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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)
Relative: 5 of 8 shot will be buried side by side-Wednesday, April 27th 2016, 9:13 am EDT-Wednesday, April 27th 2016, 9:57 am EDT-Posted by FOX19 Digital Media Staff-AP
The brother of some of the eight family members found shot last week in Pike County says five victims will be buried side by side in a nearby town.Seven adults and 16-year-old boy were found dead Friday at four properties near Piketon.Investigators have questioned more than 30 people in the case but have made no arrests.Tony Rhoden tells The Columbus Dispatch (http://bit.ly/1rzfWvE ) his 73-year-old mother has been holding the grieving family together.Rhoden lost two brothers, his former sister-in-law and a cousin in the slayings.He says the victims also included a teenage nephew who had just earned a driver's license, a 19-year-old niece who worked at a nursing home and had a days-old newborn, and a 20-year-old nephew who loved to hunt and fish.Visitation for one of the victims, Gary Rhoden, 38, will be 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday at Crockett L. Reed Funeral Home, 258 Biggs Ln. South Shore, KY 41175. Visitation will continue at 11 a.m. Thursday before his noon funeral, also at the funeral home.Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine will be back in Pike County Wednesday morning to get an update on the investigation into the execution style murders.Then he will go inside the four crime scenes for the first time, said Eve Mueller, his spokeswoman.
The Latest: Autopsies: 7 of 8 in Ohio family shot repeatedly-The Associated Press-The Canadian Press-April 26, 2016
COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Latest on the killings of eight family members in southern Ohio (all times local):12:35 p.m.A coroner says seven of the eight victims in killings targeting a southern Ohio family were shot multiple times, and one had nine gunshot wounds.The Hamilton County coroner said Tuesday that autopsies showed some victims also had bruising. One victim was shot only once, but it's not clear who that was.The bodies of seven adults and 16-year-old boy were found Friday at four properties near Piketon, about 60 miles south of Columbus.Investigators have questioned more than 30 people in the case but have made no arrests.The victims were part of the Rhoden family. Investigators say some apparently were killed as they slept, including a young mother in bed with her days-old newborn nearby. The infant and two other small children weren't harmed.___9:25 a.m.The father of one of eight people slain in southern Ohio says he knew nothing about marijuana growing operations at three of the four crime scenes.Leonard Manley is the father of 37-year-old Dana Rhoden. He says he first learned of the marijuana from news reports Sunday.Manley told the Cincinnati Enquirer on Monday that he's sure his daughter couldn't have been involved in anything illegal.Manley also says he found it strange that the killer or killers were able to get past his daughter's two dogs.Pike County Prosecutor Rob Junk told The Columbus Dispatch on Monday that the marijuana operations discovered at three of the four crime scenes included a grow-house sheltering hundreds of plants.Three of Manley's grandchildren were also among the dead.___1 a.m.As the investigation into the killings of eight family members in rural Ohio enters its fifth day, more details are being released.Pike County Prosecutor Rob Junk told The Columbus Dispatch Monday that the marijuana operations discovered at three of the four crime scenes included a grow-house sheltering hundreds of plants.Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine also says there's possible evidence of cockfighting at one of the properties, but he says he doesn't know what's relevant to the investigation.No arrests have been made, and officials have not said if they have any suspects in mind. They have not released any details about a motive.All eight victims were fatally shot in the head on Friday in Piketon. They're being remembered as loyal and caring people.
Ohio attorney general visits homes where 8 were shot dead-Associated Press-April 27, 2016 — 11:35am-STARTRIBUNE
PIKETON, Ohio — Ohio's attorney general is touring the four homes where eight people from one family were shot dead in a rural part of the state.Seven adults and a 16-year-old boy were found dead Friday at four properties in the hills near Piketon. Investigators have interviewed more than 50 people but haven't made arrests or confirmed a specific motive for the slayings.Attorney General Mike DeWine was in a group of law enforcement vehicles that headed up a winding road toward some of the properties Wednesday morning. He had been at the scenes last week, but a spokeswoman said DeWine planned this time to go inside each home.A coroner says seven of the eight victims were shot multiple times, and one had nine gunshot wounds. Some victims also had bruising.
EU rejects Greek calls for bailout summit By Eric Maurice-APR 27,16-EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS, Today, 14:55-European Council president Donald Tusk has turned down a Greek request to organise an EU summit over the Greek bailout, but called for a Eurogroup meeting within days.Tusk, who spoke to Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras on Wednesday morning (27 April), said there was "still more work to be done by the ministers of finance".But he said that "a specific date for the new Eurogroup meeting" was needed."I am not talking about weeks but about days," he told journalists in Brussels."We have to avoid a situation of renewed uncertainty for Greece."Tusk said his decision was taken after close consultation with Eurogroup president Jeroen Dijsselbloem and European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker.Tsipras was requesting a summit to talk about the bailout programme agreed last summer, as discussions to conclude the first review of the programme stalled on Tuesday.EU leaders are wary of putting the Greek issue back on the top table. They did it last year when the risk of a Greek exit from the eurozone was felt to be real."We are not there yet," an EU source said Wednesday.Greek officials and representatives from the quartet of lenders - the European Commission, the European Central Bank, the European Stability Mechanism and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) - failed to reach an agreement on so-called contingency measures..The lenders want Greece to approve austerity measures that would be implemented if the country missed targets for the budget primary surplus (the surplus before the payment of interest on the public debt) set for 2018 by the bailout agreement.The Greek government said approving such measures in advance would be unconstitutional and argued that the new austerity plan goes beyond what was agreed in last summer's bailout programme.The contingency package was "a safeguard to ensure that if anything happens [with the bailout programme], we will have something to trigger to correct it", an EU source said on Wednesday.Talks have so far stumbled on issues such as how to legislate the package, how to trigger it, according to what criteria, and whether specific measures or only a mechanism should be designed.Greek government sources said the IMF was to blame because the fund rejected a Greek proposal to create a balancing mechanism instead of the adoption of a contingency package, according to Greek press agency ANA-MPA.Greek finance minister Euclid Tsakalotos said on Tuesday that quartet officials needed to consult between themselves and with their political authorities.-'Hawks'-In addition to differences between Greece and the quartet, the different players within the quartet and member states within the eurozone differ on the scale and depths of the measures to be imposed on Greece.The IMF and some EU states demand more cuts now in order to secure Greek finances in the long term and avoid a large debt relief package.Other member states, and to some extent the European Commission, are more concerned about the risk of stifling a growth.For these players, the contingency package should be designed to be used "when it is absolutely needed" and in a way that would not be damaging to the Greek economy, a source said.Tsipras' call for a summit received support from the head of the socialist group in the European Parliament."We cannot ask Greece to take additional measures. This would mean that some 'hawks' want to kill Greece and we cannot allow this blackmail," Gianni Pittella said Wednesday."If the Eurogroup cannot find a way out, despite the efforts of the European Commission, then the political leadership of Europe should take the lead at an extraordinary euro summit next week.”Meanwhile quartet officials remain in Athens to continue talks. A Eurogroup meeting next week to validate an agreement is “possible but not confirmed yet”, a source close to the Eurogroup told EUobserver.“It depends on progress in the coming days.”
Obama urges EU nations to stick together By Andrew Rettman-EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS, 25. Apr, 17:43-US president Barack Obama has urged EU nations to stick together and praised German chancellor Angela Merkel for welcoming refugees.Speaking in Hannover, Germany, on the fourth day of a European tour, he said the economic crisis coupled with the migration crisis “have led some to question whether European integration can long endure; whether you might be better off separating off.”“European unity can require frustrating compromise … We understand how easy it must be to vent at Brussels and complain,” he said.“Perhaps you need an outsider, somebody who is not European, to remind you of the magnitude of what you have achieved,” he added.He said the US and the wider world “needs a strong and prosperous and democratic and united Europe”, which he described as “one of the greatest political and economic achievements of modern times.”“Remember that every member of your union is a democracy. That's not an accident. Remember that no EU country has raised arms against another. That's not an accident … people desperately want to come here precisely because of what you've created,” he said.Obama’s speech came shortly before the UK referendum in June on whether to leave the EU.It came more broadly amid concern that the EU might unravel as members squabble over how to handle the huge numbers of refugees.In a sign of the times, in Austria last weekend a far-right candidate came top in the first round of the presidential election. In Germany, Merkel’s approval rating has plunged due to her initially welcoming approach to refugees.Obama praised her for her “steady hands” and her “moral compass.”“Chancellor Merkel and others have eloquently reminded us that we cannot turn our backs on our fellow human beings who are here now, and need our help now,” he said.He cited Islamist terrorism and “Russian aggression” as the greatest threats to European security.He said he would send 250 more US special forces to Syria to help in the fight against the jihadist group Islamic State and urged EU countries to share intelligence despite people’s concerns on privacy rights.“If we truly value our liberty, then we have to take the steps that are necessary to share information and intelligence within Europe, as well as between the United States and Europe,” he said.“Russian aggression has flagrantly violated the sovereignty and territory of an independent European nation, Ukraine, and that unnerves our allies in Eastern Europe,” he added.-'Complacent EU'-He said he wants “good relations” with Russia. But he said that “we need to keep sanctions on Russia in place” until it stops the war in east Ukraine.He also urged Nato countries to rely less on the US for their security needs. “I'll be honest, sometimes Europe has been complacent about its own defence,” he said.Obama later on Tuesday met with the British, French, German and Italian leaders also in Hannover prior to going home.He began his tour in the UK on Friday where his exhortation for the UK to stay in the EU drew howls of protest from the Brexit campaigners.His praise of Merkel’s “moral compass” comes after she authored an EU deal with Turkey to take back migrants despite complaints of human rights abuses by leading NGOs.Meanwhile, his tough line on Russia is not shared by everybody in Berlin.Speaking to the Handelsblatt newspaper at the weekend, German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said it was time to “engage in a process of rapprochement” with Russia despite it actions in Ukraine.“The current G7 format is not an end in itself. Personally, I would favour setting out conditions - sooner rather than later - to enable a return to the G8 format,” he added, referring to Russia’s membership in the club of leading world nations.
European experts to probe Polish police law By Aleksandra Eriksson-APR 27,16-EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS, Today, 09:31-The Venice Commission is travelling to Poland again.The commission, a body of experts on constitutional law from the human rights watchdog Council of Europe, will visit on Thursday and Friday (28 and 29 April) to gather information on a police law adopted on 15 January.The updated police law is known in Poland as the “act of surveillance”.Critics say it gives the police too much access to read and record people’s phone and internet data, and even standard mail.The police also get extended rights to record video and audio in buildings and on public transport. They do not have to inform those investigated or ask courts for authorisation.Ombudsman Adam Bodnar, Poland’s official human rights defender, asked Poland’s constitutional court for an opinion.The delegation will meet with parliamentarians as well as representatives of the prosecutor's office, the ministries of justice and home affairs, the ombudsman and NGOs.Council of Europe spokesman Panos Kakaviatos said the visit was of a technical nature and would form the basis of an opinion to be discussed in June, at the Council’s next plenary session.-Judicial dispute-The Polish government, led by the right-wing Law and Justice Party, has already been criticised by the Venice Commission and European Commission over its attempts to overhaul the constitutional court.The government tried to install loyalist judges and change the rules that govern the court's verdicts.The constitutional court refused to recognise the reforms, and the government has said it will not publish its decisions in the legal gazette.On Tuesday, Poland’s supreme court weighed into the debate on the side of the constitutional court, saying it will respect the court's judgments whether or not they are published in the gazette.Supreme court spokesman Dariusz Swiecki said it was a cue for lower Polish courts to follow.Law and Justice spokeswoman Beata Mazurek insisted that rulings were not valid unless they were published by the government.She angered critics by saying that the supreme court’s statement was of little importance.“In reality, it was a meeting of pals that defend the status quo of the previous powers”, she stated.Law and Justice claimed the constitutional court needed to be reformed because it was filled with appointees from the previous government.-Dispute 'becoming a war'-Mazurek said the government would appoint a committee of experts to oversee another review of the law regulating the constitutional court. Her party claims this will solve the dispute around the court.It remains unclear whether courts will follow the supreme court’s advice. It also failed to calm some of those who worry about the risk of a duality of laws in Poland.Journalist Michal Szuldrzynski wrote in a comment in the Rzeczpospolita daily that the supreme court's intervention was well-meaning, but it would not change the fact that the government and parliamentary majority do not recognise the constitutional court’s judgments.“It’s not the case that Law and Justice politicians lack arguments in this conflict,” he wrote.“Some lawyers share their arguments, not only for political reasons. The substance is that this conflict is turning into a war … and this war is ruining the Polish state.”
Trump’s ‘very good’ night: ‘I consider myself the presumptive nominee’-Holly Bailey-National Correspondent-April 26, 2016-YAHOONEWS
NEW YORK — Donald Trump took another step toward clinching the Republican presidential nomination Tuesday, easily sweeping Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Rhode Island and Connecticut in the latest round of GOP primaries.But Trump’s victories, while commanding, did not bring an end to the Republican contest. Though the real estate mogul and former reality television star was expected to take home the majority of the 172 delegates at stake in Tuesday’s voting, adding to his already sizable lead, Pennsylvania’s delegate rules stopped Trump from making a clean sweep.While Trump won Pennsylvania’s statewide vote, clinching 17 of the state’s 71 delegates, another 54 were officially “unbound,” meaning they can make their own decision about which candidate to support at the party’s convention in July in Cleveland. That technicality gave a glimmer of hope to Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who are trying to stop Trump from getting the 1,237 delegates needed to clinch the GOP nomination before the convention.Still, Trump characterized his wins Tuesday as proof of his unstoppable momentum. Speaking to reporters at his election night event at Trump Tower, the GOP frontrunner said he considered the race “effectively over” because Cruz and Kasich “cannot win.”“I consider myself the presumptive nominee,” Trump said. “If you look honestly, Sen. Cruz and Gov. Kasich should really get out of the race. … They should get out of the race, and we should heal the Republican Party.”Although Trump now leads Cruz by more than 300 delegates, neither the Texas senator nor Kasich seems interested in ending his quest for the White House. The contest now shifts to Indiana, a state that could make or break the #NeverTrump movement.There, Trump narrowly leads Cruz in a state that is viewed as friendly territory for the Texas senator. And on Tuesday night, Cruz took his campaign to the New Castle Fieldhouse, the legendary home of the Indiana Hoosiers basketball team, where he cast himself as an underdog unwilling to give up the fight.“Tonight, this campaign moves back toward favorable terrain,” Cruz declared. “When Trump heads to Indiana on Wednesday, he will attempt to one-up Cruz in terms of basketball pandering. He plans to campaign with former Hoosiers coach Bobby Knight, a beloved sports figure in the state who endorsed Trump several months ago.But Trump will first make a stop in Washington, D.C., where he’s scheduled to deliver a foreign policy speech — the first of several policy speeches he has promised to make as he attempts to transition from a primary to a general election candidate.The candidate declined to go into specifics of what exactly he would talk about Wednesday. But he did reject the idea that he will tone down his rhetoric — pushing back on his convention manager Paul Manafort’s comments to members of the Republican National Committee last week that suggested Trump is merely playing “a part” and would embrace a more “presidential” tone in the coming weeks.“I am me. I am not playing a part,” Trump said Tuesday night, adding that he had received dozens of messages from supporters saying, “Please don’t change, please don’t change.” “If you have a football team, and you are winning … why would I change?” he said.
WORLD POWERS IN THE LAST DAYS (END OF AGE OF GRACE NOT THE WORLD)
EUROPEAN UNION-KING OF WEST-DAN 9:26-27,DAN 7:23-24,DAN 11:40,REV 13:1-10
EGYPT-KING OF THE SOUTH-DAN 11:40
RUSSIA-KING OF THE NORTH-EZEK 38:1-2,EZEK 39:1-3
CHINA-KING OF THE EAST-DAN 11:44,REV 9:16,18
VATICAN-RELIGIOUS LEADER-REV 13:11-18,REV 17:4-5,9,18
WORLD TERRORISM
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
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)
US sends warning shot in Iraq via Hellfire missile-[AFP]-April 26, 2016-YAHOONEWS
Washington (AFP) - Before blowing up a jihadist cash hoard in Iraq, the US military warned bystanders of an impending strike by using a Hellfire missile to deliver the wartime equivalent of a doorknock, an official said Tuesday.It was the first time the Pentagon has conducted a "knock operation" in Iraq and Syria, and the inspiration came from watching the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) pioneer the controversial tactic in Gaza, Major General Peter Gersten said.The Baghdad-based commander told Pentagon reporters that ahead of the strike on a cash-storage facility on April 5 in Mosul, the military learned that a woman, children and other "non-combatants" also were using the building.He said the United States aims to avoid civilian casualties, and in this instance decided to warn occupants by exploding a missile just above the roof."We went as far as actually to put a Hellfire on top of the building and air burst it so it wouldn't destroy the building, simply knock on the roof to ensure that she and the children were out of the building," he said."Then we proceeded with our operations."Ultimately, the woman died anyway because she ran back just after US forces launched bombs to blow it up."Much as we tried to do exactly what we wanted to do and minimize civilian casualties, post-weapons release, she actually ran back into the building," Gersten said. "That's ... very difficult for us to watch."Gersten said several men had also fled the building. He did not say if they were IS jihadists."The men that were in that building, multiple men, literally trampled over her to get out," he said.The coalition has carried out about 20 strikes on IS cash, blowing up as much as $800 million worth of cash in the process, Gersten said.Critics of the 20-month-old US-led coalition attacking the IS group in Iraq and Syria say the military is overly cautious in avoiding civilian casualties.In a move ridiculed by hawkish opponents in the US Congress and privately by some coalition partners, pilots dropped pamphlets before bombing trucks ferrying illicit oil around Syria for the IS group.The IDF has for years warned occupants of buildings suspected of housing Hamas weapons to get out by "roof knocking."The technique has drawn sharp criticism. Observers say occupants are sometimes killed in the warning strike, or even run up to their rooftops to see what happened -- only to be killed in the follow-up strike.
Canada PM Trudeau says no to ransoms-[AFP]-April 26, 2016-YAHOONEWS
Ottawa (AFP) - Canada will not pay ransoms for the release of its citizens held hostage overseas, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday after the gruesome killing of a Canadian in the Philippines."Canada does not and will not pay ransom to terrorists, directly or indirectly," Trudeau said, vowing instead to hunt down and prosecute hostage-takers.His comments come after Trudeau delivered the grim news on Monday that Canadian John Ridsdel had been killed by his captors -- the Abu Sayyaf militant group -- in the Philippines. Efforts, however, were continuing to try to secure the release of three others, including another Canadian national, he said.In decrying ransom payouts, Trudeau explained that they helped to support criminal or terrorist activities, and "endangered the lives of every single one of the millions of Canadians who live, work and travel around the globe" as they could become targets for abduction.Trudeau said that he and British Prime Minister David Cameron agreed in a telephone conversation earlier to press allies on the issue."We agreed that it is something that we are going to make sure that we do bring up with our friends and allies around the world as we come to grips with the fact that the world is a dangerous place," he said."We need to make sure that terrorists understand that they cannot continue to fund their crimes and their violence from taking innocents hostage," he added.Ridsdel, fellow Canadian tourist Robert Hall, Hall's girlfriend Filipina Marites Flor, and Norwegian resort manager Kjartan Sekkingstad were kidnapped seven months ago from yachts at a marina near the major city of Davao, more than 500 kilometers (300 miles) from Jolo.In a recent video, Ridsdel, a retiree in his late 60s, said his captors would kill him on April 25 if a ransom of $6.4 million was not paid.Hours after the deadline passed, police in the Philippines said two people on a motorbike dropped a head in a plastic bag near city hall on Jolo, a mostly lawless island around 1,000 kilometers south of Manila that is one of the Abu Sayyaf group's main strongholds.
US military conducts cyber attacks on IS-[AFP]-AFP-April 26, 2016-YAHOONEWS
Washington (AFP) - The US military is now conducting cyber attacks on the Islamic State group, a general said Tuesday as the Pentagon looks to accelerate the fight against the jihadists.A US-led coalition has been striking IS fighters in Iraq and Syria since August 2014, and officials have long stated the importance of using cyber techniques such as overloading IS networks to limit the group's communications and ability to reach potential new recruits."We have now begun to use our exquisite cyber capabilities in this fight against Daesh," Baghdad-based Major General Peter Gersten told Pentagon reporters, using an acronym that comes from the group's name in Arabic.He did not elaborate except to say the effort is "highly coordinated" and has been "very effective."In February, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and the US military's top officer, General Joe Dunford, said the United States was determined to "accelerate" the anti-IS campaign, and indicated cyber warfare would play an increasingly important role in doing so.Earlier this month, Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work said: "We are dropping cyberbombs" on the IS group.The New York Times published a story Sunday saying the US Cyber Command had placed "implants" in IS networks that let experts monitor the group's behavior and ultimately imitate or alter commanders' messages so they unwittingly direct fighters to areas likely to be hit by drone or plane strikes.The US Cyber Command is charged with protecting America's military and some civilian networks from attacks, as well as deploying its own offensive cyber strategies if needed.By 2018, it will have more than 6,000 military and civilian technical experts working across 133 teams.One such team, comprising about 65 people, today works in the Middle East and carries out cyber operations against IS networks.Admiral Michael Rogers, head of both Cyber Command and the National Security Agency, declined to provide any additional information Tuesday."We have publicly acknowledged that we are using cyber as another tool against ISIL," Rogers said at a Georgetown University cybersecurity conference, using an acronym for the IS group."I want them to be aware: We are going to contest you on the kinetic battlefield, we are going to contest you with information dynamics, we are committed to this fight," he added.
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)
THE FIRST JUDGEMENT OF THE EARTH STARTED WITH WATER-IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THE LAST GENERATION WILL BE HAVING FLOODING
GENESIS 7:6-12
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
GOD PROMISED BY A RAINBOW-THE EARTH WOULD NEVER BE DESTROYED TOTALLY WITH A FLOOD AGAIN.BUT FLOODIING IS A SIGN OF JUDGEMENT.
Tornadoes, strong storms hit central U.S. states-[Reuters]-April 27, 2016-YAHOONEWS
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - A powerful spring storm brought strong winds and baseball-sized hail to several central states on Tuesday, with tornadoes spotted in Kansas and Oklahoma as the severe weather marched east, forecasters said.The storm knocked down tree limbs and left about 20,000 people in the Oklahoma City metropolitan area without power, utility provider OG&E and local officials said.Hail and falling branches caused damage to cars and roofs across portions of the Great Plains, and tornadoes were reported in Kansas and Oklahoma, but the region was spared the destructive twisters that forecasters said could have been spawned by the storm system.There have so far been no reports of serious injuries.A tornado watch was still in effect for portions of Texas and Oklahoma but the alert had expired late on Tuesday in eastern Kansas and southern Nebraska, according to the National Weather Service.Thunderstorms that could lead to flooding were possible on Wednesday in Arkansas, northwest Louisiana, eastern Oklahoma and eastern Texas, the service said.Large hail hit several areas in Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma on Tuesday, and schools in Oklahoma City and some of its suburbs closed early ahead of the severe weather.In Missouri, high winds snapped power lines while winds in Illinois caused empty grain railcars to flip over, the service said based on local reports.In Marshall County, Kansas, there were reports of grapefruit-sized hail falling on the community of Bremen, the local emergency management agency said.Hail storms in Texas in late March and earlier this month hit major cities including Dallas, Fort Worth and San Antonio, causing damages estimated at several billion dollars.(Reporting by Jon Herskovitz, additional reporting by Heide Brandes in Oklahoma City and Victoria Cavaliere in New York; editing by Tom Brown, Himani Sarkar and Tom Hogue)
Hero dog dies of exhaustion after rescuing 7 from earthquake in Ecuador-Michael Walsh-Yahoo News-April 26, 2016
The news quickly went viral after the fire department for the northern city of Ibarra announced the death of 4-year-old Labrador retriever Dayko, who had been with its K-9 unit for three and a half years.“The Fire Department of Ibarra would like to express a brotherly thanks to all the people who gave us their support, and not only in regards to the death of our beloved canine Dayko,” the department said in a Facebook post.According to Spanish-language news, such as ABC, Dayko suffered from heat stroke and injuries while braving the flames to find more victims, ultimately succumbing to a heart attack — despite resuscitation attempts by veterinarians and firefighters.The fire department posted a series of pictures in honor of Dayko that show him searching through the rubble left behind by the 7.8-magnitude earthquake on April 16.Some lambasted the fire department for working the Labrador to the point of exhaustion. In a subsequent Facebook post, the department defended the handling of its canines.The earthquake, which has been called the worst in the country’s history, has left more than 600 dead and over 12,000 injured. The United Nations announced Monday that its World Food Programme will distribute food to 260,000 people who are hungry after surviving the chaos.
Battle over N.C. transgender law intensifies as lawmakers reconvene-[Reuters]-By Marti Maguire-April 26, 2016-YAHOONEWS
RALEIGH, N.C. (Reuters) - Thousands of people flocked to North Carolina's capital on Monday to show both support and disdain for a law that has thrust the state into the international spotlight over its restrictions on transgender bathroom access and gay rights.Lawmakers returned to Raleigh to begin a short session designed to address the state budget. But controversy over the new law, which has drawn reaction from U.S. presidential candidates, U.S. President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron among others, is expected to dominate.The measure puts the state at the center of a debate over equality, privacy and religious freedom as states propose legislation seen as discriminatory against gay and transgender people in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court last year ruling that legalized same-sex marriage.North Carolina became the first U.S. state to require transgender people to use restrooms in public buildings and schools that match the sex on their birth certificate rather than their gender identity.Fifty-four people were arrested at the Legislative Building as they protested against the law on Monday, General Assembly police Officer Scott Cameron said."Our state is a state of crisis," Chris Sgro, executive director of the Equality North Carolina advocacy group, said earlier in the day before activists delivered petitions to Republican Governor Pat McCrory's office demanding the law's repeal.A group of Democratic representatives filed a bill seeking a repeal. But leading Republican lawmakers in the state have shown little willingness to back down, and they were greeted at a rally on Monday by thousands of people who came on church buses and held signs thanking them for the measure.Business leaders, entertainers and politicians including Obama and Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump have come out against the law. Opponents contend it demonizes transgender people and limits government protections against discrimination for gays and lesbians.Supporters including social conservatives and Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz say it is needed to protect women and children from sexual predators in bathrooms.On Monday, singers Demi Lovato and Nick Jonas joined a growing list of entertainers who have canceled shows in the state. Lovato wrote on Twitter that she and Jonas were protesting "this hateful law."As part of the backlash, companies and associations have relocated conventions and halted job-creating investment projects initially slated for North Carolina.Republican State Representative Paul Stam criticized companies, including PayPal Holdings , that have pulled jobs out of North Carolina over the measure."They have offices in countries where homosexuals are executed," he said. "The hypocrisy of those who oppose this bill is amazing."(Additional reporting and writing by Colleen Jenkins)
The brother of some of the eight family members found shot last week in Pike County says five victims will be buried side by side in a nearby town.Seven adults and 16-year-old boy were found dead Friday at four properties near Piketon.Investigators have questioned more than 30 people in the case but have made no arrests.Tony Rhoden tells The Columbus Dispatch (http://bit.ly/1rzfWvE ) his 73-year-old mother has been holding the grieving family together.Rhoden lost two brothers, his former sister-in-law and a cousin in the slayings.He says the victims also included a teenage nephew who had just earned a driver's license, a 19-year-old niece who worked at a nursing home and had a days-old newborn, and a 20-year-old nephew who loved to hunt and fish.Visitation for one of the victims, Gary Rhoden, 38, will be 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday at Crockett L. Reed Funeral Home, 258 Biggs Ln. South Shore, KY 41175. Visitation will continue at 11 a.m. Thursday before his noon funeral, also at the funeral home.Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine will be back in Pike County Wednesday morning to get an update on the investigation into the execution style murders.Then he will go inside the four crime scenes for the first time, said Eve Mueller, his spokeswoman.
The Latest: Autopsies: 7 of 8 in Ohio family shot repeatedly-The Associated Press-The Canadian Press-April 26, 2016
COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Latest on the killings of eight family members in southern Ohio (all times local):12:35 p.m.A coroner says seven of the eight victims in killings targeting a southern Ohio family were shot multiple times, and one had nine gunshot wounds.The Hamilton County coroner said Tuesday that autopsies showed some victims also had bruising. One victim was shot only once, but it's not clear who that was.The bodies of seven adults and 16-year-old boy were found Friday at four properties near Piketon, about 60 miles south of Columbus.Investigators have questioned more than 30 people in the case but have made no arrests.The victims were part of the Rhoden family. Investigators say some apparently were killed as they slept, including a young mother in bed with her days-old newborn nearby. The infant and two other small children weren't harmed.___9:25 a.m.The father of one of eight people slain in southern Ohio says he knew nothing about marijuana growing operations at three of the four crime scenes.Leonard Manley is the father of 37-year-old Dana Rhoden. He says he first learned of the marijuana from news reports Sunday.Manley told the Cincinnati Enquirer on Monday that he's sure his daughter couldn't have been involved in anything illegal.Manley also says he found it strange that the killer or killers were able to get past his daughter's two dogs.Pike County Prosecutor Rob Junk told The Columbus Dispatch on Monday that the marijuana operations discovered at three of the four crime scenes included a grow-house sheltering hundreds of plants.Three of Manley's grandchildren were also among the dead.___1 a.m.As the investigation into the killings of eight family members in rural Ohio enters its fifth day, more details are being released.Pike County Prosecutor Rob Junk told The Columbus Dispatch Monday that the marijuana operations discovered at three of the four crime scenes included a grow-house sheltering hundreds of plants.Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine also says there's possible evidence of cockfighting at one of the properties, but he says he doesn't know what's relevant to the investigation.No arrests have been made, and officials have not said if they have any suspects in mind. They have not released any details about a motive.All eight victims were fatally shot in the head on Friday in Piketon. They're being remembered as loyal and caring people.
Ohio attorney general visits homes where 8 were shot dead-Associated Press-April 27, 2016 — 11:35am-STARTRIBUNE
PIKETON, Ohio — Ohio's attorney general is touring the four homes where eight people from one family were shot dead in a rural part of the state.Seven adults and a 16-year-old boy were found dead Friday at four properties in the hills near Piketon. Investigators have interviewed more than 50 people but haven't made arrests or confirmed a specific motive for the slayings.Attorney General Mike DeWine was in a group of law enforcement vehicles that headed up a winding road toward some of the properties Wednesday morning. He had been at the scenes last week, but a spokeswoman said DeWine planned this time to go inside each home.A coroner says seven of the eight victims were shot multiple times, and one had nine gunshot wounds. Some victims also had bruising.
EU rejects Greek calls for bailout summit By Eric Maurice-APR 27,16-EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS, Today, 14:55-European Council president Donald Tusk has turned down a Greek request to organise an EU summit over the Greek bailout, but called for a Eurogroup meeting within days.Tusk, who spoke to Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras on Wednesday morning (27 April), said there was "still more work to be done by the ministers of finance".But he said that "a specific date for the new Eurogroup meeting" was needed."I am not talking about weeks but about days," he told journalists in Brussels."We have to avoid a situation of renewed uncertainty for Greece."Tusk said his decision was taken after close consultation with Eurogroup president Jeroen Dijsselbloem and European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker.Tsipras was requesting a summit to talk about the bailout programme agreed last summer, as discussions to conclude the first review of the programme stalled on Tuesday.EU leaders are wary of putting the Greek issue back on the top table. They did it last year when the risk of a Greek exit from the eurozone was felt to be real."We are not there yet," an EU source said Wednesday.Greek officials and representatives from the quartet of lenders - the European Commission, the European Central Bank, the European Stability Mechanism and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) - failed to reach an agreement on so-called contingency measures..The lenders want Greece to approve austerity measures that would be implemented if the country missed targets for the budget primary surplus (the surplus before the payment of interest on the public debt) set for 2018 by the bailout agreement.The Greek government said approving such measures in advance would be unconstitutional and argued that the new austerity plan goes beyond what was agreed in last summer's bailout programme.The contingency package was "a safeguard to ensure that if anything happens [with the bailout programme], we will have something to trigger to correct it", an EU source said on Wednesday.Talks have so far stumbled on issues such as how to legislate the package, how to trigger it, according to what criteria, and whether specific measures or only a mechanism should be designed.Greek government sources said the IMF was to blame because the fund rejected a Greek proposal to create a balancing mechanism instead of the adoption of a contingency package, according to Greek press agency ANA-MPA.Greek finance minister Euclid Tsakalotos said on Tuesday that quartet officials needed to consult between themselves and with their political authorities.-'Hawks'-In addition to differences between Greece and the quartet, the different players within the quartet and member states within the eurozone differ on the scale and depths of the measures to be imposed on Greece.The IMF and some EU states demand more cuts now in order to secure Greek finances in the long term and avoid a large debt relief package.Other member states, and to some extent the European Commission, are more concerned about the risk of stifling a growth.For these players, the contingency package should be designed to be used "when it is absolutely needed" and in a way that would not be damaging to the Greek economy, a source said.Tsipras' call for a summit received support from the head of the socialist group in the European Parliament."We cannot ask Greece to take additional measures. This would mean that some 'hawks' want to kill Greece and we cannot allow this blackmail," Gianni Pittella said Wednesday."If the Eurogroup cannot find a way out, despite the efforts of the European Commission, then the political leadership of Europe should take the lead at an extraordinary euro summit next week.”Meanwhile quartet officials remain in Athens to continue talks. A Eurogroup meeting next week to validate an agreement is “possible but not confirmed yet”, a source close to the Eurogroup told EUobserver.“It depends on progress in the coming days.”
Obama urges EU nations to stick together By Andrew Rettman-EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS, 25. Apr, 17:43-US president Barack Obama has urged EU nations to stick together and praised German chancellor Angela Merkel for welcoming refugees.Speaking in Hannover, Germany, on the fourth day of a European tour, he said the economic crisis coupled with the migration crisis “have led some to question whether European integration can long endure; whether you might be better off separating off.”“European unity can require frustrating compromise … We understand how easy it must be to vent at Brussels and complain,” he said.“Perhaps you need an outsider, somebody who is not European, to remind you of the magnitude of what you have achieved,” he added.He said the US and the wider world “needs a strong and prosperous and democratic and united Europe”, which he described as “one of the greatest political and economic achievements of modern times.”“Remember that every member of your union is a democracy. That's not an accident. Remember that no EU country has raised arms against another. That's not an accident … people desperately want to come here precisely because of what you've created,” he said.Obama’s speech came shortly before the UK referendum in June on whether to leave the EU.It came more broadly amid concern that the EU might unravel as members squabble over how to handle the huge numbers of refugees.In a sign of the times, in Austria last weekend a far-right candidate came top in the first round of the presidential election. In Germany, Merkel’s approval rating has plunged due to her initially welcoming approach to refugees.Obama praised her for her “steady hands” and her “moral compass.”“Chancellor Merkel and others have eloquently reminded us that we cannot turn our backs on our fellow human beings who are here now, and need our help now,” he said.He cited Islamist terrorism and “Russian aggression” as the greatest threats to European security.He said he would send 250 more US special forces to Syria to help in the fight against the jihadist group Islamic State and urged EU countries to share intelligence despite people’s concerns on privacy rights.“If we truly value our liberty, then we have to take the steps that are necessary to share information and intelligence within Europe, as well as between the United States and Europe,” he said.“Russian aggression has flagrantly violated the sovereignty and territory of an independent European nation, Ukraine, and that unnerves our allies in Eastern Europe,” he added.-'Complacent EU'-He said he wants “good relations” with Russia. But he said that “we need to keep sanctions on Russia in place” until it stops the war in east Ukraine.He also urged Nato countries to rely less on the US for their security needs. “I'll be honest, sometimes Europe has been complacent about its own defence,” he said.Obama later on Tuesday met with the British, French, German and Italian leaders also in Hannover prior to going home.He began his tour in the UK on Friday where his exhortation for the UK to stay in the EU drew howls of protest from the Brexit campaigners.His praise of Merkel’s “moral compass” comes after she authored an EU deal with Turkey to take back migrants despite complaints of human rights abuses by leading NGOs.Meanwhile, his tough line on Russia is not shared by everybody in Berlin.Speaking to the Handelsblatt newspaper at the weekend, German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said it was time to “engage in a process of rapprochement” with Russia despite it actions in Ukraine.“The current G7 format is not an end in itself. Personally, I would favour setting out conditions - sooner rather than later - to enable a return to the G8 format,” he added, referring to Russia’s membership in the club of leading world nations.
European experts to probe Polish police law By Aleksandra Eriksson-APR 27,16-EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS, Today, 09:31-The Venice Commission is travelling to Poland again.The commission, a body of experts on constitutional law from the human rights watchdog Council of Europe, will visit on Thursday and Friday (28 and 29 April) to gather information on a police law adopted on 15 January.The updated police law is known in Poland as the “act of surveillance”.Critics say it gives the police too much access to read and record people’s phone and internet data, and even standard mail.The police also get extended rights to record video and audio in buildings and on public transport. They do not have to inform those investigated or ask courts for authorisation.Ombudsman Adam Bodnar, Poland’s official human rights defender, asked Poland’s constitutional court for an opinion.The delegation will meet with parliamentarians as well as representatives of the prosecutor's office, the ministries of justice and home affairs, the ombudsman and NGOs.Council of Europe spokesman Panos Kakaviatos said the visit was of a technical nature and would form the basis of an opinion to be discussed in June, at the Council’s next plenary session.-Judicial dispute-The Polish government, led by the right-wing Law and Justice Party, has already been criticised by the Venice Commission and European Commission over its attempts to overhaul the constitutional court.The government tried to install loyalist judges and change the rules that govern the court's verdicts.The constitutional court refused to recognise the reforms, and the government has said it will not publish its decisions in the legal gazette.On Tuesday, Poland’s supreme court weighed into the debate on the side of the constitutional court, saying it will respect the court's judgments whether or not they are published in the gazette.Supreme court spokesman Dariusz Swiecki said it was a cue for lower Polish courts to follow.Law and Justice spokeswoman Beata Mazurek insisted that rulings were not valid unless they were published by the government.She angered critics by saying that the supreme court’s statement was of little importance.“In reality, it was a meeting of pals that defend the status quo of the previous powers”, she stated.Law and Justice claimed the constitutional court needed to be reformed because it was filled with appointees from the previous government.-Dispute 'becoming a war'-Mazurek said the government would appoint a committee of experts to oversee another review of the law regulating the constitutional court. Her party claims this will solve the dispute around the court.It remains unclear whether courts will follow the supreme court’s advice. It also failed to calm some of those who worry about the risk of a duality of laws in Poland.Journalist Michal Szuldrzynski wrote in a comment in the Rzeczpospolita daily that the supreme court's intervention was well-meaning, but it would not change the fact that the government and parliamentary majority do not recognise the constitutional court’s judgments.“It’s not the case that Law and Justice politicians lack arguments in this conflict,” he wrote.“Some lawyers share their arguments, not only for political reasons. The substance is that this conflict is turning into a war … and this war is ruining the Polish state.”
Trump’s ‘very good’ night: ‘I consider myself the presumptive nominee’-Holly Bailey-National Correspondent-April 26, 2016-YAHOONEWS
NEW YORK — Donald Trump took another step toward clinching the Republican presidential nomination Tuesday, easily sweeping Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Rhode Island and Connecticut in the latest round of GOP primaries.But Trump’s victories, while commanding, did not bring an end to the Republican contest. Though the real estate mogul and former reality television star was expected to take home the majority of the 172 delegates at stake in Tuesday’s voting, adding to his already sizable lead, Pennsylvania’s delegate rules stopped Trump from making a clean sweep.While Trump won Pennsylvania’s statewide vote, clinching 17 of the state’s 71 delegates, another 54 were officially “unbound,” meaning they can make their own decision about which candidate to support at the party’s convention in July in Cleveland. That technicality gave a glimmer of hope to Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who are trying to stop Trump from getting the 1,237 delegates needed to clinch the GOP nomination before the convention.Still, Trump characterized his wins Tuesday as proof of his unstoppable momentum. Speaking to reporters at his election night event at Trump Tower, the GOP frontrunner said he considered the race “effectively over” because Cruz and Kasich “cannot win.”“I consider myself the presumptive nominee,” Trump said. “If you look honestly, Sen. Cruz and Gov. Kasich should really get out of the race. … They should get out of the race, and we should heal the Republican Party.”Although Trump now leads Cruz by more than 300 delegates, neither the Texas senator nor Kasich seems interested in ending his quest for the White House. The contest now shifts to Indiana, a state that could make or break the #NeverTrump movement.There, Trump narrowly leads Cruz in a state that is viewed as friendly territory for the Texas senator. And on Tuesday night, Cruz took his campaign to the New Castle Fieldhouse, the legendary home of the Indiana Hoosiers basketball team, where he cast himself as an underdog unwilling to give up the fight.“Tonight, this campaign moves back toward favorable terrain,” Cruz declared. “When Trump heads to Indiana on Wednesday, he will attempt to one-up Cruz in terms of basketball pandering. He plans to campaign with former Hoosiers coach Bobby Knight, a beloved sports figure in the state who endorsed Trump several months ago.But Trump will first make a stop in Washington, D.C., where he’s scheduled to deliver a foreign policy speech — the first of several policy speeches he has promised to make as he attempts to transition from a primary to a general election candidate.The candidate declined to go into specifics of what exactly he would talk about Wednesday. But he did reject the idea that he will tone down his rhetoric — pushing back on his convention manager Paul Manafort’s comments to members of the Republican National Committee last week that suggested Trump is merely playing “a part” and would embrace a more “presidential” tone in the coming weeks.“I am me. I am not playing a part,” Trump said Tuesday night, adding that he had received dozens of messages from supporters saying, “Please don’t change, please don’t change.” “If you have a football team, and you are winning … why would I change?” he said.
WORLD POWERS IN THE LAST DAYS (END OF AGE OF GRACE NOT THE WORLD)
EUROPEAN UNION-KING OF WEST-DAN 9:26-27,DAN 7:23-24,DAN 11:40,REV 13:1-10
EGYPT-KING OF THE SOUTH-DAN 11:40
RUSSIA-KING OF THE NORTH-EZEK 38:1-2,EZEK 39:1-3
CHINA-KING OF THE EAST-DAN 11:44,REV 9:16,18
VATICAN-RELIGIOUS LEADER-REV 13:11-18,REV 17:4-5,9,18
WORLD TERRORISM
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
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)
US sends warning shot in Iraq via Hellfire missile-[AFP]-April 26, 2016-YAHOONEWS
Washington (AFP) - Before blowing up a jihadist cash hoard in Iraq, the US military warned bystanders of an impending strike by using a Hellfire missile to deliver the wartime equivalent of a doorknock, an official said Tuesday.It was the first time the Pentagon has conducted a "knock operation" in Iraq and Syria, and the inspiration came from watching the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) pioneer the controversial tactic in Gaza, Major General Peter Gersten said.The Baghdad-based commander told Pentagon reporters that ahead of the strike on a cash-storage facility on April 5 in Mosul, the military learned that a woman, children and other "non-combatants" also were using the building.He said the United States aims to avoid civilian casualties, and in this instance decided to warn occupants by exploding a missile just above the roof."We went as far as actually to put a Hellfire on top of the building and air burst it so it wouldn't destroy the building, simply knock on the roof to ensure that she and the children were out of the building," he said."Then we proceeded with our operations."Ultimately, the woman died anyway because she ran back just after US forces launched bombs to blow it up."Much as we tried to do exactly what we wanted to do and minimize civilian casualties, post-weapons release, she actually ran back into the building," Gersten said. "That's ... very difficult for us to watch."Gersten said several men had also fled the building. He did not say if they were IS jihadists."The men that were in that building, multiple men, literally trampled over her to get out," he said.The coalition has carried out about 20 strikes on IS cash, blowing up as much as $800 million worth of cash in the process, Gersten said.Critics of the 20-month-old US-led coalition attacking the IS group in Iraq and Syria say the military is overly cautious in avoiding civilian casualties.In a move ridiculed by hawkish opponents in the US Congress and privately by some coalition partners, pilots dropped pamphlets before bombing trucks ferrying illicit oil around Syria for the IS group.The IDF has for years warned occupants of buildings suspected of housing Hamas weapons to get out by "roof knocking."The technique has drawn sharp criticism. Observers say occupants are sometimes killed in the warning strike, or even run up to their rooftops to see what happened -- only to be killed in the follow-up strike.
Canada PM Trudeau says no to ransoms-[AFP]-April 26, 2016-YAHOONEWS
Ottawa (AFP) - Canada will not pay ransoms for the release of its citizens held hostage overseas, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday after the gruesome killing of a Canadian in the Philippines."Canada does not and will not pay ransom to terrorists, directly or indirectly," Trudeau said, vowing instead to hunt down and prosecute hostage-takers.His comments come after Trudeau delivered the grim news on Monday that Canadian John Ridsdel had been killed by his captors -- the Abu Sayyaf militant group -- in the Philippines. Efforts, however, were continuing to try to secure the release of three others, including another Canadian national, he said.In decrying ransom payouts, Trudeau explained that they helped to support criminal or terrorist activities, and "endangered the lives of every single one of the millions of Canadians who live, work and travel around the globe" as they could become targets for abduction.Trudeau said that he and British Prime Minister David Cameron agreed in a telephone conversation earlier to press allies on the issue."We agreed that it is something that we are going to make sure that we do bring up with our friends and allies around the world as we come to grips with the fact that the world is a dangerous place," he said."We need to make sure that terrorists understand that they cannot continue to fund their crimes and their violence from taking innocents hostage," he added.Ridsdel, fellow Canadian tourist Robert Hall, Hall's girlfriend Filipina Marites Flor, and Norwegian resort manager Kjartan Sekkingstad were kidnapped seven months ago from yachts at a marina near the major city of Davao, more than 500 kilometers (300 miles) from Jolo.In a recent video, Ridsdel, a retiree in his late 60s, said his captors would kill him on April 25 if a ransom of $6.4 million was not paid.Hours after the deadline passed, police in the Philippines said two people on a motorbike dropped a head in a plastic bag near city hall on Jolo, a mostly lawless island around 1,000 kilometers south of Manila that is one of the Abu Sayyaf group's main strongholds.
US military conducts cyber attacks on IS-[AFP]-AFP-April 26, 2016-YAHOONEWS
Washington (AFP) - The US military is now conducting cyber attacks on the Islamic State group, a general said Tuesday as the Pentagon looks to accelerate the fight against the jihadists.A US-led coalition has been striking IS fighters in Iraq and Syria since August 2014, and officials have long stated the importance of using cyber techniques such as overloading IS networks to limit the group's communications and ability to reach potential new recruits."We have now begun to use our exquisite cyber capabilities in this fight against Daesh," Baghdad-based Major General Peter Gersten told Pentagon reporters, using an acronym that comes from the group's name in Arabic.He did not elaborate except to say the effort is "highly coordinated" and has been "very effective."In February, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and the US military's top officer, General Joe Dunford, said the United States was determined to "accelerate" the anti-IS campaign, and indicated cyber warfare would play an increasingly important role in doing so.Earlier this month, Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work said: "We are dropping cyberbombs" on the IS group.The New York Times published a story Sunday saying the US Cyber Command had placed "implants" in IS networks that let experts monitor the group's behavior and ultimately imitate or alter commanders' messages so they unwittingly direct fighters to areas likely to be hit by drone or plane strikes.The US Cyber Command is charged with protecting America's military and some civilian networks from attacks, as well as deploying its own offensive cyber strategies if needed.By 2018, it will have more than 6,000 military and civilian technical experts working across 133 teams.One such team, comprising about 65 people, today works in the Middle East and carries out cyber operations against IS networks.Admiral Michael Rogers, head of both Cyber Command and the National Security Agency, declined to provide any additional information Tuesday."We have publicly acknowledged that we are using cyber as another tool against ISIL," Rogers said at a Georgetown University cybersecurity conference, using an acronym for the IS group."I want them to be aware: We are going to contest you on the kinetic battlefield, we are going to contest you with information dynamics, we are committed to this fight," he added.
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)
THE FIRST JUDGEMENT OF THE EARTH STARTED WITH WATER-IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THE LAST GENERATION WILL BE HAVING FLOODING
GENESIS 7:6-12
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
GOD PROMISED BY A RAINBOW-THE EARTH WOULD NEVER BE DESTROYED TOTALLY WITH A FLOOD AGAIN.BUT FLOODIING IS A SIGN OF JUDGEMENT.
Tornadoes, strong storms hit central U.S. states-[Reuters]-April 27, 2016-YAHOONEWS
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - A powerful spring storm brought strong winds and baseball-sized hail to several central states on Tuesday, with tornadoes spotted in Kansas and Oklahoma as the severe weather marched east, forecasters said.The storm knocked down tree limbs and left about 20,000 people in the Oklahoma City metropolitan area without power, utility provider OG&E and local officials said.Hail and falling branches caused damage to cars and roofs across portions of the Great Plains, and tornadoes were reported in Kansas and Oklahoma, but the region was spared the destructive twisters that forecasters said could have been spawned by the storm system.There have so far been no reports of serious injuries.A tornado watch was still in effect for portions of Texas and Oklahoma but the alert had expired late on Tuesday in eastern Kansas and southern Nebraska, according to the National Weather Service.Thunderstorms that could lead to flooding were possible on Wednesday in Arkansas, northwest Louisiana, eastern Oklahoma and eastern Texas, the service said.Large hail hit several areas in Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma on Tuesday, and schools in Oklahoma City and some of its suburbs closed early ahead of the severe weather.In Missouri, high winds snapped power lines while winds in Illinois caused empty grain railcars to flip over, the service said based on local reports.In Marshall County, Kansas, there were reports of grapefruit-sized hail falling on the community of Bremen, the local emergency management agency said.Hail storms in Texas in late March and earlier this month hit major cities including Dallas, Fort Worth and San Antonio, causing damages estimated at several billion dollars.(Reporting by Jon Herskovitz, additional reporting by Heide Brandes in Oklahoma City and Victoria Cavaliere in New York; editing by Tom Brown, Himani Sarkar and Tom Hogue)
Hero dog dies of exhaustion after rescuing 7 from earthquake in Ecuador-Michael Walsh-Yahoo News-April 26, 2016
The news quickly went viral after the fire department for the northern city of Ibarra announced the death of 4-year-old Labrador retriever Dayko, who had been with its K-9 unit for three and a half years.“The Fire Department of Ibarra would like to express a brotherly thanks to all the people who gave us their support, and not only in regards to the death of our beloved canine Dayko,” the department said in a Facebook post.According to Spanish-language news, such as ABC, Dayko suffered from heat stroke and injuries while braving the flames to find more victims, ultimately succumbing to a heart attack — despite resuscitation attempts by veterinarians and firefighters.The fire department posted a series of pictures in honor of Dayko that show him searching through the rubble left behind by the 7.8-magnitude earthquake on April 16.Some lambasted the fire department for working the Labrador to the point of exhaustion. In a subsequent Facebook post, the department defended the handling of its canines.The earthquake, which has been called the worst in the country’s history, has left more than 600 dead and over 12,000 injured. The United Nations announced Monday that its World Food Programme will distribute food to 260,000 people who are hungry after surviving the chaos.
Battle over N.C. transgender law intensifies as lawmakers reconvene-[Reuters]-By Marti Maguire-April 26, 2016-YAHOONEWS
RALEIGH, N.C. (Reuters) - Thousands of people flocked to North Carolina's capital on Monday to show both support and disdain for a law that has thrust the state into the international spotlight over its restrictions on transgender bathroom access and gay rights.Lawmakers returned to Raleigh to begin a short session designed to address the state budget. But controversy over the new law, which has drawn reaction from U.S. presidential candidates, U.S. President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron among others, is expected to dominate.The measure puts the state at the center of a debate over equality, privacy and religious freedom as states propose legislation seen as discriminatory against gay and transgender people in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court last year ruling that legalized same-sex marriage.North Carolina became the first U.S. state to require transgender people to use restrooms in public buildings and schools that match the sex on their birth certificate rather than their gender identity.Fifty-four people were arrested at the Legislative Building as they protested against the law on Monday, General Assembly police Officer Scott Cameron said."Our state is a state of crisis," Chris Sgro, executive director of the Equality North Carolina advocacy group, said earlier in the day before activists delivered petitions to Republican Governor Pat McCrory's office demanding the law's repeal.A group of Democratic representatives filed a bill seeking a repeal. But leading Republican lawmakers in the state have shown little willingness to back down, and they were greeted at a rally on Monday by thousands of people who came on church buses and held signs thanking them for the measure.Business leaders, entertainers and politicians including Obama and Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump have come out against the law. Opponents contend it demonizes transgender people and limits government protections against discrimination for gays and lesbians.Supporters including social conservatives and Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz say it is needed to protect women and children from sexual predators in bathrooms.On Monday, singers Demi Lovato and Nick Jonas joined a growing list of entertainers who have canceled shows in the state. Lovato wrote on Twitter that she and Jonas were protesting "this hateful law."As part of the backlash, companies and associations have relocated conventions and halted job-creating investment projects initially slated for North Carolina.Republican State Representative Paul Stam criticized companies, including PayPal Holdings , that have pulled jobs out of North Carolina over the measure."They have offices in countries where homosexuals are executed," he said. "The hypocrisy of those who oppose this bill is amazing."(Additional reporting and writing by Colleen Jenkins)
