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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)
SINS OF PEOPLE
ISAIAH 5:20-25
20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
21 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
22 Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
24 Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
25 Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
2 TIMOTHY 3:1-5
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
1 TIMOTHY 1:9
9 Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
10 For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;
Cosby accuser asks for entire deposition to be made public-Reuters-july 9,15-yahoonews
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Canadian woman at the center of sexual assault allegations against comedian Bill Cosby accused him on Wednesday of violating a confidentiality agreement in their 2005 lawsuit, and asked a court to make public his entire testimony.Andrea Constand, a former Temple University employee, filed court papers in Pennsylvania district court, also accusing Cosby and his advisers of manipulating the media through interviews and statements about the slew of sex assault allegations against him.The lawsuit was filed two days after a Pennsylvania judge unsealed testimony in Constand's 2005 civil lawsuit against Cosby, in which the actor said he had obtained Quaaludes with the intent of giving the sedatives to young women in order to have sex with them.The case was settled in 2006 for an undisclosed sum and both Cosby and Constand signed confidentiality agreements. In the past year some 40 other women have come forward accusing the star of TV comedy series "The Cosby Show" of drugging and sexually assaulting them in incidents dating back decades.Constand said in Wednesday's court filing that Cosby was questioned about other sexual allegations at the time and that the women involved had a right to hear what he said about them then and "a right to determine what if anything can be used as evidence in their respective cases."Constand, a former basketball player from Toronto, asked the court to have Cosby's "entire deposition and settlement agreement released to the public."She said that while she has remained silent, "Cosby himself has given a rather incoherent interview and used members of his family and others as surrogates to speak for him."Cosby has never been criminally charged, and most of the allegations exceed the statute of limitations. His attorneys have consistently denied the accusations. They could not immediately be reached for comment on Wednesday.A spokeswoman for the Creative Artists Agency said on Wednesday the firm had parted ways with Cosby months ago, but she declined to say why.Cosby has said little directly about the accusations, but he told the audience at one of his shows in Florida last year that he would not reply to "innuendos."(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; Additional reporting by Curtis Skinner in San Francisco; Editing by Eric Walsh)
EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH IN NOAHS DAY(BECAUSE OF SIN,VIOLENCE AND GODLESS PEOPLE)
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.
HOSEA 4:1-3
1 Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
DEUTORONOMY 28:22-24
22 The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.
23 And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.
24 The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
U.S. Wildlife Service baffled by exodus of birds from Florida isle-Reuters By Barbara Liston-july 9,15-yahoonews
ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of nesting birds vanished this spring from a Florida island refuge where they have come to breed for decades, leaving behind their unhatched eggs and mystifying wildlife officers trying to figure out why they disappeared.The birds have been coming to Seahorse Key on Florida’s Gulf Coast for more than a century, and in recent times averaging 10,000 to 20,000 breeding pairs a year, said Vic Doig, biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.The birds returned in April, said Doig, who spotted them while conducting a survey. Days later, a caretaker noticed that they were all gone.“Nobody really saw anything. One day they were there. The next day, they weren’t,” he said.Seahorse Key, about 60 miles southwest of Gainesville, is part of the Cedar Keys National Wildlife Refuge, established in 1929 to protect nesting birds that numbered about 200,000 at the time. The birds were under threat from hunters who sold their plumage to makers of fashionable hats for women.White ibis, tri-colored herons, snowy egrets and roseate spoonbills are among the rare wading birds with long and attractive feathers which return to Seahorse Key every year from April through June.The refuge is a nature lover’s paradise where tour boat operators ferry sightseers around the rookery.“When the birds are nesting there, the island is a chaotic, loud, busy place. All of a sudden, it’s like a ghost town,” Doig said.There was no sign of traumatic injuries or disease in the few bird carcasses left behind after the exodus, he said.A change in the local food supply seems unlikely, and a predator, such as the great horned owl, would be hard pressed to scare off so many birds spread out over one square mile.Although a storm with wind gusts and lightning moved in around the time the birds left, that is a common occurrence in spring.The island might have been buzzed by an aircraft or drone, Doig said, but there is no eyewitness evidence of an aircraft scaring off the birds.The agency is also considering whether the birds could have been spooked by a helicopter that recently began ferrying beachgoers to an island about five miles away, he said.With the investigation hitting a dead end, wildlife officers will have to wait to see if the birds return next year, Doig said.(Editing by Frank McGurty and Mohammad Zargham)
Captured New York fugitive moved to prison from hospital-Reuters By Ellen Wulfhorst-July 5, 2015 3:52 PM-yahoonews
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Captured prison escapee David Sweat was released on Sunday from a New York hospital where he had been treated for gunshot wounds and moved to a prison more than 250 miles from the one he fled, authorities said.Sweat, captured last Sunday following a three-week manhunt, will be locked up alone in a cell for 23 hours a day and placed on suicide watch at Five Points Correctional Facility in Romulus, in the state's Finger Lakes region, the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision said.Sweat, 35, and accomplice Richard Matt escaped from maximum security Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York on June 6. Matt, 49, was shot and killed by a federal agent on June 26 about 27 miles (43 km) away from the prison.The pair, both convicted murderers, had lived in prison in so-called honor housing which offered limited privileges to prisoners considered to be well-behaved.In their brazen break-out, Matt and Sweat cut holes in their cell walls, climbed down a catwalk, slipped through a steam pipe and emerged from a manhole outside prison walls, authorities said.Sweat, who was shot twice in the torso by a state police trooper during his capture near the Canadian border, was released from Albany Medical Center at about 3 a.m., the DOCCS said. The agency did not disclose details of his transport to prison.After a medical evaluation, Sweat will be held in Special Housing in a cell equipped with a bed, writing platform, toilet, sink and shower, prison authorities said. Opened in 2000, Five Points houses 1,294 inmates.Honor housing at Clinton allowed Matt and Sweat to cook their own meals, wear some street clothing and have more freedom of movement, yard access and television and telephone time than the prison's general population.Sweat will be charged with first-degree escape, authorities have said. He is already serving life without parole for the murder of a Broome County sheriff's deputy.Two Clinton prison workers are charged with helping in the escape. Corrections officer Gene Palmer and prison tailor shop supervisor Joyce Mitchell are accused of smuggling hacksaw blades and a screwdriver bit to the pair.New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has ordered an investigation of the prison, where strict new security procedures have been implemented. Its superintendent was replaced after he and 11 other employees were put on administrative leave.
In an amazing arc of grace, Confederate battle flag finally furled-In South Carolina, the aftermath of the Charleston shootings will be remembered not for rancor and division, but for a display of love and unity of purpose. On Friday, the Confederate battle flag was removed from the State House grounds.Christian Science Monitor By Patrik Jonsson-july 10,15-yahoonews
On Friday, the Confederate battle flag, after a brief ceremony, came down amid cheers, even as some Southerners hung their heads, unbelieving that a flag they believe represents solely the valor of Southern soldiers defending their land had come to represent hatred and oppression.But it had, powerfully – long before a white supremacist who posed with rebel flags killed nine black parishioners, including state Sen. Clementa Pinckney, on June 17 in Charleston, S.C.Recommended: Do you know your state flags? The shock of the murders and the massacre site – a historic church – united South Carolinians under a banner of grace, as Charlestonians joined hands to pray and mourn. President Obama referenced the biblical idea of grace – defined in part as a divine influence of goodness upon people – as a uniting force, even as he sang the spiritual hymn “Amazing Grace” at Senator Pinckney’s funeral.And so the shootings’ aftermath will be remembered not for rancor and division, but for an amazing display of love and unity of purpose, which became focused on the flag’s star-studded, tipped-over cross.In comments made Friday, the Rev. Jesse Jackson likened the church shootings as the crucifixion and the taking down of the flag as the resurrection.“ It’s hard to downplay the significance of this really monumental event, that a state so wedded to history and its symbols voted pretty overwhelmingly to take this flag down and put it in a museum,” says Gibbs Knotts, a political scientist at the College of Charleston.The call for the flag to come down marked a turning point not only for Republican Gov. Nikki Haley, a past flag defender who pleaded for the legislature to take it down, but also for many white Southerners. Indeed, it was largely white South Carolinians, including GOP lawmakers, who pushed for the flag’s removal, The State newspaper pointed out Friday.“This happened because people looked with new hearts and eyes and minds on the flag and on their fellow citizens and decided that it must happen,” the newspaper’s editorial board wrote.But it didn’t come easily. After the state Senate, which had seen one of its own lost in the Charleston mayhem, quickly passed a bill earlier in the week, South Carolina’s famously rancorous House began on Wednesday what became 13 hours of deliberation. When the political winds suggested that the vote should be delayed, Jenny Horne, a descendant of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, took to the floor, tearful, to chastise what she called her “friends.”"I cannot believe that we do not have the heart in this body to do something meaningful, such as take a symbol of hate off these grounds on Friday,” she argued, at times sobbing.The measure passed shortly afterward. Governor Haley signed the bill into law on Thursday, and state police immediately cordoned the flag off to prepare for the removal ceremony.In the war, the banner served as the battle flag for the Army of Northern Virginia, and then it was a museum piece for 100 years. In the 1950s and ’60s, white segregationists brought the flag back, as it became a symbol of the insurgent Dixiecrat party, led by the late South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond.Flown in 1961 commemorate the 100-year anniversary of the start of the Civil War, the flag stayed up in protest of the civil rights movement. It was then that federal lawmakers and judges began to dismantle Jim Crow, the informal political system in the South that marginalized blacks and forced them, among other things, to drink out of separate water fountains.In the modern era, the flag had come to symbolize Southern-fried rebellion – a quaint, youthful symbol that pop culture often treated with hilarity. But some 30 years after “The Dukes of Hazzard,” with its Confederate flag-emblazoned “General Lee” Dodge Charger, dominated the ratings, cable channel TV Land pulled reruns of the show after the Charleston massacre.On Friday, South Carolina lawmakers and relatives of the victims of the Charleston shootings watched somberly as an honor guard removed the flag and folded it. Throngs of people who were assembled to watch yelled, "Take it down! Take it down!"For all the heartache and wrenching debate over the past three weeks, the furling of the Confederate flag and its removal to what will become a multimillion-dollar shrine at South Carolina’s “relic room” in Columbia suggested a new beginning for a state long bogged down by racial divides.“This moment is about more than a flag or a vote. It’s about the hope that now, 150 years after the end of the Civil War, we have grown beyond our differences and have begun to grow together,” Columbia Mayor Steve Benjamin tweeted.Before the flag came down, Haley said on NBC’s “Today” show, “I don't want this to go away quickly. I want people to remember what today feels like and know that anything is possible with us."
South Carolina Senate votes to banish Confederate flag to museum-Reuters By Harriet McLeod-July 7, 2015 2:30 PM-yahoonews
CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - South Carolina's Senate passed legislation Tuesday to remove the Confederate battle flag from the state capitol's grounds, where it has flown for five decades despite being viewed by many as a symbol of slavery.A bill to banish the flag from the State House grounds to a museum easily passed a third and final 36-3 vote in the Senate. It was headed to the state House of Representatives, which voted to bring it to the floor for debate on Wednesday.The legislation was deemed an impossibility only months ago. But it gained strong bipartisan support since nine black churchgoers were gunned down on June 17 during Bible study at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal church in Charleston, about two hours southeast of the state capital, Columbia. Photos of Dylann Roof, the white man charged in the shooting, showed him posing with a Confederate flag on a website bearing a racist manifesto. A grand jury indicted Roof, 21, on nine counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder, a prosecutor said on Tuesday.The flag's defenders argue that it is part of South Carolina's heritage, representing those who fought and died for the rebellious Southern states that formed the Confederacy in the 1861-1865 Civil War.Republican state Senator Lee Bright, who is white, argued on Tuesday that the flag had been unfairly tied to slavery. He noted that many leaders in the 18th-century fight for American independence from Britain were slave owners."Not one Confederate flag flew over a slave ship," Bright asserted.While most politicians recognize that the banner is part of the state's heritage, many agree it should no longer be flown in public places.The flag was raised atop the State House in 1961 - along with the U.S. flag and the state flag - in what critics say was a deliberate slap in the face to the black civil rights movement. In 2000, it was moved to a Civil War memorial for the Confederate dead only yards from the entrance to the capitol.Support for the flag in the Republican-controlled legislature has evaporated amid a wave of sympathy for the victims and their families, who were widely acclaimed for expressing unconditional forgiveness for Roof at his bond hearing less than 48 hours after the murders.Several politicians say the shootings opened their eyes to the flag's divisiveness and what it means to South Carolina's black population.The Senate vote to take down the flag exceeded expectations. The legislation may face a stiffer challenge when the 124-member House begins debating it on Wednesday. But it still appears to have the two-thirds majority support it needs to pass, according to a local media poll.The bill could be approved as early as Thursday. Republican Governor Nikki Haley said she would order the flag taken down as soon as it becomes law.South Carolina House Democratic leaders on Tuesday urged fellow legislators to follow the Senate's lead."Take the flag down and give the people of South Carolina nothing to fight about. ... This is our moment. This is our time," Todd Rutherford, a black representative who is House minority leader, told a news conference.(Writing by David Adams; Editing by Cynthia Osterman, Peter Galloway and Jonathan Oatis)
U.S. House cancels vote on measure defending Confederate flag-Reuters-july 9,15-yahoonews
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday abruptly canceled a vote on a measure that would have defended the flying of the Confederate banner in cemeteries operated by the National Park Service.The House canceled consideration of a fiscal 2016 spending bill that would fund the park service. An amendment to that bill, by Republican Representative Ken Calvert, was pending that would have stopped any prohibition on flags decorating graves in national cemeteries.House Speaker John Boehner said he wanted to have a bipartisan discussion about how to move forward.(Reporting by Richard Cowan; Editing by Mohammad Zargham)
EU DICTATOR (WORLD LEADER)
1 THESSALONIANS 5:3-7
2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
2 THESSALONIANS 2:3-4
3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed,(EU WORLD DICTATOR)the son of perdition;
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
REVELATION 17:12-13
12 And the ten horns (NATIONS) which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.(SOCIALISM)
13 These have one mind,(SOCIALISM) and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
REVELATION 6:1-2
1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
2 And I saw, and behold a white horse:(PEACE) and he that sat on him had a bow;(EU DICTATOR) and a crown was given unto him:(PRESIDENT OF THE EU) and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.(MILITARY GENIUS)
2 THESSALONIANS 2:9-12
9 Even him,(EU WORLD DICTATOR) whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion,(THE FALSE RESURRECTION BY THE WORLD DICTATOR) that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
REVELATION 13:1-10
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.(THE EU AND ITS DICTATOR IS GODLESS)
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.(DICTATOR COMES FROM NEW AGE OR OCCULT)
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death;(MURDERERD) and his deadly wound was healed:(COMES BACK TO LIFE) and all the world wondered after the beast.(THE WORLD THINKS ITS GOD IN THE FLESH, MESSIAH TO ISRAEL)
4 And they worshipped the dragon (SATAN) which gave power unto the beast:(JEWISH EU DICTATOR) and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?(FALSE RESURRECTION,SATAN BRINGS HIM TO LIFE)
5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.(GIVEN WORLD CONTROL FOR 3 1/2YRS)
6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God,(HES A GOD HATER) to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.(HES A LIBERAL OR DEMOCRAT,WILL PUT ANYTHING ABOUT GOD DOWN)
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints,(BEHEAD THEM) and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.(WORLD DOMINATION)
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.(WORLD DICTATOR)
9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.(SAVED CHRISTIANS AND JEWS DIE FOR THEIR FAITH AT THIS TIME,NOW WE ARE SAVED BY GRACE BUT DURING THE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH, PEOPLE WILL BE PUT TO DEATH (BEHEADINGS) FOR THEIR BELIEF IN GOD (JESUS) OR THE BIBLE.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come (ROMANS IN AD 70) shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMANS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
27 And he( EU ROMAN, JEWISH DICTATOR) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:( 7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,( 3 1/2 YRS) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent.James Paul Warburg appearing before the Senate on 7th February 1950
Like a famous WWII Belgian General,Paul Henry Spock said in 1957:We need no commission, we have already too many. What we need is a man who is great enough to be able to keep all the people in subjection to himself and to lift us out of the economic bog into which we threaten to sink. Send us such a man. Be he a god or a devil, we will accept him.And today, sadly, the world is indeed ready for such a man.
No one will enter the New World Order... unless he or she will make a pledge to worship Lucifer. No one will enter the New Age unless he will take a Luciferian Initiation.- David Spangler Director of Planetary Initiative United Nations.
Spain Government Goes Full Police State; Enacts Law Forbidding Dissent, ‘Unauthorized’ Photography Of Law Enforcement-Satutes have arisen from Spain's position as a flashpoint for anti-austerity protests by Tim Cushing | Techdirt | July 9, 2015
Well, Spain’s officially a police state now. On July 1st, its much-protested “gag” law went into effect, instantly making criminals of those protesting the new law. Among the many new repressive stipulations is a €30,000-€600,000 fine for “unauthorized protests,” which can be combined for maximum effect with a €600-€300,000 fine for “disrupting public events.”This horrible set of statutes has arisen from Spain’s position as a flashpoint for anti-austerity protests, the European precursor to the Occupy Wall Street movement. Fines, fines and more fines await anyone who refuses to treat authority with the respect it’s forcibly requiring citizens to show it.The law also extends its anti-protest punishments to social media, where users can face similar fines for doing nothing more than encouraging or organizing a protest. Failing to present ID when commanded is another fine. And then there’s this: Showing a “lack of respect” to those in uniform or failing to assist security forces in the prevention of public disturbances could result in an individual fine of between €600 and €30,000.Spain’s legislators thought of everything. To ensure these crackdowns on protests go off with a minimum of public backlash, “respected” police officers are being given a blank check to use as much force as they feel necessary when breaking up “unauthorized protests.” The law doesn’t directly instruct police to behave badly, but it does provide a very helpful increase in opacity.A clause in the wide-ranging legislation that critics have dubbed the “gag law” provides for fines of up to 30,000 euros ($33,000) for “unauthorized use” of images of working police that could identify them, endanger their security or hinder them from doing their jobs.Somehow, the Spanish government has managed to find an expectation of privacy within its public spaces and applied it to its public servants. While the law does make some provision for the public’s “right to know,” it also defers to law enforcement’s judgment when it comes to what is or isn’t “authorized use” of photographs/video depicting police performing their public duties.Obviously, this small nod towards the public’s rights is completely insincere. The government wants to clamp down on protests and it obviously can’t be embarrassed by award-winning photographs/video of its police officers beating civilians wholly uninvolved with the protests that so angried up the cops’ blood.Those defending the law (sort of) think the built-in “protections” will at least protect some favored members of the media.Victora Lerena, president of Spain’s association representing visual journalists, thinks the language about freedom of information will protect journalists, but predicts anyone who tries to take images of police at protests without media organization credentials could be at risk.This is likely true, considering the “credentialed” press already blurs officers’ faces when reporting. But the most damning images of police misconduct usually come from unofficial sources, and even the most aggressive of mainstream news outlets frequently defer to the government’s judgment when reporting on alleged police abuse.Spain has outlawed dissent and given the police extra protections and respect they haven’t earned. That’s as close to a police state as you can get without actually declaring martial law.
EUROPEAN UNION ARMY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytWmPqY8TE0&feature=player_embedded
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 DIVSION REGION WORLD GOVERNMENT) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.( BE HEAD OF 3 NATIONS)
25 And he (EU PRESIDENT) shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.(3 1/2 YRS)
DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT-NEW AGE MOVEMENT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.
DANIEL 11:36-39
36 And the king (EU DICTATOR) shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS JEWISH) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.(CLAIM TO BE GOD)
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(WAR) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god,(DESTROY TERROR GROUPS) whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.
REVELATION 19:19
19 And I saw the beast,(EU LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies,(UNITED NATIONS TROOPS) gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse,(JESUS) and against his army.(THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)
NATO to open regional rapid reaction force HQ in Lithuania-Associated Press-july 9,15-yahoonews
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — NATO will open the first Baltic regional headquarters for its new rapid reaction force in Lithuania in the coming months, amid growing concerns over Russian aggression in Ukraine.Lithuanian Defense Minister Juozas Olekas says this will increase quick communication between national and alliance troops in the region. The unit will be staffed by 40 people.The head of the unit, Danish Col. J.S. Larsen, said Thursday the headquarters could coordinate operations of a division-sized unit "in case there is a need."Similar small headquarters, to facilitate the rapid deployment of troops, are planned in Poland, Bulgaria and Romania, as well as in neighboring Latvia and Estonia, in line with decisions made at the NATO Wales summit last year to increase the alliance's presence in the Baltic countries.___This story has been corrected to say the new center is a unit, not a base.
UPDATED JULY 11,2015-03:30PM
Euro zone ministers demand more from Greece for loan talks-Reuters By Andreas Rinke and Francesco Guarascio-july 11,15-yahoonews
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Skeptical euro zone finance ministers demanded on Saturday that Greece go beyond painful austerity measures accepted by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras if he wants them to open negotiations on a third bailout for his bankrupt country to keep it in the euro.Ministers lined up to vent their anger at Tsipras on arrival at their umpteenth emergency weekend meeting on Greece's acute debt crisis, with Athens staring into an economic abyss when financial markets reopen on Monday unless it wins fresh aid.EU officials forecast a deal would be reached by the end of the weekend to keep Greece afloat, but two sources said there was consensus among the other 18 ministers that the leftist government in Athens must take further steps to convince them it would honor any new debts.Tsipras won parliamentary backing early on Saturday for a tough reform package that largely mirrored measures previously demanded by its international creditors but rejected by Greek voters at his behest in a referendum last Sunday.Wolfgang Schaeuble, finance minister of its biggest creditor Germany and a stickler for the EU's fiscal rules, said negotiations would be "exceptionally difficult".Emerging optimism about Greece had been "destroyed in an incredible way in the last few months" since Tsipras won power, Schaeuble said.A German newspaper reported that his ministry was suggesting that Greece either improve its proposals quickly and transfer state assets worth 50 billion euros into a fund to pay down debt, or take a five-year "time-out" from the euro zone.The German Finance Ministry declined to comment on the report in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. But several officials said no one raised the possibility of a Greek euro exit in the meeting, which took a pause after three hours.Other ministers arriving for the Eurogroup session spoke of a fundamental lack of trust after years of broken Greek promises and six months of erratic and provocative behavior by the radical leftist Tsipras government."We are still far away," said Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the Dutch finance minister who was chairing the meeting. "On both content and the more complicated question of trust, even if it's all good on paper the question is whether it will get off the ground and will it happen ... We are facing a difficult negotiation."However a preparatory meeting earlier on Saturday endorsed with reservations a recommendation by EU institutions and the IMF that Tsipras's proposals did provide a basis to launch negotiations, sources familiar with the session said.Finland's state broadcaster YLE reported that the Finnish government had told parliament's influential Grand Committee on Saturday it did not consider the Greek proposal sufficient to start negotiations on a new loan. The government declined comment. Helsinki's stance has hardened since the populist Finns Party joined a right-wing coalition that took office in May.LEFTIST DEFECTIONS-In Athens overnight, Tsipras had to rely on opposition votes from the right in parliament after some of his leftist lawmakers resisted spending cuts, tax rises and other measures he proposed in order to unlock 54 billion euros in three-year credit.One Tsipras ally, Economy Minister George Stathakis, said some dissident ministers would be replaced and rebel lawmakers should resign their seats if they disagreed with the policy.Germany, the biggest lender in two previous bailouts totaling 240 billion euros ($265 billion) since 2010, is deeply skeptical and public opinion is hostile to any further aid for Greece, putting pressure on Chancellor Angela Merkel."The high figures for financing needs over the next three years may be too high and too sudden," one euro zone source said. He said officials believed Greece may need 82 billion euros, factoring in cash from the IMF and other EU sources.Sources in the creditor institutions said Greece would need 25 billion euros just to recapitalize its shattered banks, which have been closed since capital controls were imposed on June 29 after the breakdown of previous bailout negotiations.Stathakis told Greece's Mega TV that the capital controls, restricting cash withdrawals and bank transfers, would remain for at least another two months.The sources said the IMF had suggested one way to make Greek debts sustainable in the medium term could be to extend the maturity on past and new loans to 60 years instead of 30.Slovak Finance Minister Peter Kazimir, one of the most hawkish critics of Greece, said making the debt sustainable was going to be "a huge problem".A positive assessment of the Greek proposals delivered by the European Commission, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund late on Friday, along with bullish comments from Athens' key euro zone ally France, had raised expectations that the Eurogroup would give a green light to new loan negotiations.But even French Finance Minister Michel Sapin, Greece's most powerful ally in the euro zone, said: "Confidence has been ruined by every Greek government over many years which have sometimes made promises without making good on them at all."Now we need to have confidence again, to have certainty that decisions announced are decisions which are actually taken by the Greek government."Merkel has made clear she does not want to see a "Grexit" that could disrupt a fragile European economic recovery and undermine a supposedly irreversible union. However, she faces stiff opposition among her own conservatives.Euro zone leaders, including Merkel and French President Francois Hollande, are due to meet on Sunday, either to endorse a decision to open talks on a new bailout or if, along with other EU leaders, to take steps to contain the fallout from a looming Greek bankruptcy.PARLIAMENT DIVIDED-With Greece's banks completely dependent on a credit lifeline from the European Central Bank, the measures proposed by Athens were seen as a last chance to avert financial collapse.But in an ominous sign for the stability of the Greek government, 10 members on the ruling benches abstained or voted against the measures and another seven were absent, leaving Tsipras short of the 151 seats needed for a majority of his own.Prominent left-wingers in his Syriza party signaled before the vote that they could not support the mix of tax hikes and spending cuts proposed by Tsipras, following the rejection of similar austerity measures by voters in Sunday's referendum.Energy Minister Panagiotis Lafazanis, Deputy Labour Minister Dimitris Stratoulis as well as the speaker of parliament, Zoe Constantopoulou, all called "Present", in effect abstaining from the vote and withholding their support from the government."The government is being totally blackmailed," Constantopoulou said.Following the vote, Tsipras said he would now focus on securing a deal."The priority now is to have a positive outcome to the negotiations. Everything else in its own time," he said.Greece asked for 53.5 billion euros ($59 billion) to help cover its debts until 2018, a review of primary budget surplus targets in the light of the sharp deterioration of its economy, and a "reprofiling" of the country's long-term debt.In addition to cash from the euro zone, if Greece makes payments it missed last month to the IMF, the global lender still has a facility to lend Greece some 16 billion euros.Any deal would also have to be endorsed by national parliaments including in Germany, which must also formally approve the loan negotiations being started.The Greek offer includes defense spending cuts, a timetable for privatizing state assets such as Piraeus port and regional airports, hikes in value added tax for hotels and restaurants and slashing a top-up payment for poorer pensioners.(Additional reporting by Angeliki Koutantou, Michele Kambas, George Georgiopoulos, Costas Pitas, Lefteris Karagiannopoulos, Georgia Kalovyrna, Matthias Williams and James Mackenzie in Athens, Andreas Rinke, Marine Hass, Tom Koerkemeier, Renee Maltezou, Francesco Guarascio, Foo Yun Chee, Alastair Macdonald, Julien Ponthus and Miranda Alexander-Walker in Brussels and Jan Strupczewski; Writing by Paul Taylor; Editing by Robin Pomeroy)
Greece meets skeptical European creditors in search of help-Associated Press By RAF CASERT and JOHN-THOR DAHLBURG-july 11,15-yahoonews
BRUSSELS (AP) — Greece's finance minister was locked in talks with skeptical creditors Saturday, trying to persuade them that the Greek government can be trusted to deliver on its reform promises in exchange for a financial rescue securing the country's future in the euro.After convincing the Greek parliament in the early hours of Saturday to back a harsh austerity package to stave off financial collapse, the Greek government is facing a difficult task getting its European creditors to support its three-year bailout request. Over and over, finance ministers and top officials of the eurozone said the same thing as they arrived for a key meeting on Greece's bailout proposals — we don't fully trust you.Greece, they said, needed to do a lot more than just publish a 13-page plan of reform commitments before they could sign off on another multibillion-euro bailout deal that would keep the country afloat and prevent its exit from the euro.A European official at the talks said creditors want "more specific and binding commitments" from the Greek government.The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he's not authorized to talk publicly, says there's a general feeling in the room that the Greek proposals are "too little, too late" and as such, more proof of the government's commitment to follow through is required. The official said those pledges don't "necessarily have to be austerity measures."That sentiment echoes much of the language in the run-up to the meeting."We are still a long way out, both on the issue of content as on the tougher issue of trust," Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the eurozone's top official, said on his arrival at the meeting. "On paper it is not good enough yet — and even if it is good on paper, then we still have the question: will it really happen?"Greece is running out of time to convince its creditors. A Sunday summit of European Union leaders could be its last chance to prevent the collapse of the banking sector and an inevitable exit from the euro currency.Greece's banks have been shuttered for the best part of two weeks and daily withdrawals from ATMs have been limited to a paltry 60 euros. The economy is in freefall and the country faces a raft of big debt repayments.Early Saturday, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras cleared one hurdle. Lawmakers in the Greek parliament overwhelmingly backed a package of economic reforms and further austerity measures, in the hope that it will convince its European partners to back a third bailout of the country. Greece has made a request to Europe's bailout fund for a 53.5 billion-euro ($59.5 billion) 3-year financial package.Still, the measures proposed, which include changes long-demanded by creditors, such as changes to pensions and sales taxes, don't appear to be enough, just yet. Following months of deteriorating relations, creditors are demanding firm legislative action to back up the proposals.Earlier, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, who has taken a hard line on Greece over recent months, said the Greek government will have to do a lot more than just say it wants to reform if it's going to get more money."We will definitely not be able to rely on promises," he said. "We are determined to not make calculations that everyone knows one cannot believe in."Schaeuble was clear in who he blamed for current crisis. He put that firmly on the shoulders of the radical left Syriza government that was elected in January on an anti-austerity prescription. The "hopeful" economic situation regarding Greece at the end of last year has been "destroyed by the last months," said Schaeuble who anticipated an "extraordinarily difficult" meeting.The German finance minister was at the center of a report in Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung that he has proposed a temporary, five-year euro exit for Greece as a way out of the crisis. However, Theodoros Mihopoulos who heads Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras' office, said in a tweet that the report "is completely denied."Greece hopes enough progress will be made at Saturday's finance ministers meeting to allow EU government leaders on Sunday to formally back a bailout program. The summit of the European Union's 28 leaders has been billed as Greece's last chance.The eurozone ministers have to give their blessing to Greece's bailout request to the European Stability Mechanism. Traditionally, eurozone ministers agree by mutual consensus. The task facing the new Greek finance minister, Euclid Tsakalotos, is to convince his skeptical counterparts that Greece deserves another bailout, which would be its third in five years.Greece has received bailouts totaling 240 billion euros in return for deep spending cuts, tax increases and reforms from successive governments. Though the country's annual budget deficit has come down dramatically, Greece's debt burden has increased as the economy has shrunk by a quarter.The Greek government has made some form of debt relief a key priority and will hope that a comprehensive solution will involve European creditors at least agreeing to delayed repayments or lower interest rates.French Finance Minister Michel Sapin said Europe wants to hear the nitty-gritty around Greece's proposals: "How are you going to do it? At what moment are you doing to do it? At what tempo are you going to do it."___Menelaos Hadjicostis in Brussels contributed to this story.
Hopes rise of Greece bailout breakthrough-AFP By Marc Burleigh, with Danny Kemp in Brussels-july 10,15-yahoonews
Athens (AFP) - Fresh Greek bailout reform proposals submitted to eurozone partners were cheered by France and Italy on Friday, raising hopes that a last-ditch compromise could be reached to prevent a dreaded "Grexit."The plan delivered by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras's administration for study by the EU, IMF and European Central Bank was to be put to a vote late Friday by Greek lawmakers.Tsipras has conceded ground on major sticking points including tax and pensions in a bid to secure a new bailout, drawing encouragement from his biggest ally, French President Francois Hollande."The Greeks have shown a determination to want to stay in the eurozone because the programme they are presenting is serious and credible," Hollande said.He cautioned, though, that "nothing is decided yet." Any new Greek rescue needs to be approved unanimously by eurozone members.Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi declared himself "more optimistic" that a deal would be done.But Germany, leading a bloc of sceptical eurozone nations, said the outcome of crisis talks this weekend was "completely open."Slovak Finance Minister Peter Kazimir -- one of the staunchest opponents to extending more bailout funds -- tweeted "it seems we have progress on Greece" after the new proposals were submitted.He, too, warned however: "It's still not clear whether this will be enough."- Euro, markets soar -The possibility of a breakthrough sent stock markets soaring in Europe, Asia and the US.The euro surged more than 1.3 percent on the Greek plan, before falling back slightly in later trade, still up at $1.117."The eurozone seems to be as close to a deal as it has done for the past five months, with progress seemingly genuine and credible," said analyst Connor Campbell at trading firm Spreadex.A make-or-break summit bringing together leaders of all 28 EU nations, not just the 19 that use the euro, is scheduled for Sunday.It could be cancelled if an agreement is reached beforehand, though parliaments in several EU nations, notably Germany, will have to vote on whether to accept Greece's reform plan in exchange for another huge bailout -- its third in five years."We have to make a major decision. Whichever way," said Jeroen Dijsselbloem, head of the Eurogroup of eurozone finance ministers.In a bid to head off a possible challenge to the measures within his hard-left party Syriza, Tsipras urged his lawmakers "to stand united and firm in front of these important decisions."The Greek offer, set out in a 13-page document, concedes to Greece's paymasters on several key points that Tsipras's ruling coalition -- and the Greek voters, in a referendum last weekend -- had previously fiercely opposed."Greece has come across on almost all issues and has clearly shown its willingness to compromise," said Carsten Brzeski, chief economist at the German bank ING-DiBa.With caveats, he said the "chances for a deal and another bailout for Greece have increased again."CurrenciesDirect dealer Davide Ugolini said: "Greece has finally managed to flip the ball into Europe's court. Crisis-watchers can look forward to an interesting weekend."- Tsipras's gamble -The reforms agree to creditors' demands to overhaul pensions, increase sales taxes, and commit to privatisations. But they seek to limit changes on other thorny issues, including tax breaks for Greece's islands and cuts to military spending.The proposal aims to procure financing "for three years, debt adjustment and a front-loaded investment package of 35 billion euros ($38 billion)," a Greek government source said.Tsipras is taking a political gamble by making any concessions to creditors' demands.Hardliners in Syriza and coalition partner the Independent Greeks have obstinately rejected further austerity.Syriza's parliamentary spokesman, Dimitris Vitsas, urged party MPs "to support the government's effort to reach a deal," saying it "kicks off the resolution of the debt issue."Although Greek voters last Sunday roundly voted "No" to accepting tough austerity terms for a bailout that expired June 30, they are alarmed at capital controls that have closed banks and rationed ATM cash.They overwhelmingly want to keep the euro."The government has to find a deal with its European partners no matter what. We didn't vote 'No' to leave the eurozone," said a pensioner in Athens, Nikos Eftekidis.But another pensioner, Giorgos, said the "government's proposed measures are very tough, I wasn't expecting that. That's not what the Greeks voted for."Germany leads a bloc of eurozone nations saying that, after two bailouts over the past five years totalling 240 billion euros, and 107 billion euros in debt forgiveness in 2012, Greece is looking like bottomless moneypit.Tsipras hopes his new offer will pass muster with those hostile eurozone countries, and open the door to creditors discussing another round of relief from Greece's suffocating 320-billion-euro ($350-billion) mountain of debt.But Germany has ruled out forgiving more of Greece's debt. Chancellor Angela Merkel has said "a classic 'haircut' is out of the question for me."But her careful choice of words -- and an acknowledgement from German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble that Greece was in need of debt restructuring -- hinted Berlin might yet consider a different form of relief, perhaps involving pushing back repayments or lowering interest on loans.
Germany concedes Greece needs debt relief; Greek plan awaited-Reuters By John O'Donnell and Angeliki Koutantou-july 9,15-yahoonews
FRANKFURT/ATHENS (Reuters) - Germany conceded on Thursday that Greece would need some debt restructuring as part of any new loan program to make its economy viable as the Greek cabinet raced to finalize reform proposals to avert an imminent economic meltdown.The admission by German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble came hours before a midnight deadline for Athens to submit a reform plan meant to convince European partners to give it another loan to save it from a possible exit from the euro.Greece has already had two bailouts worth 240 billion euros from the euro zone and the International Monetary Fund, but its economy has shrunk by a quarter, unemployment is more than 25 percent and one in two young people is out of work.Schaeuble, who has made no secret of his scepticism about Greece's fitness to remain in the currency area, told a conference in Frankfurt: "Debt sustainability is not feasible without a haircut and I think the IMF is correct in saying that.But he added: "There cannot be a haircut because it would infringe the system of the European Union."He offered no solution to the conundrum, which implied that Greece's debt problem might not be soluble within the euro zone.But he did say there was limited scope for "reprofiling" Greek debt by extending loan maturities, shaving interest rates and lengthening a moratorium on debt service payments.European Council President Donald Tusk, who will chair an emergency euro zone summit on Sunday to decide Greece's fate, joined growing international calls for Athens to be granted some form of debt relief as part of any new loan deal if Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras finally delivers convincing reforms.Tsipras chaired a marathon cabinet meeting to finalize a package of tax hikes and pension reforms to send to euro zone authorities in a race to secure agreement at the weekend on a third financial rescue.The leader of his junior coalition partner, Defense Minister Panos Kammenos, told reporters the Greek proposal had been approved by the cabinet and would be submitted shortly.Tusk said a realistic proposal from Greece will have to be matched by an equally realistic proposal on debt sustainability from the creditors."Otherwise, we will continue the lethargic dance we have been dancing for the past five months," he said.Failure to reach a deal on Sunday, including releasing some money to enable Athens to cover debt service over the next few weeks could lead to a collapse of Greek banks next week.If there is no agreement, all 28 European Union leaders will discuss measures to limit the damage from a Greek collapse, including humanitarian aid, possible border controls and steps to mitigate the impact on neighbors, EU officials said.DRAGHI DOUBTFUL-Just how uncertain the coming days are was highlighted when European Central Bank President Mario Draghi voiced highly unusual doubts about the chances of rescuing Greece.Italian daily Il Sole 24 Ore quoted the ECB chief, under growing fire in Germany for keeping Greek banks afloat, as saying he was not sure a solution would be found for Greece and he did not believe Russia would come to Athens' rescue.Asked if a deal to save Greece could be wrapped up, Draghi said: "I don't know, this time it's really difficult."The ECB is keeping shuttered Greek banks afloat with emergency liquidity capped until the weekend.Even France, Greece's strongest supporter in the euro zone, acknowledged it was working on scenarios for a Greek exit from the currency area if weekend efforts to clinch a deal fail.Under the agreed timetable, the leftist Greek government, which formally applied on Wednesday for a three-year loan from the European Stability Mechanism bailout fund, has until midnight to present convincing, detailed reform proposals.Having won a thumping referendum majority to reject the austerity terms of a previous bailout plan, fired his turbulent finance minister and secured support from opposition party leaders, Tsipras is in a stronger position to impose tough measures and face down resistance at home.But in a sign of the some of the challenges he will face, the leader of the far-left wing of his Syriza party came out to denounce any imposition of harsh measures on Greeks."We don't want add to the past two failed bailouts a third bailout of tough austerity which will not give any prospects for the country," Energy Minister Panagiotis Lafazanis said.According to Athens daily Kathimerini, Greece is planning a reform package worth 12 billion euros over two years, more than previously planned to offset a return to recession after months of difficult negotiations with creditors.Instead of growing by 0.5 percent this year, months of uncertainty and almost two weeks of capital controls mean "there are estimates of a recession of about 3 percent", Kathimerini said. Greece emerged only last year from a deep recession that shrank its economy by a quarter over six years.Tougher measures may face resistance from the hard-left wing of Tsipras' Syriza party and from his junior coalition partner, the right-wing nationalist Independent Greeks.European officials told Reuters on Wednesday that some large Greek banks may have to be shut and taken over by stronger rivals as part of a restructuring of the sector that would follow any bailout of the country.One official said Greece's four big banks - National Bank of Greece, Eurobank, Piraeus and Alpha Bank - could be reduced to just two, a measure that would doubtless encounter fierce resistance in Athens.German Bundesbank chief Jens Weidman said capital controls should remain in force in Greece until there was any deal, and that the ECB should not increase its liquidity assistance for Greek banks, without which they may collapse next week.(Additional reporting by Agnieszka Flak in Milan, Deepa Babington, Renee Maltezou and Michele Kambas in Athens, Andreas Rinke in Sarajevo and Laurence Foster in Paris; Writing by Paul Taylor; editing by Anna Willard and Giles Elgood)
Israel says two citizens being held by Hamas in Gaza-Reuters By Ori Lewis-july 9,15-yahoonews
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Two Israeli citizens are being held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday, a situation that could lead to demands for a prisoner exchange between Israel and the Islamist militant group.Hamas, which took control of the Palestinian coastal enclave in 2007 and fought three wars with Israel since then, declined to confirm or deny it had the captives."We are working for the return of the two Israelis who crossed the border into Gaza," Netanyahu said in a statement, confirming information that has been restricted by the Israeli military censor since last September."We hold Hamas responsible for their safety."Israel's Defense Ministry identified one of those held as Abraham Mentis, 26, an Israeli of Ethiopian origin. The other is an Israeli Arab who was not named.The ministry said it believed Mentis, a resident of Ashkelon, a city close to the Gaza border, had crossed into the coastal territory on foot on Sept. 7, 2014. It gave no details on how or when the Israeli Arab had entered the territory.Mengisto's brother, Ilan, said Avraham was unwell and needed help. In an emotional plea outside the family's apartment in Ashkelon, he called on Hamas to consider his brother's medical state and "release him immediately"."This is a distressing humanitarian case because my brother is not well," he said. "I ask the Israeli government to bring him home safely and call on the international community to intervene and to bring its influence to bear for his release."Israel has in the past engaged in prisoner swaps with Hamas, most notably in 2011, when Gilad Shalit, a soldier abducted by militants in a cross-border raid in 2006, was released in exchange for more than 1,000 Palestinians held in Israeli jails.Dozens of those ex-prisoners have been rounded up by Israel since, outraging Hamas, which signaled that until they were freed again it would refuse to respond to Thursday's charge that it was holding two Israeli captives.Israel is separately seeking the return of the remains of two soldiers killed during last year's war with Hamas."There will be no talk about a prisoner swap before Israel releases all Palestinians who were re-arrested in the West Bank after they had been freed in the 2011 Shalit deal," Mahmoud al-Zahar, a top Hamas official, told Reuters.Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said the Mengisto family had feared for Avraham's safety before he crossed into Gaza, and that he should not be considered an asset -- a reference to his possible use in a prisoner swap."Without discussing (medical) details, his family was very worried about him before he left," Rivlin told reporters. "He cannot be considered to hold tactical or strategic value in the struggle between us and Hamas or any other foes."Gaza is fenced in by Israel to the north and east and by Egypt to the south. To the west it faces the Mediterranean. In some places the fence between Israel and Gaza is only a few meters high, while it is also possible to swim around into Gaza, although the Israeli military closely monitors such activity.During the war that ended last August, Hamas fighters infiltrated Israel using cross-border tunnels. Israel says it destroyed these during the fighting, while Hamas says some of the secret passages remained intact or are being rebuilt.(Additional reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi; Writing by Ori Lewis; Editing by Luke Baker/Mark Heinrich)
Israel to open dialogue with International Criminal Court-Associated Press-july 9,15-yahoonews
JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli newspaper says Israel has decided to open talks with the International Criminal Court over its preliminary investigation into Israel's military operation in the Gaza Strip last year.The Haaretz daily reported the decision Thursday — a reversal for Israel, which has refused to cooperate with the ICC.The court is conducting a preliminary investigation to determine whether to open a full-fledged war crimes probe. More than 2,200 Palestinians, including over 1,400 civilians, were killed last year, according to U.N. figures. On the Israel side, 73 died.Haaretz also quoted an anonymous official as saying Israel will not cooperate with the court. Instead, it will relay its position that the court has no authority over the matter.Israel's Foreign Ministry says Haaretz's report is true but declined to elaborate.
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-FATHER OF THE ARAB-MUSLIMS) 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)
Turkey's Davutoglu tasked to form new government-Associated Press By SUZAN FRASER-july 9,15-yahoonews
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday officially tasked Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu to form a government, paving the way for arduous coalition talks to begin, Erdogan's spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said.Davutoglu's ruling Islamic-rooted party won Turkey's June 7 general election but lost its parliamentary majority, forcing it to seek a partner in one of the three smaller opposition parties in parliament in order to govern.Davutoglu now has 45 days in which to form a government. New elections are called if no government is formed within that time.Davutoglu said earlier Thursday that he would begin coalition-building talks with the three parties' leaders next week.He however, laid down a marker for the coalition talks, saying Erdogan's role was not up for debate.Davutoglu's most likely coalition partners accuse Erdogan of exceeding his presidential powers and have made reining him in a priority for any alliance.The coalition talks could also be complicated by opposition demands that corruption cases into four former ministers — who were close to Erdogan — be reopened. Parliamentary probes into the ministers were closed with the ruling Justice and Development Party's majority votes.Erdogan waited until after the formation of a new parliamentary secretariat, which sets the parliamentary timetable, before formally giving Davutoglu the mandate to form the new government, breaking with tradition. Previously, leaders were asked to form governments about a week after formal election results were announced.The constitution stipulates that a new government is formed after the secretariat is established, although previous presidents have mandated leaders before the secretariat was established.The delay prompted opposition parties to accuse the president of trying to extend the ruling party's hold on government and to stall power-sharing with another party.The Turkish leader is also rumored to want repeat elections, possibly in November, in the hope that the ruling party, which he founded, can regain a majority allowing it to rule alone.The election not only ended the ruling party's 13-year single party rule but came as a slap to Erdogan's ambitions to switch to a presidential system which would give him broad executive powers.Since his election as president last year, Erdogan has been accused of overstepping the boundaries of the largely ceremonial presidency, by chairing cabinet meetings and even campaigning on behalf of the Justice and Development Party despite taking the oath for neutrality.
Germany's Steinmeier to rejoin Iran nuclear talks Friday-Reuters-july 9,15-yahoonews
VIENNA (Reuters) - Germany's Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier is leaving nuclear talks with Iran and world powers to return to Berlin late on Thursday and will rejoin the negotiations in Vienna on Friday morning, a source close to the talks said.U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said he was not in a rush to reach an historic deal to curb Iran's atomic program in exchange for sanctions relief, suggesting an accord was unlikely hours ahead of a deadline set by the U.S. Congress for a quick review of any agreement.(Reporting By Shadia Nasralla; Editing by Arshad Mohammed)
KNOWLEGE AND WORLD TRAVEL (IMMIGRATION) INCREASED
DANIEL 12:4
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,(WORLD TRAVEL,IMMIGRATION FROM FLEEING WARS) and knowledge shall be increased.(COMPUTERS MICROCHIPS ETC)
Number of Syrian refugees tops four million: UN-AFP By Rana Moussaoui with Omar Ibrahim in Minyeh-july 9,15-yahoonews
Beirut (AFP) - More than four million Syrians have fled their country's civil war, the United Nations said on Thursday, with many now despairing that they will ever return to their conflict-wracked homeland."We don't think about going back to Syria. What we think about from day-to-day is how to keep our children alive," said Yassin al-Ali, a Syrian refugee living in northern Lebanon.Ali, 45, lives with his wife and three children in an informal refugee camp, that has no electricity or drinking water, on agricultural land where many refugees work long hours to eke out a meagre salary."No one in the world is working seriously to end the conflict so that we can go home," said Ali, who fled his home in the central Homs province at the onset of the conflict that began in March 2011.Many of the more than four million Syrian now living as refugees in the Middle East and beyond share Ali's resentment and sense of abandonment."Over the years, we've realised that the promises made by the United States and others were just empty air," said Osama al-Raqa, 22, who missed out university because of the war."I dream of leaving to Europe," he said, in the same camp in the northern district of Minyeh."Europeans eat and live in houses. We, on the other hand, are homeless and the whole world treats us like a burden."Syria's conflict began with anti-government protests but spiralled into a war after a regime crackdown.It has since claimed more than 230,000 lives, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor.- Refugees 'sinking into poverty' -The UN refugee agency UNHCR said Thursday that the number of Syrian refugees now stands at 4,013,000 people, with another 7.6 million displaced inside the country."This is the biggest refugee population from a single conflict in a generation," UN refugee chief Antonio Guterres said in a statement."It is a population that needs the support of the world but is instead living in dire conditions and sinking deeper into poverty."UNHCR said one million Syrians had become refugees in just the last 10 months, and the overall number could grow to 4.27 million by the end of the year if the pace continued.The crisis is the largest handled by UNHCR in a single conflict for nearly 25 years, since the agency assisted some 4.6 million Afghan refugees in 1992.Most Syrian refugees are sheltering in neighbouring countries, including Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq, where many live in poverty with few legal protections."Worsening conditions are driving growing numbers towards Europe and further afield," Guterres said, adding that poverty was also driving increased child labour and early marriage among refugees.UNHCR estimated that $5.5 billion are needed this year to help Syrian refugees and the increasingly overwhelmed communities hosting them.By June it had received just 24 percent of that amount, forcing cuts to food aid and schooling for refugees.- 'Nothing has changed' -In Lebanon, where the government has not allowed the creation of formal refugees camps, host communities are struggling with an influx of more than one million Syrians.That has strained the already-stretched resources of a country with only four million citizens, and prompted the government to tighten its borders and crack down on those without official papers."The police detained my four sons with seven other people on Sunday because they didn't have papers," said Khaled Sheikh, 53, who described the camp in Minyeh as like a prison."We don't have any work, and we can't leave the camp" for fear of arrest.Syrians made up a third of the 137,000 people who tried to cross the Mediterranean to Europe in the first half of 2015, the UNHCR says.Guterres urged European countries to do more to "fully assume their responsibilities and... extend the mechanisms of solidarity that have been created."NGO Oxfam also urged the international community to "restore the lost faith in humanity of an entire generation" by donating more, taking in refugees and working to end the Syrian conflict.On the ground in Minyeh, refugees said they had no expectation that the international community or the media would do anything to help."I don't want to talk to the media. I've been talking to the media for three years and nothing has changed," one woman said.
EZEKIEL 35:9-11
9 I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy (ARABS) cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
10 Because thou (ARABS) hast said, These two nations (ISRAEL & JUDAH) and these two countries (ISRAEL & JUDAH) shall be mine, and we (ARABS) will possess it; whereas the LORD was there:
11 Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy (GELIOUSY) which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them;(ISRAELIS) and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged thee.(ARABS)
ISAIAH 41:11
11 Behold, all they that were incensed against thee (ISRAEL) shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing;(DESTROYED) and they that strive with thee shall perish.(ISRAEL HATERS WILL BE TOTALLY DESTROYED)
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:TOBOLSK)
4 And I (GOD) will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY) of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.(AFRICAN MUSLIMS,SUDAN,TUNESIA ETC)
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages;(ISRAEL) I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil,(OIL IS IN SPOIL) and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
EZEKIEL 39:1-8,11-21
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back,(RUSSIA-ARAB MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS) and leave but the sixth part of thee,(5/6TH OR 300 MILLION DEAD RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS I BELIEVE) and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog (RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS) a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers (EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN JORDAN VALLEY) on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog (RUSSIAN) and all his multitude:(ARAB/MUSLIM HORDE) and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.(BURIEL SITE OF THE 300 MILLION,RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS)
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.(OF ISRAEL)
13 Yea, all the people of the land (OF ISRAEL) shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I (GOD-JESUS) shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment,(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB EXPERTS) passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
15 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it,(WON'T TOUCH IT) till the buriers have buried it (PROPERLY) in the valley of Hamongog.(RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS NEW BURIEL SITE)(EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN THE JORDAN VALLEY)
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.(OF THE ISRAEL-GOD HATERS)
17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl,(500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS THREW ISRAEL EVERY SPRING,FALL) and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.(OF THE RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ARMIES)
18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19 And ye (MIGRATING BIRDS IN ISRAEL) shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.(RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS)
20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
21 And I (GOD-JESUS) will set my glory among the heathen,(WORLD NATIONS) and all the heathen (WORLD NATIONS) shall see my judgment that I have executed,(AGAINST ISRAELS ENEMIES) and my (GODS) hand that I have laid upon them.(ISRAELS HATER ENEMIES)
JEREMEIAH 49:35-37 (IN IRAN AT THE BUSHEHR OR ARAK NUKE SITE SOME BELIEVE)
35 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,(IRAN/BUSHEHR NUCLEAR SITE) the chief of their might.(MOST DANGEROUS NUKE SITE IN IRAN)
36 And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven,(IRANIANS SCATTERED OR MASS IMIGARATION) and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.(WORLD IMMIGRATION)
37 For I will cause Elam (IRAN-BUSHEHR NUKE SITE) to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger,(ISRAELS NUKES POSSIBLY) saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:(IRAN AND ITS NUKE SITES DESTROYED)
Putin, Rouhani discuss nuclear and security cooperation-Associated Press-july 9,15-yahoonews
MOSCOW (AP) — The presidents of Russia and Iran have held talks that Vladimir Putin's spokesman says covered military and nuclear cooperation, as well as the fight against the Islamic State group.Putin and Iran's Hassan Rouhani met Thursday in the Russian city Ufa, which is hosting a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in which Iran has observer status.The Russian president's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said Putin noted "positive dynamics" in the ongoing Vienna talks about a final agreement on Iran's nuclear program, according to Russian news agencies.Peskov declined to say whether the talks touched on the delivery of S-300 advanced air-defense systems to Iran. After a framework agreement on Iran's nuclear program was reached this spring, Putin lifted Russia's suspension on sending the S-300s, but no deliveries have been reported.
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.
Seas could rise 6 meters even if governments curb warming: study-Reuters By Alister Doyle-july 9,15-yahoonews
OSLO (Reuters) - Sea levels could rise by at least six meters (20 feet) in the long term, swamping coasts from Florida to Bangladesh, even if governments achieve their goals for curbing global warming, according to a study published on Thursday.Tracts of ice in Greenland and Antarctica melted when temperatures were around or slightly higher than today in ancient thaws in the past three million years, a U.S.-led international team wrote in the journal Science.And the world may be headed for a repeat even if governments cut greenhouse gas emissions to limit global warming to a United Nations goal of 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times."Present temperature targets may commit Earth to at least six meters sea level rise," the authors at the Past Global Changes project wrote. Some greenhouse gases can linger for centuries in the atmosphere.Such a thaw would threaten cities from Beijing to London, and swamp low-lying tropical island states.Lead author Andrea Dutton, of the University of Florida, said it could take many centuries for a six-meter rise, despite some ancient evidence that more rapid shifts were possible."This is a long-term projection. It's not going to happen the day after tomorrow," she told Reuters.The United Nations' panel of climate scientists said in 2013 that global warming could push up world sea levels by 26 to 82 cm (10 to 32 inches) by the late 21st century, on top of a 19 cm gain since 1900.Thursday's study, based on studies of everything from ancient ice to fossil corals, said sea levels rose by between six and nine meters in a warm period about 125,000 years ago when temperatures were similar to those of today.Ocean levels gained between six and 13 meters 400,000 years ago when temperatures were up to about 1C warmer than present.And in a warm period three million years ago, sea levels were also at least six meters higher than now. The ancient shifts were probably linked to natural variations in the Earth's orbit around the sun.Last year, some scientific studies indicated that parts of West Antarctica's ice sheet had already passed a "tipping point", and were locked in an unstoppable long-term thaw."Tipping is not just a theoretical possibility, it is a reality," Ricarda Winkelmann of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research told a science conference in Paris.(Additional reporting by Laurie Goering in Paris; Editing by Mark Trevelyan)
EARTH WORSHIP
DEUTERONOMY 17:3-4
3 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;
4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel:
DEUTORONOMY 4:15-19
15 Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:
16 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
17 The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,
18 The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:
19 And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
2 KINGS 23:5
5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
Carbon price, social push needed to curb emissions: economists-Reuters By Laurie Goering-july 9,15-yahoonews
PARIS (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - China's climate-changing emissions from producing the energy it needs will be as large as the rest of the world's emissions put together over the next 25 years, the incoming director of the International Energy Agency predicted on Thursday.But new commitments to cut emissions by China, the United States, Europe and other countries, as part of a new global deal due in December to tackle climate change, will play a big role in pushing energy investment toward cleaner alternatives, economist Fatih Birol said.Energy companies "need to take climate policy more seriously", he warned at a week-long meeting of climate scientists in Paris."If they think their businesses ... are immune to the impacts of climate policy, they are making a strategic mistake."By 2030, a quarter of the world's energy will come from renewable sources, which will account for nearly 60 percent of new power capacity, with two-thirds of those plants in China, India, the United States and the European Union, Birol said.At the same time, however, the use of coal for power is unexpectedly gaining ground, not only in economic powerhouses such as China and India but in fast-growing African nations like Angola, Benin, Tanzania and Sudan, said Ottmar Edenhofer, chief economist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.The global surge in coal use, which is outpacing gains in energy efficiency and uptake of clean energy, is one reason – alongside economic growth and population increases – that greenhouse gas emissions continue to grow, he said.The key to stopping it will be putting a price on carbon emissions to make cleaner sources of energy more attractive, something he called “not sufficient but essential and a necessary condition for any kind of climate policy”.Making carbon emitters pay for the damage they do to the climate is politically unpalatable at the moment, he admitted. But using revenue from carbon taxes to fund access to clean energy or cut public debt could help drive acceptance, he said.If "moderate" carbon prices were put in place in key African countries that are now making long-term investments in coal-fired power, the finance generated could help reduce inequality and fight poverty, Edenhofer said.Eliminating fossil fuel subsidies could also free up huge sums in many countries for social spending, he said.But Frank Geels, an expert in systems innovation and sustainability at Britain's University of Manchester, warned “it's political suicide for most countries to introduce a carbon price that bites”, despite it clearly being needed.'SOCIAL TIPPING POINTS'-Another potentially effective but controversial way of reducing emissions would be to consider compensating oil, gas and coal companies for reserves they control but that should remain untapped to meet climate change goals, Geels said."In many transitions we need to compensate the losers," he said. "If we do not, they will fight hand and tooth to resist any carbon price. It might be better to buy them out."One problem with compensating for lost profits is that it could drive fossil fuel companies to continue exploring in search of even bigger pay-offs, he said.Dealing with climate change will require building new alliances and finding ways of overcoming social and political resistance as much as developing new technologies, he added.Persuading politicians to support the ambitious changes needed will require first getting voters to see taking action as important, said Ken Caldeira, a climate scientist with the Carnegie Institution for Science in the United States."We need social tipping points, where the average person thinks it's not okay to build a smokestack or a tailpipe, or to use the sky as a dumping ground," he said. "It's only when the average person changes their thinking that things will change.”Big shifts in social views are not unprecedented on major issues, he said. Gay marriage, once largely seen as socially unacceptable in the United States, is now legal in every state.England abandoned the slave trade in the 19th century, losing 2 percent of gross domestic product in the process, because social pressure to end it hit a critical level, he said.Such changes are already underway in China, where growing fears about pollution are driving government action to curb emissions, said Zhu Dajian, director of the UNEP-Tongji Institute of Environment for Sustainable Development.The "driving force" for action on climate change in China is middle-class families who increasingly care not just about economic growth but about pollution and their quality of life, he said.As a result of such pressure, "China's government wants to do something," he said. "We are facing a turning point."(Reporting by Laurie Goering; editing by Megan Rowling; Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, women's rights, trafficking, corruption and climate change. Visit www.trust.org)
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.
Spain wildfires burn more than 15,000 hectares-AFP-july 9,15-yahoonews
Madrid (AFP) - Forest blazes in Spain have ravaged more than 15,000 hectares this week as the country chokes in a record heatwave at the start of its wildfire season, officials said Thursday.At least 10 major blazes have broken out around the country as temperatures reached record levels for July in at least four places.In the southern city of Granada temperatures topped 43 degrees Celsius (109 degrees Fahrenheit) on Tuesday, a level never before reached there in July.In Zaragoza in the northeast, the state weather agency Aemet recorded a high of 44.5 degrees Celsius that day.Temperatures in many cities topped 40 degrees on Thursday and at least four major wildfires were raging at 1500 GMT, with two of them threatening the Cazorla nature park in Andalucia.South of the park in Quesada, flames were threatening 1,800 hectares of land, emergency services there said. Another fire was blazing north of the park.Near Granada, 600 people were temporarily evacuated due to another blaze, officials said.A fourth fire broke out in Zufre in western Andalucia but was reported to be evolving more favourably.Firefighters on Monday had brought under control a wildfire near Zaragoza that forced the evacuation of some 1,500 people from their homes and burned 14,400 hectares (35,500 acres) in less than four days.There had not been a wildfire that big in Spain since 2012. In that year, some 226,000 hectares of forest and brush burned overall.Spain is highly prone to forest fires in summer because of soaring temperatures, strong winds and dry vegetation.Environmental group Greenpeace warned in a statement Thursday that "cuts to fire prevention and extinction" budgets in the recent economic crisis, as well as the extremely hot and dry weather, worsen the fire risk.Aemet said the current heatwave -- Spain's second so far this year -- could last until July 16. Most of the country is on extreme fire alert for Friday.
EARTHQUAKES
ISAIAH 42:15
15 I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ Worldwide
21 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2015-07-09 20:35:02 UTCShowing event times using UTC21 earthquakes in map area
5.6 16km SSE of Hachinohe, Japan 2015-07-09 18:32:50 UTC 69.9 km
2.5 10km SSE of Kettleman City, California 2015-07-09 18:25:55 UTC 3.8 km
5.0 50km ENE of Tingo Maria, Peru 2015-07-09 18:08:39 UTC 42.9 km
2.6 6km W of Fillmore, California 2015-07-09 18:04:47 UTC 18.5 km
4.0 114km W of Layka, China 2015-07-09 17:54:09 UTC 10.0 km
4.7 5km E of Sakai, Japan 2015-07-09 16:15:13 UTC 48.7 km
2.6 6km NW of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2015-07-09 16:02:02 UTC 107.0 km
2.8 5km W of Fillmore, California 2015-07-09 13:33:21 UTC 18.0 km
5.1 59km SW of Acajutla, El Salvador 2015-07-09 13:25:54 UTC 55.5 km
5.4 45km ENE of Taron, Papua New Guinea 2015-07-09 10:07:38 UTC 102.2 km
3.1 36km WSW of Cohoe, Alaska 2015-07-09 09:38:45 UTC 65.5 km
5.1 73km NE of Miyako, Japan 2015-07-09 08:27:39 UTC 42.2 km
5.4 277km NE of Ndoi Island, Fiji 2015-07-09 07:28:27 UTC 339.3 km
2.9 9km E of Luther, Oklahoma 2015-07-09 06:45:19 UTC 5.0 km
2.7 48km SSW of Larsen Bay, Alaska 2015-07-09 06:25:01 UTC 0.0 km
4.2 27km ENE of Athmuqam, Pakistan 2015-07-09 03:30:01 UTC 61.6 km
2.7 29km SSE of Coldwater, Kansas 2015-07-08 23:10:08 UTC 5.0 km
2.6 26km SSE of Coldwater, Kansas 2015-07-08 23:08:24 UTC 14.3 km
4.8 80km ENE of Bristol Island, South Sandwich Islands 2015-07-08 22:25:59 UTC 35.0 km
2.7 7km ENE of Cherokee, Oklahoma 2015-07-08 22:21:46 UTC 8.3 km
4.0 15km WNW of Yesilova, Turkey 2015-07-08 22:14:02 UTC 13.2 km
SINS OF PEOPLE
ISAIAH 5:20-25
20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
21 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
22 Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
24 Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
25 Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
2 TIMOTHY 3:1-5
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
1 TIMOTHY 1:9
9 Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
10 For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;
Cosby accuser asks for entire deposition to be made public-Reuters-july 9,15-yahoonews
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Canadian woman at the center of sexual assault allegations against comedian Bill Cosby accused him on Wednesday of violating a confidentiality agreement in their 2005 lawsuit, and asked a court to make public his entire testimony.Andrea Constand, a former Temple University employee, filed court papers in Pennsylvania district court, also accusing Cosby and his advisers of manipulating the media through interviews and statements about the slew of sex assault allegations against him.The lawsuit was filed two days after a Pennsylvania judge unsealed testimony in Constand's 2005 civil lawsuit against Cosby, in which the actor said he had obtained Quaaludes with the intent of giving the sedatives to young women in order to have sex with them.The case was settled in 2006 for an undisclosed sum and both Cosby and Constand signed confidentiality agreements. In the past year some 40 other women have come forward accusing the star of TV comedy series "The Cosby Show" of drugging and sexually assaulting them in incidents dating back decades.Constand said in Wednesday's court filing that Cosby was questioned about other sexual allegations at the time and that the women involved had a right to hear what he said about them then and "a right to determine what if anything can be used as evidence in their respective cases."Constand, a former basketball player from Toronto, asked the court to have Cosby's "entire deposition and settlement agreement released to the public."She said that while she has remained silent, "Cosby himself has given a rather incoherent interview and used members of his family and others as surrogates to speak for him."Cosby has never been criminally charged, and most of the allegations exceed the statute of limitations. His attorneys have consistently denied the accusations. They could not immediately be reached for comment on Wednesday.A spokeswoman for the Creative Artists Agency said on Wednesday the firm had parted ways with Cosby months ago, but she declined to say why.Cosby has said little directly about the accusations, but he told the audience at one of his shows in Florida last year that he would not reply to "innuendos."(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; Additional reporting by Curtis Skinner in San Francisco; Editing by Eric Walsh)
EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH IN NOAHS DAY(BECAUSE OF SIN,VIOLENCE AND GODLESS PEOPLE)
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.
HOSEA 4:1-3
1 Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
DEUTORONOMY 28:22-24
22 The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.
23 And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.
24 The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
U.S. Wildlife Service baffled by exodus of birds from Florida isle-Reuters By Barbara Liston-july 9,15-yahoonews
ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of nesting birds vanished this spring from a Florida island refuge where they have come to breed for decades, leaving behind their unhatched eggs and mystifying wildlife officers trying to figure out why they disappeared.The birds have been coming to Seahorse Key on Florida’s Gulf Coast for more than a century, and in recent times averaging 10,000 to 20,000 breeding pairs a year, said Vic Doig, biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.The birds returned in April, said Doig, who spotted them while conducting a survey. Days later, a caretaker noticed that they were all gone.“Nobody really saw anything. One day they were there. The next day, they weren’t,” he said.Seahorse Key, about 60 miles southwest of Gainesville, is part of the Cedar Keys National Wildlife Refuge, established in 1929 to protect nesting birds that numbered about 200,000 at the time. The birds were under threat from hunters who sold their plumage to makers of fashionable hats for women.White ibis, tri-colored herons, snowy egrets and roseate spoonbills are among the rare wading birds with long and attractive feathers which return to Seahorse Key every year from April through June.The refuge is a nature lover’s paradise where tour boat operators ferry sightseers around the rookery.“When the birds are nesting there, the island is a chaotic, loud, busy place. All of a sudden, it’s like a ghost town,” Doig said.There was no sign of traumatic injuries or disease in the few bird carcasses left behind after the exodus, he said.A change in the local food supply seems unlikely, and a predator, such as the great horned owl, would be hard pressed to scare off so many birds spread out over one square mile.Although a storm with wind gusts and lightning moved in around the time the birds left, that is a common occurrence in spring.The island might have been buzzed by an aircraft or drone, Doig said, but there is no eyewitness evidence of an aircraft scaring off the birds.The agency is also considering whether the birds could have been spooked by a helicopter that recently began ferrying beachgoers to an island about five miles away, he said.With the investigation hitting a dead end, wildlife officers will have to wait to see if the birds return next year, Doig said.(Editing by Frank McGurty and Mohammad Zargham)
Captured New York fugitive moved to prison from hospital-Reuters By Ellen Wulfhorst-July 5, 2015 3:52 PM-yahoonews
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Captured prison escapee David Sweat was released on Sunday from a New York hospital where he had been treated for gunshot wounds and moved to a prison more than 250 miles from the one he fled, authorities said.Sweat, captured last Sunday following a three-week manhunt, will be locked up alone in a cell for 23 hours a day and placed on suicide watch at Five Points Correctional Facility in Romulus, in the state's Finger Lakes region, the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision said.Sweat, 35, and accomplice Richard Matt escaped from maximum security Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York on June 6. Matt, 49, was shot and killed by a federal agent on June 26 about 27 miles (43 km) away from the prison.The pair, both convicted murderers, had lived in prison in so-called honor housing which offered limited privileges to prisoners considered to be well-behaved.In their brazen break-out, Matt and Sweat cut holes in their cell walls, climbed down a catwalk, slipped through a steam pipe and emerged from a manhole outside prison walls, authorities said.Sweat, who was shot twice in the torso by a state police trooper during his capture near the Canadian border, was released from Albany Medical Center at about 3 a.m., the DOCCS said. The agency did not disclose details of his transport to prison.After a medical evaluation, Sweat will be held in Special Housing in a cell equipped with a bed, writing platform, toilet, sink and shower, prison authorities said. Opened in 2000, Five Points houses 1,294 inmates.Honor housing at Clinton allowed Matt and Sweat to cook their own meals, wear some street clothing and have more freedom of movement, yard access and television and telephone time than the prison's general population.Sweat will be charged with first-degree escape, authorities have said. He is already serving life without parole for the murder of a Broome County sheriff's deputy.Two Clinton prison workers are charged with helping in the escape. Corrections officer Gene Palmer and prison tailor shop supervisor Joyce Mitchell are accused of smuggling hacksaw blades and a screwdriver bit to the pair.New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has ordered an investigation of the prison, where strict new security procedures have been implemented. Its superintendent was replaced after he and 11 other employees were put on administrative leave.
In an amazing arc of grace, Confederate battle flag finally furled-In South Carolina, the aftermath of the Charleston shootings will be remembered not for rancor and division, but for a display of love and unity of purpose. On Friday, the Confederate battle flag was removed from the State House grounds.Christian Science Monitor By Patrik Jonsson-july 10,15-yahoonews
On Friday, the Confederate battle flag, after a brief ceremony, came down amid cheers, even as some Southerners hung their heads, unbelieving that a flag they believe represents solely the valor of Southern soldiers defending their land had come to represent hatred and oppression.But it had, powerfully – long before a white supremacist who posed with rebel flags killed nine black parishioners, including state Sen. Clementa Pinckney, on June 17 in Charleston, S.C.Recommended: Do you know your state flags? The shock of the murders and the massacre site – a historic church – united South Carolinians under a banner of grace, as Charlestonians joined hands to pray and mourn. President Obama referenced the biblical idea of grace – defined in part as a divine influence of goodness upon people – as a uniting force, even as he sang the spiritual hymn “Amazing Grace” at Senator Pinckney’s funeral.And so the shootings’ aftermath will be remembered not for rancor and division, but for an amazing display of love and unity of purpose, which became focused on the flag’s star-studded, tipped-over cross.In comments made Friday, the Rev. Jesse Jackson likened the church shootings as the crucifixion and the taking down of the flag as the resurrection.“ It’s hard to downplay the significance of this really monumental event, that a state so wedded to history and its symbols voted pretty overwhelmingly to take this flag down and put it in a museum,” says Gibbs Knotts, a political scientist at the College of Charleston.The call for the flag to come down marked a turning point not only for Republican Gov. Nikki Haley, a past flag defender who pleaded for the legislature to take it down, but also for many white Southerners. Indeed, it was largely white South Carolinians, including GOP lawmakers, who pushed for the flag’s removal, The State newspaper pointed out Friday.“This happened because people looked with new hearts and eyes and minds on the flag and on their fellow citizens and decided that it must happen,” the newspaper’s editorial board wrote.But it didn’t come easily. After the state Senate, which had seen one of its own lost in the Charleston mayhem, quickly passed a bill earlier in the week, South Carolina’s famously rancorous House began on Wednesday what became 13 hours of deliberation. When the political winds suggested that the vote should be delayed, Jenny Horne, a descendant of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, took to the floor, tearful, to chastise what she called her “friends.”"I cannot believe that we do not have the heart in this body to do something meaningful, such as take a symbol of hate off these grounds on Friday,” she argued, at times sobbing.The measure passed shortly afterward. Governor Haley signed the bill into law on Thursday, and state police immediately cordoned the flag off to prepare for the removal ceremony.In the war, the banner served as the battle flag for the Army of Northern Virginia, and then it was a museum piece for 100 years. In the 1950s and ’60s, white segregationists brought the flag back, as it became a symbol of the insurgent Dixiecrat party, led by the late South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond.Flown in 1961 commemorate the 100-year anniversary of the start of the Civil War, the flag stayed up in protest of the civil rights movement. It was then that federal lawmakers and judges began to dismantle Jim Crow, the informal political system in the South that marginalized blacks and forced them, among other things, to drink out of separate water fountains.In the modern era, the flag had come to symbolize Southern-fried rebellion – a quaint, youthful symbol that pop culture often treated with hilarity. But some 30 years after “The Dukes of Hazzard,” with its Confederate flag-emblazoned “General Lee” Dodge Charger, dominated the ratings, cable channel TV Land pulled reruns of the show after the Charleston massacre.On Friday, South Carolina lawmakers and relatives of the victims of the Charleston shootings watched somberly as an honor guard removed the flag and folded it. Throngs of people who were assembled to watch yelled, "Take it down! Take it down!"For all the heartache and wrenching debate over the past three weeks, the furling of the Confederate flag and its removal to what will become a multimillion-dollar shrine at South Carolina’s “relic room” in Columbia suggested a new beginning for a state long bogged down by racial divides.“This moment is about more than a flag or a vote. It’s about the hope that now, 150 years after the end of the Civil War, we have grown beyond our differences and have begun to grow together,” Columbia Mayor Steve Benjamin tweeted.Before the flag came down, Haley said on NBC’s “Today” show, “I don't want this to go away quickly. I want people to remember what today feels like and know that anything is possible with us."
South Carolina Senate votes to banish Confederate flag to museum-Reuters By Harriet McLeod-July 7, 2015 2:30 PM-yahoonews
CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - South Carolina's Senate passed legislation Tuesday to remove the Confederate battle flag from the state capitol's grounds, where it has flown for five decades despite being viewed by many as a symbol of slavery.A bill to banish the flag from the State House grounds to a museum easily passed a third and final 36-3 vote in the Senate. It was headed to the state House of Representatives, which voted to bring it to the floor for debate on Wednesday.The legislation was deemed an impossibility only months ago. But it gained strong bipartisan support since nine black churchgoers were gunned down on June 17 during Bible study at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal church in Charleston, about two hours southeast of the state capital, Columbia. Photos of Dylann Roof, the white man charged in the shooting, showed him posing with a Confederate flag on a website bearing a racist manifesto. A grand jury indicted Roof, 21, on nine counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder, a prosecutor said on Tuesday.The flag's defenders argue that it is part of South Carolina's heritage, representing those who fought and died for the rebellious Southern states that formed the Confederacy in the 1861-1865 Civil War.Republican state Senator Lee Bright, who is white, argued on Tuesday that the flag had been unfairly tied to slavery. He noted that many leaders in the 18th-century fight for American independence from Britain were slave owners."Not one Confederate flag flew over a slave ship," Bright asserted.While most politicians recognize that the banner is part of the state's heritage, many agree it should no longer be flown in public places.The flag was raised atop the State House in 1961 - along with the U.S. flag and the state flag - in what critics say was a deliberate slap in the face to the black civil rights movement. In 2000, it was moved to a Civil War memorial for the Confederate dead only yards from the entrance to the capitol.Support for the flag in the Republican-controlled legislature has evaporated amid a wave of sympathy for the victims and their families, who were widely acclaimed for expressing unconditional forgiveness for Roof at his bond hearing less than 48 hours after the murders.Several politicians say the shootings opened their eyes to the flag's divisiveness and what it means to South Carolina's black population.The Senate vote to take down the flag exceeded expectations. The legislation may face a stiffer challenge when the 124-member House begins debating it on Wednesday. But it still appears to have the two-thirds majority support it needs to pass, according to a local media poll.The bill could be approved as early as Thursday. Republican Governor Nikki Haley said she would order the flag taken down as soon as it becomes law.South Carolina House Democratic leaders on Tuesday urged fellow legislators to follow the Senate's lead."Take the flag down and give the people of South Carolina nothing to fight about. ... This is our moment. This is our time," Todd Rutherford, a black representative who is House minority leader, told a news conference.(Writing by David Adams; Editing by Cynthia Osterman, Peter Galloway and Jonathan Oatis)
U.S. House cancels vote on measure defending Confederate flag-Reuters-july 9,15-yahoonews
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday abruptly canceled a vote on a measure that would have defended the flying of the Confederate banner in cemeteries operated by the National Park Service.The House canceled consideration of a fiscal 2016 spending bill that would fund the park service. An amendment to that bill, by Republican Representative Ken Calvert, was pending that would have stopped any prohibition on flags decorating graves in national cemeteries.House Speaker John Boehner said he wanted to have a bipartisan discussion about how to move forward.(Reporting by Richard Cowan; Editing by Mohammad Zargham)
EU DICTATOR (WORLD LEADER)
1 THESSALONIANS 5:3-7
2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
2 THESSALONIANS 2:3-4
3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed,(EU WORLD DICTATOR)the son of perdition;
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
REVELATION 17:12-13
12 And the ten horns (NATIONS) which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.(SOCIALISM)
13 These have one mind,(SOCIALISM) and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
REVELATION 6:1-2
1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
2 And I saw, and behold a white horse:(PEACE) and he that sat on him had a bow;(EU DICTATOR) and a crown was given unto him:(PRESIDENT OF THE EU) and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.(MILITARY GENIUS)
2 THESSALONIANS 2:9-12
9 Even him,(EU WORLD DICTATOR) whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion,(THE FALSE RESURRECTION BY THE WORLD DICTATOR) that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
REVELATION 13:1-10
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.(THE EU AND ITS DICTATOR IS GODLESS)
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.(DICTATOR COMES FROM NEW AGE OR OCCULT)
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death;(MURDERERD) and his deadly wound was healed:(COMES BACK TO LIFE) and all the world wondered after the beast.(THE WORLD THINKS ITS GOD IN THE FLESH, MESSIAH TO ISRAEL)
4 And they worshipped the dragon (SATAN) which gave power unto the beast:(JEWISH EU DICTATOR) and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?(FALSE RESURRECTION,SATAN BRINGS HIM TO LIFE)
5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.(GIVEN WORLD CONTROL FOR 3 1/2YRS)
6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God,(HES A GOD HATER) to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.(HES A LIBERAL OR DEMOCRAT,WILL PUT ANYTHING ABOUT GOD DOWN)
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints,(BEHEAD THEM) and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.(WORLD DOMINATION)
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.(WORLD DICTATOR)
9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.(SAVED CHRISTIANS AND JEWS DIE FOR THEIR FAITH AT THIS TIME,NOW WE ARE SAVED BY GRACE BUT DURING THE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH, PEOPLE WILL BE PUT TO DEATH (BEHEADINGS) FOR THEIR BELIEF IN GOD (JESUS) OR THE BIBLE.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come (ROMANS IN AD 70) shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMANS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
27 And he( EU ROMAN, JEWISH DICTATOR) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:( 7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,( 3 1/2 YRS) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent.James Paul Warburg appearing before the Senate on 7th February 1950
Like a famous WWII Belgian General,Paul Henry Spock said in 1957:We need no commission, we have already too many. What we need is a man who is great enough to be able to keep all the people in subjection to himself and to lift us out of the economic bog into which we threaten to sink. Send us such a man. Be he a god or a devil, we will accept him.And today, sadly, the world is indeed ready for such a man.
No one will enter the New World Order... unless he or she will make a pledge to worship Lucifer. No one will enter the New Age unless he will take a Luciferian Initiation.- David Spangler Director of Planetary Initiative United Nations.
Spain Government Goes Full Police State; Enacts Law Forbidding Dissent, ‘Unauthorized’ Photography Of Law Enforcement-Satutes have arisen from Spain's position as a flashpoint for anti-austerity protests by Tim Cushing | Techdirt | July 9, 2015
Well, Spain’s officially a police state now. On July 1st, its much-protested “gag” law went into effect, instantly making criminals of those protesting the new law. Among the many new repressive stipulations is a €30,000-€600,000 fine for “unauthorized protests,” which can be combined for maximum effect with a €600-€300,000 fine for “disrupting public events.”This horrible set of statutes has arisen from Spain’s position as a flashpoint for anti-austerity protests, the European precursor to the Occupy Wall Street movement. Fines, fines and more fines await anyone who refuses to treat authority with the respect it’s forcibly requiring citizens to show it.The law also extends its anti-protest punishments to social media, where users can face similar fines for doing nothing more than encouraging or organizing a protest. Failing to present ID when commanded is another fine. And then there’s this: Showing a “lack of respect” to those in uniform or failing to assist security forces in the prevention of public disturbances could result in an individual fine of between €600 and €30,000.Spain’s legislators thought of everything. To ensure these crackdowns on protests go off with a minimum of public backlash, “respected” police officers are being given a blank check to use as much force as they feel necessary when breaking up “unauthorized protests.” The law doesn’t directly instruct police to behave badly, but it does provide a very helpful increase in opacity.A clause in the wide-ranging legislation that critics have dubbed the “gag law” provides for fines of up to 30,000 euros ($33,000) for “unauthorized use” of images of working police that could identify them, endanger their security or hinder them from doing their jobs.Somehow, the Spanish government has managed to find an expectation of privacy within its public spaces and applied it to its public servants. While the law does make some provision for the public’s “right to know,” it also defers to law enforcement’s judgment when it comes to what is or isn’t “authorized use” of photographs/video depicting police performing their public duties.Obviously, this small nod towards the public’s rights is completely insincere. The government wants to clamp down on protests and it obviously can’t be embarrassed by award-winning photographs/video of its police officers beating civilians wholly uninvolved with the protests that so angried up the cops’ blood.Those defending the law (sort of) think the built-in “protections” will at least protect some favored members of the media.Victora Lerena, president of Spain’s association representing visual journalists, thinks the language about freedom of information will protect journalists, but predicts anyone who tries to take images of police at protests without media organization credentials could be at risk.This is likely true, considering the “credentialed” press already blurs officers’ faces when reporting. But the most damning images of police misconduct usually come from unofficial sources, and even the most aggressive of mainstream news outlets frequently defer to the government’s judgment when reporting on alleged police abuse.Spain has outlawed dissent and given the police extra protections and respect they haven’t earned. That’s as close to a police state as you can get without actually declaring martial law.
EUROPEAN UNION ARMY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytWmPqY8TE0&feature=player_embedded
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 DIVSION REGION WORLD GOVERNMENT) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.( BE HEAD OF 3 NATIONS)
25 And he (EU PRESIDENT) shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.(3 1/2 YRS)
DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT-NEW AGE MOVEMENT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.
DANIEL 11:36-39
36 And the king (EU DICTATOR) shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS JEWISH) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.(CLAIM TO BE GOD)
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(WAR) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god,(DESTROY TERROR GROUPS) whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.
REVELATION 19:19
19 And I saw the beast,(EU LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies,(UNITED NATIONS TROOPS) gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse,(JESUS) and against his army.(THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)
NATO to open regional rapid reaction force HQ in Lithuania-Associated Press-july 9,15-yahoonews
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — NATO will open the first Baltic regional headquarters for its new rapid reaction force in Lithuania in the coming months, amid growing concerns over Russian aggression in Ukraine.Lithuanian Defense Minister Juozas Olekas says this will increase quick communication between national and alliance troops in the region. The unit will be staffed by 40 people.The head of the unit, Danish Col. J.S. Larsen, said Thursday the headquarters could coordinate operations of a division-sized unit "in case there is a need."Similar small headquarters, to facilitate the rapid deployment of troops, are planned in Poland, Bulgaria and Romania, as well as in neighboring Latvia and Estonia, in line with decisions made at the NATO Wales summit last year to increase the alliance's presence in the Baltic countries.___This story has been corrected to say the new center is a unit, not a base.
UPDATED JULY 11,2015-03:30PM
Euro zone ministers demand more from Greece for loan talks-Reuters By Andreas Rinke and Francesco Guarascio-july 11,15-yahoonews
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Skeptical euro zone finance ministers demanded on Saturday that Greece go beyond painful austerity measures accepted by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras if he wants them to open negotiations on a third bailout for his bankrupt country to keep it in the euro.Ministers lined up to vent their anger at Tsipras on arrival at their umpteenth emergency weekend meeting on Greece's acute debt crisis, with Athens staring into an economic abyss when financial markets reopen on Monday unless it wins fresh aid.EU officials forecast a deal would be reached by the end of the weekend to keep Greece afloat, but two sources said there was consensus among the other 18 ministers that the leftist government in Athens must take further steps to convince them it would honor any new debts.Tsipras won parliamentary backing early on Saturday for a tough reform package that largely mirrored measures previously demanded by its international creditors but rejected by Greek voters at his behest in a referendum last Sunday.Wolfgang Schaeuble, finance minister of its biggest creditor Germany and a stickler for the EU's fiscal rules, said negotiations would be "exceptionally difficult".Emerging optimism about Greece had been "destroyed in an incredible way in the last few months" since Tsipras won power, Schaeuble said.A German newspaper reported that his ministry was suggesting that Greece either improve its proposals quickly and transfer state assets worth 50 billion euros into a fund to pay down debt, or take a five-year "time-out" from the euro zone.The German Finance Ministry declined to comment on the report in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. But several officials said no one raised the possibility of a Greek euro exit in the meeting, which took a pause after three hours.Other ministers arriving for the Eurogroup session spoke of a fundamental lack of trust after years of broken Greek promises and six months of erratic and provocative behavior by the radical leftist Tsipras government."We are still far away," said Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the Dutch finance minister who was chairing the meeting. "On both content and the more complicated question of trust, even if it's all good on paper the question is whether it will get off the ground and will it happen ... We are facing a difficult negotiation."However a preparatory meeting earlier on Saturday endorsed with reservations a recommendation by EU institutions and the IMF that Tsipras's proposals did provide a basis to launch negotiations, sources familiar with the session said.Finland's state broadcaster YLE reported that the Finnish government had told parliament's influential Grand Committee on Saturday it did not consider the Greek proposal sufficient to start negotiations on a new loan. The government declined comment. Helsinki's stance has hardened since the populist Finns Party joined a right-wing coalition that took office in May.LEFTIST DEFECTIONS-In Athens overnight, Tsipras had to rely on opposition votes from the right in parliament after some of his leftist lawmakers resisted spending cuts, tax rises and other measures he proposed in order to unlock 54 billion euros in three-year credit.One Tsipras ally, Economy Minister George Stathakis, said some dissident ministers would be replaced and rebel lawmakers should resign their seats if they disagreed with the policy.Germany, the biggest lender in two previous bailouts totaling 240 billion euros ($265 billion) since 2010, is deeply skeptical and public opinion is hostile to any further aid for Greece, putting pressure on Chancellor Angela Merkel."The high figures for financing needs over the next three years may be too high and too sudden," one euro zone source said. He said officials believed Greece may need 82 billion euros, factoring in cash from the IMF and other EU sources.Sources in the creditor institutions said Greece would need 25 billion euros just to recapitalize its shattered banks, which have been closed since capital controls were imposed on June 29 after the breakdown of previous bailout negotiations.Stathakis told Greece's Mega TV that the capital controls, restricting cash withdrawals and bank transfers, would remain for at least another two months.The sources said the IMF had suggested one way to make Greek debts sustainable in the medium term could be to extend the maturity on past and new loans to 60 years instead of 30.Slovak Finance Minister Peter Kazimir, one of the most hawkish critics of Greece, said making the debt sustainable was going to be "a huge problem".A positive assessment of the Greek proposals delivered by the European Commission, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund late on Friday, along with bullish comments from Athens' key euro zone ally France, had raised expectations that the Eurogroup would give a green light to new loan negotiations.But even French Finance Minister Michel Sapin, Greece's most powerful ally in the euro zone, said: "Confidence has been ruined by every Greek government over many years which have sometimes made promises without making good on them at all."Now we need to have confidence again, to have certainty that decisions announced are decisions which are actually taken by the Greek government."Merkel has made clear she does not want to see a "Grexit" that could disrupt a fragile European economic recovery and undermine a supposedly irreversible union. However, she faces stiff opposition among her own conservatives.Euro zone leaders, including Merkel and French President Francois Hollande, are due to meet on Sunday, either to endorse a decision to open talks on a new bailout or if, along with other EU leaders, to take steps to contain the fallout from a looming Greek bankruptcy.PARLIAMENT DIVIDED-With Greece's banks completely dependent on a credit lifeline from the European Central Bank, the measures proposed by Athens were seen as a last chance to avert financial collapse.But in an ominous sign for the stability of the Greek government, 10 members on the ruling benches abstained or voted against the measures and another seven were absent, leaving Tsipras short of the 151 seats needed for a majority of his own.Prominent left-wingers in his Syriza party signaled before the vote that they could not support the mix of tax hikes and spending cuts proposed by Tsipras, following the rejection of similar austerity measures by voters in Sunday's referendum.Energy Minister Panagiotis Lafazanis, Deputy Labour Minister Dimitris Stratoulis as well as the speaker of parliament, Zoe Constantopoulou, all called "Present", in effect abstaining from the vote and withholding their support from the government."The government is being totally blackmailed," Constantopoulou said.Following the vote, Tsipras said he would now focus on securing a deal."The priority now is to have a positive outcome to the negotiations. Everything else in its own time," he said.Greece asked for 53.5 billion euros ($59 billion) to help cover its debts until 2018, a review of primary budget surplus targets in the light of the sharp deterioration of its economy, and a "reprofiling" of the country's long-term debt.In addition to cash from the euro zone, if Greece makes payments it missed last month to the IMF, the global lender still has a facility to lend Greece some 16 billion euros.Any deal would also have to be endorsed by national parliaments including in Germany, which must also formally approve the loan negotiations being started.The Greek offer includes defense spending cuts, a timetable for privatizing state assets such as Piraeus port and regional airports, hikes in value added tax for hotels and restaurants and slashing a top-up payment for poorer pensioners.(Additional reporting by Angeliki Koutantou, Michele Kambas, George Georgiopoulos, Costas Pitas, Lefteris Karagiannopoulos, Georgia Kalovyrna, Matthias Williams and James Mackenzie in Athens, Andreas Rinke, Marine Hass, Tom Koerkemeier, Renee Maltezou, Francesco Guarascio, Foo Yun Chee, Alastair Macdonald, Julien Ponthus and Miranda Alexander-Walker in Brussels and Jan Strupczewski; Writing by Paul Taylor; Editing by Robin Pomeroy)
Greece meets skeptical European creditors in search of help-Associated Press By RAF CASERT and JOHN-THOR DAHLBURG-july 11,15-yahoonews
BRUSSELS (AP) — Greece's finance minister was locked in talks with skeptical creditors Saturday, trying to persuade them that the Greek government can be trusted to deliver on its reform promises in exchange for a financial rescue securing the country's future in the euro.After convincing the Greek parliament in the early hours of Saturday to back a harsh austerity package to stave off financial collapse, the Greek government is facing a difficult task getting its European creditors to support its three-year bailout request. Over and over, finance ministers and top officials of the eurozone said the same thing as they arrived for a key meeting on Greece's bailout proposals — we don't fully trust you.Greece, they said, needed to do a lot more than just publish a 13-page plan of reform commitments before they could sign off on another multibillion-euro bailout deal that would keep the country afloat and prevent its exit from the euro.A European official at the talks said creditors want "more specific and binding commitments" from the Greek government.The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he's not authorized to talk publicly, says there's a general feeling in the room that the Greek proposals are "too little, too late" and as such, more proof of the government's commitment to follow through is required. The official said those pledges don't "necessarily have to be austerity measures."That sentiment echoes much of the language in the run-up to the meeting."We are still a long way out, both on the issue of content as on the tougher issue of trust," Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the eurozone's top official, said on his arrival at the meeting. "On paper it is not good enough yet — and even if it is good on paper, then we still have the question: will it really happen?"Greece is running out of time to convince its creditors. A Sunday summit of European Union leaders could be its last chance to prevent the collapse of the banking sector and an inevitable exit from the euro currency.Greece's banks have been shuttered for the best part of two weeks and daily withdrawals from ATMs have been limited to a paltry 60 euros. The economy is in freefall and the country faces a raft of big debt repayments.Early Saturday, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras cleared one hurdle. Lawmakers in the Greek parliament overwhelmingly backed a package of economic reforms and further austerity measures, in the hope that it will convince its European partners to back a third bailout of the country. Greece has made a request to Europe's bailout fund for a 53.5 billion-euro ($59.5 billion) 3-year financial package.Still, the measures proposed, which include changes long-demanded by creditors, such as changes to pensions and sales taxes, don't appear to be enough, just yet. Following months of deteriorating relations, creditors are demanding firm legislative action to back up the proposals.Earlier, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, who has taken a hard line on Greece over recent months, said the Greek government will have to do a lot more than just say it wants to reform if it's going to get more money."We will definitely not be able to rely on promises," he said. "We are determined to not make calculations that everyone knows one cannot believe in."Schaeuble was clear in who he blamed for current crisis. He put that firmly on the shoulders of the radical left Syriza government that was elected in January on an anti-austerity prescription. The "hopeful" economic situation regarding Greece at the end of last year has been "destroyed by the last months," said Schaeuble who anticipated an "extraordinarily difficult" meeting.The German finance minister was at the center of a report in Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung that he has proposed a temporary, five-year euro exit for Greece as a way out of the crisis. However, Theodoros Mihopoulos who heads Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras' office, said in a tweet that the report "is completely denied."Greece hopes enough progress will be made at Saturday's finance ministers meeting to allow EU government leaders on Sunday to formally back a bailout program. The summit of the European Union's 28 leaders has been billed as Greece's last chance.The eurozone ministers have to give their blessing to Greece's bailout request to the European Stability Mechanism. Traditionally, eurozone ministers agree by mutual consensus. The task facing the new Greek finance minister, Euclid Tsakalotos, is to convince his skeptical counterparts that Greece deserves another bailout, which would be its third in five years.Greece has received bailouts totaling 240 billion euros in return for deep spending cuts, tax increases and reforms from successive governments. Though the country's annual budget deficit has come down dramatically, Greece's debt burden has increased as the economy has shrunk by a quarter.The Greek government has made some form of debt relief a key priority and will hope that a comprehensive solution will involve European creditors at least agreeing to delayed repayments or lower interest rates.French Finance Minister Michel Sapin said Europe wants to hear the nitty-gritty around Greece's proposals: "How are you going to do it? At what moment are you doing to do it? At what tempo are you going to do it."___Menelaos Hadjicostis in Brussels contributed to this story.
Hopes rise of Greece bailout breakthrough-AFP By Marc Burleigh, with Danny Kemp in Brussels-july 10,15-yahoonews
Athens (AFP) - Fresh Greek bailout reform proposals submitted to eurozone partners were cheered by France and Italy on Friday, raising hopes that a last-ditch compromise could be reached to prevent a dreaded "Grexit."The plan delivered by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras's administration for study by the EU, IMF and European Central Bank was to be put to a vote late Friday by Greek lawmakers.Tsipras has conceded ground on major sticking points including tax and pensions in a bid to secure a new bailout, drawing encouragement from his biggest ally, French President Francois Hollande."The Greeks have shown a determination to want to stay in the eurozone because the programme they are presenting is serious and credible," Hollande said.He cautioned, though, that "nothing is decided yet." Any new Greek rescue needs to be approved unanimously by eurozone members.Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi declared himself "more optimistic" that a deal would be done.But Germany, leading a bloc of sceptical eurozone nations, said the outcome of crisis talks this weekend was "completely open."Slovak Finance Minister Peter Kazimir -- one of the staunchest opponents to extending more bailout funds -- tweeted "it seems we have progress on Greece" after the new proposals were submitted.He, too, warned however: "It's still not clear whether this will be enough."- Euro, markets soar -The possibility of a breakthrough sent stock markets soaring in Europe, Asia and the US.The euro surged more than 1.3 percent on the Greek plan, before falling back slightly in later trade, still up at $1.117."The eurozone seems to be as close to a deal as it has done for the past five months, with progress seemingly genuine and credible," said analyst Connor Campbell at trading firm Spreadex.A make-or-break summit bringing together leaders of all 28 EU nations, not just the 19 that use the euro, is scheduled for Sunday.It could be cancelled if an agreement is reached beforehand, though parliaments in several EU nations, notably Germany, will have to vote on whether to accept Greece's reform plan in exchange for another huge bailout -- its third in five years."We have to make a major decision. Whichever way," said Jeroen Dijsselbloem, head of the Eurogroup of eurozone finance ministers.In a bid to head off a possible challenge to the measures within his hard-left party Syriza, Tsipras urged his lawmakers "to stand united and firm in front of these important decisions."The Greek offer, set out in a 13-page document, concedes to Greece's paymasters on several key points that Tsipras's ruling coalition -- and the Greek voters, in a referendum last weekend -- had previously fiercely opposed."Greece has come across on almost all issues and has clearly shown its willingness to compromise," said Carsten Brzeski, chief economist at the German bank ING-DiBa.With caveats, he said the "chances for a deal and another bailout for Greece have increased again."CurrenciesDirect dealer Davide Ugolini said: "Greece has finally managed to flip the ball into Europe's court. Crisis-watchers can look forward to an interesting weekend."- Tsipras's gamble -The reforms agree to creditors' demands to overhaul pensions, increase sales taxes, and commit to privatisations. But they seek to limit changes on other thorny issues, including tax breaks for Greece's islands and cuts to military spending.The proposal aims to procure financing "for three years, debt adjustment and a front-loaded investment package of 35 billion euros ($38 billion)," a Greek government source said.Tsipras is taking a political gamble by making any concessions to creditors' demands.Hardliners in Syriza and coalition partner the Independent Greeks have obstinately rejected further austerity.Syriza's parliamentary spokesman, Dimitris Vitsas, urged party MPs "to support the government's effort to reach a deal," saying it "kicks off the resolution of the debt issue."Although Greek voters last Sunday roundly voted "No" to accepting tough austerity terms for a bailout that expired June 30, they are alarmed at capital controls that have closed banks and rationed ATM cash.They overwhelmingly want to keep the euro."The government has to find a deal with its European partners no matter what. We didn't vote 'No' to leave the eurozone," said a pensioner in Athens, Nikos Eftekidis.But another pensioner, Giorgos, said the "government's proposed measures are very tough, I wasn't expecting that. That's not what the Greeks voted for."Germany leads a bloc of eurozone nations saying that, after two bailouts over the past five years totalling 240 billion euros, and 107 billion euros in debt forgiveness in 2012, Greece is looking like bottomless moneypit.Tsipras hopes his new offer will pass muster with those hostile eurozone countries, and open the door to creditors discussing another round of relief from Greece's suffocating 320-billion-euro ($350-billion) mountain of debt.But Germany has ruled out forgiving more of Greece's debt. Chancellor Angela Merkel has said "a classic 'haircut' is out of the question for me."But her careful choice of words -- and an acknowledgement from German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble that Greece was in need of debt restructuring -- hinted Berlin might yet consider a different form of relief, perhaps involving pushing back repayments or lowering interest on loans.
Germany concedes Greece needs debt relief; Greek plan awaited-Reuters By John O'Donnell and Angeliki Koutantou-july 9,15-yahoonews
FRANKFURT/ATHENS (Reuters) - Germany conceded on Thursday that Greece would need some debt restructuring as part of any new loan program to make its economy viable as the Greek cabinet raced to finalize reform proposals to avert an imminent economic meltdown.The admission by German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble came hours before a midnight deadline for Athens to submit a reform plan meant to convince European partners to give it another loan to save it from a possible exit from the euro.Greece has already had two bailouts worth 240 billion euros from the euro zone and the International Monetary Fund, but its economy has shrunk by a quarter, unemployment is more than 25 percent and one in two young people is out of work.Schaeuble, who has made no secret of his scepticism about Greece's fitness to remain in the currency area, told a conference in Frankfurt: "Debt sustainability is not feasible without a haircut and I think the IMF is correct in saying that.But he added: "There cannot be a haircut because it would infringe the system of the European Union."He offered no solution to the conundrum, which implied that Greece's debt problem might not be soluble within the euro zone.But he did say there was limited scope for "reprofiling" Greek debt by extending loan maturities, shaving interest rates and lengthening a moratorium on debt service payments.European Council President Donald Tusk, who will chair an emergency euro zone summit on Sunday to decide Greece's fate, joined growing international calls for Athens to be granted some form of debt relief as part of any new loan deal if Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras finally delivers convincing reforms.Tsipras chaired a marathon cabinet meeting to finalize a package of tax hikes and pension reforms to send to euro zone authorities in a race to secure agreement at the weekend on a third financial rescue.The leader of his junior coalition partner, Defense Minister Panos Kammenos, told reporters the Greek proposal had been approved by the cabinet and would be submitted shortly.Tusk said a realistic proposal from Greece will have to be matched by an equally realistic proposal on debt sustainability from the creditors."Otherwise, we will continue the lethargic dance we have been dancing for the past five months," he said.Failure to reach a deal on Sunday, including releasing some money to enable Athens to cover debt service over the next few weeks could lead to a collapse of Greek banks next week.If there is no agreement, all 28 European Union leaders will discuss measures to limit the damage from a Greek collapse, including humanitarian aid, possible border controls and steps to mitigate the impact on neighbors, EU officials said.DRAGHI DOUBTFUL-Just how uncertain the coming days are was highlighted when European Central Bank President Mario Draghi voiced highly unusual doubts about the chances of rescuing Greece.Italian daily Il Sole 24 Ore quoted the ECB chief, under growing fire in Germany for keeping Greek banks afloat, as saying he was not sure a solution would be found for Greece and he did not believe Russia would come to Athens' rescue.Asked if a deal to save Greece could be wrapped up, Draghi said: "I don't know, this time it's really difficult."The ECB is keeping shuttered Greek banks afloat with emergency liquidity capped until the weekend.Even France, Greece's strongest supporter in the euro zone, acknowledged it was working on scenarios for a Greek exit from the currency area if weekend efforts to clinch a deal fail.Under the agreed timetable, the leftist Greek government, which formally applied on Wednesday for a three-year loan from the European Stability Mechanism bailout fund, has until midnight to present convincing, detailed reform proposals.Having won a thumping referendum majority to reject the austerity terms of a previous bailout plan, fired his turbulent finance minister and secured support from opposition party leaders, Tsipras is in a stronger position to impose tough measures and face down resistance at home.But in a sign of the some of the challenges he will face, the leader of the far-left wing of his Syriza party came out to denounce any imposition of harsh measures on Greeks."We don't want add to the past two failed bailouts a third bailout of tough austerity which will not give any prospects for the country," Energy Minister Panagiotis Lafazanis said.According to Athens daily Kathimerini, Greece is planning a reform package worth 12 billion euros over two years, more than previously planned to offset a return to recession after months of difficult negotiations with creditors.Instead of growing by 0.5 percent this year, months of uncertainty and almost two weeks of capital controls mean "there are estimates of a recession of about 3 percent", Kathimerini said. Greece emerged only last year from a deep recession that shrank its economy by a quarter over six years.Tougher measures may face resistance from the hard-left wing of Tsipras' Syriza party and from his junior coalition partner, the right-wing nationalist Independent Greeks.European officials told Reuters on Wednesday that some large Greek banks may have to be shut and taken over by stronger rivals as part of a restructuring of the sector that would follow any bailout of the country.One official said Greece's four big banks - National Bank of Greece, Eurobank, Piraeus and Alpha Bank - could be reduced to just two, a measure that would doubtless encounter fierce resistance in Athens.German Bundesbank chief Jens Weidman said capital controls should remain in force in Greece until there was any deal, and that the ECB should not increase its liquidity assistance for Greek banks, without which they may collapse next week.(Additional reporting by Agnieszka Flak in Milan, Deepa Babington, Renee Maltezou and Michele Kambas in Athens, Andreas Rinke in Sarajevo and Laurence Foster in Paris; Writing by Paul Taylor; editing by Anna Willard and Giles Elgood)
Israel says two citizens being held by Hamas in Gaza-Reuters By Ori Lewis-july 9,15-yahoonews
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Two Israeli citizens are being held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday, a situation that could lead to demands for a prisoner exchange between Israel and the Islamist militant group.Hamas, which took control of the Palestinian coastal enclave in 2007 and fought three wars with Israel since then, declined to confirm or deny it had the captives."We are working for the return of the two Israelis who crossed the border into Gaza," Netanyahu said in a statement, confirming information that has been restricted by the Israeli military censor since last September."We hold Hamas responsible for their safety."Israel's Defense Ministry identified one of those held as Abraham Mentis, 26, an Israeli of Ethiopian origin. The other is an Israeli Arab who was not named.The ministry said it believed Mentis, a resident of Ashkelon, a city close to the Gaza border, had crossed into the coastal territory on foot on Sept. 7, 2014. It gave no details on how or when the Israeli Arab had entered the territory.Mengisto's brother, Ilan, said Avraham was unwell and needed help. In an emotional plea outside the family's apartment in Ashkelon, he called on Hamas to consider his brother's medical state and "release him immediately"."This is a distressing humanitarian case because my brother is not well," he said. "I ask the Israeli government to bring him home safely and call on the international community to intervene and to bring its influence to bear for his release."Israel has in the past engaged in prisoner swaps with Hamas, most notably in 2011, when Gilad Shalit, a soldier abducted by militants in a cross-border raid in 2006, was released in exchange for more than 1,000 Palestinians held in Israeli jails.Dozens of those ex-prisoners have been rounded up by Israel since, outraging Hamas, which signaled that until they were freed again it would refuse to respond to Thursday's charge that it was holding two Israeli captives.Israel is separately seeking the return of the remains of two soldiers killed during last year's war with Hamas."There will be no talk about a prisoner swap before Israel releases all Palestinians who were re-arrested in the West Bank after they had been freed in the 2011 Shalit deal," Mahmoud al-Zahar, a top Hamas official, told Reuters.Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said the Mengisto family had feared for Avraham's safety before he crossed into Gaza, and that he should not be considered an asset -- a reference to his possible use in a prisoner swap."Without discussing (medical) details, his family was very worried about him before he left," Rivlin told reporters. "He cannot be considered to hold tactical or strategic value in the struggle between us and Hamas or any other foes."Gaza is fenced in by Israel to the north and east and by Egypt to the south. To the west it faces the Mediterranean. In some places the fence between Israel and Gaza is only a few meters high, while it is also possible to swim around into Gaza, although the Israeli military closely monitors such activity.During the war that ended last August, Hamas fighters infiltrated Israel using cross-border tunnels. Israel says it destroyed these during the fighting, while Hamas says some of the secret passages remained intact or are being rebuilt.(Additional reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi; Writing by Ori Lewis; Editing by Luke Baker/Mark Heinrich)
Israel to open dialogue with International Criminal Court-Associated Press-july 9,15-yahoonews
JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli newspaper says Israel has decided to open talks with the International Criminal Court over its preliminary investigation into Israel's military operation in the Gaza Strip last year.The Haaretz daily reported the decision Thursday — a reversal for Israel, which has refused to cooperate with the ICC.The court is conducting a preliminary investigation to determine whether to open a full-fledged war crimes probe. More than 2,200 Palestinians, including over 1,400 civilians, were killed last year, according to U.N. figures. On the Israel side, 73 died.Haaretz also quoted an anonymous official as saying Israel will not cooperate with the court. Instead, it will relay its position that the court has no authority over the matter.Israel's Foreign Ministry says Haaretz's report is true but declined to elaborate.
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-FATHER OF THE ARAB-MUSLIMS) 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)
Turkey's Davutoglu tasked to form new government-Associated Press By SUZAN FRASER-july 9,15-yahoonews
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday officially tasked Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu to form a government, paving the way for arduous coalition talks to begin, Erdogan's spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said.Davutoglu's ruling Islamic-rooted party won Turkey's June 7 general election but lost its parliamentary majority, forcing it to seek a partner in one of the three smaller opposition parties in parliament in order to govern.Davutoglu now has 45 days in which to form a government. New elections are called if no government is formed within that time.Davutoglu said earlier Thursday that he would begin coalition-building talks with the three parties' leaders next week.He however, laid down a marker for the coalition talks, saying Erdogan's role was not up for debate.Davutoglu's most likely coalition partners accuse Erdogan of exceeding his presidential powers and have made reining him in a priority for any alliance.The coalition talks could also be complicated by opposition demands that corruption cases into four former ministers — who were close to Erdogan — be reopened. Parliamentary probes into the ministers were closed with the ruling Justice and Development Party's majority votes.Erdogan waited until after the formation of a new parliamentary secretariat, which sets the parliamentary timetable, before formally giving Davutoglu the mandate to form the new government, breaking with tradition. Previously, leaders were asked to form governments about a week after formal election results were announced.The constitution stipulates that a new government is formed after the secretariat is established, although previous presidents have mandated leaders before the secretariat was established.The delay prompted opposition parties to accuse the president of trying to extend the ruling party's hold on government and to stall power-sharing with another party.The Turkish leader is also rumored to want repeat elections, possibly in November, in the hope that the ruling party, which he founded, can regain a majority allowing it to rule alone.The election not only ended the ruling party's 13-year single party rule but came as a slap to Erdogan's ambitions to switch to a presidential system which would give him broad executive powers.Since his election as president last year, Erdogan has been accused of overstepping the boundaries of the largely ceremonial presidency, by chairing cabinet meetings and even campaigning on behalf of the Justice and Development Party despite taking the oath for neutrality.
Germany's Steinmeier to rejoin Iran nuclear talks Friday-Reuters-july 9,15-yahoonews
VIENNA (Reuters) - Germany's Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier is leaving nuclear talks with Iran and world powers to return to Berlin late on Thursday and will rejoin the negotiations in Vienna on Friday morning, a source close to the talks said.U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said he was not in a rush to reach an historic deal to curb Iran's atomic program in exchange for sanctions relief, suggesting an accord was unlikely hours ahead of a deadline set by the U.S. Congress for a quick review of any agreement.(Reporting By Shadia Nasralla; Editing by Arshad Mohammed)
KNOWLEGE AND WORLD TRAVEL (IMMIGRATION) INCREASED
DANIEL 12:4
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,(WORLD TRAVEL,IMMIGRATION FROM FLEEING WARS) and knowledge shall be increased.(COMPUTERS MICROCHIPS ETC)
Number of Syrian refugees tops four million: UN-AFP By Rana Moussaoui with Omar Ibrahim in Minyeh-july 9,15-yahoonews
Beirut (AFP) - More than four million Syrians have fled their country's civil war, the United Nations said on Thursday, with many now despairing that they will ever return to their conflict-wracked homeland."We don't think about going back to Syria. What we think about from day-to-day is how to keep our children alive," said Yassin al-Ali, a Syrian refugee living in northern Lebanon.Ali, 45, lives with his wife and three children in an informal refugee camp, that has no electricity or drinking water, on agricultural land where many refugees work long hours to eke out a meagre salary."No one in the world is working seriously to end the conflict so that we can go home," said Ali, who fled his home in the central Homs province at the onset of the conflict that began in March 2011.Many of the more than four million Syrian now living as refugees in the Middle East and beyond share Ali's resentment and sense of abandonment."Over the years, we've realised that the promises made by the United States and others were just empty air," said Osama al-Raqa, 22, who missed out university because of the war."I dream of leaving to Europe," he said, in the same camp in the northern district of Minyeh."Europeans eat and live in houses. We, on the other hand, are homeless and the whole world treats us like a burden."Syria's conflict began with anti-government protests but spiralled into a war after a regime crackdown.It has since claimed more than 230,000 lives, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor.- Refugees 'sinking into poverty' -The UN refugee agency UNHCR said Thursday that the number of Syrian refugees now stands at 4,013,000 people, with another 7.6 million displaced inside the country."This is the biggest refugee population from a single conflict in a generation," UN refugee chief Antonio Guterres said in a statement."It is a population that needs the support of the world but is instead living in dire conditions and sinking deeper into poverty."UNHCR said one million Syrians had become refugees in just the last 10 months, and the overall number could grow to 4.27 million by the end of the year if the pace continued.The crisis is the largest handled by UNHCR in a single conflict for nearly 25 years, since the agency assisted some 4.6 million Afghan refugees in 1992.Most Syrian refugees are sheltering in neighbouring countries, including Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq, where many live in poverty with few legal protections."Worsening conditions are driving growing numbers towards Europe and further afield," Guterres said, adding that poverty was also driving increased child labour and early marriage among refugees.UNHCR estimated that $5.5 billion are needed this year to help Syrian refugees and the increasingly overwhelmed communities hosting them.By June it had received just 24 percent of that amount, forcing cuts to food aid and schooling for refugees.- 'Nothing has changed' -In Lebanon, where the government has not allowed the creation of formal refugees camps, host communities are struggling with an influx of more than one million Syrians.That has strained the already-stretched resources of a country with only four million citizens, and prompted the government to tighten its borders and crack down on those without official papers."The police detained my four sons with seven other people on Sunday because they didn't have papers," said Khaled Sheikh, 53, who described the camp in Minyeh as like a prison."We don't have any work, and we can't leave the camp" for fear of arrest.Syrians made up a third of the 137,000 people who tried to cross the Mediterranean to Europe in the first half of 2015, the UNHCR says.Guterres urged European countries to do more to "fully assume their responsibilities and... extend the mechanisms of solidarity that have been created."NGO Oxfam also urged the international community to "restore the lost faith in humanity of an entire generation" by donating more, taking in refugees and working to end the Syrian conflict.On the ground in Minyeh, refugees said they had no expectation that the international community or the media would do anything to help."I don't want to talk to the media. I've been talking to the media for three years and nothing has changed," one woman said.
EZEKIEL 35:9-11
9 I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy (ARABS) cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
10 Because thou (ARABS) hast said, These two nations (ISRAEL & JUDAH) and these two countries (ISRAEL & JUDAH) shall be mine, and we (ARABS) will possess it; whereas the LORD was there:
11 Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy (GELIOUSY) which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them;(ISRAELIS) and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged thee.(ARABS)
ISAIAH 41:11
11 Behold, all they that were incensed against thee (ISRAEL) shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing;(DESTROYED) and they that strive with thee shall perish.(ISRAEL HATERS WILL BE TOTALLY DESTROYED)
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:TOBOLSK)
4 And I (GOD) will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY) of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.(AFRICAN MUSLIMS,SUDAN,TUNESIA ETC)
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages;(ISRAEL) I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil,(OIL IS IN SPOIL) and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
EZEKIEL 39:1-8,11-21
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back,(RUSSIA-ARAB MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS) and leave but the sixth part of thee,(5/6TH OR 300 MILLION DEAD RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS I BELIEVE) and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog (RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS) a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers (EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN JORDAN VALLEY) on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog (RUSSIAN) and all his multitude:(ARAB/MUSLIM HORDE) and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.(BURIEL SITE OF THE 300 MILLION,RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS)
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.(OF ISRAEL)
13 Yea, all the people of the land (OF ISRAEL) shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I (GOD-JESUS) shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment,(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB EXPERTS) passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
15 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it,(WON'T TOUCH IT) till the buriers have buried it (PROPERLY) in the valley of Hamongog.(RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS NEW BURIEL SITE)(EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN THE JORDAN VALLEY)
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.(OF THE ISRAEL-GOD HATERS)
17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl,(500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS THREW ISRAEL EVERY SPRING,FALL) and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.(OF THE RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ARMIES)
18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19 And ye (MIGRATING BIRDS IN ISRAEL) shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.(RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS)
20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
21 And I (GOD-JESUS) will set my glory among the heathen,(WORLD NATIONS) and all the heathen (WORLD NATIONS) shall see my judgment that I have executed,(AGAINST ISRAELS ENEMIES) and my (GODS) hand that I have laid upon them.(ISRAELS HATER ENEMIES)
JEREMEIAH 49:35-37 (IN IRAN AT THE BUSHEHR OR ARAK NUKE SITE SOME BELIEVE)
35 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,(IRAN/BUSHEHR NUCLEAR SITE) the chief of their might.(MOST DANGEROUS NUKE SITE IN IRAN)
36 And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven,(IRANIANS SCATTERED OR MASS IMIGARATION) and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.(WORLD IMMIGRATION)
37 For I will cause Elam (IRAN-BUSHEHR NUKE SITE) to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger,(ISRAELS NUKES POSSIBLY) saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:(IRAN AND ITS NUKE SITES DESTROYED)
Putin, Rouhani discuss nuclear and security cooperation-Associated Press-july 9,15-yahoonews
MOSCOW (AP) — The presidents of Russia and Iran have held talks that Vladimir Putin's spokesman says covered military and nuclear cooperation, as well as the fight against the Islamic State group.Putin and Iran's Hassan Rouhani met Thursday in the Russian city Ufa, which is hosting a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in which Iran has observer status.The Russian president's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said Putin noted "positive dynamics" in the ongoing Vienna talks about a final agreement on Iran's nuclear program, according to Russian news agencies.Peskov declined to say whether the talks touched on the delivery of S-300 advanced air-defense systems to Iran. After a framework agreement on Iran's nuclear program was reached this spring, Putin lifted Russia's suspension on sending the S-300s, but no deliveries have been reported.
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.
Seas could rise 6 meters even if governments curb warming: study-Reuters By Alister Doyle-july 9,15-yahoonews
OSLO (Reuters) - Sea levels could rise by at least six meters (20 feet) in the long term, swamping coasts from Florida to Bangladesh, even if governments achieve their goals for curbing global warming, according to a study published on Thursday.Tracts of ice in Greenland and Antarctica melted when temperatures were around or slightly higher than today in ancient thaws in the past three million years, a U.S.-led international team wrote in the journal Science.And the world may be headed for a repeat even if governments cut greenhouse gas emissions to limit global warming to a United Nations goal of 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times."Present temperature targets may commit Earth to at least six meters sea level rise," the authors at the Past Global Changes project wrote. Some greenhouse gases can linger for centuries in the atmosphere.Such a thaw would threaten cities from Beijing to London, and swamp low-lying tropical island states.Lead author Andrea Dutton, of the University of Florida, said it could take many centuries for a six-meter rise, despite some ancient evidence that more rapid shifts were possible."This is a long-term projection. It's not going to happen the day after tomorrow," she told Reuters.The United Nations' panel of climate scientists said in 2013 that global warming could push up world sea levels by 26 to 82 cm (10 to 32 inches) by the late 21st century, on top of a 19 cm gain since 1900.Thursday's study, based on studies of everything from ancient ice to fossil corals, said sea levels rose by between six and nine meters in a warm period about 125,000 years ago when temperatures were similar to those of today.Ocean levels gained between six and 13 meters 400,000 years ago when temperatures were up to about 1C warmer than present.And in a warm period three million years ago, sea levels were also at least six meters higher than now. The ancient shifts were probably linked to natural variations in the Earth's orbit around the sun.Last year, some scientific studies indicated that parts of West Antarctica's ice sheet had already passed a "tipping point", and were locked in an unstoppable long-term thaw."Tipping is not just a theoretical possibility, it is a reality," Ricarda Winkelmann of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research told a science conference in Paris.(Additional reporting by Laurie Goering in Paris; Editing by Mark Trevelyan)
EARTH WORSHIP
DEUTERONOMY 17:3-4
3 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;
4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel:
DEUTORONOMY 4:15-19
15 Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:
16 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
17 The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,
18 The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:
19 And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
2 KINGS 23:5
5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
Carbon price, social push needed to curb emissions: economists-Reuters By Laurie Goering-july 9,15-yahoonews
PARIS (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - China's climate-changing emissions from producing the energy it needs will be as large as the rest of the world's emissions put together over the next 25 years, the incoming director of the International Energy Agency predicted on Thursday.But new commitments to cut emissions by China, the United States, Europe and other countries, as part of a new global deal due in December to tackle climate change, will play a big role in pushing energy investment toward cleaner alternatives, economist Fatih Birol said.Energy companies "need to take climate policy more seriously", he warned at a week-long meeting of climate scientists in Paris."If they think their businesses ... are immune to the impacts of climate policy, they are making a strategic mistake."By 2030, a quarter of the world's energy will come from renewable sources, which will account for nearly 60 percent of new power capacity, with two-thirds of those plants in China, India, the United States and the European Union, Birol said.At the same time, however, the use of coal for power is unexpectedly gaining ground, not only in economic powerhouses such as China and India but in fast-growing African nations like Angola, Benin, Tanzania and Sudan, said Ottmar Edenhofer, chief economist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.The global surge in coal use, which is outpacing gains in energy efficiency and uptake of clean energy, is one reason – alongside economic growth and population increases – that greenhouse gas emissions continue to grow, he said.The key to stopping it will be putting a price on carbon emissions to make cleaner sources of energy more attractive, something he called “not sufficient but essential and a necessary condition for any kind of climate policy”.Making carbon emitters pay for the damage they do to the climate is politically unpalatable at the moment, he admitted. But using revenue from carbon taxes to fund access to clean energy or cut public debt could help drive acceptance, he said.If "moderate" carbon prices were put in place in key African countries that are now making long-term investments in coal-fired power, the finance generated could help reduce inequality and fight poverty, Edenhofer said.Eliminating fossil fuel subsidies could also free up huge sums in many countries for social spending, he said.But Frank Geels, an expert in systems innovation and sustainability at Britain's University of Manchester, warned “it's political suicide for most countries to introduce a carbon price that bites”, despite it clearly being needed.'SOCIAL TIPPING POINTS'-Another potentially effective but controversial way of reducing emissions would be to consider compensating oil, gas and coal companies for reserves they control but that should remain untapped to meet climate change goals, Geels said."In many transitions we need to compensate the losers," he said. "If we do not, they will fight hand and tooth to resist any carbon price. It might be better to buy them out."One problem with compensating for lost profits is that it could drive fossil fuel companies to continue exploring in search of even bigger pay-offs, he said.Dealing with climate change will require building new alliances and finding ways of overcoming social and political resistance as much as developing new technologies, he added.Persuading politicians to support the ambitious changes needed will require first getting voters to see taking action as important, said Ken Caldeira, a climate scientist with the Carnegie Institution for Science in the United States."We need social tipping points, where the average person thinks it's not okay to build a smokestack or a tailpipe, or to use the sky as a dumping ground," he said. "It's only when the average person changes their thinking that things will change.”Big shifts in social views are not unprecedented on major issues, he said. Gay marriage, once largely seen as socially unacceptable in the United States, is now legal in every state.England abandoned the slave trade in the 19th century, losing 2 percent of gross domestic product in the process, because social pressure to end it hit a critical level, he said.Such changes are already underway in China, where growing fears about pollution are driving government action to curb emissions, said Zhu Dajian, director of the UNEP-Tongji Institute of Environment for Sustainable Development.The "driving force" for action on climate change in China is middle-class families who increasingly care not just about economic growth but about pollution and their quality of life, he said.As a result of such pressure, "China's government wants to do something," he said. "We are facing a turning point."(Reporting by Laurie Goering; editing by Megan Rowling; Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, women's rights, trafficking, corruption and climate change. Visit www.trust.org)
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.
Spain wildfires burn more than 15,000 hectares-AFP-july 9,15-yahoonews
Madrid (AFP) - Forest blazes in Spain have ravaged more than 15,000 hectares this week as the country chokes in a record heatwave at the start of its wildfire season, officials said Thursday.At least 10 major blazes have broken out around the country as temperatures reached record levels for July in at least four places.In the southern city of Granada temperatures topped 43 degrees Celsius (109 degrees Fahrenheit) on Tuesday, a level never before reached there in July.In Zaragoza in the northeast, the state weather agency Aemet recorded a high of 44.5 degrees Celsius that day.Temperatures in many cities topped 40 degrees on Thursday and at least four major wildfires were raging at 1500 GMT, with two of them threatening the Cazorla nature park in Andalucia.South of the park in Quesada, flames were threatening 1,800 hectares of land, emergency services there said. Another fire was blazing north of the park.Near Granada, 600 people were temporarily evacuated due to another blaze, officials said.A fourth fire broke out in Zufre in western Andalucia but was reported to be evolving more favourably.Firefighters on Monday had brought under control a wildfire near Zaragoza that forced the evacuation of some 1,500 people from their homes and burned 14,400 hectares (35,500 acres) in less than four days.There had not been a wildfire that big in Spain since 2012. In that year, some 226,000 hectares of forest and brush burned overall.Spain is highly prone to forest fires in summer because of soaring temperatures, strong winds and dry vegetation.Environmental group Greenpeace warned in a statement Thursday that "cuts to fire prevention and extinction" budgets in the recent economic crisis, as well as the extremely hot and dry weather, worsen the fire risk.Aemet said the current heatwave -- Spain's second so far this year -- could last until July 16. Most of the country is on extreme fire alert for Friday.
EARTHQUAKES
ISAIAH 42:15
15 I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ Worldwide
21 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2015-07-09 20:35:02 UTCShowing event times using UTC21 earthquakes in map area
5.6 16km SSE of Hachinohe, Japan 2015-07-09 18:32:50 UTC 69.9 km
2.5 10km SSE of Kettleman City, California 2015-07-09 18:25:55 UTC 3.8 km
5.0 50km ENE of Tingo Maria, Peru 2015-07-09 18:08:39 UTC 42.9 km
2.6 6km W of Fillmore, California 2015-07-09 18:04:47 UTC 18.5 km
4.0 114km W of Layka, China 2015-07-09 17:54:09 UTC 10.0 km
4.7 5km E of Sakai, Japan 2015-07-09 16:15:13 UTC 48.7 km
2.6 6km NW of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2015-07-09 16:02:02 UTC 107.0 km
2.8 5km W of Fillmore, California 2015-07-09 13:33:21 UTC 18.0 km
5.1 59km SW of Acajutla, El Salvador 2015-07-09 13:25:54 UTC 55.5 km
5.4 45km ENE of Taron, Papua New Guinea 2015-07-09 10:07:38 UTC 102.2 km
3.1 36km WSW of Cohoe, Alaska 2015-07-09 09:38:45 UTC 65.5 km
5.1 73km NE of Miyako, Japan 2015-07-09 08:27:39 UTC 42.2 km
5.4 277km NE of Ndoi Island, Fiji 2015-07-09 07:28:27 UTC 339.3 km
2.9 9km E of Luther, Oklahoma 2015-07-09 06:45:19 UTC 5.0 km
2.7 48km SSW of Larsen Bay, Alaska 2015-07-09 06:25:01 UTC 0.0 km
4.2 27km ENE of Athmuqam, Pakistan 2015-07-09 03:30:01 UTC 61.6 km
2.7 29km SSE of Coldwater, Kansas 2015-07-08 23:10:08 UTC 5.0 km
2.6 26km SSE of Coldwater, Kansas 2015-07-08 23:08:24 UTC 14.3 km
4.8 80km ENE of Bristol Island, South Sandwich Islands 2015-07-08 22:25:59 UTC 35.0 km
2.7 7km ENE of Cherokee, Oklahoma 2015-07-08 22:21:46 UTC 8.3 km
4.0 15km WNW of Yesilova, Turkey 2015-07-08 22:14:02 UTC 13.2 km
