JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.
1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
ISAIAH 33:8
8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant,(7 YR TREATY) he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.(THE WORLD LEADER-WAR MONGER CALLS HIMSELF GOD)
JERUSALEM DIVIDED
GENESIS 25:20-26
20 And Isaac was forty years old (A BIBLE GENERATION NUMBER=1967 + 40=2007+) when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
21 And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
22 And the children (2 NATIONS IN HER-ISRAEL-ARABS) struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD.
23 And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels;(ISRAEL AND THE ARABS) and the one people shall be stronger than the other people;(ISRAEL STRONGER THAN ARABS) and the elder shall serve the younger.(LITERALLY ISRAEL THE YOUNGER RULES (ISSAC)(JACOB-LATER NAME CHANGED TO ISRAEL) OVER THE OLDER ARABS (ISHMAEL)(ESAU)
24 And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.
25 And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.(THE OLDER AN ARAB)
26 And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob:(THE YOUNGER-ISRAELI) and Isaac was threescore (60) years old when she bare them.(1967 + 60=2027)(COULD BE THE LAST GENERATION WHEN JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AMOUNG THE 2 TWINS)(THE 2 TWINS WANT JERUSALEM-THE DIVISION OF JERUSALEM TODAY)(AND WHOS IN CONTROL OF JERUSALEM TODAY-THE YOUNGER ISSAC-JACOB-ISRAEL)(AND WHO WANTS JERUSALEM DIVIDED-THE OLDER,ESAU-ISHMAEL (THE ARABS)
ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
Abbas: No peace without defining borders-In a televised address on final day of nine-month negotiations, Abbas lays out his conditions to continue talks-By AFP April 29, 2014, 4:16 pm 12-The Times of Israel
RAMALLAH — There can be no peace with Israel without first defining the borders of a future Palestinian state, president Mahmoud Abbas said on Tuesday.“Since the creation of Israel, nobody knows what the borders are. We are determined to know our borders and theirs; without that there will be no peace,” he said as Washington’s nine-month deadline for reaching a peace deal expired, leaving the process in tatters.In a televised address, Abbas laid out his conditions for returning to the crisis-hit peace talks with Israel which have made no progress since they were launched on July 29 last year.“If we want to extend the negotiations, there has to be a release of prisoners… a settlement freeze, and a discussion of maps and borders for three months.”The peace talks hit a major stumbling block in late March after Israel refused to comply with a commitment to release 26 veteran Palestinian prisoners, prompting Abbas to resume moves to seek international recognition.Abbas has repeatedly insisted that Israel release the two dozen detainees plus hundreds more and agree to a freeze on settlement activity.He has also demanded comprehensive talks on the issue of borders.
Israel pushes ahead with Palestinian sanctions-In light of Hamas-Fatah unity, sources say -Jerusalem will begin using taxes it collects on PA’s behalf to offset Ramallah’s debts-By Times of Israel staff April 29, 2014, 1:17 am 11-The Times of Israel
Israel has begun using tax money it collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority to pay off existing Palestinian debts, according to senior officials who spoke to Israeli media outlets Monday night.An unidentified Israeli official who spoke to Walla News said Jerusalem had embarked on the economic “punishing steps” that were agreed to by the cabinet following last week’s announcement of a reconciliation pact between Hamas and Fatah.He said the PA had been informed of the move, which he claimed was “only a first step.”A senior Palestinian official who spoke on condition of anonymity to Ynet Monday confirmed that Jerusalem had informed Ramallah over the weekend that the Israeli government would begin to use tax funds collected on behalf of the PA to offset debts owed by the PA to Israel at the end of the current month. The PA notably owes about 1 billion shekels ($285 million) to the Israel Electric Company.The government is now considering additional sanctions against the PA, including the revocation of VIP access documents for certain Palestinian officials. Such access passes allow the officials to travel relatively freely through Israel, the West Bank and Gaza.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel will be looking for alternative paths toward peace with the Palestinians, and insisted that he will not negotiate with any Palestinian government that is backed by Hamas.If a negotiated peace proves impossible because of the makeup of the Palestinian government, “then we will seek other ways,” Netanyahu told CNN. “I am not going to accept a stalemate. I won’t accept another Palestinian state that is an Iranian offshoot of Iran, firing missiles in our cities… But I do seek a two states for two peoples solution. If I can’t have it right away with this Palestinian government, then we will seek other ways.”The current round of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, which was set to expire Tuesday, was suspended by Jerusalem last Thursday after Hamas and Fatah agreed a day earlier to form a unity government within five weeks and hold subsequent elections.
Netanyahu cancels meeting on settlement construction-Officials say move is tied to maintaining stance that Palestinian Authority is responsible for talks stalemate-By Marissa Newman April 29, 2014, 5:29 pm 0-The Times of Israel
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructed Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon Tuesday to cancel a hearing on settlement construction scheduled for the following day.The directive coincided with the deadline for the US-mediated peace, amid concerns that should renewed construction be pushed forward, the blame for the collapse of the negotiations would be pinned on Israel, officials told Army Radio.“We are making great efforts to convince the world that [PA President Mahmoud Abbas] rejects peace, [and] embraces Hamas,” an unnamed official said. “This is a strong card, and it would be wrong to squander this [opportunity]. An announcement on construction now could shift public opinion against us in a second.”However, Avi Roeh, chairman of the Yesha Council, an umbrella movement of Jewish settlers, said he was not informed of the decision to push off the discussion indefinitely.“They didn’t tell us anything,” he told the radio station. Roeh claimed that with regard to such decisions, the West Bank council heads were kept in the dark “because no one includes us: not in the negotiations, and not in these discussions, and not in other discussions.”“I call on the prime minister to summon us and explain the process,” he said.The Civil Administration, tasked with overseeing the West Bank, declared 28,000 dunam (6,900 acres) in 40 strategic areas in the West Bank as state land last year, Haaretz reported Tuesday.The approvals were granted by the Blue Line task force, established by the Civil Administration in 1999 to reevaluate the demarcations of state land. During the 1980s, then-head of the administration Plia Albek designated nearly 1 million dunam (247,000 acres) as state land. The Blue Line task force is investigating all of the approvals granted then that were deemed hastily given and imprecise.The approvals pave the way for settlements to apply to build on the allotted plots. Many of them are adjacent to existing West Bank settlements, the largest of which is a 3,476-dunam (858 acres) bloc near Ariel. Other areas are close to the Green Line, which could prove a tactical measure to expand the contours of Israel.Of the recently approved lands, 22,058 dunams are within settlement parameters, and 3,700 include areas that have been developed illegally, but would now be recognized under Israeli law.However, while the reconsideration of state lands seemingly aids further construction, settlers have complained that the tedious process, under which all construction must first seek higher civil administration permissions, stymies construction.In a report published Tuesday morning, the left-wing watchdog Peace Now claimed that during the nine months of US Secretary of State John Kerry’s orchestrated negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, the Israeli government approved tenders and plans for at least 13,851 apartments in the settlements and East Jerusalem.“This is an unprecedented number representing an average of 50 housing units per day, or 1,540 per month,” the group said.Jerusalem did not commit to freezing settlement construction during the negotiations when talks were announced nine months ago in July, though it has been a key Palestinian demand.Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
With peace talks stalled, sides resort to old moves-Palestinians will now focus on winning international recognition; for Israel, it’s back to shunning the Palestinian leadership-By Ben Sales April 29, 2014, 6:44 am 2-The Times of Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Nine months of negotiations were supposed to propel Israelis and Palestinians into a future of peace. Instead, the collapse of talks is threatening to make the future look much like the past.Israel’s decision last week to suspend negotiations — a day after the signing of a reconciliation between the Fatah faction of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas — has prompted both sides to resort to their old ways.For the Palestinians, that means focusing on internal unity and a redoubled effort to win international recognition for statehood, particularly at the United Nations. For Israel, it’s a return to shunning the Palestinian political leadership.“If the Palestinian Authority persists with efforts to reunite with Hamas, that is not only a game changer,” Michael Oren, Israel’s former ambassador to the United States, told JTA. “It is a game stopper.”After weeks in which they teetered on the brink of failure, peace negotiations finally stalled April 23 when Fatah agreed to form a unified Palestinian government with Hamas, the ruling power in Gaza considered a terrorist organization by the United States, Israel and the European Union.The two groups split after violent clashes in 2007. Three previous reconciliation deals — in 2007, 2011 and 2012 — have gone unimplemented.Israel responded to the reconciliation agreement as it had to earlier ones, declaring that it would not negotiate with Hamas and announcing economic sanctions against the Palestinian Authority. On April 24, Israel suspended the peace negotiations, five days before their initial nine-month term was set to expire.“Instead of choosing peace, Abu Mazen formed an alliance with a murderous terrorist organization that calls for the destruction of Israel,” said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, referring to Abbas by his nom de guerre. “Whoever chooses the terrorism of Hamas does not want peace.”Israel and the United States have called on Hamas to recognize Israel, commit to nonviolence and abide by previous Israeli-Palestinian agreements — three conditions that have guided negotiations for a decade. But on Sunday, Hamas officials vowed never to recognize Israel.Palestinian officials nevertheless moved to downplay the significance of the unity accord on the peace process, noting that an interim government set to be formed in the coming weeks would be made up of technocrats, not political figures aligned with Fatah or Hamas. Munib al-Masri, a Palestinian industrialist who served as a Fatah delegate to the reconciliation talks, told JTA that Abbas would continue to manage negotiations should they go on.
“All parties will abide by President Abbas regarding the political agenda,” al-Masri said. “The most important thing is to have one voice for the Palestinians.”Despite such hopes, Israel remains deeply wary of Hamas’ intentions. Naftali Bennett, chairman of the pro-settler Jewish Home party, said in a Facebook post that the PA has now become “the biggest terror group in the world” and vowed not to negotiate with murderers. Prior to the unity deal, Bennett had compared peace talks with Abbas to buying a car from someone who owns only half of it.With prospects for a peace accord receding, several Israeli politicians urged the government to respond by unilaterally settings its own borders. Bennett has encouraged Netanyahu to annex all areas of the West Bank that contain Jewish settlements. Oren argued that Israel should withdraw to a frontier it sets, creating a de facto Palestinian state.“What are the borders that give us the maximum amount of security and embrace the maximum number of Israelis?” Oren told JTA. “There are people on all sides of the Israeli political spectrum that have considered the necessity of taking our destiny into our own hands.”Al-Masri said that absent direct negotiations, Abbas will turn again to various UN bodies for recognition, as he did in 2012 when the General Assembly accepted Palestine as a non-member observer state. Israeli analysts said such diplomatic pressure will have little impact on the ground.“Their position in the UN doesn’t mean anything,” said Avraham Diskin, an emeritus professor of political science at Hebrew University. “Life is one thing and declarations are another.”Given the failure of previous attempts at Palestinian unity, experts are doubtful that the latest pact will succeed, not least because Hamas likely will not agree to hand over its weaponry and soldiers to Fatah control.“They’re talking about a technocracy so they won’t have to split the pie between them,” Mordechai Kedar, an expert on Islamist groups at Bar-Ilan University. “They can’t agree on anything.”Netanyahu thus far has not responded to calls for unilateral action, but the collapse of negotiations means his governing coalition will hold for the moment. Jewish Home had threatened to leave had Netanyahu agreed to withdraw from much of the West Bank.Meanwhile, analysts were not expecting another wave of violence. Palestinian security cooperation with Israel has helped curb Hamas’ influence in the West Bank, but it’s unclear whether such coordination will continue if Palestinian reconciliation becomes a reality.Oren told JTA it was difficult to see how the Israel Defense Forces could continue to cooperate with the Palestinian Authority once the PA unites with Hamas.“The cooperation is about fighting Hamas,” he said. “How can the IDF fight Hamas with Palestinian security forces who serve under a government that includes Hamas?”
Palestinian deal will not make Hamas change: veteran leader-By Crispian Balmer and Nidal al-Mughrabi 27 minutes ago-APR 29,14-YahooNews-Head of Hamas security services Abu Sharekh speaks with senior Hamas leader Al-Zahar during a graduation ceremony for members of Hamas security forces in Gaza City
GAZA (Reuters) - A Palestinian unity deal will not lead Islamist group Hamas to recognize Israel's right to exist and will not result in any Gaza militants coming under President Mahmoud Abbas's control, a senior Hamas official said on Tuesday.Veteran Hamas strategist Mahmoud Al-Zahar told Reuters the group, which runs the Gaza Strip, was waiting for Abbas to form a unity government, but said the Palestinian leader was taking his time in an effort to overcome U.S. and Israeli opposition.Hamas, which is viewed as a terrorist group by many Western capitals, unexpectedly agreed with Abbas last week to lay aside old animosities and create a transitional cabinet paving the way to long-overdue elections across the Palestinian Territories.The reconciliation accord angered Israel, which promptly suspended floundering peace talks with the Western-backed Abbas, saying it would not negotiate with any administration backed by Hamas.Zahar, who is one of Hamas's most influential voices, said Abbas only decided to seek unity because the U.S.-driven negotiations were leading nowhere, but predicted he would take his time trying to assemble a government of technocrats."He is trying to overcome a great wave of pressure. We are waiting," said Zahar, adding that Hamas had already handed across lists of names of possible ministers.Hamas's elder statesman, who has had spiky relations with the group's leadership, said Abbas was using the unity deal to put heat on Israel, but that he was also worried by a U.S. threat to suspend hundreds of millions of dollars in vital aid."He is seeking a guarantee that U.S. financial support will continue," Zahar said, speaking from his well-guarded house. Looking to reassure Western allies, Abbas said the new government would recognize Israel and honor previous treaties. Zahar dismissed this as a hollow gesture, saying the ministers would be academics with no political authority."Abbas is not telling them the truth. He says 'this is my government'. But it is not his government. It is a government of national unity. He is marketing it in this way to minimize the pressure," said Zahar, who took part in the unity negotiations.Hamas leaders have said in the past that the movement could live peacefully alongside Israel if it wins a state on all Palestinian land occupied by Israel in 1967, although the Islamist group's 1988 founding charter calls for the destruction of Israel and for recovering all mandate Palestine. But it continues to say it will not recognize Israel officially.
ARMED WING
The unity pact follows a trail of previous, failed efforts to overcome the deep schism that has traumatized Palestinian politics. Agreed in just a few hours, it sidestepped one of the most sensitive issues - who would be in charge of security.Hamas's armed wing has some 20,000 men in its ranks. Abbas has his own, Western-trained forces, that often cooperate with Israeli troops and police in the nearby West Bank - a practice that Zahar called "shameful".Zahar said Hamas would remain in charge of its own troops regardless of the latest deal and irrespective of who won national elections, that are slated for later this year."Nobody will touch the security sections in Gaza. No one will be able to touch one person from the military group. Nobody asked for that," he said, sitting next to a photograph of one of two sons who were killed in Israeli attacks.Hamas won the last legislative elections held in the Palestinian Territories in 2006 and then seized control of Gaza after ousting forces loyal to Abbas a year later.It appeared to be on the ascendance when fellow-Islamists were elected to office in neighboring Egypt, but its fortunes crumpled following last year's military coup in Cairo, with the new army-backed rulers launching a fierce crackdown on Hamas.Hundreds of smuggling tunnels connecting Gaza to Egypt were destroyed, compounding an Israeli blockade on the Palestinian enclave, that restricts movement of goods and people.Zahar said divisions in Egypt were a "catastrophe" for the region. He also acknowledged that once deep ties with Iran had not fully recovered after Hamas had refused to back Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in his on-going civil war."We have a good relation (with Iran), but you know the impact of the Syrian problem is still a factor. ... The communication is not as it was," he said, declining to give details of Iranian funding for Hamas.Some political analysts said Hamas's international problems had spurred it towards reviving the reconciliation pact. But Zahar said Abbas, whose mandate expired five years ago, had made the overture because peace talks with Israel were at a dead end."He is very weak," said Zahar.Hamas has regularly clashed with Israel, fighting two major conflicts in 2008/09 and again in 2012. The last confrontation ended in a truce that resulted in months of relative quiet.Sporadic rocket fire out of Gaza and into Israel picked up at the start of the year, amid mutual recriminations over who was to blame for the truce deal fraying.However, Zahar said not all the missile attacks were sanctioned by Hamas, accusing some small groups of actively seeking to destabilize Gaza - including last week at the time the unity deal with Abbas was being concluded."Why when we signed the agreement did 20 dancing rockets go to Israel? It was not Hamas.... It was not done for Palestinian reasons. It was against Palestinian interests. Palestinian interests are to have this unity agreement," he said.(Editing by Angus MacSwan)
04/28/2014 - THE VATICAN INSIDER-C8 becomes C9 and sets to work on Curia dossier-Francis with the "C8" in Assisi-The Pope and the Vatican Secretary of State, Pietro Parolin, have been present at the meetings held by the Council of Cardinals which has started looking into the situation of the Pontifical Councils-andrea tornielli
vatican city-The day after the canonization of the two Popes, Francis’ group of eight cardinal advisors held a meeting in St. Martha’s House and set to work on the reform of the Roman Curia. The group which is referred to as the C8, might as well be called the C9 given that the Vatican Secretary of State, Pietro Parolin, also took part in today’s two meetings. Pope Francis obviously wants him to be directly involved in the process of reorganizing the Holy See’s dicasteries. Francis has also attended all of the Council’s meetings as a listener: he and the Secretary of State absented themselves only to attend the audience with the King and Queen of Spain.The Council of Cardinals which Bergloglio established exactly one month after his election, has the task of assisting him in the government of the universal Church and looking into a project for the revision of the “Pastor Bonus” , the Apostolic Constitution on the Roman Curia. During its morning and afternoon meetings, the Council began examining the situation and proposals for the reform of the Pontifical Councils. Each of the cardinals presented a summary of the material collected, to the other members of the group.Readers will recall that the issue of Curia reform had come to a halt in recent months because last February the Council of Cardinals focused their attention on the Vatican’s financial and economic affairs. The group made the proposal to establish the Secretariat of the Economy - the Vatican’s centralised “finance ministry” which oversees spending and personnel – its own. The proposal was presented by one of the commissions for reference. In February, the Council of Cardinals also addressed the issue of IOR reform after the commission of reference on the IOR presented its report.The Council’s meetings will go on until Wednesday evening. Another four-day session is expected to take place next July. This is when the cardinals will finish discussing their proposals. We will have to wait until then to find out which proposals will finally be presented to the Pope. So far, cardinals have discussed the possibility of merging some of the Pontifical Councils and introducing a new figure, the “moderator Curiae”, who would coordinate the work of the dicasteries. There is a strongly felt need to make sense of the numerous existing offices so as to cut the red tape and the Curia more efficient.The Pope’s Council of Cardinals is made up of the following eight members: Giuseppe Bertello (the only Italian and the only Curia member in the C8), Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa (the group’s only emeritus member), Oswald Gracias, Reinhard Marx (recently nominated coordinator of the Council for the Economy made up of cardinals and lay financial experts), Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, Sean Patrick O’Malley, George Pell (the former Archbishop of Sydney who was recently nominated “minister of the Economy”) and Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga. Maradiaga is also the group’s coordinator, while Albano Marcello Semeraro holds the position of secretary.
04/28/2014 - THE VATICAN INSIDER-Obama says new saints have changed the Church and the world-Barack Obama-Just 24 hours after the canonizations of John XXIII and John Paul II, the US President has issued a statement praising the two new saints-vatican insider staff
Rome-Emotions are still running high all over the world following the canonizations of Roncalli and Wojtyla: 24 hours after the canonization ceremony ended in the Vatican, the President of the United States, Barack Obama, issued a statement for the occasion, which reads: "Today, Michelle and I join Catholics from all over the world in celebrating the canonization of Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II. Their work and their testimony did not just change the Catholic Church, but the whole world.”“Pope John XXIII articulated powerful roles for the Church in the cause of global peace and justice, and by convening the Second Vatican Council he revolutionized not only aspects of worship but the Catholic Church’s relationship with other faith communities,” President Obama said in hi statement.“Pope John Paul II helped inspire the Solidarity movement in Poland, a movement that spread and eventually helped to end communism in Eastern Europe, and he spoke out forcefully against apartheid in South Africa and genocide in Rwanda. He had a special rapport with young people, drawing many of them to the Church’s work and teachings,” the president added.The canonization of the two Popes also gave President Obama a chance to pick up on the recent meeting he had with Pope Francis in the Vatican: “We celebrate these Saints and the leadership of His Holiness Pope Francis, and we look forward to continuing to work with Pope Francis and Catholics around the world to advance peace and justice for all people.”
THE DAY SUNDAY THAT CHANGED HISTORY.REVIEWED.
04/27/2014 - THE VATICAN INSIDER-The day of the four Popes is here and St. Peter’s Square is packed-CROWDS GATHER FOR THE DAY OF THE FOUR POPES=The “red zone” opened at 5:50 am. A million pilgrims are expected in the Vatican today. Pope Francis is concelebrating mass with Benedict XVI at 10 am-Iacopo Scaramuzzi
vatican city-The day of the double canonization of John XXIII and John Paul II is here. The mass Francis is going to be concelebrating with Benedict XVI begins at 10 am. The celebratory area opened to the public at 5:30. An hour later St. Peter’s Square was packed. One million people are expected to attend today’s ceremony.Pilgrims started queuing at the crack of dawn after the “white night of prayer” in churches across Rome, which opened especially for the occasion. Some pilgrims slept in sleeping bags. The “red zone”, the area around the Vatican that had been closed off to the public, remained out of bounds until 7 pm yesterday evening. Three passages on Via Conciliazione, Via Traspontina and Via San Pio X opened up at 5:30 this morning and the crowds were channeled into Via della Conciliazione. A line of young volunteers split pilgrims into groups to manage the influx of people. When St. Peter’s Square, Via della Conciliazione and the Castel Sant’Angelo gardens are full the plan is that the crowd will be diverted towards Via dei Fori Imperiali, Piazza Santa Maria Maggiore, Piazza Farnese and Piazza Navona. Seventeen giant screens have been installed across the city.According to figures offered by the municipality of Rome, there will be “at least five hundred thousand and at most one million pilgrims present, including tourists.” Two billion people across the world will be watching today’s ceremony on live television and in cinemas. There are twenty six thousand volunteers, ten thousand policemen and women helping out in Rome. Rome’s underground was open through the night, hotels were booked out yesterday through to today and 4362 bus parking spots have been allocated for 216 thousand people. There are seventy seven ambulances on the ready.Today is also Divine Mercy Sunday, a feast introduced by John Paul II. 150 cardinals, 1000 bishops and 6000 priests will be assisting in the canonization ceremony which should end at around midday.
EZEKIEL 12:25
25 For I am the LORD: I will speak,(PROPHECY) and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass;(LITERALLY) it shall be no more prolonged: will I say the word, and will perform it, saith the Lord GOD.(JESUS MAKES PROPHECIES COME TO PASS)
EZEKIEL 28:25-26
25 Thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered,(WORLD NATIONS) and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob.(ISRAEL)
26 And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence, when I have executed judgments upon all those that despise them round about them;(ARAB/MUSLUM NATIONS AROUND ISRAEL) and they shall know that I am the LORD their God.
MUSLIM NATIONS (SLAUGHTERED BY NUKES FOR COMING AGAINST ISRAEL)
PROVERBS 21:29-31
29 A wicked man hardeneth his face: but as for the upright, he directeth his way.
30 There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.
31 The horse is prepared against the day of battle: but safety is of the LORD.(FOR ISRAEL)
EXODUS 15:1-4
1 Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the LORD, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
2 The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt him.
3 The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name.
4 Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea.
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:TOBOLSK)
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY) of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.(AFRICAN MUSLIMS,SUDAN,TUNESIA ETC)
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages;(ISRAEL) I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil,(OIL IS IN SPOIL) and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
EZEKIEL 39:1-8,11-21
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back,(RUSSIA-ARAB MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS) and leave but the sixth part of thee,(5/6TH OR 300 MILLION DEAD RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS I BELIEVE) and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog (RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS) a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers (EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN JORDAN VALLEY) on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog (RUSSIAN) and all his multitude:(ARAB/MUSLIM HORDE) and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.(BURIEL SITE OF THE 300 MILLION,RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS)
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.(OF ISRAEL)
13 Yea, all the people of the land (OF ISRAEL) shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I (GOD-JESUS) shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment,(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB EXPERTS) passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
15 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it,(WON'T TOUCH IT) till the buriers have buried it (PROPERLY) in the valley of Hamongog.(RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS NEW BURIEL SITE)(EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN THE JORDAN VALLEY)
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.(OF THE ISRAEL-GOD HATERS)
17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl,(500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS THREW ISRAEL EVERY SPRING,FALL) and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.(OF THE RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ARMIES)
18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19 And ye (MIGRATING BIRDS IN ISRAEL) shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.(RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS)
20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
21 And I (GOD-JESUS) will set my glory among the heathen,(WORLD NATIONS) and all the heathen (WORLD NATIONS) shall see my judgment that I have executed,(AGAINST ISRAELS ENEMIES) and my (GODS) hand that I have laid upon them.(ISRAELS HATER ENEMIES)
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 blacklists 15 more Russian officials over Ukraine-Today @ 11:18-EUOBSERVER-EU ambassadors to expand Russia blacklist-By Valentina Pop
Brussels - The EU on Tuesday (29 April) added 15 more names to a travel ban list of Russian officials linked to events in eastern Ukraine, but unlike the US, it refrained from targeting businesses and trade with Russia.According to the legal text published in the Official Journal of the EU, "in view of the gravity of the situation" in eastern Ukraine 15 persons were added to the blacklist which so far contained 33 names.The move was co-ordinated with the US, which extended its own blacklist on Monday and added businessmen, companies and limited trade of military-use products with Russia.The most prominent on the list is the head of the Russian army, Valery Vasilevich Gerasimov, "responsible for the massive deployment of Russian troops along the border with Ukraine and lack of de-escalation of the situation."Six names on the EU list are linked to the annexation of Crimea: Dmitry Nikolayevich Kozak, a deputy Prime Minister "responsible for overseeing the integration of the annexed Autonomous Republic of Crimea into the Russian Federation" is listed together with Oleg Yevgenyvich Belaventsev, a Russian presidential envoy to Crimea and Oleg Genrikhovich Savelyev, the minister for Crimean affairs.Sergei Ivanovich Menyailo, acting governor of Sevastopol, the Crimean military port, is also on the list. So are two lawmakers involved in the annexation process: Ludmila Ivanovna Shvetsova and Sergei Ivanovich Neverov.Turning to eastern Ukraine, the EU blacklisted Igor Dmitrievich Sergun, the director of GRU intelligence service and a deputy chief of staff of the Russian armed forces, responsible for the activities of intelligence officers in eastern Ukraine.Igor Strelkov, a staff member of the same GRU intelligence service, is listed because he was involved in incidents in the eastern Ukrainian city of Sloviansk. He is also an assistant on security issues to Sergey Aksionov, the self-proclaimed prime-minister of Crimea.Five other persons are linked to the separatist movements in eastern Ukraine: German Prokopiv, leader of the "Lugansk Guard" which seized official buildings in Lugansk, Valeriy Bolotov, a retired officer and leader of another separatist group in Lugansk, the "Army of the south-east", as well as Andriy Purgin, head of the "Donetsk Republic", a self-proclaimed state-town.Denys Pushylin, another leader of the "Donetsk Republic" and spokesperson for the separatists is also listed together with Tsyplakov Sergey Gennadevich, leader of a local militia in Donbas active in the seizure of state buildings in the Donetsk region.President Vladimir Putin, however, is not on the list.He was spotted by a Russian photographer on Monday night as he was hugging former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder at his 70 birthday party organised in Moscow by an affiliate of Gazprom, Spiegel reports.
At least 51 killed in Syrian government-held areas-APR 29,14-YahooNews-Damaged vehicles are seen after mortar bombs landed on two areas in Damascus
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Car bombs and mortar attacks killed at least 51 people in Syrian government-held areas of Damascus and the central city of Homs on Tuesday, a day after President Bashar al-Assad declared he would seek re-election in June.Government forces have pushed back the mainly Sunni Muslim rebels seeking to topple Assad from many of their strongholds around Damascus, but residents say the insurgents have stepped up rocket and mortar attacks against the heart of the capital in recent weeks.Forces loyal to Assad, whose Alawite sect is an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam, are also in control of most of Homs. The attacks targeted Alawite and Shi'ite areas of the two cities.In Homs, at least 37 people including children were killed by twin car bombs near a busy roundabout in the Alawite neighborhood of Zahraa. A local security source put the death toll at 42.In central Damascus, two mortar shells struck an education complex in the mainly Shi'ite Muslim district of Shaghour, killing at least 14 people and wounding dozens.The state news agency SANA described the Badr el-Din Hussaini complex as a religious jurisprudence college, but residents said there were also primary and secondary school students there.SANA said 14 people had been killed and 86 wounded but the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the violence in Syria, put the death toll at 17.(Reporting by Dominic Evans and Mariam Karouny; Editing by Kevin Liffey)
Special Report - Golden Loophole: How an alleged Turkish crime ring helped Iran
APR 29,14-YahooNews--By Humeyra Pamuk, Steve Stecklow, Babak Dehghanpisheh and Can Sezer
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - In this city's Grand Bazaar, sellers along labyrinthine passageways hawk carpets, jewelry and souvenir knick-knacks to tourists.Turkish police believe that until recently, the area around the market also sat at the center of an audacious, multi-billion-dollar scheme involving bribery and suspect food shipments to Iran.To date, no one has been charged. But a recently leaked police report - which contains allegations of payments to top Turkish government officials including cash stuffed into shoeboxes - has added fuel to a growing corruption scandal that has shaken the highest levels of Turkey's political establishment.A review by Reuters of the report's 299 pages, as well as interviews with currency and precious metals dealers, offer colorful new details of how what police call a "crime organization" allegedly helped Iran exploit a loophole in the West's sanctions regime that for a time allowed the Islamic Republic to purchase gold with oil and gas revenues.While the gold trade was then legal, the police report alleges the purported crime network bribed officials in part so it could maintain control of the lucrative business.Then, when the West last July prohibited the gold trade as a sanctions violation, the police report alleges the network concocted records of shipments of food at preposterous volumes and prices to continue giving Iran access to foreign currency.The police report - which includes transcripts of wiretapped conversations and surveillance photographs - was prepared for prosecutors. Reuters confirmed its authenticity with Ekrem Aydiner, the current chief prosecutor in charge of the case.Turkey's Prime Minister, Tayyip Erdogan, has called the police investigation a foreign-orchestrated plot without legal merit. In recent months, Turkey's judiciary removed several prosecutors from the case. That has raised questions about whether Turkish law enforcement authorities will continue to pursue it. Aydiner said the matter remains under active investigation.In many ways the plot described in the police report resembles a made-for-TV crime series: A cop who is thought to have tipped off tax authorities finds himself transferred to a distant outpost by the Black Sea, a plane that arrives from Ghana carrying 1.5 metric tons of gold with no clear owner, and millions of dollars in payoffs to various officials to block rivals and gain valuable favors such as fast-track Turkish citizenship for members of the purported crime network and their families.The report presents a wealthy young businessman of Iranian descent named Reza Zarrab as the ringleader. Zarrab grew up in Turkey, holds citizenship, resides in a manor on the Bosphorus and goes by the Turkish name Riza Sarraf. He is well known on Istanbul's celebrity circuit, and is married to Turkish pop star Ebru Gundes, who is a judge on a popular television talent show. Following her husband's detention in December - he was released from jail two months later without being charged - she tearfully told viewers, "God willing, I hope these dark days will pass quickly."When Reuters reporters recently visited his residence, they were greeted by about a half-dozen security guards who said he was out of town. His attorney, Seyda Yildirim, later declined to comment.In an interview published on April 19 with Sabah, a Turkish newspaper, Zarrab said, "The trade I do is completely legal." He later said in an interview on Turkish television that he had helped to reduce the country's current account deficit.
GOLD RUSH
The police report states that its investigation found evidence of bribery, fraud and gold smuggling. Although not central to the police investigation, the West's economic sanctions on Iran provide the backdrop of the alleged scheme.As financial sanctions tightened in 2012, both Turkey and Iran had pressing needs: Turkey required oil and gas for its fast-growing economy, while Iran desperately needed hard currency to pay for new automobiles and other foreign imports.Under the sanctions - imposed by Washington and Brussels to contain Iran's nuclear ambitions - Turkey was permitted to purchase oil and gas from its neighbor. But it was required to pay in Turkish lira, a currency that is of limited value for buying goods on international markets. All payments were to be deposited in an Iranian bank account at Turkey's state-controlled Halkbank.In 2012, Turkey purchased from Iran more than $10 billion worth of oil and gas, according to Reuters' calculations based on data from Turkey's energy market regulation board and Turkish officials.One commodity that Iran was permitted to purchase with its money was gold. A veritable Turkish gold rush ensued with bullion shipped to Iran in everything from couriers' rucksacks to airplane cargo holds.Turkish gold exports to Iran exploded from one metric tons in 2011 to 125.8 metric tons in 2012, worth $6.5 billion, according to the Turkish statistical institute. Another 85 metric tons, worth $4.6 billion, were exported that year to the United Arab Emirates, a known transshipment point to Iran.The police report alleges that Zarrab and a network of companies he controlled were running much of the gold trade with Iran, sometimes via Dubai. "It is understood that, to overcome sanctions and move money to Iran, Riza Sarraf used Turkey as a stepping stone," the report states.To keep the business running smoothly, the report alleges, Zarrab's network paid bribes to Zafer Caglayan, Turkey's economy minister; Muammer Guler, the interior minister; Egemen Bagis, the European Union Affairs minister; and Suleyman Aslan, Halkbank's chief executive.All three ministers, who have since either resigned or been dropped from the cabinet, have denied wrongdoing; none have been charged. Caglayan declined to comment; Guler could not be reached for comment. Lawyers for Bagis and Aslan did not return calls seeking comment.Halkbank has denied violating any domestic or international laws. A spokesperson declined to answer questions but did say the bank is not under any investigation by Turkey's police or judiciary.According to the police report, many of the payoffs were allegedly picked up in a building on a row of jewelry dealers near the Grand Bazaar. Police also tracked the shipment of a Swiss watch the network allegedly gave to Caglayan, the economy minister, that cost about $340,000. Bagis, the EU Affairs minister, at one point allegedly received $500,000 cash delivered in a chocolate box, along with a silver plate. In an intercepted phone conversation about the plate, the report quotes Zarrab as telling an associate, "Don't make it too expensive."The report alleges that Aslan, the former head of Halkbank, and Caglayan received a percentage of the Iranian money transfers, resulting in bribes that totaled tens of millions of dollars. In December, police raided Aslan's house and seized $4.5 million stuffed in shoeboxes, according to local media reports. Aslan told police the cash was a charitable donation from various businessmen to build an Islamic school, the media reports said.The police report alleges the bribes bought the network perks such as reduced commissions from Halkbank for money transfers, authorization to drive along highway emergency lanes and assistance in preventing rivals from participating in the lucrative trade. One Istanbul gold and currency trader told Reuters, "I went to the bank about 18 months ago and tried to open an account, saying I wanted to sell goods to Iran and that I was going to pay via Halkbank. But they did not let me. There has been unfair competition in terms of using this bank."The bribes also secured the network police protection, the report alleges. Suspecting at one point that a local police officer had initiated a tax audit of some of Zarrab's companies, the interior minister arranged to have the officer transferred to Zonguldak, a Black Sea coastal town about 200 miles east of Istanbul, the report alleges. According to the report, a wiretap allegedly picked up Guler telling Zarrab that "we have sent him into exile."The network also allegedly received special assistance when, in January 2013, a plane carrying 1.5 metric tons of gold bullion arrived at Istanbul's Ataturk airport from Ghana without proper paperwork. The report cites wiretapped phone calls between Zarrab and Caglayan's office allegedly showing that Caglayan intervened at Zarrab's request to prevent customs officers from seizing the shipment. The cargo was held up for days, but ultimately released.The circumstances surrounding the Ghanaian gold shipment remain murky. An Iranian billionaire businessman named Babak Zanjani, who is accused by the United States and European Union of violating sanctions on Iranian oil, recently posted a statement on the website of his company, Sorinet Group, stating he was the original purchaser of the gold from Ghana. "This type of trade was completely legal," he wrote.Yet Zanjani boasted last year in an interview with Aseman, an Iranian magazine, of violating sanctions. "This is my work - sanctions-busting operations," he was quoted as saying. He is in jail in Tehran on charges of owing the government more than $2.7 billion from oil sales; he denies any wrongdoing.In the website posting, Zanjani said he had met Zarrab "a few times" but that they had not done any business together. Zarrab said in the television interview earlier this month he had met Zanjani twice, but "I am neither friends nor partners with him."
FAKE FOOD
Washington closed the gold loophole last July. In the television interview, Zarrab said he stopped trading gold and "shifted to food and medicine," which were still permitted. In a four-month period, he said, that trade totaled about $1.6 billion.But the police report alleges that some of the food shipments never actually took place, but consisted of counterfeit invoices submitted to Halkbank that should have raised plenty of red flags at the bank.The documentation included bills of lading that purportedly showed that cargoes "of 150,000 metric tons were being carried in vessels with a capacity of 5,000 tons," the report alleges.In another case, the report includes an alleged copy of an invoice for a shipment to Iran of about five metric tons of raw brown sugar. The cost? A whopping $250 a pound, more than a hundred times the market rate.The report also quotes from a wiretapped conversation with Zarrab in which an associate allegedly tells him about the food shipment records, "The documents we are giving are wrong. I mean, they are documents that do not exist in reality."Following their investigation, the police staged a series of raids and detained dozens of suspects in December. Later that month, one of the prosecutors on the probe was removed from the case. He accused police of refusing to comply with his orders to detain even more suspects. "Suspects have been allowed to take precautions, flee and tamper with the evidence," the prosecutor, Muammer Akkas, said in a statement to Turkish media. Reached by Reuters this month, he declined to comment.Aydiner, the new chief prosecutor on the case, said the detentions were just a precaution and that no suspects have been formally charged. "Of course, they are still under investigation," he said.Shortly after the December raids, two of the ministers who allegedly accepted bribes - Economy Minister Caglayan and Interior Minister Guler - resigned; Bagis, the EU Affairs minister, was replaced in a cabinet reshuffle.Aslan, the chief executive of Halkbank, left his job in February. He was recently named to the board of directors of a larger, state-owned bank.As part of a preliminary deal struck in November between Western powers and Iran, Tehran promised to scale back its nuclear development program in exchange for the suspension of certain economic sanctions. The deal, which took effect in January and is to last until July, includes allowing Iran to resume some gold trading.But there's no evidence that Turkey is benefiting. Some Istanbul traders say they are too jittery to sell gold to Iran. Gold exports have plummeted.(Additional reporting by Asli Kandemir in Istanbul and Gulsen Solaker in Ankara; Edited by Simon Robinson and Sara Ledwith)
ALL RIGHT THE CHURCH FIGHTS BACK FOR ITS RIGHTS TO NOT HAVE TO BE FORCED INTO MARRING GAYS (HOMOSEXUALS) (SODOMITE RAINBOW GROUPERS)
Clergy sue North Carolina over same-sex weddings, cite religious freedom
By Emily Harris -APR 29,14-YahooNews
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters) - A coalition of clergy members is challenging North Carolina's ban on same-sex marriages, filing the first lawsuit to claim such laws violate their religious freedom guaranteed by the U.S. constitution.Led by the United Church of Christ, a rabbi and ministers from Lutheran and Unitarian Universalist churches in the Charlotte area said they should not be penalized for following their faith.The lawsuit, filed in the Western District of North Carolina, is the first to attack same-sex marriage bans on the grounds of religious freedom under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the Cleveland- based United Church of Christ said.North Carolina law bars same-sex couples from receiving marriage licenses and makes it a misdemeanor, with a $200 fine, for clergy who perform a marriage ceremony without the license."We are taking a stand for the freedom of religion," said Reverend Geoffrey Black, president of the United Church of Christ at a news conference in suburban Charlotte.The event at the Holy Covenant United Church of Christ had a banner that read "Jesus didn't reject." The church is a Protestant denomination with nearly 1 million members nationwide.The lawsuit is among 66 challenges pending against state gay-marriage bans across the country, according to the Campaign for Southern Equality. Like the other lawsuits, the new case also claims the North Carolina law violates the 14th Amendment which guarantees equal protection and due process.Seventeen U.S. states and the District of Columbia allow same-sex couples to marry. That number would increase if federal court rulings striking down bans in several states are upheld on appeal.Same-sex couples named in the North Carolina case said they could go out of state to wed. But many of them have been members of churches for decades and want their ministers to perform the marriage service in front of their home faith community."It's very important to us to get married in our church, our sanctuary, where my parents were married 60 years ago," said Diane Ansley of Old Fort, North Carolina, who is engaged to her partner of 14 years.North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper and the register of deeds and district attorneys from several counties are named as defendants in the case.(Editing by Colleen Jenkins and Richard Chang)
SINK HOLES
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
HOSEA 4:1-3
1 Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
NUMBERS 16:30-32
30 But if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the LORD.
31 And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them:
32 And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods.
NUMBERS 26:10
10 And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, what time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men: and they became a sign.
ISAIAH 28:18-19
18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
MATTHEW 7:24-27
24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:
27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
Search suspended for two remaining victims of Washington state mudslide
By Bryan Cohen -APR 29,14-YahooNews
SEATTLE (Reuters) - More than a month after a massive mudslide buried much of a small Washington state community, killing 41 people, authorities said on Monday they had suspended the active search for more bodies under half a square mile of dirt and debris.Snohomish County Sheriff Ty Trenary said that with the remains of two people still presumably buried under the rubble, the so-called "active search" had been halted because deep pools of water and adverse weather had created dangerous conditions."Mother nature is what's stopping us," Trenary said at a morning press conference. "It's time to take a pause and take a break."The sheriff said the two remaining bodies may never be recovered, but he has not lost hope. So far, Snohomomish County officials have identified all 41 recovered bodies. Rescuers saved 11 people on the day of the mudslide.As debris removal begins near the small community of Oso, officials said passive searching will continue while workers sift through the debris field to recover personal property.Trenary said the search effort has diminished significantly. At the height of the recovery effort, more than 1,000 volunteers were combing through the barren landscape where three dozen homes once stood.County officials said the area remains dangerous, and crews will continue to monitor for mudslide activity.Snohomish County Executive John Lovick said the county and state have formed a task force to investigate what the county knew about mudslide risks in the area and the effectiveness of the recovery effort."There will be a lot of questions, and we hope to have a lot of answers," he said. "It is important to the families that we understand what happened."A long-term recovery task force formed by the county will focus on supporting repairs to the destroyed section of state highway and will open two long-term recovery centers to serve as a "one stop shop" for victims families and survivors.Last week, Snohomish County officials delayed a decision on a proposed ban on construction in landslide-prone areas over concerns it would hamper the re-building effort.U.S. President Barack Obama visited Oso last Tuesday to meet with families of victims and to survey the mudslide aftermath.(Editing by Dan Whitcomb; Editing by David Gregorio)
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.
Massive, tornado-producing storms lash the U.S. Southeast
By Robbie and Ward 2 hours ago-APR 29,14-Yahoonews
TUPELO, Mississippi (Reuters) - A storm system that killed more than 20 people continued its march across a large swath of the U.S. Southeast on Tuesday, packing baseball-sized hail, damaging winds and the threat of more tornados, meteorologists said.Reports of the death toll varied, but CNN has put it at 29 lives across six states, and scores of people have been injured.The threat of tornadoes could last for several days as the strong weather system with a large area of unstable air lashed the southern and central United States.Early on Tuesday morning, a large cluster of thunderstorms pelted Alabama, Georgia and the Florida Panhandle, with tornados likely touching down along the Alabama-Georgia state line. The tornado threat in those areas will briefly weaken before rising again in Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama later on Tuesday morning and afternoon."The main severe threat today is down in the central and eastern Gulf Coast," National Weather Service meteorologist Brynn Kerr said, adding that there was potential for severe conditions in Tennessee and the Ohio Valley later on Tuesday.Georgia Governor Nathan Deal, who declared a state of emergency late on Monday evening in preparation for the looming storms, said in a statement: "We're prepared now, and we'll be ready for recovery should we, God forbid, experience tornado damage or flooding."Most of the deaths from the severe storm system occurred on Sunday, when tornadoes tossed cars like toys in Arkansas and other states.One of several twisters to tear across Mississippi struck Tupelo on Monday, damaging hundreds of homes and businesses, downing power lines and shredding trees, the National Weather Service said. At least one person was killed in Tupelo, where residents grappled with widespread power outages and an 8 p.m. (0100 GMT Tuesday) curfew.Tupelo Police Chief Bart Aguirre said emergency crews were going house to house, searching damaged buildings, and some residential areas were closed off as emergency crews checked downed power lines and gas leaks. Some residents whose homes were destroyed took refuge in a Red Cross shelter at a downtown sports arena.Officials were also picking through the rubble in Lincoln County, Tennessee, near the Alabama state line state late Monday evening, with reports of a tornado that had likely damaged Lincoln County High school and area homes, National Weather Service Meteorologist Mark Richards said.There also appeared to be a tornado that hit about 80 miles east of Nashville.The storm system later pushed into parts of Alabama, where emergency officials said at least two people were killed at a trailer park near Athens.At least 15 people had died in Arkansas in the storm that authorities said produced the first fatalities of this year's tornado season, Governor Mike Beebe said.The White House said President Barack Obama, who has been on a trip abroad, called Beebe to receive an update on the damage and to offer condolences. Medical officials reported at least 100 people in Arkansas were injured.One person was killed in neighboring Oklahoma and another in Iowa, authorities said. (Reporting by Robbie Ward in Tupelo, Mississippi; Emily LeCoz in Oxford, Mississippi; Steve Barnes and Suzi Parker in Little Rock, Arkansas; Verna Gates in Birmingham; Kevin Gray in Miami; and Tim Ghianni in Nashville, Tennessee; Writing by Eric M. Johnson; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn)
EARTHQUAKES
ISAIAH 42:15
15 I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ Worldwide
27 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2014-04-29 09:56:38 UTC-04:00Showing event times using Local System Time (UTC-04:00)27 earthquakes in map area
4.4 Norwegian Sea 2014-04-29 08:08:29 UTC-04:00 10.0 km
4.8 60km SSE of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska 2014-04-29 06:08:49 UTC-04:00 53.3 km
4.7 70km ENE of Peterborough, Australia 2014-04-29 05:54:56 UTC-04:00 15.4 km
2.5 19km ESE of Volcano, Hawaii 2014-04-29 03:45:06 UTC-04:00 4.2 km
3.3 7km N of Levittown, Puerto Rico 2014-04-29 03:34:29 UTC-04:00 94.0 km
2.5 128km NNW of Kodiak Station, Alaska 2014-04-29 02:21:45 UTC-04:00 100.0 km
4.5 48km SE of Ishinomaki, Japan 2014-04-29 01:00:14 UTC-04:00 74.2 km
2.5 55km W of Anchorage, Alaska 2014-04-29 00:46:20 UTC-04:00 71.8 km
2.8 64km NNE of Isabela, Puerto Rico 2014-04-28 22:58:45 UTC-04:00 8.0 km
2.8 36km N of Inyokern, California 2014-04-28 21:49:03 UTC-04:00 3.7 km
4.1 Gulf of Alaska 2014-04-28 20:23:55 UTC-04:00 12.1 km
2.5 11km SSW of Guthrie, Oklahoma 2014-04-28 20:23:15 UTC-04:00 9.0 km
4.8 72km SSE of Kirakira, Solomon Islands 2014-04-28 19:22:46 UTC-04:00 35.0 km
2.6 56km E of Cantwell, Alaska 2014-04-28 19:07:08 UTC-04:00 2.7 km
2.6 14km SE of Bray, Oklahoma 2014-04-28 19:04:44 UTC-04:00 2.6 km
2.5 10km SE of Medford, Oklahoma 2014-04-28 18:44:13 UTC-04:00 2.5 km
3.3 55km NNE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2014-04-28 18:39:49 UTC-04:00 5.0 km
4.8 Reykjanes Ridge 2014-04-28 17:53:26 UTC-04:00 10.0 km
4.5 Greenland Sea 2014-04-28 15:54:26 UTC-04:00 10.0 km
2.5 25km NW of Healdton, Oklahoma 2014-04-28 13:45:54 UTC-04:00 5.0 km
4.7 Kuril Islands 2014-04-28 13:19:28 UTC-04:00 65.9 km
3.0 69km NNE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2014-04-28 13:18:29 UTC-04:00 46.0 km
2.6 21km E of Comanche, Oklahoma 2014-04-28 12:04:07 UTC-04:00 5.0 km
4.9 Central East Pacific Rise 2014-04-28 12:01:06 UTC-04:00 10.0 km
2.5 1km SSE of Stillwater, Oklahoma 2014-04-28 10:45:03 UTC-04:00 3.8 km
2.7 1km ESE of Choctaw, Oklahoma 2014-04-28 10:40:04 UTC-04:00 6.3 km
2.5 6km NW of The Geysers, California 2014-04-28 10:18:30 UTC-04:00 3.4 km
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.
Abbas: No peace without defining borders-In a televised address on final day of nine-month negotiations, Abbas lays out his conditions to continue talks-By AFP April 29, 2014, 4:16 pm 12-The Times of Israel
RAMALLAH — There can be no peace with Israel without first defining the borders of a future Palestinian state, president Mahmoud Abbas said on Tuesday.“Since the creation of Israel, nobody knows what the borders are. We are determined to know our borders and theirs; without that there will be no peace,” he said as Washington’s nine-month deadline for reaching a peace deal expired, leaving the process in tatters.In a televised address, Abbas laid out his conditions for returning to the crisis-hit peace talks with Israel which have made no progress since they were launched on July 29 last year.“If we want to extend the negotiations, there has to be a release of prisoners… a settlement freeze, and a discussion of maps and borders for three months.”The peace talks hit a major stumbling block in late March after Israel refused to comply with a commitment to release 26 veteran Palestinian prisoners, prompting Abbas to resume moves to seek international recognition.Abbas has repeatedly insisted that Israel release the two dozen detainees plus hundreds more and agree to a freeze on settlement activity.He has also demanded comprehensive talks on the issue of borders.
Israel pushes ahead with Palestinian sanctions-In light of Hamas-Fatah unity, sources say -Jerusalem will begin using taxes it collects on PA’s behalf to offset Ramallah’s debts-By Times of Israel staff April 29, 2014, 1:17 am 11-The Times of Israel
Israel has begun using tax money it collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority to pay off existing Palestinian debts, according to senior officials who spoke to Israeli media outlets Monday night.An unidentified Israeli official who spoke to Walla News said Jerusalem had embarked on the economic “punishing steps” that were agreed to by the cabinet following last week’s announcement of a reconciliation pact between Hamas and Fatah.He said the PA had been informed of the move, which he claimed was “only a first step.”A senior Palestinian official who spoke on condition of anonymity to Ynet Monday confirmed that Jerusalem had informed Ramallah over the weekend that the Israeli government would begin to use tax funds collected on behalf of the PA to offset debts owed by the PA to Israel at the end of the current month. The PA notably owes about 1 billion shekels ($285 million) to the Israel Electric Company.The government is now considering additional sanctions against the PA, including the revocation of VIP access documents for certain Palestinian officials. Such access passes allow the officials to travel relatively freely through Israel, the West Bank and Gaza.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel will be looking for alternative paths toward peace with the Palestinians, and insisted that he will not negotiate with any Palestinian government that is backed by Hamas.If a negotiated peace proves impossible because of the makeup of the Palestinian government, “then we will seek other ways,” Netanyahu told CNN. “I am not going to accept a stalemate. I won’t accept another Palestinian state that is an Iranian offshoot of Iran, firing missiles in our cities… But I do seek a two states for two peoples solution. If I can’t have it right away with this Palestinian government, then we will seek other ways.”The current round of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, which was set to expire Tuesday, was suspended by Jerusalem last Thursday after Hamas and Fatah agreed a day earlier to form a unity government within five weeks and hold subsequent elections.
Netanyahu cancels meeting on settlement construction-Officials say move is tied to maintaining stance that Palestinian Authority is responsible for talks stalemate-By Marissa Newman April 29, 2014, 5:29 pm 0-The Times of Israel
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructed Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon Tuesday to cancel a hearing on settlement construction scheduled for the following day.The directive coincided with the deadline for the US-mediated peace, amid concerns that should renewed construction be pushed forward, the blame for the collapse of the negotiations would be pinned on Israel, officials told Army Radio.“We are making great efforts to convince the world that [PA President Mahmoud Abbas] rejects peace, [and] embraces Hamas,” an unnamed official said. “This is a strong card, and it would be wrong to squander this [opportunity]. An announcement on construction now could shift public opinion against us in a second.”However, Avi Roeh, chairman of the Yesha Council, an umbrella movement of Jewish settlers, said he was not informed of the decision to push off the discussion indefinitely.“They didn’t tell us anything,” he told the radio station. Roeh claimed that with regard to such decisions, the West Bank council heads were kept in the dark “because no one includes us: not in the negotiations, and not in these discussions, and not in other discussions.”“I call on the prime minister to summon us and explain the process,” he said.The Civil Administration, tasked with overseeing the West Bank, declared 28,000 dunam (6,900 acres) in 40 strategic areas in the West Bank as state land last year, Haaretz reported Tuesday.The approvals were granted by the Blue Line task force, established by the Civil Administration in 1999 to reevaluate the demarcations of state land. During the 1980s, then-head of the administration Plia Albek designated nearly 1 million dunam (247,000 acres) as state land. The Blue Line task force is investigating all of the approvals granted then that were deemed hastily given and imprecise.The approvals pave the way for settlements to apply to build on the allotted plots. Many of them are adjacent to existing West Bank settlements, the largest of which is a 3,476-dunam (858 acres) bloc near Ariel. Other areas are close to the Green Line, which could prove a tactical measure to expand the contours of Israel.Of the recently approved lands, 22,058 dunams are within settlement parameters, and 3,700 include areas that have been developed illegally, but would now be recognized under Israeli law.However, while the reconsideration of state lands seemingly aids further construction, settlers have complained that the tedious process, under which all construction must first seek higher civil administration permissions, stymies construction.In a report published Tuesday morning, the left-wing watchdog Peace Now claimed that during the nine months of US Secretary of State John Kerry’s orchestrated negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, the Israeli government approved tenders and plans for at least 13,851 apartments in the settlements and East Jerusalem.“This is an unprecedented number representing an average of 50 housing units per day, or 1,540 per month,” the group said.Jerusalem did not commit to freezing settlement construction during the negotiations when talks were announced nine months ago in July, though it has been a key Palestinian demand.Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
With peace talks stalled, sides resort to old moves-Palestinians will now focus on winning international recognition; for Israel, it’s back to shunning the Palestinian leadership-By Ben Sales April 29, 2014, 6:44 am 2-The Times of Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Nine months of negotiations were supposed to propel Israelis and Palestinians into a future of peace. Instead, the collapse of talks is threatening to make the future look much like the past.Israel’s decision last week to suspend negotiations — a day after the signing of a reconciliation between the Fatah faction of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas — has prompted both sides to resort to their old ways.For the Palestinians, that means focusing on internal unity and a redoubled effort to win international recognition for statehood, particularly at the United Nations. For Israel, it’s a return to shunning the Palestinian political leadership.“If the Palestinian Authority persists with efforts to reunite with Hamas, that is not only a game changer,” Michael Oren, Israel’s former ambassador to the United States, told JTA. “It is a game stopper.”After weeks in which they teetered on the brink of failure, peace negotiations finally stalled April 23 when Fatah agreed to form a unified Palestinian government with Hamas, the ruling power in Gaza considered a terrorist organization by the United States, Israel and the European Union.The two groups split after violent clashes in 2007. Three previous reconciliation deals — in 2007, 2011 and 2012 — have gone unimplemented.Israel responded to the reconciliation agreement as it had to earlier ones, declaring that it would not negotiate with Hamas and announcing economic sanctions against the Palestinian Authority. On April 24, Israel suspended the peace negotiations, five days before their initial nine-month term was set to expire.“Instead of choosing peace, Abu Mazen formed an alliance with a murderous terrorist organization that calls for the destruction of Israel,” said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, referring to Abbas by his nom de guerre. “Whoever chooses the terrorism of Hamas does not want peace.”Israel and the United States have called on Hamas to recognize Israel, commit to nonviolence and abide by previous Israeli-Palestinian agreements — three conditions that have guided negotiations for a decade. But on Sunday, Hamas officials vowed never to recognize Israel.Palestinian officials nevertheless moved to downplay the significance of the unity accord on the peace process, noting that an interim government set to be formed in the coming weeks would be made up of technocrats, not political figures aligned with Fatah or Hamas. Munib al-Masri, a Palestinian industrialist who served as a Fatah delegate to the reconciliation talks, told JTA that Abbas would continue to manage negotiations should they go on.
“All parties will abide by President Abbas regarding the political agenda,” al-Masri said. “The most important thing is to have one voice for the Palestinians.”Despite such hopes, Israel remains deeply wary of Hamas’ intentions. Naftali Bennett, chairman of the pro-settler Jewish Home party, said in a Facebook post that the PA has now become “the biggest terror group in the world” and vowed not to negotiate with murderers. Prior to the unity deal, Bennett had compared peace talks with Abbas to buying a car from someone who owns only half of it.With prospects for a peace accord receding, several Israeli politicians urged the government to respond by unilaterally settings its own borders. Bennett has encouraged Netanyahu to annex all areas of the West Bank that contain Jewish settlements. Oren argued that Israel should withdraw to a frontier it sets, creating a de facto Palestinian state.“What are the borders that give us the maximum amount of security and embrace the maximum number of Israelis?” Oren told JTA. “There are people on all sides of the Israeli political spectrum that have considered the necessity of taking our destiny into our own hands.”Al-Masri said that absent direct negotiations, Abbas will turn again to various UN bodies for recognition, as he did in 2012 when the General Assembly accepted Palestine as a non-member observer state. Israeli analysts said such diplomatic pressure will have little impact on the ground.“Their position in the UN doesn’t mean anything,” said Avraham Diskin, an emeritus professor of political science at Hebrew University. “Life is one thing and declarations are another.”Given the failure of previous attempts at Palestinian unity, experts are doubtful that the latest pact will succeed, not least because Hamas likely will not agree to hand over its weaponry and soldiers to Fatah control.“They’re talking about a technocracy so they won’t have to split the pie between them,” Mordechai Kedar, an expert on Islamist groups at Bar-Ilan University. “They can’t agree on anything.”Netanyahu thus far has not responded to calls for unilateral action, but the collapse of negotiations means his governing coalition will hold for the moment. Jewish Home had threatened to leave had Netanyahu agreed to withdraw from much of the West Bank.Meanwhile, analysts were not expecting another wave of violence. Palestinian security cooperation with Israel has helped curb Hamas’ influence in the West Bank, but it’s unclear whether such coordination will continue if Palestinian reconciliation becomes a reality.Oren told JTA it was difficult to see how the Israel Defense Forces could continue to cooperate with the Palestinian Authority once the PA unites with Hamas.“The cooperation is about fighting Hamas,” he said. “How can the IDF fight Hamas with Palestinian security forces who serve under a government that includes Hamas?”
Palestinian deal will not make Hamas change: veteran leader-By Crispian Balmer and Nidal al-Mughrabi 27 minutes ago-APR 29,14-YahooNews-Head of Hamas security services Abu Sharekh speaks with senior Hamas leader Al-Zahar during a graduation ceremony for members of Hamas security forces in Gaza City
GAZA (Reuters) - A Palestinian unity deal will not lead Islamist group Hamas to recognize Israel's right to exist and will not result in any Gaza militants coming under President Mahmoud Abbas's control, a senior Hamas official said on Tuesday.Veteran Hamas strategist Mahmoud Al-Zahar told Reuters the group, which runs the Gaza Strip, was waiting for Abbas to form a unity government, but said the Palestinian leader was taking his time in an effort to overcome U.S. and Israeli opposition.Hamas, which is viewed as a terrorist group by many Western capitals, unexpectedly agreed with Abbas last week to lay aside old animosities and create a transitional cabinet paving the way to long-overdue elections across the Palestinian Territories.The reconciliation accord angered Israel, which promptly suspended floundering peace talks with the Western-backed Abbas, saying it would not negotiate with any administration backed by Hamas.Zahar, who is one of Hamas's most influential voices, said Abbas only decided to seek unity because the U.S.-driven negotiations were leading nowhere, but predicted he would take his time trying to assemble a government of technocrats."He is trying to overcome a great wave of pressure. We are waiting," said Zahar, adding that Hamas had already handed across lists of names of possible ministers.Hamas's elder statesman, who has had spiky relations with the group's leadership, said Abbas was using the unity deal to put heat on Israel, but that he was also worried by a U.S. threat to suspend hundreds of millions of dollars in vital aid."He is seeking a guarantee that U.S. financial support will continue," Zahar said, speaking from his well-guarded house. Looking to reassure Western allies, Abbas said the new government would recognize Israel and honor previous treaties. Zahar dismissed this as a hollow gesture, saying the ministers would be academics with no political authority."Abbas is not telling them the truth. He says 'this is my government'. But it is not his government. It is a government of national unity. He is marketing it in this way to minimize the pressure," said Zahar, who took part in the unity negotiations.Hamas leaders have said in the past that the movement could live peacefully alongside Israel if it wins a state on all Palestinian land occupied by Israel in 1967, although the Islamist group's 1988 founding charter calls for the destruction of Israel and for recovering all mandate Palestine. But it continues to say it will not recognize Israel officially.
ARMED WING
The unity pact follows a trail of previous, failed efforts to overcome the deep schism that has traumatized Palestinian politics. Agreed in just a few hours, it sidestepped one of the most sensitive issues - who would be in charge of security.Hamas's armed wing has some 20,000 men in its ranks. Abbas has his own, Western-trained forces, that often cooperate with Israeli troops and police in the nearby West Bank - a practice that Zahar called "shameful".Zahar said Hamas would remain in charge of its own troops regardless of the latest deal and irrespective of who won national elections, that are slated for later this year."Nobody will touch the security sections in Gaza. No one will be able to touch one person from the military group. Nobody asked for that," he said, sitting next to a photograph of one of two sons who were killed in Israeli attacks.Hamas won the last legislative elections held in the Palestinian Territories in 2006 and then seized control of Gaza after ousting forces loyal to Abbas a year later.It appeared to be on the ascendance when fellow-Islamists were elected to office in neighboring Egypt, but its fortunes crumpled following last year's military coup in Cairo, with the new army-backed rulers launching a fierce crackdown on Hamas.Hundreds of smuggling tunnels connecting Gaza to Egypt were destroyed, compounding an Israeli blockade on the Palestinian enclave, that restricts movement of goods and people.Zahar said divisions in Egypt were a "catastrophe" for the region. He also acknowledged that once deep ties with Iran had not fully recovered after Hamas had refused to back Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in his on-going civil war."We have a good relation (with Iran), but you know the impact of the Syrian problem is still a factor. ... The communication is not as it was," he said, declining to give details of Iranian funding for Hamas.Some political analysts said Hamas's international problems had spurred it towards reviving the reconciliation pact. But Zahar said Abbas, whose mandate expired five years ago, had made the overture because peace talks with Israel were at a dead end."He is very weak," said Zahar.Hamas has regularly clashed with Israel, fighting two major conflicts in 2008/09 and again in 2012. The last confrontation ended in a truce that resulted in months of relative quiet.Sporadic rocket fire out of Gaza and into Israel picked up at the start of the year, amid mutual recriminations over who was to blame for the truce deal fraying.However, Zahar said not all the missile attacks were sanctioned by Hamas, accusing some small groups of actively seeking to destabilize Gaza - including last week at the time the unity deal with Abbas was being concluded."Why when we signed the agreement did 20 dancing rockets go to Israel? It was not Hamas.... It was not done for Palestinian reasons. It was against Palestinian interests. Palestinian interests are to have this unity agreement," he said.(Editing by Angus MacSwan)
04/28/2014 - THE VATICAN INSIDER-C8 becomes C9 and sets to work on Curia dossier-Francis with the "C8" in Assisi-The Pope and the Vatican Secretary of State, Pietro Parolin, have been present at the meetings held by the Council of Cardinals which has started looking into the situation of the Pontifical Councils-andrea tornielli
vatican city-The day after the canonization of the two Popes, Francis’ group of eight cardinal advisors held a meeting in St. Martha’s House and set to work on the reform of the Roman Curia. The group which is referred to as the C8, might as well be called the C9 given that the Vatican Secretary of State, Pietro Parolin, also took part in today’s two meetings. Pope Francis obviously wants him to be directly involved in the process of reorganizing the Holy See’s dicasteries. Francis has also attended all of the Council’s meetings as a listener: he and the Secretary of State absented themselves only to attend the audience with the King and Queen of Spain.The Council of Cardinals which Bergloglio established exactly one month after his election, has the task of assisting him in the government of the universal Church and looking into a project for the revision of the “Pastor Bonus” , the Apostolic Constitution on the Roman Curia. During its morning and afternoon meetings, the Council began examining the situation and proposals for the reform of the Pontifical Councils. Each of the cardinals presented a summary of the material collected, to the other members of the group.Readers will recall that the issue of Curia reform had come to a halt in recent months because last February the Council of Cardinals focused their attention on the Vatican’s financial and economic affairs. The group made the proposal to establish the Secretariat of the Economy - the Vatican’s centralised “finance ministry” which oversees spending and personnel – its own. The proposal was presented by one of the commissions for reference. In February, the Council of Cardinals also addressed the issue of IOR reform after the commission of reference on the IOR presented its report.The Council’s meetings will go on until Wednesday evening. Another four-day session is expected to take place next July. This is when the cardinals will finish discussing their proposals. We will have to wait until then to find out which proposals will finally be presented to the Pope. So far, cardinals have discussed the possibility of merging some of the Pontifical Councils and introducing a new figure, the “moderator Curiae”, who would coordinate the work of the dicasteries. There is a strongly felt need to make sense of the numerous existing offices so as to cut the red tape and the Curia more efficient.The Pope’s Council of Cardinals is made up of the following eight members: Giuseppe Bertello (the only Italian and the only Curia member in the C8), Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa (the group’s only emeritus member), Oswald Gracias, Reinhard Marx (recently nominated coordinator of the Council for the Economy made up of cardinals and lay financial experts), Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, Sean Patrick O’Malley, George Pell (the former Archbishop of Sydney who was recently nominated “minister of the Economy”) and Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga. Maradiaga is also the group’s coordinator, while Albano Marcello Semeraro holds the position of secretary.
04/28/2014 - THE VATICAN INSIDER-Obama says new saints have changed the Church and the world-Barack Obama-Just 24 hours after the canonizations of John XXIII and John Paul II, the US President has issued a statement praising the two new saints-vatican insider staff
Rome-Emotions are still running high all over the world following the canonizations of Roncalli and Wojtyla: 24 hours after the canonization ceremony ended in the Vatican, the President of the United States, Barack Obama, issued a statement for the occasion, which reads: "Today, Michelle and I join Catholics from all over the world in celebrating the canonization of Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II. Their work and their testimony did not just change the Catholic Church, but the whole world.”“Pope John XXIII articulated powerful roles for the Church in the cause of global peace and justice, and by convening the Second Vatican Council he revolutionized not only aspects of worship but the Catholic Church’s relationship with other faith communities,” President Obama said in hi statement.“Pope John Paul II helped inspire the Solidarity movement in Poland, a movement that spread and eventually helped to end communism in Eastern Europe, and he spoke out forcefully against apartheid in South Africa and genocide in Rwanda. He had a special rapport with young people, drawing many of them to the Church’s work and teachings,” the president added.The canonization of the two Popes also gave President Obama a chance to pick up on the recent meeting he had with Pope Francis in the Vatican: “We celebrate these Saints and the leadership of His Holiness Pope Francis, and we look forward to continuing to work with Pope Francis and Catholics around the world to advance peace and justice for all people.”
THE DAY SUNDAY THAT CHANGED HISTORY.REVIEWED.
04/27/2014 - THE VATICAN INSIDER-The day of the four Popes is here and St. Peter’s Square is packed-CROWDS GATHER FOR THE DAY OF THE FOUR POPES=The “red zone” opened at 5:50 am. A million pilgrims are expected in the Vatican today. Pope Francis is concelebrating mass with Benedict XVI at 10 am-Iacopo Scaramuzzi
vatican city-The day of the double canonization of John XXIII and John Paul II is here. The mass Francis is going to be concelebrating with Benedict XVI begins at 10 am. The celebratory area opened to the public at 5:30. An hour later St. Peter’s Square was packed. One million people are expected to attend today’s ceremony.Pilgrims started queuing at the crack of dawn after the “white night of prayer” in churches across Rome, which opened especially for the occasion. Some pilgrims slept in sleeping bags. The “red zone”, the area around the Vatican that had been closed off to the public, remained out of bounds until 7 pm yesterday evening. Three passages on Via Conciliazione, Via Traspontina and Via San Pio X opened up at 5:30 this morning and the crowds were channeled into Via della Conciliazione. A line of young volunteers split pilgrims into groups to manage the influx of people. When St. Peter’s Square, Via della Conciliazione and the Castel Sant’Angelo gardens are full the plan is that the crowd will be diverted towards Via dei Fori Imperiali, Piazza Santa Maria Maggiore, Piazza Farnese and Piazza Navona. Seventeen giant screens have been installed across the city.According to figures offered by the municipality of Rome, there will be “at least five hundred thousand and at most one million pilgrims present, including tourists.” Two billion people across the world will be watching today’s ceremony on live television and in cinemas. There are twenty six thousand volunteers, ten thousand policemen and women helping out in Rome. Rome’s underground was open through the night, hotels were booked out yesterday through to today and 4362 bus parking spots have been allocated for 216 thousand people. There are seventy seven ambulances on the ready.Today is also Divine Mercy Sunday, a feast introduced by John Paul II. 150 cardinals, 1000 bishops and 6000 priests will be assisting in the canonization ceremony which should end at around midday.
EZEKIEL 12:25
25 For I am the LORD: I will speak,(PROPHECY) and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass;(LITERALLY) it shall be no more prolonged: will I say the word, and will perform it, saith the Lord GOD.(JESUS MAKES PROPHECIES COME TO PASS)
EZEKIEL 28:25-26
25 Thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered,(WORLD NATIONS) and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob.(ISRAEL)
26 And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence, when I have executed judgments upon all those that despise them round about them;(ARAB/MUSLUM NATIONS AROUND ISRAEL) and they shall know that I am the LORD their God.
MUSLIM NATIONS (SLAUGHTERED BY NUKES FOR COMING AGAINST ISRAEL)
PROVERBS 21:29-31
29 A wicked man hardeneth his face: but as for the upright, he directeth his way.
30 There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.
31 The horse is prepared against the day of battle: but safety is of the LORD.(FOR ISRAEL)
EXODUS 15:1-4
1 Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the LORD, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
2 The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt him.
3 The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name.
4 Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea.
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:TOBOLSK)
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY) of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.(AFRICAN MUSLIMS,SUDAN,TUNESIA ETC)
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages;(ISRAEL) I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil,(OIL IS IN SPOIL) and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
EZEKIEL 39:1-8,11-21
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back,(RUSSIA-ARAB MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS) and leave but the sixth part of thee,(5/6TH OR 300 MILLION DEAD RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS I BELIEVE) and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog (RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS) a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers (EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN JORDAN VALLEY) on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog (RUSSIAN) and all his multitude:(ARAB/MUSLIM HORDE) and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.(BURIEL SITE OF THE 300 MILLION,RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS)
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.(OF ISRAEL)
13 Yea, all the people of the land (OF ISRAEL) shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I (GOD-JESUS) shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment,(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB EXPERTS) passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
15 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it,(WON'T TOUCH IT) till the buriers have buried it (PROPERLY) in the valley of Hamongog.(RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS NEW BURIEL SITE)(EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN THE JORDAN VALLEY)
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.(OF THE ISRAEL-GOD HATERS)
17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl,(500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS THREW ISRAEL EVERY SPRING,FALL) and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.(OF THE RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ARMIES)
18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19 And ye (MIGRATING BIRDS IN ISRAEL) shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.(RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS)
20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
21 And I (GOD-JESUS) will set my glory among the heathen,(WORLD NATIONS) and all the heathen (WORLD NATIONS) shall see my judgment that I have executed,(AGAINST ISRAELS ENEMIES) and my (GODS) hand that I have laid upon them.(ISRAELS HATER ENEMIES)
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 blacklists 15 more Russian officials over Ukraine-Today @ 11:18-EUOBSERVER-EU ambassadors to expand Russia blacklist-By Valentina Pop
Brussels - The EU on Tuesday (29 April) added 15 more names to a travel ban list of Russian officials linked to events in eastern Ukraine, but unlike the US, it refrained from targeting businesses and trade with Russia.According to the legal text published in the Official Journal of the EU, "in view of the gravity of the situation" in eastern Ukraine 15 persons were added to the blacklist which so far contained 33 names.The move was co-ordinated with the US, which extended its own blacklist on Monday and added businessmen, companies and limited trade of military-use products with Russia.The most prominent on the list is the head of the Russian army, Valery Vasilevich Gerasimov, "responsible for the massive deployment of Russian troops along the border with Ukraine and lack of de-escalation of the situation."Six names on the EU list are linked to the annexation of Crimea: Dmitry Nikolayevich Kozak, a deputy Prime Minister "responsible for overseeing the integration of the annexed Autonomous Republic of Crimea into the Russian Federation" is listed together with Oleg Yevgenyvich Belaventsev, a Russian presidential envoy to Crimea and Oleg Genrikhovich Savelyev, the minister for Crimean affairs.Sergei Ivanovich Menyailo, acting governor of Sevastopol, the Crimean military port, is also on the list. So are two lawmakers involved in the annexation process: Ludmila Ivanovna Shvetsova and Sergei Ivanovich Neverov.Turning to eastern Ukraine, the EU blacklisted Igor Dmitrievich Sergun, the director of GRU intelligence service and a deputy chief of staff of the Russian armed forces, responsible for the activities of intelligence officers in eastern Ukraine.Igor Strelkov, a staff member of the same GRU intelligence service, is listed because he was involved in incidents in the eastern Ukrainian city of Sloviansk. He is also an assistant on security issues to Sergey Aksionov, the self-proclaimed prime-minister of Crimea.Five other persons are linked to the separatist movements in eastern Ukraine: German Prokopiv, leader of the "Lugansk Guard" which seized official buildings in Lugansk, Valeriy Bolotov, a retired officer and leader of another separatist group in Lugansk, the "Army of the south-east", as well as Andriy Purgin, head of the "Donetsk Republic", a self-proclaimed state-town.Denys Pushylin, another leader of the "Donetsk Republic" and spokesperson for the separatists is also listed together with Tsyplakov Sergey Gennadevich, leader of a local militia in Donbas active in the seizure of state buildings in the Donetsk region.President Vladimir Putin, however, is not on the list.He was spotted by a Russian photographer on Monday night as he was hugging former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder at his 70 birthday party organised in Moscow by an affiliate of Gazprom, Spiegel reports.
At least 51 killed in Syrian government-held areas-APR 29,14-YahooNews-Damaged vehicles are seen after mortar bombs landed on two areas in Damascus
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Car bombs and mortar attacks killed at least 51 people in Syrian government-held areas of Damascus and the central city of Homs on Tuesday, a day after President Bashar al-Assad declared he would seek re-election in June.Government forces have pushed back the mainly Sunni Muslim rebels seeking to topple Assad from many of their strongholds around Damascus, but residents say the insurgents have stepped up rocket and mortar attacks against the heart of the capital in recent weeks.Forces loyal to Assad, whose Alawite sect is an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam, are also in control of most of Homs. The attacks targeted Alawite and Shi'ite areas of the two cities.In Homs, at least 37 people including children were killed by twin car bombs near a busy roundabout in the Alawite neighborhood of Zahraa. A local security source put the death toll at 42.In central Damascus, two mortar shells struck an education complex in the mainly Shi'ite Muslim district of Shaghour, killing at least 14 people and wounding dozens.The state news agency SANA described the Badr el-Din Hussaini complex as a religious jurisprudence college, but residents said there were also primary and secondary school students there.SANA said 14 people had been killed and 86 wounded but the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the violence in Syria, put the death toll at 17.(Reporting by Dominic Evans and Mariam Karouny; Editing by Kevin Liffey)
Special Report - Golden Loophole: How an alleged Turkish crime ring helped Iran
APR 29,14-YahooNews--By Humeyra Pamuk, Steve Stecklow, Babak Dehghanpisheh and Can Sezer
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - In this city's Grand Bazaar, sellers along labyrinthine passageways hawk carpets, jewelry and souvenir knick-knacks to tourists.Turkish police believe that until recently, the area around the market also sat at the center of an audacious, multi-billion-dollar scheme involving bribery and suspect food shipments to Iran.To date, no one has been charged. But a recently leaked police report - which contains allegations of payments to top Turkish government officials including cash stuffed into shoeboxes - has added fuel to a growing corruption scandal that has shaken the highest levels of Turkey's political establishment.A review by Reuters of the report's 299 pages, as well as interviews with currency and precious metals dealers, offer colorful new details of how what police call a "crime organization" allegedly helped Iran exploit a loophole in the West's sanctions regime that for a time allowed the Islamic Republic to purchase gold with oil and gas revenues.While the gold trade was then legal, the police report alleges the purported crime network bribed officials in part so it could maintain control of the lucrative business.Then, when the West last July prohibited the gold trade as a sanctions violation, the police report alleges the network concocted records of shipments of food at preposterous volumes and prices to continue giving Iran access to foreign currency.The police report - which includes transcripts of wiretapped conversations and surveillance photographs - was prepared for prosecutors. Reuters confirmed its authenticity with Ekrem Aydiner, the current chief prosecutor in charge of the case.Turkey's Prime Minister, Tayyip Erdogan, has called the police investigation a foreign-orchestrated plot without legal merit. In recent months, Turkey's judiciary removed several prosecutors from the case. That has raised questions about whether Turkish law enforcement authorities will continue to pursue it. Aydiner said the matter remains under active investigation.In many ways the plot described in the police report resembles a made-for-TV crime series: A cop who is thought to have tipped off tax authorities finds himself transferred to a distant outpost by the Black Sea, a plane that arrives from Ghana carrying 1.5 metric tons of gold with no clear owner, and millions of dollars in payoffs to various officials to block rivals and gain valuable favors such as fast-track Turkish citizenship for members of the purported crime network and their families.The report presents a wealthy young businessman of Iranian descent named Reza Zarrab as the ringleader. Zarrab grew up in Turkey, holds citizenship, resides in a manor on the Bosphorus and goes by the Turkish name Riza Sarraf. He is well known on Istanbul's celebrity circuit, and is married to Turkish pop star Ebru Gundes, who is a judge on a popular television talent show. Following her husband's detention in December - he was released from jail two months later without being charged - she tearfully told viewers, "God willing, I hope these dark days will pass quickly."When Reuters reporters recently visited his residence, they were greeted by about a half-dozen security guards who said he was out of town. His attorney, Seyda Yildirim, later declined to comment.In an interview published on April 19 with Sabah, a Turkish newspaper, Zarrab said, "The trade I do is completely legal." He later said in an interview on Turkish television that he had helped to reduce the country's current account deficit.
GOLD RUSH
The police report states that its investigation found evidence of bribery, fraud and gold smuggling. Although not central to the police investigation, the West's economic sanctions on Iran provide the backdrop of the alleged scheme.As financial sanctions tightened in 2012, both Turkey and Iran had pressing needs: Turkey required oil and gas for its fast-growing economy, while Iran desperately needed hard currency to pay for new automobiles and other foreign imports.Under the sanctions - imposed by Washington and Brussels to contain Iran's nuclear ambitions - Turkey was permitted to purchase oil and gas from its neighbor. But it was required to pay in Turkish lira, a currency that is of limited value for buying goods on international markets. All payments were to be deposited in an Iranian bank account at Turkey's state-controlled Halkbank.In 2012, Turkey purchased from Iran more than $10 billion worth of oil and gas, according to Reuters' calculations based on data from Turkey's energy market regulation board and Turkish officials.One commodity that Iran was permitted to purchase with its money was gold. A veritable Turkish gold rush ensued with bullion shipped to Iran in everything from couriers' rucksacks to airplane cargo holds.Turkish gold exports to Iran exploded from one metric tons in 2011 to 125.8 metric tons in 2012, worth $6.5 billion, according to the Turkish statistical institute. Another 85 metric tons, worth $4.6 billion, were exported that year to the United Arab Emirates, a known transshipment point to Iran.The police report alleges that Zarrab and a network of companies he controlled were running much of the gold trade with Iran, sometimes via Dubai. "It is understood that, to overcome sanctions and move money to Iran, Riza Sarraf used Turkey as a stepping stone," the report states.To keep the business running smoothly, the report alleges, Zarrab's network paid bribes to Zafer Caglayan, Turkey's economy minister; Muammer Guler, the interior minister; Egemen Bagis, the European Union Affairs minister; and Suleyman Aslan, Halkbank's chief executive.All three ministers, who have since either resigned or been dropped from the cabinet, have denied wrongdoing; none have been charged. Caglayan declined to comment; Guler could not be reached for comment. Lawyers for Bagis and Aslan did not return calls seeking comment.Halkbank has denied violating any domestic or international laws. A spokesperson declined to answer questions but did say the bank is not under any investigation by Turkey's police or judiciary.According to the police report, many of the payoffs were allegedly picked up in a building on a row of jewelry dealers near the Grand Bazaar. Police also tracked the shipment of a Swiss watch the network allegedly gave to Caglayan, the economy minister, that cost about $340,000. Bagis, the EU Affairs minister, at one point allegedly received $500,000 cash delivered in a chocolate box, along with a silver plate. In an intercepted phone conversation about the plate, the report quotes Zarrab as telling an associate, "Don't make it too expensive."The report alleges that Aslan, the former head of Halkbank, and Caglayan received a percentage of the Iranian money transfers, resulting in bribes that totaled tens of millions of dollars. In December, police raided Aslan's house and seized $4.5 million stuffed in shoeboxes, according to local media reports. Aslan told police the cash was a charitable donation from various businessmen to build an Islamic school, the media reports said.The police report alleges the bribes bought the network perks such as reduced commissions from Halkbank for money transfers, authorization to drive along highway emergency lanes and assistance in preventing rivals from participating in the lucrative trade. One Istanbul gold and currency trader told Reuters, "I went to the bank about 18 months ago and tried to open an account, saying I wanted to sell goods to Iran and that I was going to pay via Halkbank. But they did not let me. There has been unfair competition in terms of using this bank."The bribes also secured the network police protection, the report alleges. Suspecting at one point that a local police officer had initiated a tax audit of some of Zarrab's companies, the interior minister arranged to have the officer transferred to Zonguldak, a Black Sea coastal town about 200 miles east of Istanbul, the report alleges. According to the report, a wiretap allegedly picked up Guler telling Zarrab that "we have sent him into exile."The network also allegedly received special assistance when, in January 2013, a plane carrying 1.5 metric tons of gold bullion arrived at Istanbul's Ataturk airport from Ghana without proper paperwork. The report cites wiretapped phone calls between Zarrab and Caglayan's office allegedly showing that Caglayan intervened at Zarrab's request to prevent customs officers from seizing the shipment. The cargo was held up for days, but ultimately released.The circumstances surrounding the Ghanaian gold shipment remain murky. An Iranian billionaire businessman named Babak Zanjani, who is accused by the United States and European Union of violating sanctions on Iranian oil, recently posted a statement on the website of his company, Sorinet Group, stating he was the original purchaser of the gold from Ghana. "This type of trade was completely legal," he wrote.Yet Zanjani boasted last year in an interview with Aseman, an Iranian magazine, of violating sanctions. "This is my work - sanctions-busting operations," he was quoted as saying. He is in jail in Tehran on charges of owing the government more than $2.7 billion from oil sales; he denies any wrongdoing.In the website posting, Zanjani said he had met Zarrab "a few times" but that they had not done any business together. Zarrab said in the television interview earlier this month he had met Zanjani twice, but "I am neither friends nor partners with him."
FAKE FOOD
Washington closed the gold loophole last July. In the television interview, Zarrab said he stopped trading gold and "shifted to food and medicine," which were still permitted. In a four-month period, he said, that trade totaled about $1.6 billion.But the police report alleges that some of the food shipments never actually took place, but consisted of counterfeit invoices submitted to Halkbank that should have raised plenty of red flags at the bank.The documentation included bills of lading that purportedly showed that cargoes "of 150,000 metric tons were being carried in vessels with a capacity of 5,000 tons," the report alleges.In another case, the report includes an alleged copy of an invoice for a shipment to Iran of about five metric tons of raw brown sugar. The cost? A whopping $250 a pound, more than a hundred times the market rate.The report also quotes from a wiretapped conversation with Zarrab in which an associate allegedly tells him about the food shipment records, "The documents we are giving are wrong. I mean, they are documents that do not exist in reality."Following their investigation, the police staged a series of raids and detained dozens of suspects in December. Later that month, one of the prosecutors on the probe was removed from the case. He accused police of refusing to comply with his orders to detain even more suspects. "Suspects have been allowed to take precautions, flee and tamper with the evidence," the prosecutor, Muammer Akkas, said in a statement to Turkish media. Reached by Reuters this month, he declined to comment.Aydiner, the new chief prosecutor on the case, said the detentions were just a precaution and that no suspects have been formally charged. "Of course, they are still under investigation," he said.Shortly after the December raids, two of the ministers who allegedly accepted bribes - Economy Minister Caglayan and Interior Minister Guler - resigned; Bagis, the EU Affairs minister, was replaced in a cabinet reshuffle.Aslan, the chief executive of Halkbank, left his job in February. He was recently named to the board of directors of a larger, state-owned bank.As part of a preliminary deal struck in November between Western powers and Iran, Tehran promised to scale back its nuclear development program in exchange for the suspension of certain economic sanctions. The deal, which took effect in January and is to last until July, includes allowing Iran to resume some gold trading.But there's no evidence that Turkey is benefiting. Some Istanbul traders say they are too jittery to sell gold to Iran. Gold exports have plummeted.(Additional reporting by Asli Kandemir in Istanbul and Gulsen Solaker in Ankara; Edited by Simon Robinson and Sara Ledwith)
ALL RIGHT THE CHURCH FIGHTS BACK FOR ITS RIGHTS TO NOT HAVE TO BE FORCED INTO MARRING GAYS (HOMOSEXUALS) (SODOMITE RAINBOW GROUPERS)
Clergy sue North Carolina over same-sex weddings, cite religious freedom
By Emily Harris -APR 29,14-YahooNews
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters) - A coalition of clergy members is challenging North Carolina's ban on same-sex marriages, filing the first lawsuit to claim such laws violate their religious freedom guaranteed by the U.S. constitution.Led by the United Church of Christ, a rabbi and ministers from Lutheran and Unitarian Universalist churches in the Charlotte area said they should not be penalized for following their faith.The lawsuit, filed in the Western District of North Carolina, is the first to attack same-sex marriage bans on the grounds of religious freedom under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the Cleveland- based United Church of Christ said.North Carolina law bars same-sex couples from receiving marriage licenses and makes it a misdemeanor, with a $200 fine, for clergy who perform a marriage ceremony without the license."We are taking a stand for the freedom of religion," said Reverend Geoffrey Black, president of the United Church of Christ at a news conference in suburban Charlotte.The event at the Holy Covenant United Church of Christ had a banner that read "Jesus didn't reject." The church is a Protestant denomination with nearly 1 million members nationwide.The lawsuit is among 66 challenges pending against state gay-marriage bans across the country, according to the Campaign for Southern Equality. Like the other lawsuits, the new case also claims the North Carolina law violates the 14th Amendment which guarantees equal protection and due process.Seventeen U.S. states and the District of Columbia allow same-sex couples to marry. That number would increase if federal court rulings striking down bans in several states are upheld on appeal.Same-sex couples named in the North Carolina case said they could go out of state to wed. But many of them have been members of churches for decades and want their ministers to perform the marriage service in front of their home faith community."It's very important to us to get married in our church, our sanctuary, where my parents were married 60 years ago," said Diane Ansley of Old Fort, North Carolina, who is engaged to her partner of 14 years.North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper and the register of deeds and district attorneys from several counties are named as defendants in the case.(Editing by Colleen Jenkins and Richard Chang)
SINK HOLES
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
HOSEA 4:1-3
1 Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
NUMBERS 16:30-32
30 But if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the LORD.
31 And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them:
32 And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods.
NUMBERS 26:10
10 And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, what time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men: and they became a sign.
ISAIAH 28:18-19
18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
MATTHEW 7:24-27
24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:
27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
Search suspended for two remaining victims of Washington state mudslide
By Bryan Cohen -APR 29,14-YahooNews
SEATTLE (Reuters) - More than a month after a massive mudslide buried much of a small Washington state community, killing 41 people, authorities said on Monday they had suspended the active search for more bodies under half a square mile of dirt and debris.Snohomish County Sheriff Ty Trenary said that with the remains of two people still presumably buried under the rubble, the so-called "active search" had been halted because deep pools of water and adverse weather had created dangerous conditions."Mother nature is what's stopping us," Trenary said at a morning press conference. "It's time to take a pause and take a break."The sheriff said the two remaining bodies may never be recovered, but he has not lost hope. So far, Snohomomish County officials have identified all 41 recovered bodies. Rescuers saved 11 people on the day of the mudslide.As debris removal begins near the small community of Oso, officials said passive searching will continue while workers sift through the debris field to recover personal property.Trenary said the search effort has diminished significantly. At the height of the recovery effort, more than 1,000 volunteers were combing through the barren landscape where three dozen homes once stood.County officials said the area remains dangerous, and crews will continue to monitor for mudslide activity.Snohomish County Executive John Lovick said the county and state have formed a task force to investigate what the county knew about mudslide risks in the area and the effectiveness of the recovery effort."There will be a lot of questions, and we hope to have a lot of answers," he said. "It is important to the families that we understand what happened."A long-term recovery task force formed by the county will focus on supporting repairs to the destroyed section of state highway and will open two long-term recovery centers to serve as a "one stop shop" for victims families and survivors.Last week, Snohomish County officials delayed a decision on a proposed ban on construction in landslide-prone areas over concerns it would hamper the re-building effort.U.S. President Barack Obama visited Oso last Tuesday to meet with families of victims and to survey the mudslide aftermath.(Editing by Dan Whitcomb; Editing by David Gregorio)
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.
Massive, tornado-producing storms lash the U.S. Southeast
By Robbie and Ward 2 hours ago-APR 29,14-Yahoonews
TUPELO, Mississippi (Reuters) - A storm system that killed more than 20 people continued its march across a large swath of the U.S. Southeast on Tuesday, packing baseball-sized hail, damaging winds and the threat of more tornados, meteorologists said.Reports of the death toll varied, but CNN has put it at 29 lives across six states, and scores of people have been injured.The threat of tornadoes could last for several days as the strong weather system with a large area of unstable air lashed the southern and central United States.Early on Tuesday morning, a large cluster of thunderstorms pelted Alabama, Georgia and the Florida Panhandle, with tornados likely touching down along the Alabama-Georgia state line. The tornado threat in those areas will briefly weaken before rising again in Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama later on Tuesday morning and afternoon."The main severe threat today is down in the central and eastern Gulf Coast," National Weather Service meteorologist Brynn Kerr said, adding that there was potential for severe conditions in Tennessee and the Ohio Valley later on Tuesday.Georgia Governor Nathan Deal, who declared a state of emergency late on Monday evening in preparation for the looming storms, said in a statement: "We're prepared now, and we'll be ready for recovery should we, God forbid, experience tornado damage or flooding."Most of the deaths from the severe storm system occurred on Sunday, when tornadoes tossed cars like toys in Arkansas and other states.One of several twisters to tear across Mississippi struck Tupelo on Monday, damaging hundreds of homes and businesses, downing power lines and shredding trees, the National Weather Service said. At least one person was killed in Tupelo, where residents grappled with widespread power outages and an 8 p.m. (0100 GMT Tuesday) curfew.Tupelo Police Chief Bart Aguirre said emergency crews were going house to house, searching damaged buildings, and some residential areas were closed off as emergency crews checked downed power lines and gas leaks. Some residents whose homes were destroyed took refuge in a Red Cross shelter at a downtown sports arena.Officials were also picking through the rubble in Lincoln County, Tennessee, near the Alabama state line state late Monday evening, with reports of a tornado that had likely damaged Lincoln County High school and area homes, National Weather Service Meteorologist Mark Richards said.There also appeared to be a tornado that hit about 80 miles east of Nashville.The storm system later pushed into parts of Alabama, where emergency officials said at least two people were killed at a trailer park near Athens.At least 15 people had died in Arkansas in the storm that authorities said produced the first fatalities of this year's tornado season, Governor Mike Beebe said.The White House said President Barack Obama, who has been on a trip abroad, called Beebe to receive an update on the damage and to offer condolences. Medical officials reported at least 100 people in Arkansas were injured.One person was killed in neighboring Oklahoma and another in Iowa, authorities said. (Reporting by Robbie Ward in Tupelo, Mississippi; Emily LeCoz in Oxford, Mississippi; Steve Barnes and Suzi Parker in Little Rock, Arkansas; Verna Gates in Birmingham; Kevin Gray in Miami; and Tim Ghianni in Nashville, Tennessee; Writing by Eric M. Johnson; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn)
EARTHQUAKES
ISAIAH 42:15
15 I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ Worldwide
27 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2014-04-29 09:56:38 UTC-04:00Showing event times using Local System Time (UTC-04:00)27 earthquakes in map area
4.4 Norwegian Sea 2014-04-29 08:08:29 UTC-04:00 10.0 km
4.8 60km SSE of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska 2014-04-29 06:08:49 UTC-04:00 53.3 km
4.7 70km ENE of Peterborough, Australia 2014-04-29 05:54:56 UTC-04:00 15.4 km
2.5 19km ESE of Volcano, Hawaii 2014-04-29 03:45:06 UTC-04:00 4.2 km
3.3 7km N of Levittown, Puerto Rico 2014-04-29 03:34:29 UTC-04:00 94.0 km
2.5 128km NNW of Kodiak Station, Alaska 2014-04-29 02:21:45 UTC-04:00 100.0 km
4.5 48km SE of Ishinomaki, Japan 2014-04-29 01:00:14 UTC-04:00 74.2 km
2.5 55km W of Anchorage, Alaska 2014-04-29 00:46:20 UTC-04:00 71.8 km
2.8 64km NNE of Isabela, Puerto Rico 2014-04-28 22:58:45 UTC-04:00 8.0 km
2.8 36km N of Inyokern, California 2014-04-28 21:49:03 UTC-04:00 3.7 km
4.1 Gulf of Alaska 2014-04-28 20:23:55 UTC-04:00 12.1 km
2.5 11km SSW of Guthrie, Oklahoma 2014-04-28 20:23:15 UTC-04:00 9.0 km
4.8 72km SSE of Kirakira, Solomon Islands 2014-04-28 19:22:46 UTC-04:00 35.0 km
2.6 56km E of Cantwell, Alaska 2014-04-28 19:07:08 UTC-04:00 2.7 km
2.6 14km SE of Bray, Oklahoma 2014-04-28 19:04:44 UTC-04:00 2.6 km
2.5 10km SE of Medford, Oklahoma 2014-04-28 18:44:13 UTC-04:00 2.5 km
3.3 55km NNE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2014-04-28 18:39:49 UTC-04:00 5.0 km
4.8 Reykjanes Ridge 2014-04-28 17:53:26 UTC-04:00 10.0 km
4.5 Greenland Sea 2014-04-28 15:54:26 UTC-04:00 10.0 km
2.5 25km NW of Healdton, Oklahoma 2014-04-28 13:45:54 UTC-04:00 5.0 km
4.7 Kuril Islands 2014-04-28 13:19:28 UTC-04:00 65.9 km
3.0 69km NNE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2014-04-28 13:18:29 UTC-04:00 46.0 km
2.6 21km E of Comanche, Oklahoma 2014-04-28 12:04:07 UTC-04:00 5.0 km
4.9 Central East Pacific Rise 2014-04-28 12:01:06 UTC-04:00 10.0 km
2.5 1km SSE of Stillwater, Oklahoma 2014-04-28 10:45:03 UTC-04:00 3.8 km
2.7 1km ESE of Choctaw, Oklahoma 2014-04-28 10:40:04 UTC-04:00 6.3 km
2.5 6km NW of The Geysers, California 2014-04-28 10:18:30 UTC-04:00 3.4 km
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