JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER.
1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
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.
Barnier: UK must come up with Ireland solution By Eszter Zalan-EUOBSERVER-NOV 21,17
BRUSSELS, Today, 13:14-EU Brexit chief negotiator Michel Barnier warned the UK on Monday (20 November) that it needs to come up with solutions on how to avoid a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland."Those who wanted Brexit, need to come up with solutions," Barnier said at a conference at the Centre for European Reform think tank in Brussels, arguing that the UK is a co-guarantor of the Good Friday peace agreement.The Irish border is one of the key issues that needs to be unblocked for the UK to be able to get a green light from EU leaders at their summit in December to move Brexit talks onto their next phase, which focus on trade and future relations.As the UK leaves the customs union, border checks look almost unavoidable, which could have detrimental effect on communities on both sides of the border.The Republic of Ireland has recently suggested that Northern Ireland should remain in the EU customs union, or that its regulations should stay in line with the bloc's rules, something London has so far rejected, saying it would lead to double rules inside the UK.Barnier said that Northern Ireland already has specific rules that are different to the UK in over 100 areas, including preventing animal diseases and all-island energy markets.Barnier's comments mean the EU is fully backing Dublin's position, which wants written guarantees that the UK would take the necessary steps to avoid a hard border.Level playing field-The French politician also warned the EU and the UK need to establish a level playing field in the future trade deal, saying it will be a precondition for a smooth ratification process by national parliaments in the remaining EU-27.Barnier said the idea of a 'level playing field' should include state aid, tax dumping, food safety, social and environmental standards.EU countries are concerned that the UK would want to reach a free trade agreement with the US which might undermine EU rules and regulations.Barnier also warned the UK that the single market's integrity is not negotiable, and that London cannot pick parts of the single market it would like to retain.He also pointed out that one of the legal consequences of Brexit will be that the UK financial service providers lose their 'financial passporting rights' on the continent.The EU negotiator added the bloc will be ready to offer the "most ambitious" free trade agreement.The UK has a few weeks to come up with a detailed proposal what it is willing to pay as part of the divorce agreement, and on Ireland to unlock negotiations in December."The future of Europe is more important than Brexit," Barnier summed up the sentiment on the EU-27 side.
Interview-EU asylum chief: The 'future' arrived in 2015 By Nikolaj Nielsen-EUOBSERVER-NOV 21,17
BRUSSELS, Today, 14:55-The European Asylum Support Office (Easo) in Malta is seeking to expand operations and staff as it gears up for the launch of its new mandate.Jose Carreira, the agency's executive director, told EUobserver in an interview on Friday (17 November) that he hopes to have some 500 staff on pay roll and another 500 in a pool of experts by 2020."So we are talking about a total deployment of at least 1,000 people, so that is quite new that will come with the new mandate," he said.Along with new staffing arrangements comes a budget to match. In 2015, its combined revenues and expenditures was under €16 million, which has increased to €69 million this year.Carreira, a Portuguese national who took the top Easo post in 2016, has a decentralised approach to management with a focus on delegation. It means the 500-strong workforce will not all be sent to Malta.Many will join Easo offices in Athens or in Rome where they will be in charge of regional activities. The Athens office, for instance, supervises Turkey issues.To reach the staff numbers, Easo is recruiting people from member state services, United Nations, and even other EU agencies."So it is quite amazing the success in our recruitment," he said.-Telling EU states what to do-The money and the staffing is part of a larger plan to get the agency much more involved in how EU states handle asylum claims.Easo was upgraded earlier this year following an inter-institutional agreement between the European Parliament and the Council, representing members.Although the fine print is still being sorted out, Easo was the only asylum file the EU managed to finalise so far this year.The agreement allows it to provide guidance to member states on how they should interpret asylum law.While not binding on national authorities, the guidance appears to be a step towards having the agency play an increasingly important role on the actual outcome of asylum applications.The agreement also allows Easo to monitor how EU states implement asylum standards, their capacities to handle claims, and identify areas where they might need help.Asked about his vision for the agency, Carreira said "the future had already arrived two years ago" in terms of updating its programmes like training and promotion of asylum services all over Europe."All the products that we have been developing now need to be updated with the new regulation and new decisions," he said.The training will become mandatory for national asylum services as well as for deployed experts.-Mandatory relocation-With offices in Cyprus, Greece and Italy, the agency seeks "to bring convergence" on application decisions.It will also operate the future mandatory relocation of asylum seekers. "We will be operating a key distribution mechanism in terms of solidarity in Europe," he said.Carreira described the key distribution mechanism as the evolution of the current relocation programme "with a mandatory aspect".The two-year relocation scheme broadly ended in September and was designed to move on asylum seekers from Greece and Italy to other EU states.The initial plan had called for some 160,000 to be relocated but was lowered amid political infighting among member states. The Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland flat out refused to participate. In the end, only 31,500 were relocated.The idea is to create a more permanent relocation plan within EU asylum reforms under a system known as the 'Dublin' regulation.The European Parliament is ready to negotiate but member states are far from ready given the political sensitivities over the issue. Donald Tusk, the EU's Council head, announced in October that obligatory migrant quotas had no future.-New Italy deal-Meanwhile, Carreira says Easo's impact on member states will continue to mount.He said a deal would be announced sometime this month with Italy that would "substantially increase" its operational role.While Easo will maintain its focus in Europe, it is also looking elsewhere.It recently signed an agreement with Turkey's director general for migration management.An initial phase of the agreement will run until next March in an effort to bring "the Turkish system in line with the European system as much as possible".It has also worked on asylum systems in Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia and remains active in the Western Balkans, notably Serbia and Montenegro.An initial version of this story incorrectly stated Easo had an office in Bulgaria - it has operations there, but no offices.
Detained Catalan government members say they accept Madrid's control-[Reuters]-YAHOONEWS-November 21, 2017
MADRID (Reuters) - Two former members of the Catalan government held in custody over their roles in Catalonia's banned independence drive have asked to be released from custody after accepting Madrid's control of the region, according to appeals published on Monday.Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy sacked the Catalan government and took control in October, hours after the Catalan parliament made a unilateral declaration of independence in a vote boycotted by the opposition and declared illegal by Spanish courts.Lawyers for Jordi Turull and Josep Rull have lodged requests with the High Court to be released, saying they had not shown any resistance to Rajoy instigating direct rule over Catalonia by activating Article 155 of the Spanish constitution.Six other ex-members of the Catalan government and the leaders of the two main pro-independence grassroots groups are also in jail awaiting trial at the High Court on charges of rebellion and sedition.Catalonia's independence movement has deeply divided Spain, dragging it into its worst political crisis since the return of democracy four decades ago and fuelling anti-Spanish sentiment in Catalonia and nationalist tendencies elsewhere.Rajoy has called a Dec. 21 election in Catalonia, which he hopes will lead to a unionist majority in the regional parliament. Separatist parties failed to agree to run on a united ticket, knocking their chances of retaining control.In their requests to the court, Turull and Rull's lawyers said there was no risk their clients would hide or alter or destroy evidence."My client has accepted the application of Article 155 of the constitution by the Spanish Government," they said.Earlier this month, Spain's Supreme Court released the Catalan parliament speaker Carme Forcadell on bail of 150,000 euros after she agreed to renounce any political activity that went against the Spanish constitution.Ousted Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont is in Belgium, and Spain has issued a European arrest warrant for him. He said a week ago he might consider a solution to the crisis that did not involve Catalonia's secession.(Reporting by Emma Pinedo and Jesús Aguado; Editing by Angus Berwick and Andrew Roche)
Iraqi court rules Kurdish independence vote unconstitutional-[Reuters]-By Ahmed Rasheed and Raya Jalabi-YAHOONEWS-November 21, 2017
BAGHDAD/ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraq's Supreme Federal Court ruled on Monday a Sept. 25 Kurdish independence referendum was unconstitutional and the results void, strengthening Baghdad's hand in a stand-off with the Kurdish region watched closely by neighboring Turkey and Iran.The Kurdistan Regional Government did not directly say whether it accepted the effective cancellation of the vote, but its new prime minister called for a third party to oversee talks between Iraq's central government and the Kurds.The KRG also called on the international community -- including the United Nations, European Union and non-governmental organizations -- to intervene and help lift what it called "restrictive" sanctions imposed by Baghdad in retaliation for the referendum.Kurds voted overwhelmingly to break away from Iraq in the referendum, defying the central government in Baghdad and alarming neighboring Turkey and Iran who have their own Kurdish minorities."The Federal Court issued the decision to consider the Kurdish region's referendum unconstitutional and this ruling is final," a court spokesman said. "The power of this ruling should now cancel all the results of the referendum."The court is responsible for settling disputes between Iraq’s central government and its regions, including Kurdistan. The verdict is not subject to appeal.A statement from Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said: "We call upon everybody to ... avoid taking any step which violates the constitution and law."FLIGHTS BANNED-The court had ruled on Nov. 6 that no region or province can secede. The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) said last week it would respect that verdict, signaling a new phase in efforts to restart negotiations over the region's future.The Iraqi government responded to the Kurdish independence referendum by seizing the Kurdish-held city of Kirkuk and other territory disputed between the Kurds and the central government. It also banned direct flights to Kurdistan and demanded control over border crossings.Long-serving Kurdish president Masoud Barzani stepped down over the affair and the regional government led by his nephew Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani has tried to negotiate an end to the confrontation.In a news conference following Monday's ruling, Nechirvan Barzani said the court's ruling was reached unilaterally, without input from KRG representatives, and called for a third party to oversee negotiations between Baghdad and the Kurds."The rights of Kurds are enshrined in the (Iraqi) constitution and we seek the implementation of this constitution to resolve our issues with Baghdad," Barzani told reporters, according to Kurdish Rudaw TV."The constitution is one package and must be applied in its entirety, not selectively."However, Barzani did not directly say whether Kurdish officials accepted the effective cancellation of the referendum. The KRG had previously offered only to freeze the results.The KRG later said its chief concern was the lifting of an embargo on international flights to the region, which it said hampered foreign investment as well as humanitarian efforts for the more than 1.5 million internally displaced people currently in the region."We call on the international community to intercede in urging Baghdad authorities to lift the embargo, without condition, on international flights.""The restrictive policies adopted by Baghdad against Erbil are in violation of Iraq's obligations and responsibilities under international and humanitarian law," the KRG said in a statement.(Reporting by Ahmed Rasheed in Baghdad and Raya Jalabi in Erbil; Writing by Ahmed Aboulenein; Editing by Janet Lawrence and William Maclean)
WORLD POWERS IN THE LAST DAYS (END OF AGE OF GRACE NOT THE WORLD)
EUROPEAN UNION-KING OF WEST-DAN 9:26-27,DAN 7:23-24,DAN 11:40,REV 13:1-10
EGYPT-KING OF THE SOUTH-DAN 11:40
RUSSIA-KING OF THE NORTH-EZEK 38:1-2,EZEK 39:1-3
CHINA-KING OF THE EAST-DAN 11:44,REV 9:16,18
VATICAN-RELIGIOUS LEADER-REV 13:11-18,REV 17:4-5,9,18
WORLD TERRORISM
OH BY THE WAY WHEN THE MEDIA SAYS ALLU-AK-BAR MEANS GOD IS GREAT LIE. IN ISLAM ALLU-AK-BAR MEANS OUR GOD IS GREATER OR GREATEST. THIS IS HOW THE MEDIA SUCK HOLES UP TO ISLAMIC-QURANIC-MUSLIMS. BY WATERING DOWN THE REAL MEANING OF THE SEX FOR MURDER DEATH CULT ISLAM. TO MAKE IT SOUND LIKE A PEACEFUL RELIGION (CULT OF DEATH AND WORLD DOMINATION).
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her,(HAGAR) Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he (ISHMAEL-FATHER OF THE ARAB-MUSLIMS) will be a wild (DONKEY-JACKASS) man;(ISLAM IS A FAKE AND DANGEROUS SEX FOR MURDER CULT) his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against him;(PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM BEING BEHEADED) and he (ISHMAEL ARAB/MUSLIM) shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)
ISAIAH 14:12-14
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,(SATAN) son of the morning!(HEBREW-CRECENT MOON-ISLAM) how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I (SATAN HAS EYE TROUBLES) will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(AND 1/3RD OF THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN FELL WITH SATAN AND BECAME DEMONS)
JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.(ISLAM MURDERS IN THE NAME OF MOON GOD ALLAH OF ISLAM)
Trump declares North Korea state sponsor of terrorism, triggers sanctions-[Reuters]-By Jeff Mason-YAHOONEWS-November 21, 2017
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Monday declared North Korea a state sponsor of terrorism, a designation that allows the United States to impose additional sanctions and risks inflaming tensions over Pyongyang's nuclear weapons and missile programs.The Republican president, who has traded personal insults with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un but has not ruled out talks, said the Treasury Department will announce more sanctions against North Korea on Tuesday.The designation came a week after Trump returned from a 12-day, five-nation trip to Asia in which he made containing North Korea's nuclear ambitions a centrepiece of his discussions."In addition to threatening the world by nuclear devastation, North Korea has repeatedly supported acts of international terrorism, including assassinations on foreign soil," Trump told reporters at the White House."This designation will impose further sanctions and penalties on North Korea and related persons and supports our maximum pressure campaign to isolate the murderous regime.""It should have happened a long time ago," Trump said.North Korea is pursuing nuclear weapons and missile programmes in defiance of U.N. Security Council sanctions and has made no secret of its plans to develop a nuclear-tipped missile capable of hitting the U.S. mainland. It has fired two missiles over Japan.South Korea's spy agency said on Monday the North may conduct additional missile tests this year to polish up its long-range missile technology and ramp up the threat against the United States.Experts say the designation will be largely symbolic, as North Korea is already heavily sanctioned by the United States.Only three other countries - Iran, Sudan and Syria - have been designated state sponsors of terrorism by the United States.Some experts, as well as U.S. officials speaking privately, believe North Korea does not meet the criteria for the designation, which requires evidence that a state has "repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism."MOVE COULD BACKFIRE-A U.S. intelligence official who follows developments in North Korea expressed concern that the move could backfire, especially given that the basis for the designation is arguable.The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Kim could respond in a number of ways, including renewing missile or nuclear tests in "a very volatile environment."The move also could undercut Trump’s efforts to solicit greater Chinese cooperation in pressuring North Korea to halt its nuclear and ballistic missile tests, the official said.In any case, it will do little to open the way for U.S. dialogue with North Korea, which China and others have been pushing for.In February, plans for talks in the United States between former U.S. officials and North Korea were scrapped when the State Department denied a visa for a top envoy from Pyongyang after the murder of Kim's half brother, Kim Jong Nam, in Malaysia.The assassination also derailed "the first meaningful opportunity" for direct contacts between the two governments, a senior State Department official recently told Reuters.North Korea was put on the U.S. terrorism sponsor list for the 1987 bombing of a Korean Air flight that killed all 115 people aboard. But the administration of former President George W. Bush, a Republican, removed Pyongyang in 2008 in exchange for progress in denuclearisation talks.Some members of Congress had been pushing for years for North Korea to be put back on the list, but others questioned whether the reclusive regime met the criteria of actively sponsoring international terrorism.U.S. Representative Ed Royce, the Republican chairman of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, applauded the decision, saying that the assassination in Malaysia and the government’s other actions justified it.“This designation ... rightly exposes the Kim regime’s utter disregard for human life and is an important step in our efforts to apply maximum diplomatic and financial pressure on Kim Jong Un,” Royce said in a statement.(Reporting by Jeff Mason, David Brunnstrom, John Walcott, Patricia Zengerle, Arshad Mohammed and Matt Spetalnick; Writing by Doina Chiacu; Editing by Susan Thomas and James Dalgleish)
Apology to Canadians persecuted for being gay coming Nov. 28: Trudeau-[The Canadian Press]-YAHOONEWS-November 21, 2017
OTTAWA — Martine Roy was just 20-years-old and less than a year into her chosen career as a medical assistant with the Canadian Armed Forces at CFB Borden when military police suddenly showed up at her workplace to arrest her.They brought her to an interrogation room and demanded she admit she was a lesbian. They put her through psychological testing. Within a year she had been dishonourably discharged from the army.Thirty-three years later she cannot hold back the tears as she prepares to hear an apology from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the House of Commons."It's amazing," Roy told The Canadian Press on Sunday afternoon, from her home in Montreal. "Even though if you fight all your life for that it's always hard to believe it will happen."Trudeau confirmed on Twitter he will offer the apology to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and two-spirited people who were forced out of the military or public service and some who were even prosecuted criminally for "gross indecency.""On November 28, the Government will offer a formal apology to LGBTQ2 Canadians in the House - for the persecution & injustices they have suffered, and to advance together on the path to equality & inclusion," Trudeau wrote on Twitter.Starting in the 1950s and lasting until 1992, thousands of Canadians in the military, RCMP, and across the civil service were fired. Roy refers to it as "the purge" by which the government tried to weed out people that it felt were susceptible to foreign intimidation and blackmail because of their sexual orientation.The government developed a homosexuality test known as the "fruit machine," which measured arousal to pornographic images in order to provide proof of sexual orientation to back up the reason for firing, or denying someone a promotion.Roy said when the military police showed up at her door she didn't even know what her sexual orientation was and the firing "entirely changed my life."She said she tried for five years to fight back but eventually she decided she wasn't going to put any more energy into it."You really think you did a big big crime," she said of the ordeal. "Sexual orientation has nothing to do with your skills."She said in 1992 when Canada changed the law she expected an apology but that didn't happen until now."It means a lot," said Roy, fighting tears. "It means even more coming from (Trudeau) because I know it's going to come from his heart."Trudeau promised to issue the apology more than a year ago after Egale Canada, a group that advocates for the rights of sexual minorities, released a report on the matter and made a number of recommendations including that a formal apology be issued.The government has been consulting with Egale and others to determine the best way to approach the apology.A spokeswoman for Egale said on Sunday that having a date is "exciting.""We think it's long overdue," said Jennifer Boyce.Canada is also facing a class action suit from more than 2,000 people who say they were persecuted by the federal government for their sexual orientation. Negotiations to settle that suit are underway.— follow @mrabson on Twitter.Mia Rabson, The Canadian Press.
Lebanon's Hezbollah denies sending weapons to Yemen-[Reuters]-YAHOONEWS-November 21, 2017
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah said on Monday his Iran-backed group had not sent any weapons to Yemen and categorically denied that it was behind the firing of a ballistic missile that was launched at Riyadh from territory held by Yemeni Houthi rebels.In a televised address, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah also urged followers to listen to recent comments by Israeli officials which he said pointed to ties between Saudi Arabia and Israel.Nasrallah heaped criticism on Arab foreign ministers who accused his group of terrorism at an emergency Arab League meeting convened at the behest of Saudi Arabia on Sunday.He said the accusation was unfortunate but not new and asked why Arab states were silent about what he described as the destructive war being waged by a Saudi-led coalition in Yemen."I confirm to them, no ballistic missiles, no advanced weapons, and no guns...we did not send weapons to Yemen" or Bahrain, or Kuwait, or Iraq, he said, adding that it had however sent anti-tank missiles to "occupied Palestine".Regional tensions have risen in recent weeks between Sunni Muslim monarchy Saudi Arabia and Shi'ite Iran, whose rivalry has wrought upheaval in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Bahrain.Saudi Arabia has accused the heavily armed Shi'ite Hezbollah of helping the Houthis in Yemen and militants in Bahrain. Riyadh accused Hezbollah of playing a role in the Nov. 4 ballistic missile attack."No man from Lebanese Hezbollah had any part in the firing of this missile or any missiles fired previously," Nasrallah said.Arab League foreign ministers held an emergency meeting on Sunday to discuss ways to confront Iran and Hezbollah over their role in the region. Riyadh has been bogged down in the war it launched against Iran-allied Houthi rebels in Yemen in 2015.Nasrallah also said Hezbollah could withdraw its large number of commanders from Iraq after Islamic State was defeated there.(Reporting by Ellen Francis and Laila Bassam; Editing by Tom Perry and William Maclean)
Missing Argentine submarine had reported electrical malfunction-[Reuters]-By Walter Bianchi and Maximiliano Rizzi-YAHOONEWS-November 21, 2017
MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina/BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - An Argentine military submarine reported an electrical problem and was headed back to base when it went missing last week in the South Atlantic, the navy said on Monday, while storms complicated efforts to find the vessel and its 44 crew members.Hopes for a successful search for the ARA San Juan submarine, which went missing last Wednesday off the Argentine coast, waned when the navy said satellite calls detected over the weekend did not in fact come from the vessel.More than a dozen boats and aircraft from Argentina, the United States, Britain, Chile and Brazil joined the search effort. Authorities have mainly been scanning the sea from the sky, as storms have made it difficult for boats.Gabriel Galeazzi, a naval commander, told reporters that the submarine had come up from the depths and reported an electrical malfunction before it disappeared 268 miles (432 km) off the coast."The submarine surfaced and reported a malfunction, which is why its ground command ordered it to return to its naval base at Mar del Plata," he said.The malfunction did not necessarily cause an emergency, Galeazzi added. The craft was navigating normally, underwater, at a speed of five knots toward Mar del Plata when it was last heard from, he said."A warship has a lot of backup systems, to allow it to move from one to another when there is a breakdown," Galeazzi said.One of the crew is Argentina's first female submarine officer, Eliana Maria Krawczyk, 35, who joined the navy in 2004 and rose to become the master-at-arms aboard the ARA San Juan.Crew members' relatives gathered at the Mar del Plata naval base, waiting for news. They were joined by President Mauricio Macri.The government also sent five psychologists and a psychiatrist to the base in support of the relatives. "The families are holding up well. The word 'hope' is still being used," the psychiatrist Enrique Stein told reporters.Intermittent satellite communications had been detected on Saturday and the navy had said they were likely to have come from the submarine. But the ARA San Juan in fact sent its last signal on Wednesday, navy spokesman Enrique Balbi said.The calls that were detected "did not correspond to the satellite phone of the submarine San Juan," he said on Monday, adding that the craft had oxygen for seven days. After that, he said, it would have to surface or get near the surface to replenish air supply."There is no good news," Juan Carlos Mendoza, father of crew member Fernando Mendoza, told reporters. "Hopefully they have oxygen."The ARA San Juan was inaugurated in 1983, making it the newest of the three submarines in the navy's fleet. Built in Germany, it underwent maintenance in 2008 in Argentina.That maintenance included the replacement of its four diesel engines and its electric propeller engines, according to specialist publication Jane's Sentinel.(Writing by Hugh Bronstein; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn and Alistair Bell)
DRUG PUSHERS AND ADDICTS
1 PET 5:8
8 Be sober,(NOT DRUGED UP OR ALCOHOLICED) be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
REVELATION 18:23
23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries (DRUGS) were all nations deceived.
REVELATION 9:21
21 Neither repented they of their murders,(KILLING) nor of their sorceries (DRUG ADDICTS AND DRUG PUSHERS), nor of their fornication,(SEX OUTSIDE MARRIAGE OR PROSTITUTION FOR MONEY) nor of their thefts.(STEALING)
White House: True cost of opioid epidemic tops $500 billion-[The Canadian Press]-YAHOONEWS-November 21, 2017
WASHINGTON — The White House says the true cost of the opioid drug epidemic in 2015 was $504 billion, or roughly half a trillion dollars.In an analysis released Monday, the Council of Economic Advisers says the figure is more than six times larger than the most recent estimate. The council said a 2016 private study estimated that prescription opioid overdose, abuse and dependence in the U.S. in 2013 cost $78.5 billion. Most of that was attributed to health care and criminal justice spending, along with lost productivity.The council said its estimate is significantly larger because the epidemic has worsened, with overdose deaths doubling in the past decade, and that some previous studies didn't reflect the number of fatalities blamed on opioids, a powerful but addictive category of painkillers.The council also noted that previous studies had focused exclusively on prescription opioids, while its study also factors in illicit opioids, including heroin."Previous estimates of the economic cost of the opioid crisis greatly underestimate it by undervaluing the most important component of the loss — fatalities resulting from overdoses," said the report, which the White House released Sunday night.Last month at the White House, President Donald Trump declared opioid abuse a national public health emergency. Trump announced an advertising campaign to combat what he said is the worst drug crisis in the nation's history, but he did not direct any new federal funding toward the effort.Trump's declaration stopped short of the emergency declaration that had been sought by a federal commission the president created to study the problem. An interim report by the commission argued for an emergency declaration, saying it would free additional money and resources.But in its final report earlier this month, the panel called only for more drug courts, more training for doctors and penalties for insurers that dodge covering addiction treatment. It did not call for new money to address the epidemic.More than 64,000 Americans died from drug overdoses last year, most involving a prescription painkiller or an illicit opioid like heroin.___Follow Darlene Superville on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/dsupervilleap-Darlene Superville, The Associated Press.
Opioids haunt users' recovery: 'It never really leaves you.'-[The Canadian Press]-YAHOONEWS-November 21, 2017
NASHVILLE — Businessman Kyle Graves shot himself in the ankle so emergency room doctors would feed his opioid habit.Ex-trucker Jeff McCoy threatened to blow his brains out if his mother didn't hand over his fentanyl patches.Bianca Knight resorted to street pills when her opioids ran out, envisioning her law career dreams crumble.These are three Americans who started using powerful painkillers legitimately but, like millions of others, got caught in the country's worst drug epidemic.Now they're fighting the same recovery battle, on anti-addiction medicine similar to pills that nearly did them in. Their doctor, Dan Lonergan, a Vanderbilt University pain and addiction physician, sometimes recommends the same drugs to pain patients that brought his addiction patients to the brink.He's heard criticism about doctors "who get 'em hooked on drugs and then turn around and treat 'em for addiction." And he's seen the finger-pointing from those who think faith and willpower are the only answer."Doctors have contributed to this problem. In the past three decades we have gotten a lot of patients on medications that can be very dangerous," he said. "The pharmaceutical industry has contributed significantly to this problem. This is a problem that we all need to own."This is a snapshot from Nashville of America's addiction crisis. More than 2 million people are hooked on opioids. Overdoses kill, on average, 120 Americans every day. Even for survivors, success can be precarious.___At 53 and on disability, Kyle Graves still feels stabbing pains that a daily handful of pills used to ease.His troubles began more than a decade ago when he sought relief for excruciating arthritis. He was prescribed oxycodone, opioid pills that can help short-term pain but can become addictive when used long-term.When he lost his finance manager job, they helped with that pain, too. When his sixth child, a baby boy, died from spinal meningitis, Graves sunk deep into addiction.He'd use up a month's supply in days, followed by terrible withdrawals — vomiting, shaking uncontrollably, intense pain.After a doctor refused more refills, Graves grabbed a pistol from his nightstand, pulled the trigger, then called an ambulance.At the hospital, two shots of morphine for the ankle wound "did the trick."Graves thinks only his wife suspected the ruse; she left with the kids."It just devastated and ruined my life," he said.Graves went to rehab, treated with hard work and prayer. It worked for a time, but after relapsing Graves sought help three years ago from Lonergan, who prescribed recovery medicine containing buprenorphine, an opioid that reduces cravings and withdrawal symptoms.He hasn't relapsed for two years, but tries not to dwell on the future."Anything could happen," Graves said.___Jeff McCoy has been a drummer, a Harley rider and long-haul trucker. These days he prefers baking cookies and doting on his wife, Joanne. Recovery from opioid painkillers prompted the turnaround.It started nearly 17 years ago, after surgery for a back injury — maybe from too much time on the road, he's not really sure, but it forced him to quit trucking. His doctor prescribed Vicodin — painkillers that contain the opioid hydrocodone. Soon he was hooked."I just went full bore," McCoy says. "I was popping pills like crazy."When those stopped working, he was prescribed powerful fentanyl skin patches that deliver medicine gradually. McCoy found that chewing them worked faster.McCoy needed ever more to avoid withdrawals.His wife would lock the patches in a safe, but when he found the key, his mother stored them at her house nearby."Got to the point where I got on the phone with mom, 'You better bring me that patch right now else I'm splattering my brains all over this living room.'"When his wife threatened to leave, he checked in to a detox centre , in 2009, enduring two hellish weeks of withdrawal.Now he calls his wife his addiction and figures he'll be on anti-craving medicine for life."I finally wanted to stop," McCoy said. "If I can survive with no life, come on, it's worth it, but you gotta want to."___After law school graduation, Bianca Knight had a nagging question: "How do I know if I have a problem?"After injuring her back carrying law books, Knight had spent the past two years medicated, on hydrocodone pills from a different doctor.They eased the pain, but "also gave me a euphoric feeling and helped me get through my long day in law school," she said.Knight is nearly blind from a rare optic nerve condition. A state program paid for a reader to help with school work.A doctor warned vaguely about addiction risks but Knight thought she'd be immune. Soon she was taking far more than the prescribed amount."Toward the end, I resorted to buying off the street," Knight said. That's when she sought out Lonergan.He explained that the average person doesn't think about opioid pain pills 24/7.Knight started buprenorphine treatment. Church and support group meetings also help, she says. Her baby girl, born this past summer, is extra incentive for her to stay clean.Still, Knight said, "For anyone in recovery, it is a daily struggle and I'd be a fool not to think so."___Follow AP Medical Writer Lindsey Tanner on Twitter at @LindseyTanner.Lindsey Tanner, The Associated Press.
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.
Barnier: UK must come up with Ireland solution By Eszter Zalan-EUOBSERVER-NOV 21,17
BRUSSELS, Today, 13:14-EU Brexit chief negotiator Michel Barnier warned the UK on Monday (20 November) that it needs to come up with solutions on how to avoid a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland."Those who wanted Brexit, need to come up with solutions," Barnier said at a conference at the Centre for European Reform think tank in Brussels, arguing that the UK is a co-guarantor of the Good Friday peace agreement.The Irish border is one of the key issues that needs to be unblocked for the UK to be able to get a green light from EU leaders at their summit in December to move Brexit talks onto their next phase, which focus on trade and future relations.As the UK leaves the customs union, border checks look almost unavoidable, which could have detrimental effect on communities on both sides of the border.The Republic of Ireland has recently suggested that Northern Ireland should remain in the EU customs union, or that its regulations should stay in line with the bloc's rules, something London has so far rejected, saying it would lead to double rules inside the UK.Barnier said that Northern Ireland already has specific rules that are different to the UK in over 100 areas, including preventing animal diseases and all-island energy markets.Barnier's comments mean the EU is fully backing Dublin's position, which wants written guarantees that the UK would take the necessary steps to avoid a hard border.Level playing field-The French politician also warned the EU and the UK need to establish a level playing field in the future trade deal, saying it will be a precondition for a smooth ratification process by national parliaments in the remaining EU-27.Barnier said the idea of a 'level playing field' should include state aid, tax dumping, food safety, social and environmental standards.EU countries are concerned that the UK would want to reach a free trade agreement with the US which might undermine EU rules and regulations.Barnier also warned the UK that the single market's integrity is not negotiable, and that London cannot pick parts of the single market it would like to retain.He also pointed out that one of the legal consequences of Brexit will be that the UK financial service providers lose their 'financial passporting rights' on the continent.The EU negotiator added the bloc will be ready to offer the "most ambitious" free trade agreement.The UK has a few weeks to come up with a detailed proposal what it is willing to pay as part of the divorce agreement, and on Ireland to unlock negotiations in December."The future of Europe is more important than Brexit," Barnier summed up the sentiment on the EU-27 side.
Interview-EU asylum chief: The 'future' arrived in 2015 By Nikolaj Nielsen-EUOBSERVER-NOV 21,17
BRUSSELS, Today, 14:55-The European Asylum Support Office (Easo) in Malta is seeking to expand operations and staff as it gears up for the launch of its new mandate.Jose Carreira, the agency's executive director, told EUobserver in an interview on Friday (17 November) that he hopes to have some 500 staff on pay roll and another 500 in a pool of experts by 2020."So we are talking about a total deployment of at least 1,000 people, so that is quite new that will come with the new mandate," he said.Along with new staffing arrangements comes a budget to match. In 2015, its combined revenues and expenditures was under €16 million, which has increased to €69 million this year.Carreira, a Portuguese national who took the top Easo post in 2016, has a decentralised approach to management with a focus on delegation. It means the 500-strong workforce will not all be sent to Malta.Many will join Easo offices in Athens or in Rome where they will be in charge of regional activities. The Athens office, for instance, supervises Turkey issues.To reach the staff numbers, Easo is recruiting people from member state services, United Nations, and even other EU agencies."So it is quite amazing the success in our recruitment," he said.-Telling EU states what to do-The money and the staffing is part of a larger plan to get the agency much more involved in how EU states handle asylum claims.Easo was upgraded earlier this year following an inter-institutional agreement between the European Parliament and the Council, representing members.Although the fine print is still being sorted out, Easo was the only asylum file the EU managed to finalise so far this year.The agreement allows it to provide guidance to member states on how they should interpret asylum law.While not binding on national authorities, the guidance appears to be a step towards having the agency play an increasingly important role on the actual outcome of asylum applications.The agreement also allows Easo to monitor how EU states implement asylum standards, their capacities to handle claims, and identify areas where they might need help.Asked about his vision for the agency, Carreira said "the future had already arrived two years ago" in terms of updating its programmes like training and promotion of asylum services all over Europe."All the products that we have been developing now need to be updated with the new regulation and new decisions," he said.The training will become mandatory for national asylum services as well as for deployed experts.-Mandatory relocation-With offices in Cyprus, Greece and Italy, the agency seeks "to bring convergence" on application decisions.It will also operate the future mandatory relocation of asylum seekers. "We will be operating a key distribution mechanism in terms of solidarity in Europe," he said.Carreira described the key distribution mechanism as the evolution of the current relocation programme "with a mandatory aspect".The two-year relocation scheme broadly ended in September and was designed to move on asylum seekers from Greece and Italy to other EU states.The initial plan had called for some 160,000 to be relocated but was lowered amid political infighting among member states. The Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland flat out refused to participate. In the end, only 31,500 were relocated.The idea is to create a more permanent relocation plan within EU asylum reforms under a system known as the 'Dublin' regulation.The European Parliament is ready to negotiate but member states are far from ready given the political sensitivities over the issue. Donald Tusk, the EU's Council head, announced in October that obligatory migrant quotas had no future.-New Italy deal-Meanwhile, Carreira says Easo's impact on member states will continue to mount.He said a deal would be announced sometime this month with Italy that would "substantially increase" its operational role.While Easo will maintain its focus in Europe, it is also looking elsewhere.It recently signed an agreement with Turkey's director general for migration management.An initial phase of the agreement will run until next March in an effort to bring "the Turkish system in line with the European system as much as possible".It has also worked on asylum systems in Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia and remains active in the Western Balkans, notably Serbia and Montenegro.An initial version of this story incorrectly stated Easo had an office in Bulgaria - it has operations there, but no offices.
Detained Catalan government members say they accept Madrid's control-[Reuters]-YAHOONEWS-November 21, 2017
MADRID (Reuters) - Two former members of the Catalan government held in custody over their roles in Catalonia's banned independence drive have asked to be released from custody after accepting Madrid's control of the region, according to appeals published on Monday.Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy sacked the Catalan government and took control in October, hours after the Catalan parliament made a unilateral declaration of independence in a vote boycotted by the opposition and declared illegal by Spanish courts.Lawyers for Jordi Turull and Josep Rull have lodged requests with the High Court to be released, saying they had not shown any resistance to Rajoy instigating direct rule over Catalonia by activating Article 155 of the Spanish constitution.Six other ex-members of the Catalan government and the leaders of the two main pro-independence grassroots groups are also in jail awaiting trial at the High Court on charges of rebellion and sedition.Catalonia's independence movement has deeply divided Spain, dragging it into its worst political crisis since the return of democracy four decades ago and fuelling anti-Spanish sentiment in Catalonia and nationalist tendencies elsewhere.Rajoy has called a Dec. 21 election in Catalonia, which he hopes will lead to a unionist majority in the regional parliament. Separatist parties failed to agree to run on a united ticket, knocking their chances of retaining control.In their requests to the court, Turull and Rull's lawyers said there was no risk their clients would hide or alter or destroy evidence."My client has accepted the application of Article 155 of the constitution by the Spanish Government," they said.Earlier this month, Spain's Supreme Court released the Catalan parliament speaker Carme Forcadell on bail of 150,000 euros after she agreed to renounce any political activity that went against the Spanish constitution.Ousted Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont is in Belgium, and Spain has issued a European arrest warrant for him. He said a week ago he might consider a solution to the crisis that did not involve Catalonia's secession.(Reporting by Emma Pinedo and Jesús Aguado; Editing by Angus Berwick and Andrew Roche)
Iraqi court rules Kurdish independence vote unconstitutional-[Reuters]-By Ahmed Rasheed and Raya Jalabi-YAHOONEWS-November 21, 2017
BAGHDAD/ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraq's Supreme Federal Court ruled on Monday a Sept. 25 Kurdish independence referendum was unconstitutional and the results void, strengthening Baghdad's hand in a stand-off with the Kurdish region watched closely by neighboring Turkey and Iran.The Kurdistan Regional Government did not directly say whether it accepted the effective cancellation of the vote, but its new prime minister called for a third party to oversee talks between Iraq's central government and the Kurds.The KRG also called on the international community -- including the United Nations, European Union and non-governmental organizations -- to intervene and help lift what it called "restrictive" sanctions imposed by Baghdad in retaliation for the referendum.Kurds voted overwhelmingly to break away from Iraq in the referendum, defying the central government in Baghdad and alarming neighboring Turkey and Iran who have their own Kurdish minorities."The Federal Court issued the decision to consider the Kurdish region's referendum unconstitutional and this ruling is final," a court spokesman said. "The power of this ruling should now cancel all the results of the referendum."The court is responsible for settling disputes between Iraq’s central government and its regions, including Kurdistan. The verdict is not subject to appeal.A statement from Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said: "We call upon everybody to ... avoid taking any step which violates the constitution and law."FLIGHTS BANNED-The court had ruled on Nov. 6 that no region or province can secede. The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) said last week it would respect that verdict, signaling a new phase in efforts to restart negotiations over the region's future.The Iraqi government responded to the Kurdish independence referendum by seizing the Kurdish-held city of Kirkuk and other territory disputed between the Kurds and the central government. It also banned direct flights to Kurdistan and demanded control over border crossings.Long-serving Kurdish president Masoud Barzani stepped down over the affair and the regional government led by his nephew Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani has tried to negotiate an end to the confrontation.In a news conference following Monday's ruling, Nechirvan Barzani said the court's ruling was reached unilaterally, without input from KRG representatives, and called for a third party to oversee negotiations between Baghdad and the Kurds."The rights of Kurds are enshrined in the (Iraqi) constitution and we seek the implementation of this constitution to resolve our issues with Baghdad," Barzani told reporters, according to Kurdish Rudaw TV."The constitution is one package and must be applied in its entirety, not selectively."However, Barzani did not directly say whether Kurdish officials accepted the effective cancellation of the referendum. The KRG had previously offered only to freeze the results.The KRG later said its chief concern was the lifting of an embargo on international flights to the region, which it said hampered foreign investment as well as humanitarian efforts for the more than 1.5 million internally displaced people currently in the region."We call on the international community to intercede in urging Baghdad authorities to lift the embargo, without condition, on international flights.""The restrictive policies adopted by Baghdad against Erbil are in violation of Iraq's obligations and responsibilities under international and humanitarian law," the KRG said in a statement.(Reporting by Ahmed Rasheed in Baghdad and Raya Jalabi in Erbil; Writing by Ahmed Aboulenein; Editing by Janet Lawrence and William Maclean)
WORLD POWERS IN THE LAST DAYS (END OF AGE OF GRACE NOT THE WORLD)
EUROPEAN UNION-KING OF WEST-DAN 9:26-27,DAN 7:23-24,DAN 11:40,REV 13:1-10
EGYPT-KING OF THE SOUTH-DAN 11:40
RUSSIA-KING OF THE NORTH-EZEK 38:1-2,EZEK 39:1-3
CHINA-KING OF THE EAST-DAN 11:44,REV 9:16,18
VATICAN-RELIGIOUS LEADER-REV 13:11-18,REV 17:4-5,9,18
WORLD TERRORISM
OH BY THE WAY WHEN THE MEDIA SAYS ALLU-AK-BAR MEANS GOD IS GREAT LIE. IN ISLAM ALLU-AK-BAR MEANS OUR GOD IS GREATER OR GREATEST. THIS IS HOW THE MEDIA SUCK HOLES UP TO ISLAMIC-QURANIC-MUSLIMS. BY WATERING DOWN THE REAL MEANING OF THE SEX FOR MURDER DEATH CULT ISLAM. TO MAKE IT SOUND LIKE A PEACEFUL RELIGION (CULT OF DEATH AND WORLD DOMINATION).
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her,(HAGAR) Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he (ISHMAEL-FATHER OF THE ARAB-MUSLIMS) will be a wild (DONKEY-JACKASS) man;(ISLAM IS A FAKE AND DANGEROUS SEX FOR MURDER CULT) his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against him;(PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM BEING BEHEADED) and he (ISHMAEL ARAB/MUSLIM) shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)
ISAIAH 14:12-14
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,(SATAN) son of the morning!(HEBREW-CRECENT MOON-ISLAM) how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I (SATAN HAS EYE TROUBLES) will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(AND 1/3RD OF THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN FELL WITH SATAN AND BECAME DEMONS)
JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.(ISLAM MURDERS IN THE NAME OF MOON GOD ALLAH OF ISLAM)
Trump declares North Korea state sponsor of terrorism, triggers sanctions-[Reuters]-By Jeff Mason-YAHOONEWS-November 21, 2017
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Monday declared North Korea a state sponsor of terrorism, a designation that allows the United States to impose additional sanctions and risks inflaming tensions over Pyongyang's nuclear weapons and missile programs.The Republican president, who has traded personal insults with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un but has not ruled out talks, said the Treasury Department will announce more sanctions against North Korea on Tuesday.The designation came a week after Trump returned from a 12-day, five-nation trip to Asia in which he made containing North Korea's nuclear ambitions a centrepiece of his discussions."In addition to threatening the world by nuclear devastation, North Korea has repeatedly supported acts of international terrorism, including assassinations on foreign soil," Trump told reporters at the White House."This designation will impose further sanctions and penalties on North Korea and related persons and supports our maximum pressure campaign to isolate the murderous regime.""It should have happened a long time ago," Trump said.North Korea is pursuing nuclear weapons and missile programmes in defiance of U.N. Security Council sanctions and has made no secret of its plans to develop a nuclear-tipped missile capable of hitting the U.S. mainland. It has fired two missiles over Japan.South Korea's spy agency said on Monday the North may conduct additional missile tests this year to polish up its long-range missile technology and ramp up the threat against the United States.Experts say the designation will be largely symbolic, as North Korea is already heavily sanctioned by the United States.Only three other countries - Iran, Sudan and Syria - have been designated state sponsors of terrorism by the United States.Some experts, as well as U.S. officials speaking privately, believe North Korea does not meet the criteria for the designation, which requires evidence that a state has "repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism."MOVE COULD BACKFIRE-A U.S. intelligence official who follows developments in North Korea expressed concern that the move could backfire, especially given that the basis for the designation is arguable.The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Kim could respond in a number of ways, including renewing missile or nuclear tests in "a very volatile environment."The move also could undercut Trump’s efforts to solicit greater Chinese cooperation in pressuring North Korea to halt its nuclear and ballistic missile tests, the official said.In any case, it will do little to open the way for U.S. dialogue with North Korea, which China and others have been pushing for.In February, plans for talks in the United States between former U.S. officials and North Korea were scrapped when the State Department denied a visa for a top envoy from Pyongyang after the murder of Kim's half brother, Kim Jong Nam, in Malaysia.The assassination also derailed "the first meaningful opportunity" for direct contacts between the two governments, a senior State Department official recently told Reuters.North Korea was put on the U.S. terrorism sponsor list for the 1987 bombing of a Korean Air flight that killed all 115 people aboard. But the administration of former President George W. Bush, a Republican, removed Pyongyang in 2008 in exchange for progress in denuclearisation talks.Some members of Congress had been pushing for years for North Korea to be put back on the list, but others questioned whether the reclusive regime met the criteria of actively sponsoring international terrorism.U.S. Representative Ed Royce, the Republican chairman of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, applauded the decision, saying that the assassination in Malaysia and the government’s other actions justified it.“This designation ... rightly exposes the Kim regime’s utter disregard for human life and is an important step in our efforts to apply maximum diplomatic and financial pressure on Kim Jong Un,” Royce said in a statement.(Reporting by Jeff Mason, David Brunnstrom, John Walcott, Patricia Zengerle, Arshad Mohammed and Matt Spetalnick; Writing by Doina Chiacu; Editing by Susan Thomas and James Dalgleish)
Apology to Canadians persecuted for being gay coming Nov. 28: Trudeau-[The Canadian Press]-YAHOONEWS-November 21, 2017
OTTAWA — Martine Roy was just 20-years-old and less than a year into her chosen career as a medical assistant with the Canadian Armed Forces at CFB Borden when military police suddenly showed up at her workplace to arrest her.They brought her to an interrogation room and demanded she admit she was a lesbian. They put her through psychological testing. Within a year she had been dishonourably discharged from the army.Thirty-three years later she cannot hold back the tears as she prepares to hear an apology from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the House of Commons."It's amazing," Roy told The Canadian Press on Sunday afternoon, from her home in Montreal. "Even though if you fight all your life for that it's always hard to believe it will happen."Trudeau confirmed on Twitter he will offer the apology to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and two-spirited people who were forced out of the military or public service and some who were even prosecuted criminally for "gross indecency.""On November 28, the Government will offer a formal apology to LGBTQ2 Canadians in the House - for the persecution & injustices they have suffered, and to advance together on the path to equality & inclusion," Trudeau wrote on Twitter.Starting in the 1950s and lasting until 1992, thousands of Canadians in the military, RCMP, and across the civil service were fired. Roy refers to it as "the purge" by which the government tried to weed out people that it felt were susceptible to foreign intimidation and blackmail because of their sexual orientation.The government developed a homosexuality test known as the "fruit machine," which measured arousal to pornographic images in order to provide proof of sexual orientation to back up the reason for firing, or denying someone a promotion.Roy said when the military police showed up at her door she didn't even know what her sexual orientation was and the firing "entirely changed my life."She said she tried for five years to fight back but eventually she decided she wasn't going to put any more energy into it."You really think you did a big big crime," she said of the ordeal. "Sexual orientation has nothing to do with your skills."She said in 1992 when Canada changed the law she expected an apology but that didn't happen until now."It means a lot," said Roy, fighting tears. "It means even more coming from (Trudeau) because I know it's going to come from his heart."Trudeau promised to issue the apology more than a year ago after Egale Canada, a group that advocates for the rights of sexual minorities, released a report on the matter and made a number of recommendations including that a formal apology be issued.The government has been consulting with Egale and others to determine the best way to approach the apology.A spokeswoman for Egale said on Sunday that having a date is "exciting.""We think it's long overdue," said Jennifer Boyce.Canada is also facing a class action suit from more than 2,000 people who say they were persecuted by the federal government for their sexual orientation. Negotiations to settle that suit are underway.— follow @mrabson on Twitter.Mia Rabson, The Canadian Press.
Lebanon's Hezbollah denies sending weapons to Yemen-[Reuters]-YAHOONEWS-November 21, 2017
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah said on Monday his Iran-backed group had not sent any weapons to Yemen and categorically denied that it was behind the firing of a ballistic missile that was launched at Riyadh from territory held by Yemeni Houthi rebels.In a televised address, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah also urged followers to listen to recent comments by Israeli officials which he said pointed to ties between Saudi Arabia and Israel.Nasrallah heaped criticism on Arab foreign ministers who accused his group of terrorism at an emergency Arab League meeting convened at the behest of Saudi Arabia on Sunday.He said the accusation was unfortunate but not new and asked why Arab states were silent about what he described as the destructive war being waged by a Saudi-led coalition in Yemen."I confirm to them, no ballistic missiles, no advanced weapons, and no guns...we did not send weapons to Yemen" or Bahrain, or Kuwait, or Iraq, he said, adding that it had however sent anti-tank missiles to "occupied Palestine".Regional tensions have risen in recent weeks between Sunni Muslim monarchy Saudi Arabia and Shi'ite Iran, whose rivalry has wrought upheaval in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Bahrain.Saudi Arabia has accused the heavily armed Shi'ite Hezbollah of helping the Houthis in Yemen and militants in Bahrain. Riyadh accused Hezbollah of playing a role in the Nov. 4 ballistic missile attack."No man from Lebanese Hezbollah had any part in the firing of this missile or any missiles fired previously," Nasrallah said.Arab League foreign ministers held an emergency meeting on Sunday to discuss ways to confront Iran and Hezbollah over their role in the region. Riyadh has been bogged down in the war it launched against Iran-allied Houthi rebels in Yemen in 2015.Nasrallah also said Hezbollah could withdraw its large number of commanders from Iraq after Islamic State was defeated there.(Reporting by Ellen Francis and Laila Bassam; Editing by Tom Perry and William Maclean)
Missing Argentine submarine had reported electrical malfunction-[Reuters]-By Walter Bianchi and Maximiliano Rizzi-YAHOONEWS-November 21, 2017
MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina/BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - An Argentine military submarine reported an electrical problem and was headed back to base when it went missing last week in the South Atlantic, the navy said on Monday, while storms complicated efforts to find the vessel and its 44 crew members.Hopes for a successful search for the ARA San Juan submarine, which went missing last Wednesday off the Argentine coast, waned when the navy said satellite calls detected over the weekend did not in fact come from the vessel.More than a dozen boats and aircraft from Argentina, the United States, Britain, Chile and Brazil joined the search effort. Authorities have mainly been scanning the sea from the sky, as storms have made it difficult for boats.Gabriel Galeazzi, a naval commander, told reporters that the submarine had come up from the depths and reported an electrical malfunction before it disappeared 268 miles (432 km) off the coast."The submarine surfaced and reported a malfunction, which is why its ground command ordered it to return to its naval base at Mar del Plata," he said.The malfunction did not necessarily cause an emergency, Galeazzi added. The craft was navigating normally, underwater, at a speed of five knots toward Mar del Plata when it was last heard from, he said."A warship has a lot of backup systems, to allow it to move from one to another when there is a breakdown," Galeazzi said.One of the crew is Argentina's first female submarine officer, Eliana Maria Krawczyk, 35, who joined the navy in 2004 and rose to become the master-at-arms aboard the ARA San Juan.Crew members' relatives gathered at the Mar del Plata naval base, waiting for news. They were joined by President Mauricio Macri.The government also sent five psychologists and a psychiatrist to the base in support of the relatives. "The families are holding up well. The word 'hope' is still being used," the psychiatrist Enrique Stein told reporters.Intermittent satellite communications had been detected on Saturday and the navy had said they were likely to have come from the submarine. But the ARA San Juan in fact sent its last signal on Wednesday, navy spokesman Enrique Balbi said.The calls that were detected "did not correspond to the satellite phone of the submarine San Juan," he said on Monday, adding that the craft had oxygen for seven days. After that, he said, it would have to surface or get near the surface to replenish air supply."There is no good news," Juan Carlos Mendoza, father of crew member Fernando Mendoza, told reporters. "Hopefully they have oxygen."The ARA San Juan was inaugurated in 1983, making it the newest of the three submarines in the navy's fleet. Built in Germany, it underwent maintenance in 2008 in Argentina.That maintenance included the replacement of its four diesel engines and its electric propeller engines, according to specialist publication Jane's Sentinel.(Writing by Hugh Bronstein; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn and Alistair Bell)
DRUG PUSHERS AND ADDICTS
1 PET 5:8
8 Be sober,(NOT DRUGED UP OR ALCOHOLICED) be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
REVELATION 18:23
23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries (DRUGS) were all nations deceived.
REVELATION 9:21
21 Neither repented they of their murders,(KILLING) nor of their sorceries (DRUG ADDICTS AND DRUG PUSHERS), nor of their fornication,(SEX OUTSIDE MARRIAGE OR PROSTITUTION FOR MONEY) nor of their thefts.(STEALING)
White House: True cost of opioid epidemic tops $500 billion-[The Canadian Press]-YAHOONEWS-November 21, 2017
WASHINGTON — The White House says the true cost of the opioid drug epidemic in 2015 was $504 billion, or roughly half a trillion dollars.In an analysis released Monday, the Council of Economic Advisers says the figure is more than six times larger than the most recent estimate. The council said a 2016 private study estimated that prescription opioid overdose, abuse and dependence in the U.S. in 2013 cost $78.5 billion. Most of that was attributed to health care and criminal justice spending, along with lost productivity.The council said its estimate is significantly larger because the epidemic has worsened, with overdose deaths doubling in the past decade, and that some previous studies didn't reflect the number of fatalities blamed on opioids, a powerful but addictive category of painkillers.The council also noted that previous studies had focused exclusively on prescription opioids, while its study also factors in illicit opioids, including heroin."Previous estimates of the economic cost of the opioid crisis greatly underestimate it by undervaluing the most important component of the loss — fatalities resulting from overdoses," said the report, which the White House released Sunday night.Last month at the White House, President Donald Trump declared opioid abuse a national public health emergency. Trump announced an advertising campaign to combat what he said is the worst drug crisis in the nation's history, but he did not direct any new federal funding toward the effort.Trump's declaration stopped short of the emergency declaration that had been sought by a federal commission the president created to study the problem. An interim report by the commission argued for an emergency declaration, saying it would free additional money and resources.But in its final report earlier this month, the panel called only for more drug courts, more training for doctors and penalties for insurers that dodge covering addiction treatment. It did not call for new money to address the epidemic.More than 64,000 Americans died from drug overdoses last year, most involving a prescription painkiller or an illicit opioid like heroin.___Follow Darlene Superville on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/dsupervilleap-Darlene Superville, The Associated Press.
Opioids haunt users' recovery: 'It never really leaves you.'-[The Canadian Press]-YAHOONEWS-November 21, 2017
NASHVILLE — Businessman Kyle Graves shot himself in the ankle so emergency room doctors would feed his opioid habit.Ex-trucker Jeff McCoy threatened to blow his brains out if his mother didn't hand over his fentanyl patches.Bianca Knight resorted to street pills when her opioids ran out, envisioning her law career dreams crumble.These are three Americans who started using powerful painkillers legitimately but, like millions of others, got caught in the country's worst drug epidemic.Now they're fighting the same recovery battle, on anti-addiction medicine similar to pills that nearly did them in. Their doctor, Dan Lonergan, a Vanderbilt University pain and addiction physician, sometimes recommends the same drugs to pain patients that brought his addiction patients to the brink.He's heard criticism about doctors "who get 'em hooked on drugs and then turn around and treat 'em for addiction." And he's seen the finger-pointing from those who think faith and willpower are the only answer."Doctors have contributed to this problem. In the past three decades we have gotten a lot of patients on medications that can be very dangerous," he said. "The pharmaceutical industry has contributed significantly to this problem. This is a problem that we all need to own."This is a snapshot from Nashville of America's addiction crisis. More than 2 million people are hooked on opioids. Overdoses kill, on average, 120 Americans every day. Even for survivors, success can be precarious.___At 53 and on disability, Kyle Graves still feels stabbing pains that a daily handful of pills used to ease.His troubles began more than a decade ago when he sought relief for excruciating arthritis. He was prescribed oxycodone, opioid pills that can help short-term pain but can become addictive when used long-term.When he lost his finance manager job, they helped with that pain, too. When his sixth child, a baby boy, died from spinal meningitis, Graves sunk deep into addiction.He'd use up a month's supply in days, followed by terrible withdrawals — vomiting, shaking uncontrollably, intense pain.After a doctor refused more refills, Graves grabbed a pistol from his nightstand, pulled the trigger, then called an ambulance.At the hospital, two shots of morphine for the ankle wound "did the trick."Graves thinks only his wife suspected the ruse; she left with the kids."It just devastated and ruined my life," he said.Graves went to rehab, treated with hard work and prayer. It worked for a time, but after relapsing Graves sought help three years ago from Lonergan, who prescribed recovery medicine containing buprenorphine, an opioid that reduces cravings and withdrawal symptoms.He hasn't relapsed for two years, but tries not to dwell on the future."Anything could happen," Graves said.___Jeff McCoy has been a drummer, a Harley rider and long-haul trucker. These days he prefers baking cookies and doting on his wife, Joanne. Recovery from opioid painkillers prompted the turnaround.It started nearly 17 years ago, after surgery for a back injury — maybe from too much time on the road, he's not really sure, but it forced him to quit trucking. His doctor prescribed Vicodin — painkillers that contain the opioid hydrocodone. Soon he was hooked."I just went full bore," McCoy says. "I was popping pills like crazy."When those stopped working, he was prescribed powerful fentanyl skin patches that deliver medicine gradually. McCoy found that chewing them worked faster.McCoy needed ever more to avoid withdrawals.His wife would lock the patches in a safe, but when he found the key, his mother stored them at her house nearby."Got to the point where I got on the phone with mom, 'You better bring me that patch right now else I'm splattering my brains all over this living room.'"When his wife threatened to leave, he checked in to a detox centre , in 2009, enduring two hellish weeks of withdrawal.Now he calls his wife his addiction and figures he'll be on anti-craving medicine for life."I finally wanted to stop," McCoy said. "If I can survive with no life, come on, it's worth it, but you gotta want to."___After law school graduation, Bianca Knight had a nagging question: "How do I know if I have a problem?"After injuring her back carrying law books, Knight had spent the past two years medicated, on hydrocodone pills from a different doctor.They eased the pain, but "also gave me a euphoric feeling and helped me get through my long day in law school," she said.Knight is nearly blind from a rare optic nerve condition. A state program paid for a reader to help with school work.A doctor warned vaguely about addiction risks but Knight thought she'd be immune. Soon she was taking far more than the prescribed amount."Toward the end, I resorted to buying off the street," Knight said. That's when she sought out Lonergan.He explained that the average person doesn't think about opioid pain pills 24/7.Knight started buprenorphine treatment. Church and support group meetings also help, she says. Her baby girl, born this past summer, is extra incentive for her to stay clean.Still, Knight said, "For anyone in recovery, it is a daily struggle and I'd be a fool not to think so."___Follow AP Medical Writer Lindsey Tanner on Twitter at @LindseyTanner.Lindsey Tanner, The Associated Press.
