KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.
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
Indian Jews from 'lost tribe' move to Israel
By BY LAUREN E. BOHN | Associated Press – Mon, Dec 24, 2012
JERUSALEM (AP) — Dozens of Jews who claim to be the descendants of a lost biblical Jewish tribe emigrated to Israel on Monday from their village in northeastern India, celebrating their arrival after a five-year struggle to get in.The Bnei Menashe say they are descended from Jews banished from ancient Israel to India in the eighth century B.C. An Israeli chief rabbi recognized them as a lost tribe in 2005, and about 1,700 moved to Israel over the next two years before the government stopped giving them visas.
Israel recently reversed that policy, agreeing to let the remaining 7,200 Bnei Menashe immigrate.
Fifty-three arrived on a flight Monday. Michael Freund, an
Israel-based activist on their behalf, said nearly 300 others will
arrive in the coming weeks."After waiting for thousands of years, our dream came true," said
Lhing Lenchonz, 26, who arrived with her husband and 8-month-old
daughter. "We are now in our land."
Not all Israelis think Bnei Menashe qualify as Jews, and some suspect they are simply fleeing poverty in India.Avraham Poraz,
a former interior minister, said they were not linked to the Jewish
people. He also charged that Israeli settlers were using them to
strengthen Israel's claims to the West Bank.When Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar
recognized the Bnei Menashe as a lost tribe in 2005, he insisted they
undergo conversion to be recognized as Jews. He sent a rabbinical team
to India that converted 218 Bnei Menashe, until Indian authorities
stepped in and stopped it.The Bnei Menashe come from the states of Mizoram and Manipur near
India's border with Myanmar, where, they say, their ancestors landed
after the Assyrians banished them. Over the centuries they became
animists, and in the 19th century, British missionaries converted many
to Christianity.Even so, the group says they
continued to practice ancient Jewish rituals, including animal
sacrifices, which they say were passed down from generation to
generation. Jews in the Holy Land stopped animal sacrifices after the
destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in 70 A.D.
Israel revisits ban on female prayer at holy site
Associated Press – DEC 26,12
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's prime minister has instructed a quasi-governmental Jewish organization to find a solution for non-Orthodox Jewish female groups wishing to pray at one of Judaism's holiest sites.
An official said Tuesday Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked Natan Sharansky, chairman of the Jewish Agency, to look into the matter. The official spoke anonymously according to government regulations.
Last week Israeli police detained women from a liberal Jewish group
who approached the Western Wall in Jerusalem carrying prayer shawls.
Orthodox Jews insist those are for men only. The women seek to worship
at the site without such restrictions.Jewish Agency spokesman Benjamin Rutland said Netanyahu told
Sharansky that the Western Wall "must remain a source of Jewish unity
rather than division." The wall is a remnant of the biblical Jewish
Temple compound.
Israel to build 942 more homes in east Jerusalem
By By AMY TEIBEL | Associated Press – DEC 26,12
JERUSALEM (AP) —
Israel has advanced the process of building 942 more settler homes in
east Jerusalem under a new fast-track plan to tighten its grip on the territory, which the
Palestinians claim as the capital of a future state.A government planning committee
on Monday moved the project to the advanced stage of asking contractors
to submit bids to build them, the Interior Ministry said Tuesday. Once a
bid is awarded, construction can begin on the project in the Gilo area,
though it can take months, if not longer, to reach that point.An additional 300 units can be
built after further planning, said attorney Daniel Seidemann, an expert
on Jerusalem construction who sees the building as an obstacle to
peacemaking. About 40,000 Israelis live in Gilo."With God's help, we will continue to live and build in
Jerusalem, which will remain united under Israeli sovereignty,"
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
said at the campaign launch event of his Likud Party. "We will continue
to strengthen the settlements." Israeli elections are set for Jan. 22.Nabil Abu Rdeneh, a spokesman for
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, said the new Israeli announcement
was a "red line" that would block the chance for a two-state solution to
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, in which a
Palestinian state would be established alongside Israel."The Palestinian Authority will take all the possible means available
to respond to this," said Abu Rdeneh. The statement was posted on the
official Palestinian news agency Wafa.The newly-approved homes are
among more than 5,000 new settler homes in east Jerusalem that Israel
pressed ahead over the past week. Palestinians do not recognize Israel's
1967 annexation of the territory and say any Israeli construction there
undermines their claims to it. The international community has not
recognized Israel's 1967 annexation of east Jerusalem.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
launched a settlement construction push to punish the Palestinians
after the United Nations recognized a de facto Palestinian state in east
Jerusalem, the West Bank and the
Gaza Strip
last month. Israel says the Palestinians can achieve a state only
through negotiations with the Israeli government, and regards the U.N.
bid as a maneuver to sidestep talks.The Palestinians have said they hope the upgraded status will allow
them to return to the negotiating table with a stronger hand. Talks
stalled four years ago, primarily over settlement construction.The construction push in east
Jerusalem has drawn international condemnation, as have plans to build
thousands of more settler homes in the adjacent West Bank.
Israel captured both areas and Gaza in 1967.It withdrew settlers and soldiers from Gaza in 2005, but blocks most
access to the territory and retains control over the West Bank and east
Jerusalem.Also Tuesday, the Gaza Strip's ruling Hamas announced that
Palestinian journalists there have been banned from working for Israeli media outlets.The official statement from the Hamas Cabinet called Israeli outlets "hostile entity media institutions."Israeli media have no permanent correspondents in the Gaza Strip, but
Israeli TV channels and newspapers often employ local Palestinian
journalists as stringers. The Gaza journalists do not generally identify
themselves to others as working for Israeli outlets because of a taboo
against cooperating with Israel.
Israel bans Israeli journalists from entering the Gaza Strip, saying their presence in Gaza would pose a risk to their security.____Ibrahim Barzak in Gaza City, Gaza Strip contributed to this report.
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
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.
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: 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.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(THE FALSE POPE WHO DEFECTED FROM THE CHRISTIAN FAITH) causeth all,(IN THE WORLD ) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(MICROCHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark,(MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the name of the beast,(WORLD DICTATORS NAME INGRAVED ON YOUR SKIN OR TATTOOED ON YOU OR IN THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the number of his name.(THE NUMBERS OF HIS NAME INGRAVED IN THE MICROCHIP IMLPLANT)-(ALL THESE WILL TELL THE WORLD DICTATOR THAT YOUR WITH HIM AND AGAINST KING JESUS-GOD)
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast:(WORLD LEADER) for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM (6006006)OR(60020202006)(SOME KIND OF NUMBER IMPLANTED IN THE MICROCHIP THAT TELLS THE WORLD DICTATOR AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER THAT YOU GIVE YOUR TOTAL ALLIGIENCE TO HIM AND NOT JESUS)(ITS AN ETERNAL DECISION YOU MAKE)(YOU CHOOSE YOUR OWN DESTINY)(YOU TAKE THE DICTATORS NAME OR NUMBER UNDER YOUR SKIN,YOUR DOOMED TO THE LAKE OF FIRE AND TORMENTS FOREVER,NEVER ENDING MEANT ONLY FOR SATAN AND HIS ANGELS,NOT HUMAN BEINGS).OR YOU REFUSE THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT AND GO ON THE SIDE OF KING JESUS AND RULE FOREVER WITH HIM ON EARTH.YOU CHOOSE,ITS YOUR DECISION.
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HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS WED DECEMBER 26,2012
09:30 AM +2.43
10:00 AM +22.07
10:30 AM +13.14
11:00 AM -23.70
11:30 AM -40.94
12:00 PM -43.53
12:30 PM -44.07
01:00 PM -41.30
01:30 PM -33.27
02:00 PM -35.16
02:30 PM -25.21
03:00 PM -20.25
03:30 PM -13.27
04:00 PM -24.49 13,114.59
S&P 500 1419.83 -6.83
NASDAQ 2990.16 -22.44
GOLD 1,660.90 +1.40
OIL 91.00 +2.39
TSE 300 CLOSED HOLIDAY
CDNX CLOSED HOLIDAY
S&P/TSX/60 CLOSED HOLIDAY
MORNING,NEWS,STATS
YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +21 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -44 points at low today.
Dow +28 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,667.30.OIL opens at $90.72 today.
AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -44 points at low today so far.
Dow +28 points at high today so far.
WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -44 points at low today.
Dow +28 points at high today.
GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,902.60 (NOT AT CLOSE)
CRUDE OIL +
GASOLINE +
DISTILLATE INVENTORIES
MUSLIM NATIONS
GENESIS 12:1-3
1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I (GOD) will shew thee:
2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3 And I will bless them that bless thee,(ISRAELIS) and curse (DESTROY) him that curseth thee:(DESTROY THEM) and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
MATTHEW 25:32-34,40-41
32 And before him (JESUS) shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:
33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand,(ISRAEL SUPPORTERS) but the goats on the left.(ISRAEL HATERS)
34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren,(ISRAELIS) ye have done it unto me.
41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand,(ISRAEL HATERS) Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)
EZEKIEL 12:25
25 For I am the LORD: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass; it shall be no more prolonged: will I say the word, and will perform it, saith the Lord GOD.
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:TOBOLSK)
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
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.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
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.
EZEKIEL 39:1-8,11-18
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back,(RUSSIA-ARAB MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS) and leave but the sixth part of thee,(5/6TH OR 300 MILLION DEAD I BELIEVE) and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR BOMB) 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.
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 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)
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 (MIGRATING BIRDS IN ISRAEL) shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.(RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS)
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 (GOD-JESUS) will set my glory among the heathen,(WORLD NATIONS) and all the heathen (WORLD NATIONS) shall see my judgment that I have executed,(AGAINST ISRAELS ENEMIES) and my (GODS) hand that I have laid upon them.(ISRAELS HATER ENEMIES)
JEREMEIAH 49:35-37 (IN IRAN AT THE BUSHEHR 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)
EZEKIEL 35:3-6,11-15
3 And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O mount Seir,(ARABS) I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate.
4 I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
5 Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred,(AGAINST ISRAEL) and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:
6 Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.
11 Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged thee.
12 And thou shalt know that I am the LORD, and that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume.
13 Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard them.
14 Thus saith the Lord GOD; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate.(ARAB,MUSLIMS)
15 As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir,(ARABS) and all Idumea,(ARAB,MUSLIMS) even all of it: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
ISAIAH 17:1,12-14
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
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 eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not.(ASSAD) This is the portion of them that spoil us,(ISRAEL) and the lot of them that rob us.
JEREMEIAH 49:23-27
23 Concerning Damascus.(SYRIA) Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea;(WAR SHIPS WITH NUKES COMING ON SYRIA) it cannot be quiet.
24 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
27 And I will kindle a fire (NUKES OR BOMBS) in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.(ASSADS PALACES POSSIBLY IN DAMASCUS)
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
JEREMIAH 47:1-7
1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines,(PALESTINIAN/ARABS) before that Pharaoh smote Gaza.
2 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north,(NORTHERN TSUNAMI POSSIBLY) and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.
3 At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses,(ISRAELS ARMY) at the rushing of his chariots, and at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to their children for feebleness of hands;(ISRAEL POSSIBLY NUKES GAZA)
4 Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines,(PALESTINIAN FAKE ARABS) and to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that remaineth: for the LORD will spoil the Philistines, the remnant of the country of Caphtor.
5 Baldness is come upon Gaza;(NUKED POSSIBLY) Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?
6 O thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.
7 How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD hath given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? (MEDITTERANEAN SEA) there hath he appointed it.
DANIEL 11:40-43
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south ( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) 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.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS-MUSLIMS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them,(BEFORE THE NUKE GOES OFF) and behind them a desolate wilderness;(AFTER THE ATOMIC BOMB GOES OFF) yea, and nothing shall escape them.(EVERYTHING NUKED)
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,ARAB,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate,(SIBERIAN DESERT) with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(FOR COMING AGAINST ISRAEL)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
JEREMIAH 8:7
7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times;(MIGRATION TIME) and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming;(IN MIGRATION SEASON) but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.(WW3 MIGRATING BIRDS EAT ISRAELS ENEMIES FLESH AND BLOOD)
Gulf Arabs decry Iran "interference" in region
By Asma Alsharif | Reuters – 23 hrs ago DEC 26,12
MANAMA (Reuters) - Six U.S.-allied
Gulf Arab states demanded on Tuesday that
Iran end what they called interference in the region, reiterating a long-held mistrust of their main rival.The Islamic Republic denies trying to subvert
Saudi Arabia and its wealthy Gulf neighbors.A communique issued at the end of a two-day summit of the Saudi-led
Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) also urged action to halt mass killings and violations of international law in
Syria.The oil-producing GCC states wield influence out of
proportion to their sparse populations due in part to global energy and
investment links, generous international aid and Saudi Arabia's role as
home to Islam's two holiest sites."The council expressed its rejection and condemnation
of the continuing Iranian interference in the affairs of the Gulf
Cooperation Council's states and called on Iran to stop these policies,"
the communique said.On the conflict in Syria, the statement, read out by
GCC Secretary-General Abdulatif al-Zayani, added: "We ask the
international community for serious and swift moves to stop these
massacres and these severe attacks".Kuwait said it would host an international humanitarian
donor conference for Syria in late January, amid concern for millions
of Syrians suffering war, homelessness and winter cold.
"LOTS OF MEDDLING"
Gulf Arab leaders have long called for Syrian President
Bashar al-Assad to step down, and in November the GCC recognized a
newly-formed opposition coalition as the legitimate representative of
the Syrian people.
The communique did not elaborate on Iran, but the most common
Gulf Arab complaint about alleged Iranian meddling in the region relates to
Bahrain, which has repeatedly accused Tehran of interference in its internal politics.Iran sees the Gulf as its own backyard and believes it has a legitimate interest in expanding its influence there.Bahraini Foreign Minister Khalid Bin Ahmed Bin Mohammed
Al Khalifa told reporters Iran posed a "very serious threat"."Politically, (there is) lots of meddling in the
affairs of GCC states; an environmental threat to our region from the
technology used inside nuclear facilities; and there is of course the
looming nuclear program," he said, referring to Iran's disputed atomic
work."So the threat level is quite high, but we are ready if faced with circumstances that require action."While not racked by disturbances on the scale of Syria
or Egypt, Bahrain has been volatile since pro-democracy protests led by
its Shi'ite Muslim majority erupted last year.Scattered smoke plumes rose from Bahrain's Sitra and
Sanabis districts on Tuesday, apparently caused by youths burning tires,
but no major demonstrations were reported by activists.
Bahrain's Sunni Muslim rulers brought in Saudi and
United Arab Emirates forces last year to help quell the protests, and
Shi'ite power Iran condemned the move, saying it could lead to regional
instability. Bahrain has accused Iran of being behind the unrest. Tehran
denies this.
GCC FORCE LONG SEEN AS INEFFECTIVE
Bahrain's Shi'ites say they are marginalized
politically and economically, a charge the government denies. It has
rejected the protesters' main demand for an elected government.The summit statement said the GCC would set up a
unified military command to tighten defense cooperation but offered few
details of a project long prey to sensitivities about sovereignty.
Security in the waterway, through which 40 percent of the world's
seaborne oil exports passes, has been dominated for decades by the
United States.But uprisings against long-standing governments across
the Middle East and rivalry with Iran over the conflict in Syria have
stirred calls among Gulf Arabs to speed up long-stymied efforts to
integrate their own foreign and security policies.
The GCC said it had
"supported the creation of a unified military command that organizes
and plans and leads the ground, naval and air forces."The communique did
not elaborate. But Mustafa Alani, a security analyst, told Reuters that
he understood the idea was to have a standing command rather than a
functioning one, and that it would only operate in times of crisis.The GCC already has a pan-GCC military force -- the
9,000-strong Peninsula Shield, created in 1986 and based in Saudi
Arabia. It took part in the 1991 Gulf war and was deployed in Kuwait
during the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.But the Saudi-based
force is widely seen as ineffective. Gulf Arab states have faced a host
of obstacles to military integration, including a lack of common
equipment, their own reliance on their U.S. ally and concern among some
states about potential Saudi dominance of any joint military effort.(Reporting by Asma Alsharif; Writing by William Maclean; Editing by Alistair Lyon)
Egypt's contentious Islamist constitution becomes law
By Tamim Elyan and Shaimaa Fayed | Reuters – 32 mins ago DEC 26,12
CAIRO (Reuters) -
Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi signed into law a new
constitution
shaped by his Islamist allies, a bitterly contested document which he
insists will help to end political turmoil and allow him to focus on
fixing the
economy.Anxiety about a deepening political and economic crisis has gripped
Egypt in past weeks, with many people rushing to buy dollars and withdraw their savings from banks.
The government has imposed new restrictions to reduce capital flight.The new constitution, which the liberal opposition says
betrays Egypt's 2011 revolution by dangerously mixing religion and
politics, has polarized the Arab world's most populous nation and
prompted occasionally violent protest on the streets.The presidency said on Wednesday that
Mursi
had formally approved the constitution the previous evening, shortly
after results showed that Egyptians had backed it in a referendum.The text won about 64 percent of the vote, paving the way for a new parliamentary election in about two months.The charter states that the principles of sharia,
Islamic law, are the main source of legislation and that Islamic
authorities will be consulted on sharia - a source of concern to the
Christian minority and others.The referendum result marked yet another electoral
victory for the Islamists since veteran autocrat Hosni Mubarak was
toppled in 2011, following parliamentary elections last year and the
presidential vote that brought Mursi to power this year.Mursi's
government,
which has accused opponents of damaging the economy by prolonging
political upheaval, now faces the tough task of building a broad
consensus as it prepares to impose austerity measures.The Egyptian pound came under renewed pressure on
Wednesday as market players, worried about the economy, switched their
funds into U.S. dollars and other currencies, traders said.Keen to be seen as decisive, the
government
is now in talks with business figures, trade unions and other groups to
highlight the need for tax increases to resolve the crisis.Mursi has committed to such austerity measures to
receive a $4.8 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund.However, Al-Mal newspaper quoted Planning Minister
Ashraf al-Araby as saying the government would not implement the tax
increases until it had completed the dialogue with different parts of
society.In Cairo's bustling centre, people openly expressed
their frustration with economic instability as they went about their
daily business."The country's going to the pits. Everything is a
mess," Hamdy Hussein, a 61-year-old building janitor, said angrily.
"It's worse than ever. Mubarak was better than now. People were living
and there was security."Ashraf Mohamed Kamal, 30, added: "The economic
situation will be a mess in the next few years. It already is. People
will get hungrier. People are now begging more."
TURMOIL CONTINUES
Mursi, catapulted into power by his Islamist allies
this year, believes adopting the constitution quickly and holding the
vote for a permanent new parliament will help to end the long period of
turmoil and uncertainty that has wrecked the economy.Mursi's government argues the constitution offers
enough protection to all groups, and that many Egyptians are fed up with
street protests that have prevented a return to normality and
distracted the government from tackling the economy.The charter gives Egypt's upper house of parliament,
which is dominated by Islamists, full legislative powers until the vote
for a new lower house is held.While stressing the importance of political stability
to heal the economy, Mursi's government has tried to play down the
economic problems and appealed for unity despite the hardship."The government calls on the people not to worry about the country's economy,"
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Mohamed Mahsoub told the upper house in a
speech. "We are not facing an economic problem but a political one and
it is affecting the economic situation. We therefore urge all groups,
opponents and brothers, to achieve wide reconciliation and consensus."Mursi is due to address the upper house on Saturday in a speech likely to be dominated by economic policy.Sharpening people's concerns, the authorities imposed
currency controls on Tuesday to prevent capital flight. Leaving or
entering Egypt with more than $10,000 in cash is now banned.Adding to the government's long list of worries,
Communications Minister Hany Mahmoud has resigned citing his "inability
to adapt to the government's working culture".The opposition has condemned the new basic law as too
Islamist, saying it could allow clerics to intervene in the lawmaking
process and leave minority groups without proper legal protection. It
said this month's vote was marred by major violations.Nevertheless, major opposition groups have not called
for new protests, suggesting that weeks of civil unrest over the
constitution may be subsiding now that it has passed.The United States,
which provides $1.3 billion a year in military aid plus other support to
Egypt and sees it as a pillar of security in the Middle East, called on
Egyptian politicians to bridge divisions and on all sides to reject
violence.(Additional reporting by Patrick Werr; Writing by Maria Golovnina; Editing by David Stamp)
Syria to discuss Brahimi proposals with Russia
By Erika Solomon | Reuters – 56 mins ago DEC 26,12
BEIRUT (Reuters) -
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad dispatched a senior diplomat to Moscow on Wednesday to discuss proposals made by envoy
Lakhdar Brahimi to end the conflict convulsing his country,
Syrian and Lebanese sources said.Brahimi, who met
Assad on Monday as part of a series of planned talks with
Syrian officials
and dissidents in Damascus this week, is trying to arrange a peaceful
transfer of power, but has disclosed little about how this might be
achieved.More than 44,000 Syrians have died in the revolt
against four decades of Assad family rule, a conflict that began with
peaceful protests but which has descended into civil war.Past peace efforts have floundered, with world powers
divided over what has become an increasingly sectarian struggle between
mostly Sunni Muslim rebels and Assad's security forces, drawn primarily
from his Shi'ite-rooted Alawite minority.
Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Makdad
flew to Moscow to discuss the details of the talks with Brahimi, said a
Syrian security source, who would not say if a deal was in the works.However, a Lebanese official close to Damascus said
Makdad had been sent to seek Russian advice on a possible agreement.He said Syrian officials were upbeat after talks with
Brahimi, the U.N.-Arab League envoy, who met Foreign Minister Walid
Moualem on Tuesday a day after his session with Assad, but who has not
outlined his ideas in public."There is a new mood now and something good is
happening," the official said, asking not to be named. He gave no
details.Russia, which has given Assad diplomatic and military
aid in the 21-month-old uprising, has said it is not protecting him, but
has fiercely criticized any foreign backing for rebels and, with China,
has blocked U.N. Security Council action on
Syria.
On Saturday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov
said Syria's civil war had reached stalemate and international efforts
to persuade Assad to quit would fail.Assad's opponents insist the
Syrian president must go, given the scale of bloodshed and destruction they blame on him.Moaz Alkhatib, head of the internationally recognized
Syrian National Coalition opposition, has criticized any notion of a
transitional government in which Assad would stay on as a figurehead
president stripped of any real powers.
SHELLING KILLS 20
The comments on Alkhatib's Facebook page on Monday
suggested that the opposition believed this was among Brahimi's ideas."We have told every official we have met: the
government and its president cannot stay on in power, with or without
their powers. This is unacceptable to Syrians," Alkhatib wrote."The coalition leadership has told Lakhdar Brahimi directly that this type of solution is rejected."While Brahimi was striving to bridge the vast gaps
between Assad and his foes, fighting raged on across the country and a
senior Syrian military officer defected to the rebels.Syrian army shelling killed about 20 people, at least
eight of them children, in the northern province of Raqqa, a video
posted by opposition campaigners showed.
The video published by the
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights showed rows of blood-stained bodies laid out on blankets. The sound of crying relatives could be heard in the background.The shelling hit the province's al-Qahtania village, but it was unclear when the attack had occurred.Rebels re-launched their assault on the Wadi Deif
military base in the northwestern province of Idlib, in a critical
battle for a major army base and fuel storage and distribution point.Activist Ahmed Kaddour said rebels were firing mortars
and had attacked the base with an explosives-rigged vehicle.The British-based Observatory, which uses a network of
contacts in Syria to monitor the conflict, said a rebel commander was
among several killed in Wednesday's fighting, which it said was among
the heaviest there for months.As violence has intensified in recent weeks, with Assad
using his air power and artillery to contain rebel advances, daily
death tolls have climbed. At least 190 were killed across the country on
Tuesday alone, the Observatory said.The head of Syria's military police changed sides and declared allegiance to the anti-Assad revolt."I am General Abdelaziz Jassim al-Shalal, head of the
military police. I have defected because of the deviation of the army
from its primary duty of protecting the country and its transformation
into gangs of killing and destruction," the officer said in a video
published on YouTube.A Syrian security source confirmed the defection, but
said Shalal was near retirement and had only defected to "play hero".Syrian Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim al-Shaar left
Lebanon for Damascus after being treated in Beirut for wounds sustained
in a rebel bomb attack this month.(Additional reporting by Laila Bassam; Writing by Alistair Lyon)
Russian parliament approves ban on American adoptions
By Steve Gutterman and Alissa de Carbonnel | Reuters – 1 hr 52 mins ago DEC 26,12
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A bill banning Americans from adopting Russian children went to President Vladimir Putin
for his signature on Wednesday after winning final approval from
parliament in retaliation for a U.S. law meant to punish Russian human
rights abusers.Putin has strongly hinted he will sign the bill, which
also outlaws some U.S.-funded non-governmental groups and hits back at
U.S. sanctions by imposing visa bans and asset freezes on Americans
accused of violating the rights of Russians.The Federation Council, Russia's
upper parliament house, voted unanimously to approve the bill, which
has clouded U.S.-Russian relations and outraged liberals who say
lawmakers are playing a political game with the lives of children.The bill has drawn unusual criticism from some
government officials including Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Olga
Golodets, a deputy prime minister who said it may violate an
international convention on children's rights.
Putin has described it as an emotional but appropriate
response to U.S. legislation he said was poisoning relations.U.S.
President Barack Obama
this month signed off on the Magnitsky Act, which imposes visa bans and
asset freezes on Russians accused of human rights violations, including
those linked to the death in custody of an anti-graft lawyer in 2009.The ban on American adoptions takes Russia's response a
step further, playing into deep sensitivity among Russians - and the
government in particular - over adoptions by foreigners, which
skyrocketed after the 1991 Soviet collapse.The bill is named for Dima Yakovlev - a Russian-born
toddler who died of heat stroke when his adoptive American father forgot
him in a car.
MORAL GROUNDS
"It is immoral to send our children abroad to any country," Federation Council deputy Valery Shtyrov said in a one-sided debate peppered with hawkish rhetoric before the 143-0 vote.Child rights advocates say the law, due to take effect
on January 1 if signed by Putin, will deprive children of a way out of
Russia's overcrowded orphanage system."This is the most vile law passed since Putin came to
power," opposition activist Boris Nemtsov said, adding that he was
certain the president would sign it. "Putin is taking children hostage,
like a terrorist".Police said they had arrested seven people protesting against the law on Wednesday outside the Federation Council.Nevertheless, lawmaker Gennady Makin said the Magnitsky Act demanded a tough response."He who comes to Russia with a sword dies by that sword," he said.The dispute adds to tension in U.S.-Russia ties already
strained over issues ranging from Syria to the Kremlin's treatment of
opponents and restrictions imposed on civil society groups since Putin,
in power since 2000, began a new six-year term in May.The Russian bill would outlaw U.S.-funded "non-profit
organizations that engage in political activity", which Putin accuses of
trying to influence Russian politics.Russia ejected the United States Agency for
International Development (USAID), which funds Russian non-governmental
groups, in October, and Putin has signed a law forcing many
foreign-funded organizations to register as "foreign agents" - a term
that evokes the Cold War.Americans affected
by the visa ban could include those involved in the prosecution of
Viktor Bout, a Russian arms trader serving a 25-year prison term in the
United States after an arrest and trial condemned as unfair by Moscow.(Reporting by Alissa de Carbonnel; Writing by Steve Gutterman; Editing by Pravin Char and Peter Graff)
JOHN 8:44
44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
EXODUS 20:13
13 Thou shalt not kill.(Murder)(THAT INCLUDES ABORTION)
MATTHEW 18:6
6 But whoso shall offend (HURT) one of these little ones (CHILDREN) which believe in me,(JESUS) it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.(THATS THE DEATH PENALTY FOLKS)
EXODUS 21:12
12 He that smiteth (MURDER)a man,(OR BABY) so that he die, shall be surely put to death.(THATS THE DEATH PENALTY PEOPLE)
Firemen's killer left chilling note, deaths at 3
By By GEORGE M. WALSH and MARY ESCH | Associated Press – DEC 26,12
WEBSTER, N.Y. (AP) — An ex-con killed two firefighters
with the same caliber and make military-style rifle used in the
Connecticut school massacre after typing a note pledging to burn down
his neighborhood and "do what I like doing best, killing people," police
said Tuesday as another body, believed to be the gunman's missing
sister, was found.William Spengler,
62, who served 17 years in prison for manslaughter in the 1980 hammer
slaying of his grandmother, set his house afire before dawn Christmas
Eve before taking a revolver, a shotgun and a semiautomatic rifle to a
sniper position outside, Police Chief Gerald Pickering said.The death toll rose to three as police revealed that a body believed to be the killer's 67-year-old sister, Cheryl Spengler, was found in his fire-ravaged home.Authorities say he sprayed bullets at the first responders, killing
two firefighters and injuring two others who remained hospitalized
Tuesday in stable condition, awake and alert and expected to survive. He
then killed himself as seven houses burned on a sliver of land along
Lake Ontario.Police recovered a military-style
.223-caliber semiautomatic Bushmaster rifle with flash suppression, the
same make and caliber weapon used in the elementary school massacre in
Newtown, Conn., that killed 26, including 20 young children, Pickering said.The chief said it was believed the firefighters were hit with shots
from the rifle given the distance but the investigation was incomplete."He was equipped to go to war, kill innocent people," the chief said.The two- to three-page typewritten rambling note left by Spengler
did not reveal what set off the killer or provide a motive for the
shootings, Pickering said. He called the attack a "clear ambush on first
responders."He declined to reveal the note's full content or say where it was
found. He read only one chilling line: "I still have to get ready to see
how much of the neighborhood I can burn down, and do what I like doing
best, killing people."Pickering said it was unclear whether the person believed to be Spengler's sister died before or during the fire."It was a raging inferno in there," Pickering said.A next-door neighbor said Spengler hated his sister and they lived on opposite sides of the house.Roger Vercruysse said Spengler loved his mother, Arline, who died in
October after living with her son and daughter in the house in a
neighborhood of seasonal and year-round homes across the road from a
lakeshore popular with recreational boaters.As Pickering described it and as emergency radio communications on
the scene showed, the heavily armed Spengler took a position behind a
small hill by the house as four firefighters arrived after 5:30 a.m. to
extinguish the fire: two on a fire truck; two in their own vehicles.They were immediately greeted by bullets from Spengler, who wore dark
clothing. Volunteer firefighter and police Lt. Michael Chiapperini, 43,
driving the truck, was killed by gunfire as the windshield before him
was shattered. Also killed was Tomasz Kaczowka, 19, who worked as a 911
dispatcher.Several firefighters went beneath the truck to shield themselves as an off-duty police officer who was passing by pulled his vehicle alongside the truck to try to shield them, authorities said.The first police officer who arrived chased and exchanged shots with Spengler, recounting it later over his police radio."I could see the muzzle blasts comin' at me. ... I fired four shots at him. I thought he went down," the officer said.At another point, he said: "I don't know if I hit him or not. He's by
a tree. ... He was movin' eastbound on the berm when I was firing
shots." Pickering portrayed him as a hero who saved many lives.The audio posted on the website RadioReference.com also has someone
reporting "firefighters are down" and saying "got to be rifle or shotgun
— high-powered ... semi or fully auto."Spengler had been charged with murder in his grandmother's death but
pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of manslaughter, apparently to spare
his family a trial. After he was freed from prison, Spengler — a felon
who wasn't allowed to possess weapons — had lived a quiet life on Lake
Road on a narrow peninsula where Irondequoit Bay meets Lake Ontario.That ended when he left his burning home Monday morning, armed with his three weapons and a lot of ammunition."I'm not sure we'll ever know what was going through his mind," Pickering said.___Esch reported from Albany. Associated Press writer Larry Neumeister in New York City also contributed to this report.
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; 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, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)
Storm brings tornadoes, snow to South; two dead
By Kaija Wilkinson | Reuters – 11 hrs ago DEC 26,12
MOBILE, Alabama (Reuters) - A major winter storm system
swept through the southern United States on Tuesday, spawning tornadoes
in several states and killing two people in weather-related road
accidents.
The National Weather Service (NWS) said a tornado struck Mobile, Alabama,
home to about 200,000 people, at about 5 p.m. local time (2300 GMT).
There were reports of damage to trees and widespread power outages,
along with some structural damage, but no injuries or fatalities.Tornadoes also touched down in Mississippi, Texas and Louisiana, flattening houses and causing some injuries, according to the NWS.
The wild Christmas weather was expected to continue
into early Wednesday - the NWS' Storm Prediction Center forecasted the
development of "a few strong tornadoes and thunderstorm wind damage over
parts of the southeast" this evening and overnight.It warned that
tornadoes at night at this time of year can be particularly dangerous
because they are usually fast-moving and obscured by rain and darkness.
Areas mostly likely to be hit by strong storms include
southern and eastern Alabama, the Florida Panhandle and southwest Georgia, the NWS warned.Tuesday's storms also contributed to a 21-vehicle pile-up that shut down a major highway in
Oklahoma City and tens of thousands of power outages.A Texas man died after an accident involving a tree in
the road, and another person died in a weather-related accident on I-44
in Oklahoma, according to local authorities.The storm was expected to evolve into a blizzard from
Arkansas to southern Illinois on Tuesday night, with snowfall of up to a
foot in some areas, according to Accuweather.com.Accuweather.com senior meteorologist Kristina
Pydynowski warned on the website that travel will be "extremely
treacherous, if not impossible, as the snow clogs roads, such as
interstates 24, 55 and 57, and the blowing snow severely lowers
visibility."The Indiana governor's office issued an advisory
Tuesday evening that "non-essential employees" who live in areas where
snow emergencies have been declared do not have to come to work.The snowstorm will shift on Wednesday to the eastern
Great Lakes and northeastern region, with a blizzard warning in effect
for Cleveland starting at 7 a.m. on Wednesday (1200 GMT), forecasters
said. Cleveland could get up to a foot of snow, according to the NWS.
Southern Indiana is under a blizzard warning starting
early Wednesday morning, according to NWS meteorologist Crystal Pettet.
Indianapolis could see its biggest snowfall in four years, with a
possibility of 10 to 12 inches of snow."Conditions should be pretty bad in time for rush hour," Pettet said.
CHRISTMAS SNOWFALL
In the town of McNeill in southern Mississippi, an
apparent tornado destroyed 12 homes and injured eight people, though
none of the injuries appear life-threatening, said Danny Manley,
director of the Pearl River County Emergency Management Agency.Manley said the homes could not be rebuilt, as some had
lost roofs and their top stories and one was smashed by a tree.Another apparent tornado hit Centreville, Mississippi,
in the southwestern part of the state, injuring one person, destroying a
trailer and heavily damaging other homes and buildings, according to
Tim Destri, a NWS meteorologist in New Orleans.A tornado destroyed a building 13 miles southeast of
Crockett, Texas, and a bank lost a section of its roof, according to
Accuweather.com.Freezing drizzle overnight led to 10 separate
collisions on Interstate 40 in Oklahoma City early on Tuesday, said
Betsy Randolph, a spokeswoman for the Oklahoma Highway Patrol. The city
also got a rare Christmas snowfall.The 21-vehicle
pile-up included three tractor-trailers and shut down the westbound
lanes for about five hours, she said. Twelve people were taken to
hospitals, and troopers were checking on the severity of their injuries.Ahead of the
storm's path, parts of eastern West Virginia are under a winter storm
warning. Ice accumulations of up to half an inch are expected in higher
elevations, the NWS said.(Reporting by Kaija
Wilkinson, Ian Simpson and Mary Wisniewski; Editing by Sandra Maler,
Todd Eastham and Paul Simao)