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.
ISRAEL SATAN COMES AGAINST
1 CHRONICLES 21:1
1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
ISRAELS TROUBLE
JEREMIAH 30:7
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble;(ISRAEL) but he shall be saved out of it.
DANIEL 12:1,4
1 And at that time shall Michael(ISRAELS WAR ANGEL) stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people:(ISRAEL) and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation(May 14,48) even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,(WORLD TRAVEL,IMMIGRATION) and knowledge shall be increased.(COMPUTERS,CHIP IMPLANTS ETC)
FIRST THE ISRAELIS WERE BEING PERSECUTED IN THAT UKRAINE CITY.NOW A JEWISH MAYOR SHOT IN THE BACK.NO COINCIDENCES HERE.ANTISEMITISM IN UKRAINE IS ON THE RISE.
Jewish mayor of Ukraine city hurt in assassination attempt-Kharkiv mayor Hennady Kernes seriously wounded with gunshot to his back; motives behind attack remain unclear-By AP April 28, 2014, 2:23 pm 1-The Times of Israel
KIEV, Ukraine — The mayor of Ukraine’s second-largest city was shot in the back Monday and pro-Russia insurgents seized yet another government building as tensions rose in eastern Ukraine ahead of a new round of US sanctions.Armed insurgents tacitly backed by Moscow are seeking more autonomy in the region from the interim government in Kiev. In a bid to ratchet up the pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin, US President Barack Obama has promised to levy new sanctions on Russian individuals and companies in retaliation for Moscow’s alleged provocations in eastern Ukraine.Hennady Kernes, the mayor of Kharkiv, was shot in the back Monday morning, his office said. Kernes was said to be undergoing surgery and “doctors are fighting for his life,” according to the city hall.Officials have not commented on the circumstances of the shooting and it was not clear who was behind it. Kernes was a staunch opponent of the pro-West Maidan movement that toppled President Viktor Yanukovych in February and was widely viewed as the organizer of activists sent to Kiev from eastern Ukraine to harass those demonstrators.But he has since softened his stance toward the new Kiev government and insisted that he does not support the pro-Russia insurgents or any annexation of Ukrainian territory.Kernes is Jewish and the city is home to a large Jewish community.The official website of the Kharkiv Jewish community describes Kernes as “Jewish by ethnicity.”Eleonora Groysman, editor of the Jewish Ukrainian news site evreiskiy.kiev.ua also told JTA that Kernes is Jewish.According to the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress, the 2009 election campaign in which Kernes became mayor was mired with anti-Semitic hate speech targeting him and other Jewish candidates.Kharkiv’s rabbi, Moshe Moskowitz, told Israel National News that “we are talking about a precious Jewish life, with a loving and warm relationship with the community, and we are shocked by the attempted assassination. We are praying for his safety — Moshe ben Hana.”Kharkiv is in eastern Ukraine where pro-Russian gunmen have seized government buildings, set up roadblocks or staged protests to demand greater autonomy or outright annexation by Russia.Ukraine’s acting government and the West have accused Russia of orchestrating the unrest, which they fear Moscow could use as a pretext for an invasion. Last month, Russia annexed Crimea weeks after seizing control of the Black Sea peninsula.On Monday, masked militants with automatic weapons seized another city hall building in eastern Ukraine, this time in Kostyantynivka, 160 kilometers (100 miles) from the Russian border.After the seizure, about 15 armed men guarded the building. Some posed for pictures with residents while others distributed St. George’s ribbons, the symbol of the pro-Russia movement.Kostyantynivka is just 35 kilometers (22 miles) south of Slovyansk, a major city in eastern Ukraine that has been in insurgents’ hands for more than three weeks now.President Obama said on visit to the Philippines earlier on Monday that the targets of the latest US sanctions will include high-technology exports to Russia’s defense industry. The full list, which is also expected to include wealthy allies of Putin, will be announced by officials in Washington later Monday.The European Union is also planning more sanctions against Russia, with ambassadors from the bloc’s 28 members to meet Monday in Brussels to add to the list of Russian officials who have been hit by asset freezes and travel bans.The increasingly ruthless pro-Russia insurgency is turning to an ominous new tactic: kidnapping.Dozens of people are being held hostage — including seven observers, journalists and pro-Ukraine activists — in makeshift jails in Slovyansk.The German government on Monday decried the seizure of the eight European military observers there and called for their immediate release. The observers, including three German officers, were detained Friday on allegations they were spying for NATO.Pro-Russia militants in camouflage and black balaclavas paraded some of the captive European military observers before the media on Sunday. They also showed three captured Ukrainian security guards bloodied, blindfolded and stripped of their trousers and shoes, their arms bound with packing tape.A Swedish officer was released Sunday and German captive Col. Axel Schneider spoke that same day, stressing at a news conference — under armed guard — that they were on an OSCE diplomatic mission and not spies.Times of Israel staff and JTA contributed to this report.
Nation comes to standstill as sirens wail for 6 million lost-Two-minute Holocaust Commemoration precedes ceremonies across country to mark annual memorial day-By Times of Israel staff April 28, 2014, 10:06 am 19-The Times of Israel
Millions of Israelis paused for two minutes Monday in solemn silence as air raid sirens wailed across the country to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day.The annual commemoration for the 6 million Jews killed in Europe during the Holocaust brought the country to a standstill at 10 a.m., with drivers standing alongside their cars on highways and normally bustling city centers freezing for the funereal event.After the sirens, a number of remembrance ceremonies were planned for across the country, including a wreath-laying at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem and the “Unto Every Person There is a Name” ceremony at the Knesset.In Poland, thousands of Israeli and Jewish youth and others will march from the infamous Auschwitz labor camp to the Birkenau death camp as part of the annual March of the Living memorial. Events for the commemoration day began Sunday night at 8 p.m. with a state ceremony at Yad Vashem. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned at the ceremony that the world was ignoring the lessons of the Shoah by allowing Iran to continue its nuclear program.“I hope that the lessons of the past will be learned and that the desire to avoid confrontation at any cost will not lead to a deal that will exact a much heavier price in the future,” he said, referring to negotiations between Tehran and six world powers over uranium enrichment levels. “I call on the leaders of the world powers to insist on a full dismantling of Iran’s capability to manufacture nuclear weapons, and to persist until this goal is achieved.”President Shimon Peres, speaking at the same ceremony, called on the world to pay attention to the threat of rising anti-Semitism in Europe.“We must not ignore any occurrence of anti-Semitism, any desecration of a synagogue, any tombstone smashed in a cemetery in which our families are buried,” he said.
Netanyahu compares Iran nuclear threat to Nazi menace-At Remembrance Day ceremony, PM implores world not to repeat mistakes; Peres warns of resurgence of anti-Semitism in Europe
By Joshua Davidovich and Stuart Winer April 27, 2014, 8:06 pm -The Times of Israel
The world turned a blind eye to the rising Nazi threat over 75 years ago, and today Iran is being allowed to develop its nuclear program and menace Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday as the country marked Holocaust Remembrance Day.Declaring that Iran was determined to acquire nuclear weapons, and urging international negotiators to insist that Iran’s enrichment and other nuclear capabilities be completely dismantled, Netanyahu warned: “A deal that leaves Iran as a threshold nuclear state will bring the world to the threshold of the abyss.”Israeli leaders gathered at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial Sunday night to remember the 6 million victims of the Nazi genocide.On Monday morning, an air raid siren will ring out for two minutes as the nation comes to a standstill to mark Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Day, as the memorial day is official known.Six survivors of the Shoah lit torches at Yad Vashem Sunday night, and Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres spoke at the ceremony.Netanyahu said the world had failed to act against the rising Nazi threat, despite being warned about it, drawing a line to current tensions with the Iranian regime.“It’s not that they did not see. It’s that they did not want to see,” he said of world leaders before the Holocaust.“Today we are facing real threats and immediate dangers,” he said. “I call on the world power to insist that Iran completely give up its abilities to make nuclear weapons.”He added that Israel would not stand by silently.“In contrast to our situation in the Holocaust today we have a tremendous power to protect ourselves,” he said. “Israel is stronger than ever.”“On behalf of the Jewish people, I say to those who have sought and still seek to destroy us: You have failed and you will fail.”The speech was a familiar echo of years past, when Netanyahu has also warned of the Iranian threat and vowed to defend the country from suffering another holocaust.“Iran is warning openly about its intentions to destroy us and is working with all its might to carry it out,” the prime minister said at the same ceremony in 2013. “The hate against Jews hasn’t disappeared, but has morphed into a murderous hate against the Jewish state. We won’t leave our fate in the hands of others, even the best of our friends.”Peres devoted part of his speech to the resurgence of European anti-Semitism, particularly in Hungary, where he said the Jewish community was destroyed with “brutal efficiency” 70 years ago.“We must not ignore any occurrence of anti-Semitism, any desecration of a synagogue, any tomb stone smashed in a cemetery in which our families are buried,” he said. ”We must not ignore the rise of extreme right wing parties with neo-Nazi tendencies who are a danger to each of us and a threat to every nation.”He added that Israel had to be strong because of anti-Semitism around the world, but “must not give up on peace.”“A strong Israel is our response to the horrors of anti-Semitism but it does not excuse the rest of the world from its responsibility to prevent this disease from returning to their own homes,” he said. “We are strong enough to repel dangers, we should not be scared of threats and we must not give up on peace.”Netanyahu wrote on Twitter Sunday that Iran was seeking to wipe out the Jewish people as the Nazis did some 70 years ago. He also drew a line to Gazan terror group Hamas, which he said was denying the Holocaust while trying to create a new one.Earlier, Netanyahu dismissed a statement by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas condemning the Holocaust as the “most heinous crime” of the modern era. Netanyahu told CNN Abbas was attempting to “damage control” after signing a unity deal with Hamas last week.Among the torchlighters at the Yad Vashem ceremony was Asher Aud (Sieradski), 86.Over six years, he was separated from his parents and siblings in his native Polish town of Zdunska Wola and then scavenged for scraps of bread and staved off a debilitating illness alone in the Lodz ghetto before he was deported to the Auschwitz death camp.There, he avoided the gas chambers and crematoria, and after a long incarceration, he weathered the notorious death march through the snow to Mauthausen, where those who fell behind were shot dead on the spot. After the war, he passed through a series of displaced person camps before he boarded a ship to the Holy Land where he did his best to forget the past for the next half century.Of all the atrocities he endured, Aud said the strongest memory is the one that was most traumatic — parting from his mother at the age of 14.It was September 1942. The Nazis had rounded up the Jewish community inside the local cemetery and were preparing to deport them. His father and older brother had already been taken and he was left with his mother and younger brother, Gavriel.“I remember looking down and I happened to be standing on my grandmother’s tombstone,” he recalled. “The Germans walked among us and anytime they saw a mother with a child, they tore the child from her arms and threw them into the back of trucks.”That’s when he realized life as he knew it was over.“I looked around and I just said ‘mother, this is where we are going to be separated,’” he said.Soon after they were marched through two lines of German soldiers. “I didn’t even feel it when the Germans hit me but every time they struck my mother and brother it was like they were cutting my flesh,” he said.Israel is home to some 200,000 survivors, over a quarter of whom live in poverty, according to a report released last week.On Sunday, government ministers approved a plan to fund an additional NIS 1 billion to expand benefits to survivors.The Associated Press contributed to this report
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he ( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant (PEACE TREATY) with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE ANIMAL SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
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.
EU: American peace efforts ‘must not go to waste’-In wake of Fatah-Hamas deal, Abbas enjoys ‘a mandate to negotiate in the name of all Palestinians,’ Catherine Ashton says-By AFP April 27, 2014, 2:56 pm 2-The Times of Israel
The European Union on Sunday urged Israel and the Palestinians to return to the negotiating table, saying US efforts to broker peace must not be allowed to “go to waste.”“Negotiations are the best way forward,” EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said in response to the breakdown last week in months of efforts by Washington to keep the two sides talking.“The extensive efforts deployed in recent months must not go to waste,” Ashton’s statement added.“The EU calls on all sides to exercise maximum restraint and to avoid any action which may further undermine peace efforts and the viability of a two-state solution.”Talks between the two resumed in July and were to have lasted nine months until Tuesday, April 29, but Israel angrily pulled out last week in response to a reconciliation deal bringing together the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Islamist Hamas movement which has pledged to destroy the Jewish state.Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has pledged, however, that his new unity government will reject violence and recognize Israel and existing agreements.Ashton said “the EU expects any new government to uphold the principle of non-violence, to remain committed to achieving a two-state solution and to a negotiated peaceful settlement … including Israel’s legitimate right to exist.”“The fact that President Abbas will remain fully in charge of the negotiation process and have a mandate to negotiate in the name of all Palestinians provides further assurance that the peace negotiations can and must proceed,” she added.
Bennett calls to annex 60 percent of West Bank-Reviving campaign platform, Jewish Home party leader says Palestinians in areas claimed by Israel should get citizenship-By Times of Israel staff, AP and AFP April 27, 2014, 9:56 pm 7
With peace efforts stalled, Israel should annex over half of the West Bank and give Palestinians in the affected areas full Israeli citizenship, Economy Minister Naftali Bennett said Sunday.Bennett, a coalition hawk who heads the Orthodox-nationalist Jewish Home party, was one of two senior government officials Sunday to float the idea of Jerusalem extending sovereignty to Area C of the West Bank, which Israel maintains civilian and security control over as part of the Oslo Accords.“We are not going to reach a peace agreement in the foreseeable future,” Bennett said in a speech to foreign journalists. “I think we need to be realistic about what we can achieve.”Bennett said he advocated giving the Palestinians “autonomy on steroids” in areas of the West Bank they already control, while annexing the remaining 60 percent of the West Bank that Israel rules and that contains the vast majority of settlements.He said the goal should now be making conditions as livable as possible, by giving Palestinians freedom of movement and supporting their economy, and allowing them to hold elections in their autonomous areas and run their day-to-day affairs. Full independence, however, would be impossible, he said.“I know it is not as sexy as the perfect two-state solution but this is realistic,” he said.Bennett, who campaigned on the issue of annexation during the 2012 elections, painted a saccharine picture of life in the Israeli-annexed West Bank with “life becoming more and more bearable for everyone.”“What can the Palestinians hope for? Already they have the best life in the entire Arab world — they’re not being hanged because they are gay, women are allowed to drive,” he said.“But full self-governance, have your anthem, have your flag, pay your own taxes, have your own elections — we’re fine with it.”Bennett noted that Israel has twice annexed territory — after the Six-Day War when it annexed East Jerusalem and in 1981 when it extended sovereignty to the Golan Heights.The minister said that the unilateral move would be in response to the recent Palestinian unilateral actions. Although admitting that his suggestions were not an official government stance he said that other ministers, not just from his Jewish Home party, also support the idea of annexing part of, if not all, of Area C.Palestinians living in those areas would become full Israeli citizens, Bennett said.Earlier in the day, Communications Minister Gilad Erdan (Likud) called on the Israeli government “to start preparing for the annexation of Area C.”The struggling peace talks took a nose dive at the end of March when Israel reneged on a pledge to release two dozen Palestinian prisoners and the Palestinians responded by asking to join 15 international treaties in a step denounced by Israel.Last week, Israel suspended negotiations in response to a Palestinian reconciliation deal that saw Fatah and Hamas agree to share rule and form a unity government. Israel and the West consider Hamas, which has killed hundreds of Israelis in attacks, to be a terrorist group.
Senior minister: Israel should annex Area C-Gilad Erdan calls for unilateral annexation of Jewish-settled parts of West Bank in wake of Fatah-Hamas reconciliation-By Times of Israel staff April 27, 2014, 12:58 pm 18
Communications Minister Gilad Erdan (Likud) called on Israel to annex large swaths of the West Bank in the wake of the emerging failure of the latest US-brokered peace talks with the Palestinians.Speaking to Army Radio on Sunday morning, Erdan, a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s security cabinet, criticized the Fatah-Hamas reconciliation agreement announced last Wednesday and called on the Israeli government “to start preparing for the annexation of Area C,” the part of the West Bank under full Israeli administrative control.Wherever “there is a Jewish population [in the West Bank] that should remain in place; we can start to prepare to annex [that area] if there is no Palestinian partner and the situation seems unlikely to change,” Erdan said.Erdan is one of the most senior Likud leaders, coming in third on the party’s Knesset slate (fifth on the joint list with Yisrael Beytenu).He explained on Sunday that if Israel showed it was willing to annex some territory unilaterally, “then Abu Mazen [PA President Mahmoud Abbas] and the Palestinians will understand that there is a price to pay for running away from negotiations and linking up with terror organizations.”The current Likud-led government “was not elected to think only about the interests of our enemies,” Erdan said, in a reference to the Palestinians.
Kerry: Israel could become an ‘apartheid state’-US secretary of state says change of leadership on both sides might be needed for peace, according to Daily Beast recording-By Lazar Berman April 28, 2014, 3:30 am-The Times of Israel
If Israel does not make peace soon, it could become an “apartheid state” like South Africa, US Secretary of State John Kerry told a closed room meeting of world leaders recently, it was revealed early Monday morning.According to a recording obtained by the Daily Beast, Kerry made the comments Friday to a meeting of the Trilateral Commission, a nongovernmental organization committed to fostering closer ties between Europe, North America, and Japan.“A two-state solution will be clearly underscored as the only real alternative,” Kerry told the gathering. “Because a unitary state winds up either being an apartheid state with second-class citizens—or it ends up being a state that destroys the capacity of Israel to be a Jewish state. Once you put that frame in your mind, that reality, which is the bottom line, you understand how imperative it is to get to the two-state solution, which both leaders, even yesterday, said they remain deeply committed to.”According to the Daily Beast, Kerry also panned Israeli settlement building, said that both Israeli and Palestinian leaders shared blame for the stalled peace talks, and indicated that a change in leadership on one or both sides could help the parties reach an agreement.The top US diplomat said he might decide to present both sides with a “take it or leave it” peace deal.A nine-month negotiating period brokered by the US is due to end on Tuesday, and US President Barack Obama said at the weekend that a “pause” in US efforts might now be necessitated. That negotiated process has collapsed in recent days, since Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah on Wednesday signed a unity pact with rival Hamas, and Israel suspended all talks a day later, saying it would not negotiate with a Palestinian leadership supported by the Islamist terror group.The use of the term “apartheid” to refer to Israel is likely to anger many Israeli officials. While running for president in 2008, Obama rejected associating the label with Israel, calling it “emotionally loaded, historically inaccurate, and it’s not what I believe.”This would not be the first time Kerry expressed statements that raised hackles in Israel. “Both sides wound out in a position of unhelpful moves,” Kerry told a Senate hearing on April 8, before seeming to place the preponderance of blame on Israel.“The prisoners were not released by Israel on the day they were supposed to be released and then another day passed and another day, and then 700 units were approved in Jerusalem and then poof — that was sort of the moment,” Kerry said.In a further departure from the crisis-stricken Israeli-Palestinian negotiating framework, the Palestine Liberation Organization’s central council on Sunday adopted a plan to pursue attempts to join 60 United Nations bodies and international agreements.Meanwhile, the central council decided to establish “the legal center for the state of Palestine,” tasked with advising the central council and the PLO’s executive committee, according to the official WAFA news agency.Last month Abbas applied for membership in 15 international bodies and treaties, which Israel said breached a commitment agreed to before peace talks. The move came after Israel nixed a planned prisoner release.Joining international bodies is seen as a significant unilateral diplomatic step towards Palestinian statehood, and a departure from the US-brokered Israeli-Palestinian negotiating framework.Elhanan Miller and AFP contributed to this report.
04/27/2014 - THE VATICAN INSIDER-Pope Francis,in historic ceremony, declares John XXIII and John Paul II are saints-Roncalli and Wojtyla's canonizations-Francis hailed Saints John XXIII and John Paul II as “men of courage” and great faith, who listened to the Spirit of God, and “bore witness to God’s goodness and mercy” before the Church and the world-gerard o'connell
rome-Saints John XXIII and John Paul II “were two men of courage, filled with the parrhesia (audacity) of the Holy Spirit, and they bore witness before the Church and the world to God’s goodness and mercy”, Pope Francis told a crowd of one million in St Peter’s Square and the surrounding areas on April 27 after canonizing these two great leaders of the Catholic Church in the past century.“They were priests, bishops and popes of the twentieth century. They lived through the tragic events of that century, but they were not overwhelmed by them” because for them “for them, God was more powerful; faith was more powerful – faith in Jesus Christ the Redeemer of man and the Lord of history”, he said.“Saints John XXIII and John Paul II were not afraid to look upon the wounds of Jesus, to touch his torn hands and his pierced side. They were not ashamed of the flesh of Christ, they were not scandalized by him, by his cross; they did not despise the flesh of their brother (cf. Is 58:7), because they saw Jesus in every person who suffers and struggles.”, he said referring to the great faith and extraordinary humanity of both men.“In these two men, who looked upon the wounds of Christ and bore witness to his mercy, there dwelt a living hope and an indescribable and glorious joy (1 Pet 1:3,8).”, he said. Indeed, he told those at the ceremony and the hundreds of millions who followed it by TV, radio and the modern means of communication that “such were the hope and the joy which these two holy popes had received as a gift from the risen Lord and which they in turn bestowed in abundance upon the People of God” that they “merit our eternal gratitude.”In their lifetime, he recalled, “Saints John XXIII and John Paul II cooperated with the Holy Spirit in renewing and updating the Church in keeping with her pristine features, those features which the saints have given her throughout the centuries.” And he reminded everyone that “it is the saints who give direction and growth to the Church.” In convening the Second Vatican Council (1962-65), he said, “John XXIII showed an exquisite openness to the Holy Spirit. He let himself be led and he was for the Church a pastor, a servant-leader. This was his great service to the Church”, he said, adding that for this reason “I like to think of him as the pope of openness to the Spirit”.Likewise, he said, John Paul II “in his own service to the People of God…was the pope of the family.” He recalled that the new Polish saint “once said that he wanted to be remembered as the pope of the family” and, Francis added, “I am particularly happy to point this out as we are in the process of journeying with families towards the Synod on the family. It is surely a journey which, from his place in heaven, he guides and sustains.”. The crowd broke into warm applause, endorsing what Francis had said.When Pope Francis concluded his masterly homily on the life and work of his predecessors, the enormous crowd again broke into applause filled with joy and happiness.Never before in the history of the Church have two popes been declared saints on the same day, but that is what happened today, Sunday April 27,when Pope Francis canonized them before an estimatefd of one million people in the Square and neighboring areas, and a global audience of hundreds of millions of all faiths and none.Never before in the history of the Church has an emeritus pope assisted at the canonisation of his predecesor but that is what happened today too when Benedict XVI participated in the canonization ceremony. Pope Francis went to greet him warmly at the end of mass.The rite of canonisation took place at the beginning of the mass, when Cardinal Angelo Amato, the Prefect of the Congregation for Saints, speaking in Latin, asked Pope Francis “to enroll Blessed John XXIII and John Paul II among the Saints, that they may be invoked as such by all the Christian faithful”. The Sistine choir then led the faithful in the singing of the hymn to the Holy Spirit (“Veni Creator”). When they finished, Pope Francis read the formula of canonisation in which he said that ”after due deliberation and frequent prayer for divine assistance, and having sought the counsel of many of our brother bishops, we declare and define Blessed John XXIII and John Paul II to be Saints, and we enroll them among the Saints, decreeing that they are to be venerated as such by the whole Church”.Even before he had finished the declaration the vast crowd in the square and side streets broke into resounding and prolonged applause. They continued as the Sistine choir began signing the hymn of joy, “”Jubilate Deo” –“Shout to the Lord, sing to the Lord”. This was the great moment that the one million pilgrims and devotees who had come here from all continents had long waited for. Some 400,000 had arrived from Poland and other countries, including the USA, to see the greatest Pole in history receive the highest honor of the Catholic Church; they came by chárter planes, trains, coaches and private cars for the event. Throughout his almost 27 year pontificate they flocked to his ceremonies in Rome and to the 129 countries that he visited, and now on this great day they came again, also from Wadowice - the little town where he was born, to express their immense joy at his being declared a saint.Hundreds of thousands of Italians came for the event too. They came to participate in the canonisation of John XXIII, the pope who had the courage to convene the Second Vatican Council (1962-65) that changed the face of the Catholic Church in its relation to the modern world and to the other world religions, even though many of them were not alive when the man they called “the good pope” died on 3 June 1963. But they also applauded John Paul II whom they admired and loved.Members of Royal families, as well as Heads of State and Government from 126 countries attended the colorful ceremony in St Peter’s Square, including the President of Italy and the present and past Presidents of Poland. Pope Francis greeted them individually at the end of mass, before driving among the enthusiastic but infinitely grateful crowd who waved the flags of their native lands, showing their immense joy at being here on this historic day which is a day without precedent in the 2000 year history of the Church, and which will henceforth be remembered as “the day of the four popes”.
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)
EU ambassadors to expand Russia blacklist
Today @ 08:59-APR 28,14-EUOBSERVER--By Andrew Rettman
BRUSSELS - EU countries’ ambassadors meeting in Brussels on Monday (28 April) are to add names to the Russia blacklist in reaction to events in Ukraine.The move, which is being coordinated with the US, but also with Canada and Japan under the auspices of the G7 club of wealthy nations, was announced on Friday.The G7 statement said, referring to an earlier agreement with Moscow in Geneva, that “Russia has taken no concrete actions in support of the Geneva accord … Instead, it has continued to escalate tensions by increasingly concerning rhetoric and ongoing threatening military manoeuvres on Ukraine's border.”The atmosphere deteriorated further on Sunday when pro-Russia separatists in Sloviansk, eastern Ukraine, paraded a group of eight captured monitors from the OSCE, a multilateral club based in Vienna, in front of TV cameras.A separatist leader accused the men - from the Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Poland and Sweden - of being Nato spies and of using their mission to smuggle in Ukrainian intelligence officers.“We have not been touched … [But] we have no indication when we will be sent home to our countries and to see our families,” the mission’s leader, German military officer Axel Schneider, said.The separatists later released a Swedish member of the team who suffers from diabetes. Russia’s envoy to the OSCE, Andre Kelin, also pledged to work for the release of the remainder of the team.But the gestures did little to appease anger in the EU, which, like the US, believes the pro-Russian paramilitaries to be taking orders from Moscow.German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said in a statement the same day “the public parading of the OSCE observers and Ukrainian security forces as prisoners is revolting and blatantly hurts the dignity of the victims.” He added: “Russia has an obligation to act on the separatists.”The EU has already imposed visa bans and asset freezes on 33 Russians and Crimeans over the Ukraine crisis.Reuters reports, citing diplomatic sources, that Monday’s move will see 15 names added to the group. One of its contacts told the press agency: “You will find a European list much more connected to actions on the ground, and an American list more focused on cronies and entities.”The White House deputy national security adviser, Tony Blinken, also told the CBS network over the weekend the US aims to designate Russian firms linked to President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle and to the Russian arms industry.“We will be looking to designate people who are in his inner circle, who have a significant impact on the Russian economy. We'll be looking to designate companies that they and other inner-circle people control … We'll be looking at taking steps, as well, with regard to high-technology exports to their defense industry. All of this together is going to have an impact,” he said.
Egyptian court seeks death sentence for Brotherhood leader, 682 supporters
By Yasmine Saleh 2 hours ago-APR 28,14-YahooNews
MINYA, Egypt (Reuters) - An Egyptian court sentenced the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood and 682 supporters to death on Monday, intensifying a crackdown on the movement that could trigger protests and political violence ahead of an election next month.In another case signaling growing intolerance of dissent by military-backed authorities, a pro-democracy movement that helped ignite the uprising that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak in 2011 was banned by court order, judicial sources said.The death sentence passed on Mohamed Badie, the Brotherhood's general guide, will infuriate members of the group which has been target of raids, arrests and bans since the army forced President Mohamed Mursi from power in July.The movement says it is committed to peaceful activism. But some Brotherhood members fear pressure from security forces and the courts could drive some young members to violence against the movement's old enemy the Egyptian state.Badie was charged with crimes including inciting violence that followed the army overthrow of Mursi, who is also on trial on an array of charges.In a separate case, the court handed down a final capital punishment ruling for 37 others. The death sentences were part of a final judgment on 529 Muslim Brotherhood supporters sentenced to death last month. The remaining defendants were jailed for life, judicial sources said.Death sentence recommendations in the case involving Badie will be passed on to Egypt's Mufti, the highest religious authority. His opinion can be ignored by the court.Mass trials in the biggest Arab state have reinforced fears among human rights groups that the government and anti-Islamist judges are using all levers of power to crush opponents."The decisions are possibly the largest possible death sentences in recent world history. While they're exceptional in scale, they're certainly not exceptional in kind," said Sarah Leah Whitson, executive director for Middle East and North Africa at Human Rights Watch."It seems that these sentences are aimed at striking fear and terror into the hearts of those who oppose the interim government."In an early reaction from a Western government, Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt wrote on Twitter that the mass trials were an "outrage". "The world must and will react!"There have been Western reactions to Egypt's approach to dissent. But it mostly comes in the form of statements, not action.Egypt's relations with the United States - the source of $1.5 billion in annual aid, most of it to the Egyptian military - have been strained in the three years since the overthrow of Mubarak.Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy is currently on an official visit to the United States, describing it as a trip to "redirect relations between Egypt and America".The United States froze some of its military aid to Egypt last October following Mursi's overthrow and the state's violent crackdown on his supporters.Last week, Washington said it would deliver 10 attack helicopters to help the government in its fight against Islamist militants in the Sinai Peninsula. Monday's rulings can be appealed. Many defendants are on the run.Nevertheless, the cases have raised new questions about Egypt's stumbling political transition three years after an army-backed popular uprising ousted Mubarak and raised hopes of a robust democracy.The political turmoil that has gripped Egypt and an Islamist insurgency based in the Sinai have hammered the economy, which grew by a meager 2.1 percent last year."In a month, Egypt sentences more people to death than the rest of the world combined. It is not the kind of news to rekindle confidence," Angus Blair, chairman of business and economic forecasting think-tank Signet, wrote on his Twitter feed.
PRO-DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT BANNED
As soon as word spread of the death sentences, relatives of the defendants screamed and cried outside the court in the town of Minya."This is a corrupt government. This is a failed regime. We have no real police. We have no real state," said Sabah Hassan, whose son was sentenced to death.Others collapsed on the street as soldiers with AK-47 assault rifles standing on an armored vehicle looked on.Relatives blamed Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the general who deposed Mursi. The former head of military intelligence under Mubarak is expected to easily win presidential elections on May 26-27 in a country long ruled by men from the military, Mursi's time in office representing the rare exception."Sisi is ruling like a king" and "May God punish you for what you did" some people chanted.Authorities have extended a crackdown to secular activists.A ruling on Monday banning the activities of the April 6 movement follows the imprisonment of three of its leading members last year on charges of protesting illegally.The charges against April 6 included "damaging the image of the state".Authorities still see the Brotherhood as the most dangerous threat. Egypt's biggest political party until last year, the Brotherhood has been outlawed and driven underground.It has vowed to bring down the government through protests, despite a security campaign that has weakened a movement believed to have about one million supporters in the nation of 85 million.Despite decades of repression under one Egyptian ruler after another, the Brotherhood has managed to survive, winning over Egyptians with its social networks and charities.The judge who handed down the death sentences, Saeed Yousef, has a history of imposing the maximum punishment. In one case, he sentenced someone to 30 years in jail on charges of shoplifting clothes and illegal possession of a knife.He is not always tough on defendants. Last year, Yousef acquitted a police chief and 10 policemen accused of killing 17 protesters during the revolt that ousted Mubarak.(Reporting by Yasmine Saleh; Writing by Michael Georgy; editing by Ralph Boulton)
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS-10 WORLD REGIONS/TRADE BLOCS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS-10 WORLD DIVISION WORLD GOVERNMENT) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(TAKE OVER 3 WORLD REGIONS)
Verhofstadt calls for more integration in bid for Commission top job
Today @ 09:10-APR 28,14-EUOBSERVER-By Benjamin Fox
BRUSSELS - Liberal candidate Guy Verhofstadt set out his stall to be the next European Commission President on Friday (25 April) by demanding a "decisive step in the European integration as the fuel for new growth in Europe".At a press conference in Brussels, Verhofstadt set out a platform including the creation of an EU energy union, project bonds to finance infrastructure and investment, and a common EU integration policy."We need a single energy market, not only because of the crisis in Ukraine but to be competitive again," he said. "We need to use the European Union's advantage of scale and integrated markets as an engine for growth."Under the Lisbon Treaty, EU leaders are required to 'take account' of May's European parliament elections when selecting a candidate to head the Commission.With the centre-right European People's party (EPP) and Europe's Socialists both likely to win between 200 and 220 of the 751 seats in the European Parliament, leaving both their respective candidates, Jean Claude Juncker and Martin Schulz, well short of a majority, Verhofstadt is hoping that he could emerge as a compromise candidate.Verhofstadt, who currently leads the liberal (Alde) group in the European Parliament, accused Europe's conservatives of "irresponsible" complacency and socialists of believing "that it is possible to spend ourselves out of the crisis, denying that we have already huge debts and that these debts are at the origin of our problems".During his nine year stint as prime minister of Belgium, Verhofstadt himself was vetoed by UK prime minister Tony Blair as being too federalist when touted as a possible chief of the EU executive in 2004. Jose Manuel Barroso, the current President, got the job instead.Verhofstadt attempted to play down the perception that he would bid to increase the EU's powers, remarking that "it is not my ambition to decide the internal order of nation states". Verhofstadt's pitch for greater EU integration goes against the grain of a campaign that has so far been dominated by populist, and often eurosceptic parties, from both the right and the left.Opinion polls suggest that Verhofstadt's centrist group is set to suffer heavy losses at May's elections. Research by Pollwatch, which puts together voting intentions from the EU's 28 countries to produce a pan-EU poll, put the ALDE group on around 60 seats, down from the 83 MEPs it has in the current Parliament.Its two largest delegations, the UK Liberal Democrats and German Free Democrats, are both expected to lose most of their seats.However, although Verhofstadt's group of MEPs is likely to be outnumbered by the far-right, as well as the EPP and socialists, it is likely to retain its position as the third largest group in the EU's elected assembly, leaving the group as possible 'kingmakers'."I am optimistic we can avoid an institutional paralysis," Verhofstadt commented, although he warned that "if there's no majority in the parliament, then no one gets to be European Commission president." MEPs have the final vote on who becomes Commission President.The first of several televised debates between the candidates will take place on Monday (28 April) in Maastricht.
Volunteers quietly help families of ferry's lost-By HYUNG-JIN KIM and JUNG-YOON CHOI 3 hours ago-APR 28,14-YahooNews
JINDO, South Korea (AP) — The mother, slightly drunk, sits on the edge of a windblown dock and wails. A Buddhist monk approaches and wipes the tears from her face as she pours out her grief and longing for her missing son. He leads her away from the dock's edge and, as she weeps, chants Buddhist scriptures and sounds a wooden gong in a prayer for her son's return."They are really suffering," said the monk, Bul Il, who came from the southeastern port city of Busan to help the families of the more than 100 still missing in the sunken South Korean ferry. "It's painful for me to watch their misery," he said, his face peeling and red from long chants on a platform facing the sea.Bul Il is one member of an impromptu city that has sprung up at this normally sleepy port for the families of those lost in the disaster. The city runs on the kindness of strangers.A sense of national mourning over a tragedy that will likely result in more than 300 deaths, most of them high school students, has prompted an outpouring of volunteers. More than 16,000 people — about half the island's normal population — have come to help.They handle much of the care that relatives of the missing receive in Jindo as they wait for divers to retrieve the bodies of their loved ones from the wreckage of the ferry Sewol.Some scrub toilets and bathroom floors at the gym where families sleep, keeping the amenities practically spotless. A man walks with a huge sign that says "I will wash clothes for you."They cook huge pots of hot kimchi soup, distribute blankets, towels and toiletries, pick up trash and sweep the grounds. Turkish volunteers offer kebabs, turning on spits. One truck distributes homemade tofu, another pizza.Cab drivers from Ansan, where the high school students who make up more than 80 percent of the missing and dead were from, provide free rides to and from Jindo, a five-hour drive that would normally run up a fare of 280,000 won ($270)."It's time to help those who are mourning. Giving up several days of work is nothing," driver Ahn Dae-soo said.Lim Jang-young, a 58-year-old owner of a Japanese restaurant, came to Jindo from the southern city of Daejeon to cook traditional beef soup for family members, other volunteers and journalists. He temporarily closed his restaurant to come help because he said he can't focus on his business while he worries about the victims and their families.A man who was eating his soup "showed me a picture of a girl, his daughter, and started crying. I couldn't resist crying with him," said Lim, a father of three.Hundreds of people, many from aid groups, private companies, churches and other organizations, mostly wearing green and blue clothing, pack roads lined with white tents near Paengmok port and a gym on the island, offering soup, kimchi, rice, hamburgers, taxi services, cellphone battery charging, laundry services, medicine, energy drinks, psychiatric help and daily necessities like underwear, socks, nail clippers, cotton swabs and toothbrushes.Park Seung-ki, a spokesman for the government task force, said Sunday that more than 16,200 people have come on their own or with nearly 730 organizations. About 690,000 aid items such as food, bottled water, blankets and clothes have also arrived in Jindo since the sinking, Park said.Volunteers say they're asked to refrain from "provoking" family members and to avoid smiling, taking commemorative photos or starting conversations. Volunteers are also asked to be patient even if victims' relatives become angry, according to a civic organization tasked with handling volunteers.Lee Sung-tae, secretary general for the civic organization, says people 23 or younger are often not allowed to volunteer because of worries they may remind family members, mostly parents of missing high school students, of their own children. Older volunteers who happen to look young are given work that keeps them away from the families of the missing students. Lee said his organization is now asking groups to stay away because there are already too many volunteers.Kim Byung-jo, 52, and Kim Yong-su, 46, drove 2 1/2 hours from the southern city of Suncheon to clean toilets and shower rooms at a gym where the families, both men and women, sleep on mattresses under bright fluorescent lights."It's totally different from when I watched this on TV," said Kim Yong-su, a trailer driver. "I've become really solemn. I can't really express how I'm feeling."There is a makeshift chapel and a makeshift Buddhist temple.Donated materials in the gymnasium — peach and pink blankets, bright green jackets and blue vests — add color to the scene, but it is still a place awash in grief and frustration.Exhausted relatives sit with shell-shocked expressions, staring blankly at the ever growing list of bodies. In tents near the port, they sit on blankets and mattresses, watching TV news programs about search efforts. They eat at long tables and benches under tents in near total silence. The gymnasium holds hundreds of people but is mostly as quiet as a library. Sometimes there are howls of anger when a government official visits or cries of agony when a family identifies a body.It does not matter to the volunteers that the families do not brim with gratefulness for their work. They want to do more to ease their pain.Ahn, the cab driver, said the word "heavy-hearted" is not enough to describe what it's like to drive home parents who have just identified their child's body."In the five hours of driving there's a complete silence," he said. "Who can say anything in that situation?"A well-known psychiatrist, Jung Hye-shin, came to Jindo to help counsel families, though she told her nearly 150,000 followers on Twitter that she hasn't talked to any because they're not ready for counseling. But she observed the volunteers in Jindo."The Catholic undertaker volunteers were wiping the fingers and toes of the kids, ever so gently and carefully, as if they were bathing a baby," she tweeted of the work to clean corpses. "In the end, the kids became pretty again. I'm glad they met adults that they could be thankful to before leaving this world."___Choi reported from Seoul. Associated Press writer Gillian Wong contributed to this report.
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)
THE FIRST JUDGEMENT OF THE EARTH STARTED WITH WATER-IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THE LAST GENERATION WILL BE HAVING FLOODING
GENESIS 7:6-12
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
GOD PROMISED BY A RAINBOW-THE EARTH WOULD NEVER BE DESTROYED TOTALLY WITH A FLOOD AGAIN.BUT FLOODIING IS A SIGN OF JUDGEMENT.
At least 17 killed as tornadoes rip through Arkansas, Oklahoma
By Suzi Parker 4 hours ago-APR 28,14-YahooNews
LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (Reuters) - Tornadoes ripped through the south-central United States on Sunday, killing at least 17 people in Arkansas and Oklahoma and wiping out entire neighborhoods, authorities said as rescue workers searched in darkness for survivors.Winds ripped houses off their foundations and flipped cars on top of the rubble in the small town of Vilonia in central Arkansas' Faulkner county, one of the worst-hit communities, television pictures showed.Arkansas authorities said at least 10 people had died in Faulkner and six more across the state - the first reported fatalities of this year's tornado season. Another person was killed in neighboring Oklahoma, said the sheriff's department.Searchers were continuing to dig through rubble in Vilonia and a spokesman for the County Sheriff's office said there was a "mass casualty situation"."An entire neighborhood of 50 or so homes has been destroyed. Many homes are completely gone except the foundation ... There is more devastation like this in other parts of Arkansas," state congressman Tim Griffin told Reuters.Cable television's Weather Channel showed videotape of mangled, overturned cars, some with people still inside, lining miles of Interstate 40 near Mayflower, 22 miles northwest of state capital Little Rock.Motorists searched crushed vehicles for victims while others stood dazed on the road. Authorities closed the route.A tornado hit the east side of Mayflower at around 7.30 pm, killing at least one person, tearing up trees and bringing down power lines, making it difficult for the emergency services to find stricken areas in the dark, officials there said."It's extremely hazardous here right now," said Will Elder, an alderman in the city. "The power lines are down, roads are blocked and they will have to proceed with caution."The Arkansas National Guard was deployed to help out in the state.The Arkansas Department of Emergency Management said on its website 10 deaths had been reported in Faulkner, five in Pulaski county and one in White county.At least one other person was killed in a tornado in the small town of Quapaw, in the northeast corner of neighboring Oklahoma, according to Ottawa County Sheriff's Department spokesman Derek Derwin.That twister was spotted in the town 200 miles northeast of Oklahoma City at about 5:45 p.m., according to the weather service.Media and the National Weather Service reported that two people were killed.Overnight tornado watches and warnings were announced in several parts of Arkansas, Tennessee and Mississippi.(Additional reporting by Brendan O'Brien in Milwaukee and Kevin Murphy in Kansas City, Missouri; Writing by Dan Whitcomb, Brendan O'Brien and Chris Michaud; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore and Andrew Heavens)
DISEASES
REVELATION 6:7-8
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).
Survivors of Ebola face second 'disease': stigma-By BOUBACAR DIALLO and SARAH DiLORENZO APR 28,14-YahooNews
CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — The doctor has beaten the odds and survived Ebola, but he still has one more problem: The stigma carried by the deadly disease.Even though he is completely healthy, people are afraid to come near him or to have anything to do with him.For example, the man was supposed to give an interview on Guinean radio to describe his triumphant tale. But the station would not allow him into the studio."We'd prefer he speak by phone from downstairs," the station's director told a representative of Doctors Without Borders, while the survivor waited outside in a car. "I can't take the risk of letting him enter our studio."The Ebola outbreak in West Africa has claimed more than 145 lives so far. More than 240 people, mostly in Guinea, are suspected of having caught the illness, which causes horrific suffering, including bursting blood vessels and bleeding from ears and other orifices. There is no vaccine, no treatment and the disease is almost always fatal.But a handful of the infected do survive. About 30 patients have survived in Guinea so far, according to Doctors Without Borders. Liberia has not recorded any cases of survival.Unfortunately for the lucky few, the stink of stigma lingers long after the virus has been purged from their bodies."Thanks be to God, I am cured. But now I have a new disease: the stigmatization that I am a victim of," said the Guinean doctor, who spoke to The Associated Press but refused to give his name for fear of further problems the publicity would cause him and his family. "This disease (the stigma) is worse than the fever."Several other people who survived the disease refused to tell their stories when contacted by the AP, either directly or through Doctors Without Borders.Sam Taylor, the Doctors Without Borders spokesman who had taken the doctor to the radio station, confirmed that the man had been infected and survived.The doctor believes he caught Ebola while caring for a friend and colleague who died in Conakry, Guinea's capital. At the time, he said, he did not know that his friend had Ebola.Shortly after his friend's death, the doctor got a headache and came down with an intractable fever. And then the vomiting and diarrhea began."I should have died," the doctor said, but he responded to care, which includes intensive hydration, and unlike most other Ebola patients, he lived.Surviving Ebola is a matter of staying alive long enough to have the chance to develop enough antibodies to fight off the virus, said David Heymann, a professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.That's because it's typically the symptoms of Ebola — severe fever, hemorrhaging, dehydration, respiratory problems — that kills a patient.Even though he has been cleared of Ebola, the doctor says that people avoid him."Now, everywhere in my neighborhood, all the looks bore into me like I'm the plague," he said. People leave places when he shows up. No one will shake his hand or eat with him. His own brothers are accusing him of putting their family in danger.Stigma often accompanies the spread of deadly, poorly understood diseases, said Meredith Stakem, a health and nutrition adviser for Catholic Relief Services in West Africa, noting that the terrified reaction to Ebola recalls the early days of the HIV epidemic.Ebola may incite an even more severe reaction because health workers responding to it wear head-to-toe protective gear that look like space suits, Stakem noted.In this outbreak, the homes of some of the infected in Liberia have been attacked and Doctors Without Borders briefly abandoned a clinic in Guinea that was targeted.The families of those who die from Ebola face similar problems.Aziz Soumah, who lives in a suburb of the Guinean capital of Conakry, said his family was forced to move after his brother died, apparently from Ebola."I went to pray at the mosque. As soon as I entered, all the worshippers left the mosque," recounted Soumah, a 30-year-old engineer. "I was alone. No one around me."International health organizations are doing extensive community outreach to explain how the disease is transmitted — only through direct contact with the bodily fluids of symptomatic people — and to explain that those cured are no longer contagious.The most powerful tool to combat stigma is the way health care workers treat a discharged patient, said Corinne Benazech, the representative in Guinea for Doctors Without Borders in Guinea."The patient never leaves alone," she said of when Ebola survivors leave their isolation wards, and health care workers individually shake hands with the survivor.Discharged patients receive a certificate from the minister of health that states they are no longer contagious, said Tom Fletcher, an infectious disease physician with the World Health Organization who is working in Guinea. However, the virus may linger in a male patient's semen, so men are given a three-month supply of condoms, he added.The Guinean doctor was treated for about a week before he was declared cured. Fletcher said that's typical for the miraculous few: "These people should be celebrated, really, as opposed to stigmatized."___DiLorenzo reported from Dakar, Senegal. Jonathan Paye-Layleh in Monrovia, Liberia, contributed to this report.
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
34 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2014-04-28 09:57:20 UTC-04:00Showing event times using Local System Time (UTC-04:00)34 earthquakes in map area
5.3 Southwest Indian Ridge 2014-04-28 08:43:52 UTC-04:00 14.4 km
3.0 8km ESE of Medford, Oklahoma 2014-04-28 08:00:18 UTC-04:00 2.9 km
4.7 225km SE of Lambasa, Fiji 2014-04-28 07:59:53 UTC-04:00 524.9 km
4.4 72km WSW of Puerto Madero, Mexico 2014-04-28 04:55:30 UTC-04:00 60.9 km
2.6 8km S of Big Bear Lake, California 2014-04-28 04:23:29 UTC-04:00 13.5 km
2.6 74km NNE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2014-04-28 03:31:10 UTC-04:00 35.0 km
4.3 153km S of Bambanglipuro, Indonesia 2014-04-28 03:27:37 UTC-04:00 44.8 km
4.4 96km N of Tobelo, Indonesia 2014-04-28 03:25:06 UTC-04:00 76.4 km
4.7 215km WNW of Farallon de Pajaros, Northern Mariana Islands 2014-04-326.0 km
4.3 143km S of Bambanglipuro, Indonesia 2014-04-28 01:38:47 UTC-04:00 35.0 km
4.5 152km S of Bambanglipuro, Indonesia 2014-04-28 01:20:40 UTC-04:00 27.5 km
4.9 86km NNW of Iquique, Chile 2014-04-28 00:59:36 UTC-04:00 31.7 km
4.9 80km NE of Enarotali, Indonesia 2014-04-28 00:49:33 UTC-04:00 66.9 km
3.1 3km ESE of Perry, Oklahoma 2014-04-28 00:38:38 UTC-04:00 5.0 km
4.7 111km ENE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Russia 2014-04-28 00:37:17 71.3 km
2.6 5km W of Shasta Lake, California 2014-04-28 00:15:56 UTC-04:00 28.2 km
4.6 82km WSW of Iquique, Chile 2014-04-27 22:47:28 UTC-04:00 12.8 km
3.2 44km SW of Talkeetna, Alaska 2014-04-27 22:33:17 UTC-04:00 47.7 km
3.2 4km SE of Stillwater, Oklahoma 2014-04-27 22:26:41 UTC-04:00 4.0 km
2.5 33km S of Ridgecrest, California 2014-04-27 21:23:22 UTC-04:00 8.6 km
5.6 147km NNW of Burgos, Philippines 2014-04-27 20:43:51 UTC-04:00 10.0 km
4.9 88km WNW of Iquique, Chile 2014-04-27 20:09:37 UTC-04:00 16.2 km
3.1 29km SE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2014-04-27 18:32:26 UTC-04:00 132.0 km
4.7 83km NNW of Luwuk, Indonesia 2014-04-27 18:09:17 UTC-04:00 33.6 km
3.7 50km ENE of Yunaska Island, Alaska 2014-04-27 17:35:34 UTC-04:00 60.9 km
2.8 67km SSW of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska 2014-04-27 17:10:58 UTC-04:00 100.0 km
2.6 1km ESE of Mammoth Lakes, California 2014-04-27 16:28:42 UTC-04:00 7.7 km
4.7 113km SW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea 2014-04-27 14:10:47 UTC-04:00 77.6 km
2.8 6km NNE of Langston, Oklahoma 2014-04-27 12:46:57 UTC-04:00 7.5 km
5.2 175km WSW of Tual, Indonesia 2014-04-27 12:23:06 UTC-04:00 81.5 km
2.8 40km NW of Valdez, Alaska 2014-04-27 12:16:18 UTC-04:00 28.2 km
5.1 91km NE of Kurumkan, Russia 2014-04-27 11:13:54 UTC-04:00 10.0 km
4.1 87km W of Iquique, Chile 2014-04-27 10:45:58 UTC-04:00 17.6 km
2.6 9km SSW of Cave Junction, Oregon 2014-04-27 10:44:16 UTC-04:00 35.2 km
ISRAEL SATAN COMES AGAINST
1 CHRONICLES 21:1
1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
ISRAELS TROUBLE
JEREMIAH 30:7
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble;(ISRAEL) but he shall be saved out of it.
DANIEL 12:1,4
1 And at that time shall Michael(ISRAELS WAR ANGEL) stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people:(ISRAEL) and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation(May 14,48) even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,(WORLD TRAVEL,IMMIGRATION) and knowledge shall be increased.(COMPUTERS,CHIP IMPLANTS ETC)
FIRST THE ISRAELIS WERE BEING PERSECUTED IN THAT UKRAINE CITY.NOW A JEWISH MAYOR SHOT IN THE BACK.NO COINCIDENCES HERE.ANTISEMITISM IN UKRAINE IS ON THE RISE.
Jewish mayor of Ukraine city hurt in assassination attempt-Kharkiv mayor Hennady Kernes seriously wounded with gunshot to his back; motives behind attack remain unclear-By AP April 28, 2014, 2:23 pm 1-The Times of Israel
KIEV, Ukraine — The mayor of Ukraine’s second-largest city was shot in the back Monday and pro-Russia insurgents seized yet another government building as tensions rose in eastern Ukraine ahead of a new round of US sanctions.Armed insurgents tacitly backed by Moscow are seeking more autonomy in the region from the interim government in Kiev. In a bid to ratchet up the pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin, US President Barack Obama has promised to levy new sanctions on Russian individuals and companies in retaliation for Moscow’s alleged provocations in eastern Ukraine.Hennady Kernes, the mayor of Kharkiv, was shot in the back Monday morning, his office said. Kernes was said to be undergoing surgery and “doctors are fighting for his life,” according to the city hall.Officials have not commented on the circumstances of the shooting and it was not clear who was behind it. Kernes was a staunch opponent of the pro-West Maidan movement that toppled President Viktor Yanukovych in February and was widely viewed as the organizer of activists sent to Kiev from eastern Ukraine to harass those demonstrators.But he has since softened his stance toward the new Kiev government and insisted that he does not support the pro-Russia insurgents or any annexation of Ukrainian territory.Kernes is Jewish and the city is home to a large Jewish community.The official website of the Kharkiv Jewish community describes Kernes as “Jewish by ethnicity.”Eleonora Groysman, editor of the Jewish Ukrainian news site evreiskiy.kiev.ua also told JTA that Kernes is Jewish.According to the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress, the 2009 election campaign in which Kernes became mayor was mired with anti-Semitic hate speech targeting him and other Jewish candidates.Kharkiv’s rabbi, Moshe Moskowitz, told Israel National News that “we are talking about a precious Jewish life, with a loving and warm relationship with the community, and we are shocked by the attempted assassination. We are praying for his safety — Moshe ben Hana.”Kharkiv is in eastern Ukraine where pro-Russian gunmen have seized government buildings, set up roadblocks or staged protests to demand greater autonomy or outright annexation by Russia.Ukraine’s acting government and the West have accused Russia of orchestrating the unrest, which they fear Moscow could use as a pretext for an invasion. Last month, Russia annexed Crimea weeks after seizing control of the Black Sea peninsula.On Monday, masked militants with automatic weapons seized another city hall building in eastern Ukraine, this time in Kostyantynivka, 160 kilometers (100 miles) from the Russian border.After the seizure, about 15 armed men guarded the building. Some posed for pictures with residents while others distributed St. George’s ribbons, the symbol of the pro-Russia movement.Kostyantynivka is just 35 kilometers (22 miles) south of Slovyansk, a major city in eastern Ukraine that has been in insurgents’ hands for more than three weeks now.President Obama said on visit to the Philippines earlier on Monday that the targets of the latest US sanctions will include high-technology exports to Russia’s defense industry. The full list, which is also expected to include wealthy allies of Putin, will be announced by officials in Washington later Monday.The European Union is also planning more sanctions against Russia, with ambassadors from the bloc’s 28 members to meet Monday in Brussels to add to the list of Russian officials who have been hit by asset freezes and travel bans.The increasingly ruthless pro-Russia insurgency is turning to an ominous new tactic: kidnapping.Dozens of people are being held hostage — including seven observers, journalists and pro-Ukraine activists — in makeshift jails in Slovyansk.The German government on Monday decried the seizure of the eight European military observers there and called for their immediate release. The observers, including three German officers, were detained Friday on allegations they were spying for NATO.Pro-Russia militants in camouflage and black balaclavas paraded some of the captive European military observers before the media on Sunday. They also showed three captured Ukrainian security guards bloodied, blindfolded and stripped of their trousers and shoes, their arms bound with packing tape.A Swedish officer was released Sunday and German captive Col. Axel Schneider spoke that same day, stressing at a news conference — under armed guard — that they were on an OSCE diplomatic mission and not spies.Times of Israel staff and JTA contributed to this report.
Nation comes to standstill as sirens wail for 6 million lost-Two-minute Holocaust Commemoration precedes ceremonies across country to mark annual memorial day-By Times of Israel staff April 28, 2014, 10:06 am 19-The Times of Israel
Millions of Israelis paused for two minutes Monday in solemn silence as air raid sirens wailed across the country to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day.The annual commemoration for the 6 million Jews killed in Europe during the Holocaust brought the country to a standstill at 10 a.m., with drivers standing alongside their cars on highways and normally bustling city centers freezing for the funereal event.After the sirens, a number of remembrance ceremonies were planned for across the country, including a wreath-laying at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem and the “Unto Every Person There is a Name” ceremony at the Knesset.In Poland, thousands of Israeli and Jewish youth and others will march from the infamous Auschwitz labor camp to the Birkenau death camp as part of the annual March of the Living memorial. Events for the commemoration day began Sunday night at 8 p.m. with a state ceremony at Yad Vashem. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned at the ceremony that the world was ignoring the lessons of the Shoah by allowing Iran to continue its nuclear program.“I hope that the lessons of the past will be learned and that the desire to avoid confrontation at any cost will not lead to a deal that will exact a much heavier price in the future,” he said, referring to negotiations between Tehran and six world powers over uranium enrichment levels. “I call on the leaders of the world powers to insist on a full dismantling of Iran’s capability to manufacture nuclear weapons, and to persist until this goal is achieved.”President Shimon Peres, speaking at the same ceremony, called on the world to pay attention to the threat of rising anti-Semitism in Europe.“We must not ignore any occurrence of anti-Semitism, any desecration of a synagogue, any tombstone smashed in a cemetery in which our families are buried,” he said.
Netanyahu compares Iran nuclear threat to Nazi menace-At Remembrance Day ceremony, PM implores world not to repeat mistakes; Peres warns of resurgence of anti-Semitism in Europe
By Joshua Davidovich and Stuart Winer April 27, 2014, 8:06 pm -The Times of Israel
The world turned a blind eye to the rising Nazi threat over 75 years ago, and today Iran is being allowed to develop its nuclear program and menace Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday as the country marked Holocaust Remembrance Day.Declaring that Iran was determined to acquire nuclear weapons, and urging international negotiators to insist that Iran’s enrichment and other nuclear capabilities be completely dismantled, Netanyahu warned: “A deal that leaves Iran as a threshold nuclear state will bring the world to the threshold of the abyss.”Israeli leaders gathered at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial Sunday night to remember the 6 million victims of the Nazi genocide.On Monday morning, an air raid siren will ring out for two minutes as the nation comes to a standstill to mark Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Day, as the memorial day is official known.Six survivors of the Shoah lit torches at Yad Vashem Sunday night, and Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres spoke at the ceremony.Netanyahu said the world had failed to act against the rising Nazi threat, despite being warned about it, drawing a line to current tensions with the Iranian regime.“It’s not that they did not see. It’s that they did not want to see,” he said of world leaders before the Holocaust.“Today we are facing real threats and immediate dangers,” he said. “I call on the world power to insist that Iran completely give up its abilities to make nuclear weapons.”He added that Israel would not stand by silently.“In contrast to our situation in the Holocaust today we have a tremendous power to protect ourselves,” he said. “Israel is stronger than ever.”“On behalf of the Jewish people, I say to those who have sought and still seek to destroy us: You have failed and you will fail.”The speech was a familiar echo of years past, when Netanyahu has also warned of the Iranian threat and vowed to defend the country from suffering another holocaust.“Iran is warning openly about its intentions to destroy us and is working with all its might to carry it out,” the prime minister said at the same ceremony in 2013. “The hate against Jews hasn’t disappeared, but has morphed into a murderous hate against the Jewish state. We won’t leave our fate in the hands of others, even the best of our friends.”Peres devoted part of his speech to the resurgence of European anti-Semitism, particularly in Hungary, where he said the Jewish community was destroyed with “brutal efficiency” 70 years ago.“We must not ignore any occurrence of anti-Semitism, any desecration of a synagogue, any tomb stone smashed in a cemetery in which our families are buried,” he said. ”We must not ignore the rise of extreme right wing parties with neo-Nazi tendencies who are a danger to each of us and a threat to every nation.”He added that Israel had to be strong because of anti-Semitism around the world, but “must not give up on peace.”“A strong Israel is our response to the horrors of anti-Semitism but it does not excuse the rest of the world from its responsibility to prevent this disease from returning to their own homes,” he said. “We are strong enough to repel dangers, we should not be scared of threats and we must not give up on peace.”Netanyahu wrote on Twitter Sunday that Iran was seeking to wipe out the Jewish people as the Nazis did some 70 years ago. He also drew a line to Gazan terror group Hamas, which he said was denying the Holocaust while trying to create a new one.Earlier, Netanyahu dismissed a statement by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas condemning the Holocaust as the “most heinous crime” of the modern era. Netanyahu told CNN Abbas was attempting to “damage control” after signing a unity deal with Hamas last week.Among the torchlighters at the Yad Vashem ceremony was Asher Aud (Sieradski), 86.Over six years, he was separated from his parents and siblings in his native Polish town of Zdunska Wola and then scavenged for scraps of bread and staved off a debilitating illness alone in the Lodz ghetto before he was deported to the Auschwitz death camp.There, he avoided the gas chambers and crematoria, and after a long incarceration, he weathered the notorious death march through the snow to Mauthausen, where those who fell behind were shot dead on the spot. After the war, he passed through a series of displaced person camps before he boarded a ship to the Holy Land where he did his best to forget the past for the next half century.Of all the atrocities he endured, Aud said the strongest memory is the one that was most traumatic — parting from his mother at the age of 14.It was September 1942. The Nazis had rounded up the Jewish community inside the local cemetery and were preparing to deport them. His father and older brother had already been taken and he was left with his mother and younger brother, Gavriel.“I remember looking down and I happened to be standing on my grandmother’s tombstone,” he recalled. “The Germans walked among us and anytime they saw a mother with a child, they tore the child from her arms and threw them into the back of trucks.”That’s when he realized life as he knew it was over.“I looked around and I just said ‘mother, this is where we are going to be separated,’” he said.Soon after they were marched through two lines of German soldiers. “I didn’t even feel it when the Germans hit me but every time they struck my mother and brother it was like they were cutting my flesh,” he said.Israel is home to some 200,000 survivors, over a quarter of whom live in poverty, according to a report released last week.On Sunday, government ministers approved a plan to fund an additional NIS 1 billion to expand benefits to survivors.The Associated Press contributed to this report
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he ( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant (PEACE TREATY) with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE ANIMAL SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
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.
EU: American peace efforts ‘must not go to waste’-In wake of Fatah-Hamas deal, Abbas enjoys ‘a mandate to negotiate in the name of all Palestinians,’ Catherine Ashton says-By AFP April 27, 2014, 2:56 pm 2-The Times of Israel
The European Union on Sunday urged Israel and the Palestinians to return to the negotiating table, saying US efforts to broker peace must not be allowed to “go to waste.”“Negotiations are the best way forward,” EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said in response to the breakdown last week in months of efforts by Washington to keep the two sides talking.“The extensive efforts deployed in recent months must not go to waste,” Ashton’s statement added.“The EU calls on all sides to exercise maximum restraint and to avoid any action which may further undermine peace efforts and the viability of a two-state solution.”Talks between the two resumed in July and were to have lasted nine months until Tuesday, April 29, but Israel angrily pulled out last week in response to a reconciliation deal bringing together the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Islamist Hamas movement which has pledged to destroy the Jewish state.Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has pledged, however, that his new unity government will reject violence and recognize Israel and existing agreements.Ashton said “the EU expects any new government to uphold the principle of non-violence, to remain committed to achieving a two-state solution and to a negotiated peaceful settlement … including Israel’s legitimate right to exist.”“The fact that President Abbas will remain fully in charge of the negotiation process and have a mandate to negotiate in the name of all Palestinians provides further assurance that the peace negotiations can and must proceed,” she added.
Bennett calls to annex 60 percent of West Bank-Reviving campaign platform, Jewish Home party leader says Palestinians in areas claimed by Israel should get citizenship-By Times of Israel staff, AP and AFP April 27, 2014, 9:56 pm 7
With peace efforts stalled, Israel should annex over half of the West Bank and give Palestinians in the affected areas full Israeli citizenship, Economy Minister Naftali Bennett said Sunday.Bennett, a coalition hawk who heads the Orthodox-nationalist Jewish Home party, was one of two senior government officials Sunday to float the idea of Jerusalem extending sovereignty to Area C of the West Bank, which Israel maintains civilian and security control over as part of the Oslo Accords.“We are not going to reach a peace agreement in the foreseeable future,” Bennett said in a speech to foreign journalists. “I think we need to be realistic about what we can achieve.”Bennett said he advocated giving the Palestinians “autonomy on steroids” in areas of the West Bank they already control, while annexing the remaining 60 percent of the West Bank that Israel rules and that contains the vast majority of settlements.He said the goal should now be making conditions as livable as possible, by giving Palestinians freedom of movement and supporting their economy, and allowing them to hold elections in their autonomous areas and run their day-to-day affairs. Full independence, however, would be impossible, he said.“I know it is not as sexy as the perfect two-state solution but this is realistic,” he said.Bennett, who campaigned on the issue of annexation during the 2012 elections, painted a saccharine picture of life in the Israeli-annexed West Bank with “life becoming more and more bearable for everyone.”“What can the Palestinians hope for? Already they have the best life in the entire Arab world — they’re not being hanged because they are gay, women are allowed to drive,” he said.“But full self-governance, have your anthem, have your flag, pay your own taxes, have your own elections — we’re fine with it.”Bennett noted that Israel has twice annexed territory — after the Six-Day War when it annexed East Jerusalem and in 1981 when it extended sovereignty to the Golan Heights.The minister said that the unilateral move would be in response to the recent Palestinian unilateral actions. Although admitting that his suggestions were not an official government stance he said that other ministers, not just from his Jewish Home party, also support the idea of annexing part of, if not all, of Area C.Palestinians living in those areas would become full Israeli citizens, Bennett said.Earlier in the day, Communications Minister Gilad Erdan (Likud) called on the Israeli government “to start preparing for the annexation of Area C.”The struggling peace talks took a nose dive at the end of March when Israel reneged on a pledge to release two dozen Palestinian prisoners and the Palestinians responded by asking to join 15 international treaties in a step denounced by Israel.Last week, Israel suspended negotiations in response to a Palestinian reconciliation deal that saw Fatah and Hamas agree to share rule and form a unity government. Israel and the West consider Hamas, which has killed hundreds of Israelis in attacks, to be a terrorist group.
Senior minister: Israel should annex Area C-Gilad Erdan calls for unilateral annexation of Jewish-settled parts of West Bank in wake of Fatah-Hamas reconciliation-By Times of Israel staff April 27, 2014, 12:58 pm 18
Communications Minister Gilad Erdan (Likud) called on Israel to annex large swaths of the West Bank in the wake of the emerging failure of the latest US-brokered peace talks with the Palestinians.Speaking to Army Radio on Sunday morning, Erdan, a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s security cabinet, criticized the Fatah-Hamas reconciliation agreement announced last Wednesday and called on the Israeli government “to start preparing for the annexation of Area C,” the part of the West Bank under full Israeli administrative control.Wherever “there is a Jewish population [in the West Bank] that should remain in place; we can start to prepare to annex [that area] if there is no Palestinian partner and the situation seems unlikely to change,” Erdan said.Erdan is one of the most senior Likud leaders, coming in third on the party’s Knesset slate (fifth on the joint list with Yisrael Beytenu).He explained on Sunday that if Israel showed it was willing to annex some territory unilaterally, “then Abu Mazen [PA President Mahmoud Abbas] and the Palestinians will understand that there is a price to pay for running away from negotiations and linking up with terror organizations.”The current Likud-led government “was not elected to think only about the interests of our enemies,” Erdan said, in a reference to the Palestinians.
Kerry: Israel could become an ‘apartheid state’-US secretary of state says change of leadership on both sides might be needed for peace, according to Daily Beast recording-By Lazar Berman April 28, 2014, 3:30 am-The Times of Israel
If Israel does not make peace soon, it could become an “apartheid state” like South Africa, US Secretary of State John Kerry told a closed room meeting of world leaders recently, it was revealed early Monday morning.According to a recording obtained by the Daily Beast, Kerry made the comments Friday to a meeting of the Trilateral Commission, a nongovernmental organization committed to fostering closer ties between Europe, North America, and Japan.“A two-state solution will be clearly underscored as the only real alternative,” Kerry told the gathering. “Because a unitary state winds up either being an apartheid state with second-class citizens—or it ends up being a state that destroys the capacity of Israel to be a Jewish state. Once you put that frame in your mind, that reality, which is the bottom line, you understand how imperative it is to get to the two-state solution, which both leaders, even yesterday, said they remain deeply committed to.”According to the Daily Beast, Kerry also panned Israeli settlement building, said that both Israeli and Palestinian leaders shared blame for the stalled peace talks, and indicated that a change in leadership on one or both sides could help the parties reach an agreement.The top US diplomat said he might decide to present both sides with a “take it or leave it” peace deal.A nine-month negotiating period brokered by the US is due to end on Tuesday, and US President Barack Obama said at the weekend that a “pause” in US efforts might now be necessitated. That negotiated process has collapsed in recent days, since Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah on Wednesday signed a unity pact with rival Hamas, and Israel suspended all talks a day later, saying it would not negotiate with a Palestinian leadership supported by the Islamist terror group.The use of the term “apartheid” to refer to Israel is likely to anger many Israeli officials. While running for president in 2008, Obama rejected associating the label with Israel, calling it “emotionally loaded, historically inaccurate, and it’s not what I believe.”This would not be the first time Kerry expressed statements that raised hackles in Israel. “Both sides wound out in a position of unhelpful moves,” Kerry told a Senate hearing on April 8, before seeming to place the preponderance of blame on Israel.“The prisoners were not released by Israel on the day they were supposed to be released and then another day passed and another day, and then 700 units were approved in Jerusalem and then poof — that was sort of the moment,” Kerry said.In a further departure from the crisis-stricken Israeli-Palestinian negotiating framework, the Palestine Liberation Organization’s central council on Sunday adopted a plan to pursue attempts to join 60 United Nations bodies and international agreements.Meanwhile, the central council decided to establish “the legal center for the state of Palestine,” tasked with advising the central council and the PLO’s executive committee, according to the official WAFA news agency.Last month Abbas applied for membership in 15 international bodies and treaties, which Israel said breached a commitment agreed to before peace talks. The move came after Israel nixed a planned prisoner release.Joining international bodies is seen as a significant unilateral diplomatic step towards Palestinian statehood, and a departure from the US-brokered Israeli-Palestinian negotiating framework.Elhanan Miller and AFP contributed to this report.
04/27/2014 - THE VATICAN INSIDER-Pope Francis,in historic ceremony, declares John XXIII and John Paul II are saints-Roncalli and Wojtyla's canonizations-Francis hailed Saints John XXIII and John Paul II as “men of courage” and great faith, who listened to the Spirit of God, and “bore witness to God’s goodness and mercy” before the Church and the world-gerard o'connell
rome-Saints John XXIII and John Paul II “were two men of courage, filled with the parrhesia (audacity) of the Holy Spirit, and they bore witness before the Church and the world to God’s goodness and mercy”, Pope Francis told a crowd of one million in St Peter’s Square and the surrounding areas on April 27 after canonizing these two great leaders of the Catholic Church in the past century.“They were priests, bishops and popes of the twentieth century. They lived through the tragic events of that century, but they were not overwhelmed by them” because for them “for them, God was more powerful; faith was more powerful – faith in Jesus Christ the Redeemer of man and the Lord of history”, he said.“Saints John XXIII and John Paul II were not afraid to look upon the wounds of Jesus, to touch his torn hands and his pierced side. They were not ashamed of the flesh of Christ, they were not scandalized by him, by his cross; they did not despise the flesh of their brother (cf. Is 58:7), because they saw Jesus in every person who suffers and struggles.”, he said referring to the great faith and extraordinary humanity of both men.“In these two men, who looked upon the wounds of Christ and bore witness to his mercy, there dwelt a living hope and an indescribable and glorious joy (1 Pet 1:3,8).”, he said. Indeed, he told those at the ceremony and the hundreds of millions who followed it by TV, radio and the modern means of communication that “such were the hope and the joy which these two holy popes had received as a gift from the risen Lord and which they in turn bestowed in abundance upon the People of God” that they “merit our eternal gratitude.”In their lifetime, he recalled, “Saints John XXIII and John Paul II cooperated with the Holy Spirit in renewing and updating the Church in keeping with her pristine features, those features which the saints have given her throughout the centuries.” And he reminded everyone that “it is the saints who give direction and growth to the Church.” In convening the Second Vatican Council (1962-65), he said, “John XXIII showed an exquisite openness to the Holy Spirit. He let himself be led and he was for the Church a pastor, a servant-leader. This was his great service to the Church”, he said, adding that for this reason “I like to think of him as the pope of openness to the Spirit”.Likewise, he said, John Paul II “in his own service to the People of God…was the pope of the family.” He recalled that the new Polish saint “once said that he wanted to be remembered as the pope of the family” and, Francis added, “I am particularly happy to point this out as we are in the process of journeying with families towards the Synod on the family. It is surely a journey which, from his place in heaven, he guides and sustains.”. The crowd broke into warm applause, endorsing what Francis had said.When Pope Francis concluded his masterly homily on the life and work of his predecessors, the enormous crowd again broke into applause filled with joy and happiness.Never before in the history of the Church have two popes been declared saints on the same day, but that is what happened today, Sunday April 27,when Pope Francis canonized them before an estimatefd of one million people in the Square and neighboring areas, and a global audience of hundreds of millions of all faiths and none.Never before in the history of the Church has an emeritus pope assisted at the canonisation of his predecesor but that is what happened today too when Benedict XVI participated in the canonization ceremony. Pope Francis went to greet him warmly at the end of mass.The rite of canonisation took place at the beginning of the mass, when Cardinal Angelo Amato, the Prefect of the Congregation for Saints, speaking in Latin, asked Pope Francis “to enroll Blessed John XXIII and John Paul II among the Saints, that they may be invoked as such by all the Christian faithful”. The Sistine choir then led the faithful in the singing of the hymn to the Holy Spirit (“Veni Creator”). When they finished, Pope Francis read the formula of canonisation in which he said that ”after due deliberation and frequent prayer for divine assistance, and having sought the counsel of many of our brother bishops, we declare and define Blessed John XXIII and John Paul II to be Saints, and we enroll them among the Saints, decreeing that they are to be venerated as such by the whole Church”.Even before he had finished the declaration the vast crowd in the square and side streets broke into resounding and prolonged applause. They continued as the Sistine choir began signing the hymn of joy, “”Jubilate Deo” –“Shout to the Lord, sing to the Lord”. This was the great moment that the one million pilgrims and devotees who had come here from all continents had long waited for. Some 400,000 had arrived from Poland and other countries, including the USA, to see the greatest Pole in history receive the highest honor of the Catholic Church; they came by chárter planes, trains, coaches and private cars for the event. Throughout his almost 27 year pontificate they flocked to his ceremonies in Rome and to the 129 countries that he visited, and now on this great day they came again, also from Wadowice - the little town where he was born, to express their immense joy at his being declared a saint.Hundreds of thousands of Italians came for the event too. They came to participate in the canonisation of John XXIII, the pope who had the courage to convene the Second Vatican Council (1962-65) that changed the face of the Catholic Church in its relation to the modern world and to the other world religions, even though many of them were not alive when the man they called “the good pope” died on 3 June 1963. But they also applauded John Paul II whom they admired and loved.Members of Royal families, as well as Heads of State and Government from 126 countries attended the colorful ceremony in St Peter’s Square, including the President of Italy and the present and past Presidents of Poland. Pope Francis greeted them individually at the end of mass, before driving among the enthusiastic but infinitely grateful crowd who waved the flags of their native lands, showing their immense joy at being here on this historic day which is a day without precedent in the 2000 year history of the Church, and which will henceforth be remembered as “the day of the four popes”.
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)
EU ambassadors to expand Russia blacklist
Today @ 08:59-APR 28,14-EUOBSERVER--By Andrew Rettman
BRUSSELS - EU countries’ ambassadors meeting in Brussels on Monday (28 April) are to add names to the Russia blacklist in reaction to events in Ukraine.The move, which is being coordinated with the US, but also with Canada and Japan under the auspices of the G7 club of wealthy nations, was announced on Friday.The G7 statement said, referring to an earlier agreement with Moscow in Geneva, that “Russia has taken no concrete actions in support of the Geneva accord … Instead, it has continued to escalate tensions by increasingly concerning rhetoric and ongoing threatening military manoeuvres on Ukraine's border.”The atmosphere deteriorated further on Sunday when pro-Russia separatists in Sloviansk, eastern Ukraine, paraded a group of eight captured monitors from the OSCE, a multilateral club based in Vienna, in front of TV cameras.A separatist leader accused the men - from the Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Poland and Sweden - of being Nato spies and of using their mission to smuggle in Ukrainian intelligence officers.“We have not been touched … [But] we have no indication when we will be sent home to our countries and to see our families,” the mission’s leader, German military officer Axel Schneider, said.The separatists later released a Swedish member of the team who suffers from diabetes. Russia’s envoy to the OSCE, Andre Kelin, also pledged to work for the release of the remainder of the team.But the gestures did little to appease anger in the EU, which, like the US, believes the pro-Russian paramilitaries to be taking orders from Moscow.German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said in a statement the same day “the public parading of the OSCE observers and Ukrainian security forces as prisoners is revolting and blatantly hurts the dignity of the victims.” He added: “Russia has an obligation to act on the separatists.”The EU has already imposed visa bans and asset freezes on 33 Russians and Crimeans over the Ukraine crisis.Reuters reports, citing diplomatic sources, that Monday’s move will see 15 names added to the group. One of its contacts told the press agency: “You will find a European list much more connected to actions on the ground, and an American list more focused on cronies and entities.”The White House deputy national security adviser, Tony Blinken, also told the CBS network over the weekend the US aims to designate Russian firms linked to President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle and to the Russian arms industry.“We will be looking to designate people who are in his inner circle, who have a significant impact on the Russian economy. We'll be looking to designate companies that they and other inner-circle people control … We'll be looking at taking steps, as well, with regard to high-technology exports to their defense industry. All of this together is going to have an impact,” he said.
Egyptian court seeks death sentence for Brotherhood leader, 682 supporters
By Yasmine Saleh 2 hours ago-APR 28,14-YahooNews
MINYA, Egypt (Reuters) - An Egyptian court sentenced the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood and 682 supporters to death on Monday, intensifying a crackdown on the movement that could trigger protests and political violence ahead of an election next month.In another case signaling growing intolerance of dissent by military-backed authorities, a pro-democracy movement that helped ignite the uprising that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak in 2011 was banned by court order, judicial sources said.The death sentence passed on Mohamed Badie, the Brotherhood's general guide, will infuriate members of the group which has been target of raids, arrests and bans since the army forced President Mohamed Mursi from power in July.The movement says it is committed to peaceful activism. But some Brotherhood members fear pressure from security forces and the courts could drive some young members to violence against the movement's old enemy the Egyptian state.Badie was charged with crimes including inciting violence that followed the army overthrow of Mursi, who is also on trial on an array of charges.In a separate case, the court handed down a final capital punishment ruling for 37 others. The death sentences were part of a final judgment on 529 Muslim Brotherhood supporters sentenced to death last month. The remaining defendants were jailed for life, judicial sources said.Death sentence recommendations in the case involving Badie will be passed on to Egypt's Mufti, the highest religious authority. His opinion can be ignored by the court.Mass trials in the biggest Arab state have reinforced fears among human rights groups that the government and anti-Islamist judges are using all levers of power to crush opponents."The decisions are possibly the largest possible death sentences in recent world history. While they're exceptional in scale, they're certainly not exceptional in kind," said Sarah Leah Whitson, executive director for Middle East and North Africa at Human Rights Watch."It seems that these sentences are aimed at striking fear and terror into the hearts of those who oppose the interim government."In an early reaction from a Western government, Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt wrote on Twitter that the mass trials were an "outrage". "The world must and will react!"There have been Western reactions to Egypt's approach to dissent. But it mostly comes in the form of statements, not action.Egypt's relations with the United States - the source of $1.5 billion in annual aid, most of it to the Egyptian military - have been strained in the three years since the overthrow of Mubarak.Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy is currently on an official visit to the United States, describing it as a trip to "redirect relations between Egypt and America".The United States froze some of its military aid to Egypt last October following Mursi's overthrow and the state's violent crackdown on his supporters.Last week, Washington said it would deliver 10 attack helicopters to help the government in its fight against Islamist militants in the Sinai Peninsula. Monday's rulings can be appealed. Many defendants are on the run.Nevertheless, the cases have raised new questions about Egypt's stumbling political transition three years after an army-backed popular uprising ousted Mubarak and raised hopes of a robust democracy.The political turmoil that has gripped Egypt and an Islamist insurgency based in the Sinai have hammered the economy, which grew by a meager 2.1 percent last year."In a month, Egypt sentences more people to death than the rest of the world combined. It is not the kind of news to rekindle confidence," Angus Blair, chairman of business and economic forecasting think-tank Signet, wrote on his Twitter feed.
PRO-DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT BANNED
As soon as word spread of the death sentences, relatives of the defendants screamed and cried outside the court in the town of Minya."This is a corrupt government. This is a failed regime. We have no real police. We have no real state," said Sabah Hassan, whose son was sentenced to death.Others collapsed on the street as soldiers with AK-47 assault rifles standing on an armored vehicle looked on.Relatives blamed Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the general who deposed Mursi. The former head of military intelligence under Mubarak is expected to easily win presidential elections on May 26-27 in a country long ruled by men from the military, Mursi's time in office representing the rare exception."Sisi is ruling like a king" and "May God punish you for what you did" some people chanted.Authorities have extended a crackdown to secular activists.A ruling on Monday banning the activities of the April 6 movement follows the imprisonment of three of its leading members last year on charges of protesting illegally.The charges against April 6 included "damaging the image of the state".Authorities still see the Brotherhood as the most dangerous threat. Egypt's biggest political party until last year, the Brotherhood has been outlawed and driven underground.It has vowed to bring down the government through protests, despite a security campaign that has weakened a movement believed to have about one million supporters in the nation of 85 million.Despite decades of repression under one Egyptian ruler after another, the Brotherhood has managed to survive, winning over Egyptians with its social networks and charities.The judge who handed down the death sentences, Saeed Yousef, has a history of imposing the maximum punishment. In one case, he sentenced someone to 30 years in jail on charges of shoplifting clothes and illegal possession of a knife.He is not always tough on defendants. Last year, Yousef acquitted a police chief and 10 policemen accused of killing 17 protesters during the revolt that ousted Mubarak.(Reporting by Yasmine Saleh; Writing by Michael Georgy; editing by Ralph Boulton)
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS-10 WORLD REGIONS/TRADE BLOCS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS-10 WORLD DIVISION WORLD GOVERNMENT) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(TAKE OVER 3 WORLD REGIONS)
Verhofstadt calls for more integration in bid for Commission top job
Today @ 09:10-APR 28,14-EUOBSERVER-By Benjamin Fox
BRUSSELS - Liberal candidate Guy Verhofstadt set out his stall to be the next European Commission President on Friday (25 April) by demanding a "decisive step in the European integration as the fuel for new growth in Europe".At a press conference in Brussels, Verhofstadt set out a platform including the creation of an EU energy union, project bonds to finance infrastructure and investment, and a common EU integration policy."We need a single energy market, not only because of the crisis in Ukraine but to be competitive again," he said. "We need to use the European Union's advantage of scale and integrated markets as an engine for growth."Under the Lisbon Treaty, EU leaders are required to 'take account' of May's European parliament elections when selecting a candidate to head the Commission.With the centre-right European People's party (EPP) and Europe's Socialists both likely to win between 200 and 220 of the 751 seats in the European Parliament, leaving both their respective candidates, Jean Claude Juncker and Martin Schulz, well short of a majority, Verhofstadt is hoping that he could emerge as a compromise candidate.Verhofstadt, who currently leads the liberal (Alde) group in the European Parliament, accused Europe's conservatives of "irresponsible" complacency and socialists of believing "that it is possible to spend ourselves out of the crisis, denying that we have already huge debts and that these debts are at the origin of our problems".During his nine year stint as prime minister of Belgium, Verhofstadt himself was vetoed by UK prime minister Tony Blair as being too federalist when touted as a possible chief of the EU executive in 2004. Jose Manuel Barroso, the current President, got the job instead.Verhofstadt attempted to play down the perception that he would bid to increase the EU's powers, remarking that "it is not my ambition to decide the internal order of nation states". Verhofstadt's pitch for greater EU integration goes against the grain of a campaign that has so far been dominated by populist, and often eurosceptic parties, from both the right and the left.Opinion polls suggest that Verhofstadt's centrist group is set to suffer heavy losses at May's elections. Research by Pollwatch, which puts together voting intentions from the EU's 28 countries to produce a pan-EU poll, put the ALDE group on around 60 seats, down from the 83 MEPs it has in the current Parliament.Its two largest delegations, the UK Liberal Democrats and German Free Democrats, are both expected to lose most of their seats.However, although Verhofstadt's group of MEPs is likely to be outnumbered by the far-right, as well as the EPP and socialists, it is likely to retain its position as the third largest group in the EU's elected assembly, leaving the group as possible 'kingmakers'."I am optimistic we can avoid an institutional paralysis," Verhofstadt commented, although he warned that "if there's no majority in the parliament, then no one gets to be European Commission president." MEPs have the final vote on who becomes Commission President.The first of several televised debates between the candidates will take place on Monday (28 April) in Maastricht.
Volunteers quietly help families of ferry's lost-By HYUNG-JIN KIM and JUNG-YOON CHOI 3 hours ago-APR 28,14-YahooNews
JINDO, South Korea (AP) — The mother, slightly drunk, sits on the edge of a windblown dock and wails. A Buddhist monk approaches and wipes the tears from her face as she pours out her grief and longing for her missing son. He leads her away from the dock's edge and, as she weeps, chants Buddhist scriptures and sounds a wooden gong in a prayer for her son's return."They are really suffering," said the monk, Bul Il, who came from the southeastern port city of Busan to help the families of the more than 100 still missing in the sunken South Korean ferry. "It's painful for me to watch their misery," he said, his face peeling and red from long chants on a platform facing the sea.Bul Il is one member of an impromptu city that has sprung up at this normally sleepy port for the families of those lost in the disaster. The city runs on the kindness of strangers.A sense of national mourning over a tragedy that will likely result in more than 300 deaths, most of them high school students, has prompted an outpouring of volunteers. More than 16,000 people — about half the island's normal population — have come to help.They handle much of the care that relatives of the missing receive in Jindo as they wait for divers to retrieve the bodies of their loved ones from the wreckage of the ferry Sewol.Some scrub toilets and bathroom floors at the gym where families sleep, keeping the amenities practically spotless. A man walks with a huge sign that says "I will wash clothes for you."They cook huge pots of hot kimchi soup, distribute blankets, towels and toiletries, pick up trash and sweep the grounds. Turkish volunteers offer kebabs, turning on spits. One truck distributes homemade tofu, another pizza.Cab drivers from Ansan, where the high school students who make up more than 80 percent of the missing and dead were from, provide free rides to and from Jindo, a five-hour drive that would normally run up a fare of 280,000 won ($270)."It's time to help those who are mourning. Giving up several days of work is nothing," driver Ahn Dae-soo said.Lim Jang-young, a 58-year-old owner of a Japanese restaurant, came to Jindo from the southern city of Daejeon to cook traditional beef soup for family members, other volunteers and journalists. He temporarily closed his restaurant to come help because he said he can't focus on his business while he worries about the victims and their families.A man who was eating his soup "showed me a picture of a girl, his daughter, and started crying. I couldn't resist crying with him," said Lim, a father of three.Hundreds of people, many from aid groups, private companies, churches and other organizations, mostly wearing green and blue clothing, pack roads lined with white tents near Paengmok port and a gym on the island, offering soup, kimchi, rice, hamburgers, taxi services, cellphone battery charging, laundry services, medicine, energy drinks, psychiatric help and daily necessities like underwear, socks, nail clippers, cotton swabs and toothbrushes.Park Seung-ki, a spokesman for the government task force, said Sunday that more than 16,200 people have come on their own or with nearly 730 organizations. About 690,000 aid items such as food, bottled water, blankets and clothes have also arrived in Jindo since the sinking, Park said.Volunteers say they're asked to refrain from "provoking" family members and to avoid smiling, taking commemorative photos or starting conversations. Volunteers are also asked to be patient even if victims' relatives become angry, according to a civic organization tasked with handling volunteers.Lee Sung-tae, secretary general for the civic organization, says people 23 or younger are often not allowed to volunteer because of worries they may remind family members, mostly parents of missing high school students, of their own children. Older volunteers who happen to look young are given work that keeps them away from the families of the missing students. Lee said his organization is now asking groups to stay away because there are already too many volunteers.Kim Byung-jo, 52, and Kim Yong-su, 46, drove 2 1/2 hours from the southern city of Suncheon to clean toilets and shower rooms at a gym where the families, both men and women, sleep on mattresses under bright fluorescent lights."It's totally different from when I watched this on TV," said Kim Yong-su, a trailer driver. "I've become really solemn. I can't really express how I'm feeling."There is a makeshift chapel and a makeshift Buddhist temple.Donated materials in the gymnasium — peach and pink blankets, bright green jackets and blue vests — add color to the scene, but it is still a place awash in grief and frustration.Exhausted relatives sit with shell-shocked expressions, staring blankly at the ever growing list of bodies. In tents near the port, they sit on blankets and mattresses, watching TV news programs about search efforts. They eat at long tables and benches under tents in near total silence. The gymnasium holds hundreds of people but is mostly as quiet as a library. Sometimes there are howls of anger when a government official visits or cries of agony when a family identifies a body.It does not matter to the volunteers that the families do not brim with gratefulness for their work. They want to do more to ease their pain.Ahn, the cab driver, said the word "heavy-hearted" is not enough to describe what it's like to drive home parents who have just identified their child's body."In the five hours of driving there's a complete silence," he said. "Who can say anything in that situation?"A well-known psychiatrist, Jung Hye-shin, came to Jindo to help counsel families, though she told her nearly 150,000 followers on Twitter that she hasn't talked to any because they're not ready for counseling. But she observed the volunteers in Jindo."The Catholic undertaker volunteers were wiping the fingers and toes of the kids, ever so gently and carefully, as if they were bathing a baby," she tweeted of the work to clean corpses. "In the end, the kids became pretty again. I'm glad they met adults that they could be thankful to before leaving this world."___Choi reported from Seoul. Associated Press writer Gillian Wong contributed to this report.
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)
THE FIRST JUDGEMENT OF THE EARTH STARTED WITH WATER-IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THE LAST GENERATION WILL BE HAVING FLOODING
GENESIS 7:6-12
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
GOD PROMISED BY A RAINBOW-THE EARTH WOULD NEVER BE DESTROYED TOTALLY WITH A FLOOD AGAIN.BUT FLOODIING IS A SIGN OF JUDGEMENT.
At least 17 killed as tornadoes rip through Arkansas, Oklahoma
By Suzi Parker 4 hours ago-APR 28,14-YahooNews
LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (Reuters) - Tornadoes ripped through the south-central United States on Sunday, killing at least 17 people in Arkansas and Oklahoma and wiping out entire neighborhoods, authorities said as rescue workers searched in darkness for survivors.Winds ripped houses off their foundations and flipped cars on top of the rubble in the small town of Vilonia in central Arkansas' Faulkner county, one of the worst-hit communities, television pictures showed.Arkansas authorities said at least 10 people had died in Faulkner and six more across the state - the first reported fatalities of this year's tornado season. Another person was killed in neighboring Oklahoma, said the sheriff's department.Searchers were continuing to dig through rubble in Vilonia and a spokesman for the County Sheriff's office said there was a "mass casualty situation"."An entire neighborhood of 50 or so homes has been destroyed. Many homes are completely gone except the foundation ... There is more devastation like this in other parts of Arkansas," state congressman Tim Griffin told Reuters.Cable television's Weather Channel showed videotape of mangled, overturned cars, some with people still inside, lining miles of Interstate 40 near Mayflower, 22 miles northwest of state capital Little Rock.Motorists searched crushed vehicles for victims while others stood dazed on the road. Authorities closed the route.A tornado hit the east side of Mayflower at around 7.30 pm, killing at least one person, tearing up trees and bringing down power lines, making it difficult for the emergency services to find stricken areas in the dark, officials there said."It's extremely hazardous here right now," said Will Elder, an alderman in the city. "The power lines are down, roads are blocked and they will have to proceed with caution."The Arkansas National Guard was deployed to help out in the state.The Arkansas Department of Emergency Management said on its website 10 deaths had been reported in Faulkner, five in Pulaski county and one in White county.At least one other person was killed in a tornado in the small town of Quapaw, in the northeast corner of neighboring Oklahoma, according to Ottawa County Sheriff's Department spokesman Derek Derwin.That twister was spotted in the town 200 miles northeast of Oklahoma City at about 5:45 p.m., according to the weather service.Media and the National Weather Service reported that two people were killed.Overnight tornado watches and warnings were announced in several parts of Arkansas, Tennessee and Mississippi.(Additional reporting by Brendan O'Brien in Milwaukee and Kevin Murphy in Kansas City, Missouri; Writing by Dan Whitcomb, Brendan O'Brien and Chris Michaud; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore and Andrew Heavens)
DISEASES
REVELATION 6:7-8
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).
Survivors of Ebola face second 'disease': stigma-By BOUBACAR DIALLO and SARAH DiLORENZO APR 28,14-YahooNews
CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — The doctor has beaten the odds and survived Ebola, but he still has one more problem: The stigma carried by the deadly disease.Even though he is completely healthy, people are afraid to come near him or to have anything to do with him.For example, the man was supposed to give an interview on Guinean radio to describe his triumphant tale. But the station would not allow him into the studio."We'd prefer he speak by phone from downstairs," the station's director told a representative of Doctors Without Borders, while the survivor waited outside in a car. "I can't take the risk of letting him enter our studio."The Ebola outbreak in West Africa has claimed more than 145 lives so far. More than 240 people, mostly in Guinea, are suspected of having caught the illness, which causes horrific suffering, including bursting blood vessels and bleeding from ears and other orifices. There is no vaccine, no treatment and the disease is almost always fatal.But a handful of the infected do survive. About 30 patients have survived in Guinea so far, according to Doctors Without Borders. Liberia has not recorded any cases of survival.Unfortunately for the lucky few, the stink of stigma lingers long after the virus has been purged from their bodies."Thanks be to God, I am cured. But now I have a new disease: the stigmatization that I am a victim of," said the Guinean doctor, who spoke to The Associated Press but refused to give his name for fear of further problems the publicity would cause him and his family. "This disease (the stigma) is worse than the fever."Several other people who survived the disease refused to tell their stories when contacted by the AP, either directly or through Doctors Without Borders.Sam Taylor, the Doctors Without Borders spokesman who had taken the doctor to the radio station, confirmed that the man had been infected and survived.The doctor believes he caught Ebola while caring for a friend and colleague who died in Conakry, Guinea's capital. At the time, he said, he did not know that his friend had Ebola.Shortly after his friend's death, the doctor got a headache and came down with an intractable fever. And then the vomiting and diarrhea began."I should have died," the doctor said, but he responded to care, which includes intensive hydration, and unlike most other Ebola patients, he lived.Surviving Ebola is a matter of staying alive long enough to have the chance to develop enough antibodies to fight off the virus, said David Heymann, a professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.That's because it's typically the symptoms of Ebola — severe fever, hemorrhaging, dehydration, respiratory problems — that kills a patient.Even though he has been cleared of Ebola, the doctor says that people avoid him."Now, everywhere in my neighborhood, all the looks bore into me like I'm the plague," he said. People leave places when he shows up. No one will shake his hand or eat with him. His own brothers are accusing him of putting their family in danger.Stigma often accompanies the spread of deadly, poorly understood diseases, said Meredith Stakem, a health and nutrition adviser for Catholic Relief Services in West Africa, noting that the terrified reaction to Ebola recalls the early days of the HIV epidemic.Ebola may incite an even more severe reaction because health workers responding to it wear head-to-toe protective gear that look like space suits, Stakem noted.In this outbreak, the homes of some of the infected in Liberia have been attacked and Doctors Without Borders briefly abandoned a clinic in Guinea that was targeted.The families of those who die from Ebola face similar problems.Aziz Soumah, who lives in a suburb of the Guinean capital of Conakry, said his family was forced to move after his brother died, apparently from Ebola."I went to pray at the mosque. As soon as I entered, all the worshippers left the mosque," recounted Soumah, a 30-year-old engineer. "I was alone. No one around me."International health organizations are doing extensive community outreach to explain how the disease is transmitted — only through direct contact with the bodily fluids of symptomatic people — and to explain that those cured are no longer contagious.The most powerful tool to combat stigma is the way health care workers treat a discharged patient, said Corinne Benazech, the representative in Guinea for Doctors Without Borders in Guinea."The patient never leaves alone," she said of when Ebola survivors leave their isolation wards, and health care workers individually shake hands with the survivor.Discharged patients receive a certificate from the minister of health that states they are no longer contagious, said Tom Fletcher, an infectious disease physician with the World Health Organization who is working in Guinea. However, the virus may linger in a male patient's semen, so men are given a three-month supply of condoms, he added.The Guinean doctor was treated for about a week before he was declared cured. Fletcher said that's typical for the miraculous few: "These people should be celebrated, really, as opposed to stigmatized."___DiLorenzo reported from Dakar, Senegal. Jonathan Paye-Layleh in Monrovia, Liberia, contributed to this report.
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
34 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2014-04-28 09:57:20 UTC-04:00Showing event times using Local System Time (UTC-04:00)34 earthquakes in map area
5.3 Southwest Indian Ridge 2014-04-28 08:43:52 UTC-04:00 14.4 km
3.0 8km ESE of Medford, Oklahoma 2014-04-28 08:00:18 UTC-04:00 2.9 km
4.7 225km SE of Lambasa, Fiji 2014-04-28 07:59:53 UTC-04:00 524.9 km
4.4 72km WSW of Puerto Madero, Mexico 2014-04-28 04:55:30 UTC-04:00 60.9 km
2.6 8km S of Big Bear Lake, California 2014-04-28 04:23:29 UTC-04:00 13.5 km
2.6 74km NNE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2014-04-28 03:31:10 UTC-04:00 35.0 km
4.3 153km S of Bambanglipuro, Indonesia 2014-04-28 03:27:37 UTC-04:00 44.8 km
4.4 96km N of Tobelo, Indonesia 2014-04-28 03:25:06 UTC-04:00 76.4 km
4.7 215km WNW of Farallon de Pajaros, Northern Mariana Islands 2014-04-326.0 km
4.3 143km S of Bambanglipuro, Indonesia 2014-04-28 01:38:47 UTC-04:00 35.0 km
4.5 152km S of Bambanglipuro, Indonesia 2014-04-28 01:20:40 UTC-04:00 27.5 km
4.9 86km NNW of Iquique, Chile 2014-04-28 00:59:36 UTC-04:00 31.7 km
4.9 80km NE of Enarotali, Indonesia 2014-04-28 00:49:33 UTC-04:00 66.9 km
3.1 3km ESE of Perry, Oklahoma 2014-04-28 00:38:38 UTC-04:00 5.0 km
4.7 111km ENE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Russia 2014-04-28 00:37:17 71.3 km
2.6 5km W of Shasta Lake, California 2014-04-28 00:15:56 UTC-04:00 28.2 km
4.6 82km WSW of Iquique, Chile 2014-04-27 22:47:28 UTC-04:00 12.8 km
3.2 44km SW of Talkeetna, Alaska 2014-04-27 22:33:17 UTC-04:00 47.7 km
3.2 4km SE of Stillwater, Oklahoma 2014-04-27 22:26:41 UTC-04:00 4.0 km
2.5 33km S of Ridgecrest, California 2014-04-27 21:23:22 UTC-04:00 8.6 km
5.6 147km NNW of Burgos, Philippines 2014-04-27 20:43:51 UTC-04:00 10.0 km
4.9 88km WNW of Iquique, Chile 2014-04-27 20:09:37 UTC-04:00 16.2 km
3.1 29km SE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2014-04-27 18:32:26 UTC-04:00 132.0 km
4.7 83km NNW of Luwuk, Indonesia 2014-04-27 18:09:17 UTC-04:00 33.6 km
3.7 50km ENE of Yunaska Island, Alaska 2014-04-27 17:35:34 UTC-04:00 60.9 km
2.8 67km SSW of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska 2014-04-27 17:10:58 UTC-04:00 100.0 km
2.6 1km ESE of Mammoth Lakes, California 2014-04-27 16:28:42 UTC-04:00 7.7 km
4.7 113km SW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea 2014-04-27 14:10:47 UTC-04:00 77.6 km
2.8 6km NNE of Langston, Oklahoma 2014-04-27 12:46:57 UTC-04:00 7.5 km
5.2 175km WSW of Tual, Indonesia 2014-04-27 12:23:06 UTC-04:00 81.5 km
2.8 40km NW of Valdez, Alaska 2014-04-27 12:16:18 UTC-04:00 28.2 km
5.1 91km NE of Kurumkan, Russia 2014-04-27 11:13:54 UTC-04:00 10.0 km
4.1 87km W of Iquique, Chile 2014-04-27 10:45:58 UTC-04:00 17.6 km
2.6 9km SSW of Cave Junction, Oregon 2014-04-27 10:44:16 UTC-04:00 35.2 km
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