THE DOW WAS UP 313 POINTS FRIDAY-HOLIDAY-YESTERDAY-BACK TO BUSINESS TODAY.

JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER. 1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)

HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER

JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.(IN 1 HR THE STOCK MARKETS WORLDWIDE WILL CRASH)
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed:(CONFISCATED) their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

LUKE 2:1-3
1 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.
2  (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)
3  And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.

REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(THE FALSE POPE WHO DEFECTED FROM THE CHRISTIAN FAITH) causeth all,(IN THE WORLD ) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(MICROCHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark,(MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the name of the beast,(WORLD DICTATORS NAME INGRAVED ON YOUR SKIN OR TATTOOED ON YOU OR IN THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the number of his name.(THE NUMBERS OF HIS NAME INGRAVED IN THE MICROCHIP IMLPLANT)-(ALL THESE WILL TELL THE WORLD DICTATOR THAT YOUR WITH HIM AND AGAINST KING JESUS-GOD)
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast:(WORLD LEADER) for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM (6006006)OR(60020202006)(SOME KIND OF NUMBER IMPLANTED IN THE MICROCHIP THAT TELLS THE WORLD DICTATOR AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER THAT YOU GIVE YOUR TOTAL ALLIGIENCE TO HIM AND NOT JESUS)(ITS AN ETERNAL DECISION YOU MAKE)(YOU CHOOSE YOUR OWN DESTINY)(YOU TAKE THE DICTATORS NAME OR NUMBER UNDER YOUR SKIN,YOUR DOOMED TO THE LAKE OF FIRE AND TORMENTS FOREVER,NEVER ENDING MEANT ONLY FOR SATAN AND HIS ANGELS,NOT HUMAN BEINGS).OR YOU REFUSE THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT AND GO ON THE SIDE OF KING JESUS AND RULE FOREVER WITH HIM ON EARTH.YOU CHOOSE,ITS YOUR DECISION.

1 KINGS 10:13-14
13  And king Solomon gave unto the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside that which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty. So she turned and went to her own country, she and her servants.
14  Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold,

GENESIS 49:16-17
16  Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
17  Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.

REVELATION 6:5-6
5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.(A DAYS WAGES FOR A LOAF OF BREAD)

DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.

The Shemitah is coming true.Do people not get it? There is a economic crash every 7 years.
1980: Recession
1987: Stock market crash
1994: Bond market crash
2001: 9/11, dot com, recession
2008: Housing crash
2015: See if something will happen-The central banks will be the death of us. Get ready and embrace yourself for the economic collapse.

BANK RELATED INFORMATION
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/09/bank-related-links.html 
CURRENCIES
http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/currencies
COMMODITIES
http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/commodities 

UPDATE-FEBRUARY 16,2016-12:00AM

DOW MARKET TUESDAY-FEB 16,2016
09:30AM-148.52
10:00AM-99.61
10:30AM-82.52
11:00AM-88.48
11:30AM-94.40
12:00PM-155.76
12:30PM-166.62
01:00PM-197.54
01:30PM-208.43
02:00PM-193.61
02:30PM-204.59
03:00PM-201.85
03:30PM-204.08
04:00PM-222.57+ 16,196.41 - S&P +30.80 1895.58 - NASDAQ +98.44 4435.96
HIGH +223 LOW +80
TSX +173.74 12,554.98 - GOLD $-3.75 $1,204.36 - OIL $-0.38 $29.06

Currency Dilemma Looms for PBOC After Holiday-Robin Ganguly-Lilian Karunungan-February 14, 2016 — 11:00 AM EST-BLOOMBERG

China’s central bank faces a difficult choice. Raising the yuan fixing on Monday to match last week’s dollar drop would undo much of the benefits of January’s depreciation. Any overt weakening bias after the week-long holiday risks worsening global market turmoil.The monetary authority will probably choose the middle road and boost the daily reference rate slightly, according to Credit Suisse Group AG, which expects a fixing of around 6.52 to the dollar. That translates to a gain of 0.17 percent from Feb. 5, compared with a 0.9 percent retreat in a measure of the greenback. The offshore currency strengthened about 0.5 percent while China was on the Lunar New Year break.“They have to take into consideration the big drop in the dollar while they were away,” said Nizam Idris, head of foreign-exchange and fixed-income strategy at Macquarie Bank Ltd. in Singapore. “But unfortunately for China, they’ve made it such that the market tends to read the fixing as a signaling tool, and that makes Monday’s reference rate very important.”The People’s Bank of China has to tread a fine line between boosting the slowest economic growth in 25 years and avoiding a depreciation sharp enough to trigger capital outflows and a currency war. Foreign-exchange reserves fell $99.5 billion in January, the second-biggest drop on record, as the PBOC limited the yuan’s decline. Data scheduled to be released Monday will probably show exports contracted for the seventh straight month, making the case for a strong currency more difficult.-Outflow Risk-PBOC Governor Zhou Xiaochuan said there’s no basis for continued depreciation of the yuan because the balance of payments is good, capital outflows are normal and the exchange rate is basically stable against a basket of currencies, according to an interview published Saturday in Caixin magazine.The onshore yuan has declined 1.2 percent this year, adding to the risk of further outflows. An estimated $1 trillion of funds left the country in 2015, more than seven times the amount of the previous year, as the yuan plunged 4.5 percent. This came as the PBOC devalued the currency on Aug. 11 in a move that rattled global markets and sent equities and commodities into a tailspin.The monetary authority has stepped up efforts to stem the exodus, warning speculators that they will be punished. It intervened in the Hong Kong market last month after the yuan’s offshore exchange rate sank to a record discount to the onshore rate. Apart from selling dollars, the monetary authority also gave guidance to some Chinese lenders in the city to suspend yuan lending to curb short selling, a move that contributed to the overnight interbank lending rate surging to an all-time high of 66.8 percent on Jan. 12.-’Plan Unchanged’-“We do not expect the fix to be too strong over the course of the week as they don’t want a strong currency in general,” said Roy Teo, Singapore-based senior currency strategist at ABN Amro Bank NV, which Bloomberg data show had the most-accurate forecasts for the yuan last year. “Their plan, which has not changed and will not change, is basically to have a gradual depreciation of the currency against a trade-weighted basket. They will move along with the flow but there will not be too strong a yuan.”Teo was referring to the CFETS RMB Index, which the PBOC unveiled in December while saying that the yuan’s performance shouldn’t be measured against the dollar alone. The basket is composed of 13 currencies, with weightings based mainly on international trade. The dollar has the largest share with 26.4 percent, followed by the euro and the yen with 21.4 percent and 14.7 percent, respectively.-Limited Room-Authorities can keep the exchange rate basically stable against the basket because the nation has ample currency reserves and a solid financial system, the China Foreign Exchange Trade System said earlier this month. The nation needs to keep the yuan steady to limit outflows, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Policy makers are learning that they have very limited room to maneuver and that yuan weakness can be counterproductive, strategists led by Robin Brooks wrote in a note.“I doubt they are going to rock the boat with a weaker fixing,” said Tommy Xie, a Singapore-based economist at Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp. “I expect a slightly stronger reference rate on Monday because of the weakness we saw in the dollar.”

PBOC's Zhou Breaks His Long Silence-Enda Curran-February 14, 2016 — 11:00 AM EST-BLOOMBERG

China’s central bank has stepped up efforts to restore stability to the nation’s currency and economy, with Governor Zhou Xiaochuan breaking his long silence to say there’s no basis for continued yuan depreciation.The nation’s balance of payments is good, capital outflows are normal and the exchange rate is basically stable against a basket of currencies, Zhou said in an interview published Saturday in Caixin magazine. That’s an escalation in verbal support after such comments have been left in recent months to deputies and the central bank research department’s chief economist.Zhou dismissed speculation that China plans to tighten capital controls and said there’s no need to worry about a short-term decline in foreign-exchange reserves. The country has ample holdings for payments and to defend stability, he said."He’s desperately trying to make sure that all of his work in the past few years on capital liberalization does not go to waste," said Victor Shih, a professor at the University of California at San Diego who studies China’s politics and finance. "He’s trying hard to instill investor confidence in the renminbi so that the Chinese government does not have to resort to the extreme measure of unwinding all of the progress on offshore renminbi in the past few years."The comments come as Chinese financial markets prepare to reopen Monday after the week-long Lunar New Year holiday. The weakening exchange rate and declining Chinese share markets have fueled global turmoil and helped send world stocks to their lowest levels in more than two years.-Ample Liquidity-Lost amid the angst over China’s stocks, currency and sliding foreign exchange reserves is the flush liquidity situation at home. The People’s Bank of China has been putting its money where its mouth is, pumping cash into the financial system to offset record capital outflows amid fears the yuan could weaken further.Data due Monday is expected to show China’s broadest measure of new credit surged in January on a seasonal uptick in lending, and as companies borrowed to pay off foreign debt. Aggregate financing likely grew 2.2 trillion yuan ($335 billion), according to the median forecast of a Bloomberg survey of economists.Bloomberg’s China Monetary Conditions Index, a gauge that includes inflation-adjusted interest rates and the exchange rate, has been improving since June. Past episodes of improvement have presaged either an acceleration in economic growth, or a stabilization.Even as foreign exchange reserves have declined since mid 2014 -- to a four-year low of $3.23 trillion in January -- M1 money supply has continued to rise.-Cash Injections-The central bank has turned to cash injections instead of cutting benchmark interest rates, as cuts could further exacerbate capital outflows. Net injections have totaled more than 1 trillion yuan since mid-January, or about the same as a 1 percentage point cut to banks’ required reserve ratios -- the traditional way to boost liquidity. The difference is that injections are temporary and can be scaled back if policy makers don’t roll over lending facilities, whereas a RRR cut is more permanent."The actions taken already arguably have taken away the need for an immediate ‘announcement event’ of a reserve ratio cut, which could have hit sentiment towards the yuan further," said David Mann, chief Asia economist at Standard Chartered Plc.China has no incentive to depreciate the currency to boost net exports, and there’s no direct link between the nation’s gross domestic product and its exchange rate, Zhou said in the Caixin interview. Capital outflows need not be capital flight, and it would be hard to implement tighter controls because of the size of global trade, the movement of people and the number of Chinese living abroad, he added.The country will not peg the yuan to a basket of currencies but rather will seek to rely more on a basket for reference and try to manage daily volatility versus the dollar, Zhou said. The bank also will use a wider range of macro-economic data to determine the exchange rate, he said.Packed Cinemas-Meantime, China’s economy continues to give mixed signals. While areas like consumption and services show signs of holding up, the manufacturing sector remains in the doldrums. Trade numbers due Monday are expected to show that exports fell 1.8 percent in U.S. dollar terms in January from a year earlier, while imports dropped 3.6 percent.Retail sales over the Spring Festival holiday rose 11.2 percent from the same vacation period a year earlier, with cinemas posting sharp increases in box-office sales, the country’s Ministry of Commerce said in a statement Saturday.A fuller reading on how China’s economy has started 2016 won’t be available until next month, when fresh readings on retail sales, investment and industrial output are due."The flush monetary condition is expected to help buffer the acute downside risk in the Chinese economy," said Andy Ji, a Singapore-based foreign-exchange strategist and economist at Commonwealth Bank of Australia.

Five Countries Being Squeezed by Currency Pegs-Maria Levitov-February 14, 2016 — 4:00 PM EST-BLOOMBERG

Only on the streets of cities like Cairo, Abuja or Tashkent can you gauge just how much pressure developing countries are under to ease controls on their currencies.Individuals and businesses in five nations across central Asia, the Middle East and Africa are paying anywhere from 4 percent to 136 percent more than official exchange rates to get their hands on dollars, according to a Bloomberg survey. So-called black markets flourish at times when there’s a shortage of greenbacks and are one indicator of how much a currency should be allowed to depreciate to reach its fair value.Central banks that uphold pegs have been under strain after tumbling commodity prices and slowing global growth weakened currencies from Brazil to Russia by at least 19 percent in the past year. In the four months that followed China’s shock devaluation of the yuan in August, Kazakhstan, Argentina and Azerbaijan abandoned control of their exchange rates to boost competitiveness and avoid draining reserves.“There is enormous pressure on some of the pegs in emerging markets, with the unofficial rate diverging significantly from the official one,” said Bernd Berg, an emerging-markets strategist at Societe Generale SA in London. “Countries like Nigeria are maintaining fixed exchange rates that are unsustainable. Once the pegs break, investors in the local currency face significant losses.”In Argentina’s case, the move to a free float in December eliminated the 4.2-peso gap between the official and black market rates. In the months prior to the move, it cost as much as 50 percent more to buy the currency on the street than at the central bank rate.That premium is similar to what currency vendors in Nigeria’s capital Abuja are charging for dollars now, while hawkers in Tashkent are demanding more than double to convert the Uzbeki soum. The cost to buy the U.S. currency in unregulated trading in Egypt keeps rising even after the central bank devalued the pound three times last year.The street rate “is a better reflection of where a market-based rate should be," said Simon Quijano-Evans, the chief emerging-markets strategist at Commerzbank AG in London. It shows “how domestic participants and individuals really feel about their currencies,” he said.The existence of a black market isn’t the only indicator that a country may be on the verge of changing currency policy. There wasn’t a parallel rate in Kazakhstan when the country relinquished control of the tenge to boost competitiveness for its goods in neighboring China and Russia.Below is a selection of countries where thriving unregulated trading may be forcing central banks to reassess currency policy as oil prices trade near 12-year lows, unrest in the Middle East chokes revenue from tourism and devaluations in key export markets hurt trade. To see the countries on a map, click here.-Nigeria-Currency: naira-Since Africa’s biggest crude producer started managing the naira at 197-199 per dollar in March 2015, oil prices tumbled more than 40 percent. Under these pressures, central bank reserves fell to $28 billion this month, the lowest in at least five years, while an executive director at the nation’s biggest company, Dangote Group, said last week the currency policy has created an “extremely tight” supply of foreign exchange. Non-deliverable forwards predict the naira will drop another 30 percent from the official rate to 288 in 12 months, approaching the black market level that exceeds 300 per dollar. -Angola-Currency: kwanza-The stress may be even greater further south in the continent’s second-largest oil producer. Angola has been reducing the amount of foreign exchange it makes available to banks and businesses over the past two years to stem the drain on reserves that fell to the lowest levels since 2011 last year. The central bank let the kwanza depreciate 24 percent in 2015 and another 15 percent last month. But that may not be enough, with hawkers selling the currency at a premium of 136 percent to the official rate at 161 on Friday.-Egypt-Currency: pound-Egypt’s ability to defend the currency with reserves has been crippled since the so-called Arab Spring uprising five years ago triggered political instability, drove out foreign investors and curbed tourism, one of the country’s biggest sources of hard currency. The pound, which has fallen 26 percent since the end of 2010, is still under pressure as street vendors in Cairo charge 8.75 to buy dollars, compared with an official rate of 7.83. Since taking over as central bank governor in November, Tarek Amer has sought to shore up confidence in the pound in part by paying foreign stock and bond investors the money owed to them that had been trapped in the country and by limiting some imports.-Uzbekistan-Currency: soum-A slowdown in China and a plunge in the currencies of Russia and Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan’s biggest export markets, are weighing on the central Asian economy. While low external debt and “large” international reserves provide a cushion, Uzbekistan is likely to allow the soum to weaken at least 15 percent this year to restore competitiveness, according to Per Hammarlund, chief emerging-market strategist at SEB SA in Stockholm. The black market rate of 5,950 in soum is more than double the official level at a record-low 2,837, according to data compiled by Bloomberg and the American Chamber of Commerce in the country. The central bank let the exchange rate slide 13 percent in 2015, compared with drops of 20 percent for the ruble and 46 percent for the tenge.-Tajikistan-Currency: somoni-This country of 8 million people borders Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, China and Afghanistan in the heart of Central Asia. It relies on remittances from workers abroad, notably in Russia, for about half of its gross domestic product, according to SEB’s Hammarlund, who predicted the somoni will depreciate by about 30 percent against the ruble in the coming months. The Tajik currency dropped 25 percent last year and trades at 7.84 per dollar, compared with an unofficial rate of 8.15, according to data compiled by Bloomberg and figures from the American Chamber of Commerce in the capital Dushanbe.

Japan's 'Abenomics' on the ropes as yen soars, markets plunge-AFP By Hiroshi Hiyama-FEB 14,16-YAHOONEWS

Japan's bid to revive its once-soaring economy is on the ropes as an equity market bloodbath and resurgent yen threaten to knock Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's growth plan to the canvas.Abe met with his hand-picked central bank chief Haruhiko Kuroda for an emergency meeting Friday amid huge volatility on global markets, which is wiping out the gains Abenomics has achieved since the premier swept to power in late 2012.All eyes will be on Japan's fourth-quarter GDP data on Monday with many economists expecting a contraction of about 0.7 percent in the world's number three economy.That could deal a near fatal blow to Abe's easy money policies, which he hailed as the answer to beating the deflation blamed for holding back growth in the fast-ageing nation, analysts warned."The risk is not that Japan faces an imminent financial crisis or that the Abe administration could collapse, but rather that the government's economic programme simply fails to achieve its goals," said Tobias Harris, political risk analyst at consultancy Teneo.That would leave "Japan no more capable of reckoning with the implications of demographic decline than before Abe took power".Abe's plan -- big government spending, central bank monetary easing and reforms to the highly regulated economy -- appeared to bear fruit at first.The yen weakened sharply, which boosted Japanese exporters' profits and sparked a huge stock market rally that bolstered Abe's claim that "Japan is back".But sustained growth in the economy has been elusive and Abe's efforts to overhaul the economy have been widely criticised as half-hearted."(The plan) actually worked, but now it is moving in reverse," said Takuji Okubo, director of Japan Macro Advisors in Tokyo."Policymakers are not really helping to make Japan robust enough so that the economy can actually sustain growth... They have basically failed and need to bear the blame".- 'Limited impact' -Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 is down about 30 percent from its summer highs, while the yen soared nearly four percent on the dollar this week.Tokyo appears to have little ability to control the yen, which jumped as traders bet on currencies seen as safe in times of turmoil.The huge forex moves have sparked speculation that the central bank will intervene in markets for the first time since 2011 to stem the yen's rise -- just weeks after the BoJ adopted a widely-panned negative interest rate policy.The shock move was aimed at penalising banks for storing excess reserves at the BoJ rather than making loans which could boost growth.But many observers disparaged the move as desperate, while the yen soared on the back of fears about a slowdown in the global economy, marking a serious threat to Japan Inc.'s bottom line.That in turn could dash Abe's hopes the companies that benefited most from his policies will lift employee wages during the annual spring labour talks."The negative response to the BoJ's (negative rate) decision threatens gains made since Prime Minister Shinzo Abe returned to power in December 2012," Harris said, of the two-time premier whose first term ended ingloriously in 2007."To the extent that the stronger yen is driven by external factors –- slowing growth in China and its impact on emerging markets, and weak demand in other advanced economies –- any additional measures undertaken by the Abe administration or the BoJ may at best have a limited impact."Tokyo is calling on cautious firms to raise pay so workers have more money in their pocket to spend, which would drive inflation toward the BoJ's ambitious two-percent target.But few seem willing to answer those calls and a shrinking economy could deal a death blow to Tokyo's spending hopes altogether."Businesses have already begun cutting profit forecasts, a trend that could continue as the yen strengthens," Harris warned.Now, Abe must decide whether to follow through on another consumption tax rise next year, seen as critical to containing Japan's massive national debt.A tax hike could further damage consumer spending, as doubts about Abenomics mount.In a recent survey by the influential Nikkei newspaper, 42 percent of responders said they did not approve of Abe's growth plan, against 37 percent who did."Although a recession is not our main scenario, we expect the Japanese economy to stay lacklustre in 2016," BNP Paribas said in a commentary.
 

EARTHQUAKES

EZEKIEL 37:7,11-14
7  So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.(POSSIBLE QUAKE BRINGS ISRAEL BACK TO LIFE-SO NOISE AND SHAKING-QUAKES WILL ALSO DESTROY ISRAELS ENEMIES)
11  Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
12  Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
13  And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
14  And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD.

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.

UPDATE-HOLIDAY FEBRUARY 15-16, 2016-11:55PM-QUAKES

1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ Worldwide
31 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2016-02-16 23:59:14 UTCShowing event times using UTC31 earthquakes in map area

    3.5 59km W of Anchor Point, Alaska 2016-02-16 23:55:49 UTC 102.7 km
    5.1 Southern East Pacific Rise 2016-02-16 23:48:35 UTC 10.0 km
    4.3 10km WNW of Big Pine, California 2016-02-16 23:27:30 UTC 15.6 km
    2.8 11km WNW of Big Pine, California 2016-02-16 23:25:10 UTC 15.0 km
    2.9 11km WNW of Big Pine, California 2016-02-16 23:09:27 UTC 14.8 km
    4.7 34km SSW of Bokakhat, India 2016-02-16 23:06:56 UTC 10.0 km
    2.9 35km SSW of Alva, Oklahoma 2016-02-16 23:04:38 UTC 11.3 km
    4.8 10km WNW of Big Pine, California 2016-02-16 23:04:26 UTC 15.8 km
    2.6 19km ESE of Medford, Oklahoma 2016-02-16 22:32:25 UTC 4.7 km
    4.5 74km SW of Orcopampa, Peru 2016-02-16 22:23:50 UTC 87.3 km
    4.5 205km S of Ngulung Wetan, Indonesia 2016-02-16 21:29:45 UTC 44.4 km
    5.0 48km WSW of Taron, Papua New Guinea 2016-02-16 19:07:16 UTC 54.2 km
    2.7 29km ESE of Sutton-Alpine, Alaska 2016-02-16 18:07:31 UTC 4.6 km
    4.5 Vanuatu region 2016-02-16 17:45:40 UTC 614.1 km
    4.5 30km S of Coquimbo, Chile 2016-02-16 16:50:52 UTC 49.7 km
    4.2 83km WNW of Ovalle, Chile 2016-02-16 15:49:34 UTC 18.2 km
    4.8 129km WNW of Neiafu, Tonga 2016-02-16 15:27:19 UTC 246.6 km
    4.8 0km ESE of Babakan, Indonesia 2016-02-16 15:05:48 UTC 126.7 km
    4.4 65km SW of Taltal, Chile 2016-02-16 13:21:48 UTC 55.1 km
    2.6 5km NNW of Big Bear City, California 2016-02-16 13:03:53 UTC 1.7 km
    4.8 Off the coast of Michoacan, Mexico 2016-02-16 12:01:42 UTC 56.8 km
    2.9 66km NNE of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska 2016-02-16 11:57:08 UTC 110.1 km
    3.5 87km W of Anchor Point, Alaska 2016-02-16 11:02:05 UTC 111.3 km
    5.4 99km W of Camana, Peru 2016-02-16 10:46:27 UTC 10.4 km
    3.9 5km NNW of Big Bear City, California 2016-02-16 09:24:20 UTC 1.9 km
    4.6 93km NNE of Bitung, Indonesia 2016-02-16 05:14:55 UTC 133.9 km
    3.0 32km W of Alberto Oviedo Mota, B.C., MX 2016-02-16 04:46:57 UTC 0.8 km
    2.8 8km N of Luther, Oklahoma 2016-02-16 04:20:07 UTC 5.0 km
    4.8 30km NNW of Taitung City, Taiwan 2016-02-16 04:04:56 UTC 10.0 km
    2.6 22km NE of Soledad, California 2016-02-16 03:53:39 UTC 2.6 km
    4.4 3km NNW of El Rosario, Nicaragua 2016-02-16 02:50:03 UTC 97.1 km
    4.6 25km NNW of Taitung City, Taiwan 2016-02-16 02:46:01 UTC 10.0 km
    2.5 6km SW of Guanica, Puerto Rico 2016-02-16 02:08:23 UTC 13.0 km
    4.6 269km NW of Anadyr', Russia 2016-02-16 00:44:55 UTC 15.0 km
    2.9 114km NE of Kodiak, Alaska 2016-02-16 00:29:44 UTC 8.6 km
    4.0 16km NNE of Yangiqo`rg`on, Uzbekistan 2016-02-15 23:58:19 UTC 10.0 km
    4.8 Off the coast of Ecuador 2016-02-15 21:53:30 UTC 10.0 km
    3.1 8km WSW of Perry, Oklahoma 2016-02-15 21:44:32 UTC 3.8 km
    3.3 70km W of Anchor Point, Alaska 2016-02-15 20:51:21 UTC 98.9 km
    6.2 219km NW of Auckland Island, New Zealand 2016-02-15 19:28:04 UTC 10.0 km
    2.8 33km NW of Fairview, Oklahoma 2016-02-15 19:27:31 UTC 15.1 km
    5.3 7km SSE of Krestena, Greece 2016-02-15 18:55:01 UTC 15.5 km
    3.5 13km SE of Mammoth Lakes, California 2016-02-15 18:47:52 UTC 5.3 km
    3.8 13km SE of Mammoth Lakes, California 2016-02-15 15:42:52 UTC 5.3 km
    5.7 35km WNW of Havelu, Tonga 2016-02-15 15:02:33 UTC 10.0 km
    2.5 21km SW of Perry, Oklahoma 2016-02-15 14:49:14 UTC 5.9 km
    4.4 9km SE of Trujillo, Venezuela 2016-02-15 13:14:24 UTC 5.0 km
    2.6 17km E of Waukomis, Oklahoma 2016-02-15 13:10:33 UTC 5.1 km
    4.2 36km SSW of Anchorage, Alaska 2016-02-15 10:41:45 UTC 25.7 km
    2.8 60km S of La Romana, Dominican Republic 2016-02-15 08:03:33 UTC 88.0 km
    4.2 31km NNW of Taitung City, Taiwan 2016-02-15 05:22:38 UTC 10.7 km
    2.8 28km NW of Fairview, Oklahoma 2016-02-15 03:45:00 UTC 5.3 km
    2.8 22km NNE of Isabela, Puerto Rico 2016-02-15 02:18:15 UTC 80.0 km
    2.8 30km NW of Fairview, Oklahoma 2016-02-15 01:52:25 UTC 5.0 km
    2.8 1km WNW of Concord, California 2016-02-15 00:17:24 UTC 16.7 km

STOCK MARKET AND EARTHQUAKE NEWS

http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/02/weekend-quake-results-for-feb-13-142016.html 
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/02/powerful-65-quake-hits-indonesia.html 

http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/02/the-dow-was-down-254-points-thursday.html 

http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/02/the-dow-was-down-99-points-wednesday.html 

http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/02/the-dow-was-down-12-points.html 
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/02/the-dow-was-down-177-points.html 
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/02/the-dow-was-down-211-points-friday.html 
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/02/weekend-quake-results-for-feb-06-072016.html 
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/02/gigantic-67-quake-strikes-off-taiwan.html 
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/02/the-dow-was-up-79-points-thursday.html 
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/02/the-dow-was-up-183-points-wednesday.html 
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/02/the-dow-was-down-295-points-tuesday.html 
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/02/the-dow-was-down-17-points-monday.html 
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/01/the-dow-was-up-396-points-friday.html 
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/01/weekend-quake-results-for-jan-30-31.html 
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/01/the-dow-was-up-125-points-thursday.html

REPORT ASSAD BUILT 7 STORY UNDERGROUND BUNKER.

JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER. 1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)

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)

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.(I belive ISIS-DAMASCUS GET NUKED BY ISRAEL)

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)

Report: Assad built seven-story underground war bunker-Syrian rebels claim president set up facility beneath Damascus reinforced against chemical weapon attacks-By Ari Solomon February 16, 2016, 12:53 am-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

A Syrian rebel group claims that Syrian President Bashar Assad built an underground town in the Damascus area capable of being used as headquarters for the regime’s senior military and political leadership, the Maariv newspaper said Monday.The Army of Islam, one of the largest rebel organizations, comprising some 50 Islamist factions, revealed the existence of the underground complex, in a region where it said it had taken control, in a documentary film.Referred to as “Assad’s Neighborhood,” the base reportedly extends seven stories underground, contains multiple command centers, and features a maze of escape routes that extend into the surrounding mountainside.“After entering the tunnels, our fighters were surprised to find routes for vehicles and roads with lighting,” said field commander Abu Samir. He added: “Five huge gates protect the entrance to a sterile area capable of safeguarding against chemical weapons and managing the entire war.”Rebel groups and forces loyal to the regime continue to fight for control of Damascus and its outskirts.Footage of the underground ‘neighborhood’ is shown from about 37:00 in the video below.

Samantha Power: Iran deal compliance ‘strong’ so far-On visit to Israel, US envoy says Tehran has met conditions of nuclear agreement to date, but warns it remains regional threat-By AFP and Times of Israel staff February 15, 2016, 11:44 pm

Washington’s UN ambassador Samantha Power said in Israel on Monday that compliance with the Iran nuclear deal was so far “strong,” but warned Tehran was still helping fuel conflict and remained a threat.“What this deal does if implemented — and so far the implementation has been strong but it’s very early days — is it cuts off the pathways to a nuclear weapon and it gives us much more visibility into Iran’s program than we had before,” Power told a group of Israeli students.She added later that “Iran of course is still a threat. Iran is supporting terrorism. Iran is supporting parties to conflict like the Assad regime (in Syria)”.Last July’s Vienna agreement between Iran and the permanent five members of the UN Security Council plus Germany (P5+1) sees sanctions lifted in return for Tehran ensuring its nuclear program remains for civilian use.Israel strongly opposed the deal with its arch-foe, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warning it would not block Iran’s path to nuclear weapons.He also said lifting sanctions would allow Iran to further back proxy militants in the region, including terror groups such as Hezbollah.Netanyahu’s outspoken criticism of the accord, particularly in a speech to the US Congress, led to a rift with US President Barack Obama’s administration.He has since scaled back his rhetoric, and the United States and Netanyahu’s government are currently negotiating a new 10-year defence aid package expected to be an increase over the current $3.1 billion Israel receives annually.Power has met Israeli and Palestinian leaders during her visit, expected to end Tuesday.She said Washington’s aim was to move the two sides towards “being in a position to restart the negotiations, which is not a position they are in right now”.Power met Netanyahu earlier Monday and said they discussed “steps that could be taken to preserve prospects” for a two-state solution.They also discussed the conflict in Syria and the threat from the Islamic State group, she said.The envoy also met with Jewish and Arab children at a Jerusalem school targeted in a 2014 arson attack.Power’s visit comes amid a wave of Palestinian knife, gun and car-ramming attacks that erupted in October and has killed over 25 Israelis, as well as an Eritrean, an American and a Palestinian bystander.

Morocco’s king dispatches Jewish aide to push Israeli-Palestinian talks-Channel 2 says senior officials from both sides will meet this week under auspices of Sam Ben Shitrit, with backing from Abbas and Netanyahu-By Raoul Wootliff February 15, 2016, 10:57 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

The king of Morocco has reportedly sent a veteran Moroccan Jewish negotiator to push for a meeting between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, in order to renew peace talks.Mohammed VI is making efforts to facilitate the meeting using Sam Ben-Shitrit, Channel 2 news reported Monday.Ben-Shitrit is the founder and chairman of the World Federation of Moroccan Jews, and has on a number of occasions acted as a middleman between Israel and Morocco, which do not have official diplomatic relations.According to the TV report, Ben-Shitrit has arranged a meeting between several unnamed high-level PA and Israeli public officials to take place later this week. Both Netanyahu and Abbas gave the okay for the meeting and even reportedly expressed willingness to meet each other.Morocco kingNetanyahu reportedly told Ben-Shitrit that the king’s plan is an opportunity to restart talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.In a recent meeting with Ben-Shitrit, Abbas, for his part, said he would be willing to meet with Netanyahu without agreed-upon preconditions for restarting negotiations, Channel 2 said.After that meeting, Ben-Shitrit is said to have sent a letter to Netanyahu quoting Abbas as saying, “At the beginning of next month, I will write a personal letter to Netanyahu proposing a meeting with him.”The Israeli and Palestinian leader have not held an official meeting in over five years; they were last photographed together in November 2015, shaking hands on the sidelines of the climate change conference held in Paris. After a group photo of more than 150 world leaders attending the conference, Netanyahu and Abbas could be seen exchanging words in a meeting that lasted no more that a few seconds.“It’s important for the world to see that we’re ready to talk,” Netanyahu said later, stressing, however, that it was merely an act of “protocol” since they happened to be standing close to each other. “On the other hand, we have no illusions about Abu Mazen (Abbas). Incitement plays a central role in [fostering] terrorism and Abu Mazen must stop his incitement,” he added.The prime minister has accused Abbas of inciting against Israel, lying about ostensible Israeli plans to change arrangements on the Temple Mount, and thereby playing a role in encouraging the ongoing wave of Palestinian terror attacks on Israelis.The king of Morocco’s reported efforts to facilitate a new meeting come as a number of international players are also pushing for a renewal of peace talks.Meeting with Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Monday, US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power reiterated her country’s commitment to advancing a two-state solution, as well as a peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.On Friday, representatives of the Quartet of Middle East peacemakers announced plans to try to kick-start long-moribund negotiations between the two sides.In a joint statement by the European Union’s foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, US Secretary of State John Kerry and the UN’s Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson, they said they will prepare a report on the current situation between Israel and the Palestinians, with an eye toward resuming peace talks.The new report would include “recommendations that can help inform international discussions on the best way to advance the two-state solution.”Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.

SIGNS IN THE SUN, MOON AND STARS-CHEMICAL WEAPONS

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences;(BIOLOGICAL/CHEMICAL/NUCLEAR) and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun,(HEATING UP-SOLAR ECLIPSES) and in the moon,(MAN ON THE MOON-LUNAR ECLIPSES) and in the stars;(ASTEROIDS-PROPHECY SIGNS) 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)

Diplomat: Islamic State used mustard gas against Kurdish fighters-Global chemical weapons watchdog confirms first use of the gas in Iraq since Saddam Hussein’s fall in 2003-By Times of Israel staff February 15, 2016, 7:02 pm

Islamic State terrorists employed mustard gas against Kurdish fighters during battles in Iraqi Kurdistan last August, an unnamed diplomat confirmed Monday, Reuters reported.This marks the first documented use of chemical weapons in Iraq since the fall of strongman Saddam Hussein in December 2003, according to a source at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), Reuters said.Samples tested for the chemical, which causes burning to the eyes, skin and respiratory tract, came back positive after 35 Kurdish militants had become ill while fighting IS near Erbil, northwest of Baghdad and the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region in Iraq.Reuters also quoted an official as saying that the issue will likely be discussed when the OPCW Executive Council meets again in a month.According to Reuters, experts are unclear as to how Islamic State could have acquired the chemical weapons, or whether the group has access to more.Another diplomat told Reuters that the mustard gas could have come from a Syrian stockpile, which would point to the Syrian regime having concealed parts of its own chemical weapons program that was dismantled three years ago under international observers.“If Syria has indeed given up its chemical weapons to the international community, it is only the part that has been declared to the OPCW and the declaration was obviously incomplete,” the diplomat told Reuters.

High Court challenges ‘stability clause’ in controversial gas deal-Government has a week to answer questions on provision preventing changes to framework agreement for 10-15 years-By Raoul Wootliff February 15, 2016, 10:25 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

The High Court of Justice has challenged a key component of the government’s controversial framework agreement to develop Israel’s newly found natural gas fields, questioning its ability to enshrine the terms of the deal for years to come, without Knesset legislation.In an opinion published Monday, the court expressed its reservations over a clause included in the agreement, which prevents the state from making any substantial changes to the framework deal for 10-15 years. It demanded the government respond to its questions within seven days.“We are focusing at the moment on the stipulations dealing with the stability of the deal, and with the question of whether this sort of clause is possible without legislation,” the court wrote.“In order to remove all doubts, we want to know whether there is any room to write this clause into law,” the statement added.The agreement would grant a two-company partnership — America’s Noble Energy and Israel’s Delek Group — the rights to develop the Leviathan gas field in the Mediterranean, the largest yet found in Israel’s territorial waters.The opinion was published following a Sunday appearance of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before the court where he urged the deal be approved, saying it was critical to ensuring Israel’s security and position in the Middle East.If the current deal isn’t approved, he told the panel of five justices, “we will lose our export potential to Jordan, Turkey, Egypt, the Palestinians and also the European Union.”The appearance by the prime minister at the High Court to defend the deal was nearly unheard of in the annals of the court, and came after Netanyahu, in his capacity as economy minister, requested permission to testify in person in response to a court challenge against the draft agreement.Netanyahu sought to convince the judges to dismiss five petitions submitted by opposition parties and a handful of NGOs seeking an injunction against the plan.The “stability clause” — which has been included at the behest of the gas companies, fearful that a change to the framework would affect the profitability of the project — has caused considerable opposition from the groups protesting the deal. But some predict that, without it, the companies may make good on their threats to pull out altogether.“The public regards the stability clause as though the state surrendered to the gas companies. The state needs stability, perhaps even more than we do. Without stability, there can be no development of the Leviathan reserve or other gas reserves. And if there’s no development of the gas reserves, it’s the state that loses,” a senior gas company executive told Globes.Echoing testimony he gave to a Knesset panel before the deal was approved, Netanyahu warned the court that “Israel is seen [overseas] as an over-regulated state, and this creates a significant problem for us. Other countries will go to our enemies and take [gas] from them.”These fears, he said, explain why “we are now in a decisive moment.”In an affidavit submitted to the court last week ahead of his testimony, Netanyahu argued that a failure to implement the deal would damage Israel’s security, economy and foreign relations.The court’s decision on the deal could be decisive, as Netanyahu is fighting for the right to overrule a December 2014 ruling by Israel’s then-antitrust commissioner David Gilo that found the Noble-Delek consortium may violate antitrust rules.In December 2015, Netanyahu successfully overcame a year-long delay in approving the controversial deal in the Knesset and cabinet — but only by appointing himself the minister of economy in place of Aryeh Deri, who resigned.The economy minister is empowered through Article 52 of the Antitrust Law to override an antitrust ruling if the minister determines the monopoly to be in Israel’s national-security or diplomatic interest.After becoming economy minister in November 2015, Netanyahu finally signed the controversial agreement with the gas companies on December 17.The current court hearings are the final hurdle for the leasing agreement, with lawmakers and NGOs, including the Movement for Quality Government, arguing that the prime minister’s justifications for invoking Article 52 do not fulfill the demand of the law for a clear advantage in national security or diplomacy.Opponents have argued that the de facto duopoly in the gas market will lead to higher prices for Israeli consumers, while supporters of the deal say the protections given to the gas companies are necessary to entice them to invest the billions of dollars upfront in order to develop the fields.Five separate petitions have been lodged with the High Court urging it to throw out the deal over these and other legal issues.Times of Israel staff contributed to this report

Top Israeli researcher: Robots could take over most jobs within 30 years-Society faces its biggest challenge in finding meaning in a life mostly run by machines, warns Rice University’s Moshe Vardi-By Times of Israel staff February 13, 2016, 8:27 pm

A renowned Israeli professor of computer science says robots could take over most human jobs within the next 30 years, leaving mankind with a lot of free time and little to do.Moshe Vardi, of Houston, Texas’s Rice University, told the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington on Saturday that society’s major challenge in the coming decades will be to find meaning in a mostly automated life.“We are approaching a time when machines will be able to outperform humans at almost any task,” Vardi said. “Robots are doing more and more jobs that people used to do. Pharmacists, prison guards, boning chicken, bartending, more and more jobs we’re able to mechanize them.With robots eliminating many middle-class jobs, Vardi said unemployment could rise beyond 50 percent.“I believe that society needs to confront this question before it is upon us: If machines are capable of doing almost any work humans can do, what will humans do? …The question I want to put forward is, ‘Does the technology we are developing ultimately benefit mankind?'”Vardi’s warning quickly made international headlines on Saturday.While many may relish the thought of an existence with few work hours and copious amounts of leisure time, Vardi said he was not at all certain this would be healthy to the human race.“A typical answer is that if machines will do all our work, we will be free to pursue leisure activities,” he said. “I do not find this a promising future, as I do not find the prospect of leisure-only life appealing. That seems to me a dystopia. I believe that work is essential to human well-being.“Humanity is about to face perhaps its greatest challenge ever, which is finding meaning in life after the end of ‘In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread’…We need to rise to the occasion and meet this challenge before human labor becomes obsolete.Vardi has won three IBM Outstanding Innovation Awards, as well as a Gödel Prize for outstanding papers in the area of theoretical computer science. He chaired Rice University’s Computer Science Department between 1994-2002. He has authored over 400 technical papers in his field.In December, The Times of Israel reported that China will invest $20 million in Israeli robot technology, in the hope that the tech Israel develops will help catapult its economy. The Israeli Robotics Association signed an agreement with a coalition of Chinese investors and the city of Guangzhou, one of China’s biggest industrial centers, to build a robotics R&D center in Israel dedicated to developing robot tech that China will be able to use to automate and modernize its massive industrial base.Zvi Shiller, a professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics Faculty of Engineering Ariel University and chairman of the Israel Robotics Association, said Israel is one of the most advanced countries in the world in robot development and research, “but we don’t have a lot of opportunity to deploy that technology because our economy is too small.“China is a major opportunity for us, and manufacturers there are very motivated to take advantage of our technology. There are thousands of factories that will be interested in the technology developed at the Institute. It’s like a second Industrial Revolution – and Israeli technology is at the center of it.”Economists and policy-makers are increasingly aware of the problems posed by advances in artificial intelligence, which render humans obsolete in many fields.Scientists and tech experts — including professor Stephen Hawking, entrepreneur Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak — have warned of the dangers of autonomous robots in the battlefield.AP and David Shamah contributed to this report.

DRUG PUSHERS AND ADDICTS

1 PET 5:8
8 Be sober,(NOT DRUGED UP OR ALCOHOLICED) be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

REVELATION 18:23
23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries (DRUGS) were all nations deceived.

REVELATION 9:21
21 Neither repented they of their murders,(KILLING) nor of their sorceries (DRUG ADDICTS AND DRUG PUSHERS), nor of their fornication,(SEX OUTSIDE MARRIAGE OR PROSTITUTION FOR MONEY) nor of their thefts.(STEALING)

Medical marijuana company predicts profits boom-Anticipating $84 million in sales in 2019, Israeli-founded Cannabics seeks investment as it touts treatment for cancer sufferers-By Sue Surkes February 15, 2016, 10:40 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

A company founded by Israelis that has developed a marijuana capsule for cancer sufferers predicts that the legal cannabis industry will outstrip both the US film and organic food industries within five years.Cannabics Pharmaceuticals estimates that the medical marijuana market has the potential to reach $3.6 million in the US alone, the Globes newspaper reported Monday.The company, whose share price has fallen along with the rest of the sector since peaking in 2014, is currently presenting its wares to Israeli, American and European investors as part of a bid to raise $4 million through a private placement, the newspaper said. The offering, made privately to selected investors, is expected to close next month.Cannabics’ cannabis-oil pill is on sale in Israel and in Colorado in the US. Now, the company is developing a system for using a cannabis ingredient to help doctors evaluate biopsies more accurately.The $4 million is needed to commercialize the evaluation system and to perform a clinical trial on 40 cancer patients at Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, northern Israel.Cannabics — a US-based company founded by Israeli researchers in molecular biology and cancer — carries out its research and development in Israel in collaboration with Israeli medical centers.It expects to be turning a profit by late 2017 and predicts sales of $84 million in 2019.

US ADMIRAL WARNS OF CHINESE WARPLANES COMING AND GOING FROM SOUTH CHINA SEA RUNWAYS.

JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER. 1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)

SCALIA-Here’s how the law would dramatically change if a liberal replaces Scalia-Stuart Taylor Jr.-February 15, 2016-yahoonews

If President Obama — or his successor — replaces the late Justice Antonin Scalia with a strong liberal, the Supreme Court’s balance will swing dramatically to the left in the coming years. It might well be the biggest ideological swing in recent memory.Indeed, American politics has not seen a moment like this one since 1987. That was when the retirement of moderate Justice Lewis Powell, who was the pivotal vote on many big issues, left the court with four strong conservatives and four strong liberals. (The latter included Sandra Day O’Connor, whose votes through 1987 had been quite conservative.) It was clear then that if the Democratic-majority Senate confirmed President Ronald Reagan’s first nominee, the very conservative Judge Robert Bork — as at first seemed likely — the court would swing hard to the right.Bork himself later told me and others that he would have been the fifth vote to overrule Roe v. Wade and a lot more liberal precedents. But Democratic senators and liberal interest groups went all out to stop him and succeeded by a 58-42 vote.Now the court has four strong liberals, three strong conservatives and one less consistent conservative, Justice Anthony Kennedy. He sometimes joins the liberal bloc on issues including abortion, gay rights and the death penalty. Kennedy also happens to be the Reagan nominee whom the Senate confirmed after Bork’s defeat.If and when a liberal replaces Scalia, therefore, the court will likely overrule or cut back sharply major conservative precedents including those limiting abortion rights, those restricting race-based affirmative action (in theory if not so much in practice) and those giving strong First Amendment protection to unlimited spending in election campaigns.Below is a quick rundown of what the court might do — not necessarily in the next year or two, but perhaps within five or so years — if a fifth liberal tips the balance.Race. A liberal replacement for Scalia would make a dramatic difference on racial issues, on which the court has long been deeply divided by 5-4, with conservatives in the majority, usually including Kennedy.These issues include racial affirmative action preferences in state university admissions, government hiring and employment, and other walks of life; Justice Department supervision of state and local voting rights laws; and efforts to make it easier for poor and black people to vote.Indeed, a liberal majority would almost certainly overrule the court’s application of “strict scrutiny” to “benign” racial preferences since 1978 and disregard its 2003 suggestion that racial preferences in state university admissions must end within 25 years, by 2028.The effect could be to ensure that racial preferences — a major priority of Democratic interest groups — will continue well past 2050 and perhaps far into the next century.Eric Holder, Obama’s first attorney general, spoke for many liberals when he asserted in 2012 that the previous 40 years of racial preference programs had been “a relatively small period of time in which African-Americans and other people of color have truly had the benefits to which they are entitled.”Holder continued: “I can’t actually imagine a time in which the need for diversity” — engineered, he implied, by racial preferences — “will ever cease.”Kennedy has sought (without much impact) to limit racial preferences in state college admissions and other government programs, while stopping short of joining Scalia and other conservatives in seeking to outlaw preferences. A liberal replacement for Scalia would cement a solid 5-4 majority for broad approval of racial preferences.Aggressive federal judicial efforts to force more spending on inner-city schools, which the court blocked in a big 1973 decision, might also be revived. On the other hand, liberals might be restrained by the fact that many urban school districts already spend more per student than ever before, and more than many prosperous suburban schools.Campaign finance regulation. A liberal replacement for Scalia would probably work a sea change on campaign finance regulation. The 5-4 Citizens United decision in 2010, a target of liberal disdain for upholding corporations’ First Amendment rights to spend unlimited amounts on campaigns, would almost surely be overruled.The court would also likely sweep away other precedents upholding unlimited “independent” campaign spending. This would gratify Democrats and to a large extent protect incumbent elected officials.But it would be seen by many Republicans as designed to solidify the Democratic advantage that, they say, comes for free from campaign coverage and commentary the unregulated, predominantly liberal mainstream news media. Congress has exempted media corporations from restrictions on spending in support of candidates.Other free speech issues. A liberal replacement for Scalia might well foreshadow Supreme Court support for speech codes and other limitations on controversial speech — seen by some as sexual or racial harassment — that the Obama Education Department and many universities have imposed on students.The court has not so far been active in this area. But the issue is bound to come before it in the next few years. More generally, while liberals were more friendly to free speech than conservatives for most of the 20th century, the reverse is now true.Abortion. Constitutional abortion rights have long rested on a precarious 5-4 majority, with Kennedy joining the four liberals on some (not all) key votes. A liberal replacement for Scalia would guarantee almost unlimited abortion rights, probably far into the future.Freedom of religion. A liberal replacement for Scalia would probably be the fifth vote to overrule the 2014 Hobby Lobby decision and require religious employers and other groups to provide health insurance including free contraceptives and take other actions that they say violates their freedom of religion.Environment. A liberal replacement for Scalia might well reverse decisions including the court’s 5-4 ruling last week temporarily blocking the Obama administration’s effort to combat global warming by regulating emissions from coal-fired power plants.Federal power. A liberal replacement for Scalia would cement a majority to sweep away virtually all limits on federal regulation of the economy, many of which have been dismantled already in the Obamacare decisions, with John Roberts, the usually conservative chief justice, writing for the otherwise-liberal majority.Gun rights. A liberal replacement for Scalia might be the fifth vote to cut back on or overrule the 2008 Scalia majority opinion in District of Columbia v. Heller and subsequent Supreme Court decisions recognizing a constitutional right to keep and bear arms.Death penalty. A liberal replacement for Scalia would insure invalidation of more death penalty laws, although not necessarily complete abolition of the penalty. The court has already struck down various death penalty provisions while narrowly upholding others, such as a 2015 decision allowing use of execution drugs that were alleged to cause excruciating pain. That decision, among others, could be overruled or pared back to its specific facts.National security. A liberal replacement for Scalia might increase the already unprecedented judicial intervention into national security matters that the court pioneered in three liberal decisions (joined by Kennedy) involving the George W. Bush administration’s detention of suspected terrorists in Guantanamo.For most of our history, national security issues were treated by the court as almost the exclusive province of the president and Congress. That changed under Bush. If a liberal replaces Scalia, the justices might well become bolder in second-guessing presidents — Republicans especially.Importing foreign law into constitutional interpretation. A liberal replacement for Scalia would open wider the doors to using foreign law to interpret (some say “amend”) the meaning of the U.S. Constitution. This has been a trend favored by the liberals (and Kennedy). Scalia has been the most vocal opponent.Would respect for precedent restrain a liberal majority? Not much, or not for long, probably. While nominees habitually and sincerely vow to respect precedents during their confirmation hearings, the vows have been a bit misleading. Liberal and conservative justices alike have long been ready severely (if respectfully) to limit or to overrule constitutional precedents they don’t like, while seeking to avoid outright overruling until the precedent has been on the books for a few years.This is consistent with the views of many legal scholars that because constitutional precedents cannot normally be overruled by Congress, and should not be treated as though written in stone, they should be subject to reconsideration by the court.To be sure, the justices have traditionally been very reluctant to overrule the court’s statutory interpretations, on the theory that Congress can overrule any statutory precedents it does not like and that therefore the court should leave them alone for the sake of stability and predictability in the law. Constitutional precedents are different.Furthermore, both liberals and conservatives have proved adept, when they have the votes, at the technique sometimes called “stealth overruling.” Precedents once thought to sweep broadly are read so narrowly that the dominant thrust of the law becomes the exact opposite of what it was before.Might there be a compromise on a moderate nominee? Unlikely, in these polarized times, unless one side holds out an olive branch to the other early in the process. Behind the scenes, Republicans are well aware that both of President Bill Clinton’s appointees — Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer — seemed to be moderate liberals when nominated but have ended up solidifying the liberal bloc.Only that disappearing breed — the moderate senator willing to work across the aisle in the larger national interest, or a president more interested in actually getting someone onto the court than in getting his ideal candidate — could begin to broker a deal.In the absence of a quietly brokered deal involving sacrifice by both sides, anyone whose views on any big issue are known could probably not get past both the White House and the Senate, this year or in the foreseeable future. And anyone whose views are totally unknown would be seen by both sides as too big a risk.Stuart Taylor Jr. covered legal affairs for the New York Times, American Lawyer, Newsweek and National Journal and is co-author of the book “Mismatch: How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It’s Intended to Help, and Why Universities Won’t Admit It.”

Prosecutor: Most Cologne New Year's suspects are refugees-Associated Press-feb 15,16-yahoonews

BERLIN (AP) — Most of the suspects identified in connection with a series of robberies and sexual assaults in Cologne during New Year's celebrations are refugees, prosecutors said Monday.The crimes, described as unprecedented by authorities, sparked uproar in Germany and a heated debate about the country's ability to integrate almost 1.1 million people who sought asylum there last year.Cologne prosecutor Ulrich Bremer said 73 suspects have been identified so far — most of them from North Africa. A total of 1,075 criminal complaints have been filed, including 467 alleging crimes of a sexual nature ranging from insults to rape."The overwhelming majority of persons fall into the general category of refugees," Bremer told The Associated Press, saying recent reports describing only three of the suspects as refugees were "total nonsense."Initially, authorities in Cologne were accused of downplaying the fact that the attackers included many asylum-seekers because of the political sensitivity of the issue.The suspects included 30 Moroccan nationals, 27 Algerians, four Iraqis, three Germans, three Syrians, three Tunisians, and one each from Libya, Iran and Montenegro, Bremer said."They have various legal statuses, including illegal entry, asylum-seekers and asylum applicants," he said of the foreign suspects. "That covers the overwhelming majority of suspects."Twelve of the 73 suspects are linked to sexual crimes, though only one of those — a Moroccan asylum-seeker who entered Germany in November — is in custody, he said.

Around 50 dead as missiles hit medical centers and schools in Syrian towns-Reuters By Suleiman Al-Khalidi and Lisa Barrington-feb 15,16-yahoonews

AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) - About 50 civilians were killed when missiles hit five medical centers and two schools in rebel-held Syrian towns on Monday, the United Nations and residents said.The carnage occurred as Russian-backed Syrian troops intensified their push toward the rebel stronghold of Aleppo.Fourteen people were killed in the town of Azaz near the Turkish border when missiles slammed into a school sheltering families fleeing the offensive and a children's hospital, two residents and a medic said.Bombs also hit another refugee shelter south of the town and a convoy of trucks, another resident said."We have been moving scores of screaming children from the hospital," medic Juma Rahal said.At least two children were killed and scores of people injured, he said.Activists posted video online purporting to show the damaged hospital. Three crying babies lay in incubators in a ward littered with broken medical equipment. Reuters could not independently verify the video.In a separate incident, missiles hit another hospital in the town of Marat Numan in Idlib province, in northwestern Syria, said the French president of the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) charity, which was supporting the hospital."There were at least seven deaths among the personnel and the patients, and at least eight MSF personnel have disappeared, and we don't know if they are alive," Mego Terzian told Reuters."The author of the strike is clearly...either the government or Russia," he said, adding that it was not the first time MSF facilities in Syria had been attacked.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which tracks violence across the country, said one male nurse was killed and five female nurses, a doctor and one male nurse are believed to be under the rubble in the MSF hospital.Also in Marat Numan, another strike hit the National Hospital on the north edge of town, killing two nurses, the Observatory said.VIOLATION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW-United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the attacks, which the U.N. said killed close to 50 civilians, were a blatant violation of international laws."These incidents cast a shadow on the commitments made at the ISSG (International Syria Support Group) meeting in Munich on Feb. 11," U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq said.The United States also condemned the intensified bombing of northern Syria and said it ran counter to commitments made by world powers in Munich last week to reduce hostilities.Residents in both towns blamed Russian strikes, saying the planes deployed were more numerous and the munitions more powerful than the Syrian military typically used."The hospitals hit today have been rendered completely non-functioning...such attacks, whether deliberate or not, deprive people of the very limited services still available in the country," a spokeswoman for the International Committee of the Red Cross said.Rescue workers and rights groups say Russian bombing has killed scores of civilians at market places, hospitals, schools and residential areas in Syria. Western countries also say Russia has been attacking mostly Western-backed insurgent groups.But Moscow has said it is targeting terrorist groups and dismissed any suggestion it has killed civilians since beginning its air campaign in support of President Bashar al-Assad's forces in September.The town of Azaz has been the scene of fierce fighting as Kurdish anti-government forces advance from the west. They have reached the edge of town, only a few kilometres away from the main Bab al Salam border crossing. The Syrian army is advancing from the south.Both the Kurds and the army want to wrest control of that stretch of border with Turkey from the insurgents that currently hold Azaz.Russian bombing raids on rebel fighters are helping the Syrian army to advance toward Aleppo, the country's largest city and commercial center before the conflict. If the army takes the city, it will by the Syrian government's biggest victory of the war.(Additional reporting by Pauline Mevel in Paris; Editing by Katharine Houreld)

Germany expects 500,000 refugees this year: newspaper-Reuters-feb 15,16-yahoonews

BERLIN (Reuters) - The German government expects 500,000 refugees to come to Germany this year, German newspaper Rheinische Post cited sources from the Federal Labor Office as saying.German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere told Frank-Juergen Weise, head of both the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) and the Federal Labor Office, to prepare for an influx of that size this year, the newspaper said in an advance copy of a report due to be published on Tuesday.The German Interior Ministry was not immediately available to comment on the report.Last year some 1.1 million migrants arrived in Germany. German media tend to use the word refugee to refer to both refugees and migrants.(Reporting by Michelle Martin; Editing by Alison Williams)

CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL 2ND WAVE OF WW3 (200 MILLION MAN ARMY)

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

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

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

U.S. admiral warns against Chinese fighter flights from South China Sea runways-Reuters By Rujun Shen-feb 15,16-yahoonews

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Any move by China to fly jet fighters from runways on its new man-made islands in the disputed South China Sea would be destabilizing and would not deter U.S. flights over the area, a senior U.S. naval officer said on Monday.Vice Admiral Joseph Aucoin, the commander of the U.S. Navy's Seventh Fleet, also urged Beijing to be more open over its intentions in the South China Sea, saying it would relieve "some of the angst we are now seeing"."We are unsure where they are taking us," Aucoin said of China's recent moves during briefing with journalists in Singapore."So we are going to sail, fly, operate throughout these waters....like we have been doing for so long," he said.That, he added, included "flying over that airspace."Chinese and regional security analysts expect Beijing to start using its new runways in the disputed Spratlys archipelago for military operations in the next few months.It last month tested for the first time the 3,000-metre runway built on a reclamation on Fiery Cross Reef by landing several civilian airliners from Hainan island. (Link to previous stories)-Aucoin said he could not give an estimate when he expected Chinese military jets to start operating in the Spratlys."It's a destabilizing uncertainty," he said when asked about the impact of possible Chinese jet fighter patrols. He said it would raise questions about the intentions.China claims much of the South China Sea, while Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam have rival claims.International concern is growing over tensions in the waterway, which carries an estimated $5 trillion in trade every year, including oil used by northeast Asian nations.Since last October, two U.S. warships have sailed close to Chinese claimed features in the Spratly and Paracel archipelagoes in so-called freedom-of-navigation operations that Beijing has warned are provocative.Chinese officials complained last December that a U.S. B-52 bomber flew close to one of Beijing's artificial islands.Other U.S. surveillance and transport planes routinely fly throughout the South China Sea.Chinese warships and civilian vessels routinely flank U.S. naval ships in the area, but Aucoin said engagement between the two navies would continue, saying the relationship was "positive"."(The) International Law of the Sea has helped (China) for so many years. We just want them to respect those rights so that we can all continue to prosper," he said.(Reporting by Rujun Shen in Singapore; writing by Greg Torode in Hong Kong; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore)

Investigator asks U.N. to notify North Korea's Kim of possible probe for crimes against humanity-Reuters By Tom Miles-feb 15,16-yahoonews

GENEVA (Reuters) - A U.N. expert on human rights in North Korea has asked the United Nations to officially notify North Korean leader Kim Jong Un that he may be investigated for crimes against humanity.A landmark 2014 report on North Korean human rights, co-authored by Marzuki Darusman, concluded that North Korean security chiefs and possibly Kim himself should face justice for overseeing a system of Nazi-style atrocities.Pyongyang has consistently brushed off the allegations and rejected any responsibility for human rights violations.In a report to the U.N. Human Rights Council, Darusman recommended that the Council arrange an official communication, sent directly to Kim and signed by Darusman or U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein."(It should) advise him and other senior leaders that they may be investigated and, if found to be responsible, held accountable for crimes against humanity committed under their leadership," Darusman wrote.His report, dated Jan. 19 but published on Monday, also said three experts should be appointed to find the best legal path to hold North Korea to account and find "creative and practical" ways to establish the truth and ensure justice for victims.Darusman stressed the importance of using the International Criminal Court but said it was "able to handle only the uppermost leadership".Only the U.N. Security Council can involve the court, but North Korea's sole ally, China, a veto-wielding member of the top U.N. body, has repeatedly rejected calls for the Security Council to tackle human rights in North Korea.However, China said on Friday it would back a U.N. resolution to make North Korea "pay the necessary price" for recent North Korean rocket launches, with the aim of bringing Pyongyang back to the negotiating table.Darusman's report, which will be considered by the Human Rights Council next month, said the human rights situation in North Korea did not appear to have improved.However, he said that last September North Korea had invited Zeid to visit and expressed interest in continuing discussions on technical assistance from the U.N. human rights office.(Reporting by Tom Miles; Editing by Mark Heinrich)

North Korea's Kim Orders More Rocket Launches-By hyung-jin kim, associated press-SEOUL, South Korea — Feb 14, 2016, 9:55 PM ET

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has praised scientists involved in the country's recent rocket launch that he said struck a "telling blow" to enemies and ordered them to press ahead with more launches, state media reported Monday.Earlier this month, North Korea ignored repeated international warnings and launched what it said was an Earth observation satellite aboard a rocket. Washington, Seoul and other view the launch as a prohibited test of missile technology and are pushing hard to have Pyongyang slapped with strong sanctions.The North's official Korean Central News Agency said the ruling Workers' Party on Saturday gave a banquet in honor of scientists, officials and others who it said contributed to the Feb. 7 rocket launch. Kim and his top deputies were present.In a speech, Kim said the launch gave confidence and courage to his people and dealt a "telling blow to the enemies seeking to block the advance of our country," KCNA said, in an apparent reference to Seoul and Washington.Kim said the North's launch decision was made when "the hostile forces were getting evermore frantic to suffocate" North Korea, and called for launching more working satellites in the future.The launch, which followed the North's fourth nuclear test last month, aggravated already-strained ties between the rival Koreas. Last week, Pyongyang expelled all South Korean workers from a jointly run factory park in the North and put the area in charge of the military in retaliation for Seoul's decision to suspend operations there.Seoul on Sunday accused North Korea of having channeled about 70 percent of the money it received for workers at the Kaesong park into its weapons programs and to buy luxury goods for the impoverished nation's tiny elite.North Korea was able to divert the money because the workers in Kaesong were not paid directly. Instead, U.S. dollars were paid to the North Korean government, which siphoned off most of the money and paid only what it wanted to the employees in North Korean currency and store vouchers, according to a statement from Seoul's' Unification Ministry.The South Korean government estimate did not detail how it arrived at that percentage. North Korea has previously dismissed such views.The jointly run park, which was the Koreas' last major cooperation project, employed about 54,000 North Koreans who worked for more than 120 South Korean companies, most of them small and medium-size manufacturers. The project, which began during an era of relatively good relations between the Koreas, combined cheap North Korean labor with the capital and technology of wealthy South Korea.While the Kaesong closure will hurt North Korea, it is not critical to that nation's economy. North Korea gets the vast majority of its earnings from trade with China.——Associated Press writer Kim Tong-hyung contributed to this report.

FALSE POPE FROM THE VATICAN

ISAIAH 23:15-17
15  And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.
16  Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.
17  And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.(COULD THIS BE 70 YEARS AFTER ISRAEL BECAME A NATION IN 1948)(IF SO THIS SATANIC ONE WORLD WHORE CHURCH WILL MINGLE TOGETHER BY 2018)(AND NOW ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY AND ALL RELIGIONS ARE MINGLING AS ONE PEACE-LOVE-JOY-GET ALONG RELIGION LEAD BY THE VATICAN RIGHT NOW 4 YEARS FROM THE 70 YEAR TIME WHEN ISRAEL BECAME A NATION).AND IN CONTROL OF JERUSALEM.

REVELATION 13:11-13
11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth;(FALSE VATICAN POPE) and he had two horns like a lamb,(JESUS IS THE LAMB OF GOD) and he spake as a dragon.(HES SATANICALLY INSPIRED,HES A CHRISTIAN DEFECTOR FROM THE FAITH)
12 And he (FALSE RELIGIOUS LEADER) exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him,(WORLD DICTATOR) and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.(THE WORLD DICTATOR CREATES A FALSE RESURRECTION AND IS CROWNED LEADER OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER).
13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,

REVELATION 17:1-5,9,15-18
1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication,(VATICAN IN POLITICS) and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
4 And the woman (FALSE CHURCH) was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour,(VATICAN COLOURS)(ANOTHER REASON WE KNOW THE FALSE POPE COMES FROM THE VATICAN) and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.(THE VATICAN IS BUILT ON 7 HILLS OR MOUNTAINS)
10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen,(1-ASSYRIA,2-EGYPT,3-BABYLON,4-MEDO-PERSIA,5-GREECE) and one is,(IN POWER IN JOHNS AND JESUS DAY-6-ROME) and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.(7TH-REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE OR THE EUROPEAN UNION TODAY AND THE SHORT SPACE IS-THE EUROPEAN UNION WILL HAVE WORLD CONTROL FOR THE LAST 3 1/2 YEARS.BUT WILL HAVE ITS MIGHTY WORLD POWER FOR THE FULL 7 YEARS OF THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION PERIOD.AND THE WORLD DICTATOR WILL BE THE BEAST FROM THE EU.AND THE VATICAN POPE WILL BE THE WHORE THAT RIDES THE EUROPEAN UNION TO POWER.AND THE 2 EUROPEAN UNION POWER FREAKS WILL CONTROL AND DECIEVE THE WHOLE EARTH INTO THEIR DESTRUCTION.IF YOU ARE NOT SAVED BY THE BLOOD OF JESUS.YOU WILL BE DECIEVED BY THESE TWO.THE WORLD POLITICIAN-THE EUROPEAN UNION DICTATOR.AND THE FALSE PROPHET THAT DEFECTS CHRISTIANITY-THE FALSE VATICAN POPE.
15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.(VATICAN-CATHOLICS ALL AROUND THE WORLD OVER 1 BILLION)
16 And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast,(WORLD DICTATOR) these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.(BOMB OR NUKE THE VATICAN)
17 For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city,(VATICAN) which reigneth over the kings of the earth.

Pope courts indigenous Mexicans as Catholic fervor fades-Reuters By Philip Pullella and Joanna Zuckerman Bernstein-feb 15,16-yahoonews

SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, Mexico (Reuters) - Pope Francis embraced the people of Mexico's poor indigenous south on Monday, denouncing their "systemic" exclusion from society and encouraging the use of native languages in Catholic worship in a bid to stem a tide of Protestant conversions.The region, mired in poverty and plagued by rising insecurity, has fallen far behind other parts of the country economically.Preaching to a packed crowd at a sports ground in the southern state of Chiapas, the pope quoted the Popol Vuh, a sacred Maya text, and drew comparisons between Catholic and indigenous values."Today's world, ravaged as it is by a throwaway culture, needs you!" he said as he celebrated a Mass that included bible readings in native tongues, referring to the mostly indigenous throngs who loudly cheered him."You have much to teach us," he said, lauding Mexico's native peoples while denouncing "the systemic and organized way your people have been misunderstood and excluded from society."He said the Mass before a Hollywood-style stage set replica of the facade of the colonial-era city's main cathedral.Many women wore indigenous dress of black skirts and colorful tops, their hair braided with ribbons. Parts of the Mass were said in the Tzeltal, Ch'ol and Tzotzil languages.Factory worker Alma Gonzalez, 23, who speaks Spanish and Otomi and traveled from the State of Mexico to hear the pope, was touched he was reaching out to her people."I'm indigenous ... I want to thank him for paying attention to us, the poor," she said.The pope last year apologized for the role of the Church in the conquest of Latin America and left a Vatican decree while in Chiapas authorizing translations of the liturgy into indigenous languages.The state of Chiapas was the scene of the Zapatista uprising of Maya rebels in the 1990s. It is now the frontline of a government crackdown on illegal immigration to the United States from Central America.When the Zapatistas burst onto the scene, more than two- thirds of Chiapas' population was Roman Catholic. The expansion of evangelical Christianity through poor indigenous towns since has driven the number down to around 60 percent, making it Mexico's least-Catholic region.In the colonial mountain city of San Cristobal de las Casas, the pope prayed in front of the tomb of Bishop Samuel Ruiz, a champion for indigenous rights who served as a mediator between the Zapatistas and the government.Ruiz, who died in 2011, long lobbied to permit Mass in languages such as Tzotzil because many of the region's Maya residents do not speak Spanish.The pope then headed to the state capital, Tuxtla Gutierrez, where he held a rally at a packed stadium and met local families.Francis is visiting some of the most marginalized parts of Mexico. On Sunday, he took a swipe at the rich and corrupt elite in a Mass near the cinder block slums of Ecatepec, one of the country's most violent cities.The poverty rate in Chiapas, already the most impoverished state in Mexico, has risen in recent years to more than three-quarters of the population.Mexico, with help from the United States, has increased patrols on its southern border and is deporting more Central American migrants trying to reach the United States.Thousands of people from neighboring Guatemala are believed to have crossed over the porous border of rivers and jungle in Chiapas for a chance to see the pope.On Tuesday, he will speak to youths in Morelia, the capital of Michoacan state, where warring drug gangs cook much of the methamphetamine smuggled into the United States.He will then travel to Ciudad Juarez, which borders the U.S. state of Texas, where he will pray for migrants and victims of violence.(Additional reporting by Adriana Barrera; Writing by Michael O'Boyle, David Alire Garcia and Simon Gardner; Editing by Kieran Murray, Alan Crosby and Dan Grebler)