JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER.
1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
EU sides with embattled Greek PM in bailout talks By Andrew Rettman-EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS, 29. Apr, 09:23-The European Commission has sided with Athens on the prickly issue of pre-voting detailed reforms in return for its next chunk of bailout money.Finance commissioner Pierre Moscovici told reporters in Brussels on Thursday (28 April) that creditors must respect Greek law, which forbids legislating up front on future developments.“It is not necessary to have a precise and detailed set of measures but a mechanism that shows precisely how such measures will be taken if this is judged necessary,” he said.“We are 99 percent there on the first package. As for the contingency mechanism, which, in our view, is not really justified by data, but politically necessary, let’s work on that.”The “first package” refers to budget cuts worth 3 percent of Greek GDP. They are likely to come from public salaries and from welfare, which make up 83 percent of basic spending.The “contingency” measures refer to demands by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that Greek MPs pass laws now to cut a further €3.6 billion in future if its economy does less well than expected by 2018.Moscovici said the EU “want[s] the IMF” on board. But he added: “It is certainly difficult for any parliament or government to legislate up front for eventual measures to be taken three years from now.”He said the deal should “on no account wait until July” - when Greece needs bailout money to repay debts - because “further delay would be bad for the Greek economy.”Eurozone finance ministers will next meet on 9 May to try to conclude talks.Further delay could also be harmful for the government of Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras.The opposition New Democracy and Pasok parties are calling for Tsipras to resign. Pasok, the centre-left party, on Thursday said the government’s handling of the bailout talks is a “circus” and that snap elections would “avoid the abyss to which they are leading the country.”The refugee crisis is adding to pressure on Tsipras.Official figures said almost 54,000 people are stuck on Greek islands and near the Macedonia border after Austria and Western Balkan states stopped letting migrants through.Residents on the island of Chios, which hosts 2,000 refugees, on Thursday set up roadblocks in protest.Tsipras had also promised to move refugees from the port of Chios by Easter. But almost 3,000 people are still there.-’Matter of days'-The Greek central bank governor, Yannis Stournaras, voiced optimism on the bailout on Thursday, saying: “We're very close to an agreement, it's a matter of days.”The so called quartet, the group of officials representing creditor institutions, said: “Greek authorities have made important progress.”It said that a deal could unlock “discussions on debt sustainability” - measures to reduce the cost of Greece’s debt pile.The US ambassador to Greece, David Pearce, said he “support[s] the IMF’s call for Greeks to carry out structural reforms.”“We have stated repeatedly that Greece needs significant debt relief and must continue structural reforms that will return Greece to growth,” he said.
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)
PALESTINE TEXAS IS BEING FLOODED OUT.MAYBE THIS IS A HINT TO THE ARAB MURDERERS IN GAZA.USE ARE GONNA GET IT ANYTIME NOW FOR YOUR ISRAEL HATE.
6th body found after Texas flash floods-[Associated Press]-EMILY SCHMALL-April 30, 2016-YAHOONEWS
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Lisa Asberry Davis said on Saturday that she and her three children waded to safety through water up to their chins after torrential rains in East Texas swamped a cul-de-sac of homes during the night and forced some residents onto rooftops.Firefighters lifted them out of the water at a rescue point but Davis' cousin and the woman's four great-grandchildren who lived down the street in Palestine, Texas, didn't make it.The bodies of Davis' cousin, 64-year-old Lenda Asberry, and her great-grandchildren, 6-year-old Jamonicka Johnson; 7-year-old Von Anthony Johnson Jr.; 8-year-old Devonte Asberry and 9-year-old Venetia Asberry were found in the receding water. The bodies of two of the children were in the front yard of a residence near the street. Asberry and the two other children were found behind the neighborhood, Palestine Police Spokesman Nate Smith said.Authorities found a sixth body later on Saturday, identified as 30-year-old Giovani Olivas of Palestine, who was swept under the flood waters. Autopsies were being performed on all six victims and results will be known Monday, Smith said."The water got up here extraordinarily quickly. The individuals tried to get out, however, the water was already on the roof of the home," Palestine Police Department Capt. James Muniz said.Merta White was waiting to be rescued from the roof of her house when she saw a bump in the water, the Palestine Herald-Press reported (http://bit.ly/1QHo5Cn )."I thought it was a mailbox, but then I realized what it really was, and I started screaming," she said of seeing the body.In less than an hour, more than 7 inches of rain had accumulated at the city's water treatment plant.City officials used a dump truck to rescue a man from the roof of a home, Muniz said. One neighbor told authorities that he saw the family who were killed but lost sight of them as he waded through water."The water came down the hill," Muniz said. "The street was full of mud, so the water just came up. With the enormous amount of rain we had, we had people tell us that within minutes, the water was waist deep."The Red Cross set up a makeshift shelter in Palestine, which is about 100 miles southeast of Dallas and home to about 18,000 residents. Between 20 and 30 people were displaced by the floods, according to Red Cross spokeswoman Anita Foster.One person, a 30-year-old man, remained missing in rural Anderson County, Smith said.Palestine Mayor Bob Herrington signed an emergency declaration on Saturday, saying that he had not seen so much water rise so fast in the 59 years he'd lived there.About 35 homes sustained major damage, businesses in the low-lying areas were flooded, and a railroad track was washed out, Smith said.When Davis spoke to AP, she was trying to salvage items from her damp, muddied home, and console her children, who went to the same school as Asberry's great-grandchildren. The two families attended church together.Davis said Asberry had relocated to Palestine from Dallas several years ago."She was just looking for a nice place to raise her kids," she said.___This story has been corrected to indicate the woman killed in the flooding was 64, not 66. Also, the children who were killed were the woman's great-grandchildren, not her grandchildren.
Astronomers find a tailless comet, first of its kind-[Reuters]-By Irene Klotz-April 30, 2016-YAHOONEWS
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - Astronomers have found a first-of-its-kind tailless comet whose composition may offer clues into long-standing questions about the solar system's formation and evolution, according to research published on Friday in the journal Science Advances.The so-called "Manx" comet, named after a breed of cats without tails, was made of rocky materials that are normally found near Earth. Most comets are made of ice and other frozen compounds and were formed in solar system's frigid far reaches.Researchers believe the newly found comet was formed in the same region as Earth, then booted to the solar system’s backyard like a gravitational slingshot as planets jostled for position.Scientists involved in the discovery now seek to learn how many more Manx comets exist, which could help to resolve debate over exactly how and when the solar system settled into its current configuration."Depending how many we find, we will know whether the giant planets danced across the solar system when they were young, or if they grew up quietly without moving much," paper co-author Olivier Hainaut, an astronomer with the European Southern Observatory in Germany, said in a statement.The new comet, known as C/2014 S3, was discovered in 2014 by the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System, or Pan-STARRS. This network of telescopes scours the night-time skies for fast-moving comets, asteroids and other celestial bodies.Typically comets coming in from the same region as the Manx grow bright tails as they approach the sun, the result of ice vaporizing off their bodies and gleaming in reflected sunlight.But C/2014 S3 was dark and virtually tailless when it was spotted about twice as far away from the sun as Earth.Later analysis showed that instead of ices typically found on comets, the Manx comet contained materials similar to the rocky asteroids located in a belt between Mars and Jupiter.And C/2014 S3 appeared pristine, an indication that it had been in the solar system's deep freeze for a long time, said University of Hawaii astronomer Karen Meech, the lead author.The discovery of additional Manx comets could help scientists to refine computer models used to simulate the solar system's formation, Meech said.(Reporting by Irene Klotz; editing by Letitia Stein and Diane Craft)
2ND WAVE CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL - THE ACTUAL START OF WW3
REVELATION 16:12-16
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates;(WERE WW3 STARTS IN IRAQ OR SYRIA OR TURKEY) and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon,(SATAN) and out of the mouth of the beast,(WORLD DICTATOR) and out of the mouth of the false prophet.(FALSE POPE)
14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.(WERE 2 BILLION DIE FROM NUKE WAR)
15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.(ITS AT THIS TIME I BELIEVE WHEN AMERICA GETS NUKED BY RUSSIA ON THE WAY TO THE MIDEAST)
DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(WORLDWIDE WAR)(TURKEY-IRAQ-SYRIA)(EUPHRATES RIVER CONSISTS OF 760 MILES IN TURKEY,440 MILES IN SYRIA AND 660 MILES IN IRAQ)
15 And the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels were loosed,(WORLDWIDE WAR) which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE-2 billion)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
China Successfully Tests Hypersonic Weapon System-[Popular Mechanics]-Kyle Mizokami-April 29, 2016-YAHOONEWS
China has conducted a test of its new hypersonic weapon. The test is the seventh successful test of the so-called DF-ZF, the Washington Free Beacon reports.The test was carried out from the Wuzhai missile test center in central China. Past DF-ZF weapons-previously called WU-14 by the Pentagon-were aimed at inner Mongolia. The test was the second major missile test in two weeks. On April 12th, a DF-41 intercontinental ballistic missile was launched into the South China Sea.The DF-ZF is what is known as a Hypersonic Glide Vehicle (HGF). The DF-ZF is thought to be launched by a DF-21 intermediate range ballistic missile. Unlike a typical ballistic missile warhead however, a hypersonic glide vehicle stops short of entering space and glides through the atmosphere at speeds of between 4,000 and 7,000 miles an hour.A weapon traveling at such blistering speeds could hit any place on Earth in less than an hour. The unique flight profile of HGVs-not quite a ballistic missile and not quite a regular air-launched missile-combined with its extremely high speed, makes them difficult to intercept.The Washington Free Beacon emphasizes Chinese HGVs as a first strike weapon. While theoretically possible, China's strategic nuclear arsenal consists of between 200 to 300 weapons-nowhere near enough to destroy America's nuclear arsenal first even if HGVs were used to "kick in the door" and destroy America's ground-based missile interceptors based in Alaska.An operational Chinese hypersonic weapon will likely be a conventional-not nuclear-one. A HGV weapon could, for example, target Taiwanese air bases and air defenses, destroying them in minutes and helping China gain air superiority over the breakaway island. Such a weapon could even be used to target individual ships at sea, much like the DF-21D and DF-26 "carrier killer" ballistic missiles.China is not alone in developing hypersonic weapons. The U.S. Air Force anticipates it will have hypersonic weapons operational by the 2020s, likely based on experimental vehicles such as the Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 and the X-51 WaveRider. There are reports China is particularly concerned about U.S. development of hypersonics as they could be used to target China's modest nuclear arsenal without the need for the U.S. to "go nuclear."Russia is also developing hypersonic weapons, having conducted a test just two weeks ago. The Russian weapon used an SS-19 intercontinental ballistic missile as a booster and the test was reportedly successful. Meanwhile, the Russian Navy anticipates putting the Zircon anti-ship missile into production in 2018, which will be capable of speeds of up to 3,800 to 4,600 miles an hour.Source: The Washington Free Beacon
China denies Hong Kong visit request by U.S. carrier group: Pentagon-[Reuters]-By David Brunnstrom and Greg Torode-April 30, 2016-YAHOONEWS
WASHINGTON/HONGKONG (Reuters) - China has denied a request for a U.S. carrier strike group led by the USS John C. Stennis to visit to Hong Kong, the U.S. Defense Department said on Friday, amid heightened tensions over China's territorial claims in the South China Sea.A Pentagon spokesman, Commander Bill Urban, said a U.S. warship, the USS Blue Ridge, was currently in Hong Kong on a port visit and the United States expected that to continue.Urban said the request for the Hong Kong visit by the carrier and its accompanying vessels, which have been patrolling the South China Sea, was recently denied, despite a "long track record of successful port visits to Hong Kong."A U.S. Navy official, who did not want to be identified, said the Chinese Foreign Ministry's commissioner in Hong Kong conveyed Beijing's denial of visit, saying it was "not convenient" at this time.China's Foreign Ministry, in a statement sent to Reuters on Saturday, did not directly provide a reason for the denial."On the visits of U.S. military ships and aircraft to Hong Kong, China has always approved them on a case-by-case basis in accordance with the principle of sovereignty and the specific situation," it said, without elaborating.The nuclear-powered Stennis has been conducting patrols in the South China Sea, which China claims most of and where Beijing has sparked U.S. and regional concerns by building artificial islands to bolster its claims.U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter visited the Stennis while it transited the South China Sea on April 15 to underscore U.S. concerns about the need to maintain freedom of navigation in the face of Chinese moves.A wide range of U.S. military vessels and aircraft have long routinely stopped in Hong Kong, a reflection of the "one country, two systems" formula under which Britain handed the global financial hub back to China in 1997.The visits occasionally have been suspended in periods of heightened tensions, such as after a mid-air collision between a U.S. EP-3 surveillance plane and a Chinese plane off China's Hainan island in 2001.The USS Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier also was denied permission to enter Hong Kong over Thanksgiving in 2007 but was cleared to visit five months later. The Navy official said a visit by the USS Halsey also was denied in 2014.The United States has stressed the importance of good relations with China's military to avoid misunderstandings and Chinese military officers are invited routinely aboard U.S. ships during port visits, and are sometimes flown out to land on U.S. carriers at sea.While aboard the Stennis, Carter dismissed China's characterization of a more robust U.S. military presence in the region as being the cause of heightened tensions. Washington has in turn accused China of militarizing its outposts in the South China Sea by building airstrips and other facilities.Carter made a similar stop at the USS Theodore Roosevelt in November as it transited the South China Sea near Malaysia.The Stennis has been on a routine deployment in the Western Pacific for more than three months, the carrier strike group's commander, Rear Admiral Ronald Boxall, said earlier this month.(Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Kim Coghill)
A coronation for North Korea's Kim Jong-Un-[AFP]-Giles Hewitt-April 30, 2016-YAHOONEWS
Seoul (AFP) - After four years of top-level reshuffles, purges and executions, Kim Jong-Un will formally cement his unassailable status as North Korea's supreme leader at a landmark ruling party congress this week.The first gathering of its kind for nearly 40 years is really a coronation of sorts -- recognising the young 33-year-old leader as the legitimate inheritor of the dynastic dictatorship started by his grandfather Kim Il-Sung and passed down through his late father Kim Jong-Il."This congress means everything for Kim Jong-Un," said John Delury, a North Korea expert at Yonsei University in Seoul."It is the most public, historic setting in which he can demonstrate that he is fully in charge, and that everyone follows his orders," Delury said."Nominally, it's for the party, but really this congress is for Kim," he added.Kim wasn't even born when the last congress was held in 1980 to crown his father as the heir apparent to founding leader Kim Il-Sung.When his own turn came, following the death of Kim Jong-Il in December 2011, there were numerous doubters who suggested the Swiss finishing school graduate lacked the survival skills needed for the Machiavellian world of North Korean power politics.But he proved them wrong, purging the party, government and powerful military of those seen as disloyal, and displaying a ruthless streak that notably led to the execution of his powerful uncle, and one-time political mentor, Jang Song-Thaek.- Policy pivot -He also adjusted his father's "songun", or military first policy, to a "byungjin" policy of pursuing nuclear weapons in tandem with economic development.The nuclear half of that strategy has dominated the run-up to the party congress, starting with a fourth nuclear test in January that was followed by a long-range rocket launch and a flurry of other missile and weapons tests."The objective of all that was clear from the start," said Victor Cha, Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)."It was a race to have a credible nuclear deterrent in place, as a crowning achievement, before the congress opens," Cha said.But there was an embarrassing stumble in the home straight, with the failure in recent weeks of three separate efforts to test fire a powerful, new mid-range ballistic missile capable of striking US bases on the Pacific island of Guam.- Nuclear test prologue -One final act might still play out before the party gathering begins on May 6, with many predicting a fifth nuclear test to underline the North's status as a genuine nuclear power.Then, once the congress gets underway, comes the question of what, beyond Kim's leadership qualities, the gathering will seek to spotlight.The optimist's scenario is that, with a confirmed nuclear deterrent in the bag, Kim will announce that the North's security is ensured and the focus can now switch to the other half of his "byungjin" strategy -- economic development."The key is not whether such a strong North Korean deterrent force is a reality, not even whether Kim believes it, but whether he will set out this position as the philosophical basis for a new direction in policy," said Robert Carlin, a visiting scholar at the Centre for International Security and Cooperation in California.In his very first public address, at a military parade in April 2012, Kim had said he was determined that North Koreans would "never have to tighten their belts again".The need to raise living standards has been a constant refrain of his annual New Year addresses, although analysts note that they have been largely devoid of any specific policy initiatives.So while the party congress does provide the platform for a genuine policy shift, it can just as easily become a stage for tired, self-congratulatory rhetoric that offers little in the way of change.- New, young leaders? -Whatever the tone, the content of the speeches, especially Kim's keynote address, will be closely scrutinised as will any personnel changes, with analysts looking for a younger crop of officials to take over leadership positions.The North's chief diplomatic ally, China, which has become increasingly frustrated with Pyongyang's refusal to restrain its nuclear ambitions, will be among the closest observers."Any North Korean rhetorical emphasis on living standards and peaceful development over nuclear chest-thumping and threats... will be interpreted by Chinese state media as evidence that things are moderating," said Adam Cathcart, a University of Leeds specialist on China-North Korea ties."There may also be more willingness to work with newly-promoted officials who are somewhat younger and presumably more pragmatic," Cathcart said.
Russia dismisses new US charge over air incident-[AFP]-April 30, 2016-YAHOONEWS
Moscow (AFP) - Russia rejected Saturday a new claim that one of its jets had intercepted a US reconnaissance plane over the Baltic in an "unsafe" manner, and accused Washington of sending "spy-planes" into its airspace.US authorities said they were "very concerned" after the mid-air standoff Friday, the latest incident fuelling tension between the former Cold War foes."On April 29, 2016, a US Air Force RC-135 aircraft flying a routine route in international airspace over the Baltic Sea was interceptedby a Russian SU-27 in an unsafe and unprofessional manner," said a statement by the US European Command (EUCOM)."There have been repeated incidents over the last year where Russian military aircraft have come close enough to other air and sea traffic to raise serious safety concerns, and we are very concerned with any such behaviour."The US aircraft was operating in international airspace and at no time crossed into Russian territory. This unsafe and unprofessional air intercept has the potential to cause serious harm and injury to all aircrews involved."More importantly, the unsafe and unprofessional actions of a single pilot have the potential to unnecessarily escalate tensions between countries."But Moscow dismissed the incident, insisting it "respects international air safety rules", and accused Washington of sending "spy planes" to Russia."We are starting to get used to the Pentagon's insults about alleged 'non-professional maneouvres' by our jets when they intercept American spy planes on Russia's frontiers," said Russian defence ministry spokesman, General Igor Konachenkov.These "American reconnaissance planes try to sneak up to the border with their transponders off," which makes them invisible to other planes, he said in a statement."As a consequence, (Russian) air defence forces have to send jets to visually identify this type of plane and their identification number," he said."The US air forces have two solutions: either they do not fly close to our borders, or they turn their transponder on so that our radar can identify them by objective monitoring," he added.The last such incident was on April 17, when Russia's defence ministry said one of its SU-27s had been dispatched to identify an "aerial target travelling toward the Russian border at high speed."That incident came shortly after Russian aircraft repeatedly buzzed the USS Donald Cook, including one incident in which a Russian Su-24 flew 30 feet (nine meters) above the war ship in a "simulated attack profile," according to the US military's European Command.Ties between Russia and the West have plunged to their post-Cold War nadir over Moscow's 2014 annexation of the Crimean peninsula from Kiev and its support for separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine.
Putin reshuffles Russia's law enforcement structures-[Reuters]-April 30, 2016-YAHOONEWS
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's President Vladimir Putin fired several high-ranking law enforcement officials on Saturday in one of the biggest overhauls of the country's power structures in recent years.According to a decree published on the president's official legal portal, Putin fired the Southern transport public prosecutor Seregei Dmitriev, the head of the Federal Penitentiary Service in Moscow Igor Klimenov, and Deputy Interior Minister of the annexed Crimea region Dmitry Neklyudov.Putin also dismissed, among others, two deputies of Russia's Investigative Committee, Yuri Nyrkov and Vasily Piskarev. He raised the rank of the Committee's investigator for special cases case, Lev Gura, to a senior investigator.Gura took the post of General Major Igor Krasnov, who was appointed a deputy of the Investigative Committee.Krasnov spent the past decade investigating some of Russia's biggest assassinations and assassination attempts. He has also been known for his work on cases on Russia's ultranationalists. A year ago, he was appointed the chief investigator into the death of the opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, killed in February 2015.There was no reason given in the president's decree for the personnel changes in the federal agencies, which also included several dismissals and appointments in regional law enforcement agencies.In a separate decree Putin appointed, as expected, former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, deputy chairman of the President's Economic Council.(Reporting by Lidia Kelly; Editing by Bernard Orr)
THIS PEACEFUL MUSLIM SHAM SURVEY IS NONSENSE
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Residents flee as air strikes shake Syria's Aleppo-[AFP]-Karam al-Masri-April 30, 2016-YAHOONEWS
Aleppo (Syria) (AFP) - Terrified residents fled a new wave of air strikes on rebel-held areas of Syria's divided city of Aleppo Saturday, as key regime backer Russia rejected calls to rein in its ally.Aleppo was left out of a new temporary US-Russian brokered truce that appeared to be holding in the regime stronghold of Latakia as well as Damascus and the nearby rebel bastion of Eastern Ghouta.US Secretary of State John Kerry was to travel Sunday to Geneva in a show of support for the truce and will meet the UN envoy to Syria and the Jordanian and Saudi foreign ministers.The State Department said his talks will focus on "efforts to reaffirm the cessation of hostilities nationwide in Syria".A new round of UN-backed peace talks is set to start on May 10 in Geneva.In Aleppo's rebel-held east, dozens of civilians left the battered Bustan al-Qasr district early Saturday, an AFP correspondent said."The situation has become unbearable," Abu Mohammed said as he prepared to flee with his wife and five children. "Everything is paralysed."Russia said that it would not ask Damascus to halt air raids on Aleppo."No, we are not going to put pressure on (Damascus) because one must understand that the situation in Aleppo is part of this fight against the terrorist threat," Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov said.Washington has appealed to Moscow to keep President Bashar al-Assad's regime in check.Once Syria's economic hub, Aleppo and its surrounding countryside have suffered some of the worst fighting in a conflict that has killed more than 270,000 people and displaced millions.- Watching the sky -At least 246 civilians have died in shelling, rocket fire and air strikes in both sides of the city since April 22, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said.At least 10 civilians died in rebel-controlled areas on Saturday, the civil defence said.The few people out on the streets watched the sky anxiously for regime aircraft, running for shelter when one launched a new raid.The Britain-based Observatory, which relies on a network of sources on the ground, reported 28 air strikes on eastern neighbourhoods.But in its daily report on Syria, Russia's defence ministry said it had recorded only "three ceasefire violations in the city of Aleppo", blaming them all on the rebels.The SANA state news agency said shelling of western government-held neighbourhoods killed three civilians including a child, and blamed Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front and its allies.A pro-government newspaper said Thursday the army was preparing an offensive to recapture all of Aleppo and the surrounding province.Some families have fled to safer districts, while others left by the dangerous Castello road, the only route out of near-besieged east Aleppo.Hospitals have also been bombed in nine days of escalating violence in Aleppo.Four medical facilities were hit Friday on both sides of the front line, the International Committee of the Red Cross said.A raid on Wednesday hit a hospital supported by Doctors Without Borders and the Red Cross as well as nearby housing, killing 30 people and sparking an international outcry.On other fronts, fighting halted at 1:00 am Saturday (2200 GMT Friday) in a "freeze" set to last for 24 hours in Damascus and Eastern Ghouta, and 72 hours in Latakia.- Aid for besieged towns -Humanitarian convoys carrying food and medicine meanwhile entered the besieged rebel-held towns of Madaya and Zabadani, northwest of Damascus, on Saturday, the Red Cross said.At the same time, trucks entered the besieged government-held towns of Fuaa and Kafraya, southwest of Aleppo.Madaya became infamous in late 2015 after dozens died of starvation there.In the eastern province of Deir Ezzor, a couple and their two daughters were killed in strikes by unidentified aircraft on a village held by the Islamic State group, the Observatory said.And in northeastern Syria, a suicide bomber killed five Kurdish policemen at a checkpoint in the city of Qamishli, police said.The violence in Aleppo has severely tested the February 27 truce between the regime and non-jihadist rebels intended to pave the way to an end to the five-year conflict.Anas al-Abdeh, head of the Istanbul-based opposition National Coalition, Saturday accused the regime of "war crimes and crimes against humanity" in Aleppo.Human Rights Watch also said the air strikes on medical facilities in the city "may amount to war crimes".Qatar called for an emergency Arab League meeting, and Saudi Arabia condemned the regime strikes.
Austria, Germany press EU to prolong border controls-[AFP]-April 30, 2016-YAHOONEWS
Vienna (AFP) - Austria and Germany said on Saturday they were in talks with the European Union's executive body to extend temporary border controls brought in last year to help stem the migrant flow.The measures -- triggered in case of "a serious threat to public policy or internal security" -- are due to expire on May 12."I can confirm that we are having discussions with the EU Commission and our European partners about this," Austrian interior ministry spokesman Karl-Heinz Grundboeck told AFP.Member states must "be able to continue carrying out controls on their borders," German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said in a written statement to AFP."Even if the situation along the Balkan route is currently calm, we are observing the evolution of the situation on the external borders with worry".His Austrian counterpart, Wolfgang Sobotka, said checkpoints along the Hungarian border had been reinforced in late April after "a rise in people-smuggling activity"."The introduction of a coordinated border management system with our neighbouring countries after the [May 12] deadline expires would be the first step in the direction of a joint European solution," Sobotka said.The remarks came after German media had reported that several EU states were urging Brussels to extend the temporary controls inside the passport-free Schengen zone for at least six months.The EU allowed bloc members to introduce the restrictions after hundreds of thousands of migrants and refugees began trekking up the Balkans from Greece towards western and northern Europe last September.Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany and Sweden have all clamped down on their frontiers as the continent battles its biggest migration crisis since the end of World War II."We request that you put forward a proposal, which will allow those member states who consider it necessary to either extend or introduce the temporary border controls inside Schengen as of May 13," the six countries said in a letter addressed to the EU, according to German newspaper Die Welt.A source close to the German government told AFP the letter would be sent on Monday.The European Commission, which did not comment on the matter, is due to give its verdict on May 12 on whether Greece has done enough in recent weeks to protect the EU's external borders.In case of a negative assessment, the executive could give the green light for an extension of the border controls.The influx of people fleeing violence and poverty in the Middle East and elsewhere has put a huge strain on the bloc's 28 members.While the flow via the Balkans route has slowed to a trickle after countries shut their borders, governments fear that the migrants will seek out new routes into the EU.More than 26,000 migrants have already landed on Italy's shores so far this year after setting off from Libya.The arrivals have prompted Austria to announce plans to reinstate border controls -- including a 370-metre (1,200-foot) fence -- at the Brenner pass in the Alps, a key transport corridor between northern and southern Europe.The move has sparked protests at the checkpoint in recent weeks and caused friction between Vienna and Rome.
UK strikes in Syria, Iraq kill 1,000 IS fighters: Ministry of Defence-[AFP]-April 30, 2016-YAHOONEWS
London (AFP) - British air strikes have killed nearly 1,000 fighters of the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq in the past 18 months, according to new Ministry of Defence figures.Figures released under Freedom of Information laws revealed 974 militants were killed in Royal Air Force (RAF) strikes in Iraq between September 2014, when the British bombing campaign began, and last month.Another 22 were killed in Syria between January and March this year, following the decision by the British parliament to extend the mission to Syria in December."Our records show that there were no civilian casualties for the period in question," the Ministry of Defence said in a statement released late Friday.The ministry added that the numbers are estimates "based on post-strike analysis", noting that Britain "is not in a position to visit strike sites and verify the numbers of enemy killed".Britain is part of a US-led coalition fighting the IS group, which holds swathes of territory across Iraq and Syria and which claimed responsibility for the Paris attacks in November and Brussels attacks in March.
Rouhani allies win Iran parliament elections-[AFP]-Arthur MacMillan-April 30, 2016-YAHOONEWS
Tehran (AFP) - Reformist and moderate Iranian politicians allied with President Hassan Rouhani won a big victory in second round parliamentary elections and capped a remarkable comeback Saturday after years of isolation.The outcome represents a significant realignment of competing factions in the Islamic republic, with conservative MPs losing their dominance and being outnumbered for the first time since 2004.It was also an implicit public vote of confidence in Rouhani, who won a landslide election victory in 2013 and went on to clinch a historic deal with world powers over Tehran's nuclear programme that lifted sanctions.Official results also showed 17 women were elected -- eight more than at present and the highest female representation since the country's revolution in 1979.Almost a quarter of parliament's seats were at stake in run-offs Friday in what was a showdown between reformists and conservatives seeking to influence the country's future.Although Iran's parliament has marginal powers -- under the country's theocratic rule clerics can veto legislation -- the result will help the government deliver economic reforms such as a new oil contracts law that could tempt foreign majors.It could also speed up social change demanded by reformists.Their return as a major force is a shake up for hardliners in Tehran after an era of diplomatic clashes with the West over a nuclear programme that, before Rouhani, had left Iran under threat of military attack.Most lawmakers who opposed the landmark agreement struck last year after years of talks with Tehran's long-time foe the United States and other leading nations were rejected by voters.That verdict should make Rouhani's job easier.Iran does not have rigid party affiliations, making election outcomes notoriously opaque. Some candidates were backed by both camps and others stood as independents.But of the 68 seats that were contested Friday, 38 went to the pro-Rouhani List of Hope coalition, 18 to conservatives and 12 to independents, according to final results published by the interior ministry.That gives reformists 133 seats in the new 290-member parliament, 13 shy of a majority but more than their rivals' 125 MPs. Remaining seats went to independents and minorities who could hold the balance of power.The second ballot on Friday was needed because no candidate won the minimum 25 percent required in the first round.- A different parliament -In stark contrast to the first two-and-a-half years of his presidency, the result should give Rouhani a supportive parliament. The outgoing conservative-led chamber repeatedly blocked him and even impeached one of his ministers.Iran's reformists have encouraged foreign investment, support moves for greater diplomatic rapprochement and seek social change and fewer political restrictions at home.Their electoral gains in February came just six weeks after Tehran's implementation of the nuclear deal.Around 17 million citizens were eligible to vote on Friday and polling took place in 21 provinces, but not in Tehran, as reformists won all of the capital's 30 seats in the first round.Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had urged a strong turnout, saying the vote was no less important than the initial poll.Mohammad Reza Aref, a partly US-educated engineer and leader of the reformist pro-Rouhani List of Hope, had set a target of at least another 40 lawmakers.Although that was narrowly missed, gains for the president's allies will make legislative reforms more likely.The vote also buys some time for Rouhani to try to turn around a struggling economy amid concern over the nuclear deal. He faces a re-election battle next June and would have been severely wounded had conservatives staged a fightback in the second round vote.Iranian officials including Khamenei have complained that the United States is not honouring its commitments and is in fact taking steps to dissuade non-American banks from doing business with Tehran.Although the conservatives went backwards two months ago they did not change tack this time round, keeping up pressure over what they say is a silent agenda among reformists to give up the principles of the revolution.But appeals for backing from Gholam-Ali Hadad Adel, head of the conservative coalition, who lost his own seat in Tehran because of the reformist surge in February, again went unheeded.
Crisis-hit Venezuela to push clocks forward to save power-[AFP]-April 30, 2016-YAHOONEWS
Caracas (AFP) - With their country gripped by an economic crisis, Venezuelans will lose half an hour of sleep Sunday when their clocks are moved forward to save power on President Nicolas Maduro's order.At 2:30 am local time, the oil-dependent South American nation will shift its time ahead by 30 minutes -- to four hours behind Greenwich Mean Time.The move, announced in mid-April, is part of a package of measures the OPEC member is pursuing to cope with an electricity shortage.The country has also allowed rolling blackouts and reduced public sector work weeks to two days a week, as well as ordered schools to close on Fridays.The socialist Maduro government says the El Nino weather phenomenon has dried up the nation's hydroelectric dams.But the opposition says mismanagement is also to blame for the power crisis, as well as for shortage of food and basic supplies.In announcing the time change, Science and Technology Minister Jorge Arreaza said the nighttime use of lighting and air conditioning was especially draining for the power grid."It'll be simple to move the clock forward a half hour -- this will allow us to enjoy more daylight, and it won't get dark so early," he said.Once-booming Venezuela, which has the world's largest proven oil reserves, has plunged into economic chaos as global crude prices have collapsed.Maduro blames the situation on an "economic war" against the country by capitalists and has vowed to press on with the socialist "revolution" launched by his late predecessor Hugo Chavez in 1999.The opposition has been pushing to drive Maduro from office since it took control of the legislature in January.On Saturday, opponents said they have gathered nearly ten times the roughly 200,000 signatures needed to begin organizing a referendum to remove the president.If the electoral board verifies the signatures, the opposition will then have to collect four million more for the board to organize the vote.It is racing to do so by the end of the year. After January, a successful recall vote would just transfer power to Maduro's vice president rather than trigger new elections.A recent Venebarometro poll indicated that more than two thirds of Venezuelans wanted Maduro to quit.
GOD CREATED THEM MALE AND FEMALE IN MARRIAGE
GENESIS 1:27-28
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply,(HAVE LOTS OF CHILDREN) and replenish the earth,(HOMOSEXUALS CAN NOT REPLENISH THE EARTH WITH CHILDREN)(BY HAVING SEX WITH EACH OTHER) and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
GENESIS 2:21-24
21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
MATTHEW 19:4-6
4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
JOHN ELITE MONEY KASICH.GOD WOULD NOT CREATE A SODOMITE.SINCE HE CREATED THEM MALE AND FEMALE.NOT ADAM AND STEVE.GOD WOULD NEVER CREATE SOMETHING HE SAYS IS AN ABOMINATION TO HIM.NO SODOMITES CHOOSE TO BE GAYS.
John Kasich Says People Are ‘Probably’ Born Gay-[Time]-Katie Reilly-April 30, 2016-YAHOONEWS
"I don't see any reason to hurt you or to discriminate you"Republican presidential candidate John Kasich said Friday that people are “probably” born gay, when he was asked about it repeatedly by a voter at a forum in San Francisco.During the exchange, the Ohio governor told Kelly Bryan, a 62-year-old Democrat who said he plans to vote for Hillary Clinton, that he believes in traditional marriage but recently attended the wedding of a friend who is gay, CNN reported.“Do I think that people are, you know, born gay? Probably,” Kasich said. “I’ve never studied the issue. But I don’t see any reason to hurt you or to discriminate you or make you feel bad or make you feel like a second-class citizen. I don’t think that’s right.”Bryan later said he asked the question because he’s concerned about recent state laws that many see as discriminating against LGBT rights in the name of religious freedom, according to CNN.Kasich called for more tolerance and said he would not sign any laws in Ohio that are discriminatory. Republican frontrunner Donald Trump recently split from many conservative leaders in criticizing a North Carolina law that would require transgender people to use restrooms matching the gender they were assigned at birth. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has voiced strong support for the law.“In terms of me, I don’t believe in discrimination,” Kasich said. “I think there is a balance, however, between discrimination and people’s religious liberties. But I think we should just try to, like, take a chill pill, relax, and try to get along with one another a little bit better instead of trying to write some law to solve a problem that doesn’t frankly exist in big enough numbers to justify more lawmaking.”
The Latest: 2nd funeral underway in Ohio shooting massacre-[Associated Press]-April 30, 2016-YAHOONEWS
PIKETON, Ohio (AP) — The Latest on the shooting massacre in rural Ohio (all times local):3:45 p.m.Mourners are gathering in southern Ohio at the second funeral for a victim of the shooting massacre in rural Ohio that killed eight family members.The funeral for 20-year-old Hannah Gilley was being held Saturday in Otway, Ohio. She was the fiancee of victim Clarence "Frankie" Rhoden.The Rhoden family members were found shot to death just over a week ago at four homes in the rural county about 85 miles south of Columbus.Investigators remain tight-lipped about any suspects or a possible motive.The funeral for victim Gary Rhoden was held Thursday in Kentucky.A funeral for Frankie Rhoden, his parents, two siblings and his uncle will be held Tuesday in West Portsmouth.Hundreds of people gathered at a vigil Friday night to remember the eight victims.___10 a.m.The second funeral is scheduled for a victim of the shooting massacre in rural Ohio that killed eight family members.The funeral for 20-year-old Hannah Gilley was planned for Saturday in Otway, Ohio. She was the fiancee of victim Clarence "Frankie" Rhoden.The Rhoden family members were found shot to death just over a week ago at four homes in the rural county about 85 miles south of Columbus.Investigators remain tight-lipped about any suspects or a possible motive.The funeral for victim Gary Rhoden was held Thursday in Kentucky.A funeral for Frankie Rhoden, his parents and two siblings will be held Tuesday in West Portsmouth.Hundreds of people gathered at a vigil Friday night to remember the eight victims.___2 a.m.Clutching lighted candles and launching balloons, hundreds of people have come together to recall eight people killed in a shooting massacre in rural Ohio.The vigil Friday night at the Pike County fairgrounds brought together family members, friends and community residents, all commemorating the lives of those slain April 22 at four homes near Piketon.The Columbus Dispatch reports (http://bit.ly/1WYTxDr ) that many wore T-shirts with photos and messages on them. There were hugs, tears and stories from those who knew the victims well.A funeral for 20-year-old Hannah Gilley is planned for Saturday in Otway, Ohio. The funeral for victim Gary Rhoden was held Thursday in Kentucky and other funeral services are scheduled for Tuesday.___Information from: The Columbus Dispatch, http://www.dispatch.com
Pomp as Sweden's king celebrates 70th birthday-[AFP]-April 30, 2016-YAHOONEWS
Stockholm (AFP) - Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf celebrated his 70th birthday Saturday joined by royals from Europe and beyond, as Swedes lined the streets to wish him many happy returns.Neighbouring Norway's royals did not however attend, staying at home as their nation reels from a deadly helicopter crash which killed 13 oil workers the day before.On a day of pageantry and colour, the Swedish king was cheered by onlookers as he reviewed the royal guard. Later Gustaf and his family appeared on the palace balcony, cheered by thousands.The list of invited royalty included Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, King Philippe of Belgium, Prince Albert II of Monaco, Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands, Princess Takamado of Japan and Jordan's Prince Raad bin Zeid and Princess Majda Raad Zeid.But members of the Norwegian royal family cancelled after a helicopter carrying North Sea oil workers crashed on Friday near Bergen, Norway's second biggest city.Born on April 30, 1946, Carl Gustaf Folke Hubertus Bernadotte was only nine months old when his father, Prince Gustaf Adolf, was killed in a plane crash in Denmark.He assumed the throne in 1973 following the death of his grandfather, the long-reigning Gustav VI Adolf.The king has for many years struggled to shed his image as a car-mad playboy after being thrust onto the throne at age 27.His finest hour came in January 2005, after some 500 Swedes lost their lives in the tsunami that swept across tourist resorts in southeast Asia."What if I, just like the king in the fairytales, could make everything all right and end the story with 'and then they all lived happily ever after'," he said."But I, just like you, am just a grieving, searching, fellow man," he said in a speech at the time.
BRUSSELS, 29. Apr, 09:23-The European Commission has sided with Athens on the prickly issue of pre-voting detailed reforms in return for its next chunk of bailout money.Finance commissioner Pierre Moscovici told reporters in Brussels on Thursday (28 April) that creditors must respect Greek law, which forbids legislating up front on future developments.“It is not necessary to have a precise and detailed set of measures but a mechanism that shows precisely how such measures will be taken if this is judged necessary,” he said.“We are 99 percent there on the first package. As for the contingency mechanism, which, in our view, is not really justified by data, but politically necessary, let’s work on that.”The “first package” refers to budget cuts worth 3 percent of Greek GDP. They are likely to come from public salaries and from welfare, which make up 83 percent of basic spending.The “contingency” measures refer to demands by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that Greek MPs pass laws now to cut a further €3.6 billion in future if its economy does less well than expected by 2018.Moscovici said the EU “want[s] the IMF” on board. But he added: “It is certainly difficult for any parliament or government to legislate up front for eventual measures to be taken three years from now.”He said the deal should “on no account wait until July” - when Greece needs bailout money to repay debts - because “further delay would be bad for the Greek economy.”Eurozone finance ministers will next meet on 9 May to try to conclude talks.Further delay could also be harmful for the government of Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras.The opposition New Democracy and Pasok parties are calling for Tsipras to resign. Pasok, the centre-left party, on Thursday said the government’s handling of the bailout talks is a “circus” and that snap elections would “avoid the abyss to which they are leading the country.”The refugee crisis is adding to pressure on Tsipras.Official figures said almost 54,000 people are stuck on Greek islands and near the Macedonia border after Austria and Western Balkan states stopped letting migrants through.Residents on the island of Chios, which hosts 2,000 refugees, on Thursday set up roadblocks in protest.Tsipras had also promised to move refugees from the port of Chios by Easter. But almost 3,000 people are still there.-’Matter of days'-The Greek central bank governor, Yannis Stournaras, voiced optimism on the bailout on Thursday, saying: “We're very close to an agreement, it's a matter of days.”The so called quartet, the group of officials representing creditor institutions, said: “Greek authorities have made important progress.”It said that a deal could unlock “discussions on debt sustainability” - measures to reduce the cost of Greece’s debt pile.The US ambassador to Greece, David Pearce, said he “support[s] the IMF’s call for Greeks to carry out structural reforms.”“We have stated repeatedly that Greece needs significant debt relief and must continue structural reforms that will return Greece to growth,” he said.
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)
PALESTINE TEXAS IS BEING FLOODED OUT.MAYBE THIS IS A HINT TO THE ARAB MURDERERS IN GAZA.USE ARE GONNA GET IT ANYTIME NOW FOR YOUR ISRAEL HATE.
6th body found after Texas flash floods-[Associated Press]-EMILY SCHMALL-April 30, 2016-YAHOONEWS
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Lisa Asberry Davis said on Saturday that she and her three children waded to safety through water up to their chins after torrential rains in East Texas swamped a cul-de-sac of homes during the night and forced some residents onto rooftops.Firefighters lifted them out of the water at a rescue point but Davis' cousin and the woman's four great-grandchildren who lived down the street in Palestine, Texas, didn't make it.The bodies of Davis' cousin, 64-year-old Lenda Asberry, and her great-grandchildren, 6-year-old Jamonicka Johnson; 7-year-old Von Anthony Johnson Jr.; 8-year-old Devonte Asberry and 9-year-old Venetia Asberry were found in the receding water. The bodies of two of the children were in the front yard of a residence near the street. Asberry and the two other children were found behind the neighborhood, Palestine Police Spokesman Nate Smith said.Authorities found a sixth body later on Saturday, identified as 30-year-old Giovani Olivas of Palestine, who was swept under the flood waters. Autopsies were being performed on all six victims and results will be known Monday, Smith said."The water got up here extraordinarily quickly. The individuals tried to get out, however, the water was already on the roof of the home," Palestine Police Department Capt. James Muniz said.Merta White was waiting to be rescued from the roof of her house when she saw a bump in the water, the Palestine Herald-Press reported (http://bit.ly/1QHo5Cn )."I thought it was a mailbox, but then I realized what it really was, and I started screaming," she said of seeing the body.In less than an hour, more than 7 inches of rain had accumulated at the city's water treatment plant.City officials used a dump truck to rescue a man from the roof of a home, Muniz said. One neighbor told authorities that he saw the family who were killed but lost sight of them as he waded through water."The water came down the hill," Muniz said. "The street was full of mud, so the water just came up. With the enormous amount of rain we had, we had people tell us that within minutes, the water was waist deep."The Red Cross set up a makeshift shelter in Palestine, which is about 100 miles southeast of Dallas and home to about 18,000 residents. Between 20 and 30 people were displaced by the floods, according to Red Cross spokeswoman Anita Foster.One person, a 30-year-old man, remained missing in rural Anderson County, Smith said.Palestine Mayor Bob Herrington signed an emergency declaration on Saturday, saying that he had not seen so much water rise so fast in the 59 years he'd lived there.About 35 homes sustained major damage, businesses in the low-lying areas were flooded, and a railroad track was washed out, Smith said.When Davis spoke to AP, she was trying to salvage items from her damp, muddied home, and console her children, who went to the same school as Asberry's great-grandchildren. The two families attended church together.Davis said Asberry had relocated to Palestine from Dallas several years ago."She was just looking for a nice place to raise her kids," she said.___This story has been corrected to indicate the woman killed in the flooding was 64, not 66. Also, the children who were killed were the woman's great-grandchildren, not her grandchildren.
Astronomers find a tailless comet, first of its kind-[Reuters]-By Irene Klotz-April 30, 2016-YAHOONEWS
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - Astronomers have found a first-of-its-kind tailless comet whose composition may offer clues into long-standing questions about the solar system's formation and evolution, according to research published on Friday in the journal Science Advances.The so-called "Manx" comet, named after a breed of cats without tails, was made of rocky materials that are normally found near Earth. Most comets are made of ice and other frozen compounds and were formed in solar system's frigid far reaches.Researchers believe the newly found comet was formed in the same region as Earth, then booted to the solar system’s backyard like a gravitational slingshot as planets jostled for position.Scientists involved in the discovery now seek to learn how many more Manx comets exist, which could help to resolve debate over exactly how and when the solar system settled into its current configuration."Depending how many we find, we will know whether the giant planets danced across the solar system when they were young, or if they grew up quietly without moving much," paper co-author Olivier Hainaut, an astronomer with the European Southern Observatory in Germany, said in a statement.The new comet, known as C/2014 S3, was discovered in 2014 by the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System, or Pan-STARRS. This network of telescopes scours the night-time skies for fast-moving comets, asteroids and other celestial bodies.Typically comets coming in from the same region as the Manx grow bright tails as they approach the sun, the result of ice vaporizing off their bodies and gleaming in reflected sunlight.But C/2014 S3 was dark and virtually tailless when it was spotted about twice as far away from the sun as Earth.Later analysis showed that instead of ices typically found on comets, the Manx comet contained materials similar to the rocky asteroids located in a belt between Mars and Jupiter.And C/2014 S3 appeared pristine, an indication that it had been in the solar system's deep freeze for a long time, said University of Hawaii astronomer Karen Meech, the lead author.The discovery of additional Manx comets could help scientists to refine computer models used to simulate the solar system's formation, Meech said.(Reporting by Irene Klotz; editing by Letitia Stein and Diane Craft)
2ND WAVE CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL - THE ACTUAL START OF WW3
REVELATION 16:12-16
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates;(WERE WW3 STARTS IN IRAQ OR SYRIA OR TURKEY) and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon,(SATAN) and out of the mouth of the beast,(WORLD DICTATOR) and out of the mouth of the false prophet.(FALSE POPE)
14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.(WERE 2 BILLION DIE FROM NUKE WAR)
15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.(ITS AT THIS TIME I BELIEVE WHEN AMERICA GETS NUKED BY RUSSIA ON THE WAY TO THE MIDEAST)
DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(WORLDWIDE WAR)(TURKEY-IRAQ-SYRIA)(EUPHRATES RIVER CONSISTS OF 760 MILES IN TURKEY,440 MILES IN SYRIA AND 660 MILES IN IRAQ)
15 And the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels were loosed,(WORLDWIDE WAR) which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE-2 billion)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
China Successfully Tests Hypersonic Weapon System-[Popular Mechanics]-Kyle Mizokami-April 29, 2016-YAHOONEWS
China has conducted a test of its new hypersonic weapon. The test is the seventh successful test of the so-called DF-ZF, the Washington Free Beacon reports.The test was carried out from the Wuzhai missile test center in central China. Past DF-ZF weapons-previously called WU-14 by the Pentagon-were aimed at inner Mongolia. The test was the second major missile test in two weeks. On April 12th, a DF-41 intercontinental ballistic missile was launched into the South China Sea.The DF-ZF is what is known as a Hypersonic Glide Vehicle (HGF). The DF-ZF is thought to be launched by a DF-21 intermediate range ballistic missile. Unlike a typical ballistic missile warhead however, a hypersonic glide vehicle stops short of entering space and glides through the atmosphere at speeds of between 4,000 and 7,000 miles an hour.A weapon traveling at such blistering speeds could hit any place on Earth in less than an hour. The unique flight profile of HGVs-not quite a ballistic missile and not quite a regular air-launched missile-combined with its extremely high speed, makes them difficult to intercept.The Washington Free Beacon emphasizes Chinese HGVs as a first strike weapon. While theoretically possible, China's strategic nuclear arsenal consists of between 200 to 300 weapons-nowhere near enough to destroy America's nuclear arsenal first even if HGVs were used to "kick in the door" and destroy America's ground-based missile interceptors based in Alaska.An operational Chinese hypersonic weapon will likely be a conventional-not nuclear-one. A HGV weapon could, for example, target Taiwanese air bases and air defenses, destroying them in minutes and helping China gain air superiority over the breakaway island. Such a weapon could even be used to target individual ships at sea, much like the DF-21D and DF-26 "carrier killer" ballistic missiles.China is not alone in developing hypersonic weapons. The U.S. Air Force anticipates it will have hypersonic weapons operational by the 2020s, likely based on experimental vehicles such as the Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 and the X-51 WaveRider. There are reports China is particularly concerned about U.S. development of hypersonics as they could be used to target China's modest nuclear arsenal without the need for the U.S. to "go nuclear."Russia is also developing hypersonic weapons, having conducted a test just two weeks ago. The Russian weapon used an SS-19 intercontinental ballistic missile as a booster and the test was reportedly successful. Meanwhile, the Russian Navy anticipates putting the Zircon anti-ship missile into production in 2018, which will be capable of speeds of up to 3,800 to 4,600 miles an hour.Source: The Washington Free Beacon
China denies Hong Kong visit request by U.S. carrier group: Pentagon-[Reuters]-By David Brunnstrom and Greg Torode-April 30, 2016-YAHOONEWS
WASHINGTON/HONGKONG (Reuters) - China has denied a request for a U.S. carrier strike group led by the USS John C. Stennis to visit to Hong Kong, the U.S. Defense Department said on Friday, amid heightened tensions over China's territorial claims in the South China Sea.A Pentagon spokesman, Commander Bill Urban, said a U.S. warship, the USS Blue Ridge, was currently in Hong Kong on a port visit and the United States expected that to continue.Urban said the request for the Hong Kong visit by the carrier and its accompanying vessels, which have been patrolling the South China Sea, was recently denied, despite a "long track record of successful port visits to Hong Kong."A U.S. Navy official, who did not want to be identified, said the Chinese Foreign Ministry's commissioner in Hong Kong conveyed Beijing's denial of visit, saying it was "not convenient" at this time.China's Foreign Ministry, in a statement sent to Reuters on Saturday, did not directly provide a reason for the denial."On the visits of U.S. military ships and aircraft to Hong Kong, China has always approved them on a case-by-case basis in accordance with the principle of sovereignty and the specific situation," it said, without elaborating.The nuclear-powered Stennis has been conducting patrols in the South China Sea, which China claims most of and where Beijing has sparked U.S. and regional concerns by building artificial islands to bolster its claims.U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter visited the Stennis while it transited the South China Sea on April 15 to underscore U.S. concerns about the need to maintain freedom of navigation in the face of Chinese moves.A wide range of U.S. military vessels and aircraft have long routinely stopped in Hong Kong, a reflection of the "one country, two systems" formula under which Britain handed the global financial hub back to China in 1997.The visits occasionally have been suspended in periods of heightened tensions, such as after a mid-air collision between a U.S. EP-3 surveillance plane and a Chinese plane off China's Hainan island in 2001.The USS Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier also was denied permission to enter Hong Kong over Thanksgiving in 2007 but was cleared to visit five months later. The Navy official said a visit by the USS Halsey also was denied in 2014.The United States has stressed the importance of good relations with China's military to avoid misunderstandings and Chinese military officers are invited routinely aboard U.S. ships during port visits, and are sometimes flown out to land on U.S. carriers at sea.While aboard the Stennis, Carter dismissed China's characterization of a more robust U.S. military presence in the region as being the cause of heightened tensions. Washington has in turn accused China of militarizing its outposts in the South China Sea by building airstrips and other facilities.Carter made a similar stop at the USS Theodore Roosevelt in November as it transited the South China Sea near Malaysia.The Stennis has been on a routine deployment in the Western Pacific for more than three months, the carrier strike group's commander, Rear Admiral Ronald Boxall, said earlier this month.(Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Kim Coghill)
A coronation for North Korea's Kim Jong-Un-[AFP]-Giles Hewitt-April 30, 2016-YAHOONEWS
Seoul (AFP) - After four years of top-level reshuffles, purges and executions, Kim Jong-Un will formally cement his unassailable status as North Korea's supreme leader at a landmark ruling party congress this week.The first gathering of its kind for nearly 40 years is really a coronation of sorts -- recognising the young 33-year-old leader as the legitimate inheritor of the dynastic dictatorship started by his grandfather Kim Il-Sung and passed down through his late father Kim Jong-Il."This congress means everything for Kim Jong-Un," said John Delury, a North Korea expert at Yonsei University in Seoul."It is the most public, historic setting in which he can demonstrate that he is fully in charge, and that everyone follows his orders," Delury said."Nominally, it's for the party, but really this congress is for Kim," he added.Kim wasn't even born when the last congress was held in 1980 to crown his father as the heir apparent to founding leader Kim Il-Sung.When his own turn came, following the death of Kim Jong-Il in December 2011, there were numerous doubters who suggested the Swiss finishing school graduate lacked the survival skills needed for the Machiavellian world of North Korean power politics.But he proved them wrong, purging the party, government and powerful military of those seen as disloyal, and displaying a ruthless streak that notably led to the execution of his powerful uncle, and one-time political mentor, Jang Song-Thaek.- Policy pivot -He also adjusted his father's "songun", or military first policy, to a "byungjin" policy of pursuing nuclear weapons in tandem with economic development.The nuclear half of that strategy has dominated the run-up to the party congress, starting with a fourth nuclear test in January that was followed by a long-range rocket launch and a flurry of other missile and weapons tests."The objective of all that was clear from the start," said Victor Cha, Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)."It was a race to have a credible nuclear deterrent in place, as a crowning achievement, before the congress opens," Cha said.But there was an embarrassing stumble in the home straight, with the failure in recent weeks of three separate efforts to test fire a powerful, new mid-range ballistic missile capable of striking US bases on the Pacific island of Guam.- Nuclear test prologue -One final act might still play out before the party gathering begins on May 6, with many predicting a fifth nuclear test to underline the North's status as a genuine nuclear power.Then, once the congress gets underway, comes the question of what, beyond Kim's leadership qualities, the gathering will seek to spotlight.The optimist's scenario is that, with a confirmed nuclear deterrent in the bag, Kim will announce that the North's security is ensured and the focus can now switch to the other half of his "byungjin" strategy -- economic development."The key is not whether such a strong North Korean deterrent force is a reality, not even whether Kim believes it, but whether he will set out this position as the philosophical basis for a new direction in policy," said Robert Carlin, a visiting scholar at the Centre for International Security and Cooperation in California.In his very first public address, at a military parade in April 2012, Kim had said he was determined that North Koreans would "never have to tighten their belts again".The need to raise living standards has been a constant refrain of his annual New Year addresses, although analysts note that they have been largely devoid of any specific policy initiatives.So while the party congress does provide the platform for a genuine policy shift, it can just as easily become a stage for tired, self-congratulatory rhetoric that offers little in the way of change.- New, young leaders? -Whatever the tone, the content of the speeches, especially Kim's keynote address, will be closely scrutinised as will any personnel changes, with analysts looking for a younger crop of officials to take over leadership positions.The North's chief diplomatic ally, China, which has become increasingly frustrated with Pyongyang's refusal to restrain its nuclear ambitions, will be among the closest observers."Any North Korean rhetorical emphasis on living standards and peaceful development over nuclear chest-thumping and threats... will be interpreted by Chinese state media as evidence that things are moderating," said Adam Cathcart, a University of Leeds specialist on China-North Korea ties."There may also be more willingness to work with newly-promoted officials who are somewhat younger and presumably more pragmatic," Cathcart said.
Russia dismisses new US charge over air incident-[AFP]-April 30, 2016-YAHOONEWS
Moscow (AFP) - Russia rejected Saturday a new claim that one of its jets had intercepted a US reconnaissance plane over the Baltic in an "unsafe" manner, and accused Washington of sending "spy-planes" into its airspace.US authorities said they were "very concerned" after the mid-air standoff Friday, the latest incident fuelling tension between the former Cold War foes."On April 29, 2016, a US Air Force RC-135 aircraft flying a routine route in international airspace over the Baltic Sea was interceptedby a Russian SU-27 in an unsafe and unprofessional manner," said a statement by the US European Command (EUCOM)."There have been repeated incidents over the last year where Russian military aircraft have come close enough to other air and sea traffic to raise serious safety concerns, and we are very concerned with any such behaviour."The US aircraft was operating in international airspace and at no time crossed into Russian territory. This unsafe and unprofessional air intercept has the potential to cause serious harm and injury to all aircrews involved."More importantly, the unsafe and unprofessional actions of a single pilot have the potential to unnecessarily escalate tensions between countries."But Moscow dismissed the incident, insisting it "respects international air safety rules", and accused Washington of sending "spy planes" to Russia."We are starting to get used to the Pentagon's insults about alleged 'non-professional maneouvres' by our jets when they intercept American spy planes on Russia's frontiers," said Russian defence ministry spokesman, General Igor Konachenkov.These "American reconnaissance planes try to sneak up to the border with their transponders off," which makes them invisible to other planes, he said in a statement."As a consequence, (Russian) air defence forces have to send jets to visually identify this type of plane and their identification number," he said."The US air forces have two solutions: either they do not fly close to our borders, or they turn their transponder on so that our radar can identify them by objective monitoring," he added.The last such incident was on April 17, when Russia's defence ministry said one of its SU-27s had been dispatched to identify an "aerial target travelling toward the Russian border at high speed."That incident came shortly after Russian aircraft repeatedly buzzed the USS Donald Cook, including one incident in which a Russian Su-24 flew 30 feet (nine meters) above the war ship in a "simulated attack profile," according to the US military's European Command.Ties between Russia and the West have plunged to their post-Cold War nadir over Moscow's 2014 annexation of the Crimean peninsula from Kiev and its support for separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine.
Putin reshuffles Russia's law enforcement structures-[Reuters]-April 30, 2016-YAHOONEWS
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's President Vladimir Putin fired several high-ranking law enforcement officials on Saturday in one of the biggest overhauls of the country's power structures in recent years.According to a decree published on the president's official legal portal, Putin fired the Southern transport public prosecutor Seregei Dmitriev, the head of the Federal Penitentiary Service in Moscow Igor Klimenov, and Deputy Interior Minister of the annexed Crimea region Dmitry Neklyudov.Putin also dismissed, among others, two deputies of Russia's Investigative Committee, Yuri Nyrkov and Vasily Piskarev. He raised the rank of the Committee's investigator for special cases case, Lev Gura, to a senior investigator.Gura took the post of General Major Igor Krasnov, who was appointed a deputy of the Investigative Committee.Krasnov spent the past decade investigating some of Russia's biggest assassinations and assassination attempts. He has also been known for his work on cases on Russia's ultranationalists. A year ago, he was appointed the chief investigator into the death of the opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, killed in February 2015.There was no reason given in the president's decree for the personnel changes in the federal agencies, which also included several dismissals and appointments in regional law enforcement agencies.In a separate decree Putin appointed, as expected, former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, deputy chairman of the President's Economic Council.(Reporting by Lidia Kelly; Editing by Bernard Orr)
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Residents flee as air strikes shake Syria's Aleppo-[AFP]-Karam al-Masri-April 30, 2016-YAHOONEWS
Aleppo (Syria) (AFP) - Terrified residents fled a new wave of air strikes on rebel-held areas of Syria's divided city of Aleppo Saturday, as key regime backer Russia rejected calls to rein in its ally.Aleppo was left out of a new temporary US-Russian brokered truce that appeared to be holding in the regime stronghold of Latakia as well as Damascus and the nearby rebel bastion of Eastern Ghouta.US Secretary of State John Kerry was to travel Sunday to Geneva in a show of support for the truce and will meet the UN envoy to Syria and the Jordanian and Saudi foreign ministers.The State Department said his talks will focus on "efforts to reaffirm the cessation of hostilities nationwide in Syria".A new round of UN-backed peace talks is set to start on May 10 in Geneva.In Aleppo's rebel-held east, dozens of civilians left the battered Bustan al-Qasr district early Saturday, an AFP correspondent said."The situation has become unbearable," Abu Mohammed said as he prepared to flee with his wife and five children. "Everything is paralysed."Russia said that it would not ask Damascus to halt air raids on Aleppo."No, we are not going to put pressure on (Damascus) because one must understand that the situation in Aleppo is part of this fight against the terrorist threat," Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov said.Washington has appealed to Moscow to keep President Bashar al-Assad's regime in check.Once Syria's economic hub, Aleppo and its surrounding countryside have suffered some of the worst fighting in a conflict that has killed more than 270,000 people and displaced millions.- Watching the sky -At least 246 civilians have died in shelling, rocket fire and air strikes in both sides of the city since April 22, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said.At least 10 civilians died in rebel-controlled areas on Saturday, the civil defence said.The few people out on the streets watched the sky anxiously for regime aircraft, running for shelter when one launched a new raid.The Britain-based Observatory, which relies on a network of sources on the ground, reported 28 air strikes on eastern neighbourhoods.But in its daily report on Syria, Russia's defence ministry said it had recorded only "three ceasefire violations in the city of Aleppo", blaming them all on the rebels.The SANA state news agency said shelling of western government-held neighbourhoods killed three civilians including a child, and blamed Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front and its allies.A pro-government newspaper said Thursday the army was preparing an offensive to recapture all of Aleppo and the surrounding province.Some families have fled to safer districts, while others left by the dangerous Castello road, the only route out of near-besieged east Aleppo.Hospitals have also been bombed in nine days of escalating violence in Aleppo.Four medical facilities were hit Friday on both sides of the front line, the International Committee of the Red Cross said.A raid on Wednesday hit a hospital supported by Doctors Without Borders and the Red Cross as well as nearby housing, killing 30 people and sparking an international outcry.On other fronts, fighting halted at 1:00 am Saturday (2200 GMT Friday) in a "freeze" set to last for 24 hours in Damascus and Eastern Ghouta, and 72 hours in Latakia.- Aid for besieged towns -Humanitarian convoys carrying food and medicine meanwhile entered the besieged rebel-held towns of Madaya and Zabadani, northwest of Damascus, on Saturday, the Red Cross said.At the same time, trucks entered the besieged government-held towns of Fuaa and Kafraya, southwest of Aleppo.Madaya became infamous in late 2015 after dozens died of starvation there.In the eastern province of Deir Ezzor, a couple and their two daughters were killed in strikes by unidentified aircraft on a village held by the Islamic State group, the Observatory said.And in northeastern Syria, a suicide bomber killed five Kurdish policemen at a checkpoint in the city of Qamishli, police said.The violence in Aleppo has severely tested the February 27 truce between the regime and non-jihadist rebels intended to pave the way to an end to the five-year conflict.Anas al-Abdeh, head of the Istanbul-based opposition National Coalition, Saturday accused the regime of "war crimes and crimes against humanity" in Aleppo.Human Rights Watch also said the air strikes on medical facilities in the city "may amount to war crimes".Qatar called for an emergency Arab League meeting, and Saudi Arabia condemned the regime strikes.
Austria, Germany press EU to prolong border controls-[AFP]-April 30, 2016-YAHOONEWS
Vienna (AFP) - Austria and Germany said on Saturday they were in talks with the European Union's executive body to extend temporary border controls brought in last year to help stem the migrant flow.The measures -- triggered in case of "a serious threat to public policy or internal security" -- are due to expire on May 12."I can confirm that we are having discussions with the EU Commission and our European partners about this," Austrian interior ministry spokesman Karl-Heinz Grundboeck told AFP.Member states must "be able to continue carrying out controls on their borders," German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said in a written statement to AFP."Even if the situation along the Balkan route is currently calm, we are observing the evolution of the situation on the external borders with worry".His Austrian counterpart, Wolfgang Sobotka, said checkpoints along the Hungarian border had been reinforced in late April after "a rise in people-smuggling activity"."The introduction of a coordinated border management system with our neighbouring countries after the [May 12] deadline expires would be the first step in the direction of a joint European solution," Sobotka said.The remarks came after German media had reported that several EU states were urging Brussels to extend the temporary controls inside the passport-free Schengen zone for at least six months.The EU allowed bloc members to introduce the restrictions after hundreds of thousands of migrants and refugees began trekking up the Balkans from Greece towards western and northern Europe last September.Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany and Sweden have all clamped down on their frontiers as the continent battles its biggest migration crisis since the end of World War II."We request that you put forward a proposal, which will allow those member states who consider it necessary to either extend or introduce the temporary border controls inside Schengen as of May 13," the six countries said in a letter addressed to the EU, according to German newspaper Die Welt.A source close to the German government told AFP the letter would be sent on Monday.The European Commission, which did not comment on the matter, is due to give its verdict on May 12 on whether Greece has done enough in recent weeks to protect the EU's external borders.In case of a negative assessment, the executive could give the green light for an extension of the border controls.The influx of people fleeing violence and poverty in the Middle East and elsewhere has put a huge strain on the bloc's 28 members.While the flow via the Balkans route has slowed to a trickle after countries shut their borders, governments fear that the migrants will seek out new routes into the EU.More than 26,000 migrants have already landed on Italy's shores so far this year after setting off from Libya.The arrivals have prompted Austria to announce plans to reinstate border controls -- including a 370-metre (1,200-foot) fence -- at the Brenner pass in the Alps, a key transport corridor between northern and southern Europe.The move has sparked protests at the checkpoint in recent weeks and caused friction between Vienna and Rome.
UK strikes in Syria, Iraq kill 1,000 IS fighters: Ministry of Defence-[AFP]-April 30, 2016-YAHOONEWS
London (AFP) - British air strikes have killed nearly 1,000 fighters of the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq in the past 18 months, according to new Ministry of Defence figures.Figures released under Freedom of Information laws revealed 974 militants were killed in Royal Air Force (RAF) strikes in Iraq between September 2014, when the British bombing campaign began, and last month.Another 22 were killed in Syria between January and March this year, following the decision by the British parliament to extend the mission to Syria in December."Our records show that there were no civilian casualties for the period in question," the Ministry of Defence said in a statement released late Friday.The ministry added that the numbers are estimates "based on post-strike analysis", noting that Britain "is not in a position to visit strike sites and verify the numbers of enemy killed".Britain is part of a US-led coalition fighting the IS group, which holds swathes of territory across Iraq and Syria and which claimed responsibility for the Paris attacks in November and Brussels attacks in March.
Rouhani allies win Iran parliament elections-[AFP]-Arthur MacMillan-April 30, 2016-YAHOONEWS
Tehran (AFP) - Reformist and moderate Iranian politicians allied with President Hassan Rouhani won a big victory in second round parliamentary elections and capped a remarkable comeback Saturday after years of isolation.The outcome represents a significant realignment of competing factions in the Islamic republic, with conservative MPs losing their dominance and being outnumbered for the first time since 2004.It was also an implicit public vote of confidence in Rouhani, who won a landslide election victory in 2013 and went on to clinch a historic deal with world powers over Tehran's nuclear programme that lifted sanctions.Official results also showed 17 women were elected -- eight more than at present and the highest female representation since the country's revolution in 1979.Almost a quarter of parliament's seats were at stake in run-offs Friday in what was a showdown between reformists and conservatives seeking to influence the country's future.Although Iran's parliament has marginal powers -- under the country's theocratic rule clerics can veto legislation -- the result will help the government deliver economic reforms such as a new oil contracts law that could tempt foreign majors.It could also speed up social change demanded by reformists.Their return as a major force is a shake up for hardliners in Tehran after an era of diplomatic clashes with the West over a nuclear programme that, before Rouhani, had left Iran under threat of military attack.Most lawmakers who opposed the landmark agreement struck last year after years of talks with Tehran's long-time foe the United States and other leading nations were rejected by voters.That verdict should make Rouhani's job easier.Iran does not have rigid party affiliations, making election outcomes notoriously opaque. Some candidates were backed by both camps and others stood as independents.But of the 68 seats that were contested Friday, 38 went to the pro-Rouhani List of Hope coalition, 18 to conservatives and 12 to independents, according to final results published by the interior ministry.That gives reformists 133 seats in the new 290-member parliament, 13 shy of a majority but more than their rivals' 125 MPs. Remaining seats went to independents and minorities who could hold the balance of power.The second ballot on Friday was needed because no candidate won the minimum 25 percent required in the first round.- A different parliament -In stark contrast to the first two-and-a-half years of his presidency, the result should give Rouhani a supportive parliament. The outgoing conservative-led chamber repeatedly blocked him and even impeached one of his ministers.Iran's reformists have encouraged foreign investment, support moves for greater diplomatic rapprochement and seek social change and fewer political restrictions at home.Their electoral gains in February came just six weeks after Tehran's implementation of the nuclear deal.Around 17 million citizens were eligible to vote on Friday and polling took place in 21 provinces, but not in Tehran, as reformists won all of the capital's 30 seats in the first round.Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had urged a strong turnout, saying the vote was no less important than the initial poll.Mohammad Reza Aref, a partly US-educated engineer and leader of the reformist pro-Rouhani List of Hope, had set a target of at least another 40 lawmakers.Although that was narrowly missed, gains for the president's allies will make legislative reforms more likely.The vote also buys some time for Rouhani to try to turn around a struggling economy amid concern over the nuclear deal. He faces a re-election battle next June and would have been severely wounded had conservatives staged a fightback in the second round vote.Iranian officials including Khamenei have complained that the United States is not honouring its commitments and is in fact taking steps to dissuade non-American banks from doing business with Tehran.Although the conservatives went backwards two months ago they did not change tack this time round, keeping up pressure over what they say is a silent agenda among reformists to give up the principles of the revolution.But appeals for backing from Gholam-Ali Hadad Adel, head of the conservative coalition, who lost his own seat in Tehran because of the reformist surge in February, again went unheeded.
Crisis-hit Venezuela to push clocks forward to save power-[AFP]-April 30, 2016-YAHOONEWS
Caracas (AFP) - With their country gripped by an economic crisis, Venezuelans will lose half an hour of sleep Sunday when their clocks are moved forward to save power on President Nicolas Maduro's order.At 2:30 am local time, the oil-dependent South American nation will shift its time ahead by 30 minutes -- to four hours behind Greenwich Mean Time.The move, announced in mid-April, is part of a package of measures the OPEC member is pursuing to cope with an electricity shortage.The country has also allowed rolling blackouts and reduced public sector work weeks to two days a week, as well as ordered schools to close on Fridays.The socialist Maduro government says the El Nino weather phenomenon has dried up the nation's hydroelectric dams.But the opposition says mismanagement is also to blame for the power crisis, as well as for shortage of food and basic supplies.In announcing the time change, Science and Technology Minister Jorge Arreaza said the nighttime use of lighting and air conditioning was especially draining for the power grid."It'll be simple to move the clock forward a half hour -- this will allow us to enjoy more daylight, and it won't get dark so early," he said.Once-booming Venezuela, which has the world's largest proven oil reserves, has plunged into economic chaos as global crude prices have collapsed.Maduro blames the situation on an "economic war" against the country by capitalists and has vowed to press on with the socialist "revolution" launched by his late predecessor Hugo Chavez in 1999.The opposition has been pushing to drive Maduro from office since it took control of the legislature in January.On Saturday, opponents said they have gathered nearly ten times the roughly 200,000 signatures needed to begin organizing a referendum to remove the president.If the electoral board verifies the signatures, the opposition will then have to collect four million more for the board to organize the vote.It is racing to do so by the end of the year. After January, a successful recall vote would just transfer power to Maduro's vice president rather than trigger new elections.A recent Venebarometro poll indicated that more than two thirds of Venezuelans wanted Maduro to quit.
GOD CREATED THEM MALE AND FEMALE IN MARRIAGE
GENESIS 1:27-28
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply,(HAVE LOTS OF CHILDREN) and replenish the earth,(HOMOSEXUALS CAN NOT REPLENISH THE EARTH WITH CHILDREN)(BY HAVING SEX WITH EACH OTHER) and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
GENESIS 2:21-24
21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
MATTHEW 19:4-6
4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
JOHN ELITE MONEY KASICH.GOD WOULD NOT CREATE A SODOMITE.SINCE HE CREATED THEM MALE AND FEMALE.NOT ADAM AND STEVE.GOD WOULD NEVER CREATE SOMETHING HE SAYS IS AN ABOMINATION TO HIM.NO SODOMITES CHOOSE TO BE GAYS.
John Kasich Says People Are ‘Probably’ Born Gay-[Time]-Katie Reilly-April 30, 2016-YAHOONEWS
"I don't see any reason to hurt you or to discriminate you"Republican presidential candidate John Kasich said Friday that people are “probably” born gay, when he was asked about it repeatedly by a voter at a forum in San Francisco.During the exchange, the Ohio governor told Kelly Bryan, a 62-year-old Democrat who said he plans to vote for Hillary Clinton, that he believes in traditional marriage but recently attended the wedding of a friend who is gay, CNN reported.“Do I think that people are, you know, born gay? Probably,” Kasich said. “I’ve never studied the issue. But I don’t see any reason to hurt you or to discriminate you or make you feel bad or make you feel like a second-class citizen. I don’t think that’s right.”Bryan later said he asked the question because he’s concerned about recent state laws that many see as discriminating against LGBT rights in the name of religious freedom, according to CNN.Kasich called for more tolerance and said he would not sign any laws in Ohio that are discriminatory. Republican frontrunner Donald Trump recently split from many conservative leaders in criticizing a North Carolina law that would require transgender people to use restrooms matching the gender they were assigned at birth. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has voiced strong support for the law.“In terms of me, I don’t believe in discrimination,” Kasich said. “I think there is a balance, however, between discrimination and people’s religious liberties. But I think we should just try to, like, take a chill pill, relax, and try to get along with one another a little bit better instead of trying to write some law to solve a problem that doesn’t frankly exist in big enough numbers to justify more lawmaking.”
The Latest: 2nd funeral underway in Ohio shooting massacre-[Associated Press]-April 30, 2016-YAHOONEWS
PIKETON, Ohio (AP) — The Latest on the shooting massacre in rural Ohio (all times local):3:45 p.m.Mourners are gathering in southern Ohio at the second funeral for a victim of the shooting massacre in rural Ohio that killed eight family members.The funeral for 20-year-old Hannah Gilley was being held Saturday in Otway, Ohio. She was the fiancee of victim Clarence "Frankie" Rhoden.The Rhoden family members were found shot to death just over a week ago at four homes in the rural county about 85 miles south of Columbus.Investigators remain tight-lipped about any suspects or a possible motive.The funeral for victim Gary Rhoden was held Thursday in Kentucky.A funeral for Frankie Rhoden, his parents, two siblings and his uncle will be held Tuesday in West Portsmouth.Hundreds of people gathered at a vigil Friday night to remember the eight victims.___10 a.m.The second funeral is scheduled for a victim of the shooting massacre in rural Ohio that killed eight family members.The funeral for 20-year-old Hannah Gilley was planned for Saturday in Otway, Ohio. She was the fiancee of victim Clarence "Frankie" Rhoden.The Rhoden family members were found shot to death just over a week ago at four homes in the rural county about 85 miles south of Columbus.Investigators remain tight-lipped about any suspects or a possible motive.The funeral for victim Gary Rhoden was held Thursday in Kentucky.A funeral for Frankie Rhoden, his parents and two siblings will be held Tuesday in West Portsmouth.Hundreds of people gathered at a vigil Friday night to remember the eight victims.___2 a.m.Clutching lighted candles and launching balloons, hundreds of people have come together to recall eight people killed in a shooting massacre in rural Ohio.The vigil Friday night at the Pike County fairgrounds brought together family members, friends and community residents, all commemorating the lives of those slain April 22 at four homes near Piketon.The Columbus Dispatch reports (http://bit.ly/1WYTxDr ) that many wore T-shirts with photos and messages on them. There were hugs, tears and stories from those who knew the victims well.A funeral for 20-year-old Hannah Gilley is planned for Saturday in Otway, Ohio. The funeral for victim Gary Rhoden was held Thursday in Kentucky and other funeral services are scheduled for Tuesday.___Information from: The Columbus Dispatch, http://www.dispatch.com
Pomp as Sweden's king celebrates 70th birthday-[AFP]-April 30, 2016-YAHOONEWS
Stockholm (AFP) - Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf celebrated his 70th birthday Saturday joined by royals from Europe and beyond, as Swedes lined the streets to wish him many happy returns.Neighbouring Norway's royals did not however attend, staying at home as their nation reels from a deadly helicopter crash which killed 13 oil workers the day before.On a day of pageantry and colour, the Swedish king was cheered by onlookers as he reviewed the royal guard. Later Gustaf and his family appeared on the palace balcony, cheered by thousands.The list of invited royalty included Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, King Philippe of Belgium, Prince Albert II of Monaco, Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands, Princess Takamado of Japan and Jordan's Prince Raad bin Zeid and Princess Majda Raad Zeid.But members of the Norwegian royal family cancelled after a helicopter carrying North Sea oil workers crashed on Friday near Bergen, Norway's second biggest city.Born on April 30, 1946, Carl Gustaf Folke Hubertus Bernadotte was only nine months old when his father, Prince Gustaf Adolf, was killed in a plane crash in Denmark.He assumed the throne in 1973 following the death of his grandfather, the long-reigning Gustav VI Adolf.The king has for many years struggled to shed his image as a car-mad playboy after being thrust onto the throne at age 27.His finest hour came in January 2005, after some 500 Swedes lost their lives in the tsunami that swept across tourist resorts in southeast Asia."What if I, just like the king in the fairytales, could make everything all right and end the story with 'and then they all lived happily ever after'," he said."But I, just like you, am just a grieving, searching, fellow man," he said in a speech at the time.
