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)
COVID WAS MADE IN THE CHINESE LAB.
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-680,156,089 - DEAD 6,801,455 - AS OF WED MAR 01,2023 (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
No-Brainer' COVID Was Made in a Lab, Johns Hopkins Doctor Says-By Aleks Phillips On 3/1/23 at 8:14 AM EST
A professor of public health policy at John Hopkins University has told Congress that it was a "no-brainer" that COVID-19 originated from a Chinese laboratory the same day the director of the FBI made a far more cautious assertion to the same effect.
Speaking on a panel to the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic on Tuesday, Marty Makary, a surgeon who became a prominent pundit during the pandemic but has no background in virology, noted a series of indicators that made it clear to him that the virus came from a lab, but said it was "embarrassing" since the U.S. government had funded the lab.Anthony Fauci, the former chief medical advisor to the president, previously came under fire after it emerged that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) gave U.S.-based EcoHealth Alliance a $3.7 million grant in 2014, $600,000 of which was sent to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, in order to study bat coronaviruses.However, he denied that the funding had been used to develop more deadly or infectious viruses.Peter Kaszak, a virologist and president of EcoHealth, told CNN in April 2020 that the Wuhan Institute of Virology did not have the virus that caused the pandemic.The prevailing opinion among intelligence analysts and scientists remains that COVID-19 spread into the human population by jumping the species barrier from livestock in a wet market that had been infected by a contagious bat.A July 2022 study concluded, by analyzing where the locations of the earliest human cases were concentrated, that the virus likely infected humans via the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan.However, a growing number of intelligence agencies have adopted the theory that the virus may have spread into the human population via a lab mishap in the Wuhan Institute of Virology, following a call by President Joe Biden for an investigation into the pandemic's origins.Makary's remarks at the public hearing, coinciding with the reports from the intelligence community, only add to the growing momentum behind the theory. At today’s @COVIDSelect roundtable — kicking off the GOP’s planned probes into the virus — witnesses were asked their thoughts on the lab-leak theory, given recent news and U.S. funding of virus research. Hopkins doctor @MartyMakary: “It's a no-brainer that it came from the lab” pic.twitter.com/aT2jzaCBIi — Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) March 1, 2023-"The reason this is even an issue is that it's embarrassing we funded the lab," Makary told House representatives. "If we had not funded the lab, 100 percent of Americans would say this is obvious, this is a no-brainer."He continued: "The epicenter of the world [coronavirus pandemic] is five miles from one of the only high-level virology labs in China. The doctors initially were arrested and forced to sign non-disclosure gag documents. The lab reports have been destroyed; they've not been turned over. The sequence reported from the lab to the NIH database were deleted by a request from Chinese scientists that called over early on and said, 'delete those sequences we put in the database.'"The Chinese government described all of these claims in 2021 as "vicious slander," and said the reason to delete the sequences was that they were deemed "unnecessary."A study reconstructing that data said it "further supports the idea" that sequences taken from the Huanan Seafood Market are "not fully representative of the viruses in Wuhan early in the epidemic."
Fauci Speaks Out About COVID Lab Leak Theory After Report-By Anna Skinner On 2/27/23 at 3:49 PM EST
Dr. Anthony Fauci urged people to keep an open mind when it comes to COVID-19 origins after a new report suggested that the virus was leaked from a Chinese lab.COVID-19 emerged in 2019 in Wuhan, China, and its origin has sparked worldwide debate, with opposing sides disagreeing on whether the virus was leaked from a lab or whether it was naturally occurring. The virus has infected more than 674 million people worldwide, killing more than 6 million, according to U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data.Fauci's comments came after the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released a report claiming that COVID-19 stemmed from a lab leak in China. The report places the DOE in line with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on COVID-19 origin beliefs, but not all U.S. government agencies agree.The other theory is that the virus jumped species after a human came into contact with an infected animal.In a video interview with The Boston Globe, Fauci—who retired as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the end of last year—urged people not to jump to conclusions. He said the DOE report was made with "low confidence" and he hasn't seen the data used to compile the report.Instead, Fauci shared data submitted by evolutionary virologists in peer-reviewed journals. He said the information "strongly suggests" the virus was a natural occurrence."You have to look at the data. I don't see any data for a lab leak," he said. "That doesn't mean it could not have happened, and that's the reason I keep an open mind always about that."Theories about the virus' origin have centered around Fauci and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), when in 2021, the NIH was accused of funding studies that would make a coronavirus more dangerous to humans. Fauci denied the allegations, but later that year, the NIH admitted that it funded gain-of-research studies about coronaviruses impacting bats in Wuhan.In his recent interview, Faucisaid a "lot more investigation" is needed to identify the virus' origin. He said that to complete the investigation, there must be access to the location in which the virus originated. Fauci said Americans might never know where the virus originated, but if they hope to find the answer, they must be willing to work with Chinese scientists."I think that would go a long way to getting more info to essentially resolve this issue," he said.However, the extent of future collaboration between China and the U.S. is uncertain. China has grown increasingly agitated with the U.S. since a suspected spy balloon originating in China was shot down by the U.S. military this month.After the DOE report published, Chinese authorities rejected the findings, accusing the U.S. of politicizing the virus.Newsweek reached out to the DOE for comment.
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.
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
Associated Press-US approves selling Taiwan munitions worth $619 million-HUIZHONG WU-Wed, March 1, 2023 at 10:48 PM EST
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The U.S. has approved more arms sales to Taiwan, including $619 million worth of munitions for F-16 fighter jets, in a decision likely to be yet another point of friction between the U.S. and China, which claims the island as its own territory.The State Department said in a statement Wednesday night it had approved sales of missiles to be used with the F-16s as well as equipment to support the missiles. That includes AGM-88 anti-radiation missiles, as well as air-to-air missiles and launchers.Taiwan is unofficially supported by the U.S. and has a fleet of F-16s bought from the U.S. Tensions between China and the U.S. are at their highest level in years over American support for the self-governed island, including visits by high-ranking politicians, and a host of other issues, including a suspected Chinese spy balloon that crossed the U.S. before being shot down last month.China considers Taiwan part of its territory to be brought under its control by force if necessary, and has been stepping up its military and diplomatic harassment. The sides split amid civil war in 1949, and China’s authoritarian Communist Party has never held sway over the island.The United States is Taiwan’s main supplier of military equipment, and China has objected to past sales with sanctions and other actions.Once arms sales are approved, delivering them can take years, and Taiwan has cited consistent delays in receiving weapons it has purchased.The arms will be provided by Raytheon Missiles and Defense and Lockheed Martin Corporatio
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.
Lebanese supermarkets begin marking prices in US dollars as local currency tanks-Move meant to provide semblance of stability with pound plummeting to almost 90,000 per dollar, amid ongoing economic and political crisis-By AFP-2 March 2023, 12:53 am
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Supermarkets in Lebanon started pricing items in US dollars on Wednesday instead of the nose-diving local currency, after a government announcement allowing the practice in a country heavily reliant on imports.Since late 2019, Lebanon has been facing a dramatic economic crisis that has seen poverty rates climb to reach more than 80 percent of the population, according to the United Nations.The local currency, now officially pegged at 15,000 to the greenback, was trading Wednesday at almost 90,000 to the dollar, compared to 60,000 in late January.An AFP photographer said a large supermarket chain in Beirut had begun displaying prices in dollars on Wednesday, while the exchange rate of 89,000 pounds was displayed on a screen at the entrance.Domestically produced fruit and vegetables were still priced in the local currency.“Every week, or every day even, products are becoming more and more expensive,” said Susane Zeitoun, 28, who was shopping at the supermarket.“Now I have to calculate prices into Lebanese pounds,” she added.In February, Economy Minister Amin Salaam announced that supermarkets would be able to start pricing items in dollars, while customers could pay in dollars or Lebanese pounds at the volatile market rate.Each store would have to clearly announce the exchange rate it was using each day, he had added.Since the start of the crisis, stores had begun to adjust their prices in pounds, sometimes daily, to keep up with the fluctuating exchange rate — or at times pushing prices higher.Some restaurants and clothing shops had already begun to display prices in dollars in recent months.Shopper Sarah Rida, 37, said that “pricing items in US dollars is better.”“If a product is priced at $2, we can be sure that it will stay the same and will not increase or decrease in price from one day to the next.”Lebanon is being run by a caretaker government and is also without a president, as lawmakers have repeatedly failed to elect a successor to Michel Aoun, whose mandate expired at the end of October.Authorities announced in late February that customs charges would be tripled, a move that risks pushing prices up further.The World Bank has said that Lebanon food price inflation reached 332 percent year on year in June 2022, the worst in the world.
Shekel is world’s 3rd-worst performer in February as judicial jitters weigh on market-Local currency weakens 6% and stocks drop as foreign investors step up activity in Israel’s foreign exchange market, amid concern over economic repercussions of overhaul-By Sharon Wrobel-MAR 1,23-Today, 7:46 pm
Israel’s shekel depreciated 6% in February, suffering the biggest loss among the world’s major currencies after the Russian ruble and the Korean won, amid growing investor concern as the government presses ahead with contested changes aimed at weakening the judicial system.The currency hit a three-year low last week against the greenback as Israeli lawmakers took a first step to approve a bill that makes up a significant part of the controversial judicial overhaul, to cement government control over judicial appointments and revoke the High Court’s ability to review Basic Laws. The shekel continued to weaken even after the Bank of Israel hiked the benchmark interest rate by 50 basis points to 4.25 percent, the highest level since 2008, in an effort to rein in rising inflation.“Over the past month, the movements in the local market have been affected by the uncertainty of the economic repercussions of the planned legal shakeup,” Alex Zabezhinsky, chief economist at Meitav Dash, told The Times of Israel. “In the past, the shekel’s performance was characterized by a close correlation with US markets.”Similarly, the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange noted in its monthly report for February that “trading was characterized by price market declines, continuing a trend seen from the second half of January 2023, due to growing disagreements over the impact of the planned legal reform on the Israeli economy.”In February, the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange’s benchmark TA-125 index dropped about 5%, while the TA-35 index of blue-chip companies fell about 4% after remaining unchanged in the previous month, according to TASE data. The TA-90 index, which tracks the shares with the highest capitalization not included in the TA-35 index, slumped 9% during the same period, after gaining 1.7% in January. Last month, the MSCI Global Index declined by about 2%.Daily turnover in the equity market, including ETFs, amounted to NIS 2.3 billion in February, about 28% higher than the turnover in the previous month, and similar to the average turnover in 2022.In recent weeks, former central bank policymakers and leading economists have continued to warn that checks and balances, and democracy in general, could be at risk if the legislation to change the legal system is fully implemented.Among investors, concern has grown that the proposals being advanced to curtail the power of the judiciary could negatively impact its credit rating, which in turn would harm the country’s prosperous economy and its currency and trigger an outflow of funds.A number of local firms and startups have, at the request of their foreign investors, already started to shift money out of local bank accounts to diversify risk and hedge their assets before the planned reforms are set to be approved.Among the firms are US-Israeli cybersecurity firm Wiz, which this week raised $300 million at a staggering $10 billion valuation. The unicorn’s co-founder Assaf Rappaport said that the firm’s funds will be kept in US accounts, citing uncertainty about independence of institutions in Israel.Zabezhinsky noted that trading volume data shows that foreign investors, or nonresidents, were very active in Israel’s foreign exchange market in February, which he described as having an “excess weight” in the depreciation of the shekel.“According to Bank of Israel foreign exchange trading data, the share of nonresidents in trading increased to 65% in February, compared with an average of 60% in 2022,” said Zabezhinsky. “There was a sharp increase in conversion transactions, particularly by foreign investors.”He noted that “foreign financial institutions sharply increased the number of conversion transactions in shekels,” while among Israeli investors, most of the conversion transactions were performed by non-banking bodies.Daily trading volume in dollar options in February was about 23% higher than the average volume in 2022, and about 35% higher than the turnover in the previous month, according to TASE data.“Trading was affected by the volatility of the dollar’s exchange rate relative to the shekel,” the TASE wrote in its monthly report.The shekel depreciated from NIS 3.475 at the end of January 2023 to about NIS 3.67 against the US dollar toward the end of February, the weakest level since March 2020.The TASE emphasized that shekel weakness relative to the dollar and the euro pushes the cost of imports up and contributes to price increases in the economy. This is also going to be a concern for the Bank of Israel, which is determined to bring inflation hovering above 5% back into its price stability target range of between 1% to 3%.“The Bank of Israel is responsible for maintaining its inflation target and for financial stability in the country,” said Zabezhinsky. “In case these are threatened the Bank of Israel will not sit idle on the sidelines.”The central bank intervenes in the foreign exchange market in order to stabilize the shekel against the basket of currencies when there is high volatility in the exchange rate in order to moderate and calm the market.In 2020, the Bank of Israel intervened in the foreign exchange market by purchasing US dollars in exchange for shekels, in order to moderate the negative impact of an appreciation of the shekel on inflation and economic activity.“The Bank of Israel has about $200 billion in foreign exchange reserves and can intervene in the market if necessary, although it will not want to do that, and instead we could see more verbal intervention,” said Zabezhinsky. “Therefore in our assessment, the rapid depreciation of the shekel will not continue for long.”
Digital identity market poised for massive growth, but not in the US-Vendor revenue forecast to double to $53B by 2026-Mar 1, 2023, 5:25 pm EST | Jim Nash
If a new industry research paper is correct, digital ID apps are going to boom.Juniper Research says the 2.3 billion digital identity apps being used globally this year will soar to more than 4.1 billion in four years. The impetus, according to the report, will be governments replacing physical documents with third-party applications.Those third-party players are financial service companies and banks, as they try to keep up with new KYC rules and the rise in identity theft.The only real threat to the dominance of ID apps will be digital wallets, primarily because that software combines identity and payment services.At the same time, the death-grip consumers and employers have on passwords might finally be releasing. Juniper researchers say that over the next four years the global market will being adopting in meaningful numbers a zero-trust model incorporating biometric verification and multi-factor authentication.That verification method is exploding, too.According to a Juniper blog post, verification is playing a major role in the digital ID market. Spending on related products and services, will rocket from $9 billion globally in 2021 to $16 billion in 2026.Digital identity vendors will watch their combined revenue grow from $26 billion in 2021 to $53 billion in 2026.Not a lot of that revenue, apparently, will be coming from the United States market, according to Juniper. Just seven percent of global digital identity revenue in 2026 will start with a U.S. handshake.
Partners join forces to enhance digital payment experience with biometrics-Mastercard with Vesta, Areeba with Netcetera-Mar 1, 2023, 4:56 pm EST | Larisa Redins
A pair of partnerships have been formed to bring biometrics to payments, one in Asia Pacific and another in the Middle East.Mastercard and Vesta have announced a new strategic partnership to improve the safety and security of ecommerce transactions in Asia Pacific.The agreement will provide Mastercard merchants with enhanced protection against fraud while offering customers a more secure digital payment experience.By joining forces, Mastercard’s Cyber & Intelligence products and solutions will integrate into Vesta’s transaction guarantee platform. The companies say this partnership allows merchants to reduce online fraud, approve more transactions and expand their business.“Mastercard is excited to have the opportunity to work together and deliver on the cybersecurity needs of its customers in Asia Pacific, making the region’s digital economy safer, more seamless and secure,” says Karthik Ramanathan, the SVP of cyber and intelligence at Asia Pacific Mastercard.The announcement follows a Juniper Research study which found that the global cost of e-commerce fraud may reach $48 billion in 2023, making it a growing challenge for merchants worldwide. The new partnership will help address this issue and provide Mastercard merchants with complete protection before, during and after a transaction.The service, slated to launch in the second quarter of 2023, will also offer improved digital payment efficiency with tools including behavioral biometrics and identity verification, allowing merchants to approve more legitimate transactions with zero fraud chargeback liability.“Through this strategic partnership, merchants will benefit from one integration into Vesta’s decision engine to approve more legitimate transactions with zero fraud chargeback liability, allowing them to focus on growing sales and improving customer experience without the fear of fraud,” says Shabab Muhaddes, the SVP of Vesta and GM of APAC.Areeba launches out-of-band biometrics through Netcetera collaboration-Areeba sal, a payment processing service provider in the Middle East and North Africa region, has announced a partnership with Swiss payment company Netcetera to introduce Out-of-Band (OOB) authentication with biometric reading for e-commerce transactions.This move aims to provide cardholders with improved security and fraud protection through their mobile apps, utilizing native device fingerprint or face biometrics.In 2020, the companies originally partnered to implement a 3-D Secure protocol backed by Netcetera’s Access Control Server (ACS).“Everything goes smoothly when you have a partner like Netcetera. When we started our cooperation, we recognized the big potential for growing the business of our customers and for improving their lifestyles,” says Maher Mikati, the CEO of Areeba. “By accepting what Netcetera enables as proven success in other developed markets, we act proactively to our customer’s demands and keep their competitiveness at the highest level.”The digital identity solutions market is currently valued at $28 billion and is expected to exceed $70 billion by 2027, according to Statista.
Chipped ID documents expand in Vietnam with passport launch, healthcare use-Mar 1, 2023, 11:47 am EST-| Frank Hersey
Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security will begin issuing chip-based biometric passports from 1 March in line with exit/entry requirements for its citizens. Meanwhile, 96 percent of the country’s medical units are now accepting the national digital ID card for healthcare access and almost twelve million people have used it.Biometric passports begin journey-The new credentials will store encoded biometric information on the holder – fingerprint, iris and face – along with blood type and biographic details on the inbuilt chip which will enhance the state’s management of the entry/exit system as well allow the country to meet international integration requirements, reports the Saigon Giai Phong News (SGGP).The chip-based travel documents will allow more automation of border controls and help Vietnamese citizens at the borders of other countries.The blue booklet has a barcode on its back cover. Citizens will still have the choice to opt for a passport without the chip.
11.8 million people use chip-enabled ID cards for healthcare-Vietnam Social Security (VSS) has announced that nearly 11.8 million people have used their chip-based national ID cards to access healthcare services at 12,270 medical centers, 96 percent of the country’s facilities, reports Vietnam News.The population and insurance database reconciliation is progressing. As of 20 February, the data of 74.4 million citizens held in the National Database on Insurance has been cross-checked and verified with that held by the National Database on Population, according to the VSS.The VSS continues to update the National Database on Population with new records. It has shared 96.3 million records on social insurance and health insurance to the population register.The agency had issued 76.5 million citizen identification cards as of the end of December 2022 reports Vietnam News. The population is around 104 million.The Ministry of Health has been urging hospitals and health departments to promote the use of the cards for examinations and treatments covered by health insurance. As of early December 2022, 92 percent of health facilities were using the system. However, only 4.3 percent of medical examination and treatment visits were done via the cards.Children under the age of six could be receiving the ID cards soon following proposals from the Ministry for Public Security under the Draft Law on Citizenship Identity. Biometrics would not be required for the cards, which would not be compulsory. They could be issued alongside birth certificates.
Why are so many organizations still playing the waiting game with digital ID? Mar 1, 2023, 11:35 am EST By Nick Mothershaw, Chief Identity Strategist at the Open Identity Exchange
The digital ID eco-system is rapidly expanding, with ID providers going through rigorous certification processes and global initiatives working out the parameters for the safe interoperability of digital IDs across borders. In some places, like Estonia and Singapore, access to government or private sector services is already happening through a single and joined up digital ID.There are, however, many organizations still playing a waiting game. These are the parties that will benefit the most from digital ID adoption, the ones that will come to accept it and for whom it will become a vital part of the way they operate. Our in-depth work with them, as well as governments and trade bodies across various sectors, keeps throwing up the same myths and questions around digital ID. This is stopping many from fully adopting it.“Data will not be as safe in a digital ID.”With fraud levels soaring to levels never seen before, is it any wonder that the safety of data has come into question? But this is one of the biggest myths around digital ID that we are coming across.The question we are being asked is, will the data be as safe in a digital ID as it is under existing methods? The answer is yes, if not improved. This is being is ensured by trust frameworks, through which all ID providers must undergo tough assessments to become certified to global security standards for data access and management. They will require data to be encrypted in transit and, where appropriate, at rest. Organizations that accept digital ID can be confident that the ID providers are proofing users properly and storing their data securely.Another key feature of digital ID is that data will be protected by robust authenticators, such as biometrics, which are inherently difficult to copy or reproduce.Moreover, in many countries digital ID works in a decentralized way, so users’ data is not kept in a central database. It’s distributed and kept in a protected format on the user’s own device or in a user specific space in the cloud. This makes it less vulnerable to attack. Even if a person loses their device, their digital ID is usually securely backed up in the cloud in a distributed way, so it can be easily recovered to a new device. However, it’s best for organizations to look for digital IDs that are not reliant on one device.However, a data breach can still happen, because of course, fraudsters will still look for ways in. The trust framework will require the provider of the breached digital ID, or specifically breached credential, to suspend or close the user’s ID. The ID provider will also be required to notify the real end user and all organizations impacted by the fraudulent use of the stolen ID. Additional ID proofing or authentication may be put in place when the user next uses their ID.Along with the concerns around increased levels of fraud naturally comes questions around the liability position. This will depend on the rules of the specific trust framework or contractual position between the ID provider and the accepting party. In general, if fraud takes place as a result of ID providers not following the trust framework rules, they may be held liable.The positive thing about a market full of certified digital ID providers to choose from is that competition will help ensure that they are always innovating and striving to provide the best service.“Data in a digital ID will be easier to exploit by organizations.”This is also a myth. Local data protection legislation, such as GDPR, will still apply and the use of digital IDs will have to strictly be within them. Ultimately, only the person who owns the data will be able to access and manage it. Only they can consent to its release to third parties and can ask for it to be deleted at any time.If a user updates the data, the new data will firstly be validated and verified, so that there is trust present when that data is shared. Where information cannot be validated, this will be highlighted with each attribute having a validated or un-validated status attached. If information is found to be incorrect, it can be raised with the ID provider who will liaise with the end user.Only the user can then choose which of the organizations that previously had access should receive an update. Organizations can subscribe to update services.“More people will struggle to access their services or be excluded entirely.”This myth is driven by concerns around whether digital ID will be available to everyone, or work everywhere. The last thing organizations want is to make existing access and inclusion challenges even worse.There has been a lot of progress to ensure that anyone who wants a digital ID can get one. Where individuals can’t establish a digital ID because they do not have digitally presentable evidence, such as a driver’s license or passport, or need assistance presenting it, initiatives are underway to make secondary options available to them. Our proposal for a Digital Vouch with Photo capability, for example, would enable users with no documentation to be included by a voucher acting on their behalf. Not everyone will want a digital ID, so there will still need to be alternative methods, such as direct proofing and account issue by service providers, as happens today, to access services. A good trust framework will ensure that.Digital ID is maturing, it’s time to get on board-The reality is that many of the perceived ‘problems’ either have or are being addressed. Digital ID is proving far more effective in enabling trust, which in today’s world has become so complex, than the IDs issued directly by organizations. And full digital ID adoption will be critical to the growth of any sector.Organizations that still have unanswered questions and unresolved concerns must reach out to the parties, like Open Identity Exchange, that are driving actions to ensure the safe and inclusive use of digital ID everywhere.About the author-Nick Mothershaw is Chief Identity Strategist at the Open Identity Exchange (OIX), a non-profit trade organization on a mission to create a world where everyone can prove their identity and eligibility anywhere through a universally trusted ID. Working with organizations across the globe, Nick is leading the development of clear guidance around inter-operable, trusted identities. In his previous role as Director of ID and Fraud at Experian, he led the development, launch and operation of a full ‘Identity as a Service’ solution – the first live example of a digital ID that is seamlessly interoperable across public and private sector in the UK.DISCLAIMER: Biometric Update’s Industry Insights are submitted content. The views expressed in this post are that of the author, and don’t necessarily reflect the views of Biometric Update.
Top 5 biometric recognition methods to reimage digital banking systems in 2023-Feb 20, 2023, 8:17 am EST-By Damien Martin, Marketing Executive at Shufti Pro
When it comes to money, online payments, and other financial errands, security is the paramount aspect to consider. With digital fraud seeing a spike in recent years, the protection of nearly 215 million online banking personnel is soon to come completely at the mercy of cybercriminals. Therefore, the security threat concern is grasping the utmost attention both from online banking service providers and regulatory watchdogs.With huge advancements in financial technologies, there has been an unprecedented and hastened shift to remote payments where digital banking service providers cannot leave security protocols behind. Furthermore, financial companies do not consider online transactions the only center rather, consumer protection, innovativeness, and adaption to new technologies are equally crucial.In this shift towards open banking, biometric recognition solutions address the majority of external fraud risks during digital payment processing.The concept of digital banking-The evolution of financial technologies has transformed conventional banking from time-consuming, face-to-face, and lengthy processes to more swift transaction systems. It all began in the 20th century with the launch of USA’s Fedwire – the world’s first e-fund transfer solution. Right after this, the launch of credit cards in 1950s was another step towards digitization of global banking systems. Since then, there has been no stopping the revolution of payments.All of this came crashing down to the 2008’s Global Financial Crisis which created a vacuum for online banking success. However, the development also formulated a conducive environment for fraudsters, with a record increase of 30 percent in 2022. Hence, this leaves no doubt why customers are skeptical about the security of their online bank accounts.Impact of biometric technology on online paymentsBiometric authentication technology is a potential combat for increasing fraud incidents in the online banking sector. It takes identity verification, data security, payment authorization, and ongoing monitoring to other levels of accuracy. The use of biometric recognition has taken manifold in digital banking operations by tossing reliable fraud detection methods more often.From fingerprint analysis to eye pattern scanning, biometric authentication technology has come a long way in transforming online payment security. It replaces passcodes, user PINs, and Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) with biological/behavioral screening for high user safety.Types of biometrics and their individual benefits for online banking systems.The demand for online payments highlights an increase in the usage of digital wallets, credit cards, Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL), Electronic Transfer of Money (ETF), and QR codes. With digital banking projected to top 13 trillion by 2032, the need for secure financial services also grows. Therefore, online payment service providers should consider integrating biometric technology for more than just a way to access online accounts.Digital banking systems can meet diverse regulatory requirements regarding customer identity verification, data privacy, external cyber risk prevention, and ongoing payment monitoring, as highlighted in the FATF’s 40 Recommendations. By using biometric security solutions, they can also offer secure and convenient ways for remote account opening.The next section discusses types of biometrics and their use cases for online banking further in detail.Fingerprint analysis – the oldest method of customer authentication-Fingerprinting is the oldest and longest in-use biometric method. Smartphones started using this authentication method back in 2004. Fingerprinting is as old as the banking system itself. In ancient times, thumb impressions were recorded on a piece of paper to confirm customer authenticity. With the biometric revolution, digital financial service providers can analyze fingerprints by simply asking users to scan them in their mobile phone sensors.In years to come, AI-powered biometric recognition will mature to analyze swirls and ridges around fingerprints critically. They will further be able to cross-verify vascular patterns before processing a payment.Voice-based identification – a relatively newer user authentication method-Biometric security systems have several checks in store for digital banking service providers. Fingerprinting has some limitations, such as tampering by using candle wax or creating similar impressions with plastic sheets. Voice recognition, on the other hand, is relatively secure.AI-powered biometric tools take vocal characteristics and create a profile of users in mathematical algorithms opting to access online accounts. It further helps banking systems to authenticate customers by cross-referencing voice patterns across financial and criminal databases.The advanced form of voice recognition will enable online banking platforms to analyze voice patterns accurately. Furthermore, they can also identify users even in sickness or any other condition that changes vocal characteristics.Facial recognition – an advanced approach within the biometric banking landscape-Since Apple launched its 20 times more accurate, secure, and convenient Face ID as a replacement for fingerprint identification, the shift towards facial feature analysis-based user authentication was certain. Customers prefer log-in solutions that uphold their privacy without compromising their time. Considering this increase in demand, digital banking service providers started offering biometric security checks with facial feature analysis.The biometric-enabled CCTV cameras in ATMs verify customers in real-time and detect deepfake attempts (if any). Furthermore, in the case of remote banking, AI-powered facial feature analysis tools will differentiate between twins, look-alikes, and other individuals with similar features with the same level of accuracy. Around 15 percent to 20 percent of financial institutions are already embracing the applications of biometric analysis.Iris and retina scans – the most futuristic form of biometric check-Fingerprinting, voice recognition and facial feature analysis have become mainstream. Banking systems are now making a move towards more advancement by integrating iris/retina scanners in ATMs. With advanced biometric verification tools in smartphones, online payments are also given an additional layer of security through eye analysis. Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) was the first bank to offer their users an iris scan through their digital banking app in 2017.Being an advanced form of user authentication, biometric recognition is the most reliable method up till now. Biometric screening tools are undergoing evolution and coming back to their most advanced form. Hence, digital banking service providers can not accurately scan pictures even if users are wearing a pair of optics or not even facing the camera properly.Behavioral biometrics – a new era for secure digital payments-Customers’ day-to-day financial behavior is changing with every innovation that emerges in the digital banking landscape. They prefer remote payments over the use of paper money and online accounts rather than physically visiting banks. Furthermore, advances in AI and ML spheres are sweeping further changes in financial activities. Similarly, biometric analytics are bolstering banks’ risk assessment efforts with cognitive computing to handle big customer data.Behavioral biometric security checks provide insight into particular financial decisions that later aid in suspiciousness detection. With this improved form of customer analysis, digital banks can offer easy money management for their users to save an extra buck. Furthermore, biometric recognition takes the load of paying bills by offering swift billing solutions.Customers can simply log in to their online bank accounts, select bills, invoices, or whatever category of payment and process a transaction by scanning their facial features.Final verdict-Since the launch of Touch and Face IDs, biometrics has been an integral part of every business operation. Banks were relatively slower in adopting applications of this ever-evolving tech-driven IDV solution. As of now, biometric user authentication methods can be seen reimaging the ecosystem of digital banking services.AI-powered biometric security solutions make not only high-risk transaction handling easier but also detect fraudulent payments in real time. Hence, customers can avail streamlined online payment experience, safer access to financial services, and digital onboarding while banking service providers stay compliant with the regulations.About the author-Damien Martin is a Marketing Executive at Shufti Pro, an AI-powered identity verification service provider.
Exploring biometrics within payments-Feb 27, 2023, 1:07 pm ES-By Monica Eaton, founder of Chargebacks911
Biometric payment systems have some of the most advanced security features on the market today, but as new shopping channels and payment preferences emerge so does the need for new verification methods (fingerprint scanning, facial recognition, etc.) to ensure these payment systems remain secure and scalable.These methods can more securely authorize transactions and protect customers’ sensitive information.Biometric security is a complex mix of technologies, strategies and natural-born traits. When combined, they ensure authentication through biological characteristics that are much harder for fraudsters to steal, duplicate or manipulate. For example, iris, voice or fingerprint recognition tools can be used for anything requiring a confirmation of identity, from authorizing consumer payments to providing access to secured buildings.In general, biometric verification is more secure and reliable than traditional security techniques. Within a biometric payments system, different technologies work to measure various authentication factors, meaning the effectiveness of using one specific indicator over another varies for different circumstances. With that said, let’s further explore biometrics within payments.Are there weaknesses within biometric payment systems? Within biometric payment systems, there are three authentication factors to validate a user’s identity in a transaction. The first is ownership – something the user possesses (card). Next is knowledge, which is something the user knows (PIN number to their card). Finally, there’s inherence, or something the user inherently possesses (fingerprint, facial features).Firstly, the ownership factor can be compromised if the physical card is stolen. Plus, anyone with the right know-how can use stolen cardholder information to counterfeit the card. It’s even more accessible in online transactions, where no card is present; the fraudster can simply use the cardholder’s information by posing as a legitimate buyer.Similarly, knowledge is also easy to bypass. Fraudsters are skilled at phishing attacks, skimming, and camera manipulation to trick cardholders into surrendering sensitive information necessary to authorize purchases.However, inherence is more secure because the method of verification is physiological, making it much harder to copy someone’s physical features like a fingerprint than to replicate a plastic card or a password.Biometrics: an edge in payments security-There are a few biometric payment methods that are currently available to authenticate eCommerce purchases:1- Device fingerprinting, a tool that uses a scanner to image the user’s fingerprint digitally; the original image is destroyed, while a print mapping is saved. Facial recognition works like digital fingerprinting, with the technology mapping dozens of different points on the user’s face to create a unique impression of the individual rather than saving the user’s actual picture.Voice recognition compares the user’s voice pattern to a pre-recorded sample. Voice isn’t necessarily as distinct as a face shape or fingerprint, but it does have certain advantages like being cost-efficient and non-intrusive compared to other methods.Iris recognition, much like our unique fingerprints, uses the random pattern of the human iris to help identify different individuals. This technology is highly accurate at close range and can work with the cameras installed on most modern smartphones to map your eye, just like a fingerprint.Palm recognition. A palm vein scan uses infrared lighting to map the unique vein structures in your palm and converts the data points into encrypted code. Palm mapping is relatively new and hasn’t been widely adopted. However, this is likely to change with the recent development of IOS and Android applications.Why aren’t biometrics used more widely? It’s an obvious question but despite all the potential benefits of adopting biometric security, the technology still features several vulnerabilities and weak points. First, it cannot be relied upon for a fingerprint scanner or smartphone camera to be available at every transaction. While consumers can use biometric authorization on most mobile devices, desktops still make up a large portion of eCommerce sales.Additionally, companies will need to adopt hardware capable of reading and interpreting this data to accept biometric payments. The price of this hardware could be cost-prohibitive, depending on what is needed and how far a company wants to take contactless payments.Finally, we cannot forget the consumer factor. They are more anxious about their privacy and where personal data goes than ever before. Even if biometric scans do not actually save or store their biometric information, many consumers might still refuse to provide these identifiers.A broader strategy to fight fraud and chargebacks-Ultimately, it doesn’t matter how advanced biometrics technology is. Businesses will need more than one method to fight fraud and chargebacks. No single tool can be 100 percent effective, but a strategic mix of multiple tools can increase consumer protection and a business’s overall security. Other fraud tools to consider include CVV verification, AVS, 3DS technology, geolocation, and fraud blacklisting, just to name a few. Companies need a coordinated, carefully planned strategy to make the most of the authentication tools at their disposal.
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).
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)
US prods Netanyahu to condemn Smotrich ‘incitement’ after call to wipe out Huwara-State Department says ‘abhorrent’ remarks will goad others into violence, opening fresh rift weeks before far-right minister is slated to fly to Washington for Israel Bonds meeting-By Jacob Magid-MAR 1,23-Today, 3:16 am
The US on Wednesday said Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s call to “wipe out” the Palestinian town of Huwara “amounts to incitement to violence” and urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to disavow the comments by his senior coalition partner, the latest member of his cabinet to grapple with Washington.“These comments were irresponsible. They were repugnant. They were disgusting,” US State Department spokesman Price said, upon being asked about Smotrich’s comments during a press briefing. “Just as we condemn Palestinian incitement to violence, we condemn these provocative remarks that also amount to incitement to violence.”Smotrich told a panel discussion earlier in the day that “I think the village of Huwara needs to be wiped out. I think the State of Israel should do it.” The comments came amid an outpouring of shock and horror in Israel and abroad after hundreds of settlers ransacked the Palestinian town of Huwara and surrounding villages Sunday night, setting dozens of buildings and vehicles on fire, in revenge for a terror attack in which Israeli brothers driving through the town were gunned down hours earlier. One Palestinian man was killed and hundreds more were injured during the rampage, which Israel’s top general in the West Bank referred to as a “pogrom.”The US condemnation pointed to a further escalation of frustration in Washington with Israel days after the Biden administration expressed its outrage over the deadly rioting, and called on Israel to prosecute the perpetrators and compensate the dozens of Palestinians whose property was destroyed.“We call on Prime Minister Netanyahu and other senior Israeli officials to publicly and clearly reject and disavow these comments,” Price added Wednesday. As of the end of the day, no member of the Israeli cabinet had done so.Smotrich made his comments less than two weeks before he is slated to travel to the US to speak at the annual Israel Bonds conference, which will take place from March 12 to 14 in Washington. Smotrich’s office has yet to confirm his attendance but a source familiar with the matter confirmed the scheduled appearance to The Times of Israel last month.Just as we condemn Palestinian incitement to violence, we condemn Finance Minister Smotrich’s provocative remarks that also amount to incitement of violence. It is imperative that Palestinians and Israelis work together to restore calm. pic.twitter.com/9ivhFdAcnW — Ned Price (@StateDeptSpox) March 2, 2023-A US official said Monday that no official meetings between Smotrich and Biden officials were on the books to date. The Treasury Department did not respond to a query last month as to whether its officials will meet with Smotrich, who has a long history of remarks against Arabs, Palestinians, the LGBTQ community, and non-Orthodox Jews.Asked by CNN if he would condemn Smotrich’s comments following Price’s call for “senior Israeli officials to publicly and clearly reject and disavow these comments,” Israeli Ambassador to the US Michael Herzog said, “Notwithstanding the fact that Israel has been subjected to a recent wave of horrific terror attacks against its civilians, it is absolutely not Israeli policy and it’s against our values to respond by wiping out civilian villages.”The remarks about Huwara, made at a conference hosted by The Marker business daily Wednesday, came after Smotrich was asked why he had “liked” a tweet by Samaria Regional Council deputy mayor Davidi Ben Zion that called “to wipe out the village of Huwara today” on Sunday evening.“Because I think the village of Huwara needs to be wiped out. I think the State of Israel should do it,” Smotrich replied.He added “God forbid,” that the job should not be done by private citizens. He condemned the rampage, saying, “We shouldn’t be dragged into anarchy in which civilians take the law into their own hands.”Smotrich, who heads the far-right Religious Zionism party, serves as a minister in the Defense Ministry in charge of the body that authorizes settlement construction and demolition of Palestinian homes in much of the West Bank, including large parts of Huwara.As condemnations poured in, Smotrich issued a statement saying the media was trying to “create a distorted interpretation” of his remarks. He claimed Huwara is a “hostile village” where residents throw stones and shoot at Israelis every day and that he supports a “disproportionate response” by the IDF against the town for every act of terrorism in order to establish deterrence.He appeared to have deleted the clarification tweet but later in the day wrote, “so there isn’t any doubt, I did not mean wipe out the village of Huwara, rather act in a targeted manner against the terrorists and supporters of terrorism living there and to exact a heavy price from them in order to restore security to the [Jewish] residents of the area.”Both settlers and Palestinians use the main road through Huwara, which sits just to the south of Nablus, making it a frequent flashpoint of tensions.Smotrich is now the third member of Netanyahu’s relatively new cabinet to lock horns with US President Joe Biden’s administration, joining National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli.In November, Price blasted as “abhorrent” a memorial event for the late extremist rabbi Meir Kahane that Ben Gvir attended shortly before being sworn in as minister.Days into the new government, Ben Gvir visited the flashpoint Temple Mount in what US Ambassador Tom Nides later said was designed to “stir up trouble,” given the minister’s longstanding support for upending the status quo at the compound in order to allow Jewish prayer.Chikli last week went on the Kan public broadcaster and called on Nides to “mind his own business” after the envoy urged Israel to “pump the breaks” on its judicial overhaul plans. The ambassador responded on Tuesday that “I really think that most Israelis do not want America to stay out of their business,” ostensibly referencing the security, political and diplomatic support that Washington has provided Jerusalem for decades.The rifts have added pressure to existing strain between Jerusalem and Washington over differences in policy regarding the Palestinians, with Israel’s approval of unprecedented amounts of settlement expansion in the West Bank drawing repeated condemnations from the Biden administration.Amid the growing tensions between the US and Israel, Axios reported that Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer and National Security Council chairman Tzachi Hanegbi are slated to visit Washington next week for meetings with National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and other senior US officials to discuss coordinating against Iran. While the Israeli officials will likely want to focus the talks on Tehran’s nuclear pursuit, the US has often used such meetings to also discuss the Palestinian issue.A US official told The Times of Israel Tuesday that US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will visit Israel next week.
IAEA chief to meet Iranian president in Tehran for nuclear talks — diplomat-Rafael Grossi, head of UN atomic watchdog, said hoping to relaunch dialogue on Iran’s program at the highest level after nearly bomb-grade uranium found
By AFP-MAR 1,23-Today, 11:51 pm
VIENNA, Austria — The head of the United Nation’s nuclear watchdog will meet with Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi in Tehran on Saturday to try to “relaunch the dialogue” on the country’s atomic work, a diplomatic source said Wednesday.The visit by Rafael Grossi of the International Atomic Energy Agency comes after it announced that its inspectors in Iran had found uranium particles enriched to nearly bomb grade, or 90 percent.Last week, Tehran claimed it had not made any attempt to enrich uranium beyond 60%.Grossi is aiming to “reset the relationship at the highest level” by directly speaking to Raisi, the source said.“He had made clear over recent weeks that he was only prepared to go to Teheran if he had an invitation to speak with the president,” the source added.Contacted by AFP, the IAEA declined to comment.Grossi “will arrive in Tehran on Friday evening for high-level meetings planned to be held on Saturday,” Iran’s Fars news agency reported on Wednesday.
Iran and world powers struck a landmark accord on limiting the country’s nuclear activities in 2015, but it started to unravel when the United States withdrew from it in 2018 under former president Donald Trump.The deal was designed to give Iran much-needed relief from Western economic sanctions in return for curbs on its atomic program to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons.On-and-off negotiations to revive the deal started in 2021, but have stalled since last year.On Tuesday, a confidential IAEA report seen by AFP said that uranium particles enriched up to 83.7% — just below weapons grade — had been detected at Iran’s underground Fordow plant.The discovery came after Iran had substantially modified an interconnection between two centrifuge clusters enriching uranium, without declaring it to the IAEA.“Discussions are still ongoing” to determine the origin of nearly bomb grade particles, the IAEA said in the report.While in Tehran, Grossi will try to secure “more access to the (Fordow) site, more inspections,” the diplomatic source said.Depending on the outcome of the trip, the United States and the E3 — France, Germany and Britain — will decide whether to submit a draft resolution censuring Iran to the IAEA Board of Governors, which is due to convene next week in Vienna.In November 2022, Iran was censured for its lack of cooperation regarding traces of enriched uranium found at three undeclared sites.
Bill on death penalty for Palestinian terrorists passes preliminary Knesset vote-Legislation receives support from Yisrael Beytenu opposition party, advancing in 55-9 vote, despite longstanding pushback from legal and security establishments-By ToI Staff-1 March 2023, 6:45 pm
The Knesset on Wednesday advanced a government-backed bill to impose the death penalty on terrorists who kill Israelis, approving it in its preliminary reading.The bill was approved 55-9, with the support of the Yisrael Beytenu opposition party. It was passed alongside a near-identical version submitted by Yisrael Beytenu MK Oded Forer, and the two will likely be combined further along in the process.The primary legislation stipulates that courts will be able to impose the death penalty on those who have committed a nationalistically motivated murder of a citizen of Israel. However, it would not apply to an Israeli who killed a Palestinian.The initiative has long been weighed by the Israeli right but has consistently faced opposition from the security establishment, arguing that it would not deter future terror attacks, and the legal establishment, which cites legal challenges and warns it could harm Israel in international forums.While previous coalitions ultimately agreed to shelve death penalty legislation, the current hardline ruling bloc led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is the most right-wing in Israeli history and the initiative was one of National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir’s central campaign promises.His far-right Otzma Yehudit party sponsored the bill, and his fellow faction member MK Limor Son Har Melech hailed its advancement Wednesday, saying that even when Palestinian terrorists are tried and convicted, they enjoy “pleasant” prison conditions, receive stipends from the Palestinian Authority, and are often released in prisoner exchanges.During a plenum debate before the vote, she declared that “for years, an absurd situation has prevailed in the State of Israel, in which despicable terrorists who murdered Jews are imprisoned in an Israeli prison for a few years, are released in a terrorist release deal or a plea bargain and return to walking among us as any other person.”The ultranationalist MK, whose first husband was killed in a terror attack in 2003, said imposing the death penalty on terrorists is “the ethical, just and necessary” thing to do.In his own remarks during the debate, Hadash-Ta’al MK Ahmad Tibi said his party is ideologically opposed to the death penalty in all circumstances, and noted that Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef recently came out in opposition to the death penalty, as did previous chief rabbis.Palestinian Authority Civil Affairs Minister Hussein al-Sheikh called Wednesday’s vote was “a continuation of a racist approach” by Israel. “The one who should be tried for his crimes is the occupation, not a people suffering under the oppression of the occupiers.”Instituting a death penalty for terrorists had already been high on the hard-right coalition’s agenda before a string of deadly Palestinian attacks killed 14 people since the beginning of the year. The terror wave, which comes amid escalating deadly tensions in the West Bank, has re-energized calls for harsher punitive action against Palestinian perpetrators as well as more severe deterrent measures.Hebrew media reported earlier this month that Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara was set to oppose the law on the grounds that it poses significant constitutional difficulties and goes against Israel’s declarations on the matter in international forums and against the international trend of limiting the use of the death sentence.The Ynet news site quoted from what it said was Baharav-Miara’s planned legal opinion, saying the law wouldn’t serve as a deterrent, especially when the perpetrators are ideologically motivated and willing to accept being killed anyway. She also purportedly noted that the only Western country that still uses death sentences is the US, and even there only 31 out of 50 states still have it, with seven having nixed it over the past decade.Israel’s penal code includes capital punishment but only for exceedingly rare cases — Nazi mastermind Adolf Eichmann was one of only two people executed by the state in almost 75 years.On Tuesday, Germany’s Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock publicly voiced her concerns over the death penalty bill. “We have abolished this penalty,” Baerbock said during a press conference in Berlin alongside a visiting Foreign Minister Eli Cohen, adding that Germany was “talking about this with every country that has the death penalty, including the United States,” and that it has proven ineffective as a deterrent.Baerbock noted that students in German schools are taught that Israel has only carried out the death penalty in one case — that of Adolf Eichmann, who played a major role in the Holocaust, in the early 1960s — despite facing a bigger terror threat than any other country.“It is always an argument that we have used and I say, as a friend of Israel, that I am convinced that it would be a mistake to enact a death penalty law,” she noted.(In fact, a second man was executed in Israel — military officer Meir Tobianski — following a 1948 decision by an IDF court-martial to convict him of treason during the War of Independence, though the evidence was circumstantial and he was posthumously cleared of the charges.)Ben Gvir rebuked Baerbock for her comments.“The last ones who should be preaching to us are the Germans,” the far-right minister was quoted as saying by the Ynet news website. “They should think 1,000 times before talking about Israel’s right to defend itself.”
Israel should ‘wipe out’ Palestinian town of Huwara, says senior minister Smotrich-‘Huwara needs to be wiped out. State of Israel should do it,’ top Netanyahu ally says, days after settlers rampaged through West Bank town following deadly terror attack-By Michael Bachner-1 March 2023, 3:21 pm
Far-right minister Bezalel Smotrich, one of the most senior members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, said Wednesday that Israel should “wipe out” the Palestinian town of Huwara in the West Bank.The remark by Smotrich — who is the finance minister and also a minister in the Defense Ministry in charge of civilian affairs in the West Bank — came days after a terrorist from Huwara shot dead two Israeli brothers, which was followed by extremist settlers rampaging through the Nablus-area town and setting homes and cars on fire, resulting in one Palestinian shot dead and several badly hurt.The Sunday evening rioting was explicitly backed the following morning by coalition backbencher Zvika Fogel, a lawmaker for the extremist Otzma Yehudit party, which triggered widespread outrage. On Wednesday, Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara and State Prosecutor Amit Aisman cleared police to launch an investigation of Fogel, head of the Knesset’s National Security Committee and a former IDF brigadier general, over his comments.The new remark Wednesday was made by Smotrich, a far more senior politician, and it arguably went even further — saying that as a matter of policy, Jerusalem should seek to remove the entire town, which has a population of some 7,000.The Religious Zionism party leader, who was taking part in a financial conference hosted by The Marker business daily, was asked why he had on Sunday evening “liked” a tweet by Samaria Regional Council deputy mayor Davidi Ben Zion that called “to wipe out the village of Huwara today.”“Because I think the village of Huwara needs to be wiped out. I think the State of Israel should do it,” Smotrich replied.He added that “God forbid,” the job shouldn’t be done by private citizens, condemning the rampage and saying “we shouldn’t be dragged into anarchy in which civilians take the law into their own hands.”In his remarks earlier in the week, Fogel, the Otzma Yehudit MK, told Galey Israel Radio: “A closed, burnt Huwara — that’s what I want to see. That’s the only way to achieve deterrence. After a murder like yesterday’s, we need burning villages when the IDF doesn’t act.”Following the outrage over his comments, Fogel tweeted that his words had been “distorted,” without explaining how. He has since then contended that the military should have acted, not private citizens, though he has not taken back his initial remarks.Hours after a Palestinian shooting terror attack that killed brothers Hallel Yaniv, 21, and Yagel Yaniv, 19, from the settlement of Har Bracha, dozens of settlers ran riot through Huwara and other nearby towns, leaving one Palestinian dead and several others badly injured, in what the top general in charge of the area has labeled a “pogrom.”Eight Israeli suspects detained on the night of the rioting were released, three of them to house arrest, according to law enforcement officials. Another six were detained by police on early Wednesday, one of whom was released by the afternoon.Smotrich has a history of making controversial remarks against Palestinians, Arab citizens of Israel, LGBTQ people and others. He said in the past that Israel should be ruled by Torah law.
Senior IDF officer: Iran tried to drone strike two vessels in Arabian Sea last month-Speaking at INSS conference, Maj. Gen. Oded Basiuk says ‘Iran poses a danger to the security and stability of the entire region’By Emanuel Fabian-1 March 2023, 1:37 pm
The head of the military’s Operations Directorate, Maj. Gen. Oded Basiuk, revealed Wednesday that Iran had twice attempted to attack Israeli-linked vessels in the Arabian Sea in the past month.His remarks came after Israel accused Iran of attacking an Israeli-linked tanker in early February, a strike that the ship’s operator said caused “minor” damage.“Iran is not just Israel’s problem. And I’m not just talking about the nuclear threat. For example, the distribution of UAVs and the violation of international freedom of navigation in the region,” Basiuk said at a conference hosted by the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv.“In the last month, Iran tried twice to attack vessels in the Arabian Sea and failed, and it did so using drones, which we also see being used in the Ukraine-Russia war,” he said. “Iran poses a danger to the security and stability of the entire region.”He didn’t provide further details on when exactly the incidents occurred or what had transpired that led to the failure.On February 10, Campo Square, a Liberian-flagged product tanker, was “hit by an airborne object while in the Arabian Sea, approximately 300 nautical miles (555 kilometers) off the coasts of India and Oman,” according to Eletson, the Greek company that manages the vessel.“Both the vessel and crew are safe and proceeding as per planned passage. There is minor damage to the vessel,” Eletson said in a statement a week after the strike, following a BBC report.Campo Square belongs to Zodiac Maritime Company, owned by Israeli shipping magnate Eyal Ofer.Citing a US military official and a regional military source, BBC Persian said the attack on the Campo Square involved several Iranian ships and likely the Shahed 136 drone, which Russia has been using in its invasion of Ukraine.Iran’s government did not acknowledge the attack.Tehran and Israel have been engaged in a years-long shadow war in the wider Middle East, with several drone attacks targeting Israeli-associated vessels traveling around the region.In one such attack in July 2021, Mercer Street, an oil tanker owned by an Israeli businessman, was struck by a Shahed drone, killing a British and a Romanian crew member.In November, Israel and the United States blamed Iran for a drone strike on a tanker off the coast of Oman. The vessel was operated by a company owned by Idan Ofer, Eyal Ofer’s brother.“Iran is a continuous challenge,” Basiuk said at the Wednesday conference. “It is challenging us and we are challenging it.”
N. Korea wants more control over farming amid food shortage-ASSOCIATED PRESS-HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG-Wed, March 1, 2023 at 8:14 PM EST
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed to strengthen state control over agriculture and make all available efforts to increase grain production, state media reported, as the country faces a worsening food shortage.The prospect for an early resolution of its food insecurity is still dim, as North Korea restricts the operation of markets and devotes much of its scarce resources to its nuclear program. While experts believe the food situation is the worst it has been under Kim's rule, they still say they see no signs of imminent famine or mass deaths.During a recent four-day ruling Workers’ Party meeting, Kim said his government sees agricultural development as a matter of “strategic” importance and that farming goals should be settled without fail, according to the official Korean Central News Agency.“In order to attain the gigantic long-term objective of rural development, it is necessary to decisively strengthen the party guidance over the agricultural sector and improve the rural party work,” Kim was quoted as saying.He said that all state sectors and units must provide “mental and moral, material and technical support and assistance to the rural communities," saying that should be “a trend of the whole society."Kim also ordered officials to overcome unspecified “lopsidedness in the guidance on farming” and concentrate on increasing farm yields. He said provincial, city and county authorities must boost their guidance on agriculture.KCNA didn’t elaborate how Kim wants to reinforce and improve his government’s control over agriculture.But experts have said North Korean authorities’ attempts to supply grain via state-run facilities and restrict private dealings at markets was considered one of the reasons behind the worsened food situation. Others include decreased personal incomes, pandemic-related border curbs that blocked unofficial rice purchases from China and the overall economic difficulties deepened by mismanagement, COVID-19 and international sanctions.North Korea’s grain production last year was estimated at 4.5 million tons, a 3.8% drop from a year earlier, according to South Korean assessments. In the previous decade, its annual production was an estimated 4.4 million to 4.8 million tons. South Korea’s spy agency has said North Korea needs 5.5 million tons of grain to feed its 25 million people each year.“It is difficult to be optimistic about the food supply as long as Pyongyang insists on implementing North Korean style socialism and isolating the country from international trade and assistance while developing nuclear missiles,” Leif-Eric Easley, a professor at Ewha University in Seoul, said.Holding a ruling party’s Central Committee meeting focused on agriculture — while previous plenary meetings mostly concentrated on the country's nuclear program or rivalries with the United States and South Korea — could be an acknowledgement the food situation is serious. But some experts say the country also likely aims to burnish Kim’s image as a leader caring for his people and boost domestic support of his push to expand his nuclear arsenal.Kim also called for faster construction of new irrigation systems that would help the country cope with extreme weather conditions brought by climate change. He also called for machinery manufacturers to build and supply more efficient farming machines and for workers to accelerate their efforts to reclaim tidelines to expand farming.According to KCNA, Kim praised the plenary meeting for producing more definite proposals that would put agriculture on a “stable and sustained development track" and accelerate overall prosperity. But the account did not give further specifics.
IT WOULD NOT SURPRISE ME AT ALL. IF BEANBAG BOY ZELENSKY WOULD BETRAY THE WEST AND LET LUKASHENKO, OR A RUSSIAN OR CHINESE LEADER RUN THE UKRAINE. WHILE ZELENSKY WOULD RUN OFF WITH BILLIONS OF DOLLARS INTO HIDING IN RUSSIA OR CHINA.THIS WOULD LOOK GOOD ON CHINA PAID PUPPET BIDEN AND CANADA AND THE UK AND NATO AND ALL THE OTHER WESTERN SUCKERS THAT WERE CONNED INTO GIVING THE CHINESE OR RUSSIAN UKRAINIAN LEADER FREE WEAPONS. BUT THE REAL LOSERS WERE THE UKRAINE PEOPLE DYING FOR THE CAUSE OF THE WEST. THAT ZELENSKY BETRAYED AND PUT A COMMUNIST LEADER IN THE UKRAINE INSTEAD OF HIM. BIDEN WOULD GET HIS MUSLIM BUDDIES IN CHINA OR RUSSIA TO OFF ZELENSKY IF THEY COULD. FOR THAT KIND OF BETRAYAL.
China could funnel weapons to Russia through Belarus as defense ties with Beijing deepen: expert-Caitlin McFall-Wed, March 1, 2023 at 5:28 PM EST
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s top allies, China and Belarus, enhanced their own diplomatic ties Wednesday after leaders from both nations met in Beijing and agreed to deepen defensive coordination as Europe faces its greatest security threat since World War II.Chinese President Xi Jinping and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko signed a series of bilateral agreements that would expand cooperation in areas ranging from agriculture and trade to artificial intelligence and defense, reported the Belarusian state news agency Belta.Details on what an expanded China-Belarus defense partnership would entail were slim, though according to Belta, the agreement called for increased joint military training, cooperation on countering terrorism and "a joint preventive fight against color revolutions," which refers to anti-regime protests.Xi Lukashenko-RUSSIA AND CHINA IN UNOFFICIAL ARMS RACE AS US LAGS BEHIND: EXPERTS-But one former Defense Intelligence Agency intel officer for Russian doctrine and strategy, Rebekah Koffler, told Fox News Digital that the agreement could pave "the way for China to potentially funnel weapons and ammunition through to Russia to assist in the war on Ukraine.""This is a very strategic move by Xi Jinping," she added, noting that the Chinese leader’s motivations for the burgeoning partnership with Minsk go beyond his support for Putin."It’s a move to peel away Belarus from Russia. Russia and China are only short-term partners of convenience," Koffler said. "They both seek to prevent the U.S. from intervening into their respective perceived spheres of influence on behalf of Ukraine and Taiwan."China Belarus-Chinese honor guards stand at attention during a welcome ceremony for Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko at the airport in Beijing on Feb. 28, 2023.PRESIDENTS OF CHINA, BELARUS URGE CEASE-FIRE, NEGOTIATIONS TO SETTLE UKRAINE CONFLICT-"China is gradually cultivating Russia’s dependence … and Russia is truly becoming China’s junior partner. China is gaining more and more leverage over Russia and now over Russia’s former Soviet subjects," she added. "China wants to outsmart Russia."Koffler’s point was echoed in another agreement that Xi and Lukashenko reportedly signed on to Wednesday when they agreed to deepen "all-round cooperation" under China’s prized Belt and Road Initiative – a global infrastructure scheme Beijing launched in 2013.Putin’s top allies did not address recent concerns voiced by the U.S. that China could look to send Moscow lethal aid to help Russia turn the tide in its deadly war in Ukraine, but instead both leaders called for a cease-fire.Xi Bel.China last week rejected the U.S.’s suggestions, saying it has no plans to send arms and introduced a 12-step peace plan that it says could help bring an end to the war.Western defense officials and Kyiv scoffed at the plan, saying it lacked any real substance as it called for the territorial integrity of all countries to be respected but did not say what should happen to the Ukrainian regions Russia illegally annexed last year.Lukashenko threw his weight behind the ambiguous plan for peace and urged both Ukraine and Russia to agree to a cease-fire.
Fox News-Putin ally wants to increase jail time for those who insult Russian army, Wagner Group-Greg Norman-Wed, March 1, 2023 at 2:01 PM EST
A Putin ally and top Russian lawmaker is pushing Wednesday to increase jail time for residents who share information and opinions Moscow deems as insulting to its military – and now wants to extend the same protections to the mercenaries of the private Wagner Group.Vyacheslav Volodin, the chairman of the lower house of Russian parliament, the State Duma, is proposing amendments to censorship laws that would raise the maximum punishment for "discrediting" Russia’s armed forces from five to 15 years in prison, according to Reuters.Russians can already be punished by their government with up to 15 years in prison for spreading what Moscow describes is knowingly false information about the military. Around a week ago, a Russian journalist was handed a six-year sentence after a court found her guilty of "spreading false information about the Russian armed forces' actions," The Associated Press reported.Moscow introduced the laws last year in hopes of stifling domestic criticism and dissent over its invasion of Ukraine.RUSSIAN REPORTER GETS 6 YEARS FOR DISPARAGING HER COUNTRY’S MILITARY AMID WAR WITH UKRAINE"This initiative will protect everyone who today is risking their lives to ensure the security of the country and our citizens", Volodin wrote on Telegram, according to Reuters. "The punishment for violators will be severe."The proposals, which include extending the same protections for the first time to the Wagner Group, call for fines of up to around $70,000, correctional or forced labor of up to five years, and imprisonment of up to 15 years for insulting Russian troops, the news agency adds.Wagner Group funeral-RUSSIA’S WAGNER GROUP GAINS GLOBAL NOTORIETY FROM AFRICA TO UKRAINE, BUT DIVISION BREWS AT HOME-The OVD-Info human rights group reportedly says more than 5,800 people already have been ensnared in the law about discrediting the armed forces.Vyacheslav Volodin, center, the lawmaker who proposed the harsher penalties, is seen with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Deputy Chairman of Security Council Dmitry Medvedev in Moscow in February 2020."These amendments will allow us to defend the rights of individuals who are defending the country," Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the Wagner Group, wrote in a letter to Volodin in support of his amendments, Reuters reports.he State Duma will vote on the proposed amendments on March 14.
The Hill-Iran can produce enough material for a nuclear bomb in 12 days: Pentagon-Brad Dress-Wed, March 1, 2023 at 12:32 PM EST
Iran could produce enough material to develop a nuclear bomb within 12 days, a senior Pentagon official told lawmakers on Tuesday.Colin Kahl, the undersecretary of Defense for policy, said Tehran’s nuclear development progress has been “remarkable” since the Trump administration withdrew from a nuclear pact in 2018.“In 2018 … it would have taken Iran about twelve months to produce one bomb’s worth of fissile material,” Kahl told lawmakers at a House Armed Services Committee hearing. “Now it would take about twelve days.”The United Nations’ nuclear watchdog recently warned Iran has enriched uranium at one nuclear site up to 83 percent, close to the 90 percent enrichment level needed to produce weapons-grade material.About 192 pounds of Iran’s uranium stockpile is already enriched up to 60 percent and the nation could produce several bombs, according to the UN, but it would likely take months to fit those onto missiles.Negotiations between the Biden administration and Iran on restarting a key nuclear pact to constrain Tehran’s ability to produce nuclear weapons have stalled in recent months.Kahl said the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) is “on ice” and “not on the horizon in the near term” for the Biden administration.“The administration’s position remains that a diplomatic deal to put constraints around Iran’s program remains the best alternative to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon,” he told lawmakers.“But the president has also made clear that his policy is Iran will not get a nuclear weapon — period,” he added. “And if a diplomatic outcome is not possible, then we have other options.”The JCPOA, enacted in 2015 during the Obama administration, lifted sanctions on Iran in return for restrictions on Tehran’s ability to enrich uranium to levels where it could be developed into nuclear weapons.Trump scrapped the agreement in 2018, calling it a “bad deal” for the U.S. before reimposing sanctions on Iran.The Biden administration began indirect negotiations with Iran in April 2021 to revive the deal, but talks dragged out and no deal emerged.In December, a video surfaced of President Biden saying at a rally last year the Iran nuclear deal was “dead” but his administration was not going to announce it.When asked to comment on the video, White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby acknowledged there was “no progress” with the Iran deal.“We don’t anticipate any progress, anytime in the near future,” Kirby told reporters at the time.Russia’s war in Ukraine has also raised tensions between Tehran and Washington. Iran has reportedly been shipping explosive drones to Moscow for months.
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.
Train DerailmentOhio train derailment: Rail union leader says Norfolk Southern workers have fallen ill in East Palestine
Author: Dave "Dino" DeNatale-Published: 8:36 PM EST March 1, 2023
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — As Norfolk Southern's cleanup efforts continue at the site of its freight train derailment in East Palestine, a rail union leader says workers there have fallen ill.In a letter sent to government leaders including Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, the head of the American Rail System Federation (ARSF) of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters pleaded for officials to "use your influence and power to stop NS's (Norfolk Southern) reckless business practices that endanger the public and their Workers."Specifically, Jonathon Long says many Norfolk Southern employees at the East Palestine derailment site are reporting that they are experiencing migraines and nausea. One worker told Long that he asked his supervisor to be transferred out of the derailment site because of his symptoms, but never heard back from his supervisor and was left at the job site. Long also says that workers cleaning up the wreckage in East Palestine were not provided with personal protective equipment, including respirators, eye protection, and protective clothing. "When some of the NS (Norfolk Southern) Workers inquired about the appropriateness of their personal protective equipment and the safety of their working conditions, they would receive little or no response from NS officials."The revelation of Long's letter comes as CNBC reports that leaders from 12 rail unions met with Buttigieg and Amit Bose, administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration, in Washington, D.C., Wednesday to discuss the derailment, aftermath and needed safety improvements. Here are other headlines from East Palestine on Wednesday:-- Ohio U.S. Sens. Sherrod Brown and JD Vance were part of a bipartisan group of lawmakers who introduced the Railway Safety Act of 2023 to, among other things, increase required reportings of hazardous materials carried on freight trains.-- DeWine spent most of the day on the ground in East Palestine. The governor pledged "to continue to focus on the safety of the people of East Palestine every single day.""When I talk to people in the community, the No. 1 desire that is expressed to me is their desire to get back to where they were," DeWine said. "Back to normal, live their lives."-- Norfolk Southern CEO Alan Shaw said Wednesday that he plans to testify next Thursday at a U.S. Senate hearing on the derailment.
Ohio toxic train disaster leads to more concerns in other states while scientists say chemical tests in East Palestine are unusually high-By Holly Yan, Jen Christensen and Celina Tebor, CNN-Updated 9:18 PM EST, Wed March 1, 2023
CNN — The aftermath of the toxic train wreck in Ohio keeps spreading to more states as scientists say tests in East Palestine show unusually high levels of some chemicals.Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb is the latest out-of-state official to say he was stunned to learn hazardous waste from the Norfolk Southern train derailment and subsequent release of toxic chemicals was headed to his state.Feds pressure railroads to review detectors that might have prevented East Palestine derailment“After learning third-hand that materials may be transported to our state yesterday, I directed my environmental director to reach out” to the US Environmental Protection Agency, Holcomb said in a written statement Tuesday.“The materials should go to the nearest facilities, not moved from the far eastern side of Ohio to the far western side of Indiana,” Holcomb said. “I want to know exactly what precautions will be taken in the transport and disposition of the materials.”After surprise shipments of hazardous waste to Texas and Michigan, the EPA approved two sites in Ohio to handle safe disposal of the waste.Another two sites – Heritage Environmental Services’ hazardous waste landfill in Roachdale, Indiana, and Ross Incineration Services in Grafton, Ohio – will receive contaminated waste starting Tuesday, EPA Region 5 Administrator Debra Shore said Monday. She said Indiana officials and state partners were notified before the EPA approved “the shipment of any waste from the derailment to their state or district.”Texas, Michigan officials complain about water, soil from train wreck being transported into their jurisdictions. Soil from the Ohio train wreck being collected.Texas and Michigan officials say they didn't know water, soil from Ohio train wreck would be moved to their states-But US EPA Administrator Michael Regan said the agency is developing measures to give authorities a “heads up” about incoming waste shipments and to keep Norfolk Southern accountable for the material it is moving.On the other side of Ohio, the Pennsylvania Department of Health is opening a health resource center in Beaver County so residents “can talk to public health experts, sign up to have their well water tested, and learn about available resources from professionals there to help,” Gov. Josh Shapiro tweeted Tuesday.Beaver County is just across the state border from East Palestine – a village of 5,000 struggling to understand the full breadth of consequences from the February 3 toxic train wreck that burned for days and led to the release of the dangerous chemical vinyl chloride.A health assessment clinic there has seen more than 130 people since it opened its doors one week ago. The Ohio Department of Health says the clinic’s aim is to take stock of the ailments residents are experiencing and help connect them with available local resources.‘We don’t know … what the long-term risk is’A new data analysis suggests nine out of the dozens of chemicals that the EPA has been monitoring are higher than what normally would be found in East Palestine, according to scientists from Texas A&M and Carnegie Mellon universities.If the levels of some chemicals remain high, it could pose a problem for residents’ health over time, the scientists said. Temperature changes or high winds might stir up the chemicals and release them into the atmosphere.High levels of chemicals could pose long-term risks at Ohio train derailment site, researchers say The chemical with the highest concentration found in East Palestine was a substance called acrolein, the data analysis said.Acrolein is used to control plants, algae, rodents and microorganisms. It is a clear liquid at room temperature and is toxic. It can cause inflammation and irritation of the skin, respiratory tract and mucous membranes, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.“It’s not elevated to the point where it’s necessarily like an immediate ‘evacuate the building’ health concern,” said Albert Presto, an associate research professor of mechanical engineering at Carnegie Mellon’s Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation, who is working on the university’s chemical monitoring effort in East Palestine.“But, you know, we don’t know necessarily what the long-term risk is or how long that concentration that causes that risk will persist.”While acrolein was not on the list of chemicals carried on the derailed train cars, it can be created during the combustion of fuels, wood and plastics, according to the International Agency for Research on Cancer.The EPA offers cleaning services to residents-Some East Palestine residents have reported rashes, headaches, nausea and bloody noses since the derailment and the February 6 controlled release and burning of vinyl chloride.During his third visit to the town Tuesday, the EPA chief said ongoing tests of the air and municipal water show both are safe – but urged anyone who is feeling “any kind of adverse health impacts” to seek medical attention.NTSB Investigators conduct Unmanned Aircraft System operations for the Norfolk Southern freight train derailment near East Palestine, Ohio.Here's what's happened since the Ohio train derailment more than 3 weeks ago-Regan returned to East Palestine to mark the opening of the “EPA’s community welcome center,” which will be open daily so “residents and business owners can stop in to get their questions answered, sign up for home air monitoring, and learn more about cleaning services.”“We’ve been testing the air from the very beginning, and the state has been testing the water,” Regan said.“Every chemical that was on that train and every byproduct from those chemicals have been tested or are part of our testing regimen,” he said. “So we believe firmly that our testing regimen is protective.The EPA is also deploying a mobile laboratory to conduct “real time” air monitoring and sampling in the village, EPA regional administrator Debra Shore said Tuesday afternoon. The mobile lab will analyze air samples on-site and deliver results quickly, so officials won’t have to wait for samples to be sent to other labs.Additionally, the agency offering cleaning services – which will be reimbursed by Norfolk Southern – to any concerned resident in East Palestine.“There have been many residents here who have indicated that they worry about some residual, or some dust or some particles,” Regan said. “While we don’t believe that there are any adverse health impacts in homes or businesses as it relates to the derailment, this is an additional step we’re taking to alleviate concern and lower the angst.”More private well water gets tested-Ohio officials have said East Palestine’s municipal water supply is safe to drink, citing multiple tests and the fact that the municipal water comes from five wells encased in steel deep underground.A member of the Environmental Protection Agency takes water samples from Sulphur Run creek following a train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, US, on Thursday, February 23, 2022.As crews remove contaminated soil and liquid from Ohio toxic train wreck site, concerns emerge about where it's going-But health officials warn those using private well water should get it tested before using it. The Columbiana County Health District is posting test results online.Across the border in Pennsylvania, the state Department of Environmental Protection has collected samples from “nearly every private well” in the state within one mile of the derailment site, the governor said.The goal is to independently verify the safety of the water in Pennsylvania, Shapiro said.He reiterated that “Norfolk Southern will pay for the entire cost of the clean up,” including reimbursing Pennsylvania county fire departments for “equipment that was damaged or contaminated while responding to the derailment.”Buttigieg pushes for more regulation and cooperation-US Transporation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has called for Norfolk Southern and the rest of the freight rail industry to take a number of immediate actions, including committing to phase in safer tank cars by 2025.The Department of Transportation also wants Congress to take up legislation that would increase the maximum fines the DOT can issue to rail companies for violating safety regulations, Buttigieg said.He also called on the CEOs of major freight rail companies to “join a close-call reporting system that protects whistleblowers who spot issues that could lead to accidents,” Buttigieg told CNN on Tuesday.“We’re focusing on lessons learned when it comes to rail safety.”CNN’s Miguel Marquez, Brenda Goodman, Artemis Moshtaghian, Liam Reilly and Betsy Klein rcontributed to this report.
AFP-La Nina ending but warming El Nino may strike soon: UN-Robin MILLARD-Wed, March 1, 2023 at 9:26 AM EST
An exceptionally long La Nina weather phenomenon that intensified drought and flooding is finally ending, the United Nations said Wednesday -- but what comes next might bring its own problems.The outgoing La Nina phenomenon, a cooling of surface temperatures that can have a widespread impact on global weather conditions, started in September 2020.However, despite La Nina's cooling effect, both 2021 and 2022 were warmer than any year prior to 2015.Now El Nino, its warming opposite in the cycle, El Nino, could be on the way this year, the UN's World Meteorological Organization said in its quarterly update.The WMO said that after an unusually stubborn and protracted La Nina dragged on for three consecutive years -- a so-called triple-dip -- there was a good chance El Nino would develop in June-August."The first triple-dip La Nina of the 21st century is finally coming to an end," said WMO chief Petteri Taalas."La Nina's cooling effect put a temporary brake on rising global temperatures, even though the past eight-year period was the warmest on record," he added."If we do now enter an El Nino phase, this is likely to fuel another spike in global temperatures."- Uncertain forecasts -La Nina is the large-scale cooling of surface temperatures in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean. It normally occurs every two to seven years.Conditions oscillate between La Nina and its opposite El Nino, with neutral conditions in between.The WMO said there was a 90-percent probability of neutral conditions during March to May, decreasing to 80 percent in the April-June window and 60 percent in May-July.The chances of El Nino developing are forecast as 15 percent in April-June, 35 percent in May-July and 55 percent in June-August.However, forecasts produced at this time of year come with a higher degree of uncertainty."We need an extra two or three months to have a more confident idea of what to expect," said Alvaro Silva, a consultant at WMO working on the quarterly updates.Tracking the oscillation between the two phases helps countries prepare for their potential impacts, such as floods, droughts or extreme heat, he told AFP.- El Nino risks - Even with the cooling La Nina, "the past eight years were the warmest on record, so we have here an important signal of climate change", he said."With El Nino, there is an increased likelihood that we will see the warmest year on record."The WMO said that even though La Nina was coming to an end, latent impacts were likely for some time to come due to its long duration, so some of its effects on rainfall might persist.While El Nino and La Nina are a natural phenomenon, they take place "against a background of human-induced climate change, which is increasing global temperatures, affecting seasonal rainfall patterns, and making our weather more extreme", the WMO said.rjm/nl/jj
WHO chief visits rebel-held Syria for first time after quake-Omar Haj Kadour-Wed, March 1, 2023 at 11:31 AM EST
World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Wednesday urged the international community to help earthquake-hit northwest Syria, on his first ever visit to rebel-held areas of the war-ravaged country."The people of northwest Syria need the assistance of the international community to recover and rebuild," Tedros told reporters after entering from neighbouring Turkey via the Bab al-Hawa border crossing."I call on the international community, governments, philanthropists, individuals, to dig deep," added Tedros, the highest-ranking United Nations official to visit the rebel-held area since civil war broke out almost 12 years ago.The WHO chief had already travelled to government-controlled Aleppo and Damascus the same week as the February 6 disaster that killed more than 50,000 people in Turkey and Syria.Tedros on Wednesday visited several hospitals and a shelter near the Turkish border for people displaced by the disaster, an AFP correspondent said.Turkish-backed officials in Syria have put the death toll in rebel-held areas at 4,537, while the Syrian government has said 1,414 people were killed in areas under its control.The UN has launched a $397 million appeal to help quake victims in Syria, but Tedros warned that "we are not getting as much as what is needed for this emergency".- 'Needs increasing' -"Even before the earthquake, needs were increasing while international aid was decreasing," Tedros said."We must not close our eyes or turn our backs on the Syrian people."In the aftermath of the quake, activists and emergency teams in the rebel-held northwest had decried the UN's slow response, contrasting it with the planeloads of humanitarian aid that have been delivered to government-controlled airports.By noon Wednesday, at least 258 aircraft laden with aid had reached regime-controlled areas, 129 of them from the United Arab Emirates, transport ministry official Suleiman Khalil said.UN relief chief Martin Griffiths had admitted on February 12 that the body had "so far failed the people in northwest Syria".The United Nations says at least 420 trucks loaded with UN aid have now crossed into the rebel-held pocket since the tragedy.The quake came nearly 12 years into Syria's civil war which devastated swathes of the country, killed nearly half a million people and displaced millions more.More than four million people live in areas outside government control in Syria's north and northwest, 90 percent of whom depend on aid to survive.- Crossings -The first UN aid convoy crossed into the area on February 9 -- three days after the 7.8-magnitude quake struck -- and carried tents and other relief for 5,000. That convoy had been expected before the earthquake.The UN largely delivers relief to Syria's northwest via neighbouring Turkey through the Bab al-Hawa crossing -- the only way for aid to enter without Damascus's permission.The crossing is located in the Idlib region, which UN officials rarely visit and is controlled by the jihadist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.The WHO chief said on February 12 that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had expressed openness to more border crossings for aid to be brought to quake victims in the rebel-held northwest.On February 13, the United Nations said Damascus had allowed it to also use two other crossings in areas outside regime control -- Bab al-Salama and Al-Rai -- for three months.An AFP correspondent said a new aid convoy entered via Bab al-Salama on Wednesday.The first UN delegation to visit rebel-held northwestern Syria after the earthquake crossed from Turkey on February 14.It comprised deputy regional humanitarian coordinator David Carden and Sanjana Quazi, who heads the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Turkey, and was largely an assessment mission.ohk/aya/lg/srm
World not adequately prepared for increasing disasters, UN report says-‘Highly unlikely’ global community will meet 2030 goal to reduce casualties, damage, says International Science Council; floods and storms, exacerbated by climate change, top list-By AFP-1 March 2023, 1:43 pm
UNITED NATIONS — Earthquakes, floods, storms — the world is not adequately prepared to face increasing disasters, a report published Tuesday said, calling for a rethink on global risk management.Since 1990, more than 10,700 disasters have affected over six billion people worldwide, according to data from the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction.In 2015, the international community adopted global goals to lower casualties and damage by the year 2030 by investing in risk evaluation and reduction, as well as disaster preparedness, in a declaration known as the “Sendai Framework.”However, it is “highly unlikely we will meet the Sendai Framework goals by 2030 given current trends,” said a report by the International Science Council, which includes dozens of scientific organizations.Floods and storms, which have been exacerbated by climate change, top the list of disasters and account for 42 percent of the total.The cascading disasters are “setting back hard-won development gains in many parts of the world,” the report said.“Far too little attention and investment is put to long-term planning and prevention, from strengthening building codes to adopting hazard alert systems,” said Peter Gluckman, president of the ISC.This lack of preparedness comes even as the international community is quick to mobilize after disasters like the recent earthquake in Turkey and Syria, he added.Mami Mizutori, UN special representative for disaster risk reduction, said “the multiple challenges of the last three years have laid bare the fundamental need for greater global readiness for the next disaster.”“We need to reinforce our infrastructure, communities, and ecosystems now, rather than rebuild them in the aftermath,” she added.The report additionally drew attention to resource allocation issues. For example, only 5.2% of aid for developing countries for disaster response between 2011 and 2022 was dedicated to risk reduction. The rest was allocated to relief and post-disaster reconstruction.The ISC calls for the widespread deployment of early warning systems, noting that 24 hours’ notice of a storm could reduce damage by 30%.A report released in late January by the UN General Assembly also noted that countries were not on track to meet goals under the Sendai framework.Not only is the number of people affected by disasters each year increasing, but so is the direct damage, which reached an average of $330 billion per year during the 2015-2021 period.
Minor tremor rattles Tiberias amid increase in regional seismic activity-Geological Institute says temblor’s epicenter 2 kilometers northwest of city; no immediate reports of damage or injuries-By ToI Staff-1 March 2023, 11:13 am
A 3.0-magnitude earthquake was recorded in Israel on Wednesday morning, the Israel Geological Institute said.The quake’s epicenter was located two kilometers northwest of Tiberias, a city on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee.“I’m still shaking,” a local resident posted on Facebook. “It’s like a tank passed through the neighborhood.”There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.The tremor came amid a significant uptick in seismic activity in Israel and the region at large. Over the course of February, a total of six earthquakes have been registered in the country.On Monday, a 6.4-magnitude earthquake hit the already disaster-struck Turkey-Syrian border region, also rattling Israel.The head of the government’s earthquake preparedness committee recently warned lawmakers that the main cities were not fully prepared for a major earthquake. A comptroller report found there were 600,000 buildings in the country that do not meet the standard for earthquake resistance.The National Security Council has reportedly sped up preparations for a strong earthquake in Israel. Over NIS 3 billion have been reportedly allocated to strengthen approximately 40,000 apartments in the most at-risk areas. In addition to this, the government is planning to pass a multi-year plan worth about NIS 50 billion to strengthen hundreds of thousands of apartments and buildings throughout the country.Israel lies along an active fault line — the Great Rift Valley, or the Syrian African Rift, a tear in the earth’s crust that includes the area of the border separating Israel and Jordan. The last major earthquake to hit the region was in 1927 — a 6.2-magnitude tremor that killed 500 people and injured 700 — and seismologists estimate that such earthquakes occur in this region approximately every 100 years.Tel Aviv University researchers published a study in 2020 warning that such an earthquake, large enough to cause hundreds of fatalities, will likely hit the country in the coming years.Last year, a new cutting-edge technology capable of sensing the first sign of an earthquake and quickly sending warnings to the Home Front command was unveiled by Geological Institute. The system comprises 120 sensors, called seismometers, that are buried in the ground at roughly ten-kilometer (six-mile) intervals, mainly along the seismic fault lines of the Dead Sea and the Carmel Fault near Haifa in the north.Sue Surkes and Danielle Nagler 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.
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)
UN Security Council to continue engaging on Israeli-Palestinian conflict, envoys say-UAE ambassador says members received ‘concerning’ update on West Bank violence in private session, the third emergency meet since Netanyahu established government 2 months ago-By Jacob Magid-MAR 1,23-Today, 10:42 pm
The United Nations Security Council will continue to engage on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict so long as tensions between the sides continue to escalate, members said Tuesday, after the panel held its third emergency session to discuss the issue since the establishment of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hardline government two months ago.“The countries around the table agreed that the escalation of tensions needs to be something we’re kept abreast of and that we should try to see if there are ways that we can stop any incitement to further violence and to promote dialogue,” Malta’s Ambassador to the UN Vanessa Frazier told reporters after the completion of a closed session that was convened at the request of the United Arab Emirates to discuss the deadly violence that took place earlier this week in the West Bank.Two Israeli brothers were shot dead while driving through the Palestinian town of Huwara on Sunday. Hours later, hundreds of settlers carried out a rampage through the town hours later, burning cars and buildings, with one Palestinian killed in as-yet unclear circumstances. On Monday, an Israeli-American was shot dead by Palestinian gunmen near Jericho.Frazier’s remarks, which were reiterated by UAE Ambassador Lana Nusseibah, follow pushback from Israeli officials over the council’s focus on Israel, with Jerusalem arguing that it is disproportionate and biased against it.Nusseibah said that council members received a “concerning” briefing on the latest escalations from the UN’s Mideast envoy Tor Wennesland, who told them that “the lack of a political horizon [for an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal] is causing a continual cycle of violence and reprisals on the ground.”“Council members all spoke with one voice in the room encouraging de-escalation, urging no further unilateral actions, urging protection of civilians,” she added.Speaking after her, Palestinian Ambassador to the UN Riyad Mansour said the Security Council has an obligation to find ways to “provide protection” for Palestinian civilians after the settler rampage in Huwara.Mansour said it would have been helpful for Security Council representatives to visit Huwara so they could “see with their own eyes (and) feel the horror in the minds and hearts of children and mothers and their families.”“We will continue knocking on the door of the Security Council, not only to speak in one voice, but to take further steps,” Mansour said.In addition to convening two other emergency sessions — one after far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir visited the flashpoint Temple Mount and another after a deadly IDF raid in the Palestinian city of Jenin — the Security Council has held two mandated monthly sessions for briefings on the conflict. After the most recent one last week, members adopted a rare presidential statement condemning Israeli settlement activity.The Palestinian mission had pushed the council to adopt a resolution, but the US pressured members to suffice with the more symbolic presidential statement, two diplomats for countries on the panel confirmed to The Times of Israel. Still, the statement was the first of its kind in nine years.The decision to hold Tuesday’s emergency session was blasted by Israeli Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan, who claimed in a statement that the Security Council “continues to ignore the murderous terrorist attacks and the Palestinian incitement.”“Council members close their eyes to the daily and incessant terrorism that claims the lives of innocent Israelis and deal obsessively — like puppets on a string — only with the demands of the Palestinians,” he said.
PA’s Abbas said to tell forces to resist IDF troops, settlers who enter ‘our lands’Senior PLO member Azzam al-Ahmad says Palestinian troops told not to hesitate, emphasizes importance of ‘national resistance’By ToI Staff-1 March 2023, 6:36 pm
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has instructed PA security forces to confront Israeli troops and settlers if they enter Palestinian-controlled areas of the West Bank, a senior PA official said on Tuesday.“President Abbas instructed the security services to confront the occupation forces and settlers,” Azzam al-Ahmad, a member of the executive leadership of the Fatah party and the Palestine Liberation Organization told the Palestinian Satellite Channel. “We stress the importance of the national resistance,” he added.“If they enter our lands, don’t hesitate to confront them,” al-Ahmad said, apparently referring to Abbas’s instructions regarding Area A of the West Bank.“The best example is what is going on in Nablus [where battles between IDF soldiers and Palestinian gunmen have taken place in the northern West Bank city], and even in Huwara,” the site of a violent extremist settler riot, he said.“Not long ago, they [PA security forces] fought with them [Israeli soldiers] in Huwara,” he claimed, without giving details.The Israeli security establishment has long hailed coordination with PA forces as critical for combating terror and maintaining stability in the West Bank. Abbas recently cut ties following a deadly Israeli military raid in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank that killed nine Palestinians, including at least one civilian.At a summit in the Jordanian port city of Aqaba on Sunday, Israeli and Palestinian officials agreed to take steps to resume coordinationWhile the talks were ongoing, a deadly Palestinian terror attack near Nablus on Sunday killed two Israeli brothers. After that, settlers ran riot through Huwara and nearby towns, with the violence leaving one Palestinian dead and several others badly injured, as well as torching homes and cars, and killing sheep.The military has bolstered the West Bank with four additional infantry battalions following the attack and subsequent settler rioting in Huwara.Last Wednesday, 11 Palestinians were killed and more than 80 wounded in a gun battle when Israeli troops raided Nablus to arrest terror operatives. Palestinian terror groups said at least seven of those killed were their operatives. Another three were confirmed to have been civilians.Tensions between Israel and the Palestinians have been high for the past year, with the IDF conducting near-nightly raids in the West Bank amid a series of deadly Palestinian terror attacks.There has also been a rise in settler violence toward Palestinians in recent months.Emanuel Fabian contributed to this report.
