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)
MURDER
JEREMIAH 1:5
5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee;(GOD ORDAINED OR LIVES BEFORE WE WERE EVEN CREATED IN A WOMANS BODY)(GOD NEVER CREATED ANYONE HOMOSEXUAL)(AND THIS TELLS US ABORTION IS MURDER) and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
GENESIS 4:8-11 (THE FIRST MURDER)
8 And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
9 And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?
10 And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
11 And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;
GENESIS 6:11-13 (EARTH DESTROYED BECAUSE OF TERRORISM,MURDERS)
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with 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 through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
JOHN 8:44
44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
EXODUS 20:13
13 Thou shalt not kill.(Murder)(THAT INCLUDES ABORTION)
MATTHEW 18:6
6 But whoso shall offend (HURT) one of these little ones (CHILDREN) which believe in me,(JESUS) it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.(THATS THE DEATH PENALTY FOLKS)
EXODUS 21:12
12 He that smiteth (MURDER)a man,(OR BABY) so that he die, shall be surely put to death.(THATS THE DEATH PENALTY PEOPLE)
REVELATION 9:20-21
20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils,(OCCULT) and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries,(DRUG ADDICTIONS) nor of their fornication,(SEX OUTSIDE OF MARRIAGE) nor of their thefts.(STEALING)
SURE THE BLACKS IN CHICAGO SURE GO AGAINST POLICE QUICK-WHEN THEY KILL A CRIMINAL BLACK CAUGHT WITH A KNIFE.BUT YOU NEVER HEAR THE BLACKS COMPLAINING ABOUT A BLACK GANG OF AT LEAST 3 CRIMINALS LURING A SON IN THE ALLEYWAY.TO KILL THE SON AS REVENGE SOMETHING THE FATHER OWED THESE BLACK THUG CRIMINAL-DRUG DEALING GANGSTERS.WERES RACE BAITERS SUNNY HOSTIN-AND ALSO THAT OTHER BLACK RACIST ON CNN-MARC LAMONT-HILL. AL SHARPTON AND JESSE JACKSON ABOUT THIS CHILD MURDERED BY BLACK THUG-DRUG DEALING GANGSTERS.BUT THEY CAN SURE RIOT AND PROTEST ON THE STREETS FOR WHITE OFFICERS KILLING CRIMINAL BLACKS. BUT ITS A DIFFERENT STORY WHEN BLACKS SLAUGHTER BLACK KIDS.OH THATS NORMAL IN CHICAGO.ITS ONLY THE POLICE WE BLACKS IN CHICAGO PROTEST.AFTER ALL WE ARE POOR AND NEED TO STEAL-SELL DRUGS AND JOIN GANGS TO ROB PEOPLE TO SURVIVE AND SO WE HAVE OUR OWN EMPLOYMENT. BEING A CRIMINAL-DRUG DEALING GANGSTER-THUG CRIMINAL IS AN ENTREPENEURAL BUSINESS INSISTS THE CHICAGO BLACKS.
Chicago police charge man in gang-related killing of 9-year-old-Reuters By Mary Wisniewski- NOV 27,15-YAHOONEWS
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A man has been arrested and charged in the gang-related murder of a 9-year-old boy who was lured from a park into an alley earlier this month, Chicago Police said on Friday, adding that at least two others had also been involved.The killing of Tyshawn Lee, on Nov. 2, cast a national spotlight on a jump in violent crime in the city, the nation's third largest.Corey Morgan, 27, of Lansing, Illinois, has been charged with first-degree murder, police said. Police also have a warrant for a second suspect, Kevin Edwards, 22, of Chicago, and have in custody a third suspect being held on another charge.Police said the crime was linked to a rivalry between Lee's father, a suspected gang member, and another group, and was connected to at least two other murders. The boy's father, Pierre Stokes, has denied being involved in a gang.Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy called Lee's shooting "an act of barbarism" and said Morgan and the other two suspects were all members of the same gang."That gang just signed its own death warrant," McCarthy said. "We're going to destroy this gang."Police said Lee had been playing basketball in a park when gang members approached him, engaged in conversation, and walked Lee into an alley, where he was assassinated.Morgan had been arrested earlier this month on a gun charge. Edwards is believed to be in the area, McCarthy said. McCarthy said police are working out who which of the three pulled the trigger and who drove the car.McCarthy said that despite a high level of fear, police received "an awful lot of intelligence from the community," unlike in other cases in which people have been unwilling to come forward. As is the case in a number of other U.S. cities, violence has risen in Chicago. Authorities reported 411 murders from Jan. 1 to Nov. 15, up 14 percent from the same period of 2014.News of the arrest on Friday came the same day activists planned to stage a protest over the shooting death of a black teenager by a white Chicago patrolman in an incident caught on a police dashboard camera.Some experts say the rise in violence in Chicago and elsewhere in the nation is a result of the ready availability of guns or a growing heroin trade.(Additional reporting by Laila Kearney; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama, Meredith Mazzilli and Steve Orlofsky)
The Latest: Protesters angry over police killing of teen march in Chicago shopping district-By The Associated Press | The Canadian Press – NOV 27,15-YAHOONEWS
CHICAGO - The latest on the aftermath of the shooting of a black teenager by a white Chicago police officer (all times local):-11 a.m.A protest march has begun in Chicago's shopping district, with the Rev. Jesse Jackson in the middle of a crowd that's shouting, "What do we want? Justice. When do we want it? Now!"Several hundred demonstrators have gathered in the drizzling rain, many with umbrellas and plastic-wrapped signs.Among them is 73-year-old Frank Chapman of Chicago, who says a video released Tuesday showing the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by police officer Jason Van Dyke confirms what activists have said for years about Chicago police brutality.He says his organization, the Chicago Alliance Against Racism and Political Oppression, is pushing for an elected, civilian police accountability council.___9:50 a.m.An association representing hundreds of high-end retailers, hotels and restaurants in Chicago's Magnificent Mile district says it's confident authorities will maintain order for thousands of Black Friday shoppers as groups protest a 2014 police shooting.The release of a video showing the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald has set off days of largely peaceful protests. Taking Friday's demonstrations to the city's main shopping area ensures high visibility.John Curran is vice-president of the Magnificent Mile Association, which represents 780 businesses on North Michigan Avenue. He says members always have robust public safety plans in place because of the area's high profile, its huge crowds and the urban setting.And protests there are nothing new.Some 20 million people visit each year. North Michigan Avenue is one of the largest shopping attractions in the Midwest and hosts many flagship stores, hotels and luxury brands.___7:55 a.m.The Chicago Teachers Union is encouraging its members to join a march in Chicago's shopping district to protest the fatal shooting of a black teenager by a white police officer.CTU President Karen Lewis issued a statement urging members to express their "outrage and dignity" by participating in Friday's march on Michigan Avenue on a stretch called the Magnificent Mile.The 11 a.m. demonstration will be the latest in the city since Tuesday, when officials released dashcam video that shows 17-year-old Laquan McDonald being shot 16 times and prosecutors charged Officer Jason Van Dyke with first-degree murder.Chicago police say they are prepared to support a peaceful march and will be on hand to address traffic and public safety.__12:30 a.m.Protests over the videotaped fatal shooting of a black teenager by a white Chicago police officer are set to move to the heart of the city's famed retail district on the busiest shopping day of the year.A protest march down part of Michigan Avenue called the Magnificent Mile is planned for Friday at 11 a.m. It is being organized by the Rev. Jesse Jackson and other local activists.The march will be the latest demonstration in the city since Tuesday, when officials released dashcam video that shows 17-year-old Laquan McDonald being shot 16 times and prosecutors charged Officer Jason Van Dyke with first-degree murder.The other demonstrations have been largely peaceful. On Thursday afternoon, police said they had made a total of just nine arrests.
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 prices - work in progress, not panacea, for rich and poor-By Barbara Lewis and Susanna Twidale | Reuters – NOV 27,15-YAHOONEWS
BRUSSELS/LONDON (Reuters) - It was supposed to be the way the market would cut greenhouse gases by itself: governments selling companies permits-to-pollute, which they could trade among themselves. Over time, the number of permits would be reduced, and the cost to companies of failing to cut emissions would rise.Yet, 10 years after the EU launched the world's biggest carbon trading scheme, the effectiveness of the concept is in question and climate activists are disenchanted or hostile.While there is still support for national or regional markets, not least in China, which plans to launch the world's biggest scheme in 2017, any hopes of creating a global carbon market at next week's U.N. climate conference in Paris look wildly optimistic. Major corporations, in particular, back the concept because its costs are more predictable than those of prospective future regulations.In June, a group of European energy companies led by Royal Dutch Shell wrote to the United Nations to call for a global carbon price that would "discourage high carbon options and reduce uncertainty".U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres told them to do more and to spell out price levels, something they have yet to do.Climate activists say the corporations' enthusiasm can be explained as a desire to dodge more aggressive measures, such as targets for renewable energy."The call for a carbon price is a shield with which to defend themselves from calls for faster change," says Tom Burke, chairman of the environmental campaign group E3G.-TEST CASE-Even with the jury out, nearly half of the more than 170 national pledges for reducing greenhouse gas emissions include some form of carbon pricing to meet their targets, officials say.They range from the top emitter, China, to the tiny Pacific nation of Kiribati, imperilled by rising sea levels.The best test case, for now, is the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme, which raised 8.9 billion euros ($9.4 billion) in the three years to June 2015, according to European Commission figures.Jos Delbeke, director general of the Commission's climate action department and one of the chief architects of the ETS, says it has shown, crucially, that reducing carbon emissions is compatible with economic growth.He says the EU's gross domestic product has risen 46 percent since 1990, while greenhouse gas emissions have fallen by 23 percent, and that the ETS is still central to EU efforts to tackle climate change.The scheme sets a cap on how much big emitters, chiefly power plants and factories, can pollute.Mostly they have to buy the emissions credits at auction. Those who emit less than their cap can sell the surplus credits to companies that exceed their limits, which are progressively reduced over time.So far, from the more than 11,000 industrial and energy plants covered by the EU ETS, emissions have fallen by almost 15 percent since 2008, Thomson Reuters Point Carbon figures show.But critics say it is unclear how much of this was a direct result of the ETS, as opposed to Europe's economic slowdown."LOOPHOLES AND VESTED INTERESTS"-They also say the revenues generated have merely boosted general government coffers rather than being spent on the environment, let alone on the poorer countries that pollute least but are set to suffer most from climate change."The carbon market promised the world lots of things it has failed to deliver. The ETS is riddled with loopholes and in thrall to vested interest," said Tim Gore, Oxfam's international policy adviser on climate change.Most critically, the activists say the polluters have been given an easy ride.Point Carbon figures show that industry, which lobbied hard for help in dealing with extra energy costs, was given free carbon permits with a tradable value of 77 billion euros in the years to 2014.Alongside this, the market price of EU ETS permits, and therefore the cost of pollution, has at times fallen to near zero as economic recession and miscalculations led to a surplus of credits.The allocation system has now been reformed, but the total of free permits is still expected to hit 325 billion euros by 2030.At the same time, in the absence of a global carbon pricing system, industry continues to complain that the cost of permits is driving it to leave Europe for cheaper regulatory environments.ETS prices have risen back to 8.5 euros per tonne of CO2 produced, but are still far below peaks of above 30 euros, and too low to encourage investment in lower-carbon fuel. EU regulators are working on further reforms.-POORER COUNTRIES-There is a similar story of flawed execution behind another trading scheme, the United Nations' Clean Development Mechanism.This was supposed to allow Western industries and governments to contribute to green projects in developing countries too small to support their own domestic or regional trading schemes, "offsetting" rather than cutting their own emissions.The United Nations says the scheme has provided more than $315 billion for environmental projects.However, the value of these certificates also fell from a high of more than 23 euros per tonne of CO2 avoided to near zero in 2014 as the scheme's credibility was called into doubt and the value of the EU's permits crashed.Environment campaigners say the funds were concentrated in a handful of industrial gas projects rather than filtering down to the poorest nations, known as the Least Developed Countries (LDCs), who found the scheme hard to access."By the time the LDCs were ready to take advantage ... the prices had collapsed," Giza Gaspar Martins, Angola’s climate negotiator for the U.N. talks, told Reuters.U.N. carbon credit prices still languish around 0.60 euros a tonne, but Martins still backs the scheme in the hope that rich nations can push up prices to a level where they can provide significant funds to help the poorest nations adapt to climate change.As for a true global carbon market - a draft of the agreement to be finalised in Paris, intended as the first ever pact to unite rich and developing nations against climate change, contains only a small, oblique reference to "internationally transferred mitigation outcomes".Hardly a ringing endorsement.($1 = 0.9434 euros)(Editing by Jonathan Leff and Kevin Liffey)
Catastrophic' if Paris climate summit fails, says Pope-By EUOBSERVER-nov 27,15
Today, 09:29-Pope Francis on Thursday warned of "catastrophic" consequences if the UN climate talks opening in Paris next week fail. "We are confronted with a choice which cannot be ignored: either to improve or to destroy the environment," he said in a speech in the Kenyan capital Nairobi.
Queen Elizabeth II opens Commonwealth meeting on Malta; climate change, extremists on agenda-By Stephen Calleja, The Associated Press | The Canadian Press – NOV 27,15-YAHOONEWS
VALLETTA, Malta - Queen Elizabeth II opened the Commonwealth summit Friday on the Mediterranean island of Malta — a meeting that will focus on climate change and the threat of extremist violence.The 89-year-old British monarch praised the accomplishments of the 53-nation Commonwealth and her happy associations with Malta."Prince Philip and I first came to live here in Malta in 1949, the year the Commonwealth was founded," she said, hailing a vast advancement in freedom and human rights in the decades since then. "I have been privileged to witness this transformation and to consider its purpose." Between 1949 and 1951, Philip was stationed on Malta as a Royal Navy officer and the future queen lived as a military wife, rather than a duty-burdened heir to the throne.The Commonwealth links more than 2 billion people on five continents, including large countries like India, Australia and Canada and small island states like Tonga and Vanuatu.The leaders Friday elected Baroness Patricia Scotland of Britain as the new secretary general. She will take office in April, 2016 and become the first woman to fill the post.She was accompanied to Malta by her husband Prince Philip, her son Prince Charles, the heir to the throne, and Charles' wife, Camilla.The queen paid tribute to Philip, praising his "boundless energy and commitment" to the Commonwealth, and to Prince Charles and his wife Camilla who also came to the conference.French President Francois Hollande plans to address Commonwealth leaders later Friday ahead of the U.N. climate change conference beginning in Paris next week.British Prime Minister David Cameron, meanwhile, has announced plans to set up a Commonwealth unit targeting the extremist "scourge."Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said the Commonwealth needs to become more relevant to the aspirations of its citizens."The Commonwealth must have an agenda with clear priorities, especially in the fight against radicalization and the tackling of the migration phenomenon, which can be challenged through education and employment," Muscat said."Terrorists are more scared of well-educated girls and boys who manage to get a good job than they will ever be of any army," he said.
EU to open new chapter in Turkish talks-By EUOBSERVER-nov 27,15
Today, 09:29-Turkey's minister of European Union affairs, Volkan Bozkir, said Thursday in Ankara that Brussels has agreed "to open chapter 17 by mid-December" in a bid to revive stalled membership talks with Turkey. Of 35 "policy chapters" for negotiations prior to membership, only 13 have been opened so far.
Majority back Ireland staying in EU even if UK exits-By EUOBSERVER-nov 27,15
Today, 09:28-A vast majority, 75%, of Irish voters want the UK to remain in the EU. There is equally strong support for the view that Ireland should remain in the EU even if Britain decides to leave, an Irish Times/Ipsos poll shows. Only 13% would like to see the UK leave.
Poland's ruling party shows true colours By Eszter Zalan-nov 27,15
BRUSSELS, Today, 09:38-Poland’s newly installed right-wing governing party is showing off its confrontational style by trying to replace already appointed constitutional judges with its own appointees on Thursday (27 November) and by upping its rhetoric against Russia.The ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS) used its majority in the Sejm, Poland’s lower house of parliament, to passed resolutions reversing recent appointments of five judges to the highest court.It will now be able to push for its own judges, who it hopes will clear the way for planned sweeping constitutional changes.PiS plans to create new administrative regions, amend the constitution, and restructure the judiciary.The move resembles Hungary prime minister Viktor Orban’s tactics, who amid international criticism curbed the rights of constitutional judges to cripple their ability to scrutinise legal changes.Law and Justice leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski often praised Orban’s governing style, using his majority to rewrite Hungary’s constitution and override opponents.Kaczynski on Wednesday said the court, which has the final say on constitutional matters, is filled with his political opponents, and would try to hamper the government’s work.The judges were appointed by the previous parliament dominated by then ruling Civic Platform. PiS said its predecessor pushed through the appointments knowing it will lose the elections, and preempting decisions by the new parliament.Opposition MPs and the chairman of the court criticised the move.-"Law and Justice is over. Today it's Lawlessness and Injustice," Ewa Kopacz, former prime minister, said, and her party, Civic Platform accused PiS of being the “shame of Europe”.-Russia, the enemy-The newly elected Polish government also confirmed expectations it will be more confrontational with Moscow.Russia's foreign ministry said on Thursday Poland's call to annul a Nato act that prevents it from having permanent military bases on its soil was “extraordinarily dangerous and exceptionally provocative,” AFP reported.Poland's new foreign minister Witold Waszczykowski on Wednesday called for scrapping the 1997 act on Nato-Russia relations to let the alliance install the bases, although the Polish foreign ministry insisted Thursday evening that Moscow had “misunderstood” Waszczykowski.“The behaviour of Russia, blackmailing Central Europe, is a confrontation against the whole of Nato,” Waszczykowski said.Poland already announced plans to increase its army by 50 percent, form 100,000 to 150,000 to “guarantee the integrity” of the nation’s borders.The move reflects growing Polish security concerns, and a deep distrust directed at Moscow after Russia intervened in neighboring Ukraine and annexed part if its territory, Crimea.Beata Szydlo, Poland’s new prime minister who took office this month called Russia Poland’s “enemy."The new Polish government is also expected to reopen an investigation into the death of president Lech Kaczynski in a plane crash in Russia in 2010, a move likely to further strain ties with Moscow.A previous government inquiry deemed the crash occurred because of an error the pilot made, but the PiS party, now in power, and led by Kaczynski's twin brother Jaroslaw, says an onboard explosion could have caused the tragedy.It accuses Moscow of stalling the investigation by withholding evidence, sic as the plane’s wreckage.
Pope arrives in Uganda to celebrate Christian martyrs, calls Africa 'continent of hope'-By Nicole Winfield And Rodney Muhumuza, The Associated Press | The Canadian Press – nov 27,15-yahoonews
KAMPALA, Uganda - Pope Francis arrived in Uganda on Friday on the second leg of his Africa pilgrimage, declaring Africa the "continent of hope" and honouring Uganda's most famous Christians.Francis arrived at Entebbe International Airport, where Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, flanked by a military brass band and traditional drummers and dancers welcomed him.Francis, who arrived from Kenya and also is scheduled to visit Central African Republic, is in Uganda mainly to honour the memory of a group of Ugandan Christians who were killed in the late 19th century on the orders of a local king eager to thwart the growing influence of Christianity.Those victims, known as the Uganda Martyrs, include 45 Anglicans and Catholics killed between 1885 and 1887. Pope Paul VI canonized the 22 Ugandan Catholics in 1964."They remind us of the importance that faith, moral rectitude and commitment to the common good have played, and continue to play, in the cultural, economic and political life of this country," Francis told Museveni and other Ugandan authorities and diplomats at a welcome ceremony at the state house.In an unusual break with papal trip protocol, Museveni didn't offer welcoming remarks.Later Friday, Francis arrived at a shrine honouring the martyrs in Munyonyo, where they were condemned to death.Francis arrived in Kampala after a busy final day in Kenya that was highlighted by his visit to one of the capital's 11 slums and a spontaneous, off-the-cuff monologue to thousands of Kenyan youths about preventing young people from falling prey to corruption and radicalization to go fight with extremist groups.In the Kangemi shanty, Francis denounced conditions slum-dwellers are forced to live in, saying access to safe water is a basic human right and that everyone should have dignified, adequate housing, access to sanitation, schools and hospitals."To deny a family water, under any bureaucratic pretext whatsoever, is a great injustice, especially when one profits from this need," he said.Residents lined the mud streets to welcome Francis, standing alongside goats and hens outside the corrugated tin-roofed shacks where many of the shantytown's small businesses operate: beauty parlours, cellphone "top-up" shops and storefront evangelical churches.Those lucky enough to score a spot at St. Joseph's parish erupted in cheers and hymns when Francis arrived, ululating and waving paper flags printed with his photo and the "Kariba Kenya" welcome that has been ubiquitous on the pope's first-ever visit to Africa.Francis, known as the "slum pope" for his ministry in Buenos Aires' shantytowns, has frequently insisted on the need for the three "Ls" — land, labour and lodging. On Friday he focused on lodging as a critical issue facing the world amid rapid urbanization that is helping to upset Earth's delicate ecological balance.Kangemi is one of 11 slums dotting Nairobi, East Africa's largest city, and is home to about 50,000 people. The U.N. Habitat program says some 60 per cent of Nairobi's population lives on just 6 per cent of the city's residential land in these unofficial settlements lacking basic sanitation or regular running water. Francis denounced the practice of private corporations grabbing land illegally, depriving schools of their playgrounds and forcing the poor into ever more tightly packed slums, where violence and addiction are rampant.In January, police tear-gassed schoolchildren demonstrating against the removal of their school's playground, which has been allegedly grabbed by powerful people. After an outcry, the Kenyan government declared the playground the property of the school."These are wounds inflicted by minorities who cling to power and wealth, who selfishly squander while a growing majority is forced to flee to abandoned, filthy and run-down peripheries," Francis said.He called for a "respectful urban integration" with concrete initiatives to provide good quality housing for all.His message was welcomed by residents of Kangemi, who said the city only pipes in water three days a week, Tuesday through Thursday, but it's not safe to drink. Garbage collection goes to only those who can pay for it."Some people don't have toilets in their homes," said Emily Night, a mother of two who works at the St. Joseph's HIV counselling program. "Those that do, maybe 50 people are using it!"Francis raised the issue of environmental deterioration in cities in his landmark encyclical "Praise Be," saying many megacities today have simply become health threats, "not only because of pollution caused by toxic emissions but also as a result of urban chaos, poor transportation, and visual pollution and noise."After the visit to Kangemi, Francis received a rock-star welcome at Kasarani stadium, where he zoomed around the track in his open-sided popemobile to the delight of thousands of young Kenyans in the crowd. The stadium was so packed with the faithful that many more stood outside, unable to enter.As he tends to do when surrounded by young people, Francis ditched his prepared speech and spoke off-the-cuff at length about problems Kenyan young people are facing, including the temptation to go the way of Kenya's many corrupt officials and institutions or to go off and join an extremist group.Francis told the crowd that the way to prevent the young from being radicalized is to give them an education and a job."If a young person has no work, what kind of a future does he or she have? That's where the idea of being recruited comes from," he said.Kenyans make up the largest contingent of foreign fighters in the Somali based al-Qaida-linked extremist group al-Shabab, which has staged attacks in Kenya.Francis also urged the kids to resist the temptation of corruption, saying it's like sugar: You develop a taste for it but it's ultimately terrible for you.On Sunday, he is due to arrive in the Central African Republic.___Follow Nicole Winfield at www.twitter.com/nwinfield
Greece, creditors close to deal on conditions for Athens to secure next slice of rescue money-By The Associated Press | The Canadian Press – NOV 27,15-YAHOONEWS
BRUSSELS - Greece and its creditors are close to sealing a deal on conditions that Athens must respect to obtain the next slice of rescue money.The country has already received this week approval for a 2 billion euro loan, and is negotiating on more economic measures needed to get another 1 billion euros.European Commission spokeswoman Mina Andreeva said Friday the sides have "agreed broadly the second set of milestones."She said that when the details are ironed out "this of course would unlock the disbursement of the final one billion euros still available."That would also allow for an important review of Greece's handling of its austerity program, which is required to secure international credit.Andreeva said the implementation of pension reforms "is a key part of the first review."
COUNTRIES WITH ISRAEL AND THE ENEMIES OF THE WEST
EZEKIEL 38:10-19
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,(RUSSIA,ARAB,MUSLIMS) I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; 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, 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.
13 Sheba, and Dedan,(SAUDIA ARABIA)(JORDAN) and the merchants of Tarshish,(ENGLAND) with all the young lions thereof,(USA,CANADA,AUSTRALIA,NEW ZEALAND,EU,ENGLAND,ENGLISH SPEAKING shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?
14 Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?
PSALMS 83:3-7 (COUNTRIES AGAINST ISRAEL)(EXCEPT JORDAN)
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
ISRAEL-WEST ENEMIES EZEK 38:4-6,15-19
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)
15 And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts,(RUSSIA-ARAB/MUSLIMS) thou, and many people with thee,(AFRICAN ISLAMIC COUNTRIES) all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army:
16 And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
17 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them?
18 And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall come up in my face.
19 For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;
DANIEL 11:44 (CHINA WITH RUSSIA-MUSLIMS)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
EZEKIEL 39:1-6 ISRAELS ENEMIES DESTROYED
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.
Palestinian hits Israeli soldiers with car in West Bank, shot dead-AFP-NOV 27,15-YAHOONEWS
Jerusalem (AFP) - A Palestinian rammed his car into Israeli soldiers at a bus station in the occupied West Bank Friday before being shot dead, police said."A Palestinian car hit two Israelis standing by a bus station (near Kfar Adumim). The terrorist was neutralised," police said.They later confirmed the suspect had died and the army said the two Israelis were soldiers.Israel's Magen David Adom emergency medical service said the two soldiers were taken to hospital in Jerusalem conscious and with light to moderate wounds.A senior police officer said the Palestinian exited his car and started to run after hitting the soldiers, before he was shot dead by a civilian.Kfar Adumim is an Israeli settlement northeast of Jerusalem.Police identified the Palestinian as Fadi Hassib, from Ramallah, whose brother was shot dead on Sunday after ramming his car into Israelis before charging at them with a knife.Friday's incident raises the number of Palestinians killed since October 1 to 98, including an Israeli Arab.Over half of them have been alleged perpetrators of stabbing, shooting and car ramming attacks aimed at Israeli civilians and security forces. Others have died in clashes with security forces.The violence has also left 17 Israelis, an American and an Eritrean dead.Attempts to ease the tensions, including a visit by US Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday, have so far proved unsuccessful.Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, has called a day of rage for Friday.
Polish call to scrap NATO-Russia deal 'extraordinarily dangerous': Moscow-AFP-NOV 27,15-YAHOONEWS
Moscow (AFP) - Russia's foreign ministry on Thursday slammed as "extraordinarily dangerous" Poland's call to annul a NATO act that prevents it from having permanent military bases on its soil."We consider these statements to be extraordinarily dangerous and exceptionally provocative," Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.Poland's new right-wing Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski on Wednesday called for scrapping the 1997 act on NATO-Russia relations to let the alliance install the bases, saying the document causes "inequality" between new and old members of the alliance.Zakharova said that Waszczykowski's statement was part of an attempt to rally Western public opinion ahead of next year's NATO summit in Warsaw and that the annulment of the deal could "bring down the existing European security system.""We see here the desire to convey the irreversible course taken by the alliance on the military containment of our country," she said in a briefing.The Polish foreign ministry insisted Thursday evening that Moscow had "clearly misunderstood" Waszczykowski."Of course he was not referring to the NATO-Russia Founding Act adopted in 1997, but to political declarations by NATO concerning the deployment of large military units in Central Europe."The 1997 document stipulates that older NATO members "have no intention, no plan and no reason to deploy nuclear weapons on the territory of new members" like Poland, Hungary or the Baltic countries.It adds that NATO "will carry out its collective defence and other missions by ensuring the necessary interoperability, integration, and capability for reinforcement rather than by additional permanent stationing of substantial combat forces."Russia has long insisted this provision clearly rules out permanent bases and troop deployments.
Russian raids repeatedly hit Syrian Turkmen areas, Moscow's data shows-By Jack Stubbs and Humeyra Pamuk | Reuters – NOV 27,15-YAHOONEWS
MOSCOW/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Russian air strikes in northwest Syria have heavily targeted ethnic Turkmen areas, according to a Reuters data analysis that helps explain rising tensions between Moscow and Ankara in the weeks before Turkey shot down a Russian warplane.Tuesday's incident marked the biggest clash between a NATO member and Russia in half a century, and has drawn threats of economic retaliation from the Kremlin. Turkey says the plane strayed into its airspace, which Moscow denies.Long before that, Turkey had condemned Russia's bombing of towns and villages in the north of Syria's western Latakia province, areas it says belong to Syrian Turkmen, who are Syrians of Turkish descent.Russian Defence Ministry data, collated by Reuters, shows the bombing raids have struck at least 17 named locations in Turkmen areas since President Vladimir Putin ordered them to begin on Sept. 30.Russian missiles have destroyed ammunition bunkers, command points and a suicide bomb factory in towns including Salma, Ghmam and Kesladshuq to the west of Syria's Alawite mountains, according to the data, an area humanitarian groups say is ethnically Turkmen.Salma, which has a majority Turkmen population, has been bombed on at least eight occasions and has found itself at the centre of some of the most geographically concentrated strikes.Russian jets have hit 15 separate named targets within a 13 km (8 mile) radius of the town, which is used as a base by Turkish-backed rebels in their fight against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad."The Russians were heavily bombing Turkmen villages before the downing of the plane," said Samir Alo, head of the Higher Council of Turkmen in Syria. "Thousands of Turkmen families have been driven to the border."ETHNIC KIN-Putin has vowed to hunt down Islamic State militants who blew up a Russian airliner over Egypt last month, and said Russia will step up its air strikes against the group in Syria.But Turkey, the United States and other NATO members say Russia is also hitting rebels opposed to Assad and fighting against Islamic State, allowing the militants to make advances on the battlefield.Moscow says it only targets Islamic State and what it describes as other terrorist groups in Syria.A Syrian Kurdish leader said on Friday Ankara had shot down the Russian bomber because the groups it backed were losing territory." Turkmen are Turkey's ethnic kin but the world should understand that there is a bigger issue at stake here," said a senior Turkish official. "We are extremely worried that the anti-Islamic State coalition is being weakened by these bombardments."How could a campaign against Islamic State be conducted by bombing these rebels which are actually battling Islamic State?"Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has repeatedly said this week that there are no Islamic State militants in Latakia and the area just to the north, which have been targeted by both Russian bombardment and Syrian government forces. He said 300 moderate Syrian rebels, including many Turkmen, had been killed in over a month.Turkmen have lived in northwest Syria since travelling there to fight as part of a Muslim campaign against European crusaders in the Middle Ages.Officials estimate 300,000 Turkmen used to live in northern Latakia but Murat Kavakdan, Syria coordinator for the IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation, said as few as 25,000 remain as a result of Syria's four-year-civil war, which has displaced more than six million people.A Reuters analysis in October found that almost 80 percent of Russian targets in Syria in the first three weeks of its air campaign were on groups other than Islamic State.The Russian Defence Ministry did not respond to written questions submitted by Reuters on the latest data.(Writing by Jack Stubbs; Additional reporting by Suleiman Al-Khalidi in Amman; Editing by Mark Trevelyan)
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun,(HEATING UP-SOLAR ECLIPSES) and in the moon,(MAN ON MOON-LUNAR ECLIPSES) and in the stars;(ASTEROIDS ETC) 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)
Ice, snow and rain pound central U.S., at least 2 dead, 1 missing-Reuters By Jon Herskovitz-NOV 27,15-YAHOONEWS
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - At least two people were killed and another missing in Texas after being caught in high waters caused by a storm system that brought snow, ice and torrential rain to an area stretching from New Mexico to Illinois on Friday.The system is expected to dump as much as 8 inches (20 cm) of rain through the weekend in parts of North Texas, coat the Lubbock area in ice and drop up to a foot (30 cms) of snow in northern parts of New Mexico, the National Weather Service said.The agency has issued a flood watch for the region extending from the Dallas area into Oklahoma and Louisiana, and up through parts of southern Illinois.It has also issued an ice storm watch for the Texas panhandle, parts of eastern New Mexico and western Oklahoma.In Garland, outside of Dallas, one person was found dead in a car that had been submerged in flood waters, firefighters said on Friday.In Johnson County, south of Fort Worth, authorities pulled a body out of a car that was swept away in raging waters overnight, the Dallas Morning News reported.In Tarrant County, Texas, where Fort Worth is located, a woman believed to be in her seventies was swept away with her vehicle in high water, the sheriff's office said.Tarrant County Deputy Krystal Salazar, 26, tried to save the woman but was also swept away, a spokesman for the sheriff's office said."She (Salazar) was found about two hours later clinging to a tree branch," said spokesman Terry Grisham.The deputy has been treated and released from an area hospital.(Reporting by Jon Herskovitz; Editing by Bernadette Baum and Chris Reese)
MURDER
JEREMIAH 1:5
5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee;(GOD ORDAINED OR LIVES BEFORE WE WERE EVEN CREATED IN A WOMANS BODY)(GOD NEVER CREATED ANYONE HOMOSEXUAL)(AND THIS TELLS US ABORTION IS MURDER) and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
GENESIS 4:8-11 (THE FIRST MURDER)
8 And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
9 And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?
10 And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
11 And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;
GENESIS 6:11-13 (EARTH DESTROYED BECAUSE OF TERRORISM,MURDERS)
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with 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 through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
JOHN 8:44
44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
EXODUS 20:13
13 Thou shalt not kill.(Murder)(THAT INCLUDES ABORTION)
MATTHEW 18:6
6 But whoso shall offend (HURT) one of these little ones (CHILDREN) which believe in me,(JESUS) it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.(THATS THE DEATH PENALTY FOLKS)
EXODUS 21:12
12 He that smiteth (MURDER)a man,(OR BABY) so that he die, shall be surely put to death.(THATS THE DEATH PENALTY PEOPLE)
REVELATION 9:20-21
20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils,(OCCULT) and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries,(DRUG ADDICTIONS) nor of their fornication,(SEX OUTSIDE OF MARRIAGE) nor of their thefts.(STEALING)
SURE THE BLACKS IN CHICAGO SURE GO AGAINST POLICE QUICK-WHEN THEY KILL A CRIMINAL BLACK CAUGHT WITH A KNIFE.BUT YOU NEVER HEAR THE BLACKS COMPLAINING ABOUT A BLACK GANG OF AT LEAST 3 CRIMINALS LURING A SON IN THE ALLEYWAY.TO KILL THE SON AS REVENGE SOMETHING THE FATHER OWED THESE BLACK THUG CRIMINAL-DRUG DEALING GANGSTERS.WERES RACE BAITERS SUNNY HOSTIN-AND ALSO THAT OTHER BLACK RACIST ON CNN-MARC LAMONT-HILL. AL SHARPTON AND JESSE JACKSON ABOUT THIS CHILD MURDERED BY BLACK THUG-DRUG DEALING GANGSTERS.BUT THEY CAN SURE RIOT AND PROTEST ON THE STREETS FOR WHITE OFFICERS KILLING CRIMINAL BLACKS. BUT ITS A DIFFERENT STORY WHEN BLACKS SLAUGHTER BLACK KIDS.OH THATS NORMAL IN CHICAGO.ITS ONLY THE POLICE WE BLACKS IN CHICAGO PROTEST.AFTER ALL WE ARE POOR AND NEED TO STEAL-SELL DRUGS AND JOIN GANGS TO ROB PEOPLE TO SURVIVE AND SO WE HAVE OUR OWN EMPLOYMENT. BEING A CRIMINAL-DRUG DEALING GANGSTER-THUG CRIMINAL IS AN ENTREPENEURAL BUSINESS INSISTS THE CHICAGO BLACKS.
Chicago police charge man in gang-related killing of 9-year-old-Reuters By Mary Wisniewski- NOV 27,15-YAHOONEWS
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A man has been arrested and charged in the gang-related murder of a 9-year-old boy who was lured from a park into an alley earlier this month, Chicago Police said on Friday, adding that at least two others had also been involved.The killing of Tyshawn Lee, on Nov. 2, cast a national spotlight on a jump in violent crime in the city, the nation's third largest.Corey Morgan, 27, of Lansing, Illinois, has been charged with first-degree murder, police said. Police also have a warrant for a second suspect, Kevin Edwards, 22, of Chicago, and have in custody a third suspect being held on another charge.Police said the crime was linked to a rivalry between Lee's father, a suspected gang member, and another group, and was connected to at least two other murders. The boy's father, Pierre Stokes, has denied being involved in a gang.Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy called Lee's shooting "an act of barbarism" and said Morgan and the other two suspects were all members of the same gang."That gang just signed its own death warrant," McCarthy said. "We're going to destroy this gang."Police said Lee had been playing basketball in a park when gang members approached him, engaged in conversation, and walked Lee into an alley, where he was assassinated.Morgan had been arrested earlier this month on a gun charge. Edwards is believed to be in the area, McCarthy said. McCarthy said police are working out who which of the three pulled the trigger and who drove the car.McCarthy said that despite a high level of fear, police received "an awful lot of intelligence from the community," unlike in other cases in which people have been unwilling to come forward. As is the case in a number of other U.S. cities, violence has risen in Chicago. Authorities reported 411 murders from Jan. 1 to Nov. 15, up 14 percent from the same period of 2014.News of the arrest on Friday came the same day activists planned to stage a protest over the shooting death of a black teenager by a white Chicago patrolman in an incident caught on a police dashboard camera.Some experts say the rise in violence in Chicago and elsewhere in the nation is a result of the ready availability of guns or a growing heroin trade.(Additional reporting by Laila Kearney; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama, Meredith Mazzilli and Steve Orlofsky)
The Latest: Protesters angry over police killing of teen march in Chicago shopping district-By The Associated Press | The Canadian Press – NOV 27,15-YAHOONEWS
CHICAGO - The latest on the aftermath of the shooting of a black teenager by a white Chicago police officer (all times local):-11 a.m.A protest march has begun in Chicago's shopping district, with the Rev. Jesse Jackson in the middle of a crowd that's shouting, "What do we want? Justice. When do we want it? Now!"Several hundred demonstrators have gathered in the drizzling rain, many with umbrellas and plastic-wrapped signs.Among them is 73-year-old Frank Chapman of Chicago, who says a video released Tuesday showing the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by police officer Jason Van Dyke confirms what activists have said for years about Chicago police brutality.He says his organization, the Chicago Alliance Against Racism and Political Oppression, is pushing for an elected, civilian police accountability council.___9:50 a.m.An association representing hundreds of high-end retailers, hotels and restaurants in Chicago's Magnificent Mile district says it's confident authorities will maintain order for thousands of Black Friday shoppers as groups protest a 2014 police shooting.The release of a video showing the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald has set off days of largely peaceful protests. Taking Friday's demonstrations to the city's main shopping area ensures high visibility.John Curran is vice-president of the Magnificent Mile Association, which represents 780 businesses on North Michigan Avenue. He says members always have robust public safety plans in place because of the area's high profile, its huge crowds and the urban setting.And protests there are nothing new.Some 20 million people visit each year. North Michigan Avenue is one of the largest shopping attractions in the Midwest and hosts many flagship stores, hotels and luxury brands.___7:55 a.m.The Chicago Teachers Union is encouraging its members to join a march in Chicago's shopping district to protest the fatal shooting of a black teenager by a white police officer.CTU President Karen Lewis issued a statement urging members to express their "outrage and dignity" by participating in Friday's march on Michigan Avenue on a stretch called the Magnificent Mile.The 11 a.m. demonstration will be the latest in the city since Tuesday, when officials released dashcam video that shows 17-year-old Laquan McDonald being shot 16 times and prosecutors charged Officer Jason Van Dyke with first-degree murder.Chicago police say they are prepared to support a peaceful march and will be on hand to address traffic and public safety.__12:30 a.m.Protests over the videotaped fatal shooting of a black teenager by a white Chicago police officer are set to move to the heart of the city's famed retail district on the busiest shopping day of the year.A protest march down part of Michigan Avenue called the Magnificent Mile is planned for Friday at 11 a.m. It is being organized by the Rev. Jesse Jackson and other local activists.The march will be the latest demonstration in the city since Tuesday, when officials released dashcam video that shows 17-year-old Laquan McDonald being shot 16 times and prosecutors charged Officer Jason Van Dyke with first-degree murder.The other demonstrations have been largely peaceful. On Thursday afternoon, police said they had made a total of just nine arrests.
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 prices - work in progress, not panacea, for rich and poor-By Barbara Lewis and Susanna Twidale | Reuters – NOV 27,15-YAHOONEWS
BRUSSELS/LONDON (Reuters) - It was supposed to be the way the market would cut greenhouse gases by itself: governments selling companies permits-to-pollute, which they could trade among themselves. Over time, the number of permits would be reduced, and the cost to companies of failing to cut emissions would rise.Yet, 10 years after the EU launched the world's biggest carbon trading scheme, the effectiveness of the concept is in question and climate activists are disenchanted or hostile.While there is still support for national or regional markets, not least in China, which plans to launch the world's biggest scheme in 2017, any hopes of creating a global carbon market at next week's U.N. climate conference in Paris look wildly optimistic. Major corporations, in particular, back the concept because its costs are more predictable than those of prospective future regulations.In June, a group of European energy companies led by Royal Dutch Shell wrote to the United Nations to call for a global carbon price that would "discourage high carbon options and reduce uncertainty".U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres told them to do more and to spell out price levels, something they have yet to do.Climate activists say the corporations' enthusiasm can be explained as a desire to dodge more aggressive measures, such as targets for renewable energy."The call for a carbon price is a shield with which to defend themselves from calls for faster change," says Tom Burke, chairman of the environmental campaign group E3G.-TEST CASE-Even with the jury out, nearly half of the more than 170 national pledges for reducing greenhouse gas emissions include some form of carbon pricing to meet their targets, officials say.They range from the top emitter, China, to the tiny Pacific nation of Kiribati, imperilled by rising sea levels.The best test case, for now, is the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme, which raised 8.9 billion euros ($9.4 billion) in the three years to June 2015, according to European Commission figures.Jos Delbeke, director general of the Commission's climate action department and one of the chief architects of the ETS, says it has shown, crucially, that reducing carbon emissions is compatible with economic growth.He says the EU's gross domestic product has risen 46 percent since 1990, while greenhouse gas emissions have fallen by 23 percent, and that the ETS is still central to EU efforts to tackle climate change.The scheme sets a cap on how much big emitters, chiefly power plants and factories, can pollute.Mostly they have to buy the emissions credits at auction. Those who emit less than their cap can sell the surplus credits to companies that exceed their limits, which are progressively reduced over time.So far, from the more than 11,000 industrial and energy plants covered by the EU ETS, emissions have fallen by almost 15 percent since 2008, Thomson Reuters Point Carbon figures show.But critics say it is unclear how much of this was a direct result of the ETS, as opposed to Europe's economic slowdown."LOOPHOLES AND VESTED INTERESTS"-They also say the revenues generated have merely boosted general government coffers rather than being spent on the environment, let alone on the poorer countries that pollute least but are set to suffer most from climate change."The carbon market promised the world lots of things it has failed to deliver. The ETS is riddled with loopholes and in thrall to vested interest," said Tim Gore, Oxfam's international policy adviser on climate change.Most critically, the activists say the polluters have been given an easy ride.Point Carbon figures show that industry, which lobbied hard for help in dealing with extra energy costs, was given free carbon permits with a tradable value of 77 billion euros in the years to 2014.Alongside this, the market price of EU ETS permits, and therefore the cost of pollution, has at times fallen to near zero as economic recession and miscalculations led to a surplus of credits.The allocation system has now been reformed, but the total of free permits is still expected to hit 325 billion euros by 2030.At the same time, in the absence of a global carbon pricing system, industry continues to complain that the cost of permits is driving it to leave Europe for cheaper regulatory environments.ETS prices have risen back to 8.5 euros per tonne of CO2 produced, but are still far below peaks of above 30 euros, and too low to encourage investment in lower-carbon fuel. EU regulators are working on further reforms.-POORER COUNTRIES-There is a similar story of flawed execution behind another trading scheme, the United Nations' Clean Development Mechanism.This was supposed to allow Western industries and governments to contribute to green projects in developing countries too small to support their own domestic or regional trading schemes, "offsetting" rather than cutting their own emissions.The United Nations says the scheme has provided more than $315 billion for environmental projects.However, the value of these certificates also fell from a high of more than 23 euros per tonne of CO2 avoided to near zero in 2014 as the scheme's credibility was called into doubt and the value of the EU's permits crashed.Environment campaigners say the funds were concentrated in a handful of industrial gas projects rather than filtering down to the poorest nations, known as the Least Developed Countries (LDCs), who found the scheme hard to access."By the time the LDCs were ready to take advantage ... the prices had collapsed," Giza Gaspar Martins, Angola’s climate negotiator for the U.N. talks, told Reuters.U.N. carbon credit prices still languish around 0.60 euros a tonne, but Martins still backs the scheme in the hope that rich nations can push up prices to a level where they can provide significant funds to help the poorest nations adapt to climate change.As for a true global carbon market - a draft of the agreement to be finalised in Paris, intended as the first ever pact to unite rich and developing nations against climate change, contains only a small, oblique reference to "internationally transferred mitigation outcomes".Hardly a ringing endorsement.($1 = 0.9434 euros)(Editing by Jonathan Leff and Kevin Liffey)
Catastrophic' if Paris climate summit fails, says Pope-By EUOBSERVER-nov 27,15
Today, 09:29-Pope Francis on Thursday warned of "catastrophic" consequences if the UN climate talks opening in Paris next week fail. "We are confronted with a choice which cannot be ignored: either to improve or to destroy the environment," he said in a speech in the Kenyan capital Nairobi.
Queen Elizabeth II opens Commonwealth meeting on Malta; climate change, extremists on agenda-By Stephen Calleja, The Associated Press | The Canadian Press – NOV 27,15-YAHOONEWS
VALLETTA, Malta - Queen Elizabeth II opened the Commonwealth summit Friday on the Mediterranean island of Malta — a meeting that will focus on climate change and the threat of extremist violence.The 89-year-old British monarch praised the accomplishments of the 53-nation Commonwealth and her happy associations with Malta."Prince Philip and I first came to live here in Malta in 1949, the year the Commonwealth was founded," she said, hailing a vast advancement in freedom and human rights in the decades since then. "I have been privileged to witness this transformation and to consider its purpose." Between 1949 and 1951, Philip was stationed on Malta as a Royal Navy officer and the future queen lived as a military wife, rather than a duty-burdened heir to the throne.The Commonwealth links more than 2 billion people on five continents, including large countries like India, Australia and Canada and small island states like Tonga and Vanuatu.The leaders Friday elected Baroness Patricia Scotland of Britain as the new secretary general. She will take office in April, 2016 and become the first woman to fill the post.She was accompanied to Malta by her husband Prince Philip, her son Prince Charles, the heir to the throne, and Charles' wife, Camilla.The queen paid tribute to Philip, praising his "boundless energy and commitment" to the Commonwealth, and to Prince Charles and his wife Camilla who also came to the conference.French President Francois Hollande plans to address Commonwealth leaders later Friday ahead of the U.N. climate change conference beginning in Paris next week.British Prime Minister David Cameron, meanwhile, has announced plans to set up a Commonwealth unit targeting the extremist "scourge."Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said the Commonwealth needs to become more relevant to the aspirations of its citizens."The Commonwealth must have an agenda with clear priorities, especially in the fight against radicalization and the tackling of the migration phenomenon, which can be challenged through education and employment," Muscat said."Terrorists are more scared of well-educated girls and boys who manage to get a good job than they will ever be of any army," he said.
EU to open new chapter in Turkish talks-By EUOBSERVER-nov 27,15
Today, 09:29-Turkey's minister of European Union affairs, Volkan Bozkir, said Thursday in Ankara that Brussels has agreed "to open chapter 17 by mid-December" in a bid to revive stalled membership talks with Turkey. Of 35 "policy chapters" for negotiations prior to membership, only 13 have been opened so far.
Majority back Ireland staying in EU even if UK exits-By EUOBSERVER-nov 27,15
Today, 09:28-A vast majority, 75%, of Irish voters want the UK to remain in the EU. There is equally strong support for the view that Ireland should remain in the EU even if Britain decides to leave, an Irish Times/Ipsos poll shows. Only 13% would like to see the UK leave.
Poland's ruling party shows true colours By Eszter Zalan-nov 27,15
BRUSSELS, Today, 09:38-Poland’s newly installed right-wing governing party is showing off its confrontational style by trying to replace already appointed constitutional judges with its own appointees on Thursday (27 November) and by upping its rhetoric against Russia.The ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS) used its majority in the Sejm, Poland’s lower house of parliament, to passed resolutions reversing recent appointments of five judges to the highest court.It will now be able to push for its own judges, who it hopes will clear the way for planned sweeping constitutional changes.PiS plans to create new administrative regions, amend the constitution, and restructure the judiciary.The move resembles Hungary prime minister Viktor Orban’s tactics, who amid international criticism curbed the rights of constitutional judges to cripple their ability to scrutinise legal changes.Law and Justice leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski often praised Orban’s governing style, using his majority to rewrite Hungary’s constitution and override opponents.Kaczynski on Wednesday said the court, which has the final say on constitutional matters, is filled with his political opponents, and would try to hamper the government’s work.The judges were appointed by the previous parliament dominated by then ruling Civic Platform. PiS said its predecessor pushed through the appointments knowing it will lose the elections, and preempting decisions by the new parliament.Opposition MPs and the chairman of the court criticised the move.-"Law and Justice is over. Today it's Lawlessness and Injustice," Ewa Kopacz, former prime minister, said, and her party, Civic Platform accused PiS of being the “shame of Europe”.-Russia, the enemy-The newly elected Polish government also confirmed expectations it will be more confrontational with Moscow.Russia's foreign ministry said on Thursday Poland's call to annul a Nato act that prevents it from having permanent military bases on its soil was “extraordinarily dangerous and exceptionally provocative,” AFP reported.Poland's new foreign minister Witold Waszczykowski on Wednesday called for scrapping the 1997 act on Nato-Russia relations to let the alliance install the bases, although the Polish foreign ministry insisted Thursday evening that Moscow had “misunderstood” Waszczykowski.“The behaviour of Russia, blackmailing Central Europe, is a confrontation against the whole of Nato,” Waszczykowski said.Poland already announced plans to increase its army by 50 percent, form 100,000 to 150,000 to “guarantee the integrity” of the nation’s borders.The move reflects growing Polish security concerns, and a deep distrust directed at Moscow after Russia intervened in neighboring Ukraine and annexed part if its territory, Crimea.Beata Szydlo, Poland’s new prime minister who took office this month called Russia Poland’s “enemy."The new Polish government is also expected to reopen an investigation into the death of president Lech Kaczynski in a plane crash in Russia in 2010, a move likely to further strain ties with Moscow.A previous government inquiry deemed the crash occurred because of an error the pilot made, but the PiS party, now in power, and led by Kaczynski's twin brother Jaroslaw, says an onboard explosion could have caused the tragedy.It accuses Moscow of stalling the investigation by withholding evidence, sic as the plane’s wreckage.
Pope arrives in Uganda to celebrate Christian martyrs, calls Africa 'continent of hope'-By Nicole Winfield And Rodney Muhumuza, The Associated Press | The Canadian Press – nov 27,15-yahoonews
KAMPALA, Uganda - Pope Francis arrived in Uganda on Friday on the second leg of his Africa pilgrimage, declaring Africa the "continent of hope" and honouring Uganda's most famous Christians.Francis arrived at Entebbe International Airport, where Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, flanked by a military brass band and traditional drummers and dancers welcomed him.Francis, who arrived from Kenya and also is scheduled to visit Central African Republic, is in Uganda mainly to honour the memory of a group of Ugandan Christians who were killed in the late 19th century on the orders of a local king eager to thwart the growing influence of Christianity.Those victims, known as the Uganda Martyrs, include 45 Anglicans and Catholics killed between 1885 and 1887. Pope Paul VI canonized the 22 Ugandan Catholics in 1964."They remind us of the importance that faith, moral rectitude and commitment to the common good have played, and continue to play, in the cultural, economic and political life of this country," Francis told Museveni and other Ugandan authorities and diplomats at a welcome ceremony at the state house.In an unusual break with papal trip protocol, Museveni didn't offer welcoming remarks.Later Friday, Francis arrived at a shrine honouring the martyrs in Munyonyo, where they were condemned to death.Francis arrived in Kampala after a busy final day in Kenya that was highlighted by his visit to one of the capital's 11 slums and a spontaneous, off-the-cuff monologue to thousands of Kenyan youths about preventing young people from falling prey to corruption and radicalization to go fight with extremist groups.In the Kangemi shanty, Francis denounced conditions slum-dwellers are forced to live in, saying access to safe water is a basic human right and that everyone should have dignified, adequate housing, access to sanitation, schools and hospitals."To deny a family water, under any bureaucratic pretext whatsoever, is a great injustice, especially when one profits from this need," he said.Residents lined the mud streets to welcome Francis, standing alongside goats and hens outside the corrugated tin-roofed shacks where many of the shantytown's small businesses operate: beauty parlours, cellphone "top-up" shops and storefront evangelical churches.Those lucky enough to score a spot at St. Joseph's parish erupted in cheers and hymns when Francis arrived, ululating and waving paper flags printed with his photo and the "Kariba Kenya" welcome that has been ubiquitous on the pope's first-ever visit to Africa.Francis, known as the "slum pope" for his ministry in Buenos Aires' shantytowns, has frequently insisted on the need for the three "Ls" — land, labour and lodging. On Friday he focused on lodging as a critical issue facing the world amid rapid urbanization that is helping to upset Earth's delicate ecological balance.Kangemi is one of 11 slums dotting Nairobi, East Africa's largest city, and is home to about 50,000 people. The U.N. Habitat program says some 60 per cent of Nairobi's population lives on just 6 per cent of the city's residential land in these unofficial settlements lacking basic sanitation or regular running water. Francis denounced the practice of private corporations grabbing land illegally, depriving schools of their playgrounds and forcing the poor into ever more tightly packed slums, where violence and addiction are rampant.In January, police tear-gassed schoolchildren demonstrating against the removal of their school's playground, which has been allegedly grabbed by powerful people. After an outcry, the Kenyan government declared the playground the property of the school."These are wounds inflicted by minorities who cling to power and wealth, who selfishly squander while a growing majority is forced to flee to abandoned, filthy and run-down peripheries," Francis said.He called for a "respectful urban integration" with concrete initiatives to provide good quality housing for all.His message was welcomed by residents of Kangemi, who said the city only pipes in water three days a week, Tuesday through Thursday, but it's not safe to drink. Garbage collection goes to only those who can pay for it."Some people don't have toilets in their homes," said Emily Night, a mother of two who works at the St. Joseph's HIV counselling program. "Those that do, maybe 50 people are using it!"Francis raised the issue of environmental deterioration in cities in his landmark encyclical "Praise Be," saying many megacities today have simply become health threats, "not only because of pollution caused by toxic emissions but also as a result of urban chaos, poor transportation, and visual pollution and noise."After the visit to Kangemi, Francis received a rock-star welcome at Kasarani stadium, where he zoomed around the track in his open-sided popemobile to the delight of thousands of young Kenyans in the crowd. The stadium was so packed with the faithful that many more stood outside, unable to enter.As he tends to do when surrounded by young people, Francis ditched his prepared speech and spoke off-the-cuff at length about problems Kenyan young people are facing, including the temptation to go the way of Kenya's many corrupt officials and institutions or to go off and join an extremist group.Francis told the crowd that the way to prevent the young from being radicalized is to give them an education and a job."If a young person has no work, what kind of a future does he or she have? That's where the idea of being recruited comes from," he said.Kenyans make up the largest contingent of foreign fighters in the Somali based al-Qaida-linked extremist group al-Shabab, which has staged attacks in Kenya.Francis also urged the kids to resist the temptation of corruption, saying it's like sugar: You develop a taste for it but it's ultimately terrible for you.On Sunday, he is due to arrive in the Central African Republic.___Follow Nicole Winfield at www.twitter.com/nwinfield
Greece, creditors close to deal on conditions for Athens to secure next slice of rescue money-By The Associated Press | The Canadian Press – NOV 27,15-YAHOONEWS
BRUSSELS - Greece and its creditors are close to sealing a deal on conditions that Athens must respect to obtain the next slice of rescue money.The country has already received this week approval for a 2 billion euro loan, and is negotiating on more economic measures needed to get another 1 billion euros.European Commission spokeswoman Mina Andreeva said Friday the sides have "agreed broadly the second set of milestones."She said that when the details are ironed out "this of course would unlock the disbursement of the final one billion euros still available."That would also allow for an important review of Greece's handling of its austerity program, which is required to secure international credit.Andreeva said the implementation of pension reforms "is a key part of the first review."
COUNTRIES WITH ISRAEL AND THE ENEMIES OF THE WEST
EZEKIEL 38:10-19
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,(RUSSIA,ARAB,MUSLIMS) I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; 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, 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.
13 Sheba, and Dedan,(SAUDIA ARABIA)(JORDAN) and the merchants of Tarshish,(ENGLAND) with all the young lions thereof,(USA,CANADA,AUSTRALIA,NEW ZEALAND,EU,ENGLAND,ENGLISH SPEAKING shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?
14 Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?
PSALMS 83:3-7 (COUNTRIES AGAINST ISRAEL)(EXCEPT JORDAN)
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
ISRAEL-WEST ENEMIES EZEK 38:4-6,15-19
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)
15 And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts,(RUSSIA-ARAB/MUSLIMS) thou, and many people with thee,(AFRICAN ISLAMIC COUNTRIES) all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army:
16 And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
17 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them?
18 And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall come up in my face.
19 For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;
DANIEL 11:44 (CHINA WITH RUSSIA-MUSLIMS)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
EZEKIEL 39:1-6 ISRAELS ENEMIES DESTROYED
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.
Palestinian hits Israeli soldiers with car in West Bank, shot dead-AFP-NOV 27,15-YAHOONEWS
Jerusalem (AFP) - A Palestinian rammed his car into Israeli soldiers at a bus station in the occupied West Bank Friday before being shot dead, police said."A Palestinian car hit two Israelis standing by a bus station (near Kfar Adumim). The terrorist was neutralised," police said.They later confirmed the suspect had died and the army said the two Israelis were soldiers.Israel's Magen David Adom emergency medical service said the two soldiers were taken to hospital in Jerusalem conscious and with light to moderate wounds.A senior police officer said the Palestinian exited his car and started to run after hitting the soldiers, before he was shot dead by a civilian.Kfar Adumim is an Israeli settlement northeast of Jerusalem.Police identified the Palestinian as Fadi Hassib, from Ramallah, whose brother was shot dead on Sunday after ramming his car into Israelis before charging at them with a knife.Friday's incident raises the number of Palestinians killed since October 1 to 98, including an Israeli Arab.Over half of them have been alleged perpetrators of stabbing, shooting and car ramming attacks aimed at Israeli civilians and security forces. Others have died in clashes with security forces.The violence has also left 17 Israelis, an American and an Eritrean dead.Attempts to ease the tensions, including a visit by US Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday, have so far proved unsuccessful.Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, has called a day of rage for Friday.
Polish call to scrap NATO-Russia deal 'extraordinarily dangerous': Moscow-AFP-NOV 27,15-YAHOONEWS
Moscow (AFP) - Russia's foreign ministry on Thursday slammed as "extraordinarily dangerous" Poland's call to annul a NATO act that prevents it from having permanent military bases on its soil."We consider these statements to be extraordinarily dangerous and exceptionally provocative," Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.Poland's new right-wing Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski on Wednesday called for scrapping the 1997 act on NATO-Russia relations to let the alliance install the bases, saying the document causes "inequality" between new and old members of the alliance.Zakharova said that Waszczykowski's statement was part of an attempt to rally Western public opinion ahead of next year's NATO summit in Warsaw and that the annulment of the deal could "bring down the existing European security system.""We see here the desire to convey the irreversible course taken by the alliance on the military containment of our country," she said in a briefing.The Polish foreign ministry insisted Thursday evening that Moscow had "clearly misunderstood" Waszczykowski."Of course he was not referring to the NATO-Russia Founding Act adopted in 1997, but to political declarations by NATO concerning the deployment of large military units in Central Europe."The 1997 document stipulates that older NATO members "have no intention, no plan and no reason to deploy nuclear weapons on the territory of new members" like Poland, Hungary or the Baltic countries.It adds that NATO "will carry out its collective defence and other missions by ensuring the necessary interoperability, integration, and capability for reinforcement rather than by additional permanent stationing of substantial combat forces."Russia has long insisted this provision clearly rules out permanent bases and troop deployments.
Russian raids repeatedly hit Syrian Turkmen areas, Moscow's data shows-By Jack Stubbs and Humeyra Pamuk | Reuters – NOV 27,15-YAHOONEWS
MOSCOW/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Russian air strikes in northwest Syria have heavily targeted ethnic Turkmen areas, according to a Reuters data analysis that helps explain rising tensions between Moscow and Ankara in the weeks before Turkey shot down a Russian warplane.Tuesday's incident marked the biggest clash between a NATO member and Russia in half a century, and has drawn threats of economic retaliation from the Kremlin. Turkey says the plane strayed into its airspace, which Moscow denies.Long before that, Turkey had condemned Russia's bombing of towns and villages in the north of Syria's western Latakia province, areas it says belong to Syrian Turkmen, who are Syrians of Turkish descent.Russian Defence Ministry data, collated by Reuters, shows the bombing raids have struck at least 17 named locations in Turkmen areas since President Vladimir Putin ordered them to begin on Sept. 30.Russian missiles have destroyed ammunition bunkers, command points and a suicide bomb factory in towns including Salma, Ghmam and Kesladshuq to the west of Syria's Alawite mountains, according to the data, an area humanitarian groups say is ethnically Turkmen.Salma, which has a majority Turkmen population, has been bombed on at least eight occasions and has found itself at the centre of some of the most geographically concentrated strikes.Russian jets have hit 15 separate named targets within a 13 km (8 mile) radius of the town, which is used as a base by Turkish-backed rebels in their fight against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad."The Russians were heavily bombing Turkmen villages before the downing of the plane," said Samir Alo, head of the Higher Council of Turkmen in Syria. "Thousands of Turkmen families have been driven to the border."ETHNIC KIN-Putin has vowed to hunt down Islamic State militants who blew up a Russian airliner over Egypt last month, and said Russia will step up its air strikes against the group in Syria.But Turkey, the United States and other NATO members say Russia is also hitting rebels opposed to Assad and fighting against Islamic State, allowing the militants to make advances on the battlefield.Moscow says it only targets Islamic State and what it describes as other terrorist groups in Syria.A Syrian Kurdish leader said on Friday Ankara had shot down the Russian bomber because the groups it backed were losing territory." Turkmen are Turkey's ethnic kin but the world should understand that there is a bigger issue at stake here," said a senior Turkish official. "We are extremely worried that the anti-Islamic State coalition is being weakened by these bombardments."How could a campaign against Islamic State be conducted by bombing these rebels which are actually battling Islamic State?"Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has repeatedly said this week that there are no Islamic State militants in Latakia and the area just to the north, which have been targeted by both Russian bombardment and Syrian government forces. He said 300 moderate Syrian rebels, including many Turkmen, had been killed in over a month.Turkmen have lived in northwest Syria since travelling there to fight as part of a Muslim campaign against European crusaders in the Middle Ages.Officials estimate 300,000 Turkmen used to live in northern Latakia but Murat Kavakdan, Syria coordinator for the IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation, said as few as 25,000 remain as a result of Syria's four-year-civil war, which has displaced more than six million people.A Reuters analysis in October found that almost 80 percent of Russian targets in Syria in the first three weeks of its air campaign were on groups other than Islamic State.The Russian Defence Ministry did not respond to written questions submitted by Reuters on the latest data.(Writing by Jack Stubbs; Additional reporting by Suleiman Al-Khalidi in Amman; Editing by Mark Trevelyan)
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun,(HEATING UP-SOLAR ECLIPSES) and in the moon,(MAN ON MOON-LUNAR ECLIPSES) and in the stars;(ASTEROIDS ETC) 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)
Ice, snow and rain pound central U.S., at least 2 dead, 1 missing-Reuters By Jon Herskovitz-NOV 27,15-YAHOONEWS
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - At least two people were killed and another missing in Texas after being caught in high waters caused by a storm system that brought snow, ice and torrential rain to an area stretching from New Mexico to Illinois on Friday.The system is expected to dump as much as 8 inches (20 cm) of rain through the weekend in parts of North Texas, coat the Lubbock area in ice and drop up to a foot (30 cms) of snow in northern parts of New Mexico, the National Weather Service said.The agency has issued a flood watch for the region extending from the Dallas area into Oklahoma and Louisiana, and up through parts of southern Illinois.It has also issued an ice storm watch for the Texas panhandle, parts of eastern New Mexico and western Oklahoma.In Garland, outside of Dallas, one person was found dead in a car that had been submerged in flood waters, firefighters said on Friday.In Johnson County, south of Fort Worth, authorities pulled a body out of a car that was swept away in raging waters overnight, the Dallas Morning News reported.In Tarrant County, Texas, where Fort Worth is located, a woman believed to be in her seventies was swept away with her vehicle in high water, the sheriff's office said.Tarrant County Deputy Krystal Salazar, 26, tried to save the woman but was also swept away, a spokesman for the sheriff's office said."She (Salazar) was found about two hours later clinging to a tree branch," said spokesman Terry Grisham.The deputy has been treated and released from an area hospital.(Reporting by Jon Herskovitz; Editing by Bernadette Baum and Chris Reese)
