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1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.
12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE
Third suspect nabbed in deadly supermarket stabbing-Alleged accomplice thought to be Ramallah resident seen being turned away from Rami Levy before Tuvia Yanai Weissman attacked-By Times of Israel staff February 21, 2016, 8:00 pm
Israeli security forces said Sunday they had arrested a third suspect in the stabbing attack at a West Bank supermarket that killed an Israeli man Thursday.Omar Rimawi and Ihad Sabah, both 14, from Beitunia near Ramallah, were identified as the two attackers who stabbed Tuvia Yanai Weissman, 21, and another man at the Rami Levy supermarket in the Sha’ar Binyamin Industrial Zone, southeast of Ramallah.They were shot by an armed civilian who rushed to the scene after hearing screaming. Sabah died of his wounds. Rimawi remains hospitalized.Weissman, a dual Israeli-US citizen and resident of the West Bank settlement of Ma’ale Mikhmas, was stabbed and critically injured while shopping with his wife, Yael, and 4-month-old daughter, Neta. He later died of his wounds in the hospital.A second victim, identified as a 35-year-old man, sustained moderate injuries, but has been released from the hospital.Israeli police released photographs Thursday from the supermarket showing blood splattered on the floor of an aisle stocked with laundry detergent.Security footage from the attack showed that three Palestinians sought to enter the supermarket. A security guard turned one away, but allowed the other two in without a physical check. The third suspect is believed to be the one seen being turned away.The suspect is identified by authorities only as a Ramallah resident.Thursday’s attack was the second to occur in a Rami Levy supermarket in recent years. In 2014, two Israelis were moderately injured in an attack at a branch of the discount chain in Mishor Adumim, an industrial zone east of Jerusalem.Since October 1, 2015, some 30 Israelis have been killed by Palestinians in knife, gun and car-ramming attacks. More than 160 Palestinians have been killed, some 115 of them while carrying out attacks, and others during clashes and demonstrations.
Onlookers cheer as German refugee home burns-As fears of violence toward asylum-seekers rise, governor calls incident ‘appalling and shocking’-By AP February 21, 2016, 9:37 pm-the times of israel
BERLIN — Onlookers celebrated as a suspected arson fire damaged a former hotel being converted into a refugee home in eastern Germany, police said Sunday, raising new concerns about violence toward migrants in a nation that registered more than a million asylum-seekers last year.The blaze in the roof of the building in Bautzen, in the eastern state of Saxony, broke out overnight. Police said no one was injured but a group of people gathered outside, some “commenting with derogatory remarks or unashamed joy” at the fire.While most Germans have been welcoming toward refugees, a vocal minority has staged protests in front of refugee homes, especially in the east. Germany last year saw a surge in violence against such lodgings.Police ordered three people to leave the fire scene because they were hampering firefighters’ work and then temporarily detained two of them, whom they described as intoxicated 20-year-old locals, after they ignored the order.Investigators found traces of a fire accelerant at the scene and believe the fire was caused by arson, police said. It wasn’t immediately clear whether the building can be restored.Saxony is home to the anti-Islam and anti-immigration group PEGIDA, and incidents there have caused concern before. In August, a mob in Heidenau, outside Dresden, hurled bottles and fireworks at police protecting a shelter being set up for refugees.The Bautzen fire came after a mob in the small town of Clausnitz, also in Saxony, on Thursday screamed “We are the people!” and “Go home!” as they blocked a bus carrying asylum-seekers outside a new refugee home.Police drew criticism in that case for roughly hauling some migrants off the bus into the building — which they insist was necessary to prevent the situation from escalating — and for saying that some of the migrants had made provocative gestures.Saxony Governor Stanislaw Tillich called the two incidents “appalling and shocking” and described the perpetrators as “criminals.”“This is abhorrent and disgusting,” Tillich told the Funke newspaper group. He pledged that authorities will investigate and “bring everyone responsible to account.”Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said that everyone in Germany is entitled to express their concerns “but there is a threshold of decency and law that must not be crossed — and this threshold was clearly crossed in the incidents in Saxony,” the news agency dpa reported.“It is completely unacceptable for people who are seeking protection from persecution here to be greeted with hatred and agitation,” de Maiziere added.Later Sunday, the minister defended police actions in Clausnitz, saying they were right to get all the migrants off the bus quickly and into the building. If the bus had been backed away from the refugee home, “these bawling people would have had their way,” de Maiziere said on ARD television.
Over 100 killed as bombs tear through Damascus, Homs-Islamic State claims string of bombings that kill at least 119 while international community struggles to sew together ceasefire-By AP February 21, 2016, 6:59 pm Updated: February 21, 2016, 8:31 pm-the times of israel
Separate bomb attacks claimed by the Islamic State group in Syria on Sunday killed at least 119 people as Washington pursued efforts for a ceasefire.As US Secretary of State John Kerry said a provisional deal had been reached on the terms of a truce, violence intensified on the ground.Near Damascus, a series of bomb attacks, including a car bombing, ripped through the area of the Sayyida Zeinab Shiite shrine and killed 62 people, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said.Hours earlier, double car bombings killed at least 57 people and wounded dozens in the Al-Zahraa district of the central city of Homs, the monitor said-The jihadist IS said it was behind the carnage.State television footage from Homs showed emergency workers carrying a charred body on a stretcher past devastated shops and mangled cars and minibuses.The attack was the worst since twin blasts in October 2014 hit a school, killing at least 55 people, including 49 children.Al-Zahraa — whose residents are mostly from the same Alawite sect as Syria’s ruling clan — has been regularly targeted.IS, which last month claimed a double bombing that killed 22 people, said it carried out the latest attack.Two jihadists drove explosive-laden cars into crowds of residents, it said in an online statement.The group also said two of its suicide bombers carried out the Sayyida Zeinab bombings.State television said a car bombing and two suicide attacks hit the area, killing 50 and wounding dozens, whereas the Observatory gave a death toll of 62 in four attacks.IS was also behind a massive attack in January that killed 70 people near the shrine, which contains the grave of a granddaughter of the Prophet Mohammed and is revered by Shiites.‘Provisional’ ceasefire deal-World powers have been pushing for a halt in fighting in Syria that was meant to take effect by Friday, but have struggled to agree on the terms.The latest bombings came as Kerry said he had spoken with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov and agreed on how to implement a ceasefire.“We have reached a provisional agreement, in principle, on the terms of the cessation of hostilities that could begin in the coming days,” Kerry said in Amman.“It is not yet done and I anticipate that our presidents, President (Barack) Obama and President (Vladimir) Putin, may well speak somewhere in the next days or so in order to try to complete this task.”World powers proposed the truce just over a week ago as part of a plan that also included expanded humanitarian access, in a bid to pave the way for peace talks to resume.The talks, which collapsed earlier this month in Geneva, had been scheduled to resume on February 25, but the UN’s Syria envoy has already acknowledged that date is no longer realistic.On Saturday, key opposition umbrella group the High Negotiations Committee said it would agree a temporary truce only if regime backers halted fire.HNC chief Riad Hijab said any ceasefire must be reached “with international mediation and with guarantees obliging Russia, Iran and their sectarian militias and mercenaries to stop fighting.”Assad, meanwhile, told Spain’s El Pais newspaper he was “ready” for a ceasefire, but said it should not be exploited by “terrorists.”Regime backer Moscow is a key architect of the proposed ceasefire, but has shown little sign so far that it plans to rein in the air campaign it began in September in support of Assad’s government.On Saturday, the Kremlin said it would continue “to provide assistance and help to the armed forces of Syria in their offensive actions against terrorists.”Regime forces backed by Russian strikes were advancing on Sunday east of Aleppo city against IS, consolidating their control over a stretch of highway from the city to the Kweyris military base.The Observatory said at least 50 IS fighters had been killed in clashes and Russian strikes since Saturday morning.Tensions have been rising between Moscow and opposition-backer Ankara, alarmed by both the regime’s Russian-backed advances and a major operation by Kurdish-led forces in Aleppo province.The Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) and their Arab partners have in recent days seized key territory from rebel forces in Aleppo, prompting Turkey to shell their positions.Ankara considers the YPG to be an affiliate of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which has waged a decades-long insurgency against the Turkish state.It fears the Kurdish advances are intended to link up areas in north and northeast Syria to create a contiguous semi-autonomous Kurdish zone along the Syrian-Turkish border.On Sunday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan defended his country’s fight against the YPG as “legitimate defense” after international calls for Ankara to halt its military action in Syria.
Israel’s mobile industry helps the world understand Israel better-The Mobile World Congress is an opportunity for Israeli companies to tell their stories — and the country’s stories, say industry experts-By David Shamah February 21, 2016, 7:55 pm-the times of israel
The Mobile World Congress — the “Superbowl” event of the mobile industry, taking place Monday through Thursday in Barcelona — is a great way for companies around the world, as well as in Israel, to show off their technology.But in recent years, it has emerged as something more — as an opportunity for Israelis to talk about themselves and their country in a positive way.Pre-Barcelona events, such as Tzav 8 Barcelona (the name refers to an emergency defense call-up by the Israel Defense Forces) provide background and training for Israeli entrepreneurs headed to the event to present Israel as more than just a place where war and politics happen. “It’s not about painting a false picture of the country, said Yael Shany, organizer of the program now in its eighth year. Tzav 8’s brand of hasbara has more to do with Israel’s image as a tech power, and how the talents and skills used by entrepreneurs to build international business empires are also used to improve society, both in Israel and around the world.“Given Israel’s importance in the mobile industry, and the large number of Israelis who attend MWC, Tzav 8 is a great opportunity to show the side of Israel that few abroad are aware of, such as the positive contributions of the high-tech community to bringing Israeli Arabs into Israel’s tech ecosystem, or the ways technology is being used to help save lives in emergency situations,” said Shany at the latest edition of the Tzav 8 event last Thursday in Tel Aviv.“Israeli business people going to Barcelona are Israel’s best diplomats, because they can talk about the country’s positive tech contributions, the ones that people don’t hear about abroad,” she added.And one Israeli firm that is attending MWC — AppsFlyer, a world leader in the mobile attribution analytics business — is doing Tzav 8 one better. “We have 10 offices around the world, so we decided to institute an employee exchange program, where we send employees from Israel to work in one of our offices worldwide,” said Ran Avrahamy, AppsFlyer VP of marketing. “In addition, we bring every employee from abroad to Israel for a week, to introduce them not only to what goes on at headquarters in Herzliya, but also to show them what Israel is all about. I can tell you that everyone we have brought over wants very badly to come back.”Out of the 2,000 or so companies presenting at this year’s MWC, over 200 are either based in Israel, or do the majority of their R&D work here. This makes Israel eligible for the title “Global Leader in Mobile Telecommunications,” according to the Israel Export Institute, which by itself is bringing 65 mobile start-ups to MWC.Other companies (38) are traveling as part of a delegation with industry umbrella group Israel Mobile Association, while still others, including dozens of the larger mobile tech firms, such as Tadiran, Celeno, Audiocodes, Comigo, and many more, will have their own booths at the vast multi-acre event that draws as many as 100,000 people.Among those “independent” Israeli firms is AppsFlyer, which provides analytics services to mobile advertisers, ad buyers, and ad networks to help them determine the most effective way to bring in new users. Just as Israel is a leader in the overall mobile industry, said Avrahamy, AppsFlyer is a leader in mobile attribution analytics technology.“It’s one of the fastest growing segments in the mobile industry,” explained Avrahamy. “Everyone is vying for users today, and it’s not as easy to acquire them as it used to be. Advertisers, ad sellers, and ad networks all need to be on top of their game and ensure that they are spending their dollars wisely. Our analytics show them whether or not what they are doing is effective, and points them towards ways of doing it better.”An international company, AppsFlyer, with its worldwide offices (the two newest, in Berlin and London, were opened just last Friday), the company “has 90% of the market in this segment in China,” said Avrahamy. With just three other direct competitors (two in the US and one in Germany), AppsFlyer has plenty of business opportunities, and its customers — including some of the world’s largest online and bricks-and-mortar retailers in the US, Europe, and Asia (including China) — sing the firm’s praises, according to the testimonials on the AppsFlyer website.Of course, the main purpose of the Global Employee Exchange Program is to enhance the work environment by getting everyone to understand the needs and challenges of the company. However, there’s another important aspect to these trips that AppsFlyer takes very seriously, said Avrahamy. “It’s not only a great way for workers to see how the business operates, but also a way to introduce workers from places like Bangkok, Beijing, Seoul, Tokyo, Bangalore, and of course the US and Europe, to what Israel is really like.”For the foreign employees who visit Israel, that means getting to know not only the company, but Israel and its people. “I’m a big fan of Tzav 8,” said Avrahamy, adding that the AppsFlyer program, while a strategy to grow the business, is also a way to show off Israel’s positive side. “We take our people around the country and even spend a Shabbat with them so they can see what makes us tick. They come away with a better point of view about not only our business, but about our country — and that’s good all around.”
WORLD POWERS IN THE LAST DAYS (END OF AGE OF GRACE NOT THE WORLD)
EUROPEAN UNION-KING OF WEST-DAN 9:26-27,DAN 7:23-24,DAN 11:40,REV 13:1-10
EGYPT-KING OF THE SOUTH-DAN 11:40
RUSSIA-KING OF THE NORTH-EZEK 38:1-2,EZEK 39:1-3
CHINA-KING OF THE EAST-DAN 11:44,REV 9:16,18
VATICAN-RELIGIOUS LEADER-REV 13:11-18,REV 17:4-5,9,18
WORLD TERRORISM
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her,(HAGAR) Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he (ISHMAEL-FATHER OF THE ARAB-MUSLIMS) will be a wild (DONKEY-JACKASS) man;(ISLAM IS A FAKE AND DANGEROUS SEX FOR MURDER CULT) his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against him;(PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM BEING BEHEADED) and he (ISHMAEL ARAB/MUSLIM) shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)
ISAIAH 14:12-14
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,(SATAN) son of the morning!(HEBREW-CRECENT MOON-ISLAM) how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I (SATAN HAS EYE TROUBLES) will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(AND 1/3RD OF THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN FELL WITH SATAN AND BECAME DEMONS)
JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.(ISLAM MURDERS IN THE NAME OF MOON GOD ALLAH OF ISLAM)
Violence rages in Syria as Kerry and Lavrov reach provisional deal on ceasefire-Reuters By Patricia Zengerle-feb 21,16-yahoonews
AMMAN (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday he and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov had reached a provisional agreement on terms of a cessation of hostilities in Syria and the sides were closer to a ceasefire than ever before.But he indicated there were still issues to be resolved and he did not expect any immediate change on the ground.Violence continued to rage in Syria on Sunday. Multiple bomb blasts in a southern district of Damascus killed at least 62 people, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, while twin car bombs killed at least 57 people in Homs, the monitoring group said.Russian air strikes launched in September against rebels fighting President Bashar al-Assad have exacerbated suffering and destruction in Syria, where a five-year-old civil war has killed more than a quarter of a million people.Assad said on Saturday he was ready for a ceasefire on condition "terrorists" did not use a lull in fighting to their advantage and that countries backing insurgents stopped supporting them.The Syrian opposition had earlier said it had agreed to the "possibility" of a temporary truce, provided there were guarantees Damascus's allies including Russia would cease fire, sieges were lifted and aid deliveries were allowed country-wide."We have reached a provisional agreement in principle on the terms of a cessation of hostilities that could begin in the coming days," Kerry told a news conference in Amman with Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh."The modalities for a cessation of hostilities are now being completed. In fact, we are closer to a ceasefire today than we have been," said Kerry, who was also to meet King Abdullah.He declined to go into detail about the unresolved issues, saying the two sides were "filling out the details" of the agreement.But he repeated the U.S. position that Assad had to step down. "With Assad there this war cannot and will not end," he said.Assad's fate has been one of the main points of difference between Washington and Russia, the Syrian leader's main international backer. Russia recently has begun to say Syrians should decide on whether Assad should stay or not, but it continues to support Damascus with air strikes.-OBAMA AND PUTIN TO TALK-Kerry said he had spoken to Lavrov on several occasions, including earlier on Sunday, and that he anticipated U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin would talk in the coming days to complete the provisional agreement in principle.The Russian Foreign Ministry confirmed Lavrov and Kerry had spoken by phone on Sunday about conditions for a ceasefire. It said discussions were on ceasefire conditions which would exclude operations against organizations "recognized as terrorist by U.N. Security Council".These are groups including Islamic State and the al Qaeda- linked Nusra Front.Despite the provisional agreement, Kerry did not see an imminent change in fighting on the ground."I do not believe that in the next few days, during which time we try to bring this into effect, there is somehow going to be a tipping point with respect to what is happening on the ground ... The opposition has made clear their determination to fight back," he said.The car bombs and suicide attacks on Sunday in the Sayeda Zeinab district of Damascus where Syria's holiest Shi'ite shrine is located were claimed by Islamic State. Suicide attacks last month in the same district, also claimed by Islamic State, killed 60 people.The car bomb attacks on Sunday in Homs, in which at least 100 were also wounded, were among the deadliest in the city in five years of civil war, a monitoring group said.Kerry said any deal would take a few days to come together, while the two sides consulted with other countries and the Syrian opposition. Russia had to speak to the Syrian government and Iran, and the United States had to speak to the Syrian opposition and its partners, Kerry said.Russia's RIA news agency said on Sunday that Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu had arrived in Tehran, quoting a source in the Russian Embassy in Iran. It did not give a reason for the visit.(Additional reporting by Suleiman al-Khalidi, John Davison, Kinda Makieh and Katya Golubkova; Editing by Richard Balmforth)
Russia's defence minister on surprise visit to Iran-AFP-feb 21,16-yahoonews
Tehran (AFP) - Russia's Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu on Sunday started a previously unannounced visit to Tehran with the conflict in Syria high on his agenda, Iranian state media reported.Shoigu met President Hassan Rouhani to deliver a "special message" from his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, the official IRNA news agency cited the presidency as saying.The minister presented an overview "of the situation regarding stability in the region and the process of negotiations for a ceasefire in Syria", where both Moscow and Tehran back the regime, IRNA said.Rouhani said: "Resolving the crisis in Syria can only be achieved through political negotiations and respect for the rights of the Syrian people who must ultimately decide their country's future."Shoigu also met his counterpart General Hossein Dehghan after the latter visited Moscow on Tuesday, when Shoigu said Russia and Iran were ready to step up their military cooperation.Russia and Iran are both longtime allies of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime.Moscow launched air strikes in support of Syria's government on September 30.Tehran supports Assad by sending "military advisers" and volunteers to fight alongside the Syrian army.Russia has also authorised the delivery of S-300 anti-aircraft missile batteries to Iran.According to Russian and Iranian media, Iran also wants to buy Sukhoi Su-30 fighter jets from Russia.
North Korea confirms new military chief after reported execution-AFP-feb 21,16-yahoonews
Seoul (AFP) - North Korean state media on Sunday confirmed the country has a new military chief following earlier reports in Seoul that the former holder of the post had been executed.Ri Myong-Su, former People's Security Minister, was referred to as "chief of the Korean People's Army General Staff" when the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on an army exercise guided by leader Kim Jong-Un.Ri Myong-Su was again mentioned in a separate KCNA report on Kim's inspection of an air force exercise.His predecessor Ri Yong-Gil was reportedly executed early this month in what would be the latest in a series of purges and executions of top officials.Ri Yong-Gil was accused of forming a political faction and corruption, South Korea's Yonhap news agency said, citing a source familiar with North Korean affairs.In May last year South Korea's spy agency said Kim had his defence chief Hyon Yong-Chol executed -- reportedly with an anti-aircraft gun.Hyon's fate was never confirmed by Pyongyang but he has never been seen or heard of since. Some analysts have suggested he was purged and imprisoned.Reports -- some confirmed, some not -- of purges, executions and disappearances have been common since Kim took power following the death of his father Kim Jong-Il in December 2011.A large number of senior officials, especially military cadres, were removed or demoted as the young leader sought to solidify his control over the powerful military.In the most high-profile case, Kim had his influential uncle Jang Song-Thaek executed in December 2013 for charges including treason and corruption.Professor Yang Moo-Jin of the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul said the new military chief was one of Kim's top three aides and was known to be well-versed in missile technology.North Korea conducted its fourth nuclear test last month and launched a long-range rocket this month, sparking international outrage.
SOUTH CAROLINA-Two senators now stand between Trump and the GOP nomination-Jon Ward, Holly Bailey and Hunter Walker-February 20, 2016-yahoonews
COLUMBIA, S.C. — With his second decisive primary victory, Donald Trump is now the clear frontrunner for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination.The most pressing question now, after Trump’s win in the South Carolina primary, is how long it will take for Marco Rubio or Ted Cruz to knock the other out and take Trump on directly.The longer that Cruz and Rubio divide up the non-Trump vote, the more time the New York real estate developer will have to rack up delegates and win 50 percent of the primary electorate in popular vote totals.A field that at its peak numbered 17 candidates has, to all intents and purposes, been winnowed down to three. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush dropped out of the race a few minutes before 9 p.m. Saturday, after finishing in single digits in the Palmetto State. Ohio Gov. John Kasich looks determined to stay in the race for some time, but is regarded by many political observers as a sideshow who is merely angling to gather delegates and use them for his own purposes at the convention. Meanwhile, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson has proved an afterthought at the polls, although he has enough money to stay in for some time and insists that he has plans to.The results Saturday night were another splash of cold water in the face of a Republican Party that had closed its eyes and desperately hoped for Trump’s polling lead to evaporate, as it did in Iowa. Instead, the outlandish provocateur garnered his second commanding win in a row.“South Carolina, we will never forget you,” Trump said in his victory speech in Spartanburg, S.C., Saturday night.Now the GOP establishment looks fearfully forward to a new phase of the primary contest. It moves to Nevada in just three days, and then to a slate of a dozen states on March 1, 10 days from now. Of those March 1 states, seven are in the South or Midwest, and are likely to tilt strongly toward Trump.Trump, with 33 percent in South Carolina, cleared the 30 percent bar that many had pegged as a barometer for showing whether or not he had lost momentum over the last few days. Rubio and Cruz were locked in a dead heat for second place, at 22 percent each, before Rubio was projected as the second-place winner by less than two-tenths of one percentage point after midnight.Trump won a majority of votes from veterans in this state, which has a strong military presence, despite the fact that he had explicitly blamed former President George W. Bush for the 9/11 attacks in a debate one week ago. Trump argued in that debate that the Bush administration “lied” about whether there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.Live blog: Recap Saturday’s coverage as it happened-The South Carolina primary has been won by the eventual Republican nominee in every presidential primary since 1980, with the exception of the last one, in 2012, when former House Speaker Newt Gingrich of Georgia was the victor. And Trump’s method of winning the Palmetto State this week defied logic or historical comparison. “Trump won this week despite coming out for [a] health care mandate, defending planned parenthood, blaming Bush for 9/11, standing by impeachment,” wrote NBC’s Chuck Todd on Twitter.The big question for Trump is whether he can rise above 35 percent, his total support in New Hampshire, in any state. If he cannot, and Cruz and Rubio both stay in, interminably, then the Republicans could be headed for a contested convention. If he cannot, and either Cruz or Rubio knocks the other out, then whoever takes him on will be poised to defeat him, despite his early wins.At least that’s the theory of many Republican political consultants who have been watching the race.Trump disagrees that Cruz or Rubio voters won’t turn to him if one of the candidates leaves the field. “As people drop out, I’m going to get a lot of votes also,” Trump said in his victory speech.Cruz has engaged in a withering back-and-forth with Trump over the past few weeks, while Rubio has largely avoided any engagement with the frontrunner. But Rubio may no longer have a choice whether to take on Trump directly. Trump signaled Saturday that he may soon put the Florida senator in his sights, tweeting that Rubio is “very weak on illegal immigration.”In exit polls, Trump won big with voters who said they prefer a candidate who “tells it like it is.” Cruz won support from voters who look for a candidate who “shares my values.” Rubio won among voters who look for someone who “can win in November.”At the Trump rally, aides backstage devoured public exit polls with glee, noting Trump’s wins in demographic categories where his strength had been underestimated, including evangelicals and hard-core conservatives in upstate South Carolina. The aides said they believe it signals momentum for Trump heading into the March 1 states, where they once viewed Cruz as their biggest threat but now see him as increasingly neutralized.“If Cruz can’t win South Carolina, where can he win?” a Trump aide, who declined to be named, told Yahoo News.But even as Trump aides were making a victory lap, there were subtle shifts in strategy in South Carolina that will continue into future contests. In the final days of the primary, Trump added events at smaller venues, and he began making more unannounced stops — including swings through small-town diners. On Friday, the candidate campaigned from early morning until nearly 10 p.m. at night — not unusual for most candidates, but unusual for Trump, who typically flies home to New York every night.For Cruz, the results were a disappointment. He had owned second place in polls in the state until very recently, and hoped after winning Iowa to do well in New Hampshire — where he came in third — and then to prevail again in the heavily evangelical South Carolina. But Trump won evangelical voters here 32 percent to 27 percent for Cruz.Cruz has outstanding organizations in many states that are set to vote on March 1 and beyond, and is extremely well-funded. But he must fight to keep the Republican electorate from concluding that the race should be narrowed to Rubio vs. Trump. Cruz will be helped by the fact that many conservative Christian voters in the March 1 primary states across the South will remain attracted to him. But he will have to fend off Rubio’s courtship of the slice of that voting bloc who will never vote for Trump.Cruz, speaking last of all the candidates on Saturday night, argued that he is the only conservative remaining in the race, and that he is also the best hope for Republicans to defeat Trump.“Only one strong conservative is in a position to win this race,” Cruz said. “We are the only campaign that has beaten and can beat Donald Trump.”Looking ahead to March 1, Cruz’s campaign manager, Jeff Roe, said his operation has “been built for this day for the entire time.” Roe said the so-called SEC primary is “an electoral map that favors us.”“And then, after that, we’re going to go and battle out in the winner-take-all states and decide who the nominee is. So, every piece of what we’ve been talking about has come together,” Roe said.Rubio’s campaign breathed a sigh of relief, given the candidate’s situation just a week ago, when the Florida senator appeared to be on the ropes after his disastrous debate performance on Feb. 6 in New Hampshire. The argument undergirding the candidacies of governors Bush, Kasich and New Jersey’s Chris Christie — that a governor with executive experience was better prepared to be president than a senator — received a fresh hearing that week.But a steady debate performance this past Saturday, an endorsement from South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and strong campaigning helped Rubio recover and survive. He had once hoped for a win in this state, just as Cruz had, and would have been well-positioned here had he not stumbled in New Hampshire. Now he must gird himself for a long and brutal primary if he wants to win.In an impressive election-night speech inside an industrial warehouse — just a few hundred yards from the Cruz event — Rubio acknowledged that he had arrived in South Carolina 10 days ago “in search of a new beginning and a fresh start.”“Many thought it was over,” Rubio said. “South Carolina will always be the place of new beginnings and fresh starts.”For Bush, the results Saturday night were a heavy blow, following a few days in which his candidacy went from hopeful to knocked-out. After over-performing in New Hampshire, Bush got a two-point bump right away. But his performance there came at an enormous cost, with data showing that his campaign and his super-PAC spent a total of $36 million in New Hampshire, as compared to just $3.7 million for Trump and only $580,000 for Cruz.Then came the debate bloodbath on Feb. 13, a debate in which Cruz and Rubio ripped into one another and Bush tried to take on Trump, with some success. Trump looked intemperate and out of control and was booed repeatedly.“I believe Jeb Bush has emerged as the alternative to Donald Trump,” Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said on CBS News after the debate.On Sunday and into Monday, there was the possibility that Jeb might be mounting a comeback, especially when it was announced that his older brother, George W. Bush, would come Monday to campaign for him.The former president ridiculed and criticized Trump, but did not name him. George W. Bush described his brother as “a man of deep and humble faith that reveals itself through good works, not loud words.”“Strength is not empty rhetoric, it is not bluster, it is not theatrics,” Bush said. “Real strength comes from integrity and character.”But none of it made any difference.Trump held an hourlong press conference Monday afternoon to draw attention away from the former president’s campaign stop, and assiduously avoided any direct and open confrontation with George W. Bush. With Trump avoiding escalation and focusing his rhetoric on Cruz, there was no real reason for W. to respond without risking more political capital than he was willing to. Bush advisers said the former president might very well have campaigned again if Trump had gone after him. Instead, Trump hid, and George W. Bush did not appear again.Then, on Wednesday, press reports leaked in the morning that Haley would endorse Rubio. It was a gut punch for Bush, who, just the day before, had called winning her support “the most meaningful endorsement” in the state.Haley endorsed Rubio on Wednesday night and campaigned with him all day Thursday and Friday, along with African-American U.S. Sen. Tim Scott and 51-year old Rep. Trey Gowdy, offering the GOP a picture of what their national profile might look like if Rubio won the nomination and picked Haley as his running mate.In his concession speech, Bush choked back tears as he spoke and thanked his family. “I’m proud of the campaign that we’ve run to unify our country,” he said, “but the people of Iowa and New Hampshire and South Carolina have spoken, and I really respect their decision.”“I congratulate my competitors who are remaining on the island,” Bush said with a slight chuckle.South Carolina had been kind to the Bush family in the past. George H.W. Bush, Jeb’s father, won it in 1988 after losing Iowa to Sen. Bob Dole. George W. Bush won it in 2000 after losing to Sen. John McCain in New Hampshire.But in 2016, a third Bush’s presidential campaign came to an end in the Palmetto State.
Uber driver arrested over deadly US shooting rampage-AFP-feb 21,16-yahoonews
Chicago (AFP) - A man arrested early Sunday on suspicion of shooting dead six people in the northern US state of Michigan was an Uber driver who may have been picking up fares just before the killing spree began.Uber confirmed that the suspect, 45-year-old Jason Brian Dalton, was a driver for the ride-sharing company, adding he had passed a background check and had no criminal record."We have reached out to the police to help with their investigation in any way that we can," Uber's chief security officer, Joe Sullivan, said in a statement.Dalton was apprehended at 12:40 am Sunday (0540 GMT). He is believed to be the gunman who opened fire at three different locations in the city of Kalamazoo, killing six people and seriously wounding two others, police said.A woman was seriously wounded outside an apartment complex, two people were killed at a car dealership, and four more were shot to death and a teenage girl seriously wounded at a chain restaurant.Kalamazoo County prosecutor Jeff Getting said Dalton, who surrendered without incident during a traffic stop, will face murder charges in court on Monday.There is "no reason to believe" more than one person was involved in the crime, Getting added.Local resident Matt Mellen said he was Dalton's passenger just a couple of hours before the rampage began, and was taken on a hair-raising ride."We were driving through medians, driving through the lawn, speeding along and when we came to a stop, I jumped out the car and ran away," Mellen told WWMT, a CBS affiliate."He wouldn't stop. He just kind of kept looking at me like -- 'Don't you want to get to your friend's house' and I'm like, I want to get there alive."Mellen said he jumped out of the car at 4:30 pm, and called 911, the phone number for emergencies. He told his fiancee what had happened and she posted Dalton's picture on Facebook as a warning to others."We're looking into his connection to Uber and whether or not he was picking up fares in between the shootings," Kalamazoo Public Safety Chief Jeff Hadley said, according to CNN.- 'Your worst nightmare' -The shootings began at 6:00 pm."What it looks like is we have somebody driving around, finding people and shooting them dead in their tracks," Kalamazoo County Undersheriff Paul Matyas told local media."This is your worst nightmare, when you have somebody just driving around randomly killing people," he added.The gunman's first victim was a woman who was with her three children outside an apartment complex when she was shot, he said.She was seriously wounded but is expected to survive.The gunman next struck at 10:00 pm, killing an 18-year-old boy and an adult male at a car dealership, according to Getting.The last and deadliest shooting came 10 to 15 minutes later at the Cracker Barrel restaurant where four more people were killed, he said.Video at the car dealership and the restaurant helped police identify the shooter's car, Getting said.Dalton was arrested about two hours later when a sheriff's deputy saw his car leaving a local bar in downtown Kalamazoo."He followed the car. The Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety was able to mobilize people as a backup. They pulled the car over without incident. They were able to make an arrest of the suspect without any significant incident," Getting said.Police seized a semi-automatic handgun and "additional evidence" from the car, the prosecutor added.Dalton was "pretty even-tempered" during his arrest, Getting said.Kalamazoo is located some 190 kilometers (160 miles) west of the industrial city of Detroit and has a population of 76,000, according to census figures.The killings there were the latest in a long line of mass shootings in the United States that include the December 2 massacre in San Bernardino, California that left 14 people dead, and the December 14, 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre in which 20 children and six adults were shot dead.Gun violence claims the lives of about 30,000 Americans every year and mass shootings -- rare in most countries -- have been on the rise in the United States.According to the tracking website gunviolencearchive.org, there were 330 mass shootings in the United States in 2015, up from 281 in 2014. They affected nearly every part of the country, reaching into both big cities and small towns.
REVELATION 16:3-7
3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.(enviromentalists won't like this result)
4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
6 For they(False World Church and Dictator) have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.
Corruption-ridden Texas city's new woe: undrinkable water-Associated Press-feb 21,16-yahoonews
CRYSTAL CITY, Texas (AP) — After weeks of turmoil and the arrests of all but one top city official, residents of Crystal City have a new problem: undrinkable water.Black water came out of the pipes in homes in the tiny Texas city, where a sweeping bribery and conspiracy indictment has ensnared the recently resigned mayor and most other city leaders. Volunteers handed out donated bottles of water on Friday, as state environmental officials test the water for bacteria.Joel Barajas — the only City Council member not facing criminal charges — told the San Antonio Express-News (http://bit.ly/1oB7udV ) that he was grateful to residents elsewhere in the region who donated water. The city blamed the water problem on dirt and mud that had built up in a water tank that was flushed, and state investigators are testing the water for bacteria, according to the newspaper."There are caring people in Southwest Texas," said Barajas, who has been thrust into being the point person for all of the city's departments.And to add even more to the town's woes, the Texas Education Agency said Friday that the local school district could lose its accreditation after failing to meet state standards for the third straight year.A federal indictment released earlier this month charged the city manager, the mayor, the mayor pro tempore, a city councilman and a former councilman with taking bribes from contractors and sending city workers to help an illegal gambling operator. Another councilman is facing unrelated federal allegations that he helped smuggle Mexican immigrants into the U.S.Mayor Ricardo Lopez resigned Friday afternoon, just days after he was arrested during a City Council meeting following a scuffle with an angry audience member — in full view of television cameras. That meeting was held to schedule a recall vote for Lopez and two City Council members.Lopez's attorney has not returned multiple messages seeking comment."I feel bad talking about the little town where I grew up, but this is ridiculous," said Alicia Martinez, 33. "We need help to get it back to where it used to be."___Information from: San Antonio Express-News, http://www.mysanantonio.com
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.
12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE
Third suspect nabbed in deadly supermarket stabbing-Alleged accomplice thought to be Ramallah resident seen being turned away from Rami Levy before Tuvia Yanai Weissman attacked-By Times of Israel staff February 21, 2016, 8:00 pm
Israeli security forces said Sunday they had arrested a third suspect in the stabbing attack at a West Bank supermarket that killed an Israeli man Thursday.Omar Rimawi and Ihad Sabah, both 14, from Beitunia near Ramallah, were identified as the two attackers who stabbed Tuvia Yanai Weissman, 21, and another man at the Rami Levy supermarket in the Sha’ar Binyamin Industrial Zone, southeast of Ramallah.They were shot by an armed civilian who rushed to the scene after hearing screaming. Sabah died of his wounds. Rimawi remains hospitalized.Weissman, a dual Israeli-US citizen and resident of the West Bank settlement of Ma’ale Mikhmas, was stabbed and critically injured while shopping with his wife, Yael, and 4-month-old daughter, Neta. He later died of his wounds in the hospital.A second victim, identified as a 35-year-old man, sustained moderate injuries, but has been released from the hospital.Israeli police released photographs Thursday from the supermarket showing blood splattered on the floor of an aisle stocked with laundry detergent.Security footage from the attack showed that three Palestinians sought to enter the supermarket. A security guard turned one away, but allowed the other two in without a physical check. The third suspect is believed to be the one seen being turned away.The suspect is identified by authorities only as a Ramallah resident.Thursday’s attack was the second to occur in a Rami Levy supermarket in recent years. In 2014, two Israelis were moderately injured in an attack at a branch of the discount chain in Mishor Adumim, an industrial zone east of Jerusalem.Since October 1, 2015, some 30 Israelis have been killed by Palestinians in knife, gun and car-ramming attacks. More than 160 Palestinians have been killed, some 115 of them while carrying out attacks, and others during clashes and demonstrations.
Onlookers cheer as German refugee home burns-As fears of violence toward asylum-seekers rise, governor calls incident ‘appalling and shocking’-By AP February 21, 2016, 9:37 pm-the times of israel
BERLIN — Onlookers celebrated as a suspected arson fire damaged a former hotel being converted into a refugee home in eastern Germany, police said Sunday, raising new concerns about violence toward migrants in a nation that registered more than a million asylum-seekers last year.The blaze in the roof of the building in Bautzen, in the eastern state of Saxony, broke out overnight. Police said no one was injured but a group of people gathered outside, some “commenting with derogatory remarks or unashamed joy” at the fire.While most Germans have been welcoming toward refugees, a vocal minority has staged protests in front of refugee homes, especially in the east. Germany last year saw a surge in violence against such lodgings.Police ordered three people to leave the fire scene because they were hampering firefighters’ work and then temporarily detained two of them, whom they described as intoxicated 20-year-old locals, after they ignored the order.Investigators found traces of a fire accelerant at the scene and believe the fire was caused by arson, police said. It wasn’t immediately clear whether the building can be restored.Saxony is home to the anti-Islam and anti-immigration group PEGIDA, and incidents there have caused concern before. In August, a mob in Heidenau, outside Dresden, hurled bottles and fireworks at police protecting a shelter being set up for refugees.The Bautzen fire came after a mob in the small town of Clausnitz, also in Saxony, on Thursday screamed “We are the people!” and “Go home!” as they blocked a bus carrying asylum-seekers outside a new refugee home.Police drew criticism in that case for roughly hauling some migrants off the bus into the building — which they insist was necessary to prevent the situation from escalating — and for saying that some of the migrants had made provocative gestures.Saxony Governor Stanislaw Tillich called the two incidents “appalling and shocking” and described the perpetrators as “criminals.”“This is abhorrent and disgusting,” Tillich told the Funke newspaper group. He pledged that authorities will investigate and “bring everyone responsible to account.”Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said that everyone in Germany is entitled to express their concerns “but there is a threshold of decency and law that must not be crossed — and this threshold was clearly crossed in the incidents in Saxony,” the news agency dpa reported.“It is completely unacceptable for people who are seeking protection from persecution here to be greeted with hatred and agitation,” de Maiziere added.Later Sunday, the minister defended police actions in Clausnitz, saying they were right to get all the migrants off the bus quickly and into the building. If the bus had been backed away from the refugee home, “these bawling people would have had their way,” de Maiziere said on ARD television.
Over 100 killed as bombs tear through Damascus, Homs-Islamic State claims string of bombings that kill at least 119 while international community struggles to sew together ceasefire-By AP February 21, 2016, 6:59 pm Updated: February 21, 2016, 8:31 pm-the times of israel
Separate bomb attacks claimed by the Islamic State group in Syria on Sunday killed at least 119 people as Washington pursued efforts for a ceasefire.As US Secretary of State John Kerry said a provisional deal had been reached on the terms of a truce, violence intensified on the ground.Near Damascus, a series of bomb attacks, including a car bombing, ripped through the area of the Sayyida Zeinab Shiite shrine and killed 62 people, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said.Hours earlier, double car bombings killed at least 57 people and wounded dozens in the Al-Zahraa district of the central city of Homs, the monitor said-The jihadist IS said it was behind the carnage.State television footage from Homs showed emergency workers carrying a charred body on a stretcher past devastated shops and mangled cars and minibuses.The attack was the worst since twin blasts in October 2014 hit a school, killing at least 55 people, including 49 children.Al-Zahraa — whose residents are mostly from the same Alawite sect as Syria’s ruling clan — has been regularly targeted.IS, which last month claimed a double bombing that killed 22 people, said it carried out the latest attack.Two jihadists drove explosive-laden cars into crowds of residents, it said in an online statement.The group also said two of its suicide bombers carried out the Sayyida Zeinab bombings.State television said a car bombing and two suicide attacks hit the area, killing 50 and wounding dozens, whereas the Observatory gave a death toll of 62 in four attacks.IS was also behind a massive attack in January that killed 70 people near the shrine, which contains the grave of a granddaughter of the Prophet Mohammed and is revered by Shiites.‘Provisional’ ceasefire deal-World powers have been pushing for a halt in fighting in Syria that was meant to take effect by Friday, but have struggled to agree on the terms.The latest bombings came as Kerry said he had spoken with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov and agreed on how to implement a ceasefire.“We have reached a provisional agreement, in principle, on the terms of the cessation of hostilities that could begin in the coming days,” Kerry said in Amman.“It is not yet done and I anticipate that our presidents, President (Barack) Obama and President (Vladimir) Putin, may well speak somewhere in the next days or so in order to try to complete this task.”World powers proposed the truce just over a week ago as part of a plan that also included expanded humanitarian access, in a bid to pave the way for peace talks to resume.The talks, which collapsed earlier this month in Geneva, had been scheduled to resume on February 25, but the UN’s Syria envoy has already acknowledged that date is no longer realistic.On Saturday, key opposition umbrella group the High Negotiations Committee said it would agree a temporary truce only if regime backers halted fire.HNC chief Riad Hijab said any ceasefire must be reached “with international mediation and with guarantees obliging Russia, Iran and their sectarian militias and mercenaries to stop fighting.”Assad, meanwhile, told Spain’s El Pais newspaper he was “ready” for a ceasefire, but said it should not be exploited by “terrorists.”Regime backer Moscow is a key architect of the proposed ceasefire, but has shown little sign so far that it plans to rein in the air campaign it began in September in support of Assad’s government.On Saturday, the Kremlin said it would continue “to provide assistance and help to the armed forces of Syria in their offensive actions against terrorists.”Regime forces backed by Russian strikes were advancing on Sunday east of Aleppo city against IS, consolidating their control over a stretch of highway from the city to the Kweyris military base.The Observatory said at least 50 IS fighters had been killed in clashes and Russian strikes since Saturday morning.Tensions have been rising between Moscow and opposition-backer Ankara, alarmed by both the regime’s Russian-backed advances and a major operation by Kurdish-led forces in Aleppo province.The Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) and their Arab partners have in recent days seized key territory from rebel forces in Aleppo, prompting Turkey to shell their positions.Ankara considers the YPG to be an affiliate of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which has waged a decades-long insurgency against the Turkish state.It fears the Kurdish advances are intended to link up areas in north and northeast Syria to create a contiguous semi-autonomous Kurdish zone along the Syrian-Turkish border.On Sunday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan defended his country’s fight against the YPG as “legitimate defense” after international calls for Ankara to halt its military action in Syria.
Israel’s mobile industry helps the world understand Israel better-The Mobile World Congress is an opportunity for Israeli companies to tell their stories — and the country’s stories, say industry experts-By David Shamah February 21, 2016, 7:55 pm-the times of israel
The Mobile World Congress — the “Superbowl” event of the mobile industry, taking place Monday through Thursday in Barcelona — is a great way for companies around the world, as well as in Israel, to show off their technology.But in recent years, it has emerged as something more — as an opportunity for Israelis to talk about themselves and their country in a positive way.Pre-Barcelona events, such as Tzav 8 Barcelona (the name refers to an emergency defense call-up by the Israel Defense Forces) provide background and training for Israeli entrepreneurs headed to the event to present Israel as more than just a place where war and politics happen. “It’s not about painting a false picture of the country, said Yael Shany, organizer of the program now in its eighth year. Tzav 8’s brand of hasbara has more to do with Israel’s image as a tech power, and how the talents and skills used by entrepreneurs to build international business empires are also used to improve society, both in Israel and around the world.“Given Israel’s importance in the mobile industry, and the large number of Israelis who attend MWC, Tzav 8 is a great opportunity to show the side of Israel that few abroad are aware of, such as the positive contributions of the high-tech community to bringing Israeli Arabs into Israel’s tech ecosystem, or the ways technology is being used to help save lives in emergency situations,” said Shany at the latest edition of the Tzav 8 event last Thursday in Tel Aviv.“Israeli business people going to Barcelona are Israel’s best diplomats, because they can talk about the country’s positive tech contributions, the ones that people don’t hear about abroad,” she added.And one Israeli firm that is attending MWC — AppsFlyer, a world leader in the mobile attribution analytics business — is doing Tzav 8 one better. “We have 10 offices around the world, so we decided to institute an employee exchange program, where we send employees from Israel to work in one of our offices worldwide,” said Ran Avrahamy, AppsFlyer VP of marketing. “In addition, we bring every employee from abroad to Israel for a week, to introduce them not only to what goes on at headquarters in Herzliya, but also to show them what Israel is all about. I can tell you that everyone we have brought over wants very badly to come back.”Out of the 2,000 or so companies presenting at this year’s MWC, over 200 are either based in Israel, or do the majority of their R&D work here. This makes Israel eligible for the title “Global Leader in Mobile Telecommunications,” according to the Israel Export Institute, which by itself is bringing 65 mobile start-ups to MWC.Other companies (38) are traveling as part of a delegation with industry umbrella group Israel Mobile Association, while still others, including dozens of the larger mobile tech firms, such as Tadiran, Celeno, Audiocodes, Comigo, and many more, will have their own booths at the vast multi-acre event that draws as many as 100,000 people.Among those “independent” Israeli firms is AppsFlyer, which provides analytics services to mobile advertisers, ad buyers, and ad networks to help them determine the most effective way to bring in new users. Just as Israel is a leader in the overall mobile industry, said Avrahamy, AppsFlyer is a leader in mobile attribution analytics technology.“It’s one of the fastest growing segments in the mobile industry,” explained Avrahamy. “Everyone is vying for users today, and it’s not as easy to acquire them as it used to be. Advertisers, ad sellers, and ad networks all need to be on top of their game and ensure that they are spending their dollars wisely. Our analytics show them whether or not what they are doing is effective, and points them towards ways of doing it better.”An international company, AppsFlyer, with its worldwide offices (the two newest, in Berlin and London, were opened just last Friday), the company “has 90% of the market in this segment in China,” said Avrahamy. With just three other direct competitors (two in the US and one in Germany), AppsFlyer has plenty of business opportunities, and its customers — including some of the world’s largest online and bricks-and-mortar retailers in the US, Europe, and Asia (including China) — sing the firm’s praises, according to the testimonials on the AppsFlyer website.Of course, the main purpose of the Global Employee Exchange Program is to enhance the work environment by getting everyone to understand the needs and challenges of the company. However, there’s another important aspect to these trips that AppsFlyer takes very seriously, said Avrahamy. “It’s not only a great way for workers to see how the business operates, but also a way to introduce workers from places like Bangkok, Beijing, Seoul, Tokyo, Bangalore, and of course the US and Europe, to what Israel is really like.”For the foreign employees who visit Israel, that means getting to know not only the company, but Israel and its people. “I’m a big fan of Tzav 8,” said Avrahamy, adding that the AppsFlyer program, while a strategy to grow the business, is also a way to show off Israel’s positive side. “We take our people around the country and even spend a Shabbat with them so they can see what makes us tick. They come away with a better point of view about not only our business, but about our country — and that’s good all around.”
WORLD POWERS IN THE LAST DAYS (END OF AGE OF GRACE NOT THE WORLD)
EUROPEAN UNION-KING OF WEST-DAN 9:26-27,DAN 7:23-24,DAN 11:40,REV 13:1-10
EGYPT-KING OF THE SOUTH-DAN 11:40
RUSSIA-KING OF THE NORTH-EZEK 38:1-2,EZEK 39:1-3
CHINA-KING OF THE EAST-DAN 11:44,REV 9:16,18
VATICAN-RELIGIOUS LEADER-REV 13:11-18,REV 17:4-5,9,18
WORLD TERRORISM
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her,(HAGAR) Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he (ISHMAEL-FATHER OF THE ARAB-MUSLIMS) will be a wild (DONKEY-JACKASS) man;(ISLAM IS A FAKE AND DANGEROUS SEX FOR MURDER CULT) his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against him;(PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM BEING BEHEADED) and he (ISHMAEL ARAB/MUSLIM) shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)
ISAIAH 14:12-14
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,(SATAN) son of the morning!(HEBREW-CRECENT MOON-ISLAM) how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I (SATAN HAS EYE TROUBLES) will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(AND 1/3RD OF THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN FELL WITH SATAN AND BECAME DEMONS)
JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.(ISLAM MURDERS IN THE NAME OF MOON GOD ALLAH OF ISLAM)
Violence rages in Syria as Kerry and Lavrov reach provisional deal on ceasefire-Reuters By Patricia Zengerle-feb 21,16-yahoonews
AMMAN (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday he and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov had reached a provisional agreement on terms of a cessation of hostilities in Syria and the sides were closer to a ceasefire than ever before.But he indicated there were still issues to be resolved and he did not expect any immediate change on the ground.Violence continued to rage in Syria on Sunday. Multiple bomb blasts in a southern district of Damascus killed at least 62 people, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, while twin car bombs killed at least 57 people in Homs, the monitoring group said.Russian air strikes launched in September against rebels fighting President Bashar al-Assad have exacerbated suffering and destruction in Syria, where a five-year-old civil war has killed more than a quarter of a million people.Assad said on Saturday he was ready for a ceasefire on condition "terrorists" did not use a lull in fighting to their advantage and that countries backing insurgents stopped supporting them.The Syrian opposition had earlier said it had agreed to the "possibility" of a temporary truce, provided there were guarantees Damascus's allies including Russia would cease fire, sieges were lifted and aid deliveries were allowed country-wide."We have reached a provisional agreement in principle on the terms of a cessation of hostilities that could begin in the coming days," Kerry told a news conference in Amman with Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh."The modalities for a cessation of hostilities are now being completed. In fact, we are closer to a ceasefire today than we have been," said Kerry, who was also to meet King Abdullah.He declined to go into detail about the unresolved issues, saying the two sides were "filling out the details" of the agreement.But he repeated the U.S. position that Assad had to step down. "With Assad there this war cannot and will not end," he said.Assad's fate has been one of the main points of difference between Washington and Russia, the Syrian leader's main international backer. Russia recently has begun to say Syrians should decide on whether Assad should stay or not, but it continues to support Damascus with air strikes.-OBAMA AND PUTIN TO TALK-Kerry said he had spoken to Lavrov on several occasions, including earlier on Sunday, and that he anticipated U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin would talk in the coming days to complete the provisional agreement in principle.The Russian Foreign Ministry confirmed Lavrov and Kerry had spoken by phone on Sunday about conditions for a ceasefire. It said discussions were on ceasefire conditions which would exclude operations against organizations "recognized as terrorist by U.N. Security Council".These are groups including Islamic State and the al Qaeda- linked Nusra Front.Despite the provisional agreement, Kerry did not see an imminent change in fighting on the ground."I do not believe that in the next few days, during which time we try to bring this into effect, there is somehow going to be a tipping point with respect to what is happening on the ground ... The opposition has made clear their determination to fight back," he said.The car bombs and suicide attacks on Sunday in the Sayeda Zeinab district of Damascus where Syria's holiest Shi'ite shrine is located were claimed by Islamic State. Suicide attacks last month in the same district, also claimed by Islamic State, killed 60 people.The car bomb attacks on Sunday in Homs, in which at least 100 were also wounded, were among the deadliest in the city in five years of civil war, a monitoring group said.Kerry said any deal would take a few days to come together, while the two sides consulted with other countries and the Syrian opposition. Russia had to speak to the Syrian government and Iran, and the United States had to speak to the Syrian opposition and its partners, Kerry said.Russia's RIA news agency said on Sunday that Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu had arrived in Tehran, quoting a source in the Russian Embassy in Iran. It did not give a reason for the visit.(Additional reporting by Suleiman al-Khalidi, John Davison, Kinda Makieh and Katya Golubkova; Editing by Richard Balmforth)
Russia's defence minister on surprise visit to Iran-AFP-feb 21,16-yahoonews
Tehran (AFP) - Russia's Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu on Sunday started a previously unannounced visit to Tehran with the conflict in Syria high on his agenda, Iranian state media reported.Shoigu met President Hassan Rouhani to deliver a "special message" from his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, the official IRNA news agency cited the presidency as saying.The minister presented an overview "of the situation regarding stability in the region and the process of negotiations for a ceasefire in Syria", where both Moscow and Tehran back the regime, IRNA said.Rouhani said: "Resolving the crisis in Syria can only be achieved through political negotiations and respect for the rights of the Syrian people who must ultimately decide their country's future."Shoigu also met his counterpart General Hossein Dehghan after the latter visited Moscow on Tuesday, when Shoigu said Russia and Iran were ready to step up their military cooperation.Russia and Iran are both longtime allies of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime.Moscow launched air strikes in support of Syria's government on September 30.Tehran supports Assad by sending "military advisers" and volunteers to fight alongside the Syrian army.Russia has also authorised the delivery of S-300 anti-aircraft missile batteries to Iran.According to Russian and Iranian media, Iran also wants to buy Sukhoi Su-30 fighter jets from Russia.
North Korea confirms new military chief after reported execution-AFP-feb 21,16-yahoonews
Seoul (AFP) - North Korean state media on Sunday confirmed the country has a new military chief following earlier reports in Seoul that the former holder of the post had been executed.Ri Myong-Su, former People's Security Minister, was referred to as "chief of the Korean People's Army General Staff" when the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on an army exercise guided by leader Kim Jong-Un.Ri Myong-Su was again mentioned in a separate KCNA report on Kim's inspection of an air force exercise.His predecessor Ri Yong-Gil was reportedly executed early this month in what would be the latest in a series of purges and executions of top officials.Ri Yong-Gil was accused of forming a political faction and corruption, South Korea's Yonhap news agency said, citing a source familiar with North Korean affairs.In May last year South Korea's spy agency said Kim had his defence chief Hyon Yong-Chol executed -- reportedly with an anti-aircraft gun.Hyon's fate was never confirmed by Pyongyang but he has never been seen or heard of since. Some analysts have suggested he was purged and imprisoned.Reports -- some confirmed, some not -- of purges, executions and disappearances have been common since Kim took power following the death of his father Kim Jong-Il in December 2011.A large number of senior officials, especially military cadres, were removed or demoted as the young leader sought to solidify his control over the powerful military.In the most high-profile case, Kim had his influential uncle Jang Song-Thaek executed in December 2013 for charges including treason and corruption.Professor Yang Moo-Jin of the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul said the new military chief was one of Kim's top three aides and was known to be well-versed in missile technology.North Korea conducted its fourth nuclear test last month and launched a long-range rocket this month, sparking international outrage.
SOUTH CAROLINA-Two senators now stand between Trump and the GOP nomination-Jon Ward, Holly Bailey and Hunter Walker-February 20, 2016-yahoonews
COLUMBIA, S.C. — With his second decisive primary victory, Donald Trump is now the clear frontrunner for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination.The most pressing question now, after Trump’s win in the South Carolina primary, is how long it will take for Marco Rubio or Ted Cruz to knock the other out and take Trump on directly.The longer that Cruz and Rubio divide up the non-Trump vote, the more time the New York real estate developer will have to rack up delegates and win 50 percent of the primary electorate in popular vote totals.A field that at its peak numbered 17 candidates has, to all intents and purposes, been winnowed down to three. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush dropped out of the race a few minutes before 9 p.m. Saturday, after finishing in single digits in the Palmetto State. Ohio Gov. John Kasich looks determined to stay in the race for some time, but is regarded by many political observers as a sideshow who is merely angling to gather delegates and use them for his own purposes at the convention. Meanwhile, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson has proved an afterthought at the polls, although he has enough money to stay in for some time and insists that he has plans to.The results Saturday night were another splash of cold water in the face of a Republican Party that had closed its eyes and desperately hoped for Trump’s polling lead to evaporate, as it did in Iowa. Instead, the outlandish provocateur garnered his second commanding win in a row.“South Carolina, we will never forget you,” Trump said in his victory speech in Spartanburg, S.C., Saturday night.Now the GOP establishment looks fearfully forward to a new phase of the primary contest. It moves to Nevada in just three days, and then to a slate of a dozen states on March 1, 10 days from now. Of those March 1 states, seven are in the South or Midwest, and are likely to tilt strongly toward Trump.Trump, with 33 percent in South Carolina, cleared the 30 percent bar that many had pegged as a barometer for showing whether or not he had lost momentum over the last few days. Rubio and Cruz were locked in a dead heat for second place, at 22 percent each, before Rubio was projected as the second-place winner by less than two-tenths of one percentage point after midnight.Trump won a majority of votes from veterans in this state, which has a strong military presence, despite the fact that he had explicitly blamed former President George W. Bush for the 9/11 attacks in a debate one week ago. Trump argued in that debate that the Bush administration “lied” about whether there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.Live blog: Recap Saturday’s coverage as it happened-The South Carolina primary has been won by the eventual Republican nominee in every presidential primary since 1980, with the exception of the last one, in 2012, when former House Speaker Newt Gingrich of Georgia was the victor. And Trump’s method of winning the Palmetto State this week defied logic or historical comparison. “Trump won this week despite coming out for [a] health care mandate, defending planned parenthood, blaming Bush for 9/11, standing by impeachment,” wrote NBC’s Chuck Todd on Twitter.The big question for Trump is whether he can rise above 35 percent, his total support in New Hampshire, in any state. If he cannot, and Cruz and Rubio both stay in, interminably, then the Republicans could be headed for a contested convention. If he cannot, and either Cruz or Rubio knocks the other out, then whoever takes him on will be poised to defeat him, despite his early wins.At least that’s the theory of many Republican political consultants who have been watching the race.Trump disagrees that Cruz or Rubio voters won’t turn to him if one of the candidates leaves the field. “As people drop out, I’m going to get a lot of votes also,” Trump said in his victory speech.Cruz has engaged in a withering back-and-forth with Trump over the past few weeks, while Rubio has largely avoided any engagement with the frontrunner. But Rubio may no longer have a choice whether to take on Trump directly. Trump signaled Saturday that he may soon put the Florida senator in his sights, tweeting that Rubio is “very weak on illegal immigration.”In exit polls, Trump won big with voters who said they prefer a candidate who “tells it like it is.” Cruz won support from voters who look for a candidate who “shares my values.” Rubio won among voters who look for someone who “can win in November.”At the Trump rally, aides backstage devoured public exit polls with glee, noting Trump’s wins in demographic categories where his strength had been underestimated, including evangelicals and hard-core conservatives in upstate South Carolina. The aides said they believe it signals momentum for Trump heading into the March 1 states, where they once viewed Cruz as their biggest threat but now see him as increasingly neutralized.“If Cruz can’t win South Carolina, where can he win?” a Trump aide, who declined to be named, told Yahoo News.But even as Trump aides were making a victory lap, there were subtle shifts in strategy in South Carolina that will continue into future contests. In the final days of the primary, Trump added events at smaller venues, and he began making more unannounced stops — including swings through small-town diners. On Friday, the candidate campaigned from early morning until nearly 10 p.m. at night — not unusual for most candidates, but unusual for Trump, who typically flies home to New York every night.For Cruz, the results were a disappointment. He had owned second place in polls in the state until very recently, and hoped after winning Iowa to do well in New Hampshire — where he came in third — and then to prevail again in the heavily evangelical South Carolina. But Trump won evangelical voters here 32 percent to 27 percent for Cruz.Cruz has outstanding organizations in many states that are set to vote on March 1 and beyond, and is extremely well-funded. But he must fight to keep the Republican electorate from concluding that the race should be narrowed to Rubio vs. Trump. Cruz will be helped by the fact that many conservative Christian voters in the March 1 primary states across the South will remain attracted to him. But he will have to fend off Rubio’s courtship of the slice of that voting bloc who will never vote for Trump.Cruz, speaking last of all the candidates on Saturday night, argued that he is the only conservative remaining in the race, and that he is also the best hope for Republicans to defeat Trump.“Only one strong conservative is in a position to win this race,” Cruz said. “We are the only campaign that has beaten and can beat Donald Trump.”Looking ahead to March 1, Cruz’s campaign manager, Jeff Roe, said his operation has “been built for this day for the entire time.” Roe said the so-called SEC primary is “an electoral map that favors us.”“And then, after that, we’re going to go and battle out in the winner-take-all states and decide who the nominee is. So, every piece of what we’ve been talking about has come together,” Roe said.Rubio’s campaign breathed a sigh of relief, given the candidate’s situation just a week ago, when the Florida senator appeared to be on the ropes after his disastrous debate performance on Feb. 6 in New Hampshire. The argument undergirding the candidacies of governors Bush, Kasich and New Jersey’s Chris Christie — that a governor with executive experience was better prepared to be president than a senator — received a fresh hearing that week.But a steady debate performance this past Saturday, an endorsement from South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and strong campaigning helped Rubio recover and survive. He had once hoped for a win in this state, just as Cruz had, and would have been well-positioned here had he not stumbled in New Hampshire. Now he must gird himself for a long and brutal primary if he wants to win.In an impressive election-night speech inside an industrial warehouse — just a few hundred yards from the Cruz event — Rubio acknowledged that he had arrived in South Carolina 10 days ago “in search of a new beginning and a fresh start.”“Many thought it was over,” Rubio said. “South Carolina will always be the place of new beginnings and fresh starts.”For Bush, the results Saturday night were a heavy blow, following a few days in which his candidacy went from hopeful to knocked-out. After over-performing in New Hampshire, Bush got a two-point bump right away. But his performance there came at an enormous cost, with data showing that his campaign and his super-PAC spent a total of $36 million in New Hampshire, as compared to just $3.7 million for Trump and only $580,000 for Cruz.Then came the debate bloodbath on Feb. 13, a debate in which Cruz and Rubio ripped into one another and Bush tried to take on Trump, with some success. Trump looked intemperate and out of control and was booed repeatedly.“I believe Jeb Bush has emerged as the alternative to Donald Trump,” Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said on CBS News after the debate.On Sunday and into Monday, there was the possibility that Jeb might be mounting a comeback, especially when it was announced that his older brother, George W. Bush, would come Monday to campaign for him.The former president ridiculed and criticized Trump, but did not name him. George W. Bush described his brother as “a man of deep and humble faith that reveals itself through good works, not loud words.”“Strength is not empty rhetoric, it is not bluster, it is not theatrics,” Bush said. “Real strength comes from integrity and character.”But none of it made any difference.Trump held an hourlong press conference Monday afternoon to draw attention away from the former president’s campaign stop, and assiduously avoided any direct and open confrontation with George W. Bush. With Trump avoiding escalation and focusing his rhetoric on Cruz, there was no real reason for W. to respond without risking more political capital than he was willing to. Bush advisers said the former president might very well have campaigned again if Trump had gone after him. Instead, Trump hid, and George W. Bush did not appear again.Then, on Wednesday, press reports leaked in the morning that Haley would endorse Rubio. It was a gut punch for Bush, who, just the day before, had called winning her support “the most meaningful endorsement” in the state.Haley endorsed Rubio on Wednesday night and campaigned with him all day Thursday and Friday, along with African-American U.S. Sen. Tim Scott and 51-year old Rep. Trey Gowdy, offering the GOP a picture of what their national profile might look like if Rubio won the nomination and picked Haley as his running mate.In his concession speech, Bush choked back tears as he spoke and thanked his family. “I’m proud of the campaign that we’ve run to unify our country,” he said, “but the people of Iowa and New Hampshire and South Carolina have spoken, and I really respect their decision.”“I congratulate my competitors who are remaining on the island,” Bush said with a slight chuckle.South Carolina had been kind to the Bush family in the past. George H.W. Bush, Jeb’s father, won it in 1988 after losing Iowa to Sen. Bob Dole. George W. Bush won it in 2000 after losing to Sen. John McCain in New Hampshire.But in 2016, a third Bush’s presidential campaign came to an end in the Palmetto State.
Uber driver arrested over deadly US shooting rampage-AFP-feb 21,16-yahoonews
Chicago (AFP) - A man arrested early Sunday on suspicion of shooting dead six people in the northern US state of Michigan was an Uber driver who may have been picking up fares just before the killing spree began.Uber confirmed that the suspect, 45-year-old Jason Brian Dalton, was a driver for the ride-sharing company, adding he had passed a background check and had no criminal record."We have reached out to the police to help with their investigation in any way that we can," Uber's chief security officer, Joe Sullivan, said in a statement.Dalton was apprehended at 12:40 am Sunday (0540 GMT). He is believed to be the gunman who opened fire at three different locations in the city of Kalamazoo, killing six people and seriously wounding two others, police said.A woman was seriously wounded outside an apartment complex, two people were killed at a car dealership, and four more were shot to death and a teenage girl seriously wounded at a chain restaurant.Kalamazoo County prosecutor Jeff Getting said Dalton, who surrendered without incident during a traffic stop, will face murder charges in court on Monday.There is "no reason to believe" more than one person was involved in the crime, Getting added.Local resident Matt Mellen said he was Dalton's passenger just a couple of hours before the rampage began, and was taken on a hair-raising ride."We were driving through medians, driving through the lawn, speeding along and when we came to a stop, I jumped out the car and ran away," Mellen told WWMT, a CBS affiliate."He wouldn't stop. He just kind of kept looking at me like -- 'Don't you want to get to your friend's house' and I'm like, I want to get there alive."Mellen said he jumped out of the car at 4:30 pm, and called 911, the phone number for emergencies. He told his fiancee what had happened and she posted Dalton's picture on Facebook as a warning to others."We're looking into his connection to Uber and whether or not he was picking up fares in between the shootings," Kalamazoo Public Safety Chief Jeff Hadley said, according to CNN.- 'Your worst nightmare' -The shootings began at 6:00 pm."What it looks like is we have somebody driving around, finding people and shooting them dead in their tracks," Kalamazoo County Undersheriff Paul Matyas told local media."This is your worst nightmare, when you have somebody just driving around randomly killing people," he added.The gunman's first victim was a woman who was with her three children outside an apartment complex when she was shot, he said.She was seriously wounded but is expected to survive.The gunman next struck at 10:00 pm, killing an 18-year-old boy and an adult male at a car dealership, according to Getting.The last and deadliest shooting came 10 to 15 minutes later at the Cracker Barrel restaurant where four more people were killed, he said.Video at the car dealership and the restaurant helped police identify the shooter's car, Getting said.Dalton was arrested about two hours later when a sheriff's deputy saw his car leaving a local bar in downtown Kalamazoo."He followed the car. The Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety was able to mobilize people as a backup. They pulled the car over without incident. They were able to make an arrest of the suspect without any significant incident," Getting said.Police seized a semi-automatic handgun and "additional evidence" from the car, the prosecutor added.Dalton was "pretty even-tempered" during his arrest, Getting said.Kalamazoo is located some 190 kilometers (160 miles) west of the industrial city of Detroit and has a population of 76,000, according to census figures.The killings there were the latest in a long line of mass shootings in the United States that include the December 2 massacre in San Bernardino, California that left 14 people dead, and the December 14, 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre in which 20 children and six adults were shot dead.Gun violence claims the lives of about 30,000 Americans every year and mass shootings -- rare in most countries -- have been on the rise in the United States.According to the tracking website gunviolencearchive.org, there were 330 mass shootings in the United States in 2015, up from 281 in 2014. They affected nearly every part of the country, reaching into both big cities and small towns.
REVELATION 16:3-7
3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.(enviromentalists won't like this result)
4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
6 For they(False World Church and Dictator) have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.
Corruption-ridden Texas city's new woe: undrinkable water-Associated Press-feb 21,16-yahoonews
CRYSTAL CITY, Texas (AP) — After weeks of turmoil and the arrests of all but one top city official, residents of Crystal City have a new problem: undrinkable water.Black water came out of the pipes in homes in the tiny Texas city, where a sweeping bribery and conspiracy indictment has ensnared the recently resigned mayor and most other city leaders. Volunteers handed out donated bottles of water on Friday, as state environmental officials test the water for bacteria.Joel Barajas — the only City Council member not facing criminal charges — told the San Antonio Express-News (http://bit.ly/1oB7udV ) that he was grateful to residents elsewhere in the region who donated water. The city blamed the water problem on dirt and mud that had built up in a water tank that was flushed, and state investigators are testing the water for bacteria, according to the newspaper."There are caring people in Southwest Texas," said Barajas, who has been thrust into being the point person for all of the city's departments.And to add even more to the town's woes, the Texas Education Agency said Friday that the local school district could lose its accreditation after failing to meet state standards for the third straight year.A federal indictment released earlier this month charged the city manager, the mayor, the mayor pro tempore, a city councilman and a former councilman with taking bribes from contractors and sending city workers to help an illegal gambling operator. Another councilman is facing unrelated federal allegations that he helped smuggle Mexican immigrants into the U.S.Mayor Ricardo Lopez resigned Friday afternoon, just days after he was arrested during a City Council meeting following a scuffle with an angry audience member — in full view of television cameras. That meeting was held to schedule a recall vote for Lopez and two City Council members.Lopez's attorney has not returned multiple messages seeking comment."I feel bad talking about the little town where I grew up, but this is ridiculous," said Alicia Martinez, 33. "We need help to get it back to where it used to be."___Information from: San Antonio Express-News, http://www.mysanantonio.com
