I WRITE NEWS ABOUT AND PUT NEWS ARTICLES ABOUT ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM PERTAINING TO BIBLE PROPHESY HAPPENINGS.JOEL 3:20 But Judah (ISRAEL) shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.(THATS ISRAEL-JERUSALEM WILL NEVER BE DESTROYED AGAIN)-WE CHRISTIANS ARE ALL WAITING PATIENTLY FOR THE PRE-TRIBULATION RAPTURE TO OCCUR.SO WE CAN GO TO JESUS AND GET OUR NEVER DYING BODIES.SO WE CAN RULE OVER CITIES OURSELVES.WHILE JESUS RULES FROM DAVIDS THRONE FOREVER IN JERUSALEM.
LUKE 21:28-29
28 And when these things begin to come to pass,(ALL THE PROPHECY SIGNS FROM THE BIBLE) then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption (RAPTURE) draweth nigh.
29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree,(ISRAEL) and all the trees;(ALL INDEPENDENT COUNTRIES)
30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.(ISRAEL LITERALLY BECAME AND INDEPENDENT COUNTRY JUST BEFORE SUMMER IN MAY 14,1948.)
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.
12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE
JOEL 2:3,30
3 A fire devoureth (ATOMIC BOMB) before them;(RUSSIAN-ARAB-MUSLIM ARMIES AGAINST ISRAEL) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(ATOMIC BOMB AFFECT)
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet,(DISOLVED) and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED) and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED)(BECAUSE NUKES HAVE BEEN USED ON ISRAELS ENEMIES)(GOD PROTECTS ISRAEL AND ALWAYS WILL)
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)
WHAT IS THIS.GENERAL SAYS SETTLEMENTS MAKE IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR A PA STATE.WELL I GOT A SOLUTION FOR THAT SHIP ALL THE ARABS IN ISRAEL TO ARAB -MUSLIM COUNTRIES AROUND ISRAEL INSTEAD.THE ARABS CAN HAVE THEIR STATE IN EGYPT WITH CAIRO AS THERE HALF CAPITAL.THE SHIITES CAN CONTROL HALF OF EGYPT WITH HALF OF CAIRO.AND THE SUNNIS CAN LIVE IN THE OTHER HALF OF EGYPT AND HAVE HALF OF CAIRO AS THERES.THEN ISRAEL CAN BUILD WERE EVER IT WANTS IN ISRAEL.AND IF EGYPTS NEW ARAB STATE WITH HALF CAIRO EVER EVEN ATTEMPTS AT SHOOTING ROCKETS INTO ISRAEL ..LOOKOUT.GOD GAVE ISRAEL THOSE 400 NUCLEAR WEAPONS TO PROTECT THEMSELVES.SO LAYOFF ARAB-MUSLIMS TRYING TO STEAL JERUSALEM FROM ISRAELAND TRYING TO FORCE ISRAEL FROM NOT BUILDING ON THEIR GOD GIVIN THEM LAND.YES ITS THE LAND OF ZIONISM.GOD WILL KEEP HIS PROMISE AND ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM WILL BE IN ISRAELS HANDS FOREVER UNDER THE RULE OF KING JEWISH JESUS.OUR GOD AND SAVIOR.AND ONLY WAY TO SALVATION.NO OTHER WAY.SO GET OVER IT ARAB-MUSLIMS AND THE WORLD.OH AND ISRAEL-WHY WOULD YOU LET ARAB MURDERERS FREE IN THIS SO CALLED PEACE PROCESS.WHEN THESE ARAB/MUSLIMS WILL JUST SHOOT MORE ROCKETS AND KILL MORE INNOCENT ISRAELI WOMEN-CHILDREN.IF USE ISRAELIS HAD THE DEATH PENALTY LIKE YOUR BIBLE TELLS USE.YOU WOULD NOT HAVE TO RELEASE MURDERERS IN THIS PEACE PROCESS.BECAUSE THEY WOULD BE KILLED ALREADY BY THE DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING INNOCENT ISRAELIS.JUST SOMETHING TO PONDER OVER ISRAEL.
U.S. General: Settlements Will Make PA State Impossible
General James Mattis says America pays a price for supporting Israel, warns settlements could create 'apartheid state.'-By Maayana Miskin-First Publish: 7/26/2013, 11:30 AM-israelnationalnews
Jews, Arabs in Jerusalem-Israel news photo: Flash 90
United States Marine Corps
General James Mattis, the recently retired head of U.S. Central Command,
issued a harsh warning regarding Israel’s communities in Judea and
Samaria (Shomron) while speaking at a security conference in Aspen,
Colorado.Mattis warned that Israeli towns in Judea and Samaria “are going to make it impossible to maintain the two-state option.”He went further, suggesting that Israel would become an apartheid
state. “If I’m in Jerusalem and I put 500 Jewish settlers out here to
the east and there’s 10,000 Arab settlers in here, if we draw the border
to include them, either it ceases to be a Jewish state or you say the
Arabs don’t get to vote – apartheid,” Bloomberg quoted him as saying.“That didn’t work too well the last time I saw that practiced in a country,” he added.Mattis also warned that America pays a price for supporting Israel.
“I paid a military security price every day as the commander of Centcom
because the Americans were seen as biased in support of Israel and that
moderates all the moderate Arabs who want to be with us, because they
can’t come out publicly in support of people who don’t show respect for
the Arab Palestinians,” he stated.He also discussed Iran’s nuclear program, and said he has “no doubt”
that Israel will take military action to stop Iran from developing a
nuclear weapon.However, he expressed doubt that a military operation would be successful. The Iranian program is spread out such that even advanced armies are unable to fully stop it, he argued.A military strike could buy more time, but cannot solve the problem completely, he concluded.
PM reportedly agreed to limit settlement building during talks
Netanyahu
to bring construction cap, along with referendum and prisoner release,
to Cabinet on Sunday, but poll shows scant support among public
Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu reportedly committed to cap settlement building during peace
talks with the Palestinians to 1,000 homes within existing settlement
blocs.The
Haaretz report came as Minister Yuval Steinitz, considered close to
Netanyahu, told the British Telegraph that Israel was prepared to make
painful concessions for peace, but a deal would not pass muster with the
public unless they are “totally convinced that what we are getting in
return is genuine, enduring peace and real security.”Netanyahu plans to bring the issue of holding a
national referendum on a peace deal to the Cabinet on Sunday, when he
will also ask his ministers to approve the release of dozens of
Palestinian prisoners, part of the deal to coax the Palestinians back to
the negotiating table.Palestinians had also demanded a total freeze
in settlement building, a measure some officials claimed US Secretary of
State John Kerry told Ramallah that Israel had committed to.
However, according to three unnamed senior
Israeli officials cited in the Haaretz report, Israel instead promised
Kerry to only approve 1,000 homes in the next two months within existing
settlement blocs that many in Jerusalem contend will remain in the
country as part of any peace deal with the Palestinians.
An original request to impose a full
moratorium on settlement building was dismissed by Israel from the
get-go, according to the report, as Netanyahu did not want to repeat a
similar building freeze to that of 2010, when the Palestinians still
refused to negotiate until the very end, despite the construction
stoppage.
Netanyahu is expected to announce the 1,000
new housing tenders at the Cabinet meeting on Sunday. Since an official
freeze will not be in place, building on non-government land can
continue under certain conditions, though the Defense Ministry and other
planning bodies that give building approval will be asked to deny those
requests, according to the article.Peace talks between Israel and the
Palestinians are expected to kick off next week, Minister Silvan Shalom
told reporters Thursday.Steinetz, the Intelligence and Strategic Affairs Minister, told the Telegraph that coming to a two-state solution, even involving painful territorial concessions, is the only solution.“At the end of the day, we will have such a
situation. It’s going to be difficult to achieve it — there are many
obstacles in the way — but I think there is no other solution to the
problem,” he said.
He added that he believed Israelis would approve a peace deal if it went to a referendum, though only if it provided real peace.“We will probably have to make very serious
territorial concessions. And the Palestinians will have to make also
both territorial concessions — because there will be settlement blocs —
but more important still, they will have to recognize the very existence
of the Jewish people and the Jewish state,” continued Steinitz.A poll by Haaretz published on Wednesday
showed 55 percent of Israelis were likely to approve a peace deal,
though the survey did not give parameters of a hypothetical peace deal.
An Israel Hayom poll released Friday, though,
shows that 54.5 percent of Israelis would be against a deal that
involved territorial concessions and slight changes to the 1967 borders.The issue of a referendum has become a
divisive one in Jerusalem, where Minister Naftali Bennett has said his
Jewish Home party will only approve the state’s upcoming budget in
return for a law requiring a national referendum on relinquishing land
in the West Bank. Other politicians, including Justice Minister Tzipi
Livni, have said a referendum undermines the Knesset’s governing powers.
The measure, however, is expected to pass the Cabinet easily.The issue of releasing prisoners, though, may
prove a tougher sell for Netanyahu on Sunday. Israel reportedly agreed
to release some 80 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jail since before
the Oslo Peace Accords in 1993, a number of them convicted for violent
terror activity that killed dozens of Israelis.A poll published by Israel Hayom Friday shows
that 84.9 percent of Israelis are against releasing prisoners “with
blood on their hands,” in exchange for opening talks, while 9.4 percent
support releasing the prisoners.The poll also found that 52.7 percent of
Israelis support a two-state solution on paper, while 36.8 percent are
against and the rest undecided.The poll was conducted on July 24 with 500 respondents and carries a margin of error of plus-minus 4.4 percent.
Bennett: They’re Trying to Scare Us
Bennett: No need to fear staying in our land.
By Maayana Miskin-First Publish: 7/26/2013, 12:52 PM-israelnationalnews
Naftali Bennett-Israel news photo: Flash 90
Minister Naftali Bennett, head of the Bayit Yehudi (Jewish Home)
faction, sent a message of encouragement to his supporters on Friday,
telling them not to be worried by doomsday proclamations in advance of
the Israeli-Palestinian Authority negotiations which are to begin next week.“They’re trying to scare us,” he wrote. “’Without giving up the land,
there will be terrorism. There will be a demographic problem. There
will be international isolation. There will never be peace,’” he quoted
opponents as saying.“It’s always another excuse. Even when we see that it’s actually
concessions that bring terrorism, that hurt our international
reputation, that bring us further from peace, they are looking for the next excuse,” he charged.“Fear paralyzes,” he warned. “If we had listened to those who tried
to scare us in previous generations, we would have stayed in the Arab
world and in Europe, and we would have continued to be obliterated
there.”
“The land of Israel and the state we established are ours. We came
back after thousands of years of longing and repeated attempts. We have
to declare this to the world,” he concluded.Bennett also urged his supporters not to be upset by the election of two hareidi-religious candidates, Rabbi David Lau and Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef, to the Chief Rabbinate.Bayit Yehudi had supported religious-Zionist candidates in the hopes of promoting reform in the Rabbinate.“We really hoped to make change through the Rabbinate. We didn’t succeed,” Bennett admitted on Facebook.“But we can’t get depressed now, or start hurling accusations,” he continued. The Bayit Yehudi party “is working daily on behalf of the people of Israel,” he said. “Sometimes we will succeed, and sometimes not.”“Chin up,” he declared.
Percentages, prisoners, and politics
Palestinians and Israelis get ready to meet at the negotiating table; tragedy in the north; and a former US general speaks out
With peace talks set to resume
next Tuesday in Washington, the weekend papers put peace on the front
page. But depending on the paper you read, every front page emphasizes
what it feels is the core issue.
Maariv
leads with land, and how much of the West Bank Netanyahu is willing to
sign away. The front-page headline quotes Acting Foreign Minister Ze’ev
Elkin. “Elkin: Netanyahu will be willing to sign for an evacuation of
86% of the West Bank.” Despite its front-page placement, the article is
actually an interview with the FM and leads Maariv’s weekend supplement,
and doesn’t offer much more than Elkin’s opinion.
While Elkin is issuing his own predictions on
the peace talks, on page 3 Maariv offers up a story about the growing
friction between the EU and Israel. Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon has
started operation “cold shoulder” to deal with the European Union. in
response to the recent EU guidelines that restrict EU interaction with
Israeli firms in the West Bank. According to the article, Israel will
stop issuing new permits and won’t extend existing ones to EU diplomats
working in the West Bank and Gaza. That’s not all: The paper reports
that Israel has cancelled meetings and is rarely answering phone calls
from EU diplomats in the West Bank.Contacts between the EU and Israel may be chilly, but they’re not the only thing being left out in the cold. Haaretz
reports that settlement activity will mostly be frozen during the next
six months with “1,000 units to be built.” While that might sound like a
lot, the paper explains that all the building will take place in
existing large settlement blocs — such as Gush Etzion and Ariel — and
not in new ones.Since something major could be happening on the horizon, Haaretz and Israel Hayom
go back to the glory days of the campaign and conduct another survey.
The Haaretz poll shows a lack of faith in the upcoming talks, with 69%
thinking they will fail to bring about a final-status agreement; 58%
also want any agreement to be brought to a national referendum.Haaretz seems to be in a hurry to move past
Netanyahu and find a new prime minister, but unfortunately for the
paper, the respondents don’t agree. When asked who should be the next
prime minister, Netanyahu comes in with 56% and Labor chief Shelly
Yachimovich bests Yair Lapid at 15% vs 7%, but both lose to that
perennial candidate, “I don’t know,” who comes in with 22%.Israel Hayom showcases its most recent poll on
its front page with the headline, “61.6%: any agreement should have a
national referendum.” Unlike Haaretz, Israel Hayom doesn’t seem to be in
any hurry to find a new PM, and its questions all relate to the
upcoming talks. While the majority thinks there should be a referendum,
55% are of the opinion that it would fail. Israelis may feel there won’t
be a peace agreement, but 52.7% believe in the two-state solution and
62.7% believe that peace talks should be restarted.
The front page of Yedioth Ahoronoth
deals with the other issue of restarting peace talks: the release of
Palestinian prisoners. The papers quotes Abby Moses, whose wife and son
were killed by one of the prisoners to be released. “Release the
murderer of my family only for peace, not as a gesture.” Inside, Moses
writes about the pain that he and his other son have endured since his
wife and child were killed, but reiterates that prisoners only be
released as part of a final peace deal — or the cycle of violence will
continue.Underneath the plea by Moses, Yedioth includes
an update on the Cabinet meeting due to take place on Sunday. The main
items on the agenda are the release of 82 prisoners and whether to
approve a referendum for any peace deal. According to the paper, both
items are expected to be approved.
Tragedy in the north
The papers also give a lot space to a tragedy
that occurred in the Upper Galilee, where three workers in their 20s
were electrocuted at a fishery. Yedioth tells how Nir Galsman (23) was
killed as he waded into the water to put down a net. The other two,
Gideon Raz (20) and Uriel Bocris (21), ran into the water to help Nir
and were also killed by an electric shock. Police are investigating the
incident and are looking at the manager of the fishery for possible
negligence.Israel Hayom includes, in its coverage, a
general safety guide on how to avoid electrocution and how to help those
who have been hurt. Written by the commander of the head of the Fire
and Rescue Squad in the Galilee and Golan, some of the tips are common
sense, but there are others — such as how to help someone who has been
electrocuted — that are really helpful. For example, if someone is
electrocuted in water and you can’t disconnect the electricity, use a
wooden stick or a plank to move them out of the water — but don’t go in yourself.
Generally speaking
Retired US general James Mattis, who recently
was the commander for US forces in the Middle East, gave a speech about
the Middle East, and the different papers heard what they wanted to
hear.Haaretz picked up that “the US pays a security
price for the conflict in the Middle East.” The general said that the
current state of settlement building means there needs to be an
agreement soon — or Israel will turn into an apartheid state. “And that
didn’t work out so well the last time a country tried that,” he told
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer.
Whereas Haaretz focused on the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Maariv chose to highlight Mattis’s
statements about Iran. He believes that Israel will attack Iran on its
own, but cautioned that he doesn’t believe the program can be stopped —
only delayed. “The army can buy diplomats time, but it cannot solve the
problem once and for all.”
Yaalon: Don't Cooperate with EU
Defense
Minister Moshe Yaalon orders that any EU request relating to Judea,
Samaria and Gaza be turned down because of its latest ban.-By Elad Benari-First Publish: 7/26/2013, 3:42 AM-israelnationalnews
Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon in Washington-Ariel Hermoni
Defense
Minister Moshe Yaalon has ordered the Coordinator of Government
Activities in Judea, Samaria and Gaza, Maj. Gen. Eitan Dangot, to turn
down any request by the European Union which relates to these regions, Channel 2 News reported on Thursday evening.Yaalon’s directive is a direct response to the EU’s new guidelines
which forbid any contact with Israeli companies operating beyond the
1949 Armistice Lines, said the report. Last week the EU published these
guidelines despite Israeli efforts to dissuade it from doing so.According to Channel 2 News,
Yaalon instructed Dangot to make it difficult for the Europeans to
operate in Judea, Samaria and Gaza. In the past week, Israel has denied
several European requests to fund projects in the Palestinian Authority.
In addition, eight requests by EU officials to cross from Israel into
PA-assigned areas were denied and meetings between EU and Israelis
officials were canceled.Two days
before the guidelines were published, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu
spoke with U.S. Secretary of State Kerry and told him that European
sanctions will hurt his attempt to restart negotiations between Israel
and the PA. He also spoke
with the with the president of the European Commission, Jose Manuel
Barroso, asking him to postpone the publication of the new guidelines.Israel met European envoys last Friday, warning them of a serious crisis between the European Union and Israel over the move.Hundreds of legal experts from Israel and around the world have appealed to European Union Foreign Affairs Commissioner Catherine Ashton to annul the EU's plan.The experts
are noting that the decision does not have a legal basis, because, they
argue, Judea and Samaria is not occupied territory in the legal sense of
the term.
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)
Egyptian commanders warn: Protests in Cairo, attacks in Sinai.
By Maayana Miskin-First Publish: 7/26/2013, 12:07 PM-israelnationalnews
Egyptian soldiers-Flash 90
Terrorists in the Sinai Peninsula are planning to attempt attacks on
Friday, Egyptian military sources have warned. The attacks would be
timed to take place parallel to protests in Cairo.Terror groups in the Sinai have primarily targeted the Egyptian army, which is currently engaged in a large-scale operation aimed at restoring order to the region. They have occasionally attacked Israel as well.On Friday morning an Egyptian base in the city of Rafiah, near Gaza,
came under attack. Attackers used a mix of gunfire, RPG missiles, and
mortar shells.On Thursday, terrorists attempted to bomb a police training base in
El Arish. The bombs detonated earlier than terrorists had planned,
killing four would-be attackers.Earlier in the week two Egyptian soldiers were shot and killed near the town of Sheikh Zawid.The Sinai suffered increasing unrest following the ouster of former
Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi. Terrorist groups in the region were
briefly subdued, but unrest increased again in recent weeks as Islamist
groups sought to take advantage of Morsi's ouster to regain lost ground.Israeli leaders are keeping a close eye on developments in the Sinai.
Residents of the western Sinai reported seeing Israeli surveillance
planes flying overhead on Friday morning.
Morsi Accused of Working With Hamas
Egyptian prosecutor suggests Morsi worked with Hamas to attack, kill Egyptian guards.
By Maayana Miskin-First Publish: 7/26/2013, 1:18 PM-israelnationalnews
Mohammed Morsi-AFP photo
The Egyptian state prosecutor has ordered that ousted Egyptian
President Mohammad Morsi be held for questioning for 15 days on
suspicion of working with Hamas to attack and kill Egyptian security personnel.
The accusations relate to attacks and prison riots in early 2011,
during mass protests against the rule of then-President Hosni Mubarak.Morsi is accused of having coordinated prison breaks in which
prisoners and guards were killed. Dozens of members of Morsi’s Muslim
Brotherhood group escaped jail in the breaks.
Egyptian media outlets have previously reported rumors that Hamas was
involved in the attacks. Hamas is a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood,
having been formed in the 1980s from Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated
organizations in Gaza.Muslim Brotherhood leaders have denied receiving assistance from
foreign terrorist groups in the prison break. They say their group was
helped by Egyptian citizens.The state prosecutor’s announcement
came as the Egyptian capital prepares for mass rallies following Friday
prayers. Protesters are expected to turn out both in support of and
against Morsi.Muslim Brotherhood spokesman Gehad el-Haddad denounced the detention order Friday, saying it signified the return of Mubarak's regime.
Container with depleted uranium found at Miami-area airport
A rescue team sets up a perimeter area as a hazardous materials team investigates after depleted uranium …
MIAMI (Reuters) - A 55-gallon drum containing depleted
uranium was found near a dismantled plane at a Miami-area airport on
Thursday, prompting a brief evacuation but officials said it posed no
environmental risk.The uranium was discovered on old aircraft parts which had been
broken up and placed into a container at the Opa-loca Executive Airport,
said Mara Burger, a spokeswoman for the Florida Department of
Environmental Protection."Someone disposed of the plane inappropriately," she said.The parts contained uranium 238, a material once used on airplanes for navigational purposes, Burger said.No injuries were reported and a hazmat team dispatched to the
airport found only minimal levels of radiation, said Lieutenant Arnold
Piedrahita, a spokesman for Miami-Dade Fire Rescue.The airport handles some secondary traffic for Miami International Airport and offers aircraft maintenance and repair services.(Reporting by Kevin Gray; Editing by Alden Bentley)
Judge approves suit tying Morgan Stanley to toxic lending in Detroit
By Bernard Vaughan-JULY 26,13
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge on Thursday approved a lawsuit
accusing Morgan Stanley of discrimination for encouraging a subprime
mortgage lender to target black homeowners in Detroit.In the ruling, U.S. District Judge Harold Baer in New York made a
connection between predatory lending in the run-up to the financial
crisis in 2008 and Detroit's bankruptcy petition last week."Detroit's recent bankruptcy filing only emphasizes the broader
consequences of predatory lending and the foreclosures that inevitably
result," Baer wrote in a 13-page opinion. "It is not difficult to
conclude that Detroit's current predicament, at least in part, is an
outgrowth of the predatory lending at issue here."The plaintiffs include five black homeowners in Detroit who accuse
the bank of discrimination for giving New Century Mortgage Company
incentives to issue loans, including loans with balloon payments, that
were likely to fail.The bank did this by routinely purchasing loans unlikely to be
repaid and packaging them in securities that were then sold, providing
funding that helped New Century stay in business until it filed for
bankruptcy in 2007, according to the plaintiffs."These high-risk loans as opposed to better loans or even no loan at
all caused Plaintiffs a concrete injury," Baer wrote in his ruling on
Thursday. "Thus, Plaintiffs have adequately pled injury in fact."
The ruling allowed the plaintiffs to move ahead with their claims under the Fair Housing Act.However, Baer dismissed claims they had brought under the Equal
Credit Opportunity Act and Michigan's Elliot-Larsen Civil Rights Act.The plaintiffs brought the proposed class-action lawsuit with
assistance from the American Civil Liberties Union in October 2012.Laurence Schwartztol, a staff attorney in the ACLU's racial justice
program, said Thursday that he was pleased with the decision."The decision today vindicates our clients' ability to pursue their
civil rights claims," Schwartztol told Reuters. "What the decision today
does is affirm a crucial principle, which is that when a Wall Street
investment bank like Morgan Stanley uses policies that have a
discriminatory effect, the people who are harmed by that discrimination
will have a meaningful way to assert rights under the federal
anti-discrimination laws."Wesley McDade, a spokesman for Morgan Stanley, declined to comment.The case is Adkins et al v. Morgan Stanley et al, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 12-cv-07667.(Reporting by Bernard Vaughan)
07/25/2013 VATICAN INSIDER
Francis continues Curia reform work from Rio
Vatican restructuring work continues even outside the Vatican Walls
Cardinal Madariaga revealed this to Spanish newspaper “La Razón”
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences;(BIOLOGICAL/CHEMICAL/NUCLEAR) and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
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)
Weird Weather: Dry Seasons Start Earlier, Are Wetter
By Becky Oskin, Staff Writer
12 hours ago JULY 26,13
Weird Weather: Dry Seasons Start Earlier, Are Wetter
Call it weird, call it extreme, maybe even call it the new normal. Wild
weather in the United States in the past decade has amassed a long list
of toppled records and financial disasters.Some of these exceptional weather events included unusually heavy rain and snow. Now, a new study confirms that everywhere except in the Atlantic Plains region, more rain and snow is falling
during wet and dry seasons alike. The Atlantic Plains are the flatlands
along the central and southern Atlantic Coast that stretch from
Massachusetts to Mississippi. On average, the total precipitation in the
contiguous United States has increased 5.9 percent, according to the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.What's more, the timing has changed too. In some parts of the United
States, dry seasons are arriving earlier and wet seasons are starting
later than they did 80 years ago. The time shift does not necessarily
extend the length of dry or wet seasons, because most areas have
transitional periods in between these precipitation extremes. In the
Ohio River Valley, the fall dry season starts two to three weeks earlier
today, the researchers report. In east New York, the wet season now
kicks off on Jan. 8 instead of Feb. 1. And in the Southwest, the summer
monsoon is starting later than it did during the middle of the 20th
century. [In Images: Extreme Weather Around the World]
"The effects vary from region to region," said Indrani Pal, lead study
author and a water resources engineer at the University of Colorado in
Denver. "This study has a lot of implications from an ecology and water
management perspective, and for extreme events like droughts and floods
as well."Altering the timing of dry and wet season starts can significantly
affect agriculture and cities, Pal said. In the Southwest, water
contracts rely on the timing of spring snowmelt and summer monsoons to
generate hydroelectric power and water for farming and millions of
residents.Pal and her colleagues analyzed data from 774 weather stations across
the United States with a continuous record since 1930. They found an
overall drop in dry spells (the number of days without precipitation)
between 1930 and 2009 in most regions of the country. For instance,
there were 15 more precipitation days (rain or snow) during the dry
season in the Central and Great Plains, and 20 more precipitation days
during the wet season in the Midwest and intermountain regions today
than 80 years ago. However, the length of dry spells during the wet
season, a drought indicator, increased by 50 percent in the Atlantic Plains.Pal said the study cannot answer whether climate change
is causing the seasonal shifts in precipitations. "This opens many
other research doors," she told LiveScience. "We would like to find what
is actually affecting this shift. It's probably a mixture of natural
variability and climate change," Pal said.
The findings were published July 19 in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. Email Becky Oskin or follow her @beckyoskin. Follow us @livescience, Facebook & Google+. Original article on LiveScience.com.
Return of long-absent bumblebee near Seattle stirs scientific buzz
Jonathan Kaminsky
July 19, 2013
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The western bumble bee, Bombus occidentalis, is seen in this undated U.S. Department of Agriculture photo. …
By Jonathan Kaminsky
OLYMPIA, Washington (Reuters) - A North American bumblebee species
that all but vanished from about half of its natural range has
re-emerged in Washington state, delighting scientists who voiced
optimism the insect might eventually make a recovery in the Pacific
Northwest.Entomologists and bee enthusiasts in recent weeks have photographed
several specimens of the long-absent western bumblebee - known to
scientists as Bombus occidentalis - buzzing among flower blossoms in a
suburban park north of Seattle."It's a pretty big deal," said Rich Hatfield, a biologist for the
Oregon-based Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, which
documents and reports such findings."It gives us hope that we can do some conservation work, and perhaps
the species has a chance at repopulating its range," he told Reuters
this week.The multiple sightings, including observations of several queens,
are evidence of western bumblebee colonies in the area, although it
hardly proves the species has returned in force and or that it will
thrive in the region, Hatfield said.
Last year, a single western bumblebee, recognized by its distinctive
white-banded bottom, was discovered by an insect enthusiast in her
mother's garden in suburban Brier, Washington. It was the first sighting
in Washington state west of the Cascades in well over a decade.Her sighting was confirmed earlier this month as more than an
isolated incident when Will Peterman, 42, a freelance
writer-photographer and self-described "bee nerd" from Seattle, ventured
into a park in Brier to capture his own shots of Bombus occidentalis
foraging in blackberry bushes for nectar and pollen.He returned on Sunday with a group of University of Washington
entomologists to conduct a more thorough canvass of the park and
surrounding areas. While the group failed to locate a nest - hives are
dwellings for domesticated honeybees - they identified and photographed
at least three queens.Hatfield said the queen bees observed in the park would normally be
expected to go into hibernation soon, then produce offspring next year.The mood among the scientists accompanying him was "almost giddy,"
Peterman said. "This is grounds for optimism in a story that has been
really bleak."
CAUSE OF POPULATION CRASH UNCLEAR
Bombus occidentalis is one of four wild North American bumblebee
species whose populations began to plummet two decades ago, while
honeybees - commercially bred for the most part - have undergone less
precipitous declines, Hatfield said.Scientists have cited a number of likely factors for bumblebee
declines, including parasites, pesticides and habitat fragmentation.Until the mid-1990s, the western bumblebee was among the most common
bees in the Western United States and Canada, where it was valued as a
key pollinator for tomatoes and cranberries.It has since virtually disappeared from about half its historic
range, a vast stretch of the West Coast from central California to
southern British Columbia, although its population remains relatively
robust in the Mountain West.Scientists are not certain what caused North American bumblebee populations to crash.But a leading theory advanced by Robbin Thorp, a retired entomology
professor at the University of California at Davis, points to efforts to
commercially cultivate colonies of western bumblebees in Europe
starting in the mid-1990s.American-bred western queens shipped to Europe likely were exposed
there to a fungus that might have spread and devastated wild North
American bumblebee populations when infected European-bred bees were
transported back to the United States, Hatfield said.The discovery of the bees near Seattle could mean a population
resistant to the fungus has emerged, he said. The bees may also be part
of a population never exposed to the fungus or that originated in a
distant colony to the east.(Editing by Steve Gorman, Douglas Royalty and Peter Cooney)
