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
Hungary to open office with ‘diplomatic
status’ in Jerusalem-At meetings with three of four Visegrad Group
members, Netanyahu refuses to talk about Poland’s decision to boycott
summit-By Raphael Ahren-TOI-21 February 2019
Hungary will
open a trade office in Jerusalem that will have official “diplomatic
status,” the country’s prime minister announced Tuesday during a short
visit to Israel.“I just informed the prime minister that the Hungarian
government decided that we will open up a trade representation here,
which will have a diplomatic status, so we will appear now in Jerusalem
officially as well,” Prime Minister Viktor Orban said, standing next to
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after the two leaders held a bilateral
meeting in the capital’s King David Hotel.“So I hope it will be a good
step forward to even improve further the relationship between the
Israeli people and Hungary,” he said speaking in English, as the planned
translation from Hungarian into Hebrew failed.Netanyahu thanked Orban
for “deciding to extend the embassy of Hungary in Israel to Jerusalem,
that is to have an extension in Jerusalem that deals with trade.”“This
is important,” the Israeli leader went on. “It’s a sign of our
friendship. And it’s also a place in Jerusalem that can welcome you next
time you come here.”In an earlier meeting with Netanyahu, Slovak Prime
Minister Peter Pellegrini also announced the opening of cultural and
trade office in Jerusalem, though it was not immediately clear if it
would have any diplomatic status.But Orban and Pellegrini both stopped
short of recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Currently, only the
US and Guatemala have their Israel embassies in Jerusalem.Orban has been
criticized for promoting anti-Semitic stereotypes in his country,
including through his campaign against the Hungarian-born Jewish
billionaire George Soros. He has also been chastised for his efforts to
rehabilitate the reputation of Hungarian wartime leader Miklos Horthy,
who deported hundreds of thousands of Jews to their deaths.In his
remarks Tuesday, he vowed support for Hungary’s Jewish community and
spoke out against anti-Semitism in Europe. He also said that he wants to
work toward outlawing European Union funding from supporting
non-governmental organizations that interfere “in political issues, and
[are] being anti-Israel.”“We don’t accept that kind of behavior and that
kind of practice. Until now, we have it, so we would like to stop it,”
he said.Netanyahu praised the Hungarian prime minister for his support.
“You stand up for Israel and you stand up for the truth. It’s a very
important alliance,” he said.Orban came to Israel this week to attend a
summit of the so-called Visegrad Group, or V4, a consortium of four
Central European countries. Poland on Monday pulled out of the summit
citing an ongoing diplomatic spat over the country’s role in the
Holocaust and Acting Foreign Minister Israel Katz saying that Poles
“imbibe anti-Semitism with their mothers’ milk.”But Orban and the
leaders of Slovakia and the Czech Republic still arrived in Jerusalem,
holding brief individual bilateral meetings with Netanyahu, as well as
one joint meeting.Seen on the lapel of an Israeli diplomat at the V4-1
summit in Jerusalem pic.twitter.com/1wHJTpUbFl— Raphael Ahren
(@RaphaelAhren) February 19, 2019-At the beginning of his remarks, Orban
briefly touched upon the subject, saying that the attempt to have a V4
summit in Israel was “almost successful.”The meeting would have been the
first time the group convened outside Europe.“It was a first attempt,
which is promising. I hope we will be able to complete that mission
later on,” he said.After he concluded his remarks, Orban was asked by a
reporter if he is disappointed that Poland decided to cancel its
participation, thus canceling the summit. “It’s always better with them
than without them, of course,” he replied.“We have a good friendship
with Poland … and we have a good friendship with Israel, and when two
friends having a discussion with each other, the only hope you can have
is that they will talk directly with each other and improve the
situation,” he went on. “That is my hope also.”Czech PM Andrej Babis,
who met Netanyahu earlier on Tuesday, made a similar comment in response
to a Times of Israel question about Jerusalem’s spat with Warsaw.“I am
sure that Poland and Israel will continue cooperation and will solve
this problem soon,” he said.Netanyahu ignored reporters’ questions about
the crisis with Poland, which seeks an Israeli apology for Katz’s
remarks.Pellegrini, the Slovak leader, after his meeting with Netanyahu
Tuesday announced the opening of a “new cultural, information and
innovation center” in Jerusalem, which he said would open “very
soon.”“Because we also made the decision that Slovakia will have for the
first time in our history only four diplomats responsible for
innovation and one of these will be exactly in Jerusalem at this new
center,” he said.Netanyahu said he was “absolutely delighted” with the
decision to open a new center in Jerusalem. “It is my hope that this
will be the first step towards opening a Slovak embassy in
Jerusalem.”The Czech Republic in November ceremoniously opened the
so-called Czech House in Jerusalem, which houses companies such as
CzechInvest, CzechTrade, CzechTourism, Czech Center in a small office
space in the capital’s Cinematheque.As opposed to the planned Hungarian
trade mission, the Czech House does not have any diplomatic status,
officials insisted at the time.
Teen in Lincoln Memorial protest sues Washington Post for $250 million-[Reuters]-YAHOONEWS-By Keith Coffman-February 21, 2019
(Reuters)
- A high school student from Covington, Kentucky, sued the Washington
Post for defamation on Tuesday, claiming the newspaper falsely accused
him of racist acts and instigating a confrontation with a Native
American activist in a January videotaped incident at the Lincoln
Memorial.The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Kentucky by
Covington Catholic High School student Nicholas Sandmann, 16, seeks $250
million in damages, the amount that Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com
and the world's richest person, paid for the Post in 2013.The lawsuit
claims that the newspaper "wrongfully targeted and bullied" the teen to
advance its bias against President Donald Trump because Sandmann is a
white Catholic who wore a Make America Great Again souvenir cap on a
school field trip to the March for Life anti-abortion rally in
Washington, D.C. on Jan. 18.The Washington Post's Vice President for
Communications Kristine Coratti Kelly said: "We are reviewing a copy of
the lawsuit and we plan to mount a vigorous defense."In a photo that
went viral from the incident, Sandmann is seen standing face to face
with Native American activist Nathan Phillips. Sandmann stares smiling
at him while Phillips sings and plays his drum.The incident sparked
outrage on social media.FIRST OF MANY-In a statement, Sandmann's
Atlanta-based lawyer, Lin Wood, said additional similar lawsuits would
be filed in the weeks ahead.A private investigation firm retained by
Covington Diocese in Park Hills, Kentucky, found in a report released
last week no evidence the teenagers provoked a confrontation.The
students were met at the Lincoln Memorial by offensive statements from
members of the Black Hebrew Israelites, the report said.The
investigation also determined that the students did not direct any
racist or offensive comments toward Phillips although several performed a
"tomahawk chop" to the beat of his drum.Phillips claimed in a separate
video that he heard the students chanting "build that wall," during the
encounter, a reference to Trump's pledge to build a barrier along the
U.S. border with Mexico.The investigators said they found no evidence of
such a chant and that Phillips did not respond to multiple attempts to
contact him.(Reporting by Keith Coffman in DenverWriting by Dan Whitcomb
in Los Angeles; editing by Bill Tarrant, Bill Berkrot and Cynthia
Osterman)
Trump confident he will prevail against lawsuits over emergency declaration-[Reuters]-YAHOONEWS-By Jeff Mason-February 21, 2019
WASHINGTON
(Reuters) - President Donald Trump expressed confidence on Tuesday that
he would prevail against a lawsuit filed by 16 U.S. states seeking to
block his declaration of a national emergency to fund a wall along the
U.S. border with Mexico.The group of states, including California and
New York, has charged the president and top officials in his
administration with taking away taxpayer funds for their communities to
fulfill a promise from his 2016 campaign to curb illegal immigration and
the flow of drugs.Trump's remarks to reporters in the Oval Office
suggested he was not concerned or surprised by the states' legal
challenge."I think, in the end, we're going to be very successful with
the lawsuit," Trump said. "It's an open-and-closed case."The American
Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday filed its own lawsuit in a U.S.
District Court in California, alleging that "Trump disregarded the will
of Congress with his emergency declaration."Legal experts have said
challenges to Trump's emergency declaration, which critics have called
unconstitutional, face an uphill and probably losing battle in a
showdown likely to be decided by the conservative-majority U.S. Supreme
Court.Trump declared the national emergency under a 1976 law after
Congress declined to give him the $5.7 billion he wanted to build parts
of the barrier this year.The president's demand for wall funding
triggered a historic 35-day government shutdown that ended in January.
Democrats and Republicans later agreed on a deal to avoid another
shutdown with $1.4 billion allocated toward border fencing. Trump agreed
to sign that and then declared a national emergency, redirecting an
additional $6.7 billion beyond what lawmakers authorized for the
project.California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois,
Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York,
Oregon, Virginia and Michigan joined forces for the lawsuit.The states
said Trump's order would cause them to lose millions of dollars in
federal funding for National Guard units dealing with counter-drug
activities and that redirection of funds from authorized military
construction projects would damage their economies.Texas landowners and
an environmental group also filed suit against the move.Trump predicted
the legal challenges when he made the announcement in the White House
Rose Garden last week, and he defended his right to make the declaration
on Tuesday."We need strong borders. We have to stop drugs and crime and
criminals and human trafficking. And we have to stop all of those
things that a strong wall will stop," he said.House of Representatives
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the country's top Democrat, has called a wall
immoral. The issue is likely to be a flashpoint in the 2020 presidential
campaign, just as it was when Trump, a Republican, ran for president in
2016.The ACLU suit, filed on behalf of the Sierra Club and the Southern
Border Communities Coalition, said that in addition to diverting
taxpayer money from other federal projects, Trump's barrier would affect
"ecologically sensitive habitats" and disturb wilderness areas along
the border.(Reporting by Jeff Mason; Editing by Peter Cooney)
PROOF HALF ON EARTH DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION PERIOD (8 BILLION ON EARTH)
ISAIAH 66:15-16
15
For, behold, the LORD will come with fire,(NUKES) and with his chariots
like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with
flames of fire.
16 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
ISAIAH 26:21
21
For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants
of the earth for their iniquity:(GOD/ISRAEL HATE AND BRAKING OF HIS
COMMANDMENTS) the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more
cover her slain.(WW3,1/2 earths population die - 4 BILLION).
ISAIAH 13:6-13 KJV
6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:(FROM FRIGHT)
8
And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them;
they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed
one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day of
the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land
desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
REVELATION 6:7-8 (8 BILLION- 2 BILLION = 6 BILLION)
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8
And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that
sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given
unto them over the fourth part of the earth,(2 BILLION) to kill with
sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE
DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).
REVELATION 9:15,18 (6 BILLION - 2 BILLION = 4 BILLION)
15 And the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels were loosed,
18
By these three was the third part of men killed,(2 BILLION) by the
fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their
mouths.(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMBS)
HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
LUKE
17:34-37 (8 TOTAL BILLION - 4 BILLION DEAD IN TRIB = 4 BILLION TO JESUS
KINGDOM) (HALF DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION PERIOD JUST LIKE THE
BIBLE SAYS)(GOD DOES NOT LIE)(AND NOTICE MOST DIE IN WAR AND
DISEASES-NOT COMETS-ASTEROIDS-QUAKES OR TSUNAMIS)
34 I tell you, in
that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken,(IN
WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other shall be left.(half earths population 4
billion die in the 7 yr trib)
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
37
And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto
them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered
together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against
Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten
by the birds).THESE ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES-NOT RAPTURE
SCRIPTURES.BECAUSE NOT HALF OF PEOPLE ON EARTH ARE CHRISTIANS.AND THE
CONTEXT IN LUKE 17 IS THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION OR 7 YR TREATY PERIOD.WHICH
IS JUDGEMENT ON THE EARTH.NOT 50% RAPTURED TO HEAVEN.
MATTHEW 24:37-42 (THESE ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES-SURE NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38
For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and
drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe
entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
42 Watch therefore:(FOR THE LAST DAYS SIGNS HAPPENING) for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
White
House pushed Saudi nuclear power plan, report says-Democratic-led House
committee to probe whether senior officials sought to sidestep national
security procedures to advance proposal to build reactors in desert
kingdom-By CHAD DAY-TOI-21 February 2019
WASHINGTON (AP) —
Senior White House officials pushed a project to share nuclear power
technology with Saudi Arabia despite the objections of ethics and
national security officials, according to a new congressional report
citing whistleblowers within the administration.Lawmakers from both
parties have expressed concerns that Saudi Arabia could develop nuclear
weapons if the US technology were transferred without proper
safeguards.The Democratic-led House oversight committee opened an
investigation Tuesday into the claims by several unnamed whistleblowers
who said they witnessed “abnormal acts” in the White House regarding the
proposal to build dozens of nuclear reactors across the Middle Eastern
kingdom.The report raises concerns about whether some in a White House
marked by “chaos, dysfunction, and backbiting” sought to circumvent
established national security procedures regarding nuclear power
technology. It also comes as Trump son-in-law and senior adviser Jared
Kushner is developing a Middle East peace plan that could include
economic proposals for Saudi Arabia.The White House did not immediately
respond to a request for comment.According to the report, the effort was
pushed by former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who was fired
in early 2017. Derek Harvey, a National Security Council official
brought in by Flynn, continued work on the proposal, which has remained
under consideration by the Trump administration.Representative Elijah
Cummings of Maryland, the chairman of the House Oversight and Reform
Committee, announced the investigation Tuesday.Relying on the
whistleblower accounts and email communications, the committee’s report
details how NSC and ethics officials repeatedly warned that the actions
of Flynn and one of his senior aides could run afoul of federal
conflicts of interest law and statutes governing the transfer of nuclear
technology to foreign powers.The probe puts new scrutiny on Flynn’s
early days in the administration as he awaits sentencing for lying to
the FBI in the Russia investigation. Congressional investigators are
also probing the role of Tom Barrack, a proponent of the nuclear
proposal who ran Trump’s presidential inaugural committee, which is
separately under investigation by federal prosecutors in New York. Rick
Gates, a former Barrack employee and cooperator in special counsel
Robert Mueller’s investigation, was also involved in advocating for the
nuclear proposal.An attorney for Flynn declined to comment. Harvey and
representatives for Barrack did not immediately return requests for
comment.According to the report, the whistleblowers came forward to the
committee because they had concerns “about efforts inside the White
House to rush the transfer of highly sensitive US nuclear technology to
Saudi Arabia in potential violation of the Atomic Energy Act and without
review by Congress as required by law — efforts that may be ongoing to
this day.”The report tracks closely with public reporting, including a
2017 article by the nonprofit news outlet ProPublica, which detailed
some of the concerns raised inside the National Security Council about
the nuclear proposal — known as the “Marshall Plan for the Middle East —
advocated by a company called IP3 International.IP3 is led by a group
of retired US military officers and national security officials,
including retired Rear Adm. Michael Hewitt, retired Army Gen. Jack Keane
and former Reagan national security adviser Bud McFarlane. IP3 and
other proponents of nuclear power in the Middle East argue that the US
needs to be involved because otherwise it will lose out to Russia, China
and others on billions of dollars in business. They also say that the
US involvement — and the limits on nuclear fuel that come with it— are
essential to stem an arms race in the region.IP3 did not immediately
respond to a request for comment.Up until the month before he joined the
Trump administration, Flynn listed himself as a consultant to a
previous iteration of Hewitt’s company advocating a similar nuclear
power proposal, though the company told The Washington Post that Flynn
was offered a role as an adviser but never formally came aboard.Still,
according to the report, Flynn served as a conduit for IP3 inside the
White House.Just days after Trump’s inauguration, the company sent Flynn
a draft memo for the president’s signature that would have appointed
Barrack as a “special representative” in charge of carrying out the
nuclear power proposal and called on the director of the CIA and the
secretaries of State, Energy, Treasury and Defense to lend him support.
The report also quotes former deputy national security adviser K.T.
McFarland as saying Trump personally told Barrack he could lead the
plan’s implementation.The report also catalogs the actions of Harvey,
the Flynn confidant who was put in charge of the NSC’s Middle East and
North African affairs.According to the report, upon entering the White
House in January 2017, Harvey saw his mission as getting Trump to adopt
the nuclear proposal despite the objections of ethics and national
security officials. Even when H.R. McMaster, who replaced Flynn as
national security adviser, and NSC lawyer John Eisenberg directed for
work to stop on the proposal because of concerns about its legality,
Harvey ignored them and continued pursuing the proposal, according to
the report.Harvey was fired from the NSC in July 2017. He then joined
the staff of Representative Devin Nunes of California, a Trump ally and
the former Republican chairman of the House intelligence committee.
UK expands no-fly zone for drones around airports-[Associated Press]-YAHOONEWS-February 21, 2019
LONDON
(AP) — The no-fly zone for drones around British airports is being
extended to 5 kilometers (3.1 miles) in an attempt to avert disruptions
like the December groundings of flights at Gatwick Airport, officials
said Wednesday.The Department for Transport said the zone will widen on
March 13 from the current 1 kilometer (0.6 miles).Officials are also
working on new legislation to give police more powers to stop and search
people suspected of using drones maliciously.Transport Secretary Chris
Grayling said people who fly drones near airports "are not only acting
irresponsibly, but criminally, and could face imprisonment."More than
100,000 travelers were stranded or delayed before Christmas after drone
sightings near Gatwick, which is Britain's second-busiest airport.U.K.
aviation authorities say 125 near-misses between drones and aircraft
were reported in 2018, up from 93 in 2017.
WORLD POWERS IN THE LAST DAYS (END OF AGE OF GRACE NOT THE WORLD)
EUROPEAN UNION-KING OF WEST-DAN 9:26-27,DAN 7:23-24,DAN 11:40,REV 13:1-10
EGYPT-KING OF THE SOUTH-DAN 11:40
RUSSIA-KING OF THE NORTH-EZEK 38:1-2,EZEK 39:1-3
CHINA-KING OF THE EAST-DAN 11:44,REV 9:16,18
VATICAN-RELIGIOUS LEADER-REV 13:11-18,REV 17:4-5,9,18
WORLD TERRORISM
OH
BY THE WAY WHEN THE MEDIA SAYS ALLU-AK-BAR MEANS GOD IS GREAT LIE. IN
ISLAM ALLU-AK-BAR MEANS OUR GOD IS GREATER OR GREATEST. THIS IS HOW THE
MEDIA SUCK HOLES UP TO ISLAMIC-QURANIC-MUSLIMS. BY WATERING DOWN THE
REAL MEANING OF THE SEX FOR MURDER DEATH CULT ISLAM. TO MAKE IT SOUND
LIKE A PEACEFUL RELIGION (CULT OF DEATH AND WORLD DOMINATION).
GENESIS 6:11-13
11
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with
violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13
And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the
earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and,
behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
GENESIS 16:11-12
11
And the angel of the LORD said unto her,(HAGAR) Behold, thou art with
child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF
THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And
he (ISHMAEL-FATHER OF THE ARAB-MUSLIMS) will be a wild (DONKEY-JACKASS)
man;(ISLAM IS A FAKE AND DANGEROUS SEX FOR MURDER CULT) his hand will be
against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against
him;(PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM BEING BEHEADED) and he (ISHMAEL
ARAB/MUSLIM) shall dwell in the presence of all his
brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)
ISAIAH 14:12-14
12
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,(SATAN) son of the
morning!(HEBREW-CRECENT MOON-ISLAM) how art thou cut down to the ground,
which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine
heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars
of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the
sides of the north:
14 I (SATAN HAS EYE TROUBLES) will ascend above
the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(AND 1/3RD OF
THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN FELL WITH SATAN AND BECAME DEMONS)
JOHN 16:2
2
They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that
whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.(ISLAM
MURDERS IN THE NAME OF MOON GOD ALLAH OF ISLAM)
Assad adviser rejects idea of granting Syrian Kurds autonomy-[Reuters]-YAHOONEWS-By Andrew Osborn-February 21, 2019
MOSCOW
(Reuters) - A senior adviser to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on
Tuesday flatly rejected the idea of giving Syrian Kurds a measure of
autonomy, saying such a move would open the door to the partition of the
country.The Kurdish-led authority that runs much of north and east
Syria has presented a road map for a deal with Assad in recent meetings
with his key ally Russia.The Kurds want to safeguard their autonomous
region inside a decentralised state when U.S. troops currently backing
them pull out. They also hope a deal with Damascus would dissuade
neighboring Turkey from attacking them.But when asked on Tuesday if
Damascus was willing to do a deal that would hand the Kurds some measure
of autonomy, Bouthaina Shaaban, a senior adviser to Assad, flatly
rejected the suggestion."Autonomy means the partition of Syria. We have
no way to partition Syria," she told Reuters on the sidelines of a
Middle East conference in Moscow organized by the Valdai Discussion
Club."Syria is a country that is a melting pot for all people and all
people are equal in front of Syrian law and in front of the Syrian
constitution," she added, calling the Kurds "a precious and very
important part of the Syrian people".Her comments come after Syrian
Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad expressed optimism last month over
dialogue with Kurdish groups, and suggest the Kurds will face an uphill
struggle to wring concessions from Damascus, which has said it wants to
retake every inch of territory lost during eight years of war.Shaaban
sat next to Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister at the conference and
lavishly praised Moscow for its Syria intervention, saying it had shown
"amazing consistency in dealing with facts on the ground".She was
scathing about Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and his idea of carving
out "a safe zone" in northeast Syria however.Ankara wants the area near
the Turkish border to be cleared of the U.S.-backed Kurdish YPG militia
and to move into territory there, some of which is currently controlled
by U.S. forces.Shaaban said the idea smacked of an illegal land
grab."Turkey has all the new ambition to occupy other people's land and I
think we are facing Erdogan who has dreams of reinvigorating and
recreating the Ottoman Empire," she said."But I don't think he will be
able to do that because our people are there to defend our land."Turkey
backs the anti-Assad opposition that still has a foothold in
northwestern Syria, and has troops in that area.(Editing by Frances
Kerry)
Pakistani PM willing to talk but warns India not to attack-[Associated Press]-YAHOONEWS-MUNIR AHMED-February 21, 2019
ISLAMABAD
(AP) — Pakistan's prime minister offered to hold talks with India, even
as he warned New Delhi to refrain from launching any attacks on his
country following last week's suicide bombing in Indian-controlled
Kashmir.Imran Khan said he hoped "better sense" would prevail after the
attack on a paramilitary convoy that killed at least 40 Indian troops.
But he warned in a televised speech Tuesday that if India attacks,
"Pakistan will not merely think of retaliation, but rather, we will
retaliate."U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged both sides "to
exercise maximum restraint and take immediate steps to de-escalate
tensions," U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.He said the U.N.
chief's "good offices are available if accepted by both sides."Since
independence from Britain in 1947, Pakistan and India have fought two of
their three wars over Kashmir, which is divided between the two
countries but claimed by each in its entirety.The U.N. Security Council
in 1948 called for a plebiscite "as soon as possible" on the future of
the Himalayan territory but it has never been held. A U.N. peacekeeping
mission has been in the region since 1949.The bombing last Thursday in
which a militant rammed an explosive-laden van into a paramilitary bus
was the worst attack against Indian government forces in the history of
Kashmir, where rebels have been fighting Indian rule since 1989.India
has blamed Pakistan and threatened a "jaw-breaking response." Islamabad
condemned the attack and cautioned India against linking Pakistan to the
bombing without an investigation."If you have any actionable evidence,
share it with us and we will take action," Khan said. "We are ready to
cooperate with India in the investigations.""I hope better sense will
prevail," he added.His remarks were in response to Indian Prime Minister
Narendra Modi's announcement that his security forces have been given
"total freedom" to deal with the militants in Kashmir.Hours later,
India's External Affairs Ministry said in a statement it was surprised
that Khan "refuses to acknowledge the attack on our security forces in
Pulwama as an act of terrorism" and that the Pakistani premier "has
neither chosen to condemn this heinous act, nor condoled with the
bereaved families."It said Khan ignored claims of responsibility made by
Jaish-e-Mohammad, as well as by the assailant who perpetrated the
crime."It is a well-known fact that Jaish-e-Mohammad and its leader
Masood Azhar are based in Pakistan. These should be sufficient proof for
Pakistan to take action," it said.It said Khan sought evidence from New
Delhi, which was "a lame excuse" as India had given evidence to
Islamabad following the Mumbai attacks in 2008 and "despite this, the
case has not progressed for the last more than 10 years.""Pakistan
claims to be the greatest victim of terrorism. This is far from the
truth. The international community is well acquainted with the reality
that Pakistan is the nerve center of terrorism," it said.Azhar was
released from custody in India in 1999, in exchange for more than 150
hostages from a hijacked Indian Airlines flight.India and Pakistan have
both recalled their ambassadors since the attack, and Pakistan called on
the U.N. to help defuse tensions.Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah
Mahmood Qureshi sent a letter to Secretary-General Guterres saying that
"for domestic political reasons, India has deliberately ratcheted up its
hostile rhetoric against Pakistan and created a tense
environment."Pakistan's U.N. Ambassador Maleeha Lodhi met later with
Guterres at U.N. headquarters in New York and said she told him "we are
on the cusp of a very dangerous situation in South Asia."Noting India's
threats "to teach Pakistan a lesson," she said she stressed to Guterres
that "we don't want to go down this path.""We would like to see a
dialogue resume between Pakistan and India," Lodhi told AP. "We are
ready to talk on terrorism, on Kashmir — all the issues which are
outstanding between the two countries."She said Guterres reminded her
that he previously offered "his good offices," but India didn't
accept.Lodhi said she also met with the Security Council president and
asked him to informally brief members about the emerging
situation."We're here to warn the international community that something
much more dangerous can happen, and it's important for at least the
U.N. and the rest of the international community to step in and prevent
further escalation," she said.The Ministry of External Affairs said it
had no comment on Pakistan's letter to the U.N.A senior Indian military
official in Kashmir, Lt. Gen. K.J.S. Dhillon, on Tuesday told reporters
that Indian forces killed the chief of the Jaish-e-Mohammed militant
group behind the suicide bombing and a gunbattle Monday in Kashmir. Four
Indian soldiers, three suspected militants, a police official and a
civilian were killed in the clash.The leader was a Pakistani national by
the name of Kamran, Dhillon said.Jaish-e-Mohammed is outlawed in
Pakistan but thought to operate from safe havens there.Pakistan did not
immediately comment on Dhillon's remarks.___Associated Press writers
Ashok Sharma in New Delhi, Aijaz Hussain in Srinagar, India, and Edith
M. Lederer at the United Nations contributed to this report.
US weighing options on American IS sympathizer in Syria-[AFP]-YAHOONEWS-February 21, 2019
Washington
(AFP) - The United States said Tuesday it wanted to ensure foreign
jihadists remain off the battlefield as it weighed options on an
American detained in Syria who says she wants to return home.The United
States has urged European powers to take back hundreds of their citizens
who fought with the Islamic State movement in Syria, but acknowledged
the situation was complex in the rare case of an American jihadist.Hoda
Muthana, a 24-year-old from Alabama who became a prominent online
agitator for the extremists, said in an interview published Sunday with
The Guardian that she had been brainwashed online and "deeply regrets"
joining the movement.While declining to discuss Muthana's case
specifically, State Department deputy spokesman Robert Palladino said
that the status of US citizens detained in Syria "is by definition
extremely complicated.""We're looking into these cases to better
understand the details," he told reporters.Palladino said that the
United States generally did not see a different solution between what to
do with US fighters and with foreigners, saying the fighters pose "a
global threat.""Repatriating these foreign terrorist fighters to their
countries of origin, ensuring that they are prosecuted and detained --
that's the best solution, preventing them from returning to the
battlefield," he said.The situation of foreign jihadists detained by
US-allied Kurdish forces has taken a new urgency as President Donald
Trump plans to withdraw US troops from Syria.The Syrian Democratic
Forces say they may have to refocus on fighting Turkey, which has vowed
to crush Kurdish fighters it links to separatists at home.Trump has
contemplated reopening the US military base at Guantanamo Bay to take in
new foreign inmates, while Britain on Tuesday revoked the citizenship
of a female jihadist who wanted to return home with her newborn
baby.Neither option would likely pass muster in the cases of US
citizens, who enjoy strong legal protections under the
Constitution.Muthana, who was married three times to jihadists and has a
son with one of her husbands, fled her family in 2014 to join the
Islamic State group in Syria, where she took to Twitter to urge attacks
on fellow Americans.In the interview with The Guardian, Muthana said
that she was "really young and ignorant" when she joined IS and has
since renounced radicalism."I believe that America gives second chances.
I want to return and I'll never come back to the Middle East," she told
the newspaper.Hassan Shilby, a lawyer for Muthana, told ABC
television's "Good Morning America" that the young woman had been
"brainwashed and manipulated" and is "absolutely disgusted" by the
person she became.
US ambassador says Hezbollah endangering
the rest of Lebanon-In meeting with PM Hariri, Beirut envoy Elizabeth
Richard voices concern over Iran-backed terror group’s inclusion in new
government-By Agencies-TOI-21 February 2019
BEIRUT,
Lebanon — The US ambassador to Lebanon expressed concerns Tuesday over
the Hezbollah terror group’s growing role in the new Cabinet, saying it
does not contribute to stability.Hezbollah, which also takes part in
elections, has named a health minister and two other posts in Lebanon’s
Cabinet. US officials have called on Prime Minister Saad Hariri’s new
government to ensure the group does not receive support from public
resources.At a meeting with Hariri on Tuesday, Ambassador Elizabeth
Richard said the Iran-backed Hezbollah continues to violate Lebanon’s
policy of non-involvement in regional conflicts by fighting in “at least
three countries.” She was apparently referring to Syria, where the
group fights alongside the government, and Iraq and Yemen, where Iran
supports local armed groups.“I was also very frank with the prime
minister about US concern over the growing role in the Cabinet of an
organization that continues to maintain a militia that is not under the
control of the government,” Richard told reporters after the meeting.She
added that Hezbollah continues to make its own “national security
decisions” that “endanger the rest of the country.”The US views
Hezbollah as a terrorist group, but is a strong supporter of Lebanon’s
national army, supplying it with arms worth hundreds of millions of
dollars in recent years. Last week, the American Embassy said the US had
delivered laser-guided rockets valued at more than $16 million to the
Lebanese army.Richard said last year alone, the United States provided
more than $825 million in assistance, an increase from the year before.
She said the US has also supported education and development programs to
help Lebanese communities “deal with the unprecedented demands placed
on them when their Syrian neighbors fled.”Lebanon is home to about a
million Syrian refugees — a quarter of the tiny Mediterranean country’s
population — putting pressure on its crumbling infrastructure.Minister
of State for Refugee Affairs Saleh Gharib briefed President Michel Aoun
and Hariri on Tuesday about his visit to Syria the previous day, telling
reporters that Syrian officials “were very positive and showed interest
in facilitating” refugees’ return.
For first time in
months, Gaza balloons spark fire in south-Small blazes burn grasslands
in Eshkol region forest before firefighters extinguish them;
Palestinians riot along Strip’s northern border-By Judah Ari
Gross-TOI-21 February 2019
A balloon carrying an
incendiary device from the Gaza Strip sparked at least one fire in
southern Israel on Tuesday, the first such arson case in several months,
authorities said.The blaze burned grasslands in a wooded area outside
the community of Kibbutz Kissufim in the Eshkol region. It was quickly
extinguished, according to the Israel Fire and Rescue
Services.Initially, the Eshkol Regional Council said the cause of the
fire was not immediately known, but it was later confirmed to have been
sparked by arson devices from Gaza, a fire department spokesperson
said.A second blaze that was sparked in the Eshkol region around the
same time was found to have been an intentional controlled burn, and not
the result of a Palestinian incendiary device, according to the fire
department.In addition, a helium-filled condom with a suspected
explosive device attached to it was found outside another community in
the Eshkol region.In response to the fire, Eshkol Mayor Gadi Yarkoni
called on Israelis to question political candidates about how they
planned to combat these airborne arson attacks.“Currently candidates for
the Knesset are making statements, tweeting, attending parlor meetings
and conferences, and asking for your votes, I call on voters, all
citizens of the State of Israel: Ask them — what are your proposals for
Gaza and against the terror of balloons?” Yarkoni said in a
statement.The balloon attacks came as dozens of Palestinians took part
in riots along the northern border of the Gaza Strip, across from the
community of Kibbutz Zikim, the army said.Demonstrators burned tires,
threw rocks at soldiers and attacked the security fence. In one case,
rioters attempted to throw an explosive device across the border, but it
failed to clear the fence and landed inside Gaza, the military
said.Israeli troops responded with tear gas and, in some cases, live
fire.According to the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry, 20 people were
injured in the clashes with Israeli troops.The border riot across from
Zikim was the latest to be held as part of a weekly series of protests
against the Israeli-Egyptian naval blockade of the Gaza Strip.On Monday
night, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip also rioted along the border with
Israel, throwing dozens of explosive devices at the security fence and
apparently sparking false reports of a mortar attack.At least seven
Palestinians were injured by Israeli gunfire, to varying degrees, in the
clashes, according to the Strip’s Hamas-run health ministry.Dozens of
rioters — members of so-called “confusion units” — took part in the
clashes, east of Gaza City, burning tires, setting off dozens of
explosive devices, shining lasers at Israeli soldiers across the border
to blind them, and attempting to breach the security fence.During the
clashes, around 9 p.m., the Sha’ar Hanegev Regional Council, across from
Gaza City, reported that a mortar shell had been fired from the Strip,
hitting an empty field.Minutes later, the local government retracted the
claim, and the Israel Defense Forces confirmed that no projectile had
been fired.“Despite the reports, no projectile was launched from the
[Gaza] Strip at Israeli territory,” the IDF said.The Palestinian
“confusion units” returned to the Gaza border earlier this month after
several months of refraining from evening riots, leading nightly clashes
with Israeli troops focused on disorientation, alongside fires,
explosives, lasers and infiltration attempts.Monday’s nighttime clashes
came a day after an IDF soldier was moderately injured in clashes along
the northern Gaza border and two days after an attack lightly wounded a
Border Police officer, the army said.The IDF believes Hamas or the
Iran-backed Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the second-largest terror group
in Gaza, could attempt to draw Israel into a war by conducting an attack
along the border — an anti-tank missile strike, an ambush from an
as-yet-undiscovered tunnel, or a similar low-level but significant
attack.In light of this view, IDF chief Lt. Gen. Aviv Kohavi, whose
tenure began last month, called for the military to update operational
plans for fighting in the Gaza Strip.Since last March, the Gaza border
has seen large-scale weekly clashes on Fridays, smaller protests along
the northern Gaza border on Tuesdays, and periodic flareups between the
Israeli military and Palestinian terror organizations.For the past
several months, Egypt, UN special coordinator to the Middle East peace
process Nikolay Mladenov and Qatar have worked to try to restore calm in
Gaza and prevent flareups between Israel and terror groups in the
Strip.Israel has demanded an end to the violent demonstrations along the
border in any ceasefire agreement.Earlier this month, Israel announced
that it had begun the final phase of construction of a 20-foot (some 6
meters) high galvanized steel fence that will completely surround the
Strip.The barrier will extend 65 kilometers (40 miles) miles around the
enclave and sit atop the subterranean concrete wall that Israel is
constructing around Gaza to block terrorist groups’ attack tunnels.Adam
Rasgon, Times of Israel staff, and AFP contributed to this report.
After
blaming Israel, Iran says Pakistani carried out suicide attack on
troops-Tehran first accused the Jewish state and the Gulf of being
behind blast that killed 27 elite soldiers before pointing to armed
Sunni group from neighboring Pakistan-By Agencies-TOI-21 February 2019
The
suicide bomber that carried out last week’s attack that killed 27
members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards was a Pakistan national, the
force’s Sepah news agency reported on Tuesday.“The suicide bomber was
named Hafez Mohammad-Ali and was from Pakistan,” Brigadier General
Mohammad Pakpour, commander of the Guards’ ground forces, was quoted as
saying on the sidelines of a commemoration service in Tehran.Iran had
initially accused Israel, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates of
being behind the attack, but on Sunday it said the bomber was from
neighboring Pakistan.Iran’s Foreign Ministry summoned Pakistan’s
ambassador on Sunday to protest the attack last Wednesday that also
injured 12.Pakistan condemned the bombing and its foreign minister, Shah
Mahmood Qureshi, spoke with his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad
Zarif, by phone on Sunday to assure him that Pakistan would fully
cooperate in the investigation, according to two government officials
who spoke on condition of anonymity, as they were not authorized to
brief media.The militant Sunni group Jaish al-Adl, which claimed
responsibility, is believed to operate from havens in neighboring
Pakistan.On Friday, the head of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard,
Maj. Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari, claimed without providing evidence that
the United States and Israel ordered Saudi Arabia and the Emirates to
carry out the attack.On Saturday, Jafari switched gears and accused
Pakistan’s security forces of supporting the militants and said Iran
expects it to “punish” them.Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani meanwhile
vowed “revenge for the blood of these martyrs,” in remarks broadcast on
state TV over the weekend.“They cannot escape God’s and Iranian people’s
vengeance,” Rouhani said.Pakistan is closely allied with Saudi Arabia
but has tried to maintain a balancing act between Riyadh and Tehran.
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman began a visit to
Pakistan Sunday after delaying his arrival by one day without providing
an explanation.
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.
Trump signs directive in step to create U.S. Space Force-[Reuters]-YAHOONEWS-By Mike Stone and Jeff Mason-February 21, 2019
WASHINGTON
(Reuters) - Republican U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a
directive to start the lengthy process of creating a new branch of the
military dedicated to handling threats in space, the U.S. Space
Force.Space Policy Directive 4 sets the foundation for a legislative
initiative to establish a new force under the aegis of the Air Force,
the branch currently responsible for space, comparable to the Marines
under the U.S. Navy.The Trump administration has said it plans to usher
in the force by 2020. But the legislation will have to be approved by
Congress, which could be an uphill battle with the House of
Representatives now controlled by Democrats.In an Oval Office signing
ceremony on Tuesday, the president called the Space Force a national
security priority.Among other things, the force will be responsible for a
range of space-based U.S. military capabilities, which include
everything from satellites enabling the Global Positioning System (GPS)
to sensors that help track missile launches.The force would have both
"combat and combat support functions to enable prompt and sustained
offensive and defensive space operations," the memo signed on Tuesday
said.Mac Thornberry, the top-ranked Republican on the House Armed
Services Committee, praised the initiative, saying in a statement on
Tuesday that it "is an important next step towards real reform of
national security space where we face real threats posed by Russia and
China."He did not give details.Proponents of the Space Force have said
it would make the Pentagon more efficient. But it has also faced
criticism from some senior military officials and lawmakers. Democratic
Senator Brian Schatz, who is on the Defense Appropriations subcommittee,
last year called it a "dumb idea."U.S. Air Force chief General David
Goldfein told the Brookings Institution think tank that the creation of
the Space Force, the first new military branch since the Air Force was
set up in 1947, was still a ways off and that "intricate details of how
we move forward in establishing this service within the Department of
the Air Force" were still being worked out."From a war-fighting
perspective, the most important step that we take going forward, and the
one that we need to do the quickest, is to establish a U.S. Space
Command as a combatant commander," to command personnel and materials,
he said.Patrick Shanahan, now acting secretary of defense and
then-deputy secretary, said last year the force could have an initial
budget of less than $5 billion. On Tuesday, a Pentagon official,
speaking on condition of anonymity, said initial start-up costs were
estimated at $72 million.The proposal will be submitted to Congress in
"the coming weeks," chief Pentagon spokesperson Charles Summers
said.(Reporting by Mike Stone and Jeff Mason; Editing by Tim Ahmann and
Sonya Hepinstall)
