Monday, September 08, 2014

DAY 63 NUKES - STEALTH SUBMARINE SET SAIL FOR ISRAEL

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

OTHER ISRAEL-GAZA WAR STORIES I PUT ON
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/09/day-61-sotloff-loved-israel-first-time.html 
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/09/israel-plans-defence-against-emp-anti.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/09/day-60-world-would-be-smart-like-idf-to.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/09/day-59-israel-condemned-for-wanting-to.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/09/day-58-israel-condemned-for-wanting-to.html
GAZA-ISRAEL WAR DAYS 48-57 
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/09/day-58-israel-condemned-for-wanting-to.html
GAZA-ISRAEL WAR DAYS 38-47
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/08/day-47-israel-create-hamongog-in-jordan.html
GAZA-ISRAEL WAR DAYS 29-37
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/08/day-37-israel-create-hamongog-in-jordan.html
GAZA-ISRAEL WAR DAYS 1-28
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/08/day-28-israel-create-hamongog-in-jordan.html 

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http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/09/jonathan-cahn-7-year-cycles-shemitah.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/09/sotloff-and-foley-only-two-of-thousands.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/09/cameron-wants-anti-terror-laws-enforced.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/08/the-sex-salvation-lure-to-islam-convert.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/08/will-brussels-belgum-or-turkey-be.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/08/the-worry-about-martial-law-end-of.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/08/day-14-ferguson-missouri-demonstrations.html (DAN PAGE)
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/08/the-true-peaceful-face-of-islamic.html

Palestinian victims describe being used as shields by Hamas

Members of a Gaza family whose farm was turned into a "fortress" by Hamas fighters have reported that they were helpless to stop Hamas from using them as human shields. They described how for years Hamas has used their property and homes as shields for military installations from which to launch rockets into Israel, dig tunnels and store arms. According to the victims, those who tried to object were shot in the legs by Hamas.

WHY IS OBAMA SUCH A ARAB-MUSLIM SUPPORTER.AND WORSHIPS EVERY COMMUNIST MUSLIM LEADER THAT COMES TO THE WHITE HOUSE.AND THIS IS THE REASON SO MANY AT THE WHITE HOUSE ARE ARAB-MUSLIMS.

OBAMAS MAKEUP
50% ARAB
42% WHITE
08% BLACK


The following is the full text of the comments by Hamas representative Fathi Hammad months before the war, articulating the Hamas ideology to use civilians as human shields for Hamas fighters:"For the Palestinian people death has become an industry, at which women excel and so do all people on this land: the elderly excel, the Jihad fighters excel, and the children excel. Accordingly [Palestinians] created a human shield of women, children, the elderly and the Jihad fighters against the Zionist bombing machine, as if they were saying to the Zionist enemy: 'We desire death as you desire life.'"

ZEPHANIAH 2:1-7
1 Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired;
2  Before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD come upon you, before the day of the LORD’S anger come upon you.
3  Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD’S anger.
4  For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up.(ITS NO ACCIDENT THAT IN THIS GAZA WAR ITS ASHKELON-ASHDOD AND THE MURDERER HAMAS IN GAZA WERE MOST OF THE BOMBING ARE)(THIS IS PROPHECY COMING TO PASS BIGTIME)
5  Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast,(GAZA) the nation of the Cherethites! the word of the LORD is against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines,(PALESTINIANS) I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant.
6  And the sea coast (GAZA) shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks.
7  And the coast (GAZA) shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah;(ISRAEL) they shall feed thereupon: in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down in the evening: for the LORD their God shall visit them, and turn away their captivity.(BY THIS PROPHECY I PREDICT ISRAEL WILL RETAKE GAZA SO ISRAELIS AROUND THE WORLD CAN IMMIGRATE THERE AND BUILD HOMES AND LIVE)

ISAIAH 14:29-32
29  Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina,(ARABS-PALESTINIANS) because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent’s root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.(BOMBS)(WARFARE)
30  And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.
31  Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina,(ARABS) art dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times.
32  What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD hath founded Zion,(JERUSALEM) and the poor of his people shall trust in it.  

IN DEPTH LOOK WERE RUSSIA-ARAB-MUSLIMS BURRIAL SPOT IN ISRAEL-JORDAN
http://philologos.org/bpr/files/h009.htm  

2 PETER 3:8
8  But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

PSALMS 90:4
4  For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

EVEN CREATION IS ONE THOUSAND YEARS IN JESUS SITE IS ONE DAY.SO ONE DEAD ISRAELI TO ONE THOUSAND DEAD ENEMIES FITS RIGHT IN WITH CREATION.THE WORLD GOES ON FOR 6 THOUSAND YEARS-THEN THE 7 THOUSANDTH YEAR IS JESUS' RULE FROM JERUSALEM FOR ONE THOUSAND YEARS-THEN FOREVER.AND IN WAR IS THE SAME BY CREATION.FOR EVERY ONE DEAD ISRAELI-ONE THOUSAND DEAD ENEMIES WILL OCCUR.

ISAIAH 30:17
17 A thousand will flee at the threat of one; at the threat of five you will all flee away, till you are left like a flagstaff on a mountaintop, like a banner on a hill."

PSALMS 91:7
7 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.

LEVIDICUS 26:7-8
7 You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall by the sword before you.
8 Five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand, and your enemies will fall by the sword before you.

DEUTERONOMY 32:30
30 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?

EZEKIEL 39:11-21
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 on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.(THE ARAB-MUSLIM-RUSSIA BURRIAL SPOT WILL BE EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN THE JORDAN VALLEY)

12  And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.
13  Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
14  And they shall sever out men of continual employment, passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
15  And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamongog.
16  And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.
17  And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.
18  Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19  And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.
20  Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
21  And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.

GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her,(HAGAR) 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 (ISHMAEL) will be a wild (DONKEY-JACKASS) man;(ISLAM IS A FAKE AND DANGEROUS SEX FOR MURDER CULT) his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against him;(PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM BEING BEHEADED) and he (ISHMAEL ARAB/MUSLIM) shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)

EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH (BECAUSE OF SIN AND GODLESS PEOPLE)

GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

IS THIS TIME FOR ISRAEL TO GET SOME OF ITS PROMISED LAND BY GOD BY DESTROYING THE ARAB NATIONS AROUND ISRAEL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPXbRO9gfxY&list=UUkz3m787ygph7Uvjxzngl-g 

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)

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.(ALL MOSTLY PSALMS 83 ARABS)

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

SECOND ANGEL TO DR DOCTORIAN
The angel showed me that the United Nations shall be broken in pieces because of the crisis in the Middle East. There shall be no more United Nations. The angel with the sickle shall reap the harvest.

Video: 'Nuke-Capable' Stealth Submarine Sets Sail for Israel-The INS Tanin – the Navy's fourth and most advanced Dolphin-class submarine – is en route to Israel from Germany.By Gil Ronen-First Publish: 9/7/2014, 9:19 PM-ISRAELNATIONALNEWS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69p8ik6jLz8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVcG4YkrxIg

The INS Tanin, Israel's fourth and most advanced Dolphin class submarine – is en route to Israel from Germany, and the Navy has released video of the vessel and the ceremony in which it was launched at Germany's Kiel shipyards at week's end.Reports claim Israel has modified the Dolphin's 650mm launch tubes to allow the launch of missiles that could carry nuclear warheads. Such missiles should give Israel the ability to deter belligerent neighbors like Iran, if it delivers a sufficiently convincing threat to make use of them. However – Israel has thus far maintained a policy of nuclear ambiguity.The German weekly Der Spiegel reported that the submarines have a nuclear capability and are part of Israel's weaponry to counter the nuclear threat from Iran.German Chancellor Angela Merkel has denied that the submarines have a nuclear capability.The new Dolphin also has state of the art Air-independent propulsion (AIP) systems, which allow it to operate without the need to access atmospheric oxygen by surfacing or using a snorkel. This makes it virtually silent and potentially stealthier than nuclear powered submarines.It is the most expensive single vehicle in the IDF's arsenal and unlike the first three Dolphins delivered to Israel, is modeled on the German Navy's Type 212 submarine, and not on the export-only Type 209. The AIP Dolphins are 12 meters longer than the Type 212, are nearly 500 tons heavier in submerged displacement, and have a larger crew.Israel has already purchased a a fifth Dolphin-class submarine at a subsidized rate from Berlin, and has an option for a sixth.In May 2012, during an official ceremony in the Kiel shipyards, the German builders transferred the INS Tanin to the Israeli Navy. However, it did not complete its testing process until now.Each Dolphin-class submarine is capable of carrying a combined total of up to 16 torpedoes and Submarine-launched cruise missiles (SLCMs). The cruise missiles have a range of at least 1,500 km (930 mi) and are widely believed to be equipped with a 200-kilogram (440 lb) nuclear warhead containing up to 6 kilograms (13 lb) of plutonium.A wet and dry compartment is installed for deploying underwater special operations teams.Jane's Defense Weekly reports that the Dolphin-class submarines are believed to be nuclear armed, offering Israel both a first strike and a second strike capability. The Federation of American Scientists and GlobalSecurity.org report that the four larger torpedo tubes are capable of launching Israeli built nuclear- armed Popeye Turbo cruise missiles (a variant of the Popeye standoff missile), and the US Navy recorded an Israeli submarine-launched cruise missile test in the Indian Ocean ranging 1,500 km (930 mi).

Australia PM to sign long-awaited nuclear fuel deal with India-AFP-September 4, 2014 6:00 PM-YAHOONEWS

New Delhi (AFP) - Australia's prime minister is due to sign a deal Friday allowing nuclear fuel exports to energy-hungry India, as he meets the country's new premier on a visit to boost economic ties.Tony Abbott, who flew into New Delhi late on Thursday after meeting business leaders in Mumbai, said the long-awaited agreement was a sign of "mutual trust" after a long-standing ban on uranium sales to India was lifted in 2012.The world's third biggest uranium producer, Australia had previously ruled out such exports to nuclear-armed India because it has not signed the global non-proliferation treaty.But Abbott said on Thursday that he was assured of India's commitment to peaceful power generation."India has an absolutely impeccable non-proliferation record and India has been a model international citizen," he told reporters in Mumbai."India threatens no one, India is the friend to many, India is the world's emerging democratic superpower. This is an important sign of the mutual trust that exists between Australia and India."The agreement will potentially ramp up India's plans for more nuclear power stations, with only 20 small plants at present and a heavy dependency on coal.India is struggling to produce enough power to meet the rising demands of its 1.2-billion-strong population as its economy and vast middle-class expand.Nearly 400 million Indians are still without access to electricity, according to the World Bank, and crippling power cuts are common.Asked about India's management of its nuclear power industry and safety standards, Abbott said it was "not our job to tell India how to conduct its internal affairs"."Our job is to try to ensure we act in accordance with our own standards of decency and that's what we intend to do," he said, adding that India's "standards are improving all the time".The Australian premier told business leaders in Mumbai that the purpose of his trip was "to acknowledge the importance of India in the wider world, acknowledge the importance of India to Australia's future".He announced a scheme to boost the numbers of Australians studying in India and met Indian cricketing great Sachin Tendulkar ahead of Australia's hosting of the World Cup next year.In the capital, he is due to attend a ceremonial reception on Friday morning before meeting senior government members, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who swept to power in May pledging to open up Asia's third-largest economy to foreign investment.

Court Legalizes State Land Declaration - From 2004-If history is an indication, it may be a very long time before anything gets built on newly-declared state land in Gush Etzion.By Yaakov Levi-First Publish: 9/7/2014, 5:22 PM-ISRAELNATIONALNEWS

If history is an indication, it may be a very long time before anything gets built on land in Gush Etzion that was declared state land last week. Another declaration by the government over a decade ago has been winding its way through the court system, and it was only on Sunday that the High Court rejected arguments by Arab groups that the declaration was illegal.Sunday's case revolved around the legal status of Givat Eitam, a parcel of some 1,700 dunams (170 hectares or 420 acres) of land that is within area belonging to the Efrat local council, but outside the security fence. The state declared the parcel to be state land in August 2004, after it was first set inside the municipal boundaries of the city in 1999, with the local authority carefully checking its legal status. Local Arab farmers sued, claiming that the land belonged to them.The case has been wending its way through the courts for the past decade, and one of the results of the lawsuit was an order by the High Court to move part of the security fence in Efrat in 2011. As such, 400 dunams of the land were now inside the fence, while 1,300 are still outside – and on Sunday, the court said that the Efrat local council and the state were in the right, and that the land could remain with the status of state land.However, the saga is not yet finished: The court “suggested” in its decision that the state and the Arab farmers return to arbitration to discuss the fate of some of the land that has been planted by them – illegally, it turns out, since the state was justified in declaring the parcel state land. According to attorneys for the Arab farmers, the fact that some of the land is now being tilled by them obviates the “state land” declaration.Last week, in the aftermath of the abduction and murder to Gilad Sha’ar, Eyal Yifrah and Naftali Frenkel, the state declared 4,000 dunams (roughly 4,000,000 square meters) of land in Gush Etzion as state land. Those opposed to the decision have about a month to contest it.

Regev to Haniyeh: Go Ahead, Try Us-Likud MK issues a warning to Hamas’s former Prime Minister, after his threat that Hamas would resume the rocket attacks against Israel.By Hezki Ezra-First Publish: 9/8/2014, 2:14 AM-ISRAELNATIONALNEWS

MK Miri Regev (Likud) on Sunday issued a warning to Hamas’s former Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyeh, after he threatened that Hamas would resume the rocket attacks against Israel.In a sermon he gave this past Friday, Haniyeh declared that Hamas would resume the rocket fire towards Israel on September 25 unless Israel ends its naval blockade of the coastal strip by that date.In response to the threat, Regev said, "I say from here to Haniyeh - go ahead and try us. Just as we severely hurt the Hamas terror infrastructure we will not hesitate to strike Hamas again, and you Haniyeh will not be immune.""It's no secret that I thought the ground offensive should have been expanded," she continued, "but I'm sure that our prime minister will succeed in bringing security to the residents of the south, and will change the rules of the game.”In his sermon on Friday, Haniyeh also declared that Hamas is not willing to discuss the possibility of demilitarizing weapons from its "military wing," the Al-Qassam Brigades, or other terrorist organizations operating in Gaza." Weapons are the holy light of the sanctity of the struggle and the land issue, and if they want to demilitarize its weapons, we will only agree if the occupier is also demilitarized and its leaves our land," Haniyeh said, likely referring to the entire state of Israel."As long as there is an occupation, there will be a struggle," he added.Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman acknowledged on Sunday that Israel’s demand that Gaza be demilitarized was not likely to be realized.Speaking to Kol Yisrael public radio, Liberman said that demanding Gaza demilitarize was “unrealistic at this time, although the issue will remain on the table.”
He added that Israel must not give up in its efforts to dislodge Hamas from running Gaza and must work to remove the terror group from its control of the territory, even though polls show that Hamas has become much more popular among Gazans after Operation Protective Edge's conclusion.

Hamas Rebuilding Attack Tunnels, Says Jerusalem-Senior diplomatic source says Hamas has renewed production of rockets and smuggling from Egypt, as well.By Hezki Ezra, Gil Ronen-First Publish: 9/7/2014, 6:20 PM-ISRAELNATIONALNEWS

Two weeks after the IDF's counter-terror operation Protective Edge in Gaza was halted by a ceasefire, a senior diplomatic source says that Hamas has renewed its production of rockets and the smuggling from Egypt, and is rebuilding its attack tunnels.The terror group is smuggling in materials for restoring its rocket array, says the senior source. “Hamas did not wait a single moment after the last round of fighting, and began its rearmament in anticipation of another round [of fighting].”The senior diplomatic source is quoted throughout Israeli media.Hamas appears to be “daring” Israel to take action against it, even as indirect talks between Israel and Hamas are about to start, with the purpose of reaching a long term “arrangement.” It is not known, at this stage, whether Israel intends to take action against the rearming and the renewed tunnel digging.Disarming Gaza is very unlikely, Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman said Sunday. Speaking to Voice of Israel public radio, Liberman said that demanding Gaza demilitarize was “unrealistic at this time, although the issue will remain on the table.” Liberman added that Israel must not give up in its efforts to dislodge Hamas from running Gaza and must work to remove the terror group from its control of the territory, even though polls show that Hamas has become much more popular among Gazans after Operation Protective Edge's conclusion.One way Hamas could be brought down several pegs, said Liberman, was by a refusal by Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas to continue his partnership with the Gaza terror group. Hamas, he said, was no less dangerous than ISIS, the Islamist terror group that controls wide areas of Iraq and Syria. Hamas was also dangerous to Abbas, whom the Gaza terrorists planned on replacing. For his own good, if not for Israel's, Abbas should immediately break off his coalition with Hamas, Liberman said.

Op-Ed: Hamas' Dissolution Indispensable for Israel's Security-Simply put, Israel will have to endure a very uncertain future or live under attrition unless it takes steps to dissolve Hamas. Published: Sunday, September 07, 2014 12:51 AM-Dr. Joe Tuzara-ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS

In strategic context, nothing less than a large-scale 'invasion' to finish Hamas off and rid Gaza of a terrorist regime is going to ensure security for Israel.Israeli concessions in exchange for a ceasefire that doesn't work is a lot of baloney.The hard facts speak for themselves: a deeply ideological terrorist organization which abuses its people and calls for the destruction of the nation of Israel and killing of all Jews everywhere doesn't deserve to exist.Israeli concessions in exchange for a ceasefire that doesn't work is a lot of baloney. Delegitimizing a weakened Hamas while at the same time pursuing negotiations for a ceasefire with a known terrorist group will only further strengthen Hamas’ grip on Gaza.There is no doubt that Israeli leaders feel justified in their actions in Gaza. Unfortunately, Israel was waging a military action against an adversary that was waging a political campaign and thus adopted the wrong tactics and measured progress by the wrong metrics.Continuing rocket fire and refusing a permanent and stable cease-fire will drag Gaza into a war that Hamas -- not Israel, contrary to its perception -- cannot endure.From Israel's perspective, the primary focus of Gaza "incursion" code-named "Operation Protective Edge" was to destroy tunnel infrastructure, rocket and launching pads for missiles, but not to topple Hamas.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's tactics of "hammering out to halt attrition" rather than heading straight for a clear-cut victory will not deter Hamas from attacking Israel. While a "limited ground strike in the first stage" continued to reach and demolish the sources of Hamas’s rocket and mortar attacks, it remains unclear whether the Netanyahu government's tactic will work in the long term.In light of the successful targeted killings of senior Hamas military commanders using pinpointed military intelligence, an ultimatum should also be put in place for an "immediate, unconditional surrender" of Hamas, which is highly unlikely.Perhaps, it is about time for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to take out the fundamentalist Palestinian movement's  command and operation centers "without hesitancy or restraint" particularly those under Shifa hospital-  a stronghold under which most of Hamas' leadership has apparently been hiding.Given the ongoing proxy conflicts in the Middle East and existential threats endured for so long by the Jewish people, Israel's survival in the past depended on strategic and tactical responses to multi-front conventional wars.However, since its founding in 1948, the main security threats to the state of Israel shifted from major multi-front conventional wars to asymmetric forms of warfare with Hamas in Gaza, Judea and Samaria ('West Bank'), Hezbollah across the border in Lebanon, the mullah-led regime in Iran and the surging threat from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a new moniker for al Qaeda splinter terror groups.Overall, the inherent asymmetry and "lack of strategic depth" in a largely hostile, high-threat regional environment make Israel militarily vulnerable.And yet, despite a strong self-defense capability, Israel's military strategies emphasized a combination of prevention, preemption, and deterrence as illustrated in the Six-Day War (1967), Lebanon conflicts and against Iraq's Osirak reactor (1981) and Syria's al-Kibar nuclear facility (2007) built with North Korean technology and assistance .In its counterterrorism application [against Hamas], the goal of deterrence is the same: identify vulnerable parts of an enemy’s chain of command, operational cells and support network, and take steps that would put them at risk to alter their behavior in your favor. If you can deter even one link in the chain of a terrorist network, you have an opportunity to halt the entire network.Adapting cold war deterrence against nihilistic goals of Hamas terrorism would seem unlikely if not impossible.In this type of asymmetric warfare, as in the conventional dimension, in which Hamas and Islamic Jihad operate from densely populated areas using human shields, whatever Israel does to minimize civilian casualties is rendered useless and insignificant. As a result, Israel received a great deal of absurd international condemnation for the deaths of Palestinians being used as 'human shields' and for Israel's use of “disproportionate force.”Dr. Yehuda David, who recently ran for Israeli president and took part in the ongoing Gaza operation , said "the IDF has technology to end the Operation in hours; I don't understand why the political echelon doesn't use those means.""Hamas can be completely liquidated - without endangering IDF soldiers in a complicated ground entry and close-quarters urban warfare".David's appraisal of the dangers of a ground entry contrasted with the commander of the IAF special reconnaissance Flying Camel Squadron, who said that having to abort airstrikes due to civilian presence often "sabotaged" the operation. It has been argued that the hesitancy to wage all-out-war has caused IDF deaths.In addition to secret technology and targeted assassinations of Hamas military wing commanders, Israel can rout Hamas through massive flooding of the underground city in Gaza,  just exactly what Egypt has done to permanently destroy all smuggling tunnels near its border crossings between Egypt and Gaza.If Israel wants quiet for years to come it needs to unequivocally liquidate Iran's proxy, Hamas at any cost. Otherwise, Israel's inaction may be more dangerous for its long-term survival. Simply put, Israel will have to endure  a very uncertain future or live under attrition.The recent attempts by Hamas to stage a coup against the Palestinian Authority  which the IDF and Israel Security Agency (Shabak) foiled is irrefutable evidence that what happened in Gaza will happen in the 'West Bank'.Finally, if you aren't yet convinced that Israel is fighting  the Islamic regime of Iran in Gaza, just take note what then Iranian President Rafsanjani declared in 2001:"In due time the Islamic world will have a military nuclear device, and then the strategy of the West would reach a dead end, since one bomb is enough to destroy all Israel."

Abbas may end unity with Hamas over Gaza governance-AFP-By Hossam Ezzedine-SEPT 7,14-YAHOONEWS

Ramallah (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) - Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas has threatened to break off a unity agreement with Hamas if the Islamist movement does not allow the government to operate properly in the Gaza Strip.And prime minister Rami Hamdallah told AFP a dispute with Hamas over the payment of salaries to thousands of its employees had become the main issue from preventing his government of national unity from operating inside Gaza.Abbas's accusation that Hamas was effectively running a parallel administration in Gaza drew an angry reaction from the Islamist movement, which denounced his allegations as "baseless."But it raised fresh questions over the future of a fragile intra-Palestinian unity deal aimed at ending seven years of rival administrations in the West Bank and Gaza."We will not accept the situation with Hamas continuing as it is at the moment," Abbas said in remarks published by official Palestinian news agency WAFA."We won't accept a partnership with them if the situation continues like this in Gaza, where there is a shadow government... running the territory," he said."The national consensus government cannot do anything on the ground," he charged.Later on Sunday, Abbas appeared on the verge of another public attack on Hamas in the opening of his address to the Arab League in Cairo.Just 30 seconds into his speech, which referenced Hamas's forcible takeover of Gaza in 2007, Abbas was handed a note and abruptly stopped speaking as an official quickly ordered journalists out of the room.The very public dispute erupted some two weeks after the end of a major 50-day confrontation between Israel and Hamas militants in Gaza, which killed more than 2,100 Palestinians and 72 in Israel.In Gaza, spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said Abbas's allegations that Hamas was hampering the operations of the national consensus government were"unjustified." "It is untrue, baseless and unfair to our people," he said.

- Shadow government in Gaza? -

Throughout the conflict, Hamas and Fatah put up a united front, working side-by-side to further indirect truce talks with Israel in Cairo, which resulted in an open-ended ceasefire that took effect on August 26.But as the guns fell silent, their long-held divisions again came to the fore.Under the terms of April agreement, Hamas agreed to work with its rivals in Abbas's Fatah movement to form an interim consensus government of technocrats which would work towards long-delayed national elections.The deal sought to end years of bitter and sometimes bloody rivalry between Hamas and Fatah, which dominates the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority.The new cabinet took office on June 2, with Gaza's Hamas government officially stepping down the same day.Despite the handover, Hamas has remained the de facto power in Gaza, with moves to implement the provisions of the unity deal put on hold in the face of the deadly offensive that Israel launched on July 8."This unity government should control both the West Bank and the Gaza Strip but there are many things blocking its work," the prime minister told AFP in an interview.First and foremost among the problems was the matter of salaries, which had left him caught between a rock and a hard place, he said.On the one hand, the international community had threatened a suspension of aid if the wages were paid to employees of a group blacklisted as a "terror organisation" while on the other, Hamdallah himself had received "threats" if he were to visit Gaza without first resolving the salary crisis.Since signing the agreement in April, Hamas has demanded the new government take responsibility for paying its 45,000 employees, 27,000 of whom are civil servants."Putting Hamas employees on the government payroll is the main problem which is preventing the government from working in the Gaza Strip," said Hamdallah."The government and the banks operating in the Palestinian territories were warned that if they make these payments to former Hamas government employees in Gaza then the government and the people will be boycotted," he said."If this happens, the Palestinian banking system will face a huge problem that will threaten the Palestinian situation in general."The Palestinians are heavily dependent on international aid with a boycott likely to have a devastating financial impact on its financial viability.Hamdallah said an unidentified "third party" was working to solve the crisis by delivering the payments, with "positive indications" it would be resolved soon.Qatar has agreed to cover the costs of the former Hamas employees, although the money has yet to be transferred.

THE GOD PARTICLE COULD WIPE OUT THE EARTH-MY BIBLE SAYS THE WORLD NEVER ENDS-THIS IS A HOGWASH STATEMENT

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

WORLD POWERS IN THE LAST DAYS (END OF AGE OF GRACE NOT THE WORLD)

EUROPEAN UNION-KING OF WEST-DAN 9:26-27,DAN 7:23-24,DAN 11:40,REV 13:1-10
EGYPT-KING OF THE SOUTH-DAN 11:40
RUSSIA-KING OF THE NORTH-EZEK 38:1-2,EZEK 39:1-3
CHINA-KING OF THE EAST-DAN 11:44,REV 9:16,18
VATICAN-RELIGIOUS LEADER-REV 13:11-18,REV 17:4-5,9,18

WORLD TERRORISM

GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

2 PETER 2:5
5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

2 PETER 3:7
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men

LEVITICUS 26:16
16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you( sudden) terror(ISM), consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her,(HAGAR) 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 (ISHMAEL) will be a wild (DONKEY-JACKASS) man;(ISLAM IS A FAKE AND DANGEROUS SEX FOR MURDER CULT) his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against him;(PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM BEING BEHEADED) and he (ISHMAEL ARAB/MUSLIM) shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)

ISAIAH 14:12-14
12  How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,(SATAN) son of the morning!(HEBREW-CRECENT MOON-ISLAM) how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13  For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14  I (SATAN HAS EYE TROUBLES) will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(AND 1/3RD OF THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN FELL WITH SATAN AND BECAME DEMONS)

ISAIAH 33:1,18-19 Woe to thee that spoilest,(destroys) and thou wast not spoiled;(destroyed) and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil,(destroy) thou shalt be spoiled;(destroyed) and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.

JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.(ISLAM MURDERS IN THE NAME OF MOON GOD ALLAH OF ISLAM)

Six EU countries join group to 'destroy' Islamic State-Today @ 12:41-SEPT 7,14-EUOBSERVER-By Andrew Rettman

NEWPORT - Six EU countries have joined a US-led coalition to “degrade and destroy” the Islamic State [IS] in Iraq and Syria.The “Core Group” came together at the Nato summit in Wales on Thursday and Friday (5-6 September).On the EU side, it includes: Denmark; France; Germany; Italy; Poland; and the UK. The other members are Australia; Canada; Turkey; and the US.US president Barack Obama told press: “We are going to degrade and ultimately destroy ISIL [an alternative name for IS] ... the same way we’ve gone after al-Qaeda, and the same way we’ve gone after its affiliates in Somalia”.IS is a radical Sunni Muslim group which controls territory in Iraq and Syria.It is considered a threat to EU countries because hundreds of European Muslims have joined it and might come home to carry out terrorist attacks.It has also beheaded Western hostages and exterminated Christian communities.Obama noted the US has already carried out “more than 100” air strikes on IS forces.France, Germany, Italy, the UK, and the US have also supplied small arms and heavy-calibre machine guns to Kurdish forces in northern Iraq to help them fight the jihadists.But Core Group leaders at the Nato event ruled out: sending ground troops; negotiating with IS on hostages; or forming an alliance with IS adversary, Syrian leader Bashar Assad.They said the campaign could take up to three years.They also said Western diplomacy will play an important role in persuading Arab allies to deligitimise IS.“It is critical to have Arab states, and major Sunni states, rejecting the kind of nihilism which ISIL represents and saying that this is not what Islam is about”, Obama said.Replying to questions on co-operation with Assad, British leader David Cameron added: “We can’t act in a way that undermines our moral authority, to start acting on the principle that my enemy’s enemy is my friend”.For his part, Nato head Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the alliance itself will not play a combat role.But it is willing to launch a training mission for Iraqi security forces if the incoming Iraqi government asks it to.Rasmussen also said Nato states will share more intelligence on IS financing and overseas recruitment. “The issue of returning foreign fighters is really a matter of concern from [Nato’s] security point of view”, he noted.

Nato expansion unlikely before late 2015-05.09.14 @ 16:36-EUOBSERVER-By Andrew Rettman

NEWPORT - Nato leaders have indicated the alliance will not take in any new aspirant states until late next year.Its secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, said at the Nato summit in Wales on Friday (5 September): “We will assess, at the end of 2015 at the latest, whether to invite Montenegro to join the alliance”.He added that the two sides will “intensify” co-operation in the meantime, with Nato officials saying Montenegro still has homework on technical military standards.Two other countries - Bosnia and Macedonia - have membership action plans.Georgia has asked to join. Opinion surveys in Ukraine after Russia invaded the country say most people also want to be in the alliance.Rasmussen noted that Georgia’s next step is to become part of an “enhanced co-operation group”, together with Australia, Jordan, Moldova, and Sweden.He did not mention Ukraine.But he added, alluding to Russia’s opposition to Nato expansion, that: “Nato’s door remains open. Each country will continue to be judged on its merits and no third party has a veto over Nato enlargement”.Ukraine is planning to introduce a bill to scrap its non-aligned status so that it can apply one day.Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko, speaking in Wales on Wednesday, indicated that he might hold a referendum on the question in the coming years.“When the country will be adequately prepared for the [technical] criteria of membership, the Ukrainian people will decide”, he said.But German chancellor Angela Merkel told German press the same evening that Ukrainian accession is not on Nato’s agenda at this time.On Bosnia, a Nato official said it is stuck in limbo, due, in part, to disagreements between ethnic Serbs and Bosniaks on which bits of the federation should host which military bases.He added that Greece-Macedonia talks “have not gone well” on the name dispute, which has seen Greece veto Macedonia’s Nato entry because Macedonia uses the same name as a bordering Greek province. Rasmussen’s comments on Russia’s non-veto come despite the risk that pro-Russia forces will occupy east and south Ukraine in a frozen conflict designed to stop it from joining Western blocs.The situation already exists in Georgia and Moldova, where Russian soldiers protect three breakaway republics.The Nato official added that a border dispute does not categorically rule out Nato entry, however.“It’s not a show-stopper”, he said, noting that Norway joined the alliance despite having a maritime boundary dispute with Russia at the time.Two other Nordic nations - Finland and Sweden - at the Nato summit signed a “host nation status” agreement which allows Nato troops to deploy on their territory in future.Neither has joined Nato because Finland is wary of antagonising Russia, but both have worked on Nato “inter-operability” for several years.Asked by EUobserver if Rasmussen’s mention of late-2015 means no new members until that time, the Nato official said “unless of course Finland or Sweden opt to join … if they do, they would walk in within a week”.

EU to adopt Russia sanctions despite ceasefire-05.09.14 @ 20:18-EUOBSERVER-By Andrew Rettman

NEWPORT - EU countries are to adopt new sanctions on Russia despite the Ukraine ceasefire, but might revoke them if things go well.German chancellor Angela Merkel said at a Nato summit in Wales on Friday (5 September) that the situation is “fluid … one has to look at the ceasefire, if it holds. One has to look at the Russian troops, are they withdrawing?”She added: “these sanctions could indeed be put in place … but with the stipulation they can be suspended again [if the peace process succeeds]”.British PM David Cameron said: “Be in no doubt: the sanctions go ahead as announced”.“But if the ceasefire agreement holds and leads to a genuine peace plan … it would be right to take a second look”.Dutch PM Mark Rutte noted: “First see, then believe - the sanctions process will continue”.The sanctions are being imposed because thousands of Russian infantry troops and hundreds of armoured vehicles invaded east Ukraine last week.The EU leaders spoke after Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko told media on the golf course at the Nato event that he had agreed ceasefire terms with pro-Russia rebels.But the EU and US are sceptical the deal will stick or that Russia will give back conquered territory.US president Barack Obama also said “we [the US] are finalising measures to deepen sanctions against Russia”.“With respect to the ceasefire, we are hopeful, but, based on past experience, also sceptical”.Russia’s timing of the ceasefire agreement - on the last day of an EU ultimatum and the last day of the Nato meeting - led some to see it as a trick.“What we’ve seen in Ukraine since the start of the conflict is the creation of ambiguity designed to delay, or paralyse, [Western] decision making”, a Nato military commander, Sir Adrian Bradshaw, noted.The new sanctions are to include more restrictions on Russian banks, oil firms, and defence companies, as well as more names on the EU’s visa ban and asset freeze list.A British diplomat told EUobserver they are to be finalised on Friday and enter into life on Monday when they are published in the bloc’s Official Journal.One EU diplomat said the economic sanctions could be agreed on Friday, but the blacklist might wait until next week. A second EU diplomat said - “Inshallah” - both would be ready for Monday.

Rapid reaction force

The sanctions decision is just one part of the Western reaction to Russia’s war on Ukraine.Obama noted there will be more Nato air patrols in the Baltic region, more warships in the Black Sea, and more exercises in eastern Europe.The allies agreed to stop making defence cuts in their budgets.They agreed to create, by early or mid-2015, a Very High Readiness Joint Task Force of 4,000 men to deter Russian aggression on Nato’s eastern borders.They could not agree on hosting them in permanent bases in the region because Merkel opposed the idea, Spiegel reports.But they compensated Poland by deciding to hold their next summit, in 2016, in Warsaw.“It will be an extremely interesting experience - a Nato summit in Warsaw, the same place where some time ago we saw the fall of the Warsaw Pact”, Polish president Bronislaw Komorowski said, referring to the collapse of the Communist defence alliance after 1989.

THE EARTH (WORLD) NEVER ENDS (AS WORLD ENDERS CLAIM)(THE END OF THE AGE OF GRACE ONLY)(DECIEVERS CLAIME THE END OF THE WORLD-NOT ME)

ECCLESIASTES 1:4
4  One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.(AND EVER)(WORLD NEVER ENDS)(END OF THE AGE OF GRACE ONLY,NOT THE END OF THE WORLD)

PSALMS 104:5
5  Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.(NO END OF THE WORLDERS NONESENSE HERE)

MATTHEW 5:5
5  Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.(FOREVER,NOT HEAVEN)

PSALMS 37:29
29  The righteous shall inherit the land,(ON EARTH) and dwell therein for ever.

ISAIAH 45:17
17  But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation:(FOREVER) ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.(JERUSALEM ISRAEL ON EARTH FOREVER-NEVER ENDING)

EPHESIANS 3:21
21  Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.


GENESIS 1:1-3
1  In the beginning God(FATHER,SON JESUS) created the heaven and the earth.
2  And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the(HOLY)Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.(THE TRINITY CREATED ALL IN THE BEGINNING)
3  And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

Stephen Hawking: God particle could wipe out the universe-cnet-In a preface to new book, the famed physicist fears the Higgs Boson becoming unstable and causing a "catastrophic vacuum decay." But how likely is that really?-by Chris Matyszczyk-September 7, 2014 9:30 AM PDT

Stephen Hawking seems to have turned into the man with the sandwich board that says: "The end is nigh."Not only has he warned us that aliens might destroy us, but he's also been worrying that artificial intelligence might do the same.Now he's perceiving a threat that might not merely put an end to Earth, but to the whole Universe.As the UK's Sunday Times reports, Hawking is worried about the God particle. This, discovered by physicists during experiments within CERN's Large Hadron Collider, is a vital ingredient to explaining why things in our world have mass.However, in a preface to a new book called "Starmus" -- a collection of lectures gives by famous scientists and astronomers -- Hawking worried that the Higgs Boson might become unstable.He wrote: "The Higgs potential has the worrisome feature that it might become metastable at energies above 100bn gigaelectronvolts (GeV)."What might this lead to? Hawkins explained: "This could mean that the universe could undergo catastrophic vacuum decay, with a bubble of the true vacuum expanding at the speed of light. This could happen at any time and we wouldn't see it coming." Before you prepare your loved ones for an evacuation to some distant star, Hawking did offer some hope with, it seems, a wry smile: "A particle accelerator that reaches 100bn GeV would be larger than Earth, and is unlikely to be funded in the present economic climate."More Technically IncorrectIn essence, then, his fears might be theoretically valid, but their likelihood of actually coming to pass is somewhat smaller than that of the New York Jets winning the next Super Bowl.Still, you have to wonder about Hawking's relationship with the Higgs Boson discovery. First, there's the fact that he lost a $100 bet over its unearthing. Then he mused last year that now the Higgs Boson had been identified, physics has become less interesting.However, given that he believes we only have perhaps 1,000 years left on Earth anyway, it's as well to explore every possible scenario, before the robots and algorithms secure minds of their own and, as their first step, eliminate us all.

09/ 7/2014 - VATICAN INSIDER-What about those Muslims who condemn Islamic State violence? Cairo - Al-Azhar university has spoken out against IS-Jihadist attacks continue to horrify the world. But the media is doing little to give a voice to non-violent Muslims who oppose the extremists. Three Catholic magazines have spoken out against this-Gerolamo Fazzini

Rome-Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists are spreading violence and death. The entire world is still shaken by the horrific murder of James Foley and Steven Sotloff, the two US journalists who were decapitated and the macabre scenes captured on video. International politics is trying to react but Muslim countries are expected to take more concrete initiatives.But within civil society “many Sunni Muslims have raised their voices against IS, even though this is not always mentioned in the media. This is not just the case in the West but also in more conservative Muslim countries,” writes Popoli, the international monthly magazine of the Jesuits in Italy.Among those who have spoken out against IS’s ferocity is the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Abdul Aziz ibn Abdullah Al-Sheikh, who on 19 August called both IS and Al Qaeda “Islam’s number one enemies,” adding that they did not belong to the common faith of all Muslims. The Wahhabi movement, which backs the Saudi regime shares some of the terrorists’ doctrines but is averse to their violent approach and the destabilizing threat they pose.”Key figures in the area have also condemned the attacks, Popoli goes on to say, starting with the Grand Mufti of Al-Azhar (Egypt), Shawqi Allam, who denounced ISIS as a threat to Islam. The Jesuit magazine also quotes the head of Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate, Mehmet Görmez, who said that "the statement made against Christians is truly awful. Islamic scholars need to focus on this (because) an inability to peacefully sustain other faiths and cultures heralds the collapse of a civilization.”Similarly, Missione Oggi, a magazine published by the Saverian missionaries of Brescia (Italy), writes: “Iraq’s Muslims are not all ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) extremists. Many are Muslims who want peace. Some have even died to defend Christians in Mosul. Mahmoud al ‘Asali was a law professor who lectured on pedagogy at the University of Mosul. He was killed because he had the courage to tell ISIS’s militants that that was not the Kind of Islam he believed in. He was fully aware of the risk he was running in stating this publicly. He refused to become an accomplice to violence and pay for this with his life.” Vatican Insider published an article about his experience, in July.The issue was also covered by Jesus magazine (September issue) in its “East east east” column. Jesus called the poor media coverage of Professor Al ‘Asali’s killing as a “sin of omission”. The monthly magazine published by Edizioni San Paolo explained that “his story shows that there are Muslims who are on the side of persecuted Christians. They are often referred to as “moderates” but this is too weak an adjective when one considers the incredibly high price such people often pay.”Jesus recalls that the Iraqi professor’s case is not an isolated one and leads one to reflect on other situations where Muslim representatives have taken a stand against violent extremism: “Another Muslim, Judge Arif Iqbal Bhatti also paid a high price. He was assassinated in Lahore (Pakistan) in 1997 after he had been accused of acquitting two Christians – Rehmat Masih and Salamat Masih - accused of blasphemy three years earlier. “In 2011, another Pakistani Muslim, Salman Taseer, governor of the Punjab region, was put to death for trying to combat Islamic extremism and being excessively sympathetic to the cause of persecuted Christians. Salman Taseer defended Asia Bibi, the 45-year-old woman sentenced to death on charges of blasphemy and still awaiting a ruling on the appeal of her death sentence. Shahbaz Bhatti, the Christian minister for religious minorities had been working alongside him in support of this cause: both were killed within three months of each other.”

09/ 7/2014 - VATICAN INSIDER-Francis: “Insulting is not Christian! Even words kill”-The Pope during the Angelus-At today’s Angelus Francis spoke about fraternal correction and sent out an appeal for the ceasefire in eastern Ukraine: “I pray that … the dialogue that has started will continue to bear the fruit that is hoped”-marco tosatti

vatican city-Insulting is not Christian and we must not kill with words. Commenting on today’s Gospel reading on fraternal correction, Pope Francis stressed that relations between Christians and between Christians and others must reflect a spirit of charity and an awareness that we are all sinners and need God’s mercy.“How do I correct another Christian when he or she does a bad thing?” Francis asked. “I have to use charity towards him/her and, first of all, talk to him/her personally.” Francis recalled the three steps the Gospel suggests should be taken: “talk to him personally, explaining that what he has said or done is not good. And if the brother does not listen to me? Jesus suggests a progressive intervention: first, go back with two or three other people to make him more aware of the mistake he has made. If, despite this, he does not accept the exhortation, I need to tell the community. And if he won’t even listen to the community, I need to make him feel the fracture and detachment that he himself has caused, by failing in communion with our brothers and sisters in the faith.”“Fraternal correction” is a “reciprocal service.” It is rooted in the awareness that we are all sinners and that Jesus “invites everyone, saints and sinners, to his table.” Francis then went on to condemn gossip as he has done on various other occasions in the past: On this path of fraternal correction “it is first necessary to avoid the clamor of news and the gossip of the community.”“An attitude of gentleness, prudence, humility, and attention against those who have committed a crime, avoiding that words can hurt and kill the brother … When I make an unfair criticism, when I “curse” a brother with my tongue, this is killing the reputation of the other!” Fraternal correction “also helps us – us - to free ourselves from anger or resentment which only hurt: that bitterness of the heart that brings anger and resentment, and that lead us to insult and attack. But it is very bad to see this come out of the mouth of a Christian as an insult or an attack! It’s bad! Got it? No insults! Insulting is not Christian!” He stressed this idea twice in order to highlight the importance of this concept.By correcting our brothers and sisters, we are doing them a service because we are all sinners and the best way to prepare ourselves properly for mass is to reflect on the fact that we are all sinners and then that God is merciful with everyone. “The same conscience that makes me recognize the mistake of the other, beforehand reminds me that I have erred and wronged so many times. “And it is the same Jesus who invites us all, saints and sinners, to his table by gathering us on the main crossroads, the various situations life.”At the end of the Angelus prayer, recited in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Francis sent out a special appeal for the Russo-Ukrainian crisis that is still raging. “In these last few days have been significant steps in the search for a truce in the regions affected by the conflict in eastern Ukraine. I hope that they can bring relief to the population and contribute to the efforts for a lasting peace. I pray that, in the logic of the meeting, the dialogue that has started will continue to bear the fruit that is hoped,” he said.

U.S. air strikes target insurgents near Iraq's Haditha Dam-Reuters-By Ned Parker and Phil Stewart-SEPT 7,14-YAHOONEWS

BAGHDAD/TBILISI (Reuters) - U.S. warplanes carried out four strikes on Islamic State insurgents menacing Iraq's Haditha Dam on Sunday, witnesses and officials said, widening what President Barack Obama called a campaign to curb and ultimately defeat the jihadist movement.Obama has branded Islamic State an acute threat to the West as well as Middle East and said that key NATO allies stand ready to back Washington in action against the well-armed sectarian force, which has seized expanses of northern Iraq and eastern Syria and declared a border-blurring religious caliphate.The leader of a pro-Iraqi government paramilitary force in western Iraq said the air strikes wiped out an Islamic State patrol trying to attack the dam - Iraq's second biggest hydroelectric facility that also provides millions with water."They (the air strikes) were very accurate. There was no collateral damage ... If Islamic State had gained control of the dam, many areas of Iraq would have been seriously threatened, even (the capital) Baghdad," Sheik Ahmed Abu Risha told Reuters.The aerial assault drove Islamic State fighters away from the dam, according to a police intelligence officer in the vast western province of Anbar, a hotbed of Islamist insurgency.A mix of fighter and bomber aircraft destroyed five Islamic State Humvees, one IS armed vehicle, an IS checkpoint and also damaged an IS bunker, the U.S. military added in a statement.The strikes were Washington's first reported offensive into Anbar since it started attacks on Islamic State forces in the north of Iraq in August.Almost three years afters U.S. troops withdrew from Iraq and 11 years after their invasion to topple Saddam Hussein, the war on Islamic State is drawing Washington back into the middle of Iraq's power struggles and bloody sectarian strife.U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said the strikes on the Sunni Muslim insurgents had been carried out at the request of the Shi'ite Muslim-led central government in Baghdad.“If that dam would fall into (Islamic State's) hands or if that dam would be destroyed, the damage that would cause would be very significant and it would put a significant, additional and big risk into the mix in Iraq,” Hagel told reporters during a trip to Georgia’s capital Tbilisi.

OBAMA VOWS TO REPEL, DEFEAT ISLAMIC STATE

Obama said at the weekend he would explain to Americans this week his plan to "start going on some offense" against Islamic State. "We are going to be a part of an international coalition, carrying out air strikes in support of work on the ground by Iraqi troops, Kurdish troops, he said in an NBC TV interview."We are going to systematically degrade their capabilities. We're going to shrink the territory that they control. And ultimately we're going to defeat 'em."The six-month-old battle for control of the Haditha Dam has been a rare case of cooperation between local Sunni tribes and the Shi'ite-led Iraqi military. The Juhayfa tribe in Haditha has a long-standing fight with the Islamic State, which split with its parent organization al Qaeda last year.Anbar is complicated terrain for the Americans as they seek to root out Islamic State, since Sunnis fighting on behalf of the Baghdad government are the exception to the rule.The large desert province, bordering Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, has been at war with Baghdad since last December when then-Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki sent troops to raze an anti-government demonstrators' camp.That sparked a tribal revolt against Maliki whom Sunnis accused of isolating them with indiscriminate arrests. Islamic State fighters took advantage of the chaos to muscle in and become the dominant force among Sunnis.The fighting there, which has displaced 430,000 people since January, strengthened Islamic State ahead of its lightning blitz this summer across the north of Iraq, also threatening the semi-autonomous, Western-backed enclave of Kurdistan.Thriving on Maliki's sectarian-motivated alienation of Sunnis, Islamic State committed wide-scale atrocities against Shi'ites, Christians and other non-Sunnis this summer as the Iraqi army imploded in the face of the insurgents' advance.Since June, Islamic State has massacred hundreds of soldiers outside of Saddam's hometown Tikrit after capturing it, and killed a similar number of Yazidis and other religious minorities outside of Mosul, the north's biggest city.Obama ordered air strikes in northern Iraq last month as Kurdish-controlled territory fell to the Islamic State and the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan looked in endangered.Last weekend, U.S. warplanes carried out raids further south in the province of Saluhuddin to break an Islamic State siege of the Shi'ite Turkmen town of Amerli.(Additional reporting by Phil Stewart in Tbilisi, Roberta Rampton and Steve Holland in Washington; Editing by Mark Heinrich)

Four NATO allies deny Ukraine statement on providing arms-Reuters-SEPT 7,14-YAHOONEWS

KIEV (Reuters) - A senior aide to Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko said on Sunday that Kiev had agreed at the NATO summit in Wales on the provision of weapons and military advisers from five NATO member states, but four of the five swiftly denied any such deal had been reached.NATO officials have previously said the alliance will not send arms to non-member Ukraine, but have also said individual allies may do so if they wish. A NATO official contacted by Reuters on Sunday on the Lytsenko comment reiterated this policy."At the NATO summit agreements were reached on the provision of military advisers and supplies of modern armaments from the United States, France, Italy, Poland and Norway," Poroshenko aide Yuri Lytsenko said on his Facebook page.Lytsenko gave no further details. He may have made his comment for domestic political reasons to highlight the degree of NATO commitment to Ukraine and to its pro-Western president.Poroshenko, whose armed forces are battling pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine, attended the two-day summit in Wales that ended on Friday.A senior U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, denied that the United States had made such a pledge. The official told Reuters, "No U.S. offer of lethal assistance has been made to Ukraine."Asked about Lytsenko's comments, defense ministry officials in Italy, Poland and Norway also denied plans to provide arms.In France, an aide at the Elysee palace declined to comment."This news is incorrect. Italy, along with other EU and NATO countries, is preparing a package of non-lethal military aid such as bullet-proof vests and helmets for Ukraine," an Italian defense ministry official told Reuters.Norwegian Defense Ministry spokesman Lars Gjemble, speaking to the NTB news agency, said, "We're participating with staff officers in two military exercises in Ukraine, but it's not correct that we're delivering weapons to Ukraine."A Polish defense ministry spokesman, Lieutenant Colonel Jacek Sonta, said by email, "There (was) no agreement concerning supply of modern arms from Poland to Ukraine at the NATO summit."NATO officials have said the alliance will not send weapons to Ukraine, which is not a member state, but they have also said individual allies may choose to do so.Russia is fiercely opposed to closer ties between Ukraine and the NATO alliance.(Reporting by Gareth Jones in Kiev, Steve Scherer in Rome, Balasz Koranyi in Oslo and Marcin Goclowski in Warsaw, Will Dunham in Washington; Writing by Gareth Jones; Editing by Hugh Lawson)

Ceasefire in east Ukraine frays, woman killed by shelling-Reuters-SEPT 7,114-YAHOONEWS-Gabriela Baczynska and Aleksandar Vasovic

DONETSK/MARIUPOL Ukraine (Reuters) - A woman died and at least four people were wounded when fighting flared again in eastern Ukraine overnight into Sunday, jeopardizing a ceasefire struck less than two days earlier between Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian separatists.The accord, brokered by envoys from Ukraine, the separatist leadership, Russia and Europe's OSCE security watchdog, is part of a peace plan intended to end a five-month conflict that has killed nearly 3,000 people and caused the sharpest confrontation between Russia and the West since the Cold War.Shelling resumed near the port of Mariupol on the Sea of Azov late on Saturday, just hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko had agreed in a phone call that the truce was holding.Fighting also broke out early on Sunday on the northern outskirts of rebel-held Donetsk, the region's industrial hub. A Reuters reporter saw plumes of black smoke filling the sky near the airport, which has been in the hands of government forces."Listen to the sound of the ceasefire," joked one armed rebel. "There's a proper battle going on there."The two cities then turned quiet for much of Sunday, but a Reuters witness in the early evening reported several mortar blasts within the city confines of Donetsk. They damaged a bridge where the rebels had erected a roadblock.In a new report on the conflict, Amnesty International accused both the rebels and Ukrainian militia of war crimes and it published satellite images it said showed a build-up of Russian armor and artillery in eastern Ukraine."Our evidence shows that Russia is fuelling the conflict, both through direct interference and by supporting the separatists in the east. Russia must stop the steady flow of weapons and other support to an insurgent force heavily implicated in gross human rights violations," Amnesty's secretary-general, Salil Shetty, said in a statement.Moscow denies dispatching forces or arming the rebels despite what NATO says is overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

WESTERN ARMS - OR NOT?

Poroshenko spent Thursday and Friday at a NATO summit in Wales at which U.S. President Barack Obama and other leaders urged Putin to pull forces out of Ukraine. NATO also approved wide-ranging plans to boost its defenses in Eastern Europe in response to the Ukraine crisis.A senior aide to Poroshenko, Yuri Lytsenko, wrote on his Facebook page on Sunday that Kiev had reached agreement at the summit on receiving weapons and military advisers from five allies - the United States, France, Italy, Poland and Norway.He gave no further details, but four of the five countries denied offering such assistance.A senior Obama administration said the United States "has not changed policy" toward Ukraine, which thus far has been to provide only non-lethal military assistance.The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, did not appear to rule out the possibility that Washington might at some point choose to offer arms to Kiev.The official said the United States had so far given $70 million in security assistance to Ukraine and noted that U.S. President Barack Obama had said he was "looking at what more we can do."Officials in Italy, Norway and Poland issued similar denials."Italy, along with other EU and NATO countries, is preparing a package of non-lethal military aid such as bullet-proof vests and helmets for Ukraine," an official at Italy's Defence Ministry said.In France, an aide at the president's Elysee Palace declined to comment.NATO officials have said the alliance will not send arms to non-member Ukraine, but they have also said individual allies may do so if they wish. A NATO official contacted by Reuters on Sunday about the Lytsenko comment reiterated that line.Russia is fiercely opposed to closer ties between Ukraine and the NATO alliance.The Ukraine conflict has revived talk of a new Cold War as the West accuses Putin of deliberately destabilizing the former Soviet republic of 46 million people. Ukraine's prime minister accused Putin of striving to recreate the Soviet Union.Putin says he is defending the interests of ethnic Russians facing discrimination and oppression in Ukraine since protesters toppled Kiev's pro-Russian president in February.Putin has seen his popularity in Russia soar since Moscow annexed Ukraine's Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, which has a Russian majority, in March.

MUTUAL RECRIMINATIONS

Both the rebels and the Ukrainian military insisted on Sunday they were strictly observing the ceasefire and blamed their opponents for any violations."As far as I know, the Ukrainian side is not observing the ceasefire. We have wounded on our side at various points. We are observing the ceasefire," Vladimir Antyufeyev, deputy premier of the self-proclaimed "Donetsk People's Republic", told Reuters.Earlier, government forces said they had come under artillery fire east of Mariupol, a crucial port for Ukrainian steel exports. In the days before the ceasefire, they had been trying to repel a big rebel offensive against the city.The shelling in Mariupol claimed the first civilian casualty since the ceasefire began. Local officials confirmed the death of a 33-year-old woman early on Sunday and said at least four other people had been wounded."They, terrorists, Russians, are trying to scare us. They have no respect for the ceasefire. They are lying all the time. They are people with no honor," said Slavik, a Ukrainian soldier armed with a machinegun.A Reuters reporter at the scene, a few km (miles) from the center of the city of 500,000, saw fires raging just before midnight on Saturday as Ukrainian reinforcements raced east toward the demarcation line separating the two sides.Poroshenko agreed to the ceasefire after Ukraine accused Russia of sending troops and arms onto its territory to bolster the separatists after they suffered heavy losses over the summer to a Ukrainian government offensive.The peace roadmap agreed on Friday includes an exchange of prisoners of war and the establishment of a humanitarian corridor for refugees and aid. There was no sign of progress on either plan on Sunday.(Additional reporting by Steve Scherer in Rome, Marcin Goclowski in Warsaw, Adrian Croft in Brussels, Arshad Mohammed in Washington, and Julien Ponthus in Paris; Writing by Gareth Jones; Editing by Mark Heinrich, Sonya Hepinstall, Hugh Lawson and Peter Cooney)

Arab League chief: Confront Islamic State group-Associated Press-By SARAH EL DEEB and SAMEER N. YACOUB-SEPT 7,14-YAHOONEWS

CAIRO (AP) — The head of the Arab League urged its members Sunday to confront Islamic State extremists "militarily and politically," issuing an apparent call to arms as President Barack Obama prepares to go to lawmakers and the American public with his own plan to stop the militants.Backing from the 22-country Arab League could provide crucial support across the Middle East for Obama's effort to assemble an international coalition against the Islamic State, the marauding group that has conquered a swath of Iraq and Syria and committed beheadings and mass killings to sow terror.Already, NATO forces have agreed to take on the extremists.Arab League chief Nabil Elaraby said that what is needed from Arab countries is a "clear and firm decision for a comprehensive confrontation" with "cancerous and terrorist" groups. The Arab League includes Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Lebanon, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.Obama will meet with congressional leaders on Tuesday and then outline his plan to the war-weary American public Wednesday, the eve of the 13th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks."I just want the American people to understand the nature of the threat and how we're going to deal with it and to have confidence that we'll be able to deal with it," Obama said in an interview broadcast Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press."In new airstrikes Sunday, the U.S. targeted Islamic State fighters in Iraq's long-contested Anbar province for the first time, launching attacks with bomber and fighter aircraft.The American military said the airstrikes destroyed, among other things, an Islamic Group command post and several vehicles, two of which were carrying anti-aircraft artillery.It wasn't immediately clear what steps the Arab League would take in supporting the West's campaign against the Islamic State. And reaching a consensus on how to move could be complicated by Arab world rivalries and member countries' different spheres of influence.An Arab diplomat speaking to Egypt's official MENA news agency said a resolution backing cooperation with the U.S. would go before members Sunday. He did not elaborate.But a draft resolution obtained by The Associated Press offered only routine condemnation of terrorist groups operating in the region. It also called on member states to improve information-sharing and legal expertise in combating terrorism, and to prevent the paying of ransom to militants.Elaraby himself noted that the Arab League's member states have failed to help each other in the past when facing local armed groups, often because of disagreements and fear of being accused of meddling in one another's affairs.He called the Islamic State a threat to the existence of Iraq and its neighbors. It is "one of the examples of the challenges that are violently shaking the Arab world, and one the Arab League, regrettably, has not been able to confront," he said.A decades-old joint Arab defense agreement states that member countries can act alone or collectively to ward off attack and restore peace by all means, including force. Elaraby, a longtime Egyptian diplomat, said an agreement to activate that clause in the 1950 agreement is needed.Before the Arab League meeting, Elaraby spoke by telephone to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to discuss the Islamic State insurgents.A senior State Department official, speaking on condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to publicly discuss the private diplomatic conversation, said Kerry updated Elaraby on efforts to combat the insurgents."They discussed the need for the Arab League and its members to take a strong position in the coalition that is developing ... and the importance of decisive action" to stop the flow of foreign fighters, disrupt the Islamic State's financing and combat incitement, the official said.Kerry said the military aspect is only one part of the effort, and more comprehensive coordination with Arab countries — combining law enforcement, intelligence, economic and diplomatic tools — is required, the official said.Meanwhile, the U.S. said it launched airstrikes around Haditha Dam in western Iraq. U.S. officials said the offensive was an effort to beat back the militants from the dam, which remained under Iraqi control.The militants could have opened or damaged the dam, flooding wide areas as far as Baghdad's international airport, where hundreds of U.S. personnel are stationed, National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said.U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, traveling in Georgia, said the Iraqi government had asked the U.S. to launch the airstrikes.Amid the fighting, the province's governor and the mayor of Haditha were wounded by a roadside bomb, said Faleh al-Issawi, a member of Anbar's provincial council. Gov. Gov. Ahmed al-Dulaimi later tweeted that he was not seriously hurt.___Yacoub reported from Baghdad.___Associated Press writers Lolita C. Baldor in Tbilisi, Georgia, and Darlene Superville in Washington contributed to this report.

EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH(BECAUSE OF SIN,VIOLENCE AND GODLESS PEOPLE)

GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

Earthquake shakes Iceland volcano, still no ash-Reuters-SEPT 7,14-YAHOONEWS

REYKJAVIK (Reuters) - An earthquake struck the region around Iceland's Bardarbunga volcano on Sunday while fissures in the area continued to spew out lava but still none of the ash that could hamper airline traffic.The earthquake occurred at 0708 GMT and reached a magnitude of 5.4, making it one of the bigger quakes in the area in central Iceland since significant tremors began on Aug. 16, often producing thousands of quakes per day."There was also another quake, magnitude 4.6 at 0330 (GMT) in the night," said Bergthora Thorbjarnardottir, geologist at the Icelandic Meteorological Office."Seismic activity underneath Bardarbunga volcano is still ongoing but remains steady," she added.Lava from the fissures around Bardarbunga has so far reached the surface only on land that is not covered by ice, whereas an eruption under an ice cap may be explosive and result in an ash cloud that could under certain circumstances disrupt aviation.A cloud of abrasive ash from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano, in a different region of Iceland, closed much of Europe's air space for six days, stranding tens of thousands of passengers, after an eruption under the ice cap.The ash warning level for aviation related to the current fissure eruptions remained at orange, the second-highest level on a five-color scale, after several brief hikes to the top red in recent weeks.(Reporting by Robert Robertsson; writing by Niklas Pollard; Editing by Alison Williams)

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.

Tropical storm Norbert weaker, but still lashing Mexico coast-AFP-SEPT 7,14-YAHOONEWS

La Paz (AFP) - Tropical storm Norbert weakened quickly over cool waters in the Pacific Ocean, forecasters said Sunday, after the storm left some 2,500 people homeless in Mexico.The storm had surged to a category three hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale but by Sunday had lost much of its punch and was downgraded to a tropical storm, packing top sustained winds of 60 miles (95 kilometers) per hour, said the US National Hurricane Center.Norbert was expected to mostly dissipate by Monday morning, the Miami-based center said.Nevertheless, "very heavy winds were expected on the west coast of Baja California Sur," in northwestern Mexico, "and there was potential of heavy rains in (neighboring states) Baja California and Sonora," Mexico's national weather service said.In the hard-hit fishing village of San Carlos, in southwest Baja California, pumps were draining flood waters after the storm destroyed levees protecting the community of 7,000 people.Local official Venustiano Perez had said Saturday night there were "more than 2,500 people homeless" and another 1,500 whose homes were damaged in the storm.Authorities in Baja California Sur said conditions had returned to normal in the state, but said they were maintaining surveillance in the northern part of the state and assessing a final damage tally.On Saturday, some 2,000 people were evacuated to shelters, which were then cut off by landslides and power outages.Last year, Mexico was simultaneously struck by a pair of hurricanes, Ingrid and Manuel, on both coasts, killing 157 people, destroying bridges and burying most of a mountain village in the Pacific coast state of Guerrero.

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
35 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2014-09-07 19:05:19 UTC-04:00Showing event times using Local System Time (UTC-04:00)35 earthquakes in map area

    2.7 7km WSW of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2014-09-07 16:30:55 UTC-04:00 5.0 km
    3.1 50km N of Dorado, Puerto Rico 2014-09-07 15:04:27 UTC-04:00 49.0 km
    2.5 4km NW of The Geysers, California 2014-09-07 14:33:01 UTC-04:00 0.0 km
    2.6 10km W of Helena, Oklahoma 2014-09-07 14:15:32 UTC-04:00 9.4 km
    3.0 57km SSE of Alturas, California 2014-09-07 14:13:57 UTC-04:00 0.1 km
    4.4 42km WNW of Khairpur Nathan Shah, Pakistan 2014-09-07 13:04:49 UTC- 30.2 km
    2.7 23km S of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska 2014-09-07 12:46:58 UTC-04:00 78.4 km
    2.7 21km S of Medford, Oklahoma 2014-09-07 12:31:49 UTC-04:00 4.7 km
    4.5 48km SSW of Jucuaran, El Salvador 2014-09-07 12:26:33 UTC-04:00 72.3 km
    5.2 283km SE of Pondaguitan, Philippines 2014-09-07 11:55:50 UTC-04:00 66.7 km

    3.5 43km SW of Ferndale, California 2014-09-07 11:45:34 UTC-04:00 16.3 km
    4.8 17km S of Palpa, Peru 2014-09-07 11:11:45 UTC-04:00 65.9 km
    3.0 24km SSW of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska 2014-09-07 11:05:26 UTC-04:00 122.0 km
    4.5 124km E of Taltal, Chile 2014-09-07 10:31:45 UTC-04:00 109.6 km
    4.2 56km WSW of Rosarito, Mexico 2014-09-07 08:13:56 UTC-04:00 29.6 km

    2.6 2km E of Medford, Oklahoma 2014-09-07 07:51:33 UTC-04:00 5.0 km
    2.8 78km WSW of Cantwell, Alaska 2014-09-07 07:51:07 UTC-04:00 102.2 km
    5.1 Federated States of Micronesia region 2014-09-07 07:46:21 UTC-04:00 16.1 km
    4.3 2km E of Cutigliano, Italy 2014-09-07 06:45:01 UTC-04:00 7.7 km
    4.7 Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge 2014-09-07 06:31:54 UTC-04:00 10.0 km
    4.6 72km SW of Lixourion, Greece 2014-09-07 05:56:28 UTC-04:00 32.6 km
    4.5 183km S of Biha, Indonesia 2014-09-07 05:33:00 UTC-04:00 28.6 km

    2.5 58km SSW of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska 2014-09-07 05:27:07 UTC-04:00 126.2 km
    2.6 9km NE of Holbrook, Arizona 2014-09-07 05:07:48 UTC-04:00 5.0 km
    4.3 31km NW of Shahrud, Iran 2014-09-07 04:12:54 UTC-04:00 10.0 km
    5.2 117km WNW of Hofn, Iceland 2014-09-07 03:07:59 UTC-04:00 5.0 km

    2.6 97km NNW of Yakutat, Alaska 2014-09-07 02:54:49 UTC-04:00 1.1 km
    4.7 108km NNE of Tobelo, Indonesia 2014-09-07 01:37:42 UTC-04:00 49.3 km
    5.0 100km WNW of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea 2014-09-07 01:23:48 UTC-04:00 10.0 km
    4.6 93km SSW of Ndoi Island, Fiji 2014-09-07 00:35:47 UTC-04:00 560.5 km

    2.8 58km N of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 2014-09-06 23:57:40 UTC-04:00 26.0 km
    3.1 61km N of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 2014-09-06 23:49:39 UTC-04:00 24.0 km
    3.7 67km ESE of Adak, Alaska 2014-09-06 23:08:15 UTC-04:00 25.4 km
    4.8 51km S of Yonakuni, Japan 2014-09-06 19:33:08 UTC-04:00 23.8 km
    4.1 14km WNW of La Gomera, Guatemala 2014-09-06 19:14:15 UTC-04:00 75.3 km

Sunday, September 07, 2014

TORAH PORTION FROM SEPT 07 - 13,2014

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

TORAH PORTION FROM SEPT 07 - 13,2014
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2011/09/parshah-ki-tavo-deuteronomy-261-298.html

JAN MARKELL-ISLAM IN PROPHECY
http://www.oneplace.com/ministries/understanding-the-times/player/islam-in-prophecy-424360.html
JACK VAN IMPE ON ISLAM
http://www.thegospel.com/clients/jvim-jack-van-impe-ministries/mediaplayer.asp?ID=397&vID=169

ISRAEL PLANS DEFENCE AGAINST EMP ANTI-MISSLE ASSETS

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

PROOF HALF ON EARTH DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION PERIOD (8 BILLION ON EARTH)

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

REVELATION 9:15,18 (6 BILLION - 2 BILLION = 4 BILLION)
15 And the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels were loosed,
18 By these three was the third part of men killed,(2 BILLION) by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMBS)

HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)

LUKE 17:34-37 (8 TOTAL BILLION - 4 BILLION DEAD IN TRIB = 4 BILLION TO JESUS KINGDOM) (HALF DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION PERIOD JUST LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS)(GOD DOES NOT LIE)(AND NOTICE MOST DIE IN WAR AND DISEASES-NOT COMETS-ASTEROIDS-QUAKES OR TSUNAMIS)
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other shall be left.
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten by the birds).THESE ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES-NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES.BECAUSE NOT HALF OF PEOPLE ON EARTH ARE CHRISTIANS.AND THE CONTEXT IN LUKE 17 IS THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION OR 7 YR TREATY PERIOD.WHICH IS JUDGEMENT ON THE EARTH.NOT 50% RAPTURED TO HEAVEN.

MATTHEW 24:37-42
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
42 Watch therefore:(FOR THE LAST DAYS SIGNS HAPPENING) for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

SIGNS IN THE SUN, MOON AND STARS-CHEMICAL WEAPONS

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

2013 BAHMAN NASSIRI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Izz8cISo5Ts (AT 18 MINUTES)-2013 INTERVIEW
http://henrymakow.com/2013/08/Freemason%20Warns%20of%20BioChem%20Attack%20on%20US%20City%20.html
2014 BAHMAN NASSIRI-COULD BE BIOLOGICAL-CHEMICAL WEAPON ATTACK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUGygusQyJI&index=1&list=PLtfZcSCyYFN2SANwBfwRfpzjwhBHHTRLe

GRETA VAN SUSTEREN-BENGHAZI FALSE FLAG
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNQ0jPJWIbw

Saturday on Fox News Channel's "America's News HQ," network military analyst Ret. Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney told host Uma Pemmaraju that in oder to address the current threat ISIS posses, the Untied States should "go to DEFCON 1, our highest state of readiness and be prepared as we lead up to 9/11," because he warned "we may even see a 9/11/14."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CN8DllvIUQM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPzZlmhMHIo&list=PLtfZcSCyYFN2SANwBfwRfpzjwhBHHTRLe

McInerney referenced the missing Malaysia Airlines jet MH370 from earlier this year and said, "On the seventh of September, a major news network and publishing network are going to put out a book. It is going to be earth shattering of what's happening and what happened. The fact is we may even see a 9/11/14 MH-370 surface again. We should go to DEFCON 1, our highest state of readiness and be prepared as we lead up to 9/11."Pemmaraju asked, "When you say a major news organization is coming forward with a publication, what are you referring to specifically? Can you allude to that, give us more details? McInerney continued,"I can't give you any more than what I've just said. But it is going to be extremely important  and America should take notice. We are less safe today than we were six years ago."The general again confirmed America should raise the terror level threat at this point ahead of the anniversary of 9/11.Follow Pam Key on Twitter @pamkeyNEN 

Friday, September 5th, 2014 | Posted by WorldTribune.com-Israel plans defense against EMP attack that would use anti-missile assets-Special to WorldTribune.com
TEL AVIV — Israel is planning to counter an electro-magnetic pulse attack.A leading industry group asserted that Israel’s government was directing a project to protect against an EMP attack.Israeli Arrow-3 missile.The Israel Missile Defense Association said the government and military sought to use existing missile defense assets to stop a ballistic missile strike aimed at shutting down Israel’s electricity network.“On top of all this, Israel is now taking steps toward highly leveraging passive missile defense measures, preparing to take yet another serious vulnerability off the table by protecting its national power grid from EMP,” the association said.In a report on July 29, the association did not provide details. But the statement cited Israel’s development of such assets as Arrow-3, David’s Sling and Iron Dome, which range from exoatmosphere to tactical protection against missiles and rockets.“And the investment — in active missile defense and passive EMP protection — is continuing,” association director Avi Schnurr said.The report, titled “The Reslience Challenge,” cited a scenario in which an enemy of Israel would acquire weapons of mass destruction from Pakistan. Such a missile could be acquired before Israel develops EMP protection. Israel’s missile defense architecture has been designed for a range of scenarios, the report said. The association said the Israel Air Force has deployed Iron Dome to cover every major city within Hamas’ missile range.“And where geopolitical changes can happen quickly, the offense-defense gap can be particularly deadly,” the report said.

Boeing Develops Flying Blackout Drone to Deliver Targeted EMP-Decrypted Matrix
While everyone in Washington is talking about the upcoming presidential debate today, one of the U.S. Air Force’s newest high-tech toys was taking big step — er, flight — forward.The Counter-electronics High-powered Microwave Advanced Missile Project (CHAMP) is an effort to build a missile that flies over — not into — a target, be it an entire military base, neighborhood, or a even a lone tank and shuts down all the electronics inside without harming a soul. (Think of it almost as a mini-EMP in a rocket.) On Oct. 16, a CHAMP missile flew an hour-long preprogrammed route low over the Utah desert, “degrading and defeating” the electronics inside seven different targets. In a building along the route packed with computers, the screens all went dark as CHAMP sailed by, emitting a blast of high-power microwaves, according to CHAMP-maker Boeing’s Oct. 22 press release announcing the test flight. (The weapon even took out the remotely controlled TV cameras that were monitoring the tests, claimed Boeing.) As the Chicago-based defense giant says in its press release, “CHAMP, which renders electronic targets useless, is a non-kinetic alternative to traditional explosive weapons that use the energy of motion to defeat a target.” (Side note: “energy of motion” is a nice way of saying that missiles, bombs, and bullets slam into things and explode.)

So, how does CHAMP fit into the Pentagon’s post Iraq and Afghan war plans? As everyone knows, the Defense Department is focusing on how to defeat new generations of air defense radars, surface to air missiles, anti ship missiles, and a host of other technologies that are specifically meant to keep American weapons systems at bay.This means coming up with a fleet of new stealth bombers, fighters, and drone jets that can penetrate these defenses. It also means creating a bevy of long-range — or standoff weapons — capable of being launched by unstealthy jets far away from heavily defended targets. Where does something like CHAMP come in? As a door kicker. Launched from a stealth aircraft and designed to take out enemy air defense networks and command and control centers, CHAMP would pave the way for less stealthy jets and help to “blind” the enemy.“In the near future, this technology may be used to render an enemy’s electronic and data systems useless even before the first troops or aircraft arrive,” said Keith Coleman, CHAMP program manager at Boeing’s Phantom Works division, in a press release.Still, don’t expect to see CHAMP fielded soon. It’s simply meant to demonstrate that such a weapon is feasible. In the meantime, the Pentagon is buying EA-18G Growler electronic attack jets for the Navy while the Air Force and Marine Corps hope to use something called the Next Generation Jammer along with powerful Active Electronically Scanned Array radars (AESA radars can be used to jam other radars, in addition to many other things) on their F-35 Joint Strike Fighters to defeat enemy sensors. And don’t be surprised if the Navy decides to equip its planned fleet of stealthy combat drones, known as UCLASS, with some sort of electronic warfare gear aimed at jamming enemy electronics.

Op-Ed: EMP Blackout Could Be Closer than You Think-North Korea is prepared, probable target the USA. Iran is not far behind and has already told the world its intentions.Published: Thursday, November 07, 2013 6:44 PM-ISRAELNATIONALNEWS

Ambassador R. James Woolsey and Dr. Peter V. Pry

Four days before Halloween, on Sunday morning, October 27, 2013, terrorists in Mexico's Michoacan state blacked out the electric grid, leaving some 420,000 powerless and thirteen dead. That same Sunday night, National Geographic aired the docudrama American Blackout.  This fictionalized account of a cyber attack on the electric grid depicts some of the horrific consequences of a nationwide blackout in the USA lasting 10 days:People get trapped in elevators and become virtual prisoners in their high-rise apartment buildings.  Gasoline is rationed to the military and hospitals, so the average American has no transportation--except for his legs.  Food and water become so scarce that there is a life and death struggle over a can of peaches.  Before day 10 of the blackout, when the lights come back on, society starts breaking down into anarchy as gangs and vigilante groups run wild.National Geographic is to be applauded for American Blackout which is essentially a training film to educate the American people about the very real threat posed to their lives by a cyber attack on the electric grid.  If there is any fault or unrealism in the docudrama, it is that the blackout lasts only 10 days, and recovery is achieved so quickly.While Mother Nature can also be a source of EMP disasters, this article deals with the possible threats posed by man. In real life, terrorists or rogue states would probably not limit their attack on the nation's electric grid to computer viruses or hacking, as implied in the docudrama.  They would also use other more destructive means--that could cause a protracted national blackout lasting months or years.     

Nuclear EMP--The Ultimate Cyber Threat

Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) is a dimension of the cyber threat that is not usually considered a cyber threat in Western doctrine, but is in the playbooks for an Information Warfare Operation of Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran.  These potential adversaries in their military doctrines include as part of cyber warfare a wide spectrum of operations beyond computer viruses, including sabotage and kinetic attacks, up to and including nuclear EMP attack.It is vitally important that we understand that a nuclear EMP attack is part of cyber and information warfare operations as conceived by our potential adversaries.  Our cyber doctrine must be designed to deter and defeat the cyber doctrines of our potential adversaries by anticipating how they plan to attack us--but our doctrine currently does not.Our cyber and information warfare doctrines are dangerously blind to the likelihood that a potential adversary making an all-out information warfare campaign designed to cripple the U.S. electric grid and other critical infrastructures would include an EMP attack.The assessment that nuclear EMP attack is included in the cyber and  information warfare doctrine of potential adversaries, and the effects of an EMP attack described here, are based on the work of the Congressional EMP Commission that analyzed this threat for nearly a decade (2001-2008).  The Congressional Strategic Posture Commission and several other major U.S. Government studies independently arrived at similar conclusions, and represent collectively a scientific and strategic consensus that nuclear EMP attack upon the United States is an existential threat.

Nuclear EMP Attack

A nuclear weapon detonated at high-altitude, above 30 kilometers, will generate an electromagnetic pulse that can be likened to a super-energetic radio wave, more powerful than lightning, that can destroy and disrupt electronics across a broad geographic area, from the line of sight from the high-altitude detonation to the horizon.For example, a nuclear weapon detonated at an altitude of 30 kilometers would project an EMP field with a radius on the ground of about 600 kilometers, that could cover all the New England States, New York and Pennsylvania, damaging electronics across this entire region, including electronics on  aircraft flying across the region at the time of the EMP attack.  The EMP attack would blackout at least the regional electric grid, and probably the entire Eastern Grid that generates 70 percent of U.S. electricity, for a protracted period of weeks, months, possibly years.The blackout and EMP damage beyond the electric grid in other systems would collapse all the other critical infrastructures--communications, transportation, banking and finance, food and water--that sustain modern civilization and the lives of millions.Such an EMP attack, a nuclear detonation over the U.S. East Coast at an altitude of 30 kilometers, could be achieved by lofting the warhead with a meteorological balloon.A more ambitious EMP attack could use a freighter to launch a medium-range missile from the Gulf of Mexico, to detonate a nuclear warhead over the geographic center of the United States at an altitude of 400-500 kilometers.  The EMP field would extend to a radius of  at least 2,200 kilometers on the ground, covering all of the contiguous 48 United States, causing a nationwide blackout and collapse of the critical infrastructures everywhere.All of this would result from the high-altitude detonation of a single nuclear missile.The Congressional EMP Commission warned that Iran appears to have practiced exactly this scenario.  Iran has demonstrated the capability to launch a ballistic missile from a vessel at sea.  Iran has also several times practiced and demonstrated the capability to detonate  a warhead on its medium-range Shahab III ballistic missile at the high-altitudes necessary for an EMP attack on the entire United States.  The Shahab III is a mobile missile, a characteristic that makes it more suitable for launching from the hold of a freighter.Launching an EMP attack from a ship off the U.S. coast could enable the aggressor to remain anonymous and unidentified, and so  escape U.S. retaliation.

EMP In Cyber Warfare

The Congressional EMP Commission warned that Iran in military doctrinal writings explicitly describes making a nuclear EMP attack to eliminate the United States as an actor on the world stage as part of an Information Warfare Operation.  For example, various Iranian doctrinal writings on information and cyber warfare make the following assertions:"Nuclear weapons...can be used to determine the outcome of a war...without inflicting serious human damage [by neutralizing] strategic and information networks.""Terrorist information warfare [includes]...using the technology of directed energy weapons (DEW) or electromagnetic pulse (EMP).""...today when you disable a country's military high command through disruption of communications you will, in effect, disrupt all the affairs of that country....If the world's industrial countries fail to devise effective ways to defend themselves against dangerous electronic assaults, then they will disintegrate within a few years."China's premier military textbook on information warfare, written by China's foremost expert on cyber and information warfare doctrine, makes unmistakably clear that China's version of an all-out Information Warfare Operation includes both computer viruses and nuclear EMP attack.  According to People's Liberation Army textbook World War, the Third World War--Total Information Warfare, written by Shen Weiguang, "Therefore, China should focus on measures to counter computer viruses, nuclear electromagnetic pulse...and quickly achieve breakthroughs in those technologies...":With their massive destructiveness, long-range nuclear weapons have combined with highly sophisticated information technology and information warfare under nuclear deterrence....Information war and traditional war have one thing in common, namely that the country which possesses the critical weapons such as atomic bombs will have "first strike" and "second strike retaliation" capabilities ....As soon as its computer networks come under attack and are destroyed, the country will slip into a state of paralysis and the lives of its people will ground to a halt. Therefore, China should focus on measures to counter computer viruses, nuclear electromagnetic pulse...and quickly achieve breakthroughs in those technologies in order to equip China without delay with equivalent deterrence that will enable it to stand up to the military powers in the information age and neutralize and check the deterrence of Western powers, including the United States.

Surprise EMP Attack

North Korea appears to be attempting to implement the information warfare doctrine described above by developing a long range missile capable of making a catastrophic nuclear EMP attack on the United States.  In December 2012, North Korea demonstrated the capability to launch a satellite on a polar orbit circling the Earth at an altitude of 500 kilometers.An altitude of 500 kilometers would be ideal for making an EMP attack that places the field over the entire contiguous 48 United States, using an inaccurate satellite warhead for delivery, likely to miss its horizontal aimpoint over the geographic center of the U.S. by tens of kilometers.North Korea appears to have borrowed from the Russians their idea for using a so-called Space Launch Vehicle to make a stealthy nuclear attack on the United States.  During the Cold War, Moscow developed a secret weapon called a Fractional Orbital Bombardment System (FOBS) that looked like a Space Launch Vehicle, but was designed to launch a nuclear warhead southward, away from the United States initially, but deliver the warhead like a satellite on a south polar orbit, so the nuclear attack comes at the U.S. from the south.The United States has no Ballistic Missile Early Warning (BMEW) radars or missile interceptors facing south.  We might not even see the attack coming.Miroslav Gyurosi in The Soviet Fractional Orbital Bombardment System describes Moscow's development of the FOBS:The Fractional Orbital Bombardment System (FOBS) as it was known in the West, was a Soviet innovation intended to exploit the limitations of U.S. BMEW radar coverage. The idea behind FOBS was that a large thermonuclear warhead would be inserted into a steeply inclined low altitude polar orbit, such that it would approach CONUS from any direction, but primarily from the southern hemisphere, and following a programmed braking maneuver, re-enter from a direction which was not covered by BMEW radars.
"The first warning the U.S. would have of such a strike in progress would be the EMP...," writes Gyurosi.The trajectory of North Korea's satellite launch of December 12, 2012 looked very much like a Fractional Orbital Bombardment System for EMP attack.  The missile launched southward, away from the United States, sent the satellite over the south polar region, approaching the U.S. from the south, at the optimum altitude for EMP attack--although the test trajectory deliberately avoided flying over the United States initially.In subsequent orbits the North Korean satellite did overfly the central U.S. at the optimum location for an EMP attack.

Super-EMP Attack

North Korea appears to have borrowed from Russia more than the FOBS.  In 2004, a delegation of Russian generals met with the Congressional EMP Commission to warn that design information for a Super-EMP nuclear warhead had leaked from Russia to North Korea, and that North Korea might be able to develop such a weapon "in a few years."A few years later, in 2006, North Korea conducted its first nuclear test, of a device having a very low yield, about 3 kilotons.  All three North Korean nuclear tests have had similarly low yields.  A Super-EMP warhead would have a low-yield, like the North Korean device, because it is not designed to create a big explosion, but to produce gamma rays, that generate the EMP effect.According to several press reports, South Korean military intelligence concluded independently of the EMP Commission that Russian scientists are in North Korea helping develop a Super-EMP nuclear warhead.  In 2012, a military commentator for the People's Republic of China stated that North Korea has Super-EMP nuclear warheads.One design of a Super-EMP warhead would be a modified neutron bomb, more accurately an Enhanced Radiation Warhead (ERW) because it produces not only large amounts of neutrons but large amounts of gamma rays, that cause the EMP effect.  One U.S. ERW warhead (the W-82) weighed less than 50 kilograms.  North Korea's so-called Space Launch Vehicle, which orbited a satellite weighing 100 kilograms, could deliver such a warhead against the U.S. mainland--or against any nation on Earth.Iran has not yet tested a nuclear weapon, but may already have a FOBS delivery capability, as it has successfully launched several satellites on polar orbits, assisted by North Korean missile technology and North Korean technicians.Iranian scientists were present at all three North Korean nuclear tests, according to press reports.

Defending America and the World

What is to be done about the Cyber and EMP threats? There is no excuse for the United States to be vulnerable to EMP or to the worst case cyber scenarios as depicted in American Blackout.  The U.S. Department of Defense has understood for 50 years how to protect military systems from EMP.  Private vendors specializing in EMP protection are standing by with faraday cages, surge arrestors, blocking devices and other technology, ready to protect the national electric grid.Technically, it is important to understand that surge arrestors and other hardware designed to protect against EMP can also protect against the worst-case cyber scenarios that, for example, envision computer viruses collapsing the national power grid.  For example, surge arrestors that protect Extra High Voltage transformers from EMP can also protect transformers from  damaging electrical surges caused by a computer virus that manipulates the grid Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition Systems (SCADAS).Unfortunately, the electric power industry so far shows no inclination to invest in the technologies necessary to protect the national electric grid.  The congressional EMP Commission estimates that robust protection of the national electric grid could be achieved for a one-time investment of $2 billion--which is what the U.S. gives every year in foreign aid to Pakistan.  The U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) estimates that EMP protection of the national grid would increase the electric bill of the average rate payer by 20 cents annually.Administratively, a coherent and effective answer will not likely arise from uncoordinated decisions made independently by the thousands of individual electric utilities and  industries at risk.  Because cyber preparedness should encompass EMP preparedness--and since EMP is an existential threat--it is imperative that Government play a supervisory and coordinating role to achieve protection against these threats swiftly:
--The President should sign the Executive Order provided to the White House by the Congressional EMP Commission directing that the national electric grid shall be protected against EMP;
--The Congress should pass the SHIELD Act, which has been stalled before the House Energy and Commerce Committee for three years.  SHIELD empowers the U.S. FERC with legal and financial authorities to protect the national grid from EMP;
--States should not wait for Washington, but should immediately launch their own legislative initiatives, as done already by the State of Maine, to protect that portion of the electric grid within their states.  States can "island" their grids, which will in no way impede their ability to receive or export electric power from or to other states, and thereby protect their people from an EMP catastrophe.
--Industry should start manufacturing Extra-High Voltage (EHV) transformers, SCADAS, and other critical technologies hardened against EMP.  Defense Department experience with hardening military systems has shown that, when systems are built with EMP protection as part of the original design, it only adds 1-3 percent to manufacturing cost.  As old EHV transformers are retired and other systems are replaced with new systems designed EMP hard, not only the United States, but the entire Free World would eventually become protected from an EMP catastrophe.The Unfree World, Russia and China, have already hardened their grids against EMP. Israel may have done the same - and if it has not, there is no time to be lost.Also appeared on  Family Security Matters, sent to Arutz Sheva by the authors.

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