Thursday, February 23, 2023

WORST POISON EVER WAS MADE WHEN THE OHIO CHEMICAL WAS BURNED.WORST THEN CHERNOBOL.

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)

 WORST POISON EVER WAS MADE WHEN THE OHIO CHEMICAL WAS BURNED.WORST THEN CHERNOBOL.

DISEASES-ANIMAL TO HUMAN

REVELATION 6:7-8 (500 MILLION DEAD EACH FROM THE 4 JUDGEMENTS)(2 BILLION TOT DEAD HERE)
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth,(2 billion) of (8 billion) to kill with sword,(WEAPONS)(500 million) and with hunger,(FAMINE)(500 million) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES)(500 million) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE)(500 million).

THE COVID-19 TOTALS.
WORLD OVER ALL CASES-679,173,098 - DEAD 6,794,530 - AS OF THU FEB 23,2023 (AND THE SCAM OF THE DEATH KILL SHOTS CONTINUES)

DR JUDY AND LEE MERRITT
https://rumble.com/v2707t4-dr-judy-a-mikovits-phd-and-dr-lee-merritt-md-at-the-restore-freedom-rally-j.html

Buttigieg visits East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment site-FEB 23,23

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg visited East Palestine, Ohio, on Thursday to tour the site where a train wrecked nearly three weeks ago as the government faces growing criticism over the federal response to the derailment.The Feb. 3 derailment led to evacuations and fears of air and water contamination after a controlled burn of toxic chemicals aimed at preventing an explosion.The Biden White House has defended its response to the derailment, saying officials from the Environmental Protection Agency, National Transportation Safety Board and other agencies were at the rural site within hours of the derailment. The White House says it has also offered federal assistance and FEMA has been coordinating with the state emergency operations center and other partners.Buttigieg has faced criticism for not visiting the site earlier, including from former President Donald Trump, who came to Ohio on Wednesday.The NTSB was expected to release a preliminary report later Thursday on the derailment.

White House blames Trump administration and Republicans over East Palestine, Ohio spill-Joey Garrison-USA TODAY

WASHINGTON — The White House is firing back at Republicans following the toxic East Palestine, Ohio train derailment, blaming the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress for undoing Obama-era rail safety measures designed to avert such disasters.The aggressive rebuttal came as former President Donald Trump visited East Palestine on Wednesday and Republicans increasingly attack the Biden administration, especially Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, for its response to the Feb. 3 Norfolk Southern freight train derailment that unleased toxic chemicals.“Congressional Republicans and former Trump Administration officials owe East Palestine an apology for selling them out to rail industry lobbyists when they dismantled Obama-Biden rail safety protections as well as EPA powers to rapidly contain spills,” White House spokesman Andrew Bates said in a statement to USA TODAY.Among safety rollbacks cited by the White House, the Trump administration withdrew a 2015 proposal to require advanced braking systems on trains carrying highly flammable materials, ended regular safety audits of railroads and scrapped a proposal to require at least two crew members on freight trains.Jennifer Homendy, who chairs the National Transportation Safety Board, said the brake rule would not have prevented the East Palestine derailment because it was proposed for "high-hazard flammable" trains carrying 20 or more loaded tank cars. The train that derailed did not meet that threshold. The White House also resurfaced a 2021 letter to the Federal Railroad Administration signed by 20 Republican senators in support of waivers backed by the rail lobby to allow automated inspections of track safety instead of human inspections. A look at some of the transportation safety rules sidelined under President Trump-On the environmental front, House Republicans last year proposed substantial cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency, including the elimination of its Surface Water Protection Program.Republicans have accused President Joe Biden of ignoring East Palestine, which Trump carried by 40 percentage points in the 2020 election, decrying how the president visited Ukraine and Poland this week instead of Ohio. Their attacks come as Democratic support among working-class voters in Rust Belt states like Ohio has been on the decline for over a decade.Trains are becoming less safe:Why the Ohio derailment disaster could happen more oftenBates said congressional Republicans “laid the groundwork” for the Trump administration to "tear up requirements" for more effective train breaks and accused House Republicans of wanting to “defund our ability to protect drinking water.”“There is only one way they can prove that they are finally disowning their long history of giveaways to rail industry management at the expense of communities like East Palestine: work across the aisle with us to put Obama-Biden protections back in place and go further, including with higher fines for rail pollution and properly equipping the EPA.”:Trains are becoming less safe. Why the Ohio derailment disaster could happen more often-Buttigieg plans to visit East Palestine on Thursday-Nearly three weeks since the incident near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border, East Palestine residents are still reeling with uncertainty as state and federal officials pledge to address their health concerns.While the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the National Transportation Safety Board continue to investigate the derailment, residents of East Palestine have complained about headaches and skin rashes and raised environmental fears and potential long-term effects.Federal agencies maintain that the air and water are safe despite the release of vinyl chloride that was meant to prevent a major explosion from the train's wreckage. According to health experts, the toxic spill and explosions and fire that followed warrant careful monitoring of environmental contamination and exposure to the people who live there. But the chemicals involved, which largely evaporate or break down within days, mean acute problems are unlikely.Buttigieg plans to visit East Palestine on Thursday, making his first trip there since the derailment, to meet with community members and receive an update on the ongoing investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board. The board's initial findings are expected Thursday.The visit coincides with the EPA moving out of the "emergency response phase" and transitioning to a long-term remediation phase.Biden, while visiting Poland, said Wednesday he called federal and state officials, including Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, about ongoing response efforts in East Palestine. "I reaffirmed my commitment to making sure they have everything they need," Biden said in a tweet.Reach Joey Garrison on Twitter @Joeygarrison.

OIL IN ISRAEL

JOB 29:6
6  When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;

GENESIS 12:3
3  And I will bless them that bless thee,(ISRAEL) and curse (DESTROY) him that curseth thee:(DESTROY THEM) and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

GENESIS 14:10
10  And the vale of Siddim was full of slimepits;(CRUDE OIL) and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain

DEUTERONOMY 33:19,24
19  They (ISRAEL) shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of the abundance of the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand.
24  And of Asher he said, Let Asher be blessed with children; let him be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil.

DEUTERONOMY 12:3
13  He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields;(OIL) and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;

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.

UN secretary-general warns against Jerusalem ‘provocations,’ settlement expansion-At pro-Palestinian event, Antonio Guterres decries ‘unilateral actions’ and threats to status quo at holy sites; Palestinian envoy demands international action against Israel-By Luke Tress-22 February 2023, 6:45 pm

NEW YORK — United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday warned against “provocations” at Jerusalem holy sites and escalating violence in the West Bank at a pro-Palestinian event at United Nations headquarters in New York.Guterres also decried settlement activity and called for more support for Palestinians during a periodic meeting of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, held as violence surges between Israel and the Palestinians.Tensions have spiraled in the West Bank over the past year after a series of deadly Palestinian terror attacks in 2022. IDF raids against terror groups have led to hundreds of arrests and dozens of deaths, mostly members of Palestinian terror groups. Ten Palestinians were killed on Wednesday in an IDF operation against terrorists in Nablus, which Guterres called “deeply concerning.”Israel’s new right-religious government has also vowed to expand settlements and take a more hardline approach against the Palestinians. National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir’s visit to the flashpoint Temple Mount last month prompted an emergency UN Security Council session.“The situation in the occupied Palestinian Territory is at its most combustible in years,” Guterres said Wednesday. “The situation in Jerusalem/Al-Quds is becoming more fragile amidst provocations and acts of violence in and around the Holy Sites. It radiates instability across the region and beyond.“The position of the United Nations is clear — the status of Jerusalem cannot be altered by unilateral actions. Jerusalem’s demographic and historical character must be preserved, and the status quo at the Holy Sites must be upheld, in line with the special role of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,” Guterres said.Jordan considers itself the custodian of Jerusalem’s holy sites as part of a deal worked out with Israel after 1967’s Six Day War.Israel has repeatedly said Ben Gvir’s provocative Temple Mount visit did not violate the status quo at the site, which allows Jews to visit, but not pray, at the site.The Mount is the holiest site for Jews, as the location of the two biblical Temples, while the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Mount is the third holiest shrine in Islam — turning the area into a major flashpoint in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.Israel is reportedly set to bar Jews from entering the Temple Mount during the last 10 days of the upcoming Ramadan holiday, despite combative rhetoric from some members of the government.Guterres condemned settlement activity during his speech. Far-right lawmakers in the new government, including Ben Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, have pushed to legalize more settlement outposts.“Across the occupied West Bank and Gaza, hopelessness is spreading, feeding anger and despair. Each new settlement is another roadblock on the path to peace. All settlement activity is illegal under international law. It must stop,” Guterres said. The UN Security Council on Monday issued a rare joint statement condemning a series of recent Israeli settlement expansion announcements.“At the same time, incitement to violence is a dead end. Nothing justifies terrorism. It must be rejected by all,” Guterres said. “Our immediate priority must be to prevent further escalation, reduce tensions and restore calm.”Palestinian terror attacks have killed 11 people in Israel since the start of the year, and left 31 dead in 2022. The deadly attacks against civilians this year prompted widespread celebrations in Palestinian cities.The UN chief also said he was “deeply concerned by Israel’s recent punitive measures against the Palestinian Authority” after the PA successfully pushed the UN’s International Court of Justice to weigh in on the conflict.“There should be no retaliation with respect to the Palestinian Authority in relation to the International Court of Justice,” Guterres said. “These measures risk further destabilizing the Palestinian Authority at a time when it is already struggling with a dire fiscal crisis that is undermining its ability to provide services to people.”Israel sanctioned the Palestinians in response to the probe, including by withholding funding from the Palestinian Authority. The retaliatory measures sparked widespread international blowback.Guterres also said the UN agency for the Palestinians, UNRWA, is facing an “impossible task” in supporting the population without sufficient funding, and called to ease restrictions on the Gaza Strip, which Israel and Egypt have put in place to prevent weapons from reaching the Hamas terrorist group.“Our ultimate goals remain unchanged: end the occupation, realize a two-state solution. But we must face today’s reality. The truth is that trends on the ground mean time is working against us,” Guterres said. “The longer we go without meaningful political negotiations, the further these goals slip from our reach.”Speaking after Guterres, the Palestinian envoy to the UN, Riyad Mansour, demanded the international community, including the secretary-general, step in to protect the Palestinians in response to the Nablus raid.“The United Nations, which is supposed to stand by the weak and the vulnerable, should stand with the Palestinian people,” Mansour said. “We will work with you, Mr. Secretary-General, but we need to see action.”“We are losing credibility, you are losing credibility, this fabulous system is losing credibility,” he said, calling on the UN to use all of its resources “to put an end to these massacres against our people.”“The international community should act, should implement its resolutions and should step up to the plate to protect the Palestinian population,” Mansour said, adding that the Palestinian mission will send a letter today to Guterres, the UN Security Council and the president of the General Assembly requesting further action against Israel.Mansour also warned that the “occupied Palestinian territories are on the verge of a massive eruption because of the policies and practices, particularly of this Israeli government.”Israel and the US say the UN is overwhelmingly biased against the Jewish state. The General Assembly condemned Israel more than all other countries combined last year, and Israel is under more investigatory scrutiny than any other country.Multiple UN investigators of Israel have made antisemitic statements, without facing any repercussions from the UN.Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, has accused the world body of turning a blind eye to antisemitism and institutional bias among its members.“UN leadership is utterly failing to do what must be done in this war against evil,” Erdan said earlier this month.UN human rights chief Volker Turk on Tuesday called on the Israeli government to pause its judicial overhaul plans, saying the proposed measures put human rights at risk.

AMERICA (POLITICAL BABYLON)(NUKED BY SNEAK ATTACK FROM RUSSIA)

IN REVELATION 17 & 18 IS THE DESTRUCTION OF THE RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL BABYLONS.IF YOU CAN NOT DECERN BETWEEN THE 2 BABYLONS IN REV 17 & 18.YOU WILL JUST THINK THEIR BOTH THE SAME.BUT NO-THERES A RELIGIOUS BABYLON (THE VATICAN IN REV 17)(AND THE POLITICAL BABYLON IN REV 18 (AMERICA OR NEW YORK TO BE EXACT)

ISAIAH 34:10
10  It (AMERICA-POLITICAL BABYLON) shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.

JEREMIAH 51:29-32 (CYBER ATTACK 1ST)
29  And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon,(AMERICA-NEW YORK) to make the land of Babylon (AMERICA) a desolation without an inhabitant.
30  The mighty men of Babylon (AMERICA) have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.
031  One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon (NEW YORK) that his city is taken at one end,
32  And that the passages are stopped,(THE WAR COMPUTERS HACKED OR EMP'D) and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.(DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO)

COMPLETE SILENCE AFTER AN EMP GOES OFF
REVELATION 8:1
1 And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.

JEREMIAH 50:3,24
3 For out of the north (RUSSIA) there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.
24 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon,(AMERICA) and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD. (RUSSIA A SNEAK CYBER,EMP ATTACK,THEN NUKE ATTACK ON AMERICA.

JOEL 3:2 (WW3 OCCURS WHEN JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED)
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people (ISRAEL) and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(JERUSALEM)(WW3 STARTS BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AND ISRAELIS UPROOTED FROM THEIR GOD GIVIN LAND BRINGS 3 DEAD BILLION IN WW3)

US CENTRAL BANK DIGITAL CURRENCY
https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/money-and-payments-20220120.pdf

Patent for irreversible data tokenization nears approval-Feb 22, 2023, 5:56 pm EST    | Jim Nas-Patent for irreversible data tokenization nears approval

Digital ID services firm Trust Stamp has announced it has all but received a patent for a method of securely turning biometric data into a token.The United States patent office issued a notice of allowance to Trust Stamp, basically a note saying a patent will be assigned to an innovation. Executives can prepare manufacturing and marketing activities sooner than if they waited for notification.The patent application number is 17/230,683. It covers a way to irreversibly turn personal data into an identity token that itself cannot be reversed. The patent will be Trust Stamp’s 14th.Executives say the process replaces the storage of and use of biometric templates with a transformed ID token that is generated by a neural network.Gareth Genner, CEO of Trust Stamp, says another 19 patent applications from the company are moving through the process.Last month, executives expressed surprise at the level of market interest in its yearling orchestration platform. Also referred to as an orchestration layer, the software is designed to ease integration with and access to Trust Stamp biometric products and services. The company charges for the platform by the user.

Trust Stamp Announces Notice of Allowance for U.S Patent Related to its Artificial Intelligence (AI) Based Biometric Authentication Technology-February 21, 2023 08:30 ET | Source: Trust Stamp

Atlanta, Feb. 21, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Trust Stamp (Nasdaq: IDAI), the Privacy-First Identity CompanyTM providing artificial intelligence (AI)-powered trust and identity services used globally across multiple sectors, announces that it has received a Notice of Allowance for its latest patent application #17/230,684 by the United States Patent Office.  The ‘684 application is directed to Trust Stamp’s innovative processes for irreversibly transforming biometric and other identity data into an irreversibly transformed identity token or “(IT)².”  Trust Stamp believes this technology provides an unparalleled level of data protection, while improving the efficiency and expanding the utility of legacy identity systems.Trust Stamp believes its privacy-first technology is unique in that it replaces the storage and use of biometric templates with an irreversibly transformed identity token (IT)² generated by a neural network. The AI processes used include image segmentation utilizing deep learning. The use of AI allows Trust Stamp to provide users with the benefits of biometric-derived authentication without losing control of or sharing their original biometric data. The (IT)² cannot be reverse-transformed to recover the original data and thus offers a privacy-protecting methodology to enjoy the benefits of biometric-based authentication without the dangers of storing biometric templates. This patent builds upon prior patent grants protecting the (IT)² technology. The patent is also directed to: Collecting multiple modalities of biometrics using touchless technology;  Converting multiple modalities of biometric and non-biometric data into a fixed-size representation allowing them to be compared for matching and deduplication using a similarity metric; and Combining multiple biometric modalities (e.g., face, finger, iris, speech, and palm biometrics) with other non-biometric data (e.g., SSN, user device identification data, driver's license #, date of birth, and medical data) to produce a multi-factor authentication that provides greater accuracy than any single biometric modality; Trust Stamp CEO, Gareth N. Genner comments, “This will be our fourteenth issued patent, and we have an additional 19 patent applications pending. We're proud to be at the forefront of using AI for these types of applications, this patent contributes to an overall depth of technology innovation that allows us to deliver identity and trust-focused solutions that place privacy first. Our innovative technology can be implemented ‘on the edge,’ meaning that it can operate on devices that may not have internet or other ways to access server resources which allows the creation of privacy-first applications where the user’s biometrics never leave their own device, as well as use in remote locations that do not have Internet or other data services available to the user.”About Trust Stamp-Trust Stamp the Privacy-First Identity CompanyTM, is a global provider of AI-powered identity services for use in multiple sectors including banking and finance, regulatory compliance, government, real estate, communications, and humanitarian services. Its technology empowers organizations with advanced biometric identity solutions that reduce fraud, protect personal data privacy, increase operational efficiency, and reach a broader base of users worldwide through its unique data transformation and comparison capabilities.Located in nine countries across North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa, Trust Stamp trades on the Nasdaq Capital Market (Nasdaq: IDAI). The company was founded in 2016 by Gareth Genner and Andrew Gowasack.Safe Harbor Statement: Caution Concerning Forward-Looking Remarks-All statements in this release that are not based on historical fact are “forward-looking statements” including within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and the provisions of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. The information in this announcement may contain forward-looking statements and information related to, among other things, the company, its business plan and strategy, and its industry. These statements reflect management’s current views with respect to future events-based information currently available and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause the company’s actual results to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements. Investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date on which they are made. The company does not undertake any obligation to revise or update these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after such date or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events. Inquiries-Trust Stamp- Email: Shareholders@truststamp.ai Gareth Genner, CEO -Investor Relations Tel: +1 212-671-1020
Crescendo Communications, LLC-Email: idai@crescendo-ir.com

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.

MARK OF THE BEAST (engraved microchip in your hand or forehead)

REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM

REVELATION 16:1-2
1 And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.
2 And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.

I KNOW THIS MARK WILL BE A MICROCHIP IMPLANT UNDER THE SKIN. LETS LOOK UP WHAT THE WORD MARK SAYS IN REVELATION 13:16-18, 14:9,11, 15:2, 16:2, 19:20, 20:4-ALL THESE VERSES FROM THE BOOK OF REVELATION SPEAK OF THIS DICTATORS MARK. NOW LETS SEE WHAT IT MEANS FROM STRONGS EXAUSTIVE CONCORDANCE OF THE BIBLE. UNDER MARK PAGE 684.MARK UNDER MARK. THE OLD TESTAMENT IS UNDER HEBREW AND THE NEW TESTAMENT IS UNDER GREEK. SO WHEN WE LOOK UNDER REVELATION 13:16-17 WE SEE IT IS UNDER GREEK, SO WE GO TO GREEK IN THE BACK SECTION AND GO TO 5480 TO SEE WHAT IT SAYS THIS MARK WOULD BE. SO LETS GET TO IT.MARK IN STRONGS GREEK 5480 XAPAYUA CHARAGMA, KHAR-AG-MAH: FROM THE SAME AS 5482: A SCRATCH OR ETCHING, I.E STAMP (AS A BADGE OF SERVITUDE), OR SCULPTURED FIGURE-(STATUE):-GRAVEN, MARK FROM 5482 XAPAE CHARAX, KHAR-AX; FROM XAPAOOW CHARASSO (TO SHARPEN TO A POINT; AKIN TO 1125 THROUGH THE IDEA OF SCRATCHING); A STAKE, I.E (BYIMPL.) A PALISADE OR RAMPART (MILITARY MOUND FOR CIRCUMVALLATION IN A SIEGE): - TRENCH FROM 1125 YPAPOE GRAPHO, GRAF-0; A PRIM. VERB; TO "GRAVE", ESPEC. TO WRITE; FIG. TO DESCRIBE:-DESCRIBE, WRITE (-ING, -TEN).

THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT IN YOUR RIGHT HAND OR FOREHEAD.

LEVETICUS 19.28
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.

Chip implants from Swedish developer support digital health pass storage under your skin-Dec 23, 2021, 3:04 pm EST    | Chris Burt

Several thousand people in Sweden have implanted microchips under their skin to give them closer-than-close access to their digital information, including digital ID credentials. Now, Tech Xplore reports that digital health pass credentials can also be stored on the subcutaneous chips.DSruptive Subdermals developed the chips, which can store electronic keys, business cards, public transport passes, and now proof of vaccination. A representative of the company demonstrated how it works, pulling up a PDF of his vaccination record on his smartphone after scanning a chip embedded in his arm.Managing Director Hannes Sjoblad says that advanced versions of the implants cost a hundred euros (roughly US$113), but can last for twenty or even forty years, compared to health wearables that can cost twice as much and then last for only a few years.Privacy is not jeopardized by the implants, according to the company. The chips are not powered, and cannot transmit any data by themselves, so Sjoblad says they should not be looked at as tracking devices.He also states a position firmly opposed to mandatory implants of the chips for anyone, including prisoners.A customer of the company tells Tech Xplore that she feels her personal data is better protected on the chip than elsewhere. A recent survey of UK and U.S. millennials suggests that many of them are more comfortable with the idea of implants than sharing their personal data with governments.

Central bank chief said to call urgent meeting as financial system wobbles-Reported emergency summit of Financial Stability Committee comes after shekel weakens to lowest point in years, compounding worries over rising rate hikes, judicial makeover push-By ToI Staff-FEB 23,23-Today, 3:04 am

Bank of Israel Governor Amir Yaron reportedly called an emergency meeting late Wednesday to discuss stabilizing the country’s financial picture, after a two-day rollercoaster that has seen the shekel wilt to its weakest position in years amid rampant investor worries over the government’s judicial overhaul and rising interest rates.The meeting of the Financial Stability Committee, which Yaron chairs and which normally only meets once a quarter, underlined fears in Israel that a confluence of factors could lead to a downturn, as the nation attempts to emerge from a pandemic that halted years of strong economic growth.There was no official confirmation of the meeting, which was widely reported on in Hebrew language media.Interest rate hikes, ballooning inflation, and an unstable shekel have wrought uncertainty among investors, along with the government’s ongoing pursuit of a controversial overhaul to the judiciary that critics say will make the country less attractive for foreign money.On Monday, the central bank’s monetary committee decided to lift its benchmark interest rate from 3.75% to 4.25%, the highest level since 2008.The rate hike, coupled with losses on Wall Street and the advancement of a bill shaking up Israel’s judiciary, bolstered a steady weakening of the shekel, sending it to NIS 3.66 against the greenback Wednesday, a fall of 2.6 percent from Monday’s rate of NIS 3.56. The local currency has weakened by over 8% against the dollar since late January.Senior Likud ministers blamed the shekel’s losses on the rate hike, which they argued was not justified.Both Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich defended the central bank and its independence in setting monetary policy.But the two have also largely dismissed warnings that the controversial judicial overhaul, to cement government control over judicial appointments and constrain the High Court’s ability to review Basic Laws, could severely impact investor mood.The ruling coalition’s plan to upend the judiciary has been weighing on market sentiment amid fears over its negative impact on the country’s credit rating, which could trigger an outflow of capital and scare away investors.Jacob Frenkel, who served as bank governor from 1991 to 2000, urged the government on Wednesday to rethink its plans, warning that “irresponsible decisions could ruin it all.”“We have a situation of total uncertainty: economic uncertainty, political uncertainty and a lack of certainty in institutions, which affects all aspects of the economy,” he said in an interview with Channel 12 news.The central bank has steadily raised its benchmark interest rate from a record low of 0.1% last April to 4.25%, in a bid to rein in inflation which has been hovering above 5% and bring it back into the government’s target range of between 1% to 3%. Meanwhile, a weaker shekel makes imported goods more expensive which in turn fuels consumer prices, such as the cost of gasoline.Despite the steady interest rate hikes, the consumer price index (CPI), a measure of inflation that tracks the average cost of household goods, rose by 0.3% in January, bringing the annual rise over the previous 12 months to 5.4%, the highest level since 2008, according to data released by the Central Bureau of Statistics on February 15. Economists had expected the January figures to top out at 0.1%.Israel’s economy expanded 6.5% in 2022, growing at a slower pace than the fast 8.6% expansion in 2021, the Central Bureau of Statistics said last week. Gross domestic product rose a seasonally adjusted, annualized 5.8% in the fourth quarter of 2022 surpassing analysts’ expectations. In 2022, the average growth among OECD countries was 2.8%.

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-FALSE RELIGIOUS LEADER-REV 13:11-18,REV 17:4-5,9,18

REVELATION 13:16-18 (WORLD ECONOMY RUN BY THE EUROPEAN UNION)
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM

REVELATION 17:12-13
12 And the ten horns (NATIONS) which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.(SOCIALISM)
13 These have one mind,(SOCIALISM) and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.

REVELATION 6:1-2
1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
2 And I saw, and behold a white horse:(PEACE) and he that sat on him had a bow;(EU DICTATOR) and a crown was given unto him:(PRESIDENT OF THE EU) and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.(MILITARY GENIUS)

2 THESSALONIANS 2:9-12
9 Even him,(EU WORLD DICTATOR) whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion,(THE FALSE RESURRECTION BY THE WORLD DICTATOR) that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

GENESIS 49:16-17-POSSIBLY A JEW FROM DAN KILLS THE DICTATOR AT MIDPOINT OF TRIB
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 13:3,7,8 (WORLD GOVERNMENT, WORLD ECONOMY, WORLD RELIGION)
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.(THE EU AND ITS DICTATOR IS GODLESS)
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.(DICTATOR COMES FROM NEW AGE OR OCCULT)
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death;(MURDERERD) and his deadly wound was healed:(COMES BACK TO LIFE) and all the world wondered after the beast.(THE WORLD THINKS ITS GOD IN THE FLESH, MESSIAH TO ISRAEL)
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints,(BEHEAD THEM) and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.(WORLD DOMINATION)
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.(WORLD DICTATOR).

Tony Blair Institute calls for decentralized government-issued digital ID for all-Feb 22, 2023, 2:17 pm EST    | By Chris Burt and Frank Hersey

The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change is calling for a change of course in the government’s digital ID program to provide a comprehensive digital identity, rather than approve various solutions under different schemes. The UK press is expressing confusion about the proposal.‘A New National Purpose: Innovation Can Power the Future of Britain’ is a joint report presented by the institute’s namesake and William Hague, who served as Leader of the Opposition while Blair was Prime Minister, as well as a former Cabinet Minister and Leader of the House of Commons. They are not named among the report’s seven authors, however.The BBC and Sky News are among outlets reporting that a new report calls for digital ID cards for all, invoking past controversies but without clearly referring to the report – which does not include the word “card.”What it does call for is a government-provided “secure, private, decentralised digital-ID system for the benefit of both citizens and businesses. A well-designed, decentralised digital-ID system would allow citizens to prove not only who they are, but also their right to live and work in the UK, their age and ownership of a driving licence. It could also accommodate credentials issued by other authorities, such as educational or vocational qualifications.”This sounds similar to what the UK government is already working on with systems like the DSIT Digital Identity Programme, crossed with the ideas proposed by Lord Christopher Holmes and others. The difference is that it would be a unified platform issued by the government.This could help clear up the massive amount of confusion among businesses trying to use the schemes in place today.An editorial in the Independent is not thrown off by debates from 15 years ago, but expresses doubt over the capability of the government to build or secure such a system.Silkie Carlo of Big Brother Watch likewise tells the BBC that the proposed digital ID system “would be one of the biggest assaults on privacy ever seen in the UK.”The word “privacy” appears only once in the document, which along with the predictable association with ID cards calls into question how aware the report’s authors and endorsers are of the context in which they are making the argument.When asked about people’s fears of ID systems and tech errors, Blair told the BBC: “If you look at the biometric technology that allows you to do digital ID today, it can overcome many of these problems. And by the way, the world is moving in that direction. I mean, countries as small as Estonia and as large as India are moving in that direction – or have moved.”What is actually proposed-The report largely focusses on how UK politics must recognize the potential of technology.“We’re in the fastest period of innovation in the history of human civilization,” said Lord Hague in the prime slot of the BBC’s flagship news show, Today (from 2hrs 15min 30 secs), alongside Sir Tony. “Artificial intelligence, climate tech, bio tech: the UK has to be one of the leaders in that field.”“Other countries are forging ahead,” said Hague and in order for the UK to keep or get ahead, it “has to redesign the state around technology.”The country needs to be “using data as a competitive asset,” according to Hague, as the country looks at the bigger picture of embracing change: “This is what politics has to be about; not just small variations in tax and spending, it’s about gripping this future.”Most of the report is distantly or unrelated to digital ID. Principal recommendations include a government science and technology agenda, building foundational AI infrastructure, a specialized procurement body, public R&D spending, more tech in education, and stronger global partnerships.The proposed digital ID is one of the items under the AI infrastructure umbrella, and is confined to government interactions.The short section on digital identity contrasts typical online interactions with the state of government records, and makes the case for digital IDs to reside on “personal devices.”  Not cards.It goes on to state that as the ground source of truth for identity documents, government should supply digital IDs, “(r)ather than creating a marketplace of private-sector providers to manage the government-issued identity credentials of citizens.”This would make access to goods and services easier, cheaper, and more secure, according to the report. It would reduce how many people miss out on entitlements, and help the government move proactively, reducing administration for all along the way.Estonia’s X-Road is referred to as a good example of the “once only” principle, and equal status for physical and digital IDs is recommended.There are no other references to digital ID in the 64-page document

New study reveals motion data can identify people in VR-Feb 22, 2023, 3:17 pm EST    | Larisa Redins

A new study has revealed that the movements of an individual’s head and hands in a virtual reality (VR) application can identify them uniquely.The study, led by graduate researcher Vivek Nair at the University of California Berkeley and conducted at the Center for Responsible Decentralized Intelligence (RDI), examined data collected from tens of thousands of users who use the VR application Beat Saber. Over the past few years, Beat Saber has become a widely popular VR rhythm game. In 2019, its developer, Beat Games, was acquired by Meta.The findings show that many VR users can be uniquely identified across multiple sessions using their head and hand motion relative to virtual objects. With 5 minutes of data per person, the user can be uniquely identified with 94.33 percent accuracy from 100 seconds of motion and 73.20 percent accuracy from 10 seconds of movement, demonstrating the extent to which biomechanics can act as a unique identifier in VR, comparable to more widely used biometric modalities such as facial and fingerprint recognition.“This work is the first to truly demonstrate the extent to which biomechanics may serve as a unique identifier in VR, on par with widely used biometrics such as facial or fingerprint recognition,” states Kavya Pearlman, the founder and CEO of the XR Safety Initiative, a non-profit that promotes privacy, security, ethics and develop standards for Virtual and Augmented Reality.The study has implications for the security and privacy of virtual reality applications, which rely heavily on simple motion or telemetry data. The data collected from these platforms could reveal sensitive information about users. For example, the information can potentially identify people and lead to a whole new type of privacy violation.The researchers also explored general applications of their findings for VR gaming, including advanced cheating detection, score prediction, skill-based matchmaking and map recommendation engines. Going forward, the researchers believe developing defensive technologies that can protect user privacy while preserving VR applications’ utility will be essential.“Moving around in a virtual world while streaming basic motion data would be like browsing the internet while sharing your fingerprints with every website you visit, explains the study’s lead researcher, Vivek Nair, via VentureBeat. “However, unlike web-browsing, which does not require anyone to share their fingerprints, the streaming of motion data is a fundamental part of how the metaverse currently works.

Air Canada launches face biometrics for passenger ID-CBP conducts TVS test, aviation industry prepares for more passengers-Feb 22, 2023, 4:36 pm EST    | Larisa Redins

Air Canada, Canada’s largest airline, has become the first airline in the country to offer customers facial recognition technology for digital identification. The pilot project is currently available at Vancouver International Airport (YVR) and at Toronto Pearson International Airport, with plans to expand digital identification options to other Canadian airports and Maple Leaf Lounges.A promotional video explains that the user takes a photo of a passport or driver’s license, scans the NFC chip, and submits a video selfie for biometric matching.“Air Canada’s pilot project will speed up processes at YVR, and other airports where it’s established, while respecting robust privacy measures and security standards. This project has great potential in making gate boarding easier and faster for Canadian passengers, while maintaining strong safety measures,” says Omar Alghabra, Canada’s Minister of Transport.According to Air Canada, eligible customers flying from Vancouver to Winnipeg and those using the Air Canada Café in Toronto will be invited to use digital identification for faster, more secure processing. Alternative options are available for those who wish to manually check-in or scan their boarding passes.Air Canada’s digital identification feature enables customers to securely store biometric data on their mobile phones. Customers must provide additional consent for the data to be used day-of-travel and will be retained for up to 36 hours, in compliance with Air Canada’s privacy and security standards, the company says.“Customers choosing to use digital identification will benefit from a simplified and seamless process at the gate and when entering our Maple Leaf Lounges,” says Craig Landry, the executive vice president and chief operations officer at Air Canada.Air Canada’s digital identification is a voluntary program separate from government-sponsored initiatives such as NEXUS, Global Entry or U.S. CBP Mobile Passport Control (MPC).CBP testing facial authentication-U.S. Customs and Border Protection is holding a voluntary test for airlines and cruise ships to use the Traveler Verification Service (TVS) and its face biometrics to meet Advance Passenger Information System (APIS) requirements.Testing begins this month and will run for up to two years. CBP is currently accepting applications from carriers to participate in the tests on a rolling basis. During the test, successful matches will result in the requirement for a manual review of travel documents to be waived.Participating carriers get access to CBP’s TVS facial comparison service, and have to supply their own hardware. Based on previous pilots, CBP estimates the hardware will cost between $5,000 and $20,000 for each departure gate, though with iPads being tested at Washington airports and similar developments, the cost could fall.The CBP announcement also includes penalties for misconduct by carriers using passenger biometrics, and information on the Privacy Impact Assessment for TVS.Aviation industry prepares, if unevenly-Airports have had time to prepare for a coming surge in passengers, but it remains to be seen how well they have used it, Alton Aviation Consultancy Director Ronan Murphy tells PhocusWire.Being ready means having adequate staffing and efficient check-in and security processes, he says. Biometrics can help, but their rollout has been slow.Staffing has been made difficult by the departure of experienced personnel from the industry during the standstill caused by the pandemic.SITA Americas CTO Sherry Stein says that the industry is focussed on “continuity of experience,” having already seen that passenger boarding times can be reduced by 30 percent with biometrics.With files from Chris Burt.

World Bank provides $250M for Indonesia digital ID for public and private service access-Jan 4, 2023, 4:37 pm EST    | Frank Hersey

Indonesia is receiving US$250 million in funding from the World Bank Group’s International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) to strengthen the country’s civil registration and increase the use of biometric digital identification for accessing public and private sector services.Indonesia already has very high levels of identity issuance. The project seeks to digitize identity to tackle geographical inequality and a gender divide in financial inclusion, and boost the digital economy by improving a wide range of factors from increasing birth registrations to creating a replacement automated biometric identification system (ABIS). Tender documents are being made available.Five components for digital identity-‘ID for Inclusive Service Delivery and Digital Transformation in Indonesia’ outlines the five components of an improved digital identity ecosystem for Indonesia. Part one is improving population and civil registration, particularly in lagging provinces and for vulnerable populations, to bring people into the system to then digitize them.It hopes to reform processes to make them more resilient and efficient and increase the issuance of legal identity documents such as national ID number (NIK), electronic national ID card (e-KTP) and birth certificates. Improvements here should generate better vital statistics for planning. Civil society will be consulted throughout.The second component is to develop an identity verification and eKYC platform for both in-person and, through a mobile app, online transactions. This stage would upgrade the ICT of Ditjen Dukcapil, the population and civil registration authority, and build its “internal capacity for effective and responsible use of biometric technologies, including to strengthen personal data protection and to reduce exclusion and vendor and technology lock-in.”Third is to bring public and private services into the system, including 5,400 institutional users. This would create a secure and transparent data exchange and the new ABIS “to ensure greater inclusivity, data protection, efficiency, and transparency of the deduplication process, as well as reduce vendor and technology lock-in.”This phase is already seeing progress as the institutional users which have cooperation agreements with Ditjen Dukcapil have carried out more than 7 billion real-time verification requests as of September 2022, according to the report: “For example, financial services providers have used this service to comply with know-your-customer (KYC) requirements in anti-money laundering (AML) regulations more efficiently, and the Ministry of Social Affairs has used this service to ‘seed’ NIKs in the Integrated Social Welfare Database (DTKS) and thus clean it of ghost, duplicate, and deceased beneficiary records.”The fourth component addresses legal and regulatory reform and improving human capital. It would assess the current legal landscape in the area. Project management as well as monitoring and evaluation are the fifth part.Indicators of success-The Proposed Development Objectives include measuring rates of NIK issuance in 11 priority provinces, measuring the proportion of children up to the age of 4 who have been issued a birth certificate, digital ID app installations and authentications, eKYC usage at the individual and institutional levels and the gender balance of bank account ownership.Data from the 2021 National Financial Inclusion Survey reveal what the report calls a “small but significant gender gap” between 37 percent of adult women being unbanked, compared to 32.3 percent of adult men.Why Indonesia? The country is already ticking a lot of boxes, but has yet to give the digital, financial and online sectors the benefits of digitized identities. Indonesia boasts 97 percent coverage for the national ID (NIK) and e-KTP (or earlier KTP version), and 88.4 percent of those aged 17 and under have birth certificates.The documentation details how Indonesia has recorded strong economic growth, but the poor who are concentrated in rural and remote areas are more adversely affected by crises. Indonesia is also subject to climate change risks and is prone to flooding.It is the fifth most internet-engaged country in the world after the Philippines, Brazil, Thailand, and Colombia. The percentage of households online doubled from 42 to 82 percent between 2015 and 2021. The rural/urban access gap halved from 30 to 15 percent and the average Indonesian internet user is online for more than eight hours a day, the ninth longest in the world.“These high rates of use highlight the potential user base for a digital ID for online transactions,” states the report, as the trend of increasing penetration and falling internet inequality “creates a key enabling environment for reducing inequities in access to services and economic opportunities through increased online transactions with the public and private sectors.”As the report points out, having ID does not necessarily mean there is good access to services. The upgrades would allow authorities to facilitate institutional users to carry out digital onboarding, including via biometrics (but not limited to them), to allow cheaper access to services whether in person or remote.Indonesia enacted its Personal Data Protection law (PDP, modelled on GDPR) in October 2022, but does not yet have an official digital ID system or framework, which “hinders digital trust and the transition to an effective digital government and vibrant digital economy and digital society.”The World Bank is funding and supporting multiple digital identity projects around the world, such as in the Philippines and Nigeria as well as the WURI project for foundational identity across West Africa’s ECOWAS states.The World Bank emailed Biometric Update in response to this article, offering the following clarification:“As the article was based on a World Bank’s project ‘ID for Inclusive Service Delivery andDigital Transformation in Indonesia,’ and as currently stated on the Project’s Detail Page, we would like to reiterate that the Project is currently not yet final. Although information and preparatory documents related to the Project are already available for the public, details related to the Project will only be finalized when the Project is approved by the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors.”This post was updated at 11:16am Eastern on January 31, 2023, to include the clarification response from the World Bank.

JESUS SHED HIS BLOOD FOR US THAT WE CAN BE SAVED FOREVER.AND DURING WW3 PEOPLES BLOOD WILL BE SHED AS A JUDGEMENT FOR HATING HIM AND ISRAEL.GOD IS NOT MOCKED.

ZEPHANIAH 1:2-3
2  I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the LORD.
3  I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD.

PSALMS 97:3
3 A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.

EZEKIEL 5:15-17
15  So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the (ARAB/MUSLIM) nations that are round about thee,(ISRAEL) when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken it.
16  When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:
17  So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts,(WHEN RUSSIA/MUSLIMS GET DEFEATED THIER BODIES GET EATEN BY BIRDS,ANIMALS IN ISRAEL MIGRATION SEASON) and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee;(NUKES) and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it.

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

ISAIAH 66:15-18
15 For, behold, the LORD will come with fire,(NUKES) and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
17 They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.
18 For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.

ISAIAH 26:21
21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity:(GOD/ISRAEL HATE AND BRAKING OF HIS COMMANDMENTS) the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.(WW3,1/2 earths population die - 3 BILLION).

ISAIAH 13:6-13 KJV
6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:(FROM FRIGHT)
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.

ISAIAH 24:17-23 KJV
17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.

2 TIMOTHY 3:1
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.

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.

REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

REVELATION 9:18
18 By these three was the third part of men killed,(2 BILLION) by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(ATOMIC BOMBS)(RUSSIA CHINA DESTROYED BY ISRAELS ATOMIC BOMBS)

REVELATION 16:12-16
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates;(WERE WW3 STARTS IN IRAQ OR SYRIA OR TURKEY) and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon,(SATAN) and out of the mouth of the beast,(WORLD DICTATOR) and out of the mouth of the false prophet.(FALSE POPE)
14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.(WERE 2 BILLION DIE FROM NUKE WAR)
15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
17 And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done.

AMERICA (POLITICAL BABYLON)(NUKED BY SNEAK ATTACK FROM RUSSIA)

IN REVELATION 17 & 18 IS THE DESTRUCTION OF THE RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL BABYLONS.IF YOU CAN NOT DECERN BETWEEN THE 2 BABYLONS IN REV 17 & 18.YOU WILL JUST THINK THEIR BOTH THE SAME.BUT NO-THERES A RELIGIOUS BABYLON (THE VATICAN IN REV 17)(AND THE POLITICAL BABYLON IN REV 18 (AMERICA OR NEW YORK TO BE EXACT)

ISAIAH 34:10
10  It (AMERICA-POLITICAL BABYLON) shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.

JEREMIAH 51:29-32 (CYBER ATTACK 1ST)
29  And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon,(AMERICA-NEW YORK) to make the land of Babylon (AMERICA) a desolation without an inhabitant.
30  The mighty men of Babylon (AMERICA) have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.
031  One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon (NEW YORK) that his city is taken at one end,
32  And that the passages are stopped,(THE WAR COMPUTERS HACKED OR EMP'D) and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.(DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO)

COMPLETE SILENCE AFTER AN EMP GOES OFF

REVELATION 8:1
1 And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.

JEREMIAH 50:3,24
3 For out of the north (RUSSIA) there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.
24 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon,(AMERICA) and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD. (RUSSIA A SNEAK CYBER,EMP ATTACK,THEN NUKE ATTACK ON AM

JOEL 3:2 (WW3 OCCURS WHEN JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED)
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people (ISRAEL) and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(JERUSALEM)(WW3 STARTS BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AND ISRAELIS UPROOTED FROM THEIR GOD GIVIN LAND BRINGS 3 DEAD BILLION IN WW3)

EZEKIEL 38:1-23
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2  Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him,
3  And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
4  And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5  Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6  Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY) of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.(AFRICAN MUSLIMS,SUDAN,TUNESIA ETC)
7  Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8  After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9  Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.
10  Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11  And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12  To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
13  Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?(OIL IS IN SPOIL-I BELIEVE THATS WHY RUSSIA,ARAB/MUSLIMS MARCH TO ISRAEL)
14  Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?
15  And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army:
16  And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
17  Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them?
18  And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall come up in my face.
19  For in my jealousy and in the fire (atomic bomb) of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;
20  So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.
21  And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord GOD: every man’s sword shall be against his brother.
22  And I will plead against him with pestilence (biological,chemical,nuclear) and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.(NUKED,THEN MIGRATING BIRDS EAT RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS FLESH)
23  Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD.

EZEKIEL 39:1-29
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
2  And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee,(300 MILIION RUSSIA-ARAB-MUSLIMS GET NUKED BY ISRAEL) and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3  And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4  Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou,(RUSSIA) and all thy bands,(RUSSIA SUPPORTED WITH WEAPONS-ARAB/MUSLIM COUNTRIES) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5  Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6  And I will send a fire (ATOMIC BOMB) on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7  So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8  Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
9  And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years:
10  So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord GOD.
11  And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.
12  And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.
13  Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
14  And they shall sever out men of continual employment, passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
15  And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamongog.
16  And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.
17  And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.
18  Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19  And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.
20  Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
21  And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.
22  So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day and forward.
23  And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword.
24  According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from them.
25  Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name;
26  After that they have borne their shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when they dwelt safely in their land, and none made them afraid.
27  When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies’ lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations;
28  Then shall they know that I am the LORD their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there.
29  Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.

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)

CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL 2ND WAVE OF WW3 (200 MILLION MAN ARMY)(THIS WILL BE WW3 DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION PERIOD I BELIEVE.2 BILLION DIE ON EARTH IN THIS NUKE WAR)

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)

EZEKIEL 39:6
6  And I will send a fire on RUSSIA (Magog,) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.

SECOND ANGEL: The Middle East DR DOCTORIAN
Then Isawthat the second angel had a sickle in his hand,such asis used in harvesting. The second angelsaid, “Harvest time has come in Israel and the countries all the wayto Iran.” Isawthose countriesin a fewsplitseconds. “All of Turkey and those other countries that have refused me and refused my message of love shall hate each other and kill one another.” I saw the angel raise the sickle and come down on all the Middle East countries.I saw Iran, Persia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, all of Georgia – Iraq, Syria,Lebanon,Jordan, Israel, all of Asia Minor – full of blood. Isaw blood all over these countries. And I saw fire; nuclear weapons were used in many of those countries. Smoke rising from everywhere. Sudden destruction – men destroying one another. I heard these words, “Israel, Oh Israel, the great judgment has come.”The angel said, “The chosen, the church, the remnant, shall be purified. The Spirit of God shall prepare the children of God.” I saw fires rising to heaven.The angel said, “This is the final judgment My church shall be purified, protected and ready for the final day. Men will die from thirst. Watershall be scarce all over the Middle East. Rivers shall dry up, and men will fight for water in those countries.” The angelshowed me that the United Nationsshall be broken in pieces because of the crisisin the Middle East. There shall be no more United Nations. The angel with the sickle shall reap the harvest.

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)

Israel bombs Hamas sites in Gaza, hours after rockets shot toward Ashkelon, Sderot-Military says it hit weapons workshop and naval arms cache, in apparent response to Palestinian reprisal launches after deadly IDF raid in Nablus Wednesday
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff-FEB 23,23-Today, 6:43 am

Israeli warplanes carried out bombing raids against the Hamas terror group in the Gaza Strip early Thursday morning, the military said, hours after Palestinians fired six rockets into southern Israel in an apparent revenge attack for a deadly Israeli incursion into Nablus a day earlier.Fighter jets hit a Hamas weapons workshop in central Gaza as well as an unspecified “military site” in the northern part of the Strip used by the group to store naval weapons, the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement.“The complex is located near a mosque, a medical clinic, a school, a hotel, and a police station. This is further proof that the Hamas terror organization places its military assets in the heart of a civilian population,” the military said.“The strike deals a serious blow to Hamas’s ability to fortify and arm itself,” it added.There were no immediate reports of injuries.Videos shared on social media showed a large explosion at a building near the coast, and a dark plume of smoke rising above the densely populated enclave in the early morning light.The IDF also published footage of the strikes.The Israeli raid came in apparent response to a pre-dawn attack in which six rockets were fired at the Israeli cities of Ashkelon and Sderot and other areas near the Gaza Strip.The military said five of the projectiles were downed by the Iron Dome anti-missile system and the last one landed in an open area.There were no reports of damage or casualties. No Palestinian group claimed responsibility.The attack came on the heels of a gun battle in the West Bank city of Nablus Wednesday in which 11 Palestinians were killed and over 100 injured by Israeli forces.Palestinian terror groups said at least six of those killed were their operatives. It was not immediately clear whether the remaining five were involved in the clashes.Police earlier raised their alert level amid fears of a reprisal attack, and a spokesman for the Gaza Strip-ruling Hamas’s military wing issued a veiled threat, saying the terror group was “observing the enemy’s escalating crimes against our people in the occupied West Bank, and its patience is running out.”Islamic Jihad leader Ziyad Al-Nakhala called the Israeli raid a “huge crime.”“It is our duty as resistance forces to respond to this crime without hesitation,” he said.Over the past year, Gaza-based groups — notably Islamic Jihad — have launched rockets at Israel in response to members being killed or arrested in the West Bank. A potential response from the West Bank or East Jerusalem was also being anticipated.The IDF said troops had entered Nablus on Wednesday morning to arrest Hussam Isleem, a senior member of the Lion’s Den terror group, who was allegedly the third member of a cell that killed Staff Sgt. Ido Baruch during a shooting attack in October. The other two were arrested last week.The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Six rockets fired from Gaza toward southern Israel in apparent reprisal-Iron Dome downs most missiles; video appears to show several projectiles being shot out of Palestinian enclave, in possible response to IDF raid in Nablus that left 11 dead
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff-FEB 23,23-Today, 4:27 am

Sirens sounded in southern Israel as half a dozen rockets screamed out of the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military said early Thursday morning, a day after a raid in Nablus killed 11 Palestinians and sparked calls for revenge.Five of the missiles were downed by the Iron Dome anti-missile system and the last projectile landed in an open area, the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement just before 4:30 a.m.There were no reports of damage or casualties. No Palestinian group claimed responsibility.Earlier, alarms blared in Ashkelon, Sderot and other areas near the Gaza Strip border, the army said.Video posted on social media appeared to show the volley being fired out of Gaza, and interceptions over Israeli cities, including Ashkelon.Explosions were heard in the area, according to local residents.The apparent attack came on the heels of a gunbattle in the West Bank city of Nablus Wednesday in which 11 Palestinians were killed and over 100 injured by Israeli forces.Palestinian terror groups said at least six of those killed were their operatives. It was not immediately clear whether the remaining five were involved in the clashes or not.Police earlier raised their alert level amid fears of a reprisal attack, and a spokesman of the Gaza Strip-ruling Hamas’s military wing issued a veiled threat, saying the terror group was “observing the enemy’s escalating crimes against our people in the occupied West Bank, and its patience is running out.”Islamic Jihad leader Ziyad Al-Nakhala called the Israeli raid a “huge crime.”“It is our duty as resistance forces to respond to this crime without hesitation,” he said.Over the past year, Gaza-based groups — notably Islamic Jihad — have launched rockets at Israel in response to members being killed or arrested in the West Bank. A potential response from the West Bank or East Jerusalem was also being anticipated.The IDF said troops had entered Nablus on Wednesday morning to arrest Hussam Isleem, a senior member of the Lion’s Den terror group, who was allegedly the third member of a cell that killed Staff Sgt. Ido Baruch during a shooting attack in October. The other two were detained last week.The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Zelensky seeking Netanyahu visit to Kyiv, Israeli official says-Ukrainian president extends informal invitation to prime minister during meetings with foreign minister, Knesset members, as country presses for more help against Russian rockets-By Lazar Berman-FEB 23,23-Today, 3:45 am

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told visiting Israeli officials that he would like to see Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visit Kyiv, an Israeli diplomatic source told The Times of Israel on Wednesday.Zelensky first extended the informal invitation during a meeting last week with Foreign Minister Eli Cohen. On Monday, he reiterated the invitation during an hour-long discussion with Likud’s Yuli Edelstein and National Unity MK Ze’ev Elkin, said the Israeli official.The official said that there are currently no concrete plans in the works for Netanyahu to visit Ukraine, which has lobbied hard for Jerusalem to up its level of aid, including providing defensive weaponry.Another Israeli official told The Times of Israel earlier this week that Zelensky is not interested in a photo opportunity with Netanyahu, but would host him if Israel delivers on recent promises for more aid to Kyiv.Ukraine is also asking Israel to speed up delivery of a civilian early warning system that Jerusalem has promised to provide in lieu of anti-missile systems. While in Kyiv, Cohen said it would take between 3-6 months for the system to arrive.Ukraine has reportedly yet to send a team to Israel to discuss the matter.Kyiv and the West have pushed for Israel to provide elements of its vaunted missile defense array, saying it could save countless lives from Russian rocket attacks on civilian homes and infrastructure.On Sunday, six Ukrainians were killed in the southern city of Kherson when a rocket struck a busy street, underlining the urgency of the requested help.The airstrike warning system would be similar to the technology Israel uses to warn civilians of rocket attacks.Russia is heavily shelling Kherson. Missiles against people, residential buildings, pharmacies, markets, vehicle parks… To defeat Russian invaders on Ukrainian land is to save both Ukraine & other nations in Europe, which Russia wants to conquer, from terror. Terror must lose! pic.twitter.com/Y4ELfkiWDc — ????????? ?????????? (@ZelenskyyUa) February 21, 2023-Israel has bucked repeated requests from Ukraine for military support, arguing that it needs to maintain a working relationship with Russia, which controls the skies over Syria that Israel uses to prevent Iran from establishing a military presence on its northern border.Thus far, Israel has agreed to provide Ukraine with $22.5 million in humanitarian aid and set up a field hospital to treat injured Ukrainians during the early days of the war. Last week, Cohen announced new measures of support, including a $200 million loan guarantee for healthcare and civilian infrastructure.On Tuesday, Elkin and Edelstein issued a joint call for Israel to provide significantly more support to Kyiv, including military assistance, one of the first calls by lawmakers — in the coalition or the opposition — for Israel to take a more unequivocal position on the war.“We support tangible cooperation between Israel and Ukraine in air defense and missile defense and in more defensive measures,” they told Zelensky, according to a joint statement.The meeting was conducted in Russian, and was relatively informal, sources told The Times of Israel.The statement was something of an about-face for Elkin, who refrained from voicing such a staunch position in support of Ukraine when he was in the governing coalition last year and played a role in crafting Israel’s relatively neutral stance on the Russian invasion.

Israeli strike on Damascus targeted Iranian and Syrian drone experts — report-Reuters quotes sources saying weekend attack on residential neighborhood in Syrian capital targeted meeting of officials involved with manufacturing drones, missiles
By ToI Staff-22 February 2023, 6:46 pm

An airstrike in Damascus over the weekend that was attributed to Israel targeted a meeting of Syrian and Iranian experts in producing drones, according to a report Wednesday.Syria has said five people were killed and 15 wounded in the attack on Saturday night. The Israeli military has not commented on the strike, per its policy of not generally commenting on air raids in Syria. Israeli officials have previously said the IDF does not target civilians and seeks to avoid damage to residential areas as much as possible.Citing an unnamed source close to the Syrian government, Reuters said the strike hit the meeting of experts in a residential neighborhood of Damascus.“The strike hit the center where they were meeting as well as an apartment in a residential building. One Syrian engineer and one Iranian official — not high-ranking — were killed,” the source said.According to a second source quoted in the report, the gathering was held “in an Iranian military installation in the basement of a residential building inside a security compound.” The source said that among those killed was a civil engineer in the Syrian army who worked at the Scientific Studies and Research Center, which has been linked to Syria’s chemical weapons program.An additional source said an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps engineer involved with Iranian missile development was seriously hurt in the strike and sent to a hospital in Tehran for treatment.A fourth source who spoke with Reuters said the target of the attack was part of an IRGC-led covert guided-missile manufacturing program, while a fifth source reported Iranian officials and members of Lebanon’s Hezbollah terror group were targets.Iran’s foreign ministry condemned the strike on Sunday, but did not mention any Iranian casualties.It was also denounced by Russia, which like Iran is a key backer of the Syrian regime in the over decade-long civil war, as a “flagrant violation” of international law.Israel’s need to coordinate with Russia — which largely controls Syrian airspace — to carry out strikes has been cited as a chief reason for Jerusalem’s reluctance to supply Kyiv with weaponry amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Israel has found itself at odds with Russia as it increasingly supported Ukraine while seeking to maintain freedom of movement in Syria’s skies.“We strongly urge the Israeli side to stop armed provocations against the Syrian Arab Republic and refrain from steps that are fraught with dangerous consequences for the entire region,” Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Sunday, according to Reuters.Syrian state media has reported the strike in Kafar Sousah killed four civilians and one soldier, and wounded another 15 civilians, along with inflicting heavy damage on a number of residential buildings in the area.Imad Mughniyeh, a notorious Hezbollah terror chief, was allegedly assassinated by Israel in a 2008 bombing in Kafar Sousah, close to where Saturday night’s strike took place.If this geolocation is accurate, the #Damascus strike was almost exactly where Imad Mughniyeh was killed in 2008. Barely 100 metres to the west #Syria https://t.co/YKXA0oivJ9 pic.twitter.com/QZNbSIfk6L— Alex Rowell (@alexjrowell) February 19, 2023-SANA claimed Syrian air defenses managed to intercept “most” of the missiles launched by IAF jets from over the Golan Heights in the strike. Syria regularly claims to intercept Israeli missiles, though military analysts doubt such assertions.Though Israel’s military does not comment on specific strikes in Syria, it has acknowledged conducting hundreds of sorties against Iran-backed groups attempting to gain a foothold in the country over the last decade.The IDF says it also attacks arms shipments believed to be bound for those groups, chief among them Lebanon’s Hezbollah terror organization. Additionally, airstrikes attributed to Israel have repeatedly targeted Syrian air defense systems.Emanuel Fabian contributed to this report.

Biden: Putin’s suspension of arms control treaty ‘big mistake’In Poland, US president reassures eastern flank NATO allies that the US will remain by their side, vows that military alliance’s mutual-defense pact is ‘sacred’By AAMER MADHANI-22 February 2023, 6:45 pm

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — US President Joe Biden said Wednesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin made a “big mistake” by suspending his country’s participation in the last remaining US-Russia nuclear arms control treaty. The US president was in Poland to reassure eastern flank NATO allies that the US will remain by their sides amid the grinding Russian invasion of Ukraine.In his first comments since Putin’s announcement Tuesday, Biden condemned the Russian decision to pull back from the treaty, known as New START. The move is expected to have an immediate impact on US visibility into Russian nuclear activities, but the pact was already on life support following Moscow’s cancellation late last year of talks that had been intended to salvage an agreement that both sides have accused the other of violating.“It’s a big mistake,” Biden said.The president’s comments came as he was wrapping up a whirlwind, four-day visit to Poland and Ukraine with talks with leaders from the Bucharest Nine, a collection of nations in the most eastern parts of the NATO alliance that came together in response to Putin’s 2014 annexation of Crimea from Ukraine.As the war in Ukraine drags on, the Bucharest Nine countries’ anxieties have remained heightened. Many worry Putin could move to take military action against them next if he’s successful in Ukraine. The alliance includes Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Slovakia.“You’re the frontlines of our collective defense,” Biden said Wednesday of the group. “And you know, better than anyone, what’s at stake in this conflict? Not just for Ukraine, but for the freedom of democracies throughout Europe and around the world.”He pledged that NATO’s mutual-defense pact is “sacred” and that “we will defend literally every inch of NATO.”A day earlier at the foot of Warsaw’s Royal Castle to mark the somber milestone of the year-old Russian invasion, Biden warned that Russian aggression, if unchecked, wouldn’t stop at Ukraine’s borders.“Appetites of the autocrat cannot be appeased,” he said. “They must be oppose.Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, the right-wing populist leader who argued last week that the European Union is partly to blame for prolonging Russia’s war in Ukraine, has balked at sanctions on Moscow and arming Kyiv. Orban was skipping the meeting with Biden, and President Katalin Novák was attending in his stead.Still, Klaus Iohannis, the president of Romania, insisted that “The B9 is stronger than ever.”NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, who was attending the meeting, said, “We don’t know when the war will end, but when it does, we need to ensure that history does not repeat itself.”Pointing to past Russian actions in Georgia and Ukraine, he added, “We cannot allow Russia to continue to chip away at European security. We must break the cycle of Russian aggression.”Biden met Tuesday in Warsaw with Moldovan President Maia Sandu, who last week claimed Moscow was behind a plot to overthrow her country’s government using external saboteurs.Sandwiched between Ukraine and Romania and one of Europe’s poorest countries, the Eastern European nation has had historic ties to Russia but wants to join the 27-nation European Union. Biden in his remarks endorsed Moldova’s bid to join the EU.“I’m proud to stand with you and the freedom-loving people of Moldova,” Biden said of Sandu and her country in his Tuesday address.Since Russia invaded Ukraine nearly a year ago, Moldova, a former Soviet republic of about 2.6 million people, has sought to forge closer ties with its Western partners. Last June, it was granted EU candidate status, the same day as Ukraine.Sandu spoke out last week about a Russian plot “to overthrow the constitutional order.” She spoke out after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said his country had intercepted plans by Russian secret services to destroy Moldova. Those claims were later confirmed by Moldovan intelligence officials.Biden’s speech on the Ukraine war came one day after he made a surprise visit to Kyiv, a grand gesture of solidarity with Ukraine. The address was part affirmation of Europe’s role in helping Ukraine repel Russia’s ongoing invasion and part sharply worded warning to Putin that the US won’t abide Moscow defeating Ukraine.The White House has praised several eastern flank countries, including Lithuania, Poland and Romania, over the last year for stepping up efforts to back Ukraine with weapons and economic aid and taking in refugees.Biden has given particular attention to Poland’s efforts. The country is hosting about 1.5 million Ukrainian refugees and has committed $3.8 billion in military and economic assistance to Kyiv.“The truth of the matter is: The United States needs Poland and NATO as much as NATO needs the United States,” Biden said during talks with Polish President Andrzej Duda.

Iran acknowledges accusation it enriched uranium to 84%-Jon Gambrell The Associated Press-FEB 23,23

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran on Thursday directly acknowledged an accusation attributed to international inspectors that it enriched uranium to 84% purity for the first time, which would put the Islamic Republic closer than ever to weapons-grade material.The acknowledgement by a news website linked to the highest reaches of Iran's theocracy renews pressure on the West to address Tehran's program, which had been contained by the 2015 nuclear deal that America unilaterally withdrew from in 2018. Years of attacks across the Middle East have followed.Already Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who recently regained his country's premiership, is threatening to take military action similar to when Israel previously bombed nuclear programs in Iraq and Syria. But while those attacks saw no war erupt, Iran has an arsenal of ballistic missiles, drones and other weaponry it and its allies already have used in the region.The acknowledgment Thursday came from Iran's Nour News, a website linked to Iran's Supreme National Security Council, overseen by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Nour News separately is sanctioned by Canada for having “participated in gross and systematic human rights violations and perpetuated disinformation activities to justify the Iranian regime’s repression and persecution of its citizens" amid nationwide protests there.The comments by Nour News follow days of muddled comments by Iran not directly acknowledging the accusation by inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency that Iran had enriched up to 84%.Bloomberg first reported Sunday that inspectors had detected uranium particles enriched up to 84%. The IAEA, a United Nations agency based in Vienna, has not denied the report, saying only “that the IAEA is discussing with Iran the results of recent agency verification activities.”In its comments Thursday, Nour News urged the IAEA to “not fall prey to the seduction of Western countries” and declare that Iran's nuclear program was “completely peaceful.”“It will be clear soon that the IAEA surprising report of discovering 84% enriched uranium particles in Iran’s enrichment facilities was an inspector’s error or was a deliberate action to create political atmospheres against Iran on the eve of the meeting of" its board, Nour News said on Twitter. The board, a group of nations that oversees the IAEA, will meet beginning March 6 in Vienna.The IAEA did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday over Nour News' remarks.It wasn't immediately clear where the 84% enrichment allegedly took place, though the IAEA has said it found two cascades of advanced IR-6 centrifuges at Iran's underground Fordo facility “interconnected in a way that was substantially different from the mode of operation declared by Iran to the agency in November last year.” Iran is known to have been enriching uranium at Fordo up to 60% purity — at level which nonproliferation experts already say has no civilian use for Tehran.Iran also enriches uranium at its Natanz nuclear site.Weapons-grade uranium is enriched up to 90%. While the IAEA's director-general has warned Iran now has enough uranium to produce “several” nuclear bombs if it chooses, it likely would take months more to build a weapon and potentially miniaturize it to put on a missile.The new tensions over Iran's program also take place against the backdrop of a shadow war between Iran and Israel that has spilled out across the wider Middle East. Netanyahu, who long has advocated military action against Iran, mentioned it again in a talk this week.“How do you stop a rogue nation from acquiring nuclear weapons?” Netanyahu rhetorically asked. “You had one that’s called Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. It was stopped by military force, ours. You had a second one that is called Syria that tried to develop nuclear weapons. And it was stopped by a military action, ours.”He added: “A necessary condition, and an often sufficient condition, is credible military action. The longer you wait, the harder that becomes. We’ve waited very long.”___Follow Jon Gambrell on Twitter at www.twiter.com/jongambrellAP.

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)
REVELATION 16:21 80-120LB HAIL ON HUMANS
21And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent:(80-120 LBS) and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.

FAMINE

EZEKIEL 5:16
16  When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:

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)

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: 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, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

DEUTORONOMY 28:24
24  The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.

LOCUSTS (DEMONIC) TORTURES SINNERS 5 MONTHS
REVELATION 9:1-6
1 And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.
2 And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
3 And there came out of the smoke (DEMONIC) locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
4 And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.
5 And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.
6 And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.

FEARFUL SIGHTS AND GREAT SIGNS FROM HEAVEN

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

FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS

REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

OZONE DEPLETION JUDGEMENT ON THE EARTH DUE TO SIN
ISAIAH 30:26-27
26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold,(7X OR 7-DEGREES HOTTER) as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people,(ISRAEL) and healeth the stroke of their wound.
27 Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:

MATTHEW 24:21-22,221 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22 And except those days should be shortened,(DAY LIGHT HOURS SHORTENED) there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake (ISRAELS SAKE) those days shall be shortened (Daylight hours shortened)(THE ASTEROID HITS EARTH HERE)
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
 
REVELATION 16:7-9
7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.

California may get slammed by brutal storm front sweeping US-Amancai Biraben And Jim Salter The Associated Press-FEB 23,23

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — A brutal winter storm that trapped drivers on icy roads, blacked out hundreds of thousands of homes, grounded airplanes and closed schools across much of the country was poised to slam California Thursday.“We are in for a VERY busy week!" the National Weather Service bureau in San Diego tweeted. “We have issued warnings for damaging winds, heavy mountain snow, highly hazardous boating conditions and the list goes on."For the first time since 1989, the weather service issued a blizzard warning for Southern California mountains that runs through Saturday. Some coastal areas could see 10-foot (3-meter) waves — and a few at up to 14 feet (4.3 meters) — through Thursday, forecasters said.“Nearly the entire population of CA will be able to see snow from some vantage point later this week if they look in the right direction (i.e., toward the highest hills in vicinity),” UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain tweeted Wednesday.The storm, one in a series that was expected to pummel the country through the week, sowed chaos coast to coast. At one point Wednesday, more than 65 million people in more than two dozen states were under weather alerts.The wintry mix hit hard in the northern U.S., closing schools, offices, even shutting down the Minnesota Legislature. About 90 churches in western Michigan canceled Ash Wednesday services, WZZM-TV reported.In Wyoming, the state Transportation Department posted on social media that roads across much of the southern part of the state were impassable.Rescuers tried to reach people stranded in vehicles but high winds and drifting snow created a “near-impossible situation” for them, said Sgt. Jeremy Beck of the Wyoming Highway Patrol.“They know their locations, it’s just hard for them to get them,” he said.In the Pacific Northwest, high winds and heavy snow in the Cascade Mountains prevented search teams from reaching the bodies of three climbers killed in an avalanche on Washington’s Colchuck Peak over the weekend.Unexpectedly heavy snow during rush hour sent dozens of cars spinning out in Portland, Oregon, and caused hours-long traffic jams. The regional bus service offered free rides to warming shelters for homeless individuals.In Arizona, about 180 miles (289 kilometers) of Interstate 40 were closed while state police in New Mexico shut down on-ramps in Gallup, just across the Arizona line.The National Weather Service warned of the potential for blinding, wind-whipped snow, especially Thursday afternoon into the night when up to a half-inch (1.2 centimeters) per hour could fall.In California, a blizzard warning was in effect through Saturday for higher elevations of the Sierra Nevada, where forecasters said conditions could include several feet of snow blown by 60-mph (96-kph) gusts and wind chill could drop the temperature to minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 40 Celsius).In Sacramento, the state capital, the weather service said it had received reports of something that might be either hail or graupel — soft, wet snowflakes encased in supercooled water droplets.Electrical grids took a beating as ice encrusted utility lines in the North and gusty winds knocked down lines or fouled them with tree branches and other debris in California.A half-inch of ice covering a wire “is the equivalent of having a baby grand piano on that single span of wire, so the weight is significant,” said Matt Paul, executive vice president of distribution operations for Detroit-based DTE Electric.More than 579,000 customers were without power in Michigan, well over 117,000 in Illinois and some 45,000 in California Wednesday night, according to the website PowerOutage.us.Weather also contributed to nearly 1,800 U.S. flight cancellations, according to the tracking service FlightAware. Another 6,000-plus flights were delayed across the country.At Denver International Airport, Taylor Dotson, her husband, Reggie, and their 4-year-old daughter, Raegan, faced a two-hour flight delay to Nashville on their way home to Belvidere, Tennessee.Reggie Dotson was in Denver to interview for a job as an airline pilot.“I think that’s kind of funny that we’ve experienced these types of delays when that’s what he’s looking into getting into now as a career,” Taylor Dotson said.Few places were untouched by the wild weather, including some at the opposite extreme: long-standing record highs were broken in cities in the Midwest, mid-Atlantic and Southeast.Nashville topped out Wednesday at 80 degrees Fahrenheit (26.67 degrees Celsius), breaking a 127-year-old record for the date, according to the weather service.Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Atlanta, Lexington, Kentucky and Mobile, Alabama were among many other record-setters.No warmup was forecast this week, though, in the northern U.S. More than 18 inches (46 centimeters) may pile up in parts of Minnesota and Wisconsin, the National Weather Service said Wednesday evening. According to the weather service, the biggest snow event on record in the Twin Cities was 28.4 inches (72 centimeters) from Oct. 31 through Nov. 3, 1991.Temperatures could plunge as low as minus 20 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 29 degrees Celsius) Thursday and to minus 25 F (minus 32 C) Friday in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Wind chills may fall to minus 50 F (minus 46 C), said Nathan Rick, a meteorologist in Grand Forks.The storm will make its way toward the East Coast later this week. Places that don’t get snow may get dangerous amounts of ice, forecasters warned.___Salter reported from O’Fallon, Missouri. Sarah Brumfield in Wyoming, Eugene Johnson in Seattle, Corey Williams in Detroit, Thomas Peipert in Denver, Brady McCombs in Salt Lake City, Utah, David Koenig in Dallas, John Antczak and Christopher Weber in Los Angeles, Gillian Flaccus in Portland, Ore., Julie Walker in New York, Amy Forliti in Minneapolis, and Steve Karnowski in St. Paul, Minnesota, contributed to this report.

Death toll from Turkey, Syria earthquake tops 47,000-FEB 23,23

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The death toll from the massive earthquake that hit parts of Turkey and Syria on Feb. 6 continues to rise as more bodies are retrieved from the rubble of demolished buildings. A magnitude 6.4 earthquake that struck the already battered province of Hatay this week damaged or demolished more buildings, compounding the devastation.Here’s a look at the key developments Thursday from the aftermath of the earthquake.DEATH TOLL TOPS 47,000-Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu has raised the number of fatalities in Turkey from the magnitude 7.8 earthquake to 43,556.The combined death toll in Turkey and Syria now stands at 47,244.In an interview with state broadcaster TRT late on Wednesday, Soylu said teams were sifting through two buildings in hard-hit Hatay province in search of further bodies. Search operations elsewhere have come to an end, he said.Meanwhile, at least 164,000 buildings have either collapsed or are so damaged that they need to be demolished, said Murat Kurum, Turkey’s minister for the environment and urbanization.SYRIANS SHELTER IN TENTS AND CARS-The local civil defense in northwestern Syria, known locally as The White Helmets, said Thursday that thousands of children and tens of thousands of families have taken shelter in cars and tents “fearing they would face a repeat of the earthquake.”In government-held Syria, a first plane from Bahrain loaded with aid landed in Damascus. The Gulf monarchy is among many Arab countries that in recent years have tried to thaw relations with President Bashar Assad, after shunning him in 2011 for his brutal crackdown on protesters.Saudi Arabia and Egypt, two key U.S. allies in the region, have also delivered aid.

We were mind-blown,' says team as 'universe breakers' found-In paradigm shift, Webb telescope spots ‘monster’ galaxies formed in early universe-Scientists thought it was an error when they saw super bright dots, indicating fully mature galaxies just 600 million years after Big Bang, suggesting previously unknown fast track-By Marcia Dunn-FEB 23,23-Today, 1:40 pm

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) — Astronomers have discovered what appear to be massive galaxies dating back to within 600 million years of the Big Bang, suggesting the early universe may have had a stellar fast-track that produced these “monsters.”While the new James Webb Space Telescope has spotted even older galaxies, dating to within a mere 300 million years of the beginning of the universe, it’s the size and maturity of these six apparent mega-galaxies that stun scientists. They reported their findings Wednesday.Lead researcher Ivo Labbe of Australia’s Swinburne University of Technology and his team expected to find little baby galaxies this close to the dawn of the universe — not these whoppers.“While most galaxies in this era are still small and only gradually growing larger over time,” he said in an email, “there are a few monsters that fast-track to maturity. Why this is the case or how this would work is unknown.”Each of the six objects looks to weigh billions of times more than our sun. In one of them, the total weight of all its stars may be as much as 100 billion times greater than our sun, according to the scientists, who published their findings in the journal Nature.Yet these galaxies are believed to be extremely compact, squeezing in as many stars as our own Milky Way, but in a relatively tiny slice of space, according to Labbe.Labbe said he and his team didn’t think the results were real at first — that there couldn’t be galaxies as mature as the Milky Way so early in time — and they still need to be confirmed. The objects appeared so big and bright that some members of the team thought they had made a mistake.“We were mind-blown, kind of incredulous,” Labbe said.The Pennsylvania State University’s Joel Leja, who took part in the study, calls them “universe breakers.”“The revelation that massive galaxy formation began extremely early in the history of the universe upends what many of us had thought was settled science,” Leja said in a statement. “It turns out we found something so unexpected it actually creates problems for science. It calls the whole picture of early galaxy formation into question.”These galaxy observations were among the first data set that came from the $10 billion Webb telescope, launched just over a year ago. NASA and the European Space Agency’s Webb is considered the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, coming up on the 33rd anniversary of its launch.Unlike Hubble, the bigger and more powerful Webb can peer through clouds of dust with its infrared vision and discover galaxies previously unseen. Scientists hope to eventually observe the first stars and galaxies formed following the creation of the universe 13.8 billion years ago.The researchers still are awaiting official confirmation through sensitive spectroscopy, careful to call these candidate massive galaxies for now. Leja said it’s possible that a few of the objects might not be galaxies, but obscured supermassive black holes.While some may prove to be smaller, “odds are good at least some of them will turn out to be” galactic giants, Labbe said. “The next year will tell us.”One early lesson from Webb is “to let go of your expectations and be ready to be surprised,” he said.

Ruins of Turkish city of Antakya tell story of a rich past-Jewish community’s leaders died in 7.8-quake this month; city ‘can be rebuilt, but it will not be like the old one,’ resident says-By Sarah El Deeb-22 February 2023, 8:32 pm

ANTAKYA, Turkey (AP) — For nearly two weeks, Mehmet Ismet has lived in the ruins of Antakya’s most beloved historic mosque, a landmark in a now-devastated city that was famed for thousands of years as a meeting place of civilizations and revered by Christians, Muslims and Jews.The 74-year-old took refuge in the Habib Najjar mosque after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake killed tens of thousands in Turkey and Syria on Feb. 6. He has slept and prayed under the few arches still standing, mourning the future of a city renowned for its past.The destruction in Antakya was nearly total. Much of the city is rubble. What’s still standing is too unsafe to live in. Almost everyone has left. On Monday, a new 6.4 magnitude earthquake, centered in Hatay province where Antakya is located, struck again, killing people, injuring more than 200 and causing more buildings to collapse, in some cases trapping people.“It can be rebuilt. But it will not be like the old one,” said Ismet, pointing to the destruction of the mosque, where he sat in the courtyard with a friend by a wood-burning heater. “The old is gone. Only the name remains.”Antakya, known as Antioch in ancient times, has been repeatedly destroyed by earthquakes and rebuilt over history. But residents fear it will be a long time before it recovers from this one, and that its unique historical identity may never be fully restored. The destruction is so great, and they say the government cares little for this area.Antioch, built in 300 B.C. by a general of Alexander the Great in the Orontes River valley, was one of the biggest cities of the Greco-Roman world, rivaling Alexandria and Constantinople. Saints Peter and Paul are said to have founded one of the oldest Christian communities here, and it’s here that the word “Christian” first came into use. It later drew Muslim and Christian Crusader invaders.The melding of faiths is part of the city’s character.A parable from the Quran kept running through Ismet’s mind. Three messengers from God came to a town, urging its sinful people to follow his word. They refused, and God destroyed the city with a mighty blast. The Quran doesn’t name the town, but many traditions say it was ancient Antioch.Ismet saw a new lesson from the present-day devastation.“All religions are here. We were living well. Then politics and hypocrisy prevailed, and disagreement followed,” Ismet said. “People… have disagreed and are robbing each other. God is punishing them.”The mosque can now be reached only by clambering over heaps of concrete and old stones that were once Antakya’s old city. It traces Antakya’s many histories: The site originally held an ancient pagan temple, then a church, before finally settling as a mosque, built in the 13th century. The mosque was destroyed in an earthquake in 1853 and rebuilt four years later by the Ottomans.Even the legends surrounding Habib Najjar, the mosque’s unknown namesake, are intertwined with multiple faiths.Ismet recounted one popular story: Najjar was a resident of Antioch who urged locals to believe God’s messengers referred to in the Quran. They beheaded him, and his head rolled down the mountain to the spot where the mosque now stands. Another version of the legend says Najjar was a believer in Jesus, whose disciples cured his son of leprosy, and was killed for promoting the new Christian faith.Modern Antakya was already a shadow of its ancient self.In recent years, it witnessed steep economic decline and growing emigration to Europe and the Gulf. Tension had been growing between the shrinking local population, which included Christian and Alevi communities, and a growing Syrian population that fled its country’s civil war.Some city residents complain of neglect from a central government busy with helping other provinces where it has a stronger voting base. With little evidence, locals accused Syrian refugees of stealing from stores and the government of downplaying the death toll. Many worry more people could leave if Antakya is not rebuilt quickly.In the face of rising criticism from several quake-hit cities, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and other officials have recognized delays in the response. No one addressed Antakya’s woes in particular.“Maybe in one month, we will start the renovation or organization,” Yahya Coskun, deputy director general of Turkey’s museums and cultural heritage, said about the destruction to the city’s landmarks.“Antakya’s destruction is a loss to humanity,” said Jan Estefan, a silversmith and one of the city’s few remaining Christians. “We still want to live here. We have no intention of leaving.”Antakya’s Greek Orthodox Church was destroyed. The church, which was the seat of the Greek Orthodox patriarch up until the 14th century, was leveled in an 1872 earthquake and rebuilt.“History has once again been wiped out,” said Fadi Hurigil, chairman of the board of directors of Antakya Greek Orthodox Church Foundation.Old mosques were cut off by mountains of rubble. The old bazaar lay in ruins. Crushed buildings line Kurtulus Street, said to have been the world’s first illuminated street when it was lit with torches at night in Roman times. Parts of the archaeological museum have been damaged.Outside the city center, Mount Starius protected one of Christianity’s earliest churches — St. Pierre — which is built in a cave in the mountain and has sections dating to the 4th century. A set of stairs leading to it was damaged.There were cracks in the walls of the Synagogue of Antakya, home to the area’s 2,500-year-old Jewish community. The president of the city’s Jewish community and his wife, Saul and Fortuna Cenudioglu, didn’t survive. About a dozen Jewish residents and the synagogue’s Torah scrolls were temporarily relocated to Istanbul, said Rabbi Mendy Chitrik, chairman of the Alliance of Rabbis in Islamic States.Chitrik said it will hard for the small, elderly community, whittled down by years of emigration, to rebuild. “However, I am certain that it will come back.”Many residents seem to have accepted it is their city’s fate to return from disaster.“After seven times, they rebuilt and brought it to life again. Now is the eighth time, and God willing … we will live in it again,” said Bulent Cifcifli. His mother was killed in the quake, and it took a week to dig her body out.In one shape or another, Antakya will survive, he said.“Death is unavoidable. We will die and new people will come,” he said, choking on tears. “Who is Antakya? Today it is us. Tomorrow someone else.”TOI staff contributed to this report.

HOMOSEXUALS.(SODOMITE RAINBOW GROUPERS)

LEVITICUS 20:13
13  If a man also lie with mankind,(ANOTHER MAN) as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

LEVITICUS 18:22
22  Thou shalt not lie with mankind,(ANOTHER MAN) as with womankind: it is abomination.

2 TIMOTHY 3:3
3 Without natural affection,(HOMOSEXUALS) trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

1 CORINTHIANS 6:9,
9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate,(HARDENED SODOMITE RAINBOW GROUPERRS) nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

PSALMS 14:1
1  To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

ROMANS 1:18-32
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:(HOMOSEXUALITY,AND ALL SEX SINS)
25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:(LESBIENS)
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly,(SODOMITES) and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.(AIDS ETC)
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

GOD CREATED THEM MALE AND FEMALE IN MARRIAGE

GENESIS 1:27-28
27  So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
28  And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply,(HAVE LOTS OF CHILDREN) and replenish the earth,(HOMOSEXUALS CAN NOT REPLENISH THE EARTH WITH CHILDREN)(BY HAVING SEX WITH EACH OTHER) and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

GENESIS 2:21-24
21  And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
22  And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
23  And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
24  Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

MATTHEW 19:4-6
4  And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
5  And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
6  Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

Israel’s transgender Jews struggle in Orthodox circles-New hardline government is raising disquiet among LGBTQ people, with subject of transgenderism already taboo for much of the religious community-By Delphine Matthieussent-FEB 23,23-    Today, 1:35 pm

AFP — Yael Rashlin holds on to her Jewish practices, but as a transgender woman in Israel, she struggles to find acceptance in her Orthodox community — a feeling exacerbated by the country’s new right-wing government.Along with her partner, Rashlin is busy wrestling with piles of clothes and toys that have been scattered around by their children, ahead of the Shabbat day of rest.“I can no longer pray to the same God as people who today are trying to destroy my community and destroy our lives,” she said, referring to the anti-LGBTQ agenda espoused by some cabinet members.She has undergone a social transition, which included changing her first name and clothing.But unlike other Orthodox women, she recently decided to stop covering her hair as a way of distancing herself from the community.“Religious (heterosexual) couples can walk in the street holding hands, but if I’m wearing my headscarf, I cannot hold another woman’s hand because it raises questions,” she said.Rashlin, a 43-year-old computer engineer, stopped wearing her scarf a few months ago because she was bothered by the looks and comments people from her community made.Israel has the most progressive LGBTQ legislation in the Middle East and over the past decade there has been more openness about same-sex relationships, even among religious people.But discussions around gender identities remain taboo in the Orthodox community, and disquiet has grown among LGBTQ people since the government took office in late December.Rashlin and her wife Hadar had a wedding ceremony in Israel a few years ago which was not recognized by religious authorities and the state.Conducting same-sex marriages is banned in Israel, which instead legally recognizes such unions officiated abroad.“The price to pay has become too heavy to manage this conflict between being an LGBTQ couple and part of the Orthodox community,” said Hadar Rashlin, 30.Yael Rashlin has five children, including three from a previous marriage before she transitioned.Suicide risk-“There’s a fear among rabbinical authorities saying that transgender (people) exist, that it’s not a sickness or a fad,” she said.Many of her transgender friends have killed themselves in recent years. Across Israel, 40 percent of the transgender community has attempted suicide, according to a 2020 health ministry report.This figure is even higher among the Orthodox community, according to Rotem Sorek, who heads the Maavarim association supporting transgender people.“Their distress is even greater. They often have to face rejection not only from their loved ones, but also from their community. And so, they’re even more in danger,” she said.The situation is particularly worrying for Benny Lau, an Orthodox rabbi who has for years supported gay Jews and has sometimes encountered transgender people.“There is an obligation for every human to try and help another human to live,” said Lau.“When you carry the role of a rabbi, of a leader, you must take care of the life of every individual,” he continued, stressing that the most important duty in Jewish law is to protect life.“There are many men of religion and Torah pupils who react either with fear or with a deep objection to this whole phenomenon of transgenders.”Lau recalled writing a letter for a transgender woman confirming her identity so that she would be accepted in the women’s section of her synagogue, as houses of worship are segregated in Orthodox communities.The hostility of most rabbis toward transgender identities is part of their broader battle against modernity, said Lau, rather than upholding Jewish law which “is subject to interpretation and in which one can find many justifications” for different identities.Hostility from top ministers-Lau’s liberal approach is antithetical to positions held by some newly elected Israeli lawmakers, notably those within the government that took office in December.Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and fellow coalition member Avi Maoz, a deputy minister in the premier’s office, have both expressed vehemently anti-LGBTQ views.Shani Armon, another Orthodox transgender woman, said: “I don’t think that there will immediately be anti-LGBTQ laws, but more than laws, I’m worried about the daily work of the government.”A computer engineer, the 29-year-old feared “a reduction in the budgets for centers helping LGBTQ” people.Reflecting on the new coalition, Yael Rashlin said she has considered “leaving Israel if the situation becomes really impossible.”“Why is it really so difficult?” she asked of her community’s inability to accept her identity.“Why are we considered a bone in the throat?”

JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people(ISRAEL) and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(UPROOTED ISRAELIS AND DIVIDED JERUSALEM)(THIS BRINGS ON WW3 BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED,WARNING TO ARABS-MUSLIMS AND THE WORLD).

WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS

Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week:(7 YEARS) and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
DANIEL 11:21-2321 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he ( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant (PEACE TREATY) with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE ANIMAL SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

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

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

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

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

DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.DANIEL 11:36-40
36 And the king shall do according to his will;(EU PRESIDENT) and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS A EUROPEAN JEW) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(HES A MILITARY GINIUS) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds (CONTROL HEZBOLLAH,AL-QUAIDA MURDERERS ETC) with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south(EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR PROTECTING ISRAELS SECURITY) and the king of the north(RUSSIA) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.

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, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
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)

With Negev Summit planning on hold, Hanegbi said to be headed to UAE-Second confab, meant to be in Morocco in March, now up in the air amid violence between Israel and Palestinians-By Lazar Berman-FEB 23,23-Today, 1:43 pm

With preparations for the second Negev Summit at a standstill amid violence in the West Bank and Gaza, National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi is planning a trip to Abu Dhabi in the coming weeks to address concerns among Emirati officials.A Western diplomatic official told The Times of Israel that the visit is expected to take place in early March. However, the Prime Minister’s Office said that there was no date set.The 2023 Negev Summit — bringing together Israel, its Abraham Accords partners, Egypt and the US — had been slated to take place in Morocco in March.But the confab will not take place in Morocco in March, officials told The Times of Israel.Morocco’s Foreign Ministry told The Times of Israel that it had no updates on planning for the summit.The inaugural Negev Summit in Sde Boker took place in March 2022, initiated and hosted by then-foreign minister Yair Lapid.Only weeks ago, it seemed that the March summit was on track. The Negev Forum steering committee met in person for the first time in January, bringing together dozens of officials in Abu Dhabi to plan the second meeting of the six foreign ministers.A Western diplomatic official said that the proximity of Ramadan, which will begin around March 22, is making Arab members of the Negev Forum nervous about holding the meeting then. Tensions have spiked in Jerusalem and across Israel during Ramadan in recent years, including an outbreak of violence in 2021 that resulted in a 11-day conflict between Israel and Gaza-based terror groups.That was before the Israeli arrest operation in Nablus Wednesday, in which 11 Palestinians were killed and 102 were injured, followed by Palestinians in the Gaza Strip firing six rockets into southern Israel.Israeli planes bombed two Hamas sites in Gaza early Thursday morning in response to the rocket attacks.Egypt and Jordan, both of which have longstanding treaties with Israel, condemned the Nablus operation on Wednesday, as did Saudi Arabia and Qatar, which do not recognize Israel.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that he believes he can bring Riyadh into the Abraham Accords by the end of the year.Bahrain, one of the signers of the 2020 agreement, released a statement on Thursday saying it “strongly condemns Israeli forces storming of the Palestinian city of Nablus.” However, Israeli officials told The Times of Israel that they did not see the language as particularly problematic, and noted that Manama waited till the day after other Arab countries issued their condemnations.Jordan is the only Arab country with full diplomatic relations with Israel that has not participated in the Negev Forum, though it was invited. Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi was not at the table for the inaugural gathering of the forum, and Amman did not send a representative to the June 2022 or January steering committee meeting.Netanyahu was eager to demonstrate his determination and ability to advance the Abraham Accords — which the Naftali Bennett-Lapid government was unable to do — by visiting the UAE early in his term. A Middle Eastern diplomat told The Times of Israel recently that those plans are on hold until Abu Dhabi sees what unfolds during Ramadan.Another official indicated that the Emiratis are increasingly interested in investing in Israel, and are not particularly worried about Israeli policies. However, they do care about stability as a prerequisite to significant investment.There are also some positive signs in the region. On Thursday, Oman announced it would allow Israeli civilian flights to transit through its airspace. Saudi Arabia opened its airspace in 2022.Jacob Magid contributed to this report.

Ahmed Qurei, Oslo Accords architect and former Palestinian PM, dies at 85-PA President Abbas announces death of Abu Alaa, one of the chief negotiators of the 1990s deals with Israel that created the Palestinian Authority-By Agencies and ToI Staff-FEB 23,23-Today, 10:48 am

Ahmed Qurei, a former Palestinian Authority prime minister and one of the architects of interim peace deals with Israel, has died at age 85.A key player in the 1993 Oslo peace accords, Qurei witnessed the rise of the dream of Palestinian statehood that surged during the negotiations. But he also saw those hopes recede, with the prospect of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict drifting further than ever. Domestically, Qurei was riddled with corruption charges that tainted his reputation.Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas confirmed Qurei’s death on Wednesday. The cause of death was not immediately made public, but Qurei had been ill for some time with a heart condition.“Abu Alaa stood in the lead defending the causes of his home and people,” Abbas said in a statement carried by the official Wafa news agency, using Qurei’s nickname.Israel’s former foreign minister Tzipi Livni, who in 2013-2014 was also minister in charge of negotiations with the Palestinians, tweeted her condolences to Qurei’s family.“I was sad to hear about the passing away of Ahmed Qurei,” she wrote. “Together we’ve tried to bring peace to our peoples in an understanding that it’s our responsibility to make a better future for our children.”Born in 1937 in Abu Dis, suburb of East Jerusalem in the West Bank, Qurei joined the Fatah movement in 1968.He rose quickly through the ranks under the leadership of its founder, the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, and became a member of its decision-making body, the Central Committee, in 1989. He was also a member of the PLO Executive Committee.Qurei headed the Palestinian delegation to Oslo, where intensive talks with Israel led to the peace accords in 1993, which created the Palestinian Authority and set up self-rule areas in the Palestinian territories. During ensuing rounds of negotiations with Israelis, he met all Israeli prime ministers who were in office before 2004, including Yitzhak Rabin, Ariel Sharon, Shimon Peres, Benjamin Netanyahu and Ehud Olmert, and US presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.Peace talks have collapsed in the three decades since the accords. In a 2013 interview with the Associated Press marking two decades since the Oslo agreements, Qurei said that if he knew then what he knows now he wouldn’t have agreed to the accords.“With such kinds of blocs of settlements? No. With the closure of Jerusalem? No. Not at all,” Qurei said at his office in Abu Dis.After the establishment of the PA, Qurei won a seat in the first parliamentary elections in 1996 and chaired the Palestinian Legislative Council.After Abbas resigned as the PA’s first prime minister in 2003, Arafat replaced him with Qurei. He held the post until 2006, when the terrorist Hamas group scored a landslide victory in the second Palestinian elections.During his tenure as prime minister, Qurei was the subject of controversy after reports accused his family of having financial interest in a company that sold Egyptian cement to Israel, which the latter used to build the West Bank separation barrier.Qurei was seen to have opposed the violence of the 2000-2005 Second Intifada that saw over 1,000 Israelis and 3,000 Palestinians killed. Though he did not publicly express his opinion, he worked with Israel’s then-foreign minister Shimon Peres on a failed attempt reach an agreement to end the violence.In the past he was considered a possible successor to Abbas, who is 87.In 2012, he expressed his belief that a single state for Israelis and Palestinians may be the only viable solution to the conflict, rather then the two-state solution that is the core principle backed by the Palestinian Authority, the Arab world and Western countries.

Monday, February 20, 2023

MY MOHAWK RACEWAY PREDICTIONS 2023 RD 029 MON FEB 20, 2023

    MOHAWK STANDARDBREAD HARNESS RACEWAY 2023 - RESULTS AS OF MON FEB-20, 2023 - DAY-029

MOHAWK PICKS
01-2-8-1-4 4TH WBP (2-1)
02-4-5-7-0 MTRI-8.05 - 8.05
03-5-1-2-6 W-6.00, P-7.00, 4TH (4.5), SEX-40.50 - 61.55
04-10-4-6-5 MEX-21.10 - 82.65
05-8-7-3-6
06-7-5-2-4 W-9.20, P-2.70, S-2.60, SEX-20.40, STRI-27.10 - 144.65
07-4-7-8-6 W-6.40, 4TH WBP (16-1), DD-33.90 - 184.95
08-1-3-6-2 W-5.10, P-3.50, S-2.70, SEX-15.20, STRI-19.65, DD-29.30, P3-34.55 - 294.95
09-3-1-2-6 4TH WBP (8.5)
10-7-6-8-1 S-3.30, 4TH (6-1) - 298.25
11-9-5-10-4-1 4TH WBP (9-1)
MOHAWKS TONIGHTS TOTAL $298.25 OVERALL TOTAL $9,099.70

STANS PICKS
01-4-8-9-6-2 4TH WBP (4-1), MEX-18.70, MSUP-173.70 - 192.40
02-4-5-1-7-3 4TH WBP (3-1)
03-4-3-8-2-5
04-10-6-9-4-5 4TH WBP (3.2)
05-4-7-8-1-3 S-2.60, MEX-36.10, MTRI-70.95 - 302.05
06-7-8-2-5-9 W-9.20, S-2.60, 4TH WBP (1-1) - 313.85
07-4-7-9-10-2 W-6.40, DD-33.90 -  354.15
08-3-6-4-1-2 4TH WBP (3.2), MSUP-57.10 - 411.25
09-1-3-2-8-6
10-1-4-2-3-6
11-9-1-4-8-2
HI-5 MONEY BEFORE TONIGHT = $120.540.73
STANS TONIGHTS TOTAL $411.25 OVERALL TOTAL $10,656.25

ACTUAL RACE RESULTS
01-8 (5.2)-4 (2-1)-6 (4-1)-9 (15-1) (5-SCR)
02-5 (4.5)-7 (3-1)-4 (5.2)-3 (48-1) (6-SCR)
03-5 (2-1)-1 (10-1)-4 (34-1)-6 (4.5)
04-4 (3.2)-10 (4-1)-7 (9.2)-6 (5.2)
05-7 (9.5)-4 (11-1)-8 (1-1)-2 (36-1)
06-7 (7.2)-5 (1-1)-2 (7.2)-6 (12-1)
07-4 (2-1)-9 (34-1)-6 (16-1)-7 (4.5)
08-1 (3.2)-3 (7.2)-6 (8.5)-4 (13-1)
09-2 (7.2)-6 (8.5)-1 (8-1)-7 (17-1)
10-6 (9.5)-2 (17-1)-8 (4-1)-1 (6-1)
11-4 (9-1)-7 (7-1)-5 (6-1)-10 (9-1)-2 (19-1) (3,6-SCR)


MOHAWK PREDICTIONS)-RECORD 2023

01-093-BIG-$14.50 (FEB 18-2ND) (6-1), $10.20 (JAN 06-11TH) (4-1), $08.60 (JAN 21-11TH) (3-1),   
02-052-BIG-$16.70 (FEB 16-11TH) (16-1), $10.80 (FEB 03-10TH) (9-1), $09.50 (FEB 11-4TH) (11-1),
03-063-BIG-$08.20 (JAN 21-8TH) (19-1), $07.50 (JAN 27-11TH) (45-1), $07.20 (FEB 03-4TH) (29-1),
04-030-BIG-24-1 (JAN 19-1ST), 20-1 (JAN 16-3RD), 17-1 (JAN 30-11TH), 16-1 (JAN 13-2ND),
04-099-W B P-BIG-19-1 (FEB 02-6TH), 19-1 (JAN 06-4TH), 17-1 (FEB 06-1ST), 16-1 (FEB 18-4TH),
S EX-029-BIG-$43.60 (JAN 26-10TH)
M EX-021-BIG-$43.70 (JAN 05-10TH)
S TRI-015-BIG-$59.75 (JAN 20-3RD)
M TRI-021-BIG-$106.30 (FEB 13-5TH)
S SUP-001-BIG-$24.00 (JAN 13-2ND)
M SUP-018-BIG-$1,219.25 (FEB 13-1ST)
DD-1,2-04-BIG-$19.10 (JAN 06-1ST)
DD-2,3-04-BIG-$45.40 (JAN 30-3RD)
DD-3,4-01-BIG-$15.80 (FEB 10-4TH)
DD-4,5-01-BIG-$09.90 (FEB 04-5TH)
DD-5,6-03-BIG-$12.80 (JAN 05-6TH)
DD-6,7-04-BIG-$33.90 (FEB 20-7TH)
DD-7,8-03-BIG-$29.30 (FEB 20-8TH)
DD-8,9-02-BIG-$19.60 (JAN 21-9TH)
DD-9,10-03-BIG-$08.70 (JAN 16-10TH)
DD-10,11-04-BIG-$14.50 (JAN 30-11TH)
DD-11,12-02-BIG-$63.90 (JAN 21-12TH)
DD-12,13-00-BIG-$
P3 (1-3)-03-BIG-$20.20 (JAN 30-3RD)
P3 (2-4)-01-BIG-$15.90 (FEB 10-4TH)
P3 (3-5)-00-BIG-$
P3 (4-6)-01-BIG-$13.70 (FEB 04-6TH)
P3 (5-7)-02-BIG-$15.60 (FEB 04-7TH)
P3 (6-8)-02-BIG-$34.55 (FEB 20-8TH)
P3 (7-9)-01-BIG-$15.80 (JAN 21-9TH)
P3 (8-10)-00-BIG-$
P3 (9-11)-02-BIG-$08.35 (JAN 30-11TH)
P3 (10-12)-00-BIG-$
P3 (11-13)-00-BIG-$
P4 (4-7)-01-BIG-$33.55 (FEB 04-7TH)
P4 (7-10)-00-BIG-$
P5 (1-5)-00-BIG-$
P5 (6-10)-00-BIG-$
10TH -P5 (HF)-S-00-BIG-$
10TH -P5 (HF)-M-00-BIG-$
11TH -P5 (HF)-S-00-BIG-$
11TH -P5 (HF)-M-01-BIG-$124.00 (JAN 20-11TH)
12TH -P5 (HF)-S-00-BIG-$
12TH -P5 (HF)-M-01-BIG-$1,161.55 (JAN 28-12TH)
13TH -P5 (HF)-S-00-BIG-$
13TH -P5 (HF)-M-00-BIG-$
5-1+ LONG-(03)-111
5-1+ LONG TOT-(10)-375-29.6%
LONGEST LONG-
LONGS THIS NIGHT T3-0
4TH PLACE PICKED CORRECT-0
4TH PLACE WRONG BUT PICKED 5-1+ ONLY-0
PICK 4 PLACINGS-29-44
OA PICK 4 PLAC TOT-713-1,136-62.8%
TOTAL RACES-(11)-284
TOP 4 PICKS EACH RACE-01-02,02-03,03-03,04-02,05-02,06-03,07-02,08-03,09-03,10-03,11-03,12-00,13-00=29-44-OATOT-713-1,136-62.8%


(STANS PREDICTIONS)-RECORD AT MOHAWK 2023

01-074-BIG-$87.30 (FEB 18-11TH) (42-1), $64.80 (FEB 16-9TH) (31-1), $41.30 (FEB 02-6TH) (19-1),
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47K DEAD IN TURKEY QUAKE-OHIO ONE OF WORST CHEMICAL SPILLS IN HISTORY.

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)

 47K DEAD IN TURKEY QUAKE-OHIO ONE OF WORST CHEMICAL SPILLS IN HISTORY.

ZECHARIAH 12:1-5 King James Bible
1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.

JOEL 3:2 (WW3 OCCURS WHEN JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED)
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people (ISRAEL) and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(JERUSALEM)(WW3 STARTS BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AND ISRAELIS UPROOTED FROM THEIR GOD GIVIN LAND BRINGS 3 DEAD BILLION IN WW3)

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

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

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

HOSEA 4:1-3
11 Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land,(EARTH) because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
2  By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
3  Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.

ZEPHANIAH 1:2-3
2  I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the LORD.
3  I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD.

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, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
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)

Abbas receives White House invite while Netanyahu's awaits-PA agrees to yank UN measure, even as Israel readies to advance settlement package-Facing US pressure, Ramallah suffices with symbolic Security Council statement panning settlements, while Israel will agree to halt some, but not all, activity beyond Green Line-By Jacob Magid-19 February 2023, 8:09 pm

The Biden administration has managed to coax the Palestinian Authority to withdraw its support from a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate end to settlement activity, after convincing Israel to temporarily hold off on a handful of measures meant to further entrench its presence in the West Bank, four sources told The Times of Israel on Sunday.However, according to an Israeli official, those measures will not include holding off on advancing plans for some 10,000 new settlement homes deep in the West Bank, which will be brought before the Defense Ministry body responsible for authorizing such construction on Wednesday and Thursday.Instead, Israel has agreed to not authorize additional settlement homes for several months — something it was not intending to do anyway, as the Defense Ministry’s Civil Administration traditionally convenes once every three months, the Israeli official explained.Israel has also agreed to hold off on demolishing and evicting Palestinians from their homes in East Jerusalem and the West Bank for several months and consented to reduce military incursions into PA-controlled Area A of the West Bank during that time, two US and Palestinian officials said, confirming a report in the Walla news site.Ramallah, in turn, has agreed to withdraw its support for a Security Council resolution calling for an immediate halt to Israeli settlement activity, which was supposed to come to a vote on Monday. The US has instead agreed to back a symbolic, non-binding Presidential Statements from Security Council members to the same effect, which will also include a condemnation of terror attacks and violence inflicted on both sides, two senior UN diplomats said. It would be the first such statement on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in nine years.Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas also agreed to adopt a US plan to boost the PA’s security presence in the northern West Bank, where the IDF increasingly has been operating, sparking deadly clashes with Palestinians on a regular basis over the past several months.As part of the effort to bring Abbas on board, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told him that the US would invite him to meet with US President Joe Biden at the White House later this year, a Palestinian official said.Meanwhile, a US official and a Mideast diplomat told The Times of Israel last week that the Biden administration put on hold plans to extend a White House invitation to Netanyahu, given concerns over some of the hardline government’s early policy proposals, and that the US plans to wait and see how events unfold on the ground during Ramallah before re-addressing the issue.The commitments mark a modest breakthrough though, after the Biden administration’s month-long efforts to urge the Israelis and the Palestinians to take steps to lower tensions, particularly as the holy Muslim month of Ramadan approaches in late March.The US has been engaging intensively with Israeli and Palestinian leaders, given an uptick in violence that has taken the lives of 11 Israelis in terror attacks and nearly 50 Palestinians since the start of the year — most of them in clashes with soldiers, but some in less clear circumstances.While the US was thought to have been making progress in the effort to coax the sides to pause their controversial activities beyond the Green Line and in the UN after the visits of White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and Secretary of State Antony Blinken last month, things began to unravel when a Palestinian terrorist rammed his car into a bus stop in East Jerusalem killing three people, including 6- and 8-year-old brothers on February 10.Israel responded days later by approving the legalization of nine outposts — many of them on private Palestinian land — and green-lighting plans for some 10,000 settlement homes for advancement this week, in what would be the largest-ever package of projects ever approved in one sitting.The PA responded by pushing the UN Security Council to adopt a resolution condemning the decision. The UAE picked up the gauntlet and drafted a resolution calling for an immediate halt to settlement activity, putting the US in an uncomfortable position, as it too had spoken out aggressively against last Sunday’s decision by Israel.Despite principally supporting the decision, the Biden administration has long maintained that the UN is not the right forum for adjudicating the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.Blinken appeared to have made progress over the weekend following calls with Netanyahu and Abbas, in a last-ditch effort to bring the sides toward a compromise.The high-level engagement paid off on Sunday, with each side agreeing to come down temporarily from their initial plans.A Palestinian official clarified that the situation remained fluid and that Ramallah would “respond to any unilateral action by Israel.”The US official acknowledged that there was no set time period for how long the sides would agree to hold off on steps beyond the Green Line and at the UN, but they said that the administration would “continue to engage with Israeli and Palestinian leaders in order to maintain calm and keep prospects for a two-state solution alive.”

Temple Mount to be shut to Jews at Ramadan’s end, despite Ben Gvir dissent – report-Far-right national security minister said to fume at annual arrangement, which he has condemned in the past as capitulation to terror-By ToI Staff    19 February 2023, 11:27 pm

Despite combative rhetoric from firebrands in the government, Israel, as in previous years, is set to bar Jews from entering the Temple Mount holy site during the last 10 days of the Muslim month of Ramadan, according to a report Sunday.The Kan public broadcaster cited a stormy meeting held over the weekend regarding the Israeli policy, which has prohibited non-Muslims from entering the flashpoint Jerusalem location during the culmination of Ramadan, when Muslims traditionally sleep at the site that they revere as the Al Aqsa Mosque compound, or the Noble Sanctuary.With the current government widely viewed as the most right-wing in Israeli history, the report said the measure is facing staunch opposition from far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, a longtime proponent of changing the current status quo under which Jews are not allowed to pray at the Temple Mount and face numerous other restrictions on entry.Ben Gvir reportedly argued during the meeting that the previous big-tent government “closed the Temple Mount for fewer days than what you want” — nine versus 10. He also made clear he believes the site, the holiest place in Judaism, should not be off-limits to Jews at all.Last year, Ben Gvir and his far-right running mate Bezalel Smotrich — now the finance minister — slammed the government’s move as a “surrender to terror.”Nonetheless, the ban on Jewish entry during the last 10 days of Ramadan seems set to be applied this year too, the report said.The Muslim holy month has traditionally seen violence spike, in particular around the Temple Mound, where the situation has been especially volatile of late. The Mount is the holiest site for Jews, as the location of two biblical Temples, while the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Mount is the third holiest shrine in Islam, turning the area into a major flashpoint in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.Under an arrangement that has prevailed for decades, Jews and other non-Muslims are permitted to visit the Temple Mount during certain hours but may not pray there. In recent years, Jewish religious nationalists, including members of the new governing coalition, have increasingly visited the site and demanded equal prayer rights for Jews there, infuriating the Palestinians and Muslims around the world.In January, Ben Gvir paid a visit to the Temple Mount — his first since taking office in the new government — leading to furious condemnations from the Arab world. Jordan summoned Israel’s ambassador for a dressing down.Later in the month, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Jordanian King Abdullah II in Amman and discussed maintaining calm on the Temple Mount. According to media reports, Netanyahu promised Abdullah that the status quo on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem would be preserved.Further fueling tensions is Ben Gvir’s ongoing crackdown in East Jerusalem, which he ordered in response to recent terror attacks.Last week, Channel 13 reported that Shin Bet security service chief Ronen Bar had spoken to Ben Gvir and warnied him that the enforcement operations could provoke further violence.
Security sources told the channel that they see a spike in violence as a foregone conclusion, given that efforts to calm tensions in the capital have failed and noting the approach of Ramadan.

COUNTRIES WITH ISRAEL AND THE ENEMIES OF ISRAEL AND THE WEST

EZEKIEL 38:10-19
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say,(RUSSIA,ARAB,MUSLIMS) I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
13 Sheba, and Dedan,(SAUDIA ARABIA)(JORDAN) and the merchants of Tarshish,(ENGLAND) with all the young lions thereof,(USA,CANADA,AUSTRALIA,NEW ZEALAND,EU,ENGLAND,ENGLISH SPEAKING shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?
14 Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?
PSALMS 83:3-7 (COUNTRIES AGAINST ISRAEL)(EXCEPT JORDAN)
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
ISRAEL-WEST ENEMIES EZEK 38:4-6,15-19
4 And I (GOD) will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY) of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.(AFRICAN MUSLIMS,SUDAN,TUNESIA ETC)
15 And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts,(RUSSIA-ARAB/MUSLIMS) thou, and many people with thee,(AFRICAN ISLAMIC COUNTRIES) all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army:
16 And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
17 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them?
18 And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall come up in my face.
19 For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;
DANIEL 11:44 (CHINA WITH RUSSIA-MUSLIMS)
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)
EZEKIEL 39:1-6 ISRAELS ENEMIES DESTROYED
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back,(RUSSIA-ARAB MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS) and leave but the sixth part of thee,(5/6TH OR 300 MILLION DEAD RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS I BELIEVE) and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.

Iran said on cusp of ability to make nukes, having enriched uranium to 84% purity-Report says inspectors from UN atomic agency made discovery last week, are probing if move was intentional; Tehran previously known to have enriched to 60%-By ToI Staff and Agencies    19 February 2023, 10:44 pm

Inspectors from the UN atomic agency discovered uranium enriched to 84-percent purity in Iran last week, closer than ever to weapons-grade levels, Bloomberg reported Sunday, citing two unnamed senior diplomats.Iran has been known thus far to have enriched uranium to 60%. A purity of 90% is needed to produce nuclear weapons.International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors are trying to determine whether Tehran deliberately made the move or if it was an “unintended accumulation within the network of pipes connecting the hundreds of fast-spinning centrifuges used to separate the isotopes,” the report said.One diplomat said that Iran had not submitted the necessary paperwork to declare its intention of raising enrichment levels at two nuclear facilities in Natanz and Fordo.The other diplomat noted that even if the material built up accidentally, as has happened in the past, it shows the problems associated with Iran’s activities in producing highly enriched uranium.The IAEA said in a tweet that it was “aware of recent media reports relating to uranium enrichment levels in Iran.”Director-General Rafael Grossi noted that the agency was in talks with Iran regarding the results of recent inspections, the tweet added. The IAEA is aware of recent media reports relating to uranium enrichment levels in Iran. Director General @rafaelmgrossi states that the IAEA is discussing with Iran the results of recent Agency verification activities and will inform the IAEA Board of Governors as appropriate. pic.twitter.com/4Aqdq01Xr5 — IAEA – International Atomic Energy Agency ⚛️ (@iaeaorg) February 19, 2023-The report did not say where the highly enriched material was found.It came after last month’s unannounced inspection at the Fordo nuclear site, which found two advanced centrifuges connected in a way that the Iranians had not declared to inspectors. Iran said it provided “explanations” to the inspector who reported the change and that he then “realized his mistake.”In a joint response at the time, the United States, France, the United Kingdom, and Germany dismissed Iran’s claim as “inadequate.”On March 6, the IAEA will present its quarterly safeguards report on Iran to its board of directors when they meet in Vienna.In January, Grossi told European Parliament lawmakers Iran had “amassed enough nuclear material for several nuclear weapons — not one at this point.”Speaking about Iran’s recent atomic activities, including enriching uranium well beyond the limits of the landmark 2015 deal to curb its nuclear capabilities — Grossi said Tehran’s trajectory “is certainly not a good one.”The deal with world powers, known as the JCPOA, collapsed after the United States withdrew from it in 2018 under then-president Donald Trump. The JCPOA gave Iran sanctions relief in return for the curbs and inspections of its nuclear facilities. After Washington withdrew, claiming the deal did not go far enough in preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, the Iranians dropped many of their own commitments to the pact and ramped up uranium enrichment. The deal had set a maximum enrichment threshold of 3.67%.Negotiations that started in April 2021 to revive the agreement have since stalled.Iran said in November it had begun producing uranium enriched to 60% at Fordo, an underground facility that reopened three years ago after the breakdown of the JCPOA.

US says China mulling exporting weapons to Russia for Ukraine war-Secretary of State Blinken says Beijing supplying Moscow with arms would ’cause a serious problem’ with consequences-By AFP-19 February 2023, 6:52 pm

WASHINGTON — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday that China was considering providing weapons to Russia in its war against Ukraine, warning Beijing that any supplies would “cause a serious problem.”“The concern that we have now is based on information we have that they’re considering providing lethal support,” Blinken told CBS’s “Face The Nation.”Asked what lethal support would entail, he said “everything from ammunition to the weapons themselves.”Blinken made similar comments in a series of interviews with American television from Germany, where on Saturday he attended the Munich Security Conference and met with his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi.He told Wang then that “if China provides material support to Russia or assistance with systemic sanctions evasion,” there will be consequences, a State Department official said.Strained ties-Taken together, the US comments appeared to be among the clearest warnings yet that China might be poised to go beyond rhetorical, political, or diplomatic support for Russia and be ready to help arm it in its nearly year-old fight against Ukraine.They also came at a time when already strained US-Chinese relations have been further tested by Washington’s shooting down of what it said was a large Chinese spy balloon.Appearing Sunday on ABC, Blinken emphasized that US President Joe Biden had warned his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, as long ago as last March against sending weapons to Russia.Since that time, “China has been careful not to cross that line, including by holding off on selling lethal weapons systems for use on the battlefield,” according to an administration source familiar with the issue.A top Republican senator who also attended the Munich conference, Lindsey Graham, said it would be a serious mistake for China to provide Russia with weapons.Doing so now, he said, would be “dumber than dirt. It would be like buying a ticket on the Titanic after you saw the movie.”‘No apology’Graham, known as a well-informed foreign policy hawk, also said he had strong indications that the US will soon announce plans to train Ukrainian fighter pilots, which would represent a further step in the West’s gradually escalating efforts to arm Ukraine.Graham said he believed the US should declare Russia a state sponsor of terror for its actions in Ukraine — which would mean that China or any other country supplying it with arms would face sanctions.Blinken’s meeting with Wang — the highest-level encounter between the countries since US jets shot down the Chinese balloon on February 4 — did not appear to ease tensions.“I told him quite simply that that was unacceptable and can never happen again,” Blinken told CBS about the balloon incident.Wang on Saturday dismissed the US allegations of high-altitude spying in uncharacteristically strong language, calling them “hysterical and absurd.”Blinken said Sunday that his counterpart had offered him “no apology.”The tough-sounding exchanges came a day after US Vice President Kamala Harris said in Munich that Russia had committed “crimes against humanity” in Ukraine through “widespread and systemic” attacks on the country’s civilian population.

Russia condemns Israeli strike on Syria as ‘flagrant violation’ of international law-Moscow urges Jerusalem to ‘refrain from steps that are fraught with dangerous consequences for the entire region,’ after attack on Damascus leaves 5 dead-By Emanuel Fabian-19 February 2023, 6:13 pm

Russia on Sunday condemned an airstrike blamed on Israel that killed five people and injured 15 in Syria’s capital Damascus the previous night.Moscow, a key backer of the Syrian regime in the over decade-long civil war, called the Saturday night attack on the Kafar Sousah neighborhood in Damascus a “flagrant violation” of international law.Israel’s need to coordinate with Russia — which largely controls Syrian airspace — to carry out strikes has been cited as a chief reason for Jerusalem’s reluctance to supply Kyiv with weaponry amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Israel has found itself at odds with Russia as it increasingly supported Ukraine while seeking to maintain freedom of movement in Syria’s skies.“We strongly urge the Israeli side to stop armed provocations against the Syrian Arab Republic and refrain from steps that are fraught with dangerous consequences for the entire region,” Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said, according to Reuters.There was no comment from the Israel Defense Forces, in line with its policy of not generally commenting on air raids in Syria. Israeli officials have previously said the IDF does not target civilians and seeks to avoid damage to residential areas as much as possible.Syria’s state news agency SANA reported that the strike in Kafar Sousah killed four civilians and one soldier, and wounded another 15 civilians. It said several of those wounded were listed in critical condition.The airstrike also inflicted heavy damage on a number of residential buildings in Kafar Sousah, SANA said. According to Reuters, the targeted area was near a large and heavily guarded security complex and close to Iranian installations.Imad Mughniyeh, a notorious Hezbollah terror chief, was allegedly assassinated by Israel in a 2008 bombing in Kafar Sousah, close to where Saturday night’s strike took place.Orient News, a Syrian opposition media outlet, claimed the strikes targeted Iranian militia officials at the so-called Iranian school in Kafar Sousah.Separately, the Israeli jets targeted Iranian and Syrian regime military sites near Damascus International Airport, as well as in Sitt Zaynab and al-Kiswah, a town and a city just south of the capital, Orient News said.The outlet also claimed the damage to the residential buildings in Kafar Sousah was caused by a misfired Syrian anti-aircraft missile, not an Israeli strike.SANA claimed Syrian air defenses managed to intercept “most” of the missiles launched by IAF jets from over the Golan Heights in the strike. Syria regularly claims to intercept Israeli missiles, though military analysts doubt such assertions. If this geolocation is accurate, the #Damascus strike was almost exactly where Imad Mughniyeh was killed in 2008. Barely 100 metres to the west #Syria https://t.co/YKXA0oivJ9 pic.twitter.com/QZNbSIfk6L — Alex Rowell (@alexjrowell) February 19, 2023-Though Israel’s military does not comment on specific strikes in Syria, it has acknowledged conducting hundreds of sorties against Iran-backed groups attempting to gain a foothold in the country over the last decade.The IDF says it also attacks arms shipments believed to be bound for those groups, chief among them Lebanon’s Hezbollah terror organization. Additionally, airstrikes attributed to Israel have repeatedly targeted Syrian air defense systems.Last week, the Saudi-owned Elaph news site cited an Israeli military official as saying if Iran shipped weapons to its regional proxies under the guise of humanitarian aid to Syria following the major earthquake there, the IDF would not hesitate to strike.The unnamed official said “there is information indicating that Iran will take advantage of the tragic situation in Syria” and ship weapons to Hezbollah and other Iran-backed groups in Syria.Several Iranian cargo planes carrying aid have landed in Syria since a major earthquake struck the country and areas in southeast Turkey on February 6.In recent years, several airstrikes against alleged Iranian weapon shipments disguised as seemingly harmless products have been attributed to Israel, including one incident last month.Generally, relatively large weapons are thought to be smuggled via Syria on Iranian cargo airlines, which frequently land at Damascus International and the Tiyas, or T-4, airbase, outside of the central Syrian city of Palmyra.The weaponry is then believed to be stored in warehouses in the area before being transported to Lebanon.Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.

With its envoy booted, Israel avoids African Union summit closing ceremony-Sharon Bar-li was escorted out of regional assembly on Saturday, apparently at behest of South Africa and Algeria, as Israel’s status continues to split 55-member bloc-By Lazar Berman-19 February 2023, 6:01 pm

After its observer delegation was kicked out of the African Union summit opening ceremony in Addis Ababa on Saturday, Israel will stay away from the closing ceremony Sunday evening, an Israeli diplomatic official told The Times of Israel.Also Sunday, South Africa’s governing African National Congress party welcomed the “encouraging” expulsion of Sharon Bar-li, Israel’s Foreign Ministry deputy director general for Africa.Israel blamed the incident on Algeria and South Africa, and will summon the latter country’s charge d’affaires to the Foreign Ministry for a reprimand from Director General Ronen Levy. However, the African Union said Sunday that Israel’s observer status at the bloc had been suspended pending a discussion on its continued role as observer, and therefore it had not been invited to the weekend summit.Vincent Magwenya, spokesman for South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, who was present at the summit, demanded that Israel “substantiate their claim.”The ANC said her removal was aimed at “thwarting an attempt to undermine the current sitting AU Summit from considering a report that is supposed to guide discussions on whether Israel must be granted an observer status.”Last week, Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra flew to South Africa to coordinate ahead of the summit, according to Algerian outlets.Israeli sources said the countries were discussing ways to boot Israel, as well as their support for Western Sahara’s Polisario Front, which is fighting for Sahrawi independence from Morocco.The issue of Israel’s observer status has caused deep discord in the 55-member bloc.
Israel was granted observer status in 2021, but at last year’s summit, a debate on the issue was suspended in a bid to avoid a vote that would create an unprecedented rift in the Union. The AU chairman created a six-country committee to examine the issue.Israel and its allies in the organization say that its observer status was never rescinded, but its foes, backed by AU Commission chief Moussa Faki Mahamat, argue that it is suspended until the committee comes back with a recommendation.“That means that the status is suspended until such time as this committee can deliberate… and so we did not invite Israeli officials to our summit,” Faki told reporters on Sunday, adding that an investigation was being conducted-The spokesperson for the chairman of the AU Commission Ebba Kalondo also said the expelled Israeli diplomat had not been personally invited to the summit.An Israeli diplomatic spokesperson insisted Bar-li had “valid accreditation as an observer,” accusing the AU of being “hostage to a small number of extremist states like Algeria and South Africa, motivated by hatred and controlled by Iran.”Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lior Hayat said, “Israel views seriously the incident in which the deputy for Africa, Ambassador Sharon Bar-li, was removed from the African Union hall despite her status as an accredited observer with access badges.”“There is no basis in the organization’s rules for the attempt to cancel Israel’s observer status,” the Foreign Ministry said. “There is a clear majority that supports Israel’s observer status at the organization.”AFP contributed to this report.

Bills to ban hametz, expand powers of rabbinic courts breeze through committee-AG comes out against proposal criminalizing bringing leavened goods into hospitals during Passover; groups representing ‘chained’ women oppose letting rabbis adjudicate civil cases
By Judah Ari Gross-19 February 2023, 4:30 pm

Two contentious religion-and-state bills were approved by the Ministerial Committee for Legislation on Sunday, one forbidding bringing leavened goods into public hospitals during the Passover holiday and another expanding the powers of rabbinic courts.Both government-sponsored bills have met fierce resistance, including from some religious groups, seeing them as likely to antagonize Israelis against Judaism.The bill banning the entrance of leavened goods, or hametz, during Passover was also opposed by the Attorney General’s Office, which found that in its current form the legislation goes too far and would be difficult to defend in court.With their approval by the committee, the two bills will proceed to the Knesset, where they are likely to pass, though they could still undergo slight changes.Tying the bills to the government’s planned judicial overhaul, MK Moshe Gafni, of the Ashkenazi ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism, who was behind both bills, said they were necessary to combat rulings by the High Court of Justice, which prevented hospitals from forbidding people from bringing in leavened goods during Passover and prevented state-run rabbinic courts from adjudicating civil disputes, respectively.“This is further proof of where the Supreme Court has come in intervening in issues that are not under its purview. Today, we are fixing that with legislation that will be brought to a vote later this week in the plenary of the Knesset,” Gafni said.Opposition MKs lambasted the bills, calling them “religious coercion” and “pure provocation.”“The hametz law and the law expanding the authorities of the rabbinic courts that were approved by the Ministerial Committee for Legislation today are just the start of the wave of unprecedented religious coercion,” said Labor MK and Reform Rabbi Gilad Kariv.He too tied this legislation to the government’s planned judicial overhaul, saying that more changes to religion-and-state would come “once the legal advisers and courts are dramatically weakened.”Yisrael Beytenu MK Yulia Malinovsky said the hametz bill was unnecessary and counterproductive, calling it “a finger in the eye and pure provocation.”“Just like there’s no law against driving on Yom Kippur, but people still respect it and don’t drive on that day, so too with hametz. Now people will purposefully try to bring in and sneak in hametz to hospitals,” she said.For years, hospitals and other public institutions banned hametz during the week-long Passover holiday — when Jews traditionally refrain from eating leavened goods — with some even instructing guards to search people’s bags for forbidden foods at the doors. But in 2020, the High Court of Justice declared that hospitals could not conduct such invasive searches — after years of pushing the government to find some compromise or pass some legislation on the issue — and last year the court issued a similar ruling regarding army bases.The legislation approved by the committee Sunday — proposed by Gafni, as well as fellow UTJ members Yaakov Asher and Yitzhak Pindrus — would not only permit public hospitals to ban hametz, but would require them to do so.“During the period of Passover, no hametz or other food — other than that which is in line with the directives set by the Chief Rabbinate of Israel — will be allowed in or held in a medical facility,” the bill reads.In an opinion, two legal advisers from the Attorney General’s Office warned that the bill “as it is written today raises significant legal difficulties,” as it would not only ban leavened foods but all foods, save for fresh produce and packaged foods marked “kosher for Passover,” which would infringe on the rights of patients and their guests — and, because it would force hospital security guards to do something they were not hired to do, infringing on their rights as well.The legal advisers recommend further consideration “to find alternative solutions that would fulfill the underlying goals of the bill but without the state unnecessarily infringing on [civil] rights.”For example, they suggested limiting the law to only apply to leavened goods like bread as opposed to all food, or leaving the legislation more ambiguous to allow the hospitals and the Chief Rabbinate to determine how to proceed on a case-by-case basis.Ne’emanei Torah Va’Avodah, a liberal Orthodox group, decried the bill, as well as the decision to bring it for a vote during a particularly strained period when there are deep divisions within the population over the government’s proposed judicial overhaul.“The decision to specifically bring the hametz law to the Ministerial Committee for Legislation now, instead of lowering the flames, is not expected to add any honor to the coming Passover holiday but will instead increase the fighting,” the group wrote.“There are a number of solutions that do not require peeking around in people’s personal bags, as was done in different hospitals in the past. Laws like this that impose religion and get into people’s personal lives never bring people closer to Judaism and they are ultimately a boomerang that weakens the Judaism of the state,” it said.Opposition MK Matan Kahana, a former religious services minister, has ridiculed the bill, saying it will almost surely have the opposite effect, with people intentionally bringing in leavened products as a challenge to the law.“If you want to ensure that people will bring hametz into hospitals, please accept Gafni’s request,” Kahana wrote in a tweet when the law was first proposed.The second bill approved by the committee would expand the powers of state-run rabbinic courts, giving them the authority to again hear civil cases.Until 2006, state-run rabbinic courts could hear such cases — disputes between workers and employees, between businesses, or between landlords and renters, for instance — but the High Court found that the rabbinic judges did not have legal authority to do so and they were stripped of that power. Currently, rabbinic judges are limited to overseeing marriage and divorce proceedings for all Jewish Israelis, as well as certain issues dealing with conversions, and occasionally with wills and inheritances. Private rabbinic courts could still hear civil cases if both parties agreed.The bill that was supported by the Shas party, though officially put forward by Gafni, would restore the power of state-run rabbinic courts to adjudicate civil matters, provided both sides agree.The proposal has greater support than the hametz law, including from the opposition, but faces significant criticism from religious pluralism groups and organizations that represent so-called “chained” women, whose husbands refuse to grant them a religious divorce, also known as a get, and are thus left unable to remarry or otherwise move on with their lives.In a joint letter, nine religious advocacy groups — ITIM, Mavoi Satum, Center for Women’s Justice, the Masorti Movement, Ne’emanei Torah Va’Avodah, Chupot, Kolech, the Schechter Institute’s Center for Women in Jewish Law, and Bar Ilan University’s Rackman Center for the Advancement of the Status of Women — came out strongly against the proposal, warning that the rabbinic courts are undemocratic and that there is no way to ensure that both sides had truly agreed to having rabbinic judges rule on a case.“There is concern that in many cases, the weaker of the parties, particularly women, will be forced to agree to arbitration,” they wrote.In their letter, addressed to the Ministerial Committee for Legislation, the organizations noted that currently only men can serve as rabbinic judges and that they are not committed to modern concepts of justice and fairness.“Please recall that Torah law as it is implemented by state-run rabbinic courts today is discriminatory against and problematic for women and others,” they wrote.This is particularly true in the case of divorce, where a husband must agree to give a religious divorce or else his wife will never be able to remarry, whereas a man can be given special dispensation to remarry even if his wife refuses to accept a divorce.In light of this power disparity, men can use the threat of withholding a religious divorce to extort better divorce conditions, such as not having to pay alimony or child support or forcing women to give up their rights to shared property. This kind of maneuvering is far more difficult to do in civil courts than in religious ones.“We can say almost certainly that expanding the powers of rabbinic courts will put yet another powerful weapon in the hands of husbands, who will have support from rabbinic courts to demand their case be arbitrated according to Torah law as a reasonable and even desirable condition for divorce,” the organizations wrote.

Netanyahu says Ben Gvir to chair task force on Palestinian incitement to terror-Following deadly attacks in Jerusalem, PM says he and police minister have agreed to form a panel ‘to fight against those inciting acts of murder against us’By ToI Staff-19 February 2023, 3:19 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday announced plans to form a “special task force” to combat Palestinian incitement to terror, following several recent deadly terror attacks in Jerusalem.Speaking at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting, Netanyahu said he’d agreed on the formation of the panel over the weekend with National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, who will chair the task force.“We are working with double the vigor against incitement,” Netanyahu said, adding the body will “fight against those inciting murderous acts against us.”Netanyahu said Ben Gvir “will receive reinforcements of investigators, police officers and prosecutors,” with the work to be coordinated with the Shin Bet security agency, the military and the National Cyber Directorate.The premier did not specify when the task force would be formally set up and begin its work.Ben Gvir, whose ministry is in charge of police, put out a tweet confirming he will lead the panel, without offering further details. Ben Gvir has been convicted in the past of incitement against Arabs.The announcement came as Ben Gvir, whose ministry is in charge of police, has pushed for a crackdown in East Jerusalem as a response to terror attacks in the capital over the past month, which have claimed eleven lives.Members of his ultranationalist Otzma Yehudit party have joined in the calls for harsher measures, with one lawmaker on Thursday urging a total ban on the TikTok application in East Jerusalem for allegedly fueling incitement to terror.However, the calls to ramp up operations have been resisted by security brass, including Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai, who has been wrangling with Ben Gvir regarding the extent of the minister’s powers over the force.In a television interview Saturday, Shabtai insisted the current operations in East Jerusalem “surgically” target suspects and that police were not interested in collective punishment.“There are more than a few warnings of attacks. In recent weeks we’ve seen a tangible increase in the number of warnings. Our concern is the unknown — lone-wolf attackers. I wouldn’t call the situation now an intifada, but there is an escalation,” Shabtai told Channel 12 news.Last week, Channel 13 reported that Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar had warned Ben Gvir the ongoing crackdown was likely to incite further violence.“Your activity is creating a feeling of collective harassment. This is agitating [East] Jerusalem and may cause a broad flare-up at this sensitive time,” Bar told Ben Gvir, according to the report Wednesday.Ben Gvir reportedly dismissed Bar’s warnings and retorted that the methods Bar has used in the past had not brought security.Measures taken so far by Ben Gvir have disrupted the lives of some 10,000 East Jerusalem residents, with 100 Palestinians arrested or detained by police, the report said. In addition, 500 parking tickets or traffic citations have been handed out and seven illegally constructed buildings destroyed. Ben Gvir had wanted to raze more but he was held back by Netanyahu, it said.In response to the crackdown, Palestinian activists in East Jerusalem called for a general strike and civil disobedience on Sunday.

North Korea tests ICBM, warns US and South Korea of more powerful steps-Pyongyang says launch of Hwasong-15 missile demonstrates country’s efforts to ‘turn its capacity of fatal nuclear counterattack on hostile forces’By Hyung-Jin Kim-19 February 2023, 2:02 pm

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Sunday its latest intercontinental ballistic missile test was meant to further bolster its “fatal” nuclear attack capacity against its rivals, as it threatened additional powerful steps in response to the upcoming military training between the United States and South Korea.The United States responded by flying long-range supersonic bombers later Sunday for a joint exercise with South Korean warplanes in a demonstration of strength against North Korea.Saturday’s ICBM test, the North’s first missile test since January 1, signals its leader Kim Jong Un is using his rivals’ drills as a chance to expand his country’s nuclear arsenal to get the upper hand in future dealings with the United States. An expert says North Korea may seek to hold regular operational exercises involving its ICBMs.North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency said its launch of the Hwasong-15 ICBM was organized “suddenly” without prior notice at Kim’s direct order.KCNA said the launch was designed to verify the weapon’s reliability and the combat readiness of the country’s nuclear force. It said the missile was fired at a high angle and reached a maximum altitude of about 5,770 kilometers (3,585 miles), flying a distance of about 990 kilometers (615 miles) for 67 minutes before accurately hitting a pre-set area in the waters between the Korean Peninsula and Japan.The steep-angle launch was apparently to avoid neighboring countries. The flight details reported by North Korea, which roughly matched the launch information previously assessed by its neighbors, show the weapon is theoretically capable of reaching the mainland US if fired at a standard trajectory.The Hwasong-15 launch demonstrated the North’s “powerful physical nuclear deterrent” and its efforts to “turn its capacity of fatal nuclear counterattack on the hostile forces” into an extremely strong one that cannot be countered, KCNA said.Whether North Korea has a functioning nuclear-tipped ICBM is still a source of outside debate, as some experts say the North hasn’t mastered a way to protect warheads from the severe conditions of atmospheric reentry. The North says it has acquired such a technology.The Hwasong-15 is one of North Korea’s three existing ICBMs, all of which use liquid propellants that require pre-launch injections and cannot remain fueled for extended periods. The North is pushing to build a solid-fueled ICBM, which would be more mobile and harder to detect before its launch.“Kim Jong Un has likely determined that the technical reliability of the country’s liquid propellant ICBM force has been sufficiently tested and evaluated to now allow for regular operational exercises of this kind,” said Ankit Panda, an expert with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.Chang Young-keun, a missile expert at Korea Aerospace University in South Korea, said that North Korea appeared to have launched an upgraded version of the Hwasong-15 ICBM. Chang said the information provided by North Korea showed the missile will likely have a longer potential range than the standard Hwasong-15.Later Sunday, the US sent B-1B bombers streaking over the Korean Peninsula to train with South Korean and US fighter jets, according to South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff. It said Sunday’s training reaffirmed Washington’s “iron-clad” security commitment to South Korea.North Korea is sensitive to the deployment of US B-1B bombers, which are capable of carrying a huge payload of conventional weapons.The North’s launch came a day after it vowed an “unprecedentedly” strong response over a series of military drills that Seoul and Washington plan in coming weeks.In a statement Sunday, Kim Yo Jong, the influential sister of Kim Jong Un, accused South Korea and the US of “openly showing their dangerous greed and attempt to gain the military upper hand and predominant position in the Korean Peninsula.”“I warn that we will watch every movement of the enemy and take corresponding and very powerful and overwhelming counteraction against its every move hostile to us,” she said.North Korea has steadfastly slammed regular South Korea-US military drills as an invasion rehearsal though the allies say their exercises are defensive in nature.“By now, we know that any action taken by the US and South Korea — however justified from the vantage point of defense and deterrence against (North Korea’s) reckless behavior — will be construed and protested as an act of hostility by North Korea,” said Soo Kim, a security analyst at the California-based RAND Corporation. “There will always be fodder for (Kim Jong Un’s) weapons provocations.”“With nuclear weapons in tow and having mastered the art of coercion and bullying, Kim does not need ‘self-defense.’ But pitting the US and South Korea as the aggressors allows Kim to justify his weapons development,” Soo Kim said.US National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson said the US will take all necessary measures to ensure the security of the American homeland and South Korea and Japan. South Korea’s presidential National Security Council said it will seek to strengthen its “overwhelming response capacity” against potential North Korean aggression based on the military alliance with the United States.The South Korean and US militaries plan to hold a table-top exercise this week to hone a joint response to a potential use of nuclear weapons by North Korea. The allies are also to conduct another joint computer simulated exercise and field training in March.The foreign ministers of South Korea and Japan, meeting on the sidelines of a security conference in Germany on Saturday, agreed to boost a trilateral cooperation involving the United States and exchanged in-depth views on the issue of Japan’s colonial-era mobilization of forced Korean laborers — a key sticking point in efforts to improve their ties, according to Seoul’s Foreign Ministry.South Korea and Japan are both key US allies but often spat over issues stemming from Tokyo’s 1910-45 colonial occupation of the Korean Peninsula. But North Korea’s recent missile testing spree is pushing the two countries to explore how to reinforce their security cooperation.

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.

REVELATION 11:11-14
11 And after three days and an half the spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.
12 And they(ELIJSH-MOSES) heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither.(REV 4:1 WE KNOW IS THE RAPTURE FOR SURE) And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.(RAPTURED)
13 And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.
14 The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly.

REVELATION 16:18-20
18 And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.
19 And the great city (JERUSALEM) was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
20 And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.

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.

Quake death toll in Turkey and Syria rises to almost 47,000-Posted : 2023-02-20 14:09

The number killed in Turkey by the February 6 earthquake rose to 41,020 late on Sunday, the Anadolu news agency reported on the basis of information from the country's AFAD disaster authority.The new figure pushed the total death toll to 47,000, including the 5,900 reported in Syria. The Syrian figures are, however, not being updated as frequently as the Turkish.Search and rescue operations in the region along the Turkey-Syria border region have almost all ended, as rescuers move on to retrieve bodies from under the rubble.Missions to recover people alive have officially ended in nine quake-hit provinces, except Kahramanmara? and Hatay, the head of the disaster authority AFAD, Yunus Sezer, told reporters in Ankara on Sunday.According to the United Nations, 8.8 million people have been affected by the disaster in Syria."[The] majority [is] anticipated to need some form of humanitarian assistance," U.N. Deputy Syria Representative Najat Rochdi wrote on Twitter on Sunday. "The U.N. is fully committed to doing more to help all Syrians," she said.Activists and aid workers in rebel-held areas in north-western Syria have complained of a lack of U.N. assistance in the days following the February 6 quakes.So far, more than 140 trucks carrying U.N. aid have travelled from Turkey to rebel-held north-western Syria since the disaster, where more than 9,000 buildings were completely or partially destroyed, causing at least 11,000 people to lose their homes.According to the U.N., the most urgent needs of those affected now include shelter such as tents.Some 600 schools have been destroyed in Syria, Yasmine Sherif, director of the Education Cannot Wait (ECW) U.N. fund, told Al-Jazeera. The fund is distributing $7 million in emergency aid.The first 7.7-magnitude quake struck Turkey and Syria in the early hours of February 6; another large tremor hit at noon that day and there have been more than 6,000 aftershocks, disaster authority AFAD said.The devastating earthquake destroyed or damaged around 105,000 buildings and left tens of thousands homeless in south-eastern Turkey.More than 1.2 million people are believed to have been evacuated from the south-eastern Turkey disaster zone. Over 1 million locals are currently living out of temporary shelters in quake-hit provinces, according to AFAD.To help victims, the Turkish government called on property owners to provide housing for the earthquake victims and for those who don't own property to donate money.Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Turkey's southern Adana province on Sunday for his 2-day visit, state broadcaster TRT reported.In his first ever visit to Turkey as secretary of state, Blinken met quake victims and held talks with Turkish officials over U.S.?quake aid and the proposed NATO expansion to include Sweden and Finland, among other topics.The U.S. State Department simultaneously announced an increase in U.S. aid to $185 million. (DPA)

Earthquake sends tremors through Turkey’s already fragile economy-On top of existing pledges, President Erdogan will be forced to find up to $84 billion ahead of May 14 election to finance rebuilding of 11 provinces flattened by quake-By AFP-19 February 2023, 9:00 am

ISTANBUL — Turkey was already battling runaway inflation and relying on rich allies for funding to keep its economy afloat when a massive earthquake killed tens of thousands, razed entire cities and left millions needing urgent help.Now, it must pour billions of dollars into rebuilding 11 southeastern provinces flattened by the February 6 tremor — the worst disaster of its post-Ottoman history.That money will have to come on top of the billions of dollars in election promises that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has made in the run-up to crucial polls still tentatively planned for May 14.All this cash could turbo-charge consumer spending and industrial production — two key indicators of economic growth.The problem for Erdogan, however, is that Turkey is very short on funds.The central bank’s vanishing coffers have been replenished by assistance from Russia and oil-rich Gulf states, which has helped Turkey spend tens of billions of dollars propping up the lira in the past few years.But economists believe that money is only sufficient to keep Turkey’s finances in order — and the troubled lira from collapsing — until the May polls.Now, Erdogan must repair some $84.1 billion in quake damage, according to an estimate from a prominent business group.Other experts’ estimates are more conservative, putting the total closer to $10 billion. Reconstruction boost-With elections in mind, Erdogan has already promised to provide new homes to the millions affected within a year.Should he find the cash, leaning heavily again on foreign donors, Erdogan will need to allocate much of it to the construction sector to rebuild parts of Turkey from the ground up.Although contractors are now being blamed for following lax standards that allowed so many buildings to crumble, Erdogan relied on the sector to modernize much of the country with airports, roads and hospitals.“The boost to output from reconstruction activities may largely offset the negative impact of the disruption to economic activity,” the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) said.For the overall economy, at least, there are glimmers of hope.The area affected is one of Turkey’s least developed, contributing only nine percent to gross domestic product (GDP).But Turkey’s agricultural production could take a hit.Unay Tamgac, associate professor of economics at Ankara’s TOBB ETU University, said the region creates 14.3% of Turkey’s total agriculture, fishing and forestry output.The region is a global exporter of food such as apricots, she added, warning there could be a knock-on effect on prices.The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation has warned of disruptions to basic food production in Turkey and Syria.Better than 1999? The quake also damaged energy facilities, infrastructure, transportation, irrigation and logistics, added Tamgac.Some look back to history for guidance.Residents support a woman in front of a destroyed building in Duzce, the epicenter of the 12 November 1999 earthquake, measuring 7.2 on the open-ended Richter scale, that shook northwestern Turkey, killing at least 452 people and injuring another 2,300. (Manoocher Deghati/AFP)-Mahmoud Mohieldin, an executive director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), said the 7.8-magnitude tremor could hurt the economy less than a 7.6-magnitude quake in 1999, which claimed more than 17,000 lives.An IMF spokesperson later said Mohieldin was speaking in a private capacity and not representing the fund’s official view.The Turkish economy weakened by around 0.5 to 1.0% of GDP in 1999. But that tremor hit the country’s industrial heartland — including economic powerhouse Istanbul.The economy quickly rebounded, however, growing by 1.5% of GDP in 2000 thanks to reconstruction efforts, the EBRD said.Last week’s quake also “did not affect areas farther west favored by foreign tourists, who have become one of Turkey’s most important sources of foreign exchange,” Wolfango Piccoli, an analyst at Teneo consultancy, said in a note.Headwinds-The focus, then, is where Erdogan will get the cash to spend on rebuilding.“It’s clear there will be a need for foreign currency,” said Baki Demirel, associate professor of economy at Yalova University, since Turkey will now import more.Turkey’s sovereign debt levels are relatively low, meaning the government has some leeway to issue long-term debt.On the downside, foreign investors have shunned Turkey because of Erdogan’s unorthodox economic views, which include an ill-fated attempt to fight inflation by slashing interest rates.When the quake hit, Turkey’s annual inflation rate had slowed from a two-decade high of 85% last year to 58%.With all the headwinds, economists agree the economy will stall in the coming year.“Despite the uncertainty and different factors at play, such as global economic conditions and internal political expectations, the Turkish economy is likely to stagnate or grow below its natural rate,” economist Murat Kubilay wrote in a note online.

How Dangerous Was the Ohio Chemical Train Derailment? By The Conversation-Updated Feb 19, 2023 at 7:58pm

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Several cars that contained hazardous chemicals burned after the February 3, 2023, derailment.Headaches and lingering chemical smells from a fiery train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, have left residents worried about their air and water – and misinformation on social media hasn’t helped.State officials offered more details of the cleanup process and a timeline of the environmental disaster during a news conference on Feb. 14, 2023. Nearly a dozen cars carrying chemicals, including vinyl chloride, a carcinogen, derailed on the evening of Feb. 3, and fire from the site sent up acrid black smoke. Officials said they had tested over 400 nearby homes for contamination and were tracking a plume of spilled chemicals that had killed 3,500 fish in streams and reached the Ohio River.However, the slow release of information after the derailment has left many questions unanswered about the risks and longer-term impact. We put five questions about the chemical releases to Andrew Whelton, an environmental engineer who investigates chemical risks during disasters.Let’s start with what was in the train cars. What are the most concerning chemicals for human health and the environment long term, and what’s known so far about the impact? The main concerns now are the contamination of homes, soil and water, primarily from volatile organic compounds and semivolatile organic compounds, known as VOCs and SVOCs.The train had nearly a dozen cars with vinyl chloride and other materials, such as ethylhexyl acrylate and butyl acrylate. These chemicals have varying levels of toxicity and different fates in soil and groundwater. Officials have detected some of those chemicals in the nearby waterway and particulate matter in the air from the fire. But so far, the fate of many of the chemicals is not known. A variety of other materials were also released, but discussion about those chemicals has been limited.State officials disclosed that a plume of contamination released into the nearby creek had made its way into the Ohio River. Other cities get their drinking water from the river, and were warned about the risk. The farther this plume moves downstream, the less concentrated the chemical will be in water, posing less of a risk.Ohio train derailment prompts evacuations, uncertainty On Feb. 3, a train operated by Norfolk Southern derailed in East Palestine, Ohio. Ten of the cars carried hazardous materials, according to the rail operator. "This town was nuked by chemicals. And it was all to get the railroad going," says Sil Caggiano, a hazardous materials specialist.Long term, the greatest risk is closest to the derailment location. And again, there’s limited information about what chemicals are present – or were created through chemical reactions during the fire.It isn’t clear yet how much went into storm drains, was flushed down the streams or may have settled to the bottom of waterways.There was also a lot of combusted particulate matter. The black smoke is a clear indication. It’s unclear how much was diluted in the air or fell to the ground.How long can these chemicals linger in soil and water, and what’s their potential long-term risk to humans and wildlife? The heavier the chemical, often the slower it degrades and the more likely it is to stick to soil. These compounds can remain for years if left unaddressed.After the Kalamazoo River oil pipeline break in Michigan in 2010, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency excavated a tributary where the oil settled. We’ve also seen from oil spills on the coasts of Alaska and Alabama that oil chemicals can find their way into soil if it isn’t remediated.The long-term impact in Ohio will depend in part on how fast – and thoroughly – cleanup occurs.If the heavily contaminated soils and liquids are excavated and removed, the long-term impacts can be reduced. But the longer removal takes, the farther the contamination can spread. It’s in everyone’s best interest to clean this up as soon as possible and before the region gets rain.Booms in a nearby stream have been deployed to capture chemicals. Air-stripping devices have been deployed to remove chemicals from the waterways. Air stripping causes the light chemicals to leave the water and enter air. This is a common treatment technique and was used after an 2015 oil spill in the Yellowstone River near Glendive, Montana.At the derailment site in Ohio, workers are already removing contaminated soil as deep as 7 feet (about 2 meters) near where the rail cars burned.Some of the train cars were intentionally drained and the chemicals set on fire to eliminate them. That fire had thick black smoke. What does that tell you about the chemicals and longer-term risks? Incineration is one way we dispose of hazardous chemicals, but incomplete chemical destruction creates a host of byproducts. Chemicals can be destroyed when heated to extremely high temperatures so they burn thoroughly.The black smoke plume you saw on TV was incomplete combustion. A number of other chemicals were created. Officials don’t necessarily know what these were or where they went until they test for them.We know ash can pose health risks, which is why we test inside homes after wildfires where structures burn. This is one reason the state’s health director told residents with private wells near and downwind of the derailment to use bottled water until they can have their wells tested.The EPA has been screening homes near the derailment for indoor air-quality concerns. How do these chemicals get into homes and what happens to them in enclosed spaces? Homes are not airtight, and sometimes dust and other materials get in. It might be through an open door or a window sill. Sometimes people track it in.So far, the U.S. EPA has reported no evidence of high levels of vinyl chloride or hydrogen chloride in the 400 or so homes tested. But full transparency has been lacking. Just because an agency is doing testing doesn’t mean it is testing for what it needs to test for.Media reports talk about four or five chemicals, but the manifest from Norfolk Southern also listed a bunch of other materials in tanks that burned. All those materials create potentially hundreds to thousands of VOCs and SVOCs.Are government officials testing for everything they should? People in the community have reported headaches, which can be caused by VOCs and other chemicals. They’re understandably concerned.Ohio and federal officials need to better communicate what they’re doing, why, and what they plan to do. It’s unclear what questions they are trying to answer. For a disaster this serious, little testing information has been shared.In the absence of this transparency, misinformation is filling that void. From a homeowner’s perspective, it’s hard to understand the true risk if the data is not shared.The Conversation-By Andrew J. Whelton, Professor of Civil, Environmental & Ecological Engineering, Director of the Healthy Plumbing Consortium and Center for Plumbing Safety, Purdue University-This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

What to Know About the Ohio Train Derailment and Chemical Spill: A Timeline of Events-Abigail Adams-Fri, February 17, 2023 at 12:28 p.m. EST

What to Know About the Ohio Train Derailment and Chemical Spill: A Timeline of Events-It has been two weeks since a Norfolk Southern train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, leaving chaos in its wake.The train was pulling 150 cars through the village, located about 50 miles from Pittsburgh and home to over 4,700, on the morning of Feb. 3 when it left the rails and toppled over, spilling numerous dangerous chemicals as a result.The Feb. 3 derailment resulted in what officials called a "controlled release" of chemicals in hopes of avoiding further disaster, per The Washington Post.Since then, concerning signs of contamination have cropped up for miles, including dead animals such as fish and chickens, sick pets, and seemingly contaminated waterways, according to CBS News. Various health problems have been reported in those close to the contamination site, as well.However, local officials continue to insist that the air quality in and around the village is fine and the municipal water, which the majority of residents rely on, "is safe to drink", the outlet reported. Those who get their water from private wells are being encouraged to schedule testing and use bottled water until the results are in, according to the Ohio Department of Health.Multiple lawsuits have already been filed in connection with the disaster, claiming Norfolk Southern displayed negligence and carelessness in connection to the derailment, according to Ohio newspaper The Repository.Attorney Gary Corroto, with the Canton-Akron firm Tzangas Plakas Mannos, told the newspaper, "We don't believe we've been getting the full information."Here is a look at how the situation has unfolded so far:Train Derails in East Palestine-A train carrying "hazardous materials" derailed in East Palestine, Ohio around 9 a.m. local time on Feb. 3, according to town officials and the National Transportation Safety Board.The NTSB said 38 rail cars derailed, including 11 of the 20 "hazardous material cars" attached to the train. Twelve other cars were damaged, and a large fire ensued.Evacuation orders issued for everyone within a one-mile radius of the derailment, town officials said.Officials Say Air and Water Are Safe, Despite Burning Vinyl Chloride-Village officials said in a statement on Feb. 4 that hazmat teams had not detected harmful chemicals in the air.  They also claimed that the water is safe to drink, despite "low pressure or discoloration," which they attributed to "the high usage fighting the railroad fire."Mayor Trent Conaway declared a state of emergency for the Village of East Palestine the morning following the derailment. Later that day, town officials revealed that vinyl chloride was burning as a result of the wreck. The fire wasn't extinguished until Feb. 8, per NPR.Norfolk Southern also established a Family Assistance Center to help support the community, according to a company press release.Local Officials Reveal Spill in Sulphur Run-Village officials continued to urge locals that the water was safe, as did the Columbiana County Emergency Management Agency.At the same time, Columbiana County EMA said on Feb. 5 that "some of the substances associated with the derailment may have spilled into Sulphur Run."At a news briefing that day, an NTSB official said that the cause of the derailment appeared to be caused by a mechanical problem, according to The Washington Post. A preliminary report will be released in March.The agency, which said there's no evidence that the train was purposefully derailed, said that before the emergency brake went on, crew members received an alarm alerting them to the issue, the newspaper reported.Officials Conduct "Controlled Release" Of Chemicals-The Ohio EMA announced that the railroad had conducted a "controlled release" to avoid "a possible explosion" involving the hazardous materials that were carried by the train. This was done on Nov. 6, per NPR."The risk of the car exploding was described to me as high," Gov. DeWine said at a press conference, according to the outlet.Per the Ohio EMA statement, the release sent "toxic and potentially deadly fumes" up into the air.With a drone shows portions of a Norfolk and Southern freight train that derailed Friday night in East Palestine, Ohio are still on fire at mid-day Train Derailment Ohio, East Palestine, United States - 04 Feb 2023-Evacuation Order Lifted Residents of East Palestine who evacuated were allowed to return home on Feb. 8. At the time, Gov. DeWine said air samples had "consistently showed readings" below what is required for safety screenings.That same day, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) confirmed that spilled materials were found in Sulphur Run."Oily product was found leaking from a tank car and pooling on to the soil," the agency said. "Norfolk Southern was notified of the spill and began removing the product using a vacuum truck."Ohio EPA Reveals More Leaked Chemicals-On Feb. 10, the Ohio EPA released a work plan to address the derailment, which revealed more chemicals that were on the train that left the tracks.In addition to the vinyl chloride butyl acrylate that were previously disclosed, the agency said four more chemicals — ethylene glycol, monobutyl ether, ethylhexyl acrylate, and isobutylene — were in some of the cars.Water sampling taken on Feb. 10 showed "very low levels" of butyl acylate and ethyl hexyl acrylate in Leslie Run, according to the agency."A much lower level" of ethyl hexyl acrylate was found in North Fork Little Beaver Creek.U.S. EPA Scolds Norfolk Southern For Improper Disposal-The U.S. EPA sent a letter to Norfolk Southern, informing the company that it had failed to properly dispose of contaminated soil after the derailment, CBS affiliate WKBN-TV reported on Feb. 13.The letter said five cars of vinyl chloride "were intentionally breached," and that the chemical "was diverted to an excavated trench" before it was burned off.Additionally, the EPA said areas of contaminated soil and liquids were "potentially covered and/or filled" while the rail line was reconstructed, including portions of the trench that was used to burn the vinyl chloride.On Feb. 13, Norfolk Southern announced that more than $1 million had been "distributed directly to families to cover costs related to the evacuation."East Palestine resident Ben Ratner, a 37-year-old father of four who lives less than a mile from the site of the derailment, spent eight days living in an Airbnb property before finally returning home three days after the evacuation order was finally lifted."Once we got back, we did a lot of cleaning and let the house air out, but all those chemicals that burned create byproducts, like hydrochloric acid, in the form of a film that's been left on the surfaces of our homes," Ratner told PEOPLE. He added he's not only worried about the long-term health impacts of the disaster but fears how it will affect the economy of his community."We still need answers about how to keep our families safe while also maintaining some sort of a regular existence for our kids," he said.Threat From Vinyl Chloride Fire "No Longer Exists," U.S. EPA Says-The U.S. EPA announced on Feb. 14 that it had "not detected any levels of health concern in the community that are attributed to the train derailment" while monitoring the air.Additionally, the agency said vinyl chloride or hydrogen chloride were not detected in nearly 400 homes tested for the chemicals."The threat of vinyl chloride fire producing phosgene and hydrogen chloride no longer exists," the EPA said on its site.In a separate announcement, Norfolk Southern revealed it had created "a $1 million charitable fund" for those impacted by the derailment in East Palestine.Norfolk Southern President and CEO Alan Shaw also said the company is "cleaning up the site in an environmentally responsible way."Residents of East Palestine gathered at the local high school on Wednesday for a meeting with officials handling the train derailment.Norfolk Southern was originally expected to participate, but ultimately backed out at the last second, according to CNN and the Cincinnati Enquirer."Unfortunately, after consulting with community leaders, we have become increasingly concerned about the growing physical threat to our employees and members of the community around this event stemming from the increasing likelihood of the participation of outside parties," the company said, according to CBS affiliate WBNS-TV.At the meeting, Mayor Conaway said he is "just as frustrated" as everyone else. "I'm trying to get answers," he said, per the Enquirer. "I cannot force them to be here."'No Water Quality Concerns' in East Palestine Municipal Well, U.S. EPA Says-The U.S. EPA announced Thursday that test results from the village's municipal well "showed no water quality concerns.""The municipal wells are at least 56 feet below the surface and are covered by a solid steel casing that protects the water from contamination," Gov. DeWine wrote in a press release the previous day. "Before drinking water is made available to the public, water from these five wells is combined at the water treatment plant and treated."The Ohio Department of Health encouraged residents with private wells to used bottled water until their well water tests are completed, according to the agency.Also on Thursday, Norfolk Southern's CEO shared a letter with the community of East Palestine."When I visited East Palestine last week, you told me how the train derailment has upended your lives and how concerned you are about the safety of your air, water, and land," Shaw wrote. "Many of you have also reached out to Norfolk Southern to share your fears, your anger, and your frustration."He added, "I hear you. We hear you."The Biden administration has said they will "hold Norfolk Southern accountable" for the derailment."We understand the residents are concerned as they should be ... and we're going to try to figure out an answer," White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said at a briefing on Thursday, according to Axois.

 

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