EVENTS IN TIME (BIBLE PROPHECY LITERALLY FULFILLED)(BY GOD)

I WRITE NEWS ABOUT AND PUT NEWS ARTICLES ABOUT ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM PERTAINING TO BIBLE PROPHESY HAPPENINGS.JOEL 3:20 But Judah (ISRAEL) shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.(THATS ISRAEL-JERUSALEM WILL NEVER BE DESTROYED AGAIN)-WE CHRISTIANS ARE ALL WAITING PATIENTLY FOR THE PRE-TRIBULATION RAPTURE TO OCCUR.SO WE CAN GO TO JESUS AND GET OUR NEVER DYING BODIES.SO WE CAN RULE OVER CITIES OURSELVES.WHILE JESUS RULES FROM DAVIDS THRONE FOREVER IN JERUSALEM.

Thursday, August 28, 2014

DAY 52 WILL THIS SO CALLED ENDLESS CEASE-FIRE HOLD

DAY 19 - FERGUSON MISSOURI -THINGS CALM DOWN FINALLY

2,200 DEAD IN THE UKRAINE SINCE APRIL

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

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HERES VERSES FROM THE PEACE LOVING MUSLIM ISLAMIC SHARIA SEX FOR MURDER CULT QUARAN.KILL CHRISTIANS AND JEWS.
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/quran/023-violence.htm

NOW WE GOT THE LUNATIC LEFTWING LIBERALS AND DEMOCRATS WANTING THE CANADIAN NATIONAL ANTHEM CHANGED.BECAUSE ITS TO MAN ORIENTED.THESE LUNATICS IN TORONTO WANT THE CANADIAN ANTHEM TO BE NEUTERAL.NOT MAN ORIENTED.THESE POLITICALLY CORRECT LUNATIC RETARDS CAN STICK THEIR HEADS IN A COWS WATER TROUF AND DRINK.OR TAKE A LONG WALK OFF A SHORT DIVING BOARD 200 FEET IN THE AIR WITH ONLY CEMENT AT THE BOTTOM. OR BE FORCED TO GO TO A ISIS TRAINING CAMP AND SAY YOUR A JESUS BELIEVER AND THE QUARAN IS A CULT THAT ONLY DEVILS WORSHIP FROM.SEE HOW LONG THESE GODLESS LIBERAL DEMOCRATES WOULD HAVE THEIR HEADS STUCK ON POLES AFTER ITS APART FROM THEIR BODIES OR HUNG UP CRUCIFIED. OR WHATEVER ELSE THESE LUNATIC ISIS WOULD DO TO THEM.OH BUT I LOVE EVERYONE I FORGOT TO TELL USE.I AM A PEACE-LOVE-JOY-UTOPIA NEW AGE NUTCASE. NOT.

DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS-10 WORLD REGIONS/TRADE BLOCS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS-10 WORLD DIVISION WORLD GOVERNMENT) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(THE EU (EUROPEAN UNION) TAKES OVER IRAQ WHICH HAS SPLIT INTO 3-SUNNI-KURD-SHIA PARTS-AND THE REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE IS BROUGHT BACK TOGETHER-THE TWO LEGS OF DANIEL WESTERN LEG AND THE ISLAMIC LEG COMBINED AS 1)

LUKE 2:1-3
1 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.
2 (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)
3 And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.

Russia accuses EU commissioner of 'treacherous sacrilege'-Today @ 10:20-AUG 27,14-By EUOBSERVER

The Russian foreign ministry Tuesday accused interim EU justice commissioner Reicherts of "treacherous sacrilege that blurs the lines between good and evil" and of "playing on Russophobia" after she noted at a remembrance day last week that Hitler and Stalin started WWII by signing the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact to partition Poland.

IMF chief under investigation in French corruption case-Today @ 14:56-AUG 27,14-By EUOBSERVER
IMF head Christine Lagarde has been put under formal investigation in France for negligence in a multi-million fraud and corruption case. She ruled out stepping down from the IMF post, however. Prosecutors so far have questioned Lagarde as a "special witness", but she might face a future trial.

Four EU states join US in condemning Libya air strikes-Today @ 09:30-AUG 27,14-By EUOBSERVER

The four largest EU countries France, UK, Germany and Italy issued on Monday a joint statement with the US condemning escalation of fighting across Libya, saying "outside interference exacerbates current divisions and undermines Libya’s democratic transition.” Last week, The United Arab Emirates and Egypt secretly bombed Islamist militia in Libya.

Nato chief unveils new plan for eastern Europe-Today @ 09:30-AUG 27,14-EUOBSERVER-By Andrew Rettman

BRUSSELS - A summit in Minsk on Tuesday (26 August) failed to produce a breakthrough on the Ukraine conflict, while Nato announced a bold new plan for eastern Europe.The event saw the leaders of Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Russia, which have formed a Customs Union, meet with the president of Ukraine and three EU commissioners, before the Ukrainian and Russian chiefs broke off for two-hour long talks.The modest outcome saw Russia and Ukraine revive a “Contact Group,” which is to meet in the coming days, most likely in Minsk.They also agreed to hold minister-level talks, together with EU mediators, on trade in Moscow on 12 September and on gas in Brussels on 5 September.The Minsk summit took place amid ever-escalating tension in east Ukraine: Ukrainian forces captured 10 Russian paratroopers on its territory the same day, while Reuters reported that “green men” - paratroopers with no state insignia, but believed to be Russian - have arrived in the Ukrainian village of Kolosky.Poroshenko said the Contact Group will discuss: the possibility of a ceasefire; the closing of the Ukrainian-Russian border; and the freeing of “illegally detained Ukrainian citizens” in Russia.Putin continued to claim Russia has no involvement in the fighting.On the captured Russian paratroopers, he said: “I have not yet received a report from the [Russian] ministry of defence, the general staff. But the first thing I heard is that they were patrolling the border, that they could have been on Ukrainian territory [by mistake]”.He added that he has no influence on pro-Russia rebels in Ukraine: “It [a ceasefire] is not our business, it is an internal affair of Ukraine itself”.He also threatened to close Russian markets to Ukrainian agriculture and to impose higher tariffs on Ukrainian goods in general if it ratifies an EU free trade pact in September.“We understand our European partners; they have already developed the Ukrainian market rather well, and would like to get hold of whatever is left and squeeze out everyone else”, he said.For their part, the EU delegates underlined the need to help Ukrainian civilians and to clinch a gas supply deal before the winter.EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton said: “We’re in the summer now. But the winter is coming and there are places [in east Ukraine] that don’t have any power, don’t have the capacity to provide heating”.EU energy commissioner Gunther Oettinger said Ukraine and Russia should aim for an "interim" deal on gas prices to prevent a gas cut-off to Ukraine and to EU transit customers.

Nato speaks out

Going into the talks, Poroshenko, who shook Putin’s hand in a symbolic gesture, said: "In Minsk at this meeting the fate of the world and Europe is being decided”.His statement, on the grave implications of Russia’s attack on its neighbour, was echoed by Nato chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen.The Nato secretary general told The Guardian, a British daily, in an interview also on Tuesday the alliance is planning to set up permanent new bases in eastern Europe.He indicated the Nato summit in Wales next week will see the creation of a rapid reaction force to counter any Russian action against Nato countries such as Estonia or Latvia.“The point is that any potential aggressor should know that if they were to even think of an attack against a Nato ally they will meet not only soldiers from that specific country but they will meet Nato troops”, he said.Asked whether the force will have “permanent” facilities in the east, Rasmussen said: “The brief answer is Yes … Our eastern allies will be satisfied when they see what is actually in the [new Nato] readiness action plan”.Nato and Russia in 1997 reached a “basic agreement” on the non-deployment of permanent new bases in Nato's ex-Iron-Curtain member states.German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on a recent visit to Latvia the treaty is still in force.But for others, such as Estonian president Toomas Ilves, Russia’s war on Ukraine has made a mockery of the pact.He tweeted on Wednesday the 1997 accord stipulated “no permanent bases in new members, ‘in the current & foreseeable security environment’.”He added that the “onus is [on Russia] to prove [the] security environment of 1997 has NOT changed. That after [Russian invasions of] Georgia, Ukraine, Crimea, we're still in lala-land”.

08/27/2014 - VATICAN INSIDER-Pakistan, appeal from the religions not to derail democracy
-Islamabad, the capital city, is blocked by demonstrators of two anti-government movements: the Lahore Dominicans’ “Peace Center” asks for reconciliation-Paolo Affatato

Rome-It is a sort of Muslim “occupy”, with the capital, Islamabad, blocked by over 20 thousand demonstrators from two opposed political parties; it is an institutional and political crisis, with Nawaz Sharif, the Prime Minister, formally accused of murder; it is a destabilized country on the brink of civil war: this is the situation found in Pakistan, a country already grappling with terrorism. In the face of this, it is necessary to find “the way of dialogue and the compass of reconciliation” as soon as possible. With this appeal, consigned to Vatican Insider, the Dominican Father James Channan, theologian and director of the “Peace Center” in Lahore, that works for interreligious dialogue, speaks up about the fears and wishes of the Pakistani Church at a difficult time in recent history.Beside him, the Pakistan Ulema Council, made up of 25 Islamic party heads, is also worried about the possible outcome of a crisis that has seen the capital occupied since the 14th of August (Independence Day) by demonstrators of two anti-government political factions: the Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf (Pakistan Movement for Justice), guided by the incredibly popular former cricket champion Imran Khan and the Pakistan Awami Tehreek (Pakistan People’s Movement), led by the fierce Islamic preacher Tahir ul-Qadri. These two ask for the Prime Minister to resign, who indignantly rejects the possibility, and for the Parliament to be dissolved.The stalemate has been going on for two weeks. Protests against the government have grown and thousands of demonstrators are camping out in the so-called “red zone”, where the Parliament, the embassies and numerous government offices are located. Observers ask, what will happen if the government decides to disperse the demonstrators? Even the judicial powers are divided: the Supreme Court invoked a compromise solution, which has been so far denied by both parts, among threats and crossed vetoes. A Lahore tribunal has instead formally opened a case of homicide, charging the Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, his brother Shahbaz Sharif, who is Prime Minister in the Punjab province, and 19 high government officials. The bench is investigating on the police raid that killed 14 people and wounded a hundred among the members of the Tahir ul Qadri Movement last 17th of June in Lahore, during a square demonstration. From then on, feelings have run higher and positions have become more radical.Religions have taken the field to say “no” to oppression and to keep high the standard of democracy. Because, in a high tension situation between demonstrators and police, a generalized civil war and the resulting military coup are just around the corner.The Ulemas have called the mosques to order and mobilized the Madrasas (Islamic schools) and the universities on a national level to halt the crisis. The head of the Council, Tahir Mahmood Ashrafi, reiterated that “no one must be allowed to resort to violence in the name of religion. Some thousands of people do not have the right to decide the fate of the country. All political and religious parties must present their requests respecting the legal state”. The Council asks for “a strong action against forces instigating sectarian violence. Tahir ul-Qadri and Imran Khan should have mercy for the women, children and elderly who are active in the sit-in, letting them go home. We need to protect stability in Pakistan”.Channan claims that “the current situation in Islamabad is very critical. Together with the Ulemas, we have stressed the urgency of a peaceful solution through dialogue and deferring to the Supreme Court of Pakistan”. He explains Vatican Insider that “All of us, Christians and Muslims, have contributed to the creation of this country and we have made sacrifices for its independence. Today we have been called to play a role in its stability and progress. Religious minorities are very worried about this crisis. Every day we pray in our Churches so that concrete steps are taken towards national reconciliation”.According to the Dominican, “the danger of a civil war, as well as the danger of the military taking power, is real. It is, therefore, essential that the different sides begin negotiations; a political solution is the only possible way. As Christian and Muslim leaders, the point we fully agree on is that democracy cannot and must not derail again in Pakistan”.

Islamic State commits war crimes, Syrian govt using poison gas: U.N.-Reuters-By Stephanie Nebehay-AUG 27,14-YAHOONEWS

GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations accused Islamic State insurgents on Wednesday of committing war crimes including amputations and public executions, sometimes in the presence of children, and said it believed Damascus had used chlorine gas in combating its enemies.The Sunni militants, who are bringing weapons from Iraq, have changed the power balance in Syria, consolidating control over large areas and establishing order by imposing harsh sharia law, the U.N. said in its latest report."Executions in public spaces have become a common spectacle on Fridays in al Raqqa and ISIS-controlled areas of Aleppo governorate (province)," the report said."Children have been present at the executions, which take the form of beheading or shooting in the head at close range... Bodies are placed on public display, often on crucifixes, for up to three days, serving as a warning to local residents."The independent investigators voiced deep concern about boys forced to join the ranks of Islamic States who are being trained in camps in Syria that could be targeted by U.S. air strikes.U.S. President Barack Obama vowed "justice will be done" against the Islamic State killers of American journalist James Foley on Tuesday as the United States sought to identify targets for potential air strikes in Syria."We are aware ... of the presence of children in training camps, I think that this decision by the United States must respect the laws of war and we are concerned about the presence of these children," Paulo Pinheiro, chairman of the U.N. commission of inquiry, told a news briefing in Geneva."ISIS poses a clear and present danger to civilians and particularly minorities under its control in Syria and in the region," Pinheiro said.Syrian government forces have dropped barrel bombs on civilian areas, a war crime under international law, including some believed to contain the poison gas chlorine in eight incidents in April, the investigators said in latest report.Previously they had only been able to conclude that the chemicals came from Syrian government stockpiles."We've looked at eight instances of alleged chlorine attacks and we found specifically that according to our evidentiary test, they were dropped - the chlorine came with the barrel bombs - dropped from government helicopters particularly onto civilian areas," said Vitit Muntarbhorn, a commissioner.

"FRAGMENTED AND VICIOUS"

The conflict, which began with peaceful protests against President Bashar al-Assad in March 2011, has become multi-faceted with more groups involved and many front lines, said Muntarbhorn."It's fragmented, it's vicious, and there are cross-border implications," he said.More than 191,000 people were killed in the first three years of the war, a U.N. report said last week.Syria's military and air force continue to commit serious violations, including aerial bombardment and barrel bombing particularly of Aleppo, Deraa and Rural Damascus, Pinheiro said."There has been also an increase in reports of enforced disappearances, sexual assaults in detention centers and the arrest of female relatives of wanted persons," he said.Deaths in custody in Syrian jails are on the rise and forensic analysis of 26,948 photographs allegedly taken from 2011-2013 in government detention centers back its "longstanding findings of systematic torture and deaths of detainees"."Forced truces, a mark of the government's strategy of siege and bombardment, are often followed by mass arrests of men of fighting age, many of whom disappear," it said.

INDICTMENTS

The U.N. report, the commission of inquiry's eighth since being set up exactly three years ago, is based on 480 interviews and documentary evidence gathered by its team, which is trying to build a case for future criminal prosecution.Islamic forces, which are also sweeping through neighboring Iraq in their bid to establish a cross-border caliphate, have drawn more experienced and ideologically motivated foreign fighters and established control over large areas in northern and eastern Syria, particularly oil-rich Deir al-Zor, it said.Islamic State is variously referred to as IS, ISIS or ISIL.The investigators, who include former U.N. crimes prosecutor Carla del Ponte, have already drawn up four confidential lists of suspects whom they believe should face international justice.In the report, they reiterated their call for the U.N. Security Council to refer violations in Syria to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC)."We still hope that by holding all this evidence in our archives, one day a prosecutor's office can use it to conduct a formal inquiry and prepare indictments," del Ponte said.(This story has been refiled to correct word in 16th para to female from male)(Reporting by Stephanie Nebehay; Editing by Angus MacSwan and Crispian Balmer)

Breakthrough hopes dented as Ukraine accuses Russia of new incursion-Reuters-AUG 27,14-By Richard Balmforth and Anton Zverev-YAHOONEWS

KIEV/DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) - Ukraine accused Russia of launching a new military incursion across its eastern border on Wednesday, as hopes quickly faded that Tuesday's talks between their two presidents might mark a turning point in a five-month-old crisis.Accusations of direct Russian support for pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine have prompted Western governments to impose sanctions on Moscow, despite its denials, and fanned tensions with NATO to levels not seen since the Cold War.Ukrainian military spokesman Andriy Lysenko said a group of Russian soldiers had crossed the border in armored infantry carriers and a truck and entered the town of Amvrosiyivka, not far from where Ukraine detained 10 Russian soldiers on Monday.Ukraine's Security Services also said in a statement it had detained another Russian soldier in the east of the country who has confessed his unit provided military support to separatist rebels.Lysenko said fighting in two other towns, Horlivka and Ilovaysk, had killed about 200 pro-Russian rebels and destroyed tanks and missile systems. Thirteen Ukrainian service personnel had been killed in the past 24 hours and 36 had been wounded.No comment was immediately available from the Russian defense ministry on the alleged incursion. Russia denies sending weapons and soldiers to help the rebels, and says the men captured on Monday had crossed an unmarked section of the border by mistake.Late-night talks in the Belarussian capital Minsk had appeared to yield some progress towards ending a war in which more than 2,200 people have been killed, according to the U.N. -- a toll that excludes the 298 who died when a Malaysian airliner was shot down over rebel-held territory in July.Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said he would work on an urgent 'road map' towards a ceasefire with the rebels. Russia's Vladimir Putin said it would be for Ukrainians to work out ceasefire terms, but Moscow would "contribute to create a situation of trust".But Wednesday's new accusations from Ukraine made clear that the poisonous dispute over Russia's role remained unresolved.In a telephone call with Putin, Germany's Angela Merkel said reports of a new Russian military incursion into Ukrainian territory had to be cleared up, a spokesman for the chancellor said in a statement."The latest reports of the presence of Russian soldiers on Ukrainian territory must be explained," said Merkel's spokesman Steffen Seibert. "She emphasized Russia's major responsibility for de-escalation and watching over its own frontiers."A senior NATO diplomat said Russian support for the separatists was becoming increasingly open.“I think there’s a shift here that we may be witnessing, very recently, from largely covert, ambiguous, deniable support to what appears increasingly to be flat-out, overt and obvious (support) and with the only form of ambiguity being that the Russians ... claim it is not happening,” said the diplomat, speaking to reporters in Brussels on condition of anonymity.He said increasingly sophisticated weapons systems were now in the area, including the SA-22 surface-to-air missile, which is more advanced than the SA-11 system that many Western officials suspect rebels used to bring down the Malaysian jet.

TRADE WARS

The United States said on Wednesday new military incursions on Ukraine's eastern border indicate a Russian-directed counter-offensive is likely under way in two Ukrainian towns.White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the military movement "would be consistent with the other kinds of destabilizing military activities that Russia has pursued in Ukraine".Ukraine's State Security services said in a statement late on Wednesday that it had detained a private in Ukraine's easternmost Luhansk Province from a unit stationed in Russia's Rostov region near the border with Ukraine.The statement said that when questioned, he said his military unit transfers military equipment and ammunition including multiple rocket launchers BM-21 Grads as well as armored personnel carriers to the rebels.Fighting in the east erupted in April, a month after Russia annexed Ukraine's Crimean peninsula in response to the toppling of a pro-Moscow president in Kiev.The crisis has prompted the United States and EU to impose sanctions on Russia's finance, oil and defense sectors, and Moscow has hit back by banning most western food imports. The trade wars threaten to tip Russia into recession and strangle economic recovery in Europe.Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow was not looking for a further escalation of trade tensions. "We have no interest in a confrontation or in whipping up a spiral of sanctions," he told an audience of students.The next step would be for a 'Contact Group', comprising representatives of Russia, Ukraine, the rebels and the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, to meet in Minsk, he said without giving a time frame.But Ukrainian foreign policy adviser Valery Chaly told reporters in Kiev that Poroshenko's declaration on a ceasefire road map did not mean an immediate end to the government’s military offensive against the rebels."If there are attacks from the terrorists and mercenaries, then our army has the duty to defend the people," he said.A crowd of several hundred gathered outside the presidential administration building in Kiev to demand reinforcement for Ukrainian forces in Ilovaysk, a town in Donetsk region, where government troops have been encircled by rebel units."We want to show the current authorities who came to power thanks to active citizens that we will not allow them to stand by as those people die who were brave enough to take up weapons and defend our country," Kiev resident Mykola Vasyk said.Earlier, Ukrainian military spokesman Lysenko said units were on the defensive in Ilovaysk, but that some equipment and support had reached the troops.

DISTRUST

A rebel leader, Oleg Tsaryov, wrote on Facebook that he welcomed the outcome of the Minsk talks, but the separatists would not stop short of full independence for the regions of eastern Ukraine they call Novorossiya (New Russia).He said he saw "a real breakthrough" in Putin's offer to contribute to the peace process.But he added: "It must be understood that a genuine settlement of the situation is only possible with the participation of representatives of Novorossiya. We will not allow our fate to be decided behind our back..."Now we are demanding independence. We don't trust the Ukrainian leadership and don't consider ourselves part of Ukraine. The guarantee of our security is our own armed forces. We will decide our own fate."Further underlining Kiev's distrust of Moscow, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk said his country needed "practical help" and "momentous decisions" from NATO at an alliance summit next month.He said he knew of Russian plans to halt gas flows this winter to Europe, up to half of which are shipped via Ukraine. Russia's energy minister called the assertion groundless.Russia cut off gas supplies to Ukraine in June in a dispute over pricing and debt, but Putin said after Tuesday's talks that he and Poroshenko had agreed to resume discussions.European Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger said gas consultations would take place in Moscow on Friday between Russia, Ukraine and the European Union.(Additional reporting by Vladimir Soldatkin, Katya Golubkova, Gabriela Baczynska and Thomas Grove in Moscow, Andrei Makhovsky and Andrei Anishchuk in Minsk, Natalia Zinets in Kiev and Lesley Wroughton in Washington; Writing by Mark Trevelyan and Thomas Grove; Editing by Giles Elgood and Will Waterman)

Death toll soars from fighting in Ukraine: UN report-AFP-AUG 27,14-YAHOONEWS

United Nations (United States) (AFP) - Fierce fighting in east Ukraine over the past month has sent the death toll soaring, with at least 36 people killed every day, according to a UN rights report.In four weeks alone, from mid-July to mid-August, at least 1,200 people were killed -- more than double the total casualties in the conflict since it began in April, said the report by UN rights monitors to be released on Friday.Ukrainian forces have over the past month made headway in their battle to flush out pro-Moscow separatists, regaining control of towns in the east and tightening their blockades around rebel strongholds."As a result of the intensified hostilities, there has been an escalation in the number of casualties which has more than doubled in total since the last report" in July, said the 39-page document obtained by AFP.The one- month death toll of 1,200 did not include the 298 dead from the July 17 downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17.Since April, a total of 2,220 people have been killed, including 23 children.The report implicitly blamed the separatists for the intensified killing, saying they were staging attacks from "densely populated areas, putting the civilian population at risk".But it added that "responsibility for at least some of the resulting casualties and damage lies with Ukrainian armed forces" who have been shelling rebel positions in the cities.Artillery, tanks, rockets and missiles have been used in the most recent rounds of fighting, with the frontlines moving closer to the suburbs of the main city of Donetsk and Lugansk.The report seemed to address Ukrainian claims that Russia is arming the rebels, saying that the separatists are "now professionally equipped and appear to benefit from a steady supply of sophisticated weapons and ammunition, enabling them to shoot down Ukrainian military aircraft such as helicopters, fighter jets and transport planes."Ukraine has accused Russia of providing the weaponry that allowed rebels to shoot down Flight MH17, but Moscow denies the allegations. An investigation led by the Dutch government is under way.The report also accused rebel fighters of committing murder, kidnappings, torture and other human rights violations.At least 468 people remain in captivity, according to the report, the fifth issued by the UN rights monitoring mission.UN Assistant Secretary General for Human Rights Ivan Simonovic is due to present the report during a visit to Ukraine on Friday.

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,(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)

THE FIRST JUDGEMENT OF THE EARTH STARTED WITH WATER-IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THE LAST GENERATION WILL BE HAVING FLOODING
GENESIS 7:6-12
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
GOD PROMISED BY A RAINBOW-THE EARTH WOULD NEVER BE DESTROYED TOTALLY WITH A FLOOD AGAIN.BUT FLOODIING IS A SIGN OF JUDGEMENT.

Hurricane Cristobal seen passing west of rain-lashed Bermuda-Reuters-AUG 27,14-YAHOONEWS-By Daniel Wallis

MIAMI (Reuters) - Hurricane Cristobal is expected to pass well west of Bermuda on Wednesday, where a tropical storm watch is in effect and heavy rain is likely, the National Hurricane Center said.
Centered about 425 miles (685 km) west of Bermuda, Cristobal was moving north at 12 miles per hour (19 km per hour) with maximum sustained winds of 80 mph (130 kph), the NHC said. It is seen turning northeast with a gradual increase in forward speed over the next two days."Cristobal has a large wind field. Hurricane force winds extend outward up to 60 miles (95 km) from the center and tropical storm force winds extend outward up to 205 miles (335 km)," the hurricane center said in an advisory.The hurricane is expected to produce an additional one to two inches (2.5 to five cm) of rain over Bermuda, and some strengthening of its winds was possible during the next day or so, the NHC added.Cristobal has already caused dangerous coastal conditions from the eastern U.S. seaboard to Bermuda, a British territory some 640 miles (1,030 km) off the North Carolina shore.The NHC said swells generated by the hurricane were affecting Bermuda and parts of the U.S. coastline from North Carolina to the mid-Atlantic states. It said they would spread north to southern New England on Thursday, and were "likely to cause life-threatening surf and rip current conditions."Cristobal, a Category 1 storm on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale, is the third named storm of this year's Atlantic hurricane season. It soaked parts of the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands earlier this week, after drenching Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico last weekend. Forecasters this month downgraded their outlook for the 2014 Atlantic hurricane season, predicting below-normal activity with seven to 12 named storms, with no more than two reaching major hurricane status. A major hurricane is considered to be Category 3 or above with winds hitting at least 111 mph (178 kph). Separately, the NHC said on Wednesday that shower and thunderstorm activity associated with a weak low pressure area over the northwestern Gulf of Mexico had increased during the past few hours.Some additional development was possible before the system moves inland over south Texas and northern Mexico on Thursday, it said, adding that a U.S. Air Force Hurricane Hunter aircraft was scheduled to investigate the system on Wednesday if needed.It also said a tropical wave several hundred miles east of the Lesser Antilles was producing "disorganized cloudiness and showers," and it said that system is expected to move westward across the Caribbean Sea during the next few days."Environmental conditions could become favorable for some development by early next week in the western Caribbean Sea or southern Gulf of Mexico," the NHC said.(Reporting by Daniel Wallis; Editing by Eric Beech)

EARTHQUAKES

ISAIAH 42:15
15 I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.

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:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ Worldwide
23 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2014-08-27 19:00:30 UTC-04:00Showing event times using Local System Time (UTC-04:00)23 earthquakes in map area

    4.6 249km NNW of Tobelo, Indonesia 2014-08-27 18:16:39 UTC-04:00 50.5 km
    3.1 16km WSW of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska 2014-08-27 15:55:37 UTC-04:00 125.8 km
    3.7 13km SW of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska 2014-08-27 15:11:32 UTC-04:00 120.7 km
    2.6 8km SW of Napa, California 2014-08-27 14:57:19 UTC-04:00 8.5 km
    5.4 146km SSE of Sigave, Wallis and Futuna 2014-08-27 12:31:13 UTC-04:00 10.0 km
    3.1 15km W of Stillwater, Oklahoma 2014-08-27 11:44:24 UTC-04:00 5.0 km
    2.6 7km WNW of The Geysers, California 2014-08-27 10:42:04 UTC-04:00 2.6 km
    4.6 44km WNW of Kuqa, China 2014-08-27 10:05:25 UTC-04:00 41.7 km
    4.7 27km N of Putre, Chile 2014-08-27 09:40:54 UTC-04:00 167.6 km
    2.5 68km N of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska 2014-08-27 09:05:55 UTC-04:00 18.4 km
    2.5 71km WSW of Amukta Island, Alaska 2014-08-27 07:47:27 UTC-04:00 25.5 km
    2.6 76km SSE of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska 2014-08-27 05:20:48 UTC-04:00 28.5 km
    4.4 45km E of Taniwel, Indonesia 2014-08-27 02:59:09 UTC-04:00 58.8 km
    3.2 122km ENE of Circle, 2014-08-27 02:53:29 UTC-04:00 6.1 km
    4.8 44km ESE of Middleton Island, Alaska 2014-08-27 02:10:19 UTC-04:00 12.3 km
    2.7 49km N of Atka, Alaska 2014-08-27 01:19:53 UTC-04:00 140.5 km
    3.3 61km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands 2014-08-27 01:03:49 UTC-04:00 37.0 km
    2.6 32km N of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska 2014-08-27 00:54:56 UTC-04:00 100.0 km
    5.4 150km SSE of Shizunai, Japan 2014-08-27 00:48:59 UTC-04:00 28.3 km
    5.6 100km WNW of Hofn, Iceland 2014-08-26 22:50:39 UTC-04:00 5.0 km
    4.4 13km NW of Coracora, Peru 2014-08-26 22:41:53 UTC-04:00 51.8 km
    5.2 111km WNW of Hofn, Iceland 2014-08-26 20:16:30 UTC-04:00 8.1 km
    4.7 38km SE of Ainaro, East Timor 2014-08-26 19:58:29 UTC-04:00 31.9 km

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

WHAT IS A ECO-CITY AND AGENDA 21-CONTROL ALL IN SMALL SPACES

POSSIBLE MILITARY JET CRASHES IN WEST VIRGINIA

WITH MEXICO OPEN BORDERS AND 38 COUNTRIES ALLOWING PEOPLE TO STAY IN AMERICA FOR A MONTH.WE CAN SEE EASILY HOW ISIS CAN INFILTRATE AMERICA.AND BOMB IT.

ISIS AND TERRORISTS RIDING INTO AMERICA-AND WORLD CITY NEAR YOU-pic-scientificamerica

ISIS IS COMING TO AMERICA TO FLY ITS BLACK FLACK OVER WASHINGTON-pic-theconservativetreehouse.com

ISIS MURDERS INNOCENT PEOPLE IN COLD BLOOD-pic kevinwhiteman.com

HEADS LITERALLY ROLE WHEN ISIS COMES TO TOWN-THESE FIERCELESS MURDERERS WILL KILL YOU ANYWAY POSSIBLE- AFTER THEY RAPE EVERYONE IN YOUR FAMILY-CHILDREN OR 100 YEAR OLD PARENTS-ISIS COULD CARE LESS.ITS FOR ALLAH THE CAMEL MOON GOD OF ISLAM.THE SEX FOR MURDER-72 VIRGINS FOREVER INFIDEL-CALIPHATE KILL.-pic-rollingout.com

UPDATE AUGUST 26,14-03:35PM
WE NOW FIND OUT OBAMA HAS GAVE THE OK TO DO AIRIEL SURVEILENCE ON SYRIA.AND OK TO DO AIR STRIKES ON SYRIAS ISIS AS WELL.AND AN AMERICAN DOUGLAS MCCAIN EX CHRISTIAN TURNED AND WHO CONVERTED TO ISLAMIC JIHAD HAS BEEN KILLED IN SYRIA.HIS MOTHER DID NOT MIND HE CONVERTED TO ISLAM BECAUSE ITS SUCH A PEACEFUL RELIGION SHE THOUGHT.HE THEN WENT RADICAL.AND THIS AMERICAN NEVER TOLD HIS PARENTS HE WAS GOING TO FIGHT IN SYRIA.AND NOW HES BEEN KILLED IN SYRIA EITHER FOR FIGHTING FOR ISIS OR A RADICAL MURDERER OTHER ISLAMIC MUSLIM GROUP AGAINST ASSAD.KNOWN AS REBELS.THE WORLD FINALLY REALIZES THAT YOU GOTTA FRY ISIS IN SYRIA AND IRAQ IN ORDER TO GET RID OF THESE MURDER BARBARIAN LUNATICS.YOU GOTTA KILL EVERY LUNATIC RADICAL ON EARTH.NOT JUST IN THESE 2 COUNTRIES.I STILL SAY EVERY ISLAMIC MUSLIM MAN 16 YEARS OR OVER MUST BE KILLED ON ALL THE EARTH.TO ELIMINATE THIS RADICAL ISLAMIC SHARIA LAW-SEX FOR MURDER-72 VIRGIN CAMEL MOON GOD ALLAH.AND YELLER OF ALLAH-AK-BAR CULT.

AND NOW WE FIND OUT WITH THE OPEN MEXICO BORDER AND WITH ALLIES FROM 38 COUNTRIES ALLOWED TO COME INTO AMERICA FOR A MONTH AT A TIME.WE CAN SEE HOW ISIS WILL BE EASILY ABLE TO SLIP INTO AMERICA AND BOMB NEW TORK AND FLY THEIR FLAG OVER WASHINGTON.

Fears mount of ISIS infiltrating America-149-aug 26,14-the hill-By Keith Laing - 08/24/14 06:00 AM EDT

The rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is spurring calls for major changes to a visa program that allows for easy entry into the United States for people with Western passports.Some lawmakers say the program, which allows citizens from 38 countries to visit the U.S. for up to 90 days without a visa, has created a major security weakness for groups such as ISIS to exploit.House Armed Services Committee Vice Chairman Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) said Friday that as many as 3,000 members of ISIS have U.S. or European passports and could slip into America undetected.“The biggest fear is that there are 10,000 to 12,000 foreign fighters that have joined ISIS and various estimates but many of them have Western passports,” Thornberry said on CNN.“They're either American or they're Western European passports. So they can come here to the United States homeland without a visa. And they can bring ... what they've learned about bomb-making and about assassinations with them here at home.” But lawmakers have mostly talked about expanding the program, not scaling it back.The State Department currently allows participation in the visa waiver program to citizens from more than three dozen countries, the majority of which are in Europe. Tourism groups have pushed to expand the visa waiver program to Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Croatia, Israel, Panama, Poland, Romania and Uruguay.That proposed expansion was included in a bipartisan bill that was introduced in Congress that known as the Jobs Originated Through Launching Travel (JOLT) Act (H.R. 1354).The sponsors of the legislation in the House, Reps. Joe Heck (R-Nev.) and Mike Quigley (D-Ill.), said in an op-ed that was published by The Hill earlier this year that that the measure would boost “the number of high-spending international travelers to the United States without compromising national security.“Each overseas visitor spends an average of nearly $4,500 per trip to the U.S., adding nearly $130 billion to the economy in 2012. One American job is created for every 33 international visitors—meaning over one million domestic jobs were supported by inbound travel in 2012,” the lawmakers wrote in February.“[The Visa Waiver Program] expansion itself has a proven, immediate and marked economic benefit; in the year after the program was expanded to South Korea, spending in the U.S. by visitors from that affluent country more than tripled, according to a forthcoming study from the U.S. Travel Association,” they continued.The U.S. Travel Association has said that expanding the visa waiver program to more countries would increase U.S. tourism by 600,000 visitors and add $7 billion and 40,000 jobs to the U.S. economy.Heck and Quigley said initiatives like the Visa Waiver Program and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency’s Global Entry Program make it easier for tourists to visit the United States.“This enables pre-approved, low-risk international travelers to avail themselves of expedited Customs and Border Patrol screenings, rather than spend in excess of four hours waiting for clearance in some cases,” the lawmakers wrote.But Thornberry said the presence of western passport holders in ISIS should prompt lawmakers to take a fresh look at the program.“We know they don't hesitate to kill people,” he said. “And it's not just individuals. They don't hesitate to kill hundreds or thousands of people. And so I have no doubt they are planning on how they can do that here at home in the United States and in Western Europe.“The numbers vary,” Thornberry continued. “I don't know the exact number, 2,000 to 3,000, say, have Western passports. It only takes a handful, as we saw on 9/11, to do enormous damage.” White House officials said Friday that they were not worried about any imminent attempts by ISIS to strike the United States.“To date, they have operated much like an insurgency in Syria and Iraq, and again, they are deeply rooted in the insurgency that we faced in Iraq for many years as the legacy organization of al Qaida in Iraq,” White House deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said.“For Americans in the homeland, I think what we'd say is we monitor very closely whether or not [ISIS] will seek to develop plots that are aimed at the West, aimed at beyond this geographic area where they have been operating,” Rhodes continued.Rhodes acknowledged the possibility of ISIS fighters using Western passports to avoid detection from security officials and said the president would seek to address that issue next month at the United Nations.“The president is going to convene at the head of state level a U.N. Security Council meeting in September to deal with the issue of foreign fighters who are heading to Syria, because we're concerned about the ability of foreign fighters to come from Western countries and seek to come back,” he said.“If they show the intent or they show plotting against the United States, we'll be prepared to deal with that as necessary,” he said.—This story was updated at 2:05 p.m. to correct an earlier version.
http://thehill.com/policy/transportation/215813-fears-mount-of-isis-infiltrating-america

Obama’s Pentagon Admits it Wants to Grow ‘Military to Military Relationship’ with Country that Supports Terrorists like the ones that Hit Pentagon-By Ben Barrack on August 27, 2014 in Featured, General
If there are two nations the U.S. continues to align with for seemingly very inexplicable reasons, they are Turkey and Qatar. Both of these nations support Hamas. Yet, when asked about concerns over Qatar’s support for terrorism in the context of the U.S. partnering with that nation, Pentagon Press Secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby deferred to what he called a “solid military to military relationship with Qatar” and that the Pentagon wants to “broaden” that relationship.Confusingly, Kirby also acknowledged that he’s seen the reports showing Qatar’s support for terrorism but came close to wishing them away or dismissing them because of the need for that “military to military relationship” to grow (h/t WFB):A tiny peninsula on the eastern coast of Saudi Arabia, Qatar is a hotbed for Muslim Brotherhood terrorism, terror funding, and terror propaganda (Al-Jazeera is headquartered there). Brotherhood spiritual leader Yusuf al-Qaradawi has been based in Qatar for years, even getting his own program on Al-Jazeera.So aside from Barack Obama’s pro-Muslim Brotherhood policies throughout the Middle East, why would the U.S. look to “broaden” a “military to military relationship” with Qatar despite it being such a source of terrorism? Consider the short clip of former CIA Director James Woolsey in 2006 below, published earlier by Shoebat.com. It was recently introduced into evidence in the trial of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt. In it, Woolsey implies that the U.S. will back movements that “will make the Saudi Royal family nervous”. While the Saudis have funded Brotherhood groups all over the world for years, they do in fact get “nervous” whenever the Brotherhood fills power vacuums too close to home. This can be seen in reports that the Saudis funded the overthrow of Mohammed Mursi in Egypt and support for Gen. Abdel Fatah el-Sisi over the Muslim Brotherhood there.As you watch this clip from Woolsey, ask yourself how the Saudis feel about Qatar being one of the most recognized nation states that supports terrorism:When put in those terms, Kirby’s admission that the U.S. is growing its “military to military relationship” with Qatar would be as much about sending a message to Saudi Arabia as anything else.

But at what expense?

One of the consequences of all this covert political brinksmanship has been the slaughter of an untold number of Christians throughout the Middle East. These Christians almost unanimously support the leaders the U.S. has opposed. This reality should supersede any inclination Americans might have about supporting these too-cute-by-half policies.Those involved in said policies must instinctively know this. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) is a prime example. Earlier this year, as Shoebat.com relayed, McCain exploded at a delegation of Syrian Christians in a closed door meeting. The Christian leaders wanted to explain what was happening to their brethren in Syria as a result of policies McCain was supporting.As Shoebat.com has reported, former Reagan National Security Adviser and 2008 John McCain Presidential Campaign adviser Robert McFarlane inked a $1.3 million deal with Qatar in 2009. Ostensibly, one of the main objectives of this deal was work with Sudan and help ease tensions between the U.S. and that country. The reason McFarlane could not sign a deal directly with Sudan had to do with that country being on the U.S. State Department list of State Sponsors of Terrorism.John McCain (L) and Robert McFarlane (R).According to the Washington Post, the negotiations involved “two of the Obama administration top policymakers on Sudan”. It is believed that one of the reasons Obama seeks eased relations with Sudan has to do with his brother Malik’s involvement with the leadership of that country, as Shoebat.com has reported on extensively.As the old expression goes, the enemy always has a say.In the geopolitical dueling between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia, the one enemy with a say that has been successfully leveraging that relationship has been the Muslim Brotherhood. As the U.S. seeks to make the Saudis “nervous” by “broadening” the “military to military relationship” with countries like Qatar and Turkey, the Brotherhood’s influence in the U.S. has been growing exponentially.What’s more important, using the Muslim Brotherhood to go after the Saudis abroad or going after the Muslim Brotherhood at home in the U.S.? American political leaders are either consciously in league with the Brotherhood or have been played by the group. At this point, the beltway cesspool is a mixture of both.

More Consequences
Both the Saudis and Egypt – under the current leadership of el-Sisi – have been expressing tacit support for Israel wiping out Hamas. That would be the same Hamas that Qatar – an ally of the U.S. – supports.It was the Obama administration that attempted to broker a deal between Israel and Hamas that included Turkey and Qatar; this infuriated Israel.In short, American foreign policy right now is forcing Saudi Arabia and Egypt to support Israel more than the U.S. does.If this is not a canary in the coal mine for dysfunctional U.S. politicians, nothing is.

America Blew it after 9/11
The George W. Bush administration blew it after 9/11. Instead of going after the Saudis with a 90% approval rating, the administration chose to protect them. Ditto the 9/11 Commission. It is documented extensively how this was done in Appendix B of The Case FOR Islamophobia.Is it a good thing to be afflicted with Islamophobia? Get the latest book from Walid Shoebat, The Case FOR ISLAMOPHOBIA: Jihad by the Word; America’s Final Warning.As a consequence of not confronting the Saudis head-on, the U.S. simply decided to make the Saudis “nervous” if Woolsey’s claims were part of the DC zeitgeist.The U.S. now has a president whose policies indicate he’s more interested in seeing the Muslim Brotherhood succeed than he is in making anyone ‘nervous’.Those who subscribed to Woolsey’s plan and may have had the best interests of the U.S. at heart must admit they were wrong and collectively come clean to prevent things from getting worse.Period.

U.S. Officials and Experts at Odds on Threat Posed by ISIS-By MARK MAZZETTI and HELENE COOPERAUG. 22, 2014-NEW YORK TIMES
WASHINGTON — Earlier this year, President Obama likened the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria to a junior varsity basketball squad, a group that posed little of the threat once presented by Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda.But on Thursday, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel called ISIS an “imminent threat to every interest we have,” adding, “This is beyond anything that we’ve seen.”With the rapid advance of ISIS across northern Iraq, and the release this week of a video showing one of the group’s operatives beheading an American journalist, the language Obama administration officials are using to describe the danger the terrorist group poses to the United States has become steadily more pointed. But some American officials and terrorism experts said that the ominous words overstated the group’s ability to attack the United States and its interests abroad, and that ISIS could be undone by its own brutality and nihilism.“They have a lot of attributes that should scare us: money, people, weapons and a huge swath of territory,” said Andrew Liepman, a senior fellow at the RAND Corporation and former deputy head of the National Counterterrorism Center. “But when we’re surprised by a group, as we have been in this case, we tend to overreact.”These notes of caution from inside the government and from terrorism watchers come as the White House considers expanding military action against ISIS, including possibly striking across the border in Syria.American intelligence agencies are working on a thorough assessment of the group’s strength, and they believe that its ability to gain and hold territory could make it a long-term menace in the Middle East. Intelligence officials said there were indications that ISIS’ battlefield successes had attracted defectors from Qaeda affiliates in Yemen and Africa, who are eager to join a group with momentum.But experts say ISIS differs from traditional terrorist groups like Al Qaeda and its affiliates, primarily because it prefers enlarging what it calls its caliphate over discrete acts of terrorism. It has captured dams and oil fields, and has seized spoils of war like armored personnel carriers and tanks.Bin Laden’s goal was also to create an Islamic caliphate, but he often said that it was years away and could be achieved only under the proper conditions. ISIS, on the other hand, has renamed itself “Islamic State” and declared that the caliphate has arrived.“This is a full-blown insurgent group, and talking about it as a terrorist group is not particularly helpful,” said William McCants, a fellow at the Brookings Institution.Rear Adm. John Kirby, the Pentagon press secretary, said the Defense Department did not believe that ISIS had “the capability right now to conduct a major attack on the U.S. homeland.”“We do believe they have aspirations to strike Western targets,” Admiral Kirby said, adding that the “urgency of the threat” was driven by the belief that ISIS had enlisted thousands of foreign fighters and was holding its ground in Iraq and Syria.ISIS is now under pressure from American airstrikes in Iraq. And the group must defend its gains from advances by a host of adversaries, like Iraqi Kurdish troops, the forces of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, and other Syrian rebels.“Attacking the U.S. is not their first priority,” Mr. Liepman said.In addition, American officials said that the group’s brutal methods of governing the territory it has seized, while effective in the short term, could create internal factions that would weaken its grip on power.Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Thursday that the group’s ambition was to remake the Middle East by absorbing nations including Israel, Jordan, Kuwait and Syria into its caliphate. “If it were to achieve that vision, it would fundamentally alter the face of the Middle East and create a security environment that would certainly threaten us in many ways,” he said.But some experts are skeptical that ISIS could ever realize that goal.

A Rogue State Along Two Rivers

The victories gained by the militant group calling itself the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria were built on months of maneuvering along the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.“ISIS can expand, but it can’t dominate alone,” said George Friedman, chairman of Stratfor, a geopolitical risk analysis company. Even in Iraq, the group “can’t defeat the Kurds,” Mr. Friedman said. “It certainly doesn’t have the power to defeat the Shiites in the south.”But for a population that is not accustomed to images of Americans at the mercy of foreign militaries, the video of the killing of the American journalist, James Foley, was bound to strike a chord and exacerbate a feeling of being under threat.Some experts said the fear of ISIS was driven partly by how little is known about the organization. While the United States has spent more than a decade studying Al Qaeda, officials know comparatively little about the structure and leadership of ISIS, beyond the information they have on the group’s self-appointed caliph, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.But a large segment of the United States’ counter terrorism apparatus is now devoted to filling in the intelligence picture about ISIS. Speaking to reporters on Thursday, Mr. Hagel said as much. “We must prepare for everything,” he said. “And the only way you do that is that you take a cold, steely, hard look at it and get ready.”It is generally agreed that it is far more difficult to carry out a terrorist attack inside the United States today than it was before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, because of the steps taken since to prevent would-be terrorists from entering the country.But that does not mean that ISIS cannot present a significant threat in the Middle East.“I’m worried about Turkey, I’m worried about Jordan, I’m worried about regional destabilization,” said Jarret Brachman, the author of “Global Jihadism: Theory and Practice” and an adviser to the United States government on ISIS and Al Qaeda.Mr. Brachman said that he did not believe the group had the ability, at the moment, to attack the United States, and that such an attack would bring about an American response so destructive that it would undermine the militants’ goal of territorial expansion.A version of this article appears in print on August 23, 2014, on page A1 of the New York edition with the headline: U.S. Isn’t Sure Just How Much to Fear ISIS.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/23/us/politics/us-isnt-sure-just-how-much-to-fear-isis.html?_r=0

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