eastern Caribbean early Tuesday, with officials in Dominica reporting that heavy winds ripped the roofs off several homes. No injuries were reported there or anywhere else in the region.
Overnight, the storm passed south of Puerto Rico, leaving about 7,000 people without power and more than 2,500 people without water. Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla ordered public employees in the U.S. territory to return to work on Wednesday.The U.S. Coast Guard said all Puerto Rican ports had reopened except those on the southern and western coasts.___Associated Press writers Daniel and Evens Sanon reported from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and Lopez from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Danica Coto in San Juan, Puerto Rico contributed to this report.
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.
1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ Worldwide
25 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2013-07-11 10:48:36 UTC-04:00Showing event times using Local System Time (UTC-04:00)- 4.5 40km SSE of Ofunato, Japan 2013-07-11 09:44:26 UTC-04:00 79.0 km
- 4.5 67km NW of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina 2013-07-11 09:38:31 UTC-04:00 209.6 km
- 3.0 44km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico 2013-07-11 09:38:28 UTC-04:00 68.0 km
- 2.6 38km W of Kalifornsky, Alaska 2013-07-11 09:16:23 UTC-04:00 100.6 km
- 5.0 158km SSE of Rudum, Yemen 2013-07-11 05:46:11 UTC-04:00 16.3 km
- 2.8 9km WSW of Progreso, Mexico 2013-07-11 05:06:20 UTC-04:00 14.6 km
- 4.4 Central East Pacific Rise 2013-07-11 04:32:16 UTC-04:00 10.0 km
- 4.8 21km ENE of Sibolga, Indonesia 2013-07-11 03:16:25 UTC-04:00 10.0 km
- 3.2 92km NNW of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2013-07-11 03:13:33 UTC-04:00 21.0 km
- 2.7 9km N of Dorado, Puerto Rico 2013-07-11 02:42:38 UTC-04:00 26.0 km
- 4.1 20km NNE of Niltepec, Mexico 2013-07-11 02:32:35 UTC-04:00 90.9 km
- 2.7 11km WSW of Progreso, Mexico
