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1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
MIGRATING BIRDS IN ISRAEL EATS HUMANS FLESH FOR COMING AGAINST ISRAEL-JERUSALEM
EZEKIEL 39:11-12,18
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog (RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS) a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers (EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN JORDAN VALLEY) on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog (RUSSIAN) and all his multitude:(ARAB/MUSLIM HORDE) and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.(BURIEL SITE OF THE 300 MILLION,RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS)
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.(OF ISRAEL)
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.(OF THE ISRAEL-GOD HATERS)
EZEKIEL 39:17-21
17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.(OF RUSSIAN/ISLAMIC HORDES AGAINST ISRAEL)
18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19 And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.
20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
21 And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.
22 So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day and forward.
REVELATION 19:17-18
17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;(AGAINST ALL NATIONS ARMIES THAT COME AGAINST JERUSALEM AND ISRAEL)
18 That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.
EZEKIEL 38:1-7
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:TOBOLSK)
4 And I (GOD) will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY) of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.(AFRICAN MUSLIMS,SUDAN,TUNESIA ETC)
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
EZEKIEL 39:1-8
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back,(RUSSIA-ARAB MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS) and leave but the sixth part of thee,(5/6TH OR 300 MILLION DEAD RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS I BELIEVE) and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
Israel strikes deep in Syria, said to hit military facility-[The Canadian Press]-YAHOONEWS-September 7, 2017
BEIRUT — Israeli warplanes struck a military position near the Mediterranean coast in western Syria Thursday, killing two soldiers, the Syrian army said, in a stronghold of President Bashar Assad that is also heavily protected by the Russians and Iranians.The airstrike targeted a facility near the town of Masyaf, in Hama province, described by some as a missile producing factory, amid Israeli outrage over Iran's growing influence in the war-torn country.Other reports suggested the facility was tied to Syria's chemical weapons program.In a statement, the Syrian army said the Israeli warplanes fired several missiles from Lebanese air space, and warned of the "dangerous repercussions of such hostile acts on the security and stability of the region.""We will do everything to prevent the existence of a Shiite corridor from Iran to Damascus," said Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who declined commenting directly on the strike in an interview with Israel's 100FM Radio Thursday. He said Israel isn't "looking for adventures, and we don't want to be dragged into this fight or another.""We are determined to prevent our enemies from harming or even creating the possibility of harming the security of Israeli citizens."Israel has carried out several airstrikes against suspected arms shipments it believed to be bound for Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group, which is fighting alongside President Bashar Assad's forces, over the course of Syria's civil war, now in its seventh year. Israel has also struck several Syrian military facilities since the conflict began, mostly near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Assad, not wanting to draw Israel into his country's war, has never retaliated.The airstrike comes amid heightened tensions over Iran's growing reach in Syria. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed recently that Iran is building sites in Syria and Lebanon for the manufacture of "precision-guided missiles" with the aim of deploying them against Israel.Thursday's air raid was seen as a message to both Russia and Iran that Israel can strike anywhere in Syria. It was also a rare instance of Israel striking a Syrian government facility rather than an arms shipment and harked back to an Israeli airstrike that destroyed a suspected, partially constructed nuclear reactor in the eastern city of Deir el-Zour exactly 10 years ago.This week, Israel is conducting a massive drill along its border with Lebanon simulating war with the Iranian-backed Hezbollah.It was not immediately clear if the facility struck Thursday was used for the production or storage of chemical arms. Syria denies having or using such weapons.Rami Abdurrahman, who heads the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said two facilities were hit in Thursday's airstrike, a scientific research centre and a nearby military base where short-range surface-to-surface missiles are stored."Many explosions were heard in the area after the air raid," said Abdurrahman, whose group relies on a network of activists across the country.He said Lebanese Hezbollah fighters and Iranian military officials often visit the site, adding that those killed and wounded were Syrians.A local opposition media activist said the facility that was struck is a factory that produces missiles under the supervision of Iranian experts. He said those killed and wounded were Syrian soldiers guarding the facility. The activist spoke on condition of anonymity out of security concerns.Days after the April 4 chemical attack on the town of Khan Sheikhoun, the U.S. Treasury sanctioned 271 employees of Syria's Scientific Studies and Research Center. Washington said the agency is responsible for developing and producing non-conventional weapons and the means to deliver them.The airstrike is the furthest north since Russia joined the war in September 2015 with a major air campaign to aid Assad's forces.In October 2016, Russia deployed a battery of S-300 air defence missile systems to protect a Russian navy facility in the Syrian port of Tartus and Russian navy ships in the area. Moscow also has long-range S-400 missile defence systems and an array of other surface-to-air missiles at the Hemeimeem air base in Syria's coastal province of Latakia, about 70 kilometres (43 miles) from Thursday's strike location.Israel and Russia maintain open communication lines and a "mechanism" to prevent their air forces from coming into conflict with one another. It was not clear whether Thursday's strike was co-ordinated with Moscow, and there was no immediate comment from the Russians.Yaakov Amidror, Israel's former national security adviser and a former general, said the strike targeted a weapons development and manufacturing site that was producing arms for Hezbollah.Former Israeli military intelligence chief Amos Yadlin wrote on Twitter that the facility produces precision missiles, chemical weapons and barrel bombs.Thursday's strike comes a day after a U.N. probe found the Syrian government responsible for a chemical attack in April in northern Syria that killed more than 80 people.Meanwhile on Thursday, a convoy of 40 trucks carrying 1,000 tons of humanitarian aid arrived in Deir el-Zour after troops secured a corridor to the eastern city. The land convoy is the first since Syrian government forces and allied militiamen breached a nearly three-year-old siege by the Islamic State group on government-held parts of the city on Tuesday.The Syrian official news agency SANA said the convoy reached a garrison known as Brigade 137 on the southwestern edge of the city, carrying thousands of food baskets, fruits and vegetables, medicine, and school books and stationary.The aid convoys arrived at the city by way of a military road that links the recently liberated military garrison to the town. They were greeted by jubilant civilians, who gathered around the trucks."No more hunger after today," proclaimed Mohamed Ibrahim Samra, the governor of Deir el-Zour before the cameras.___Associated Press writer Ilan Ben Zion in Jerusalem contributed to this report.Bassem Mroue And Zeina Karam, The Associated Press
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun,(HEATING UP-SOLAR ECLIPSES) and in the moon,(MAN ON MOON-LUNAR ECLIPSES) and in the stars;(ASTEROIDS ETC) and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)
THE FIRST JUDGEMENT OF THE EARTH STARTED WITH WATER-IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THE LAST GENERATION WILL BE HAVING FLOODING
GENESIS 7:6-12
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
GOD PROMISED BY A RAINBOW-THE EARTH WOULD NEVER BE DESTROYED TOTALLY WITH A FLOOD AGAIN.BUT FLOODIING IS A SIGN OF JUDGEMENT.
Hurricane Irma toll hits 10, increasing threat for Florida-[The Canadian Press]-YAHOONEWS-September 7, 2017
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Fearsome Hurricane Irma cut a path of devastation across the northern Caribbean, leaving at least 10 dead and thousands homeless after destroying buildings and uprooting trees on a track Thursday that could lead to a catastrophic strike on Florida.The most potent Atlantic Ocean hurricane ever, Irma weakened only slightly Thursday morning and remained a powerful Category 5 storm with winds of 180 mph (285 kph), according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center.The storm was increasingly likely to rip into heavily populated South Florida early Sunday, prompting the governor to declare an emergency and officials to impose mandatory evacuation orders for parts of the Miami metro area and the Florida Keys. Forecasters said it could punish the entire Atlantic coast of Florida and rage on into Georgia and South Carolina. The Keys and parts of South Florida were placed under a hurricane watch Thursday."This could easily be the most costly storm in U.S. history, which is saying a lot considering what just happened two weeks ago," said Brian McNoldy, a hurricane researcher at the University of Miami, alluding to the damage caused by Hurricane Harvey.French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb told France Info radio that eight had died and 23 injured in the country's Caribbean island territories, and he said the toll on Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthelemy could be higher because rescue teams have yet to finish their inspection of the islands."The reconnaissance will really start at daybreak," Collomb said.At a news conference, Collomb also said 100,000 food rations have been sent to the islands, the equivalent of four days of supplies."It's a tragedy, we'll need to rebuild both islands," he said. "Most of the schools have been destroyed."French President Emmanuel Macron's office said he will go to the islands has soon as weather conditions permit. Macron said France is "grief-stricken" by the devastation caused by Irma and called for concerted efforts to tackle global warming and climate change to prevent similar future natural disasters.In the United Kingdom, the government said Irma inflicted "severe and in places critical" damage to the British overseas territory of Anguilla. Foreign Office Minister Alan Duncan said the Caribbean island took the full force of the hurricane. He told lawmakers on Thursday that the British Virgin islands have also suffered "severe damage."Irma blacked out much of Puerto Rico, raking the U.S. territory with heavy wind and rain while staying just out to sea, and it headed early Thursday toward the Dominican Republic and Haiti.To the east, authorities struggled to get aid to small Caribbean islands devastated by the storm's record 185 mph (298 kph) winds. Communications were difficult with areas hit by Irma, and information on damage trickled out.Nearly every building on Barbuda was damaged when the hurricane's core crossed almost directly over the island early Wednesday and about 60 per cent of its roughly 1,400 residents were left homeless, Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne told The Associated Press."It is just really a horrendous situation," Browne said after returning to Antigua from a plane trip to the neighbouring island.He said roads and telecommunications systems were wrecked and recovery would take months, if not years. A 2-year-old child was killed as a family tried to escape a damaged home during the storm, Browne told the AP.One death also was reported in the nearby island of Anguilla, where officials reported extensive damage to the airport, hospitals, shelters and school and said 90 per cent of roads are impassible, according to the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency.The agency also reported "major damage" to houses and commercial buildings in the British Virgin Islands.On St. Thomas in the nearby U.S. Virgin Islands, Laura Strickling spent 12 hours hunkered down with her husband and 1-year-old daughter in a boarded-up basement apartment with no power as the storm raged outside. They emerged to find the lush island in tatters. Many of their neighbours ' homes were damaged and once-dense vegetation was largely gone."There are no leaves. It is crazy. One of the things we loved about St. Thomas is that it was so green. And it's gone," Strickling said. "It will take years for this community to get back on its feet."Significant damage was also reported on St. Martin, an island split between French and Dutch control. Photos and video circulating on social media showed major damage to the airport in Philipsburg and the coastal village of Marigot heavily flooded. France sent emergency food and water there and to the French island of St. Bart's, where Irma ripped off roofs and knocked out electricity.Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said Thursday the storm "caused widescale destruction of infrastructure, houses and businesses.""There is no power, no gasoline, no running water. Houses are under water, cars are floating through the streets, inhabitants are sitting in the dark, in ruined houses and are cut off from the outside world," he said.By Thursday morning, the centre of the storm was about 110 miles (180 kilometres ) north of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, and was moving west-northwest near 17 mph (28 kph).More than half the island of Puerto Rico was without power, leaving 900,000 in the dark and nearly 50,000 without water, the U.S. territory's emergency management agency said in the midst of the storm. Fourteen hospitals were using generators after losing power, and trees and light poles were strewn across roads.Puerto Rico's public power company warned before the storm hit that some areas could be left without power from four to six months because its staff has been reduced and its infrastructure weakened by the island's decade-long economic slump.President Donald Trump approved an emergency declaration for the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, allowing the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other agencies to remove debris and give other services that will largely be paid for by the U.S. government.The U.S. National Hurricane Center predicted Irma would remain at Category 4 or 5 for the next day or two as passes just to the north of the Dominican Republic and Haiti on Thursday, nears the Turks & Caicos and parts of the Bahamas by Thursday night and skirts Cuba on Friday night into Saturday.It will then likely head north toward Florida, where people were rushing to board up homes, fill cars with gasoline and find a route to safety.Gov. Rick Scott, who has mobilized parts of the state's National Guard, declared a state of emergency and asked the governors of Alabama and Georgia to waive trucking regulations so gasoline tankers can get fuel into Florida quickly to ease shortages.An estimated 25,000 people or more left the Florida Keys after all visitors were ordered to clear out, causing bumper-to-bumper traffic on the single highway that links the chain of low-lying islands to the mainland.Meanwhile, Hurricane Katia hovered in the southern Gulf of Mexico, threatening to hit the vulnerable Mexican coast as a Category 2 or 3 hurricane, possibly late Friday or early Saturday. It had winds of 80 mph (130 kph) and was located about 210 miles (335 kilometres ) east of Tampico, Mexico.And a third hurricane, Jose, was growing far out in the Atlantic. It was no immediate threat to land, though the forecast track showed it could affect the Irma-blasted Leeward Islands over the weekend. Hurricane Jose had winds of about 90 mph (150 kph). It was centred about 815 miles (1,310 kilometres ) east of the Lesser Antilles and moving west-northwest at 18 mph (30 kph).___Anika Kentish reported from St. John's, Antigua. Associated Press writers Seth Borenstein in Washington, Michael Weissenstein in Havana, Samuel Petrequin in Paris and Ben Fox in Miami contributed to this report.___Danica Coto And Anika Kentish, The Associated Press.
Hurricane Irma leaves 11 dead as it tears through Caribbean-[Reuters]-By Scott Malone-yahoonews-September 7, 2017
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) - Hurricane Irma plowed past the Dominican Republic on Thursday after devastating a string of Caribbean islands and killing at least 11 people as one of the most powerful Atlantic storms in a century took aim at Florida.With winds of around 180 mph (290 kph), the storm lashed several small islands in the northeast Caribbean, including Barbuda, St. Martin and the British Virgin Islands, tearing down trees, flattening homes and causing widespread damage.The eye of the hurricane passed north of Puerto Rico early Thursday, battering the U.S. territory with high winds and heavy rains and leaving nearly 70 percent of the population without electricity, Governor Ricardo Rossello said.The eye of Irma was moving west-northwest off the northern coast of the Dominican Republic on Thursday morning, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.Irma's precise course remained uncertain but it was likely to be downgraded to a Category 4 storm by the time it makes landfall in Florida, according to the NHC.Irma has become a little less organized over the past few hours but the threat of a direct hurricane impact in Florida over the weekend and early next week was increasing, the NHC said.Authorities in the Dominican Republic ordered the evacuation of towns along the northern Atlantic coast, as the storm ground toward the port and tourist destination of Puerto Plata."There is a lot of wind and rain," Puerto Plata Assistant District Attorney Juan Carlos Castro Hernandez told Reuters by telephone. "We expect things to get worse."At least 8 people were killed in the tiny French-Dutch island of Saint Martin, with 23 others injured, and the toll was likely to rise as emergency services reached isolated communities, officials said.-"ENORMOUS DISASTER"-"It is an enormous disaster. Ninety-five percent of the island is destroyed. I am in shock," Daniel Gibbs, chairman of a local council on Saint Martin, told Radio Caribbean International.Television footage from the island showed a damaged marina with boats tossed into piles, submerged streets and flooded homes. French President Emmanuel Macron spoke with British Prime Minister Theresa May on Thursday to coordinate an emergency humanitarian response.Amid criticism from many residents that the British government could have done more to help its territories, Foreign Office Minister Alan Duncan said a Royal Navy ship would reach the affected islands on Thursday with tents, vehicles and other relief equipment."Anguilla received the hurricane's full blast. The initial assessment is that the damage has been severe and in places critical," he told parliament.One person was killed on the island and roads were blocked, with damage to the hospital and airport, power and phone service, Anguilla emergency service officials said.In Puerto Rico, Rossello was due to fly to the worst effected areas of the island on Thursday but said it was to early to estimate the cost of the damage. The streets of the capital San Juan were littered with downed tree limbs and signs, with many street lights out.Juan Pablo Aleman, a restaurant owner, said he had ridden out the storm in his 11th-floor apartment."The building moved, shook a few times. A lot of shingles came off and some windows broke," he told Reuters. "If it had gone a little more to the south, it would have been catastrophic."Irma was the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean and one of the five most forceful storms to hit the Atlantic basin in 82 years, according to the NHC.The hurricane was on track to reach Florida on Saturday or Sunday, and would become the second major hurricane to hit the U.S. mainland in as many weeks after Hurricane Harvey.Florida Governor Rick Scott said it was unclear whether Irma would hit the state's east or west coast but told residents to beware of the surge from the powerful winds."The storm surge can kill you," Scott said on the "CBS This Morning" program on Thursday. He urged people to heed local officials and be ready when the call came to leave their area, promising the government would provide transportation to those who need it.-"YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN"-Florida emergency management officials began evacuations in advance of Irma's arrival, ordering tourists to leave the Florida Keys.Roman Gastesi, the administrator of Monroe County, which encompasses the Florida Keys, told CNN that streets were empty in Key West and 90 percent of businesses were closed. County officials, including police and emergency workers, would be leaving, he said."If you're going to stay, you're on your own," Gastesi said.U.S. President Donald Trump was monitoring Irma's progress. The president owns the waterfront Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida.Trump approved emergency declarations for the state, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, mobilizing federal disaster relief efforts.The island of Barbuda, one of the first hit by the storm, was a scene of "total carnage," said Gaston Browne, prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda, adding that the tiny two-island nation will seek international assistance.Browne told the BBC that about half of Barbuda's population of some 1,800 were homeless while nine out of 10 buildings had suffered some damage and many were destroyed."We flew into Barbuda only to see total carnage. It was easily one of the most emotionally painful experiences that I have had," Browne said in an interview on BBC Radio Four, adding that it would take months or years to restore some level of normalcy to the island.Browne said one person was killed on Barbuda. A surfer was also reported killed on Barbados.Hurricane warnings were in effect for the Bahamas and the British overseas territory of the Turks and Caicos, the NHC said.In Cuba, 90 miles (145 km) south of the Florida Keys, a hurricane alert was issued for the central and eastern regions, as residents in Havana waited in lines to stock up on food, water and gasoline.Two other hurricanes formed on Wednesday.Katia in the Gulf of Mexico posed no threat to the United States, according to U.S. forecasters. Hurricane Jose was about 815 miles (1,310 km) east of the Caribbean's Lesser Antilles islands, and could eventually threaten the U.S. mainland.The storm activity comes after Harvey claimed about 60 lives and caused property damage estimated to be as much as $180 billion in Texas and Louisiana.(Reporting by Jorge Pinedo in Santo Domingo, Makini Brice in Port au Prince, Susan Heavey and Ian Simpson in Washington, Brendan O'Brien in Milwaukee, Estelle Shirbon in London, Matthias Blamont and Jean-Baptiste Vey in Paris, Toby Sterling in Amsterdam; Writing by Daniel Flynn; Editing by Matthew Mpoke Bigg and Jeffrey Benkoe)
Deadly devastation as Irma rips through Caribbean-Lionel Chamoiseau and Thomas Thurar-Agence France-Presse-yahoonews-September 7, 2017
Marigot (AFP) - Hurricane Irma on Thursday slashed its way through the Caribbean towards the United States, transforming tropical island paradises into scenes of death and ruin.Wielding monster winds and pounding rain, the rare Category 5 hurricane was on a potential collision course with southern Florida, where at-risk areas were being evacuated."It will be truly devastating," warned the head of the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Brock Long. "The entire southeastern United States better wake up and pay attention."Irma churned westward through the Caribbean, packing winds of up to 295 kilometers (183 miles) per hour. French weather experts said Irma had raged at peak intensity for more than 33 hours, making it the longest-lasting superstorm since satellite monitoring began in the 1970s.Devastation was left in the storm's wake. The international Red Cross said 1.2 million people had already been hit by Irma, a number that could rise to 26 million.- Tossed aside like matchsticks -On many islands, roofs were ripped off buildings as if by a giant's hand, shipping containers were tossed aside like matchsticks and debris flung far and wide, and airports, sea ports and mobile phone networks were knocked out.St Martin, a pristine island resort divided between France and the Netherlands, suffered the full fury of the storm.France, in a toll revised downwards, said four had died and 50 were injured, two of them seriously. Sixty percent of homes were so damaged that they were uninhabitable.Prime Minister Edouard Philippe described the disaster as "unimaginable and unprecedented.""The work will be long, emotions will run deep and the sadness will be great," he said.The Netherlands said it was racing to provide food and water for 40,000 people over the next five days, while France said more than 100,000 packages of combat rations were en route. A 200-member French team flew in to Guadeloupe to coordinate rescue efforts, headed by Overseas Territories Minister Annick Girardin.Britain said it was sending two warships to help victims in the Caribbean, and earmarking �12 million ($15.7 million, 13 million euros) in aid. The first vessel was expected to reach affected territories on Thursday.- 'Everything is destroyed' -Speaking to Dutch broadcaster RTL, Koen, a 20-year-old who lives in the town of Voorhout of St Martin, said he was shocked by what he saw."There is huge damage. Sand has been blown over everything. Everything is destroyed."Irma also laid waste to Barbuda, part of the twin island nation of Antigua and Barbuda, which suffered "absolute devastation" with up to 30 percent of properties demolished, Prime Minister Gaston Browne said."Barbuda now is literally rubble," he said."These storms are more ferocious, they are coming in greater frequency -- evidence that climate change is real," Browne added in an interview with CNN.One person is known to have died on the small island of 1,600 inhabitants, apparently a child whose family was trying to get to safer ground.On the island of Barbados, a 16-year-old professional surfer named Zander Venezia died while trying to ride a monster wave generated by the storm, the World Surf League said.More than half of Puerto Rico's population of three million was without power, with rivers breaking their banks in the centre and north of the island where Governor Ricardo Rossello activated the National Guard and opened storm shelters sufficient for up to 62,000 people.- Fearful course -Irma was expected to hit the northern edges of the Dominican Republic and Haiti later Thursday, continuing past eastern Cuba before veering north towards Florida.US President Donald Trump has already declared a state of emergency for Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands and Florida.With forecasters warning of catastrophe, including sea-level surges of up to 25 feet (almost eight meters) above normal tide levels, people evacuated tourist areas and packed into shelters across an area stretching as far north as Florida.The Sunshine State is expecting to face the brunt of the storm from Friday night. Tourists in the popular Key West islands were packing their bags on a mandatory evacuation order, with a similar order for residents due to follow.Irma was hitting the Caribbean even as two other tropical storms, Jose in the Atlantic Ocean and Katia in the Gulf of Mexico, were upgraded to hurricane status.But the French weather service said Jose, now a Category 2 storm, was likely to bypass land, though it could still dump huge amounts of rain that would complicate rescue and recovery operations.As for Katia, still a Category 1 storm, it is expected to hit the coast of the Mexican state of Veracruz before Friday.burs/ri/txw.
Canadian tourists trapped in Hurricane Irma's path scramble to get out or hunker down-[CBC]-yahoonews-Sep 6, 2017, 4:39 PM
Canadian tourists in the path of Hurricane Irma, the worst Atlantic Ocean hurricane in recorded history, are desperately trying to secure last-minute flights or face the prospect of weathering the historic storm as it moves through the Caribbean.Around 2 a.m. ET today, the eye of Hurricane Irma passed over the twin-island nation of Antigua and Barbuda, bringing heavy winds and rain, sending debris flying and knocking out power.The Category 5 hurricane is expected to carve a path along the northern Caribbean, hitting the nations of Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Cuba before possibly reaching Florida over the weekend.Global Affairs Canada has updated travel advisories, recommending against travel to destinations in the hurricane's path.But for tourists currently in the Caribbean, nerves are fraying.Mark Crowther, an RCMP staff sergeant based in Iqaluit, is in the middle of a two-week vacation with his wife in the resort of Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic."Up until yesterday, things were fairly normal, but today is a different story," he said. "You can see the atmosphere is changing. The resort is taping windows with duct tape."-Flights home tough find-Canadian airlines have been sending planes to the Dominican Republic as well as Turks and Caicos to bring people back to Canada ahead of the storm — but passengers have struggled to get seats.Taylor Spence, a bridesmaid for a destination wedding in Punta Cana, said her party was finally able to secure an Air Canada flight by 1 p.m. ET today."We had been reaching out to [Air Canada] since yesterday and all morning," she said. "By noon we had lost hope. We couldn't believe when they told us we were finally being evacuated."She said the wedding party of 33 people — including a number of small children — would be flying back to Toronto Wednesday afternoon.Amanda Mooney, of Ottawa, was also lucky. Her brother and his fiancée — stuck in Turks and Caicos — were able to get a last-minute flight.Mooney said she spent hours calling every single airline leaving the island from Canada, while her brother and his fiancée went desk to desk at the airport trying to secure a route back."We hadn't slept all night. We have been calling from yesterday afternoon," she said. "It's been really frustrating and scary."Air Canada spokesperson Angela Mah said the airline is sending 24 extra flights over three days to Florida and the Caribbean. That includes some larger-than-normal aircraft for those routes, such as the 450-seat Boeing 777 that touched down today in Punta Cana, an airport normally served by 282-seat Boeing 767s."We sent seven extra aircraft to [the Dominican Republic] alone today, and we have other flights to other affected areas both today and tomorrow. We are evaluating and adding extra flights and capacity so it is a rolling total for the number of flights," Mah wrote in an email. The airline has said it is "monitoring the situation closely" and assisting customers by "proactively contacting them on location to inform them on increased capacity and additional flights."Meanwhile, Sunwing is sending 12 unscheduled flights to areas in Irma's path. A press release from the airline says local representatives are in "regular contact" with travellers to help them change their flight plans.Others — like Crowther — have not had the same luck.Yesterday, WestJet spokesperson Robert Palmer said "the number of aircraft matches the number of guests we have in those destinations at the moment."But Crowther said he spent hours on the phone desperate to get on a WestJet flight home with little success."Here's a WestJet customer that can't get on a plane," he said.Today, WestJet told CBC News the situation had evolved, saying it did have a number of planes operating as rescue flights and had added extra flights to Santa Clara and Cayo Coco in Cuba, but it advised guests to follow the instructions of local authorities and hotels implementing hurricane preparedness plans.-Hunkering down-Bracing for the storm is what many have decided to do.A group of Albertans studying in Puerto Rico are staying put in their dorm after being unable to secure any departing flights back home. They've stocked up on water and non-perishable foods and are monitoring whatever news they can find.Crowther is also riding out the storm."It's coming right at you, and it makes you feel a little uneasy," Crowther said. "But we're not ones to panic here. We're going to hunker down, and it looks like we're going to have to ride this one out."And in this calm before the storm, he said some are trying to make the best of a grim situation."The weather right now is beautiful …. There's still people out there tanning."Haiti, still reeling from
Matthew, could be devastated by Irma, says aid worker-The Canadian Press]-yahoonews-September 6, 2017
OTTAWA — Hurricane Irma could deal a crippling blow to Haiti while it's still recovering from hurricane Matthew, which struck less than a year ago, says a Canadian aid worker in the impoverished country.Preparations were underway Wednesday in the beleaguered Caribbean nation to deal with the potential aftermath of the latest storm.Haiti is less able to handle the effects of a Category 5 storm than other countries in the region, said Laura Sewell of Ottawa, assistant country director in Haiti for CARE."The level of poverty in Haiti is not even comparable to some of the other countries," said Sewell."Haiti has less developed tourist industries and agricultural export industries, so it means there's sort of a chronic level of vulnerability."Aid agencies are preparing for the worst from Irma, which has already caused major flooding and destroyed buildings on several Caribbean islands.The U.S. National Hurricane Centre said sustained wind speeds reached 295 kilometres per hour.Haiti's government issued a warning to residents along the north coast late Wednesday to seek shelter.The World Food Programme said it had moved a convoy of contingency food supplies to the north of Haiti, where Irma was forecast to pass over or nearby on Thursday night and Friday morning.CARE said it dispatched teams of aid workers to at least seven of Haiti's 10 departments, or provinces, with stockpiles of emergency supplies including water purification tablets and tarps that can be used for shelter.Oxfam Canada said it was also mobilizing its people in northern Haiti, as well as the Dominican Republic and Cuba, to quickly assess humanitarian needs once Irma has passed through the area.Air Transat said it sent 10 planes to the Dominican Republic, which neighbours Haiti on the island of Hispaniola, to pick up passengers ahead of Irma.Air Canada said Wednesday night that it was operating 24 additional flights to bring customers home from the Dominican Republic, Florida, Cuba and other locations in Irma's path.Haiti is lacking in government-controlled infrastructure, including transportation services, making it difficult to evacuate people.Other countries, including Cuba, have built evacuation centres where people can huddle in cement buildings during natural disasters."Here, we don't have those kind of things," Sewell said in an interview from Port-au-Prince."People are evacuated into little tiny schools with tin roofs and whatever building that is available that seems safe."Haiti is one of the poorest nations in the Americas, making it more vulnerable than its wealthier Caribbean neighbours to natural disasters.Much of the country's southern regions were damaged or destroyed by hurricane Matthew when it struck the island last October, killing more than 500 people."There's been a lot of effort for the past year trying to respond to that emergency," said Sewell."And now on top of that to have another (hurricane), it's going to put a strain on the resources here."An earthquake in 2010 killed more than 200,000 people and caused extensive damage to Haiti's infrastructure and economy.Terry Pedwell, The Canadian Press.
Magnitude-8 earthquake hits southern Mexico, felt in capital-[Associated Press]-YAHOONEWS-September 8, 2017
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- A massive 8-magnitude earthquake hit off the coast of southern Mexico late Thursday night, causing buildings to sway violently and people to flee into the street in panic as far away as the capital city.The U.S. Geological Survey said the earthquake had a magnitude of 8.0 and its epicenter was 165 kilometers (102 miles) west of Tapachula in southern Chiapas state not far from Guatemala. It had a depth of 35 kilometers.The U.S. Tsunami Warning System said the earthquake was a potential tsunami threat to several Central American countries, including the Pacific coastlines of Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, El Salvador and Costa Rica. It said the threat was still being evaluated for Hawaii, Guam and other Pacific islands.Even in distant Mexico City the quake was felt so strongly that frightened residents gathered in the streets in the dark, often in their pajamas, fearing that buildings would collapse.
Strongest quake 'since 1985' strikes off Mexican coast-[Reuters]-YAHOONEWS-September 8, 2017
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - An earthquake of magnitude 8 struck off the southern coast of Mexico late on Thursday, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said, shaking buildings across the center and south of the country and sending people running into the streets in the capital.There were no immediate reports of major damage.Mexico's civil protection agency said it was the strongest earthquake to hit the country since a devastating 1985 tremor that toppled buildings and killed thousands.People in Mexico City ran out into the streets in pyjamas and alarms sounded after the quake struck just before midnight, a Reuters witness said. Power went out in some neighborhoods."I had never been anywhere where the earth moved so much. At first I laughed, but when the lights went out I didn't know what to do. I nearly fell over," said Luis Carlos Briceno, an architect, 31, who was visiting Mexico City.The epicenter was 123 km (76 miles) southwest of the town of Pijijiapan, at a depth of 33 km (21 miles). Widespread, hazardous tsunami waves were possible, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre said.(Repoorting by Mexico City Bureau, writing by Frank Jack Daniel; Editing by Clarence Fernandez and Nick Macfie)
DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS-10 WORLD REGIONS/TRADE BLOCS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS-10 WORLD DIVISION WORLD GOVERNMENT) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(EITHER THE EUROPEAN UNION DICTATOR BOOTS 3 COUNTRIES FROM THE EU OR THE DICTATOR TAKES OVER THE WORLD ECONOMY BY CONTROLLING 3 WORLD TRADE BLOCS)
REVELATION 17:9-13
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.(THE VATICAN IS BUILT ON 7 HILLS OR MOUNTAINS)
10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen,(1-ASSYRIA,2-EGYPT,3-BABYLON,4-MEDO-PERSIA,5-GREECE) and one is,(IN POWER IN JOHNS AND JESUS DAY-6-ROME) and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.(7TH-REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE OR THE EUROPEAN UNION TODAY AND THE SHORT SPACE IS-7 YEARS.THE EUROPEAN UNION WILL HAVE WORLD CONTROL FOR THE LAST 3 1/2 YEARS.BUT WILL HAVE ITS MIGHTY WORLD POWER FOR THE FULL 7 YEARS OF THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION PERIOD.AND THE WORLD DICTATOR WILL BE THE BEAST FROM THE EU.AND THE VATICAN POPE WILL BE THE WHORE THAT RIDES THE EUROPEAN UNION TO POWER.AND THE 2 EUROPEAN UNION POWER FREAKS WILL CONTROL AND DECIEVE THE WHOLE EARTH INTO THEIR DESTRUCTION.IF YOU ARE NOT SAVED BY THE BLOOD OF JESUS.YOU WILL BE DECIEVED BY THESE TWO.THE WORLD POLITICIAN-THE EUROPEAN UNION DICTATOR.AND THE FALSE PROPHET THAT DEFECTS CHRISTIANITY-THE FALSE VATICAN POPE.
11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
13 These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week:(7 YEARS) and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he ( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant (PEACE TREATY) with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE ANIMAL SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
Spanish PM vows to block Catalan independence vote By Eric Maurice-sep 7,17-euobserver
BRUSSELS, Today, 17:47-The Spanish government vowed on Thursday (7 September) to block Catalonia's independence referendum, called for 1 October, and threatened to launch legal proceedings against the region's leaders."There will be no self-determination referendum in Catalonia," Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy said after an emergency cabinet meeting in Madrid.He said he will ask the Constitutional Tribunal to revoke the law to organise the vote, which was adopted on Wednesday by the Catalan parliament.In the past, the court has said that any referendum organised without the central government's consent would be illegal.It said it would meet on Thursday evening to examine the government's demand.Rajoy said that the law was an "intolerable act of disobedience"."What is not legal, is not democratic," Rajoy said. "Democracy will respond with firmness, with composure, with serenity and with dignity."He called on Catalan leaders "not to go towards the cliff, accept the failure of their political project and abandon this process."The government sent a letter to mayors, asking them to prevent the vote from taking place.In a letter sent on Wednesday, the president and vice president of Catalonia's government, Carles Puigdemont and Oriol Junqueras, had asked mayors to allow the vote in their communes and warned that alternative voting stations would be established if they refuse to comply.Also on Thursday, Spanish state prosecutor Jose Manuel Maza announced that a case will be opened against any member of the Generalitat, the Catalan government, who participates in organising the referendum.He said that Catalan prosecutors will investigate actions that could be considered as crimes of disobedience, embezzlement and misuse of public money.He added that Catalan authorities' move towards the referendum was in violation of constitutional rulings and Catalonia's statute of autonomy.Members of the Catalan parliament who voted for the referendum law on Wednesday, as well as Puigdemont, who signed a decree calling the vote, could be prosecuted.-List of voters-The government and prosecutor's move come after the Spanish police searched a Catalan printing company that was suspected of printing documents for the referendum.According to media, the police found a document in Spanish and Catalan that could be a list of voters. The Catalan government denied on Thursday that it had ordered the documents.Meanwhile, in Barcelona, the parliament was debating a bill to organise the transition towards an independent state if the separatists win the vote on 1 October.As was the case on Wednesday, during the debate on the referendum law, Thursday's session was heated between separatist parties pushing for a vote and opposition parties trying to stop them.In the late afternoon, the session was suspended to allow discussions between political group leaders.
UK position on Ireland 'worries' EU Brexit negotiator By Eszter Zalan-sep 7,17-euobserver
BRUSSELS, Today, 15:28-The UK position on Ireland and Northern Ireland after Brexit "worries" the EU's chief Brexit negotiator, while the bloc on Thursday (7 September) issued its own position paper on the issue."What I see in the UK paper on Ireland and Northern Ireland worries me," Michel Barnier told reporters on Thursday."The UK wants the EU to suspend the application of its laws, the customs union and the single market. The UK wants to use Ireland as test case for the future EU-UK customs relations," he said."This will not happen," Barnier added.In its own position paper, the EU does not put forward it own suggestions on the Irish border, saying it is the responsibility of the UK."The onus to propose solutions, which overcome the challenges created on the island of Ireland by the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union and its decision to leave the customs union and the internal market, remains on the United Kingdom," the paper said.The EU stresses that the UK needs to find solutions that preserve the Good Friday peace agreement, avoid a hard border and do not jeopardise the functioning of the single market or the customs union.The UK already published its proposals last month on how to deal with the new border, but both Ireland and the EU negotiating team remain sceptical about the situation."The creativity and flexibility cannot be at the expense of the customs union and the single market," he said, referring to earlier comments from UK's top negotiator, David Davis, on the need for more EU flexibility.On Monday, Ireland's foreign minister said in Brussels that his government also aims preserve an invisible border, but also wants to avoid becoming a backdoor to the EU's single market.Barnier reiterated that the UK and the EU need to find a joint political position on the Good Friday agreement and the common travel area - which makes it possible for citizens on both sides of the border to travel without passport checks - before negotiations can move onto the next phase.Dublin, in the meantime, welcomed the EU's paper on Ireland. "The UK's aspirations need to be backed by substantive commitments and workable solutions," the Irish government's statement added.-Bill delays-Barnier once again warned the UK that it needs to respect previous financial commitments to the EU.He said that otherwise the UK risks losing trust."I've been very disappointed by the UK position as expressed last week, it seems to be backtracking on the initial commitments," the French politician said, reiterating London needs to respect financial commitments that go beyond the Brexit date."You can't have 27 pay for what was decided by 28, it is simple as that," he said."There is a problem of confidence here. […] It is not a matter of punishment, but to have confidence you have to balance the books in a legally sound fashion," Barnier said.Agreeing on a financial settlement proves to be the biggest hurdle for the talks to move onto the second phase of negotiations - on the future relationship between the UK and the EU.-Guest list-The EU has also published its position on procurement, data protection, customs issues, intellectual property, and geographical indicators.According to the EU's paper, procurement processes launched before Brexit in March 2019 should still to be governed by EU public procurement law.The UK should also not discriminate against EU companies, which are in the process of carrying out state-funded infrastructure projects that have began before the Brexit cut-off day.On data protection, the EU says union law should continue to apply to personal data processed in the UK before the withdrawal day.In regard to customs, goods in transit on Brexit day would still be subject to EU law.On geographical indicators, the EU wants the UK to continue to protect special labels - such as the Parma ham, or the Italian buffalo mozzarella or the French Soumaintrain cheese - to avoid British copies coming to the market.There are over a thousand products protected within the EU.
EZEKIEL 39:11-12,18
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog (RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS) a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers (EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN JORDAN VALLEY) on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog (RUSSIAN) and all his multitude:(ARAB/MUSLIM HORDE) and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.(BURIEL SITE OF THE 300 MILLION,RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS)
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.(OF ISRAEL)
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.(OF THE ISRAEL-GOD HATERS)
EZEKIEL 39:17-21
17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.(OF RUSSIAN/ISLAMIC HORDES AGAINST ISRAEL)
18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19 And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.
20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
21 And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.
22 So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day and forward.
REVELATION 19:17-18
17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;(AGAINST ALL NATIONS ARMIES THAT COME AGAINST JERUSALEM AND ISRAEL)
18 That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.
EZEKIEL 38:1-7
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:TOBOLSK)
4 And I (GOD) will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY) of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.(AFRICAN MUSLIMS,SUDAN,TUNESIA ETC)
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
EZEKIEL 39:1-8
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back,(RUSSIA-ARAB MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS) and leave but the sixth part of thee,(5/6TH OR 300 MILLION DEAD RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS I BELIEVE) and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
Israel strikes deep in Syria, said to hit military facility-[The Canadian Press]-YAHOONEWS-September 7, 2017
BEIRUT — Israeli warplanes struck a military position near the Mediterranean coast in western Syria Thursday, killing two soldiers, the Syrian army said, in a stronghold of President Bashar Assad that is also heavily protected by the Russians and Iranians.The airstrike targeted a facility near the town of Masyaf, in Hama province, described by some as a missile producing factory, amid Israeli outrage over Iran's growing influence in the war-torn country.Other reports suggested the facility was tied to Syria's chemical weapons program.In a statement, the Syrian army said the Israeli warplanes fired several missiles from Lebanese air space, and warned of the "dangerous repercussions of such hostile acts on the security and stability of the region.""We will do everything to prevent the existence of a Shiite corridor from Iran to Damascus," said Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who declined commenting directly on the strike in an interview with Israel's 100FM Radio Thursday. He said Israel isn't "looking for adventures, and we don't want to be dragged into this fight or another.""We are determined to prevent our enemies from harming or even creating the possibility of harming the security of Israeli citizens."Israel has carried out several airstrikes against suspected arms shipments it believed to be bound for Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group, which is fighting alongside President Bashar Assad's forces, over the course of Syria's civil war, now in its seventh year. Israel has also struck several Syrian military facilities since the conflict began, mostly near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Assad, not wanting to draw Israel into his country's war, has never retaliated.The airstrike comes amid heightened tensions over Iran's growing reach in Syria. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed recently that Iran is building sites in Syria and Lebanon for the manufacture of "precision-guided missiles" with the aim of deploying them against Israel.Thursday's air raid was seen as a message to both Russia and Iran that Israel can strike anywhere in Syria. It was also a rare instance of Israel striking a Syrian government facility rather than an arms shipment and harked back to an Israeli airstrike that destroyed a suspected, partially constructed nuclear reactor in the eastern city of Deir el-Zour exactly 10 years ago.This week, Israel is conducting a massive drill along its border with Lebanon simulating war with the Iranian-backed Hezbollah.It was not immediately clear if the facility struck Thursday was used for the production or storage of chemical arms. Syria denies having or using such weapons.Rami Abdurrahman, who heads the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said two facilities were hit in Thursday's airstrike, a scientific research centre and a nearby military base where short-range surface-to-surface missiles are stored."Many explosions were heard in the area after the air raid," said Abdurrahman, whose group relies on a network of activists across the country.He said Lebanese Hezbollah fighters and Iranian military officials often visit the site, adding that those killed and wounded were Syrians.A local opposition media activist said the facility that was struck is a factory that produces missiles under the supervision of Iranian experts. He said those killed and wounded were Syrian soldiers guarding the facility. The activist spoke on condition of anonymity out of security concerns.Days after the April 4 chemical attack on the town of Khan Sheikhoun, the U.S. Treasury sanctioned 271 employees of Syria's Scientific Studies and Research Center. Washington said the agency is responsible for developing and producing non-conventional weapons and the means to deliver them.The airstrike is the furthest north since Russia joined the war in September 2015 with a major air campaign to aid Assad's forces.In October 2016, Russia deployed a battery of S-300 air defence missile systems to protect a Russian navy facility in the Syrian port of Tartus and Russian navy ships in the area. Moscow also has long-range S-400 missile defence systems and an array of other surface-to-air missiles at the Hemeimeem air base in Syria's coastal province of Latakia, about 70 kilometres (43 miles) from Thursday's strike location.Israel and Russia maintain open communication lines and a "mechanism" to prevent their air forces from coming into conflict with one another. It was not clear whether Thursday's strike was co-ordinated with Moscow, and there was no immediate comment from the Russians.Yaakov Amidror, Israel's former national security adviser and a former general, said the strike targeted a weapons development and manufacturing site that was producing arms for Hezbollah.Former Israeli military intelligence chief Amos Yadlin wrote on Twitter that the facility produces precision missiles, chemical weapons and barrel bombs.Thursday's strike comes a day after a U.N. probe found the Syrian government responsible for a chemical attack in April in northern Syria that killed more than 80 people.Meanwhile on Thursday, a convoy of 40 trucks carrying 1,000 tons of humanitarian aid arrived in Deir el-Zour after troops secured a corridor to the eastern city. The land convoy is the first since Syrian government forces and allied militiamen breached a nearly three-year-old siege by the Islamic State group on government-held parts of the city on Tuesday.The Syrian official news agency SANA said the convoy reached a garrison known as Brigade 137 on the southwestern edge of the city, carrying thousands of food baskets, fruits and vegetables, medicine, and school books and stationary.The aid convoys arrived at the city by way of a military road that links the recently liberated military garrison to the town. They were greeted by jubilant civilians, who gathered around the trucks."No more hunger after today," proclaimed Mohamed Ibrahim Samra, the governor of Deir el-Zour before the cameras.___Associated Press writer Ilan Ben Zion in Jerusalem contributed to this report.Bassem Mroue And Zeina Karam, The Associated Press
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun,(HEATING UP-SOLAR ECLIPSES) and in the moon,(MAN ON MOON-LUNAR ECLIPSES) and in the stars;(ASTEROIDS ETC) and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)
THE FIRST JUDGEMENT OF THE EARTH STARTED WITH WATER-IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THE LAST GENERATION WILL BE HAVING FLOODING
GENESIS 7:6-12
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
GOD PROMISED BY A RAINBOW-THE EARTH WOULD NEVER BE DESTROYED TOTALLY WITH A FLOOD AGAIN.BUT FLOODIING IS A SIGN OF JUDGEMENT.
Hurricane Irma toll hits 10, increasing threat for Florida-[The Canadian Press]-YAHOONEWS-September 7, 2017
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Fearsome Hurricane Irma cut a path of devastation across the northern Caribbean, leaving at least 10 dead and thousands homeless after destroying buildings and uprooting trees on a track Thursday that could lead to a catastrophic strike on Florida.The most potent Atlantic Ocean hurricane ever, Irma weakened only slightly Thursday morning and remained a powerful Category 5 storm with winds of 180 mph (285 kph), according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center.The storm was increasingly likely to rip into heavily populated South Florida early Sunday, prompting the governor to declare an emergency and officials to impose mandatory evacuation orders for parts of the Miami metro area and the Florida Keys. Forecasters said it could punish the entire Atlantic coast of Florida and rage on into Georgia and South Carolina. The Keys and parts of South Florida were placed under a hurricane watch Thursday."This could easily be the most costly storm in U.S. history, which is saying a lot considering what just happened two weeks ago," said Brian McNoldy, a hurricane researcher at the University of Miami, alluding to the damage caused by Hurricane Harvey.French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb told France Info radio that eight had died and 23 injured in the country's Caribbean island territories, and he said the toll on Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthelemy could be higher because rescue teams have yet to finish their inspection of the islands."The reconnaissance will really start at daybreak," Collomb said.At a news conference, Collomb also said 100,000 food rations have been sent to the islands, the equivalent of four days of supplies."It's a tragedy, we'll need to rebuild both islands," he said. "Most of the schools have been destroyed."French President Emmanuel Macron's office said he will go to the islands has soon as weather conditions permit. Macron said France is "grief-stricken" by the devastation caused by Irma and called for concerted efforts to tackle global warming and climate change to prevent similar future natural disasters.In the United Kingdom, the government said Irma inflicted "severe and in places critical" damage to the British overseas territory of Anguilla. Foreign Office Minister Alan Duncan said the Caribbean island took the full force of the hurricane. He told lawmakers on Thursday that the British Virgin islands have also suffered "severe damage."Irma blacked out much of Puerto Rico, raking the U.S. territory with heavy wind and rain while staying just out to sea, and it headed early Thursday toward the Dominican Republic and Haiti.To the east, authorities struggled to get aid to small Caribbean islands devastated by the storm's record 185 mph (298 kph) winds. Communications were difficult with areas hit by Irma, and information on damage trickled out.Nearly every building on Barbuda was damaged when the hurricane's core crossed almost directly over the island early Wednesday and about 60 per cent of its roughly 1,400 residents were left homeless, Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne told The Associated Press."It is just really a horrendous situation," Browne said after returning to Antigua from a plane trip to the neighbouring island.He said roads and telecommunications systems were wrecked and recovery would take months, if not years. A 2-year-old child was killed as a family tried to escape a damaged home during the storm, Browne told the AP.One death also was reported in the nearby island of Anguilla, where officials reported extensive damage to the airport, hospitals, shelters and school and said 90 per cent of roads are impassible, according to the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency.The agency also reported "major damage" to houses and commercial buildings in the British Virgin Islands.On St. Thomas in the nearby U.S. Virgin Islands, Laura Strickling spent 12 hours hunkered down with her husband and 1-year-old daughter in a boarded-up basement apartment with no power as the storm raged outside. They emerged to find the lush island in tatters. Many of their neighbours ' homes were damaged and once-dense vegetation was largely gone."There are no leaves. It is crazy. One of the things we loved about St. Thomas is that it was so green. And it's gone," Strickling said. "It will take years for this community to get back on its feet."Significant damage was also reported on St. Martin, an island split between French and Dutch control. Photos and video circulating on social media showed major damage to the airport in Philipsburg and the coastal village of Marigot heavily flooded. France sent emergency food and water there and to the French island of St. Bart's, where Irma ripped off roofs and knocked out electricity.Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said Thursday the storm "caused widescale destruction of infrastructure, houses and businesses.""There is no power, no gasoline, no running water. Houses are under water, cars are floating through the streets, inhabitants are sitting in the dark, in ruined houses and are cut off from the outside world," he said.By Thursday morning, the centre of the storm was about 110 miles (180 kilometres ) north of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, and was moving west-northwest near 17 mph (28 kph).More than half the island of Puerto Rico was without power, leaving 900,000 in the dark and nearly 50,000 without water, the U.S. territory's emergency management agency said in the midst of the storm. Fourteen hospitals were using generators after losing power, and trees and light poles were strewn across roads.Puerto Rico's public power company warned before the storm hit that some areas could be left without power from four to six months because its staff has been reduced and its infrastructure weakened by the island's decade-long economic slump.President Donald Trump approved an emergency declaration for the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, allowing the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other agencies to remove debris and give other services that will largely be paid for by the U.S. government.The U.S. National Hurricane Center predicted Irma would remain at Category 4 or 5 for the next day or two as passes just to the north of the Dominican Republic and Haiti on Thursday, nears the Turks & Caicos and parts of the Bahamas by Thursday night and skirts Cuba on Friday night into Saturday.It will then likely head north toward Florida, where people were rushing to board up homes, fill cars with gasoline and find a route to safety.Gov. Rick Scott, who has mobilized parts of the state's National Guard, declared a state of emergency and asked the governors of Alabama and Georgia to waive trucking regulations so gasoline tankers can get fuel into Florida quickly to ease shortages.An estimated 25,000 people or more left the Florida Keys after all visitors were ordered to clear out, causing bumper-to-bumper traffic on the single highway that links the chain of low-lying islands to the mainland.Meanwhile, Hurricane Katia hovered in the southern Gulf of Mexico, threatening to hit the vulnerable Mexican coast as a Category 2 or 3 hurricane, possibly late Friday or early Saturday. It had winds of 80 mph (130 kph) and was located about 210 miles (335 kilometres ) east of Tampico, Mexico.And a third hurricane, Jose, was growing far out in the Atlantic. It was no immediate threat to land, though the forecast track showed it could affect the Irma-blasted Leeward Islands over the weekend. Hurricane Jose had winds of about 90 mph (150 kph). It was centred about 815 miles (1,310 kilometres ) east of the Lesser Antilles and moving west-northwest at 18 mph (30 kph).___Anika Kentish reported from St. John's, Antigua. Associated Press writers Seth Borenstein in Washington, Michael Weissenstein in Havana, Samuel Petrequin in Paris and Ben Fox in Miami contributed to this report.___Danica Coto And Anika Kentish, The Associated Press.
Hurricane Irma leaves 11 dead as it tears through Caribbean-[Reuters]-By Scott Malone-yahoonews-September 7, 2017
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) - Hurricane Irma plowed past the Dominican Republic on Thursday after devastating a string of Caribbean islands and killing at least 11 people as one of the most powerful Atlantic storms in a century took aim at Florida.With winds of around 180 mph (290 kph), the storm lashed several small islands in the northeast Caribbean, including Barbuda, St. Martin and the British Virgin Islands, tearing down trees, flattening homes and causing widespread damage.The eye of the hurricane passed north of Puerto Rico early Thursday, battering the U.S. territory with high winds and heavy rains and leaving nearly 70 percent of the population without electricity, Governor Ricardo Rossello said.The eye of Irma was moving west-northwest off the northern coast of the Dominican Republic on Thursday morning, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.Irma's precise course remained uncertain but it was likely to be downgraded to a Category 4 storm by the time it makes landfall in Florida, according to the NHC.Irma has become a little less organized over the past few hours but the threat of a direct hurricane impact in Florida over the weekend and early next week was increasing, the NHC said.Authorities in the Dominican Republic ordered the evacuation of towns along the northern Atlantic coast, as the storm ground toward the port and tourist destination of Puerto Plata."There is a lot of wind and rain," Puerto Plata Assistant District Attorney Juan Carlos Castro Hernandez told Reuters by telephone. "We expect things to get worse."At least 8 people were killed in the tiny French-Dutch island of Saint Martin, with 23 others injured, and the toll was likely to rise as emergency services reached isolated communities, officials said.-"ENORMOUS DISASTER"-"It is an enormous disaster. Ninety-five percent of the island is destroyed. I am in shock," Daniel Gibbs, chairman of a local council on Saint Martin, told Radio Caribbean International.Television footage from the island showed a damaged marina with boats tossed into piles, submerged streets and flooded homes. French President Emmanuel Macron spoke with British Prime Minister Theresa May on Thursday to coordinate an emergency humanitarian response.Amid criticism from many residents that the British government could have done more to help its territories, Foreign Office Minister Alan Duncan said a Royal Navy ship would reach the affected islands on Thursday with tents, vehicles and other relief equipment."Anguilla received the hurricane's full blast. The initial assessment is that the damage has been severe and in places critical," he told parliament.One person was killed on the island and roads were blocked, with damage to the hospital and airport, power and phone service, Anguilla emergency service officials said.In Puerto Rico, Rossello was due to fly to the worst effected areas of the island on Thursday but said it was to early to estimate the cost of the damage. The streets of the capital San Juan were littered with downed tree limbs and signs, with many street lights out.Juan Pablo Aleman, a restaurant owner, said he had ridden out the storm in his 11th-floor apartment."The building moved, shook a few times. A lot of shingles came off and some windows broke," he told Reuters. "If it had gone a little more to the south, it would have been catastrophic."Irma was the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean and one of the five most forceful storms to hit the Atlantic basin in 82 years, according to the NHC.The hurricane was on track to reach Florida on Saturday or Sunday, and would become the second major hurricane to hit the U.S. mainland in as many weeks after Hurricane Harvey.Florida Governor Rick Scott said it was unclear whether Irma would hit the state's east or west coast but told residents to beware of the surge from the powerful winds."The storm surge can kill you," Scott said on the "CBS This Morning" program on Thursday. He urged people to heed local officials and be ready when the call came to leave their area, promising the government would provide transportation to those who need it.-"YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN"-Florida emergency management officials began evacuations in advance of Irma's arrival, ordering tourists to leave the Florida Keys.Roman Gastesi, the administrator of Monroe County, which encompasses the Florida Keys, told CNN that streets were empty in Key West and 90 percent of businesses were closed. County officials, including police and emergency workers, would be leaving, he said."If you're going to stay, you're on your own," Gastesi said.U.S. President Donald Trump was monitoring Irma's progress. The president owns the waterfront Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida.Trump approved emergency declarations for the state, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, mobilizing federal disaster relief efforts.The island of Barbuda, one of the first hit by the storm, was a scene of "total carnage," said Gaston Browne, prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda, adding that the tiny two-island nation will seek international assistance.Browne told the BBC that about half of Barbuda's population of some 1,800 were homeless while nine out of 10 buildings had suffered some damage and many were destroyed."We flew into Barbuda only to see total carnage. It was easily one of the most emotionally painful experiences that I have had," Browne said in an interview on BBC Radio Four, adding that it would take months or years to restore some level of normalcy to the island.Browne said one person was killed on Barbuda. A surfer was also reported killed on Barbados.Hurricane warnings were in effect for the Bahamas and the British overseas territory of the Turks and Caicos, the NHC said.In Cuba, 90 miles (145 km) south of the Florida Keys, a hurricane alert was issued for the central and eastern regions, as residents in Havana waited in lines to stock up on food, water and gasoline.Two other hurricanes formed on Wednesday.Katia in the Gulf of Mexico posed no threat to the United States, according to U.S. forecasters. Hurricane Jose was about 815 miles (1,310 km) east of the Caribbean's Lesser Antilles islands, and could eventually threaten the U.S. mainland.The storm activity comes after Harvey claimed about 60 lives and caused property damage estimated to be as much as $180 billion in Texas and Louisiana.(Reporting by Jorge Pinedo in Santo Domingo, Makini Brice in Port au Prince, Susan Heavey and Ian Simpson in Washington, Brendan O'Brien in Milwaukee, Estelle Shirbon in London, Matthias Blamont and Jean-Baptiste Vey in Paris, Toby Sterling in Amsterdam; Writing by Daniel Flynn; Editing by Matthew Mpoke Bigg and Jeffrey Benkoe)
Deadly devastation as Irma rips through Caribbean-Lionel Chamoiseau and Thomas Thurar-Agence France-Presse-yahoonews-September 7, 2017
Marigot (AFP) - Hurricane Irma on Thursday slashed its way through the Caribbean towards the United States, transforming tropical island paradises into scenes of death and ruin.Wielding monster winds and pounding rain, the rare Category 5 hurricane was on a potential collision course with southern Florida, where at-risk areas were being evacuated."It will be truly devastating," warned the head of the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Brock Long. "The entire southeastern United States better wake up and pay attention."Irma churned westward through the Caribbean, packing winds of up to 295 kilometers (183 miles) per hour. French weather experts said Irma had raged at peak intensity for more than 33 hours, making it the longest-lasting superstorm since satellite monitoring began in the 1970s.Devastation was left in the storm's wake. The international Red Cross said 1.2 million people had already been hit by Irma, a number that could rise to 26 million.- Tossed aside like matchsticks -On many islands, roofs were ripped off buildings as if by a giant's hand, shipping containers were tossed aside like matchsticks and debris flung far and wide, and airports, sea ports and mobile phone networks were knocked out.St Martin, a pristine island resort divided between France and the Netherlands, suffered the full fury of the storm.France, in a toll revised downwards, said four had died and 50 were injured, two of them seriously. Sixty percent of homes were so damaged that they were uninhabitable.Prime Minister Edouard Philippe described the disaster as "unimaginable and unprecedented.""The work will be long, emotions will run deep and the sadness will be great," he said.The Netherlands said it was racing to provide food and water for 40,000 people over the next five days, while France said more than 100,000 packages of combat rations were en route. A 200-member French team flew in to Guadeloupe to coordinate rescue efforts, headed by Overseas Territories Minister Annick Girardin.Britain said it was sending two warships to help victims in the Caribbean, and earmarking �12 million ($15.7 million, 13 million euros) in aid. The first vessel was expected to reach affected territories on Thursday.- 'Everything is destroyed' -Speaking to Dutch broadcaster RTL, Koen, a 20-year-old who lives in the town of Voorhout of St Martin, said he was shocked by what he saw."There is huge damage. Sand has been blown over everything. Everything is destroyed."Irma also laid waste to Barbuda, part of the twin island nation of Antigua and Barbuda, which suffered "absolute devastation" with up to 30 percent of properties demolished, Prime Minister Gaston Browne said."Barbuda now is literally rubble," he said."These storms are more ferocious, they are coming in greater frequency -- evidence that climate change is real," Browne added in an interview with CNN.One person is known to have died on the small island of 1,600 inhabitants, apparently a child whose family was trying to get to safer ground.On the island of Barbados, a 16-year-old professional surfer named Zander Venezia died while trying to ride a monster wave generated by the storm, the World Surf League said.More than half of Puerto Rico's population of three million was without power, with rivers breaking their banks in the centre and north of the island where Governor Ricardo Rossello activated the National Guard and opened storm shelters sufficient for up to 62,000 people.- Fearful course -Irma was expected to hit the northern edges of the Dominican Republic and Haiti later Thursday, continuing past eastern Cuba before veering north towards Florida.US President Donald Trump has already declared a state of emergency for Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands and Florida.With forecasters warning of catastrophe, including sea-level surges of up to 25 feet (almost eight meters) above normal tide levels, people evacuated tourist areas and packed into shelters across an area stretching as far north as Florida.The Sunshine State is expecting to face the brunt of the storm from Friday night. Tourists in the popular Key West islands were packing their bags on a mandatory evacuation order, with a similar order for residents due to follow.Irma was hitting the Caribbean even as two other tropical storms, Jose in the Atlantic Ocean and Katia in the Gulf of Mexico, were upgraded to hurricane status.But the French weather service said Jose, now a Category 2 storm, was likely to bypass land, though it could still dump huge amounts of rain that would complicate rescue and recovery operations.As for Katia, still a Category 1 storm, it is expected to hit the coast of the Mexican state of Veracruz before Friday.burs/ri/txw.
Canadian tourists trapped in Hurricane Irma's path scramble to get out or hunker down-[CBC]-yahoonews-Sep 6, 2017, 4:39 PM
Canadian tourists in the path of Hurricane Irma, the worst Atlantic Ocean hurricane in recorded history, are desperately trying to secure last-minute flights or face the prospect of weathering the historic storm as it moves through the Caribbean.Around 2 a.m. ET today, the eye of Hurricane Irma passed over the twin-island nation of Antigua and Barbuda, bringing heavy winds and rain, sending debris flying and knocking out power.The Category 5 hurricane is expected to carve a path along the northern Caribbean, hitting the nations of Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Cuba before possibly reaching Florida over the weekend.Global Affairs Canada has updated travel advisories, recommending against travel to destinations in the hurricane's path.But for tourists currently in the Caribbean, nerves are fraying.Mark Crowther, an RCMP staff sergeant based in Iqaluit, is in the middle of a two-week vacation with his wife in the resort of Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic."Up until yesterday, things were fairly normal, but today is a different story," he said. "You can see the atmosphere is changing. The resort is taping windows with duct tape."-Flights home tough find-Canadian airlines have been sending planes to the Dominican Republic as well as Turks and Caicos to bring people back to Canada ahead of the storm — but passengers have struggled to get seats.Taylor Spence, a bridesmaid for a destination wedding in Punta Cana, said her party was finally able to secure an Air Canada flight by 1 p.m. ET today."We had been reaching out to [Air Canada] since yesterday and all morning," she said. "By noon we had lost hope. We couldn't believe when they told us we were finally being evacuated."She said the wedding party of 33 people — including a number of small children — would be flying back to Toronto Wednesday afternoon.Amanda Mooney, of Ottawa, was also lucky. Her brother and his fiancée — stuck in Turks and Caicos — were able to get a last-minute flight.Mooney said she spent hours calling every single airline leaving the island from Canada, while her brother and his fiancée went desk to desk at the airport trying to secure a route back."We hadn't slept all night. We have been calling from yesterday afternoon," she said. "It's been really frustrating and scary."Air Canada spokesperson Angela Mah said the airline is sending 24 extra flights over three days to Florida and the Caribbean. That includes some larger-than-normal aircraft for those routes, such as the 450-seat Boeing 777 that touched down today in Punta Cana, an airport normally served by 282-seat Boeing 767s."We sent seven extra aircraft to [the Dominican Republic] alone today, and we have other flights to other affected areas both today and tomorrow. We are evaluating and adding extra flights and capacity so it is a rolling total for the number of flights," Mah wrote in an email. The airline has said it is "monitoring the situation closely" and assisting customers by "proactively contacting them on location to inform them on increased capacity and additional flights."Meanwhile, Sunwing is sending 12 unscheduled flights to areas in Irma's path. A press release from the airline says local representatives are in "regular contact" with travellers to help them change their flight plans.Others — like Crowther — have not had the same luck.Yesterday, WestJet spokesperson Robert Palmer said "the number of aircraft matches the number of guests we have in those destinations at the moment."But Crowther said he spent hours on the phone desperate to get on a WestJet flight home with little success."Here's a WestJet customer that can't get on a plane," he said.Today, WestJet told CBC News the situation had evolved, saying it did have a number of planes operating as rescue flights and had added extra flights to Santa Clara and Cayo Coco in Cuba, but it advised guests to follow the instructions of local authorities and hotels implementing hurricane preparedness plans.-Hunkering down-Bracing for the storm is what many have decided to do.A group of Albertans studying in Puerto Rico are staying put in their dorm after being unable to secure any departing flights back home. They've stocked up on water and non-perishable foods and are monitoring whatever news they can find.Crowther is also riding out the storm."It's coming right at you, and it makes you feel a little uneasy," Crowther said. "But we're not ones to panic here. We're going to hunker down, and it looks like we're going to have to ride this one out."And in this calm before the storm, he said some are trying to make the best of a grim situation."The weather right now is beautiful …. There's still people out there tanning."Haiti, still reeling from
Matthew, could be devastated by Irma, says aid worker-The Canadian Press]-yahoonews-September 6, 2017
OTTAWA — Hurricane Irma could deal a crippling blow to Haiti while it's still recovering from hurricane Matthew, which struck less than a year ago, says a Canadian aid worker in the impoverished country.Preparations were underway Wednesday in the beleaguered Caribbean nation to deal with the potential aftermath of the latest storm.Haiti is less able to handle the effects of a Category 5 storm than other countries in the region, said Laura Sewell of Ottawa, assistant country director in Haiti for CARE."The level of poverty in Haiti is not even comparable to some of the other countries," said Sewell."Haiti has less developed tourist industries and agricultural export industries, so it means there's sort of a chronic level of vulnerability."Aid agencies are preparing for the worst from Irma, which has already caused major flooding and destroyed buildings on several Caribbean islands.The U.S. National Hurricane Centre said sustained wind speeds reached 295 kilometres per hour.Haiti's government issued a warning to residents along the north coast late Wednesday to seek shelter.The World Food Programme said it had moved a convoy of contingency food supplies to the north of Haiti, where Irma was forecast to pass over or nearby on Thursday night and Friday morning.CARE said it dispatched teams of aid workers to at least seven of Haiti's 10 departments, or provinces, with stockpiles of emergency supplies including water purification tablets and tarps that can be used for shelter.Oxfam Canada said it was also mobilizing its people in northern Haiti, as well as the Dominican Republic and Cuba, to quickly assess humanitarian needs once Irma has passed through the area.Air Transat said it sent 10 planes to the Dominican Republic, which neighbours Haiti on the island of Hispaniola, to pick up passengers ahead of Irma.Air Canada said Wednesday night that it was operating 24 additional flights to bring customers home from the Dominican Republic, Florida, Cuba and other locations in Irma's path.Haiti is lacking in government-controlled infrastructure, including transportation services, making it difficult to evacuate people.Other countries, including Cuba, have built evacuation centres where people can huddle in cement buildings during natural disasters."Here, we don't have those kind of things," Sewell said in an interview from Port-au-Prince."People are evacuated into little tiny schools with tin roofs and whatever building that is available that seems safe."Haiti is one of the poorest nations in the Americas, making it more vulnerable than its wealthier Caribbean neighbours to natural disasters.Much of the country's southern regions were damaged or destroyed by hurricane Matthew when it struck the island last October, killing more than 500 people."There's been a lot of effort for the past year trying to respond to that emergency," said Sewell."And now on top of that to have another (hurricane), it's going to put a strain on the resources here."An earthquake in 2010 killed more than 200,000 people and caused extensive damage to Haiti's infrastructure and economy.Terry Pedwell, The Canadian Press.
Magnitude-8 earthquake hits southern Mexico, felt in capital-[Associated Press]-YAHOONEWS-September 8, 2017
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- A massive 8-magnitude earthquake hit off the coast of southern Mexico late Thursday night, causing buildings to sway violently and people to flee into the street in panic as far away as the capital city.The U.S. Geological Survey said the earthquake had a magnitude of 8.0 and its epicenter was 165 kilometers (102 miles) west of Tapachula in southern Chiapas state not far from Guatemala. It had a depth of 35 kilometers.The U.S. Tsunami Warning System said the earthquake was a potential tsunami threat to several Central American countries, including the Pacific coastlines of Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, El Salvador and Costa Rica. It said the threat was still being evaluated for Hawaii, Guam and other Pacific islands.Even in distant Mexico City the quake was felt so strongly that frightened residents gathered in the streets in the dark, often in their pajamas, fearing that buildings would collapse.
Strongest quake 'since 1985' strikes off Mexican coast-[Reuters]-YAHOONEWS-September 8, 2017
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - An earthquake of magnitude 8 struck off the southern coast of Mexico late on Thursday, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said, shaking buildings across the center and south of the country and sending people running into the streets in the capital.There were no immediate reports of major damage.Mexico's civil protection agency said it was the strongest earthquake to hit the country since a devastating 1985 tremor that toppled buildings and killed thousands.People in Mexico City ran out into the streets in pyjamas and alarms sounded after the quake struck just before midnight, a Reuters witness said. Power went out in some neighborhoods."I had never been anywhere where the earth moved so much. At first I laughed, but when the lights went out I didn't know what to do. I nearly fell over," said Luis Carlos Briceno, an architect, 31, who was visiting Mexico City.The epicenter was 123 km (76 miles) southwest of the town of Pijijiapan, at a depth of 33 km (21 miles). Widespread, hazardous tsunami waves were possible, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre said.(Repoorting by Mexico City Bureau, writing by Frank Jack Daniel; Editing by Clarence Fernandez and Nick Macfie)
DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS-10 WORLD REGIONS/TRADE BLOCS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS-10 WORLD DIVISION WORLD GOVERNMENT) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(EITHER THE EUROPEAN UNION DICTATOR BOOTS 3 COUNTRIES FROM THE EU OR THE DICTATOR TAKES OVER THE WORLD ECONOMY BY CONTROLLING 3 WORLD TRADE BLOCS)
REVELATION 17:9-13
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.(THE VATICAN IS BUILT ON 7 HILLS OR MOUNTAINS)
10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen,(1-ASSYRIA,2-EGYPT,3-BABYLON,4-MEDO-PERSIA,5-GREECE) and one is,(IN POWER IN JOHNS AND JESUS DAY-6-ROME) and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.(7TH-REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE OR THE EUROPEAN UNION TODAY AND THE SHORT SPACE IS-7 YEARS.THE EUROPEAN UNION WILL HAVE WORLD CONTROL FOR THE LAST 3 1/2 YEARS.BUT WILL HAVE ITS MIGHTY WORLD POWER FOR THE FULL 7 YEARS OF THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION PERIOD.AND THE WORLD DICTATOR WILL BE THE BEAST FROM THE EU.AND THE VATICAN POPE WILL BE THE WHORE THAT RIDES THE EUROPEAN UNION TO POWER.AND THE 2 EUROPEAN UNION POWER FREAKS WILL CONTROL AND DECIEVE THE WHOLE EARTH INTO THEIR DESTRUCTION.IF YOU ARE NOT SAVED BY THE BLOOD OF JESUS.YOU WILL BE DECIEVED BY THESE TWO.THE WORLD POLITICIAN-THE EUROPEAN UNION DICTATOR.AND THE FALSE PROPHET THAT DEFECTS CHRISTIANITY-THE FALSE VATICAN POPE.
11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
13 These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week:(7 YEARS) and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he ( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant (PEACE TREATY) with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE ANIMAL SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
Spanish PM vows to block Catalan independence vote By Eric Maurice-sep 7,17-euobserver
BRUSSELS, Today, 17:47-The Spanish government vowed on Thursday (7 September) to block Catalonia's independence referendum, called for 1 October, and threatened to launch legal proceedings against the region's leaders."There will be no self-determination referendum in Catalonia," Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy said after an emergency cabinet meeting in Madrid.He said he will ask the Constitutional Tribunal to revoke the law to organise the vote, which was adopted on Wednesday by the Catalan parliament.In the past, the court has said that any referendum organised without the central government's consent would be illegal.It said it would meet on Thursday evening to examine the government's demand.Rajoy said that the law was an "intolerable act of disobedience"."What is not legal, is not democratic," Rajoy said. "Democracy will respond with firmness, with composure, with serenity and with dignity."He called on Catalan leaders "not to go towards the cliff, accept the failure of their political project and abandon this process."The government sent a letter to mayors, asking them to prevent the vote from taking place.In a letter sent on Wednesday, the president and vice president of Catalonia's government, Carles Puigdemont and Oriol Junqueras, had asked mayors to allow the vote in their communes and warned that alternative voting stations would be established if they refuse to comply.Also on Thursday, Spanish state prosecutor Jose Manuel Maza announced that a case will be opened against any member of the Generalitat, the Catalan government, who participates in organising the referendum.He said that Catalan prosecutors will investigate actions that could be considered as crimes of disobedience, embezzlement and misuse of public money.He added that Catalan authorities' move towards the referendum was in violation of constitutional rulings and Catalonia's statute of autonomy.Members of the Catalan parliament who voted for the referendum law on Wednesday, as well as Puigdemont, who signed a decree calling the vote, could be prosecuted.-List of voters-The government and prosecutor's move come after the Spanish police searched a Catalan printing company that was suspected of printing documents for the referendum.According to media, the police found a document in Spanish and Catalan that could be a list of voters. The Catalan government denied on Thursday that it had ordered the documents.Meanwhile, in Barcelona, the parliament was debating a bill to organise the transition towards an independent state if the separatists win the vote on 1 October.As was the case on Wednesday, during the debate on the referendum law, Thursday's session was heated between separatist parties pushing for a vote and opposition parties trying to stop them.In the late afternoon, the session was suspended to allow discussions between political group leaders.
UK position on Ireland 'worries' EU Brexit negotiator By Eszter Zalan-sep 7,17-euobserver
BRUSSELS, Today, 15:28-The UK position on Ireland and Northern Ireland after Brexit "worries" the EU's chief Brexit negotiator, while the bloc on Thursday (7 September) issued its own position paper on the issue."What I see in the UK paper on Ireland and Northern Ireland worries me," Michel Barnier told reporters on Thursday."The UK wants the EU to suspend the application of its laws, the customs union and the single market. The UK wants to use Ireland as test case for the future EU-UK customs relations," he said."This will not happen," Barnier added.In its own position paper, the EU does not put forward it own suggestions on the Irish border, saying it is the responsibility of the UK."The onus to propose solutions, which overcome the challenges created on the island of Ireland by the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union and its decision to leave the customs union and the internal market, remains on the United Kingdom," the paper said.The EU stresses that the UK needs to find solutions that preserve the Good Friday peace agreement, avoid a hard border and do not jeopardise the functioning of the single market or the customs union.The UK already published its proposals last month on how to deal with the new border, but both Ireland and the EU negotiating team remain sceptical about the situation."The creativity and flexibility cannot be at the expense of the customs union and the single market," he said, referring to earlier comments from UK's top negotiator, David Davis, on the need for more EU flexibility.On Monday, Ireland's foreign minister said in Brussels that his government also aims preserve an invisible border, but also wants to avoid becoming a backdoor to the EU's single market.Barnier reiterated that the UK and the EU need to find a joint political position on the Good Friday agreement and the common travel area - which makes it possible for citizens on both sides of the border to travel without passport checks - before negotiations can move onto the next phase.Dublin, in the meantime, welcomed the EU's paper on Ireland. "The UK's aspirations need to be backed by substantive commitments and workable solutions," the Irish government's statement added.-Bill delays-Barnier once again warned the UK that it needs to respect previous financial commitments to the EU.He said that otherwise the UK risks losing trust."I've been very disappointed by the UK position as expressed last week, it seems to be backtracking on the initial commitments," the French politician said, reiterating London needs to respect financial commitments that go beyond the Brexit date."You can't have 27 pay for what was decided by 28, it is simple as that," he said."There is a problem of confidence here. […] It is not a matter of punishment, but to have confidence you have to balance the books in a legally sound fashion," Barnier said.Agreeing on a financial settlement proves to be the biggest hurdle for the talks to move onto the second phase of negotiations - on the future relationship between the UK and the EU.-Guest list-The EU has also published its position on procurement, data protection, customs issues, intellectual property, and geographical indicators.According to the EU's paper, procurement processes launched before Brexit in March 2019 should still to be governed by EU public procurement law.The UK should also not discriminate against EU companies, which are in the process of carrying out state-funded infrastructure projects that have began before the Brexit cut-off day.On data protection, the EU says union law should continue to apply to personal data processed in the UK before the withdrawal day.In regard to customs, goods in transit on Brexit day would still be subject to EU law.On geographical indicators, the EU wants the UK to continue to protect special labels - such as the Parma ham, or the Italian buffalo mozzarella or the French Soumaintrain cheese - to avoid British copies coming to the market.There are over a thousand products protected within the EU.
