JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER.
1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE USED.
JESUS SHED HIS BLOOD FOR US THAT WE CAN BE SAVED FOREVER.AND DURING WW3 PEOPLES BLOOD WILL BE SHED AS A JUDGEMENT FOR HATING HIM AND ISRAEL.GOD IS NOT MOCKED.
ZEPHANIAH 1:2-3
2 I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the LORD.
3 I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD.
PSALMS 97:3
3 A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.
EZEKIEL 5:15-17
15 So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the (ARAB/MUSLIM) nations that are round about thee,(ISRAEL) when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken it.
16 When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:
17 So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts,(WHEN RUSSIA/MUSLIMS GET DEFEATED THIER BODIES GET EATEN BY BIRDS,ANIMALS IN ISRAEL MIGRATION SEASON) and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee;(NUKES) and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it.
REVELATION 14:18-20
18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
20 And the winepress was trodden without the city,(JERUSALEM) and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.(200 MILES) (THE SIZE OF ISRAEL)
ISAIAH 66:15-18
15 For, behold, the LORD will come with fire,(NUKES) and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
16 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
17 They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.
18 For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.
ISAIAH 26:21
21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity:(GOD/ISRAEL HATE AND BRAKING OF HIS COMMANDMENTS) the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.(WW3,1/2 earths population die - 3 BILLION).
After neglect, U.S. nuclear force seeing improvement: official-Reuters- By David Alexander-FEB 11,15-YAHOONEWS
MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. (Reuters) - Renewed focus on the U.S. nuclear force after several scandals last year is improving conditions for airmen, but more work must be done, Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work said on Wednesday after an icy tour of the only U.S. missile and bomber base.Work said missile launch officers and maintenance workers he met at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota were seeing the result of improvement efforts, including a deep cleaning of underground missile launch capsules and the purchase of new equipment.But some parts of the nuclear force were still using floppy computer disks and 25-year-old computer technology, Work said after a tour of the base, where temperatures around 2 degrees Fahrenheit (-16 Celsius) were accompanied by blistering winds."Nothing is better than being able to look the troops in the eye, and the officers, and hear what they're saying," Work said. "It was really good to put eyes on target. We still have work to do."He said the morale of the troops he spoke to was good and they were seeing the impact of increased spending, including a rise in staffing levels. But he said they wanted to know whether the investments would continue.Work's visit to the base, the only U.S. facility housing both nuclear missiles and bombers, came a week after the Pentagon rolled out a 2016 budget that calls for $8 billion in new spending on the nuclear force over the next five years, including about $1 billion for the 2016 fiscal year.Arms control groups have criticized the Obama administration for proposing a $534 billion Pentagon base budget that includes new spending on the nuclear arms."The administration's budget request is deeply disappointing and a lost opportunity to make common sense adjustments to the current nuclear weapons spending trajectory," said Kingston Reif, an analyst with the Arms Control Association.But two reviews ordered by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel last year concluded the force was plagued by a culture of over-inspection and micro-management, as well as a "consistent lack of investment."Hagel ordered reviews after a spate of incidents, including cheating on proficiency exams by missile launch officers and the sacking of the head of the force for drunkenness and bad behavior during an official visit to Moscow.Hagel said he would seek a 10 percent increase in funding for the nuclear force, which cost about $15 billion annually. The funding request for 2016 fell slightly short of that figure, but the five-year amount was higher.(Reporting by David Alexander; Editing by Jeremy Laurence)
POISONED WATERS
HOSEA 4:1-3
1 Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land,(EARTH) because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
ZEPHANIAH 1:2-3
2 I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the LORD.
3 I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD.
EZEKIEL 32:6-9
6 I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou swimmest, even to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of thee.
7 And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.
8 All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD.
9 I will also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not known.
REVELATION 8:8-11
8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;
9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;
11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood:(bitter,Poisoned) and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.(poisoned)
REVELATION 16:3-7
3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.(enviromentalists won't like this result)
4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
6 For they(False World Church and Dictator) have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.
Tests planned on mysterious 'milky rain' in U.S. Pacific Northwest-Reuters-By Courtney Sherwood-FEB 11,15-YAHOONEWS
PORTLAND, Ore. (Reuters) - Scientists from two U.S. Pacific Northwest laboratories plan to conduct tests of unusual precipitation that fell across the region over the weekend in hopes of pinpointing the origins of so-called "milky rain" that has mystified residents, officials said on Wednesday.Officials at both the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the Benton Clean Air Agency, both in Washington state, said they had collected samples of the rain, which left a powdery residue on cars across a wide swath of the two states.Scientists at the Richland lab said they believe the rain may have carried volcanic ash from an erupting volcano in Japan, while the clean air agency said its staffers believe dust from central Oregon was the culprit.The National Weather Service has said it believes the powdery rain was most likely a byproduct of dust storms hundreds of miles away in Nevada, although it could not rule out volcanic ash from Japan as a possible culprit.But the National Weather Service has also said it was not equipped to perform a chemical analysis of the rain that would be required to pinpoint its origins.Wherever the milky precipitation came from, officials say they do not believe it poses any health risk. Air monitoring stations did not detect anything unusual while the rain was falling, said Robin Bresley Priddy, executive director of Benton Clean Air."We don't have any reason to think there's anything wrong, but there's no reason not to be cautious if you're concerned," she added. "You may want to wash it off your car with water, rather than with your hands, and avoid touching it and breathing it in."(Editing by Cynthia Johnston and Eric Walsh)
EU DICTATOR (WORLD LEADER)
1 THESSALONIANS 5:3-7
2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
2 THESSALONIANS 2:3-4
3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed,(EU WORLD DICTATOR)the son of perdition;
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
REVELATION 17:12-13
12 And the ten horns (NATIONS) which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.(SOCIALISM)
13 These have one mind,(SOCIALISM) and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
REVELATION 6:1-2
1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
2 And I saw, and behold a white horse:(PEACE) and he that sat on him had a bow;(EU DICTATOR) and a crown was given unto him:(PRESIDENT OF THE EU) and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.(MILITARY GENIUS)
2 THESSALONIANS 2:9-12
9 Even him,(EU WORLD DICTATOR) whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion,(THE FALSE RESURRECTION BY THE WORLD DICTATOR) that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
REVELATION 13:1-10
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.(THE EU AND ITS DICTATOR IS GODLESS)
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.(DICTATOR COMES FROM NEW AGE OR OCCULT)
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death;(MURDERERD) and his deadly wound was healed:(COMES BACK TO LIFE) and all the world wondered after the beast.(THE WORLD THINKS ITS GOD IN THE FLESH, MESSIAH TO ISRAEL)
4 And they worshipped the dragon (SATAN) which gave power unto the beast:(JEWISH EU DICTATOR) and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?(FALSE RESURRECTION,SATAN BRINGS HIM TO LIFE)
5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.(GIVEN WORLD CONTROL FOR 3 1/2YRS)
6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God,(HES A GOD HATER) to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.(HES A LIBERAL OR DEMOCRAT,WILL PUT ANYTHING ABOUT GOD DOWN)
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints,(BEHEAD THEM) and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.(WORLD DOMINATION)
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.(WORLD DICTATOR)
9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.(SAVED CHRISTIANS AND JEWS DIE FOR THEIR FAITH AT THIS TIME,NOW WE ARE SAVED BY GRACE BUT DURING THE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH, PEOPLE WILL BE PUT TO DEATH (BEHEADINGS) FOR THEIR BELIEF IN GOD (JESUS) OR THE BIBLE.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come (ROMANS IN AD 70) shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMANS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
27 And he( EU ROMAN, JEWISH DICTATOR) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:( 7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,( 3 1/2 YRS) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent.James Paul Warburg appearing before the Senate on 7th February 1950
Like a famous WWII Belgian General,Paul Henry Spock said in 1957:We need no commission, we have already too many. What we need is a man who is great enough to be able to keep all the people in subjection to himself and to lift us out of the economic bog into which we threaten to sink. Send us such a man. Be he a god or a devil, we will accept him.And today, sadly, the world is indeed ready for such a man.
No one will enter the New World Order... unless he or she will make a pledge to worship Lucifer. No one will enter the New Age unless he will take a Luciferian Initiation.- David Spangler Director of Planetary Initiative United Nations.
MEPs break deadlock on airline passenger bill By Nikolaj Nielsen-BRUSSELS, 11. Feb, 18:19-EUOBSERVER
Police are a step closer to gaining broad access to the personal details of anyone flying in or out of Europe after EU lawmakers on Wednesday (11 February) agreed to break a deadlock on a stalled EU bill.Euro-deputies in Strasbourg voted on a resolution with an amendment to reach an agreement on the EU’s passenger name (EU PNR) record bill by the end of the year."This is the most positive statement the European Parliament has given on PNR in several years,” said the assembly’s lead negotiator on the file, UK conservative Timothy Kirkhope.The timing is of importance because EU leaders will be discussing the issue with parliament president Martin Schulz at the summit in Brussels on Thursday afternoon.Member states want the bill, set to cost some €500 million by commission estimates, signed by the European parliament as soon as possible.First proposed in 2011 and then blocked two years later by MEPs in the civil liberties committee, the bill requires airlines to hand over details like travel dates, travel itinerary, ticket information, contact details, the travel agent at which the flight was booked, means of payment used, seat number and baggage information.Civil liberty defenders question whether the level of scrutiny and proposed five-year retention period have any real impact on tracking down potential terrorists in the first place.They say emphasis should instead be placed on tracking known suspects and on improving information sharing among police and security services instead of casting indiscriminate surveillance dragnets that underpins the bill.
Surveillance versus rights
Last year the European Court of Justice ruling outlawed, in a separate crime-fighting EU law, the indiscriminate data collection of people not suspected of any crime.The point was underlined earlier this month by the EU's main privacy regulatory body, the article 29 working party.They said EU PNR data processing “is likely to seriously undermine the right to the protection of private life and personal data of all travellers”.Possible violations of such rights may prompt the EU’s top court to once again reconsider whether the proposed law violates those rights. If it does, the Court may decide to scrap the law altogether.Fifteen member states have or are in the process of setting up their own PNRs.Monday’s resolution added an amendment for the European Commission to consider the impact of last year’s Luxembourg court decision and "encourage" member states to come to an agreement on the protracted legislative file on data protection reforms.But not everyone is happy with the Greens describing the latest twist in the drawn out debate as “a carte blanche to scale-back personal freedoms”.The centre-right (EPP), the liberals (ALDE), the socialists (S&D), and the conservatives (ECR) all backed the resolution and its amendment.The breakthrough was orchestrated, in part, by intense pressure from member states following the Paris attacks in January and by lobbying efforts by French interior minster Bernard Cazeneuve.
Schengen and EU summit
Summit leaders are also set to discuss revising the EU’s Schengen borders code. The code sets out minimum and random checks on EU citizens leaving or entering the EU.The French want the code revised so that everyone is forced to undergo systematic checks as part of a larger effort to crack down on so-called foreign fighters.“The question is, and this is the big dilemma, whether it is enough to have a more efficient proper implementation of the existing legislative framework or if there is a need for targeted amendments on the Schengen border code," said an EU source.But systematic checks have received a cool reception from the European commission, which wants member state authorities to make better use of existing tools.Some national governments are pushing ahead with plans to start invalidating the travel documents of suspected terrorists.The commission backs the idea and has since modified the EU’s large-scale information system on police and border control, the Schengen information system (SIS), to flag invalidated documents of suspected terrorists.
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS-10 WORLD REGIONS/TRADE BLOCS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS-10 WORLD DIVISION WORLD GOVERNMENT) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(THE EU (EUROPEAN UNION) TAKES OVER IRAQ WHICH HAS SPLIT INTO 3-SUNNI-KURD-SHIA PARTS-AND THE REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE IS BROUGHT BACK TOGETHER-THE TWO LEGS OF DANIEL WESTERN LEG AND THE ISLAMIC LEG COMBINED AS 1)
LUKE 2:1-3
1 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.
2 (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)
3 And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.
Greece up for 'clash' with eurozone ministers By Valentina Pop-BRUSSELS, 11. Feb, 09:42-EUOBSERVER
Greece is not excluding a clash with eurozone finance ministers on Wednesday (11 February) over its plan to replace the outgoing bailout with a 'bridging programme' until September."If you're not willing to even consider a clash, you're not negotiating," Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis told the Greek parliament on Tuesday, ahead of a confidence vote which the new government passed with 162 votes out of 300."We're not seeking a clash. We will do everything to avoid it. But you're not negotiating if you've ruled it out," Varoufakis added.The economist-and-blogger turned finance minister will have his baptism of fire on Wednesday evening in Brussels, where he will present his government's ideas on how to avoid bankruptcy and roll back some of the austerity measures linked to the current bailout programme that ends on 28 February.The new 10-point plan includes bond swaps to reduce Greece's debt mountain of 175 percent of GDP and linking debt repayments to economic growth.This idea is unlikely to fly, but another one, to reduce the budget surplus from 3 percent of GDP this year to 1.49 percent is more likely to find some sympathy among eurozone peers, provided Greece sticks to the reforms plan.Varoufakis told the Greek parliament that around 30 percent of the programme was "toxic" and that he will not accept any new debt being piled on his country's bill.The idea of a bridge programme has so far been met with scepticism, particularly in the Netherlands - whose finance minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem leads the Eurogroup and had a frosty meeting in Athens last week- and Germany, where Varoufakis met finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble and had an equally tense press conference."I want to repeat today, no matter how much Schaeuble asks it, we are not going to ask to extend the bailout," Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras said Tuesday in the Greek parliament."Schaeuble is proposing irrational things, to ask for a perpetuation of the mistake," he said in reference to the 2010 bailout deal.Time is pressing as the European Central Bank has turned off one of the cheap money taps to Greece and could cut off Greek banks completely in the absence of a deal with the eurozone by the end of the month, meaning that the country would go bankrupt.Dijsselbloem on Tuesday told Dutch television news channel RTL Z he is "extremely willing" to look for a solution."Financing goes hand-in-hand with demands and conditions. That's exactly where the tensions lie" he said.For his part, EU economics commissioner Pierre Moscovici said in an interview with AFP that any solution should be found "within the context of a common framework which exists already, which is that of the existing programme." The likelihood of a deal on Wednesday evening is small, with an EU commission spokeswoman on Tuesday downplaying expectations."We have low expectations that any final agreements will be reached tomorrow or at the European Council" on Thursday, EU commission spokeswoman Mina Andreeva said during a press conference.EU leaders are gathering on Thursday, mainly to discuss anti- terrorism measures and the aftermath of a peace deal attempt in Minsk between Russia and Ukraine. But Greece will inevitably feature in the discussions, as it will be the first time for Tsipras to attend the European Council.A further meeting of eurozone finance ministers will take place on Monday, 16 February.
Lukashenko angling for better EU ties By Andrew Rettman-BRUSSELS, 11. Feb, 19:42-EUOBSERVER
On paper still Europe’s biggest pariah, the Belarusian leader is keen to use the Minsk summit to boost popularity at home and mend fences with the EU.The last time an EU leader visited Minsk was Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi in 2009 to sign arms and energy deals.The last time any European VIP was there was when the German and Polish foreign ministers went in 2010 with an offer of €3 billion in aid in return for reforms.Then, on 19 December the same year, following a rigged election, his security services beat protesters in the streets and threw opposition leaders in jail.The EU reacted by expanding its blacklist.It currently has a visa ban and asset freeze on 201 individuals and 18 entities. Alexander Lukashenko, the Belarusian president, is himself persona non grata since 2006 (barring a spell between 2008 and 2010).By contrast, Russia’s war on Ukraine has seen 132 people and 28 entities listed so far. Russian president Vladimir Putin has not been listed.But on Wednesday, Belarusian state media showed Lukashenko shaking hands with German chancellor Angela Merkel in his palace.He also met French president Francois Hollande and the Ukrainian and Russian leaders, before taking part in a joint press briefing in his cavernous auditorium. One of his TV headlines said “the visit by key leaders of European states is a victory for Belarusian diplomacy”.The Minsk summit on the Ukraine conflict is taking place ahead of Belarusian presidential elections in November.But the elections, and the regional context, are different compared to five years ago.
New context
The opposition is more fragmented and demoralised - some even say it would be good for Lukashenko to win because a transition at this time would open the door to Russian influence.Meanwhile, Lukashenko’s relations with Putin have hit a low.The Belarusian leader has refused to recognise Russia’s annexation of Crimea, spoken in defence of Ukraine’s territorial integrity, and refused to join Russia’s ban on EU food exports.He has also cultivated ties with the pro-Western government in Kiev and with the US.Whether it's just a gambit to extort extra Russian subsidies is hard to say.But there is concern in Minsk that Putin’s neo-imperialism could see a Ukraine-type scenario in Belarus, which also hosts a large Russian-speaking minority.Lukashenko has purged pro-Russian elements in his nomenklatura.He passed a law saying that sending “armed groups, irregular armed forces, [or] mercenary groups” into Belarus - Putin’s little green men - would be considered an act of war.He has also turned a blind eye to Belarusian nationalists who went to fight on the Ukrainian side in east Ukraine, where they can acquire weapons and combat experience which could be useful in guerrilla warfare in the event of a Russian incursion at home.At the same time, the economic crisis in Russia is changing its own calculations.“As of last Sunday, Lukashenko is asking Putin for $2.5 billion in return for his loyalty”, Andrei Abozau, a Belarusian dissident living in Estonia, told EUobserver."At some point it may become more attractive to remove him than to keep feeding him [subsidies]", he added.“For Lukashenko, none of this is about protecting Belarusian sovereignty. It’s about staying in power and getting the money he needs to keep power in his system of patronage”.
No quid pro quo
For its part, Merkel’s office said on Monday Lukashenko should expect nothing in return for hosting the Ukraine event.Her spokesman, Steffen Seibert, said there is no change in the government’s position on Belarus.“We are grateful [for the summit] and I'm sure he'll extend the whole of Belarusian hospitality toward his guests”.He added that “Belarus is a large and important country in the middle of Europe” and that if it falls in line with EU values “then, I think anything is possible”.But he noted: “There is no … coupling of the role of Belarus as a host of the Minsk talks on the one hand and some kind of concessions on Belarus in its bilateral relationship with Germany or the European Union on the other”.An EU diplomat dealing with Belarus, who spoke on condition of anonymity, was less categorical.
Quid pro quo
“We’ve had some discussion that we have to reward Belarus for its position on Ukraine and for the fact it released some political prisoners,” the contact said.He noted the EU recently delisted a handful of Belarusian officials and opted not to add new names.He also said EU countries are trying to “ease access for the Belarusian government to EU financial markets so they can borrow money to meet their needs and not rely so much on one source [Russia]. We’re sending messages to European firms that if they enter into contracts they won’t somehow be penalised under the sanctions regime”.For Abozau, the test will come in Riga in May when Latvia hosts post-Soviet and EU leaders at a so-called Eastern Partnership summit.“What he [Lukashenko] wants is to be invited, but not to actually go, so that he can show Moscow he has new support in the West”.The EU diplomat noted that he would, at least, have to release all remaining political prisoners to get an invitation.But he said “ultimately, it will be Latvia’s decision, and I’m not sure they'd want to take the risk that if he attends the whole event becomes about ‘the last dictator in Europe’.”A former US secretary of state gave Lukashenko the moniker in 2005 and it stuck ever since.
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)
Boko Haram kidnaps hundreds, tells stories of Chibok girls-Associated Press By CHIKA ODUAH-FEB 11,15-YAHOONEWS
YOLA, Nigeria (AP) — When Islamic extremists snatched more than 270 girls from the Chibok boarding school in Nigeria in the dead of night, protests broke out worldwide. The U.S. pledged to help find them, and the #BringBackOurGirls hashtag was born.Some 10 months later, most are still missing. The Boko Haram extremist group sees the mass kidnapping as a shining symbol of success, and has abducted hundreds of other girls, boys and women. The militants brag to their new captives with claims that the Chibok girls surrendered, converted to Islam and married fighters."They told me the Chibok girls have a new life where they learn to fight," says Abigail John, 15, who was held by Boko Haram for more than four weeks before escaping. "They said we should be like them and accept Islam."The kidnappings reflect the growing ambition and brazenness of Boko Haram, which seeks to impose an Islamic state across Nigeria, Africa's most populous country. Some 10,000 people have died in the Islamic uprising over the past year, compared to 2,000 in the previous four years, according to the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations."It's devastating," said Bukky Shonibare, an activist in Abuja, of the kidnappings. "It makes you wonder, what is being done?"John was among three girls interviewed by The Associated Press who recently escaped from Boko Haram. While their stories could not be independently verified, they were strikingly similar, and all spoke of their captors' obsession with the Chibok girls.The girls had no idea whether the militants were telling the truth or making up stories to taunt their victims. John says the fighters enjoyed relating how they had whipped and slapped the Chibok girls until they submitted.When the Nigerian air force dropped a bomb on the house where John was confined, she tried to escape, she says. She wrestled with the fighters, but they broke her am and hauled her off to another house.At the end of last year, the Nigerian army liberated the town where she was held. She is now in Yola with her father, sister and six brothers, in a house overcrowded with refugees. She finally was able to get medical attention for her fractured right arm, which remains in a cast.The kidnappings of the Chibok girls in April brought Boko Haram to the world's attention in a way the group could not have imagined. The hashtag #BringBackOurGirls was tweeted more than 480,000 times globally in early May, and U.S. first lady Michelle Obama held it up in a sign to television cameras. She said at the time, "In these girls, Barack and I see our own daughters ...we can only imagine the anguish their parents are feeling right now."On Wednesday, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan again promised the girls will be brought home alive, saying he is "more hopeful" about their fate now that a multinational force is being formed to fight Boko Haram."Give us some time over the Chibok girls. The story will be better in a few weeks," Jonathan promised, as he has many times in the past, on a nationally televised program.In the 10 months since the mass kidnapping, Boko Haram has increased the tempo and ferocity of its insurgency. In August, it began seizing and holding towns, and — copying the Islamic State group — declared it would recreate an ancient Islamic caliphate in the region. The fighting has since spilled across Nigeria's borders, and the African Union this month authorized a multinational force of 8,750 troops to try to stamp it out.Dorcas Aiden, 20, was another of those caught in Boko Haram's siege. She had finished high school and was living at home when the war came to her village. Fighters took her to a house in the town of Gulak and held her captive for two weeks last September.The more than 50 teenage girls crammed into the house were beaten if they refused to study Quranic verses or conduct daily Muslim prayers, she says. When the fighters got angry, they shot their guns in the air. Aiden finally gave in and denied her Christian faith to become Muslim, at least in name, she says.One day, the fighters stormed into the room where she was kept locked up with a dozen other girls. They showed a video of the Chibok girls, dressed in hijabs, with only their faces visible through their veils. Aiden says she was so overwhelmed that she cried.The fighters said the Chibok girls were all Muslims now, and some were training as fighters to fight women, which Boko Haram men are not supposed to do.Aiden's captors boasted about how they had married off the Chibok girls, she says. One fighter said he would marry her. She balked."I said, 'No, I will not marry you,'" Aiden recounts. "So he pulled out a gun and beat my hand."Aiden says the insurgents threatened to break the legs of any girl who tried to escape, but she and six others ran anyway. As she made her way through abandoned farm fields, she noticed that Boko Haram had filled about 10 other houses with kidnapped girls and women.Aiden, who is now in Yola with tens of thousands of other refugees, dreams of going to university, in defiance of the extremists' insistence that girls should be married, not educated. The nickname Boko Haram means "Western education is forbidden or sinful."Another escapee, a shy 16-year-old captured in September, begs that her name not be published because she escaped only a few weeks ago and believes the fighters are actively searching for her. After the girl's village was attacked four times, she fled to a great-aunt. Then that village also was targeted, she says.The fighters held her for four months. When she escaped, she walked through the bush and across the border into Cameroon to avoid areas under Boko Haram's control. She is now taking refuge in a Catholic church in Yola.All the girls say they were not raped, despite the fears of some villagers. Instead, the fighters said they wanted the girls to remain virgins until they were married off."They said they are doing the work of God, so they will not touch us," the 16-year-old recounts.As she tells her story, she fidgets and looks down at her hands, clasped in her lap. She recounts how one fighter, nicknamed "Tall Arab," was set on marrying her. She pleaded that she was too young, but was told, "Do you think you are better than those Chibok girls that we kidnapped?"The man told her the Chibok girls were "enjoying their matrimonial homes," she remembers. He also said the Chibok girls had turned against their parents, and were "ready to slit their parents' throats" if they ever saw them again.Some never will. Even if the girls are released, people in Chibok say at least 13 of their parents have died since they were seized, in Boko Haram violence or possibly stress-related illness.While dozens of Chibok girls escaped on their own after their kidnapping, 219 are still missing. Nigeria's military initially feared any action could lead to the girls being killed. But villagers reported last week that air force jets have begun bombing the Sambisa Forest — the area where fighters told Aiden some girls still are held captive.__AP writer Michelle Faul contributed to this story from Dakar, Senegal.
Thousands protest against Houthi rule in Yemen after embassies close-Reuters-By Mohammed Ghobari-FEB 11,15-YAHOONEWS
SANAA (Reuters) - Yemenis in the capital Sanaa and the central city of Taiz held the largest protests yet against a takeover by a Shi'ite Muslim militia group on Wednesday after the United States, Britain and France shut their embassies over security fears.Hundreds massed in the capital against the Houthi fighters, who manned checkpoints and guarded government buildings they control. The militants, bedecked in tribal robes and automatic rifles, shot in the air and thrust daggers at the crowds opposing their rule.Tens of thousands of people also carried banners and chanted anti-Houthi slogans in Taiz, which the militants have not taken.The Iranian-backed Houthi movement has called its seizure of power a revolution and says it wants to rid the country of corruption and economic peril -- though Yemen's rich Sunni Muslim Gulf Arab neighbors say it is a coup.Yemen had long been at the forefront of the U.S.-led war against al Qaeda, but the long-standing alliance between Washington and Sanaa appears to have ended for now.The U.S. ambassador and diplomatic staff left the embassy on Wednesday, local workers said, a day after Washington announced it was closing the mission. Embassy workers had already destroyed weapons, computers and documents, they added."Recent unilateral actions disrupted the political transition process in Yemen, creating the risk that renewed violence would threaten Yemenis and the diplomatic community in Sanaa," U.S. State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki said.Despite the embassy shutdown, White House Spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters on Wednesday that the United States was continuing to carry out counter-terrorism operations in Yemen in cooperation with Yemeni officials."There continue to be ... U.S. Department of Defense personnel on the ground in Yemen that are coordinating with their counterparts in Yemen," he said.France and Britain announced the closure of their embassies on Wednesday, and German embassy employees said the mission was getting rid of sensitive documents and would close soon..The Houthis, who overran Sanaa in September and formally took power last week, are stridently anti-American, and chant "death to America" at rallies. Abdel Malik al-Ijri, a member of the Houthi movement's political bureau, said on Facebook the decision to close the embassies was "not justified at all and comes in the context of pressure on our people"." Governments of brotherly and friendly countries in the near future will realize that it is in their interest to deal with the will of our people with due respect," al-Ijri wrote.He also dismissed a report from U.S. embassy workers that the militants had seized more than 20 of their vehicles, saying they had been taken by airport authorities.
HOUTHI ADVANCE
Houthi forces advanced far into the south on Tuesday night, according to local officials, continuing their expansion of recent months which is raising fears of an all-out civil war.Leaders and Sunni tribesmen in the southern and eastern regions, which the group has so far not seized, are arming themselves against their push and are in some cases making common cause with Yemeni Al Qaeda militants.Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), one of the global militant group's most powerful arms, has repeatedly bombed and attacked Houthi targets.Other tribes from Yemen's formerly independent south, which has clamored for secession for almost a decade, vowed on Wednesday to repel any Houthi attack.The Houthi forces are bolstered by army units widely believed to maintain loyalty to ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh -- though he denies any link.Saleh ruled the country for 33 years, balancing the competing interests for Yemen's kaleidoscope of armed tribes, political bosses and militants - a feat he called "dancing on the heads of snakes."But he was eased out of power after "Arab Spring" protests against his rule in 2011 under a delicate transition plan drawn up by Yemen's rich Sunni Gulf Arab neighbors - all of them opponents of the Houthis.Those neighbors have called the Houthi takeover a coup. Saleh and his former ruling party have denied an attempt to settle old scores and reassert its control over the country through the Houthis.The tenure of Saleh's successor, Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, was defined by gridlock among Yemen's array of feuding parties. Hadi resigned last month along with his whole government after Houthi gunmen attacked his home.(Additional reporting by Roberta Rampton in Washington; Writing by Noah Browning; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
Obama asks fresh war powers, says IS group 'going to lose'-Associated Press By DAVID ESPO and NEDRA PICKLER-FEB 11,15-YAHOONEWS
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama urged Congress on Wednesday to authorize military action against the Islamic State militants who are cutting a swath across the Middle East, vowing their forces "are going to lose." Yet he ruled out large-scale U.S. ground combat operations reminiscent of Iraq and Afghanistan."I'm convinced that the United States should not get dragged back into another prolonged ground war," the president said at the White House as he set Congress on a path to its first war-powers vote in 13 years.Despite his words of reassurance, initial reaction in Congress amounted to bipartisan skepticism, with much of the dissatisfaction centered on his attempt to find a political middle ground with respect to ground forces.Republicans expressed unhappiness that he had chosen to exclude any long-term commitment of ground forces, while some Democrats voiced dismay that he had opened the door to deployment at all.Sen. John McCain, a leading Republican, also said Obama had ruled out air support for U.S.-trained rebels battling Syrian President Bashar Assad, adding, "That's immoral."Under Obama's proposal, the use of military force against Islamic State fighters would be authorized for three years, unbounded by national borders. The fight could be extended to any "closely related successor entity" to the Islamic State organization that has overrun parts of Iraq and Syria, imposed a stern form of Sharia law and killed several hostages it has taken, Americans among them."Make no mistake. This is a difficult mission," Obama said in seeking action against a group that he said threatens America's own security. He said it will take time to dislodge the terrorists, especially from urban areas. "But our coalition is on the offensive. ISIL is on the defensive, and ISIL is going to lose."The 2002 congressional authorization that preceded the American-led invasion of Iraq would be repealed under the White House proposal, a step some Republicans were unhappy to see. But a separate authorization that was approved by Congress after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks would remain in force, to the consternation of some Democrats.At the heart of the debate, the struggle to define any role for American ground forces is likely to determine the outcome of the administration's request for legislation. White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the proposal was intentionally ambiguous on that point to give the president flexibility, although the approach also was an attempt to bridge a deep divide in Congress.While asking lawmakers to bar long-term, large-scale ground combat operations like those in Afghanistan and Iraq, Obama said he wants the flexibility for ground combat operations "in other more limited circumstances." Those include rescue missions, intelligence collection and the use of special operations forces in possible military action against Islamic State leaders.While he proposed legislation to terminate in three years, Obama said, "It is not a timetable. It is not announcing that the mission is completed at any given period. What it is saying is that Congress should revisit the issue at the beginning of the next president's term."Whatever the outcome, Obama's request puts Congress on the path toward a vote that could reverberate unpredictably for years.A post-Sept. 11 request from then-President George W. Bush for authorization to use military force against Iraq was intensely controversial, and it played a role in Obama's successful campaign for the White House in 2008.In a letter to lawmakers accompanying the three-page draft legislation, Obama referred to four American hostages who have died in Islamic State custody — at least three of them beheaded. He said the militant group, if left unchecked, "will pose a threat beyond the Middle East, including to the United States homeland."Among the four hostages was Kayla Mueller, a 26-year-old humanitarian worker whose death under unknown circumstances was confirmed Tuesday.__Associated Press writers Matthew Daly, Erica Werner and Laurie Kellman contributed to this story.
Leaders hold Ukraine peace talks as fighting surges-Reuters-By Pavel Polityuk and Elizabeth Pineau -FEB 11,15-YAHOONEWS
MINSK (Reuters) - The leaders of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine held peace talks in Belarus deep into the night, while in Ukraine pro-Moscow separatists tightened the pressure on Kiev by launching some of the war's worst fighting.Ukraine's army said on Wednesday that 19 of its soldiers were killed in pro-Russian separatist assaults near the railway town of Debaltseve, some of the worst losses it has reported in nine months of war.Rebels who tore up a five-month-old truce in January are trying to encircle government forces in Debaltseve, a strategic location that would let them link up their main strongholds.Fighting has already killed more than 5,000 people, and Washington is now openly talking of arming Ukraine to defend itself from "Russian aggression", raising the prospect of a proxy war in the heart of Europe between Cold War foes.A surge in fighting in the 24 hours before the summit, including a rocket attack that killed 17 people in government-held territory on Tuesday, could be intended to force Ukraine to accept a deal recognising the rebel advance.The summit was being held in neighbouring Belarus under a Franco-German proposal to try to halt the fighting. Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Francois Hollande held talks with Ukraine's Petro Poroshenko and Russia's Vladimir Putin that a Ukrainian presidential aide said could continue well into Thursday morning.The leaders were planning to sign a joint declaration supporting Ukraine's territorial integrity and sovereignty, a Ukrainian delegation source said.The source said a separate document would be prepared by a "contact group" of Russia, Ukraine and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe affirming commitment to a ceasefire plan drawn up in Minsk last September and also signed by separatist leaders.The comments were a partial read-out from the Ukrainian side and it was too early to say what compromise, if any, might be worked out between Ukraine and Russia.The four leaders met alone at about 12.15 p.m. ET and then went into a full summit with their delegations.Merkel, Poroshenko and Hollande were smiling when they entered the heavily decorated conference room, each of their places round the table marked by a small golden clock.The talks could continue for at least another five to six hours, a Ukrainian presidential aide said early on Thursday, after the discussions had already been underway for seven hours."We've got another 5-6 hours of work. At least. But we should not leave here without an agreement on an unconditional ceasefire. There's a battle of nerves underway," aide Valeriy Chaly said in a Facebook post.
SHAKING HANDS
Earlier, Poroshenko said that without a de-escalation of the conflict and a ceasefire the situation would get "out of control". Russian television showed him shaking hands with Putin.Any breakthrough would likely depend on Ukraine making concessions, with advancing rebels unlikely to agree to halt and go back to previous positions.The outcome of the talks is expected to influence discussions at an EU summit in Brussels on Thursday, when sanctions against Moscow will be on the agenda.Still, Moscow expressed optimism. A Russian diplomatic source said it was 70 percent likely that an agreement would be reached.Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said there had been progress in the run-up to the summit but Kiev could be holding back a deal by insisting on control of the Russian-Ukrainian border, part of which is held by the separatists.The talks were taking place while an International Monetary Fund mission is trying to negotiate a bailout to save Ukraine from bankruptcy.Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk said he hoped for a deal in the next 48 hours and IMF chief Christine Lagarde said she would make a statement on Ukraine early on Thursday.Kiev and NATO accuse Russia of supplying separatists with men and weapons. Moscow denies it is involved in fighting for territory Putin calls "New Russia".If the French and German leaders hoped their peace initiative would be met by conciliatory moves on the ground, the prospect of talks appears to have triggered the opposite, with the pro-Russian rebels determined to drive home their advantage.Armoured columns of Russian-speaking soldiers with no insignia have been advancing for days around Debaltseve. Last week they captured the small town of Vuhlehirsk next to Debaltseve.On the Russian side of the border, Moscow announced war games on Tuesday on the eve of the talks.The United States has been openly discussing arming the Ukrainian government, a move that is opposed by European allies who say it would escalate the conflict while falling far short of giving Kiev the firepower needed to win.President Barack Obama says he has yet to make up his mind on the question of sending weapons. He spoke by phone overnight to Putin, and the White House said he warned the Russian leader that the costs would rise if Moscow kept aiding the separatists.(Additional reporting by Aleksandar Vasovic, Alessandra Prentice, Margarita Chorno kondatrenko, Gabriela Baczynska, Alexander Winning, Vladimir Soldatkin, Aleksandar Vasovic, Lidia Kelly and Andrei Makhovsky; Writing by Peter Graff and Richard Balmforth; editing by Janet McBride and Giles Elgood)
EU, Russian leaders meet in Minsk for high-stakes summit By Andrew Rettman-BRUSSELS, 11. Feb, 09:31-EUOBSERVER
The future of Ukrainian statehood and the risk of escalation beyond Ukraine’s borders hang in the balance as French, German, Russian, and Ukrainian leaders meet in Minsk on Wednesday (11 February).The event comes amid renewed fighting in east Ukraine - Kiev said 15 civilians died when Russian forces shelled the town of Kramatorsk on Tuesday, while Russia-controlled rebels blamed the deaths on Ukrainian forces in what they called a pre-summit “provocation”.The year-old conflict has already claimed more than 5,000 lives.The fear in Ukraine and among Russia-wary states in the EU is that France and Germany will push Ukraine to accept a ceasefire deal which undermines Ukrainian sovereignty by creating a new frozen conflict on its territory.The office of chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday the EU offer is based on last year’s “Minsk protocol”: withdrawal of heavy weapons; withdrawal of Russian troops; creating a new buffer zone; sealing the Russia-Ukraine border; introducing monitors from the OSCE, a multilateral body; and granting Russia-occupied areas limited autonomy under the Ukrainian constitution.Russia has indicated it wants the new ceasefire line to endorse its recent territorial gains, to post UN peacekeepers to the conflict zone, and for rebel-held areas to gain quasi-independence in a federal Ukraine.The wider fear is that if Russia gets too much it will embolden Russian leader Vladimir Putin to pursue destabilisation beyond Ukraine - in Belarus itself, but also in Kazakhstan, and in EU and Nato members Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.If there is no deal at all, the stakes could get even higher.The US and some EU states - including Poland and the UK - have said they reserve the right to deliver modern weapons to the Ukraine military.But the Kremlin has warned that if they go ahead it would be seen as an attack on Russia itself.“The Americans are trying to draw the Russian Federation into an interstate military conflict, to achieve regime change through the events in Ukraine and to ultimately dismember our country”, Nikolai Patrushev, Putin’s security chief, who is on an EU blacklist, said on Tuesday.Dmitry Kiselev, a Putin propagandist who is also on the EU list, has in recent days and weeks gone further - invoking the risk of a nuclear confrontation.For its part, the EU has threatened to impose further economic sanctions.But if it goes ahead it could prompt an economic crisis in Russia. It could also fail to reach internal agreement, creating a rift within the EU.
Kotzias in Moscow
Greece, which has emerged as a leading sanctions critic since the election of a new far-left government in January, will, also on Wednesday, post its Russia-friendly foreign minister, Nikos Kotzias, to Moscow.Russia has dangled an offer of economic aid to Athens.Its foreign ministry noted on the eve of Kotzias’ trip that Greece is also “interested in Russia’s new gas pipeline project called ‘Turkish Stream’ and plans for a gas hub at the Turkish-Greek border” - a potential revenue-generator for decades to come.It said the talks will as well cover the Cyprus conflict, co-operation in transport and education, and celebration of the two countries’ “1,000-year old” orthodox Christian heritage.Kotzias said in a tweet on Wednesday morning that: “We fully support the Minsk initiative. There is no other solution.”The EU’s foreign relations chief Federica Mogherini also called the event “a chance not to be missed”.France the same day indicated it is willing to make territorial concessions to Russia.“We should not stray far from the September 2014 documents [the old Minsk protocol], but the real situation on the ground has changed to Ukraine’s detriment,” French foreign minister Laurent Fabius told AFP news agency.
First step
Meanwhile, Germany indicated it would settle for “a first step in the right direction”.“If this can be achieved by means of a cease-fire and some linked political agreements, that would be an important step in the face of the threat of spiralling military escalation”, Merkel’s spokesman, Steffen Seibert, told press on Monday. Ukraine president Petro Poroshenko himself noted on Tuesday: “I am going to Minsk to immediately, unconditionally and without any strings attached call for a ceasefire and launch a political dialogue”.The US and Russian presidents also spoke by phone.The US said in a statement that: “if Russia continues its aggressive actions in Ukraine … the costs for Russia will rise”. Putin’s office noted: "We hope that common sense will prevail”.But a meeting between Ukrainian and Russian delegates, as well as representatives of Russia-controlled Ukraine rebels and the OSCE in Minsk on Tuesday failed to reach agreement on the outlines of a new accord.
UK reserves right to arm Ukraine military By Andrew Rettman-BRUSSELS, 10. Feb, 19:12-EUOBSERVER
The UK has followed the US in saying that if diplomacy doesn’t stop Russian aggression in Ukraine then it might start arming the Ukrainian military.Foreign minister Philip Hammond made the statement in the British parliament on Tuesday (10 February).“It is a national decision for each country in the Nato alliance to decide whether to supply lethal aid to Ukraine. The UK is not planning to do so, but we reserve the right to keep this position under review,” he said.“We share a clear understanding that while there is no military solution to this conflict, we could not allow the Ukrainian armed forces to collapse”.His comment comes one day after US president Barack Obama said that "if … diplomacy fails, what I’ve asked my team to do is to look at all options …. and the possibility of lethal defensive weapons is one of those options”.The comment also comes one day ahead of Ukraine peace talks in Minsk.France and Germany are to represent the EU at the meeting. Both are against arming Ukraine. But one EU diplomat said it may be helpful for talks to take place amid threats of arms to give the EU side “leverage”.The UK’s Hammond also told parliament: “What is happening on the ground [in east Ukraine] now resembles, to all intents and purposes, a small scale conventional war”.“Russia has … transferred hundreds of heavy weapons, including rocket launchers, heavy artillery, tanks and armoured vehicles, and it maintains hundreds of regular soldiers, including special forces, in Ukraine, as well as command and control elements, air defence systems, UAVs, and electronic warfare systems”.He said France and Germany will try to revive last year’s Minsk peace plan, but in an “updated” version “to reflect subsequent changes on the ground” - a reference to territorial gains by Russian forces.He noted the “EU-wide consensus” on Russia sanctions has caused “surprise and dismay [in] the Kremlin”.“It is clear that [Russian] president Putin respects only strength, and by standing united, using our combined economic muscle to impose significant economic costs on Russia, the international community has shown its determination to rebuff Russia’s anachronistic behaviour”.Lithuania and Poland have also said they are ready to arm the Ukraine military.For its part, the Russian foreign ministry said in a statement the EU’s own 2008 “code of conduct” prohibits arms shipments to conflict zones, adding that EU states’ weapons risk being “used indiscriminately, including against civilians”.Russia has in the past warned of grave consequences if Western arms deliveries go ahead.But the EU diplomat added that so long as Russia doesn't admit its own armed forces are in Ukraine it cannot categorise arms shipments as an act of hostility against Russia.“This may be the last moment that we can still do it, before the little green men show their Russian insignia, as they did in Crimea”, the source said.The EU consensus on sanctions is to be tested with a visit, also on Wednesday, by the Russia-friendly Greek foreign minister, Nikos Kotzias, to Moscow.The new Greek government has emerged as the most likely to veto renewals or additions of Russia sanctions.It is also sending mixed messages on whether it would accept Russian aid if its EU debt talks end badly.The EU consensus was tested earlier last month when some member states didn’t want to come to an emergency foreign ministers’ meeting called after a rocket attack on the Ukrainian city of Mariupol.EUobserver understands sceptical member states held out on grounds they didn’t believe Ukrainian reports on the number of Russian forces in Ukraine and on their role in the Mariupol offensive.But a report by IntCen, the EU foreign service’ intelligence-sharing branch, helped persuade them of the facts.
Canada 'inclined' to extend mandate of forces in Iraq: minister-Reuters-FEB 11,15-YAHOONEWS
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada is inclined to extend the six-month mandate of its military mission in Iraq, which comprises special forces on the ground as well as fighter bombers, Defence Minister Jason Kenney said on Wednesday.Kenney said the right-of-center Conservative government had not yet taken a formal decision to keep the forces in Iraq beyond the end of March. But his comments were the clearest indication yet from a cabinet minister that Ottawa was likely to do so."Our government believes that Canada has a role in fighting the so-called Islamic State terrorists, stopping their campaign of genocide, and we are inclined to continue with that fight," he told CTV television.Canada has six fighter bombers taking part in U.S.-led air strikes against Islamic State attacks as well as around 70 special forces members in northern Iraq.U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday sent Congress a request to authorize military force against the militants over the next three years.Separately, Kenney told the Canadian Broadcasting Corp that Canada would not be committing ground troops to a combat mission in Iraq.The Canadian special forces have exchanged fire with Islamic State militants at least three times since deploying to train Iraqi forces and also identify targets for air strikes.Opposition parties say the clashes show Prime Minister Stephen Harper was not telling the truth when he assured legislators last year that the forces would not be involved in combat.(Reporting by David Ljunggren; Editing by Tom Brown)
U.S. Marines say they destroyed weapons before leaving Yemen-Reuters-FEB 11,15-YAHOONEWS
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Marines destroyed their personal weapons at the airport in Yemen's capital, Sanaa, on Wednesday, before leaving the country and did not hand them over to anyone, the Marine Corps said on Wednesday night, clarifying earlier Pentagon comments.In a statement, the Marines said the Marine Security Force left the embassy for the airfield with only personal weapons after other weapons were destroyed at the embassy.The U.S. Embassy was closed and embassy personnel evacuated the country after the Houthi militia group, which overran Sanaa in September, formally took power last week. The Shi'ite Muslim group is stridently anti-American and is backed by Iran.Asked earlier on Wednesday if the weapons the Marines had taken to the airport were handed over to Houthi fighters, a spokesman said it was not clear but it was believed "they turned them over to government officials at the airport, prior to boarding the aircraft."The Marines Corps statement said on arrival at the airfield, the Marines rendered their weapons inoperable."Specifically, each bolt was removed from its weapons body and rendered inoperable by smashing with sledgehammers. The weapons bodies, minus the bolts, were then separately smashed with sledgehammers," the Marines said. All of these destroyed components were left at the airport - and components were scattered; no usable weapon was taken from any Marine" at the airport."To be clear: No Marine handed a weapon to a Houthi, or had one taken from him," the statement said.Yemen, which borders oil giant Saudi Arabia, had long been at the forefront of the U.S.-led war against al Qaeda. But the long- standing diplomatic alliance between Washington and Sanaa appears to have been suspended with the United States.France and Britain also closed their embassies on Wednesday due to security fears.(Reporting by Phil Stewart and Peter Cooney; Editing by David Storey, Jonathan Oatis and Lisa Shumaker)
FALSE POPE FROM THE VATICAN
ISAIAH 23:15-17
15 And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.
16 Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.
17 And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.(COULD THIS BE 70 YEARS AFTER ISRAEL BECAME A NATION IN 1948)(IF SO THIS SATANIC ONE WORLD WHORE CHURCH WILL MINGLE TOGETHER BY 2018)(AND NOW ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY AND ALL RELIGIONS ARE MINGLING AS ONE PEACE-LOVE-JOY-GET ALONG RELIGION LEAD BY THE VATICAN RIGHT NOW 4 YEARS FROM THE 70 YEAR TIME WHEN ISRAEL BECAME A NATION).AND IN CONTROL OF JERUSALEM.
REVELATION 13:11-13
11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth;(FALSE VATICAN POPE) and he had two horns like a lamb,(JESUS IS THE LAMB OF GOD) and he spake as a dragon.(HES SATANICALLY INSPIRED,HES A CHRISTIAN DEFECTOR FROM THE FAITH)
12 And he (FALSE RELIGIOUS LEADER) exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him,(WORLD DICTATOR) and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.(THE WORLD DICTATOR CREATES A FALSE RESURRECTION AND IS CROWNED LEADER OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER).
13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
REVELATION 17:1-5,9,15-18
1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication,(VATICAN IN POLITICS) and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
4 And the woman (FALSE CHURCH) was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour,(VATICAN COLOURS)(ANOTHER REASON WE KNOW THE FALSE POPE COMES FROM THE VATICAN) and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.(THE VATICAN IS BUILT ON 7 HILLS OR MOUNTAINS)
10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen,(1-ASSYRIA,2-EGYPT,3-BABYLON,4-MEDO-PERSIA,5-GREECE) and one is,(IN POWER IN JOHNS AND JESUS DAY-6-ROME) and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.(7TH-REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE OR THE EUROPEAN UNION TODAY AND THE SHORT SPACE IS-THE EUROPEAN UNION WILL HAVE WORLD CONTROL FOR THE LAST 3 1/2 YEARS.BUT WILL HAVE ITS MIGHTY WORLD POWER FOR THE FULL 7 YEARS OF THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION PERIOD.AND THE WORLD DICTATOR WILL BE THE BEAST FROM THE EU.AND THE VATICAN POPE WILL BE THE WHORE THAT RIDES THE EUROPEAN UNION TO POWER.AND THE 2 EUROPEAN UNION POWER FREAKS WILL CONTROL AND DECIEVE THE WHOLE EARTH INTO THEIR DESTRUCTION.IF YOU ARE NOT SAVED BY THE BLOOD OF JESUS.YOU WILL BE DECIEVED BY THESE TWO.THE WORLD POLITICIAN-THE EUROPEAN UNION DICTATOR.AND THE FALSE PROPHET THAT DEFECTS CHRISTIANITY-THE FALSE VATICAN POPE.
15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.(VATICAN-CATHOLICS ALL AROUND THE WORLD OVER 1 BILLION)
16 And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast,(WORLD DICTATOR) these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.(BOMB OR NUKE THE VATICAN)
17 For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city,(VATICAN) which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
02/11/2015 -VATICAN INSIDER-New cardinal: Vatican should be 'voice of the voiceless'-Berhaneyesus Souraphiel-One of the 20 Catholic prelates who will be named a cardinal by Pope Francis on Saturday is Ethiopian Catholic Archbishop Berhaneyesus Souraphiel of Addis Ababa-Joshua J. McElwee
Vatican City-One of the 20 Catholic prelates who will be named a cardinal by Pope Francis on Saturday has called for the Vatican to focus its energies towards speaking on behalf of suffering people around the world, saying it should be "the voice of the voiceless."Speaking specifically about people in East Africa who are being displaced from their homes in efforts to mine natural resources, Cardinal-designate Berhaneyesus Souraphiel said: "These people need to be heard.""The Vatican is a big voice in the world," said Souraphiel. "It is also not just a voice to make a voice, but is also a moral voice.""To be the voice of the people in Africa, the Vatican could help us with that," he continued. "To be the voice of the voiceless."Souraphiel, who is head of Ethiopia's Addis Ababa archdiocese and the country's conference of bishops, was speaking Tuesday in an exclusive interview with NCR at the Collegio Etiopico, the historic seminary for Ethiopian priests that was founded in the 15th century and is located next to the Vatican gardens.The prelate called on the Vatican to speak for those suffering around the world in response to a question about what he wants most from Francis' expected reform of the Vatican bureaucracy.One of 20 prelates announced by Francis as cardinals in January, Souraphiel will officially take up his new role in a formal ceremony in St. Peter's Square on Saturday. Before that, he will be joining cardinals around the world in a meeting with the pope Thursday and Friday that the Vatican has said will specifically focus on reform of the church's central bureaucracy.During Tuesday's interview, which lasted 30 minutes, the cardinal-designate spoke at length about the situations being faced by people in his country, the changing dynamic of the elite group of prelates known as the College of Cardinals, and how he said Francis is "reviving" the church around the world.Noting that Francis' choice of which prelates are becoming cardinals represents a more diverse group than in the past -- with selections from 18 different countries and several coming from places never before included -- Souraphiel said the cardinal's role is being changed."You see the function of cardinal, the position of a cardinal is changing," said Souraphiel. "It's no more a big honorific task.""This is more those who will be nearer to the Holy Father -- when he asks our views, our opinions he will be able to get them," said the cardinal-designate. "The Holy Father is saying, 'We are a universal church and the church is present universally.'""I think it is the only great institution in the world which is present universally," said Souraphiel. "And more and more society is looking towards the Catholic church for leadership and for being a voice, especially for the voiceless, for the marginalized.""In that case when people come from all over the world -- [Francis'] counselors, those who are here to help him -- they will bring their riches with them, I would say," he continued.Speaking on the changes Francis has brought to the Catholic church, Souraphiel said he thought the word revival best emphasized the pope's focus."He wants to see a simpler church, more close to the people, and more evangelical," said the cardinal-designate. "And he is going on that. I think the whole church is following him on that. The faithful are following him."Mentioning also that many of other faiths are also following the pope, Souraphiel said, "they are following him because he is putting first the human person and the dignity of the human person.""He is emphasizing that," he said. "Whatever religion, whatever background people have, they stand for life.""Respect for life and fighting abuse of human life -- whether it is through war or through violence against women and children -- he is standing for that," said Souraphiel. "I would say he has come to revive but at the same time to revise, without throwing out or condemning the past."Asked about what specific concerns he brings from his people in Ethiopia to the Vatican, the cardinal-designate spoke at length about migrants who have fled East Africa in sometimes-dangerous ways across the Mediterranean Sea and about efforts to bolster education in his country.Mentioning a Catholic university he has helped found in Ethiopia -- called the Ethiopian Catholic University of St. Thomas Aquinas -- Souraphiel said he and others believe "education is the key to create love of one's country, to appreciate one's own country and culture, and to be creative in all kinds of aspects of life so that the youth will be able to create employment within the country."He said he hopes that Ethiopian youth "will not be dreaming to leave, to go abroad, but to live there.""I think with that education is the key -- not only to arm them with clear thinking [but] also to see what is the essentials of human living, to have the right perspectives of human living that you don't have to be a billionaire overnight," he said. "You have to build up this slowly and you can do that also in your country."Souraphiel also said he hoped Francis might make a visit to Addis Ababa at some point during his papacy to address the African Union, a coalition of 54 African states that is headquartered in the city.
Mentioning Francis' visit last year to Strasbourg, France, to address the European Parliament and the Council of Europe, he said Ethiopia's role in the African Union was teaching the country and the region about the role of leading together."That puts a lot of weight on Ethiopia," Souraphiel said. "You know, they say many other African countries are asking Ethiopia to lead and you cannot lead alone now. You have to lead together, [with] teamwork."[Joshua J. McElwee is NCR Vatican correspondent. His email address is jmcelwee@ncronline.org. Follow him on Twitter: @joshjmac.]
02/11/2015 -VATICAN INSIDER-“A society that does not want children is depressed”-The Pope kisses a little girl at the Audience in St. Peter's Square-At this week’s General Audience the Pope said a generation must be responsible but having more children cannot be automatically viewed as an irresponsible choice. Francis also called for solidarity for those who died in the latest tragedy off the coast of Lampedusa-Iacopo Scaramuzzi
vatican city-“A society with a greedy generation, that doesn’t want to surround itself with children, that considers them above all worrisome, a weight, a risk, is a depressed society,” as is often witnessed in Europe. Francis said this at this week’s General Audience which he dedicated to the child figure. Citing Paul VI’s encyclical “Humanae Vitae”, the Pope underlined that the child-bearing generation must be responsible “but having more children cannot be automatically viewed as an irresponsible choice.” Francis also called for solidarity for the victims of the recent migrant tragedy off the coast of Lampedusa.“Children are the joy of family and society,” Francis said continuing his series of catecheses on the family. Thanks to the good weather, the General Audience - which had over the past weeks been held indoors, in the Paul VI Hall – was held in St. Peter’s Square once again. Children “are not a problem of reproductive biology, or one of many ways to realize oneself in life. Let alone their parent’s possession. Children are a gift. Do you understand? Children are a gift! Each is unique and each is unrepeatable; and yet unmistakably tied to his or her roots. Being a son or daughter, according to God’s plan, means carrying within the memory and the hope of a love that has realized itself in lighting up another original and new human being. And for parents every child is different, is an individual,” the Pope added speaking off the cuff: “Allow me to share a childhood memory, my mother would always say – there were five of us in our family – when asked which one was her favourite, she would say ‘I have five children like I have five fingers…if they beat one of my fingers all five hurt…all of my children are mine, but each one is different, just like my fingers…this is the way it is in the family, all children are different but all children.”“You love your child because he is a child, not because he is beautiful, healthy, and good; not because he thinks like me, or embodies my desires. A child is a child: a life created by us but destined for him, for his good, the good of the family, society, humanity. This is where the depth of the human experience of being son and daughter comes from, which allows us to discover the most gratuitous dimension of love, which never ceases to amaze us. It is the beauty of being loved before.” “The fourth commandment asks children- and we all are children! - to honour their father and mother. This commandment comes right after the ones concerning God Himself. After the first three about God we have this fourth one. In fact it contains something sacred, something divine, and something that is at the root of every other kind of respect among men. And the biblical formulation of the fourth commandment adds: "That you may live a long time in the land the LORD your God is giving to you gives you”. The virtuous link between generations is a guarantee of the future, and it is a guarantee of a very human story. A society of children who do not honour their parents is a society without honour, when you do not honour your parents you lose your honour! It is a society destined to fill itself with arid and greedy young. However, even a society with a greedy generation, that doesn’t want to surround itself with children, that considers them above all worrisome, a weight, a risk, is a depressed society. Just think of the many societies we know here in Europe,” Francis said, speaking off the cuff. “They are depressed societies because they don’t want children, they don’t have children. The birth rate doesn’t even reach 1%.” If a generous family of children is viewed as if it were a burden, there is something wrong! As the Encyclical “Humanae Vitae” of Blessed Pope Paul VI teaches, but having more children cannot be automatically viewed as an irresponsible choice. The choice to not have children is selfish. The Pope then invited each of the faithful in St. Peter’s Square (“Let’s do one thing really quickly, it won’t take long”) to think of their children, if they had any, and everyone to think of their parents. “Let us thank God for the gift of life. May the Lord bless our parents and bless your children.”At the end of the Audience, when the Pope stopped as usual to greet all those gathered and especially – with various moments of excitement in the midst of the crowd – the children, he thanked the parents that were present: “Let me tell you how beautiful it is to pass among you and see the Dad’s and Moms who lift up their children for a blessing, it is an almost divine action! Thank you.” He also thought of the pregnant women who often ask him to bless their bellies: “How often I meet mothers here [the Holy Father indicates the Square] who show me their pregnant bellies and ask me to bless them, because these children are loved before coming into the world! Before we have done anything to deserve it, before we can speak or think, even before coming into the world! Being a child is the fundamental condition to know God’s love, which is the ultimate source of this real miracle. In the soul of every child, not matter how vulnerable.” At the end of the Audience the Pope, with a look of sorrow in his face, read out an appeal for the latest loss of life off the coast of the Italian island of Lampedusa: "I am following with concern - he said - the news coming from Lampedusa, where there are more deaths among immigrants due to the cold in the Mediterranean crossing. I wish to assure you of my prayers for the victims and again to encourage solidarity, so that no one lacks the help they need.”Francis asked faithful to “pray for the Consistory which will be taking place in a few days time. May the Holy Spirit watch over the work of the College of Cardinals and enlighten the new cardinals in their service to the Church.”
DISEASES
REVELATION 6:7-8
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, 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).
DRUG PUSHERS AND ADDICTS
1 PET 5:8
8 Be sober,(NOT DRUGED UP OR ALCOHOLICED) be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
REVELATION 18:23
23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries (DRUGS) were all nations deceived.
REVELATION 9:21
21 Neither repented they of their murders,(KILLING) nor of their sorceries (DRUG ADDICTS AND DRUG PUSHERS), nor of their fornication,(SEX OUTSIDE MARRIAGE OR PROSTITUTION FOR MONEY) nor of their thefts.(STEALING)
Red Cross denounces attacks on Ebola teams in Guinea-AFP By Mouctar Bah-FEB 11,15-YAHOONEWS
Conakry (AFP) - The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement on Wednesday denounced a series of violent attacks on its volunteers battling the deadly Ebola epidemic in Guinea.The world's largest humanitarian network said the latest case involved two burial workers who were beaten up on Sunday by a mob in the western town of Forecariah.It "noted with regret the violence against teams of Red Cross volunteers involved in the fight against the Ebola epidemic."The organisation launched an "urgent appeal" to Guineans to "refrain from attacking the volunteers of the Red Cross, and allow them to do their job and save lives safely".Guinea and its neighbours Sierra Leone and Liberia have registered more than 9,000 deaths since the Ebola epidemic flared up in December 2013.Mobs have sporadically attacked health workers in all three countries after being taken in by a variety of conspiracy theories, often characterising the outbreak as a plot by the West to murder Africans and harvest their organs.Guinea, which has seen the worst of the bloodshed, has put 58 people on trial over an attack in January on Ebola outreach workers by a mob wielding machetes near Forecariah.The defendants, accused of wounding several government workers and staff from the global medical aid agency Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF), have been in the dock since Monday last week.Last September eight members of an outreach team in the southeastern town of Womey were killed by protesters who denied the existence of Ebola and denounced a "white conspiracy".
- Hysteria -
In a further sign of the hysteria surrounding Ebola, panic spread through schools in the capital Conakry on Wednesday over false rumours that a Red Cross team was coming to take away infected students.
Schools in the central Kaloum neighbourhood emptied as parents arrived to collect their children, with many students crying and calling for help, according to an AFP correspondent at the scene."The rumour is that a team of the Red Cross are coming to our school to find an Ebola patient -- that's why all the children ran out," a teacher told AFP.The panic followed similar incidents in other parts of the capital on Tuesday, witnesses told AFP.An education official told AFP on condition of anonymity that students wanting time off were behind the scare.He said they had created alarm by "blowing whistles in the vicinity of schools" -- common code among students that a disinfection team is on its way to spray the school.There is a widespread misapprehension among Guinean students and parents that humanitarian workers who spray schools with disinfectant are deliberately spreading the virus."We were in class around midday. Our parents forced the gates to the playground to come and pick us up because they learned that the Red Cross was coming to spray the schools," said a primary school student."Far from being an action that spreads the disease, spraying conducted by teams from the Red Cross destroys the virus," the organisation said.
U.S. judge in California considers argument marijuana law unconstitutional-Reuters By Sharon Bernstein-FEB 11,15-YAHOONEWS
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - A federal judge hearing the case of nine men accused of illegally growing marijuana in California said Wednesday she was taking very seriously arguments by their attorneys that the federal government has improperly classified the drug as among the most dangerous, and should throw the charges out.Judge Kimberly J. Mueller said she would rule within 30 days on the request, which comes amid looser enforcement of U.S. marijuana laws, including moves to legalize its recreational use in Washington state, Colorado, Oregon and Alaska."If I were persuaded by the defense's argument, if I bought their argument, what would you lose here?" she asked prosecutors during closing arguments on the motion to dismiss the cases against the men.The men were charged in 2011 with growing marijuana on private and federal land in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest in Northern California near the city of Redding.If convicted, they face up to life imprisonment and a $10 million fine, plus forfeiture of property and weapons.In their case before Mueller in U.S. District Court in Sacramento, defense lawyers have argued that U.S. law classifying pot as a Schedule One drug, which means it has no medical use and is among the most dangerous, is unconstitutional, given that 23 states have legalized the drug for medical use.Lawyer Zenia Gilg, who represented defense attorneys for all of the men during closing arguments, pointed to Congress' recent decision to ban the Department of Justice from interfering in states' implementation of their medical marijuana laws as evidence of her contention that the drug's classification as Schedule One should be overturned."It's impossible to say that there is no accepted medical use," said Gilg, who has argued that her client was growing pot for medical use.But Assistant U.S. Attorney Gregory Broderick said that it was up to Congress to change the law, not the court. He said that too few doctors believed that marijuana had medical uses for the drug's definition to change under the law."We're not saying that this is the most dangerous drug in the world," Broderick said. "All we're saying is that the evidence is such that reasonable people could disagree."The defendants, he said, were illegally growing marijuana on federal land."They had weapons," Broderick said. "These guys were not producing medicine."(Editing by Eric Walsh)
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.
Head of Boston's transit agency resigning after storm shutdown-Reuters-FEB 11,15-YAHOONEWS
BOSTON (Reuters) - The embattled head of Boston's transit agency will resign her position in the wake of a controversial decision to shut down rail service during a massive three-day snowstorm, Massachusetts officials said on Monday.Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority General Manager Beverly Scott said in a letter that she would step down on April 11. The letter made no mention of the storm shutdown, or of criticism of the agency's performance during a two-week spate of storms levied by the state's new governor, Charlie Baker."I am stunned by the resignation of Dr. Scott," said John Jenkins, chairman of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation board, which oversees the MBTA. "We hoped and expected that she would fulfill her three-year contract, which ends in December."Just before thousands of commuters were about to begin their evening rush hour on Monday, the MBTA announced it would shut down all service at 7 p.m. Service remained shuttered throughout Tuesday as Boston and surrounding communities worked to dig out from the massive snowfall, and trains resumed running on Wednesday.A trio of powerful storms ultimately dropped about 6 feet (1.8 meters) of snow on eastern Massachusetts.Baker had criticized the MBTA's performance during the storms, saying Tuesday "they did not live up to the representations they made to us and to others over the course of the past week."Scott angrily fired back, contending that the authority had not received adequate funding to keep up with service demands and noting, "we do not control Mother Nature.""Much more remains to be done to achieve the modern and first-class public transportation system that all want and deserve," Scott said in her resignation letter.Many commuters questioned the decision to shut rail service that carries some 950,000 people on a typical weekday, noting that when roads are clogged with snow trains can become a vital lifeline.(Reporting by Scott Malone; Editing by Lisa Lambert)
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.
Strong quake hits northwest Argentina, near Chile; no damage-Reuters-FEB 11,15-YAHOONEWS
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - A magnitude 6.7 earthquake hit northwestern Argentina on Wednesday, near the border with Chile, striking at a fairly deep 190 kilometers (118 miles) below the earth, the U.S. Geological Survey said.There were no preliminary reports of injuries to people, damage to infrastructure, or interruption of services, Chile's Onemi emergency office said."The quake was really deep, so it really didn't feel that strong," said Mauricio Soriano, the regional head of Onemi in the mining-intensive Antofagasta region.Chile's Navy also ruled out any danger of a tsunami.The USGS twice revised downward the quake's magnitude, first saying it measured as a major 7.0, then a 6.9 magnitude. It also initially placed its epicenter in northeastern Chile.A local journalist in the northwest Argentine city of Jujuy contacted by Reuters said the quake "was barely felt".(Reporting by Fabian Cambero and Felipe Iturrieta in Santiago, Sandra Maler in Washington DC, Walter Bianchi in Buenos Aires; Writing by Anthony Esposito; Editing by Richard Lough and Bernard Orr)
1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ Worldwide
37 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2015-02-12 00:13:20 UTC-05:00Showing event times using Local System Time (UTC-05:00)37 earthquakes in map area
2.9 26km NE of Soledad, California 2015-02-12 00:04:21 UTC-05:00 9.3 km
4.4 79km W of Iquique, Chile 2015-02-11 23:55:23 UTC-05:00 16.6 km
3.1 8km NNE of Stillwater, Oklahoma 2015-02-11 23:51:51 UTC-05:00 2.6 km
2.6 23km NNE of Enid, Oklahoma 2015-02-11 23:41:58 UTC-05:00 4.4 km
2.6 84km NW of Nikiski, Alaska 2015-02-11 22:37:54 UTC-05:00 0.6 km
3.8 25km WNW of Willow, Alaska 2015-02-11 21:36:15 UTC-05:00 49.8 km
4.6 126km SE of Pond Inlet, Canada 2015-02-11 21:11:40 UTC-05:00 11.7 km
4.6 46km WSW of Puerto Santa, Peru 2015-02-11 20:59:42 UTC-05:00 52.2 km
4.3 81km WSW of Sungaipenuh, Indonesia 2015-02-11 20:01:47 UTC-05:00 68.4 km
3.0 15km SSW of Medford, Oklahoma 2015-02-11 18:56:32 UTC-05:00 5.0 km
3.8 108km SSW of Point Hope, Alaska 2015-02-11 17:47:50 UTC-05:00 21.3 km
2.9 7km ENE of Cherokee, Oklahoma 2015-02-11 17:31:23 UTC-05:00 5.0 km
2.5 67km W of Talkeetna, Alaska 2015-02-11 17:21:03 UTC-05:00 10.1 km
5.4 193km N of Scott Island Bank, Antarctica 2015-02-11 16:29:25 UTC-05:00 13.3 km
4.6 Kuril Islands 2015-02-11 16:29:17 UTC-05:00 67.0 km
2.9 59km NE of Kodiak, Alaska 2015-02-11 14:57:20 UTC-05:00 60.9 km
6.7 93km W of El Aguilar, Argentina 2015-02-11 13:57:18 UTC-05:00 190.8 km
3.1 14km SW of Medford, Oklahoma 2015-02-11 12:23:58 UTC-05:00 5.4 km
3.0 97km SSE of Nikolski, Alaska 2015-02-11 11:18:57 UTC-05:00 18.8 km
4.5 53km S of Molibagu, Indonesia 2015-02-11 10:56:29 UTC-05:00 113.4 km
3.1 90km SSE of Nikolski, Alaska 2015-02-11 10:42:05 UTC-05:00 7.9 km
2.7 41km NNE of Cape Yakataga, Alaska 2015-02-11 10:37:09 UTC-05:00 1.8 km
4.6 88km WSW of Sungaipenuh, Indonesia 2015-02-11 09:48:46 UTC-05:00 65.9 km
4.7 115km SW of Sibolga, Indonesia 2015-02-11 09:32:20 UTC-05:00 38.3 km
5.5 84km NNW of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina 2015-02-11 08:01:15 UTC-05:00 201.1 km
2.5 26km NE of Soledad, California 2015-02-11 07:11:34 UTC-05:00 8.1 km
4.4 86km S of Nikolski, Alaska 2015-02-11 06:54:51 UTC-05:00 33.3 km
2.5 51km WSW of Willow, Alaska 2015-02-11 05:00:03 UTC-05:00 70.0 km
2.5 71km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico 2015-02-11 04:41:08 UTC-05:00 40.0 km
2.7 27km SW of Medford, Oklahoma 2015-02-11 04:37:31 UTC-05:00 2.2 km
2.9 68km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico 2015-02-11 04:22:05 UTC-05:00 50.0 km
2.5 1km ENE of Stillwater, Oklahoma 2015-02-11 03:43:49 UTC-05:00 4.2 km
3.0 58km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico 2015-02-11 02:55:15 UTC-05:00 49.0 km
2.9 4km WNW of The Geysers, California 2015-02-11 02:49:21 UTC-05:00 3.5 km
2.9 69km ESE of Lakeview, Oregon 2015-02-11 02:29:23 UTC-05:00 7.8 km
2.8 69km ESE of Lakeview, Oregon 2015-02-11 01:19:35 UTC-05:00 9.2 km
4.4 38km S of Puerto San Jose, Guatemala 2015-02-11 00:20:12 UTC-05:00 42.0 km
