FATAH CALLS FOR COORDINATED ARMED RESISTANCE

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.

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

ISRAEL

Whose Promised Land? Psalm 78:54-55 (ISRAELS)
54 And He brought them to His holy border, This mountain which His right hand had acquired.
55 He also drove out the nations before them,Allotted them an inheritance by survey, And made the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents.

EZEKIEL 36:24
24 For I will take you from among the heathen,(WORLD NATIONS) and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.


MATTHEW 24:32
32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:(ISRAEL WAS LITERALLY REBORN JUST BEFORE SUMMER,MAY 14,1948).

DANIEL 9:24
24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.

ISRAEL WILL BE IN CONTROL OF JERUSALEM, THE SIGN OF THE START OF THE LAST GENERATION.

NEHEMIAH 2:17
17  Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we (ISRAELIS) are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste,(AD 70) and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem,(DAN 9:24-27) that we be no more a reproach.

LUKE 21:24
24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.(ISRAEL RECAPTURES JERUSALEM)(THE BEGGINING OF THE LAST GENERATION AND THE LAST END OF THE AGE OF GRACE.NOT THE END OF THE WORLD ,THE WORLD GOES ON FOREVER)

Jewish state' demand bares clashing Mideast narratives

By Selim Saheb Ettaba -JAN 26,14-yahoonews

Ramallah (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) - The controversy over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's demand that the Palestinians recognise Israel as a Jewish state is rooted in the clashing historical narratives of the decades-old conflict.Palestinians have dismissed the demand, pointing to the fact that they recognised Israel in 1993 at the start of the peace process and insisting it's not for other nations to define a state's national or religious character.Israeli President Shimon Peres, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for the 1993 Oslo Accords with the Palestinians, reportedly agrees, and this week was said to have called the request "unnecessary."But Netanyahu insists the demand gets to the very heart of the conflict, which he says is the refusal of Arabs to accept the right of Jews to a nation-state in the Middle East.For Israel, the Zionist dream was realised in 1948, but for the Palestinians that year brought the "Nakba," or catastrophe, when 760,000 fled or were forced out of their homeland.The Palestinians fear that accepting Israel as a "Jewish state" would amount to relinquishing the "right of return" of the refugees -- who now number some five million people -- and undermine the rights of Israel's sizable Arab minority.The dispute was thrown into focus last weekend when the UN cultural agency suspended an exhibit tracing 3,500 years of ties between the Jewish people and the Holy Land following a complaint by 22 Arab member states that it would "impact negatively" on US-brokered peace talks relaunched last year.In Israel, cancellation of the exhibition was seen as an Arab-led attempt to delegitimise the millenia-long Jewish connection to the land."It would not harm the negotiations. Negotiations are based on facts, on the truth, which is never harmful," Netanyahu told his cabinet on Sunday.The Palestinians, who view themselves as the descendants of all the various peoples who have dwelled in the Holy Land since ancient times, saw the staging of the exhibit as an attempt to delegitimise their own connection to the land.And they view the "Jewish state" demand as a departure from the peace talks, which they say are aimed at creating a Palestinian state and ending the occupation of east Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip that began in 1967."We totally reject, on principle, the demand to recognise Israel as a Jewish state," Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said last Friday in Morocco.
"We reject attempts to rub out our historical narrative and to erase our collective memory," said the Palestinian president, who himself is a refugee from 1948.'Obsessive-compulsive behaviour'Senior Palestinian negotiator Nabil Shaath said last week that Israel had succeeded in imposing its view of events on the latest peace talks, which are being steered by US Secretary of State John Kerry."From the Israeli point of view, recognition of the state of Israel as a Jewish state is equal to cancelling the right of return, based on (UN) Resolution 194," he said, describing it as "an entirely new requirement."According to Tel Aviv daily Israel Hayom, Peres also sees Netanyahu's position as problematic."In conversations held by Peres in the past weeks with senior diplomatic and political figures, he explained that this insistence by Netanyahu was 'unnecessary,'...since it could derail the peace negotiations," the paper wrote."The position of Peres is important and proves that recognition of a Jewish State is not among the final status issues," chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat told AFP, referring to core disputes over borders, Jerusalem and security arrangements.The question of the 1948 refugees is one of the most thorny issues of the talks, with the Palestinians insisting the matter be resolved on the basis of resolution 194, which defines principles for their "right of return.""We will never accept the violation of the rights of refugees, which are guaranteed by international law and international resolutions," Abbas said.Israel opposes the return of the refugees and their descendents, arguing that it would destroy the state's national and religious character by making Jews a minority.But writing in Israeli daily Haaretz, leftwing commentator Gideon Levy compared Israel to a neurotic person who constantly has to check whether a door is locked or not."Israel is exhibiting classic signs of obsessive-compulsive behaviour," he wrote."Everything is directed to achieve the goal that was reached long ago... The prime minister invents demands that the Palestinians recognise a locked door."

PM would let all settlers remain in West Bank, official says

Netanyahu will not force any Jews living in what would become ‘Palestine’ to leave, and would insist they get the option to stay where they are under peace deal

By Raphael Ahren January 26, 2014, 2:48 pm 8-The Times of Israel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu does not intend to uproot Jewish settlements anywhere in the West Bank, and will not force any settlers to leave, even under a permanent peace deal with the Palestinians, a well-placed official in the Prime Minister’s Office told The Times of Israel on Sunday. Rather, the prime minister will insist that settlers be given the free choice of remaining in place and living under Palestinian rule, or relocating to areas under Israeli sovereign rule, the official said.That requirement seems certain to constitute a significant obstacle in Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts, since Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has categorically rejected the idea of any Israeli — soldier or civilian — remaining in a Palestinian state.The official was explaining and elaborating on comments made Friday by Netanyahu during a press conference in Davos, Switzerland. “I have said in the past, and I repeat today: I do not intend to remove a single settlement, [and] I do not intend to displace a single Israeli,” Netanyahu said.The prime minister was answering a question relating to the Jordan Valley, and it was not entirely clear from his remarks whether he was relating solely to the Jordan Valley or the entire West Bank, and whether he was speaking about his stance in the short-term or his permanent position. Sunday’s comments to The Times of Israel by the official in his office resolved those questions: The prime minister was referring to the entire West Bank, the official made clear, and his refusal to require any settlers to leave applies in the long-term, even after the establishment of a Palestinian state.While the official said Sunday that Netanyahu’s stance on the issue was “longstanding,” Friday’s press conference marked the first time since peace talks began in August that the prime minister had explicitly articulated this position in public.“His consistent position has been that those settlements that will be on the Palestinian side of the border should not be uprooted,” the official told The Times of Israel. “Just as Israel has an Arab minority, the prime minister doesn’t see why Palestine can’t have a Jewish minority. The Jews living on their side should have a choice whether they want to stay or not.”

Netanyahu first hinted at this position in his May 2011 speech to the US Congress in Washington, the official noted. “The status of the settlements will be decided only in negotiations,” Netanyahu said at the time. “In any peace agreement that ends the conflict, some settlements will end up beyond Israel’s borders.” During that speech, he did not make explicit that settlers located east of the border must be given the option to stay, but he has said so in several meetings in recent weeks, the official said.While in Davos, Netanyahu meet with US Secretary of State John Kerry three times to discuss the current peace talks. Kerry said he would soon present a position paper that would “achieve a framework for the negotiations that will define the endgame and all the core issues, and provide guidelines for the negotiators in their efforts to achieve a final-status peace agreement.”The settlements are one of the core issues that will be addressed by the framework agreement, the Israeli official said. He declined however, to specify what the paper would say about the future of Israeli settlers in parts of the West Bank designated for the future Palestinian state. It is highly unlikely that Washington would adopt Netanyahu’s demand to allow all settlers, notably including those situated outside the main settlement blocs, to remain in their homes. Kerry said in Davos that all IDF soldiers would ultimately have to leave a Palestinian state.The Palestinians categorically reject the idea of any settlers remaining on the territory of their future state. “In a final resolution, we would not see the presence of a single Israeli — civilian or soldier — on our lands,” Abbas said in July, just before the current peace talks were launched.The idea of letting settlers choose whether they want to return to Israel proper or remain living in Palestine was first suggested in 2006 by then-prime minister Ehud Olmert. “Each and every one of the settlers who live in territories that stand to be evacuated will need to decide whether to live in a Jewish state, the State of Israel, or in a Palestinian state,” Olmert said, in response to a question about whether he intended to uproot tens of thousands of people from their homes in a future peace deal.Netanyahu was and remains a fierce critic of the 2005 disengagement from Gaza, under which prime minister Ariel Sharon forced the evacuation of all Gaza settlers and the demolition of their settlements.

Fatah official calls for ‘coordinated’ armed resistance

Palestinians will reject any agreement presented by Kerry and American ‘liars’, Central Committee member Tawfiq Tirawi says

By Elhanan Miller January 26, 2014, 4:15 pm 2-The times of Israel

Negotiations with Israel will lead to “zero results” if not fortified by armed resistance, a senior Fatah official said, adding that the first signs of a new Palestinian uprising have already begun to appear on the ground.

An American framework agreement expected to be presented in the coming weeks to the negotiating teams will never receive Palestinian endorsement if based on parameters currently being voiced by the Americans, said Tawfiq Tirawi, a member of Fatah’s Central Committee and head of the official Palestinian investigation committee into the death of Yasser Arafat, speaking to Lebanese news channel Al-Mayadeen Thursday.

“We [in Fatah] know what the Israelis and Americans are suggesting [in the negotiating room]. So far, the negotiations are taking place only with the Americans, not the Israelis, and the Americans are liars. There is no framework agreement. It’s a lie. Even if Kerry [presents] an agreement, Palestinians will reject it. There will be a vote, either inside Fatah or among the Palestinian leadership, and the American proposals will be rejected,” Tirawi said.A number of senior Palestinian officials have voiced public skepticism regarding the possibility of negotiations with Israel leading to a deal, as the nine-month time frame for talks approaches its end in April. Last month, PLO official Yasser Abed Rabbo blasted US Secretary of State John Kerry for “breaking a promise” to end negotiations on all core issues during the original framework.But Tirawi voiced skepticism that negotiations alone could ever produce a Palestinian state.“There is no possibility of a Palestinian state being established on the West Bank and Gaza in the coming 20 years. None at all. Anyone who believes otherwise is wrong. Negotiations will bring us nothing … we, all Palestinian factions, must return to the cycle of action. When we will do this, many things will change.”Asked what he meant by the cycle of action, Tirawi clarified he was speaking of “resistance in all of its forms.”“Steadfastness is also resistance, negotiations are also a form of resistance, but there must be something on the ground as well … weapons, popular resistance, there are 100 methods to resist.”Palestinians were pushed into negotiations with Israel by a consensus of Western and Arab states which insisted on diplomacy, leaving the Palestinian leadership no option but to agree, Tirawi said.“It’s true that most PLO factions were against [entering negotiations], but there’s something called Palestinian national interests. Did we compromise on any of our principles? No. That’s what is important.”Tirawi’s words were tacitly directed at PA President Mahmoud Abbas, who consistently speaks out against armed violence toward Israel, preferring to focus efforts on “popular resistance,” namely boycotts, demonstrations, and limited violence such as stone throwing. In a recent speech before a crowd of Jerusalem activists, Abbas praised the behavior of villagers from Qusra, near Nablus, who apprehended “with their bare hands” settlers suspected of preparing a price tag attack.

The resumption of armed resistance, Tirawi argued, must be done in an organized and coordinated manner, not sporadically.“There should be a strategic national plan that all organizations can agree upon, both within the PLO and without it,” he said.Tirawi noted that the first signs of a new Palestinian uprising could already be felt on the ground in Palestinian towns and villages: increased stone throwing, tire burning, confrontations with settlers and soldiers.“The big explosion in Palestine is coming. All of Israel’s actions have placed the Palestinian public under immense pressure. They have no choice but to explode in the face of the occupation.”Speaking as head of the investigation team into the death of Yasser Arafat, Tirawi rejected as “political” the French forensic report released last month ruling out the possibility that the late Palestinian president died of poisoning.Tirawi, who served as head of General Intelligence in the West Bank under Yasser Arafat and was accused by Israel of involvement in terrorism during the Second Intifada, added that the Russian report which found Arafat’s cause of death “inconclusive” detected a second material in his body other than polonium, inserted from the outside.“We are testing this substance chemically,” Tirawi said, adding that he is convinced that Israel was behind the death.“It’s not like searching for a needle in a haystack, it’s like searching for a needle in an ocean. Let’s hope we succeed.”

Video: Arab Rioters Attack IDF Convoy

IDF jeeps are ambushed west of Beit El. No soldiers were hurt.-By Dalit Halevy-First Publish: 1/26/2014, 4:51 PM-Israelnationalnews

Firebomb ambush-Screenshot

A video uploaded to Youtube Sunday claims to show an ambush carried out earlier in the day by young Arab Muslims against an IDF jeep patrol in the village of Deir Abu Mashaal, west of Beit El and Ramallah.
The short video shows three IDF jeeps driving down one of the village streets and turning left at a T junction. As the last jeep prepares to turn, a young terrorist is seen running on the roof of a building and hurling an object at the jeep.At the same time, 12 young attackers emerge from the other side of the street to attack the convoy from behind. The one running ahead of the pack hurls a firebomb at the jeep and it explodes on the roof. The others use the moment to approach the jeep and throw objects at it.The video was shot from the roof of a nearby building and the event has all the markings of a preplanned ambush that was prepared on the basis of information gathered during previous IDF patrols of the village.No soldiers are known to have been hurt in the attack. However, it joins a slew of increasingly daring attacks on Israeli security forces, and a pattern that repeats itself in all of them is the Israelis' reluctance to open fire. This reluctance stems from fear of an ultraleftist legal system and media, which routinely combine forces to punish IDF officers and soldiers for almost any use of force.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/176740#.UuUufPtOneE

PM: Final Iran deal can’t work if it won’t stop enriching

Netanyahu says diplomatic effort is for naught if Tehran refuses to change course, adds that charm offensive failing

By Marissa Newman January 26, 2014, 5:21 pm 1-The times of Israel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cast doubt on the chances of a diplomatic solution stopping Iran’s nuclear program, saying that if President Hassan Rouhani continues to insist that Tehran will not halt centrifuge enrichment,  ”that means that a final settlement, which is the aim of the diplomatic process with Iran, cannot succeed.”Netanyahu made his remarks at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting Sunday, denouncing for a second time Rouhani’s address at the World Economic Forum in Davos.“We know the truth — there is a regime that under the guise of a charm offensive is attempting to arm itself with nuclear weapons, to become a threshold state that can obtain nuclear weapons very quickly, and one that hasn’t changed a whit of its true ideology,” he continued.Netanyahu conceded that within Iran there are dissenting opinions regarding the nuclear program, but stressed that that did not change its official policy.The prime minister also noted that in talks with foreign leaders, he found that officials see through the Iranians’ seemingly moderate position and are aware of the Islamic Republic’s contradictory positions on Syria and the nuclear program.In an immediate response to Rouhani’s speech on Thursday, Netanyahu said that the Iranian president was continuing “Iran’s deception show” and that the international community “must not be fooled and must prevent Iran from attaining the capability to produce nuclear weapons.”“At a time when Rouhani talks about peace with the countries of the Middle East, he refuses — even today — to recognize the existence of the State of Israel, and his regime daily calls for the destruction of the State of Israel,” Netanyahu said. “At a time when Rouhani claims that Iran is not interested in a nuclear project for military purposes, Iran continues to strengthen its centrifuges and heavy water reactor, and to arm itself with intercontinental missiles, the sole purpose of which is for nuclear weapons.”Rouhani, in his address, said Iran’s nuclear program was peaceful, denied any nuclear weaponization goals, and said that his country was ready to engage in diplomatic relations with all countries it had officially recognized.Adiv Sterman contributed to the report. 

 AMOS 9:10
10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.

DANIEL 11:40-45
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.

REVELATION 14:18-20
18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
20 And the winepress was trodden without the city,(JERUSALEM) and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.(200 MILES) (THE SIZE OF ISRAEL)

ISAIAH 6:9-12
9  And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.
10  Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
11  Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,
12  And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.

ISAIAH 24:1
1 Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste,(NUKES USED) and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.(WORLD IMMIGRATION)

The Third and Final Wave of WW3 is when all Nations march to Jerusalem, but JESUS bodily returns to earth and destroys them,sets up his KINGDOM OF RULE FOR 1000 YEARS THEN FOREVER.

ISAIAH 11:10-16
10  And in that day (WHEN JESUS IS RULING ON EARTH AT THE END OF THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION PERIOD) there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.
11  And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
12  And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
13  The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.
14  But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.
15  And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod.
16  And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.

2ND WAVE CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL

REVELATION 16:12-16
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates;(WERE WW3 STARTS IN IRAQ OR SYRIA OR TURKEY) and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon,(SATAN) and out of the mouth of the beast,(WORLD DICTATOR) and out of the mouth of the false prophet.(FALSE POPE)
14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.(WERE 2 BILLION DIE FROM NUKE WAR)
15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.(ITS AT THIS TIME I BELIEVE WHEN AMERICA GETS NUKED BY RUSSIA ON THE WAY TO THE MIDEAST)

DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)

REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(4 WINDS OF THE WORLD-WORLDWIDE WAR)(TURKEY-IRAQ-SYRIA)(EUPHRATES RIVER CONSISTS OF 760 MILES IN TURKEY,440 MILES IN SYRIA AND 660 MILES IN IRAQ)
15 And the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels were loosed,(COULD ALSO MEAN THE 4 CORNERS OF THE EARTH OR WORLDWIDE WAR) which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)

WARS AND RUMURS OF WARS.

MATTHEW 24:6-8
6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

MARK 13:7
7 And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet.

Kiev rally canceled over protester memorial

-JAN 26,14-yahoonews

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's opposition forces have called off a massive rally planned for Sunday because of the funeral for a protester killed in clashes with police last week.Mikhail Zhiznevsky, 25, was one of two protesters who died of gunshot wounds on Wednesday. The opposition contends they were shot by police in an area where demonstrators had been throwing rocks and firebombs at riot police for several days.The memorial service is to take place at Independence Square in the center of the Ukrainian capital, where protesters have established a large tent camp and held demonstrations around the clock since early December.Sunday rallies in previous weeks have attracted especially large crowds, sometimes exceeding 100,000 people.THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.After a violent night when protesters besieged a building where police were sheltering, Ukraine's capital is preparing for a large demonstration that will test the opposition's determination and authorities' patience.Throughout Ukraine's two-month-long political crisis, Sunday rallies have typically attracted crowds of tens of thousands and sometimes much larger.The latest rally comes a day after beleaguered President Viktor Yanukovych offered the country's prime minister post to one of the opposition's top leaders. While not rejecting the offer outright, Arseniy Yatsenyuk said more of the opposition's demands must be met, including Yanukovych's resignation. He vowed protests will continue.

Late Saturday, demonstrators threw firebombs and rocks into a building in central Kiev where about 200 police were sheltering. After several hours, the crowd formed a corridor and allowed police to leave.

EGYPT

ISAIAH 19:1-5
1 The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
2 And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
4 And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts.
5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.

DANIEL 11:40-43
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south ( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.

Nearly 50 killed as Egypt marks revolt anniversary

4 hours ago-JAN 26,14-yahoonews

Cairo (AFP) - Nearly 50 people died in weekend clashes between supporters and opponents of Egypt's military, as media outlets on Sunday hailed rallies urging the army chief to run for the presidency.Three years after Egyptians rose up to demand the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, thousands of demonstrators in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Saturday chanted slogans backing another military man, General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, as police clashed with Islamists and activists elsewhere.The health ministry said 49 people were killed when security forces moved to disperse protests across the country by supporters of deposed Islamist president Mohamed Morsi and activists who spearheaded the 2011 uprising.The police arrested 1,079 "rioters," said the interior ministry.Morsi was ousted by the military in July following mass protests calling on him to step down.Since then, his supporters have been staging near-daily protests calling for his reinstatement, despite a crackdown that has killed more than 1,000 people and imprisoned thousands.Widening their crackdown, authorities have also targeted secular activists, detaining some figures of the 2011 uprising for organising or taking part in unlicensed protests, after a disputed law adopted in November banned all but police-sanctioned rallies.And in a drastic escalation, they also blacklisted Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood movement as a terrorist group in December after a suicide bombing killed 15 people in a police headquarters north of Cairo.The attack was condemned by the Brotherhood and claimed by Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, an Al-Qaeda-inspired militant group based in the restive Sinai Peninsula that has claimed most of the major attacks targeting security forces in the country.Militant attacks have killed scores of Egyptian soldiers and policemen since Morsi's ouster, especially in the Sinai.On Sunday, armed assailants opened fire on a military bus in the North Sinai, killing four soldiers near a military checkpoint that was targeted by a rocket in the restive region.
Five soldiers were killed in a helicopter crash in the North Sinai on Saturday, but it was not immediately clear how the aircraft came down.The army has poured troops in the mountainous and underdeveloped peninsula, which borders the Palestinian Gaza strip and Israel, to combat the growing militancy.Security was beefed up across Cairo on Sunday.Roads leading to police stations were sealed off, two days after four bombs exploded in the capital, including a massive blast outside police headquarters. The attacks, which were claimed by Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, killed six people.Private and state-run media have hailed "the fight against terrorism" led by the security forces, often accusing the Brotherhood and its supporters of holding violent protests.On Sunday, they welcomed demonstrations organised a day earlier in Cairo's iconic Tahrir Square in support of the military-installed authorities, seeing in them "the people's challenge to terrorism".On Saturday, state-run and private television broadcast footage of the gathering in Tahrir, epicentre of the 2011 uprising.
Thousands showed up to call on army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the general behind Morsi's ouster, to run for the presidency. The turnout was lower than the June 30 mass protests demanding Morsi step down.

Sisi has previously indicated he could run for the presidency if there is enough "popular demand".Adly Mansour, the military-installed interim president, is to give "an important speech to the nation" on Sunday, his office said.It comes after 98.1 percent of voters who turned out for a two-day referendum last week approved a new constitution that paves the way for presidential and parliamentary elections.The two polls are part of a transitional roadmap decided soon after Morsi's ouster whose stated objective is to lead the country to democratic rule.Renewed violence could erupt as Morsi supporters have called for new protests on Sunday afternoon, and during the coming days, to mark the 18 days of the 2011 popular uprising.

01/24/2014 VATICAN INSIDER

Hollande visits Francis in light of friction between French government and Catholic Church

Francis and Hollande during their face-to-face meeting

During today’s meeting, Pope Francis and François Hollande discussed bioethics, family, Syria, the environment and migrants. Francis embraced the French priest who was kidnapped in Cameroon

Iacopo Scaramuzzi vatican city Today François Hollande held a 35 minute meeting with the Pope, followed by another meeting with the Secretariat of State, Mgr. Pietro Parolin and the Holy See’s “foreign affairs minister”, Mgr. Dominique Mamberti. In his first audience with the Pope since his election as President last 15 May, Hollande discussed the points the Holy See and France agree on and where they differ.“During the course of today’s cordial talks, emphasis was placed on religion’s contribution to the common good,” a diplomatic communiqué issued by the Holy See Press Office in the early afternoon reads. A part from recalling the good relations that exist between France and the Holy See, the two parties confirmed their mutual commitment to maintaining a regular dialogue between the State and the Catholic Church and to work constructively on issues that of common interest. A number of current issues relating to the defence and promotion of the dignity of the human person were also discussed. These included the family, bioethics, respect for religious communities and the protection of places of worship. The conversation then turned to international issues such as poverty and development, migration and the environment. A particular focus was given to conflicts in the Middle East and some regions of Africa. The hope is that peaceful coexistence can be restored within the countries in question and that rights for all will extend to all sections of society, especially ethnic and religious minorities.”In a statement to the press at the Institut francais, near Rome’s Piazza Navona, Hollande said he asked the Vatican to receive Syria’s main political opposition group, the Syrian National Coalition (SNC): “The Geneva conference must focus on a transition, we must do everything in our power to put an end to the conflicts and deploy humanitarian aid.” The French president confirmed that he shared “the same concerns” as the Pope for the minority Christian community in the Middle East: “France is for Christians in the Middle East being able to stay in the places where they have always lived and not being forced into exile as a result of the current fighting. Christians in the Middle East must be supported and protected wherever they are.” Hollande clarified that “France defends religious freedom everywhere,” it is “the birthplace of the freedom of conscience” and defends it “against all anti-religious acts.” During the press conference, Hollande also said he and the Pope spoke about the “big issue” of climate change ahead of a conference on this very subject, which France has scheduled for next year in Paris. The President confirmed that Francis is preparing a speech on the environment.Naturally, there was no word of Hollande’s private life, which caused a great scandal recently after news broke about his affair with French actress Julie Gayet and the crisis in his relationship with Valerie Trierweiler. Before the President’s visit to the Vatican, Catholic newspaper La Vie revealed that “the Pope’s a superstar to receive a head of State who’s so unpopular.” The communiqué issued by the Holy See, brushes over the difficult relationship between the Hollande presidency and the French Catholic Church: from the “mariage pour tous” law which legalises  same-sex marriage, to the end-of-life bill and the difference in positions over Syria, when the Élysée expressed itself in favour of military intervention. An open letter addressed the Pope and carrying the signatures of 110 thousand French Catholics, expressed a “deep unease” over the position of the Élysée on bioethical issues. The Apostolic Nuncio to France, Mgr. Luigi Ventura, announced that the Pope had expressed his interest in a recent “march for life” which took place in Paris.Today’s audience was also marked by a warm meeting between Francis and Georges Vandenbeusch, the French priest who was recently released after his kidnapping in Cameroon a few weeks ago. “Mon frère, je suis heureux de vous voire” (“my brother I am happy to see you”), Francis told the priest in French. When the moment came to hand out medals and rosaries to the members of the French delegation – including the Minister of the Interior, Manuel Valls and the French Ambassador to the Holy See, Bruno Joubert – the Pope spontaneously embraced the priest. François Hollande gave the Pope a book on St. Francis of Assisi. “He’s also your patron saint!” the Pope joked, referring to the President’s Christian name. Last night, a home-made bomb went off in the centre of Rome, near the French church of Saint Yves des Bretons. Investigators say it could be linked to Hollande’s visit to the Vatican. Meanwhile, a telephone call about two bombs being planted in St. Peter’s Square this morning, turned out to be a false alarm.

EARTHQUAKES

ISAIAH 42:15
15  I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.

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

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

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

1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ Worldwide

35 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2014-01-26 11:02:08 UTC-05:00Showing event times using Local System Time (UTC-05:00)35 earthquakes in map area

1. 5.0 7km NNW of Lixourion, Greece 2014-01-26 09:08:40 UTC-05:00 12.8 km
2. 6.0 0km NW of Lixourion, Greece 2014-01-26 08:55:43 UTC-05:00 18.8 km
3. 2.8 73km NNE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico 2014-01-26 08:16:44 UTC-05:00 64.0 km
4. 2.7 76km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico 2014-01-26 07:39:18 UTC-05:00 25.0 km
5. 5.2 53km W of Mogok, Burma 2014-01-26 07:38:36 UTC-05:00 8.3 km
6. 2.8 86km SSW of Homer, Alaska 2014-01-26 06:36:34 UTC-05:00 13.1 km
7. 5.2 85km NNE of Hihifo, Tonga 2014-01-26 05:39:32 UTC-05:00 9.6 km
8. 3.4 113km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2014-01-26 04:09:52 UTC-05:00 71.0 km
9. 4.9 213km W of Lata, Solomon Islands 2014-01-26 03:14:26 UTC-05:00 35.0 km
10. 2.7 67km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico 2014-01-26 02:28:20 UTC-05:00 71.0 km
11. 3.2 13km SSE of Wetumka, Oklahoma 2014-01-26 01:38:18 UTC-05:00 5.0 km
12. 4.3 80km SSW of Corinto, Nicaragua 2014-01-26 01:28:47 UTC-05:00 46.7 km
13. 4.8 3km ENE of Kananya, Philippines 2014-01-26 01:12:09 UTC-05:00 64.2 km
14. 5.0 41km N of Port-Vila, Vanuatu 2014-01-26 00:22:02 UTC-05:00 20.8 km
15. 5.5 24km SW of Zorritos, Peru 2014-01-26 00:10:28 UTC-05:00 19.6 km
16. 4.9 81km SSW of Corinto, Nicaragua 2014-01-26 00:04:33 UTC-05:00 53.0 km
17. 2.5 17km ESE of Sutton-Alpine, Alaska 2014-01-25 22:56:55 UTC-05:00 37.8 km
18. 4.4 200km ESE of Iwaki, Japan 2014-01-25 22:40:56 UTC-05:00 39.0 km
19. 5.2 211km W of Lata, Solomon Islands 2014-01-25 22:25:29 UTC-05:00 27.6 km
20. 4.8 211km ESE of Kirakira, Solomon Islands 2014-01-25 22:07:28 UTC-05:00 26.1 km
21. 4.8 3km ENE of Rizal, Philippines 2014-01-25 21:41:46 UTC-05:00 59.7 km
22. 3.0 4km NW of The Geysers, California 2014-01-25 21:39:47 UTC-05:00 0.9 km
23. 2.8 73km N of Hatillo, Puerto Rico 2014-01-25 20:53:46 UTC-05:00 28.0 km
24. 4.3 Izu Islands, Japan region 2014-01-25 20:15:41 UTC-05:00 436.0 km
25. 2.6 18km N of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, California 2014-01-25 20:14:18 UTC-05:00 5.7 km
26. 3.2 44km WSW of Alamo, Nevada 2014-01-25 19:03:13 UTC-05:00 9.2 km
27. 4.2 60km N of Ryotsu, Japan 2014-01-25 16:17:59 UTC-05:00 68.5 km
28. 3.1 98km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico 2014-01-25 15:35:00 UTC-05:00 118.0 km
29. 2.5 51km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico 2014-01-25 14:23:28 UTC-05:00 26.0 km
30. 3.4 137km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2014-01-25 14:10:19 UTC-05:00 70.0 km
31. 2.6 71km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands 2014-01-25 13:37:57 UTC-05:00 33.0 km
32. 4.5 10km N of Calanasan, Philippines 2014-01-25 12:43:58 UTC-05:00 49.4 km
33. 5.6 106km WNW of Gizo, Solomon Islands 2014-01-25 12:00:11 UTC-05:00 52.4 km
34. 2.6 31km S of Morton, Washington 2014-01-25 11:58:25 UTC-05:00 6.4 km
35. 4.7 54km SSE of Adipala, Indonesia 2014-01-25 11:58:02 UTC-05:00 92.5 km

POSSIBLE CIGARETTE IN ROOM STARTED THE QUEBEC SENIOR FIRE- 8 DEAD-24 STLL MISSING AS THE RECOVERY CONTINUES

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.

ITS SAID BY THE CBC THAT A CIGERETTE FROM ONE OF THE TENNANTS SMOKING IN THEIR ROOM STARTED THE FIRE.BUT QUEBEC OFFICIALS HAVE NOT CONFIRMED IT YET.THE WORKERS ARE STILL TRYING TO RECOVER THE BODIES IN THE FREEZING COLD-COLLAPSED-ICE PACKED DISASTER.THIS IS DAY 3 OF THE RECOVERY NOW.THERE IS A CHURCH SERVICE TOMORROW FOR THE LOST AT THE CHURCH JUST BESIDE WERE THE FIRE OCCURRED.AND THE PREIST SAID PEOPLE SHOULD COME TO GATHER TOGETHER TO GREIVE THERE ANY TIME. 8 ARE CONFIRMED DEAD AND NOW THERE SAYING 24 OF THE 32 IS STILL MISSING.

I'M NOT SURE WHY THEY HAVE TO BOIL THEIR WATER FOR 5 MINUTES IN THIS TOWN.IS THERE TO MUCH WATER BEING PUMPED ON THE FIRE OR WAS THERE SOME KIND OF POISONING THAT OCCURRED.I HAVE NOT HEARD MUCH ON THIS-SO I DON'T KNOW.BUT I HAVE HEARD THEY ARE HAVING TO BOIL THEIR WATER FOR 5 MINUTES OR DRINK BOTTLED WATER.I GOTTA TRY TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE WATER SITUATION.

STORIES FROM THE 2 PAST DAYS
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/01/5-confirmed-dead-30-still-looking-for.html 
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/01/possible-33-dead-in-montreal-senoirs.html   

Three rotating teams that are on site for 45 minutes at a time are using steam to melt the ice, to free the remains of fire victims while preserving their integrity.Lapointe explained the persisting “intense cold” made operations more difficult.The teams are made up of police, forensic technicians, firefighters and coroner’s personnel.Because of the large quantities of water used to put out the fire and now for steam, acting Mayor Ginette Caron said the water level in the village reservoir, supplied by artesian wells, is low and a boil-water advisory has been imposed.

L'ISLE-VERTE SENIORS RESIDENCE HAD FIRE-CODE VIOLATIONS IN 2011
http://www.montrealgazette.com/health/Isle+Verte+seniors+residence+fire+code+violations/9422047/story.html

Red Cross seeking funds to help L'Isle-Verte survivors

Posted on 1/24/2014 8:36:00 AM by Andrew Peplowski

The Red Cross has launched a campaign to raise funds for the 20 survivors of the L'Isle-Vert tragedy.
The initial goal is to raise $50,000.Red Cross volunteers have been in the community since yesterday.They are assessing needs which at the moment include clothing, accommodations, food and personal needs such as eyeglasses, dentures and hearing aids.
www.croixrouge.ca

32 presumed dead in Quebec fire, 8 confirmed

The Associated PressJanuary 24, 2014 Updated 10 minutes ago-centredaily.com

L'ISLE-VERTE, Quebec — The painstaking search through the iced-over remains of a burned-out Quebec retirement home resumed Saturday morning, with friends and relatives of the missing awaiting news. Just eight bodies of the 32 presumed dead have been recovered.A massive blaze swept through the three-story building in L'Isle-Verte, about 140 miles (225 kilometers) northeast of Quebec City early Thursday. Quebec Provincial Police Lt. Guy Lapointe at a Saturday news conference lowered the number of missing from about 30 to 24 based on more detailed information.Officials have formally identified two of the victims, with their names to be released later Saturday."The 24 people that are still missing, I think we can assume the worst. We're not going to confirm any deaths until we've actually recovered the remains," Lapointe said.The cause of the massive blaze that swept through the Residence du Havre was under investigation, and police asked the public for any videos or photos that might yield clues. Lapointe declined to confirm reports that the fire began in the room of a resident who was smoking a cigarette, but said that is one possibility.Search teams of police, firefighters and coroners slowly and methodically picked their way through the ruins, working in shifts in the extreme cold with temperatures hovering around minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 20 degrees Celsius) Friday.As crews used steam to melt thick sheets of ice coating the rubble, Marc-Henri Saindon waited for his mother's body to be recovered. Marie-Jeanne Gagnon, five months shy of her 100th birthday, had moved to the home on New Year's Eve, her son said."She really liked it there. She was well treated and she had friends there," Saindon said Friday.Spray from firefighters' hoses left the home resembling a macabre snow palace, the ruins encased in thick white ice dripping with icicles. Workers took a break over night because of the freezing cold.The tragedy cast such a pall over the village of 1,500 that psychologists were sent door to door."This is a horrible tragedy," Mayor Ursule Theriault said.Witnesses told horrific tales of people trapped and killed by the flames. Many of the 50 or so residents were over 85 and used wheelchairs or walkers. Some had Alzheimer's.Pascal Fillion, who lives nearby, said he saw someone use a ladder to try to rescue a man cornered on his third-floor balcony. The man was crying out for help before he fell to the ground, engulfed in flames, Fillion said."I lost my friends," said Nicole Belanger, who worked at the home part-time for the past four years. "The residents loved us and we loved them."Quebec Minister of Social Services Veronique Hivon said many of the village's volunteer firefighters had relatives at the retirement home."People are in a state of shock," she said. "We want them to know the services are there by going door to door. It's an important building that's a part of their community that just disappeared."Hivon said the home was up to code and had a proper evacuation plan. A Quebec Health Department document indicates the home which has operated since 1997, had only a partial sprinkler system. The home expanded around 2002, and the sprinklers in the new part of the building triggered the alarm.The owners of the residence made a public statement Friday for the first time since the fire, offering their condolences to victims' families.

Roch Bernier and Irene Plante thanked firefighters, volunteers and the residence's employees and said they are co-operating fully with authorities.Father Gilles Frigon, the town's Catholic priest, said he would hold a private Mass for the families of the victims on Sunday and said next Saturday a public memorial with politicians and dignitaries will take place.The fire came six months after 47 people were killed in the small town of Lac-Megantic, Quebec, when a train carrying oil derailed and exploded.In 1969, a nursing home fire in the community of Notre-Dame-du-Lac, Quebec, claimed 54 lives.Associated Press Writer Rob Gillies in Toronto contributed to this report.

Read more here: http://www.centredaily.com/2014/01/24/4000554/30-missing-after-quebec-senior.html#storylink=cpy

L'Isle-Verte seniors' home fire started in resident's room

CBC – JAN 25,14-yahoonews

The fire that destroyed a L'Isle-Verte, Que., seniors' home and killed at least eight people started in a resident's room, sources have told Radio-Canada.According to the police source, one of the residents asked an employee for permission to go outside to smoke a cigarette. The employee reportedly refused. The fire began shortly thereafter.The resident's balcony door was open upon the arrival of firefighters, the source said.CBC and Radio-Canada have confirmed the deaths of three people with their family members:
Marie-Jeanne Saindon, 99.
Audette Dubé, 82.
Joseph (Jo) Malenfant, 90.
Saindon was just five months shy of her 100th birthday. Her son, Marc Saindon, identified her by her maiden name, Gagnon, but the small community of L'Isle-Verte knew her as Madame Saindon. Lt. Guy Lapointe of the provincial police force said the extreme cold presents a big challenge to workers trying to comb through the scene."People worked very hard today … It's very difficult work," Lapointe said, adding search efforts would be put on hold at 7 p.m. ET Friday and would resume at 7 a.m. ET Saturday.The number of missing, which had been set at 30, has not been changed by officials.Lapointe said they may bring in special equipment that produces vapour to melt the ice on the site of the fire.Quebec coroner Geneviève Guilbault said identification work is being done to confirm the remains search crews have discovered so far in the rubble of the seniors' home in the rural Quebec town, about 28 kilometres northeast of Rivière-du-Loup.
Roch Bernier and Irene Plante, who have owned the residence since 1999, said they may not rebuild in the aftermath of the tragedy.. They issued a statement late Friday afternoon extending their sincere condolences to the victims' families. "Although they loved their job, their residents and their employees, Mr. Bernier and Ms. Plante would like to mention that it is still too early to say if they have or not to rebuild the residence Le Havre," the release said.They said they wanted to focus their energies on relocating and assuring the well-being of the displaced residents for the time being.The seniors' residence that burned down in L'Isle-Verte was in line with security regulations, Quebec's minister for social services says as the search for the missing continues. "We don't know what happened," VéroniqueHivon told reporters on Friday morning.
​Hivon said the most recent safety drill at the residence was carried out in under eight minutes.The older part of the Résidence du Havre was built in 1997, and had no sprinkler system, although a newer wing built in 2002 was equipped with sprinklers. Hivon said the government must do "everything possible to make sure that ... such tragedies don't happen again."Police are not speculating on what may have caused the fire.  Quebec provincial police Lt. Guy Lapointe said investigators have not ruled out anything yet.As the search for the missing continues, Lapointe said many members of the emergency crews are suffering from loss as well. "We will not give up," he said.

He said police officers and firefighters worked overnight to bring the fire under control. Workers are dealing with extreme cold and a thick coating of ice over the rubble. Lapointe said as crews search through the building's remains, they are using steam to melt the ice. He said the steam will help ensure the scene isn't damaged. The tragedy has been designated as a Fourth Level response, meaning that local officials, the Quebec coroners’ office and the Quebec forensic laboratory are involved in the operation. Police are reminding members of the public to stay outside marked-off perimeters. There is a red zone set up around the remaining rubble, and police are asking the public not to go inside that zone.A total of 52 people were listed as living in the building, but provincial police are still trying to pin down how many of them were inside at the time of the fire. As the close-knit town of 1,500 people wait for news of their loved ones, a memorial service has been planned for Sunday. The mass will be held at 2 p.m. on Sunday at the Church of St-Jean-Baptiste-de-l'Isle-Verte.Priest Gilles Frigon said the service will be open to everyone. Several guests have been invited to come and speak, including a representative for the firefighters and MNA Jean D'Amour.The Red Cross launched a collection for donations, asking the public to give to those affected by the tragedy.

The fund will be used to help victims' families and evacuees pay for essential needs.According to the Red Cross, there is a need for at least $50,000 in donations. By Friday afternoon, three companies in Quebec had donated a combined $50,000.Volunteers with the Red Cross have been on the scene since 3 a.m. Thursday, meeting with survivors. Financial donations are expected to cover the cost of housing, clothing and food, but the Red Cross says there is also a need for dentures, hearing aids, mobility aids and glasses.
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A look inside Montreal’s biggest water reservoir

Sitting empty for decades, city plans to spend millions putting it back into service

http://www.montrealgazette.com/look+inside+Montreal+biggest+water+reservoir/9427502/story.html 

SADDAM ORDERED CHEMICAL WEAPONS AGAINST ISRAEL IF TOPPED

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.

1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

ISAIAH 33:8
8  The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant,(7 YR TREATY) he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.(THE WORLD LEADER-WAR MONGER CALLS HIMSELF GOD)

JERUSALEM DIVIDED

GENESIS 25:20-26
20  And Isaac was forty years old (A BIBLE GENERATION NUMBER=1967 + 40=2007+) when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
21  And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
22  And the children (2 NATIONS IN HER-ISRAEL-ARABS) struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD.
23  And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels;(ISRAEL AND THE ARABS) and the one people shall be stronger than the other people;(ISRAEL STRONGER THAN ARABS) and the elder shall serve the younger.(LITERALLY ISRAEL THE YOUNGER RULES (ISSAC)(JACOB-LATER NAME CHANGED TO ISRAEL) OVER THE OLDER ARABS (ISHMAEL)(ESAU)
24  And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.
25  And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.(THE OLDER AN ARAB)
26  And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob:(THE YOUNGER-ISRAELI) and Isaac was threescore (60) years old when she bare them.(1967 + 60=2027)(COULD BE THE LAST GENERATION WHEN JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AMOUNG THE 2 TWINS)(THE 2 TWINS WANT JERUSALEM-THE DIVISION OF JERUSALEM TODAY)(AND WHOS IN CONTROL OF JERUSALEM TODAY-THE YOUNGER ISSAC-JACOB-ISRAEL)(AND WHO WANTS JERUSALEM DIVIDED-THE OLDER,ESAU-ISHMAEL (THE ARABS)

ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

Kerry: Peace ultimately requires full IDF pullout from Palestinian areas

US secretary of state tells Davos conference that benefits of talks’ success, dangers of their failure, are enormous for whole world

By Ilan Ben Zion January 24, 2014, 9:01 pm 16-The Times of Israel

US Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday that a permanent peace agreement must ultimately involve the full withdrawal of Israeli troops from Palestinian territories, and warned that the failure of the current round of talks to yield an accord would be catastrophic for both parties.In a far-ranging speech to participants at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Kerry dismissed claims that the US was withdrawing from the Middle East, called for Syrian President Bashar Assad’s removal from power, and said Iran must back up its words with actions if it truly seeks better relations with the world. “If you are serious about a peaceful [nuclear] program,” he said of Iran, “it is not hard to prove to the world that your intentions are peaceful.”

The bulk of his address, however, focused on the US commitment to resolving ”this intractable conflict [that] has confounded administration after administration,” and the “unprecedented” efforts made by the US in the past year toward reaching an Israeli-Palestinian peace accord.Everyone knows what the endgame to the conflict looks like, Kerry said, hinting at the outline of a possible framework agreement: “An independent state for Palestinians wherever they may be; security arrangements for Israel that leave it more secure, not less; a full, phased, final withdrawal of the Israeli army; a just and agreed solution to the Palestinian refugee problem; an end to the conflict and all claims and mutual recognition of the nation-state of the Palestinian people and the nation-state of the Jewish people.”For their part, Kerry said, the Palestinians need assurances ”that at the end of the day their territory is going to be free of Israeli troops, that occupation ends.”“But the Israelis rightfully will not withdraw unless they know the West Bank will not become a new Gaza, and nobody can blame any leader of Israel for being concerned about that reality,” he said. Hamas took over the Gaza Strip in 2007, two years after Israel withdrew unilaterally from the Strip.While the top American diplomat did not detail the content of the current negotiations between the two sides, which he has been brokering since last July, he said that a central obstacle in the way of an accord was the resolution of security issues. US President Barack Obama shared his view, Kerry said, “that there cannot be peace unless Israel’s security and its needs are met.”“Security is a priority, because we understand that Israel has to be strong to make peace. But we also believe that peace will make Israel stronger,” he said.Kerry mentioned that the US, Israel, Jordan and the Palestinians have discussed the creation of a high-tech “security structure that meets the highest standards anywhere in the world” along the border with Jordan, capable of thwarting “an individual terrorist or a conventional armed force.”But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stated that an agreement with the Palestinians must involve Israeli security forces stationed along the strategically critical Jordan Valley even after Palestinian statehood; Netanyahu said earlier Friday that he would not dismantle settlements either. And Israel’s Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon has derided Kerry’s high-tech security package as inadequate to fight terrorism on the ground.Critical to an agreement, said Kerry on Friday, was managing to get the leaders on either side to make the “courageous decisions necessary to embrace what would be fair and what would work.”Kerry warned that a breakdown in talks would be catastrophic. According to recent reports, the Palestinian leadership has already decided in principle to reject Kerry’s framework proposals for a deal and instead launch a global diplomatic and legal assault on Israel.

“The benefits of success and the dangers of failure are enormous for the United States, for the world, for the region and, most importantly of all, for the Israeli and Palestinian people,” he said.Kerry lauded Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s commitment to nonviolence and negotiations, and warned that failure “will only embolden extremists and empower hardliners at the expense of the moderates.” He said a deterioration in security would jeopardize Israel’s economic juggernaut and increase isolation, and bring the Palestinians no closer to the independence they seek.“If they fail to achieve statehood now, there’s no guarantee another opportunity will follow anytime soon,” he said.Kerry added that “this issue cannot be resolved at the United Nations,” a path the Palestinians have attempted previously by seeking international recognition of statehood. “It can only be resolved between the parties.” He warned that unilateral acts by either side would precipitate a spiraling return to conflict.The secretary of state emphasized the benefits both sides stood to gain through a peace agreement, pointing out that the Palestinians would achieve statehood and economic prosperity.“For Israel, the benefits of peace are enormous as well, perhaps even more significant,” he said, stating that Israel would have immediate diplomatic recognition and economic ties with the Arab and Muslim world. It would potentially see a six percent increase in GDP per year, he argued.

“There are some people that assert this may be the last shot,” Kerry said of the current talks. “I don’t know the answer to that. I don’t want to find out the hard way.”

JEREMEIAH 49:35-37 (IN IRAN AT THE BUSHEHR OR ARAK NUKE SITE SOME BELIEVE)
35  Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,(IRAN/BUSHEHR NUCLEAR SITE) the chief of their might.(MOST DANGEROUS NUKE SITE IN IRAN)
36  And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven,(IRANIANS SCATTERED OR MASS IMIGARATION) and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.(WORLD IMMIGRATION)
37  For I will cause Elam (IRAN-BUSHEHR NUKE SITE) to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger,(ISRAELS NUKES POSSIBLY) saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:(IRAN AND ITS NUKE SITES DESTROYED)

EZEKIEL 35:3-6,11-15
3  And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O mount Seir,(ARABS) I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate.
4  I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
5  Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred,(AGAINST ISRAEL) and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:
6  Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.
11  Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged thee.
12  And thou shalt know that I am the LORD, and that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume.
13  Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard them.
14  Thus saith the Lord GOD; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate.(ARAB,MUSLIMS)
15  As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir,(ARABS) and all Idumea,(ARAB,MUSLIMS) even all of it: and they shall know that I am the LORD.

ISAIAH 17:1,11-14
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
11  In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
12  Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations,(USELESS U.N) that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13  The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14  And behold at evening tide trouble; and before the morning he is not.(ASSAD KILLED IN OVERNIGHT RAID) This is the portion of them that spoil us,(ISRAEL) and the lot of them that rob us.

AMOS 1:5
5  I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden:(IRAQ) and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir,(JORDAN) saith the LORD.

JEREMEIAH 49:23-27
23  Concerning Damascus.(SYRIA) Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea;(WAR SHIPS WITH NUKES COMING ON SYRIA) it cannot be quiet.
24  Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
25  How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
26  Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
27  And I will kindle a fire (NUKES OR BOMBS) in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.(ASSADS PALACES POSSIBLY IN DAMASCUS)

PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)

Israel fears it is next target of al-Qaeda-linked jihadis in Syria

Concern at spillover terrorism from 30,000 fighters is prompting Jerusalem to re-evaluate its neutrality on Syrian war

By Aron Heller January 25, 2014, 3:11 am 2-The Times of Israel

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — A sharp increase in the number of al-Qaeda linked fighters joining the fight against President Bashar Assad in Syria is threatening to spill over the borders and prompting the Jewish state to re-evaluate its policy of neutrality in the civil war next door, a senior Israeli intelligence official warned on Friday.The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because military regulations prevent him from releasing the information, claimed more than 30,000 al-Qaeda linked fighters are active in Syria, a huge increase over previous Western estimates. He did not disclose how Israel reached the figure or specify which groups were included in the count, only defining the fighters as believers in “global jihad,” which he said meant a mix of those linked to al-Qaeda or inspired by the terror network.The Israeli official estimated that just two years ago there were only about 2,000 jihadis in Syria but claimed the number has mushroomed to more than 30,000 as the conflict has dragged on, presenting the Middle East with a far more dangerous threat. He claimed that the Islamic rebel groups in Syria currently focused on toppling Assad intend to turn their sites on Israel after dispatching the Syrian government.“After Assad and after establishing or strengthening their foothold in Syria they are going to move and deflect their effort and attack Israel,” he told The Associated Press.Israeli officials cite at least two cases of recent rocket fire from Lebanon they attribute to the al-Qaeda-linked groups — although independent observers widely interpreted those as an attempt by extremist groups to prompt Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon, where the Assad-allied Lebanese Hezbollah militant group has a strong presence.Aside from a few airstrikes against what were believed to be advanced weapons shipments from Syria into Lebanon, Israel has kept a low profile since the uprising against Assad began in March 2011, hoping to avoid being dragged into the conflict.With the absence of any potential ally and any hope that a good resolution could come from the fighting, Israeli conventional wisdom has held that it was better off with it continuing and having the rival forces stay busy butchering each other rather than noticing Israel.But that may not be the case anymore. “The longer the war in Syria continues, the more jihadists and radicals are coming to this territory,” the official said.Israel, which borders southwestern Syria, has periodically called for Assad’s ouster, particularly after reports of his use of chemical weapons and other atrocities against civilians. But at the same time it has been wary of saying or doing anything more fearing that any group that supplants him would be a far more dangerous adversary.“Formally it hasn’t changed,” the high-ranking officer said of Israel’s policy. But, he said, many discussions are taking place behind closed doors about the possibility of rethinking that strategy.The jihadis currently control most of the Syrian territory that directly borders Israel, although they have not fired rockets or missiles at Israeli territory.Two al-Qaeda-linked groups are known to operate in Syria — Jabhat al-Nusra, also known as Nusra Front, and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. The groups, which have both been designated terrorist organizations by the United States, have been bolstered by the influx of thousands of foreign fighters from across the Muslim world as well as Europe and North America who have flocked to Syria to take up arms against Assad.

Other rebel groups that are generally included in Israel’s definition, including Ahrar al-Sham and Jaish al-Islam, follow an ultraconservative ideology and call for the creation of an Islamic state, but have a more nationalist bent than the al-Qaeda-affiliated factions and are not proponents of so-called “global jihad.”

Aron Lund, editor of the Carnegie Endowment’s “Syria in Crisis” website, said the home-grown rebel groups such as Arhar al-Sham and Jaish al-Islam are focused on fighting in Syria and toppling Assad, not staging global attacks.Lund was also wary of any figures for al-Qaeda-linked fighters in Syria, noting the difficulty in accurately determining such numbers amid the blurry lines of the country’s chaotic conflict.

“I don’t even know how you calculate that. Who’s a fighter? Is it anyone with a gun, or is it anyone fighting at the front lines? Is it anyone helping out doing media work and medical work and organization?” he said. “I’m very skeptical of the comparisons that the uprising is X percent this and X percent that.”To Israel, Assad is a bitter enemy, an ally of Iran and a major backer of Lebanese Hezbollah guerrilla attacks against it. But like his father whom he succeeded as president, he has faithfully observed U.S.-brokered accords that ended the 1973 war with Israel. The Golan Heights frontier has remained quiet for the past 40 years, with only recent instances of cross-border fire disturbing the peace. To this point Israel believes most of the fire against it has been accidental, spillover from internal battles.The officer said 1,200 fighters belonging to five radical Islamic groups, including three with direct links to al-Qaeda and the Nusra Front, were already in the Gaza Strip and have fired rockets at Israel from the Palestinian territory.He said the infiltration has thus far been largely kept out of Israel and the West Bank, thanks to joint Israeli and Palestinian efforts. But dangers loom on that front too.Just this week, Israel said it had broken up an al-Qaeda plot to bomb the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv and major convention center in Jerusalem — the first time Israel explicitly accused the group of being behind an attempted attack. Palestinian security forces recently arrested about 20 young men who allegedly tried to set up an organization of ultraconservative Salafis.Last November, Israeli forces killed three members of that group in a shootout in the city of Hebron. Israeli security officials say there is some cooperation with their Palestinian counterparts in the West Bank to keep the Salafis under watch.Associated Press writer Ryan Lucas in Beirut contributed to this report.

Israeli PM states Rouhani engaged in ‘campaign of fraud’; also says his government won’t dismantle settlements

By Times of Israel staff January 24, 2014, 5:47 pm 14

Israel estimates that Iran has spent at least $160 billion on its drive to nuclear weapons, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday.At a press conference in Davos, where he is attending the World Economic Forum, Netanyahu dismissed Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s claim that Iran is not seeking the bomb, and said Iran was engaged in a “campaign of fraud” to mislead the world about its nuclear weapons aspirations.Referring to Rouhani’s speech in Davos on Thursday, Netanyahu was witheringly critical: “He said they have no intention to develop nuclear weapons. Come on. Does anybody really believe that? Does anybody really think that? They’re investing these tens of billions. By our estimation, they have invested $160-170 billion dollars. What for? To develop medical isotopes to despatch on ballistic missiles to sick Iranians orbiting the Earth? Of course they intend to develop nuclear weapons.”Iran’s national budget for 2013 was a reported $453 billion.Netanyahu, who also met in Davos with US Secretary of State John Kerry, said the principles of a future potential agreement with the Palestinians would become clear in the next few days — a reference to a “framework” agreement which Kerry is finalizing to guide the ongoing peace talks. Once those principles were made clear, Netanyahu said, it would be possible to assess whether the Palestinian leadership is truly seeking a breakthrough.He stressed that Kerry’s “framework” agreement was not a binding peace deal, but rather that “the Americans are speaking about their proposal” — a path forward for further negotiations, he said.Kerry and Netanyahu met for 90 minutes. Netanyahu told the secretary he had no intention of evacuating any Israeli settlements in the Jordan Valley or uprooting Israelis who live there. “I’ve said in the past and I repeat today: I do not intend to evacuate any settlements, I don’t intend to uproot any Israeli,” he said. He was responding to a question about the Jordan Valley, and it was not clear whether he was speaking only in that context or about settlements in general.Israel’s insistence on maintaining a security presence in the Jordan Valley, the area of the West Bank bordering the Hashemite Kingdom, has been a sticking point for the two sides in the six months of negotiations that began at the end of July.Last month, the Palestinians reportedly rejected a proposal by Kerry for an Israeli security presence to remain in the Jordan Valley for the first 10 years after the signing of a peace deal.Netanyahu added that international economic pressure on Israel over settlements would not advance the peace process but, rather, harm it by encouraging the Palestinians to toughen their stance.Kerry, earlier, told Saudi news outlet Al Arabiya that he was skeptical as to whether such a framework accord could be finalized in the coming month.“I’m not sure when it will be,” Kerry said. “It will be when we’re finished with the work we have to do to get there. We’re still negotiating. We’re working in good faith with both of the parties. The leaders have been very, very committed to this process. My hope is we can achieve the framework for final status negotiations. But it’s very, very difficult and we have a lot of work to do.”The secretary of state said that if a peace agreement was not reached soon, “the risks for everybody are much greater — the risk of confrontation, the risk of violence, the risk of continued conflict.”Last week London-based Arabic daily al-Hayat reported that Kerry was to present a memorandum of understanding between Israel and the Palestinians at a conference in Jordan at the end of the month.Later Friday, Kerry was to deliver a speech in which US officials said he would counter criticism that the United States is pulling back from the Mideast.

Kerry would argue it’s a “myth” that Washington has disengaged from the region, pointing out major diplomatic initiatives with the Israelis and Palestinians, Syria and Iran, they said.Kerry came to Davos after attending a Syria peace conference in Montreux, Switzerland on Wednesday.AP contributed to this report.

Saddam gave orders to fire chemical weapons at Tel Aviv if he was toppled in First Gulf War’

Tapes reveal Iraqi dictator told generals to launch missiles with WMD warheads at Jewish state should he be cut off from his military staff

By Times of Israel staff January 25, 2014, 12:14 am 11

Saddam Hussein gave orders to his subordinates to launch missiles with chemical warheads at Israel should he start to lose power during the First Gulf War, Israel’s Channel 2 reported Friday, citing tapes from the late Iraqi president’s archives.According to the report, Hussein dispersed missiles armed with chemical weapons at bases across the country and gave orders to have them launched at the Jewish state should his regime collapse or he be cut off from his general staff. The list of strategic Israeli targets was drawn up and included, curiously, Haifa’s leading high-tech university, The Technion.A professor from the university recounted in the report that a Jordanian official who visited the school told him that Saddam insisted the Technion be added to the list of strategic targets because a teacher at the school had spoken ill of him.Hussein tape-recorded many of his meetings with senior Iraqi officials and foreign dignitaries. The trove of audio archives was captured by the United States in 2003 and some were analyzed by Avner Golov of the Institute of National Security Studies, a think tank at Tel Aviv University.According to Golov, Hussein ultimately never launched biological or chemical weapons at Israel “because he never thought he had reached the point that he felt his regime was under threat.”Hussein did fire 39 Scud missiles armed with conventional warheads at Israel during the First Gulf War, killing one Israeli. Fears that he might use chemical warheads on the Scuds led to the Israeli authorities distributing gas masks, and ordering the populace into sealed rooms when the Scuds were heading toward Israel.On one of the tapes broadcast on Friday night, the Iraqi dictator told the visiting Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in April 1990 — four months before Saddam invaded Kuwait — that “Iraq has chemical weapons it successfully used against the Iranians” during the eight-year Iran-Iraq War, “and Iraq won’t hesitate to use them against Tel Aviv.”In another recording from 1991 broadcast by the news outlet, Hussein orders Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, his vice president, to launch missile strikes at Israel at night. When al-Douri asks whether he means military targets, Hussein replies, “I consider every city in Israel a target.”Analysis of Hussein’s tapes showed that he considered chemical weapons a trump card, “to be held in reserve to deter American or Israeli use of chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons and to prevent coalition forces from marching on Baghdad” in 1991, according to Foreign Policy.

In Geneva, Syria’s warring sides meet face-to-face

For the first time since negotiations began, rival delegations sit silently in same room as UN envoy lays groundwork for talks

By AFP and AP January 25, 2014, 1:09 pm 1-The times of Israel

GENEVA — The first face-to-face meeting between Syria’s government and the opposition hoping to overthrow Bashar Assad started and ended after barely a half-hour Saturday, with the two sides facing each other silently as a UN mediator split the distance between them and laid the groundwork for talks intended to lead Syria out of civil war.After tense days spent avoiding each other and meeting separately with the mediator, Assad’s handpicked delegation and representatives of the Syrian National Coalition gathered briefly at a single U-shaped table, then emerged and went separate ways, using different doors to avert contact.Only the mediator, Lakhdar Brahimi, spoke, according to Anas al-Abdeh, who was among the coalition’s representatives.The two sides were distant going into the meeting, with the Damascus delegation denying it had accepted the premise of a transitional leadership, and the opposition saying it would accept nothing less. Diplomats have said even getting them to the same table can be considered an accomplishment three years into the uprising that left 130,000 people dead.“Today we shall start with modest ideas and we will build on them to achieve something and we move gradually to bigger and bigger issues,” Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal al-Mikdad said going into the meeting.Al-Abdeh said the antagonists would face each other again later Saturday but would only address Brahimi, not each other. First on the agenda was a cease-fire in the city of Homs, which has been under government siege for more than a year and where reports of starvation deaths have emerged.It was very difficult to “sit at the table with the killers,” al-Abdeh said.The first day of peace talks in Geneva stumbled, with the regime threatening to walk out. However, after meeting with both sides, UN-Arab League Syria envoy Lakhdar Brahimi said Friday they had agreed to “meet in the same room”.Pulled together by the United Nations, Russia and the United States, the delegations had been due to sit down early Friday at UN headquarters in Geneva for their first direct talks.

But that plan fell apart after the opposition insisted the regime must be prepared to discuss Assad leaving power.“We never expected this to be easy,” Brahimi told reporters, adding that “I think the two parties understand what is at stake.”Foreign Minister Walid Muallem had earlier warned Brahimi that the Syrian delegation would leave Geneva if no “serious sessions” took place Saturday.Still, Brahimi appeared confident no one would be immediately quitting the talks, insisting that “both parties are going to be here tomorrow and they will be meeting.”The talks have yet to touch on concrete issues.“We have not discussed the core matters yet,” Brahimi said, adding: “we hope that both parties will give concessions that will be to the benefit of the process.”Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Muqdad blamed the opposition for obstructing Friday’s talks.Nazir al-Hakim, a member of the opposition National Coalition’s delegation, told AFP it would only accept negotiations based on the agreement reached at the “Geneva I” peace conference in 2012, which called for the creation of a transitional government.“We need guarantees that Geneva I will be discussed,” he said.The regime has said it supports Geneva I, but rejects the opposition’s contention that the agreement requires Assad to go.Brahimi admitted there were “some differences on the interpretation” of parts of the document, saying he hoped the talks would help “clarify the ambiguity.”Talks to touch on ‘siege of Homs’

Expectations are very low for a breakthrough at the Geneva II discussions, which are expected to last about a week.At the World Economic Forum in the Swiss town of Davos, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki described the agreement on Saturday’s meeting as “a positive step forward in what we expect will be a long and complicated process.”With no one appearing ready for serious concessions, mediators will be focusing on short-term deals to keep the process moving forward, including on localised ceasefires, freer humanitarian access and prisoner exchanges.Opposition Coalition official Ahmad Ramadan told AFP talks on Saturday and Sunday would focus on the central city of Homs, where hundreds of families are living under siege with near-daily shelling and the barest of supplies.“We will talk exclusively about… how to put an end to the siege of Homs, ensuring humanitarian corridors to besieged areas and stopping the regime’s bombing and killing,” Ramadan said.The start of the conference in the Swiss town of Montreux on Wednesday was marked by fiery exchanges, with Muallem labelling the opposition “traitors” and agents of foreign governments.Erupting after the regime cracked down on protests inspired by the Arab Spring, Syria’s civil war has claimed more than 130,000 lives and forced millions from their homes.Pitting Assad’s regime, dominated by the Alawite offshoot of Shi’ite Islam, against largely Sunni Muslim rebels, the war has unsettled large parts of the Middle East.

Divided Egypt marks 3rd anniversary of uprising

Shots ring out in Cairo city center as riot police target Islamist protesters; meanwhile, army supporters celebrate with traditional music, horses

By MAGGIE MICHAEL and Sarah El Deeb January 25, 2014, 2:16 pm Updated: January 25, 2014, 3:28 pm 1-The times of Israel

CAIRO (AP) — With dancing horses and traditional folklore music, supporters of the military-backed government celebrated and called on the army chief to run for president in rallies marking the third anniversary of the country’s 2011 uprising, as security forces firing tear gas battled rival demonstrations, both by supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi and by secular activists opposed to both camps.The starkly contrasting scenes reflected the three years of turmoil that have split Egyptians into polarized camps since the revolt that began on Jan. 25, 2011, ousting autocratic leader Hosni Mubarak — followed by last summer’s millions-strong demonstrations against Mubarak’s elected successor, Morsi, that led to the coup removing himMorsi’s supporters were using Saturday’s anniversary for building up a new momentum in defiance to the military and its political transition plan, despite months of a fierce crackdown that has crippled their ranks and rising public resentment against the group.Pro-military demonstrators, meanwhile, were turning out in state-backed rallies to show their support for army chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, the man who ousted Morsi and whom many of those in the rallies want to now run for president.

Security forces also moved to shut down rallies marking the anniversary by secular youth activists who led the 2011 anti-Mubarak uprising and who are critical of both the Islamists and the military. A number of their most prominent figures have been in prison for months amid a campaign to silence even secular voices of dissent.Police used tear gas to disperse one small gathering by activists in the Cairo district of Mohandessin, blogger Wael Khalil said. One prominent activist, Nazli Hussein, was detained by police on the subway as she headed from her home to join one such rally downtown, her mother, Ghada Shahbendar said.

“The only thing allowed is el-Sissi revolutionaries,” Khalil said, with an ironic laugh. “This was supposed to be day to mark the revolution … I don’t get it. Do they think that there will be working democracy this way?”The days’ rallies are taking place in an atmosphere of fear, a day after four bombs exploded in Cairo targeting police and killing six people, believed to be an escalation of a campaign of attacks by Islamic militants. Another 15 people were killed around the country Friday when Morsi’s supporters armed with gasoline bombs and firearms loaded with birdshot clashed with security forces. The Interior Ministry said that 237 people were arrested during the protests.In the northern Sinai Peninsula, where the military has been battling militants for months, an army helicopter crashed Saturday and its crew was missing, a military spokesman said. There was no immediate word on the cause or whether it had been shot down.Islamists held protests in several neighborhoods of Cairo and in other cities, quickly turning into clashes with security forces. Protesters burned pictures of el-Sissi. Riot police fired tear gas and shot into the air, chasing protesters down side streets in Cairo. Two protesters were killed on Saturday in the southern city of Minya in police clashes, a security official said.One protest group, Students Against the Coup, led by supporters of Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood, called for unity with other youth groups to “struggle against a fascist and oppressive military dictatorship.” Secular youth groups, which deeply opposed Morsi during his year as president, have shunned Islamist groups, however.The pro-military rallies appeared carefully designed, with marches of demonstrators converging on several locations, particularly Cairo’s central Tahrir Square — the symbolic heart of the 2011 uprising — and outside the presidential palace in Cairo’s Heliopolis district.

The marchers waved Egyptian flags and touted posters, banners and badges with pictures of el-Sissi. A folklore band with dancers in colorful swirling skirts sang and danced their way across bridges over the Nile River into Tahrir, where a dancing horse performed.“Come down (nominate yourself), oh Sissi,” a crowd in Tahrir chanted. Soldiers manning armored personnel carriers at the square’s entrances joined demonstrators in chanting, “The people want the execution of the Brotherhood.” A military Chinook helicopter circled over Tahrir to cheers from the crowd. Huge loudspeakers blared pro-military songs in the streets.A large motorcade of security vehicles paraded down a main boulevard in Alexandria. TVs showed celebrations— no more than hundreds yet in every location— in cities and squares around Egypt.In midafternoon, the crowds from both the military and Islamist camps appeared relatively modest — though they often expand in the evening. Streets remained empty elsewhere in Cairo, on edge after the previous day’s bombings.The al-Qaida-inspired group Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, or the Champions of Jerusalem, claimed responsibility for Friday’s bombings, warned of more and told citizens to stay away from police stations.“We tell our dear nation that these attacks were only the first drops of rain, so wait for what is coming,” read the statement, posted on militant websites.The group, based in Sinai peninsula, claimed responsibility for one of the worst bombings that hit Egypt over the past months, including the assassination attempt of the Interior Minister in September and suicide bombing in Nile Delta city in Mansoura killing 16 mostly policemen. The group says it is avenging the killings of pro-Morsi supporters and military offensive in Sinai.Early Saturday, a bomb exploded next to a police training institute in eastern Cairo, said Hani Abdel-Latif, a spokesman for Egypt’s Interior Ministry. He said it only damaged the facility’s walls and caused no casualties.Ahmed Mahmoud, an engineering student living close by, said that the blast shook his building and caused a brief power outage. Mahmoud said that angry residents quickly blamed the Brotherhood and vowed to attack any Islamist rallies in their neighborhood.“People were saying they will carry arms and kill all Muslim Brothers who dare to pass by this place,” he said.The interim government has blamed the Brotherhood for violence after the coup and has designated it as a terrorist organization. The Brotherhood, which denounced violence in the 1970s, has denied any links to the terrorist attacks. However, the near-daily protests carried out by the group since the July coup often devolve into violence.In Sinai, Spokesman of Egypt’s military Col. Ahmed Mohammed Ali said that an army helicopter crashed and its crew is missing in the northern Sinai Peninsula early Saturday, where troops are battling Islamic militants.In a statement posted on his official Facebook page, he said that the accident took place near the village of el-Kharouba village. He provided no further details on the cause of the crash.The Egyptian military has been waging operations for months in the northern Sinai to uproot Islamic militants who took hold of several towns and villages in the aftermath of 2011 uprising.

EARTHQUAKES

ISAIAH 42:15
15  I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.

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

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

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

1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ Worldwide

27 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2014-01-25 09:51:16 UTC-05:00Showing event times using Local System Time (UTC-05:00)27 earthquakes in map area

1. 2.6 93km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico 2014-01-25 07:21:15 UTC-05:00 29.0 km
2. 3.4 132km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2014-01-25 06:16:42 UTC-05:00 54.0 km
3. 4.3 62km SW of Champerico, Guatemala 2014-01-25 05:18:24 UTC-05:00 36.7 km
4. 3.1 115km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2014-01-25 05:15:24 UTC-05:00 36.0 km
5. 4.6 56km WSW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea 2014-01-25 03:02:19 UTC-05:00 40.3 km
6. 2.9 71km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico 2014-01-25 02:34:45 UTC-05:00 41.0 km
7. 4.5 61km NNW of Manado, Indonesia 2014-01-25 00:41:35 UTC-05:00 233.5 km
8. 6.1 36km SSE of Adipala, Indonesia 2014-01-25 00:14:21 UTC-05:00 89.1 km
9. 3.2 63km NNE of Isabela, Puerto Rico 2014-01-25 00:08:27 UTC-05:00 79.0 km
10. 3.1 98km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands 2014-01-24 23:46:12 UTC-05:00 15.0 km
11. 3.0 92km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands 2014-01-24 23:44:40 45.0 km
12. 2.8 66km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico 2014-01-24 22:27:08 UTC-05:00 50.0 km
13. 4.4 23km SSW of Hualian, Taiwan 2014-01-24 22:16:10 UTC-05:00 11.2 km
14. 4.6 230km NNW of Saumlaki, Indonesia 2014-01-24 20:15:41 UTC-05:00 141.9 km
15. 2.6 5km S of Perkins, Oklahoma 2014-01-24 20:01:10 UTC-05:00 5.0 km
16. 2.6 15km ESE of Anza, California 2014-01-24 19:58:12 UTC-05:00 14.4 km
17. 2.9 77km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico 2014-01-24 19:12:27 UTC-05:00 17.0 km
18. 4.3 140km NE of Tobelo, Indonesia 2014-01-24 19:06:04 UTC-05:00 220.9 km
19. 4.0 25km SSE of Sary-Tash, Kyrgyzstan 2014-01-24 18:49:06 UTC-05:00 76.0 km
20. 4.3 8km WSW of Shwebo, Burma 2014-01-24 18:25:26 UTC-05:00 25.6 km
21. 4.5 1km NNW of Selianitika, Greece 2014-01-24 17:08:48 UTC-05:00 1.6 km
22. 4.6 Kuril Islands 2014-01-24 16:42:01 UTC-05:00 42.8 km
23. 2.6 16km NNE of Isabela, Puerto Rico 2014-01-24 14:34:34 UTC-05:00 17.0 km
24. 2.7 14km NNE of Virginia City, Nevada 2014-01-24 13:39:41 UTC-05:00 9.2 km
25. 4.5 28km SW of Ashkasham, Afghanistan 2014-01-24 13:22:42 UTC-05:00 215.4 km
26. 5.0 100km E of `Ohonua, Tonga 2014-01-24 13:06:34 UTC-05:00 5.8 km
27. 4.7 224km SW of Sarangani, Philippines 2014-01-24 13:00:05 UTC-05:00 64.3 km

5 CONFIRMED DEAD - 30 STILL LOOKING FOR IN MONTREAL SENIORS FIRE-FROZEN COLLAPSE - STILL SIZZLING DISASTER

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.

ITS 8:30AM JAN 24,2014.AFTER 32 HOURS AFTER THE MONTREAL SENIOR HOME FIRE HAS OCCURRED.THE CONFIRMED DEAD IS 5 AND 30 SENIORS STILL MISSING.AS WE SEEN IN THE PICTURES I GOT FROM THEIR WEBSITE-THERE DEFINATELY WAS NO SPRINKLERS ANYWHERE IN THE BURNT OUT-COLLAPSED- NOW ICE ENCLOSED DISASTER.THE WORKERS ARE JUST NOW TRYING TO RECOVER THE 30 OR LESS BODIES MISSING.I JUST NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS-AS THEY CAN NOT RECOVER THE BODIES DUE TO THE ICE BUILDUP FROM TRYING TO SAVE THE BUILDING 32 HOURS AGO.THEN THE COLLAPSE OF THE 3 STORY 52 APARTMENT BUILDING.SO FAR THERE IS 5 DEAD-11 INJURED AND 2 FIREMAN WERE INJURED.AND NOW I JUST HEARD THERES STILL LITTLE FIRES BURNING IN THE FROZEN DISASTER.

I WILL KEEP UP WITH THE STORY.

IF ANYBODY TOOK PICTURES OR VIDEO OF THE BEGINING OF THE FIRE.PLEASE PHONE THIS NUMBER.SO THE AUTHORITIES MIGHT HAVE AN IDEA OF HOW THE FIRE STARTED.  
1-800-659-4264 THANK YOU

YESTERDAYS STORY I PUT ON MY SITE
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/01/possible-33-dead-in-montreal-senoirs.html

ITS 36 HOURS SINCE THE START OF THE FIRE HERE AT 12:30PM DEC 24,14.I'M GOING TO MAKE A PREDICTION HERE.IT WOULD NOT SURPRISE ME IF JEWISH KING JESUS OUR CREATOR-GOD AND SAVIOR WOULD LET AT LEAST ONE OF THE AGED IN THE FROZEN BUILDING SURVIVE TO SHOW HIS LOVE-MERCY AND GLORY.AFTER 36 HOURS AND FREEZING COLD AND FIRE AND COLLAPSE.THIS WOULD TRUELY BE A MIRACLE BY GOD IF AT LEAST ONE SURVIVED THE DISASTER.PROOF GOD IS IN CONTROL.AND WE SHOULD GIVE HIM ALL THE GLORY AND PRAISE.AND PROOF JESUS IS THE ONLY WAY TO SALVATION-NO OTHER.

ITS 4:50PM DEC 24,14-AND ITS NOW CONFIRMED 8 PEOPLE ARE DEAD AND STILL THE 30 ARE MISSING.THE RECOVERY WILL CONTINUE ON TILL 7PM TONIGHT.THEN AT 7AM TOMORROW MORNING THE RECOVERY WILL CONTINUE.

Eight confirmed dead and 30 others missing in fire at Quebec seniors' home

By The Canadian Press | 4:48PM JAN 24,14-yahoonews

• Grim search for victims of seniors' home fire continues despite biting cold

L'ISLE-VERTE, Qc - Authorities now say eight people are confirmed dead and about another 30 are missing after fire tore through a seniors' residence in eastern Quebec.The blaze destroyed the residence in L'Isle-Verte, about 240 kilometres northeast of Quebec City.Police and a coroner's official announced the increased death toll at a news conference late this afternoon.There were five confirmed fatalities as of Thursday night.None of the victims have been publicly identified. 

L'Isle Verte seniors' home owners may not rebuild after fire

Building was in line with security regulations, says provincial government

CBC News Posted: Jan 24, 2014 6:54 AM ET Last Updated: Jan 24, 2014 4:52 PM ET

The owners of the L'Isle Verte, Que., seniors' residence that burned down early Thursday morning said they may not rebuild in the aftermath of the tragedy that killed at least five people and caused the disappearance of at least 30 more.Résidence du Havre owners Roch Bernier and Irene Plante issued a statement late Friday afternoon extending their sincere condolences to the victims' families. They have owned the residence since 1999."Although they loved their job, their residents and their employees, Mr. Bernier and Ms. Plante would like to mention that it is still too early to say if they have or not to rebuild the residence Le Havre," the release said.They said they wanted to focus their energies on relocating and assuring the well-being of the displaced residents for the time being.

Residence respected security regulations

The seniors' residence that burned down in L'Isle-Verte was in line with security regulations, Quebec's minister for social services says as the search for 30 missing in the fatal fire continues.
"We don't know what happened," Véronique Hivon told reporters on Friday morning. 

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Five people have been confirmed dead and 30 are missing after Thursday's fire, which ravaged the seniors' home in the rural Quebec town, about 28 kilometres northeast of Rivière-du-Loup.Hivon said the most recent safety drill at the residence was carried out in under eight minutes.The older part of the Résidence du Havre was built in 1997, and had no sprinkler system, although a newer wing built in 2002 was equipped with sprinklers.

• L'Isle-Verte seniors' home fire raises ire over sprinkler regulation

Hivon said the government must do "everything possible to make sure that ... such tragedies don't happen again."Meanwhile, police are not speculating on what may have caused the fire.Quebec provincial police Lt. Guy Lapointe said investigators have not ruled out anything yet.

'We will not give up'

As the search for the missing continues, Lapointe said many members of the emergency crews are suffering from loss as well. "We will not give up," he said. He said police officers and firefighters worked overnight to bring the fire under control. Workers are dealing with extreme cold and a thick coating of ice over the rubble. Lapointe said as crews search through the building's remains, they are using steam to melt the ice.He said the steam will help ensure the scene isn't damaged. The tragedy has been designated as a Fourth Level response, meaning that local officials, the Quebec coroners’ office and the Quebec forensic laboratory are involved in the operation. Police are reminding members of the public to stay outside marked-off perimeters. There is a red zone set up around the remaining rubble, and police are asking the public not to go inside that zone.

A total of 52 people were listed as living in the building, but provincial police are still trying to pin down how many of them were inside at the time of the fire. 

Memorial mass

As the close-knit town of 1,500 people wait for news of their loved ones, a memorial service has been planned for Sunday. The mass will be held at 2 p.m. on Sunday at the Church of St-Jean-Baptiste-de-l'Isle-Verte.Priest Gilles Frigon said the service will be open to everyone. Several guests have been invited to come and speak, including a representative for the firefighters and MNA Jean D'Amour.

Red Cross asks for donations

The Red Cross launched a collection for donations, asking the public to give to those affected by the tragedy. The fund will be used to help victims' families and evacuees pay for essential needs.According to the Red Cross, there is a need for at least $50,000 in donations. Volunteers with the Red Cross have been on the scene since 3 a.m. Thursday, meeting with survivors. Financial donations are expected to cover the cost of housing, clothing and food, but the Red Cross says there is also a need for dentures, hearing aids, mobility aids and glasses.To make a donation, click here.

Search in Quebec fire to continue today as tragedy sinks in

By The Canadian Press-JAN 24,2014-Yahoonews

L'ISLE-VERTE, Qc - Investigators will continue sifting through icy rubble today to try to identify more victims of a fire that destroyed a seniors' residence in Quebec.Freezing temperatures will probably hamper the efforts in the eastern Quebec town of L'Isle-Verte.Five people are confirmed dead, while another 30 are reported missing.The cause of Thursday morning's blaze is unclear.Most of the residents probably never had a chance — many of them were over 85, had little or no mobility and were confined to wheelchairs or walkers.A common theme in conversations in the town of 1,500 was the parallel between the fire and the train derailment which devastated Lac-Megantic last summer.Both tragedies occurred shortly after midnight and left the two communities reeling.Witnesses told horrific tales on Thursday of seeing people die in the blaze.Pascal Fillion said he saw an attempt to use a ladder to rescue a man cornered on his third-floor balcony.The man was screaming and crying out for help before he fell to the ground engulfed by the fire.
A Quebec Health Department document indicates the residence, which has operated since 1997, had only a partial sprinkler system.The facility expanded around 2002 and the sprinklers in the new part of the building triggered the alarm.Fire chief Yvan Charron said his colleagues were able to get to the third of the building that remained standing, while the rest was inaccessible.Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Premier Pauline Marois were among a raft of politicians to offer their condolences.