JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER.
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)
HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.(IN 1 HR THE STOCK MARKETS WORLDWIDE WILL CRASH)
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed:(CONFISCATED) their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
LUKE 2:1-3
1 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.
2 (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)
3 And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(THE FALSE POPE WHO DEFECTED FROM THE CHRISTIAN FAITH) causeth all,(IN THE WORLD ) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(MICROCHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark,(MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the name of the beast,(WORLD DICTATORS NAME INGRAVED ON YOUR SKIN OR TATTOOED ON YOU OR IN THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the number of his name.(THE NUMBERS OF HIS NAME INGRAVED IN THE MICROCHIP IMLPLANT)-(ALL THESE WILL TELL THE WORLD DICTATOR THAT YOUR WITH HIM AND AGAINST KING JESUS-GOD)
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast:(WORLD LEADER) for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM (6006006)OR(60020202006)(SOME KIND OF NUMBER IMPLANTED IN THE MICROCHIP THAT TELLS THE WORLD DICTATOR AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER THAT YOU GIVE YOUR TOTAL ALLIGIENCE TO HIM AND NOT JESUS)(ITS AN ETERNAL DECISION YOU MAKE)(YOU CHOOSE YOUR OWN DESTINY)(YOU TAKE THE DICTATORS NAME OR NUMBER UNDER YOUR SKIN,YOUR DOOMED TO THE LAKE OF FIRE AND TORMENTS FOREVER,NEVER ENDING MEANT ONLY FOR SATAN AND HIS ANGELS,NOT HUMAN BEINGS).OR YOU REFUSE THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT AND GO ON THE SIDE OF KING JESUS AND RULE FOREVER WITH HIM ON EARTH.YOU CHOOSE,ITS YOUR DECISION.
EU anti-crisis fund clears Greek payment-By EUOBSERVER-aug 20,15
19. Aug, 23:55-The European Stability Mechanism in Luxembourg Wednesday evening cleared the payment of up to €86bn in loans to Greece over the next tree years. Regling, its director, said the bailout "will allow Greece to turn the tide". The first loan, of €23bn, is to be paid out on Thursday morning.
Greek PM wants EU parliament to join troika-By EUOBSERVER-aug 20,15
Today, 09:21-Greek prime minister Tsipras on Wednesday asked that the European Parliament joins the group of four creditors overseeing its bailout deal. "I deem it politically imperative that the sole European institution with direct popular mandate acts as the ultimate guarantor", he wrote in a letter to EP president Schulz.
Greece gets its money, pays back ECB-By EUOBSERVER-aug 20,15
Today, 10:06-Greece Thursday morning wired €3.4 billion to the European Central Bank, paying back a €3.2bn loan and €200mn interest. It avoided default after the ESM, an EU anti-crisis fund, loaned Athens €23bn also on Thursday under an €86bn bailout ratified at the last minute by Dutch and German MPs.
Greek PM announces to resign to pave way for snap polls-ReutersReuters – aug 20,15-yahoonews
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said he would resign on Thursday to pave the way for early elections, saying it was up to Greeks to judge whether he adequately represented them in a battle with foreign lenders on austerity demands."The political mandate of the January 25 elections has exhausted its limits and now the Greek people have to have their say," Tsipras said in a televised address.Fresh from clinching a bailout deal, Tsipras opted for early elections to consolidate his position after nearly a third of lawmakers from his Syriza party refused to back the program in parliament last week, robbing him of a guaranteed political majority.(Reporting by Michele Kambas and Greg Roumeliotis, Writing by Deepa Babington; editing by David Stamp)
Greece to sell water, energy firms under EU deal By Andrew Rettman-aug 20,15-euobserver
BRUSSELS, Today, 09:29-Greek privatisations under the EU bailout are set to include water companies, leading energy firms, and swathes of infrastructure.The list, compiled by the Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund, and agreed with creditors on 30 July, was published on Wednesday (19 August) by German Green MEP Sven Giegold.He said the Greek public “hardly knows” what will be sold off and has “the right” to more “transparency”.Two potentially controversial assets include Eyath and Eydap, which provide water and sewage services to the Thessaloniki and greater Athens regions.But the 27-page document notes the Greek Council of State has declined to sell majority stakes to private operators, with just 23 percent of Eyath and 11 percent of Eydap up for grabs.In the energy sector, the list includes: 66 percent of Desfa, a gas distribution and liquid gas processing firm, to be sold to Azerbaijan; up to 35 percent of oil refinery and petrol distribution firm Helpe; 17 percent of electricity distributor PPC; and up to 65 percent of gas distributor Depa.The infrastructure portfolio is the largest.It covers: 14 regional airports, to be sold to German firm Fraport for €1.2 billion plus investment obligations by March 2016; Hellinikion, a former Athens Airport; 67 percent of the Piraeus Port Authority to a list of potential buyers which includes a Chinese firm; and 67 percent of the Thessaloniki Port Authority, potentially to Russian Railways.It also covers: 100 percent of national rail and bus service providers, Trainose and Eessty, potentially to Russian Railways; 30 percent of Athens International Airport; and a 648 km-long motorway, which connects northern Greece to Turkey.Other assets to go under the hammer include: up to 90 percent of Elta, the Greek postal service, and OTE, the Greek phone service provider, which is already 40 percent-owned by Deutsche Telekom.The money raised, together with the shares of EU-recapitalised Greek banks, will go into a new privatisation fund to be worth up to €50 billion and to be up-and-running by the end of the year.Use of the income is to be monitored by the “troika” of Greek creditors: the European Commission; the European Central Bank; and the International Monetary Fund.The sale of the regional airports to Fraport has already hit a snag, with the Greek government, in a statement published on Wednesday, saying it’s unhappy with the German firm’s request to renegotiate terms.-Local authorities also don’t like it.“This deal would seriously impact the economy of our region. The possible increase in landing fees will put off low-cost and charter flights and have negative effects on tourism”, Theodoros Galiatsatos, the governor of the Ionian Islands, which host some of the airports, told Greek daily Kathimerini.Galiatsatos was appointed with the support of Greek PM Alexis Tsipras’ left-wing Syriza party.Tsipras, who did a U-turn on reforms under pressure from creditors, has won praise from EU institutions and from Germany.But Galiatsatos' complaint is one more sign of the split inside Syriza, not least due to the return of the troika, which Tsipras had promised to abolish in his election campaign.The Greek PM, on Wednesday, wrote to European Parliament chief Martin Schulz asking for MEPs to join the troika structure for the sake of democratic oversight.But Kathimerini, citing government sources, says the Syriza split is likely to see Tsipras call snap elections on 20 or 27 September, or, at the latest, on 11 October.The new poll would create political uncertainty on the bailout deal.But creditors say the EU package has broad support in the Greek parliament, including from opposition parties.
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS-10 WORLD REGIONS/TRADE BLOCS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS-10 WORLD DIVISION WORLD GOVERNMENT) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(THE EU (EUROPEAN UNION) TAKES OVER IRAQ WHICH HAS SPLIT INTO 3-SUNNI-KURD-SHIA PARTS-AND THE REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE IS BROUGHT BACK TOGETHER-THE TWO LEGS OF DANIEL WESTERN LEG AND THE ISLAMIC LEG COMBINED AS 1)
Opinion-Involving people in EU governance By Neil Campbell-aug 20,15-euobserver
BRUSSELS, Today, 09:27-“A Union for the Citizens” is the aspirational label Luxembourg gave to its EU presidency programme.Commitments range from gender equality to the labelling of fats, but also include promises of an “open approach” and “listening to citizens”.There is little new in this pledge: a collection of well-intended priorities couched in transparency and accountability soundbites.Transparency and accountability of the EU refers to EU governance. But EU governance is about much more: the content of decisions and the processes that lead to those decisions.The quality of the final policies depends on how input is managed, who joins the debate, how consultations are set up, what standards and rules define the activities of the responsible officials and lawmakers. Finally, it’s about how EU legislation is implemented, monitored and reviewed.There is a general consensus that EU governance is not working.There is no consensus on what should be done to improve it. It therefore comes as no surprise that the Grand Duchy has made no clear commitments on this. But the issue is unavoidable.-TTIP-Amidst Luxembourg’s programme is the intensification of discussions on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (Tee-TIP).The debate around TTIP illustrates the broader problem of EU governance.TTIP critics question its overarching and over-reaching structures, its dispute settlement mechanism that gives too much to the private sector, the risk of lowest common denominator on hard-fought standards, or simply the secrecy of negotiations.These are content and process questions, and echo broader discussions about the EU institutions.In March, during a discussion on TTIP hosted by the German Marshall Fund, vice-president of the European Commission Kristalina Georgieva gave her response: “Transparency. We are putting everything out so nothing is being hidden from our people.”Importantly, she included the next step, taking the conversation to those people, “country by country, region by region, city by city”.Georgieva’s comments represent half the solution on EU governance. Transparency is not enough by itself. Communication to citizens is not enough by itself. Member states need to be involved – but all of this requires a sequence.Post-facto transparency is still de-facto secrecy.Partnership-Earlier this year, the European Ombudsman, Emily O’Reilly, asked commission first vice-president Frans Timmermans to explore the Open Government Partnership (OGP) as a possible mechanism for improving EU governance.The OGP initiative has 65 participating states, several multilateral partners and is exploring participation beyond states. 21 of the 65 participants are EU member states.Each government works on an action plan with civil society to make governments more open, accountable, and responsive to citizens.The First Vice-President’s response was disappointing. He preferred to focus on the “consolidation, improvement and development of the existing means [the commission] has put in place to achieve the highest standards of transparency and accountability.”But the existing means are failing. For example, the European Citizens Initiative, the flagship initiative to allow direct citizen participation in the legislative process, has not led to the intended citizen-led legislation.-The European election turnout remains low.-The promise of a mandatory lobby register has yet to be fulfilled.Meanwhile commission consultations, expert working groups, access to documents and information, the misuse of EU structural funds, the opaque trilogue process to negotiate legislation all question the integrity or accountability of the EU governance process.-Engaged citizens-Most of the ‘transparency initiatives’ have one thing in common: they allow EU citizens to physically or virtually engage with the EU.But this is not enough. In this sense, Georgieva is right: the EU needs to go to citizens.EU institutional transparency initiatives have yet to challenge the narrative that the EU institutions are distant and unaccountable.The standard of EU governance should be a reason for citizens to want to stay in the Union, rather than an excuse to leave.The OGP methodology represents a model for engaging with citizens that would actually give meaning to the soundbites around citizen participation.The commission should start by asking EU member states committed to better governance through the OGP what they have learned and what could be taken to the EU institutions.The next step would be to participate in the global OGP summit in October when France will take over as co-chair.-Momentum- The momentum could not be better since, after Luxembourg, the following six EU presidency holders are all OGP participants.Each participating country has a coalition of civil society – engaged citizens – driving the process. OGP provides 21 ready-made national civil society coalitions for the EU to engage with.Over 50 civil society organisations from across Europe asked the new EU leadership in 2014 to assess and engage with the OGP.That call was repeated over the summer.Civil society groups in Europe are not interested in the OGP as an end goal. The interest is in improved governance, better public policy and accountable institutions. OGP is a path for the EU to rethink the way it has been governed to date and to engage citizens in a partnership for reform.As the EU leadership returns from its summer break, perhaps now is the time to explore fresh approaches to what has become an increasingly urgent problem.Neil Campbell is deputy director of the Open Society European Policy Institute
Wall Street down 1 percent, Dow and S&P slip into red for the year-ReutersBy By Tanya Agrawal | Reuters – aug 20,15-yahoonews
(Reuters) - Wall Street plunged in afternoon trading on Thursday, pushing the Dow and the S&P into the red for the year, after the Federal Reserve highlighted global growth concerns and sparking a sell-off in almost all sectors.The Dow Jones industrial average fell to a more than six-month low and was on track to spend its 14th full session in a row below its 200-day moving average, a key technical level.The Nasdaq composite and the S&P 500 fell to their lowest in more than a month. Nine of the 10 major S&P sectors were lower, with six of the 10 down more than 1 percent.Utilities stocks <.SPLRCU>, sought by investors when Treasuries yields are seen remaining lower for longer, outperformed the benchmark index with a 0.45 percent gain.The Fed, in minutes of its latest meeting released on Wednesday, widely agreed last month the economy was nearing the point where interest rates should move higher, but worried lagging inflation and a weak global economy posed too big a risk to commit to "liftoff."The comments led traders to scale back bets that rates would be raised in September."Today's movement is an illustration of a dramatic shift in sentiment," said Tom Digenan, head of U.S. equities at UBS Global Asset Management."The Fed minutes certainly added to the fear factor. Any negative or even neutral news adds to it. Neutral is the new negative in this environment." At 13:11 p.m. ET the Dow Jones industrial average <.DJI> was down 266.81 points, or 1.54 percent, at 17,081.92.The S&P 500 <.SPX> was down 32.33 points, or 1.55 percent, at 2,047.28 and the Nasdaq composite <.IXIC> was down 114.11 points, or 2.27 percent, at 4,904.94.The consumer discretionary index <.SPLRCD> fell 2.1 percent, its intraday steepest drop in nearly 2 months, and led the decliners among the S&P sectors.Disney slumped 5 percent to $101.08 and Time Warner fell 3.9 percent to $74.80, leading a rout in media stocks after Bernstein downgraded the two stocks and cut its price target on others, citing a massive structural upheaval in the industry.Disney was the biggest drag on the Dow Jones industrial average and the consumer discretionary index.Another drag on the consumer index was Netflix , which has been the best performing S&P 500 stock this year. The stock was down than 7 percent, on track for its steepest intraday decline since mid-October.Apple fell nearly 2 percent, weighing the most on the Nasdaq and the S&P, after a Gartner report that said China smartphone sales fell for the first time ever in the second quarter. Apple counts China as a key growth market.Apple also dragged on the S&P tech index <.SPLRCT>, which moved into negative territory for the year after its 1.9 percent decline.One bright spot in tech stocks was NetApp , up 4.3 percent at $31.05 after the data storage equipment maker's results beat expectations.The finance index <.SPSY> also moved into negative territory for the year, after falling 1.63 percent on speculation that the Fed would not raise interest rates in September.Bank of America , down 3.5 percent, Citigroup , down 2.5 percent and JPMorgan , down 1.5 percent, led the decliners in the index.Nortek soared 19.7 percent to $88.77 after the Wall Street Journal reported that United Technologies was in talks to buy the residential products maker. UTX fell 1.8 percent to $96.43.Declining issues outnumbered advancing ones on the NYSE by 2,400 to 596. On the Nasdaq, 2,216 issues fell and 551 advanced.The S&P 500 index showed three new 52-week highs and 31 new lows, while the Nasdaq recorded 14 new highs and 153 new lows.(Reporting by Tanya Agrawal in Bengaluru; Editing by Savio D'Souza)
Serbia-Russia military drill annoys EU-By EUOBSERVER-aug 20,15
Today, 09:19-Russian, Belarus and Serbian military units plan a joint military exercise in September named “Slavic brotherhood” on Russian territory, reports Balkan media. A European Commission spokesperson said it would “send a wrong signal”, while the Serbs said they also plan several military drills with Nato member armies this year.
OZONE DEPLETION JUDGEMENT ON THE EARTH DUE TO SIN
ISAIAH 30:26-27
26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold,(7X OR 7-DEGREES HOTTER) as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people,(ISRAEL) and healeth the stroke of their wound.
27 Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:
MATTHEW 24:21-22,29
21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake (ISRAELS SAKE) those days shall be shortened (Daylight hours shortened)(THE ASTEROID HITS EARTH HERE)
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
REVELATION 16:7-9
7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.
Earth's heat dialed up to record levels in July, smashing old hottest month marks by far-The Canadian PressBy Seth Borenstein, The Associated Press | The Canadian Press – aug 20,15-yahoonews
WASHINGTON - Earth just keeps getting hotter. July was the planet's warmest month on record, smashing old marks, U.S. weather officials said.And it's almost a dead certain lock that this year will beat last year as the warmest year on record, they said.July's average temperature was 61.86 degrees Fahrenheit (16.6 Celsius), beating the previous global mark set in 1998 and 2010 by about one-seventh of a degree, according to figures released Thursday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. That's a large margin for weather records, with previous monthly heat records broken by a 20th of a degree or less."It just reaffirms what we already know: that the Earth is warming," said NOAA climate scientist Jake Crouch. "The warming is accelerating and we're really seeing it this year."NOAA records go back to 1880. Separate calculations by NASA and the Japanese weather agency also found July 2015 to be a record.The first seven months of 2015 were the hottest January-to-July span on record, according to NOAA. The seven-month average temperature of 58.43 degrees (14.7 Celsius) is 1.53 degrees warmer than the 20th-century average and a sixth of a degree warmer than the old record set in 2010.Given that the temperatures have already been so high already — especially the oceans, which are slow to cool — NOAA climate scientist Jessica Blunden said she is "99 per cent certain" that 2015 will be the hottest on record for the globe. The oceans would have to cool dramatically to prevent it, and they are trending warmer, not cooler, she said.Crouch, Blunden and other scientists outside of the government said these temperatures are caused by a combination of man-made climate change and a strong, near-record El Nino. An El Nino is a warming of the equatorial Pacific Ocean that alters weather worldwide for about a year.The oceans drove the globe to record levels. Not only were the world's oceans the warmest they've been in July, but they were 1.35 degrees warmer than the 20th-century average.The heat hit hard in much of Europe and the Middle East. It was the hottest July on record in Austria, where records go back to 1767. Parts of France had temperatures that were on average 7 degrees above normal and temperatures broke 100 in the Netherlands, which is a rarity. And an Iranian city had a heat index (the "feels like" temperature) of 165 degrees (74 Celsius), which was still not quite record.Nine of the 10 hottest months on record have happened since 2005, according to NOAA. Twenty-two of the 25 hottest months on record have occurred after the year 2000. The other three were in 1998 and 1997.This shows that despite what climate change doubters say, there is no pause in warming since 1998, Blunden said.It doesn't matter if a month or a year is No. 1 or No. 2 or No. 5 hottest on record, said University of Georgia climate scientist Marshall Shepherd."The records are getting attention but I worry the public will grow weary of reports of new records each month," Shepherd said in an email. "I am more concerned about how the Earth is starting to respond to the changes and the implications for my children."___Online:NOAA on July records: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/summary-info/global/201507___Seth Borenstein can be followed at https://twitter.com/borenbears
World breaks new heat records in July: US scientists-By Kerry Sheridan | Agence France-Presse – aug 20,15-yahoonews
Miami (AFP) - The world broke new heat records in July, marking the hottest month in history and the warmest first seven months of the year since modern record-keeping began in 1880, US authorities said Thursday.The findings by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration showed a troubling trend, as the planet continues to warm due to the burning of fossil fuels, and scientists expect the scorching temperatures to get worse."The world is warming. It is continuing to warm. That is being shown time and time again in our data," said Jake Crouch, physical scientist at NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information."Now that we are fairly certain that 2015 will be the warmest year on record, it is time to start looking at what are the impacts of that? What does that mean for people on the ground?" he told reporters.The month's average temperature across land and sea surfaces worldwide was 61.86 Fahrenheit (16.61 Celsius), marking the hottest July ever.The previous record for July was set in 1998."This was also the all-time highest monthly temperature in the 1880-2015 record," said NOAA in its monthly climate report."The first seven months of the year (January-July) were also all-time record warm for the globe," NOAA said.When scientists looked at temperatures for the year-to-date, they found land and ocean surfaces were 1.53 F (0.85 C) above the 20th century average."This was the highest for January-July in the 1880-2015 record, surpassing the previous record set in 2010 by 0.16 F (0.09 C)."Scientists also calculated the rate of temperature increase for July at an average of 1.17 F (0.65 C) per century.Large parts of the Earth were much warmer than average, including Africa which saw its second hottest July on record."Record warmth was also observed across much of northern South America, parts of southern Europe and central Asia, and the far western United States," said the NOAA report.Parts of eastern Scandinavia and western Russia, eastern and southern Asia and scattered areas in central and northern North America were cooler than average.
Climate boss says EU can only back a strong Paris deal-ReutersBy By Barbara Lewis | Reuters – aug 20,15-yahoonews
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union will support a U.N. deal to cap global warming only if the agreement is legally binding and includes regular reviews to ensure words translate into deeds, Europe's climate boss said on Thursday.With just 10 days scheduled for formal negotiations before landmark talks begin in Paris on Nov. 30, preparations are painfully slow.Technical work to pare back an unwieldy negotiating text, still more than 80 pages long, is behind schedule and big economies, such as India and Saudi Arabia, have yet to deliver promises on emissions cuts.European Climate and Energy Commissioner Miguel Arias Canete urged those governments and other "key G20 economies" to submit pledges to the United Nations without delay and said technical work must accelerate to keep pace with strong political will.Countering concerns the two biggest emitters, China and the United States, could dominate the Paris talks, he said the EU could not accept a deal "on the basis of a minimal level of common agreement"."It must be an ambitious agreement. I have established our priorities and we are going to fight for them," he told a news conference in Brussels."It will be an extremely difficult negotiation, but what I have seen is that there is political will."Arias Canete laid out his priorities as legal certainty, a review every five years, clear enforcement rules, and an interim 2050 goal of cutting global emissions by 60 percent versus 2010, plus the more remote target of virtually zero emissions by 2100.While the EU and developing nations are among those urging an internationally binding text, others, such as the United States, want only national enforcement.U.N. climate negotiations are haunted by the memory of a failed Copenhagen summit in 2009, the last attempt to reach a global climate deal.Arias Canete said the Paris talks had to be different and bring in nations representing at least 80 percent of all emissions, rather than a small club.The EU was the first major economy to deliver its emissions pledge in March. It promised to cut emissions by at least 40 percent by 2030 versus 1990 levels.Arias Canete said that was the most ambitious yet, although the United States and China say they are taking huge steps.So far the global pledges fall far short of the action needed to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times.The 2 degree limit, which the EU wants cemented into any Paris deal, is what scientists say can prevent the most devastating consequences of global warming.(Editing by Dale Hudson)
FAMINE
EZEKIEL 5:16
16 When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:
REVELATION 6:5-6
5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.(A DAYS WAGES FOR A LOAF OF BREAD)
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: 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, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
DEUTORONOMY 28:24
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.
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.
UN warns of impending famine in Yemen as no way in for food aid-aug 20,15-yahoonews
The World Food programme is sounding the alarm on an impending humanitarian disaster in Yemen. Its Executive Director says the risk of famine has been heightened by the destruction of port facilities in Aden, meaning any aid that does arrive cannot be unloaded before people start to die. Thirteen million Yemenis are now in a state of food insecurity says the UN, and six million of these, one in five of the population, are on the verge of starvation and in immediate need. But ports are blocked, runways pitted, and most roads are dangerous. At every level of the food chain, from planting and importation to harvesting, husbandry and distribution the system is broken after months of unrest. Impoverished consumers struggled to buy what is available. Nearly two million children face “irreversible damage” if their diets do not improve soon. “Because of lack of access, vulnerable populations are not receiving the food assistance that is necessary and we are seeing more children who are suffering from chronic malnutrition, we are seing more people without the food assistance that they need. So without clean water, without fuel, without food we are verging on a perfect storm for a catastrophic food event. What we hope is that all the parties in this conflict recognise that the people of Yemen, the affected population cannot wait for a political solution. We must provide humanitarian access that is necessary across the entire country,” says the WFP Executive Director Ertharin Cousin. The problems facing Yemen are of security, resources, reconstruction, and economic growth and investment. But what they really need right now is a joint effort from the international community. And quickly. “The supply routes of humanitarian aid to the Yemeni people who been affected by the war remain the main obstacle faced by international organizations, which are demanding more international cooperation to overcome this,” reports euronews’ Mohammed Shaikhibrahim.
A look at wildfires wreaking havoc in Washington and other drought-choked Western states-The Canadian PressBy The Associated Press | The Canadian Press – aug 20,15-yahoonews
Wildfires rampaged across the drought-choked West on Thursday as authorities scrambled for resources to beat back the flames.The blazes took a deadly turn in Washington state, where three firefighters were killed and four more injured.Here's a look at large wildfires burning in several Western states: ___ WASHINGTON- Authorities say three firefighters died after their vehicle crashed and was apparently caught by a "hellstorm" of flames as they battled a blaze in Washington state. Four other firefighters were injured near Twisp.The news came after officials urged people in the popular outdoor-recreation centres of Twisp and Wintrop, in the scenic Methow River valley about 115 miles northeast of Seattle, to evacuate.Firefighters on several fronts were fighting against wildfires advancing on towns in the north-central part of the state.A larger group of fires burning to the east covered about 50 square miles and prompted the evacuation of Conconully, home to about 200 people — with further urgent evacuation orders issued Wednesday night for an area south of Conconully to the Omak town line.Authorities warned that more high winds Thursday could make conditions very challenging. The National Weather Service issued a red flag warning for the eastern portion of the state until 5 p.m. Friday. Officials said temperatures will climb above 90 degrees and relative humidity will drop as low as 14 per cent.___CALIFORNIA-There are 16 wildfires burning in California with more than 10,000 firefighters on the front lines as crews contend with abnormally high temperatures for the season and drought-stressed fuels that haven't burned in 30 years. Among the blazes is a fast-moving grass fire that has scorched nearly 4 square miles of dry brush near Livermore.At least one unoccupied home was destroyed in the rural area Wednesday. The Carnegie State Vehicular Recreation Area, a popular motorbike terrain park, was evacuated after the flames were reported Wednesday afternoon. The fire is about 5 per cent contained.A blaze burning for nearly three weeks on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada surged in size in a recreation area outside Kings Canyon National Park where more than 2,500 campers, hikers, employees and residents have been evacuated this week.___ OREGON-Crews gained ground overnight in their battle against a wildfire in eastern Oregon that destroyed 36 homes and was threatening 500 more.Since starting from a lightning strike last week, the fire has burned through 84 square miles, mostly in the Malheur National Forest. It was 10 per cent contained Thursday morning. Various evacuation orders remained in effect.There are 649 firefighters assigned to the blaze, one of 11 large fires burning across Oregon.U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell and Gov. Kate Brown were to be visit the fire command post on Wednesday at the Grant County Fairgrounds, where food, clothing and household goods for victims were being handed out.___IDAHO-Firefighters battling blazes in Idaho braced for tough conditions Thursday with temperatures expected in the 90s along with winds of 25 mph and low humidity.Nearly 700 firefighters supported by 39 fire engines and aircraft continue to work on a group of fires near Kamiah in northern Idaho that has destroyed 42 homes. But containment is only 30 per cent on the fires that have scorched 61 square miles.In west-central Idaho, federal officials closed a portion of the Payette National Forest due to a 10-square mile fire burning about 20 miles northwest of McCall. Local authorities have lifted evacuation notices along the U.S. Highway 95 corridor.Fire officials say fire lines were bolstered overnight but list the fire as having no containment due to heavy fuel loads in the area and expected strong winds.___MONTANA-Fourteen homes threatened by fire were being evacuated Wednesday in northwestern Montana's Kootenai National Forest.The houses are in a canyon on a highway north of the small town of Noxon. One fire is burning about a quarter-mile away from the nearest home, fire spokesman John Head said.The residents of at least 20 more residences south of the evacuation area have been given notice that they may have to leave, too.Multiple lightning-caused fires are burning more than 3 square miles in the largely rural area.
HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.(IN 1 HR THE STOCK MARKETS WORLDWIDE WILL CRASH)
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed:(CONFISCATED) their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
LUKE 2:1-3
1 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.
2 (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)
3 And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(THE FALSE POPE WHO DEFECTED FROM THE CHRISTIAN FAITH) causeth all,(IN THE WORLD ) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(MICROCHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark,(MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the name of the beast,(WORLD DICTATORS NAME INGRAVED ON YOUR SKIN OR TATTOOED ON YOU OR IN THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the number of his name.(THE NUMBERS OF HIS NAME INGRAVED IN THE MICROCHIP IMLPLANT)-(ALL THESE WILL TELL THE WORLD DICTATOR THAT YOUR WITH HIM AND AGAINST KING JESUS-GOD)
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast:(WORLD LEADER) for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM (6006006)OR(60020202006)(SOME KIND OF NUMBER IMPLANTED IN THE MICROCHIP THAT TELLS THE WORLD DICTATOR AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER THAT YOU GIVE YOUR TOTAL ALLIGIENCE TO HIM AND NOT JESUS)(ITS AN ETERNAL DECISION YOU MAKE)(YOU CHOOSE YOUR OWN DESTINY)(YOU TAKE THE DICTATORS NAME OR NUMBER UNDER YOUR SKIN,YOUR DOOMED TO THE LAKE OF FIRE AND TORMENTS FOREVER,NEVER ENDING MEANT ONLY FOR SATAN AND HIS ANGELS,NOT HUMAN BEINGS).OR YOU REFUSE THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT AND GO ON THE SIDE OF KING JESUS AND RULE FOREVER WITH HIM ON EARTH.YOU CHOOSE,ITS YOUR DECISION.
EU anti-crisis fund clears Greek payment-By EUOBSERVER-aug 20,15
19. Aug, 23:55-The European Stability Mechanism in Luxembourg Wednesday evening cleared the payment of up to €86bn in loans to Greece over the next tree years. Regling, its director, said the bailout "will allow Greece to turn the tide". The first loan, of €23bn, is to be paid out on Thursday morning.
Greek PM wants EU parliament to join troika-By EUOBSERVER-aug 20,15
Today, 09:21-Greek prime minister Tsipras on Wednesday asked that the European Parliament joins the group of four creditors overseeing its bailout deal. "I deem it politically imperative that the sole European institution with direct popular mandate acts as the ultimate guarantor", he wrote in a letter to EP president Schulz.
Greece gets its money, pays back ECB-By EUOBSERVER-aug 20,15
Today, 10:06-Greece Thursday morning wired €3.4 billion to the European Central Bank, paying back a €3.2bn loan and €200mn interest. It avoided default after the ESM, an EU anti-crisis fund, loaned Athens €23bn also on Thursday under an €86bn bailout ratified at the last minute by Dutch and German MPs.
Greek PM announces to resign to pave way for snap polls-ReutersReuters – aug 20,15-yahoonews
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said he would resign on Thursday to pave the way for early elections, saying it was up to Greeks to judge whether he adequately represented them in a battle with foreign lenders on austerity demands."The political mandate of the January 25 elections has exhausted its limits and now the Greek people have to have their say," Tsipras said in a televised address.Fresh from clinching a bailout deal, Tsipras opted for early elections to consolidate his position after nearly a third of lawmakers from his Syriza party refused to back the program in parliament last week, robbing him of a guaranteed political majority.(Reporting by Michele Kambas and Greg Roumeliotis, Writing by Deepa Babington; editing by David Stamp)
Greece to sell water, energy firms under EU deal By Andrew Rettman-aug 20,15-euobserver
BRUSSELS, Today, 09:29-Greek privatisations under the EU bailout are set to include water companies, leading energy firms, and swathes of infrastructure.The list, compiled by the Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund, and agreed with creditors on 30 July, was published on Wednesday (19 August) by German Green MEP Sven Giegold.He said the Greek public “hardly knows” what will be sold off and has “the right” to more “transparency”.Two potentially controversial assets include Eyath and Eydap, which provide water and sewage services to the Thessaloniki and greater Athens regions.But the 27-page document notes the Greek Council of State has declined to sell majority stakes to private operators, with just 23 percent of Eyath and 11 percent of Eydap up for grabs.In the energy sector, the list includes: 66 percent of Desfa, a gas distribution and liquid gas processing firm, to be sold to Azerbaijan; up to 35 percent of oil refinery and petrol distribution firm Helpe; 17 percent of electricity distributor PPC; and up to 65 percent of gas distributor Depa.The infrastructure portfolio is the largest.It covers: 14 regional airports, to be sold to German firm Fraport for €1.2 billion plus investment obligations by March 2016; Hellinikion, a former Athens Airport; 67 percent of the Piraeus Port Authority to a list of potential buyers which includes a Chinese firm; and 67 percent of the Thessaloniki Port Authority, potentially to Russian Railways.It also covers: 100 percent of national rail and bus service providers, Trainose and Eessty, potentially to Russian Railways; 30 percent of Athens International Airport; and a 648 km-long motorway, which connects northern Greece to Turkey.Other assets to go under the hammer include: up to 90 percent of Elta, the Greek postal service, and OTE, the Greek phone service provider, which is already 40 percent-owned by Deutsche Telekom.The money raised, together with the shares of EU-recapitalised Greek banks, will go into a new privatisation fund to be worth up to €50 billion and to be up-and-running by the end of the year.Use of the income is to be monitored by the “troika” of Greek creditors: the European Commission; the European Central Bank; and the International Monetary Fund.The sale of the regional airports to Fraport has already hit a snag, with the Greek government, in a statement published on Wednesday, saying it’s unhappy with the German firm’s request to renegotiate terms.-Local authorities also don’t like it.“This deal would seriously impact the economy of our region. The possible increase in landing fees will put off low-cost and charter flights and have negative effects on tourism”, Theodoros Galiatsatos, the governor of the Ionian Islands, which host some of the airports, told Greek daily Kathimerini.Galiatsatos was appointed with the support of Greek PM Alexis Tsipras’ left-wing Syriza party.Tsipras, who did a U-turn on reforms under pressure from creditors, has won praise from EU institutions and from Germany.But Galiatsatos' complaint is one more sign of the split inside Syriza, not least due to the return of the troika, which Tsipras had promised to abolish in his election campaign.The Greek PM, on Wednesday, wrote to European Parliament chief Martin Schulz asking for MEPs to join the troika structure for the sake of democratic oversight.But Kathimerini, citing government sources, says the Syriza split is likely to see Tsipras call snap elections on 20 or 27 September, or, at the latest, on 11 October.The new poll would create political uncertainty on the bailout deal.But creditors say the EU package has broad support in the Greek parliament, including from opposition parties.
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS-10 WORLD REGIONS/TRADE BLOCS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS-10 WORLD DIVISION WORLD GOVERNMENT) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(THE EU (EUROPEAN UNION) TAKES OVER IRAQ WHICH HAS SPLIT INTO 3-SUNNI-KURD-SHIA PARTS-AND THE REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE IS BROUGHT BACK TOGETHER-THE TWO LEGS OF DANIEL WESTERN LEG AND THE ISLAMIC LEG COMBINED AS 1)
Opinion-Involving people in EU governance By Neil Campbell-aug 20,15-euobserver
BRUSSELS, Today, 09:27-“A Union for the Citizens” is the aspirational label Luxembourg gave to its EU presidency programme.Commitments range from gender equality to the labelling of fats, but also include promises of an “open approach” and “listening to citizens”.There is little new in this pledge: a collection of well-intended priorities couched in transparency and accountability soundbites.Transparency and accountability of the EU refers to EU governance. But EU governance is about much more: the content of decisions and the processes that lead to those decisions.The quality of the final policies depends on how input is managed, who joins the debate, how consultations are set up, what standards and rules define the activities of the responsible officials and lawmakers. Finally, it’s about how EU legislation is implemented, monitored and reviewed.There is a general consensus that EU governance is not working.There is no consensus on what should be done to improve it. It therefore comes as no surprise that the Grand Duchy has made no clear commitments on this. But the issue is unavoidable.-TTIP-Amidst Luxembourg’s programme is the intensification of discussions on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (Tee-TIP).The debate around TTIP illustrates the broader problem of EU governance.TTIP critics question its overarching and over-reaching structures, its dispute settlement mechanism that gives too much to the private sector, the risk of lowest common denominator on hard-fought standards, or simply the secrecy of negotiations.These are content and process questions, and echo broader discussions about the EU institutions.In March, during a discussion on TTIP hosted by the German Marshall Fund, vice-president of the European Commission Kristalina Georgieva gave her response: “Transparency. We are putting everything out so nothing is being hidden from our people.”Importantly, she included the next step, taking the conversation to those people, “country by country, region by region, city by city”.Georgieva’s comments represent half the solution on EU governance. Transparency is not enough by itself. Communication to citizens is not enough by itself. Member states need to be involved – but all of this requires a sequence.Post-facto transparency is still de-facto secrecy.Partnership-Earlier this year, the European Ombudsman, Emily O’Reilly, asked commission first vice-president Frans Timmermans to explore the Open Government Partnership (OGP) as a possible mechanism for improving EU governance.The OGP initiative has 65 participating states, several multilateral partners and is exploring participation beyond states. 21 of the 65 participants are EU member states.Each government works on an action plan with civil society to make governments more open, accountable, and responsive to citizens.The First Vice-President’s response was disappointing. He preferred to focus on the “consolidation, improvement and development of the existing means [the commission] has put in place to achieve the highest standards of transparency and accountability.”But the existing means are failing. For example, the European Citizens Initiative, the flagship initiative to allow direct citizen participation in the legislative process, has not led to the intended citizen-led legislation.-The European election turnout remains low.-The promise of a mandatory lobby register has yet to be fulfilled.Meanwhile commission consultations, expert working groups, access to documents and information, the misuse of EU structural funds, the opaque trilogue process to negotiate legislation all question the integrity or accountability of the EU governance process.-Engaged citizens-Most of the ‘transparency initiatives’ have one thing in common: they allow EU citizens to physically or virtually engage with the EU.But this is not enough. In this sense, Georgieva is right: the EU needs to go to citizens.EU institutional transparency initiatives have yet to challenge the narrative that the EU institutions are distant and unaccountable.The standard of EU governance should be a reason for citizens to want to stay in the Union, rather than an excuse to leave.The OGP methodology represents a model for engaging with citizens that would actually give meaning to the soundbites around citizen participation.The commission should start by asking EU member states committed to better governance through the OGP what they have learned and what could be taken to the EU institutions.The next step would be to participate in the global OGP summit in October when France will take over as co-chair.-Momentum- The momentum could not be better since, after Luxembourg, the following six EU presidency holders are all OGP participants.Each participating country has a coalition of civil society – engaged citizens – driving the process. OGP provides 21 ready-made national civil society coalitions for the EU to engage with.Over 50 civil society organisations from across Europe asked the new EU leadership in 2014 to assess and engage with the OGP.That call was repeated over the summer.Civil society groups in Europe are not interested in the OGP as an end goal. The interest is in improved governance, better public policy and accountable institutions. OGP is a path for the EU to rethink the way it has been governed to date and to engage citizens in a partnership for reform.As the EU leadership returns from its summer break, perhaps now is the time to explore fresh approaches to what has become an increasingly urgent problem.Neil Campbell is deputy director of the Open Society European Policy Institute
Wall Street down 1 percent, Dow and S&P slip into red for the year-ReutersBy By Tanya Agrawal | Reuters – aug 20,15-yahoonews
(Reuters) - Wall Street plunged in afternoon trading on Thursday, pushing the Dow and the S&P into the red for the year, after the Federal Reserve highlighted global growth concerns and sparking a sell-off in almost all sectors.The Dow Jones industrial average fell to a more than six-month low and was on track to spend its 14th full session in a row below its 200-day moving average, a key technical level.The Nasdaq composite and the S&P 500 fell to their lowest in more than a month. Nine of the 10 major S&P sectors were lower, with six of the 10 down more than 1 percent.Utilities stocks <.SPLRCU>, sought by investors when Treasuries yields are seen remaining lower for longer, outperformed the benchmark index with a 0.45 percent gain.The Fed, in minutes of its latest meeting released on Wednesday, widely agreed last month the economy was nearing the point where interest rates should move higher, but worried lagging inflation and a weak global economy posed too big a risk to commit to "liftoff."The comments led traders to scale back bets that rates would be raised in September."Today's movement is an illustration of a dramatic shift in sentiment," said Tom Digenan, head of U.S. equities at UBS Global Asset Management."The Fed minutes certainly added to the fear factor. Any negative or even neutral news adds to it. Neutral is the new negative in this environment." At 13:11 p.m. ET the Dow Jones industrial average <.DJI> was down 266.81 points, or 1.54 percent, at 17,081.92.The S&P 500 <.SPX> was down 32.33 points, or 1.55 percent, at 2,047.28 and the Nasdaq composite <.IXIC> was down 114.11 points, or 2.27 percent, at 4,904.94.The consumer discretionary index <.SPLRCD> fell 2.1 percent, its intraday steepest drop in nearly 2 months, and led the decliners among the S&P sectors.Disney
Serbia-Russia military drill annoys EU-By EUOBSERVER-aug 20,15
Today, 09:19-Russian, Belarus and Serbian military units plan a joint military exercise in September named “Slavic brotherhood” on Russian territory, reports Balkan media. A European Commission spokesperson said it would “send a wrong signal”, while the Serbs said they also plan several military drills with Nato member armies this year.
OZONE DEPLETION JUDGEMENT ON THE EARTH DUE TO SIN
ISAIAH 30:26-27
26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold,(7X OR 7-DEGREES HOTTER) as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people,(ISRAEL) and healeth the stroke of their wound.
27 Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:
MATTHEW 24:21-22,29
21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake (ISRAELS SAKE) those days shall be shortened (Daylight hours shortened)(THE ASTEROID HITS EARTH HERE)
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
REVELATION 16:7-9
7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.
Earth's heat dialed up to record levels in July, smashing old hottest month marks by far-The Canadian PressBy Seth Borenstein, The Associated Press | The Canadian Press – aug 20,15-yahoonews
WASHINGTON - Earth just keeps getting hotter. July was the planet's warmest month on record, smashing old marks, U.S. weather officials said.And it's almost a dead certain lock that this year will beat last year as the warmest year on record, they said.July's average temperature was 61.86 degrees Fahrenheit (16.6 Celsius), beating the previous global mark set in 1998 and 2010 by about one-seventh of a degree, according to figures released Thursday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. That's a large margin for weather records, with previous monthly heat records broken by a 20th of a degree or less."It just reaffirms what we already know: that the Earth is warming," said NOAA climate scientist Jake Crouch. "The warming is accelerating and we're really seeing it this year."NOAA records go back to 1880. Separate calculations by NASA and the Japanese weather agency also found July 2015 to be a record.The first seven months of 2015 were the hottest January-to-July span on record, according to NOAA. The seven-month average temperature of 58.43 degrees (14.7 Celsius) is 1.53 degrees warmer than the 20th-century average and a sixth of a degree warmer than the old record set in 2010.Given that the temperatures have already been so high already — especially the oceans, which are slow to cool — NOAA climate scientist Jessica Blunden said she is "99 per cent certain" that 2015 will be the hottest on record for the globe. The oceans would have to cool dramatically to prevent it, and they are trending warmer, not cooler, she said.Crouch, Blunden and other scientists outside of the government said these temperatures are caused by a combination of man-made climate change and a strong, near-record El Nino. An El Nino is a warming of the equatorial Pacific Ocean that alters weather worldwide for about a year.The oceans drove the globe to record levels. Not only were the world's oceans the warmest they've been in July, but they were 1.35 degrees warmer than the 20th-century average.The heat hit hard in much of Europe and the Middle East. It was the hottest July on record in Austria, where records go back to 1767. Parts of France had temperatures that were on average 7 degrees above normal and temperatures broke 100 in the Netherlands, which is a rarity. And an Iranian city had a heat index (the "feels like" temperature) of 165 degrees (74 Celsius), which was still not quite record.Nine of the 10 hottest months on record have happened since 2005, according to NOAA. Twenty-two of the 25 hottest months on record have occurred after the year 2000. The other three were in 1998 and 1997.This shows that despite what climate change doubters say, there is no pause in warming since 1998, Blunden said.It doesn't matter if a month or a year is No. 1 or No. 2 or No. 5 hottest on record, said University of Georgia climate scientist Marshall Shepherd."The records are getting attention but I worry the public will grow weary of reports of new records each month," Shepherd said in an email. "I am more concerned about how the Earth is starting to respond to the changes and the implications for my children."___Online:NOAA on July records: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/summary-info/global/201507___Seth Borenstein can be followed at https://twitter.com/borenbears
World breaks new heat records in July: US scientists-By Kerry Sheridan | Agence France-Presse – aug 20,15-yahoonews
Miami (AFP) - The world broke new heat records in July, marking the hottest month in history and the warmest first seven months of the year since modern record-keeping began in 1880, US authorities said Thursday.The findings by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration showed a troubling trend, as the planet continues to warm due to the burning of fossil fuels, and scientists expect the scorching temperatures to get worse."The world is warming. It is continuing to warm. That is being shown time and time again in our data," said Jake Crouch, physical scientist at NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information."Now that we are fairly certain that 2015 will be the warmest year on record, it is time to start looking at what are the impacts of that? What does that mean for people on the ground?" he told reporters.The month's average temperature across land and sea surfaces worldwide was 61.86 Fahrenheit (16.61 Celsius), marking the hottest July ever.The previous record for July was set in 1998."This was also the all-time highest monthly temperature in the 1880-2015 record," said NOAA in its monthly climate report."The first seven months of the year (January-July) were also all-time record warm for the globe," NOAA said.When scientists looked at temperatures for the year-to-date, they found land and ocean surfaces were 1.53 F (0.85 C) above the 20th century average."This was the highest for January-July in the 1880-2015 record, surpassing the previous record set in 2010 by 0.16 F (0.09 C)."Scientists also calculated the rate of temperature increase for July at an average of 1.17 F (0.65 C) per century.Large parts of the Earth were much warmer than average, including Africa which saw its second hottest July on record."Record warmth was also observed across much of northern South America, parts of southern Europe and central Asia, and the far western United States," said the NOAA report.Parts of eastern Scandinavia and western Russia, eastern and southern Asia and scattered areas in central and northern North America were cooler than average.
Climate boss says EU can only back a strong Paris deal-ReutersBy By Barbara Lewis | Reuters – aug 20,15-yahoonews
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union will support a U.N. deal to cap global warming only if the agreement is legally binding and includes regular reviews to ensure words translate into deeds, Europe's climate boss said on Thursday.With just 10 days scheduled for formal negotiations before landmark talks begin in Paris on Nov. 30, preparations are painfully slow.Technical work to pare back an unwieldy negotiating text, still more than 80 pages long, is behind schedule and big economies, such as India and Saudi Arabia, have yet to deliver promises on emissions cuts.European Climate and Energy Commissioner Miguel Arias Canete urged those governments and other "key G20 economies" to submit pledges to the United Nations without delay and said technical work must accelerate to keep pace with strong political will.Countering concerns the two biggest emitters, China and the United States, could dominate the Paris talks, he said the EU could not accept a deal "on the basis of a minimal level of common agreement"."It must be an ambitious agreement. I have established our priorities and we are going to fight for them," he told a news conference in Brussels."It will be an extremely difficult negotiation, but what I have seen is that there is political will."Arias Canete laid out his priorities as legal certainty, a review every five years, clear enforcement rules, and an interim 2050 goal of cutting global emissions by 60 percent versus 2010, plus the more remote target of virtually zero emissions by 2100.While the EU and developing nations are among those urging an internationally binding text, others, such as the United States, want only national enforcement.U.N. climate negotiations are haunted by the memory of a failed Copenhagen summit in 2009, the last attempt to reach a global climate deal.Arias Canete said the Paris talks had to be different and bring in nations representing at least 80 percent of all emissions, rather than a small club.The EU was the first major economy to deliver its emissions pledge in March. It promised to cut emissions by at least 40 percent by 2030 versus 1990 levels.Arias Canete said that was the most ambitious yet, although the United States and China say they are taking huge steps.So far the global pledges fall far short of the action needed to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times.The 2 degree limit, which the EU wants cemented into any Paris deal, is what scientists say can prevent the most devastating consequences of global warming.(Editing by Dale Hudson)
FAMINE
EZEKIEL 5:16
16 When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:
REVELATION 6:5-6
5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.(A DAYS WAGES FOR A LOAF OF BREAD)
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: 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, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
DEUTORONOMY 28:24
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.
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.
UN warns of impending famine in Yemen as no way in for food aid-aug 20,15-yahoonews
The World Food programme is sounding the alarm on an impending humanitarian disaster in Yemen. Its Executive Director says the risk of famine has been heightened by the destruction of port facilities in Aden, meaning any aid that does arrive cannot be unloaded before people start to die. Thirteen million Yemenis are now in a state of food insecurity says the UN, and six million of these, one in five of the population, are on the verge of starvation and in immediate need. But ports are blocked, runways pitted, and most roads are dangerous. At every level of the food chain, from planting and importation to harvesting, husbandry and distribution the system is broken after months of unrest. Impoverished consumers struggled to buy what is available. Nearly two million children face “irreversible damage” if their diets do not improve soon. “Because of lack of access, vulnerable populations are not receiving the food assistance that is necessary and we are seeing more children who are suffering from chronic malnutrition, we are seing more people without the food assistance that they need. So without clean water, without fuel, without food we are verging on a perfect storm for a catastrophic food event. What we hope is that all the parties in this conflict recognise that the people of Yemen, the affected population cannot wait for a political solution. We must provide humanitarian access that is necessary across the entire country,” says the WFP Executive Director Ertharin Cousin. The problems facing Yemen are of security, resources, reconstruction, and economic growth and investment. But what they really need right now is a joint effort from the international community. And quickly. “The supply routes of humanitarian aid to the Yemeni people who been affected by the war remain the main obstacle faced by international organizations, which are demanding more international cooperation to overcome this,” reports euronews’ Mohammed Shaikhibrahim.
A look at wildfires wreaking havoc in Washington and other drought-choked Western states-The Canadian PressBy The Associated Press | The Canadian Press – aug 20,15-yahoonews
Wildfires rampaged across the drought-choked West on Thursday as authorities scrambled for resources to beat back the flames.The blazes took a deadly turn in Washington state, where three firefighters were killed and four more injured.Here's a look at large wildfires burning in several Western states: ___ WASHINGTON- Authorities say three firefighters died after their vehicle crashed and was apparently caught by a "hellstorm" of flames as they battled a blaze in Washington state. Four other firefighters were injured near Twisp.The news came after officials urged people in the popular outdoor-recreation centres of Twisp and Wintrop, in the scenic Methow River valley about 115 miles northeast of Seattle, to evacuate.Firefighters on several fronts were fighting against wildfires advancing on towns in the north-central part of the state.A larger group of fires burning to the east covered about 50 square miles and prompted the evacuation of Conconully, home to about 200 people — with further urgent evacuation orders issued Wednesday night for an area south of Conconully to the Omak town line.Authorities warned that more high winds Thursday could make conditions very challenging. The National Weather Service issued a red flag warning for the eastern portion of the state until 5 p.m. Friday. Officials said temperatures will climb above 90 degrees and relative humidity will drop as low as 14 per cent.___CALIFORNIA-There are 16 wildfires burning in California with more than 10,000 firefighters on the front lines as crews contend with abnormally high temperatures for the season and drought-stressed fuels that haven't burned in 30 years. Among the blazes is a fast-moving grass fire that has scorched nearly 4 square miles of dry brush near Livermore.At least one unoccupied home was destroyed in the rural area Wednesday. The Carnegie State Vehicular Recreation Area, a popular motorbike terrain park, was evacuated after the flames were reported Wednesday afternoon. The fire is about 5 per cent contained.A blaze burning for nearly three weeks on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada surged in size in a recreation area outside Kings Canyon National Park where more than 2,500 campers, hikers, employees and residents have been evacuated this week.___ OREGON-Crews gained ground overnight in their battle against a wildfire in eastern Oregon that destroyed 36 homes and was threatening 500 more.Since starting from a lightning strike last week, the fire has burned through 84 square miles, mostly in the Malheur National Forest. It was 10 per cent contained Thursday morning. Various evacuation orders remained in effect.There are 649 firefighters assigned to the blaze, one of 11 large fires burning across Oregon.U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell and Gov. Kate Brown were to be visit the fire command post on Wednesday at the Grant County Fairgrounds, where food, clothing and household goods for victims were being handed out.___IDAHO-Firefighters battling blazes in Idaho braced for tough conditions Thursday with temperatures expected in the 90s along with winds of 25 mph and low humidity.Nearly 700 firefighters supported by 39 fire engines and aircraft continue to work on a group of fires near Kamiah in northern Idaho that has destroyed 42 homes. But containment is only 30 per cent on the fires that have scorched 61 square miles.In west-central Idaho, federal officials closed a portion of the Payette National Forest due to a 10-square mile fire burning about 20 miles northwest of McCall. Local authorities have lifted evacuation notices along the U.S. Highway 95 corridor.Fire officials say fire lines were bolstered overnight but list the fire as having no containment due to heavy fuel loads in the area and expected strong winds.___MONTANA-Fourteen homes threatened by fire were being evacuated Wednesday in northwestern Montana's Kootenai National Forest.The houses are in a canyon on a highway north of the small town of Noxon. One fire is burning about a quarter-mile away from the nearest home, fire spokesman John Head said.The residents of at least 20 more residences south of the evacuation area have been given notice that they may have to leave, too.Multiple lightning-caused fires are burning more than 3 square miles in the largely rural area.
