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)
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
THE WE GO THE LOWEST RIGHT TO THE PITS OF HELL SEWER RAT LOSER DEMONUT-LIBERAL MENTALCASES. LOSE AND BRETT KAVANAUGH IS NOW A SUPREME COURT JUDGE. I AGREE WITH TRUMP - ALL - LIBERALS-DEMOCRATS ARE TO DANGEROUS AND EXTREME AND MENTALLY ILL TO GOVERN.
After fight that split U.S., Kavanaugh wins place on Supreme Court-[Reuters]-By Richard Cowan, Amanda Becker and David Morgan-YAHOONEWS-October 6, 2018
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican-controlled U.S. Senate on Saturday confirmed Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, dismissing anger over accusations of sexual misconduct against him and delivering a major victory to President Donald Trump who has now locked in a conservative majority on the court.By a vote of 50-48, the deeply-divided Senate gave the lifetime job to Kavanaugh, 53, after weeks of fierce debate over sexual violence, alcohol abuse and his angry response to the allegations that convulsed the nation just weeks before congressional elections on Nov. 6.Kavanaugh will help take the highest U.S. court to the right, perhaps for many years, and his confirmation is a bitter blow to Democrats already chafing at Republican control of the White House and both chambers of the U.S. Congress.Conservatives will now have a 5-4 majority in any future legal battles on contentious issues such as abortion rights, immigration, transgender rights, industry regulation, and presidential powers.Adding to a dramatic day on Capitol Hill, women protesters in the Senate gallery shouted "Shame on you!" and briefly interrupted the vote.Another group of protesters stormed toward the doors of the nearby Supreme Court building with raised fists. Police stood guard at the doors.Kavanaugh was sworn in by Chief Justice John Roberts shortly after the vote.Kavanaugh's nomination blew up into a personal and political drama when university professor Christine Blasey Ford accused him of sexually assaulting her in the upstairs bedroom of a home in a wealthy suburb of Washington in 1982.Two other women accused him in the media of sexual misconduct in the 1980s.Kavanaugh fought back against the accusations, denying them in angry and tearful testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee that was viewed live on television by around 20 million people.Trump, who called Kavanaugh to congratulate him on Saturday, said he was "100 percent" certain that Ford named the wrong person in accusing the judge.Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One while flying to a campaign rally in Kansas, Trump said of Kavanaugh: "We’re very honored that he was able to withstand this horrible, horrible attack by the Democrats."Michael Bromwich, a lawyer for Ford, said in a tweet that Kavanaugh's confirmation capped, "A week that will live in infamy for the U.S. Senate, permanently diminishing its stature."A few Republican senators who had wavered over whether to vote for Kavanaugh finally backed him this week, saying they did so in part because a brief FBI investigation found no corroborating evidence of Ford's accusations.Democrats said the FBI probe was nowhere near wide enough.Trump watched the vote on a large-screen television tuned to Fox News in a wood-paneled cabin on the plane. He flashed two thumbs up when the final vote was declared and aides on board applauded.The Senate confirmation allows him to hit the campaign trail ahead of the congressional elections saying that he has kept his 2016 promise to mold a more conservative American judiciary.At a political rally in Mississippi on Tuesday, Trump mocked Ford's account of what she says was a drunken attack on her by Kavanaugh when they were teenagers.For weeks, senators from both parties decried the harsh and often emotional rhetoric in the clash over Kavanaugh, a federal appeals court judge with a history of advancing Republican causes.But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican, dismissed the prospect of lingering bitterness among senators. "These things always blow over," he told a news conference.-WOMEN PROTESTS-Hundreds of protesters against Kavanaugh gathered on the grounds of the Capitol and at the Supreme Court. A total of 164 people were arrested in the protests, U.S. Capitol Police said.Residents of a townhouse near the Washington home of Senator Susan Collins, a moderate Republican whose backing helped get Kavanaugh over the line on Saturday, flew the flag of the lawmaker's home state Maine upside down in protest.Accusations against Kavanaugh energized the #MeToo social media movement that emerged after high-profile accusations of sexual assault and harassment by men in politics, the media and the entertainment industry.Democrats said Kavanaugh's partisan defense of himself, in which he said he was victim of a "political hit," was enough itself to disqualify him from the court.The dispute over Kavanaugh has added fuel to campaigning for the elections in November when Democrats will try to take control of Congress from the Republicans.Several polls show that Republican enthusiasm about voting, which had lagged behind, jumped after the Kavanaugh hearing last week.McConnell told Reuters that the political brawl over Kavanaugh will help Republicans at the ballot box."Nothing unifies Republicans like a court fight," McConnell said in an interview ahead of the vote. "It's been a seminal event leading into the fall election."But Democrats hope women angered at the Kavanaugh accusations will turn out in large numbers to reject Republicans.During Saturday's vote, senators were showered with cries of "We will not forget," and “Survivors vote” from protesters in the Senate gallery.Democrats must gain at least two Senate seats and 23 House seats at the elections to claim majorities in each chamber, enabling them to block Trump's agenda and investigate his administration. The Democrats are seen as having more chance of winning control of the House of Representatives than the Senate.Senator Dianne Feinstein, the senior Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said on Twitter: "Confirming Brett Kavanaugh in the face of credible allegations of sexual assault that were not thoroughly investigated, and his belligerent, partisan performance...undermines the legitimacy of the Supreme Court."Kavanaugh succeeds retired Justice Anthony Kennedy, who was often the decisive swing vote on social issues.The showdown over Kavanaugh had echoes of current Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' contentious confirmation hearings in 1991 involving sexual harassment allegations lodged against him by a law professor named Anita Hill.(Reporting by Amanda Becker, Richard Cowan and David Morgan; Additional reporting by Ginger Gibson and David Brunnstrom in Washington and Roberta Rampton on Air Force One; Editing by Alistair Bell)
Cheering Kavanaugh win, Trump skewers Democrats as ‘angry, left-wing mob’-US president lashes out at political rivals, who are ‘too dangerous and too extreme to govern’; says his speech mocking Ford was turning point in Senate decision-By Jill Colvin-OCT 7,18
TOPEKA, Kansas (AP) — US President Donald Trump at a Kansas rally celebrated the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, condemning Democrats for what he called a “shameless campaign of political and personal destruction” against his nominee.To cheers of supporters at the Kansas Expocentre in Topeka, Trump declared it an “historic night,” not long after signing the paperwork to make Kavanaugh’s status official.“I stand before you today on the heels of a tremendous victory for our nation,” he said to roars, thanking Republican senators for refusing to back down “in the face of the Democrats’ shameless campaign of political and personal destruction.”Kavanaugh was sworn in as a justice on Saturday evening, in Washington, DC, after an extraordinarily fraught nomination that sparked angry protests, nailbiting votes, and a national reckoning about sexual assault allegations and who should be believed. Kavanaugh staunchly denied the allegations, but nearly all Senate Democrats voted against his confirmation.The final vote took place Saturday afternoon, as the president was flying to Kansas aboard Air Force One, and he invited traveling reporters to his private office to watch the climactic roll call, which was interrupted several times by protesters in the Senate galleries before Capitol Police removed them.When it was official, Trump delivered a double thumbs-up from his desk. Several aides applauded.“Very, very good,” Trump said. “Very happy about it. Great decision. I very much appreciate those 50 great votes and I think he’s going to go down as a totally brilliant Supreme Court justice for many years.”Trump, throughout the day, insisted Kavanaugh would not be tainted by the sexual assault allegations from Christine Blasey Ford and others that nearly tanked his nomination. Trump said he was “100 percent” certain Kavanaugh was innocent.“I have no doubt,” Trump said, telling reporters that he had chosen Kavanaugh, in part, because “there’s nobody with a squeaky-clean past like Brett Kavanaugh.” He said the FBI had done seven background investigations and argued that, had there been an issue, it would have surfaced sooner.“If there was even a scintilla of something wrong — he was a very big judge for many years on what they call the second highest court — that would have come out loud and clear,” he said.Throughout the day, Trump also kept his focus on the opposition, saying Kavanaugh had withstood a “horrible, horrible attack” that “nobody should have to go through.”He continued lashing out at Democrats when he rallied supporters in Topeka, telling them “radical Democrats” have become “an angry, left-wing mob” and “too dangerous and too extreme to govern.” He urged Kansas voters to send Republicans to Congress.“You don’t hand matches to an arsonist and you don’t give power to an angry left-wing mob. And that’s what they’ve become,” he said.Kavanaugh’s nomination sparked protest across the Capitol, which continued Saturday. When the vote was over, hundreds of protesters massed on the Supreme Court steps, chanting, “We believe survivors.”Asked by reporters aboard Air Force One what message he had for women across the country who feel the nomination sends a message that their allegations of sexual assault are not believed, Trump disagreed with the premise, saying women “were outraged at what happened to Brett Kavanaugh” and “were in many ways stronger than the men in his favor.”“We have a lot of women that are extremely happy — a tremendous number — because they’re thinking of their sons, they’re thinking of their husbands and their brothers and their uncles and others and women are, I think, extremely happy,” he added.Trump has repeatedly sided with men accused of sexual misconduct and has warned of the dangers false accusations pose to men — even though research has shown false accusations to be extremely rare.Pointing to television footage of protesters outside the Capitol, he said their numbers paled in comparison to the thousands of supporters awaiting him in Kansas.“The crowd in front of the US Supreme Court is tiny, looks like about 200 people (& most are onlookers) – that wouldn’t even fill the first couple of rows of our Kansas Rally, or any of our Rallies for that matter!” he tweeted.Trump also revealed that he believed a widely criticized rally speech in which he mocked Ford’s Senate testimony had been a turning point for the nomination, changing the momentum in his favor.“I think that the Mississippi speech had great impact,” he said, calling it “a very important thing.”He later told Fox News host Jeanine Pirro in an interview from his limousine that once he made the comments, “it started to sail through.”Advisers and Senate leaders had urged Trump not to attack Ford publicly, worried such a move would anger on-the-fence senators. But Trump went after her anyway, mocking her testimony and gaps in her memory as a rally crowd laughed and cheered.“I thought I had to even the playing field,” he said.Trump was in Kansas to campaign for Kris Kobach, secretary of state and the Republican nominee for governor, and Steve Watkins, the GOP nominee in the 2nd Congressional District of eastern Kansas. Retiring Republican Rep. Lynn Jenkins holds the seat, and Democrats hope to flip it. Both joined him on stage at the Expocentre to speak.Trump has been holding rallies across the country, as he tries to boost Republican turnout in November’s midterm elections, which will determine which party will control the House and Senate during the second half of Trump’s term.He said Saturday he thinks Republicans “are going to do incredibly well” in the elections after Kavanaugh’s confirmation.“I think we have a momentum that hasn’t been seen in years,” he said.
McConnell says Senate 'not broken' after Kavanaugh fight-[The Canadian Press]-YAHOONEWS-October 7, 2018
WASHINGTON — Picking up the pieces after a contentious nomination battle, the Senate's majority leader said Sunday that the chamber won't be irreparably damaged by the wrenching debate over sexual misconduct that has swirled around new Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.While Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Kavanaugh's confirmation was a shining moment for the GOP heading into next month's pivotal elections, GOP Gov. John Kasich of Ohio predicted "a good year" for Democrats and said he wonders about "the soul of our country" in the long term after the tumultuous hearings.McConnell, in two news show interviews, tried to distinguish between President Donald Trump's nomination of Kavanaugh this year and his own decision not to have the GOP-run Senate consider President Barack Obama's high court nominee, Merrick Garland, in 2016. McConnell called the current partisan divide a "low point," but he blamed Democrats."The Senate's not broken," said McConnell. "We didn't attack Merrick Garland's background and try to destroy him." He asserted that "we simply followed the tradition of America."The climactic 50-48 roll call vote Saturday on Kavanaugh was the closest vote to confirm a justice since 1881. It capped a fight that seized the national conversation after claims emerged that Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted women three decades ago. Kavanaugh emphatically denied the allegations.The accusations transformed the clash from a routine struggle over judicial ideology into an angry jumble of questions about victims' rights and personal attacks on nominees.Ultimately, every Democrat voted against Kavanaugh except for Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia.Kavanaugh was sworn in Saturday evening in a private ceremony as protesters chanted outside the court building.McConnell said the confirmation fight had energized Republican voters and he praised GOP senators, who he said had "stood up to the mob" in favour of the "presumption of innocence."He signalled that a Republican-controlled Senate would act on a fresh Trump nominee to the Supreme Court in 2020 — a presidential election year — should a vacancy arise. The court's two oldest justices are Democratic appointees: Ruth Bader Ginsburg is 85 and Stephen Breyer is 80."We'll see if there is a vacancy in 2020," McConnell said.Two years ago, McConnell blocked a vote on Garland, citing what he said was a tradition of not filling vacancies in a presidential election year. But when asked again Sunday about it, he sought to clarify that a Senate case in 1880 suggested inaction on a nominee only when the chamber was controlled by the party opposing the president.Republicans currently hold a 51-49 majority in the Senate, with several seats up for grabs in November.Trump has now put his stamp on the court with his second justice in as many years. Yet Kavanaugh is joining under a cloud.Accusations from several women remain under scrutiny, and House Democrats have pledged further investigation if they win the majority in November. Outside groups are culling an unusually long paper trail from his previous government and political work, with the National Archives and Records Administration expected to release a cache of millions of documents later this month.Still, Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., said he believed it would be premature for Democrats to talk about re-investigating Kavanaugh or a possible impeachment if the party takes control of the chamber in November, stressing a need to help heal the country."Frankly, we are just less than a month away from an election," Coons said. "Folks who feel very strongly one way or the other about the issues in front of us should get out and vote and participate."McConnell spoke on "Fox News Sunday" and CBS' "Face the Nation," Kasich appeared on CNN's "State of the Union," and Coons was on NBC's "Meet the Press."Hope Yen, The Associated Press.
US envoys, factory owner say ‘coexistence beacon’ Barkan shattered by attack-‘Till this day I believed this was the path to peace,’ Alon Group owner says of industrial zone where many Palestinians were employed, ‘today my beliefs have all been upset’-By TOI staff-OCT 07,18
The owner of a West Bank factory, whose two Israeli employees were slain by a Palestinian worker in Sunday morning’s terror attack, said he hopes the killer was simply a bad egg, but added that his faith in coexistence initiatives had been rattled.Rafi Alon, owner of Alon Group, a producer of waste management systems at the Barkan Industrial Zone near Ariel, said he had always considered workers at his company, which employs many Palestinians, as “a family.”The businesses in the Barkan Industrial Park, located near Ariel, employ some 8,000 people, approximately half of them Israelis and the other half Palestinians.Alon said he had always believed that employment and prosperity for Palestinians was the best defense against terrorism.He is set to receive a lifetime achievement award from President Reuven Rivlin next month over his coexistence efforts, Hadashot TV news reported.“Till this day I believed this was the path to peace with the Palestinians. Today my beliefs have all been upset,” he told Hadashot.In statements Sunday evening, US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman and Mideast peace envoy Jason Greenblatt both also noted the attack’s detrimental effect on coexistence efforts.“The Barkan Industrial Zone has been a model of Israeli–Palestinian coexistence since 1982, with thousands working and prospering together. Today a terrorist shattered that harmony by brutally murdering two Israelis at work,” Friedman said.The Barkan Industrial Zone has been a model of Israeli–Palestinian coexistence since 1982, with thousands working and prospering together. Today a terrorist shattered that harmony by brutally murdering two Israelis at work. Our deepest condolences to the families of the victims.— David M. Friedman (@USAmbIsrael) October 7, 2018-Greenblatt, too, said Barkan had been “a beacon for coexistence and a model for the future.” He called for universal condemnation of the “reprehensible” attack.The Barkan industrial center is a beacon for coexistence and a model for the future. Today's terror attack is reprehensible and should be universally condemned. Join me in praying for the wounded and sending comfort to the families of the victims.— Jason D. Greenblatt (@jdgreenblatt45) October 7, 2018-Alon said terrorist Ashraf Na’alowa had been a relatively new employee.“He’d been working for about four months,” he said. “The terrorist did not show up for work over the past two weeks and claimed he had problems at home.”On Sunday morning, “we gave him a task to fix an electrical problem at the administrative offices. It was very early and there were only a few people here,” he said.On Sunday morning, Na’alowa entered the offices of the Alon Group. Inside, he shot and killed Kim Levengrond Yehezkel, 29, whom he had tied up, and Ziv Hajbi, 35. He also moderately injured a second female victim, whom he shot in the stomach.Na’alowa fled the scene of the attack, prompting a large-scale manhunt, in which IDF troops have set up road closures and checkpoints throughout the area.Alon called Na’alowa’s attack “wicked and cruel.”Of Levengrond Yehezkel, he said: “She was like a daughter to me. To come in and kill such a young woman is a calamity. There’s nothing worse.”“This is a very difficult incident. Until now, there have not been any security incidents here. For decades, industrial zones have served as a bridge of coexistence,” Samaria Regional Council chairman Yossi Dagan said earlier on Sunday.Shai Amichai, the director general of the industrial zone, also described the location as a model example of Israelis and Palestinians working side-by-side.“Both in the industrial area and in the community itself, the cooperation is fruitful,” he told the Ynet news site. “We are in a relationship of neighborliness and professional relations at the highest level. The residents feel secure in their workplace, and many forge connections outside of their place of work.“I do not know the security procedures of the zone,” added Amichai. “But there was no decrease in the number of security forces in the region, neither overt nor undercover.”The mayor of the nearby city of Ariel, Eli Shviro, told the Walla news site that “the industrial zones in which Jews and Palestinians work together are the path to coexistence in our region.”In 2015, a Palestinian stabbed and injured two security guards at the same industrial park. Guards at the site shot and killed the attacker during that incident.Hadashot reported Sunday that Na’alowa had left a suicide letter with a friend three days ago. The friend, who also worked at Alon Group, did not report the letter to the authorities. He has been arrested and Israeli security forces were investigating whether advance knowledge of the letter could have prevented the attack, the network reported.On Sunday evening, the army said members of Na’alowa’s family had been arrested and were being interrogated by the Shin Bet security service to determine whether they had assisted him in the attack or in his escape from the scene.“IDF troops went to the terrorist’s home in the village of Shuweika” outside Tulkarem, “measured his home [ahead of eventual demolition] and conducted interrogations and arrests of people suspected of assisting the terrorist,” the army said.Na’alowa’s Carlo submachine gun reportedly jammed during his attack, preventing him from firing additional shots. That type of locally produced firearm, which is known to be highly inaccurate and prone to malfunctions, has been tied to a number of terror attacks in recent years, owing to its low price and wide availability in the West Bank.Security camera video from the scene appeared to show Na’alowa fleeing after the attack, with the Carlo submachine gun in hand.Levengrond Yehezkel will be buried in her hometown of Rosh Ha’ayin in central Israel at 10 p.m. on Sunday. Hajbi’s funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Monday, in the southern community of Nir Yisrael.Judah Ari Gross contributed to this report.
IDF names Palestinian suspect in deadly terror attack as manhunt persists-After fatal shooting of Kim Levengrond Yehezkel and Ziv Hajbi, army prepares Ashraf Na’alowa’s home for demolition, arrests family members-By Judah Ari Gross and TOI staff-OCT 7,18
The Israeli army on Sunday named the Palestinian man suspected of carrying out a deadly shooting attack in the northern West Bank as Ashraf Walid Suleiman Na’alowa, 23, as troops continued to hunt for the terrorist who killed two Israelis and wounded a third earlier in the day.Members of Na’alowa’s family were arrested and are being interrogated by the Shin Bet security service to determine if they assisted him in the terror attack or in his escape from the scene, the army said.“IDF troops went to the terrorist’s home in the village of Shuweika in the Menashe regional brigade’s jurisdiction, measured his home [ahead of eventual demolition] and conducted interrogations and arrests of people suspected of assisting the terrorist,” the army said.On Sunday morning, Na’alowa entered the offices of the Alon Group in the Barkan Industrial Park, near the settlement-city of Ariel, armed with a locally produced Carlo-style submachine gun, according to the army.Inside, he tied up Kim Levengrond Yehezkel, 29, and fatally shot her from close range. He also killed Ziv Hajbi, 35, and moderately injured a second female victim, whom he shot in the stomach.Levengrond Yehezkel was secretary to the CEO, while Hajbi worked in accounting. Na’alowa was employed at Alon Group as an electrician.Na’alowa fled the scene of the attack, prompting a large-scale manhunt, in which IDF troops have set up road closures and checkpoints throughout the area.Some 14 hours after the lethal attack, Israeli forces had yet to apprehend him.“IDF and Shin Bet troops will continue to work to catch the terrorist and to preserve the security of the region’s residents, with an increased operational and intelligence effort,” the army said.The Israel Defense Forces earlier on Sunday declared the fatal shooting in the northern West Bank to be a “severe terror attack” and said large numbers of troops, including special forces, were involved in the search for the suspected gunman, who was still believed to be armed.According to the IDF, Na’alowa had no history of terrorist activities and was not tied to any terror groups, though several of them applauded his actions.Earlier in the day, he had posted on his Facebook page that he was “waiting for [Allah].” He had also left a suicide letter with a friend three days ago, according to a television report.Levengrond Yehezkel will be buried in her hometown of Rosh Ha’ayin in central Israel at 10 p.m. on Sunday. She is survived by her husband and a baby.The funeral for Hajbi, a father of three, will be held at 2 p.m. Monday, in the southern community of Nir Yisrael.The families of Levengrond Yehezkel and Hajbi both said they would donate their organs.The businesses in the Barkan Industrial Park, located near Ariel, employ some 8,000 people, approximately half of them Israelis and the other half Palestinians.
Under Trump, US admits fewest refugees since 1980, leaving thousands stranded-Families of security guards, translators for US troops in Iraq among those denied entry-By SUSANNAH GEORGE and Colleen Long-TOI-OCT 7,18
WASHINGTON (AP) — Death threats drove Hadi Mohammed out of Iraq and to a small apartment in Nebraska, where he and his two young sons managed to settle as refugees. But the danger hasn’t been enough to allow his wife to join them.Mohammed, who worked as a security guard for the US military in Baghdad, says he was initially told his wife would be reunited with him and the boys within a month. The wait has now dragged on for more than a year as she goes through stricter screening imposed by the Trump administration.Mohammed says it’s been an agonizing wait, especially for his 9-year-old son. “Every night he cries about mom, I need mom,” he said in halting English as he sat on a couch with the boy in their apartment in Lincoln, Nebraska.Tens of thousands of people are experiencing similar anguished waits as the number of refugees entering the US falls to historic lows because of tighter scrutiny that administration officials say is necessary for security. Critics say it amounts to an abandonment of the country’s historic humanitarian role and discriminates against certain groups, particularly Muslims.The US admitted 22,491 refugees in the budget year that ended September 30. That’s one-quarter of the number allowed to enter two years ago and the lowest since Congress passed a law in 1980 creating the modern resettlement system.It was less than half the maximum that the administration had said it would allow, even with millions of people seeking to escape war and famine around the world.“It’s unfortunate for the refugees who could have come this year and didn’t,” said Jen Smyers with Church World Service, an organization that supports refugees and immigrants. “But these low numbers also show the US turning away from a global leadership role on this issue.”Last month, the cap was set even lower, at 30,000, for the new budget year. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said at the time the US remained “the most generous nation in the world when it comes to protection-based immigration” but that the government needed to work through a backlog of pending asylum cases and support efforts to resettle people closer to home, so they can eventually return.Behind the reduction are more stringent security protocols for citizens of 11 countries designated by the administration as presenting the greatest potential threat. People from four of them — Iraq, Iran, Syria and Somalia — made up 41 percent of refugees allowed into the US in 2016 and 2017. Now, they make up just 2% as people such as Mohammed’s wife, whose name he does not want to publicize out of fear for her safety, face much lengthier background checks.Mohammed, 52, provided security at American military bases in central Baghdad and just north of the Iraqi capital from 2008 to 2014. After a five-year wait, he received word that he had been approved to come to the US as a refugee in June 2017 with his sons. The family was told the wife would be approved soon. In correspondence from the State Department, his wife was told that her application was undergoing “additional administrative processing” but gave little other information. “Unfortunately, we cannot predict how long this administrative review will take.”Another Iraqi, who worked as a translator for the US military and now lives in Utah, said he has been waiting for two years to get his mother and brothers to join him. “If my brother is killed … I will spend the rest of my life blaming myself for putting my family in harm’s way,” said the 41-year-old man, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he fears for his family’s safety in Iraq.The State Department acknowledges that the screening and vetting procedures have resulted in fewer refugee admissions in 2018.The tighter screening of refugees reflects one of the signature issues for US President Donald Trump, who imposed a travel ban on people from seven majority Muslim countries as one of his first actions upon taking office in January 2017.The Department of Homeland Security has since made it harder to enter the US entirely, with more rigorous interviews and background checks. Administration officials say refugee applicants are now subject to strictest, most comprehensive background check process for any group seeking to come to the US.Officials collect more data on refugee applicants and conduct higher-level security vetting. Officers have been given training on how to determine credibility. Fraud detection and national security officers now come oversees with US Citizenship and Immigration Services teams who are processing refugees.Officials say the security changes may lead to temporary slowdowns in admissions but it wouldn’t be permanent and the US continues to help the world’s most vulnerable people.Administration officials say the US remains at the forefront of helping those fleeing persecution, and they note that from the 2008 budget year to 2017, the US gave lawful permanent resident status to 1.7 million people for humanitarian reasons. “We will continue to assist the world’s most vulnerable while never losing sight of our first duty, serving the American people,” Pompeo said last month.In his speech to the United Nations last month, Trump highlighted his administration’s approach as he singled out Jordan, which has taken in at least 650,000 refugees from Syria since the war in their country started in 2011. “The most compassionate policy is to place refugees as close to their homes as possible to ease their eventual return to be part of the rebuilding process,” he said.In choosing who can enter as a refugee, the administration is also showing a preference for people from countries that don’t have a majority Muslim population.Refugees from Ukraine and the Democratic Republic of Congo made up more than 46% of refugee admissions in 2018, compared with 22% in 2016.The number of Muslim refugees allowed into the US also has dropped. Christians made up 63% of all refugee admissions in 2018, compared with 40% in 2017. Muslims, who had been 42% of all refugee admissions in 2017, were only 14% in 2018.There were 140 Iraqis accepted during the just-ended budget year, down from 6,886 the year before.Mohammed’s son says his father is lost without his mother: He can’t cook, he can’t take care of the children very well alone and they need her. Plus, they’re afraid of what will happen if she doesn’t leave Baghdad. Mohammed worries she could be a target because he provided security at US military bases.“For my family to be at peace, I need to know that my wife is safe,” he said. “But I would never change my decision and return to Iraq. Coming to the United States was an answer to my prayers.”
EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH IN NOAHS DAY(BECAUSE OF SIN,VIOLENCE AND GODLESS PEOPLE)
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.
HOSEA 4:1-3
1 Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
DEUTORONOMY 28:22-24
22 The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.
23 And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.
24 The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun,(HEATING UP-SOLAR ECLIPSES) and in the moon,(MAN ON MOON-LUNAR ECLIPSES) and in the stars;(ASTEROIDS ETC) and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)
THE FIRST JUDGEMENT OF THE EARTH STARTED WITH WATER-IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THE LAST GENERATION WILL BE HAVING FLOODING
GENESIS 7:6-12
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
GOD PROMISED BY A RAINBOW-THE EARTH WOULD NEVER BE DESTROYED TOTALLY WITH A FLOOD AGAIN.BUT FLOODIING IS A SIGN OF JUDGEMENT.
FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS
REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
Wildfire rages near Lisbon, hundreds evacuated-[Reuters]-YAHOONEWS-October 9, 2018
LISBON (Reuters) - More than 700 firefighters backed by six aircraft battled a large wildfire in the hills around the resort areas of Cascais and Sintra near Portugal's capital Lisbon on Sunday after the blaze forced the evacuation of several hundred people overnight.Officials said 18 people, mostly firefighters, had been lightly injured in the blaze that broke out late on Saturday, fanned by strong winds amid unusually hot weather for October."There are still two active fronts that worry us," a civil protection spokesman told a briefing, explaining that the arrival of water-bombing aircraft and more favorable weather had helped to control the flames after a difficult night.As a precaution, the authorities removed 300 people from a local campsite during the night as well as nearly 50 residents of nearby villages.Portugal suffered its deadliest wildfires in history last year, when 114 people were killed in two huge blazes.In an effort to ensure the tragedy is not repeated, the government has hired hundreds of firefighters, stepping up controls to ensure landowners clear undergrowth that stokes fires and preemptively removing residents from risky areas.(Reporting By Andrei Khalip; Editing by Dale Hudson)
Indonesian officials fear 5,000 missing as Christians pray-[The Canadian Press]-YAHOONEWS-October 7, 2018
PALU, Indonesia — Christians dressed in their tidiest clothes flocked to Sunday sermons in the earthquake and tsunami damaged Indonesian city of Palu, seeking answers as the death toll from the twin disasters breached 1,700 and officials said they feared more than 5,000 others could be missing.Indonesia's disaster agency said the number of dead had climbed to 1,763, mostly in Palu. Agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said many more people could be buried, especially in the Palu neighbourhoods of Petobo and Balaroa, where more than 3,000 homes were damaged or sucked into deep mud when the Sept. 28 quake caused loose soil to liquefy."Based on reports from village chiefs in Balaroa and Petobo, some 5,000 people have not been found. Our workers on the ground are trying to confirm this," he said at a news briefing in Jakarta, Indonesia's capital.Nugroho said that efforts to retrieve decomposed bodies in deep, soft mud were getting tougher and that some people may have fled or been rescued and evacuated. More than 8,000 either injured or vulnerable residents have been flown or shipped out of Palu, while others could have left by land, he said.Officially, Nugroho said only 265 people are confirmed missing and 152 others still buried under mud and rubble, nine days after the magnitude 7.5 earthquake and powerful tsunami hit Palu and surrounding areas.The government targets to end search operations by Thursday, nearly two weeks after the disaster, at which time those unaccounted for will be declared missing and considered dead, Nugroho said.In Palu on Sunday, at least 200 people, including soldiers, filled the grey pews of the Protestant Manunggal church for a service.They sang as a young girl in a black and white dress with a red bow danced in the aisle, prayed and listened to a 30-minute sermon from the pastor, Lucky Malonda. A woman in the front pew wept.Min Kapala, a 49-year-old teacher, said she came to the city of more than 25 churches from an outlying area because her usual house of worship was destroyed and liquefaction moved a different piece of ground to its location."I'm here at this particular church because my own church is no more; it's levelled , and on its location there's a corn plant," she said. "That was very strange to me."Outside the church, Malonda said the intensity of the disaster had taken even scientists by surprise and called it the will of God. Two people from his congregation were missing, he said."This is for sure part of godly intervention, not outside the power of almighty God, that can't be predicted or planned for by anything," Malonda said.He said religious leaders are discussing holding inter-faith prayers but nothing has been agreed yet.Protestants, Catholics and Charismatics make up about 10 per cent of the population of Palu, the provincial capital of Central Sulawesi. The province has a history of violent conflict between Muslims and Christians, though tensions have calmed in the past decade. Indonesia is the world's most populous Muslim country.As searchers continued to dig through rubble Sunday, Central Sulawesi Gov. Loki Djanggola said local officials were meeting with religious groups and families of victims to seek their consent to turn neighbourhoods wiped out by liquefaction into mass graves.He said on local television that survivors in the Petobo, Balaroa and Jono Oge neighbourhoods could be relocated and monuments be built in the areas, which now look like wastelands, to remember the victims interred there. Officials have said that it is not safe for heavy equipment to operate in those areas and that they fear the risk of the spread of disease from decomposed bodies.While grappling with immediate relief needs, the government is also mapping out plans to help more than 70,000 people, including tens of thousands of children, who have been displaced by the disasters to rebuild their lives.Social welfare officials have set up nurseries in makeshift tents as a stopgap to keep children safe and help them heal from the trauma.Market vendors have resumed business and roadside restaurants were open in Palu, but long lines of cars and motorcycles still snarled out of gas stations.In Jakarta, volunteers walked around thoroughfares empty of cars collecting donations for earthquake victims during the weekly car-free morning in the city centre .___Ng reported from Jakarta, Indonesia.Stephen Wright And Eileen Ng, The Associated Press.
Death toll rises to 12 in Haiti earthquake; 188 injured-[The Canadian Press]-YAHOONEWS-October 7, 2018
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Emergency teams brought relief and survivors sifted through the rubble of their toppled cinderblock homes in Haiti on Sunday after an earthquake killed at least 12 people and left 188 injured.Haiti's civil protection agency said at least seven people died in the coastal city of Port-de-Paix and three people died in the nearby community of Gros-Morne in Artibonite province. Among the dead from Saturday night's magnitude 5.9 quake were a 5-year-old boy crushed by his collapsing house and a man killed in a falling auditorium.A total of at least 12 people were killed in the quake, Interior Minister Fednel Monchery told radio station MAGK9. Authorities said 188 people had been injured."I feel like my life is not safe here," said nun Maryse Alsaint, director of the San Gabriel National School in Gros-Morne, where several classrooms were severely damaged.She said that about 500 students would not be able to return to school on Monday.The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake was centred 12 miles (19 kilometres ) northwest of Port-de-Paix, which is about 136 miles (219 kilometres ) from the capital of Port-au-Prince. The quake was 7.3 miles (11.7 kilometres ) below the surface.It was felt lightly in the capital, as well as in the neighbouring Dominican Republic and in eastern Cuba, where no damage was reported.In Haiti, officials have struggled to shore up buildings despite the two major fault lines along Hispaniola, which is the island shared with the Dominican Republic. Deep poverty and government instability have also rendered weaker homes and structures particularly vulnerable in earthquakes.Rescue workers in Haiti said they were not looking for any more victims.In the town of Gros-Morne, one bed was covered in rubble, while the exterior walls of some homes were visibly cracked. Others tilted at precarious angles.Pierre Jacques Baudre, a farmer and father of seven, said he was afraid to return to his home after one wall built with rocks and cement crumbled."The house can fall at any time," he said.Meanwhile, dozens of people could be seen sifting through debris before hauling away rebar to recycle and sell.The civil protection agency issued a statement saying that houses were destroyed in Port-de-Paix, Gros-Morne, Chansolme and Turtle Island.Damage was also reported at the Saint-Michel church in Plaisance and the police station in Port-de-Paix. Parts of a hospital and an auditorium collapsed in Gros-Morne, where parliamentarian Alcide Audne told The Associated Press that two of the deaths occurred.It was not clear if there was an event in the auditorium at the time.Haiti President Jovenel Moise said on his Twitter account Sunday that civil protection brigades were working to clear debris. He also said the government had sent water and food.In 2010, a larger magnitude 7.1 quake damaged much of the capital and killed an estimated 300,000 people.The Associated Press.
Tropical Storm Michael looms over Gulf of Mexico, could become hurricane-[Reuters]-YAHOONEWS-October 7, 2018
(Reuters) - A tropical depression became Tropical Storm Michael on Sunday and may become a hurricane by midweek, potentially bringing storm surges and heavy rainfall to the U.S. Gulf Coast, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.The storm was about 225 miles (365km) southwest of the western tip of Cuba at 2 p.m. eastern time (18:00 GMT), with sustained winds of 40 mph (65 km), the National Weather Service said.The system is set to bring heavy rain and flash flooding to areas of Central America, western Cuba and Mexico's Yucatan peninsula as early as Sunday night. Michael could become a hurricane by Tuesday night or Wednesday, the NHC said in a Sunday afternoon advisory.A tropical storm warning is in effect for the Cuban provinces of Pinar del Rio and the Isle of Youth and the eastern coast of Mexico from Tulum to Cabo Catoche, including Cozumel.Winds were forecast to drop in intensity as the system tracks northeast over Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina, reaching North Carolina by Thursday.The Commodity Weather Group said on Sunday there might be some precautionary evacuation of oil rigs in the area affected by the storm, which may slow down operations but not likely cause much interruption.The Gulf of Mexico is home to 17 percent of U.S. crude oil and 5 percent of natural gas output daily, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.More than 45 percent of the nation's refining capacity is located along the U.S. Gulf Coast, which also is home to 51 percent of total U.S. natural gas processing capability."There is still too much uncertainty to discuss specific impacts, but we do know there will be a HIGH rip current risk, high surf, and increased rain chances beginning Monday," the National Weather Service Mobile/Pensacola said.(Reporting by Rich McKay and Andrew Hay; Editing by Susan Fenton and Nick Zieminski)
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
THE WE GO THE LOWEST RIGHT TO THE PITS OF HELL SEWER RAT LOSER DEMONUT-LIBERAL MENTALCASES. LOSE AND BRETT KAVANAUGH IS NOW A SUPREME COURT JUDGE. I AGREE WITH TRUMP - ALL - LIBERALS-DEMOCRATS ARE TO DANGEROUS AND EXTREME AND MENTALLY ILL TO GOVERN.
After fight that split U.S., Kavanaugh wins place on Supreme Court-[Reuters]-By Richard Cowan, Amanda Becker and David Morgan-YAHOONEWS-October 6, 2018
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican-controlled U.S. Senate on Saturday confirmed Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, dismissing anger over accusations of sexual misconduct against him and delivering a major victory to President Donald Trump who has now locked in a conservative majority on the court.By a vote of 50-48, the deeply-divided Senate gave the lifetime job to Kavanaugh, 53, after weeks of fierce debate over sexual violence, alcohol abuse and his angry response to the allegations that convulsed the nation just weeks before congressional elections on Nov. 6.Kavanaugh will help take the highest U.S. court to the right, perhaps for many years, and his confirmation is a bitter blow to Democrats already chafing at Republican control of the White House and both chambers of the U.S. Congress.Conservatives will now have a 5-4 majority in any future legal battles on contentious issues such as abortion rights, immigration, transgender rights, industry regulation, and presidential powers.Adding to a dramatic day on Capitol Hill, women protesters in the Senate gallery shouted "Shame on you!" and briefly interrupted the vote.Another group of protesters stormed toward the doors of the nearby Supreme Court building with raised fists. Police stood guard at the doors.Kavanaugh was sworn in by Chief Justice John Roberts shortly after the vote.Kavanaugh's nomination blew up into a personal and political drama when university professor Christine Blasey Ford accused him of sexually assaulting her in the upstairs bedroom of a home in a wealthy suburb of Washington in 1982.Two other women accused him in the media of sexual misconduct in the 1980s.Kavanaugh fought back against the accusations, denying them in angry and tearful testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee that was viewed live on television by around 20 million people.Trump, who called Kavanaugh to congratulate him on Saturday, said he was "100 percent" certain that Ford named the wrong person in accusing the judge.Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One while flying to a campaign rally in Kansas, Trump said of Kavanaugh: "We’re very honored that he was able to withstand this horrible, horrible attack by the Democrats."Michael Bromwich, a lawyer for Ford, said in a tweet that Kavanaugh's confirmation capped, "A week that will live in infamy for the U.S. Senate, permanently diminishing its stature."A few Republican senators who had wavered over whether to vote for Kavanaugh finally backed him this week, saying they did so in part because a brief FBI investigation found no corroborating evidence of Ford's accusations.Democrats said the FBI probe was nowhere near wide enough.Trump watched the vote on a large-screen television tuned to Fox News in a wood-paneled cabin on the plane. He flashed two thumbs up when the final vote was declared and aides on board applauded.The Senate confirmation allows him to hit the campaign trail ahead of the congressional elections saying that he has kept his 2016 promise to mold a more conservative American judiciary.At a political rally in Mississippi on Tuesday, Trump mocked Ford's account of what she says was a drunken attack on her by Kavanaugh when they were teenagers.For weeks, senators from both parties decried the harsh and often emotional rhetoric in the clash over Kavanaugh, a federal appeals court judge with a history of advancing Republican causes.But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican, dismissed the prospect of lingering bitterness among senators. "These things always blow over," he told a news conference.-WOMEN PROTESTS-Hundreds of protesters against Kavanaugh gathered on the grounds of the Capitol and at the Supreme Court. A total of 164 people were arrested in the protests, U.S. Capitol Police said.Residents of a townhouse near the Washington home of Senator Susan Collins, a moderate Republican whose backing helped get Kavanaugh over the line on Saturday, flew the flag of the lawmaker's home state Maine upside down in protest.Accusations against Kavanaugh energized the #MeToo social media movement that emerged after high-profile accusations of sexual assault and harassment by men in politics, the media and the entertainment industry.Democrats said Kavanaugh's partisan defense of himself, in which he said he was victim of a "political hit," was enough itself to disqualify him from the court.The dispute over Kavanaugh has added fuel to campaigning for the elections in November when Democrats will try to take control of Congress from the Republicans.Several polls show that Republican enthusiasm about voting, which had lagged behind, jumped after the Kavanaugh hearing last week.McConnell told Reuters that the political brawl over Kavanaugh will help Republicans at the ballot box."Nothing unifies Republicans like a court fight," McConnell said in an interview ahead of the vote. "It's been a seminal event leading into the fall election."But Democrats hope women angered at the Kavanaugh accusations will turn out in large numbers to reject Republicans.During Saturday's vote, senators were showered with cries of "We will not forget," and “Survivors vote” from protesters in the Senate gallery.Democrats must gain at least two Senate seats and 23 House seats at the elections to claim majorities in each chamber, enabling them to block Trump's agenda and investigate his administration. The Democrats are seen as having more chance of winning control of the House of Representatives than the Senate.Senator Dianne Feinstein, the senior Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said on Twitter: "Confirming Brett Kavanaugh in the face of credible allegations of sexual assault that were not thoroughly investigated, and his belligerent, partisan performance...undermines the legitimacy of the Supreme Court."Kavanaugh succeeds retired Justice Anthony Kennedy, who was often the decisive swing vote on social issues.The showdown over Kavanaugh had echoes of current Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' contentious confirmation hearings in 1991 involving sexual harassment allegations lodged against him by a law professor named Anita Hill.(Reporting by Amanda Becker, Richard Cowan and David Morgan; Additional reporting by Ginger Gibson and David Brunnstrom in Washington and Roberta Rampton on Air Force One; Editing by Alistair Bell)
Cheering Kavanaugh win, Trump skewers Democrats as ‘angry, left-wing mob’-US president lashes out at political rivals, who are ‘too dangerous and too extreme to govern’; says his speech mocking Ford was turning point in Senate decision-By Jill Colvin-OCT 7,18
TOPEKA, Kansas (AP) — US President Donald Trump at a Kansas rally celebrated the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, condemning Democrats for what he called a “shameless campaign of political and personal destruction” against his nominee.To cheers of supporters at the Kansas Expocentre in Topeka, Trump declared it an “historic night,” not long after signing the paperwork to make Kavanaugh’s status official.“I stand before you today on the heels of a tremendous victory for our nation,” he said to roars, thanking Republican senators for refusing to back down “in the face of the Democrats’ shameless campaign of political and personal destruction.”Kavanaugh was sworn in as a justice on Saturday evening, in Washington, DC, after an extraordinarily fraught nomination that sparked angry protests, nailbiting votes, and a national reckoning about sexual assault allegations and who should be believed. Kavanaugh staunchly denied the allegations, but nearly all Senate Democrats voted against his confirmation.The final vote took place Saturday afternoon, as the president was flying to Kansas aboard Air Force One, and he invited traveling reporters to his private office to watch the climactic roll call, which was interrupted several times by protesters in the Senate galleries before Capitol Police removed them.When it was official, Trump delivered a double thumbs-up from his desk. Several aides applauded.“Very, very good,” Trump said. “Very happy about it. Great decision. I very much appreciate those 50 great votes and I think he’s going to go down as a totally brilliant Supreme Court justice for many years.”Trump, throughout the day, insisted Kavanaugh would not be tainted by the sexual assault allegations from Christine Blasey Ford and others that nearly tanked his nomination. Trump said he was “100 percent” certain Kavanaugh was innocent.“I have no doubt,” Trump said, telling reporters that he had chosen Kavanaugh, in part, because “there’s nobody with a squeaky-clean past like Brett Kavanaugh.” He said the FBI had done seven background investigations and argued that, had there been an issue, it would have surfaced sooner.“If there was even a scintilla of something wrong — he was a very big judge for many years on what they call the second highest court — that would have come out loud and clear,” he said.Throughout the day, Trump also kept his focus on the opposition, saying Kavanaugh had withstood a “horrible, horrible attack” that “nobody should have to go through.”He continued lashing out at Democrats when he rallied supporters in Topeka, telling them “radical Democrats” have become “an angry, left-wing mob” and “too dangerous and too extreme to govern.” He urged Kansas voters to send Republicans to Congress.“You don’t hand matches to an arsonist and you don’t give power to an angry left-wing mob. And that’s what they’ve become,” he said.Kavanaugh’s nomination sparked protest across the Capitol, which continued Saturday. When the vote was over, hundreds of protesters massed on the Supreme Court steps, chanting, “We believe survivors.”Asked by reporters aboard Air Force One what message he had for women across the country who feel the nomination sends a message that their allegations of sexual assault are not believed, Trump disagreed with the premise, saying women “were outraged at what happened to Brett Kavanaugh” and “were in many ways stronger than the men in his favor.”“We have a lot of women that are extremely happy — a tremendous number — because they’re thinking of their sons, they’re thinking of their husbands and their brothers and their uncles and others and women are, I think, extremely happy,” he added.Trump has repeatedly sided with men accused of sexual misconduct and has warned of the dangers false accusations pose to men — even though research has shown false accusations to be extremely rare.Pointing to television footage of protesters outside the Capitol, he said their numbers paled in comparison to the thousands of supporters awaiting him in Kansas.“The crowd in front of the US Supreme Court is tiny, looks like about 200 people (& most are onlookers) – that wouldn’t even fill the first couple of rows of our Kansas Rally, or any of our Rallies for that matter!” he tweeted.Trump also revealed that he believed a widely criticized rally speech in which he mocked Ford’s Senate testimony had been a turning point for the nomination, changing the momentum in his favor.“I think that the Mississippi speech had great impact,” he said, calling it “a very important thing.”He later told Fox News host Jeanine Pirro in an interview from his limousine that once he made the comments, “it started to sail through.”Advisers and Senate leaders had urged Trump not to attack Ford publicly, worried such a move would anger on-the-fence senators. But Trump went after her anyway, mocking her testimony and gaps in her memory as a rally crowd laughed and cheered.“I thought I had to even the playing field,” he said.Trump was in Kansas to campaign for Kris Kobach, secretary of state and the Republican nominee for governor, and Steve Watkins, the GOP nominee in the 2nd Congressional District of eastern Kansas. Retiring Republican Rep. Lynn Jenkins holds the seat, and Democrats hope to flip it. Both joined him on stage at the Expocentre to speak.Trump has been holding rallies across the country, as he tries to boost Republican turnout in November’s midterm elections, which will determine which party will control the House and Senate during the second half of Trump’s term.He said Saturday he thinks Republicans “are going to do incredibly well” in the elections after Kavanaugh’s confirmation.“I think we have a momentum that hasn’t been seen in years,” he said.
McConnell says Senate 'not broken' after Kavanaugh fight-[The Canadian Press]-YAHOONEWS-October 7, 2018
WASHINGTON — Picking up the pieces after a contentious nomination battle, the Senate's majority leader said Sunday that the chamber won't be irreparably damaged by the wrenching debate over sexual misconduct that has swirled around new Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.While Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Kavanaugh's confirmation was a shining moment for the GOP heading into next month's pivotal elections, GOP Gov. John Kasich of Ohio predicted "a good year" for Democrats and said he wonders about "the soul of our country" in the long term after the tumultuous hearings.McConnell, in two news show interviews, tried to distinguish between President Donald Trump's nomination of Kavanaugh this year and his own decision not to have the GOP-run Senate consider President Barack Obama's high court nominee, Merrick Garland, in 2016. McConnell called the current partisan divide a "low point," but he blamed Democrats."The Senate's not broken," said McConnell. "We didn't attack Merrick Garland's background and try to destroy him." He asserted that "we simply followed the tradition of America."The climactic 50-48 roll call vote Saturday on Kavanaugh was the closest vote to confirm a justice since 1881. It capped a fight that seized the national conversation after claims emerged that Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted women three decades ago. Kavanaugh emphatically denied the allegations.The accusations transformed the clash from a routine struggle over judicial ideology into an angry jumble of questions about victims' rights and personal attacks on nominees.Ultimately, every Democrat voted against Kavanaugh except for Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia.Kavanaugh was sworn in Saturday evening in a private ceremony as protesters chanted outside the court building.McConnell said the confirmation fight had energized Republican voters and he praised GOP senators, who he said had "stood up to the mob" in favour of the "presumption of innocence."He signalled that a Republican-controlled Senate would act on a fresh Trump nominee to the Supreme Court in 2020 — a presidential election year — should a vacancy arise. The court's two oldest justices are Democratic appointees: Ruth Bader Ginsburg is 85 and Stephen Breyer is 80."We'll see if there is a vacancy in 2020," McConnell said.Two years ago, McConnell blocked a vote on Garland, citing what he said was a tradition of not filling vacancies in a presidential election year. But when asked again Sunday about it, he sought to clarify that a Senate case in 1880 suggested inaction on a nominee only when the chamber was controlled by the party opposing the president.Republicans currently hold a 51-49 majority in the Senate, with several seats up for grabs in November.Trump has now put his stamp on the court with his second justice in as many years. Yet Kavanaugh is joining under a cloud.Accusations from several women remain under scrutiny, and House Democrats have pledged further investigation if they win the majority in November. Outside groups are culling an unusually long paper trail from his previous government and political work, with the National Archives and Records Administration expected to release a cache of millions of documents later this month.Still, Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., said he believed it would be premature for Democrats to talk about re-investigating Kavanaugh or a possible impeachment if the party takes control of the chamber in November, stressing a need to help heal the country."Frankly, we are just less than a month away from an election," Coons said. "Folks who feel very strongly one way or the other about the issues in front of us should get out and vote and participate."McConnell spoke on "Fox News Sunday" and CBS' "Face the Nation," Kasich appeared on CNN's "State of the Union," and Coons was on NBC's "Meet the Press."Hope Yen, The Associated Press.
US envoys, factory owner say ‘coexistence beacon’ Barkan shattered by attack-‘Till this day I believed this was the path to peace,’ Alon Group owner says of industrial zone where many Palestinians were employed, ‘today my beliefs have all been upset’-By TOI staff-OCT 07,18
The owner of a West Bank factory, whose two Israeli employees were slain by a Palestinian worker in Sunday morning’s terror attack, said he hopes the killer was simply a bad egg, but added that his faith in coexistence initiatives had been rattled.Rafi Alon, owner of Alon Group, a producer of waste management systems at the Barkan Industrial Zone near Ariel, said he had always considered workers at his company, which employs many Palestinians, as “a family.”The businesses in the Barkan Industrial Park, located near Ariel, employ some 8,000 people, approximately half of them Israelis and the other half Palestinians.Alon said he had always believed that employment and prosperity for Palestinians was the best defense against terrorism.He is set to receive a lifetime achievement award from President Reuven Rivlin next month over his coexistence efforts, Hadashot TV news reported.“Till this day I believed this was the path to peace with the Palestinians. Today my beliefs have all been upset,” he told Hadashot.In statements Sunday evening, US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman and Mideast peace envoy Jason Greenblatt both also noted the attack’s detrimental effect on coexistence efforts.“The Barkan Industrial Zone has been a model of Israeli–Palestinian coexistence since 1982, with thousands working and prospering together. Today a terrorist shattered that harmony by brutally murdering two Israelis at work,” Friedman said.The Barkan Industrial Zone has been a model of Israeli–Palestinian coexistence since 1982, with thousands working and prospering together. Today a terrorist shattered that harmony by brutally murdering two Israelis at work. Our deepest condolences to the families of the victims.— David M. Friedman (@USAmbIsrael) October 7, 2018-Greenblatt, too, said Barkan had been “a beacon for coexistence and a model for the future.” He called for universal condemnation of the “reprehensible” attack.The Barkan industrial center is a beacon for coexistence and a model for the future. Today's terror attack is reprehensible and should be universally condemned. Join me in praying for the wounded and sending comfort to the families of the victims.— Jason D. Greenblatt (@jdgreenblatt45) October 7, 2018-Alon said terrorist Ashraf Na’alowa had been a relatively new employee.“He’d been working for about four months,” he said. “The terrorist did not show up for work over the past two weeks and claimed he had problems at home.”On Sunday morning, “we gave him a task to fix an electrical problem at the administrative offices. It was very early and there were only a few people here,” he said.On Sunday morning, Na’alowa entered the offices of the Alon Group. Inside, he shot and killed Kim Levengrond Yehezkel, 29, whom he had tied up, and Ziv Hajbi, 35. He also moderately injured a second female victim, whom he shot in the stomach.Na’alowa fled the scene of the attack, prompting a large-scale manhunt, in which IDF troops have set up road closures and checkpoints throughout the area.Alon called Na’alowa’s attack “wicked and cruel.”Of Levengrond Yehezkel, he said: “She was like a daughter to me. To come in and kill such a young woman is a calamity. There’s nothing worse.”“This is a very difficult incident. Until now, there have not been any security incidents here. For decades, industrial zones have served as a bridge of coexistence,” Samaria Regional Council chairman Yossi Dagan said earlier on Sunday.Shai Amichai, the director general of the industrial zone, also described the location as a model example of Israelis and Palestinians working side-by-side.“Both in the industrial area and in the community itself, the cooperation is fruitful,” he told the Ynet news site. “We are in a relationship of neighborliness and professional relations at the highest level. The residents feel secure in their workplace, and many forge connections outside of their place of work.“I do not know the security procedures of the zone,” added Amichai. “But there was no decrease in the number of security forces in the region, neither overt nor undercover.”The mayor of the nearby city of Ariel, Eli Shviro, told the Walla news site that “the industrial zones in which Jews and Palestinians work together are the path to coexistence in our region.”In 2015, a Palestinian stabbed and injured two security guards at the same industrial park. Guards at the site shot and killed the attacker during that incident.Hadashot reported Sunday that Na’alowa had left a suicide letter with a friend three days ago. The friend, who also worked at Alon Group, did not report the letter to the authorities. He has been arrested and Israeli security forces were investigating whether advance knowledge of the letter could have prevented the attack, the network reported.On Sunday evening, the army said members of Na’alowa’s family had been arrested and were being interrogated by the Shin Bet security service to determine whether they had assisted him in the attack or in his escape from the scene.“IDF troops went to the terrorist’s home in the village of Shuweika” outside Tulkarem, “measured his home [ahead of eventual demolition] and conducted interrogations and arrests of people suspected of assisting the terrorist,” the army said.Na’alowa’s Carlo submachine gun reportedly jammed during his attack, preventing him from firing additional shots. That type of locally produced firearm, which is known to be highly inaccurate and prone to malfunctions, has been tied to a number of terror attacks in recent years, owing to its low price and wide availability in the West Bank.Security camera video from the scene appeared to show Na’alowa fleeing after the attack, with the Carlo submachine gun in hand.Levengrond Yehezkel will be buried in her hometown of Rosh Ha’ayin in central Israel at 10 p.m. on Sunday. Hajbi’s funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Monday, in the southern community of Nir Yisrael.Judah Ari Gross contributed to this report.
IDF names Palestinian suspect in deadly terror attack as manhunt persists-After fatal shooting of Kim Levengrond Yehezkel and Ziv Hajbi, army prepares Ashraf Na’alowa’s home for demolition, arrests family members-By Judah Ari Gross and TOI staff-OCT 7,18
The Israeli army on Sunday named the Palestinian man suspected of carrying out a deadly shooting attack in the northern West Bank as Ashraf Walid Suleiman Na’alowa, 23, as troops continued to hunt for the terrorist who killed two Israelis and wounded a third earlier in the day.Members of Na’alowa’s family were arrested and are being interrogated by the Shin Bet security service to determine if they assisted him in the terror attack or in his escape from the scene, the army said.“IDF troops went to the terrorist’s home in the village of Shuweika in the Menashe regional brigade’s jurisdiction, measured his home [ahead of eventual demolition] and conducted interrogations and arrests of people suspected of assisting the terrorist,” the army said.On Sunday morning, Na’alowa entered the offices of the Alon Group in the Barkan Industrial Park, near the settlement-city of Ariel, armed with a locally produced Carlo-style submachine gun, according to the army.Inside, he tied up Kim Levengrond Yehezkel, 29, and fatally shot her from close range. He also killed Ziv Hajbi, 35, and moderately injured a second female victim, whom he shot in the stomach.Levengrond Yehezkel was secretary to the CEO, while Hajbi worked in accounting. Na’alowa was employed at Alon Group as an electrician.Na’alowa fled the scene of the attack, prompting a large-scale manhunt, in which IDF troops have set up road closures and checkpoints throughout the area.Some 14 hours after the lethal attack, Israeli forces had yet to apprehend him.“IDF and Shin Bet troops will continue to work to catch the terrorist and to preserve the security of the region’s residents, with an increased operational and intelligence effort,” the army said.The Israel Defense Forces earlier on Sunday declared the fatal shooting in the northern West Bank to be a “severe terror attack” and said large numbers of troops, including special forces, were involved in the search for the suspected gunman, who was still believed to be armed.According to the IDF, Na’alowa had no history of terrorist activities and was not tied to any terror groups, though several of them applauded his actions.Earlier in the day, he had posted on his Facebook page that he was “waiting for [Allah].” He had also left a suicide letter with a friend three days ago, according to a television report.Levengrond Yehezkel will be buried in her hometown of Rosh Ha’ayin in central Israel at 10 p.m. on Sunday. She is survived by her husband and a baby.The funeral for Hajbi, a father of three, will be held at 2 p.m. Monday, in the southern community of Nir Yisrael.The families of Levengrond Yehezkel and Hajbi both said they would donate their organs.The businesses in the Barkan Industrial Park, located near Ariel, employ some 8,000 people, approximately half of them Israelis and the other half Palestinians.
Under Trump, US admits fewest refugees since 1980, leaving thousands stranded-Families of security guards, translators for US troops in Iraq among those denied entry-By SUSANNAH GEORGE and Colleen Long-TOI-OCT 7,18
WASHINGTON (AP) — Death threats drove Hadi Mohammed out of Iraq and to a small apartment in Nebraska, where he and his two young sons managed to settle as refugees. But the danger hasn’t been enough to allow his wife to join them.Mohammed, who worked as a security guard for the US military in Baghdad, says he was initially told his wife would be reunited with him and the boys within a month. The wait has now dragged on for more than a year as she goes through stricter screening imposed by the Trump administration.Mohammed says it’s been an agonizing wait, especially for his 9-year-old son. “Every night he cries about mom, I need mom,” he said in halting English as he sat on a couch with the boy in their apartment in Lincoln, Nebraska.Tens of thousands of people are experiencing similar anguished waits as the number of refugees entering the US falls to historic lows because of tighter scrutiny that administration officials say is necessary for security. Critics say it amounts to an abandonment of the country’s historic humanitarian role and discriminates against certain groups, particularly Muslims.The US admitted 22,491 refugees in the budget year that ended September 30. That’s one-quarter of the number allowed to enter two years ago and the lowest since Congress passed a law in 1980 creating the modern resettlement system.It was less than half the maximum that the administration had said it would allow, even with millions of people seeking to escape war and famine around the world.“It’s unfortunate for the refugees who could have come this year and didn’t,” said Jen Smyers with Church World Service, an organization that supports refugees and immigrants. “But these low numbers also show the US turning away from a global leadership role on this issue.”Last month, the cap was set even lower, at 30,000, for the new budget year. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said at the time the US remained “the most generous nation in the world when it comes to protection-based immigration” but that the government needed to work through a backlog of pending asylum cases and support efforts to resettle people closer to home, so they can eventually return.Behind the reduction are more stringent security protocols for citizens of 11 countries designated by the administration as presenting the greatest potential threat. People from four of them — Iraq, Iran, Syria and Somalia — made up 41 percent of refugees allowed into the US in 2016 and 2017. Now, they make up just 2% as people such as Mohammed’s wife, whose name he does not want to publicize out of fear for her safety, face much lengthier background checks.Mohammed, 52, provided security at American military bases in central Baghdad and just north of the Iraqi capital from 2008 to 2014. After a five-year wait, he received word that he had been approved to come to the US as a refugee in June 2017 with his sons. The family was told the wife would be approved soon. In correspondence from the State Department, his wife was told that her application was undergoing “additional administrative processing” but gave little other information. “Unfortunately, we cannot predict how long this administrative review will take.”Another Iraqi, who worked as a translator for the US military and now lives in Utah, said he has been waiting for two years to get his mother and brothers to join him. “If my brother is killed … I will spend the rest of my life blaming myself for putting my family in harm’s way,” said the 41-year-old man, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he fears for his family’s safety in Iraq.The State Department acknowledges that the screening and vetting procedures have resulted in fewer refugee admissions in 2018.The tighter screening of refugees reflects one of the signature issues for US President Donald Trump, who imposed a travel ban on people from seven majority Muslim countries as one of his first actions upon taking office in January 2017.The Department of Homeland Security has since made it harder to enter the US entirely, with more rigorous interviews and background checks. Administration officials say refugee applicants are now subject to strictest, most comprehensive background check process for any group seeking to come to the US.Officials collect more data on refugee applicants and conduct higher-level security vetting. Officers have been given training on how to determine credibility. Fraud detection and national security officers now come oversees with US Citizenship and Immigration Services teams who are processing refugees.Officials say the security changes may lead to temporary slowdowns in admissions but it wouldn’t be permanent and the US continues to help the world’s most vulnerable people.Administration officials say the US remains at the forefront of helping those fleeing persecution, and they note that from the 2008 budget year to 2017, the US gave lawful permanent resident status to 1.7 million people for humanitarian reasons. “We will continue to assist the world’s most vulnerable while never losing sight of our first duty, serving the American people,” Pompeo said last month.In his speech to the United Nations last month, Trump highlighted his administration’s approach as he singled out Jordan, which has taken in at least 650,000 refugees from Syria since the war in their country started in 2011. “The most compassionate policy is to place refugees as close to their homes as possible to ease their eventual return to be part of the rebuilding process,” he said.In choosing who can enter as a refugee, the administration is also showing a preference for people from countries that don’t have a majority Muslim population.Refugees from Ukraine and the Democratic Republic of Congo made up more than 46% of refugee admissions in 2018, compared with 22% in 2016.The number of Muslim refugees allowed into the US also has dropped. Christians made up 63% of all refugee admissions in 2018, compared with 40% in 2017. Muslims, who had been 42% of all refugee admissions in 2017, were only 14% in 2018.There were 140 Iraqis accepted during the just-ended budget year, down from 6,886 the year before.Mohammed’s son says his father is lost without his mother: He can’t cook, he can’t take care of the children very well alone and they need her. Plus, they’re afraid of what will happen if she doesn’t leave Baghdad. Mohammed worries she could be a target because he provided security at US military bases.“For my family to be at peace, I need to know that my wife is safe,” he said. “But I would never change my decision and return to Iraq. Coming to the United States was an answer to my prayers.”
EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH IN NOAHS DAY(BECAUSE OF SIN,VIOLENCE AND GODLESS PEOPLE)
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.
HOSEA 4:1-3
1 Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
DEUTORONOMY 28:22-24
22 The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.
23 And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.
24 The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun,(HEATING UP-SOLAR ECLIPSES) and in the moon,(MAN ON MOON-LUNAR ECLIPSES) and in the stars;(ASTEROIDS ETC) and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)
THE FIRST JUDGEMENT OF THE EARTH STARTED WITH WATER-IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THE LAST GENERATION WILL BE HAVING FLOODING
GENESIS 7:6-12
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
GOD PROMISED BY A RAINBOW-THE EARTH WOULD NEVER BE DESTROYED TOTALLY WITH A FLOOD AGAIN.BUT FLOODIING IS A SIGN OF JUDGEMENT.
FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS
REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
Wildfire rages near Lisbon, hundreds evacuated-[Reuters]-YAHOONEWS-October 9, 2018
LISBON (Reuters) - More than 700 firefighters backed by six aircraft battled a large wildfire in the hills around the resort areas of Cascais and Sintra near Portugal's capital Lisbon on Sunday after the blaze forced the evacuation of several hundred people overnight.Officials said 18 people, mostly firefighters, had been lightly injured in the blaze that broke out late on Saturday, fanned by strong winds amid unusually hot weather for October."There are still two active fronts that worry us," a civil protection spokesman told a briefing, explaining that the arrival of water-bombing aircraft and more favorable weather had helped to control the flames after a difficult night.As a precaution, the authorities removed 300 people from a local campsite during the night as well as nearly 50 residents of nearby villages.Portugal suffered its deadliest wildfires in history last year, when 114 people were killed in two huge blazes.In an effort to ensure the tragedy is not repeated, the government has hired hundreds of firefighters, stepping up controls to ensure landowners clear undergrowth that stokes fires and preemptively removing residents from risky areas.(Reporting By Andrei Khalip; Editing by Dale Hudson)
Indonesian officials fear 5,000 missing as Christians pray-[The Canadian Press]-YAHOONEWS-October 7, 2018
PALU, Indonesia — Christians dressed in their tidiest clothes flocked to Sunday sermons in the earthquake and tsunami damaged Indonesian city of Palu, seeking answers as the death toll from the twin disasters breached 1,700 and officials said they feared more than 5,000 others could be missing.Indonesia's disaster agency said the number of dead had climbed to 1,763, mostly in Palu. Agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said many more people could be buried, especially in the Palu neighbourhoods of Petobo and Balaroa, where more than 3,000 homes were damaged or sucked into deep mud when the Sept. 28 quake caused loose soil to liquefy."Based on reports from village chiefs in Balaroa and Petobo, some 5,000 people have not been found. Our workers on the ground are trying to confirm this," he said at a news briefing in Jakarta, Indonesia's capital.Nugroho said that efforts to retrieve decomposed bodies in deep, soft mud were getting tougher and that some people may have fled or been rescued and evacuated. More than 8,000 either injured or vulnerable residents have been flown or shipped out of Palu, while others could have left by land, he said.Officially, Nugroho said only 265 people are confirmed missing and 152 others still buried under mud and rubble, nine days after the magnitude 7.5 earthquake and powerful tsunami hit Palu and surrounding areas.The government targets to end search operations by Thursday, nearly two weeks after the disaster, at which time those unaccounted for will be declared missing and considered dead, Nugroho said.In Palu on Sunday, at least 200 people, including soldiers, filled the grey pews of the Protestant Manunggal church for a service.They sang as a young girl in a black and white dress with a red bow danced in the aisle, prayed and listened to a 30-minute sermon from the pastor, Lucky Malonda. A woman in the front pew wept.Min Kapala, a 49-year-old teacher, said she came to the city of more than 25 churches from an outlying area because her usual house of worship was destroyed and liquefaction moved a different piece of ground to its location."I'm here at this particular church because my own church is no more; it's levelled , and on its location there's a corn plant," she said. "That was very strange to me."Outside the church, Malonda said the intensity of the disaster had taken even scientists by surprise and called it the will of God. Two people from his congregation were missing, he said."This is for sure part of godly intervention, not outside the power of almighty God, that can't be predicted or planned for by anything," Malonda said.He said religious leaders are discussing holding inter-faith prayers but nothing has been agreed yet.Protestants, Catholics and Charismatics make up about 10 per cent of the population of Palu, the provincial capital of Central Sulawesi. The province has a history of violent conflict between Muslims and Christians, though tensions have calmed in the past decade. Indonesia is the world's most populous Muslim country.As searchers continued to dig through rubble Sunday, Central Sulawesi Gov. Loki Djanggola said local officials were meeting with religious groups and families of victims to seek their consent to turn neighbourhoods wiped out by liquefaction into mass graves.He said on local television that survivors in the Petobo, Balaroa and Jono Oge neighbourhoods could be relocated and monuments be built in the areas, which now look like wastelands, to remember the victims interred there. Officials have said that it is not safe for heavy equipment to operate in those areas and that they fear the risk of the spread of disease from decomposed bodies.While grappling with immediate relief needs, the government is also mapping out plans to help more than 70,000 people, including tens of thousands of children, who have been displaced by the disasters to rebuild their lives.Social welfare officials have set up nurseries in makeshift tents as a stopgap to keep children safe and help them heal from the trauma.Market vendors have resumed business and roadside restaurants were open in Palu, but long lines of cars and motorcycles still snarled out of gas stations.In Jakarta, volunteers walked around thoroughfares empty of cars collecting donations for earthquake victims during the weekly car-free morning in the city centre .___Ng reported from Jakarta, Indonesia.Stephen Wright And Eileen Ng, The Associated Press.
Death toll rises to 12 in Haiti earthquake; 188 injured-[The Canadian Press]-YAHOONEWS-October 7, 2018
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Emergency teams brought relief and survivors sifted through the rubble of their toppled cinderblock homes in Haiti on Sunday after an earthquake killed at least 12 people and left 188 injured.Haiti's civil protection agency said at least seven people died in the coastal city of Port-de-Paix and three people died in the nearby community of Gros-Morne in Artibonite province. Among the dead from Saturday night's magnitude 5.9 quake were a 5-year-old boy crushed by his collapsing house and a man killed in a falling auditorium.A total of at least 12 people were killed in the quake, Interior Minister Fednel Monchery told radio station MAGK9. Authorities said 188 people had been injured."I feel like my life is not safe here," said nun Maryse Alsaint, director of the San Gabriel National School in Gros-Morne, where several classrooms were severely damaged.She said that about 500 students would not be able to return to school on Monday.The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake was centred 12 miles (19 kilometres ) northwest of Port-de-Paix, which is about 136 miles (219 kilometres ) from the capital of Port-au-Prince. The quake was 7.3 miles (11.7 kilometres ) below the surface.It was felt lightly in the capital, as well as in the neighbouring Dominican Republic and in eastern Cuba, where no damage was reported.In Haiti, officials have struggled to shore up buildings despite the two major fault lines along Hispaniola, which is the island shared with the Dominican Republic. Deep poverty and government instability have also rendered weaker homes and structures particularly vulnerable in earthquakes.Rescue workers in Haiti said they were not looking for any more victims.In the town of Gros-Morne, one bed was covered in rubble, while the exterior walls of some homes were visibly cracked. Others tilted at precarious angles.Pierre Jacques Baudre, a farmer and father of seven, said he was afraid to return to his home after one wall built with rocks and cement crumbled."The house can fall at any time," he said.Meanwhile, dozens of people could be seen sifting through debris before hauling away rebar to recycle and sell.The civil protection agency issued a statement saying that houses were destroyed in Port-de-Paix, Gros-Morne, Chansolme and Turtle Island.Damage was also reported at the Saint-Michel church in Plaisance and the police station in Port-de-Paix. Parts of a hospital and an auditorium collapsed in Gros-Morne, where parliamentarian Alcide Audne told The Associated Press that two of the deaths occurred.It was not clear if there was an event in the auditorium at the time.Haiti President Jovenel Moise said on his Twitter account Sunday that civil protection brigades were working to clear debris. He also said the government had sent water and food.In 2010, a larger magnitude 7.1 quake damaged much of the capital and killed an estimated 300,000 people.The Associated Press.
Tropical Storm Michael looms over Gulf of Mexico, could become hurricane-[Reuters]-YAHOONEWS-October 7, 2018
(Reuters) - A tropical depression became Tropical Storm Michael on Sunday and may become a hurricane by midweek, potentially bringing storm surges and heavy rainfall to the U.S. Gulf Coast, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.The storm was about 225 miles (365km) southwest of the western tip of Cuba at 2 p.m. eastern time (18:00 GMT), with sustained winds of 40 mph (65 km), the National Weather Service said.The system is set to bring heavy rain and flash flooding to areas of Central America, western Cuba and Mexico's Yucatan peninsula as early as Sunday night. Michael could become a hurricane by Tuesday night or Wednesday, the NHC said in a Sunday afternoon advisory.A tropical storm warning is in effect for the Cuban provinces of Pinar del Rio and the Isle of Youth and the eastern coast of Mexico from Tulum to Cabo Catoche, including Cozumel.Winds were forecast to drop in intensity as the system tracks northeast over Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina, reaching North Carolina by Thursday.The Commodity Weather Group said on Sunday there might be some precautionary evacuation of oil rigs in the area affected by the storm, which may slow down operations but not likely cause much interruption.The Gulf of Mexico is home to 17 percent of U.S. crude oil and 5 percent of natural gas output daily, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.More than 45 percent of the nation's refining capacity is located along the U.S. Gulf Coast, which also is home to 51 percent of total U.S. natural gas processing capability."There is still too much uncertainty to discuss specific impacts, but we do know there will be a HIGH rip current risk, high surf, and increased rain chances beginning Monday," the National Weather Service Mobile/Pensacola said.(Reporting by Rich McKay and Andrew Hay; Editing by Susan Fenton and Nick Zieminski)
