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)
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 247,446,503 - DEAD 5,014,748 - AS OF SUN OCT 31,2021 (PROBABLY IN THE LAST 200,000 DEAD-150,000 STILL GOT COVID AND DIED AFTER GETTING BOTH VACCINE SHOTS)
THE SNAKE OIL (NWO) BOOSTER IS CALLED A DOWNLOAD EVERY 6 MONTHS IN YOUR BODY LIKE A COMPUTER DOWN LOAD.
White House press secretary tests positive for COVID-19-Jen Psaki was last in contact with Biden on Tuesday when they were more than 6 feet apart and wearing masks; did not accompany president to Europe as relatives had tested positive-By AAMER MADHANI and Zeke Miller-1 November 2021, 12:31 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Sunday she has contracted COVID-19.She said she was last in contact with US President Joe Biden on Tuesday, when she met him in the White House. Psaki said they were more than 6 feet apart and wearing masks.Psaki was not traveling with Biden, who was in Rome this weekend for the Group of 20 summit and is headed to Glasgow, Scotland, on Monday for a UN climate summit.Psaki, 42, had planned to travel with the president but scrapped the trip just as he was set to depart for Europe after learning that members of her household had tested positive for COVID-19.“Since then, I have quarantined and tested negative (via PCR) for COVID on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday,” Psaki said in a statement. “However, today, I tested positive for COVID.”Psaki said she is only exhibiting mild symptoms.“While I have not had close contact in person with the President or senior members of the White House staff since Wednesday – and tested negative for four days after that last contact — I am disclosing today’s positive test out of an abundance of transparency,” Psaki said.White House staff and others traveling with the president have been undergoing daily tests for COVID-19 since before departing Washington and are all fully vaccinated. Many officials have also received booster shots, due to the close-quarters environment and frequent travel associated with their work.Biden got his COVID-19 booster on Sept 27, shortly after federal regulators approved the third dose for many Americans.
US President Joe Biden receives a COVID-19 booster shot during an event in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus, Monday, Sept. 27, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)-Biden has been accompanied on the trip by principal deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. Psaki said she would return to work in person at the conclusion of a 10-day quarantine and following a negative rapid test.'I feel a deep sense of intense moral responsibility'
‘Anti-vaxx doctors’ advised late COVID-denier activist not to get treated — TV-Health Ministry internal document probing Hai Shoulian’s death finds that leading physicians who oppose the COVID vaccine were in close contact with him in hospital-By TOI staff-OCT 31,21-Today, 11:03 pm
A vocal opponent of vaccines against the coronavirus who died in September of COVID-19 received advice from doctors not to take life-saving treatment, according to a Sunday television report.Hai Shoulian, 57, who remained defiantly opposed to vaccines until his death, was in contact with several doctors while he was hospitalized with a severe case of COVID-19, Channel 12 news reported.According to an internal Health Ministry document, Shaulian was advised to receive different treatment than what the doctors at the hospital where he was being treated had prescribed.The document, which summarized a probe by the ministry’s Committee for Prevention of Misleading the Public in Health Product Advertising, noted that the doctors’ advice may have harmed Shoulian, and contributed to the worsening of his condition.The doctors, reported to have been acquainted with Shoulian, also advised him not to get vaccinated, according to the network.“These doctors are among the leaders of the anti-vaccination movement… and now it has ramped up — they actively and in real-time intervened in the care of a patient who listened to their advice and was not vaccinated,” the document read, according to Channel 12.“It is possible that these actions even caused harm to the point of death for the patient, who relied on their advice,” the committee wrote.The advice given to Shoulian included breathing exercises, inhaling tea steam, and taking vitamins, while also refusing hospital treatment.Channel 12 named some of the doctors as Avshalom Carmel, Michal Haran, and Arieh Avni, the latter of whom had his medical license revoked after he reportedly forged virus immunization certificates.In a Facebook post shortly before his death that included a photo of him hooked up to an oxygen concentrator, Shoulian said, “The situation is most critical. I’m incapable of speaking or responding to people. I have no oxygen and am unable to stabilize.”Shoulian said he believed that, “with God’s help,” he would recover in two to three weeks and railed at the government’s Green Pass system, which limits entry to many venues and events to those who are vaccinated, recovered from COVID, or who present a negative coronavirus test result.“It has nothing to do with the coronavirus. It has nothing to do with vaccines. It has to do with coercion,” he said.In a video, Shoulian claimed police tried to poison him after he was arrested during a recent protest against the Green Pass.“I’m telling you, this is an attempt to wipe me out and if something happens to me know that’s exactly what happened,” he said.Following his death, other opponents of the coronavirus vaccines made similar unfounded claims about his death, with numerous Facebook users writing on his final post that he was murdered.The Times of Israel
Two Jewish employees behind push to cancel Google’s $1.2 billion Israel contract-Ariel Koren and Gabriel Schubiner say deal to provide Jewish state with cloud-based data storage centers will contribute to surveillance of Palestinians and settlement expansion-By Eliyahu Kamisher-1 November 2021, 1:32 am
J. The Jewish News of Northern California via JTA — Two Jewish Google employees are playing a key role in a worker petition calling on Google and Amazon to cancel a joint contract to build cloud-based data centers on behalf of the Israeli government.The massive, $1.2 billion contract, dubbed Project Nimbus, was signed in May and is one of Israel’s largest technology infrastructure ventures. Google and Amazon will transfer Israel’s data into six cloud-based storage centers over the next several years.The open letter says the deal violates the signers’ “core values” by allegedly fostering surveillance of Palestinians and encouraging the expansion of Jewish settlements.“For me as a Jewish employee of Google, I feel a deep sense of intense moral responsibility,” said Ariel Koren, who lives in San Francisco and works in Google’s education division. “When you work in a company, you have the right to be accountable and responsible for the way that your labor is actually being used.”Koren, along with Gabriel Schubiner, a New York–based Google software engineer, helped devise the open letter calling for the two mammoth companies to end the Project Nimbus contract. It appeared in the opinion section of the UK’s Guardian news site on October 12, claiming it had been signed by 390 Google and Amazon employees.“As workers who keep these companies running, we are morally obligated to speak out against violations of these core values,” the statement read. “This technology allows for further surveillance of and unlawful data collection on Palestinians, and facilitates expansion of Israel’s illegal settlements on Palestinian land.”According to Koren, over 1,000 employees have now signed the petition, although they remain anonymous and J. is unable to verify the number of supporters. Koren and Schubiner are two of only three total signatories who have chosen to identify themselves publicly.The pair of Jewish Googlers said their identity as Jews is essential to speaking out on behalf of Palestinian colleagues who fear retribution.“As Jews, we’re relatively more insulated against charges of antisemitism that often come up in these discussions,” said Schubiner. “I do recognize the privilege that comes with my identity and talking about this issue without fear of retaliation.” I do recognize the privilege that comes with my identity and talking about this issue without fear of retaliation.The push to end the Project Nimbus contract faces an uphill battle. The contract reportedly contains a safeguard preventing the tech giants from pulling out due to boycott pressure. In a short statement to J., Amazon Web Services said the company is “focused on making the benefits of our world-leading cloud technology available to all our customers, wherever they are located.” Google did not reply to a request for comment.Koren and Schubiner pointed to previous instances when Google responded to employees’ pressure, ending the renewal of a contract with the Pentagon and discontinuing work on a censored Chinese search engine. Schubiner added that if the contract with the Israeli government holds, he hopes the open letter will push Google and Amazon toward more transparency in their business contracts and the adoption of ethical standards for future data storage projects.Koren and Schubiner told J. they have been working to convince Jewish tech employees who are not currently active in criticizing Israel to take a stance on the contract. “Trying to have these kinds of conversations, while also listening and being respectful with coworkers, is difficult,” said Schubiner. “It’s not an easy conversation. One that, frankly, Google has tried to avoid and tried to shut down because they think it is so difficult.”Public support for the appeal has been largely confined to hardline anti-Zionist critics of Israel, including Jewish Voice for Peace and American Muslims for Palestine. These groups back a complete boycott of the state. Both Koren and Schubiner declined to comment when asked if they want Google and Amazon to divest from Israel outside of Project Nimbus.The two are also members of Jewish Diaspora in Tech, a coalition of left-wing Jews who say they have felt ostracized from Jewish tech spaces due to their highly critical positions on Israel and Zionism. Schubiner said the killing of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 forced him to reassess the division between his personal life and his work at Google.“I was kind of shocked to find that the conversations about equity that we tried to have in that [Jewish Google] space were very quickly derailed into conversations that used antisemitism as a means to avoid talking about other types of racial equity,” Schubiner said. Now he says around 200 people have joined the internal Google group for Jewish Diaspora in Tech.“I don’t know if the demand to drop Nimbus is fully achievable,” added Schubiner. “It’s up to the workers to decide that this is an issue that we care about enough to really put our own skin in the game.”This article was originally published in J. The Jewish News of Northern California, and is reprinted with permission.
Israel cyber authority says it warned hosting company it was vulnerable to hack-National Cyber Directorate told CyberServer ‘several times’ it could be targeted, ahead of Black Shadow hackers’ personal data breach of Israeli LGBT site and others-By TOI staff and AFP-OCT 31,21-Today, 11:13 pm
Israel’s National Cyber Directorate said Sunday that it had warned the Israeli internet hosting company breached by a hacker group linked to Iran over the weekend that it was vulnerable to an attack.Libi Oz, a spokeswoman for the government-funded agency, said her office warned CyberServe “several times.”CyberServe did not respond for a request to comment, but said in a statement Saturday that it had been dealing with “an Iranian cyber terror event.”“From the moment we got warning on the issue from the National Cyber Directorate, even before the incident, we cooperated fully and fulfilled all the directorate’s guidelines,” it said.The Black Shadow hacking group, which in recent days has been leaking personal information from Israeli websites hosted by CyberServe, demanded on Sunday a ransom payment of $1 million in digital currency to stop the online leak of personal information from the Israeli LGBT site Atraf.“If we have 1 Millions $ in our wallet in the next 48 hours, we will not leak this information and also we will not sell it to anybody,” Black Shadow wrote on Telegram.On Saturday, the group dumped tens of thousands of records online from the various sites it had penetrated, including 1,000 user profiles from Atraf. The leaked records included users’ HIV status, sexual orientation, and unencrypted passwords.The hackers said on Sunday that the information leaked online so far represented just 1 percent of the data acquired in the breach.Ran Shalhavi, CEO of The Aguda — The Association for LGBTQ Equality in Israel, said his organization had extended its emergency hotline hours to deal with a flood of worried callers.“They are exposed, and if they are in the closet, they are exposed to situations they never knew before,” he said, adding that the association was working with different groups to “reduce damage.”Cyber intelligence researcher Ohad Zaidenberg said the breach appeared to be linked to a hack of Israeli insurance firm Shirbit last year, also claimed by Black Shadow, as well as an attack in March on Israeli insurance company KLS Capital Ltd.“Now they are doing something relatively similar,” Zaidenberg said. “We know that attack on Shirbit was Iranian, and therefore we can say, if it’s the same attacker and that attack was Iranian, this attack is Iranian.”Israeli media said Black Shadow is a group of Iran-linked hackers who use cyberattacks for criminal ends.The group breached Israel’s Shirbit insurance firm in December last year, stealing data. It demanded a $1 million ransom and began leaking the information when the firm refused to pay.Keren Elazari, a cybersecurity expert and researcher at Tel Aviv University, agreed that the attack appeared to be Iranian.“A big part of the hacks we’ve seen is not about ransom,” she said. “It’s about embarrassing Israeli companies, embarrassing Israeli citizens.”She said the pandemic had opened new vulnerabilities for Israeli firms, as working from home offered less cybersecurity and has “multiplied the opportunity for attacks.”The cyberattack also hit websites, including of Israeli public transportation companies Dan and Kavim, a children’s museum and public radio online blog, with the sites still available to users by midday Sunday. The attack also targeted the tourism company Pegasus, and Doctor Ticket, a service that could have sensitive medical data, according to Hebrew media.The new attack comes after an unprecedented, unclaimed cyberattack wrought havoc on Iran’s gas distribution system this week, which Tehran officials have blamed on Israel and the United States.Iran and Israel have been engaged in a so-called “shadow war,” including several reported attacks on Israeli and Iranian ships that the two have blamed on each other, as well as cyberattacks.In 2010, the Stuxnet virus — believed to have been engineered by Israel and its ally the US — infected Iran’s nuclear program, causing a series of breakdowns in centrifuges used to enrich uranium.
Gasoline prices to rise at midnight, hitting 3-year high-Due to increased global demand for fuel, costs increase by 23 agorot, reaching NIS 6.62; steady hike seen since May 2020, after first COVID-19 lockdown-By TOI staff-0CT 31,21-Today, 9:42 pm
The price of gasoline will rise by 23 agorot (approximately 7 cents) at midnight on Sunday, marking a 3.6 percent rise in the cost of fuel from a self-service pump.The new price of NIS 6.62 ($2) per liter of 95 octane gasoline (including VAT), continued an upward trend since May last year, when the price was NIS 4.79 ($1.4).While the new price broke a three-year high, it was still far from the record of NIS 8.25 ($2.65) in 2012, according to Hebrew-language media reports.The trend is expected to continue, given higher global demand for fuel, according to the Calcalist business daily.The sudden decline in gas prices seen in May last year was blamed on the onset of the coronavirus pandemic and related lockdowns.
G20 disappoints on key climate target as global hopes turn to Glasgow confab-UK’s Boris Johnson calls latest commitments to limiting global warming ‘drops in a rapidly warming ocean’; UN chief says he leaves Rome ‘with my hopes unfulfilled’-By Alice Ritchie and Alvise ARMELLINI Today, 9:16 pm
ROME, Italy (AFP) — The G20 major economies committed on Sunday to the key goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, but disappointed leaders warned that more was needed to make a success of UN climate talks, beginning in Glasgow.British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the host of the COP26 summit that opened on Sunday, said the pledge from world leaders after two days of talks in Rome was “not enough,” and warned of the dire consequences for the planet.“If Glasgow fails, the whole thing fails,” he told reporters, saying the G20 commitments were “drops in a rapidly warming ocean.”UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres also expressed disappointment at the outcome of the G20 summit, saying he left Rome “with my hopes unfulfilled — but at least they are not buried.”The G20 nations between them emit nearly 80 percent of carbon emissions, and a firm commitment on action was viewed as vital for the success of the UN’s COP26.In a final communique, the G20 reaffirmed its support for the goals in the landmark 2015 Paris climate accords, to keep “the global average temperature increase well below 2 degrees and to pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels.”They said this would require “meaningful and effective actions and commitment by all countries, taking into account different approaches,” while they also promised action on coal.But experts say meeting the 1.5-degree target means slashing global emissions nearly in half by 2030 and to “net-zero” by 2050 — and the G20 set no firm date, speaking only of reaching the goal of net-zero “by or around mid-century.”Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, who hosted the G20 talks, said he was “proud of these results, but we must remember that it’s only the start.”Eyes now turn to Glasgow, where more than 120 heads of state and government, including US President Joe Biden, India’s Narendra Modi, and Australia’s Scott Morrison, who were heading there from Rome.-Lacking ambition-The G20 leaders did agree to end funding for new unabated coal plants abroad — those whose emissions have not gone through any filtering process — by the end of 2021.But environmental campaign group Greenpeace slammed the final statement as “weak, lacking both ambition and vision,” saying G20 leaders “failed to meet the moment.”“If the G20 was a dress rehearsal for COP26, then world leaders fluffed their lines,” said Executive Director Jennifer Morgan.Friederike Roder, senior director at anti-poverty group Global Citizen, told AFP the summit had produced “half-measures, rather than concrete actions.”European leaders pointed out that given the fundamental divisions among the world’s most advanced nations, a joint commitment to what was the most ambitious Paris goal was a step forward.“I hear all the very alarmed talk on these subjects. I’m myself worried and we are fully mobilized,” said French President Emmanuel Macron.“But I would like us to take a step back and look at the situation where we were four years ago,” when former US president Donald Trump announced he was pulling out of the treaty.Draghi said that the needle had moved markedly even in the past few days, including by China — by far the world’s biggest carbon polluter.Beijing plans to make its economy carbon neutral before 2060, but has resisted pressure to offer nearer-term goals.India, meanwhile, argues that if net-zero by 2050 is the global goal, then rich countries should be carbon neutral 10 years earlier, to allow poorer, emerging nations a larger carbon allowance and more time to develop.‘Dream big’Earlier on Sunday, Draghi, Britain’s Prince Charles, and Pope Francis had all called on G20 leaders — and by extension, the wider group of world leaders meeting in Glasgow — to think big.Calling climate change “the defining challenge of our times,” Draghi warned: “Either we act now… or we delay acting, pay a much higher price later, and risk failing.”Pope Francis, who is outspoken on the issue and received several G20 leaders at the Vatican this weekend, said: “This is a moment to dream big, to rethink our priorities… The time to act, and to act together, is now!”
PROOF HALF ON EARTH DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION PERIOD (8 BILLION ON EARTH)
REVELATION 6:7-8 (8 BILLION- 2 BILLION = 6 BILLION)
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) to kill with sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).
REVELATION 9:15,18 (6 BILLION - 2 BILLION = 4 BILLION)
15 And the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels were loosed,
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.(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMBS)
HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
LUKE 17:34-37 (8 TOTAL BILLION - 4 BILLION DEAD IN TRIB = 4 BILLION TO JESUS KINGDOM) (HALF DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION PERIOD JUST LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS)(GOD DOES NOT LIE)(AND NOTICE MOST DIE IN WAR AND DISEASES-NOT COMETS-ASTEROIDS-QUAKES OR TSUNAMIS)
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other shall be left.(half earths population 4 billion die in the 7 yr trib)
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten by the birds).THESE ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES-NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES.BECAUSE NOT HALF OF PEOPLE ON EARTH ARE CHRISTIANS.AND THE CONTEXT IN LUKE 17 IS THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION OR 7 YR TREATY PERIOD.WHICH IS JUDGEMENT ON THE EARTH.NOT 50% RAPTURED TO HEAVEN.
MATTHEW 24:37-42 (THESE ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES-SURE NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
42 Watch therefore:(FOR THE LAST DAYS SIGNS HAPPENING) for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
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
EZEKIEL 39:11-22
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog (RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS) a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers (EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN JORDAN VALLEY) on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog (RUSSIAN) and all his multitude:(ARAB/MUSLIM HORDE) and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.(BURIEL SITE OF THE 300 MILLION,RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS)
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.(OF ISRAEL)
13 Yea, all the people of the land (OF ISRAEL) shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I (GOD-JESUS) shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment,(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB EXPERTS) passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
15 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it,(WON'T TOUCH IT) till the buriers have buried it (PROPERLY) in the valley of Hamongog.(RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS NEW BURIEL SITE)(EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN THE JORDAN VALLEY)
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.(OF THE ISRAEL-GOD HATERS)
17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl,(500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS THREW ISRAEL EVERY SPRING,FALL) and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.(OF THE RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ARMIES)
18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19 And ye 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.
Biden warns US will respond to Iranian actions, including drone attacks-‘We will continue to respond,’ says US president; American officials blamed Tehran for UAV assault on the al-Tanf base earlier this month-By TOI staff and AP Today, 11:19 pm
US President Joe Biden said Sunday that the United States will respond to actions Iran has taken against Washington’s interests, including recent drone strikes.“With regards to the issue of how we’re going to respond to their actions against interest of the US, whether they are drone strikes or anything else, is we’re going to respond,” Biden said in a press conference following the G20 summit in Rome.“We will continue to respond,” he added.Biden’s statement comes after American officials blamed Iran for a drone attack on a remote US outpost in Syria. Officials said Monday that the US believes Iran resourced and encouraged the attack, but that the drones were not launched from Iran.No deaths or injuries were reported as a result of the attack on October 20.In retaliation, the US Treasury Department on Friday announced new penalties against two senior members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps and two affiliated companies for supplying lethal drones and related material to insurgent groups in Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen, and Ethiopia.This is a big deal, but nobody seems to care much:– x5 #Iranian explosives-laden drones were launched into al-Tanf in SE #Syria last week — hitting a U.S. troop facility in what DOD has called "a complex, coordinated & deliberate attack."https://t.co/IGlzaCFGN9 pic.twitter.com/Ep08bQiy2u — Charles Lister (@Charles_Lister) October 26, 2021-US and coalition troops are based at al-Tanf to train Syrian forces on patrols to counter Islamic State jihadists. The base is also located on a road serving as a vital link for Iranian-backed forces from Tehran all the way to southern Lebanon and Israel.Pentagon spokesman John Kirby declined to provide details when asked about the report during a news conference Monday. He called it a “complex, coordinated and deliberate attack” and said the US has seen similar ones before from Shia militia groups that are backed by Iran. But he would not go into specifics and said he had no update on the munitions used in the attack.Kirby also declined to say whether troops were warned ahead of time or whether the US intends to make a military response.“The protection and security of our troops overseas remains a paramount concern for the secretary,” Kirby said, referring to US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, “and that if there is to be a response, it will be at a time and a place and a manner of our choosing, and we certainly won’t get ahead of those kinds of decisions,Pro-Iran media outlets have been saying that the attack on Tanf was carried out by “Syria’s allies” — an apparent reference to Iran-backed groups — in retaliation for an attack days earlier near the historic Syrian town of Palmyra. Israel has been blamed for the attack. US officials say America was not involved.The al-Tanf attack came in a period of rising tensions with Iran. The Biden administration this week said international diplomatic efforts to get Iran back into negotiations to return to a 2015 nuclear deal were at a “critical place,” and that patience is wearing thin. But Washington is also eager to bring Iran back to the negotiating table.The last major Iranian attack on US forces was in January 2020, when Tehran launched a barrage of ballistic missiles on al-Asad air base in Iraq. US and coalition troops were warned of the incoming missiles and were able to take cover, but more than 100 US service members received traumatic brain injuries as a result of the blasts.That attack was in response to the US drone strike earlier that month near the Baghdad airport that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani and Iraqi militia leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.Two months after the al-Asad assault, US fighter jets struck five sites in retaliation, targeting Iranian-backed Shiite militia members believed responsible for the January rocket attack.
Saudi Arabia: Dealing with Hezbollah-dominated Lebanon is ‘pointless’As Gulf animus grows, Prince Faisal slams ‘continuous dominance of Hezbollah over the political system’ and Lebanese government’s inability to steer country ‘out of this tunnel’-By AFP-31 October 2021, 9:52 pm
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — The Gulf diplomatic crisis with Lebanon deepened Sunday, with Saudi Arabia saying dealing with Beirut was “pointless,” due to Iran-backed Hezbollah’s dominance, and the UAE pressing its citizens to leave the country.The developments, sparked by Lebanese Information Minister George Kordahi’s remarks on the Yemen war, have dealt a fresh blow to crisis-hit Lebanon, where a fragile government is struggling to secure international aid, including from wealthy Arab countries.“There is a crisis in Lebanon with the dominance of Iranian proxies over the scene,” Saudi Prince Faisal bin Farhan told Saudi Arabia’s Al-Arabiya television in an interview on Sunday.“This is what worries us and makes dealing with Lebanon pointless for the kingdom and for, I think, Gulf countries,” he said.Kordahi, who was nominated by the Marada Movement — a Christian party allied to Hezbollah — said Yemen’s Houthi rebels were “defending themselves… against an external aggression,” and slammed as “futile” a Saudi-led military intervention in Yemen.The comments were aired this week, but made in August, before he became a minister.Saudi Arabia has expelled Lebanon’s envoy and recalled its ambassador from Beirut, with Bahrain and Kuwait quickly following suit.The United Arab Emirates has recalled its diplomats from Lebanon in “solidarity” with the kingdom, and on Sunday, it urged its citizens to leave the country “as soon as possible.”Saudi Arabia also suspended all imports from Lebanon.The foreign ministry said it took the measures after the “insulting” remarks on the Yemen war, but also due to the influence of Lebanon’s Iran-backed Shiite Hezbollah terrorist group.Prince Faisal said Sunday that the problem in Lebanon was “the continuous dominance of Hezbollah over the political system,” and the Lebanese government’s inability to steer Lebanon “out of this tunnel.”The issue went “beyond a statement or particular position,“ he said, adding that Hezbollah’s role requires “reform and comprehensive revision.”The Lebanese information minister said on Sunday that resigning was “out of the question.”Both Hezbollah and the Marada Movement have rejected calls for his dismissal.Kordahi has won plaudits in Yemen’s rebel-held Sanaa, with the Houthis on Sunday putting up posters in support of the under-fire Lebanese minister.“Yes George, the Yemen war is absurd,” said posters bearing his image that were pasted onto billboards and lamp posts.The Houthis also plan to rename a street in Sanaa after Kordahi, according to shopkeepers and media reports in the city.The Saudi-led coalition that has included the UAE and Bahrain intervened to prop up the Yemeni government in 2015, after the Houthis seized the capital Sanaa in 2014.The war has killed tens of thousands of people, and displaced millions.Rights groups have accused both sides of war crimes.
Visiting Taibe, president says silence on Arab crime wave ‘unacceptable’‘We must not get used to this,’ Herzog says, after more than 100 apparent homicides in the Arab community this year; praises new government plan to curb violence-By TOI staff-OCT 31,21-Today, 9:01 pm
President Isaac Herzog and his wife Michal visited the Arab city of Taibe on Sunday, meeting its mayor and urging action against the wave of violent crime plaguing Israel’s Arab community.Mayor Shuaa Masarwa Mansour and members of the municipal council held a short meeting with the president, before he toured other areas of the city.Visiting a local high school, Herzog said: “It is unacceptable for us as a society to remain silent in the face of violence, escalation, and loss of personal safety suffered on a daily basis by some citizens.“We must not get used to this. We must not remain silent,” he added, speaking to a group of 10th graders.Arab Israelis have long lamented a dearth of law and order in their cities and towns, where they say police rarely care to solve homicides. But this year is poised to be the bloodiest on record, with 104 killings in the community recorded well before year’s end.On Sunday, the government advanced a NIS 2.4 billion ($784 million) five-year plan to end the violence; some more extreme measures, such as involving the Shin Bet security service and expanding police powers, are also being examined. The plan will now head to the Knesset, where it is set to be passed as part of the upcoming budget.“I am glad that the government of Israel last week passed an important resolution for a five-year plan for Arab society, to reduce inequality,” Herzog said after inaugurating a new sports hall built in the Arab city.“This resolution is very important for me. Because the government is effectively saying that it is committed to reducing inequality; it is committed to fixing allocations; it is committed to total war against crime and violence in Arab society, which is taking the lives of our citizens. Because this is our responsibility and I say so as the head of state,” he added.On Friday, Herzog attended an annual memorial for a 1956 massacre of Arab citizens of Israel by border police officers in Kafr Qasim, and apologized on behalf of the state for the killings.“His visit to the city of Taibe two days after visiting Kafr Qasim is a message of virtue,” Masarwa Mansour said Sunday.Herzog “keeps surprising us with his morality, and, above all, he is the president of all of us, who believes in coexistence and the shrinking of inequality for the benefit of minorities,” added the mayor.
SIGNS OF THE END OF THE AGE (NOT THE WORLD) THE WORLD GOES ON FOREVER.
GENESIS 1:5,145 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:(ISRAELS HOLY DAYS AND SABBATH STARTS AT 6PM) And for SIGNS (PROPHECY SIGNS TO HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE, OUR DAY)
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.
'Extreme events are the new norm' ‘Uncharted territory:’ UN says last seven years on track to be hottest on record-World Meteorological Organization warns global warming from greenhouse gas emissions threatens ‘far-reaching repercussions for current and future generations’-By Kelly MacNamara-OCT 31,21-Today, 2:53 am
GLASGOW, United Kingdom (AFP) — The years from 2015 to 2021 are on track to be the seven hottest on record, the World Meteorological Organization said on Sunday, warning that the planet was heading into “uncharted territory.”The preliminary WMO state of the climate report, launched as the UN COP26 climate conference opens, said that global warming from greenhouse gas emissions threatens “far-reaching repercussions for current and future generations.”Based on data for the first nine months of the year, the WMO said 2021 was likely to be between the fifth and seventh warmest year on record — despite the cooling effect of the La Nina phenomenon that lowered temperatures at the beginning of the year.“From the ocean depths to mountain tops, from melting glaciers to relentless extreme weather events, ecosystems and communities around the globe are being devastated,” said United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in a statement on the report.He added that the two-week COP26 climate conference “must be a turning point for people and planet”.The WMO found that the average temperature for 2021 was around 1.09 degrees Celsius higher than pre-industrial levels.And the average temperature over the last 20 years (2002-2021) for the first time exceeded the symbolic threshold of 1C above the mid-19th century when humans began burning fossil fuels on an industrial scale.This will “focus the minds of delegates at COP26 aspiring to keep global temperature rise to within the limits agreed in Paris six years ago”, said Stephen Belcher, chief scientist at Britain’s Met Office.The 2015 Paris Agreement saw countries agree to cap global warming at “well below” 2C above pre-industrial levels, and 1.5C if possible.Since then the world has seen a litany of weather disasters including record-shattering wildfires across Australia and Siberia, a once-in-a-thousand-years heatwave in North America and extreme rainfall that caused massive flooding in Asia, Africa, the US and Europe.“Extreme events are the new norm,” said WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas.“There is mounting scientific evidence that some of these bear the footprint of human-induced climate change.”Unimaginable’ consequences-The state of the climate report is a snapshot of planetary health, including temperatures, extreme weather, glacier retreat and ice melt.Residents walk along a dirt road in the Urus del Lago Poopo indigenous community, which sits along the salt-crusted former shoreline of Lake Poopo, in Punaca, Bolivia, Monday, May 24, 2021. Bolivia’s second-largest lake dried up about five years ago, victim of shrinking glaciers, water diversions for farming and contamination. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)-Ocean acidification due to the absorption of carbon dioxide by the seas was “unprecedented” in at least 26,000 years, the WMO said, adding that this will lessen the ability of the oceans to take in more C02.Meanwhile, sea level rise — mainly caused by the expansion of warming sea water and the melting of ice on land — was at a new high.The report is “shocking and deeply disturbing and yet another wake-up call to world leaders that time has run out for talk”, said Jonathan Bamber, Director of the Bristol Glaciology Centre, in comments to the Science Media Centre.He said on the current trajectory, sea level rise could exceed two meters (more than six feet) by 2100, which could displace some 630 million people worldwide.“The consequences of that are unimaginable,” said Bamber.“What is required now is profound and comprehensive action by every nation and state actor to limit further and deeper climate breakdown.”
Leaders of major polluters China and Russia notably absent from climate confab-As things stand ‘there is a serious risk that Glasgow will not deliver,’ warns UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, calling reports of progress ‘an illusion’-By Agencies and TOI staff-31 October 2021, 5:14 pm
More than 120 heads of state and government are gathering in Glasgow this week for the Global COP26 United Nations climate conference, including US President Joe Biden, France’s Emmanuel Macron, India’s Narendra Modi and Israel’s Naftali Bennett.But President Xi Jinping of China, the world’s largest emitter, has not left his country during the COVID-19 pandemic and will not be traveling to Scotland to join his global counterparts.Vladimir Putin of Russia, another major polluter, will also be a no-show.The Glasgow gathering, which started Sunday and runs to November 12, comes as an accelerating onslaught of extreme weather events across the world underscores the devastating impacts of climate change from 150 years of burning fossil fuels.As things stand “there is a serious risk that Glasgow will not deliver,” warned United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in comments to the G20 meeting in Rome on Saturday.“Several recent climate announcements might leave the impression of a rosier picture,” he said. “Unfortunately, this is an illusion.”Nations under pressure to reboot their COVID-lashed economies continue to subsidize fossil fuels, even as they tout renewables.Much rests on commitment from G20 leaders of richer nations whose economies account for about 80 percent of carbon pollution.They have collectively endorsed the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, according to a final draft summit statement obtained by AFP on Sunday.Some key G20 countries have not submitted their updated plans yet, including India. Brazil, Mexico, Australia and Russia have filed plans that are not in line with the Paris Agreement.Details of how China will achieve its climate goals are now emerging, and the world is poring over them to see how China will strengthen its 2030 emissions reduction target, which currently involves cutting emissions 65% per unit of gross domestic product, moving up the date when the country’s emissions growth will peak, and setting industrial production targets for other greenhouse gases, such as methane.A delicate dance between the United States and China, and deft diplomacy by France, was critical to reaching the Paris climate agreement in 2015. Six years later, a growing rivalry threatens to spiral down what had been a race to the top.And with poorer nations least responsible for greenhouse gas emissions hit hardest by its impacts, inequality overshadows the negotiations.The failure of rich countries to cough up $100 billion a year starting in 2020 to help developing nations lower emissions and adapt — a pledge first made in 2009 — will complicate the already fraught talks.Opening the Glasgow gathering Sunday, summit president Alok Sharma said that the COP26 negotiations were the “last, best hope” to keep the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5°C alive.“We know that our shared planet is changing for the worse,” said Sharma at the opening ceremonExperts warn that only transformative action in the next ten years will help stave off far more cataclysmic impacts.And the warming of the planet did not pause for the COVID-19 pandemic, which caused the UN meeting to be delayed by a year.COP26 inherits its central goal from the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement, which saw countries agree to cap global warming at “well below” 2°C above pre-industrial levels, and 1.5°C if possible.That deal left many crucial details to be worked out, while emissions reductions remain woefully insufficient to avert global warming.In August a bombshell “code red” report from the world’s top climate science body warned that Earth’s average temperature will hit the 1.5°C threshold around 2030, a decade earlier than projected only three years ago.And last week a UN report said even the latest, most ambitious carbon-cutting commitments would still lead to “catastrophic” warming of 2.7°C.COP26 now marks the “last, best hope to keep 1.5°C in reach,” said Sharma.“If we act now and we act together we can protect our precious planet,” he said.
Biden meets Turkey’s Erdogan, urges avoiding a crisis between their countries-US president reaffirms Turkish value to NATO but raises concerns over country’s purchase of a Russian missile defense system-By Zeke Miller and Josh Boak-31 October 2021, 5:00 pm
ROME (AP) — US President Joe Biden told Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday that their countries must better manage disagreements after the partnership between NATO allies was tested by Turkey’s threat to no longer recognize the US envoy and its purchase of a Russian missile defense system.“We’re planning to have a good conversation,” Biden said as the leaders appeared in front of journalists before nearly an hour of closed-door talks. The president did not answer questions about whether Turkey had grown too close to Russia or about human rights.In the meeting, Biden reaffirmed Turkey’s importance as a NATO ally as well as its defense partnership with the US, but raised with Erdogan concerns about possession of the Russian S-400 missile system, the White House said in a statement afterward.The Turkish president has said he’s open to buying a second Russian missile system, despite the controversy generated by the 2017 deal to acquire the Russian-made system.Turkey’s role as a NATO ally has come under sharp scrutiny in recent weeks.Erdogan at an October 23 rally said 10 foreign ambassadors who called for the release of a jailed philanthropist should be declared persona non grata. The envoys, including the US, French and German representatives, had previously issued a statement seeking to resolve the case of Osman Kavala, a businessman and philanthropist held in prison since 2017 despite not having been convicted of a crime.Erdogan did not follow through on the threat, but it reflected the rising tensions with the US.“I cannot honestly say that there is a healthy process in Turkish-American relations,” state-run Anadolu news agency quoted Erdogan as saying in September.Military vehicles and equipment, parts of the S-400 air defense systems, are unloaded from a Russian transport aircraft at Murted military airport in Ankara, Turkey, July 12, 2019. (Turkish Defense Ministry via AP, Pool)Erdogan’s office said in a statement that the meeting was held in a “positive atmosphere” in which the leaders expressed the “joint will to further strengthen and improve Turkey-US relations and agreed to establish a common mechanism accordingly.”The statement also said there was “satisfaction with the mutual steps taken on climate change.”Turkey was kicked out of a US program to buy F-35 combat planes and defense officials were sanctioned after it bought the Russian-made S-400 system. The US strongly objects to the use of Russian systems within NATO alliance and says it poses a threat to the F-35s.Turkey maintains the S-400s could be used independently without being integrated into NATO systems and therefore pose no risk.Turkey is also interested in purchasing American-made F-16 fighter aircraft, but Biden was “very clear” with Erdogan that there is a process such sales must go through, a senior Biden administration official told reporters after the meeting, which took place as world leaders are in Rome for the Group of 20 nations summit. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the private talks.In a September interview with CBS News, Erdogan said Turkey wasn’t given the option to buy American-made Patriot missiles. He also said the US hadn’t delivered F-35 stealth jets despite a payment of $1.4 billion.The White House statement said Biden and Erdogan also discussed the political process in Syria, humanitarian assistance for Afghans, elections in Libya, the situation in the Eastern Mediterranean, and diplomatic efforts in the South Caucasus.And Biden raised concerns about human rights and the rule of law in Turkey, and called for the countries to cooperate more and handle “disagreements effectively,” the White House said.Erdogan’s office said in a statement that the meeting was held in a “positive atmosphere” in which the leaders expressed the “joint will to further strengthen and improve Turkey-US relations and agreed to establish a common mechanism accordingly.”The statement also said there was “satisfaction with the mutual steps taken on climate change.”Biden and Erdogan last met in June at a NATO summit where they discussed the possibility of Turkey securing and operating the international airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. But those plans evaporated as the Taliban swiftly took control of Afghanistan amid the US military departure.They did not meet in September during the UN General Assembly session.
Associated Press-Blinken raised concerns about Taiwan with China-ZEKE MILLER and JOSH BOAK-Sun, October 31, 2021, 5:49 AM
ROME (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi as part of the Group of 20 summit on Sunday — an outreach designed to ensure that the intensely competitive relationship between the world's two largest economies doesn't veer into open conflicts.Senior State Department officials described the conversations as candid, constructive and productive, saying that Blinken was clear about U.S. concerns during the roughly hourlong meeting. The officials insisted on anonymity to discuss the exchanges.One of the U.S. goals is to maintain an open line of communication with China and set a virtual meeting later this year between U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping.Blinken said at the meeting that China has increased tensions with regard to Taiwan and that America wants to continue its “one-China policy,” which recognizes Beijing but allows informal relations and defense ties with Taipei. During China's National Day weekend in early October, China dispatched 149 military aircraft southwest of Taiwan in strike group formations, causing Taiwan to scramble aircraft and activate its air defense missile systems. Biden alarmed China shortly after by saying that the U.S. has a firm commitment to help Taiwan defend itself in the event of a Chinese attack.Asked in a CNN town hall whether the U.S. would come to Taiwan’s defense, Biden said, “Yes, we have a commitment to do that.” U.S. officials immediately moved to clarify that there had been no change to U.S. posture toward Taiwan.China and Taiwan separated during a civil war in 1949. The U.S. cut formal diplomatic relations with Taipei in 1979 in order to recognize Beijing. The U.S. does not openly contest China’s claim to Taiwan, but is committed by law to ensure the island can defend itself and to treat all threats toward it as matters of grave concern.Blinken noted that the G-20 summit is being followed by the United Nations climate summit in Scotland, saying that the U.S. expects China to curbs its greenhouse gas emissions as a responsible global power for the good of the world.Trade issues did not come up in any detail, as the conversation largely stayed in the political realm. Nor was China's recent test launching of a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile discussed by the two leaders.
Mideast US Bomber-In this photo released by the U.S. Air Force, an Israeli Air Force F-15 Strike Eagle flies in formation with a U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer over Israel as part of a deterrence flight Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021. The U.S. Air Force said Sunday it flew a B-1B strategic bomber over key maritime chokepoints in the Mideast with allies including Israel amid ongoing tensions with Iran as its nuclear deal with world powers remains in tatters. (U.S. Air Force/Senior Airman Jerreht Harris via AP)-JON GAMBRELL-Sun, October 31, 2021, 3:50 AM
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. Air Force said Sunday it flew a B-1B strategic bomber over key maritime chokepoints in the Mideast with allies including Israel amid ongoing tensions with Iran as its nuclear deal with world powers remains in tatters.The B-1B Lancer bomber flew Saturday over the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf through which 20% of all oil traded passes. It also flew over the Red Sea, its narrow Bab el-Mandeb Strait and Egypt's Suez Canal.The Strait of Hormuz has been the scene of attacks on shipping blamed on Iran in recent years, while the Red Sea has seen similar assaults amid an ongoing shadow war between Tehran and Israel. The Islamic Republic has denied being involved in the attacks, though it has promised to take revenge on Israel for a series of attacks targeting its nuclear program.Fighter jets from Bahrain, Egypt, Israel and Saudi Arabia flew alongside the bomber.Iranian state media did not immediately acknowledge the flyover. Iran's mission to the United Nations in New York did not immediately respond to a request for comment.The flyover comes after a pattern of such flights by nuclear-capable B-52 bombers since the Trump administration as a show of force to Iran. Trump in 2018 unilaterally withdrew America from Iran's 2015 nuclear deal, which saw Tehran agree to drastically limit its enrichment of uranium in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions.In the time since, Iran has abandoned all the limits of the deal and drastically reduced the ability of international inspectors to keep watch over their program. While Iran insists its program is peaceful, the U.S. intelligence agencies, Western inspectors and others say Tehran had a structured military nuclear weapons program through the end of 2003.President Joe Biden has said he's willing to re-enter the nuclear deal, but talks in Vienna have stalled as a hard-line protégé of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei took over as president.Biden sending a B1-B bomber into the region allows him to send “a clear message of reassurance” to regional allies, as the U.S. Air Force's Central Command put it on Twitter. But it doesn't involved a nuclear-capable bomber.The B-1B came from the 37th Bomb Squadron based at Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota.___Follow Jon Gambrell on Twitter at www.twitter.com/jongambrellAP.
