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Infanta Cristina of Spain attends an art exhibition preview in Washington on September 13, 2011. King Juan Carlos's scandal-hit daughter and her husband have put their seven-room mansion in Barcelona up for sale for 9.8 million euros ($12.9 million). (AFP Photo/Nicholas Kamm)

September 6, 2013 2:57 PM Barcelona-yahoonews

Spanish King Juan Carlos's scandal-hit daughter Cristina and her husband have put their seven-room mansion in Barcelona up for sale for 9.8 million euros ($12.9 million), Spanish media reported Friday.
The three-floor home in the exclusive Pedralbes area of the Catalan capital is listed with real estate firm Barcelonarent.info, which specialises in selling to wealthy Russians, daily newspaper El Mundo and other media reported.Spanish media published several photos of the inside of the house and gardens taken from the firm's website, which was inaccessible on Friday due to Internet traffic congestion.The agency described the property as a "luxury villa in the most prestigious zone of Barcelona" in a "quiet and exclusive" area that allows for "maximum confidentiality", El Mundo reported.The 1,000-square-metre (10,700-square-foot) mansion has seven bedrooms, 10 bathrooms, a large living room with a fireplace, and an elevator, along with a 1,300-square-metre garden and salt water swimming pool.Cristina and her husband, the former Olympic handball player Inaki Urdangarin, bought the home in 2004 for 5.8 million euros and spent around 3,000,000 euros upgrading the property, according to Spanish media reports.King Juan Carlos lent Cristina 1.2 million euros to help her buy the house, the royal palace said Monday after Spanish media reported that the loan was mentioned in an analysis of her finances carried out by the Spanish tax office.The analysis was requested by an investigating judge, Jose Castro, who in May ordered an investigation into Cristina's tax affairs as part of a tax and money-laundering case against her husband.Castro is investigating accusations that Urdangarin and his former business partner Diego Torres embezzled six million euros in public funds meant for sports events.The money was allegedly placed in the non-profit Noos Institute, which Urdangarin chaired from 2004 to 2006 and of which Cristina was a board member.Neither she nor Urdangarin has been formally charged with any crime.The scandal has plunged Juan Carlos's family into its worst popularity crisis in his nearly four-decade reign.Cristina, 48, a manager in the social programmes foundation of the Catalan finance group CaixaBank, moved to Geneva last month with her four children, where she will work on the firm's joint projects with UN institutions. Her husband will remain in Barcelona.

 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.

AMOS 1:5
5  I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden:(IRAQ) and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir,(JORDAN) saith the LORD.

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)

EU blames Syria for gas attack, urges UN action

07.09.13 @ 18:11

By Andrew Rettman

BRUSSELS - EU countries have said Syria used chemical weapons against its own people, but want the US and France to give the UN more time.The bloc's foreign ministers noted in a statement on Saturday (7 September) that: "Information from a wide variety of sources … seems to indicate strong evidence that the Syrian regime is responsible for these attacks."They called the gas attack, which killed hundreds of civilians on the outskirts of Damascus on 21 August, "a war crime and a crime against humanity."They also said the "international community" should give a "clear and strong response" to stop Syria from doing it again.
The statement was published after ministers met US secretary of state John Kerry in Vilnius.The US, France, Australia and Turkey say they are ready to strike Syria with or without a UN mandate because Syria's ally, Russia, is vetoing UN action.Britain and Denmark back their position. But Greece and the Netherlands have said UN authority is needed, while Germany and Italy have flip-flopped on the issue.The EU statement "underscores" the "to move forward with addressing the Syrian crisis through the UN process."It also "notes" that UN weapons inspectors in Syria will shortly file a report and it "welcomes" France's pledge not to act before the report is in.EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton indicated the US might not be as patient as France, however.Asked by press in Vilnius if Kerry had also promised to wait for the UN report, she said no one had asked him for such a pledge, adding "that's for them [the US]" to decide.An EU diplomat told EUobserver the Union remains divided on the UN question.But he said a majority of member states want there to be a UN vote before military action, even if Russia vetoes it again."People are coming to this line that the UN should at least be seized on the matter. But what happens if the UN continues to be blocked remains to be seen," he said.Meanwhile, Kerry urged the EU to put on ice its new guidelines for Israeli settler firms.
The European Commission on 19 July published rules which forbid funding for Israeli activity on Palestinian land.Kerry said the move risks harming Arab-Israeli peace talks. "There was strong support for his efforts and an openness to considering his requests," a US official told Reuters.Some EU countries, such as Ireland, are firmly opposed to a u-turn, however.Ashton told press the EU will implement the rules "sensitively." An EU diplomat told this website: "There was no conclusion about this at the meeting. It's still an open discussion."In an insight on how the rules work, the commission on 5 July agreed to invest €6.2 million in an Israeli project, called Superflex, to develop skincare for old people.The project is run by cosmetics firm Ahava, which is based in Israel proper, but which has a factory and a laboratory in the Mitzpe Shalem settlement.The project lasts until mid-2017 and might use Mitzpe Shalem facilities.But if Ahava had applied after 19 July, it would have had to declare that no EU-funded work would be done in the settlement and the EU would have the power to take back money if Ahava lied.

US plans for '3 days of attack' on Syria

2 hours ago -spt 9,13-yahoonews

The Pentagon is readying more intense and longer attacks on Syria than originally planned, set to last three days, the Los Angeles Times reported on Sunday.War planners now aim to unleash a heavy barrage of missile strikes to be followed swiftly by additional attacks on targets that may have been missed or remain standing after the initial launch, the Times cited officials as saying.Two US officers told the newspaper that the White House has asked for an expanded target list to include "many more" than the initial list of around 50 targets.The move is part of an effort to obtain additional firepower to damage Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's dispersed forces.Pentagon planners are now considering using Air Force bombers, as well as five US missile destroyers currently patrolling the eastern Mediterranean Sea, to launch cruise missiles and air-to-surface missiles from far out of range of Syrian air defenses, according to the report.The USS Nimitz aircraft carrier strike group with one cruiser and three destroyers positioned in the Read Sea can also fire cruise missiles at Syria."There will be several volleys and an assessment after each volley, but all within 72 hours and a clear indication when we are done," an officer familiar with the planning told the Times.The intensified military planning comes as President Barack Obama prepares to personally make his case to the American people and further press reluctant lawmakers on the need for action after Assad allegedly used chemical weapons on his own people last month.Obama is scheduled to tape interviews on Monday with anchors of the three major broadcast networks, as well as with PBS, CNN and Fox News.The interviews, to air that night, will precede Obama's address to the nation on Tuesday ahead of an expected full Senate vote.
The president favors a limited attack with only a reduced number of warplanes to drop bombs over Syria, according to the Times.Amid doubts that a limited US offensive would sufficiently hamper Assad's military capabilities, one officer told the newspaper that the planned operation would amount to a "show of force" over several days that would not fundamentally change the situation on the ground.The planned US strike "will not strategically impact the current situation in the war, which the Syrians have well in hand, though fighting could go on for another two years," another US officer said.

Lingering doubts over Syria gas attack evidence

ZEINA KARAM and KIMBERLY DOZIER 45 minutes ago-sept 9,13-yahoonews

BEIRUT (AP) — The U.S. government insists it has the intelligence to prove it, but the American public has yet to see a single piece of concrete evidence — no satellite imagery, no transcripts of Syrian military communications — connecting the government of President Bashar Assad to the alleged chemical weapons attack last month that killed hundreds of people.In the absence of such evidence, Damascus and its ally Russia have aggressively pushed another scenario: that rebels carried out the Aug. 21 chemical attack. Neither has produced evidence for that case, either. That's left more questions than answers as the U.S. threatens a possible military strike.The early morning assault in a rebel-held Damascus suburb known as Ghouta was said to be the deadliest chemical weapons attack in Syria's 2½-year civil war. Survivors' accounts, photographs of many of the dead wrapped peacefully in white sheets and dozens of videos showing victims in spasms and gasping for breath shocked the world and moved President Barack Obama to call for action because the use of chemical weapons crossed the red line he had drawn a year earlier.
Yet one week after Secretary of State John Kerry outlined the case against Assad, Americans — at least those without access to classified reports — haven't seen a shred of his proof.There is open-source evidence that provides clues about the attack, including videos of the rockets that analysts believe were likely used. U.S. officials on Saturday released a compilation of videos showing victims, including children, exhibiting what appear to be symptoms of nerve gas poisoning. Some experts think the size of the strike, and the amount of toxic chemicals that appear to have been delivered, make it doubtful that the rebels could have carried it out.What's missing from the public record is direct proof, rather than circumstantial evidence, tying this to the regime.The Obama administration, searching for support from a divided Congress and skeptical world leaders, says its own assessment is based mainly on satellite and signal intelligence, including indications in the three days prior to the attack that the regime was preparing to use poisonous gas.
But multiple requests to view that satellite imagery have been denied, though the administration produced copious amounts of satellite imagery earlier in the war to show the results of the Syrian regime's military onslaught. When asked Friday whether such imagery would be made available showing the Aug. 21 incident, a spokesman referred The Associated Press to a map produced by the White House last week that shows what officials say are the unconfirmed areas that were attacked.The Obama administration maintains it intercepted communications from a senior Syrian official on the use of chemical weapons, but requests to see that transcript have been denied. So has a request by the AP to see a transcript of communications allegedly ordering Syrian military personnel to prepare for a chemical weapons attack by readying gas masks.
The U.S. administration says its evidence is classified and is only sharing details in closed-door briefings with members of Congress and key allies.The assessment, also based on accounts by Syrian activists and hundreds of YouTube videos of the attack's aftermath, has confounded many experts who cannot fathom what might have motivated Assad to unleash weapons of mass destruction on his own people — especially while U.N. experts were nearby and at a time when his troops had the upper hand on the ground.
Rebels who accuse Assad of the attack have suggested he had learned of fighters' plans to advance on Damascus, his seat of power, and ordered the gassing to prevent that."We can't get our heads around this — why would any commander agree to rocketing a suburb of Damascus with chemical weapons for only a very short-term tactical gain for what is a long-term disaster," said Charles Heyman, a former British military officer who edits The Armed Forces of the U.K., an authoritative bi-annual review of British forces.
Inconsistencies over the death toll and other details related to the attack also have fueled doubts among skeptics.The Obama administration says 1,429 people died in 12 locations mostly east of the capital, an estimate close to the one put out by the Western-backed Syrian National Coalition. When asked for victims' names, however, the group provided a list of 395. On that list, some of the victims were identified by a first name only or said to be members of a certain family. There was no explanation for the hundreds of missing names.In Ghouta, Majed Abu Ali, a spokesman for 17 clinics and field hospitals near Damascus, produced the same list, saying the hospitals were unable to identify all the dead.

Casualty estimates by other groups are far lower: The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says it only counts victims identified by name, and that its current total stands at 502. It has questioned the U.S. number and urged the Obama administration to release the information its figure is based on. The AP also has repeatedly asked for clarification on those numbers.The humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders says it has not been able to update its initial Aug. 24 estimate of 355 killed because communication with those on the ground around Damascus is difficult. That estimate was based on reports from three hospitals in the area supported by the group.Moreover, the group, whose initial report was cited in U.S. and British intelligence assessments, has rejected the use of it "as a justification for military action," adding in a disclaimer published on its website that the group does not have the capacity to identify the cause of the neurotoxic symptoms of patients nor the ability to determine responsibility for the attack.French and Israeli intelligence assessments back the U.S., as does reportedly Germany's spy agency, on its conclusion the Syrian regime was responsible. However, none have backed those claims with publicly presented evidence.
Some have suggested the possibility, at least in theory, that the attack may have been ordered by a "rogue commander" in Assad's military or fighters seeking to frame the regime.Testifying Wednesday before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel rebuffed a congressman's bid to declassify one of the key pieces of intelligence Kerry publicly cited last week: intercepted communications telling Syrian military units to prepare for the chemical strikes.Still, there was very little pushback from members of Congress on the government's conclusion that the Syrian regime was responsible.Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said the intelligence was "very compelling" and that senators have had more access to classified information on Syria than they've had on anything in her two decades in the Senate.Asked if that was enough to merit a U.S. military reaction, she said: "Yes, it's enough for me. I think the prohibition on chemical weapons is well-founded."Hisham Jaber, a retired Lebanese army general who closely follows Syria's war, said it would be "political suicide" for the regime to commit such an act given Obama's warning. He also questioned U.S. assertions that the Syrian rebel fighters could not have launched sophisticated chemical weapons. He said that some among the estimated 70,000 defectors from the Syrian military, many of them now fighting for the opposition, could have been trained to use them."It is conceivable that one or more know how to fit a rocket or artillery shell with a chemical agent," said Jaber, who also heads the Beirut-based Middle East Center for Studies and Political Research. He claimed Syrian insurgents have acquired chemical weapons, bought from tribes in Libya after the fall of dictator Moammar Gadhafi, through Saudi interlocutors. Other weapons from Libya have been used in the conflict, though Jaber did not offer evidence to support his chemical weapon claim.Saudi Arabia has been a chief supporter of the opposition. Prince Bandar bin Sultan, head of Saudi intelligence, recently flew to Moscow, reportedly on a mission to get Russia to drop its support for Assad.Syrian government officials and Assad accused foreign fighters of carrying out the attacks with the help of countries like Saudi Arabia and Turkey in the hopes of prompting an international military intervention.Syria says some of its own soldiers were badly contaminated in Jobar, on the edge of Damascus, as they went into tunnels cleared by the rebels. U.N. experts, who had been collecting tissue and other samples from victims in Ghouta, also visited the Mazzeh military hospital in Damascus, taking samples from injured soldier there.Two days after the Ghouta attack, state television broadcast images of plastic jugs, gas masks, medicine vials, explosives and other items that it said were seized from rebel hideouts. One barrel had "made in Saudi Arabia" stamped on it.In the U.S., the case for military action has evoked comparisons to false data used by the Bush administration about weapons of mass destruction to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq.Multiple U.S. officials have told AP that the intelligence pictures on the Aug. 21 attack was "not a slam dunk" — a reference to then-CIA Director George Tenet's insistence in 2002 that U.S. intelligence showed Iraq had weapons of mass destruction — intelligence that turned out to be wrong. They cite the lack of a direct link between Assad and the chemical assault — a question the administration discounts by arguing Assad's responsibility as Syria's commander in chief. A second issue is that U.S. intelligence has lost track of some chemical weaponry, leaving a slim possibility that rebels acquired some of the deadly substances.Russian President Vladimir Putin — a staunch ally of Assad — said if there is evidence that chemical weapons have been used, specifically by the regular army, it should be submitted to the U.N. Security Council."And it ought to be convincing. It shouldn't be based on some rumors and information obtained by intelligence agencies through some kind of eavesdropping, some conversations and things like that," he told The Associated Press in an interview late Tuesday.David M. Crane, an international law professor at Syracuse University in New York, said the scale of the attack makes it very unlikely that anyone other than the regime was behind it."I think it was a calculated risk by the Assad regime to push to see how far he can go while causing a great deal of political disruption," he said. "It's a huge gamble, but he's in a very risky situation."___AP Intelligence Writer Kimberly Dozier reported from Washington.___Associated Press writers Greg Katz in London and Richard Lardner and Bradley Klapper in Washington contributed to this report.

REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(THE FALSE POPE WHO DEFECTED FROM THE CHRISTIAN FAITH) causeth all,(IN THE WORLD ) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(MICROCHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark,(MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the name of the beast,(WORLD DICTATORS NAME INGRAVED ON YOUR SKIN OR TATTOOED ON YOU OR IN THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the number of his name.(THE NUMBERS OF HIS NAME INGRAVED IN THE MICROCHIP IMLPLANT)-(ALL THESE WILL TELL THE WORLD DICTATOR THAT YOUR WITH HIM AND AGAINST KING JESUS-GOD)
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast:(WORLD LEADER) for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM (6006006)OR(60020202006)(SOME KIND OF NUMBER IMPLANTED IN THE MICROCHIP THAT TELLS THE WORLD DICTATOR AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER THAT YOU GIVE YOUR TOTAL ALLIGIENCE TO HIM AND NOT JESUS)(ITS AN ETERNAL DECISION YOU MAKE)(YOU CHOOSE YOUR OWN DESTINY)(YOU TAKE THE DICTATORS NAME OR NUMBER UNDER YOUR SKIN,YOUR DOOMED TO THE LAKE OF FIRE AND TORMENTS FOREVER,NEVER ENDING MEANT ONLY FOR SATAN AND HIS ANGELS,NOT HUMAN BEINGS).OR YOU REFUSE THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT AND GO ON THE SIDE OF KING JESUS AND RULE FOREVER WITH HIM ON EARTH.YOU CHOOSE,ITS YOUR DECISION.

Internet experts want security revamp after NSA revelations

Joseph Menn 8 hours ago-sept 9,13-yahoonews

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A general view of the large former monitoring base of the U.S. intelligence organization National Security …

By Joseph Menn-SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Internet security experts are calling for a campaign to rewrite Web security in the wake of disclosures that the U.S. National Security Agency has developed the capability to break encryption protecting millions of sites.But they acknowledged the task won't be easy, in part because internet security has relied heavily on brilliant government scientists who now appear suspect to many.Leading technologists said they felt betrayed that the NSA, which has contributed to some important security standards, was trying to ensure they stayed weak enough that the agency could break them. Some said they were stunned that the government would value its monitoring ability so much that it was willing to reduce everyone's security."We had the assumption that they could use their capacity to make weak standards, but that would make everyone in the U.S. insecure," said Johns Hopkins cryptography professor Matthew Green. "We thought they would never be crazy enough to shoot out the ground they were standing on, and now we're not so sure."The head of the volunteer group in charge of the Internet's fundamental technology rules told Reuters on Saturday that the panel will intensify its work to add encryption to basic Web traffic and to strengthen the so-called secure sockets layer, which guards banking, email and other pages beginning with Https."This is one instance of the dangers that we face in the networked age," said Jari Arkko, an Ericsson scientist who chairs the Internet Engineering Task Force. "We have to respond to the new threats."Other experts likewise responded sharply to media reports based on documents from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden showing the NSA has manipulated standards.Documents provided to The Guardian, the New York Times and others by Snowden and published on Thursday show that the agency worked to insert vulnerabilities in commercial encryption gear, covertly influence other designs to allow for future entry, and weaken industry-wide standards to the agency's benefit.In combination with other techniques, those efforts led the NSA to claim internally that it had the ability to access many forms of internet traffic that had been widely believed to be secure, including at least some virtual private networks, which set up secure tunnels on the Internet, and the broad security level of the secure sockets layer Web, used for online banking and the like.The office of the Director of National Intelligence said Friday that the NSA "would not be doing its job" if it did not try to counter the use of encryption by such adversaries as "terrorists, cybercriminals, human traffickers and others."Green and others said a great number of security protocols needed to be written "from scratch" without government help.Vint Cerf, author of the some of the core internet protocols, said that he didn't know whether the NSA had truly wreaked much damage, underscoring the uncertainty in the new reports about what use the NSA has made of its abilities.
"There has long been a tension between the mission to conduct surveillance and the mission to protect communication, and that tension resolved some time ago in favor of protection at least for American communications," Cerf said.Yet Cerf's employer Google Inc confirmed it is racing to encrypt data flowing between its data centers, a process that was ramped up after Snowden's documents began coming to light in June.Author Bruce Schneier, one of the most admired figures in modern cryptography, wrote in a Guardian column that the NSA "has undermined a fundamental social contract" and that engineers elsewhere had a "moral duty" to take back the Internet.
RELYING ON NSA FOR HELP
But all those interviewed warned that rewriting Web security would be extremely difficult.Mike Belshe, a former Google engineer who has spearheaded the IETF drive to encrypt regular Web traffic, said that his plan had been "watered down" in the committee process during the past few years as some companies looked after their own interests more than users.Another problem is the relatively small number of mathematical experts working outside the NSA."A lot of our foundational technologies for securing the Net have come through the government," said researcher Dan Kaminsky, famed for finding a critical flaw in the way users are steered to the website they seek. "They have the best minds in the country, but their advice is now suspect."Finally, governments around the world, including democracies, are asserting more authority over the Internet, in some cases forbidding the use of virtual private networks."As much as I want to say this is a technology problem we can address, if the nation states decide security isn't something we're allowed to have, then we're in trouble," Kaminsky said. "If security is outlawed, only outlaws will have security."
(Editing by Peter Henderson and Eric Walsh)

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

Scientists assess damage from Yosemite-area fire

TRACIE CONE 1 hour ago-sept 9,13-yahoonews

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Scientists are assessing the damage from a massive wildfire burning around Yosemite National Park, laying plans to protect habitat and waterways as the fall rainy season approaches.
Members of the federal Burned Area Emergency Response team were hiking the rugged Sierra Nevada terrain Saturday even as thousands of firefighters still were battling the four-week-old blaze, now the third-largest wildfire in modern California history.Federal officials have amassed a team of 50 scientists, more than twice what is usually deployed to assess wildfire damage. With so many people assigned to the job, they hope to have a preliminary report ready in two weeks so remediation can start before the first storms, Alex Janicki, the Stanislaus National Forest BAER response coordinator, said.Team members are working to identify areas at the highest risk for erosion into streams, the Tuolumne River and the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, San Francisco's famously pure water supply.The wildfire started in the Stanislaus National Forest on Aug. 17 when a hunter's illegal fire swept out of control and has burned 394 square miles of timber, meadows and sensitive wildlife habitat.It has cost more than $89 million to fight, and officials say it will cost tens of millions of dollars more to repair the environmental damage alone.About 5 square miles of the burned area is in the watershed of the municipal reservoir serving 2.8 million people - the only one in a national park.
"That's 5 square miles of watershed with very steep slopes," Janicki said "We are going to need some engineering to protect them."So far the water remains clear despite falling ash, and the city water utility has a six month supply in reservoirs closer to the Bay Area.The BAER team will be made up of hydrologists, botanists, archeologists, biologists, geologists and soil scientists from the U.S. Forest Service, Yosemite National Park, the Natural Resource Conservation and the U.S. Geological Survey.The team also will look at potential for erosion and mudslides across the burn area, assess what's in the path and determine what most needs protecting."We're looking to evaluate what the potential is for flooding across the burned area," said Alan Gallegos, a team member and geologist with the Sierra National Forest. "We evaluate the potential for hazard and look at what's at risk -- life, property, cultural resources, species habitat. Then we come up with a list of treatments."In key areas with a high potential for erosion ecologists can dig ditches to divert water, plant native trees and grasses, and spray costly hydro-mulch across steep canyon walls in the most critical places.Fire officials still have not released the name of the hunter responsible for starting the blaze. On Friday Kent Delbon, the lead investigator, would not characterize what kind of fire the hunter had set or how they had identified the suspect."I can say some really good detective work out there made this thing happen," he told the Associated Press.Delbon said the Forest Service announced the cause of the fire before being able to release details in order to end rumors started by a local fire chief that the blaze ignited in an illegal marijuana garden.

REVELATION 13:11-18
11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth;(FALSE VATICAN POPE) and he had two horns like a lamb,(JESUS IS THE LAMB OF GOD) and he spake as a dragon.(HES SATANICALLY INSPIRED,HES A CHRISTIAN DEFECTOR FROM THE FAITH)
12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him,(WORLD DICTATOR) and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.(THE WORLD DICTATOR CREATES A FALSE RESURRECTION AND IS CROWNED LEADER OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER).
13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,

REVELATION 17:1-18
1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication,(VATICAN IN POLITICS) and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
4 And the woman (FALSE CHURCH) was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour,(VATICAN COLOURS)(ANOTHER REASON WE KNOW THE FALSE POPE COMES FROM THE VATICAN) and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

09/ 7/2013 VATICAN INSIDER

Christians and Muslims pray together during Francis’ “miraculous” peace vigil

At today's peace vigil in St. Peter's Square many prayed in the words of their own religion, a "miracle" of Pope Francis' ecumenical appeal

vatican insider staff rome Muslims and Christians came together in St. Peter’s Square today and prayed using words from their own religions. Many described this as “the miracle” of Pope Francis’ ecumenical appeal during today’s fast and four-hour long vigil of prayer which broke the barriers of faith in an attempt to stop the war in Syria. 100,000 came to St. Peter’s Square in the late afternoon to join the Pope in his appeal for peace.A silent ceremony, with flags from countries all over the world lining the sides of the square: from the Syrian flag to the Chinese and Argentinean one and the one depicting the rainbow of peace. The atmosphere was meditative and almost surreal given the presence of Syrians and Muslims in the square: according to Italy’s Arab community there were several hundred who attended.  Some of them recited verses from the Koran as the sound of the Ave Maria rose from the lips of Catholics standing just metres away. A fusion of faiths and prayers in the spirit of peace.But a wind of division blew across the Syrian community attending the vigil in St. Peter’s Square. A group which supports the ideology of the “rebels” moved away from the so-called “pro-Syrian people” group, and went to the other side of the square. “We fear infiltrators from the Syrian embassy, it’s best if we keep away,” they said. But for many others it was simply a moment of peace. Many Catholics called it “a sort of miracle performed by St. Francis.”

09/ 7/2013 VATICAN INSIDER

“Diplomacy should have the good of humanity as its aim,” Parolin says

Pietro Parolin

“Vatican Insider” publishes Venezuelan newspaper “Diario Cattolico’s” exclusive interview with the new Vatican Secretary of State, Pietro Parolin

Carlos Zapata Caracas In the interview, the recently appointed Vatican Secretary of State, Pietro Parolin, outlines what he hopes to achieve in his new diplomatic role. From the Apostolic Nunciature in Caracas, where he is still working as the Holy See’s “ambassador” to Venezuela, Parolin talks about his view of the geopolitical situation in light of Pope Francis’ efforts to bring peace to Syria.
 
The Pope’s call for a day of prayer and fasting to promote peace in Syria is striking from a diplomatic point of view. A truce was declared during World War One when Benedict XV was Pope. Is Francis a new Benedict XV?
Benedict XV didn’t really succeed in his attempts because as you know he tried his best to stop the war but failed. Unfortunately Benedict XV’s appeals fell on deaf ears as the great powers didn’t pay much attention to what he had to say. “The war is a useless massacre,” he said. This phrase became famous and was widely quoted but it didn’t achieve much. It worked better on Woodrow Wilson who adopted the Pope’s proposals and came up with the famous 14 points that led to the armistice and then peace. But this peace was shaky because it led to the Second World War.
 
But he sought peace like other Popes did…

Certainly. Peace has always been one the Popes’ main concerns. On that occasion it was Benedict XV’s turn. But just think back to what Pope Pius XII did during the Second World War to bring people a little closer together and achieve peace! I witnessed this first hand and I also witnessed Pope John Paul II’s efforts to bring peace when the Gulf War and then the Iraq War broke out. And what a diplomat! He didn’t just contact the various Chancelleries, he sent two envoys, one to (the President of the United States George) Bush and another to Saddam Hussein (Iraq’s President), to see if it was possible to reach some kind of peaceful compromise and find a solution to that situation. It seems to me Francis’ style is the same. He is projecting the Holy See’s great desire for the peace in the world.


Is this the aim of diplomacy?
I would also say that the reason why the Holy See has a diplomatic body is in order to strive for peace. Holy See diplomacy has been so important and has enjoyed so much consensus across the world in the past and at present, because it transcends national interests, which are sometimes very unusual. Vatican diplomacy is concerned with the common good of humanity.

Thinking back to what you said about John Paul II and his alliance with Lech Walesa, what would you say are the new Berlin Walls the Church needs to knock down?
Obviously, I think that the main aim today is to strive for peace in the midst of the diversity that exists in this multipolar world. There are no Blocs as there were before. There are various different powers; different powers have risen, with all the problems inherent in this. We thought about our hopes for peace and happiness and we thought that the fall of traditional walls like the Berlin Wall, the wall which separated countries into Blocs, the communist Bloc and the Western Bloc, would bring peace and happiness into the world. But this was not the case. The terrorist problem then presented itself.So I think the wall that needs to be knocked down, involves trying to get all these entities to reach an agreement and work together for the good of everyone. Bringing everyone’s differences together to make them strong points for the whole of humanity instead of causes for division.

What is the Secretariat of State’s role in all of this?
The Vatican Secretariat of State needs to review the kind of a presence it has, because contexts have changed. There was the historical work Cardinal Agostino Casaroli did back in the days of the Blocs and Ostpolitik; not to mention the defence of human rights. But now things are far more complex.

The style has changed … have objectives changed as well?
No. What I mean is that the way in which the Secretariat of State is present needs to be rethought, but objectives change. And speaking of big challenges, we need to come out of this relativism which is plaguing the world! The objective is to resolve differences.If there is no common ground, if there is no objective truth we can all relate to, it will be far harder to find things we have in common. This common ground is a person’s dignity in all its dimensions, including the transcendental one; it is not just the personal, social, political economic dimension but also the transcendental dimension, in which humans see themselves as persons created in the image and likeness of God, and God as their source.

Does the Holy Father see it this way too?
Pope Francis has stressed this on many occasions: this is the most solid source of respect for human rights, the respect and dignity of humans and peaceful co-existence.

Can we hope for a firmer global diplomatic offensive for peace with you as the new Vatican Secretary of State?
This is a complex question. I have noticed that the Pope’s initiatives have given impetus to the Secretariat of State’s work and a diplomatic movement has been created. I hope we will continue this work  because we have the advantage over other Churches and religions, of having an international diplomatic presence in the institutions. We need to make the most of this!

Take advantage of it in what sense?
Making use of these tools instead of letting them sit there. We need to put them to good use, as Vatican diplomacy always has. Especially when there is an emergency. Diplomacy should have the good of humanity as its aim. I would also like to underline, however, that I am completely at the Pope’s disposal.

Are we hoping that the Church will play a more central role in order to achieve this?
To achieve the good of humanity, yes and to make the most of the instruments we have: our network of Nuncios, the contacts we have with international organisations…

Some Vatican correspondents have been pointing out that Vatican geopolitics will not be making headlines. What do you think?
You know very well that I personally do not want a diplomacy that makes headlines; I want diplomacy to be more efficient. We are not trying to gain popularity I don’t think. I honestly don’t think any of us wants this, unless there is an impact. We should bear in mind what the Gospel says: “Do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing.” 

Mgr. Parolin, are you working on the Syria initiative directly or are you observing the work being done, as some have claimed you are?
No, no, I have not started my role yet. Absolutely not. I will take up my post on 15 October and until then I will carry on my current duties, with God’s help. I have a lot of work to do here in Venezuela. But beyond the details and concrete issues that need to be addressed, I believe it is important we make the most of the instruments the Catholic Church has at its disposal. These are precious instruments that are there to help the world.

09/ 7/2013 VATICAN INSIDER

The world prays for peace

Praying for peace

Francis’ day of prayer and peace for Syria has come to an end. Today’s vigil was a prayer to Heaven to change the course of history

Andrea Tornielli vatican city Today was a day of silence. To call for peace. The Pope hopes the whole world will join in this call. No big demonstrations, no resounding initiatives. Just a silent cry, a cry that is above all a prayer, because peace is a gift from God.A day of fasting and therefore of sacrifice and a chance to stand back, because peace also depends on each person’s heart, on each person changing and on the efforts made by each person. This is why during today’s vigil for peace in Syria, in St. Peter’s Square, Francis stressed that this peace-building invitation is being extended not just to Catholics and Christians, not just to faithful of other religions, but also to non-believers.So many different people joined the Pope in his distressed and dramatic appeal last Sunday. The feeling is that public opinion in many countries across the world is more perplexed by the West’s proposed military intervention in Syria than it was by the 2003 invasion of Iraq. At the same time, there is a growing awareness that something needs to be done to stop the massacre that has been going on over the past two years and met with almost complete indifference.Given the options presented, one is tempted think that everything depends on the decisions taken by the top dogs, on the strategies of the world’s top leaders  and the prevailing mood among the superpowers’ heads of State. What can a day of penitential fasting and prayer realistically achieve? How much change can really be achieved by that long silent human chain that stretched across the world today – from the heart of Christianity to the tiniest and most remote village church – to pray for peace, pray the Rosary and celebrate the Eucharist? Journalists describe the reality of the events and historians analyse these in retrospect and make judgements. But in the history of the Church, the things cannot be seen or evaluated, that are not written about in books and that cannot be presented on television are more important that they appear to be. In this world we will never know what influence the prayers and sacrifices of so many anonymous men and women had; what impact they had; how many lives they saved. The Popes believe in the weaponless and silent but nevertheless powerful force of prayer. They know prayer can change history.Yesterday, the Vatican’s “foreign affairs minister”, Dominique Mamberti, told Vatican Radio that peace is above all a gift from God which humans are required to ask for and receive with a humble and open heart. Diplomats will do their work and deal their cards. The Holy See’s diplomacy will continue to repeat its appeal to the relevant parties to put an end to violence and follow the path of negotiation and dialogue with courage. He stressed that “there is no military solution to the Syrian conflict.” If the violence continues, there will be no winners, only losers.But Francis’ appeal today was addressed to each and every one of us, not just heads of State, prime ministers, the G20 members and diplomats. Today was a day of silence, to make the sound of peace echo as loudly and as far as possible.

09/ 7/2013 VATICAN INSIDER

Pope calls for the silencing of the guns in Syria, not more war and violence

The peace vigil for Syria

“We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves. As if it were normal, we continue to sow destruction, pain, death!”, Pope said as he called for peace

gerard o'connell vatican city “May the noise of weapons cease!” Pope Francis said on September 7 at a prayer vigil in St Peter’s Square for peace in Syria. “Violence and war are never the path to peace”, he stated with firmness in a homily during the four-hour long vigil of prayer, hymns and readings from the Scriptures and recent popes, and Eucharistic adoration. More than 100,000 people attended the vigil in which Francis insisted that mankind “can change direction”, turn away from violence and choose the path of peace.He issued his pressing call for the silencing of the guns in Syria and the opening of peace negotiations, even as a military attack was being planned by the USA, an attack that the Vatican believes risks expanding the conflict in the Middle East.Diplomatically, he did not mention any country by name in his homily but his message was crystal clear given the context in which on September 1 he called for this worldwide day of prayer and fasting for peace in Syria. That context was one in which violence was dramatically increasing in this country of 23 million people, and the USA was preparing to launch further violence with a planned military attack on Syria as punishment for its alleged use of chemical weapons on August 21.France, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Turkey are among the minority of countries openly supporting the USA, but the Pope knows well that the majority of the people in the world are against such an intervention in this war-torn land where over 100,000 have already been killed in this conflict over the past two years, 2 million have become refugees and 4 million more have been displaced from their homes.
 
“Violence and war lead only to death, they speak of death!  Violence and war are the language of death”, the Pope said, drawing much applause from the crowd that included people – laity and religious, as well as bishops and cardinals - from many countries including China, Indonesia, East Timor, Syria, Italy, the UK, USA,  Australia, Canada, Nigeria and other parts of Africa, though the majority were Italian.He reminded his global audience that God made a harmonious world where people were to care for each other as brothers and sisters.  To be human means to care for one another!”, but following in the footsteps of Cain who killed his brother Abel, mankind has broken that harmony, and “a metamorphosis occurs: the brother who is to be cared for and loved becomes an adversary to fight, to kill.”The Pope recalled the many conflicts of the past and present and said, “We continue this history of conflict between brothers; even today we raise our hands against our brother. Even today, we let ourselves be guided by idols, by selfishness, by our own interests, and this attitude persists.”In a strong denunciation of the push to military intervention, Pope Francis said, “We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves. As if it were normal, we continue to sow destruction, pain, death!”He then asked the key question: “Is it possible to change direction? Can we get out of this spiral of sorrow and death? Can we learn once again to walk and live in the ways of peace?” His answer was a resounding “Yes!”   With the help of God, and the help of Mary Queen of Peace, he said: “Yes, it is possible for everyone!” He said he  would like  “each one of us, from the least to the greatest, including those called to govern nations” would respond: “Yes, we want it!”He told his global audience that his Christian faith, based on the message of the Cross, tells mankind that “violence is not answered with violence; death is not answered with the language of death. In the silence of the Cross, the uproar of weapons ceases and the language of reconciliation, forgiveness, dialogue and peace is spoken."He called on all Christians worldwide, as well as “our brothers and sisters of other religions, and every man and woman of good will” to “cry out forcefully: violence and war are never the way to peace!”He called on everyone, and especially those in positions of power and responsibility, “to look into the depths of his or her conscience and listen to that word which says: Leave behind the self-interest that hardens your heart, overcome the indifference that makes your heart insensitive towards others, conquer your deadly reasoning, and open yourself to dialogue and reconciliation.”He urged them to “look upon your brother’s sorrow and do not add to it, stay your hand, rebuild the harmony that has been shattered; and all this achieved not by conflict but by encounter!”“May the noise of weapons cease!”, he said. He reminded everyone that “war always marks the failure of peace, it is always a defeat for humanity”. He repeated the words of Pope Paul VI at the United Nations in 1965, during the Vietnam war, “No more one against the other, no more, never! ... War never again, never again war!” Forgiveness, dialogue, reconciliation” are “the words of peace, in beloved Syria, in the Middle East, in all the world!”, the Pope said, and urged everyone to pray for “reconciliation and peace” in Syria and worldwide.

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Pope Francis' homily at the Prayer Vigil for Peace IN ENGLISH

KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.

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

30 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2013-09-08 07:28:53 UTC-04:00Showing event times using Local System Time (UTC-04:00)

1. 4.1 0km ENE of Vathylakkos, Greece 2013-09-08 06:33:02 UTC-04:00 10.2 km
2. 5.0 2km WSW of Tandag, Philippines 2013-09-08 05:27:19 UTC-04:00 96.1 km
3. 2.6 40km W of Raton, New Mexico 2013-09-08 05:04:48 UTC-04:00 4.6 km
4. 2.7 37km WSW of Trinidad, Colorado 2013-09-08 04:25:59 UTC-04:00 4.3 km
5. 3.8 39km WSW of Trinidad, Colorado 2013-09-08 04:15:31 UTC-04:00 4.6 km
6. 2.7 39km ESE of Whittier, Alaska 2013-09-08 03:01:33 UTC-04:00 0.2 km
7. 2.5 15km SE of Y, Alaska 2013-09-08 02:29:32 UTC-04:00 8.5 km
8. 5.0 31km S of Pirgos, Greece 2013-09-08 00:59:29 UTC-04:00 4.9 km
9. 2.6 8km S of Volcano, Hawaii 2013-09-08 00:25:50 UTC-04:00 1.8 km
10. 2.6 5km S of Volcano, Hawaii 2013-09-08 00:25:49 UTC-04:00 1.6 km
11. 3.4 10km E of La Romana, Dominican Republic 2013-09-08 00:05:15 UTC-04:00 44.0 km
12. 4.3 Northern East Pacific Rise 2013-09-07 23:11:41 UTC-04:00 10.0 km
13. 2.7 11km SSE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico 2013-09-07 15:32:20 UTC-04:00 14.0 km
14. 5.0 154km ENE of Iquique, Chile 2013-09-07 15:13:30 UTC-04:00 91.2 km
15. 2.6 5km S of Volcano, Hawaii 2013-09-07 14:48:22 UTC-04:00 1.1 km
16. 2.6 3km W of Glennallen, Alaska 2013-09-07 14:08:16 UTC-04:00 24.2 km
17. 5.0 85km NNE of Hihifo, Tonga 2013-09-07 12:39:50 UTC-04:00 10.0 km
18. 4.8 73km S of Atka, Alaska 2013-09-07 11:51:43 UTC-04:00 38.1 km
19. 4.7 61km ENE of Ndoi Island, Fiji 2013-09-07 11:22:29 UTC-04:00 516.1 km
20. 4.5 172km SE of Shizunai, Japan 2013-09-07 10:19:09 UTC-04:00 44.9 km
21. 5.5 200km NNW of Saumlaki, Indonesia 2013-09-07 09:55:49 UTC-04:00 118.2 km
22. 2.7 98km S of Atka, Alaska 2013-09-07 09:28:17 UTC-04:00 41.4 km
23. 2.7 96km S of Atka, Alaska 2013-09-07 09:15:55 UTC-04:00 7.9 km
24. 4.9 95km S of Atka, Alaska 2013-09-07 09:12:19 UTC-04:00 23.2 km
25. 4.6 93km NE of Ndoi Island, Fiji 2013-09-07 08:59:59 UTC-04:00 507.1 km
26. 4.3 99km S of Atka, Alaska 2013-09-07 08:12:03 UTC-04:00 24.6 km
27. 4.5 33km E of Muara Siberut, Indonesia 2013-09-07 08:06:52 UTC-04:00 35.0 km
28. 4.0 102km S of Atka, Alaska 2013-09-07 07:45:21 UTC-04:00 25.4 km
29. 4.5 86km ESE of Nago, Japan 2013-09-07 07:35:49 UTC-04:00 22.1 km
30. 3.1 42km NNE of Otra Banda, Dominican Republic 2013-09-07 07:34:05 UTC-04:00 35.0 km