JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER.
1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
LUKE 21:28-29
28 And when these things begin to come to pass,(ALL THE PROPHECY SIGNS FROM THE BIBLE) then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption (RAPTURE) draweth nigh.
29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree,(ISRAEL) and all the trees;(ALL INDEPENDENT COUNTRIES)
30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.(ISRAEL LITERALLY BECAME AND INDEPENDENT COUNTRY JUST BEFORE SUMMER IN MAY 14,1948.)
JOEL 2:3,30
3 A fire devoureth (ATOMIC BOMB) before them;(RUSSIAN-ARAB-MUSLIM ARMIES AGAINST ISRAEL) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(ATOMIC BOMB AFFECT)
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB)(BECAUSE NUKES HAVE BEEN USED ON ISRAELS ENEMIES)(GOD PROTECTS ISRAEL AND ALWAYS WILL)
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)
EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven;(FROM ATOMIC BOMBS) and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE
New US bill would require UNRWA to change refugee definition to receive aid-Republican Senator James Lankford says current model is ‘not sustainable for American taxpayers’-By Eric Cortellessa-TOI-SEP 10,18
WASHINGTON — A Republican senator introduced a new bill Thursday that would require the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) to change its definition of what constitutes a Palestinian refugee to receive future US assistance.Seeking to pressure the international community to recognize Palestinian refugees under the criteria they do other refugee populations, Senator James Lankford of Oklahoma proposed legislation that would mandate UNRWA — the UN agency responsible for the Palestinians — identify only those who were displaced between 1947 and 1949 as refugees and not their millions of descendants, some of whom were born in and are citizens of other nations.The status of Palestinian refugees is different from host country to host country. Only Jordan gives most refugees full citizenship rights. Lebanon denies them many basic rights, while Syria gives them most rights other than the right to vote. Refugees in Iraq and Egypt have limited rights.Refugees recognized by UNRWA receive life-long benefits from the agency.While saying “American assistance to the Palestinians is an important component of our nation’s engagement in the Middle East,” Lankford added that the US is “currently funding an entity that has ensured that a refugee population of several hundreds of thousands 70 years ago has exploded to more than five million.”UNRWA claims there are five million registered Palestinian refugees, when there were roughly 750,000 after the 1948 war. Unlike every other refugee population, which shrinks every year, the Palestinian one exponentially increases.“This is not sustainable — for American taxpayers, who are asked to finance the welfare of these individuals, for the Palestinians themselves, or for the Israelis,” Lankford added.The Oklahoma lawmaker also added that the arrangement fueled the Palestinian demand for a full “right of return.”The “right of return” is one of the key core issues of dispute in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Palestinians claim that the five million people the UN recognizes as refugees have the right to return to their homes in Israel proper. Israel, for its part, rejects this demand, saying that it represents a bid by the Palestinians to destroy Israel by weight of numbers.Israel’s population is almost nine million, some three-quarters of whom are Jewish. An influx of millions of Palestinians would mean Israel would no longer be a Jewish-majority state.“UNRWA’s methodology strains regional tensions more each generation as it increases rather than decreases the number of refugees in the region…who, by being registered as a ‘Palestine refugee’ with UNRWA, may be wrongfully implied as having an internationally sanctioned right to return to Israel,” Lanford said in a statement announcing the legislation.His bill comes one week after the Trump administration announced its decision to cut all funding to UNRWA, with the State Department saying it “will no longer commit further funding to this irredeemably flawed operation” but will look for other ways to assist the Palestinians.The US supplies nearly 30 percent of the total budget of the UNRWA, which provides health care, education and social services to Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.The US donated $355 million to the agency in 2016 and was set to make a similar contribution this year. But in January, the White House released $60 million in funds but withheld a further $65 million it had been due to provide.Cutting aid to the agency was intensely controversial. While Israel welcomed the move, liberal Jewish groups in the United States decried it as cruel — and not in Israel’s security interests.“There is no other organization that can step in overnight and assume all of UNRWA’s responsibilities, and overseeing UNRWA’s death without a backup plan in place is grossly irresponsible,” said the Israel Policy Forum, an advocacy group that supports a two-state solution.
UK's former EU ambassador warns of Brexit crisis: Guardian-[Reuters]-YAHOONEWS-September 9, 2018
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's former ambassador to the European Union has warned that there is a higher risk of a Brexit crisis than financial markets are currently pricing in, the Guardian reported.The United Kingdom is due to leave the European Union on March 29, yet little is clear: There is, so far, no full exit deal, rivals to Prime Minister Theresa May are circling and some lawmakers are pushing for a rerun of the 2016 referendum.Ivan Rogers, who served as EU ambassador from 2013 to 2017, warned in a speech in Dublin that negotiators on both sides risked "sleepwalking into a major crisis" that could poison relations for a generation."There is now, in my view, a higher risk than the markets are currently pricing of a disorderly breakdown in Brexit negotiations, and of our sleepwalking into a major crisis," the Guardian quoted Rogers as saying."Not because either negotiating team actively seeks it, but precisely because each side misreads each other’s real incentives and political constraints and cannot find any sort of landing zone for a deal, however provisional."Both London and Brussels say they want to get a divorce deal at the October 18 EU Council but many diplomats think that target date is too optimistic. Britain has stepped up planning for the consequences of potentially not getting a deal.Rogers criticized what he cast as the delusional thinking of some British Eurosceptics and said they knew that a genuine no-deal Brexit "would bring several key sectors of the economy to a halt", the Guardian reported.With just under seven months left before the UK is due to leave the EU, the country, its politicians and its business leaders remain deeply divided over Brexit.Recent opinion polls show voters think May is handling the process badly and there may be a slight move toward support for staying in the EU.(Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge, editing by James Davey)
Coalition government would expel immigrants who fail to learn French in 3 years-[The Canadian Press]-YAHOONEWS-September 10, 2018
MONTREAL — The perennially divisive topic of language politics surfaced on the Quebec campaign trail Friday as the leader of the Coalition Avenir Quebec promised his government would force new immigrants to leave the province if they don't learn French within three years.After two weeks of campaigning nearly devoid of language talk, the issue jumped into the spotlight on Day 16 as party leaders responded to Francois Legault's proposals with differing visions on how best to integrate immigrants into French-speaking Quebec.Speaking early Friday, Legault said new immigrants would be given a temporary permit upon entry and then have three years to take free language courses and pass a basic French-language test.Those who fail would not be granted permission to stay and would be considered to be in the country illegally, he said.Legault said most people should pass easily, but he's open to offering an extension or exemption to seniors or those with learning disabilities.I will be open to accommodations, if someone has learning difficulties," he told reporters. "Of course we won't ask them for the same," he told reporters in Montreal."I want to be human, I don't want to ask them to do something that is impossible."Legault said more than 50 per cent of immigrants who arrive in the province don't speak French and that many of those end up leaving or facing high levels of unemployment.He warned that under present conditions, the use of French will gradually disappear."If year after year we accept 50,000 immigrants and most don't speak French, it's a matter of time," he said."It might take one, two, three generations but it's a matter of time before we stop speaking French in Montreal and that's not what I want." The Coalition has proposed lowering the number of immigrants to the province to 40,000 a year from the current 50,000.Legault's proposal was panned by Liberal Leader Philippe Couillard, who accused his rival of fear-mongering and wanting to "break up families."He argued that Quebec's immigration policy has been a success, noting that about 50 per cent of all jobs in recent years have been filled by immigrants."Immigrants are learning French, and you know where they learn it best? At work," he said in Gatineau, near the Ontario border.Couillard, who supports maintaining immigration at current levels, said he shares the views of younger Quebecers who are confident in the future and have little interest in divisive language politics."We don't want a situation where we fear our neighbour, our work colleague," he said. "We don't want it — that's not the Quebec we have or we want."Conversely, the Coalition leader also faced an accusation his plan didn't go far enough to protect the French language — this time by Parti Quebecois Leader Jean-Francois Lisee.Lisee said the right number of immigrants was likely between 35,000 and 40,000 per year, based on past "successes" and "failures.''While he criticized Couillard for continuing to suggest a number that would lead to "broken dreams," Lisee maintained that Legault is the biggest threat to the French language."The worst thing we could do for French in Quebec is to adopt the proposition of the (Coalition), which would agree to have 40,000 people per year enter Quebec without knowing French," he said in Sorel-Tracy, northeast of Montreal. -- With files from Melanie Marquis in Sorel-Tracy, Patrice Bergeron in Gatineau and Caroline Plante in Montreal Morgan Lowrie, The Canadian Press.
WORLD POWERS IN THE LAST DAYS (END OF AGE OF GRACE NOT THE WORLD)
EUROPEAN UNION-KING OF WEST-DAN 9:26-27,DAN 7:23-24,DAN 11:40,REV 13:1-10
EGYPT-KING OF THE SOUTH-DAN 11:40
RUSSIA-KING OF THE NORTH-EZEK 38:1-2,EZEK 39:1-3
CHINA-KING OF THE EAST-DAN 11:44,REV 9:16,18
VATICAN-RELIGIOUS LEADER-REV 13:11-18,REV 17:4-5,9,18
WORLD TERRORISM
OH BY THE WAY WHEN THE MEDIA SAYS ALLU-AK-BAR MEANS GOD IS GREAT LIE. IN ISLAM ALLU-AK-BAR MEANS OUR GOD IS GREATER OR GREATEST. THIS IS HOW THE MEDIA SUCK HOLES UP TO ISLAMIC-QURANIC-MUSLIMS. BY WATERING DOWN THE REAL MEANING OF THE SEX FOR MURDER DEATH CULT ISLAM. TO MAKE IT SOUND LIKE A PEACEFUL RELIGION (CULT OF DEATH AND WORLD DOMINATION).
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her,(HAGAR) Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he (ISHMAEL-FATHER OF THE ARAB-MUSLIMS) will be a wild (DONKEY-JACKASS) man;(ISLAM IS A FAKE AND DANGEROUS SEX FOR MURDER CULT) his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against him;(PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM BEING BEHEADED) and he (ISHMAEL ARAB/MUSLIM) shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)
ISAIAH 14:12-14
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,(SATAN) son of the morning!(HEBREW-CRECENT MOON-ISLAM) how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I (SATAN HAS EYE TROUBLES) will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(AND 1/3RD OF THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN FELL WITH SATAN AND BECAME DEMONS)
JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.(ISLAM MURDERS IN THE NAME OF MOON GOD ALLAH OF ISLAM)
UN envoy proposes rebel pullback from Syria’s Idlib-Staffan de Mistura also calls for evacuation corridors to allow civilians to voluntarily leave the war zone, under United Nations monitoring-By AFP-TOI-SEP 10,18
The UN peace envoy for Syria on Friday proposed a plan for Al-Qaeda-linked fighters in Syria’s Idlib province to pull back from civilian areas to avert a bloodbath in the rebel-held province.The United Nations has warned of a humanitarian disaster if Syrian forces, backed by Russia and Iran, launch an all-out attack in Idlib, the last major rebel bastion.Addressing the Security Council, Staffan de Mistura also called for evacuation corridors to be opened for civilians to voluntarily leave the war zone, under UN monitoring.The council was meeting as the presidents of Iran, Russia and Turkey agreed during a summit in Tehran to work in a “spirit of cooperation” to stabilize the situation in Idlib.The three countries are guarantors of the Astana process, a track of talks on Syria’s war launched after Russia’s 2015 military intervention that has largely eclipsed the UN peace process in Geneva.De Mistura proposed that a deadline be set for all fighters — in particular the Al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front — to move away from populated areas and that no military attacks would be launched during the pullback.“This would apply in particular for Al-Nusra, who should be notified by the guarantors, in particular Turkey, which still has the capacity to send messages,” he said.Russia told the council meeting that some 40 to 45 armed groups with up to 50,000 people were operating in Idlib. Some 16,000 are fighting in the ranks of Al-Nusra and 11,300 others are members of hardline groups, said Russian Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia.Syrian civilians are “worn out by extremist tyranny” in Idlib, said Nebenzia, adding that terrorist groups remain “a legitimate target for liquidation.”Some three million people live in the northwest region, which came under renewed air strikes and bombings earlier this week.“There are more babies in Idlib than there are terrorists,” said British Ambassador Karen Pierce. “I think this should give those engaged in military action pause for thought.”Britain recalled that targeting civilians amounts to war crimes and warned that Syrian commanders and military units loyal to President Bashar al-Assad will be held accountable for any violations in Idlib.US Ambassador Nikki Haley warned: “If Assad, Russia, and Iran continue, the consequences will be dire.”De Mistura is to hold talks next week with the three guarantors in Geneva next week.More than 350,000 people have been killed in Syria’s seven-year war, but UN diplomats fear the assault on Idlib could trigger one of the worst bloodbaths of the conflict.
Erdogan and Putin clash over Idlib ceasefire in Syria-Openly disagreement highlights differences between leaders as they meet in Iran to discuss the fate of country’s last major rebel bastion-By AFP-TOI-SEP 10,18
TEHRAN — Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan Friday openly disagreed about a “ceasefire” in Syria’s Idlib province, highlighting their differences despite a close cooperation.The rare scenes captured on camera came as Putin, Erdogan and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani met in Tehran for a three-way summit to discuss the fate of the country’s last major rebel bastion of Idlib.Russia and Iran are key allies of President Bashar Assad’s regime. Turkey however backs opposition fighters seeking the ouster of the Syrian leader, and has argued against a large-scale offensive against the rebels fearing it could trigger a mass exodus towards its borders.An unusual public exchange of words between Erdogan and Putin during the summit in the Iranian capital was carried live, as the Turkish leader pushed for a mention of a ceasefire in a joint statement.“In the third point of the joint statement it’s clearly stated – we have considered the situation in the Idlib de-escalation zone and have decided to seek a path to regulate the situation there,” Putin said.Idlib is one of the so-called “de-escalation” zones set up as a result of talks by Russia, Turkey and Iran last year as Damascus regained control of more of the country.But Erdogan retorted: “Yes, the third point is wonderful, we take the diplomatic point. But there is no mention of ‘truce’. It would be good if we could have this phrase. It would strengthen the point… it would strengthen and calm this process.”To which Putin replied: “The fact is there are no representatives of the armed opposition at our table,” citing the al-Nusra front and the so-called Islamic State extremist group. He also noted that the Syrian army was absent from the talks.Idlib is dominated by jihadists of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) alliance, but in the past years has taken in tens of thousands of rebels and civilians evacuated from other areas recaptured by the regime.“I believe the Turkish president is right overall. It would be good. But we cannot say for them — any more than we can say for the al-Nusra front or IS — that they will stop shooting or stop using armed drones,” Putin noted.But as Russian airplanes pounded rebel positions in the Syrian province, Erdogan insisted: “If we can ensure a ceasefire here, this will be one of the most important steps of the summit, it will seriously put civilians at ease.”“Any attack launched or to be launched on Idlib will result in a disaster, massacre and a very big humanitarian tragedy.”He said it must be possible to find a reasonable way to ensure everyone’s concerns are dealt with.“We can try to pull the elements which Russia finds disturbing to areas where they will be unable to attack the Aleppo and the Hmeimim regions,” he suggested.Hmeimim is home to Russia’s main military base in northwestern province of Latakia.On Friday morning, Russian air raids pounded rebel positions in the southwest of Idlib killing five people, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.Among them were positions of the jihadist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) alliance, as well as of the hardline Ahrar al-Sham group, the Britain-based monitor said.Hundreds of civilians have already begun to flee Idlib ahead of what could be the last — and bloodiest — major battle of the devastating conflict.
Rouhani: Israel, US will not achieve their objectives through rebels in Syria-At summit in Tehran with Putin and Erdogan on conflict, Iranian president says US must leave Syria immediately, while Turkish leader calls to prevent ‘bloodbath’ in Idlib-By Agencies-TOI-SEP 10,18
Iran, Russia and Turkey were unable to overcome their differences at a Tehran summit on Friday as they held talks on an imminent offensive against the last rebel stronghold in Syria, amid warnings from the international community of a looming humanitarian disaster.Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan openly disagreed with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at a press conference in the Iranian capital and warned of a “bloodbath” in Idlib province, where an assault by Syrian government forces is expected any day.Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, who hosted the meeting, also warned against a “scorched earth” policy, but said “fighting terrorism in Idlib is an unavoidable part of the mission of restoring peace and stability to Syria.”Russia and Iran are major allies of Syrian President Bashar Assad, while Turkey backs opposition fighters, including some present in Idlib, who are seeking his ouster.Rouhani also said the US and Israel have realized “they will not reach their objectives” by arming Syria’s rebels. On Thursday Foreign Policy claimed that Israel had armed Syrian rebels for years to advance its interests in the war-torn nation.Rouhani demanded an immediate withdrawal by American forces in the country. The US has some 2,000 troops in Syria. He added that “we have to force the United States to leave,” without elaborating.“The fires of war and bloodshed in Syria are reaching their end,” Rouhani said, while adding that terrorism must “be uprooted in Syria, particularly in Idlib.”Syrian protesters wave their national flag as they demonstrate against the regime and its ally Russia, in the rebel-held city of Idlib on September 7, 2018. (AFP/Zein Al Rifai)Putin insisted Damascus as “the legitimate Syrian government has a right and must eventually take under control all its national territory.”The three countries are guarantors of the Astana process, a track of talks on Syria’s civil war launched after Russia’s game-changing 2015 military intervention that has eclipsed Western-backed Geneva negotiations led by the United Nations.Erdogan called for a ceasefire to prevent any “bloodbath” in Idlib as Russian airplanes pounded rebel positions in the Syrian province.“If we can ensure a ceasefire here, this will be one of the most important steps of the summit, it will seriously put civilians at ease,” Erdogan said. “We never want Idlib to turn into a bloodbath,” Erdogan said.“Any attack launched or to be launched on Idlib will result in a disaster, massacre and a very big humanitarian tragedy.”Iranian and Russian support for Assad has shored up the Damascus regime, allowing it to regain the upper hand in the seven-year civil war which has claimed some 350,000 lives since 2011.Seized from government forces in 2015, Idlib and adjacent areas form the final major chunk of Syrian territory still under opposition control. It is home to some three million people — around half of them displaced from other parts of the country, according to the United Nations.Putin said it was “unacceptable” to use civilians as a pretext to shield “terrorists” in Syria’s rebel-held Idlib.He warned militants in Idlib planned “provocations,” possibly including chemical weapons. The Syrian government has been repeatedly accused of using chemical weapons in the long conflict.Each of the three nations has its own interests in the yearslong war in Syria.Iran wants to keep its foothold in the Mediterranean nation neighboring Israel and Lebanon. Turkey, which backed opposition forces against Assad, fears a flood of refugees fleeing a military offensive and destabilizing areas it now holds in Syria. And Russia wants to maintain its regional presence to fill the vacuum left by America’s long uncertainty about what it wants in the conflict.Northwestern Idlib province and surrounding areas are home to about 3 million people — nearly half of them civilians displaced from other parts of Syria. That also includes an estimated 10,000 hard-core fighters, including al-Qaeda-linked militants.For Russia and Iran, both allies of the Syrian government, retaking Idlib is crucial to complete what they see as a military victory in Syria’s civil war after Syrian troops recaptured nearly all other major towns and cities, largely defeating the rebellion against Assad.A bloody offensive that creates a massive wave of death and displacement, however, runs counter to their narrative that the situation in Syria is normalizing, and could hurt Russia’s longer-term efforts to encourage the return of refugees and get Western countries to invest in Syria’s postwar reconstruction.For Turkey, the stakes couldn’t be higher. Turkey already hosts 3.5 million Syrian refugees and has sealed its borders to newcomers. It has also created zones of control in northern Syria and has several hundred troops deployed at 12 observation posts in Idlib. A government assault creates a nightmare scenario of potentially hundreds of thousands of people, including militants, fleeing toward its border and destabilizing towns and cities in northern Syria under its control.Naji al-Mustafa, a spokesman for the Turkey-backed National Front for Liberation, said Friday his fighters were prepared for a battle that they expect will spark a major humanitarian crisis.“The least the summit can do is to prevent this military war,” he said.Early on Friday, a series of airstrikes struck villages in southwest Idlib, targeting insurgent posts and killing a fighter, said Rami Abdurrahman, the head of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Abdurrahman said suspected Russian warplanes carried out the attack.Turkey also doesn’t want to see another Kurdish-controlled area rise along its border, as it already faces in northern Iraq.
Judge orders removal of protests teepees outside Saskatchewan legislature-[The Canadian Press]-YAHOONEWS-September 10, 2018
REGINA — A Saskatchewan judge has ordered a group of protesters to remove their teepees from the lawn outside the provincial legislature.Protesters started camping at the site at the end of February to bring attention to racial injustice and the disproportionate number of First Nations children in care.A few protesters were removed by police in June but the camp was set up again two days later and police have held off ever since.The province argued in court the protesters were breaking bylaws and making it hard to maintain the land across from the legislature.Justice Ysanne Wilkinson agreed, saying society achieves more through order than disorder.She also dismissed an application by six protesters to have their arrests in June declared illegal.The Canadian Press.
North Korea's Kim sets denuclearization time line, prompting thanks from Trump-[Reuters]-By Hyonhee Shin and Susan Heavey-YAHOONEWS-September 9, 2018
SEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korea's Kim Jong Un has given his first time line for denuclearization, aiming for the end of U.S. President Donald Trump's first term, Seoul officials said on Thursday, prompting thanks from Trump who said they would "get it done together".Kim and South Korean President Moon Jae-in will meet in Pyongyang on Sept. 18-20 for a third summit and discuss "practical measures" toward denuclearization, Moon's national security adviser, Chung Eui-yong, said a day after meeting Kim.The summit could provide renewed momentum to talks over denuclearization between North Korea and the United States, after Trump canceled a visit to Pyongyang by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo last month citing lack of progress.Kim told South Korean officials his faith in Trump was "unchanged" and that he wanted denuclearization of the Korean peninsula and an end to hostile relations with the United States before Trump's first term ends in early 2021, Chung said.But there was no indication that Kim had offered concrete steps toward giving up his nuclear arsenal, something some U.S. officials have said privately they doubt he is willing to do."He particularly emphasized that he has never said anything negative about President Trump," Chung said.Trump welcomed Kim's remarks in a trademark Tweet."Kim Jong Un of North Korea proclaims 'unwavering faith in President Trump.' Thank you to Chairman Kim. We will get it done together!" Trump wrote.Trump had previously hailed his landmark June 12 summit with Kim as a success and said the North Korean nuclear threat was over, despite little evidence to back that assertion.In previous, failed talks, North Korea has said it could consider giving up its nuclear program if the United States provided security guarantees by removing troops from South Korea and withdrawing its so-called nuclear umbrella of deterrence from the South and Japan.U.S. officials involved in the latest negotiations have said North Korea has refused to even start discussions about defining denuclearization and has insisted the United States must first agree to simultaneous steps to reduce sanctions pressure.Some analysts suggested Kim was flattering Trump in hopes of dividing the president from advisers who have advocated a tougher U.S. stand."Kim just owns Trump. He knows his mark," Vipin Narang, a political scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who specializes in nuclear issues, said in a message on Twitter.'ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF WORK TO DO' Pompeo, on a trip to New Delhi, said there was still "an enormous amount of work to do" on the denuclearization issue.He visited Pyongyang in July, after which North Korea accused him of making "unilateral and gangster-like demands for denuclearization".Asked about U.S. intelligence that North Korea was still advancing its weapons programs, Pompeo noted Pyongyang had ceased its nuclear tests and test-firing missiles, which he said was a "good thing.""But the work of convincing Chairman Kim to make this strategic shift that we've talked about for a brighter future for the people of North Korea continues," Pompeo said.The State Department later said Pompeo was sending his newly appointed North Korea envoy, Stephen Biegun, to South Korea, China and Japan from Sept. 10-15.Signaling that Washington's concerns extend beyond Pyongyang's nuclear program, the U.S. government on Thursday charged and sanctioned an alleged North Korean hacker over the 2017 global WannaCry ransomware cyberattack, the 2014 cyber assault on Sony Corp. and other "malign cyber activities."Chung said Kim had stressed the need for the United States to reciprocate North Korea's initial moves, which have included dismantling a nuclear test site and a missile engine facility."We support progress in inter-Korean relations and President Moon’s statements that such progress must go hand-in-hand with denuclearization," a spokesperson for the White House National Security Council (NSC) said when asked about the meeting.North Korea's official KCNA news agency said Kim told the South's envoys that his "fixed stand" was to turn the Korean peninsula into "a cradle of peace without nuclear weapons, free from nuclear threat".Chung said Kim showed "frustration over the doubt raised by some parts of the international community about his willingness to denuclearize, and asked us to convey his message to the United States"."He expressed his strong will to carry out more proactive measures toward denuclearization if action is taken in response to the North's preemptive steps," Chung said.Koh Yu-hwan, a professor of North Korean Studies at Dongguk University in Seoul, said: "Looks like Kim is trying to wash away worries that talks could stall or fail, knowing well that Washington is losing patience."U.S. officials have previously said they have already made conciliatory gestures, such as suspending joint military exercises with South Korea.During his meeting with Kim, Chung delivered a message from Trump and will relay comments from Kim to U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton, Moon's spokesman, Kim Eui-kyeom, told reporters. Chung later spoke to Bolton, the NSC official said.Trump spoke to Moon on the evening before Chung's trip and asked Moon to act as "chief negotiator" between Washington and Pyongyang, the spokesman said.However, a three-way summit between Trump, Kim and Moon - an idea that South Korea has floated - is not expected on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York this month, Chung said, suggesting that Kim is not likely to become the first North Korean leader to attend the gathering.U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres praised the Koreas for their trust-building efforts and expressed hope for further progress toward "complete and verifiable denuclearization," his spokesman said.WHAT HAPPENS FIRST? Kim and Trump held an unprecedented summit in Singapore in June, in which the North Korean leader made a broad, vague commitment to work toward denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. But negotiations have stalled, while signs North Korea has maintained work on its weapons have emerged.Under discussion is whether North Korean denuclearization or declaring an end to the 1950-53 Korean War should come first.The war ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty, meaning U.S.-led U.N. forces are technically still at war with the North."The United States shouldn't delay any further an end-of-war declaration, which the U.S. president promised at the Singapore summit," the North's official Rodong Sinmun newspaper said.U.S. officials have said such a declaration could weaken North Korea's incentive for denuclearization, and create uncertainty about the purpose of 28,500 U.S. troops stationed in South Korea.(Additional reporting by Cynthia Kim and Joyce Lee in SEOUL, Matt Spetalnick, John Walcott, Susan Heavey, Lesley Wroughton and Christopher Bing in WASHINGTON and Phil Stewart in NEW DELHI; Writing by Soyoung Kim; Editing by Nick Macfie and James Dalgleish)
28 And when these things begin to come to pass,(ALL THE PROPHECY SIGNS FROM THE BIBLE) then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption (RAPTURE) draweth nigh.
29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree,(ISRAEL) and all the trees;(ALL INDEPENDENT COUNTRIES)
30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.(ISRAEL LITERALLY BECAME AND INDEPENDENT COUNTRY JUST BEFORE SUMMER IN MAY 14,1948.)
JOEL 2:3,30
3 A fire devoureth (ATOMIC BOMB) before them;(RUSSIAN-ARAB-MUSLIM ARMIES AGAINST ISRAEL) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(ATOMIC BOMB AFFECT)
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB)(BECAUSE NUKES HAVE BEEN USED ON ISRAELS ENEMIES)(GOD PROTECTS ISRAEL AND ALWAYS WILL)
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)
EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven;(FROM ATOMIC BOMBS) and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE
New US bill would require UNRWA to change refugee definition to receive aid-Republican Senator James Lankford says current model is ‘not sustainable for American taxpayers’-By Eric Cortellessa-TOI-SEP 10,18
WASHINGTON — A Republican senator introduced a new bill Thursday that would require the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) to change its definition of what constitutes a Palestinian refugee to receive future US assistance.Seeking to pressure the international community to recognize Palestinian refugees under the criteria they do other refugee populations, Senator James Lankford of Oklahoma proposed legislation that would mandate UNRWA — the UN agency responsible for the Palestinians — identify only those who were displaced between 1947 and 1949 as refugees and not their millions of descendants, some of whom were born in and are citizens of other nations.The status of Palestinian refugees is different from host country to host country. Only Jordan gives most refugees full citizenship rights. Lebanon denies them many basic rights, while Syria gives them most rights other than the right to vote. Refugees in Iraq and Egypt have limited rights.Refugees recognized by UNRWA receive life-long benefits from the agency.While saying “American assistance to the Palestinians is an important component of our nation’s engagement in the Middle East,” Lankford added that the US is “currently funding an entity that has ensured that a refugee population of several hundreds of thousands 70 years ago has exploded to more than five million.”UNRWA claims there are five million registered Palestinian refugees, when there were roughly 750,000 after the 1948 war. Unlike every other refugee population, which shrinks every year, the Palestinian one exponentially increases.“This is not sustainable — for American taxpayers, who are asked to finance the welfare of these individuals, for the Palestinians themselves, or for the Israelis,” Lankford added.The Oklahoma lawmaker also added that the arrangement fueled the Palestinian demand for a full “right of return.”The “right of return” is one of the key core issues of dispute in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Palestinians claim that the five million people the UN recognizes as refugees have the right to return to their homes in Israel proper. Israel, for its part, rejects this demand, saying that it represents a bid by the Palestinians to destroy Israel by weight of numbers.Israel’s population is almost nine million, some three-quarters of whom are Jewish. An influx of millions of Palestinians would mean Israel would no longer be a Jewish-majority state.“UNRWA’s methodology strains regional tensions more each generation as it increases rather than decreases the number of refugees in the region…who, by being registered as a ‘Palestine refugee’ with UNRWA, may be wrongfully implied as having an internationally sanctioned right to return to Israel,” Lanford said in a statement announcing the legislation.His bill comes one week after the Trump administration announced its decision to cut all funding to UNRWA, with the State Department saying it “will no longer commit further funding to this irredeemably flawed operation” but will look for other ways to assist the Palestinians.The US supplies nearly 30 percent of the total budget of the UNRWA, which provides health care, education and social services to Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.The US donated $355 million to the agency in 2016 and was set to make a similar contribution this year. But in January, the White House released $60 million in funds but withheld a further $65 million it had been due to provide.Cutting aid to the agency was intensely controversial. While Israel welcomed the move, liberal Jewish groups in the United States decried it as cruel — and not in Israel’s security interests.“There is no other organization that can step in overnight and assume all of UNRWA’s responsibilities, and overseeing UNRWA’s death without a backup plan in place is grossly irresponsible,” said the Israel Policy Forum, an advocacy group that supports a two-state solution.
UK's former EU ambassador warns of Brexit crisis: Guardian-[Reuters]-YAHOONEWS-September 9, 2018
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's former ambassador to the European Union has warned that there is a higher risk of a Brexit crisis than financial markets are currently pricing in, the Guardian reported.The United Kingdom is due to leave the European Union on March 29, yet little is clear: There is, so far, no full exit deal, rivals to Prime Minister Theresa May are circling and some lawmakers are pushing for a rerun of the 2016 referendum.Ivan Rogers, who served as EU ambassador from 2013 to 2017, warned in a speech in Dublin that negotiators on both sides risked "sleepwalking into a major crisis" that could poison relations for a generation."There is now, in my view, a higher risk than the markets are currently pricing of a disorderly breakdown in Brexit negotiations, and of our sleepwalking into a major crisis," the Guardian quoted Rogers as saying."Not because either negotiating team actively seeks it, but precisely because each side misreads each other’s real incentives and political constraints and cannot find any sort of landing zone for a deal, however provisional."Both London and Brussels say they want to get a divorce deal at the October 18 EU Council but many diplomats think that target date is too optimistic. Britain has stepped up planning for the consequences of potentially not getting a deal.Rogers criticized what he cast as the delusional thinking of some British Eurosceptics and said they knew that a genuine no-deal Brexit "would bring several key sectors of the economy to a halt", the Guardian reported.With just under seven months left before the UK is due to leave the EU, the country, its politicians and its business leaders remain deeply divided over Brexit.Recent opinion polls show voters think May is handling the process badly and there may be a slight move toward support for staying in the EU.(Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge, editing by James Davey)
Coalition government would expel immigrants who fail to learn French in 3 years-[The Canadian Press]-YAHOONEWS-September 10, 2018
MONTREAL — The perennially divisive topic of language politics surfaced on the Quebec campaign trail Friday as the leader of the Coalition Avenir Quebec promised his government would force new immigrants to leave the province if they don't learn French within three years.After two weeks of campaigning nearly devoid of language talk, the issue jumped into the spotlight on Day 16 as party leaders responded to Francois Legault's proposals with differing visions on how best to integrate immigrants into French-speaking Quebec.Speaking early Friday, Legault said new immigrants would be given a temporary permit upon entry and then have three years to take free language courses and pass a basic French-language test.Those who fail would not be granted permission to stay and would be considered to be in the country illegally, he said.Legault said most people should pass easily, but he's open to offering an extension or exemption to seniors or those with learning disabilities.I will be open to accommodations, if someone has learning difficulties," he told reporters. "Of course we won't ask them for the same," he told reporters in Montreal."I want to be human, I don't want to ask them to do something that is impossible."Legault said more than 50 per cent of immigrants who arrive in the province don't speak French and that many of those end up leaving or facing high levels of unemployment.He warned that under present conditions, the use of French will gradually disappear."If year after year we accept 50,000 immigrants and most don't speak French, it's a matter of time," he said."It might take one, two, three generations but it's a matter of time before we stop speaking French in Montreal and that's not what I want." The Coalition has proposed lowering the number of immigrants to the province to 40,000 a year from the current 50,000.Legault's proposal was panned by Liberal Leader Philippe Couillard, who accused his rival of fear-mongering and wanting to "break up families."He argued that Quebec's immigration policy has been a success, noting that about 50 per cent of all jobs in recent years have been filled by immigrants."Immigrants are learning French, and you know where they learn it best? At work," he said in Gatineau, near the Ontario border.Couillard, who supports maintaining immigration at current levels, said he shares the views of younger Quebecers who are confident in the future and have little interest in divisive language politics."We don't want a situation where we fear our neighbour, our work colleague," he said. "We don't want it — that's not the Quebec we have or we want."Conversely, the Coalition leader also faced an accusation his plan didn't go far enough to protect the French language — this time by Parti Quebecois Leader Jean-Francois Lisee.Lisee said the right number of immigrants was likely between 35,000 and 40,000 per year, based on past "successes" and "failures.''While he criticized Couillard for continuing to suggest a number that would lead to "broken dreams," Lisee maintained that Legault is the biggest threat to the French language."The worst thing we could do for French in Quebec is to adopt the proposition of the (Coalition), which would agree to have 40,000 people per year enter Quebec without knowing French," he said in Sorel-Tracy, northeast of Montreal. -- With files from Melanie Marquis in Sorel-Tracy, Patrice Bergeron in Gatineau and Caroline Plante in Montreal Morgan Lowrie, The Canadian Press.
WORLD POWERS IN THE LAST DAYS (END OF AGE OF GRACE NOT THE WORLD)
EUROPEAN UNION-KING OF WEST-DAN 9:26-27,DAN 7:23-24,DAN 11:40,REV 13:1-10
EGYPT-KING OF THE SOUTH-DAN 11:40
RUSSIA-KING OF THE NORTH-EZEK 38:1-2,EZEK 39:1-3
CHINA-KING OF THE EAST-DAN 11:44,REV 9:16,18
VATICAN-RELIGIOUS LEADER-REV 13:11-18,REV 17:4-5,9,18
WORLD TERRORISM
OH BY THE WAY WHEN THE MEDIA SAYS ALLU-AK-BAR MEANS GOD IS GREAT LIE. IN ISLAM ALLU-AK-BAR MEANS OUR GOD IS GREATER OR GREATEST. THIS IS HOW THE MEDIA SUCK HOLES UP TO ISLAMIC-QURANIC-MUSLIMS. BY WATERING DOWN THE REAL MEANING OF THE SEX FOR MURDER DEATH CULT ISLAM. TO MAKE IT SOUND LIKE A PEACEFUL RELIGION (CULT OF DEATH AND WORLD DOMINATION).
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her,(HAGAR) Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he (ISHMAEL-FATHER OF THE ARAB-MUSLIMS) will be a wild (DONKEY-JACKASS) man;(ISLAM IS A FAKE AND DANGEROUS SEX FOR MURDER CULT) his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against him;(PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM BEING BEHEADED) and he (ISHMAEL ARAB/MUSLIM) shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)
ISAIAH 14:12-14
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,(SATAN) son of the morning!(HEBREW-CRECENT MOON-ISLAM) how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I (SATAN HAS EYE TROUBLES) will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(AND 1/3RD OF THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN FELL WITH SATAN AND BECAME DEMONS)
JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.(ISLAM MURDERS IN THE NAME OF MOON GOD ALLAH OF ISLAM)
UN envoy proposes rebel pullback from Syria’s Idlib-Staffan de Mistura also calls for evacuation corridors to allow civilians to voluntarily leave the war zone, under United Nations monitoring-By AFP-TOI-SEP 10,18
The UN peace envoy for Syria on Friday proposed a plan for Al-Qaeda-linked fighters in Syria’s Idlib province to pull back from civilian areas to avert a bloodbath in the rebel-held province.The United Nations has warned of a humanitarian disaster if Syrian forces, backed by Russia and Iran, launch an all-out attack in Idlib, the last major rebel bastion.Addressing the Security Council, Staffan de Mistura also called for evacuation corridors to be opened for civilians to voluntarily leave the war zone, under UN monitoring.The council was meeting as the presidents of Iran, Russia and Turkey agreed during a summit in Tehran to work in a “spirit of cooperation” to stabilize the situation in Idlib.The three countries are guarantors of the Astana process, a track of talks on Syria’s war launched after Russia’s 2015 military intervention that has largely eclipsed the UN peace process in Geneva.De Mistura proposed that a deadline be set for all fighters — in particular the Al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front — to move away from populated areas and that no military attacks would be launched during the pullback.“This would apply in particular for Al-Nusra, who should be notified by the guarantors, in particular Turkey, which still has the capacity to send messages,” he said.Russia told the council meeting that some 40 to 45 armed groups with up to 50,000 people were operating in Idlib. Some 16,000 are fighting in the ranks of Al-Nusra and 11,300 others are members of hardline groups, said Russian Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia.Syrian civilians are “worn out by extremist tyranny” in Idlib, said Nebenzia, adding that terrorist groups remain “a legitimate target for liquidation.”Some three million people live in the northwest region, which came under renewed air strikes and bombings earlier this week.“There are more babies in Idlib than there are terrorists,” said British Ambassador Karen Pierce. “I think this should give those engaged in military action pause for thought.”Britain recalled that targeting civilians amounts to war crimes and warned that Syrian commanders and military units loyal to President Bashar al-Assad will be held accountable for any violations in Idlib.US Ambassador Nikki Haley warned: “If Assad, Russia, and Iran continue, the consequences will be dire.”De Mistura is to hold talks next week with the three guarantors in Geneva next week.More than 350,000 people have been killed in Syria’s seven-year war, but UN diplomats fear the assault on Idlib could trigger one of the worst bloodbaths of the conflict.
Erdogan and Putin clash over Idlib ceasefire in Syria-Openly disagreement highlights differences between leaders as they meet in Iran to discuss the fate of country’s last major rebel bastion-By AFP-TOI-SEP 10,18
TEHRAN — Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan Friday openly disagreed about a “ceasefire” in Syria’s Idlib province, highlighting their differences despite a close cooperation.The rare scenes captured on camera came as Putin, Erdogan and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani met in Tehran for a three-way summit to discuss the fate of the country’s last major rebel bastion of Idlib.Russia and Iran are key allies of President Bashar Assad’s regime. Turkey however backs opposition fighters seeking the ouster of the Syrian leader, and has argued against a large-scale offensive against the rebels fearing it could trigger a mass exodus towards its borders.An unusual public exchange of words between Erdogan and Putin during the summit in the Iranian capital was carried live, as the Turkish leader pushed for a mention of a ceasefire in a joint statement.“In the third point of the joint statement it’s clearly stated – we have considered the situation in the Idlib de-escalation zone and have decided to seek a path to regulate the situation there,” Putin said.Idlib is one of the so-called “de-escalation” zones set up as a result of talks by Russia, Turkey and Iran last year as Damascus regained control of more of the country.But Erdogan retorted: “Yes, the third point is wonderful, we take the diplomatic point. But there is no mention of ‘truce’. It would be good if we could have this phrase. It would strengthen the point… it would strengthen and calm this process.”To which Putin replied: “The fact is there are no representatives of the armed opposition at our table,” citing the al-Nusra front and the so-called Islamic State extremist group. He also noted that the Syrian army was absent from the talks.Idlib is dominated by jihadists of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) alliance, but in the past years has taken in tens of thousands of rebels and civilians evacuated from other areas recaptured by the regime.“I believe the Turkish president is right overall. It would be good. But we cannot say for them — any more than we can say for the al-Nusra front or IS — that they will stop shooting or stop using armed drones,” Putin noted.But as Russian airplanes pounded rebel positions in the Syrian province, Erdogan insisted: “If we can ensure a ceasefire here, this will be one of the most important steps of the summit, it will seriously put civilians at ease.”“Any attack launched or to be launched on Idlib will result in a disaster, massacre and a very big humanitarian tragedy.”He said it must be possible to find a reasonable way to ensure everyone’s concerns are dealt with.“We can try to pull the elements which Russia finds disturbing to areas where they will be unable to attack the Aleppo and the Hmeimim regions,” he suggested.Hmeimim is home to Russia’s main military base in northwestern province of Latakia.On Friday morning, Russian air raids pounded rebel positions in the southwest of Idlib killing five people, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.Among them were positions of the jihadist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) alliance, as well as of the hardline Ahrar al-Sham group, the Britain-based monitor said.Hundreds of civilians have already begun to flee Idlib ahead of what could be the last — and bloodiest — major battle of the devastating conflict.
Rouhani: Israel, US will not achieve their objectives through rebels in Syria-At summit in Tehran with Putin and Erdogan on conflict, Iranian president says US must leave Syria immediately, while Turkish leader calls to prevent ‘bloodbath’ in Idlib-By Agencies-TOI-SEP 10,18
Iran, Russia and Turkey were unable to overcome their differences at a Tehran summit on Friday as they held talks on an imminent offensive against the last rebel stronghold in Syria, amid warnings from the international community of a looming humanitarian disaster.Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan openly disagreed with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at a press conference in the Iranian capital and warned of a “bloodbath” in Idlib province, where an assault by Syrian government forces is expected any day.Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, who hosted the meeting, also warned against a “scorched earth” policy, but said “fighting terrorism in Idlib is an unavoidable part of the mission of restoring peace and stability to Syria.”Russia and Iran are major allies of Syrian President Bashar Assad, while Turkey backs opposition fighters, including some present in Idlib, who are seeking his ouster.Rouhani also said the US and Israel have realized “they will not reach their objectives” by arming Syria’s rebels. On Thursday Foreign Policy claimed that Israel had armed Syrian rebels for years to advance its interests in the war-torn nation.Rouhani demanded an immediate withdrawal by American forces in the country. The US has some 2,000 troops in Syria. He added that “we have to force the United States to leave,” without elaborating.“The fires of war and bloodshed in Syria are reaching their end,” Rouhani said, while adding that terrorism must “be uprooted in Syria, particularly in Idlib.”Syrian protesters wave their national flag as they demonstrate against the regime and its ally Russia, in the rebel-held city of Idlib on September 7, 2018. (AFP/Zein Al Rifai)Putin insisted Damascus as “the legitimate Syrian government has a right and must eventually take under control all its national territory.”The three countries are guarantors of the Astana process, a track of talks on Syria’s civil war launched after Russia’s game-changing 2015 military intervention that has eclipsed Western-backed Geneva negotiations led by the United Nations.Erdogan called for a ceasefire to prevent any “bloodbath” in Idlib as Russian airplanes pounded rebel positions in the Syrian province.“If we can ensure a ceasefire here, this will be one of the most important steps of the summit, it will seriously put civilians at ease,” Erdogan said. “We never want Idlib to turn into a bloodbath,” Erdogan said.“Any attack launched or to be launched on Idlib will result in a disaster, massacre and a very big humanitarian tragedy.”Iranian and Russian support for Assad has shored up the Damascus regime, allowing it to regain the upper hand in the seven-year civil war which has claimed some 350,000 lives since 2011.Seized from government forces in 2015, Idlib and adjacent areas form the final major chunk of Syrian territory still under opposition control. It is home to some three million people — around half of them displaced from other parts of the country, according to the United Nations.Putin said it was “unacceptable” to use civilians as a pretext to shield “terrorists” in Syria’s rebel-held Idlib.He warned militants in Idlib planned “provocations,” possibly including chemical weapons. The Syrian government has been repeatedly accused of using chemical weapons in the long conflict.Each of the three nations has its own interests in the yearslong war in Syria.Iran wants to keep its foothold in the Mediterranean nation neighboring Israel and Lebanon. Turkey, which backed opposition forces against Assad, fears a flood of refugees fleeing a military offensive and destabilizing areas it now holds in Syria. And Russia wants to maintain its regional presence to fill the vacuum left by America’s long uncertainty about what it wants in the conflict.Northwestern Idlib province and surrounding areas are home to about 3 million people — nearly half of them civilians displaced from other parts of Syria. That also includes an estimated 10,000 hard-core fighters, including al-Qaeda-linked militants.For Russia and Iran, both allies of the Syrian government, retaking Idlib is crucial to complete what they see as a military victory in Syria’s civil war after Syrian troops recaptured nearly all other major towns and cities, largely defeating the rebellion against Assad.A bloody offensive that creates a massive wave of death and displacement, however, runs counter to their narrative that the situation in Syria is normalizing, and could hurt Russia’s longer-term efforts to encourage the return of refugees and get Western countries to invest in Syria’s postwar reconstruction.For Turkey, the stakes couldn’t be higher. Turkey already hosts 3.5 million Syrian refugees and has sealed its borders to newcomers. It has also created zones of control in northern Syria and has several hundred troops deployed at 12 observation posts in Idlib. A government assault creates a nightmare scenario of potentially hundreds of thousands of people, including militants, fleeing toward its border and destabilizing towns and cities in northern Syria under its control.Naji al-Mustafa, a spokesman for the Turkey-backed National Front for Liberation, said Friday his fighters were prepared for a battle that they expect will spark a major humanitarian crisis.“The least the summit can do is to prevent this military war,” he said.Early on Friday, a series of airstrikes struck villages in southwest Idlib, targeting insurgent posts and killing a fighter, said Rami Abdurrahman, the head of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Abdurrahman said suspected Russian warplanes carried out the attack.Turkey also doesn’t want to see another Kurdish-controlled area rise along its border, as it already faces in northern Iraq.
Judge orders removal of protests teepees outside Saskatchewan legislature-[The Canadian Press]-YAHOONEWS-September 10, 2018
REGINA — A Saskatchewan judge has ordered a group of protesters to remove their teepees from the lawn outside the provincial legislature.Protesters started camping at the site at the end of February to bring attention to racial injustice and the disproportionate number of First Nations children in care.A few protesters were removed by police in June but the camp was set up again two days later and police have held off ever since.The province argued in court the protesters were breaking bylaws and making it hard to maintain the land across from the legislature.Justice Ysanne Wilkinson agreed, saying society achieves more through order than disorder.She also dismissed an application by six protesters to have their arrests in June declared illegal.The Canadian Press.
North Korea's Kim sets denuclearization time line, prompting thanks from Trump-[Reuters]-By Hyonhee Shin and Susan Heavey-YAHOONEWS-September 9, 2018
SEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korea's Kim Jong Un has given his first time line for denuclearization, aiming for the end of U.S. President Donald Trump's first term, Seoul officials said on Thursday, prompting thanks from Trump who said they would "get it done together".Kim and South Korean President Moon Jae-in will meet in Pyongyang on Sept. 18-20 for a third summit and discuss "practical measures" toward denuclearization, Moon's national security adviser, Chung Eui-yong, said a day after meeting Kim.The summit could provide renewed momentum to talks over denuclearization between North Korea and the United States, after Trump canceled a visit to Pyongyang by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo last month citing lack of progress.Kim told South Korean officials his faith in Trump was "unchanged" and that he wanted denuclearization of the Korean peninsula and an end to hostile relations with the United States before Trump's first term ends in early 2021, Chung said.But there was no indication that Kim had offered concrete steps toward giving up his nuclear arsenal, something some U.S. officials have said privately they doubt he is willing to do."He particularly emphasized that he has never said anything negative about President Trump," Chung said.Trump welcomed Kim's remarks in a trademark Tweet."Kim Jong Un of North Korea proclaims 'unwavering faith in President Trump.' Thank you to Chairman Kim. We will get it done together!" Trump wrote.Trump had previously hailed his landmark June 12 summit with Kim as a success and said the North Korean nuclear threat was over, despite little evidence to back that assertion.In previous, failed talks, North Korea has said it could consider giving up its nuclear program if the United States provided security guarantees by removing troops from South Korea and withdrawing its so-called nuclear umbrella of deterrence from the South and Japan.U.S. officials involved in the latest negotiations have said North Korea has refused to even start discussions about defining denuclearization and has insisted the United States must first agree to simultaneous steps to reduce sanctions pressure.Some analysts suggested Kim was flattering Trump in hopes of dividing the president from advisers who have advocated a tougher U.S. stand."Kim just owns Trump. He knows his mark," Vipin Narang, a political scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who specializes in nuclear issues, said in a message on Twitter.'ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF WORK TO DO' Pompeo, on a trip to New Delhi, said there was still "an enormous amount of work to do" on the denuclearization issue.He visited Pyongyang in July, after which North Korea accused him of making "unilateral and gangster-like demands for denuclearization".Asked about U.S. intelligence that North Korea was still advancing its weapons programs, Pompeo noted Pyongyang had ceased its nuclear tests and test-firing missiles, which he said was a "good thing.""But the work of convincing Chairman Kim to make this strategic shift that we've talked about for a brighter future for the people of North Korea continues," Pompeo said.The State Department later said Pompeo was sending his newly appointed North Korea envoy, Stephen Biegun, to South Korea, China and Japan from Sept. 10-15.Signaling that Washington's concerns extend beyond Pyongyang's nuclear program, the U.S. government on Thursday charged and sanctioned an alleged North Korean hacker over the 2017 global WannaCry ransomware cyberattack, the 2014 cyber assault on Sony Corp. and other "malign cyber activities."Chung said Kim had stressed the need for the United States to reciprocate North Korea's initial moves, which have included dismantling a nuclear test site and a missile engine facility."We support progress in inter-Korean relations and President Moon’s statements that such progress must go hand-in-hand with denuclearization," a spokesperson for the White House National Security Council (NSC) said when asked about the meeting.North Korea's official KCNA news agency said Kim told the South's envoys that his "fixed stand" was to turn the Korean peninsula into "a cradle of peace without nuclear weapons, free from nuclear threat".Chung said Kim showed "frustration over the doubt raised by some parts of the international community about his willingness to denuclearize, and asked us to convey his message to the United States"."He expressed his strong will to carry out more proactive measures toward denuclearization if action is taken in response to the North's preemptive steps," Chung said.Koh Yu-hwan, a professor of North Korean Studies at Dongguk University in Seoul, said: "Looks like Kim is trying to wash away worries that talks could stall or fail, knowing well that Washington is losing patience."U.S. officials have previously said they have already made conciliatory gestures, such as suspending joint military exercises with South Korea.During his meeting with Kim, Chung delivered a message from Trump and will relay comments from Kim to U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton, Moon's spokesman, Kim Eui-kyeom, told reporters. Chung later spoke to Bolton, the NSC official said.Trump spoke to Moon on the evening before Chung's trip and asked Moon to act as "chief negotiator" between Washington and Pyongyang, the spokesman said.However, a three-way summit between Trump, Kim and Moon - an idea that South Korea has floated - is not expected on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York this month, Chung said, suggesting that Kim is not likely to become the first North Korean leader to attend the gathering.U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres praised the Koreas for their trust-building efforts and expressed hope for further progress toward "complete and verifiable denuclearization," his spokesman said.WHAT HAPPENS FIRST? Kim and Trump held an unprecedented summit in Singapore in June, in which the North Korean leader made a broad, vague commitment to work toward denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. But negotiations have stalled, while signs North Korea has maintained work on its weapons have emerged.Under discussion is whether North Korean denuclearization or declaring an end to the 1950-53 Korean War should come first.The war ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty, meaning U.S.-led U.N. forces are technically still at war with the North."The United States shouldn't delay any further an end-of-war declaration, which the U.S. president promised at the Singapore summit," the North's official Rodong Sinmun newspaper said.U.S. officials have said such a declaration could weaken North Korea's incentive for denuclearization, and create uncertainty about the purpose of 28,500 U.S. troops stationed in South Korea.(Additional reporting by Cynthia Kim and Joyce Lee in SEOUL, Matt Spetalnick, John Walcott, Susan Heavey, Lesley Wroughton and Christopher Bing in WASHINGTON and Phil Stewart in NEW DELHI; Writing by Soyoung Kim; Editing by Nick Macfie and James Dalgleish)
