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Russia to hold war games in show of strength near Ukraine-Reuters-AUG 4,14-YahooNews
MOSCOW/DONESTSK Ukraine (Reuters) - Russia announced military exercises near the border with Ukraine on Monday in a show of strength as the Ukrainian army recaptured more territory from pro-Russian separatists in the east of the country.The Russian air force said more than 100 aircraft, including fighter jets and bombers, were taking part in the manoeuvres this week in the central and western military districts.The move could alarm Western powers which have accused Russia of beefing up its troops along its border with Ukraine and arming the rebels in eastern Ukraine, although Moscow denies the accusations.The manoeuvres include missile-firing practice and will assist "coordination between aviation and anti-missile defence", Interfax news agency quoted an airforce spokesman as saying.He said Russia's latest bomber, the Su-24, was taking part, as well as Su-27 and MiG-31 fighter jets.Russia upset the West by staging military exercises near Ukraine in March after the conflict with Ukraine flared. Moscow said in May it had pulled back its forces but NATO military commander General Philip Breedlove said last week it still had more than 12,000 troops and weapons along the frontier.The crisis has pushed relations between Russia and the West to their lowest level since the Cold War, with each side accusing the other of orchestrating events in Ukraine, and the United States and European Union imposing sanctions on Russia.Russia has a firm grip on the Crimea peninsula, which it annexed in March after Ukraine ousted a pro-Moscow president, but the rebels who wanted Moscow to also annexe east Ukraine have been losing ground in the past few weeks.
UKRAINIAN ARMY ADVANCES
Government forces said they had recaptured an important rail hub in the latest fighting near Donetsk, the biggest of the two large cities the rebels still hold after almost four months of fighting."Units taking part in the 'anti-terrorist operation' yesterday took the town of Yasynuvata, which is an important hub of the region's railway system," Andriy Lysenko, a spokesman for Kiev's military operation in the east, told a briefing.The separatists had seized the Yasynuvata railway control centre in May as their rebellion spread in eastern Ukraine. It sits just north of Donetsk near a main road leading to Luhansk, another remaining rebel stronghold.Five government soldiers were killed and 15 wounded over the previous 24 hours, Lysenko said. There were no new casualty figures for the rebels in a conflict the United Nations said had killed more than 1,100 people from mid-April to late July.Fighting has intensified since the West accused the rebels of shooting down a Malaysian airliner last month, killing all 298 people on board. Russia and the rebels blame the disaster on Kiev's military offensive.In a sign that not all the fighting is going the Ukrainian army's way, Russian border guards said 438 Ukrainian soldiers had crossed into Russia during the night seeking asylum."They were tired of the war and wanted no further part in it," Vasily Malayev, spokesman for the borders guards in the Rostov region of Russia, told Reuters by telephone.He said they had been treated well, and 180 were being returned to Ukraine later on Monday, but it was not clear what the rest wanted to do.Lysenko said the soldiers and border guards had crossed into Russia in search of safety after being blocked between the Russian border to the east and pro-Russian rebel positions in the west for more than three weeks.He gave no numbers but said Kiev was trying to negotiate their return.The fighting had prevented Dutch and Australian experts reaching the wreckage of the downed airliner in rebel-held territory for several days but they have managed to recover some human remains and belongings in the past few days. The victims included 196 Dutch, 27 Australians and 43 Malaysians.(Additional reporting by Elizabeth Piper, Polina Devitt and Tatiana Ustinova in Moscow and by Gabrieal Baczynska and Natalia Zinets in Kiev; Writing by Timothy Heritage; Editing by Will Waterman)
EUROPEAN UNION ARMY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytWmPqY8TE0&feature=player_embedded
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 DIVSION REGION WORLD GOVERNMENT) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.( BE HEAD OF 3 NATIONS)
25 And he (EU PRESIDENT) shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.(3 1/2 YRS)
DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT-NEW AGE MOVEMENT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.
DANIEL 11:36-39
36 And the king (EU DICTATOR) shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS JEWISH) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.(CLAIM TO BE GOD)
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(WAR) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god,(DESTROY TERROR GROUPS) whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.
REVELATION 19:19
19 And I saw the beast,(EU LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies,(UNITED NATIONS TROOPS) gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse,(JESUS) and against his army.(THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)
Nato to strengthen military exercises after Russia 'aggression'-Today @ 09:28-AUG 4,14-EUOBSERVER-By Honor Mahony
BRUSSELS - Nato chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen has said the transatlantic military alliance will draw up new defence plans following Russia's "aggression" in Ukraine.In an interview with French regional newspaper Midi Libre, published Sunday (4 August), he said that “Russia's aggression was a warning and created a new security situation in Europe”."We will strengthen military exercises and prepare new defence plans," he said, reports AFP.With an eye on what is turning out to be a key Nato meeting in Wales at the beginning of September, Rasmussen drew attention to the defence-spending discrepancies between Russia and Nato members.He noted that while Russia had increased its defence spending by 50 percent over the past five years, Nato countries have, on average, reduced theirs by 20 percent."We must reverse this trend," he said.He said that he regretted that Russia considered Nato a foe but "we have to adapt to this new situation".Rasmussen's comments came on the back of a letter from British leader David Cameron to Nato leaders calling on them to "make clear to Russia that neither Nato nor its members will be intimidated”.The Alliance's member states should “strengthen (their) ability to respond quickly to any threat" while the 4-5 September meeting should agree “a new exercise schedule adapted to the new security environment”.The statements come after a raft of EU sanctions - the latest round hitting Putin's inner circle - have failed to de-escalate the crisis in Ukraine where Russia-backed separatists are fighting for control in eastern parts of the country.The scale of the crisis increased after the Malaysia airplane was shot down on 17 July over separatist-held territory in Ukraine killing all passengers on board. Russia's failure to help secure the crashsite afterwards hardened attitudes further.Russian President Vladimir Putin, for his part, used a speech on 1 August commemorating the outbreak of WW1 to remind Europe that "peace is fragile".“Humankind should grasp one truth: violence generates violence."At the same time the Russian defence ministry announced military exercises in all defence districts and that it would be calling up reserve forces in all areas. It later said that this had been planned for months and was not a reaction to events in Ukraine.On Monday (4 August) Radio Free Europe reported that Russian military officials said they have launched four days of military exercises in central and western regions of Russia.Interfax quoted Russian Air Force spokesman Igor Klimov as saying that exercises include the use of 100 military aircraft.In comments before the weekend, Germany's chief of relations with Russia Gernot Erler warned against the crisis increasing to an extent that there is "direct" military intervention by Russia.He said Putin is "under very strong pressure not to let Russian-speaking inhabitants of east Ukraine – who he has taken under protection – in the lurch.”If the separatists were facing a defeat, no one could exclude an intervention by Moscow, he told the Neue Osnabrueker newspaper. “It would be a terrible escalation if it came to a direct intervention (by Moscow),” he said.
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS-10 WORLD REGIONS/TRADE BLOCS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS-10 WORLD DIVISION WORLD GOVERNMENT) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(THE EU (EUROPEAN UNION) TAKES OVER IRAQ WHICH HAS SPLIT INTO 3-SUNNI-KURD-SHIA PARTS-AND THE REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE IS BROUGHT BACK TOGETHER-THE TWO LEGS OF DANIEL WESTERN LEG AND THE ISLAMIC LEG COMBINED AS 1)
Germany scraps Russian military contract-Today @ 10:16-AUG 4,14-By EUOBSERVER
Germany has scrapped a military contract for a training camp with Russia worth over €100 million, according to Germany's Sueddeutsche newspaper. The paper on Sunday said German vice-chancellor Sigmar Gabriel "withdraw his authoritisation" for a camp initially set up to train 30,000 Russian soldiers.
Hollande: Europe should never be 'tired' of peace-04.08.14 @ 19:37-EUOBSERVER-By Honor Mahony
BRUSSELS - EU leaders attending a commemoration of World War One on Monday (4 August) evoked the fragility of peace and importance of learning the lessons of a hundred years ago.Representatives from across Europe gathered in the Belgian city of Liege to mark the outbreak of fighting which began on 4 August, 1914 after Germany invaded Belgium, leading to a war that would last four years and the deaths of millions of people.French leader Francois Hollande’s speech contained some of the strongest sentiment, including a warning that Europe should not get “tired” of peace and references to the current conflicts on the EU’s borders and in its neighbourhood.Speaking of Belgium's neutrality at the time, Hollande said: "today neutrality is no longer appropriate"."How can we stay neutral when a people, not far from Europe, is fighting for its rights and territorial integrity? How to stay neutral when a civilian aircraft can be shot out of the sky? When there are civilian populations being massacred in Iraq, minorities being persecuted in Syria?," he said, according to the Wall Street Journal.His comments were in reference to Ukraine where last month a passenger plane was downed over the separatist-held eastern part of the country, killing everyone onboard. The incident came after months of unrest fermented by Moscow, and after Russia's annexation of Crimea in Spring.Referring to the building of the EU - the "crazy idea of creating a model of cooperation and progress" - Hollande said the major risk was the return of "national selfishness".He urged the EU to take on more of its "responsibilities" saying that "Europe must always be moving and never be weary and tired of peace."The fragility of peace was mentioned by other leaders too.Belgian leader Elio di Rupo noted that the trade ties between countries one hundred years ago did not prevent war from breaking out."Their economic interdependence didn't prevent the disaster we are commemorating today," he said.German president Joachim Gauck said that Europe must show it has learned from the past "not only through our words, but also through our everyday actions".“I think we should use the opportunity of World War One to recognise the catastrophe that war is as well as how easy it is to become trapped in a bubble of warlike thinking," Irish President Michael D. Higgins told the Irish Times.The commemorations were attended by representatives from some 70 countries including the presidents of Italy, Serbia and Romania, the King of Spain, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and US Secretary of the Army, John M. McHugh.Although initially expected to be a short war, WW1 lasted until 1918 and resulted in around 17 million deaths, of which almost 7 million were civilians.
08/ 4/2014 -VATICAN INSIDER-Pope urges scouts to work and pray for a united and peaceful Europe-A group of scouts-Francis has sent a message to scouts gathered in Normandy to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War and seventieth anniversary of the Normandy landings-vatican insider staff
Rome-In a message today, the Pope invited 12 thousand scouts from 20 European countries to pray and work towards a “united and peaceful Europe”. The scouts gathered in Normandy to mark the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War and the 70th anniversary of the Normandy Landings, an operation which led the allied victory in the Second World War.“To meet Jesus you have to set off on a journey and along the way, you discover that God manifests himself in different ways: through the beauty of his creation, when he lovingly intervenes in our history, in our fraternal relationships and in our service to others.”In his message, Francis gives European scouts a mission, pointing out the three stages he mentioned during the World Youth Day celebrations in Rio de Janeiro: Go; without fear; to serve. He urged all of them to push themselves, strengthened by their encounter with God through the Sacraments and sustained by His love, which takes away all fear, “to announce His love in all corners of the world, to serve their neighbours in the remotest peripheries.”So many generations have their scouting education to thank for “their growth along the path of sainthood, the practice of virtues and above all the greatness of their soul.” Therefore, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the First World War, Francis urged scouts to pray for a united and peaceful Europe, because “you are the real players in this world, you are not just spectators,” he told them.The Pope also encouraged scouts not to be afraid to take on the challenge of "safeguard[ing] Christian values, in particular the defence of life, development, the dignity of the person, the fight against poverty, and many other battles.”
WORLD POWERS IN THE LAST DAYS (END OF AGE OF GRACE NOT THE WORLD)
EUROPEAN UNION-KING OF WEST-DAN 9:26-27,DAN 7:23-24,DAN 11:40,REV 13:1-10
EGYPT-KING OF THE SOUTH-DAN 11:40
RUSSIA-KING OF THE NORTH-EZEK 38:1-2,EZEK 39:1-3
CHINA-KING OF THE EAST-DAN 11:44,REV 9:16,18
VATICAN-RELIGIOUS LEADER-REV 13:11-18,REV 17:4-5,9,18
WORLD TERRORISM
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
2 PETER 2:5
5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
2 PETER 3:7
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men
LEVITICUS 26:16
16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you( sudden) terror(ISM), consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her,(HAGAR) Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he (ISHMAEL) will be a wild (DONKEY-JACKASS) man;(ISLAM IS A FAKE AND DANGEROUS SEX FOR MURDER CULT) his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against him;(PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM BEING BEHEADED) and he (ISHMAEL ARAB/MUSLIM) shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)
ISAIAH 14:12-14
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,(SATAN) son of the morning!(HEBREW-CRECENT MOON-ISLAM) how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I (SATAN HAS EYE TROUBLES) will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(AND 1/3RD OF THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN FELL WITH SATAN AND BECAME DEMONS)
ISAIAH 33:1,18-19 Woe to thee that spoilest,(destroys) and thou wast not spoiled;(destroyed) and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil,(destroy) thou shalt be spoiled;(destroyed) and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.
JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.(ISLAM MURDERS IN THE NAME OF MOON GOD ALLAH OF ISLAM)
Lebanese army advances in border battle with Islamists-Reuters-By Alexander Dziadosz-Aug 4,14-YahooNews
OUTSKIRTS OF ARSAL Lebanon (Reuters) - The Lebanese army advanced on Monday into a border town attacked by Islamists at the weekend in the most serious spillover of the three-year-old Syrian civil war into Lebanon, and the Beirut government said the deadly assault would not go unpunished.With army reinforcements arriving in Arsal, Prime Minister Tammam Salam, a Sunni Muslim, said there could be no political deal with gunmen identified as members of the Nusra Front and the Islamic State, which has seized parts of Syria and Iraq."The only solution proposed today is the withdrawal of the militants from Arsal and its environs," said Salam, the most senior Sunni in the Lebanese government.Flanked by the rest of the cabinet, Salam accused the militants of seeking to "move their sick practices to Lebanon"."We confirm that the attack on Lebanese national dignity will not go unpunished," he said.Lebanon, still rebuilding from its own 1975-1990 civil war, has been buffeted by violence linked to the Syrian conflict, including rocket attacks, suicide bombings and gun battles.But this was the first major incursion by hardline Sunni militants who have become leading players in Sunni-Shi'ite violence that has unfolded across the Levant, destabilising Lebanon by inflaming its own sectarian tensions.The army said 14 soldiers had been killed, with 22 others missing and 86 injured in the fighting, which erupted after security forces arrested a Syrian Islamist rebel commander, Emad Jumaa, on Saturday.Soldiers advancing into Arsal found the bodies of 50 militants, a security official said. A cleric in Arsal said at least 50 civilians were dead and more were buried in rubble.More than a dozen other members of the security forces have been taken hostage. The army described the Islamists' incursion as a long-planned attack. Local politicians say it marks an attempt to extend the Islamic State's footprint into Lebanon.Rebels said dozens of fighters from Syria's Qalamoun area just across the border had moved to Arsal on Sunday to reinforce gunmen there. Syrian warplanes repeatedly struck the nearby mountainous border area used by the militants to access Arsal.The militants have been beaten back in the border area in the past year by Syrian government forces backed by Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shi'ite Muslim political and military movement. Some 3,000 fighters are estimated to be in the border zone.Indicating that Iranian-backed Hezbollah stood ready to help the army, one of its senior clerics said the military would not be left on its own and urged people in areas near the clashes to be prepared to "confront the bats of the dark night".Hezbollah forces have deployed near Arsal, and Syrian activists say they are already involved in the fighting. The group has not announced any role. Analysts believe Hezbollah would keep quiet about any involvement to avoid further inflaming sectarian tensions."To those who would threaten to divide the army and leave it, we say: Lebanon and the Bekaa are not Mosul," said Mohamed Yazbek, the Hezbollah cleric, in comments reported by Hezbollah's al-Manar website, referring to a northern Iraqi city overrun by Islamic State militants in June.
NO REFUGE
Thick plumes of black and grey smoke billowed from the tops of the hills where Arsal lies. Intermittent bursts of gunfire could be heard from the surrounding areas as troops moved in.A dozen armoured personnel carriers were seen advancing towards the town, together with a similar number of other military vehicles including trucks and Humvees. Soldiers armed with assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades sat atop the vehicles as they moved along the main road towards Arsal.Video footage released by the army showed seven bodies of men purported to be militants, as well as about two dozen men kneeling with their hands bound against a wall, and rifles, ID cards and cell phones said to be seized from the gunmen.Arsal is a mainly Sunni town located on the Lebanese side of the border between Syrian government-controlled territory and Lebanese Shi'ite areas sympathetic to Hezbollah.More than 100,000 Syrian refugees are estimated to be living in and around Arsal in camps that Syrian activists said had been badly damaged and evacuated during the fighting."There is no place of refuge for the refugees," said one Syrian activist in the area reached by text message."The residents are terrified."Two army trucks were seen bringing several dozen civilians including women in headscarves and young children out of Arsal."What are we expecting? Our houses are being destroyed. God knows if our families are alive and well or dying," said Mohamed al-Fleti, a 25-year-old Lebanese man from Arsal as he sat in the shade of a tree by a gas station down the road from Arsal.The war in Syria has deepened rifts between Shi'ite Lebanese allied to the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Sunnis who have mostly been supportive of the uprising against him. Political divisions have left Lebanon without a president since May.
"THEY HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO WITHDRAW"
Salam said the government, drawn from across the political spectrum, stood behind the army. He said he had asked France to speed the delivery of weapons due to be supplied in a Saudi-financed deal."The government has decided to mobilise all official Lebanese institutions and apparatus to defend our country."Lebanon's most influential Sunni politician, former prime minister Saad al-Hariri, said Arsal must be "liberated" from the militants."They have no choice but to withdraw from the town, and neither the state, nor we, will stand idle in the face of the plots of these groups," Hariri, who is backed by Saudi Arabia, said in comments to the London-based Al-Hayat newspaper.But despite wide backing for the army among politicians, Lebanon's Muslim Clerics Association urged Sunnis to protest until the army halted its bombardment of Arsal.Its demands, published in a statement, included the opening of "a secure humanitarian corridor to Arsal".Mustafa al-Hujairi, a leading Sunni cleric in Arsal, blamed deaths in Arsal on Hezbollah. He said matters were now in the hands of the gunmen."Hezbollah want to turn Arsal to rubble like they did to Qusair," he said, referring to a town in Syria that Hezbollah helped Syrian government forces capture from rebels last year.(Additional reporting by Laila Bassam, Tom Perry and Mariam Karouny; Writing by Tom Perry; Editing by Paul Taylor and Will Waterman)
Iraqi PM orders air force to help Kurds fight Islamic State-Reuters-By Isra' al-Rubai'i -AUG 4,14-YahooNews
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki ordered his air force for the first time to back Kurdish forces against Islamic State fighters after the Sunni militants made another dramatic push through the north, state television reported on Monday.Tens of thousands of people have fled one of the districts seized by Islamic State fighters in the offensive and are now surrounded, the United Nations said on Monday. The Sunni militants often execute people in areas they have captured.Kurdish peshmerga fighters, who gained experience fighting Saddam Hussein's troops, were regarded as one of the few forces capable of standing up to the Sunni insurgents, who faced almost no opposition from Maliki's U.S.-trained army during their lightning advance through the north in June.Then on Sunday the Islamic State inflicted a humiliating defeat on the Kurds with a rapid advance through three towns to reach the Mosul Dam, acquiring a fifth oil field to fund its operations along the way.State television and witnesses said the Islamic State had seized Iraq's biggest dam. Kurdish peshmerga officials said they had pushed militants from the dam area and were in control of it. This could not be immediately confirmed.Despite predictions from Kurdish commanders that their forces would launch a successful counter-offensive, one senior Kurdish official urged the United States to step in and provide weapons "for the sake of fighting terrorism".Kurdish commanders whose units came under attack from Islamic State fighters told Reuters they faced overwhelming firepower, were taken by surprise, and that militants had in many cases started shooting from villages where they had formed alliances with residents.The areas that the Kurds lost were not part of their semi-autonomous region, but had been seized in the north after the fall of Saddam Hussein.Maliki has been at odds with the Kurds over budgets, oil and land, and tensions deepened after the Islamic State seized control of large swathes of land in the north and west of OPEC member Iraq.
HOSTILITY
In July, the Kurdish political bloc ended all participation in Iraq's national government in protest over Maliki's accusation that Kurds were allowing terrorists to stay in Arbil, the capital of their semi-autonomous region known as Kurdistan.Opponents accuse Maliki of being an authoritarian ruler with a sectarian agenda whose alienation of Sunnis fueled the insurgency. Currently ruling in a caretaker capacity after an inconclusive election in April, he has defied calls by Sunnis, Kurds and even some fellow Shi'ites to step aside to make room for a less polarizing figure.The Kurdish region is pressing the Obama administration for sophisticated weapons it says Kurdish fighters need to push back the Islamic State fighters threatening their region. The requested supplies include tanks, sniper equipment, armored personnel carriers, artillery and ammunition.The move is likely to further anger Maliki, who may see it as an attempt to circumvent the Baghdad government in a long-standing drive for independence.For now, however, Maliki seems to have put aside his hostility with the Kurds to try to prevent further gains by the Islamic State, which has declared a caliphate in parts of Iraq and Syria it controls and threatened to march on Baghdad."The general commander of the armed forces has ordered the air force command to provide backup for the Kurdish peshmerga forces against the terrorist gangs of the Islamic State," state television quoted Maliki's military spokesman Qassim Atta as saying.
OVERSTRETCHED
Tens of thousands of residents of Sinjar fled the district after it was taken over by Islamic State fighters.
Previously, an estimated 308,000 people lived in the district of Sinjar. As the insurgents advanced, many fled to Sinjar mountain, or Jebel Sinjar, said the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in a statement."The exact number of displaced people on Jebel Sinjar is unknown; however, reports indicate that some 35-50,000 people displaced in nine locations, reportedly surrounded by ISIS (Islamic State) armed elements. There are reports, to be verified, of children already dying for lack of water and other assistance among those trapped," the OCHA statement said.A further 30,000 people, mainly women and children, have made their way to Dahuk governorate in Kurdistan, with more expected in coming days, OCHA said.The insurgents control the two roads down the Sinjar mountain and are attacking families moving along the roads, which lead to Sinjar town and the Syrian border crossing at Rabia, OCHA said.The senior Kurdish official said the Kurds had been overstretched because they had to watch over a vast territory. "The Islamic State has also been intimidating people by carrying out beheadings," he said, asking not to be identified.After thousands of Iraqi soldiers fled their initial advance in June, the group then known as the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) seized tanks, armored personnel carriers, anti-aircraft guns, mortars, artillery and vehicles."It is a very dangerous situation for the region. Something needs to be done soon," the senior Kurdish official said.Despite the odds, Kurdish commanders were talking tough.One colonel said the Kurdish withdrawal was tactical and forecast that several Kurdish brigades would take back all territory lost on Sunday and even win back Mosul, Iraq's biggest northern city which is firmly in the hands of the Islamic State."We will attack them until they are completely destroyed. We will never show any mercy," he told Reuters. "We have given them enough chances and we will even take Mosul back. I believe within the next 48-72 hours it will be over."But commanders who had lost men in battle were not as optimistic. Kurdish peshmerga Brigadier Mashia Ramazan Fattah said the base where he was stationed came under Islamic State mortar fire for 12 straight hours through the night.He was surprised to find that 500 peshmerga forces were outnumbered by Islamic State fighters who forced them to flee.Another commander who asked not to be named said the Islamic State took everyone by surprise and had deployed snipers in addition to heavier weapons and that, in many cases, the Kurds had simply run out of ammunition."We can no longer carry on fighting with just Kalashnikov rifles," he said.(Additional reporting by Tom Miles in Geneva; writing by Michael Georgy; Editing by Gunna Dickson)
Iraqi PM orders air force to help Kurds fight Islamic State-Reuters-By Isra' al-Rubai'i-AUG 4,4-YahooNews
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki ordered his air force for the first time to back Kurdish forces against Islamic State fighters after the Sunni militants made another dramatic push through the north, state television reported on Monday.Tens of thousands of people have fled one of the districts seized by Islamic State fighters in the offensive and are now surrounded, the United Nations said on Monday. The Sunni militants often execute people in areas they have captured.Kurdish peshmerga fighters, who gained experience fighting Saddam Hussein's troops, were regarded as one of the few forces capable of standing up to the Sunni insurgents, who faced almost no opposition from Maliki's U.S.-trained army during their lightning advance through the north in June.Then on Sunday the Islamic State inflicted a humiliating defeat on the Kurds with a rapid advance through three towns to reach the Mosul Dam, acquiring a fifth oil field to fund its operations along the way.State television and witnesses said the Islamic State had seized Iraq's biggest dam. Kurdish peshmerga officials said they had pushed militants from the dam area and were in control of it. This could not be immediately confirmed.Despite predictions from Kurdish commanders that their forces would launch a successful counter-offensive, one senior Kurdish official urged the United States to step in and provide weapons "for the sake of fighting terrorism".Kurdish commanders whose units came under attack from Islamic State fighters told Reuters they faced overwhelming firepower, were taken by surprise, and that militants had in many cases started shooting from villages where they had formed alliances with residents.The areas that the Kurds lost were not part of their semi-autonomous region, but had been seized in the north after the fall of Saddam Hussein.Maliki has been at odds with the Kurds over budgets, oil and land, and tensions deepened after the Islamic State seized control of large swathes of land in the north and west of OPEC member Iraq.
HOSTILITY
In July, the Kurdish political bloc ended all participation in Iraq's national government in protest over Maliki's accusation that Kurds were allowing terrorists to stay in Arbil, the capital of their semi-autonomous region known as Kurdistan.Opponents accuse Maliki of being an authoritarian ruler with a sectarian agenda whose alienation of Sunnis fueled the insurgency. Currently ruling in a caretaker capacity after an inconclusive election in April, he has defied calls by Sunnis, Kurds and even some fellow Shi'ites to step aside to make room for a less polarizing figure.The Kurdish region is pressing the Obama administration for sophisticated weapons it says Kurdish fighters need to push back the Islamic State fighters threatening their region. The requested supplies include tanks, sniper equipment, armored personnel carriers, artillery and ammunition.The move is likely to further anger Maliki, who may see it as an attempt to circumvent the Baghdad government in a long-standing drive for independence.For now, however, Maliki seems to have put aside his hostility with the Kurds to try to prevent further gains by the Islamic State, which has declared a caliphate in parts of Iraq and Syria it controls and threatened to march on Baghdad."The general commander of the armed forces has ordered the air force command to provide backup for the Kurdish peshmerga forces against the terrorist gangs of the Islamic State," state television quoted Maliki's military spokesman Qassim Atta as saying.
OVERSTRETCHED
Tens of thousands of residents of Sinjar fled the district after it was taken over by Islamic State fighters.
Previously, an estimated 308,000 people lived in the district of Sinjar. As the insurgents advanced, many fled to Sinjar mountain, or Jebel Sinjar, said the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in a statement."The exact number of displaced people on Jebel Sinjar is unknown; however, reports indicate that some 35-50,000 people displaced in nine locations, reportedly surrounded by ISIS (Islamic State) armed elements. There are reports, to be verified, of children already dying for lack of water and other assistance among those trapped," the OCHA statement said.A further 30,000 people, mainly women and children, have made their way to Dahuk governorate in Kurdistan, with more expected in coming days, OCHA said.The insurgents control the two roads down the Sinjar mountain and are attacking families moving along the roads, which lead to Sinjar town and the Syrian border crossing at Rabia, OCHA said.The senior Kurdish official said the Kurds had been overstretched because they had to watch over a vast territory. "The Islamic State has also been intimidating people by carrying out beheadings," he said, asking not to be identified.After thousands of Iraqi soldiers fled their initial advance in June, the group then known as the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) seized tanks, armored personnel carriers, anti-aircraft guns, mortars, artillery and vehicles."It is a very dangerous situation for the region. Something needs to be done soon," the senior Kurdish official said.Despite the odds, Kurdish commanders were talking tough.One colonel said the Kurdish withdrawal was tactical and forecast that several Kurdish brigades would take back all territory lost on Sunday and even win back Mosul, Iraq's biggest northern city which is firmly in the hands of the Islamic State."We will attack them until they are completely destroyed. We will never show any mercy," he told Reuters. "We have given them enough chances and we will even take Mosul back. I believe within the next 48-72 hours it will be over."But commanders who had lost men in battle were not as optimistic. Kurdish peshmerga Brigadier Mashia Ramazan Fattah said the base where he was stationed came under Islamic State mortar fire for 12 straight hours through the night.He was surprised to find that 500 peshmerga forces were outnumbered by Islamic State fighters who forced them to flee.Another commander who asked not to be named said the Islamic State took everyone by surprise and had deployed snipers in addition to heavier weapons and that, in many cases, the Kurds had simply run out of ammunition." We can no longer carry on fighting with just Kalashnikov rifles," he said.(Additional reporting by Tom Miles in Geneva; writing by Michael Georgy; Editing by Gunna Dickson)
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)
THE FIRST JUDGEMENT OF THE EARTH STARTED WITH WATER-IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THE LAST GENERATION WILL BE HAVING FLOODING
GENESIS 7:6-12
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
GOD PROMISED BY A RAINBOW-THE EARTH WOULD NEVER BE DESTROYED TOTALLY WITH A FLOOD AGAIN.BUT FLOODIING IS A SIGN OF JUDGEMENT.
Hail falls as storm sweeps across southern Alberta-CBC –AUG 4,14-YahooNews
A thunderstorm swept across southern Alberta Monday, prompting Environment Canada to issue thunderstorm warnings and watches.The Heritage Day storm had officials warning of heavy rain and possible hail. The Calgary Airport was under a lightening advisory for about half an hour.For the latest weather warnings in Alberta, check Environment Canada's website.Thunderstorm watches and warnings were issued for much of southern and central Alberta, moving from west to east with the storm."Environment Canada meteorologists are tracking a severe thunderstorm capable of producing dime to nickel size hail and heavy rain," according to Environment Canada. "Remember, severe thunderstorms can produce tornadoes."
Severe thunderstorm warning ended for Toronto-CBC – AUG 4,14-YahooNews
Environment Canada has issued a severe thunderstorm warning for the Burlington and Oakville areas, while leaving severe thunderstorm watches in effect for more than two dozen areas in southern Ontario.
Toronto and many surrounding areas had been under warnings earlier in the day, as a series of thunderstorms moved through the region. Almost all of those warnings had ended by the supper hour.Images posted to social-media websites showed heavy rains, hail and lightning occurring in various parts of southern Ontario during the afternoon.As of 5:30 p.m., the following parts of southern Ontario remained under a severe thunderstorm watch:- Hamilton Dunnville, Caledonia and Haldimand- Rodney, Shedden and western Elgin County- St. Thomas, Alymer and eastern Elgin County- Halton Hills and Milton- London, Parkhill and eastern Middlesex County- Strathroy, Komoka and western Middlesex County- Niagara Falls, Welland and southern Niagara Region- St. Catharines, Grimsby and northern Niagara Region- Brantford and the County of Brant- Woodstock, Tillsonburg and Oxford County- Sarnia, Petrolia and western Lambton County- Watford, Pinery Park and eastern Lambton County- Simcoe, Delhi and Norfolk- Chatham-Kent and Rondeau Park- Windsor, Leamington and Essex CountyMembers of the public are reminded to take cover if threatening weather approaches.
Catastrophic solar superstorm is overdue to hit Earth, scientist says-By Andrew Fazekas | Geekquinox – Sun, 3 Aug, 2014-YahooNews
When it comes to a violent solar storm slamming into Earth - it’s not a question of if but when, warns a new study published this month in the Physics World journal.What makes it even more worrisome is that the latest research indicates that we may be overdue for a devastating blow from the sun.Just two years ago, on July 23, 2012, we had a near miss from two giant clouds of charged particles that the sun had belched out in our direction. Estimates are that if these storms would have hit Earth, it would have been the most powerful solar event in 150 years. Fortunately for us, it had crossed our planet’s orbit a week too late and we were out of harm’s way.If these huge bubbles of plasma and magnetic fields, called Coronal Mass Ejections, are large enough, they can actually rip apart Earth’s protective magnetic field. When that happens, waves of electrical surges would blast through transmission lines, frying them and setting off widespread blackouts.The largest solar storm on record is the Carrington Event in 1859. That’s when the sun unleashed a monster storm that engulfed the Earth, releasing energy equivalent to 10 billion Hiroshima bombs. It’s damaging effects were minimal since we only had telegraph wires at the time.While this magnitude of solar event has not been seen since, studies of neighbouring stars in the Milky Way using NASA’s Kepler exoplanet hunter telescope have shown that Sun-like stars have the capability of generating super-storms thousand times more powerful than the Carrington Event.Strong solar storms are nothing new. They have been firing off the surface of the Sun throughout human history, however they never held the potential to be so destructive to civilization as much as they do today. In just the last century our society has rapidly become technologically dependant and addicted — a drastic change that has meant we rely completely on electronics and space satellites for daily business.“If we were to lose these infrastructures tomorrow, what would happen? It's a scary thought, but the threat is very real,” explained the new study's author, Ashey Dale, a solar scientist from the University of Bristol in an interview with Yahoo Canada News.All of us are plugged in now with smartphones, appliances, and the internet. While these devices are not at risk, the network that they are plugged into is vulnerable, says Dale, who is a member of SolarMax, an international task force that identifies risks from solar storms and studies ways to mitigate their effects.With the potential for entire power grids to go down for a month or more, our mobile devices would run out of electrical juice quickly without the ability to recharge. And even while they would survive the initial solar blast, there would be no internet to connect to.“Not only would phones not have their 4G, but telecom base stations would likely be damaged — so there'd be little chance of connecting phone-calls,” added Dale. “With the satellites for smart TVs likely damaged beyond repair, it would takes years to rebuild that infrastructure, if ever.”No doubt there would definitely be a whole slew of technological disasters right here on the ground to keep us busy, but the most costly damage would likely occur in space.“With about 1,000 operational satellites in orbit, each costing on average about $100 million, it could take on the order of a decade to recover the space infrastructure and the numerous associated applications down here,” Dale warned.“I'm not just talking about satellite TV and the GPS in your car, but the hundreds of other applications relating to transportation, logistics, finances, agriculture, defence, weather forecasting, financial and corporate services, governance and health care.”At this point, no nation or industry is ready for such a cosmic emergency. Both North America and Europe are particularly vulnerable. Meanwhile countries like China and India, with large power infrastructures in more southern latitudes might be spared the worst from a solar superstorm.“A major solar event certainly has the potential to radically change the geopolitical map,” Dale added.How far are we from the next solar super storm? Pete Riley, a senior heliophysics scientist at NASA and the U.S. Department of Defense, names a sobering figure: there is at 12 per cent chance it will happen within the next decade.Someone in their 20s today will have a 50/50 chance of experiencing a solar super storm, provided they live into their 90s, Dale adds.Follow @YGeekquinox on Twitter!
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
22 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2014-08-04 20:37:43 UTC-04:00Showing event times using Local System Time (UTC-04:00)22 earthquakes in map area
3.3 9km ESE of Edmond, Oklahoma 2014-08-04 14:23:01 UTC-04:00 8.7 km
3.0 142km SE of Kodiak, Alaska 2014-08-04 14:21:55 UTC-04:00 34.0 km
2.6 60km NE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2014-08-04 13:04:12 UTC-04:00 23.0 km
5.1 143km SSE of Raoul Island, New Zealand 2014-08-04 12:50:06 UTC-04:00 10.0 km
2.5 64km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico 2014-08-04 12:14:43 UTC-04:00 41.0 km
3.5 5km S of Guthrie, Oklahoma 2014-08-04 11:30:42 UTC-04:00 6.4 km
3.9 107km SSW of Atka, Alaska 2014-08-04 09:35:37 UTC-04:00 24.5 km
2.6 45km SE of Atka, Alaska 2014-08-04 09:23:26 UTC-04:00 17.7 km
2.5 75km NNW of Sand Point, Alaska 2014-08-04 09:16:05 UTC-04:00 188.9 km
3.9 51km SE of Atka, Alaska 2014-08-04 08:56:01 UTC-04:00 27.3 km
4.9 145km NNW of Sikabaluan, Indonesia 2014-08-04 08:09:47 UTC-04:00 46.9 km
5.3 76km WSW of Banda Aceh, Indonesia 2014-08-04 06:36:09 UTC-04:00 57.0 km
5.3 Federated States of Micronesia region 2014-08-04 05:40:20 UTC-04:00 10.0 km
4.7 27km ESE of Otsuchi, Japan 2014-08-04 01:58:21 UTC-04:00 35.0 km
4.1 14km NW of Tropea, Italy 2014-08-04 01:54:01 UTC-04:00 178.9 km
4.5 173km NW of Saumlaki, Indonesia 2014-08-04 01:43:35 UTC-04:00 128.8 km
4.9 26km S of San Francisco del Mar, Mexico 2014-08-04 00:25:30 UTC-04:00 46.5 km
3.0 35km ESE of New Kingman-Butler, Arizona 2014-08-03 23:35:56 UTC-04:00 5.0 km
5.4 169km SSW of Sechura, Peru 2014-08-03 23:20:09 UTC-04:00 19.4 km
2.7 58km S of Old Iliamna, Alaska 2014-08-03 23:10:08 UTC-04:00 100.0 km
2.7 17km SSW of Medford, Oklahoma 2014-08-03 22:38:26 UTC-04:00 3.8 km
4.9 121km W of Lambasa, Fiji 2014-08-03 22:34:10 UTC-04:00 23.8 km
Russia to hold war games in show of strength near Ukraine-Reuters-AUG 4,14-YahooNews
MOSCOW/DONESTSK Ukraine (Reuters) - Russia announced military exercises near the border with Ukraine on Monday in a show of strength as the Ukrainian army recaptured more territory from pro-Russian separatists in the east of the country.The Russian air force said more than 100 aircraft, including fighter jets and bombers, were taking part in the manoeuvres this week in the central and western military districts.The move could alarm Western powers which have accused Russia of beefing up its troops along its border with Ukraine and arming the rebels in eastern Ukraine, although Moscow denies the accusations.The manoeuvres include missile-firing practice and will assist "coordination between aviation and anti-missile defence", Interfax news agency quoted an airforce spokesman as saying.He said Russia's latest bomber, the Su-24, was taking part, as well as Su-27 and MiG-31 fighter jets.Russia upset the West by staging military exercises near Ukraine in March after the conflict with Ukraine flared. Moscow said in May it had pulled back its forces but NATO military commander General Philip Breedlove said last week it still had more than 12,000 troops and weapons along the frontier.The crisis has pushed relations between Russia and the West to their lowest level since the Cold War, with each side accusing the other of orchestrating events in Ukraine, and the United States and European Union imposing sanctions on Russia.Russia has a firm grip on the Crimea peninsula, which it annexed in March after Ukraine ousted a pro-Moscow president, but the rebels who wanted Moscow to also annexe east Ukraine have been losing ground in the past few weeks.
UKRAINIAN ARMY ADVANCES
Government forces said they had recaptured an important rail hub in the latest fighting near Donetsk, the biggest of the two large cities the rebels still hold after almost four months of fighting."Units taking part in the 'anti-terrorist operation' yesterday took the town of Yasynuvata, which is an important hub of the region's railway system," Andriy Lysenko, a spokesman for Kiev's military operation in the east, told a briefing.The separatists had seized the Yasynuvata railway control centre in May as their rebellion spread in eastern Ukraine. It sits just north of Donetsk near a main road leading to Luhansk, another remaining rebel stronghold.Five government soldiers were killed and 15 wounded over the previous 24 hours, Lysenko said. There were no new casualty figures for the rebels in a conflict the United Nations said had killed more than 1,100 people from mid-April to late July.Fighting has intensified since the West accused the rebels of shooting down a Malaysian airliner last month, killing all 298 people on board. Russia and the rebels blame the disaster on Kiev's military offensive.In a sign that not all the fighting is going the Ukrainian army's way, Russian border guards said 438 Ukrainian soldiers had crossed into Russia during the night seeking asylum."They were tired of the war and wanted no further part in it," Vasily Malayev, spokesman for the borders guards in the Rostov region of Russia, told Reuters by telephone.He said they had been treated well, and 180 were being returned to Ukraine later on Monday, but it was not clear what the rest wanted to do.Lysenko said the soldiers and border guards had crossed into Russia in search of safety after being blocked between the Russian border to the east and pro-Russian rebel positions in the west for more than three weeks.He gave no numbers but said Kiev was trying to negotiate their return.The fighting had prevented Dutch and Australian experts reaching the wreckage of the downed airliner in rebel-held territory for several days but they have managed to recover some human remains and belongings in the past few days. The victims included 196 Dutch, 27 Australians and 43 Malaysians.(Additional reporting by Elizabeth Piper, Polina Devitt and Tatiana Ustinova in Moscow and by Gabrieal Baczynska and Natalia Zinets in Kiev; Writing by Timothy Heritage; Editing by Will Waterman)
EUROPEAN UNION ARMY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytWmPqY8TE0&feature=player_embedded
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 DIVSION REGION WORLD GOVERNMENT) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.( BE HEAD OF 3 NATIONS)
25 And he (EU PRESIDENT) shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.(3 1/2 YRS)
DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT-NEW AGE MOVEMENT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.
DANIEL 11:36-39
36 And the king (EU DICTATOR) shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS JEWISH) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.(CLAIM TO BE GOD)
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(WAR) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god,(DESTROY TERROR GROUPS) whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.
REVELATION 19:19
19 And I saw the beast,(EU LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies,(UNITED NATIONS TROOPS) gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse,(JESUS) and against his army.(THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)
Nato to strengthen military exercises after Russia 'aggression'-Today @ 09:28-AUG 4,14-EUOBSERVER-By Honor Mahony
BRUSSELS - Nato chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen has said the transatlantic military alliance will draw up new defence plans following Russia's "aggression" in Ukraine.In an interview with French regional newspaper Midi Libre, published Sunday (4 August), he said that “Russia's aggression was a warning and created a new security situation in Europe”."We will strengthen military exercises and prepare new defence plans," he said, reports AFP.With an eye on what is turning out to be a key Nato meeting in Wales at the beginning of September, Rasmussen drew attention to the defence-spending discrepancies between Russia and Nato members.He noted that while Russia had increased its defence spending by 50 percent over the past five years, Nato countries have, on average, reduced theirs by 20 percent."We must reverse this trend," he said.He said that he regretted that Russia considered Nato a foe but "we have to adapt to this new situation".Rasmussen's comments came on the back of a letter from British leader David Cameron to Nato leaders calling on them to "make clear to Russia that neither Nato nor its members will be intimidated”.The Alliance's member states should “strengthen (their) ability to respond quickly to any threat" while the 4-5 September meeting should agree “a new exercise schedule adapted to the new security environment”.The statements come after a raft of EU sanctions - the latest round hitting Putin's inner circle - have failed to de-escalate the crisis in Ukraine where Russia-backed separatists are fighting for control in eastern parts of the country.The scale of the crisis increased after the Malaysia airplane was shot down on 17 July over separatist-held territory in Ukraine killing all passengers on board. Russia's failure to help secure the crashsite afterwards hardened attitudes further.Russian President Vladimir Putin, for his part, used a speech on 1 August commemorating the outbreak of WW1 to remind Europe that "peace is fragile".“Humankind should grasp one truth: violence generates violence."At the same time the Russian defence ministry announced military exercises in all defence districts and that it would be calling up reserve forces in all areas. It later said that this had been planned for months and was not a reaction to events in Ukraine.On Monday (4 August) Radio Free Europe reported that Russian military officials said they have launched four days of military exercises in central and western regions of Russia.Interfax quoted Russian Air Force spokesman Igor Klimov as saying that exercises include the use of 100 military aircraft.In comments before the weekend, Germany's chief of relations with Russia Gernot Erler warned against the crisis increasing to an extent that there is "direct" military intervention by Russia.He said Putin is "under very strong pressure not to let Russian-speaking inhabitants of east Ukraine – who he has taken under protection – in the lurch.”If the separatists were facing a defeat, no one could exclude an intervention by Moscow, he told the Neue Osnabrueker newspaper. “It would be a terrible escalation if it came to a direct intervention (by Moscow),” he said.
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS-10 WORLD REGIONS/TRADE BLOCS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS-10 WORLD DIVISION WORLD GOVERNMENT) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(THE EU (EUROPEAN UNION) TAKES OVER IRAQ WHICH HAS SPLIT INTO 3-SUNNI-KURD-SHIA PARTS-AND THE REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE IS BROUGHT BACK TOGETHER-THE TWO LEGS OF DANIEL WESTERN LEG AND THE ISLAMIC LEG COMBINED AS 1)
Germany scraps Russian military contract-Today @ 10:16-AUG 4,14-By EUOBSERVER
Germany has scrapped a military contract for a training camp with Russia worth over €100 million, according to Germany's Sueddeutsche newspaper. The paper on Sunday said German vice-chancellor Sigmar Gabriel "withdraw his authoritisation" for a camp initially set up to train 30,000 Russian soldiers.
Hollande: Europe should never be 'tired' of peace-04.08.14 @ 19:37-EUOBSERVER-By Honor Mahony
BRUSSELS - EU leaders attending a commemoration of World War One on Monday (4 August) evoked the fragility of peace and importance of learning the lessons of a hundred years ago.Representatives from across Europe gathered in the Belgian city of Liege to mark the outbreak of fighting which began on 4 August, 1914 after Germany invaded Belgium, leading to a war that would last four years and the deaths of millions of people.French leader Francois Hollande’s speech contained some of the strongest sentiment, including a warning that Europe should not get “tired” of peace and references to the current conflicts on the EU’s borders and in its neighbourhood.Speaking of Belgium's neutrality at the time, Hollande said: "today neutrality is no longer appropriate"."How can we stay neutral when a people, not far from Europe, is fighting for its rights and territorial integrity? How to stay neutral when a civilian aircraft can be shot out of the sky? When there are civilian populations being massacred in Iraq, minorities being persecuted in Syria?," he said, according to the Wall Street Journal.His comments were in reference to Ukraine where last month a passenger plane was downed over the separatist-held eastern part of the country, killing everyone onboard. The incident came after months of unrest fermented by Moscow, and after Russia's annexation of Crimea in Spring.Referring to the building of the EU - the "crazy idea of creating a model of cooperation and progress" - Hollande said the major risk was the return of "national selfishness".He urged the EU to take on more of its "responsibilities" saying that "Europe must always be moving and never be weary and tired of peace."The fragility of peace was mentioned by other leaders too.Belgian leader Elio di Rupo noted that the trade ties between countries one hundred years ago did not prevent war from breaking out."Their economic interdependence didn't prevent the disaster we are commemorating today," he said.German president Joachim Gauck said that Europe must show it has learned from the past "not only through our words, but also through our everyday actions".“I think we should use the opportunity of World War One to recognise the catastrophe that war is as well as how easy it is to become trapped in a bubble of warlike thinking," Irish President Michael D. Higgins told the Irish Times.The commemorations were attended by representatives from some 70 countries including the presidents of Italy, Serbia and Romania, the King of Spain, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and US Secretary of the Army, John M. McHugh.Although initially expected to be a short war, WW1 lasted until 1918 and resulted in around 17 million deaths, of which almost 7 million were civilians.
08/ 4/2014 -VATICAN INSIDER-Pope urges scouts to work and pray for a united and peaceful Europe-A group of scouts-Francis has sent a message to scouts gathered in Normandy to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War and seventieth anniversary of the Normandy landings-vatican insider staff
Rome-In a message today, the Pope invited 12 thousand scouts from 20 European countries to pray and work towards a “united and peaceful Europe”. The scouts gathered in Normandy to mark the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War and the 70th anniversary of the Normandy Landings, an operation which led the allied victory in the Second World War.“To meet Jesus you have to set off on a journey and along the way, you discover that God manifests himself in different ways: through the beauty of his creation, when he lovingly intervenes in our history, in our fraternal relationships and in our service to others.”In his message, Francis gives European scouts a mission, pointing out the three stages he mentioned during the World Youth Day celebrations in Rio de Janeiro: Go; without fear; to serve. He urged all of them to push themselves, strengthened by their encounter with God through the Sacraments and sustained by His love, which takes away all fear, “to announce His love in all corners of the world, to serve their neighbours in the remotest peripheries.”So many generations have their scouting education to thank for “their growth along the path of sainthood, the practice of virtues and above all the greatness of their soul.” Therefore, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the First World War, Francis urged scouts to pray for a united and peaceful Europe, because “you are the real players in this world, you are not just spectators,” he told them.The Pope also encouraged scouts not to be afraid to take on the challenge of "safeguard[ing] Christian values, in particular the defence of life, development, the dignity of the person, the fight against poverty, and many other battles.”
WORLD POWERS IN THE LAST DAYS (END OF AGE OF GRACE NOT THE WORLD)
EUROPEAN UNION-KING OF WEST-DAN 9:26-27,DAN 7:23-24,DAN 11:40,REV 13:1-10
EGYPT-KING OF THE SOUTH-DAN 11:40
RUSSIA-KING OF THE NORTH-EZEK 38:1-2,EZEK 39:1-3
CHINA-KING OF THE EAST-DAN 11:44,REV 9:16,18
VATICAN-RELIGIOUS LEADER-REV 13:11-18,REV 17:4-5,9,18
WORLD TERRORISM
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
2 PETER 2:5
5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
2 PETER 3:7
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men
LEVITICUS 26:16
16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you( sudden) terror(ISM), consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her,(HAGAR) Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he (ISHMAEL) will be a wild (DONKEY-JACKASS) man;(ISLAM IS A FAKE AND DANGEROUS SEX FOR MURDER CULT) his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against him;(PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM BEING BEHEADED) and he (ISHMAEL ARAB/MUSLIM) shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)
ISAIAH 14:12-14
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,(SATAN) son of the morning!(HEBREW-CRECENT MOON-ISLAM) how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I (SATAN HAS EYE TROUBLES) will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(AND 1/3RD OF THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN FELL WITH SATAN AND BECAME DEMONS)
ISAIAH 33:1,18-19 Woe to thee that spoilest,(destroys) and thou wast not spoiled;(destroyed) and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil,(destroy) thou shalt be spoiled;(destroyed) and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.
JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.(ISLAM MURDERS IN THE NAME OF MOON GOD ALLAH OF ISLAM)
Lebanese army advances in border battle with Islamists-Reuters-By Alexander Dziadosz-Aug 4,14-YahooNews
OUTSKIRTS OF ARSAL Lebanon (Reuters) - The Lebanese army advanced on Monday into a border town attacked by Islamists at the weekend in the most serious spillover of the three-year-old Syrian civil war into Lebanon, and the Beirut government said the deadly assault would not go unpunished.With army reinforcements arriving in Arsal, Prime Minister Tammam Salam, a Sunni Muslim, said there could be no political deal with gunmen identified as members of the Nusra Front and the Islamic State, which has seized parts of Syria and Iraq."The only solution proposed today is the withdrawal of the militants from Arsal and its environs," said Salam, the most senior Sunni in the Lebanese government.Flanked by the rest of the cabinet, Salam accused the militants of seeking to "move their sick practices to Lebanon"."We confirm that the attack on Lebanese national dignity will not go unpunished," he said.Lebanon, still rebuilding from its own 1975-1990 civil war, has been buffeted by violence linked to the Syrian conflict, including rocket attacks, suicide bombings and gun battles.But this was the first major incursion by hardline Sunni militants who have become leading players in Sunni-Shi'ite violence that has unfolded across the Levant, destabilising Lebanon by inflaming its own sectarian tensions.The army said 14 soldiers had been killed, with 22 others missing and 86 injured in the fighting, which erupted after security forces arrested a Syrian Islamist rebel commander, Emad Jumaa, on Saturday.Soldiers advancing into Arsal found the bodies of 50 militants, a security official said. A cleric in Arsal said at least 50 civilians were dead and more were buried in rubble.More than a dozen other members of the security forces have been taken hostage. The army described the Islamists' incursion as a long-planned attack. Local politicians say it marks an attempt to extend the Islamic State's footprint into Lebanon.Rebels said dozens of fighters from Syria's Qalamoun area just across the border had moved to Arsal on Sunday to reinforce gunmen there. Syrian warplanes repeatedly struck the nearby mountainous border area used by the militants to access Arsal.The militants have been beaten back in the border area in the past year by Syrian government forces backed by Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shi'ite Muslim political and military movement. Some 3,000 fighters are estimated to be in the border zone.Indicating that Iranian-backed Hezbollah stood ready to help the army, one of its senior clerics said the military would not be left on its own and urged people in areas near the clashes to be prepared to "confront the bats of the dark night".Hezbollah forces have deployed near Arsal, and Syrian activists say they are already involved in the fighting. The group has not announced any role. Analysts believe Hezbollah would keep quiet about any involvement to avoid further inflaming sectarian tensions."To those who would threaten to divide the army and leave it, we say: Lebanon and the Bekaa are not Mosul," said Mohamed Yazbek, the Hezbollah cleric, in comments reported by Hezbollah's al-Manar website, referring to a northern Iraqi city overrun by Islamic State militants in June.
NO REFUGE
Thick plumes of black and grey smoke billowed from the tops of the hills where Arsal lies. Intermittent bursts of gunfire could be heard from the surrounding areas as troops moved in.A dozen armoured personnel carriers were seen advancing towards the town, together with a similar number of other military vehicles including trucks and Humvees. Soldiers armed with assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades sat atop the vehicles as they moved along the main road towards Arsal.Video footage released by the army showed seven bodies of men purported to be militants, as well as about two dozen men kneeling with their hands bound against a wall, and rifles, ID cards and cell phones said to be seized from the gunmen.Arsal is a mainly Sunni town located on the Lebanese side of the border between Syrian government-controlled territory and Lebanese Shi'ite areas sympathetic to Hezbollah.More than 100,000 Syrian refugees are estimated to be living in and around Arsal in camps that Syrian activists said had been badly damaged and evacuated during the fighting."There is no place of refuge for the refugees," said one Syrian activist in the area reached by text message."The residents are terrified."Two army trucks were seen bringing several dozen civilians including women in headscarves and young children out of Arsal."What are we expecting? Our houses are being destroyed. God knows if our families are alive and well or dying," said Mohamed al-Fleti, a 25-year-old Lebanese man from Arsal as he sat in the shade of a tree by a gas station down the road from Arsal.The war in Syria has deepened rifts between Shi'ite Lebanese allied to the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Sunnis who have mostly been supportive of the uprising against him. Political divisions have left Lebanon without a president since May.
"THEY HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO WITHDRAW"
Salam said the government, drawn from across the political spectrum, stood behind the army. He said he had asked France to speed the delivery of weapons due to be supplied in a Saudi-financed deal."The government has decided to mobilise all official Lebanese institutions and apparatus to defend our country."Lebanon's most influential Sunni politician, former prime minister Saad al-Hariri, said Arsal must be "liberated" from the militants."They have no choice but to withdraw from the town, and neither the state, nor we, will stand idle in the face of the plots of these groups," Hariri, who is backed by Saudi Arabia, said in comments to the London-based Al-Hayat newspaper.But despite wide backing for the army among politicians, Lebanon's Muslim Clerics Association urged Sunnis to protest until the army halted its bombardment of Arsal.Its demands, published in a statement, included the opening of "a secure humanitarian corridor to Arsal".Mustafa al-Hujairi, a leading Sunni cleric in Arsal, blamed deaths in Arsal on Hezbollah. He said matters were now in the hands of the gunmen."Hezbollah want to turn Arsal to rubble like they did to Qusair," he said, referring to a town in Syria that Hezbollah helped Syrian government forces capture from rebels last year.(Additional reporting by Laila Bassam, Tom Perry and Mariam Karouny; Writing by Tom Perry; Editing by Paul Taylor and Will Waterman)
Iraqi PM orders air force to help Kurds fight Islamic State-Reuters-By Isra' al-Rubai'i -AUG 4,14-YahooNews
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki ordered his air force for the first time to back Kurdish forces against Islamic State fighters after the Sunni militants made another dramatic push through the north, state television reported on Monday.Tens of thousands of people have fled one of the districts seized by Islamic State fighters in the offensive and are now surrounded, the United Nations said on Monday. The Sunni militants often execute people in areas they have captured.Kurdish peshmerga fighters, who gained experience fighting Saddam Hussein's troops, were regarded as one of the few forces capable of standing up to the Sunni insurgents, who faced almost no opposition from Maliki's U.S.-trained army during their lightning advance through the north in June.Then on Sunday the Islamic State inflicted a humiliating defeat on the Kurds with a rapid advance through three towns to reach the Mosul Dam, acquiring a fifth oil field to fund its operations along the way.State television and witnesses said the Islamic State had seized Iraq's biggest dam. Kurdish peshmerga officials said they had pushed militants from the dam area and were in control of it. This could not be immediately confirmed.Despite predictions from Kurdish commanders that their forces would launch a successful counter-offensive, one senior Kurdish official urged the United States to step in and provide weapons "for the sake of fighting terrorism".Kurdish commanders whose units came under attack from Islamic State fighters told Reuters they faced overwhelming firepower, were taken by surprise, and that militants had in many cases started shooting from villages where they had formed alliances with residents.The areas that the Kurds lost were not part of their semi-autonomous region, but had been seized in the north after the fall of Saddam Hussein.Maliki has been at odds with the Kurds over budgets, oil and land, and tensions deepened after the Islamic State seized control of large swathes of land in the north and west of OPEC member Iraq.
HOSTILITY
In July, the Kurdish political bloc ended all participation in Iraq's national government in protest over Maliki's accusation that Kurds were allowing terrorists to stay in Arbil, the capital of their semi-autonomous region known as Kurdistan.Opponents accuse Maliki of being an authoritarian ruler with a sectarian agenda whose alienation of Sunnis fueled the insurgency. Currently ruling in a caretaker capacity after an inconclusive election in April, he has defied calls by Sunnis, Kurds and even some fellow Shi'ites to step aside to make room for a less polarizing figure.The Kurdish region is pressing the Obama administration for sophisticated weapons it says Kurdish fighters need to push back the Islamic State fighters threatening their region. The requested supplies include tanks, sniper equipment, armored personnel carriers, artillery and ammunition.The move is likely to further anger Maliki, who may see it as an attempt to circumvent the Baghdad government in a long-standing drive for independence.For now, however, Maliki seems to have put aside his hostility with the Kurds to try to prevent further gains by the Islamic State, which has declared a caliphate in parts of Iraq and Syria it controls and threatened to march on Baghdad."The general commander of the armed forces has ordered the air force command to provide backup for the Kurdish peshmerga forces against the terrorist gangs of the Islamic State," state television quoted Maliki's military spokesman Qassim Atta as saying.
OVERSTRETCHED
Tens of thousands of residents of Sinjar fled the district after it was taken over by Islamic State fighters.
Previously, an estimated 308,000 people lived in the district of Sinjar. As the insurgents advanced, many fled to Sinjar mountain, or Jebel Sinjar, said the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in a statement."The exact number of displaced people on Jebel Sinjar is unknown; however, reports indicate that some 35-50,000 people displaced in nine locations, reportedly surrounded by ISIS (Islamic State) armed elements. There are reports, to be verified, of children already dying for lack of water and other assistance among those trapped," the OCHA statement said.A further 30,000 people, mainly women and children, have made their way to Dahuk governorate in Kurdistan, with more expected in coming days, OCHA said.The insurgents control the two roads down the Sinjar mountain and are attacking families moving along the roads, which lead to Sinjar town and the Syrian border crossing at Rabia, OCHA said.The senior Kurdish official said the Kurds had been overstretched because they had to watch over a vast territory. "The Islamic State has also been intimidating people by carrying out beheadings," he said, asking not to be identified.After thousands of Iraqi soldiers fled their initial advance in June, the group then known as the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) seized tanks, armored personnel carriers, anti-aircraft guns, mortars, artillery and vehicles."It is a very dangerous situation for the region. Something needs to be done soon," the senior Kurdish official said.Despite the odds, Kurdish commanders were talking tough.One colonel said the Kurdish withdrawal was tactical and forecast that several Kurdish brigades would take back all territory lost on Sunday and even win back Mosul, Iraq's biggest northern city which is firmly in the hands of the Islamic State."We will attack them until they are completely destroyed. We will never show any mercy," he told Reuters. "We have given them enough chances and we will even take Mosul back. I believe within the next 48-72 hours it will be over."But commanders who had lost men in battle were not as optimistic. Kurdish peshmerga Brigadier Mashia Ramazan Fattah said the base where he was stationed came under Islamic State mortar fire for 12 straight hours through the night.He was surprised to find that 500 peshmerga forces were outnumbered by Islamic State fighters who forced them to flee.Another commander who asked not to be named said the Islamic State took everyone by surprise and had deployed snipers in addition to heavier weapons and that, in many cases, the Kurds had simply run out of ammunition."We can no longer carry on fighting with just Kalashnikov rifles," he said.(Additional reporting by Tom Miles in Geneva; writing by Michael Georgy; Editing by Gunna Dickson)
Iraqi PM orders air force to help Kurds fight Islamic State-Reuters-By Isra' al-Rubai'i-AUG 4,4-YahooNews
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki ordered his air force for the first time to back Kurdish forces against Islamic State fighters after the Sunni militants made another dramatic push through the north, state television reported on Monday.Tens of thousands of people have fled one of the districts seized by Islamic State fighters in the offensive and are now surrounded, the United Nations said on Monday. The Sunni militants often execute people in areas they have captured.Kurdish peshmerga fighters, who gained experience fighting Saddam Hussein's troops, were regarded as one of the few forces capable of standing up to the Sunni insurgents, who faced almost no opposition from Maliki's U.S.-trained army during their lightning advance through the north in June.Then on Sunday the Islamic State inflicted a humiliating defeat on the Kurds with a rapid advance through three towns to reach the Mosul Dam, acquiring a fifth oil field to fund its operations along the way.State television and witnesses said the Islamic State had seized Iraq's biggest dam. Kurdish peshmerga officials said they had pushed militants from the dam area and were in control of it. This could not be immediately confirmed.Despite predictions from Kurdish commanders that their forces would launch a successful counter-offensive, one senior Kurdish official urged the United States to step in and provide weapons "for the sake of fighting terrorism".Kurdish commanders whose units came under attack from Islamic State fighters told Reuters they faced overwhelming firepower, were taken by surprise, and that militants had in many cases started shooting from villages where they had formed alliances with residents.The areas that the Kurds lost were not part of their semi-autonomous region, but had been seized in the north after the fall of Saddam Hussein.Maliki has been at odds with the Kurds over budgets, oil and land, and tensions deepened after the Islamic State seized control of large swathes of land in the north and west of OPEC member Iraq.
HOSTILITY
In July, the Kurdish political bloc ended all participation in Iraq's national government in protest over Maliki's accusation that Kurds were allowing terrorists to stay in Arbil, the capital of their semi-autonomous region known as Kurdistan.Opponents accuse Maliki of being an authoritarian ruler with a sectarian agenda whose alienation of Sunnis fueled the insurgency. Currently ruling in a caretaker capacity after an inconclusive election in April, he has defied calls by Sunnis, Kurds and even some fellow Shi'ites to step aside to make room for a less polarizing figure.The Kurdish region is pressing the Obama administration for sophisticated weapons it says Kurdish fighters need to push back the Islamic State fighters threatening their region. The requested supplies include tanks, sniper equipment, armored personnel carriers, artillery and ammunition.The move is likely to further anger Maliki, who may see it as an attempt to circumvent the Baghdad government in a long-standing drive for independence.For now, however, Maliki seems to have put aside his hostility with the Kurds to try to prevent further gains by the Islamic State, which has declared a caliphate in parts of Iraq and Syria it controls and threatened to march on Baghdad."The general commander of the armed forces has ordered the air force command to provide backup for the Kurdish peshmerga forces against the terrorist gangs of the Islamic State," state television quoted Maliki's military spokesman Qassim Atta as saying.
OVERSTRETCHED
Tens of thousands of residents of Sinjar fled the district after it was taken over by Islamic State fighters.
Previously, an estimated 308,000 people lived in the district of Sinjar. As the insurgents advanced, many fled to Sinjar mountain, or Jebel Sinjar, said the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in a statement."The exact number of displaced people on Jebel Sinjar is unknown; however, reports indicate that some 35-50,000 people displaced in nine locations, reportedly surrounded by ISIS (Islamic State) armed elements. There are reports, to be verified, of children already dying for lack of water and other assistance among those trapped," the OCHA statement said.A further 30,000 people, mainly women and children, have made their way to Dahuk governorate in Kurdistan, with more expected in coming days, OCHA said.The insurgents control the two roads down the Sinjar mountain and are attacking families moving along the roads, which lead to Sinjar town and the Syrian border crossing at Rabia, OCHA said.The senior Kurdish official said the Kurds had been overstretched because they had to watch over a vast territory. "The Islamic State has also been intimidating people by carrying out beheadings," he said, asking not to be identified.After thousands of Iraqi soldiers fled their initial advance in June, the group then known as the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) seized tanks, armored personnel carriers, anti-aircraft guns, mortars, artillery and vehicles."It is a very dangerous situation for the region. Something needs to be done soon," the senior Kurdish official said.Despite the odds, Kurdish commanders were talking tough.One colonel said the Kurdish withdrawal was tactical and forecast that several Kurdish brigades would take back all territory lost on Sunday and even win back Mosul, Iraq's biggest northern city which is firmly in the hands of the Islamic State."We will attack them until they are completely destroyed. We will never show any mercy," he told Reuters. "We have given them enough chances and we will even take Mosul back. I believe within the next 48-72 hours it will be over."But commanders who had lost men in battle were not as optimistic. Kurdish peshmerga Brigadier Mashia Ramazan Fattah said the base where he was stationed came under Islamic State mortar fire for 12 straight hours through the night.He was surprised to find that 500 peshmerga forces were outnumbered by Islamic State fighters who forced them to flee.Another commander who asked not to be named said the Islamic State took everyone by surprise and had deployed snipers in addition to heavier weapons and that, in many cases, the Kurds had simply run out of ammunition." We can no longer carry on fighting with just Kalashnikov rifles," he said.(Additional reporting by Tom Miles in Geneva; writing by Michael Georgy; Editing by Gunna Dickson)
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)
THE FIRST JUDGEMENT OF THE EARTH STARTED WITH WATER-IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THE LAST GENERATION WILL BE HAVING FLOODING
GENESIS 7:6-12
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
GOD PROMISED BY A RAINBOW-THE EARTH WOULD NEVER BE DESTROYED TOTALLY WITH A FLOOD AGAIN.BUT FLOODIING IS A SIGN OF JUDGEMENT.
Hail falls as storm sweeps across southern Alberta-CBC –AUG 4,14-YahooNews
A thunderstorm swept across southern Alberta Monday, prompting Environment Canada to issue thunderstorm warnings and watches.The Heritage Day storm had officials warning of heavy rain and possible hail. The Calgary Airport was under a lightening advisory for about half an hour.For the latest weather warnings in Alberta, check Environment Canada's website.Thunderstorm watches and warnings were issued for much of southern and central Alberta, moving from west to east with the storm."Environment Canada meteorologists are tracking a severe thunderstorm capable of producing dime to nickel size hail and heavy rain," according to Environment Canada. "Remember, severe thunderstorms can produce tornadoes."
Severe thunderstorm warning ended for Toronto-CBC – AUG 4,14-YahooNews
Environment Canada has issued a severe thunderstorm warning for the Burlington and Oakville areas, while leaving severe thunderstorm watches in effect for more than two dozen areas in southern Ontario.
Toronto and many surrounding areas had been under warnings earlier in the day, as a series of thunderstorms moved through the region. Almost all of those warnings had ended by the supper hour.Images posted to social-media websites showed heavy rains, hail and lightning occurring in various parts of southern Ontario during the afternoon.As of 5:30 p.m., the following parts of southern Ontario remained under a severe thunderstorm watch:- Hamilton Dunnville, Caledonia and Haldimand- Rodney, Shedden and western Elgin County- St. Thomas, Alymer and eastern Elgin County- Halton Hills and Milton- London, Parkhill and eastern Middlesex County- Strathroy, Komoka and western Middlesex County- Niagara Falls, Welland and southern Niagara Region- St. Catharines, Grimsby and northern Niagara Region- Brantford and the County of Brant- Woodstock, Tillsonburg and Oxford County- Sarnia, Petrolia and western Lambton County- Watford, Pinery Park and eastern Lambton County- Simcoe, Delhi and Norfolk- Chatham-Kent and Rondeau Park- Windsor, Leamington and Essex CountyMembers of the public are reminded to take cover if threatening weather approaches.
Catastrophic solar superstorm is overdue to hit Earth, scientist says-By Andrew Fazekas | Geekquinox – Sun, 3 Aug, 2014-YahooNews
When it comes to a violent solar storm slamming into Earth - it’s not a question of if but when, warns a new study published this month in the Physics World journal.What makes it even more worrisome is that the latest research indicates that we may be overdue for a devastating blow from the sun.Just two years ago, on July 23, 2012, we had a near miss from two giant clouds of charged particles that the sun had belched out in our direction. Estimates are that if these storms would have hit Earth, it would have been the most powerful solar event in 150 years. Fortunately for us, it had crossed our planet’s orbit a week too late and we were out of harm’s way.If these huge bubbles of plasma and magnetic fields, called Coronal Mass Ejections, are large enough, they can actually rip apart Earth’s protective magnetic field. When that happens, waves of electrical surges would blast through transmission lines, frying them and setting off widespread blackouts.The largest solar storm on record is the Carrington Event in 1859. That’s when the sun unleashed a monster storm that engulfed the Earth, releasing energy equivalent to 10 billion Hiroshima bombs. It’s damaging effects were minimal since we only had telegraph wires at the time.While this magnitude of solar event has not been seen since, studies of neighbouring stars in the Milky Way using NASA’s Kepler exoplanet hunter telescope have shown that Sun-like stars have the capability of generating super-storms thousand times more powerful than the Carrington Event.Strong solar storms are nothing new. They have been firing off the surface of the Sun throughout human history, however they never held the potential to be so destructive to civilization as much as they do today. In just the last century our society has rapidly become technologically dependant and addicted — a drastic change that has meant we rely completely on electronics and space satellites for daily business.“If we were to lose these infrastructures tomorrow, what would happen? It's a scary thought, but the threat is very real,” explained the new study's author, Ashey Dale, a solar scientist from the University of Bristol in an interview with Yahoo Canada News.All of us are plugged in now with smartphones, appliances, and the internet. While these devices are not at risk, the network that they are plugged into is vulnerable, says Dale, who is a member of SolarMax, an international task force that identifies risks from solar storms and studies ways to mitigate their effects.With the potential for entire power grids to go down for a month or more, our mobile devices would run out of electrical juice quickly without the ability to recharge. And even while they would survive the initial solar blast, there would be no internet to connect to.“Not only would phones not have their 4G, but telecom base stations would likely be damaged — so there'd be little chance of connecting phone-calls,” added Dale. “With the satellites for smart TVs likely damaged beyond repair, it would takes years to rebuild that infrastructure, if ever.”No doubt there would definitely be a whole slew of technological disasters right here on the ground to keep us busy, but the most costly damage would likely occur in space.“With about 1,000 operational satellites in orbit, each costing on average about $100 million, it could take on the order of a decade to recover the space infrastructure and the numerous associated applications down here,” Dale warned.“I'm not just talking about satellite TV and the GPS in your car, but the hundreds of other applications relating to transportation, logistics, finances, agriculture, defence, weather forecasting, financial and corporate services, governance and health care.”At this point, no nation or industry is ready for such a cosmic emergency. Both North America and Europe are particularly vulnerable. Meanwhile countries like China and India, with large power infrastructures in more southern latitudes might be spared the worst from a solar superstorm.“A major solar event certainly has the potential to radically change the geopolitical map,” Dale added.How far are we from the next solar super storm? Pete Riley, a senior heliophysics scientist at NASA and the U.S. Department of Defense, names a sobering figure: there is at 12 per cent chance it will happen within the next decade.Someone in their 20s today will have a 50/50 chance of experiencing a solar super storm, provided they live into their 90s, Dale adds.Follow @YGeekquinox on Twitter!
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
22 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2014-08-04 20:37:43 UTC-04:00Showing event times using Local System Time (UTC-04:00)22 earthquakes in map area
3.3 9km ESE of Edmond, Oklahoma 2014-08-04 14:23:01 UTC-04:00 8.7 km
3.0 142km SE of Kodiak, Alaska 2014-08-04 14:21:55 UTC-04:00 34.0 km
2.6 60km NE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2014-08-04 13:04:12 UTC-04:00 23.0 km
5.1 143km SSE of Raoul Island, New Zealand 2014-08-04 12:50:06 UTC-04:00 10.0 km
2.5 64km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico 2014-08-04 12:14:43 UTC-04:00 41.0 km
3.5 5km S of Guthrie, Oklahoma 2014-08-04 11:30:42 UTC-04:00 6.4 km
3.9 107km SSW of Atka, Alaska 2014-08-04 09:35:37 UTC-04:00 24.5 km
2.6 45km SE of Atka, Alaska 2014-08-04 09:23:26 UTC-04:00 17.7 km
2.5 75km NNW of Sand Point, Alaska 2014-08-04 09:16:05 UTC-04:00 188.9 km
3.9 51km SE of Atka, Alaska 2014-08-04 08:56:01 UTC-04:00 27.3 km
4.9 145km NNW of Sikabaluan, Indonesia 2014-08-04 08:09:47 UTC-04:00 46.9 km
5.3 76km WSW of Banda Aceh, Indonesia 2014-08-04 06:36:09 UTC-04:00 57.0 km
5.3 Federated States of Micronesia region 2014-08-04 05:40:20 UTC-04:00 10.0 km
4.7 27km ESE of Otsuchi, Japan 2014-08-04 01:58:21 UTC-04:00 35.0 km
4.1 14km NW of Tropea, Italy 2014-08-04 01:54:01 UTC-04:00 178.9 km
4.5 173km NW of Saumlaki, Indonesia 2014-08-04 01:43:35 UTC-04:00 128.8 km
4.9 26km S of San Francisco del Mar, Mexico 2014-08-04 00:25:30 UTC-04:00 46.5 km
3.0 35km ESE of New Kingman-Butler, Arizona 2014-08-03 23:35:56 UTC-04:00 5.0 km
5.4 169km SSW of Sechura, Peru 2014-08-03 23:20:09 UTC-04:00 19.4 km
2.7 58km S of Old Iliamna, Alaska 2014-08-03 23:10:08 UTC-04:00 100.0 km
2.7 17km SSW of Medford, Oklahoma 2014-08-03 22:38:26 UTC-04:00 3.8 km
4.9 121km W of Lambasa, Fiji 2014-08-03 22:34:10 UTC-04:00 23.8 km
