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Saturday, June 24, 2017

DAY 4 2017 HANOVER RACEWAY-MY PICKS AND RESULTS

TO WATCH LIVE RACES SATURDAY NIGHTS STARTING AT 7:15PM
http://hanoverraceway.com/
STANDARDBREAD CANADA RESULTS
http://www.standardbredcanada.ca/results#?/results/list/HNVR/ALL
HANOVER RACEWAY DRIVER RESULTS
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2017/06/hanover-raceway-driver-results-for-2017.html
HANOVER RACEWAY HORSE RESULTS
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2017/06/hanover-raceway-horse-results-for-2017.html
HANOVER RACEWAY TRAINER RESULTS
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2017/07/2017-hanover-raceway-trainer-results.html
ALL DAYS RESULTS
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2017/06/day-1-2017-hanover-raceway-my-picks-and.html (D-01)
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2017/06/day-2-2017-hanover-raceway-my-picks-and.html (D-02)

http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2017/06/day-3-2017-hanover-raceway-my-picks-and.html (D-03)

HANOVER STANDARDBREAD HARNESS RACEWAY 2017 DRIVER-HORSE RESULTS AS OF JUNE 24,2017-DAY 4

RACEWAY PICKS
01-2-1-8-3
02-8-5-1-4 W-2.20, TRI-$1-126.60
03-1-8-2-6 P-4.60, S-3.90, SUP-N
04-6-5-3-1 W-9.60
05-6-7-2-3
06-7-2-4-1 W-8.80, P-3.60, 4TH (7.2), EX-21.60
07-4-2-5-8 S-2.60
08-3-8-4-6 S-2.80, EX-11.30
09-3-1-2-5
10-1-3-2-4 W-5.70, TRI-$1-55.75
MONEY WON-$259.05 - OATOT $735.65

MY PICKS
01-2-8-3-5

02-8-5-2-3 W-2.20
03-1-2-6-8 SUP-N
04-3-6-4-5 EX-26.10
05-6-2-7-3 P-2.90, S-2.50
06-7-8-6-4 W-8.80, S-4.30
07-7-3-5-2 S-2.60
08-8-4-1-3 W-5.10, SUP-N
09-1-7-5-2
10-1-8-6-3 W-5.70
MONEY WON-$60.20 - OATOT $541.45

ACTUAL RACE NIGHT RESULTS DAY 4-SAT JUNE 24,2017 HANOVER RACEWAY.
01-1-7-2-8
02-8-1-5-2
03-6-8-2-1
04-6-3-7-4
05-4-2-7-8
06-7-2-6-1
07-2-1-5-4
08-8-3-4-1
09-2-8-1-6
10-1-2-3-8

MY PICKS I GOT RIGHT AFTER 4TH RACE DAY AT HANOVER - 40 RACES
01-10
02-04
03-06
04-04
STR EXACTOR-00
STR TRIACTOR-00
STR SUPER-00
MIX EXACTOR-03
MIX TRIACTORS-03
MIX SUPERS-08
1DDOUBLE-01
2DDOUBLE-00
5-1+ LONG SHOTS PICKED-14 LONGEST LONGSHOT-10-1 AVG-33.3%
OVERALL LONGSHOTS THAT CAME IN-42
TOP 4 PICKS EACH RACE-01-02,02-03,03-04,04-03,05-02,06-02,07-02,08-04,09-02,10-03=27-40-OATOT-111-160-69.4%

RACEWAY PICKS RIGHT AFTER 4TH RACE DAY AT HANOVER - 40 RACES
01-12
02-07
03-07
04-10
STR EXACTOR-01
STR TRIACTOR-00
STR SUPER-00
MIX EXACTOR-04
MIX TRIACTORS-08
MIX SUPERS-07
1DDOUBLE-01
2DDOUBLE-00
5-1+ LONG SHOTS PICKED-15 LONGEST LONGSHOT-22-1 AVG-35.7%
OVERALL LONGSHOTS THAT CAME IN-42
TOP 4 PICKS EACH RACE-01-03,02-03,03-04,04-02,05-02,06-03,07-03,08-03,09-02,10-03=28-40-OATOT-117-160-73.1%

HOW TO CALCULATE DRIVERS-HORSES AVERAGES
1ST X 9 + 2ND X 5 + 3RD X 3 = TOT - THEN DIVIDE BY 9 AND DIVIDE BY TOTAL DRIVES = AVERAGE.

AS OF JUNE 17,17 DRIVER STANDINGS AT HANOVER RACEWAY
BRUCE RICHARDSON-DR-15-1-05-2-01-3-02-4-06-5-00-6-00-7-00-8-01-MON-$625.00 .414
PAUL WALKER-DR-07-1-02-2-01-3-01-4-02-5-01-6-00-7-00-8-00-MON-$3,079.30 .412
JEAN BERNARD RENAUD-DR-17-1-03-2-06-3-02-4-01-5-03-6-01-7-00-8-01-MON-$608.40 .411
TYLER MOORE-DR-19-1-06-2-02-3-01-4-02-5-03-6-02-7-03-8-00-MON-$685.40 .391
DALE FRITZ-DR-06-1-01-2-01-3-02-4-00-5-02-6-00-7-00-8-00-MON-$4,303.00 .370
ALVIN HAMILTON-DR-06-1-01-2-01-3-01-4-00-5-01-6-01-7-00-8-01-MON-$263.50 .314
STUART SOWERBY-DR-05-1-01-2-01-3-00-4-00-5-00-6-00-7-02-8-01-MON-$112.50 .311
PATRICK SHEPHERD-DR-14-1-01-2-05-3-01-4-03-5-01-6-02-7-01-8-00-MON-$1,706.00 .293
TOM SMITH-DR-12-1-01-2-03-3-02-4-01-5-04-6-01-7-00-8-00-MON-$1,122.00 .277
ROSS BATTIN-DR-06-1-01-2-00-3-02-4-01-5-00-6-01-7-01-8-00-MON-$884.80 .277
NELLO GUGLIELMI-DR-05-1-01-2-00-3-01-4-01-5-00-6-01-7-01-8-00-MON-$128.80 .266
NATASHA K DAY-DR-25-1-03-2-03-3-04-4-08-5-01-6-02-7-02-8-02-MON-$597.80 .240
PAUL DAVIES-DR-13-1-02-2-01-3-01-4-00-5-02-6-02-7-02-8-03-MON-$257.00 .222
TERRY FRITZ-DR-13-1-01-2-01-3-03-4-00-5-03-6-03-7-02-8-00-MON-$840.50 .196
ONDREJ GOIS-DR-07-1-01-2-00-3-00-4-01-5-00-6-03-7-02-8-00-MON-$96.00 .142

$2.00 BET ODDS - TIMES FIRST NUMBER BY 2 - DIVIDE BY 2ND NUMBER - ADD 2 TO YOUR TOTAL.

1.9 = $2.20 - 5.7 = $3.45 - 2-1 = $6.00 --- 15-1 = $32.00 - 70-1 = $142.00
1.8 = $2.25 - 4.5 = $3.60 - 9.4 = $6.50 --- 16-1 = $34.00 - 75-1 = $152.00
1.7 = $2.30 - 5.6 = $3.70 - 7.3 = $6.70 --- 17-1 = $36.00 - 80-1 = $162.00
1.6 = $2.35 - 7.8 = $3.75 - 5.2 = $7.00 --- 18-1 = $38.00 - 85-1 = $172.00
1.5 = $2.40 - 8.9 = $3.80 - 8.3 = $7.35 --- 19-1 = $40.00 - 90-1 = $182.00
2.9 = $2.45 - 1-1 = $4.00 - 3-1 = $8.00 --- 20-1 = $42.00 - 95-1 = $192.00
1.4 = $2.50 - 9.8 = $4.25 - 7.2 = $9.00 --- 21-1 = $44.00 - 96-1 = $194.00
2.8 = $2.50 - 8.7 = $4.30 - 4-1 = $10.00 -- 22-1 = $46.00 - 97-1 = $196.00
2.7 = $2.60 - 7.6 = $4.35 - 9.2 = $11.00 -- 23-1 = $48.00 - 98-1 = $198.00
1.3 = $2.70 - 6.5 = $4.40 - 5-1 = $12.00 -- 24-1 = $50.00 - 99-1 = $200.00+
3.8 = $2.75 - 5.4 = $4.50 - 6-1 = $14.00 -- 25-1 = $52.00
2.5 = $2.80 - 9.7 = $4.60 - 7-1 = $16.00 -- 30-1 = $62.00
3.7 = $2.85 - 8.6 = $4.70 - 8-1 = $18.00 -- 35-1 = $72.00
4.9 = $2.90 - 7.5 = $4.80 - 9-1 = $20.00 -- 40-1 = $82.00
1.2 = $3.00 - 3.2 = $5.00 - 10-1 = $22.00 --45-1 = $92.00
5.9 = $3.15 - 8.5 = $5.20 - 11-1 = $24.00 - 50-1 = $102.00
3.5 = $3.20 - 5.3 = $5.35 - 12-1 = $26.00 - 55-1 = $112.00
5.8 = $3.25 - 7.4 = $5.50 - 13-1 = $28.00 - 60-1 = $122.00
2.3 = $3.35 - 9.5 = $5.60 - 14-1 = $30.00 - 65-1 = $132.00

HANOVER RACEWAY TIME COMPARISONS TO OTHER TRACKS.

HANOVER RACEWAY TRACK TIME IS 2.00.0

ADD THIS MANY MINUTES TO 5/8TH AND 7/8TH TRACK HORSES THAT RACE AT HANOVER.

5/8TH SAND - SANDOWN PARK 2.00.0 SAME - NO ADD ON TIME.
5/8TH FRD - FRASER DOWNS 1.58.2 +1/3/5TH SECONDS ON TO.
5/8TH STP - STAMPEDE PARK 1.58.1 +1/4/5TH SECONDS ON TO.
5/8TH NP - NORTHLAND EDMONTON 1.57.4 +2/1/5TH SECONDS ON TO.
5/8TH RIDC - RIDEAU CARLETON 1.57.4 +2/1/5TH SECONDS ON TO.
5/8TH WR - WINDSOR RACEWAY 1.57.3 +2/2/5TH SECONDS ON TO.
5/8TH SAR -HIAWATHA PARK 1.57.2 +2/3/5TH SECONDS ON TO.
5/8TH GEOD - GEORGIAN DOWNS 1.57.1 +2/4/5TH SECONDS ON TO.
5/8TH KD - KAWARTHA DOWNS 1.57.0 +3 SECONDS ON TO.
7/8TH HM - HIPPODROME MONTREAL 1.56.2 +3/3/5TH SECONDS ON TO.
7/8TH MOH - MOWHAWK RACEWAY 1.54.4 +5/1/5TH SECONDS ON TO.
7/8TH WDB - WOODBINE RACETRACK 1.54.4 +5/1/5TH SECONDS ON TO.

ADD THIS MANY MINUTES TO MILE TRACK HORSES THAT RACE AT HANOVER.

MILE CHRTN - CHARLOTTE TOWN 2.00.0 SAME NO ADDING ON TIME.
MILE WODSK - WOODSTOCK RACEWAY 2.00.0 SAME NO ADDING ON TIME
MILE FRDTN - FREDERICTON RACEWAY 2.00.1 +1/5TH OF A SECOND ON TO.
MILE DRES - DRESDEN RACEWAY 2.00.4 +4/5TH OF A SECOND ON TO.
MILE SUDBY - SUDBURY DOWNS 2.00.4 +4/5TH OF A SECOND ON TO.
MILE SUMM - SUMMERSIDE RACEWAY 2.01.0 ADD 1 SECOND ON TO.
MILE TRURO - TRURO RACEWAY 2.01.0 ADD 1 SECOND ON TO.
MILE LON - WESTERN LONDON 2.01.1 +1/1/5TH SECONDS ON TO.
MILE CLNTN - CLINTON RACEWAY 2.01.2 +1/2/5TH SECONDS ON TO.
MILE HAY - HIPPODROME GATINEAU 2.01.2 +1/2/5TH SECONDS ON TO.
MILE EPR - EXIBITION PARK RACEWAY 2.01.3 +1/3/5TH SECONDS ON TO.
MILE NTSD - NORTHSIDE DOWNS 2.01.4 +1/4/5TH SECONDS ON TO.
MILE TRRVS - SULKY TROIS-RIVIERES 2.01.4 +1/4/5TH SECONDS ON TO.
MILE QUE - HIPPODROME QUEBEC 2.02.2 +2/2/5TH SECONDS ON TO.
MILE INVRN - INVERNESS RACEWAY 2.03.0 ADD 3 SECONDS ON TO.
MILE STJNS - ST JOHNS RACEWAY 2.03.2 +3/2/5TH SECONDS ON TO.
MILE BLVL - QUINTE RACEWAY 2.03.4 +3/4/5TH SECONDS ON TO.
MILE SYDNY - TARTAN DOWNS 2.04.1 +4/1/5TH SECONDS ON TO.
MILE GRVR - GRAND RIVER RACEWAY 1.59.1 +4/5TH SECONDS ON TO.
MILE FLMD - FLAMBORO DOWNS 1.58.3 +1/2/5TH SECONDS ON TO.

RESULTS JUNE 24,2017-DAY 04

RACE 01-P
09.5-LILMOE MONEY-01 5.60-3.10-3.30
11-1-BAD BLAKE-07 9.10-5.90 EX 181.30
06.5-HASHTAG HUGHIE-02 2.30 TRI-$1-595.55 NO SUPER
RACE 02-P
01.9-LYONS WOODLANDS-08 2.20-3.40-2.10 - DD 27.70
22-1-FRANTASTIC FILLY-01 5.40-3.00 EX 37.20
07-1-NEW BEGINNINGS-05 2.70 TRI-$1-126.60 NO SUPER
RACE 03-P
07-1-IM NOT BAD-06 16.80-4.70-3.80
09.2-REIKI-08 4.60-2.90 EX 57.60
07-1-MATTS TUITION-02 3.90 TRI-$1-131.45 NO SUPER
RACE 04-T
07.2-CRAZY GIRL-06 9.60-4.40-3.00
07.2-THE NEW KING-03 3.90-3.30 EX 26.10
18-1-KEEPALL-07 7.40 TRI-$1-83.90 NO SUPER
RACE 05-P
05-1-BLUEJEAN JABA-04 12.20-4.90-3.40
02-1-MISS FLASHY MACH-02 2.90-2.50 EX 35.50
06-1-SHAKE IT SUGAR-07 2.50 TRI-$1-86.80
11-1-ST LADS SUNDANCE-08 SUPER-$1-1,459.15
RACE 06-P
03-1-TWICE AS BRIGHT-07 8.80-4.20-3.40
05.2-HELLSAPOPPIN-02 3.60-3.40 EX 21.60
05-1-ADVENTURE LUCK-06 4.30 TRI-$1-34.40 NO SUPER
RACE 07-P
03.2-STRONG PROFILE-02 5.00-3.30-2.70
08-1-P L CAMMANDER-01 3.90-3.70 EX 57.40
05.2-ST LADS PIXIE-05 2.60 TRI-$1-113.60 NO SUPER
RACE 08-T
03.2-TWOFOURROADIE-08 5.10-2.60-2.30
05.2-WILLIE WONKA-03 3.00-2.40 EX 11.30
05-1-GOTTAGETMESOMATHAT-04 2.80 TRI-$1-8.45 NO SUPER
RACE 09-T
05.2-FLEXIE-02 7.50-3.50-3.00
03-1-WEST GREY BAY-08 4.00-3.40 EX 65.50
04-1-DAYTROOPER-01 3.10 TRI-$1-107.60 NO SUPER
RACE 10-P
09.5-HARBOURLITE JERRY-01 5 70.-4.70-3.00 - DD 14.20
09.2-EMERALD RIHANNA-02 3.80-3.60 EX 37.00
05.2-MAMMOTH JACK-03 2.50 TRI-$1-55.75
20-1-IDONTWANNABEFRIENDS-08 SUPER-$1-360.55

2017 SEASON HANOVER RACEWAY POST POSITION STATS.

AS OF JUNE 24,17 - RACE DAY 4

PACERS
---------------01---02---03---04----05---06----07---08
STARTS---029--029--029--029--029--025--021--022
WINS-------05---02----04---05----02---05---02----04
WIN %----17.2-06.9-13.8-17.2--06.9-20.0-09.5-18.2

TROTTERS
---------------01---02---03---04----05---06----07---08
STARTS----011--011--011--011--011--009--008--005
WINS-------03---01----01---01----01---01---02----01
WIN %----27.3-09.1-09.1-09.1--09.1-11.1-25.0-20.0

WINNING FAVORITES

RACES---------------------------------------040---%
FAVORITES OR CO-FAVORITES------040
FAVORITES FINISHING 1ST------------011-27.5
FAVORITES FINISHING 2ND-----------011-27.5
FAVORITES FINISHING 3RD-----------004-10.0
FAVORITES FINISHING 4TH-8TH-----014-35.0

TOP 5 DRIVERS BEST RESULTS EACH NIGHT OF THE NIGHT STANDINGS PLUS THE WINNERS RECORD.
AS OF DAY 04 - JUNE 24,2017

TYLER MOORE-01-01-02-02-03-00-04-00-05-00-AVERAGE-528
BRUCE RICHARDSON-01-02-02-00-03-00-04-00-05-00-AVERAGE-500
JEAN RENAUD-01-01-02-00-03-01-04-01-05-00-AVERAGE-333
NATASHA DAY-01-00-02-01-03-00-04-00-05-00-AVERAGE-139
PATRICK SHEPHERD-01-00-02-01-03-00-04-00-05-01-AVERAGE-139
TERRY FRITZ-01-00-02-00-03-01-04-00-05-01-AVERAGE-083
ONDREJ GOIS-01-00-02-00-03-01-04-00-05-00-AVERAGE-083
STUART SOWERBY-01-00-02-00-03-01-04-00-05-00-AVERAGE-083
TOM SMITH-01-00-02-00-03-00-04-02-05-00-AVERAGE-000
TYLER JONES-01-00-02-00-03-00-04-01-05-00-AVERAGE-000
PAUL DAVIES-01-00-02-00-03-00-04-00-05-01-AVERAGE-000
DALE FRITZ-01-00-02-00-03-00-04-00-05-01-AVERAGE-000
WINNER OF EACH NIGHT PLUS THEIR RECORD ON THE NIGHT.
01-BRUCE RICHARDSON-DR-08-01-04-02-01-03-01-AVG-611
02-JEAN RENAUD-DR-05-01-01-02-03-03-00-AVG-533
03-TYLER MOORE-DR-08-01-03-02-01-03-01-AVG-486
04-BRUCE RICHARDSON-DR-09-01-04-02-00-03-02-AVG-519

STATS NUMBER OF HORSES RACED SCRATCHED EACH RACE NIGHT 2017 SEASON AT HANOVER RACEWAY.
MAXIMUM HORSES ON 10 RACE CARD IS 80 HORSES RACED.

*-STARTED IN THIS POST POSITION DUE TO A SCRATCH IN THE RACE BEFORE ITS ORIGINAL POST POSITION.

01-T-03 - 03-06,04-05,08-08 = 19    P-07 - 01-05,02-05,05-08,06-08,07-08,09-08,10-08 = 50
01-00 SCRATCHES T-00 - P-00 - TOT 69 HORSES RACED.
01-WINNERS (PP)-01-01,02-02,03-03,04-05,05-04,06-01,07-03,08-07,09-06,10-04
02-T-02 - 06-07,07-05 = 12      P-08 - 01-08,02-05,03-06,04-08,05-08,08-08,09-07,10-06 = 56
02-05 SCR T-02 - PP-5,7-7TH (7) - P-03 - PP-4-9TH (8) , PP-3,4-10TH (8) - TOT 68 H R + 5 SCRS.
02-WINNERS (PP)-01-08,02-04,03-06,04-08,05-08,06-07,07-01,08-06,09-03,10-03F5*
03-T-03 - 01-07,03-07,08-08 = 22    P-07 - 02-08,04-07,05-08,06-07,07-07,09-08,10-08 = 53
03-00 SCRATCHES T-00 - P-00 - TOT 75 HORSES RACED.
03-WINNERS (PP)-01-01,02-05,03-04,04-01,05-04,06-07,07-03,08-01,09-06,10-05
04-T-03 - 04-08,08-08,09-08 = 24    P-07 - 01-07,02-08,03-08,05-07,06-08,07-08,10-08 = 54
04-02 SCR T-00 - P-02 - PP-6-1ST (8) , PP-5-5TH (8) - TOT 78 H R + 2 SCRS.
04-WINNERS (PP)-01-01,02-08,03-06,04-06,05-04,06-07,07-02,08-08,09-02,10-01

WEEKEND QUAKE RESULTS FOR JUNE 24-25,2017-SAT-SUN

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)

EARTHQUAKES

EZEKIEL 37:7,11-14
7 So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.(POSSIBLE QUAKE BRINGS ISRAEL BACK TO LIFE-SO NOISE AND SHAKING-QUAKES WILL ALSO DESTROY ISRAELS ENEMIES)
11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
12 Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
13 And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
14 And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD.

MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

UPDATE-JUNE 25, 2017-11:55PM

1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ U.S.26 of 26 earthquakes in map area.

    2.6-6km NW of The Geysers, California-2017-06-26 02:22:12 (UTC)-0.3 km
    4.0-31km SE of Sary-Tash, Kyrgyzstan-2017-06-26 00:39:47 (UTC)-10.0 km
    2.5-52km SW of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska-2017-06-26 00:00:20 (UTC)-156.7 km
    2.5-14km SSE of Medford, Oklahoma-2017-06-25 23:58:34 (UTC)-5.1 km
    5.4-44km N of `Alaq wa Munjan, Afghanistan-2017-06-25 23:30:39 (UTC)-204.4 km
    4.9-65km WSW of Lago Puelo, Argentina-2017-06-25 22:08:29 (UTC)-18.6 km
    4.6-112km ESE of Inarajan Village, Guam-2017-06-25 20:29:37 (UTC)-36.8 km
    4.4-48km ESE of Mangili, Philippines-2017-06-25 19:45:15 (UTC)-119.5 km
    6.2-209km NW of Nuku`alofa, Tonga-2017-06-25 17:42:30 (UTC)-38.3 km
    4.5-120km WNW of Sabang, Indonesia-2017-06-25 15:44:16 (UTC)-82.0 km
    2.6-6km SSW of Cheney, Kansas-2017-06-25 15:42:07 (UTC)-4.2 km
    4.4-24km E of Rustaq, Afghanistan-2017-06-25 14:24:25 (UTC)-10.0 km
    4.6-17km NE of Calama, Chile-2017-06-25 14:14:06 (UTC)-100.8 km
    4.3-6km ENE of Thivai, Greece-2017-06-25 13:54:42 (UTC)-10.0 km
    3.5-9km NNW of Banning, CA-2017-06-25 13:53:24 (UTC)-13.8 km
    2.5-3km SSW of Cheney, Kansas-2017-06-25 12:58:21 (UTC)-2.5 km
    2.6-5km S of Lenoir City, Tennessee-2017-06-25 10:00:57 (UTC)-21.0 km
    5.0-Southeast of Easter Island-2017-06-25 09:45:50 (UTC)-10.0 km
    4.7-66km SSE of Amukta Island, Alaska-2017-06-25 08:47:05 (UTC)-36.2 km
    4.5-94km S of Sarangani, Philippines-2017-06-25 07:36:48 (UTC)-150.6 km
    2.5-0km W of Pahala, Hawaii-2017-06-25 07:02:22 (UTC)-36.2 km
    4.7-13km NNW of Kasiguncu, Indonesia-2017-06-25 06:30:25 (UTC)-10.0 km
    4.7-22km NNW of Iida, Japan-2017-06-25 06:17:15 (UTC)-10.0 km
    2.9-14km NW of Pawnee, Oklahoma-2017-06-25 05:04:21 (UTC)-5.5 km
    2.7-4km W of Darrington, Washington-2017-06-25 03:25:14 (UTC)-4.9 km
    4.3-7km SW of Macara, Ecuador-2017-06-25 03:03:42 (UTC)-90.2 km
    4.9-Mid-Indian Ridge-2017-06-25 03:02:00 (UTC)-10.0 km
    4.3-278km ENE of Socorro Island, Mexico-2017-06-25 02:28:25 (UTC)-10.0 km
    2.7-4km E of Buffalo, Oklahoma-2017-06-25 01:32:22 (UTC)-5.0 km
    4.1-64km W of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina-2017-06-25 00:40:48 (UTC)-182.5 km
    4.4-31km W of Ina, Japan-2017-06-25 00:24:06 (UTC)-10.0 km
    5.2-30km W of Ina, Japan-2017-06-24 22:02:16 (UTC)-10.0 km
    4.3-163km N of Dili, East Timor-2017-06-24 21:54:32 (UTC)-492.5 km
    4.0-27km SW of Rio Dell, California-2017-06-24 21:22:03 (UTC)-8.4 km
    4.8-11km SW of Fuerte, Philippines-2017-06-24 20:37:06 (UTC)-55.3 km
    2.6-89km ESE of Old Iliamna, Alaska-2017-06-24 17:48:54 (UTC)-4.3 km
    5.7-60km SE of Coracora, Peru-2017-06-24 16:09:11 (UTC)-69.0 km
    3.2-83km ENE of Cantwell, Alaska-2017-06-24 15:48:33 (UTC)-0.0 km
    2.7-4km SE of Volcano, Hawaii-2017-06-24 12:46:58 (UTC)-46.7 km
    2.6-25km WSW of Kodiak Station, Alaska-2017-06-24 10:41:24 (UTC)-22.3 km
    4.2-92km NNW of Camana, Peru-2017-06-24 09:25:21 (UTC)-182.7 km
    5.2-Mid-Indian Ridge-2017-06-24 07:27:07 (UTC)-10.0 km
    2.5-15km NNE of West Yellowstone, Montana-2017-06-24 07:03:25 (UTC)-10.3 km
    2.6-84km WNW of Skagway, Alaska-2017-06-24 06:33:58 (UTC)-1.3 km
    4.0-59km NW of Atka, Alaska-2017-06-24 05:35:24 (UTC)-235.5 km
    2.5-63km NNW of Talkeetna, Alaska-2017-06-24 05:29:08 (UTC)-93.0 km
    5.8-34km NW of Dondo, Mozambique-2017-06-24 02:37:15 (UTC)-10.0 km
    3.8-68km W of Amatignak Island, Alaska-2017-06-24 02:14:40 (UTC)-32.7 km
    2.8-5km SW of Volcano, Hawaii-2017-06-24 01:26:00 (UTC)-1.3 km
    4.7-169km SSE of Punta de Burica, Panama-2017-06-24 00:48:14 (UTC)-10.0 km
    4.1-9km NW of Gura Teghii, Romania-2017-06-23 23:50:00 (UTC)-151.4 km
    2.5-80km WNW of Skagway, Alaska-2017-06-23 22:17:10 (UTC)-0.0 km

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Friday, June 23, 2017

ROSH CHODESH TAMUZ - BEGINING OF THE 4TH HEBREW MONTH

THE DOW WAS DOWN 12 POINTS THURSDAY-YESTERDAY.

HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER

JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.(IN 1 HR THE STOCK MARKETS WORLDWIDE WILL CRASH)
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed:(CONFISCATED) their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

LUKE 2:1-3
1 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.
2 (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)
3 And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.

REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(THE FALSE POPE WHO DEFECTED FROM THE CHRISTIAN FAITH) causeth all,(IN THE WORLD ) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(MICROCHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark,(MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the name of the beast,(WORLD DICTATORS NAME INGRAVED ON YOUR SKIN OR TATTOOED ON YOU OR IN THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the number of his name.(THE NUMBERS OF HIS NAME INGRAVED IN THE MICROCHIP IMLPLANT)-(ALL THESE WILL TELL THE WORLD DICTATOR THAT YOUR WITH HIM AND AGAINST KING JESUS-GOD)
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast:(WORLD LEADER) for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM (6006006)OR(60020202006)(SOME KIND OF NUMBER IMPLANTED IN THE MICROCHIP THAT TELLS THE WORLD DICTATOR AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER THAT YOU GIVE YOUR TOTAL ALLIGIENCE TO HIM AND NOT JESUS)(ITS AN ETERNAL DECISION YOU MAKE)(YOU CHOOSE YOUR OWN DESTINY)(YOU TAKE THE DICTATORS NAME OR NUMBER UNDER YOUR SKIN,YOUR DOOMED TO THE LAKE OF FIRE AND TORMENTS FOREVER,NEVER ENDING MEANT ONLY FOR SATAN AND HIS ANGELS,NOT HUMAN BEINGS).OR YOU REFUSE THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT AND GO ON THE SIDE OF KING JESUS AND RULE FOREVER WITH HIM ON EARTH.YOU CHOOSE,ITS YOUR DECISION.

1 KINGS 10:13-14
13 And king Solomon gave unto the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside that which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty. So she turned and went to her own country, she and her servants.
14 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold,

GENESIS 49:16-17
16 Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
17 Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.

REVELATION 6:5-6
5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.(A DAYS WAGES FOR A LOAF OF BREAD)

DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.

BANK RELATED INFORMATION
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CURRENCIES
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COMMODITIES
http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/commodities

UPDATE-JUNE 23,2017-12:00AM

DOW MARKET FRIDAY-JUNE 23,2017
09:30AM-5.07-
10:00AM-29.72-
10:30AM-10.65-
11:00AM-14.92
11:30AM-8.75
12:00PM-10.76
12:30PM-17.57
01:00PM-8.07
01:30PM-2.04-
02:00PM-12.19
02:30PM-1.35
03:00PM-3.79-
03:30PM-40.00-
04:00PM-2.53- 21394.76 - S&P +3.80 2438.30 - NASDAQ +28.57 6265.25
HIGH +31 LOW -56
TSX +99.66 15,319.56 - GOLD $+05.56 $1,256.01 - OIL $+0.22 $42.96

EARTHQUAKES

EZEKIEL 37:7,11-14
7 So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.(POSSIBLE QUAKE BRINGS ISRAEL BACK TO LIFE-SO NOISE AND SHAKING-QUAKES WILL ALSO DESTROY ISRAELS ENEMIES)
11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
12 Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
13 And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
14 And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD.

MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

UPDATE-JUNE 23,2017-11:55PM

1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ U.S.15 of 16 earthquakes in map area.

    2.5-80km WNW of Skagway, Alaska-2017-06-23 22:17:10 (UTC)-0.0 km
    5.0-259km SSW of Vaini, Tonga-2017-06-23 21:33:29 (UTC)-84.2 km
    4.0-57km NNE of Calama, Chile-2017-06-23 21:01:35 (UTC)-138.6 km
    4.4-22km W of La Puerta de San Jose, Argentina-2017-06-23 20:20:51 (UTC)-137.9 km
    4.2-112km S of Amatignak Island, Alaska-2017-06-23 20:08:08 (UTC)-10.0 km
    2.5-7km WSW of Harper, Kansas-2017-06-23 19:59:47 (UTC)-5.9 km
    3.9-71km ENE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic-2017-06-23 12:17:42 (UTC)-10.0 km
    4.6-7km SW of Boroko, Indonesia-2017-06-23 11:55:57 (UTC)-53.5 km
    2.6-64km ESE of Fritz Creek, Alaska-2017-06-23 11:20:14 (UTC)-26.9 km
    5.0-11km SE of Pucon, Chile-2017-06-23 10:00:51 (UTC)-113.3 km
    2.9-33km NW of Fairview, Oklahoma-2017-06-23 05:04:38 (UTC)-1.6 km
    4.5-171km SSE of Punta de Burica, Panama-2017-06-23 04:02:53 (UTC)-10.0 km
    4.5-35km SW of Puerto San Jose, Guatemala-2017-06-23 03:08:13 (UTC)-47.7 km
    2.8-26km SW of Larsen Bay, Alaska-2017-06-23 03:03:52 (UTC)-30.3 km
    2.5-134km NE of Chignik Lake, Alaska-2017-06-23 02:56:27 (UTC)-0.0 km
    2.5-9km WNW of Cobb, California-2017-06-23 02:44:49 (UTC)-1.9 km
    4.2-42km WNW of Copiapo, Chile-2017-06-23 00:43:40 (UTC)-47.4 km
    4.9-130km SE of Saparua, Indonesia-2017-06-23 00:15:31 (UTC)-21.4 km

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http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2017/06/weekend-quake-results-for-june-10.html

CHURCH OF ENGLAND HEAD SAYS IT COLLUDED WITH SEX ABUSE.

LUKE 21:28-29
28 And when these things begin to come to pass,(ALL THE PROPHECY SIGNS FROM THE BIBLE) then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption (RAPTURE) draweth nigh.
29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree,(ISRAEL) and all the trees;(ALL INDEPENDENT COUNTRIES)
30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.(ISRAEL LITERALLY BECAME AND INDEPENDENT COUNTRY JUST BEFORE SUMMER IN MAY 14,1948.)

JOEL 2:3,30
3 A fire devoureth (ATOMIC BOMB) before them;(RUSSIAN-ARAB-MUSLIM ARMIES AGAINST ISRAEL) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(ATOMIC BOMB AFFECT)

ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB)(BECAUSE NUKES HAVE BEEN USED ON ISRAELS ENEMIES)(GOD PROTECTS ISRAEL AND ALWAYS WILL)
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)

EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.

ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.

MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven;(FROM ATOMIC BOMBS) and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE

Gaza power plant back on, with help of alliance of old foes-Egypt, Hamas and Abbas’s former ally Mohammad Dahlan reportedly join forces against the Palestinian Authority to restore electricity to Gaza-By Fares Akram and Mohammed Daraghmeh June 22, 2017, 4:20 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The sole power plant in electricity-starved Gaza Strip sputtered back to life Thursday after receiving fuel from Egypt — a shipment that resulted from a surprising alliance between bitter ex-rivals, including the territory’s ruling Hamas and an exiled former Gaza strongman.Egypt’s shipment of 1 million liters of fuel undercut a high-stakes campaign by Western-backed Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas who is trying to weaken Hamas by gradually reducing the flow of electricity to the territory he lost to the militants in 2007.Gaza’s power plant had shut down in April, after Hamas could no longer afford to buy heavily taxed fuel from Abbas’s West Bank autonomy government.This left the territory with electricity sent from Israel, but paid for by Abbas’s Palestinian Authority. The electricity from Israel covered about one-third of Gaza’s needs, meaning Gazans were getting power for only about four hours a day.But at Abbas’s request, Israel cut the electricity flow by 40 percent in recent days.The output of the power plant, which resumed operations Thursday, makes up for the Abbas-initiated cuts, said Mohammed Thabit, a spokesman of the Gaza electricity company.Hamas officials said more fuel shipments are expected this week, adding that 1 million liters can keep the plant running for three-and-a-half days.Abbas has not commented publicly on the Egyptian shipment, but aides have said he is upset with the Arab nation for undercutting his pressure campaign.On Wednesday, the Abbas government tried to prevent the power plant from accepting the Egyptian fuel shipment, threatening punitive measures if it opened its gates to the Egyptian fuel trucks, said Ghazi Hamad, a senior Hamas official.Hamas obtained a local court order forcing the power plant to accept the shipment, Hamad said.A Palestinian official said the Palestinian Authority had threatened to withhold its monthly support payment to the privately owned power plant if it accepted the Egyptian fuel. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss confidential negotiations with the media.The fuel shipments, which ostensibly shore up Hamas rule, seem to run counter to Egypt’s policy of trying to isolate and weaken Hamas, which it has accused of stirring unrest in the restive Sinai Peninsula next to Gaza. Earlier this month, Egypt had joined several Gulf nations in boycotting Qatar, in part because of Qatar’s support for Hamas.However, other factors appear to play a role, including Egyptian support for Mohammed Dahlan, an exiled Palestinian official with presidential ambitions. The former Gaza strongman had bitterly fought Hamas a decade ago, became Abbas’s top aide after losing that battle and then fell out with the Palestinian leader in 2010.Earlier this month, Gaza’s top Hamas leader, Yahya Sinwar, met at least once with Dahlan in Egypt, as part of a series of talks between Dahlan’s camp and a Hamas delegation.Dahlan helped persuade Egypt to send the badly needed fuel to Gaza, in exchange for Hamas allowing him to broaden his political presence in Gaza, according to officials involved in the negotiations.

Church of England head says it ‘colluded’ with sex abuse-Justin Welby takes church to task for ‘serious and enduring damage’ caused to young men abused by ex-bishop Peter Ball-By AP June 22, 2017, 4:02 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

LONDON — The Church of England “colluded” with and helped to hide the long-term sexual abuse of young men by one of its former bishops, the head of the church said Thursday.Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby apologized to the victims who spoke out and helped bring ex-bishop Peter Ball to justice as the church published a detailed report into how it handled the case.Welby ordered the report after Ball was convicted and imprisoned in 2015 for misconduct in public office and indecent assaults against teenagers and young men over a period of 20 years. Ball, who admitted to abusing 18 people, was released after serving 16 months.The report said Ball’s conduct “caused serious and enduring damage to the lives of many men,” and that “the church at its most senior levels and over many years supported him unwisely.”Describing the report as “harrowing reading,” Welby said: “The church colluded and concealed rather than seeking to help those who were brave enough to come forward.”“This is inexcusable and shocking behavior,” he said, adding that while most of what happened took place years ago, “we can never be complacent, we must learn lessons.”

Government acted unlawfully over council boycott restrictions, High Court rules-Activists herald a ‘victory for Palestine’ after court rules that attempts to prevent local government ‘ethical’ boycotts of Israel are unlawful-June 22, 2017, 11:49 am-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

The High Court has ruled that the Government acted unlawfully in seeking to restrict “ethical” boycotts on Israel.The case, brought by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), concerned guidance affecting the Local Government Pension Scheme (LPGS) and how its funds are – and are not – invested.The guidance was issued by the Department for Communities and Local Government in September last year and is directed at those responsible for preparing LPGS investment strategy.The PSC asked the judge, Sir Ross Cranston, to rule that the guidance is legally flawed as one section prevents pension funds set up under the scheme from engaging in boycotts and the “ethical divestment” of companies accused of being complicit in Israel’s occupation of Palestine.Campaigners say the illegal occupation is 50 years old this month and people have a right to decide not to profit from human rights abuses.Their counsel, Nigel Giffin QC, said it was the Government case that boycotts were contrary to UK foreign policy.Government lawyers argued that all the grounds of challenge lacked substance.Allowing the application for judicial review on Thursday, the judge said that the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government acted unlawfully in issuing this part of the guidance as it fell outside the proper scope of his statutory powers because it was issued for non-pensions purposes.The judge said that the PSC and their supporters, including War on Want, the Campaign Against Arms Trade and the Quakers, objected to the limiting effect of the guidance on their ability to campaign around the investment of local government pension funds affecting the Palestinian people and the occupied territories.He said: “On the other hand, the Government is concerned that local government pension funds should not be involved in such political issues because of the mixed messages it might give abroad; because it might undermine community cohesion at home by legitimising anti-Semitic or racist attitudes and attacks – although it accepts that anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian campaigning is not in itself anti-Semitic; and because it could impact adversely on the financial success of UK defence industries.“None of these matters are at issue in this judicial review.“The conclusion reached in the judgment has nothing to do with the political merits of the claimants’ or the Secretary of State’s position on these matters.“In this court, the challenges the claimants raise are soluble through legal analysis, not political argument.“The political merits of the respective arguments have no relevance.”Hugh Lanning, chair of the PSC, said: “Today is a victory for Palestine, for local democracy, and for the rule of law.“Absolutely everyone has a right to peacefully protest Israel’s violation of Palestinian human rights.“This ruling upholds the right of local councils and their pension funds to invest ethically without political interference from the government of the day.Ben Jamal, director of PSC, said: “Our recent YouGov polling shows 43% of the public think BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) is reasonable.“We couldn’t be happier that this right has been upheld by the court in the month the illegal occupation of Palestine turns 50 years old.“PSC will take forward its campaign for justice for the Palestinian people with renewed vigour.”Jamie Potter, partner in the Public Law and Human Rights team at Bindmans LLP, said: “This outcome is a reminder to the Government that it cannot improperly interfere in the exercise of freedom of conscience and protest in order to pursue its own agenda.”Simon Johnson, Chief Executive, Jewish Leadership Council said: “The Government’s guidance to local authorities not to engage in discriminatory boycotts was issued for good and sound reasons. We look forward to hearing from Government, once they have studied the judgement, how they intend to deliver their stated policy to prevent local authorities from making decisions which affect local people based on a Council’s view of foreign policy.”

To stop Russia and other hackers, we need to overhaul the internet, says top Israeli cyber expert-Internet pioneers didn’t need to prioritize defending against cyber warfare, but we must, says Prof. Isaac Ben-Israel, who developed Israel’s cyber agencies and hosts next week’s prestigious Tel Aviv cybersecurity conference-By David Horovitz June 22, 2017, 3:21 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

The professor and ex-general who runs Israel’s prestigious annual cybersecurity conference, and who was central to the establishment of Israel’s pioneering cyber protection agencies, is calling for a radical overhaul of the internet in order to counter cyber warfare.In the course of a wide-ranging interview with The Times of Israel ahead of next week’s annual Tel Aviv University International Cybersecurity Conference, which will include presentations by serving and former US administration cyber officials, Prof. Isaac Ben-Israel said he had absolutely no doubt that the Russian government meddled successfully in the US presidential elections, and that Moscow sought in vain to influence the recent French presidential elections.He said Israel also faces incessant efforts to breach its cybersecurity. Although it is relatively well-protected, he noted dryly, Israel is a relatively prominent target.Ben-Israel highlighted that it is extremely rare for cyber criminals to be caught, and lamented that “almost no effort” is being made to catch them. What is urgently needed, he said, is to address “the problem of attribution”: The protocol that governs the internet does not enable a recipient to establish who is sending material, because that was not initially a priority. This needs to change, he said.The pioneers sough to establish a robust, non-centralized internet that could not be physically destroyed by attacking a few key communications centers, and that could ensure secure communications, Ben-Israel recalled.“But every day, nowadays, there are millions of attacks,” he said. “Nobody goes after the criminals. So why not develop the technologies to do so? Change the internet protocol,” he urged. “You need to re-engineer the internet to enable identification of the source of everything.”Ben-Israel, 67, is one of Israel’s foremost scientists, and an ex-general and former MK. Among a dizzying array of roles, he currently directs the Blavatnik Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center at Tel Aviv University, heads the university’s Yuval Ne’eman Workshop for Science, Technology and Security, and chairs both the Israel Space Agency and the National Council for Research and Development under the auspices of the Science Ministry. In a 35-year military career, he held a range of senior and sensitive positions, notably in research and development, in the Air Force and the General Staff. Post-army, he was central to the establishment of Israel’s National Cyber Bureau and other authorities protecting national civilian and security infrastructure from cyber attack.The Times of Israel spoke to Ben-Israel in his small office at Tel Aviv University, a room decorated mainly with posters featuring Albert Einstein. He was candid and generous with his time — consenting to a second meeting to address issues we had not had time to cover in the first.‘There are five top players. Offensively and defensively, they’re the same. Not in order: Israel, the US, Russia, Britain, China’The conversation was not exactly linear, to put it mildly. Asked a question about Israel’s vulnerability to cyber attack, Ben-Israel opened by talking about Sudan and Estonia. Queried about Russia’s relationship with figures in the Trump administration, he talked first about Israeli espionage in Egypt pre-1967. Questioned about the allegation that Israel mishandled the Stuxnet virus, he began with a story from the 1973 war. In every such instance, his answers were all the more illuminating for the detour.What follows are edited excerpts from the two-part interview. What were the Russians up to ahead of last year’s US presidential elections, and why didn’t they succeed with similar efforts only a few months later in France? How worried should we be by the panic that a teenage kid could cause across the globe with hoax bomb threats telephoned from his Ashkelon bedroom? What should we make of the recent revelation that Israel allegedly considered detonating a nuclear device in the Sinai in 1967? And how — theoretically of course — would Israel go about recruiting a Syrian air force general? Read on.The Times of Israel: How vulnerable is Israel to cyber attack? Isaac Ben-Israel: Well, let’s start by saying that Sudan, for instance, is less vulnerable, because it has a low level of computerization. Most of its critical infrastructure is manually controlled.I just came back from Tallinn [the capital of Estonia]. In 2007, it was paralyzed for three weeks [in a hacking attack that targeted ministries, parliament, banks, broadcasters, et al]. Russia attacked Estonia because of an argument over the relocation of a Soviet-era memorial. Estonia was cyber-attacked because it is super-sophisticated. It’s all internet. It made the right decisions after the collapse of the former Soviet Union. But it had no defenses.The same goes for the US elections. We know Russian groups interfered. Just read the memo to that effect that was signed by the various US intelligence chiefs. We know for sure that the attack was done by Russia. (“We assess Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the US Presidential election,” the memo states. “Russia’s goals were to undermine public faith in the US democratic process, denigrate Secretary Clinton, and harm her electability and potential presidency.”) When I saw that memo, I was worried. Intelligence agencies do not publish material like this.Because? Because the country involved starts looking for the leak. I didn’t understand. Then, two days later, Russia announced it had arrested one guy (Ruslan Stoyanov) from Kaspersky (the anti-hacking and cybercrime investigators), and one (Sergei Mikhailov) from FSB (the KGB-successor security agency). They were charged with treason. The way I see it, they were the (alleged) source. They had been arrested before the memo was published, and the US intel chiefs knew this. It’s clear to me the Russian government was involved (in efforts to influence the US vote).When were the first cyber attacks? Maybe it was on the Siberia gas pipeline (allegedly by the CIA in 1982).The first documented case where the attackers were caught and jailed was in 1986, on computers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California (a government facility conducting scientific, including nuclear, research). It was a group of criminals from East Germany. The FBI busted them. The group was headed by a KGB operative. The rest of the group didn’t really know what they were doing or who they were working for.The entire Soviet military approach is completely different. Disinformation. Fake news. They have a military doctrine — maskirovka, deception. They don’t go to war without a strategic plan for deception. The US didn’t think in this way, at least not until the 1990s.So, coming back to my question about Israel’s vulnerability? We’re well protected. Tallinn is well protected now! The rest of the world is starting to wake up. Until it hits you on the head, the world is very slow.Israel has had an authority for the defense against cyber attack of critical civilian infrastructure — water, electricity, transportation — since 2002. Most countries don’t. The US doesn’t.‘The Russians have a military doctrine — maskirovka, deception’Since the late 1990s, we were developing technology, and we realized, of course, that it could be used as a weapon. At the time, the Arab states were mostly manual. Only we were vulnerable [in this region].In 1999 I wrote to the prime minister. I was head of “MAPAT” (weapons development and technological infrastructure) in the army. I said we could get attacked. So in 2002, the agency to protect vital infrastructure was established.We were the first in the world to do civilian protection. But I can’t say we’re protected enough. We’re relatively very good. We’re also relatively potentially a high target.How do we rank globally? In terms of protection, we’re in the top three.There are five top players. Offensively and defensively, they’re the same. Not in order: Israel, the US, Russia, Britain, China. Israel is the best in the region. But relative to the threat, there’s no such thing as good enough.Every two days, there’s something new. It began with DDoS — Distributed Denial of Service attacks. All kinds of groups do those. They’re relatively primitive, and relatively easy to defend against. That’s what happened in Tallinn. More recently there was ransomware.Cyberwarfare, cyberattacks — these are the dark side of the computer. And we’re so dependent on computers.So we face planes being hacked out of the sky? Computers taking over automated cars? There’ll always be bad guys. They can always use that dependence not for the benefit of society, but for their benefit at our cost.Computers, like the moon, have a dark side. And the pace of cyber development is like the pace of computer development. It’s like Moore’s Law. [In 1965, Gordon Moore] predicted that the amount of information on a chip would double every one and a half years. Basically a computer generation is one and a half years. With cyber it’s even less. Every year to a year and a half, comes a new generation of cyber techniques. It’s a crazy pace. I cannot tell you what the cyber threats will be in five years — even though that’s my profession.In 2010, after Stuxnet (the virus that played havoc with Iran’s uranium enrichment centrifuges at its Natanz enrichment plant) made headlines, it was realized that the world would wake up. The prime minister asked me to put together a five-year program setting out all the possible cyber threats, and what Israel would need to counter them. I told him, I don’t know what those threats will be. Five years? That’s four generations in cyber. The equivalent of 120 human years! Where to start? Instead, I recommended that we set up the ecosytem, and do it now, strategically, with people capable of dealing with whatever turns up in the years ahead. And that we include people from the cyber industry, academia, and the government/security establishment.In 2010, by the way, there was only one cyber research center in the world. That was at Oxford. Israel and the US had none. There was no way you could do a bachelor’s degree in cyber. You would do math, computer engineering or computing, and then do a master’s or doctorate. Now at TAU, you can do a bachelor’s in cyber, or a cyber major in other faculties. We’re the only country where you can do a high school matriculation, up to five units [the biggest amount], in cyber.I said to Netanyahu, we can become a world center of knowledge. As with high-tech, so with cyber. One day, everybody will need it. He said yes straight away, and he stuck with it.I made 13 recommendations. After four discussions, all were endorsed by the cabinet. Twelve were approved right away. The thirteenth took three more meetings. That was the budget. An additional billion shekels per year added to budgets. If the prime minister doesn’t back you, you don’t get that money.‘I cannot tell you what the cyber threats will be in five years — even though that’s my profession’Back in 2002, when the Shin Bet was in charge of defending civilian infrastructure against attack, there were 36 critical infrastructures on my list. These were defined by either of two criteria: if the loss of life in one attack would be over 500; and if the economic cost of an attack could amount to half a percent of gross national product. Those criteria reduced my list to twenty-something.In 2010/11, how many critical infrastructures do you think there were? We stopped counting at a thousand. So much more is computer controlled. High-tech is the main engine of the Israeli economy.The idea of the Shin Bet [domestic security agency] saying, we’d like to go into your computers. Well, that wasn’t going to work. China tried to do that. Facebook and Google are gone from China. We didn’t want to kill the goose. We needed to find the balance between privacy and security.We had two options. One was to widen the umbrella of Shin Bet protection. But that’s not democratic, among other problems. And the second was to set up a new body, advising and supplying services. That’s what we did.Are the Russians capable of hurting us? There are four kinds of threat.One, spying for state purposes. Material is on computer, and states are trying to spy on it and always will. There are all kinds of treaties, but nobody ever tried to draw up a treaty on spying. It won’t work. Our allies do it too. The key is don’t get caught. And it’s all gray areas anyway. Getting information is an ambassador’s job. It’s his job.‘We’ve had people who were fooled by foreign intelligence, and they had one foot on the other side before they realized it’Two, spying for economic purposes, to steal your technology. The US does not do that to us. China does. Most China cyber is industrial espionage.Three, attacks and preparing for attacks. The Israel Electric Corporation, the water authority. Trying to work out how your servers work. Placing “logic bombs” — suspended until you send the trigger to operate them. Almost all of the states I mentioned don’t do that to us.And four, influencing public opinion. Disinformation. Fake news. What we saw in the US elections.Do we see it here? Yes, and done by the Americans too, but not by the US government. A few weeks ago there was a fake news report, disseminated by right-wing groups, that (former Obama-era defense secretary Leon) Panetta had said the administration tricked Israel on the Iran nuclear deal.Back to the Russians.In the US elections, the Russians hacked the Democratic National Committee, got hold of files, played with them and distributed them. They hacked Hillary Clinton and (former secretary of state Colin) Powell. They influenced the election. Now, they would have less success.Because the defenses would be better? Because lessons are constantly learned. (New French President Emmanuel) Macron had a head of digital in his campaign, a Moroccan-born Frenchman, Mounir Mahjoubi. The Russians hacked his campaign. And they published the materials five hours before the end of campaigning. But Mahjoubi, anticipating the hacking, had planted fake files. Those files came out too, with ridiculous content. Macron told the journalists, This is all rubbish. And the press agreed. End of the story.Compare the impact of the Russian hacking of the elections in the US and France. The Russian influence was not in the fact of them penetrating the DNC and Clinton’s emails and Powell’s. It’s not the hack that was the big deal. It was the planted material. They created doubt regarding Clinton — her health, corruption; created doubt about her capability to serve as president. I met many smart people who you’d have expected to vote for Clinton. They said, I can’t vote for Clinton because she’s corrupt. I said, On what basis do you say that? They said, There’s stuff. But they had nothing specific. Six months later, now people realize that there were fake files. With Macron, by contrast, they had zero impact.The Russians have a need for conspiracy. Students here at the university, you wouldn’t believe what they’re prepared to believe.People think Trump is “run” by the Russians. There’s a misunderstanding of what an agent is.Elaborate, please.Let’s talk about 1967. We had somebody, at the highest level, in the Egyptian government. Ashraf Marwan. Unfortunately we blew his cover. He was then “suicided.”How do you recruit someone like him? You can recruit by ideology. Communism. Philby, etc. You’re not going to recruit too many people via communism today.How would we recruit, say, theoretically, a Syrian air force general? We’d say, “We’re a Norwegian firm that works on air force products. Your country can benefit from some of our products. Be our representative. Sell our product. Benefit the Syrian air force. It’s for Syria’s benefit. Legitimate business. You get rich.”And then, “Here’s another great product we have.”And then, “Now, what else is the Syrian air force missing?”That’s the next half step. Now, he’s telling you things. It can take years, step by step. At some point he’ll realize that you’re “running him.” He mustn’t realize that it’s the Zionists. We’ll tell him, It’s the Russians. He won’t want to think it through. At some point you might ask him to cross the line. Or you might never ask him.I read everything about [Trump’s short-lived national security adviser Michael] Flynn [who is under investigation for ties to Russia]. It’s classic recruitment. A businessman who has been fooled by the Russians. The Russians are the champions at this.Have Israelis been duped in this way? We’ve had people who were fooled by foreign intelligence, and they had one foot on the other side before they realized it. We told them. Most wised up. Some fled. Some went to jail.I want to ask you about the so-called JCC hoaxer — a kid in Ashkelon who caused panic worldwide with thousands of fake bomb threats. One kid was able to cause vast chaos. Hundreds of schools evacuated. Airplane emergency landings. That’s pretty worrying, no? He called. He made the threats. Yet he didn’t penetrate computers. It shows what a kid can do.A president can do a lot more damage. The US president is destabilizing all kinds of basic elements. What does he call journalists? Fake news media. Judges are “enemies of the people.” And we know what you do about your enemies.With technology, we live in a world where everything is connected. You can get from anywhere to anywhere. That requires us to show more responsibility.In the case of the kid, once the threat rose to a certain level, they started investigating and they caught him. Wasn’t so hard.But in the internet generally, with cyber crime and cyber warfare, there is almost no effort to catch the bad guys. How many people do you recall being jailed in Israel for cyber warfare? I recall one case of a couple who planted a Trojan [virus]. Maybe there’s another case that’s slipped my mind. But every day there are millions of attacks. Nobody goes after the criminals. And it’s hard to get them, because they’re in different countries.So why not develop the technologies? Change the internet protocol.Could you explain what that means, and what it would involve? The internet was built to be robust and non-centralized.In 1973, we bombed Egypt’s communications centers, which was an important factor in the war.The internet was set up to insure it could not be incapacitated by that kind of physical attack? How does the internet work? You want to send me an email. You have a supplier. Netvision, say. Netvision has Wi-Fi. You’re in contact with a local server, one of thousands. It takes your note and breaks it into packets, each of which has its own ID. That server sends all the packets to all the servers it is in touch with. And all those servers send all those packets to all the servers they’re in touch with. It’s a global infrastructure. Now, one of those servers is my local server. It puts all the packets together and delivers your note to me.Why was the internet set up like that? One: You’d have to destroy half the world to prevent your note being delivered to me. Two, no single packet has all the information. So everything is secure. That’s how the internet was set up by DARPA.DARPA? The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency [in the US Department of Defense, which developed the networking heart of the internet]. It’s relatively impenetrable.You don’t know who sent the material to you. You get a set of protocols, but you don’t know who from. It’s called the problem of attribution. You need to re-engineer the internet to enable identification of the source of everything.If you rob a bank and you get caught, you might get jailed or killed. If you try to rob a bank online, either you’ll succeed or you’ll fail. But if you fail, they won’t catch you. So we have to solve the problem of attribution.For the pioneers, physicists at CERN communicating with their friends, this wasn’t an issue. It is now.I want to come back to Stuxnet, and the assertion — central to the 2016 documentary “Zero Days” — that Israel screwed it up by pushing it too hard, too fast.That’s nonsense.‘Any weapon you use, there is a risk that people will realize what it is, will defend against it, will act against it, will use it against you’In the 1973 war, we failed against Russian ground-to-air missiles in Syria. After the war, in the Israel Air Force we worked day and night for a solution to meet that threat. We developed smart weapons and drones and electronic warfare capabilities. In 1982, we initiated the Lebanon War. It was against Fatah, not against Syria. But we knew that the Syrian forces were deployed in Lebanon. Basically the same number of missile batteries as from the Golan in 1982. The same deployment. We didn’t know if they would fire on us this time.The IAF chief, David Ivri, called me in and said, Can you build me a model to tell us, if we go to war, whether we should use the weapons we’ve developed? Because if we use our new capabilities, the Russians, with their missiles in Syria, will see what we have.I developed a model based on research by [American political scientist] Robert Axelrod. He wrote about when to use weapons of surprise. He compared them to money in the bank, and argued that using it now is less valuable than if you leave it in place to earn interest. I took this model and I went to Ivri and I explained it to him. He said that made a lot of sense. But, Ivri also said, if we use our weaponry now and destroy the Soviet missiles, we push off future dangers. We would deter them, and give them the sense that they couldn’t outwit us.So we used those weapons, and we destroyed the missiles, and since then the Syrians haven’t fired a shot at us. The attack impacted them for decades.Years later, I got an email from a certain Bob Axelrod on an unrelated matter. I asked him if he was the same Robert Axelrod who wrote about when to use weapons of surprise, and he said he was. I told him, I used your model in 1982.He said, I’m so happy. Only two people I know of have ever used my models in real life. One was on the evolution of cooperation (Axelrod’s best-known work). My wife’s friend used that when she got divorced. She decided not to fight him and she ended up getting nothing. And now you’re telling me about your case.I didn’t have the heart to tell him that we ultimately rejected his model because we added another element — the accumulation of deterrent.So, to come back to Stuxnet.With any weapon you use, there is a risk that people will realize what it is, will defend against it, will act against it, will use it against you.The Iranian nuclear scientists knew something was going wrong. Eventually they realized what it was. In retrospect, you could say it should have been used more, less. Easy to be smart in hindsight.And where is Iran’s nuclear program now? The deal took them back. The most vital element, fissile material, they were three months away from having the fissile material for a bomb.They would have had a bomb in three months? We don’t know about other elements — detonators, triggers and so on. But on the key element of fissile material, they had gotten to three months away. And that was more than a year before the deal.And then they turned to the West and said, We’ll negotiate, because the sanctions are hurting us. And we won’t do those next three months [of advances]. They stopped themselves for more than a year. Then the deal was signed. The deal took them back to a point that is more than a year from the bomb.One: They pledged, We’ll never build a bomb. Go know if that is true. Two: There are bars and inspections of all kinds for 15 years if they keep the deal.If they break it, we’ll have more than a year until they get back to where they were. If you ask me, it’s a great deal. If you ask Bibi [Netanyahu], in 15 years, they’ll have an arsenal. And you know that Bibi himself has said that the head of Mossad at the time, Military Intelligence, the IDF chief of staff, the Shin Bet, all disagreed with him. [The late former Mossad chief Meir] Dagan talked about it publicly.There are cameras where we want them. Surprise visits. Yes, there’s a mechanism for surprise visits [so they’re not instant]. The Iranians actually said, You’ll turn up in Khamenei’s bathroom. So there are delays. But radioactive materials have a footprint of 10,000 years. You can’t hide that. And radioactive materials are the key. Other materials you can’t monitor anyway.The deal is very good. Will they keep it? I don’t know. I don’t trust the Iranians, but we’ll know in enough time. We’ll have a year to decide what to do.Finally, what can you tell me about the claim by the late Itzhak Yaakov, which emerged this month around the 50th anniversary of the Six Day War, that Israel considered detonating a nuclear bomb in the Sinai in 1967?If you read the books by foreign experts, they all agree that in 1967 Israel had the bomb. So you can choose to believe the story. And you can think that it’s part of Israel’s deterrent. Even now. We let a story get out. And if we had that capacity in 1967, you might think, then for sure we have it now. Except we’re not saying it.

SCHOCK AND ANGER IN MOSUL AT DEATH CULT QURANIC ISLAMIC ISIS DESTROYING HISTORIC MOSQUE.

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)

Red Deer cleaning up from wind storm after declaring state of emergency-[The Canadian Press]-yahoonews-June 21, 2017

RED DEER, Alta. — People in Red Deer were cleaning up Wednesday after a violent windstorm that knocked out power and prompted the central Alberta city to declare a local state of emergency.Homes where damaged Tuesday when wind gusts of more than 100 km/h hit the city of about 100,000 just after 7 p.m.Mayor Tara Veer said trees fell on power lines and wind blew debris around.One person suffered minor injuries at a campground but was released from hospital."We do know that it was a severe windstorm. We do know that there were exceedances of 112 km/h winds," Veer said.People posted images on social media of damage, including part of a roof that blew off a store and landed on nearby parked cars.Windows were blown out of the local mall and one video showed scenes of people wandering around the darkened building wondering if they had been hit by a tornado.Environment Canada said Red Deer was hit by one of a number of severe thunderstorms that rolled through the central part of the province Tuesday on the leading edge of a cold front.Meteorologist Dan Kulak said it was not a tornado. He called it a "low-end severe thunderstorm" and added that such storms happen every year in the province."It was not a tornadic event. There is no evidence of tornadoes that we can find," he said. "There were strong wind gusts across the province. It is not unusual."Kulak said thunderstorm watches were issued by Environment Canada just before noon that said conditions were favourable for the development of dangerous thunderstorms that could produce wind gusts, hail and heavy rain.Environment Canada updated the watch to a thunderstorm warning for the Red Deer area about 7:09 p.m., he said.The Red Deer airport reported peak wind gusts a few minutes later.Daelyn Hamill of Red Deer put up a picture of a giant spruce tree that had crashed onto the roof of his parent's home. He urged people to "stay safe out there!"Another photo showed a semi-trailer that had been pushed onto its side by the winds on the highway between Innisfail and Penhold.Town officials in Innisfail, 30 kilometres south of Red Deer, were also reporting widespread power outages and said the roof had blown off the town's curling rink, though an initial assessment said there was no structural damage to the building.Stronger wind gusts were recorded north of Red Deer as well in the Maskwacis area, while a rail car was reportedly blown off the tracks east of Edmonton.— With files from CTV Calgary.The Canadian Press.

London fire: Cladding in other buildings 'combustible'-[The Canadian Press]-yahoonews-June 22, 2017

LONDON — Tests so far have found that at least three high-rise apartment buildings in the U.K. have flammable external panels like the ones believed to have contributed to a fire that killed 79 people in London, Britain's government said Thursday.Prime Minister Theresa May's office said 600 buildings in the country have "similar cladding" to that of Grenfell Tower in North Kensington, which was destroyed by the June 14 blaze.The Department for Communities and Local Government later said that figure refers to buildings with all types of cladding and that not all of them necessarily have cladding made from the same aluminum composite material as Grenfell Tower. Landlords are being asked to check what the cladding on their buildings is made from.Police and fire officials are trying to determine whether cladding contributed to the rapid spread of the Grenfell blaze, which engulfed the 24-story building in less than an hour. They still haven't said where and how the fire started.May told the House of Commons on Thursday that government facilities have so far found combustible cladding after local officials submitted samples in the wake of the fire."The relevant local authorities and local fire services have been informed, and, as I speak, they are taking all possible steps to ensure buildings are safe and to inform affected residents," May said.May encouraged the owners of both public and private tower blocks around the country to quickly forward samples of any similar material for testing. The government will work with local authorities to make sure any dangerous material is removed and residents are safe, she said.The Department for Communities and Local Government said it would not identify the buildings with combustible panels until landlords have had the opportunity to inform tenants. The local council in Camden, a borough of London, removed cladding from one of its buildings for further testing after tests they commissioned showed some of their panels were of the flammable variety — and not the ones they ordered.It was unclear whether the Camden example was one of the three mentioned by the government.Opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn called for urgent checks on around 4,000 buildings as Britain comes to grips with the potential ramifications of the disaster. Thousands need urgent assurances about their own safety, he said."At least 79 people are dead — it is both a tragedy and an outrage because every single one of those deaths could and should have been avoided," Corbyn said.Corbyn compared the tragedy to the 1989 Hillsborough disaster in which 96 people were killed in the crush of a crowded soccer stadium, and recent sexual abuse scandals involving vulnerable children, arguing that the government had long turned a blind eye to the needs of the poor."The pattern is consistent: Working-class people's voices are ignored, their concerns dismissed by those in power," he said.May has apologized for mistakes that were made in the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower tragedy and promised that "no stone will be left unturned" in a public inquiry into its causes."For any guilty parties there will be nowhere to hide," she said.May's comments came after the resignation of the top administrative official in the local government that serves the community devastated by the fire. Local residents and the central government have criticized the response to the tragedy.Nicholas Holgate, chief executive of the Kensington and Chelsea council, had come under intense pressure following last week's blaze. The first few days after the fire were marked by chaos on the ground as local authorities struggled to deal with the hundreds of people who were displaced.Survivors who had lost everything found it hard to get find information about missing loved ones or the services available to help them get back on their feet.Danica Kirka, The Associated Press.

Magnitude 6.8 earthquake recorded off Guatemalan coast-[The Canadian Press]-yahoonews-June 22, 2017

GUATEMALA CITY — A magnitude 6.8 earthquake hit off Guatemala's Pacific coast on Thursday, shaking much of the country and neighbouring El Salvador. Local officials said there were initial reports of only minor damage.The Geological Survey said the 6:31 a.m. (1231 GMT; 8:31 a.m. EDT) quake was centred about 24 miles (38 kilometres ) southwest of Puerto San Jose and 6 miles (10 kilometres ) below the surface.The quake sent people fleeing into the streets in El Salvador.Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales sent tweets urging people to remain calm and saying the government was collecting information about possible damage.The spokesman for Guatemala's national disaster agency, Julio Sanchez, said there did not appear to be any injuries and said damage appeared to be minor. Local news media showed images of damage to some adobe-walled homes and small cracks in old buildings.The Associated Press.

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.

May to soothe EU leaders' post-election Brexit worries By Eszter Zalan-june 22,17-euobserver

BRUSSELS, Today, 09:29-EU leaders will gather on Thursday and Friday (22-23 June) in Brussels for a two-day summit on the week Brexit negotiations kicked off.The 27 leaders will hear from UK prime minster Theresa May, upon her request, on her struggles to form a government after a bruising election two weeks ago and how it will influence Brexit.May is also expected to outline some principles of the UK's paper on citizens rights which will be published early next week.However, after May is finished with her talk during Thursday’s dinner, leaders are not expected to quiz the British PM.“We do not encourage our leaders to engage in a discussion following her presentation: May is aware of it, it is not in her interest to engage in a discussion either,” said a senior EU diplomat-He added that Monday’s Brexit talks created a "very positive atmosphere" between London and Brussels.“We don’t have the ambition to sort out all the problems until the end of the week, but we want to build trust that would allow to the negotiations to go smoothly,” said another senior EU official.Brexit talks kicked off on Monday, and the EU’s chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, will brief EU leaders after May has left the room on Thursday night.EU leaders will also discuss the criteria for relocating the two EU agencies currently based in London, but a decision on the move will only be made in October.-China screening-French president Emmanuel Macron is expected to push for curbing foreign takeovers in strategic industries by scrutinising investments at the EU summit on Friday.Concern is rife among some EU members, including Germany, that China is aiming to take over companies in Europe that have advanced technology in strategic sectors.State-owned ChemChina recently bought Swiss farm company Syngenta, deepening those concerns.On Friday, leaders will discuss the concept of screening investments at EU level, but decisions on investments lie with the EU member states.“This is about China. But we as EU should be careful not to send protectionist signals, a compromise formulation will emerge on this,” one EU official said.European Council president Donald Tusk and European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker will brief leaders on the meeting with US president Donald Trump, Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan.The two EU institution leaders will also talk with the heads of EU countries about the EU-China summit and have a wider discussion on the EU’s role in the world.A discussion on Turkey might emerge among leaders, as Austria pushes for EU accession talks to officially freeze over Erdogan’s crackdown on his opponents.But EU leaders are keenly aware that Turkey is a crucial partner as a Nato ally and for halting the flow of migrants on the Western Balkan route.“Everybody is aware of what is at stake, I expect some cynical pragmatism to prevail,” said an EU official.-The elephant in the room-Migration will be on the table on Friday, where leaders are expected to give new political guidance on reforming the bloc’s asylum system.Last December, the EU leaders set a June deadline for agreeing on reforming the so-called Dublin system, but major fault lines persist with regard to the quotas set to relocate asylum seekers from frontline states.Some countries - such as Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic - said they would refuse to take in migrants.“The elephant in the room is the responsibility and solidarity and how that translates into legislation,” said one diplomat.Leaders will try to build momentum on issues where there is more agreement on external aspects, such as tackling migration on the central Mediterranean route and beefing up help for patrolling Libya’s southern border.They will also discuss an EU-wide safe third country concept.-Sanctions-French president Emmanuel Macron and German chancellor Angela Merkel are expected to recommend another six-month rollover of tough economic sanctions imposed in 2014 against Russia over the conflict in eastern Ukraine.The French and German leaders will brief fellow leaders on the Minsk ceasefire process, which has seen continued clashes between Ukrainian forces and Russian-backed rebels.-Security-In the wake of the terror attacks in Europe, security will feature high on the EU leaders’ agenda on Thursday.This time they want to encourage the internet industry to develop new technology and tools to combat online terrorism and radicalisation.Leaders will also want a new mechanism to better track the movement of people moving in and out of the Schengen zone to be finalised and operational.

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)

Prosecutor: Paris attacker asked family to see him as martyr-[The Canadian Press]-yahoonews-June 22, 2017

PARIS — The man killed when he drove his car packed with arms and explosives into a police convoy had pledged allegiance to the leader of the Islamic State group and asked his family to remember him not as a suicide bomber but as a martyr, France's anti-terrorism prosecutor said Thursday.Paris prosecutor Francois Molins, citing a letter written in the form of a will dated the day before the Monday attack on the French capital's famed Champs-Elysees Avenue, said the man, born in a Paris suburb, had pledged his allegiance to Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and practiced shooting "to prepare for jihad."The letter to his loved ones asked that his attack plan be treated not as a suicide attack but as a "martyrdom operation," Molins said.Molins said the attacker, whom he identified only as Adam D., had a huge cache of weapons both at home and in the vehicle he drove. Evidence from the investigation shows the suspect wanted to join IS forces in Syria and Iraq, the prosecutor said.The attack was aborted when the car exploded after the driver rammed the lead car in the police convoy, killing himself, Molins said.Police jumped out of the vehicle, ran to the car, smashed its windows and pulled out the driver in an apparent attempt to save him.Police officials earlier identified the suspect as 31-year-old Adam Djaziri from the Paris. He was born in Argenteuil, a Paris suburb, Molins said.Elaine Ganley, The Associated Press.

Champs Elysees attacker had been in Turkey and had huge arsenal of weapons: official-[Reuters]-yahoonews-June 22, 2017

PARIS (Reuters) - The man behind this week's attempted attack in Paris's Champs Elysees avenue had been to Turkey several times in 2016 where authorities questioned him over large amounts of gold and jewelry in his possession, and he had a huge arsenal of weapons, said the Paris prosecutor.Paris public prosecutor Francois Molins added at a news conference on Thursday that the attacker - whom he named as French national "Adam D" - had also wanted to go to Syria and had pledged allegiance to Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.On June 19, the individual had rammed a car carrying weapons and explosives into a police van as it drove in a convoy down Paris's Champs Elysees, and subsequently died."The arsenal of weapons discovered in the vehicle, highlights the scale of the terrorist act that was being prepared, which - if it had succeeded - would have had terrible consequences on human life," said Molins.Molins said authorities had not yet identified the nature of orange smoke coming out of the car after the attack. In his car were an assault rifle, two pistols, ammunition and two large gas canisters, authorities had previously said.Adam D was married to a Tunisian and had two children, added Molins.(Reporting by Sudip Kar-Gupta; Editing by Michel Rose)

Montreal man suspected in stabbing of police officer at Michigan airport-[CBC]-yahoonews-June 21, 2017

A Montreal resident accused of stabbing a police officer at Bishop International Airport in Flint, Mich., on Wednesday is being described by acquaintances as a "good person" and a quiet family man.U.S. authorities named Amor Ftouhi, who is approximately 50 years old, as the suspect in Wednesday's attack, which the FBI is investigating as an act of terror.On Wednesday afternoon, police descended on the apartment on Bélair Street in Montreal's St-Michel neighbourhood that Ftouhi shared with his wife and three children.Three people were questioned, and RCMP were expected to take over at the scene to begin a search and seizure operation.In an update Wednesday evening, Montreal police spokesperson Benoit Boisselle said the police operation was part of anti-terrorism procedures triggered when national security is believed to be at risk.Boisselle said no threats to public security were detected, but national security investigators will remain on site.Mohcin Asrii, who lives in the building, told CBC that Ftouhi is a quiet family man who was always kind. Luciano Piazza, who has owned the building for 55 years and is Ftouhi's landlord, said he was "very surprised" to hear his tenant is the suspect."He's a good person, very quiet. I've never had any problems with him," Piazza said, adding Ftouhi and his family moved in more than five years ago. "They're really good people."Ftouhi had been working as a driver through a job placement agency.His Facebook page says he is originally from Tunis, Tunisia. It's not clear when he moved to Montreal.According to a Facebook post, he graduated from Collège O'Sullivan on Mountain Street in downtown Montreal in 2009.Two Muslim women living in the neighbourhood expressed worry and anger when they were told of the allegations facing Ftouhi."It scares me," Ichrak Laib told Radio-Canada. "Stupid acts like that put our lives in danger." "That's not us," said Seloua Ghalem. "No religion calls for violence and terrorism. It's ridiculous."Officer wounded in knife attack-FBI spokesperson David Gelios said Ftouhi crossed legally into the U.S. on June 16 at Lake Champlain, N.Y. He didn't have information on why the suspect was in Flint.Gelios said Ftouhi arrived alone at Bishop International Airport Wednesday morning and spent some time at a restaurant prior to the attack, which took place at 9:45 a.m. ET. Gelios said Ftouhi stabbed the officer in the neck with a 30-centimetre knife after yelling "Allahu akbar," which is Arabic for "God is great.""He made a statement something to the effect of, 'You have killed people in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan and we are all going to die,'"- Gelios said.'A lone wolf attacker'-The attacker was quickly subdued by the wounded officer, identified as Lt. Jeff Neville, and three others.The stabbing sent Neville to hospital in critical condition. His condition has since stabilized.In an affidavit filed Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, FBI special agent Thomas M. Sondgeroth said Ftoui "asked the officer why he did not kill him."Gelios said preliminary evidence indicates the suspect acted alone and there is "nothing to suggest a wider plot.""At this time, we view him as a lone wolf attacker," he said.During questioning, Gelios said the suspect was co-operative and talked about his motive for attacking the officer. "Suffice it to say he has a hatred for the United States and a variety of other things," Gelios said.Ftoui is charged with committing an act of violence at an international airport, which carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.Gelios said Ftouhi was not known to the FBI, and that searches are continuing.At a media scrum in Ottawa Wednesday afternoon, federal Public Security Minister Ralph Goodale condemned the "heinous and cowardly attack" and said the RCMP are co-operating with the FBI, which is leading the investigation.

Suicide car bomb outside Afghan bank kills at least 29-[The Canadian Press]-yahoonews-June 22, 2017

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — A suicide car bomb exploded Thursday at a bank in Afghanistan's Helmand province as Afghan troops and government workers waited to collect their pay ahead of a major Muslim holiday, killing at least 29 people, officials said.Most of the casualties in the explosion near the bank in the provincial capital of Lashkar Gah were civilians, said provincial Gov. Hayatullah Hayat. At least 60 people were wounded, he said.The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack at the Kabul Bank in the southern province, which has been the centre of bitter battles between the insurgents and security forces, aided by NATO troops.The militants, believed to control nearly 80 per cent of the province's countryside, increasingly have been making a push into Lashkar Gah to try take the city.Taliban spokesman Qari Yusuf Ahmadi said in an email that the bomb targeted Afghan security personnel collecting their salaries. He said no civilians were killed and gave a higher death toll. But the provincial governor and police chief emphasized that most of the dead were civilians. Witnesses said children were among the wounded.The Taliban recently have overrun Helmand's key Sangin district, where British and U.S. troops had fought for years to keep them at bay.The attacker struck as scores of people, including many Afghan soldiers and civil servants, waited outside the bank ahead of the Eid-al-Fitr holiday, which follows the holy month of Ramadan, expected to end this weekend.Esmatullah, a border policeman who was at the scene of the deafening explosion, said many people were missing in the ensuing chaos as bystanders, survivors and ambulances struggled to get the most seriously wounded to the hospital."We are taking children to the hospital," said Esmatullah, who like many Afghans uses only one name.A 12-year-old girl named Hosnia was crying outside the bank as she searched for her father who had brought her to buy shoes ahead of the holiday."I couldn't find anyone, my brother and my father," she said. "My father told me he will take me to buy shoes. We came here and then there was the explosion."President Ashraf Ghani assailed the attackers as "enemies of humanity." He said the relentless assaults in Afghanistan are particularly offensive during Ramadan, when the faithful seek forgiveness for their wrongdoings."These brutal terrorist attacks ... prove that they (insurgents) have no respect for any religion or faith," Ghani said in a statement.Afghanistan has faced a series of large-scale attacks as the Taliban stepped up the war against the Kabul government in this year's summer offensive. In addition, the emerging Islamic State affiliate in Afghanistan has tried to increase its footprint with attacks in urban areas.The worst occurred May 31, shortly after Ramadan began, when a truck bomb exploded in the heart of the capital of Kabul, killing 150 people. It was the worst attack since the Taliban ouster in 2001.Pakistan also condemned Thursday's suicide bombing, saying that "we firmly stand with our Afghan brothers in this hour of grief and anguish."Afghanistan and Pakistan routinely accuse each other of harbouring the insurgents.Helmand is considered a key region because it is one of the largest opium-producing provinces for the Taliban, who charge traffickers a hefty tax to move their contraband to market. Corrupt government officials also benefit from the production and trade of opium, the raw material for heroin.Afghanistan is the world's largest opium-producing country, producing more than all other countries combined, according to U.N. estimates.Meanwhile, a militant attack Wednesday night in a mosque in eastern Afghanistan killed two members of the local council.Salim Sallhe, spokesman for the provincial governor in eastern Logar, said gunmen opened fire at worshippers in Baraki district. Two other local officials were wounded.Sallhe said police are investigating. A Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, denied the insurgents were behind the shooting.___Shah reported from Kabul. Associated Press writer Abdul Khalik in Lashkar Gah contributed.Mirwais Khan And Amir Shah, The Associated Press.

Shock and anger in Mosul after Islamic State destroys historic mosque-[Reuters]-By Kawa Omar and Ahmed Rasheed-YAHOONEWS-June 22, 2017

MOSUL/BAGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters) - The leaning al-Habda minaret that has towered over Mosul for 850 years lay in ruins on Thursday, demolished by retreating Islamic State militants, but Iraq's prime minister said the act marked their final defeat in the country's second city."In the early morning, I climbed up to my house roof and was stunned to see the Hadba minaret had gone," Nashwan, a day- laborer living in Khazraj neighborhood near the mosque, said by phone. "I felt I had lost a son of mine."His words echoed the shock and anger of many over the destruction of the Grand al-Nuri Mosque along with its famous minaret, known affectionately as "the hunchback" by Iraqis.The demolition came on Wednesday night as Iraqi forces closed on the mosque, which carried enormous symbolic importance for Islamic State. Its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi used it in 2014 to declare a "caliphate" as militants seized swathes of of Syria and Iraq.His black flag had been flying on the 150-foot (45-metre) minaret since June 2014, after Islamic State fighters surged across Iraq, seizing vast swathes of territory.Russia said on Thursday there was high degree of certainty Baghdadi was now dead, according to RIA news agency. Moscow said last week its forces may have killed him, but Washington could not corroborate and Western and Iraqi officials were skeptical.Baghdadi has left the fighting in Mosul to local commanders and is believed to be hiding in the border area between Iraq and Syria.Some analysts said the destruction of the mosque could in fact speed operations to drive Islamic State out of what had been its chief Iraqi stronghold. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi went further."Blowing up the al-Hadba minaret and the al-Nuri mosque amounts to an official acknowledgement of defeat," he said on his website.The insurgents chose to blow up the mosque rather than see the flag taken down by U.S.-backed Iraqi forces battling through the maze of narrow alleys and streets of the Old City, the last district still under control of Islamic State in Mosul.In the dawn light, all that remained was the base projecting from shattered masonry. A video on social media showed the minaret collapsing vertically, throwing up a pall of sand and dust.Defense analysts agreed the decision to destroy the mosque could indicate that the militants are on the verge of collapse."They had said they would fight until their last breath defending the mosque," Baghdad-based security expert Safaa al-A’sam told Reuters. "The fact is that they are no longer capable of standing in the face of Iraqi government forces."The assailants will be freer in their attacks as they don't have to worry about damaging the mosque anymore, he said.The minaret was built with seven bands of decorative brickwork in complex geometric patterns also found in Persia and Central Asia. Its tilt and the lack of maintenance made it particularly vulnerable to blasts.U.S. Army Colonel Ryan Dillon, spokesman for the U.S.-led international coalition assisting in the Iraqi effort to defeat Islamic State, said Iraqi security forces were continuing to push into remaining ISIS-held territory,""There are two square kilometers left in West Mosul before the entire city is liberated," he told Reuters by phone.-"SYMBOL OF IDENTITY"-The United Nations' education organization UNESCO said the Minaret and mosque "stood as a symbol of identity, resilience and belonging" and deplored their destruction.Baghdadi proclaimed himself "caliph", or ruler of all Muslims, from the mosque's pulpit on July 4, 2014.The fall of Mosul would in effect mark the end of the Iraqi half of the "caliphate", though Islamic State would still hold territory west and south of the city. U.S.-backed militias are closing on Islamic State's Syrian stronghold of Raqqa.The mosque was named after Nuruddin al-Zanki, a noble who fought the early crusaders from a fiefdom that covered territory in modern-day Turkey, Syria and Iraq. It was built in 1172-73, shortly before his death, and housed an Islamic school.The mosque's military and religious history embodies the spirit of Mosul, a conservative city which supplied the armed forces with officers since modern Iraq was created, about 100 years ago, and until the fall of Saddam Hussein, after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion which empowered the Shi'ite majority.The Sunni city balked at its loss of influence and some joined the insurgency against the new rulers of the country. When Islamic State swept into Mosul in June 2014, they were welcomed by those who saw the takeover as promising an end to harsh treatment by Shi'ite-led security forces.The Mosque's destruction occurred during the holiest period of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, its final 10 days. The night of Laylat al-Qadr falls during this period, marking when Muslims believe the Quran was revealed to the prophet Mohammed.Islamic State fighters have destroyed many Muslim religious sites, churches and shrines, as well as ancient Assyrian and Roman-era sites in Iraq and in Syria."Many different enemies controlled Mosul over the past 900 years but none of them dared to destroy the Hadba." said Ziad, an arts students. "By bombing the minaret, they proved the are the worst of all barbarian groups in history."(For a graphic on battle for Mosul, click http://tmsnrt.rs/2rG1BO6)-(Writing by Maher Chmaytelli; editing by Ralph Boulton)

AP Analysis: Saudi shakeup, Qatar crisis show a Gulf on edge-[The Canadian Press]-yahoonews-June 22, 2017

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — There was a time when the mention of the Persian Gulf brought to mind images of pampered societies ruled by aging monarchs content to preside quietly over their oil money and fantastical skyscrapers while the U.S. kept the peace.Not anymore.A sudden royal shake-up in Saudi Arabia early Wednesday is only the latest wild card to be thrown in days of head-spinning developments in the typically staid Gulf.The kingdom led nations in unexpectedly cutting off nominal ally Qatar from the clubby Gulf Cooperation Council, which suddenly looks so incredibly unco-operative that is has raised fears of war among its members. The fact that Qatar hosts one of the biggest and most important foreign U.S. air bases has so far proved to be a good insurance policy for the tiny emirate — but the dispute brings headaches for Washington.The main adversary the Arab nations set up the council to stand against, Iran, meanwhile launched a volley of ballistic missiles at militants in Syria, its first such strike in more than a decade and a half.That's not even getting into low global oil prices squeezing their largely petrodollar-driven economies. Nor does it account for the ongoing threat posed by the Islamic State group, which struck Tehran for the first time, or the stalemated war in Yemen that's led to extensive civilian suffering.So what's actually going on? Some analysts have pointed to the fact that much of the turmoil came after U.S. President Donald Trump's trip last month to Saudi Arabia, his first state visit designed to show the Republican had a far different worldview than his Democratic predecessor Barack Obama. In truth, many of the tensions currently on display — with both Iran and Qatar — go back years. But Trump's strong public endorsement of Riyadh as his primary regional partner may have emboldened the Saudis and changed some of the geopolitical math.Saudi Arabia and other Gulf nations like the United Arab Emirates were deeply suspicious of Obama's diplomatic detente with Iran, which culminated in the 2015 nuclear deal."The Obama administration's apparent attempt to disengage from the region engendered a change in the Gulf's strategic culture, making some U.S. partners more confident in their ability to act on their own," wrote Michael Eisenstadt, the director of the Military and Security Studies Program at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy.However, "arms sales or military surges cannot compensate for policy errors and missteps whose effects are regional in scope and geopolitical in scale," he added.U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's efforts at trying to mediate the Qatar crisis while Trump's own tweets appear to back the Saudi-led isolation over allegations the country supports terrorism have only compounded the uncertainty gripping the Gulf. Qatar long has denied backing extremist groups, though Western diplomats say its lax oversight allowed funding of Sunni militants like Syria's al-Qaida branch.The State Department this week demanded the countries boycotting Qatar spell out their complaints, suggesting the Trump administration was losing patience over the spat among its Gulf partners.In Iran, Tillerson's comments last week before Congress that the U.S. is working toward "support of those elements inside of Iran that would lead to a peaceful transition of that government" angered officials there already suspicious of Trump.Meanwhile, citizens of Tehran openly accused Saudi Arabia of backing the Islamic State attack on parliament and the shrine of the Islamic Republic's founder that killed 18 people and wounded over 50.Their evidence? Newly minted Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's own comments in May that the kingdom would "work so that it becomes a battle for them in Iran and not in Saudi Arabia."So when Iran launched its first missile attack in over 15 years on foreign soil this week targeting Islamic State fighters in Syria over the Tehran assault, it openly acknowledged it was a message for Saudi Arabia and America.That crisis between Iran and Saudi Arabia, which cut diplomatic ties in 2016, has extended into a disputed shooting in the Persian Gulf. Saudi Arabia said it captured three members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard aboard an explosives-laden boat that it alleges planned to attack a major offshore oilfield. Iran dismisses the allegation, though it earlier acknowledged the death of one citizen it called a fisherman who was shot by Saudi forces.There's turmoil striking other Gulf countries as well, particularly the tiny island of Bahrain, which is linked to Saudi Arabia by a causeway. A government crackdown on dissent for over a year continues unabated. Militants have responded by stepping up attacks on security forces, including one Sunday that killed a police officer.In Kuwait and Oman, citizens worry about the health of their current leaders, respectively the 88-year-old Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah and 76-year-old Sultan Qaboos bin Said. In Oman, there's no clear successor to the sultan while in Kuwait, a leadership struggle is possible.That challenge of continuing dynastic rule in Gulf Arab nations is tied to the task of handling burgeoning youth populations who expect to live as well or better than their parents. In Saudi Arabia, King Salman putting his assertive, 31-year-old son as next in line to the throne could prove popular with the kingdom's youth — if he can pull off his ambitious plans to wean the country from its oil-soaked economy.That all could be derailed with the dissention among the Arab Gulf states in the region and the ever-heating war of words between Iran and Saudi Arabia. In a way, that trouble has been there for decades, simmering just under the surface.Now it's boiling to a crisis at a level unseen since the 1990 Iraq invasion of Kuwait. That ended with a war and burning oil fields, something no one wants to see now.___EDITOR'S NOTE — Adam Schreck, the Gulf news director for The Associated Press, has reported from each of the Persian Gulf states and other locations across the Middle East since 2008. Jon Gambrell, an AP journalist since 2006, has covered the Middle East from Cairo and Dubai, United Arab Emirates, since 2013.___Follow Adam Schreck on Twitter at www.twitter.com/adamschreck . Follow Jon Gambrell at www.twitter.com/jongambrellap .This is an AP analysis of the situation in the Persian Gulf region following the latest developments. Adam Schreck, the Gulf news director for The Associated Press, has reported from each of the Persian Gulf states and other locations across the Middle East since 2008. Jon Gambrell, an AP journalist since 2006, has covered the Middle East from Cairo and Dubai, United Arab Emirates, since 2013.Adam Schreck And Jon Gambrell, The Associated Press.

Trudeau to drop name of residential schools proponent from Langevin building-[CBC]-yahoonews-June 21, 2017

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau marked National Aboriginal Day by promising to strip the name of a residential schools proponent from a federal building and to rename the annual occasion as National Indigenous Peoples Day.Trudeau also formally announced that 100 Wellington St. in Ottawa, a heritage building and former U.S. embassy, will become a space dedicated to Inuit, Métis and First Nations peoples.During an event outside the building located across from Parliament Hill, Trudeau said there has never been a space dedicated to Indigenous peoples in the parliamentary precinct."That changes today," he said told the crowd of assembled Indigenous leaders and community members."It is our hope that this historic building will be a powerful symbol of the foundational role of Indigenous peoples in Canada's history as well as our close relationship towards our shared future."Trudeau also announced that the building currently called the Langevin block, which houses the Prime Minister's Office, will be renamed.The building is named after Hector-Louis Langevin, a father of Confederation and a prominent member of Sir John A. Macdonald's cabinet. He proposed the creation of the residential school system as the quickest way to assimilate First Nations children into Euro-Canadian society.He served as secretary of state for the provinces when the country's first residential schools were introduced."There is a deep pain in knowing that that building carries a name so closely associated with the horror of residential schools," Trudeau said. "Keeping that name on the Prime Minister's office is inconsistent with the values of our government, and it's inconsistent with our vision of a strong partnership with indigenous peoples in Canada."The building will "practically" be renamed The Office of the Prime Minister and the Privy Council, he said.Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde called the announcement "a big thing" that represents a milestone in building the nation-to-nation relationship.But NDP MP Romeo Saganash stood in question period Wednesday afternoon, and speaking in his native Cree, asked Trudeau if he had consulted representatives of the Algonquin People or spoken to the Penoshway family, who were removed from the land now occupying Parliament Hill, before changing the name of Langevin block.Trudeau responded by thanking Saganash for his words, which were not translated in the House, and saying he wished he had the capacity to understand what was being said."I thank the member for his question and look forward to working with him on the path to true reconciliation," Trudeau said.In a statement released earlier Wednesday morning, Trudeau said the government is determined to make a real difference in the lives of Indigenous Canadians by closing socio-economic gaps, supporting greater self-determination and creating more opportunities to work on "shared priorities.""No relationship is more important to Canada than the relationship with Indigenous Peoples. Our government is working together with Indigenous Peoples to build a nation-to-nation, Inuit-Crown, government-to-government relationship – one based on respect, partnership, and recognition of rights," the prime minister's statement reads.The statement said it is the government's intention is to rename the day National Indigenous Peoples Day, and that the government is reviewing all federal laws and policies to make progress on calls to action from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.The name change, which requires an order-in-council, will be in place for next year.Bellegarde welcomed the move, saying it would be more reflective of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples."It's important to be consistent with international terminology. It's an important step, no question," he told CBC News in an interview.Bellegarde called the day a chance to celebrate the contributions to the country and the resilience of Indigenous people.-'We're still here'-"In spite of the genocide from the residential schools and the colonization and oppression of the Indian Act and the exploitation of the land and territories, everything we have faced in the last 500 years, we're still here as Indigenous peoples," he said. "You can still hear our songs and our dance and our culture."Bellegarde said there is an awakening in Canadians about the quality of life gap that persists for Indigenous people, including housing, education, access to water and suicide rates."What's hopeful for me is that Canadians are starting to get it. To have those statistics that plague Indigenous peoples be real in 2017 is just not acceptable anymore," he said. "To see the poverty, and to see the systemic discrimination within police and within health care system, it's just not acceptable and I think there's a crying need for changes. That's what's hopeful and providing inspiration for a better country going forward."Trudeau said the day is an opportunity to recognize the "fundamental contributions" that First Nations, Inuit and the Métis Nation have made to the country, and urged Canadians to take part in Aboriginal Day activities in their communities to learn about the history, cultures and traditions of Indigenous people."The 150th anniversary of Confederation this year reminds us of the legacy of the past. As we look forward to the next 150 years, we commit to move ahead together in a spirit of reconciliation and respect," he said.The NDP also released a statement marking National Aboriginal Day as an occasion to honour the contributions of Indigenous people, including work to champion environmental protection and social justice, while reflecting on the many challenges Indigenous people still face today."Every day that we, as Indigenous Peoples, walk through a society built on colonial values is a day that we are reminded of how much work there is still to do to ensure a successful future for all our children," Indigenous and Northern Affairs critic Romeo Saganash.Statutory holiday? NDP MP Georgina Jolibois has tabled a private member's bill to make National Aboriginal Day a national statutory holiday."The timing of this bill is significant for many people because while many are celebrating Canada 150, few are recognizing the sad realities and history of Indigenous Peoples. This recognition is necessary for reconciliation, and a renewed and sincere nation-to-nation relationship," Jolibois said in the statement."We can't change the past; however, we can be honest and educate ourselves so that history does not repeat itself."Bellegarde supports making it a national statutory holiday."Education and awareness are two steps that lead to understanding that should lead to action," he said. "Having a statutory holiday for Indigenous Peoples Day is a way of educating Canadians, it's an opportunity to listen and learn. I think we've got to really interact more together and learn from each other because there's just not enough integration either way. We still live in solitudes."Paul Duchesne, a spokesman for the Privy Council Office, said there is no intention at this time to change the status of the day to be a statutory holiday. Green Party Leader Elizabeth May issued a statement urging government action to address pressing issues such as the lack of clean drinking water and discrimination against Indigenous children."Advocates are pushing the federal government to abide by an order to provide equitable funding for child and family services on reserves. This year's budget contained nothing to address this shortfall in funding. This blatant discrimination tarnishes Canada's human rights record."

Thousands of yogis search for serenity in Times Square-Agence France-Presse-yahoonews-June 21, 2017

New York (AFP) - Thousands of yoga aficionados celebrated the summer solstice amid the neon lights and cacophony of Times Square Wednesday, searching for inner peace in the heart of New York on International Yoga Day."I have always wanted to come to yoga in Times Square. This year I retired so now I can," said 62-year-old former school principal Kathy Gaffney, who took the ferry bright and early from Staten Island to get a good place in line.Around 12,000 people were expected to take part in six one-hour yoga classes beginning at 7:30 am (1130 GMT) to celebrate the official start of summer and the longest day of the year. The event is now in its 15th year.For the last three years, it has coincided with International Yoga Day."It is mind over matter," laughed Magdalena Leszko, 40, of the surrounding Times Square din. "To have fun and to be part of a community. It tests the limits."Chloe Liu, a Malaysian living in New York, came with two Chinese friends."To be able to do yoga in Times Square, in the middle of this chaotic and noisy scene, to be able to find calmness and equanimity," she said. "I was able to -- not the whole time, but in and out," said the delighted 49-year-old.Under the watchful eye of police in one of the busiest plazas in the world, organizers handed out green yoga mats and bottles of water, before talking participants through their postures."The first year there were only three people who participated, the weather that day was horrible, raining," said Douglas Stewart, yoga teacher and co-founder of the event. "But it started to grow year after year," he added.In 2015, when the event coincided with the first International Yoga Day, 17,000 people took part, including then UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon.