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1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
02/16/2015-Vatican: Doubts grow over Pell’s excessive powers-George Pell-The Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts has suggested keeping monitoring tasks separate from tasks relating to the direct management of finances. The C9 is taking this consideration into serious thought. Francis has the last word on the Secretariat for the Economy’s new statutes-Andrea Tornielli-VATICAN INSIDER
vatican city-Must financial transparency involve the unification of all relevant powers under the dicastery headed by Cardinal George Pell? This is a question many in the Vatican are asking in light of the observations made by the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts with regards to the draft statute of the new economic dicastery headed by the Australian cardinal. These observations were presented at a number of meetings held last week and Vatican Insider is in a position to describe them.
The Consistory’s unexpected “lesson”
The long and articulate proposal presented to cardinals by the Australian cardinal and Prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy and especially his two right-hand men, Jean-Baptiste de Franssu and Joseph Zahra, at the Consistory last Friday, certainly had an effect. The presentation was entirely in English, all statements were illustrated by slides containing graphics and text. The two lay speakers made frequent reference to the work carried out by COSEA (the Commission for Reference on the Economic-Administrative Structure of the Holy See), which they had been members of before it was dissolved last year: they explained how, in their new roles, they are putting into practice what they themselves had decided when the reference commission was still up and running. Zahra and de Franssu were not initially expected to attend the Consistory. Pell decided that they should be there at the last minute.
Fox Napier’s cutting remarks and Pell’s interviews
The Consistory presentation – which illustrated what has been done to reform the Vatican financial system – was followed by three interviews given by Pell. The first was with The Boston Globe, the second with Corriere della Sera and the third with La Croix. In these interviews, Pell, who is also known as the “superminister” or “tsar” of the Vatican economy, expressed pride at the results achieved, the discovery of millions of euros that did not initially appear in the consolidated balance sheets. He also mentioned internal “opposition”. A key member of the Council for the Economy, Wilfrid Fox Napier, had also spoken about opposition, the day before the economic reforms were presented at the Consistory. Having mentioned the Propaganda Fide congregation among those who had showed resistance to reform, the South African cardinal made a significant and deliberate cutting remark directed at the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts, which he claimed had overstepped the mark and acted “outside of its duties”. Pell has continued to uphold these views over the past few days in the Vatican.
Public statements and the reality
Vatican Insider has learnt from a number of sources that the reality is far more complex than that presented by the cardinal Prefect of the Economy and his men in their statements. It must not be forgotten that last December Pell directly attacked the Secretariat of State regarding the management of funds not included in the balance sheets, funds which all Popes know about from the moment of their election. The way in which the media tends to portray Pell and his closest collaborators Zahra and de Franssu as the only men fighting for transparency in the face of a non transparent and resistant Curia seems simplistic to say the least considering the emerging facts. It is hard to believe that every objection to the assignment of new powers to the economic “superdicastery” is the sign of a wish to backtrack on reform goals and the transparency process. Writing for Italian finance newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore, Vaticanista Carlo Marroni recently noted that there is an “excessive focus on the new superdicastery (Pell’s, Ed.) in which all powers over finances would be concentrated … the Vatican is also pushing for checks and balances”.
Critical observations regarding the statutes
Pell presented the Secretariat for the Economy’s new statutes during the course of the C9 meeting at the beginning of last week. On that occasion, the Australian cardinal was asked to take into consideration the observations made by the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts headed by cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio. Heated arguments ensued. One of the main objections was in regard to the proposal to bring the task of overseeing the management of a large portion of movable assets and immovable property (currently administered by APSA) and the task of managing these assets under one single dicastery. Pell strongly opposed this objection despite the fact it was in tune with the “four eyes” principle (the two eyes that oversee the management of assets, quite different from the two that manage assets), which IOR president De Franssu had insisted upon during the presentation in the Consistory. Other observations made by the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts were to do with the need to reinforce the independence of the Revisor figure further by nominating three revisors instead of one. But this proposal was also rejected by Cardinal Pell who is intent on wanting to bring monitoring and management tasks under the umbrella of his dicastery.
Project V.A.M
The project carried forth by Pell and his close collaborators Zahra and de Franssu involves the creation of a unified Vatican Asset Management to decide on investments and get the most out of Vatican assets. The details of the project are still unknown to most of the Curia. What is known, however, is that despite it being intended as a separate body, the new entity would still be under the aegis of the Secretariat for the Economy. No one in the Vatican is in any doubt as to the need to improve some aspects of asset management, seeing the failures and waste witnessed in the past. What is striking is that Pell and Fox Napier describe the technical-juridical objections presented by the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts as “opposition” or as acting “outside” of its duties, calling into question the review work carried out, especially when the Pope had entrusted the dicastery with this task. So it is not about backtracking from the path toward transparency as these new key figures suggest, but rather guaranteeing the real application of the “four eyes” principle. Pell therefore decided to reject the work of the legislative texts council and so did the Council for the Economy, which adopted the same position as the Australian cardinal. The Pope has the final say on the statutes and is currently studying them. In the meantime, he is following both issues relating to the new economic bodies and the governance of the IOR closely.
02/14/2015-VATICAN INSIDER-Consistory: "Global south" is seen in action during courtesy visits to cardinals-the warmth surrounding newly created cardinal Arlindo Gomes Furtado-Choruses of singers greeted the newly created cardinals from Cape Verde, Tonga and Ethiopia and the Uruguayan cardinal Sturla drank mate tea. Bertone was among the first to greet the new cardinals-Iacopo Scaramuzzi
vatican city-After an hour of handshakes, embraces and blessings, the newly created Uruguayan cardinal Fernando Sturla Berhouet took off the cardinal’s biretta which Francis had imposed on him just a few hours before. It is hot in the audience hall which has been turned into a sitting room for the new cardinals’ reception and the Salesian cardinal relieves himself of the headpiece which he has not yet had time to get used to. AA few minutes go by and a young Uruguayan priest, Gonzalo Aemilius - whom Jorge Mario Bergoglio knew in the days when he was Archbishop of Buenos Aires – places a cup of freshly brewed Argentinean mate tea in his hand. The cardinal smiles as he drinks it - “what a relief!”- before embracing the priest he has known for a long time. Just a few metres away, Soane Patita Paini Mafi, the newly created cardinal from Tonga, the first cardinal these islands have ever had, is surrounded by faithful and relatives who have formed a chorus and are singing a traditional song at the top of their voices.There is about 30 of them and they are wearing a traditional oversized white shirt with necklaces made of red stones. They stand out because hanging from their necks is a photo taken about 20 years or so ago of the new cardinal surrounded, in shirtsleeves, by a large number of brothers and sisters. Tunes by famous Cape Verdean singer Cesaria Evora can be heard further down the corridor: a group of women from Cape Verde sit elegantly and sing as faithful and friends of Cardinal Arlindo Gomes Furtado come and go to greet him. What one witnessed during the courtesy visits, once called “visite di calore” (“visits of warmth”), that followed Francis’ second Consistory presided over by the Pope in St. Peter’s Basilica this morning, was a global south in action.As usual, cardinals have been split between two rooms, most of them are seated in the various spaces of the Paul VI Hall, a small group of five cardinals is seated in the frescoed rooms of the Apostolic Palace. Among them is Dominique Mamberti, the only Curia member, former “foreign affairs minister” to the Holy See and now Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura: “This time round I am the only Curia member,” he told journalists. “The Holy Father wanted to illustrate his desire for a Cardinals’ College that is representative of the entire Catholic Church.” Before the crowds begin to gather, the former Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, goes to greet him. The newly created cardinals who are over the age of 80 are sat in the halls of the Apostolic Palace, where there are unusually few cardinals to be seen. The cardinals in question are: Luigi de Magistris, whom Bertone bent down to greet so as not to make the elderly cardinal stand up; the former German Nuncio Karl-Josed Rauber and the Argentinean Luis Hector Villalba (Julio Duarte Langa had to cancel his trip to Rome at the last minute due to health reasons).There is much more movement in the audience hall and adjacent rooms. The queue to see the two Italian cardinals, Francesco Montenegro (lots of African faces can be seen popping out in the midst of the crowd) and Edoardo Menichelli appears endless. A small group of faithful greet Thai cardinal Francis Xavier Kriengsak Kovithavanij, Myanmar cardinal Charles Maung Bo, New Zealand’s John Atcherley Dew and José Luis Lacunza Maestrojuan of Panama. The Patriarch of Lisbon, Manuel José Macario do Nascimento Celmente sends round a colourful little card which simply has his name, “d. Manuel Clemente”, written on it (not all cardinals do so, the most simple one was the Argentinean cardinal Villalba’s, while the Mexican cardinal Suarez Inda has the most fancy one).The Ethiopian Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel is surrounded by fellow countrymen who are singing and waving the Ethiopian flag around. The Vietnamese cardinal Pierre Nguyen Van Nhon stands some distance away from his seat as there are so many people that have come to greet him. Then there is the Cuban cardinal Jaima Ortega Alamino: “things are going very well, we didn’t think so much progress would be made,” he said answering journalists’ questions about the turning point in relations between the US and Cuba. He speaks for a while to the new “foreign affairs minister” Mgr. Paul Richard Gallagher. The Mexican archbishop Alberto Suarez Inda, who ministers in one of the most violent parts of the country, explains that the situation is “difficult” but that one must not give in to “pessimistic” thinking. The timid looking Archbishop of Valladolid, Ricardo Blazquez Perez, is surrounded by faithful, just a short distance away from Cardinal Antonio Rouco Varela, his predecessor at the helm of the Spanish Episcopal Conference who cordially shakes the hands of faithful who come by to greet him. Among the crowd of faithful of different nationalities, ambassadors, real Romans, one can make out the face of Opus Dei prelate Mgr. Javier Echevarria and the leader of the neocatechumenals Kiko Arguello. Mgrs. Becciu and Wells, the deputy Secretary of State with his right hand man, pass by. The Patriarch of Jerusalem, Fouad Twal stops to speak to journalists. He is delighted about the news of the canonization of the new Palestinian saints : “The Holy Land is not all war, violence and walls, but also holiness,” he said.
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)
EU breaks taboo on 'Russian forces in Ukraine' By Andrew Rettman-BRUSSELS, Today, 20:36-FEB 16,15-EUOBSERVER
The EU has broken its taboo on referring to Russian forces in east Ukraine in its official documents.It said in its Official Journal on Monday (16 February) that Russian deputy defence minister Anatoly Antonov is being added to its blacklist because he is “involved in supporting the deployment of Russian troops in Ukraine”.It listed first deputy defence minister Arkady Bakhin for the same reason.It also listed Andrei Kartapolov, a senior Russian military commander, for being “involved in shaping and implementing the military campaign of the Russian forces in Ukraine”.The text in the legal gazette was signed off by EU foreign relations chief Federica Mogherini, who has, until now, with the exception of Russia-annexed Crimea, studiously avoided any reference to Russian armed forces being active in Ukraine.The last time EU foreign ministers published a formal statement on the conflict, on 29 January, they also used circumlocutions, speaking of: “evidence of continued and growing support given to the separatists by Russia, which underlines Russia's responsibility”.They added that “foreign armed groups” should leave Ukrainian territory.Individual EU officials, such as Council chief Donald Tusk, have been more hawkish in off-the-cuff remarks.Ukraine, the US, and Nato have been speaking of Russian forces in Ukraine since last July. Nato and the US have also declassified and published satellite pictures to back up their statements.The US ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, posted more images online last weekend, saying they show "Russian military, not separatist, systems”.But the erstwhile EU taboo went higher than minister level.When French, German, Russian, and Ukrainian leaders agreed a ceasefire plan in Minsk last Thursday, they also bowed to Russia’s claim its soldiers aren’t in Ukraine, by calling for withdrawal of “foreign armed formations”.When leaders of the G7 wealthy nations the following day published a statement urging Russia to comply with the Minsk accord, they too spoke of “Russian-backed separatist militias”.For her part, Mogherini’s spokeswoman, Maja Kocijancic, told EUobserver the language in the Official Journal is not an accident.She noted it reflects “mounting evidence, underlining Russia’s responsibility” for the conflict, as discussed by foreign ministers on 29 January.One piece of evidence is a classified report on Russian activity in Ukraine compiled by Mogherini’s intelligence-sharing branch, IntCen, and circulated to capitals ahead of the 29 January meeting.An EU diplomat, who asked not to be named, noted: "This new form of Russian warfare - using tanks and soldiers without insignia - is something we haven't seen before. We're still trying to work out how to respond to it".A second EU diplomat added: “It [the latest Official Journal text] is a clear and understandable message against Russian propaganda and all the lies about non-Russian engagement in the military conflict”.Russia’s claim it isn’t involved in east Ukraine is central to its propaganda message: that the conflict is a “civil war” between Ukrainian nationalists and ethnic Russian “separatists”.But the 16 February Official Journal, which also listed nine entities, highlighted the manufactured nature of the “separatism”.Most of the entities are battalions of Russia’s irregular fighters in Ukraine.But one of them is “Novorossiya”, a Russian “public movement” named after the Kremlin concept that east and south-east Ukraine, or “New Russia”, belong to Russia on ancestral grounds.The Official Journal noted that Novorossiya is run by Igor Strelkov, who is already on an EU blacklist for organising the initial insurgency in Donetsk, east Ukraine, last March.The EU gazette says he is a “Russian officer … identified as a staff member of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (GRU)”.
Battle rages for town where Ukraine rebels reject ceasefire-Reuters-By Anton Zverev -FEB 15,15-YAHOONEWS
VUHLEHIRSK, Ukraine (Reuters) - Pro-Russian rebels pounded encircled Ukrainian government forces on Monday and Kiev said it would not pull back heavy guns while a truce was being violated, leaving a European-brokered peace deal on the verge of collapse.The European Union kept pressure on Russia and the rebels by announcing a new list of separatists and Russians targeted with sanctions, to which Moscow promised an "adequate" response.The United States said it was "gravely concerned" by the fighting in and around the town of Debaltseve in eastern Ukraine after a ceasefire agreement that came into force on Sunday and said it was closely monitoring reports of a new column of Russian military equipment moving toward the region."These aggressive actions and statements by the Russia-backed separatists threaten the most recent ceasefire," U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a statement. "We call on Russia and the separatists it backs to halt all attacks immediately."Fighting subsided in many parts of eastern Ukraine under a ceasefire deal reached last week in marathon talks involving the leaders of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine.But the truce appears to have been stillborn in Debaltseve, where the most intensive fighting has taken place in recent weeks."The situation is fragile," said German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the driving force behind the deal reached on Thursday after all-night talks in the Belarussian capital Minsk."It was always clear that much remains to be done. And I have always said that there are no guarantees that what we are trying to do succeeds. It will be an extremely difficult path," she told reporters in Berlin.Merkel, along with the leaders of France and Ukraine, expressed concern about continued fighting in Debaltseve and said observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) must have "free access" for their work in eastern Ukraine. Rebels said soon after the ceasefire came into effect they had no intention of observing it at Debaltseve, where they have been advancing since January and now have a Ukrainian unit all but encircled.Washington says the rebel operation around the town, which sits on a strategic railway hub, is being assisted by the Russian armed forces, which Moscow denies.The U.S. State Department spokeswoman called on Russia and the separatists to engage with the OSCE to facilitate the cease fire.The OSCE said on Sunday that the rebels had refused to allow its monitors to reach Debaltseve after the ceasefire took effect.Reuters reporters near the front said Debaltseve was being relentlessly bombarded with artillery. At least six tanks as well as armoured personnel carriers and artillery could be seen in woods near Vuhlehirsk, 10 km (six miles) west of Debaltseve, which the rebels captured a week ago.Military trucks headed along the main road in the direction of the town to regular bursts of shelling and the firing of Grad rockets and machine guns."You can hear there is no ceasefire," said a rebel fighter with a black ski mask who gave his name as Scorpion, his nom de guerre, and blamed the fighting on Kiev's forces. "Debaltseve is our land. And we will take Debaltseve."
STALEMATE OVER WITHDRAWAL OF BIG GUNS
A rebel commander, Eduard Basurin, said Ukrainian troops had violated the ceasefire 27 times in the past 24 hours.Kiev said its forces had been shelled more than 100 times in eastern Ukraine since the truce took effect, five of its servicemen had been killed and 25 wounded, and that it could not carry out an agreement to pull back big guns in such conditions."The pre-condition for withdrawal of heavy weapons is fulfilling Point One of the Minsk agreements - the ceasefire. One hundred and twelve attacks are not an indicator of a ceasefire," said a Kiev military spokesman, Andriy Lysenko.A rebel leader, Denis Pushilin, responded by saying his forces were "only ready for a mutual withdrawal of equipment."In another complication likely to set back hopes of peace, he and another separatist leader said the rebels would pull out of the Minsk agreements if Kiev made any further moves to abandon Ukraine's neutral status -- also a red line for Moscow, which fears Ukraine might seek to join the NATO alliance.The separatists offered the Ukrainian forces a safe corridor out of Debaltseve if they gave up their weapons but a military spokesman for Kiev, Vladislav Seleznyov, ruled this out."There are the Minsk agreements, according to which Debaltseve is ours. We will not leave," he said.
ONLY A GLIMMER OF HOPE
Fighting began in east Ukraine after the overthrow of a Moscow-backed president in Ukraine last February and Russia's annexation of the Crimea peninsula a month later.The West says Putin, who has called parts of Ukraine "New Russia," has sent troops and weapons to back the rebels. Moscow denies this and accuses the West of waging a proxy war in Ukraine to seek "regime change" in Russia.Hopes that Thursday's deal will end a conflict that has killed more than 5,000 people have been dampened by the collapse of an earlier truce when rebels advanced last month.Western countries say they reserve the option of expanding economic sanctions on Moscow over the crisis, hoping a growing financial crisis in Russia will persuade Putin to use his influence with the rebels to stop the fighting. But some fear he wants the conflict to fester for years so that Kiev cannot control east Ukraine and Russia can retain influence there.The EU's new list of 19 people and nine organisations hit by asset freezes and travel bans was dominated by Ukrainian separatists but also targeted popular Russian singer Iosif Kobzon, sometimes dubbed Russia's equivalent of Frank Sinatra, and two Russian deputy defence ministers."One thing is clear -- the decision, which will be followed by an adequate response, runs contrary to common sense and will not help efforts to find a solution to the inter-Ukrainian conflict," the Russian Foreign Ministry said.(Additional reporting by Pavel Polityuk, Richard Balmforth and Alessandra Prentice in Kiev, Adrian Croft in Brussels, Tsvetelia Tsolova in Sofia, Michael Nienaber in Berlin and Andy Sullivan and David Brunnstrom in Washington; Writing by Timothy Heritage; Editing by Peter Graff. Giles Elgood and Chris Reese)
Grand jury indicts North Carolina man in killings of Muslims-Reuters-FEB 16,15-YAHOONEWS
(Reuters) - A grand jury indicted a North Carolina man on Monday for the shooting deaths of a newlywed Muslim couple and the wife's sister last week, a court official said.Craig Hicks, 46, of Chapel Hill, was charged by a grand jury with three counts of first-degree murder and one of discharging a firearm into an occupied dwelling, said Angela Kelly, an assistant clerk of the Durham County Superior Court.Deah Barakat, 23, a University of North Carolina-dental student; his wife, Yusor Abu-Salha, 21; and her sister, Razan Abu-Salha, 19, a student at North Carolina State University, were gunned down last Tuesday in a condominium about 2 miles (3 km) from the University of North Carolina campus in Chapel Hill.Investigators have said initial findings indicate a dispute over parking prompted the shooting, but they are looking into whether Hicks was motivated by hatred toward the victims because they were Muslim.The case has garnered international attention and has raised concerns among some Muslim advocates in the United States who say they have seen an increase in threats in recent weeks.A paralegal student at Durham Technical Community College since 2012, Hicks has portrayed himself on Facebook as an atheist and filled his social media page with anti-religion posts.The FBI has said it is opening its own preliminary inquiry. It has not specified if the inquiry would include whether the shooting was a hate crime.(Reporting by Ian Simpson in Washington; Editing by Peter Cooney)
HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed:(CONFISCATED) their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
LUKE 2:1-3
1 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.
2 (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)
3 And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(THE FALSE POPE WHO DEFECTED FROM THE CHRISTIAN FAITH) causeth all,(IN THE WORLD ) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(MICROCHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark,(MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the name of the beast,(WORLD DICTATORS NAME INGRAVED ON YOUR SKIN OR TATTOOED ON YOU OR IN THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the number of his name.(THE NUMBERS OF HIS NAME INGRAVED IN THE MICROCHIP IMLPLANT)-(ALL THESE WILL TELL THE WORLD DICTATOR THAT YOUR WITH HIM AND AGAINST KING JESUS-GOD)
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast:(WORLD LEADER) for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM (6006006)OR(60020202006)(SOME KIND OF NUMBER IMPLANTED IN THE MICROCHIP THAT TELLS THE WORLD DICTATOR AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER THAT YOU GIVE YOUR TOTAL ALLIGIENCE TO HIM AND NOT JESUS)(ITS AN ETERNAL DECISION YOU MAKE)(YOU CHOOSE YOUR OWN DESTINY)(YOU TAKE THE DICTATORS NAME OR NUMBER UNDER YOUR SKIN,YOUR DOOMED TO THE LAKE OF FIRE AND TORMENTS FOREVER,NEVER ENDING MEANT ONLY FOR SATAN AND HIS ANGELS,NOT HUMAN BEINGS).OR YOU REFUSE THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT AND GO ON THE SIDE OF KING JESUS AND RULE FOREVER WITH HIM ON EARTH.YOU CHOOSE,ITS YOUR DECISION.
Greece continues to refuse bailout extension By Valentina Pop-BRUSSELS, Today, 21:50-FEB 16,15-EUOBSERVER
A meeting of eurozone finance ministers ended early on Monday (16 February), with Greece refusing to sign off to a six-month bailout extension, in what appears to be a clash both on semantics and conditions.Eurogroup chief Jeroen Dijsselbloem, who chaired the meeting, said there had been a "slight sense of disappointment" in the room as no agreement could be reached.He spoke of a "general feeling" and the "preferred option" that the only solution was for Greece to ask for an extension of its bailout programme which ends on 28 February.Within this extension - six-months, according to the draft prepared by Dijsselbloem's services - Greece would have enough time to negotiate the way forward with its creditors and would also have enough "flexibility" on the reforms it needs to implement, provided it sticks to the commitments attached to it.Dijsselbloem said he "didn't really mind" if the extension was called a "bridging programme" - a term used by Athens - so long as there was a common understanding of what the conditions are."I wish it was just a debate about words. The reason why we still talk about an extension is that in the rules and regulations of the [bailout funds] EFSF and ESM, this is how it's called. But it is also a bridge arrangement for the next six months," Dijsselbloem said.He said there was only time until end of this week, given that several national parliaments need to approve an extension before the current programme runs out.For his part, EU economics commissioner Pierre Moscovici, who earlier in the day presented a separate paper the Greek government was willing to sign up to, said there had been a lot of talk about "phraseology."
"But we absolutely need a request for an extension. If there is a request, then there is a possibility to examine flexibility and we can discuss substance. But so far, we were not able to do so," he said during the same press conference."We need to be logical, not ideological," Moscovici added.Dijsselbloem downplayed the difference between the Moscovici paper and his, which was tougher and only promised to "make the best use of the existing built-in flexibility.""There have been many drafts and talks - sometimes only in words, sometimes in writing, some proposals came from the commission, others from my own services, others from Greece. But we didn't find an agreement on any text at this point," Dijsselbloem said.For his part, Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis said he would have been ready to sign "there and then" the Moscovici statement, which would have promised an extension of the "loans programme" and that in return, as a sign of good will, Greece would have refrained from any unilateral measures that would have jeopardised the budgetary targets set under the programme.But Varoufakis said the commission's paper was then replaced by the Dijsselbloem paper which he could not accept."In the history of the European Union, nothing good has ever come out of an ultimatum," Varoufakis noted.He did not exclude making that request in the coming days."I have no doubt that in the next 48 hours Europe will come together and find the phrasing needed to establish common ground," he said.Another Eurogroup may be called on Friday, if the Greeks request it. A special summit of eurozone leaders is excluded at this point, Dijsselbloem said, after having consulting with EU council chief Donald Tusk.
FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS
REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
CSX train hauling North Dakota oil derails, cars ablaze in West Virginia-Reuters By Kara Van Pelt -FEB 16,15-YAHOONEWS
BECKLEY, W.Va. (Reuters) - A CSX Corp train hauling North Dakota crude derailed in West Virginia on Monday, setting a number of cars ablaze, destroying a house and forcing the evacuation of two towns in the second significant oil-train incident in three days.One or two of the cars plunged into the Kanawha River, and “a couple are burning," said Robert Jelacic, night shift manager of the West Virginia Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. There were no injuries or deaths, he said.CSX said the train was hauling 109 cars from North Dakota to the coastal town of Yorktown, Virginia, where midstream firm Plains All American Pipelines runs an oil depot. It said one person was being treated for potential fume inhalation. West Virginia State Police First Sergeant Greg Duckworth, who was at the crash site, told Reuters that nine or 10 of the cars had exploded at intervals of about every half hour. A similar sequence has occurred in a handful of other derailments over the past year and a half, with the fire from one tank heating up gases in the next nearest car, causing it to ignite.“It’s a real mess down here," Duckworth said. He said all but 14 of the cars on the train had been pulled out of harm's way.A 1-mile-wide area around the incident was being evacuated after a house caught fire because of the accident, Lawrence Messina, spokesman for the West Virginia Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety, told Reuters.Heavy snow and frigid temperatures were hindering efforts to deal with the incident, Jelacic said.West Virginia Governor Earl Ray Tomblin issued a state of emergency for Kanawha and Fayette counties after the derailment.The train derailed at 1:20 p.m. EST about 33 miles (54 km) southeast of Charleston, the state capital, according to Fayette County 911 Coordinator James Bennett.The derailment occurred less than 200 miles (320 km) west of Lynchburg, Virginia, where another CSX train also bound for the Plains terminal in Yorktown derailed and erupted last April. Plains did not immediately return calls seeking comment.
Local websites showed images of flames at times twice the height of nearby trees and a thick plume of black smoke near a partly frozen river, with a number of houses nearby.
RAIL SAFETY CONCERNS
The latest incident came just two days after a Canadian National Railways train from Alberta's oil sands derailed in a wooded area of northern Ontario. CN said 29 of 100 cars were involved and seven caught fire. No injuries were reported, but the cars were still on fire on Monday.A boom in oil shipments by rail and a spate of derailments across North America have put heightened focus on rail safety. In 2013, 47 people were killed in the Quebec town of Lac-Mégantic after a train carrying crude oil derailed and exploded.The latest incidents will likely refocus attention on U.S. and Canadian regulators' efforts to improve the safety of such shipments, which have spurred concerns over both the flammability of very light oil from the North Dakota Bakken shale as well as the flawed design of older tank cars.The U.S. Transportation Department has submitted a proposal to the White House to require adding an extra 1/8th inch of steel to most existing oil train tank shells, while new models would have the thicker hull installed on the factory floor.It was unclear what kind of tank cars were involved in the derailment on Monday.(Reporting by Kara Van Pelt in Beckley, W.Va. and Jonathan Leff in New York; Editing by Chris Reese, Tom Brown and Peter Cooney)
DISEASES
REVELATION 6:7-8
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).
DRUG PUSHERS AND ADDICTS
1 PET 5:8
8 Be sober,(NOT DRUGED UP OR ALCOHOLICED) be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
REVELATION 18:23
23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries (DRUGS) were all nations deceived.
REVELATION 9:21
21 Neither repented they of their murders,(KILLING) nor of their sorceries (DRUG ADDICTS AND DRUG PUSHERS), nor of their fornication,(SEX OUTSIDE MARRIAGE OR PROSTITUTION FOR MONEY) nor of their thefts.(STEALING)
Cluster of Ontario measles cases linked to Toronto youth event: health officials-The Canadian PressBy Paola Loriggio, The Canadian Press | FEB 16,15-YAHOONEWS
TORONTO - A cluster of measles cases in Ontario has been linked to a Christian youth gathering in Toronto, health officials said Monday in warning roughly 1,000 people who attended the event that they may have been exposed to the virus.The province is asking people who were at the "Acquire the Fire" gathering held at the Queensway Cathedral on Feb. 6 and 7 to check their immunization status as the number of confirmed cases in Ontario continues to rise.One of five people in the Niagara Region confirmed to have contracted measles was at the event, said Ontario's acting chief medical officer, Dr. Robin Williams.Health officials in Niagara said all five cases in the area — including three new ones announced Monday — are connected.The person who went to the event "obviously didn't travel with what they knew to be measles disease, it was during the (infectious period)," Williams said. "And of course you get more infectious as you get closer to actually blossoming in the disease.""There is some risk to those who were unimmunized at Acquire the Fire, and that's why we're reaching out today to make sure that people get on top of their immunization," she said.Organizers with Acquire the Fire say roughly 1,000 people were present for the 27-hour event, described on the company's website as "the weekend that changes your teen's life forever." Health officials say participants, as well as performers and volunteers, came from all over Ontario. Individuals born after 1970 who were at the gathering are being asked to review their immunization status to ensure they are protected against measles.The majority of teens in Ontario have received two doses of the measles vaccine, and for most, that is "highly effective" at preventing the illness, the province said.Measles symptoms begin seven to 18 days after exposure, according to the Public Health Agency of Canada.Those who took part in the event and develop symptoms of fever, cough, runny nose, inflammation of the eyes or rash over the next two weeks are being advised to phone their doctors.The warning came as five new cases of measles were announced Monday in the province. In addition to the three new patients in the Niagara area, one new case was confirmed in Toronto and one in nearby Halton Region, for a total of 16 so far.The Toronto case — a child whose vaccine history is unknown — is not connected to the youth gathering, Toronto Public Health said in an email.The Halton case is a man in his 30s who recently travelled to Toronto, officials said, adding they could not confirm any link to other cases at this time. They said he did not spend any time in Halton Region during his infectious period.Officials in Niagara Region, meanwhile, urged people who attended Our Lady of Mount Carmel elementary school on Feb. 9 and 10 or Saint Michael high school between Feb. 6 and 10 to review their immunization records. Both schools are in Niagara Falls.Health officials in Quebec confirmed on Wednesday that 10 individuals in the Lanaudiere region northeast of Montreal had been infected with measles, with all cases linked to the outbreak at Disneyland in California.On Tuesday, the Manitoba government reported the province's first case of measles of the year, a Winnipeg infant who had recently returned from India.
Greenies' or street fentanyl prompts health alert in Yellowknife-CBC – FEB 16,15-YAHOONEWS
The N.W.T.'s chief public health officer has issued a public warning about "greenies," a type of street fentanyl that is more toxic than other opioids and can kill even in small quantities."Illicit fentanyl is very toxic," says Dr. André Corriveau in a news release. "People need to be aware of this drug as even small quantities are very concentrated and can cause death."The news release, issued by the Department of Health and Social Services, says illicit fentanyl has been appearing in green pill and powder form and has been sold as Oxycontin, heroin and other substances."People can die on their first use," the release says.The release advises people to call their local health centre or emergency unit in the event of an overdose.Signs and symptoms of an overdose include:- slow or absent breathing;
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.
BOSTON HAS HAD 95 INCHES OF SNOW THIS FAR THIS YEAR.AND HERE IN ONTARIO CANADA TODAY WAS -25.BOSTON GETS THE SNOW.AND ONTARIO CANADA GETS THE FREEZING COLD THIS YEAR.
Winter storm wallops Maritimes while central Canada spends Sunday in deep freeze-The Canadian PressBy The Canadian Press | The Canadian Press – Sun, 15 Feb, 2015
HALIFAX - A savage winter storm pounded Maritimes on Sunday, causing damage, delays and dangerous driving conditions on Sunday while people in parts of southern Ontario and Quebec were braving biting winds and frigid Arctic temperatures.The Maritimes were hard hit by a weather system. In Halifax snow changed to rain causing some flooding problems, and Environment Canada issued a flash freeze warning Sunday afternoon.Motorists were asked to avoid the flooded streets. The statement also asked residents to help clear storm drains of snow and ice to alleviate clogging.Bus and ferry services in the city were suspended until Monday. At Halifax Stanfield International Airport, the majority of flights for Sunday afternoon were cancelled or delayed.Snow build-up caused the roof of a curling club to partially collapse in the city's south end Sunday, according to Halifax Regional Police.Police said the Halifax Curling Club appears to have been vacant at the time and no injuries were reported.An intense low pressure system was expected to cross Nova Scotia later Sunday before moving into the Gulf of St. Lawrence on Monday, Environment Canada said.In New Brunswick, RCMP advised drivers to stay off the roads Sunday afternoon if possible. The provincial government said several highways in the province were impassable.A blizzard warning was in effect for much of New Brunswick on Sunday. Environment Canada said parts of the province could expect up to 40 cm of snow by the end of the weekend.The national weather forecaster also issued storm surge warnings for P.E.I. It said coastal areas of the island could see flooding as sea ice moves onshore.The Confederation Bridge that links P.E.I to New Brunswick closed Sunday afternoon. A travel advisory said the bridge would not re-open until the weather improves.An extreme cold warning was in effect for a large swath of Ontario and Quebec causing icy winds and numbing temperatures.Several Ontario cities experienced record lows, including Windsor, Waterloo and Hamilton. Windchills in the Toronto area reached the low -40s.Environment Canada meteorologist Mitch Meredith cautioned anyone venturing outdoors.“At these temperatures when it’s getting windy, the skin can freeze in just a couple of minutes when exposed,” he said.In Quebec, the Gatineau Loppet, the biggest cross-country skiing event in Canada, decided to shorten its races for security reasons after temperatures dropped to -36 with windchill. Environment Canada was predicting windchill values between -35 to -44 in some areas and warned people venturing outdoors to exercise extreme caution. The winds were expected to ease by Sunday night but temperatures were expected to remain in the -30s in many areas into Monday morning.People in Mississauga, west of Toronto, were taking the cold in stride."I'd say this is erring a bit on the side of too cold. I think I'd prefer minus 15, something like that is a little more pleasant," said Tim Edwardson, who is from Ottawa."Hey this is Canada, I'm thankful to live here and we need to just dress warm."
Icy storm paralyzes central U.S., pummels nation's capital-Reuters By Elizabeth Barber-FEB 16,15-YAHOONEWS
BOSTON (Reuters) - Record-breaking cold gripped the eastern United States on Monday while an icy winter storm crippled the nation's central states and then plowed into the mid-Atlantic, dumping snow ahead of Tuesday's morning commute.Heavy snowfall and ice moving from the Southern Plains eastward pounded Missouri, Arkansas, southern Illinois, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio, the National Weather Service said.With the storm headed east and sleet and freezing rain expected to also take a swipe at the South, states of emergency were declared in North Carolina, Virginia, Mississippi, Georgia, Kentucky, as well as in Washington, D.C.Airlines canceled more than 1,800 U.S. flights, with the hardest hit airports in North Carolina and Tennessee.Freezing rain encased Tennessee in ice, closing roads, schools and tourist attractions, including home of the king of rock 'n' roll - Elvis Presley's Graceland mansion in Memphis.Sleet in Arkansas shut schools and Governor Asa Hutchinson told nearly all government workers to stay home.Cars skidded off roads near Louisville, Kentucky, where there were six times the usual number of accidents and a fleet of more than 1,000 snow plows tried to clear slick roads, officials said."It's been all hands on deck," said Chuck Wolfe, spokesman for the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet.Citing nasty weather, Kentucky's state legislature said it would not reconvene until Wednesday at the earliest.The storm dumped 10 inches (25 cm) of snow on Cincinnati and then headed east to Washington, D.C., slamming the nation's capital with heavy snow that could pile as high as 12 inches, said NWS meteorologist Brian Hurley."Washington and Baltimore - that's where the bulls eye's going to be," Hurley said.Slippery roads in western Pennsylvania on Monday were blamed for a collision between a van and a school bus carrying 13 students about 60 miles (95 km) southeast of Pittsburgh, state police said. Several people were hurt, although the extent of the injuries was unknown.About 50 million Americans were under wind chill advisories as the mercury plunged to new depths, breaking records in New York City, where it was 5 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 15 Celsius), breaking the previous record for Feb. 16 of 9 F in 2003, and Washington, D.C., where it was 6 F, compared with 11 F recorded in 1987, said Hurley.The weather front, expected to reach Boston by Wednesday, follows a weekend storm that dumped 16 inches, making it the snowiest February in the city's history. In the scramble to clear snow on Monday before the next round arrives, one person died while shoveling in Brighton and prison inmates from the Massachusetts Department of Corrections were put to work clearing mass transit rail lines."The heaviest stuff will be close to the coast in eastern Massachusetts," Hurley said.The new storm will be followed by another arctic front, bringing frigid cold to the eastern United States by Thursday or Friday, Hurley said.(Writing by Barbara Goldberg in New York; Additional reporting by Timothy Ghianni in Nashville, Steve Bittenbender in Louisville, Steve Barnes in Little Rock, Kim Painter in Cleveland, Colleen Jenkins in Winston-Salem, N.C. and Elizabeth Daley in Pittsburgh; Editing by Marguerita Choy and Steve Orlofsky)
Northeast hit by blizzards, cold, after record snow-Reuters By Elizabeth Barber February 15, 2015 3:30 PM-YAHOONEWS
BOSTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Northeast struggled to dig out on Sunday from the latest in a series of winter storms that made February the snowiest month in Boston's history, but bitter cold and huge drifts hampered the effort.Blizzard conditions forced the cancellation of more than 1,800 U.S. airline flights, most of them into and out of airports in Boston and New York, where wind gusts of up to 60 miles per hour (97 kph) were predicted.Temperatures are 25 to 30 degrees (14 to 17 degrees Celsius) below normal for the East Coast, exacerbated by strong winds, said meteorologist Bruce Sullivan of the National Weather Service, adding the region was in the grip of "a brutally cold air mass."The temperature at 1 p.m. in Boston was around 18 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 8 Celsius), but felt like zero (minus 18 Celsius) thanks to wind chill. By Monday morning, it was likely to feel like minus 20 (minus 29 Celsius), the NWS said.The latest storm heaped disappointment on retailers who were relying on the Presidents’ Day weekend and Valentine’s Day to make up for subpar sales during the last three lashings of snow.Massive snowfall from Boston's fourth major snowstorm in two weeks set a record for the city's snowiest month since weather records were kept, the NWS said.Boston had seen about 6 feet (1.8 meters) of snow since late January and had already set a record for accumulations in a single week."Hopefully, it will stop eventually," Boston Mayor Martin Walsh said on Sunday.Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker set his sights beyond the seemingly endless snowbanks to the stadium where the Boston Red Sox play, saying, "It's 58 days until opening day at Fenway Park."He urged drivers to stay off the roads on Sunday and said he was relieved the holiday on Monday would keep traffic down and give snow plows a chance to clear them.
CABIN FEVER
Some Boston restaurants sought to coax customers out of hibernation for a meal or drink on Sunday evening, when the snow was expected to let up. One South Boston eatery added the hashtag “#cabin fever” to its Twitter messages.“You don't want to stay penned up all day,” said Allie Needham, 26, a business analyst at a chemical company, as she walked along an empty street in Cambridge on her way to meet friends for breakfast.With all public transportation suspended in Boston on Sunday, Bostonians got creative. In the Back Bay neighborhood, a snowboarder hitched a ride from a snowmobile. One resident on Twitter said it was about time for an entrepreneur to start up a dog sled service.The area's deepest snowfall on Sunday was 20 inches (50 cm), recorded in Ipswich, Massachusetts, a coastal town northeast of Boston, said NWS meteorologist Benjamin Sipprell.Relentless winds were expected to pile up dangerous drifts of the lightweight snow, Sipprell said.Across the state, about 600 members of the National Guard were helping out during the blizzard, said Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker.Conditions were so bad in New Hampshire that the town of Alton called off its annual ice carnival this weekend.While still shivering from the brutal cold expected to last through Monday, the East Coast is bracing for another storm front forming near the Tennessee Valley.(Additional reporting by Brian Snyder in Boston; Writing by Barbara Goldberg; Editing by Kevin Liffey and Eric Walsh)
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.
Strong quake hits northern Japan, tsunami and evacuation warnings issued-Reuters By Mari Saito-FEB 16,15-YAHOONEWS
TOKYO (Reuters) - A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.9 struck off northeastern Japan on Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, and small waves were reported along the northern coast after Japan issued a tsunami warning.Japanese broadcaster NHK said small waves of between 10 cm and 20 cm (4-8 inches) reached the coast off Iwate prefecture, some 600 km (370 miles) from Tokyo. NHK said thousands of residents in the area were ordered to evacuate.There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries."We are using the emergency broadcast to advise people to keep away from the sea ... the quake was pretty strong and lasted a long time so I thought there would be a tsunami warning," Kozo Hirano, an Otsuchi Town official in Iwate, told NHK.Live video from ports on the Iwate coast showed small waves lapping on the shore. Towns along the northeastern coast of Japan had been levelled in a devastating tsunami in March 2011.Tuesday's quake was measured at a depth of about 10 km (6 miles). The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii said there was no danger of a Pacific-wide tsunami but the Japan Meteorological Agency issued a tsunami advisory for Iwate prefecture after the quake.Tohoku Electric Power Co, which operates the Onagawa and Higashidori nuclear plants in nearby Miyagi and Aomori prefectures, said it saw no irregularities at the facilities after the quake.All 48 of Japan's nuclear reactors remain offline after a March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, which triggered the Fukushima nuclear disaster in northeastern Japan.A spokesman for Tokyo Electric Power Co, the operator of Fukushima Daiichi and Fukushima Daini nuclear plants, said there were no irregularities at the plants. The quake was felt only weakly in the area, he said.Unlisted Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd also said there were no irregularities recorded at its nuclear fuel reprocessing facility or other plants in Aomori.Earthquakes are common in Japan, one of the world's most seismically active areas. Japan accounts for about 20 percent of the world's earthquakes of magnitude 6 or greater.(Additional reporting by Elaine Lies, Chris Gallagher and Osamu Tsukimori in TOKYO and Jane Wardell in SYDNEY; Editing by Paul Tait)
1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ Worldwide
27 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2015-02-16 20:06:33 UTC-05:00Showing event times using Local System Time (UTC-05:00)27 earthquakes in map area
3.2 12km ESE of Honoka'a, Hawaii 2015-02-16 18:40:55 UTC-05:00 5.9 km
6.7 83km ENE of Miyako, Japan 2015-02-16 18:06:27 UTC-05:00 23.0 km
3.1 14km SE of Honoka'a, Hawaii 2015-02-16 17:49:42 UTC-05:00 0.1 km
4.6 107km W of Nabire, Indonesia 2015-02-16 17:45:08 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
2.8 4km SSW of Guthrie, Oklahoma 2015-02-16 17:10:13 UTC-05:00 4.3 km
6.2 145km NNW of Visokoi Island, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands 10.0 km
4.6 West Chile Rise 2015-02-16 16:24:22 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
4.7 10km NNE of Port-Olry, Vanuatu 2015-02-16 12:20:34 UTC-05:00 32.8 km
4.5 219km WNW of Farallon de Pajaros, Northern Mariana Islands 2015-02-UTC-05:00 286.4 km
3.0 72km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico 2015-02-16 11:09:28 UTC-05:00 29.0 km
2.9 14km WNW of Medford, Oklahoma 2015-02-16 09:35:52 UTC-05:00 5.0 km
3.4 51km WNW of Beatty, Nevada 2015-02-16 08:36:56 UTC-05:00 15.1 km
4.5 152km WNW of Tobelo, Indonesia 2015-02-16 08:22:38 UTC-05:00 48.9 km
4.4 57km NE of Takaka, New Zealand 2015-02-16 08:14:09 UTC-05:00 186.6 km
4.6 156km SSE of Taron, Papua New Guinea 2015-02-16 08:13:58 UTC-05:00 24.5 km
3.4 12km ENE of Cherokee, Oklahoma 2015-02-16 07:54:13 UTC-05:00 5.0 km
4.7 13km S of Kemer, Turkey 2015-02-16 06:52:46 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
4.8 West of the Galapagos Islands 2015-02-16 06:52:09 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
3.9 7km E of Guthrie, Oklahoma 2015-02-16 04:50:26 UTC-05:00 5.0 km
2.8 68km W of Anchor Point, Alaska 2015-02-16 01:48:06 UTC-05:00 113.1 km
2.5 69km SE of Lakeview, Oregon 2015-02-16 01:31:27 UTC-05:00 7.8 km
3.6 68km ESE of Lakeview, Oregon 2015-02-16 01:27:26 UTC-05:00 8.0 km
5.0 93km NNW of Labuhankananga, Indonesia 2015-02-16 00:42:46 UTC-05:00 562.1 km
3.4 94km WSW of Amatignak Island, Alaska 2015-02-16 00:16:28 UTC-05:00 18.6 km
2.7 17km S of Fern Acres, Hawaii 2015-02-16 00:00:34 UTC-05:00 3.1 km
2.5 18km S of Mariposa, California 2015-02-15 22:58:26 UTC-05:00 14.7 km
4.3 207km NNW of Saumlaki, Indonesia 2015-02-15 22:27:59 UTC-05:00 135.6 km
02/16/2015-Vatican: Doubts grow over Pell’s excessive powers-George Pell-The Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts has suggested keeping monitoring tasks separate from tasks relating to the direct management of finances. The C9 is taking this consideration into serious thought. Francis has the last word on the Secretariat for the Economy’s new statutes-Andrea Tornielli-VATICAN INSIDER
vatican city-Must financial transparency involve the unification of all relevant powers under the dicastery headed by Cardinal George Pell? This is a question many in the Vatican are asking in light of the observations made by the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts with regards to the draft statute of the new economic dicastery headed by the Australian cardinal. These observations were presented at a number of meetings held last week and Vatican Insider is in a position to describe them.
The Consistory’s unexpected “lesson”
The long and articulate proposal presented to cardinals by the Australian cardinal and Prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy and especially his two right-hand men, Jean-Baptiste de Franssu and Joseph Zahra, at the Consistory last Friday, certainly had an effect. The presentation was entirely in English, all statements were illustrated by slides containing graphics and text. The two lay speakers made frequent reference to the work carried out by COSEA (the Commission for Reference on the Economic-Administrative Structure of the Holy See), which they had been members of before it was dissolved last year: they explained how, in their new roles, they are putting into practice what they themselves had decided when the reference commission was still up and running. Zahra and de Franssu were not initially expected to attend the Consistory. Pell decided that they should be there at the last minute.
Fox Napier’s cutting remarks and Pell’s interviews
The Consistory presentation – which illustrated what has been done to reform the Vatican financial system – was followed by three interviews given by Pell. The first was with The Boston Globe, the second with Corriere della Sera and the third with La Croix. In these interviews, Pell, who is also known as the “superminister” or “tsar” of the Vatican economy, expressed pride at the results achieved, the discovery of millions of euros that did not initially appear in the consolidated balance sheets. He also mentioned internal “opposition”. A key member of the Council for the Economy, Wilfrid Fox Napier, had also spoken about opposition, the day before the economic reforms were presented at the Consistory. Having mentioned the Propaganda Fide congregation among those who had showed resistance to reform, the South African cardinal made a significant and deliberate cutting remark directed at the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts, which he claimed had overstepped the mark and acted “outside of its duties”. Pell has continued to uphold these views over the past few days in the Vatican.
Public statements and the reality
Vatican Insider has learnt from a number of sources that the reality is far more complex than that presented by the cardinal Prefect of the Economy and his men in their statements. It must not be forgotten that last December Pell directly attacked the Secretariat of State regarding the management of funds not included in the balance sheets, funds which all Popes know about from the moment of their election. The way in which the media tends to portray Pell and his closest collaborators Zahra and de Franssu as the only men fighting for transparency in the face of a non transparent and resistant Curia seems simplistic to say the least considering the emerging facts. It is hard to believe that every objection to the assignment of new powers to the economic “superdicastery” is the sign of a wish to backtrack on reform goals and the transparency process. Writing for Italian finance newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore, Vaticanista Carlo Marroni recently noted that there is an “excessive focus on the new superdicastery (Pell’s, Ed.) in which all powers over finances would be concentrated … the Vatican is also pushing for checks and balances”.
Critical observations regarding the statutes
Pell presented the Secretariat for the Economy’s new statutes during the course of the C9 meeting at the beginning of last week. On that occasion, the Australian cardinal was asked to take into consideration the observations made by the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts headed by cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio. Heated arguments ensued. One of the main objections was in regard to the proposal to bring the task of overseeing the management of a large portion of movable assets and immovable property (currently administered by APSA) and the task of managing these assets under one single dicastery. Pell strongly opposed this objection despite the fact it was in tune with the “four eyes” principle (the two eyes that oversee the management of assets, quite different from the two that manage assets), which IOR president De Franssu had insisted upon during the presentation in the Consistory. Other observations made by the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts were to do with the need to reinforce the independence of the Revisor figure further by nominating three revisors instead of one. But this proposal was also rejected by Cardinal Pell who is intent on wanting to bring monitoring and management tasks under the umbrella of his dicastery.
Project V.A.M
The project carried forth by Pell and his close collaborators Zahra and de Franssu involves the creation of a unified Vatican Asset Management to decide on investments and get the most out of Vatican assets. The details of the project are still unknown to most of the Curia. What is known, however, is that despite it being intended as a separate body, the new entity would still be under the aegis of the Secretariat for the Economy. No one in the Vatican is in any doubt as to the need to improve some aspects of asset management, seeing the failures and waste witnessed in the past. What is striking is that Pell and Fox Napier describe the technical-juridical objections presented by the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts as “opposition” or as acting “outside” of its duties, calling into question the review work carried out, especially when the Pope had entrusted the dicastery with this task. So it is not about backtracking from the path toward transparency as these new key figures suggest, but rather guaranteeing the real application of the “four eyes” principle. Pell therefore decided to reject the work of the legislative texts council and so did the Council for the Economy, which adopted the same position as the Australian cardinal. The Pope has the final say on the statutes and is currently studying them. In the meantime, he is following both issues relating to the new economic bodies and the governance of the IOR closely.
02/14/2015-VATICAN INSIDER-Consistory: "Global south" is seen in action during courtesy visits to cardinals-the warmth surrounding newly created cardinal Arlindo Gomes Furtado-Choruses of singers greeted the newly created cardinals from Cape Verde, Tonga and Ethiopia and the Uruguayan cardinal Sturla drank mate tea. Bertone was among the first to greet the new cardinals-Iacopo Scaramuzzi
vatican city-After an hour of handshakes, embraces and blessings, the newly created Uruguayan cardinal Fernando Sturla Berhouet took off the cardinal’s biretta which Francis had imposed on him just a few hours before. It is hot in the audience hall which has been turned into a sitting room for the new cardinals’ reception and the Salesian cardinal relieves himself of the headpiece which he has not yet had time to get used to. AA few minutes go by and a young Uruguayan priest, Gonzalo Aemilius - whom Jorge Mario Bergoglio knew in the days when he was Archbishop of Buenos Aires – places a cup of freshly brewed Argentinean mate tea in his hand. The cardinal smiles as he drinks it - “what a relief!”- before embracing the priest he has known for a long time. Just a few metres away, Soane Patita Paini Mafi, the newly created cardinal from Tonga, the first cardinal these islands have ever had, is surrounded by faithful and relatives who have formed a chorus and are singing a traditional song at the top of their voices.There is about 30 of them and they are wearing a traditional oversized white shirt with necklaces made of red stones. They stand out because hanging from their necks is a photo taken about 20 years or so ago of the new cardinal surrounded, in shirtsleeves, by a large number of brothers and sisters. Tunes by famous Cape Verdean singer Cesaria Evora can be heard further down the corridor: a group of women from Cape Verde sit elegantly and sing as faithful and friends of Cardinal Arlindo Gomes Furtado come and go to greet him. What one witnessed during the courtesy visits, once called “visite di calore” (“visits of warmth”), that followed Francis’ second Consistory presided over by the Pope in St. Peter’s Basilica this morning, was a global south in action.As usual, cardinals have been split between two rooms, most of them are seated in the various spaces of the Paul VI Hall, a small group of five cardinals is seated in the frescoed rooms of the Apostolic Palace. Among them is Dominique Mamberti, the only Curia member, former “foreign affairs minister” to the Holy See and now Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura: “This time round I am the only Curia member,” he told journalists. “The Holy Father wanted to illustrate his desire for a Cardinals’ College that is representative of the entire Catholic Church.” Before the crowds begin to gather, the former Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, goes to greet him. The newly created cardinals who are over the age of 80 are sat in the halls of the Apostolic Palace, where there are unusually few cardinals to be seen. The cardinals in question are: Luigi de Magistris, whom Bertone bent down to greet so as not to make the elderly cardinal stand up; the former German Nuncio Karl-Josed Rauber and the Argentinean Luis Hector Villalba (Julio Duarte Langa had to cancel his trip to Rome at the last minute due to health reasons).There is much more movement in the audience hall and adjacent rooms. The queue to see the two Italian cardinals, Francesco Montenegro (lots of African faces can be seen popping out in the midst of the crowd) and Edoardo Menichelli appears endless. A small group of faithful greet Thai cardinal Francis Xavier Kriengsak Kovithavanij, Myanmar cardinal Charles Maung Bo, New Zealand’s John Atcherley Dew and José Luis Lacunza Maestrojuan of Panama. The Patriarch of Lisbon, Manuel José Macario do Nascimento Celmente sends round a colourful little card which simply has his name, “d. Manuel Clemente”, written on it (not all cardinals do so, the most simple one was the Argentinean cardinal Villalba’s, while the Mexican cardinal Suarez Inda has the most fancy one).The Ethiopian Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel is surrounded by fellow countrymen who are singing and waving the Ethiopian flag around. The Vietnamese cardinal Pierre Nguyen Van Nhon stands some distance away from his seat as there are so many people that have come to greet him. Then there is the Cuban cardinal Jaima Ortega Alamino: “things are going very well, we didn’t think so much progress would be made,” he said answering journalists’ questions about the turning point in relations between the US and Cuba. He speaks for a while to the new “foreign affairs minister” Mgr. Paul Richard Gallagher. The Mexican archbishop Alberto Suarez Inda, who ministers in one of the most violent parts of the country, explains that the situation is “difficult” but that one must not give in to “pessimistic” thinking. The timid looking Archbishop of Valladolid, Ricardo Blazquez Perez, is surrounded by faithful, just a short distance away from Cardinal Antonio Rouco Varela, his predecessor at the helm of the Spanish Episcopal Conference who cordially shakes the hands of faithful who come by to greet him. Among the crowd of faithful of different nationalities, ambassadors, real Romans, one can make out the face of Opus Dei prelate Mgr. Javier Echevarria and the leader of the neocatechumenals Kiko Arguello. Mgrs. Becciu and Wells, the deputy Secretary of State with his right hand man, pass by. The Patriarch of Jerusalem, Fouad Twal stops to speak to journalists. He is delighted about the news of the canonization of the new Palestinian saints : “The Holy Land is not all war, violence and walls, but also holiness,” he said.
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)
EU breaks taboo on 'Russian forces in Ukraine' By Andrew Rettman-BRUSSELS, Today, 20:36-FEB 16,15-EUOBSERVER
The EU has broken its taboo on referring to Russian forces in east Ukraine in its official documents.It said in its Official Journal on Monday (16 February) that Russian deputy defence minister Anatoly Antonov is being added to its blacklist because he is “involved in supporting the deployment of Russian troops in Ukraine”.It listed first deputy defence minister Arkady Bakhin for the same reason.It also listed Andrei Kartapolov, a senior Russian military commander, for being “involved in shaping and implementing the military campaign of the Russian forces in Ukraine”.The text in the legal gazette was signed off by EU foreign relations chief Federica Mogherini, who has, until now, with the exception of Russia-annexed Crimea, studiously avoided any reference to Russian armed forces being active in Ukraine.The last time EU foreign ministers published a formal statement on the conflict, on 29 January, they also used circumlocutions, speaking of: “evidence of continued and growing support given to the separatists by Russia, which underlines Russia's responsibility”.They added that “foreign armed groups” should leave Ukrainian territory.Individual EU officials, such as Council chief Donald Tusk, have been more hawkish in off-the-cuff remarks.Ukraine, the US, and Nato have been speaking of Russian forces in Ukraine since last July. Nato and the US have also declassified and published satellite pictures to back up their statements.The US ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, posted more images online last weekend, saying they show "Russian military, not separatist, systems”.But the erstwhile EU taboo went higher than minister level.When French, German, Russian, and Ukrainian leaders agreed a ceasefire plan in Minsk last Thursday, they also bowed to Russia’s claim its soldiers aren’t in Ukraine, by calling for withdrawal of “foreign armed formations”.When leaders of the G7 wealthy nations the following day published a statement urging Russia to comply with the Minsk accord, they too spoke of “Russian-backed separatist militias”.For her part, Mogherini’s spokeswoman, Maja Kocijancic, told EUobserver the language in the Official Journal is not an accident.She noted it reflects “mounting evidence, underlining Russia’s responsibility” for the conflict, as discussed by foreign ministers on 29 January.One piece of evidence is a classified report on Russian activity in Ukraine compiled by Mogherini’s intelligence-sharing branch, IntCen, and circulated to capitals ahead of the 29 January meeting.An EU diplomat, who asked not to be named, noted: "This new form of Russian warfare - using tanks and soldiers without insignia - is something we haven't seen before. We're still trying to work out how to respond to it".A second EU diplomat added: “It [the latest Official Journal text] is a clear and understandable message against Russian propaganda and all the lies about non-Russian engagement in the military conflict”.Russia’s claim it isn’t involved in east Ukraine is central to its propaganda message: that the conflict is a “civil war” between Ukrainian nationalists and ethnic Russian “separatists”.But the 16 February Official Journal, which also listed nine entities, highlighted the manufactured nature of the “separatism”.Most of the entities are battalions of Russia’s irregular fighters in Ukraine.But one of them is “Novorossiya”, a Russian “public movement” named after the Kremlin concept that east and south-east Ukraine, or “New Russia”, belong to Russia on ancestral grounds.The Official Journal noted that Novorossiya is run by Igor Strelkov, who is already on an EU blacklist for organising the initial insurgency in Donetsk, east Ukraine, last March.The EU gazette says he is a “Russian officer … identified as a staff member of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (GRU)”.
Battle rages for town where Ukraine rebels reject ceasefire-Reuters-By Anton Zverev -FEB 15,15-YAHOONEWS
VUHLEHIRSK, Ukraine (Reuters) - Pro-Russian rebels pounded encircled Ukrainian government forces on Monday and Kiev said it would not pull back heavy guns while a truce was being violated, leaving a European-brokered peace deal on the verge of collapse.The European Union kept pressure on Russia and the rebels by announcing a new list of separatists and Russians targeted with sanctions, to which Moscow promised an "adequate" response.The United States said it was "gravely concerned" by the fighting in and around the town of Debaltseve in eastern Ukraine after a ceasefire agreement that came into force on Sunday and said it was closely monitoring reports of a new column of Russian military equipment moving toward the region."These aggressive actions and statements by the Russia-backed separatists threaten the most recent ceasefire," U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a statement. "We call on Russia and the separatists it backs to halt all attacks immediately."Fighting subsided in many parts of eastern Ukraine under a ceasefire deal reached last week in marathon talks involving the leaders of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine.But the truce appears to have been stillborn in Debaltseve, where the most intensive fighting has taken place in recent weeks."The situation is fragile," said German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the driving force behind the deal reached on Thursday after all-night talks in the Belarussian capital Minsk."It was always clear that much remains to be done. And I have always said that there are no guarantees that what we are trying to do succeeds. It will be an extremely difficult path," she told reporters in Berlin.Merkel, along with the leaders of France and Ukraine, expressed concern about continued fighting in Debaltseve and said observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) must have "free access" for their work in eastern Ukraine. Rebels said soon after the ceasefire came into effect they had no intention of observing it at Debaltseve, where they have been advancing since January and now have a Ukrainian unit all but encircled.Washington says the rebel operation around the town, which sits on a strategic railway hub, is being assisted by the Russian armed forces, which Moscow denies.The U.S. State Department spokeswoman called on Russia and the separatists to engage with the OSCE to facilitate the cease fire.The OSCE said on Sunday that the rebels had refused to allow its monitors to reach Debaltseve after the ceasefire took effect.Reuters reporters near the front said Debaltseve was being relentlessly bombarded with artillery. At least six tanks as well as armoured personnel carriers and artillery could be seen in woods near Vuhlehirsk, 10 km (six miles) west of Debaltseve, which the rebels captured a week ago.Military trucks headed along the main road in the direction of the town to regular bursts of shelling and the firing of Grad rockets and machine guns."You can hear there is no ceasefire," said a rebel fighter with a black ski mask who gave his name as Scorpion, his nom de guerre, and blamed the fighting on Kiev's forces. "Debaltseve is our land. And we will take Debaltseve."
STALEMATE OVER WITHDRAWAL OF BIG GUNS
A rebel commander, Eduard Basurin, said Ukrainian troops had violated the ceasefire 27 times in the past 24 hours.Kiev said its forces had been shelled more than 100 times in eastern Ukraine since the truce took effect, five of its servicemen had been killed and 25 wounded, and that it could not carry out an agreement to pull back big guns in such conditions."The pre-condition for withdrawal of heavy weapons is fulfilling Point One of the Minsk agreements - the ceasefire. One hundred and twelve attacks are not an indicator of a ceasefire," said a Kiev military spokesman, Andriy Lysenko.A rebel leader, Denis Pushilin, responded by saying his forces were "only ready for a mutual withdrawal of equipment."In another complication likely to set back hopes of peace, he and another separatist leader said the rebels would pull out of the Minsk agreements if Kiev made any further moves to abandon Ukraine's neutral status -- also a red line for Moscow, which fears Ukraine might seek to join the NATO alliance.The separatists offered the Ukrainian forces a safe corridor out of Debaltseve if they gave up their weapons but a military spokesman for Kiev, Vladislav Seleznyov, ruled this out."There are the Minsk agreements, according to which Debaltseve is ours. We will not leave," he said.
ONLY A GLIMMER OF HOPE
Fighting began in east Ukraine after the overthrow of a Moscow-backed president in Ukraine last February and Russia's annexation of the Crimea peninsula a month later.The West says Putin, who has called parts of Ukraine "New Russia," has sent troops and weapons to back the rebels. Moscow denies this and accuses the West of waging a proxy war in Ukraine to seek "regime change" in Russia.Hopes that Thursday's deal will end a conflict that has killed more than 5,000 people have been dampened by the collapse of an earlier truce when rebels advanced last month.Western countries say they reserve the option of expanding economic sanctions on Moscow over the crisis, hoping a growing financial crisis in Russia will persuade Putin to use his influence with the rebels to stop the fighting. But some fear he wants the conflict to fester for years so that Kiev cannot control east Ukraine and Russia can retain influence there.The EU's new list of 19 people and nine organisations hit by asset freezes and travel bans was dominated by Ukrainian separatists but also targeted popular Russian singer Iosif Kobzon, sometimes dubbed Russia's equivalent of Frank Sinatra, and two Russian deputy defence ministers."One thing is clear -- the decision, which will be followed by an adequate response, runs contrary to common sense and will not help efforts to find a solution to the inter-Ukrainian conflict," the Russian Foreign Ministry said.(Additional reporting by Pavel Polityuk, Richard Balmforth and Alessandra Prentice in Kiev, Adrian Croft in Brussels, Tsvetelia Tsolova in Sofia, Michael Nienaber in Berlin and Andy Sullivan and David Brunnstrom in Washington; Writing by Timothy Heritage; Editing by Peter Graff. Giles Elgood and Chris Reese)
Grand jury indicts North Carolina man in killings of Muslims-Reuters-FEB 16,15-YAHOONEWS
(Reuters) - A grand jury indicted a North Carolina man on Monday for the shooting deaths of a newlywed Muslim couple and the wife's sister last week, a court official said.Craig Hicks, 46, of Chapel Hill, was charged by a grand jury with three counts of first-degree murder and one of discharging a firearm into an occupied dwelling, said Angela Kelly, an assistant clerk of the Durham County Superior Court.Deah Barakat, 23, a University of North Carolina-dental student; his wife, Yusor Abu-Salha, 21; and her sister, Razan Abu-Salha, 19, a student at North Carolina State University, were gunned down last Tuesday in a condominium about 2 miles (3 km) from the University of North Carolina campus in Chapel Hill.Investigators have said initial findings indicate a dispute over parking prompted the shooting, but they are looking into whether Hicks was motivated by hatred toward the victims because they were Muslim.The case has garnered international attention and has raised concerns among some Muslim advocates in the United States who say they have seen an increase in threats in recent weeks.A paralegal student at Durham Technical Community College since 2012, Hicks has portrayed himself on Facebook as an atheist and filled his social media page with anti-religion posts.The FBI has said it is opening its own preliminary inquiry. It has not specified if the inquiry would include whether the shooting was a hate crime.(Reporting by Ian Simpson in Washington; Editing by Peter Cooney)
HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed:(CONFISCATED) their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
LUKE 2:1-3
1 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.
2 (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)
3 And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(THE FALSE POPE WHO DEFECTED FROM THE CHRISTIAN FAITH) causeth all,(IN THE WORLD ) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(MICROCHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark,(MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the name of the beast,(WORLD DICTATORS NAME INGRAVED ON YOUR SKIN OR TATTOOED ON YOU OR IN THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the number of his name.(THE NUMBERS OF HIS NAME INGRAVED IN THE MICROCHIP IMLPLANT)-(ALL THESE WILL TELL THE WORLD DICTATOR THAT YOUR WITH HIM AND AGAINST KING JESUS-GOD)
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast:(WORLD LEADER) for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM (6006006)OR(60020202006)(SOME KIND OF NUMBER IMPLANTED IN THE MICROCHIP THAT TELLS THE WORLD DICTATOR AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER THAT YOU GIVE YOUR TOTAL ALLIGIENCE TO HIM AND NOT JESUS)(ITS AN ETERNAL DECISION YOU MAKE)(YOU CHOOSE YOUR OWN DESTINY)(YOU TAKE THE DICTATORS NAME OR NUMBER UNDER YOUR SKIN,YOUR DOOMED TO THE LAKE OF FIRE AND TORMENTS FOREVER,NEVER ENDING MEANT ONLY FOR SATAN AND HIS ANGELS,NOT HUMAN BEINGS).OR YOU REFUSE THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT AND GO ON THE SIDE OF KING JESUS AND RULE FOREVER WITH HIM ON EARTH.YOU CHOOSE,ITS YOUR DECISION.
Greece continues to refuse bailout extension By Valentina Pop-BRUSSELS, Today, 21:50-FEB 16,15-EUOBSERVER
A meeting of eurozone finance ministers ended early on Monday (16 February), with Greece refusing to sign off to a six-month bailout extension, in what appears to be a clash both on semantics and conditions.Eurogroup chief Jeroen Dijsselbloem, who chaired the meeting, said there had been a "slight sense of disappointment" in the room as no agreement could be reached.He spoke of a "general feeling" and the "preferred option" that the only solution was for Greece to ask for an extension of its bailout programme which ends on 28 February.Within this extension - six-months, according to the draft prepared by Dijsselbloem's services - Greece would have enough time to negotiate the way forward with its creditors and would also have enough "flexibility" on the reforms it needs to implement, provided it sticks to the commitments attached to it.Dijsselbloem said he "didn't really mind" if the extension was called a "bridging programme" - a term used by Athens - so long as there was a common understanding of what the conditions are."I wish it was just a debate about words. The reason why we still talk about an extension is that in the rules and regulations of the [bailout funds] EFSF and ESM, this is how it's called. But it is also a bridge arrangement for the next six months," Dijsselbloem said.He said there was only time until end of this week, given that several national parliaments need to approve an extension before the current programme runs out.For his part, EU economics commissioner Pierre Moscovici, who earlier in the day presented a separate paper the Greek government was willing to sign up to, said there had been a lot of talk about "phraseology."
"But we absolutely need a request for an extension. If there is a request, then there is a possibility to examine flexibility and we can discuss substance. But so far, we were not able to do so," he said during the same press conference."We need to be logical, not ideological," Moscovici added.Dijsselbloem downplayed the difference between the Moscovici paper and his, which was tougher and only promised to "make the best use of the existing built-in flexibility.""There have been many drafts and talks - sometimes only in words, sometimes in writing, some proposals came from the commission, others from my own services, others from Greece. But we didn't find an agreement on any text at this point," Dijsselbloem said.For his part, Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis said he would have been ready to sign "there and then" the Moscovici statement, which would have promised an extension of the "loans programme" and that in return, as a sign of good will, Greece would have refrained from any unilateral measures that would have jeopardised the budgetary targets set under the programme.But Varoufakis said the commission's paper was then replaced by the Dijsselbloem paper which he could not accept."In the history of the European Union, nothing good has ever come out of an ultimatum," Varoufakis noted.He did not exclude making that request in the coming days."I have no doubt that in the next 48 hours Europe will come together and find the phrasing needed to establish common ground," he said.Another Eurogroup may be called on Friday, if the Greeks request it. A special summit of eurozone leaders is excluded at this point, Dijsselbloem said, after having consulting with EU council chief Donald Tusk.
FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS
REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
CSX train hauling North Dakota oil derails, cars ablaze in West Virginia-Reuters By Kara Van Pelt -FEB 16,15-YAHOONEWS
BECKLEY, W.Va. (Reuters) - A CSX Corp train hauling North Dakota crude derailed in West Virginia on Monday, setting a number of cars ablaze, destroying a house and forcing the evacuation of two towns in the second significant oil-train incident in three days.One or two of the cars plunged into the Kanawha River, and “a couple are burning," said Robert Jelacic, night shift manager of the West Virginia Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. There were no injuries or deaths, he said.CSX said the train was hauling 109 cars from North Dakota to the coastal town of Yorktown, Virginia, where midstream firm Plains All American Pipelines runs an oil depot. It said one person was being treated for potential fume inhalation. West Virginia State Police First Sergeant Greg Duckworth, who was at the crash site, told Reuters that nine or 10 of the cars had exploded at intervals of about every half hour. A similar sequence has occurred in a handful of other derailments over the past year and a half, with the fire from one tank heating up gases in the next nearest car, causing it to ignite.“It’s a real mess down here," Duckworth said. He said all but 14 of the cars on the train had been pulled out of harm's way.A 1-mile-wide area around the incident was being evacuated after a house caught fire because of the accident, Lawrence Messina, spokesman for the West Virginia Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety, told Reuters.Heavy snow and frigid temperatures were hindering efforts to deal with the incident, Jelacic said.West Virginia Governor Earl Ray Tomblin issued a state of emergency for Kanawha and Fayette counties after the derailment.The train derailed at 1:20 p.m. EST about 33 miles (54 km) southeast of Charleston, the state capital, according to Fayette County 911 Coordinator James Bennett.The derailment occurred less than 200 miles (320 km) west of Lynchburg, Virginia, where another CSX train also bound for the Plains terminal in Yorktown derailed and erupted last April. Plains did not immediately return calls seeking comment.
Local websites showed images of flames at times twice the height of nearby trees and a thick plume of black smoke near a partly frozen river, with a number of houses nearby.
RAIL SAFETY CONCERNS
The latest incident came just two days after a Canadian National Railways train from Alberta's oil sands derailed in a wooded area of northern Ontario. CN said 29 of 100 cars were involved and seven caught fire. No injuries were reported, but the cars were still on fire on Monday.A boom in oil shipments by rail and a spate of derailments across North America have put heightened focus on rail safety. In 2013, 47 people were killed in the Quebec town of Lac-Mégantic after a train carrying crude oil derailed and exploded.The latest incidents will likely refocus attention on U.S. and Canadian regulators' efforts to improve the safety of such shipments, which have spurred concerns over both the flammability of very light oil from the North Dakota Bakken shale as well as the flawed design of older tank cars.The U.S. Transportation Department has submitted a proposal to the White House to require adding an extra 1/8th inch of steel to most existing oil train tank shells, while new models would have the thicker hull installed on the factory floor.It was unclear what kind of tank cars were involved in the derailment on Monday.(Reporting by Kara Van Pelt in Beckley, W.Va. and Jonathan Leff in New York; Editing by Chris Reese, Tom Brown and Peter Cooney)
DISEASES
REVELATION 6:7-8
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).
DRUG PUSHERS AND ADDICTS
1 PET 5:8
8 Be sober,(NOT DRUGED UP OR ALCOHOLICED) be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
REVELATION 18:23
23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries (DRUGS) were all nations deceived.
REVELATION 9:21
21 Neither repented they of their murders,(KILLING) nor of their sorceries (DRUG ADDICTS AND DRUG PUSHERS), nor of their fornication,(SEX OUTSIDE MARRIAGE OR PROSTITUTION FOR MONEY) nor of their thefts.(STEALING)
Cluster of Ontario measles cases linked to Toronto youth event: health officials-The Canadian PressBy Paola Loriggio, The Canadian Press | FEB 16,15-YAHOONEWS
TORONTO - A cluster of measles cases in Ontario has been linked to a Christian youth gathering in Toronto, health officials said Monday in warning roughly 1,000 people who attended the event that they may have been exposed to the virus.The province is asking people who were at the "Acquire the Fire" gathering held at the Queensway Cathedral on Feb. 6 and 7 to check their immunization status as the number of confirmed cases in Ontario continues to rise.One of five people in the Niagara Region confirmed to have contracted measles was at the event, said Ontario's acting chief medical officer, Dr. Robin Williams.Health officials in Niagara said all five cases in the area — including three new ones announced Monday — are connected.The person who went to the event "obviously didn't travel with what they knew to be measles disease, it was during the (infectious period)," Williams said. "And of course you get more infectious as you get closer to actually blossoming in the disease.""There is some risk to those who were unimmunized at Acquire the Fire, and that's why we're reaching out today to make sure that people get on top of their immunization," she said.Organizers with Acquire the Fire say roughly 1,000 people were present for the 27-hour event, described on the company's website as "the weekend that changes your teen's life forever." Health officials say participants, as well as performers and volunteers, came from all over Ontario. Individuals born after 1970 who were at the gathering are being asked to review their immunization status to ensure they are protected against measles.The majority of teens in Ontario have received two doses of the measles vaccine, and for most, that is "highly effective" at preventing the illness, the province said.Measles symptoms begin seven to 18 days after exposure, according to the Public Health Agency of Canada.Those who took part in the event and develop symptoms of fever, cough, runny nose, inflammation of the eyes or rash over the next two weeks are being advised to phone their doctors.The warning came as five new cases of measles were announced Monday in the province. In addition to the three new patients in the Niagara area, one new case was confirmed in Toronto and one in nearby Halton Region, for a total of 16 so far.The Toronto case — a child whose vaccine history is unknown — is not connected to the youth gathering, Toronto Public Health said in an email.The Halton case is a man in his 30s who recently travelled to Toronto, officials said, adding they could not confirm any link to other cases at this time. They said he did not spend any time in Halton Region during his infectious period.Officials in Niagara Region, meanwhile, urged people who attended Our Lady of Mount Carmel elementary school on Feb. 9 and 10 or Saint Michael high school between Feb. 6 and 10 to review their immunization records. Both schools are in Niagara Falls.Health officials in Quebec confirmed on Wednesday that 10 individuals in the Lanaudiere region northeast of Montreal had been infected with measles, with all cases linked to the outbreak at Disneyland in California.On Tuesday, the Manitoba government reported the province's first case of measles of the year, a Winnipeg infant who had recently returned from India.
Greenies' or street fentanyl prompts health alert in Yellowknife-CBC – FEB 16,15-YAHOONEWS
The N.W.T.'s chief public health officer has issued a public warning about "greenies," a type of street fentanyl that is more toxic than other opioids and can kill even in small quantities."Illicit fentanyl is very toxic," says Dr. André Corriveau in a news release. "People need to be aware of this drug as even small quantities are very concentrated and can cause death."The news release, issued by the Department of Health and Social Services, says illicit fentanyl has been appearing in green pill and powder form and has been sold as Oxycontin, heroin and other substances."People can die on their first use," the release says.The release advises people to call their local health centre or emergency unit in the event of an overdose.Signs and symptoms of an overdose include:- slow or absent breathing;
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.
BOSTON HAS HAD 95 INCHES OF SNOW THIS FAR THIS YEAR.AND HERE IN ONTARIO CANADA TODAY WAS -25.BOSTON GETS THE SNOW.AND ONTARIO CANADA GETS THE FREEZING COLD THIS YEAR.
Winter storm wallops Maritimes while central Canada spends Sunday in deep freeze-The Canadian PressBy The Canadian Press | The Canadian Press – Sun, 15 Feb, 2015
HALIFAX - A savage winter storm pounded Maritimes on Sunday, causing damage, delays and dangerous driving conditions on Sunday while people in parts of southern Ontario and Quebec were braving biting winds and frigid Arctic temperatures.The Maritimes were hard hit by a weather system. In Halifax snow changed to rain causing some flooding problems, and Environment Canada issued a flash freeze warning Sunday afternoon.Motorists were asked to avoid the flooded streets. The statement also asked residents to help clear storm drains of snow and ice to alleviate clogging.Bus and ferry services in the city were suspended until Monday. At Halifax Stanfield International Airport, the majority of flights for Sunday afternoon were cancelled or delayed.Snow build-up caused the roof of a curling club to partially collapse in the city's south end Sunday, according to Halifax Regional Police.Police said the Halifax Curling Club appears to have been vacant at the time and no injuries were reported.An intense low pressure system was expected to cross Nova Scotia later Sunday before moving into the Gulf of St. Lawrence on Monday, Environment Canada said.In New Brunswick, RCMP advised drivers to stay off the roads Sunday afternoon if possible. The provincial government said several highways in the province were impassable.A blizzard warning was in effect for much of New Brunswick on Sunday. Environment Canada said parts of the province could expect up to 40 cm of snow by the end of the weekend.The national weather forecaster also issued storm surge warnings for P.E.I. It said coastal areas of the island could see flooding as sea ice moves onshore.The Confederation Bridge that links P.E.I to New Brunswick closed Sunday afternoon. A travel advisory said the bridge would not re-open until the weather improves.An extreme cold warning was in effect for a large swath of Ontario and Quebec causing icy winds and numbing temperatures.Several Ontario cities experienced record lows, including Windsor, Waterloo and Hamilton. Windchills in the Toronto area reached the low -40s.Environment Canada meteorologist Mitch Meredith cautioned anyone venturing outdoors.“At these temperatures when it’s getting windy, the skin can freeze in just a couple of minutes when exposed,” he said.In Quebec, the Gatineau Loppet, the biggest cross-country skiing event in Canada, decided to shorten its races for security reasons after temperatures dropped to -36 with windchill. Environment Canada was predicting windchill values between -35 to -44 in some areas and warned people venturing outdoors to exercise extreme caution. The winds were expected to ease by Sunday night but temperatures were expected to remain in the -30s in many areas into Monday morning.People in Mississauga, west of Toronto, were taking the cold in stride."I'd say this is erring a bit on the side of too cold. I think I'd prefer minus 15, something like that is a little more pleasant," said Tim Edwardson, who is from Ottawa."Hey this is Canada, I'm thankful to live here and we need to just dress warm."
Icy storm paralyzes central U.S., pummels nation's capital-Reuters By Elizabeth Barber-FEB 16,15-YAHOONEWS
BOSTON (Reuters) - Record-breaking cold gripped the eastern United States on Monday while an icy winter storm crippled the nation's central states and then plowed into the mid-Atlantic, dumping snow ahead of Tuesday's morning commute.Heavy snowfall and ice moving from the Southern Plains eastward pounded Missouri, Arkansas, southern Illinois, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio, the National Weather Service said.With the storm headed east and sleet and freezing rain expected to also take a swipe at the South, states of emergency were declared in North Carolina, Virginia, Mississippi, Georgia, Kentucky, as well as in Washington, D.C.Airlines canceled more than 1,800 U.S. flights, with the hardest hit airports in North Carolina and Tennessee.Freezing rain encased Tennessee in ice, closing roads, schools and tourist attractions, including home of the king of rock 'n' roll - Elvis Presley's Graceland mansion in Memphis.Sleet in Arkansas shut schools and Governor Asa Hutchinson told nearly all government workers to stay home.Cars skidded off roads near Louisville, Kentucky, where there were six times the usual number of accidents and a fleet of more than 1,000 snow plows tried to clear slick roads, officials said."It's been all hands on deck," said Chuck Wolfe, spokesman for the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet.Citing nasty weather, Kentucky's state legislature said it would not reconvene until Wednesday at the earliest.The storm dumped 10 inches (25 cm) of snow on Cincinnati and then headed east to Washington, D.C., slamming the nation's capital with heavy snow that could pile as high as 12 inches, said NWS meteorologist Brian Hurley."Washington and Baltimore - that's where the bulls eye's going to be," Hurley said.Slippery roads in western Pennsylvania on Monday were blamed for a collision between a van and a school bus carrying 13 students about 60 miles (95 km) southeast of Pittsburgh, state police said. Several people were hurt, although the extent of the injuries was unknown.About 50 million Americans were under wind chill advisories as the mercury plunged to new depths, breaking records in New York City, where it was 5 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 15 Celsius), breaking the previous record for Feb. 16 of 9 F in 2003, and Washington, D.C., where it was 6 F, compared with 11 F recorded in 1987, said Hurley.The weather front, expected to reach Boston by Wednesday, follows a weekend storm that dumped 16 inches, making it the snowiest February in the city's history. In the scramble to clear snow on Monday before the next round arrives, one person died while shoveling in Brighton and prison inmates from the Massachusetts Department of Corrections were put to work clearing mass transit rail lines."The heaviest stuff will be close to the coast in eastern Massachusetts," Hurley said.The new storm will be followed by another arctic front, bringing frigid cold to the eastern United States by Thursday or Friday, Hurley said.(Writing by Barbara Goldberg in New York; Additional reporting by Timothy Ghianni in Nashville, Steve Bittenbender in Louisville, Steve Barnes in Little Rock, Kim Painter in Cleveland, Colleen Jenkins in Winston-Salem, N.C. and Elizabeth Daley in Pittsburgh; Editing by Marguerita Choy and Steve Orlofsky)
Northeast hit by blizzards, cold, after record snow-Reuters By Elizabeth Barber February 15, 2015 3:30 PM-YAHOONEWS
BOSTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Northeast struggled to dig out on Sunday from the latest in a series of winter storms that made February the snowiest month in Boston's history, but bitter cold and huge drifts hampered the effort.Blizzard conditions forced the cancellation of more than 1,800 U.S. airline flights, most of them into and out of airports in Boston and New York, where wind gusts of up to 60 miles per hour (97 kph) were predicted.Temperatures are 25 to 30 degrees (14 to 17 degrees Celsius) below normal for the East Coast, exacerbated by strong winds, said meteorologist Bruce Sullivan of the National Weather Service, adding the region was in the grip of "a brutally cold air mass."The temperature at 1 p.m. in Boston was around 18 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 8 Celsius), but felt like zero (minus 18 Celsius) thanks to wind chill. By Monday morning, it was likely to feel like minus 20 (minus 29 Celsius), the NWS said.The latest storm heaped disappointment on retailers who were relying on the Presidents’ Day weekend and Valentine’s Day to make up for subpar sales during the last three lashings of snow.Massive snowfall from Boston's fourth major snowstorm in two weeks set a record for the city's snowiest month since weather records were kept, the NWS said.Boston had seen about 6 feet (1.8 meters) of snow since late January and had already set a record for accumulations in a single week."Hopefully, it will stop eventually," Boston Mayor Martin Walsh said on Sunday.Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker set his sights beyond the seemingly endless snowbanks to the stadium where the Boston Red Sox play, saying, "It's 58 days until opening day at Fenway Park."He urged drivers to stay off the roads on Sunday and said he was relieved the holiday on Monday would keep traffic down and give snow plows a chance to clear them.
CABIN FEVER
Some Boston restaurants sought to coax customers out of hibernation for a meal or drink on Sunday evening, when the snow was expected to let up. One South Boston eatery added the hashtag “#cabin fever” to its Twitter messages.“You don't want to stay penned up all day,” said Allie Needham, 26, a business analyst at a chemical company, as she walked along an empty street in Cambridge on her way to meet friends for breakfast.With all public transportation suspended in Boston on Sunday, Bostonians got creative. In the Back Bay neighborhood, a snowboarder hitched a ride from a snowmobile. One resident on Twitter said it was about time for an entrepreneur to start up a dog sled service.The area's deepest snowfall on Sunday was 20 inches (50 cm), recorded in Ipswich, Massachusetts, a coastal town northeast of Boston, said NWS meteorologist Benjamin Sipprell.Relentless winds were expected to pile up dangerous drifts of the lightweight snow, Sipprell said.Across the state, about 600 members of the National Guard were helping out during the blizzard, said Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker.Conditions were so bad in New Hampshire that the town of Alton called off its annual ice carnival this weekend.While still shivering from the brutal cold expected to last through Monday, the East Coast is bracing for another storm front forming near the Tennessee Valley.(Additional reporting by Brian Snyder in Boston; Writing by Barbara Goldberg; Editing by Kevin Liffey and Eric Walsh)
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.
Strong quake hits northern Japan, tsunami and evacuation warnings issued-Reuters By Mari Saito-FEB 16,15-YAHOONEWS
TOKYO (Reuters) - A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.9 struck off northeastern Japan on Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, and small waves were reported along the northern coast after Japan issued a tsunami warning.Japanese broadcaster NHK said small waves of between 10 cm and 20 cm (4-8 inches) reached the coast off Iwate prefecture, some 600 km (370 miles) from Tokyo. NHK said thousands of residents in the area were ordered to evacuate.There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries."We are using the emergency broadcast to advise people to keep away from the sea ... the quake was pretty strong and lasted a long time so I thought there would be a tsunami warning," Kozo Hirano, an Otsuchi Town official in Iwate, told NHK.Live video from ports on the Iwate coast showed small waves lapping on the shore. Towns along the northeastern coast of Japan had been levelled in a devastating tsunami in March 2011.Tuesday's quake was measured at a depth of about 10 km (6 miles). The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii said there was no danger of a Pacific-wide tsunami but the Japan Meteorological Agency issued a tsunami advisory for Iwate prefecture after the quake.Tohoku Electric Power Co, which operates the Onagawa and Higashidori nuclear plants in nearby Miyagi and Aomori prefectures, said it saw no irregularities at the facilities after the quake.All 48 of Japan's nuclear reactors remain offline after a March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, which triggered the Fukushima nuclear disaster in northeastern Japan.A spokesman for Tokyo Electric Power Co, the operator of Fukushima Daiichi and Fukushima Daini nuclear plants, said there were no irregularities at the plants. The quake was felt only weakly in the area, he said.Unlisted Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd also said there were no irregularities recorded at its nuclear fuel reprocessing facility or other plants in Aomori.Earthquakes are common in Japan, one of the world's most seismically active areas. Japan accounts for about 20 percent of the world's earthquakes of magnitude 6 or greater.(Additional reporting by Elaine Lies, Chris Gallagher and Osamu Tsukimori in TOKYO and Jane Wardell in SYDNEY; Editing by Paul Tait)
1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ Worldwide
27 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2015-02-16 20:06:33 UTC-05:00Showing event times using Local System Time (UTC-05:00)27 earthquakes in map area
3.2 12km ESE of Honoka'a, Hawaii 2015-02-16 18:40:55 UTC-05:00 5.9 km
6.7 83km ENE of Miyako, Japan 2015-02-16 18:06:27 UTC-05:00 23.0 km
3.1 14km SE of Honoka'a, Hawaii 2015-02-16 17:49:42 UTC-05:00 0.1 km
4.6 107km W of Nabire, Indonesia 2015-02-16 17:45:08 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
2.8 4km SSW of Guthrie, Oklahoma 2015-02-16 17:10:13 UTC-05:00 4.3 km
6.2 145km NNW of Visokoi Island, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands 10.0 km
4.6 West Chile Rise 2015-02-16 16:24:22 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
4.7 10km NNE of Port-Olry, Vanuatu 2015-02-16 12:20:34 UTC-05:00 32.8 km
4.5 219km WNW of Farallon de Pajaros, Northern Mariana Islands 2015-02-UTC-05:00 286.4 km
3.0 72km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico 2015-02-16 11:09:28 UTC-05:00 29.0 km
2.9 14km WNW of Medford, Oklahoma 2015-02-16 09:35:52 UTC-05:00 5.0 km
3.4 51km WNW of Beatty, Nevada 2015-02-16 08:36:56 UTC-05:00 15.1 km
4.5 152km WNW of Tobelo, Indonesia 2015-02-16 08:22:38 UTC-05:00 48.9 km
4.4 57km NE of Takaka, New Zealand 2015-02-16 08:14:09 UTC-05:00 186.6 km
4.6 156km SSE of Taron, Papua New Guinea 2015-02-16 08:13:58 UTC-05:00 24.5 km
3.4 12km ENE of Cherokee, Oklahoma 2015-02-16 07:54:13 UTC-05:00 5.0 km
4.7 13km S of Kemer, Turkey 2015-02-16 06:52:46 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
4.8 West of the Galapagos Islands 2015-02-16 06:52:09 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
3.9 7km E of Guthrie, Oklahoma 2015-02-16 04:50:26 UTC-05:00 5.0 km
2.8 68km W of Anchor Point, Alaska 2015-02-16 01:48:06 UTC-05:00 113.1 km
2.5 69km SE of Lakeview, Oregon 2015-02-16 01:31:27 UTC-05:00 7.8 km
3.6 68km ESE of Lakeview, Oregon 2015-02-16 01:27:26 UTC-05:00 8.0 km
5.0 93km NNW of Labuhankananga, Indonesia 2015-02-16 00:42:46 UTC-05:00 562.1 km
3.4 94km WSW of Amatignak Island, Alaska 2015-02-16 00:16:28 UTC-05:00 18.6 km
2.7 17km S of Fern Acres, Hawaii 2015-02-16 00:00:34 UTC-05:00 3.1 km
2.5 18km S of Mariposa, California 2015-02-15 22:58:26 UTC-05:00 14.7 km
4.3 207km NNW of Saumlaki, Indonesia 2015-02-15 22:27:59 UTC-05:00 135.6 km
