OBAMA SUNNI MUSLIM HERO BISCUIT CLAIMS ISIS LOST 40% OF THEIR TERRITORY. MEANWHILE ISIS STILL SLAUGHTERS INNOCENT CITIZENS IN THE NAME OF THE QURAN-ISLAMIC-MUSLIMS AND THE HADEATH.THEIR MOON GOD ALLAH AND THEIR WAR MONGER PROPHET MUHAMMAD.

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)

ISRAEL SATAN COMES AGAINST

1 CHRONICLES 21:1
1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.

GENESIS 12:1-3
1  Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I (GOD) will shew thee:
2  And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3  And I will bless them that bless thee,(ISRAELIS) and curse (DESTROY) him that curseth thee:(DESTROY THEM) and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

ISAIAH 41:11
11  Behold, all they that were incensed against thee (ISRAEL) shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing;(DESTROYED) and they that strive with thee shall perish.(ISRAEL HATERS WILL BE TOTALLY DESTROYED)

ISRAELS TROUBLE

JEREMIAH 30:7
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble;(ISRAEL) but he shall be saved out of it.

DANIEL 12:1,4
1 And at that time shall Michael(ISRAELS WAR ANGEL) stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people:(ISRAEL) and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation(May 14,48) even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,(WORLD TRAVEL,IMMIGRATION) and knowledge shall be increased.(COMPUTERS,CHIP IMPLANTS ETC)

EU refuses to back down over settlement labeling policy-Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini reiterates that marking Israeli products from West Bank is not intended as a boycott-By AP and Raphael Ahren December 14, 2015, 11:33 pm-the times of israel

BRUSSELS — The European Union is refusing to back down on its decision to put identifying labels on exports from the West Bank, even though Israel has frozen some of its contacts with the bloc on Middle East peace issues.EU Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini said — following talks with foreign ministers Monday — that the EU is “united on these technical guidelines on the indication of origin, which is in no way a boycott.“Let me add two short points that were not part of the discussion or of the agenda, but were still debated among us,” Mogherini added, following a Foreign Affairs Council meeting.“One is related to the Middle East peace process, especially after the adoption of the technical guidelines on indication of origin. We had an exchange of views in this respect with the ministers, and we commonly decided that it was important also for me to pass this message publicly that the Council and the European Union stay united on these technical guidelines on indication of origin, which is in no way a boycott and should in no way be interpreted as one,” she said.“The second thing on which the Council was completely united is our continued engagement in the Middle East peace process and in broader bilateral relations with Israel. There is full unity and solidarity among member states and among European institutions on that.”Israel has been up in arms since the EU announced that goods produced in Israeli settlements must have special labels and cannot be marked as having been made in Israel.The Israeli freeze has interfered with some technical-level talks but it is unlikely to hinder the work of the Quartet of Mideast peacemakers, which comprises the UN, EU, United States and Russia.

Israel releases 4 more Egyptians in prisoner exchange-Convicts were imprisoned on drug- trafficking offenses — one had completed his sentence, others set free early in Tarabin deal-By AP December 14, 2015, 10:40 pm-the times of israel

Israel freed four Egyptian prisoners, in addition to two others who had already walked free, in a deal that secured last week’s release from Egypt of Israeli citizen Ouda Tarabin who was convicted of spying.Israel Prison Service spokeswoman Sivan Weizman said the four Egyptians were imprisoned for drug trafficking. One had served his full sentence while the others were released between two and six years early.Weizman said the four were flown back to Egypt on Monday.Tarabin, a Bedouin Arab, returned to his family last Thursday after serving a 15-year sentence in an Egyptian prison on charges of spying for Israel. The 34-year-old Tarabin had maintained he was innocent.After his release, he referred to his incarceration as “when I was in a cemetery in Egypt.”He met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem before traveling to his family in Rahat.

Three Israelis hurt in West Bank rock-throwing attack-Large stone smashes through windshield of car near Beit Aryeh; woman evacuated to hospital in Petah Tikva-By Times of Israel staff December 14, 2015, 9:19 pm

Three Israelis were lightly hurt on Sunday evening when rocks were hurled at their car near the Beit Aryeh settlement in the central West Bank.Magen David Adom paramedics treated the victims at the scene. A woman, 47, was evacuated to Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva.A large rock smashed through the windshield of the car close to the Palestinian village of al-Lubban al-Gharbi, just over the Green Line from several Tel Aviv suburbs in an area that has seen little of the violence that has rocked the country over the last several months.The attack happened close to the scene of a car-ramming attack last Thursday, in which four Israel Defense Forces soldiers were injured and required hospital treatment.Earlier Monday, 14 people were wounded in a car-ramming terror attack at the entrance to Jerusalem. A baby boy and a woman in her 70s were among those hurt when a Palestinian plowed his car into a crowd of people at a bus stop at the start of rush hour.

ISAIAH 41:11
11  Behold, all they that were incensed against thee (ISRAEL) shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing;(DESTROYED) and they that strive with thee shall perish.(ISRAEL HATERS WILL BE TOTALLY DESTROYED)

ISAIAH 14:12-15
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 will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(SATAN HAS PROUD I PROBLEMS)
15  Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

LUKE 10:18
18  And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.(FOR WANTING TO BE GOD-SATAN HAD AND HAS EYE AM TROUBLES)

JOB 1:7
7  And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.(PROOF SATAN ON EARTH WALKING AND CAUSING CHAOS WITH THE 1/3RD FALLIN ANGELS WITH HIM FROM THE FALL-SATANS ARMY PUPPETS TO KILL ,STEAL,DESTROY)

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.

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-FATHER OF THE ARAB-MUSLIMS) 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)

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)

Obama says US military hitting Islamic State harder than ever-President insists strategy of training forces, interrupting finances, is defeating jihadists, warns leaders: ‘you are next’-By Josh Lederman and Times of Israel staff December 14, 2015, 10:25 pm

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama said the United States military and allied forces are hitting the Islamic State group harder than ever and threatened the group’s leaders, after he opened a rare meeting of his National Security Council at the Pentagon on Monday.The meeting outside the White House is part of a public relations drive to ease Americans’ worries about domestic terrorism ahead of the holidays. Obama said the group has already lost 40% of the territory it once held. The president also said the US strategy of hunting down leaders, training forces and stopping the group’s financing and propaganda is progressing.“ISIL leaders cannot hide and our next message to them is simple: You are next,” Obama said.The president is making the case for his broad counterterrorism strategy, including an ongoing campaign against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria.As Obama, Defense Secretary Ash Carter and the top national security team gathered, White House officials cautioned that the session didn’t signal a major change in approach.“If there’s an opportunity for us to intensify efforts behind one aspect of our strategy, then that is something that he wants his team to be prepared to do,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest said.The president is also slated for a briefing at the National Counterterrorism Center later in the week.The high- profile visits to agencies charged with keeping the US safe follow a televised address December 6 that aimed to reassure the public but that critics said failed to do the job. Obama is also hoping to draw a contrast with Donald Trump and his inflammatory remarks about Muslims, which Obama’s administration has said endangers US national security.“Terrorists like ISIL are trying to divide us along lines of religion and back ground,” Obama said in his weekly address, using an acronym for the extremist group. “That’s how they stoke fear. That’s how they recruit.”This week, he said, “we’ll move forward on all fronts.”After a series of setbacks, the US and its coalition partners have claimed progress recently in wresting back territory from IS and eliminating some of its key leaders in Syria and Iraq. The military has said hundreds of US airstrikes in recent days dealt a major blow to IS ranks in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi, which IS seized in May.But progress in Ramadi, as elsewhere, has been slow, leading to calls in the US and abroad for a tougher US response. Obama has authorized sending small numbers of US special forces to Iraq and Syria, but has insisted he won’t budget from his determination not to send in major US ground forces.The American public remains jittery about the specter of extremism after deadly attacks in California and Paris. Seven in 10 Americans rate the risk of an attack in the US as at least somewhat high, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll — a sharp increase from the 5 in 10 who said that in January.US officials have insisted there are no specific, credible threats to the United States. But the apparent lack of warning before the San Bernardino massacre has raised concerns about whether the US has a handle on potential attacks, especially during high-profile times such as the end-of-year holidays.At the National Counterterrorism Center, which analyzes intelligence at its facility in suburban Virginia, Obama planned to address reporters Thursday after a briefing by intelligence and security agencies on threat assessments. Obama receives a similar briefing each year before the holidays.Concerns about extremism emanating from the Middle East have taken center stage in the presidential race. Hillary Clinton, the leading Democratic candidate, planned a speech in Minnesota on Tuesday to present a plan for protecting the US homeland.Obama has tried to use his bully pulpit as a counterpoint to Trump and his widely condemned proposal to bar Muslims from entering the US. The White House scheduled a conference call Monday with religious leaders about ways to fight discrimination and promote religious tolerance.Aiming to put a human face on the Syrian refugee issue, Obama is to speak Tuesday at the National Archives Museum, where 31 immigrants from Iraq, Ethiopia, Uganda and 23 other nations will be sworn in as US citizens. Obama planned to use that occasion to reframe the national conversation about immigrants around the country’s founding values of tolerance and freedom.Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.

In US schools, on streets and TV, children feel Muslim backlash-Parents say their kids hear disparaging remarks, see hateful bumper stickers and T-shirts, and have lost friends over their faith-By Michael R. Sisak December 15, 2015, 12:16 am-the times of israel

AP — A backlash against American Muslims is leaving a mark on some of the nation’s youngest minds.After seeing presidential candidate Donald Trump call on television for barring Muslims from entering the country, 8-year-old Sofia Yassini checked the locks on her family’s home in Plano, Texas, imagining the army would take them away. She raced to her room and stuffed a pair of Barbie dolls, a tub of peanut butter and a toothbrush into a bag. She insisted on bringing boots for the long boat ride she imagined was coming.When her mother, Melissa, arrived home from her work as a human resources manager, Sofia ran into her arms and cried.“I want people to understand the impact that their words have on these children,” said Melissa Yassini, who described the experience in a Facebook post that had been shared more than 21,000 times as of Monday. “We often forget, we’re waging war on one another with words, and we’re adults. We can take it. The kids are suffering with this. They go to school every day and they’re afraid to tell people they’re Muslim. This has to stop.”Anti-Muslim sentiment was building in the days before 14 people were killed December 2 in the massacre at a disability center in Southern California by a Muslim couple investigators say were inspired at least in part by the Islamic State group. Some governors had already said they wouldn’t allow Syrians fleeing civil war into their states because of extremist fears. Experts say Trump’s call December 7 to keep all Muslims from entering the United States — a plan he said would apply only temporarily and to non-citizens — only fanned the flames.Parents say their children hear disparaging remarks in their own communities, see hateful bumper stickers and T-shirts, and have had friends abandon them because of their faith.Ahad Khan, 12, came home from school in rural Westminster, Maryland, in tears because his best friend called him a future terrorist who couldn’t be trusted, according to Ahad’s father, Raza Khan.Khan, the chairman of the science department at Carroll Community College, shared Ahad’s experience in an open letter to Trump on Facebook. As of Monday, it had been shared more than 4,300 times.“He is the engine right now for that fearmongering,” Khan said in an interview. “I don’t think he realizes that his words matter. He doesn’t realize the damaging effect his words can have on people, especially kids.”In the minds of children — many long on imagination and short on political understanding — phrases like “total and complete shutdown of Muslims” can be traumatic, experts say.“Children expect that society will be nurturing and protective,” said Mark DeAntonio, a child psychiatry professor at the University of California Los Angeles. “Statements implying detainment or exclusion for arbitrary reason like race ethnicity or religion create anxiety and trauma.”Some children have questioned their faith and place in American society.Kafumba Kromah, of Minneapolis, said his 8-year-old daughter asked him: “Why we are Muslims? Why can’t we be what everybody else is?” His daughter encouraged him to cancel a trip to his native Liberia for fear he would be barred from returning.Mehnaz Mahmood, of Dallas, said her 7-year-old son urged her to switch to a black-and-white hijab — so she would look more like a nun — after they were subjected to anti-Muslim remarks outside his school this week.Sam Madi, of New Orleans, watched coverage of Trump’s remarks with his 11-year-old son. He said he feared anti-Muslim sentiment would set back progress in integrating Muslims into American society. Zane Madi plays soccer and spends most weekends with his mother helping the city’s homeless.“We’re not prepared for this,” said Madi, whose father fled Iraq in the 1970s. “We’re not prepared to sit and educate our children why they’re not any different from anybody else. I don’t think any parent is prepared for that. I don’t care what religion you believe or don’t believe.”Parents needn’t shoulder the burden themselves, said Patricia Greenfield, a psychology professor at UCLA. Teachers should talk about not generalizing Muslims and ask children to reinforce their friendships with Muslim students, she said in an email.As Khan, the father in Maryland, tucked his son in last week, he left him with the words he recited when he became a US citizen two decades ago: “One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”“I don’t know why, I don’t know how people forget that,” Khan said later, fighting back tears. “We have to; otherwise we’re dividing ourselves.”

THE DOW WAS DOWN 309 POINTS FRIDAY.ITS THE NEW WEEK AT THE OK COLLAPSE.

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)

HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER

JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.(IN 1 HR THE STOCK MARKETS WORLDWIDE WILL CRASH)
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed:(CONFISCATED) their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

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.

REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(THE FALSE POPE WHO DEFECTED FROM THE CHRISTIAN FAITH) causeth all,(IN THE WORLD ) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(MICROCHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark,(MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the name of the beast,(WORLD DICTATORS NAME INGRAVED ON YOUR SKIN OR TATTOOED ON YOU OR IN THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the number of his name.(THE NUMBERS OF HIS NAME INGRAVED IN THE MICROCHIP IMLPLANT)-(ALL THESE WILL TELL THE WORLD DICTATOR THAT YOUR WITH HIM AND AGAINST KING JESUS-GOD)
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast:(WORLD LEADER) for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM (6006006)OR(60020202006)(SOME KIND OF NUMBER IMPLANTED IN THE MICROCHIP THAT TELLS THE WORLD DICTATOR AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER THAT YOU GIVE YOUR TOTAL ALLIGIENCE TO HIM AND NOT JESUS)(ITS AN ETERNAL DECISION YOU MAKE)(YOU CHOOSE YOUR OWN DESTINY)(YOU TAKE THE DICTATORS NAME OR NUMBER UNDER YOUR SKIN,YOUR DOOMED TO THE LAKE OF FIRE AND TORMENTS FOREVER,NEVER ENDING MEANT ONLY FOR SATAN AND HIS ANGELS,NOT HUMAN BEINGS).OR YOU REFUSE THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT AND GO ON THE SIDE OF KING JESUS AND RULE FOREVER WITH HIM ON EARTH.YOU CHOOSE,ITS YOUR DECISION.

REVELATION 6:5-6
5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.(A DAYS WAGES FOR A LOAF OF BREAD)

DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.

The Shemitah is coming true.Do people not get it? There is a economic crash every 7 years.
1980: Recession
1987: Stock market crash
1994: Bond market crash
2001: 9/11, dot com, recession
2008: Housing crash
2015: See if something will happen-The central banks will be the death of us. Get ready and embrace yourself for the economic collapse.

BANK RELATED INFORMATION
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COMMODITIES
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UPDATE-DECEMBER 14,2015-12:00AM

DOW MARKET MONDAY-DEC 14,2015
09:30AM-17.07-
10:00AM-37.78-
10:30AM-66.74-
11:00AM-77.77-
11:30AM-102.67-
12:00PM-57.34-
12:30PM-45.59
01:00PM-44.77
01:30PM-22.52
02:00PM-1.97
02:30PM-14.61-
03:00PM-48.48
03:30PM-41.02
04:00PM-103.29+ 17,368.50 - S&P +9.57 2021.94 - NASDAQ +18.76 4952.23
HIGH +103 LOW -103
TSX -94.46 12,695.49 - GOLD $-12.00 $1,063.70 - OIL $+0.63 $36.25

Stocks around the world fall as investors fear slide in oil-Associated Press By BERNARD CONDON-December 12, 2015 11:57 AM-YAHOONEWS

NEW YORK (AP) — Another drop in the price of oil rattled stock investors around the world on Friday, with steep losses in Europe and the U.S., where a major market index ended its worst week since the summer.The selling in the U.S. was broad, with all 10 sectors of the Standard and Poor's 500 index ending down. Oil and gas companies lost the most. Southwestern Energy plunged 14 percent and Chesapeake Energy sank 9 percent.Investors sought refuge in bonds. Treasury prices rose, sending yields lower. Another measure of anxiety, the so-called Vix index, jumped. It is now up 70 percent in just five days.Investors worry the sharp fall in the price of oil and other commodities is a sign of weakness in the global economy, especially China, and that will cut into profits at big energy producers and suppliers of raw materials as well as other companies."We're stockpiling commodities and demand is not picking up," said Tim Courtney, chief investment officer of Exencial Wealth Advisors. "It's kind of a depressing market."Investors are looking ahead to a Federal Reserve meeting next week where the central bank is widely expected to announce an increase in its benchmark interest rate from a record low.Recent economic reports indicate that the U.S. economy is healthy enough to withstand a rate hike, but investors are still nervous because it would be the first rate rise in nearly a decade.Investors are also focusing on a batch of reports illuminating the state of China's economy, which has been struggling with a stubborn slowdown in growth.Statistics released in Beijing on Saturday provided reasons for optimism as China's retail sales in November rose 11.2 percent from the prior year, the largest jump of 2015. Factory output increased 6.2 percent in November, the biggest gain since June. But real estate investment remained weak, edging up just 1.3 percent during the first 11 months of the year.China's government is scheduled to release another key report on foreign direct investment Wednesday.The trouble on Friday began with a report from the International Energy Agency that said the oversupply in oil would persist until late next year even as demand continues to weaken. Benchmark U.S. crude plunged $1.14, or 3 percent, to close at $35.62 a barrel in New York. It has been falling for 1 ½ years and is now at its lowest level since early 2009.By the end of the day, the S&P 500 index had lost 39.86 points, or 1.9 percent, to 2,012.37. It was down 3.8 percent for the week, its worst showing since August.The Dow Jones industrial average lost 309.54 points, or 1.8 percent, to 17,265.21. The Nasdaq composite declined 111.71 points, or 2.2 percent, to 4,933.47.In Europe, Germany's DAX lost 2.4 percent, Britain's FTSE 100 dropped 2.2 percent and France's CAC 40 shed 1.8 percent.Investors were also rattled by trouble in a risky corner of the credit markets where bonds from heavily indebted companies are traded. Their prices have fallen sharply as investors fear the companies that issued the bonds might default. A fund that tracks the bonds, the iShares iBoxx USD High Yield Corporate Bond ETF, has dropped nearly 4 percent in five days."It's anticipation of the Fed, it's oil, it's credit ... all of these factors are putting fear and confusion into the investor," said Jonathan D. Corpina, senior managing partner at Meridian Equity Partners. In a sign of trouble among commodity producers, Dow Chemical and DuPont on Friday announced a $130 billion deal to merge their businesses to counter falling prices. Their stocks had risen in previous days on reports the deal was forthcoming, but fell sharply on Friday.Dow Chemical dropped $1.54, or nearly 3 percent, to $53.37. DuPont lost $4.11, or 5.5 percent, to $70.44.In Asia, Japan's Nikkei 225 index climbed 1 percent, but most other major indexes fell. Hong Kong's Hang Seng dropped 1.1 percent and mainland China's Shanghai Composite lost 0.6 percent.Among stocks making big moves:— Software maker Adobe Systems rose $2.46, or 2.8 percent, to $91.42 after reporting earnings in its latest quarter that exceeded analysts' expectations. The stock is up 26 percent since the start of the year.— Corning rose 99 cents, or 5.6 percent, to $18.68 after the company said it will give up its stake in Dow Corning, a joint venture with Dow Chemical. Instead it will invest in a semiconductor business that is owned by Dow Corning.U.S. government bond prices rose sharply. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell to 2.12 percent from 2.23 percent late Thursday, a big move. The dollar fell to 120.79 yen from 121.64 yen. The euro strengthened to $1.0995 from $1.0939.Precious and industrial metals futures closed mixed. Gold edged up $3.70 to $1,075.70 an ounce, silver fell 23 cents to $13.88 an ounce and copper rose four cents to $2.12 a pound.In other energy futures market, Brent crude, the international oil benchmark, fell $1.80, or 4.5 percent, to $37.93 a barrel in London. In New York, heating oil plunged eight cents, or 6.5 percent, to $1.146 a gallon, wholesale gasoline was little changed at $1.282 a gallon, and natural gas lost 2.5 cents, or 1.2 percent, to $1.99 per 1,000 cubic feet.---AP Markets Writer Marley Jay contributed to this report.

The Latest: World Bank chief 'in shock' after climate deal-Associated Press-DEC 13,15-YAHOO NEWS

PARIS (AP) — The latest related to the U.N. climate conference that took place outside Paris (all times local):2:20 p.m.World Bank President Jim Yong Kim says he was stunned by the Paris climate agreement adopted by more than 190 countries.Kim told The Associated Press in a phone interview that he was "in a bit of a shock, a happy shock" after the deal was gaveled on Saturday.He said he woke up Sunday much more optimistic about the world his children would inherit.He said the Paris talks concluded with "something far more ambitious than the highest hopes" going into the negotiations.Kim highlighted the goal in the agreement of pursuing efforts to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees C (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit), compared to pre-industrial levels. That's more ambitious than the 2-degree goal that had guided the talks in the past.Some question whether it's realistic, given that the world is projected to warm by around 3 degrees C even with current efforts to reduce heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions."It's going to be hugely challenging," Kim said. "But I think for me what this agreement does is it tells us, whether you think it's realistic or not, get to work."___1:50 p.m.Pope Francis is encouraging concerted efforts by all so that the climate pact reached in Paris can be put into action.Francis has made care for the Earth's environment one of his papacy's themes, insisting that the world's poor suffer heavily when climate change isn't addressed. Speaking to pilgrims and tourists Sunday at the Vatican, he said the deal's "implementation requires concerted effort and generous dedication by the part of everyone."Francis expressed hope that "special attention, paid to the most vulnerable, be guaranteed." He also urged "the entire international community to continue, with solicitude, on the path undertaken, in the sign of solidarity that will become ever more positive."___12:00 p.m.Israel's prime minister is welcoming the climate agreement signed in Paris.Speaking at his weekly Cabinet meeting Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the deal "important." He said Israel has an interest, like other countries, in slowing down global warming if not halting it altogether. Israel's Environmental Protection Minister Avi Gabbay said a budget of about $200 million has been devoted to meet climate targets. He said Israel would move toward renewable energy sources, cleaner technology and more public transport. He said: "We have a lot of steps to do and we are doing it now."Israel as a small country is not among the world's heaviest polluters, but it relies on fossil fuels for transport and to generate electricity.___11:00 a.m.German Chancellor Angela Merkel is applauding the global pact to fight climate change that was adopted by nearly 200 nations in Paris.Merkel said in a statement released late Saturday that the climate agreement marks "the first time that the entire world community has obligated itself to act — to act in the battle against global climate change."The German chancellor said while there was still a lot of work ahead, the deal is a "sign of hope that we will manage to secure the life conditions of billions of people for the future."The Paris agreement adopted Saturday aims to keep global warming from rising another degree Celsius (1.8 Fahrenheit) between now and 2100, a key demand of poor countries ravaged by rising sea levels and other effects of climate change.___This story has been corrected to show the correct second reference to Jim Yong Kim is Kim, not Jim.

EARTHQUAKES

EZEKIEL 37:7,11-14
7  So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.(POSSIBLE QUAKE BRINGS ISRAEL BACK TO LIFE-SO NOISE AND SHAKING-QUAKES WILL ALSO DESTROY ISRAELS ENEMIES)
11  Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
12  Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
13  And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
14  And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD.

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.

UPDATE-DECEMBER 14, 2015-11:00PM

1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ Worldwide
25 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2015-12-14 23:56:57 UTCShowing event times using UTC25 earthquakes in map area

    5.0 100km S of Taron, Papua New Guinea 2015-12-14 22:56:12 UTC 10.0 km
    2.7 24km E of Pine Valley, California 2015-12-14 21:29:20 UTC 8.9 km
    4.6 21km WNW of Preveza, Greece 2015-12-14 21:13:26 UTC 10.0 km
    5.2 63km E of Nikolski, Alaska 2015-12-14 21:12:02 UTC 43.0 km
    2.6 6km SW of Volcano, Hawaii 2015-12-14 19:44:16 UTC 12.2 km
    2.6 22km W of Perry, Oklahoma 2015-12-14 18:15:26 UTC 4.0 km
    3.2 73km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico 2015-12-14 17:48:29 UTC 41.0 km
    4.4 125km NNE of Lae, Papua New Guinea 2015-12-14 17:46:16 UTC 195.6 km
    2.7 53km WNW of Talkeetna, Alaska 2015-12-14 17:23:46 UTC 92.4 km
    4.3 31km N of `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan, Afghanistan 2015-12-14 15:56:47 UTC 126.7 km
    4.4 41km NNW of `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan, Afghanistan 2015-12-14 13:45:40 UTC 210.0 km
    4.8 112km ESE of `Ohonua, Tonga 2015-12-14 13:01:44 UTC 10.0 km
    3.0 24km E of Nixon, Texas 2015-12-14 12:35:03 UTC 5.0 km
    2.7 1km WNW of Kahaluu-Keauhou, Hawaii 2015-12-14 10:19:56 UTC 9.3 km
    4.8 141km NNE of Calama, Chile 2015-12-14 10:03:54 UTC 118.5 km
    4.9 290km ESE of L'Esperance Rock, New Zealand 2015-12-14 06:58:44 UTC 14.9 km
    3.1 19km W of Perry, Oklahoma 2015-12-14 06:54:41 UTC 2.3 km
    3.7 148km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico 2015-12-14 06:29:28 UTC 38.0 km
    2.7 83km SW of Homer, Alaska 2015-12-14 05:53:09 UTC 58.6 km
    2.6 13km N of Cabazon, California 2015-12-14 04:45:57 UTC 2.0 km
    2.6 13km N of Cabazon, California 2015-12-14 04:45:57 UTC 2.0 km
    2.6 106km NNW of Larsen Bay, Alaska 2015-12-14 02:58:02 UTC 0.0 km
    2.5 5km WSW of Volcano, Hawaii 2015-12-14 02:18:10 UTC 0.8 km
    5.4 122km SE of Amahai, Indonesia 2015-12-14 01:46:01 UTC 31.0 km
    5.1 122km SE of Amahai, Indonesia 2015-12-14 01:34:08 UTC 76.7 km
    2.9 9km SSE of Cushing, Oklahoma 2015-12-14 00:59:57 UTC 6.7 km
    3.0 15km SSE of Volcano, Hawaii 2015-12-13 22:28:05 UTC 8.1 km

STOCK MARKET AND EARTHQUAKE NEWS
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DAY 13-AT LEAST 14 KILLED-22 INJURED AT A SAN BERNADINO DISABILITY OFFICE.-IS THIS ANOTHER ISLAMIC-MUSLIM TERRORIST ATTACK.BY THAT SEX FOR MURDER-DEATH CULT 2 SHOOTERS.POSSIBLY OTHER ACCOMPLICES.

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)

MURDER

JEREMIAH 1:5

5  Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee;(GOD ORDAINED OR LIVES BEFORE WE WERE EVEN CREATED IN A WOMANS BODY)(GOD NEVER CREATED ANYONE HOMOSEXUAL)(AND THIS TELLS US ABORTION IS MURDER) and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.

GENESIS 4:8-11 (THE FIRST MURDER)

8 And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.

9 And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?

10 And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.

11 And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;

GENESIS 6:11-13 (EARTH DESTROYED BECAUSE OF TERRORISM,MURDERS)

11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with 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 through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

JOHN 8:44

44  Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

EXODUS 20:13

13 Thou shalt not kill.(Murder)(THAT INCLUDES ABORTION)

MATTHEW 18:6

6  But whoso shall offend (HURT) one of these little ones (CHILDREN) which believe in me,(JESUS) it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.(THATS THE DEATH PENALTY FOLKS)

EXODUS 21:12

12 He that smiteth (MURDER)a man,(OR BABY) so that he die, shall be surely put to death.(THATS THE DEATH PENALTY PEOPLE)

REVELATION 9:20-21

20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils,(OCCULT) and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:

21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries,(DRUG ADDICTIONS) nor of their fornication,(SEX OUTSIDE OF MARRIAGE) nor of their thefts.(STEALING)

FAMILY LAWYERS STICK UP FOR MURDERS FAROOK AND MALIK-NO EVIDENCE THEY KILLED THE PEOPLE

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DAYS OF THE TERRORIST MURDER AT CALIFORNIA

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-4 OF THE GUNS USED BY FAROOK-MALIK IN CALIFORNIA TERRORIST ATTACK-pic-89.3kpcc-AND NOW POLICE CAN TRAIL THE GUNS POSSIBLY BACK TO PAKISTAN OR SAUDI-ARABIA.

CALIFORNIA DISABILITY OFFICES

http://arcanet.org/services-supports/statewide-contacts.html

INLAND-WERE SHOOTING TOOK PLACE

http://inlandrc.org - director: Carol Fitzgibbons

http://regionalcenter.org/regional-centers/inland-regional-center

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INLAND REGIONAL CENTER WERE SHOOTING TOOK PLACE-pic-heavy

UPDATE-DECEMBER 14,2015-07:00AM
THERE WAS A KINDERGARDEN TEACHER STABBED I BELIEVE IN FRANCE TODAY BY A TERRORIST AND HE MENTIONED IT WAS FOR THE FRANCE ATTACKS.SOME CONNECTION. AND ALSO TODAY WE FIND OUT THAT ABAAOUD THE LEAD TERRORIST WAS AT THE SOCCER FIELD WITH A CELL PHONE DIRECTING THE 3 TERRORISTS THAT BLEW THEMSELVES UP.A WITNESS NOW SAID THEY SEEN ABAAOUD YELLING INTO A CELL PHONE FOR AN HOUR OR SO.AND ABAAOUD WAS ON THE CELL PHONE DIRECTING THE REST OF THE TERRORIST ATTACK BY CELL PHONES ALSO.AND ALSO ABAAOUD WAS GOING TO DO ANOTHER ROUND OF TERRORIST ATTACKS HE WOULD LEAD BY CELL PHONE ON ALL JEWISH BUSINESSES.THANK GOD ABAAOUD GOT KILLED IN THAT APARTMENT IN FRANCE A MONTH AGO NOW.AND ALSO THE MEDIA MENTIONS AND GETS PICTURES QUICK OF EVERY MOSQUE AROUND AMERICA THAT GETS DAMAGED BY SOMEBODY WHO DAMAGED IT IN RETALIATION FOR ALL THE ISLAMIC-MUSLIM TERRORIST ATTACKS LATELY.AND ALSO WE NOW FIND OUT THAT MALIK IN THE SAN BERNADINO TERRORIST ATTACK-HAD RADICAL SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS ALL OVER THE PLACE.YES IT DEFINATELY IS TIME TO BAN ALL MUSLIMS EXCEPT MUSLIM CHRISTIANS FROM COMING INTO ALL OUR WESTERN COUNTRIES.ESPECIALLY AMERICA AND CANADA.

Wife's role in California attack raises fear of jihad brides-Associated Press By ELLEN KNICKMEYER-December 12, 2015 4:09 AM-YAHOONEWS

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Pakistani woman's role as a shooter in the San Bernardino massacre is raising fears that foreign-born brides who support the Islamic State group could marry Americans to come to the U.S. to carry out extremist missions.Experts in jihad, immigration lawyers and former U.S. diplomats say there's no sign other foreign brides have sought Western marriages to launch attacks, and it's still not clear if 29-year-old Tashfeen Malik did so. But, they warn, that could change, especially if IS militants begin actively encouraging women to join men in attacks in the West.While the group currently bars women from taking up arms for combat or other attacks, its commanders are pragmatic and adaptable and could drop their ban at any time, security experts say."When they see an opportunity to do damage, and the best man for the job is a woman, they will use the woman," said Sasha Havlicek, a founder of the British-based Institute for Strategic Dialogue, whose work includes monitoring the flow of female extremist recruits."We will see women more active in terror plots," Havlicek predicted. "We already know they are radicalizing in unprecedented numbers." The flow of IS supporters can also go the other way. Up to 30 women have left America to try to join the Islamic State group since it rose to prominence, according to a recent estimate from the Department of Homeland Security.The numbers are higher in Europe, where more than 600 women have left to join extremists over that same period, Havlicek said.A religious conservative who lived previously in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, Malik joined her American-born husband of less than two years, Syed Farook, on Dec. 2 in donning tactical gear, grabbing assault weapons and slaughtering 14 people at his office holiday party in Southern California.While women previously have served as suicide bombers for violent Islamist groups, experts describe Malik's role as a breach of current IS limits on the role of women, and the group has been muted in its public responses to the killings.Farook and his family, like many traditional families in South Asia and elsewhere, used regional matchmaking websites to search for a suitable bride, although it's not clear if that's how he met Malik.An Associated Press review of matrimonial websites showed many families in Pakistan seeking grooms with passports to more prosperous countries, including the United States and Canada, but also in the Middle East.There were no obvious extremist views on the profiles of would-be brides and grooms. Some Pakistan families, however, told The Associated Press they avoided online matchmaking for just that fear."After the incident in California, we should be extremely careful," said Munir Anwar, a poet in the deeply conservative town of Liaqatpur, in Malik's home region of Punjab, Pakistan. People meeting friends or matches online "play with fire," declared Azim Khalid, a university teacher in the Punjab town of Vehari.Unlike Malik, who was a university graduate, most of the Pakistan brides being sought by Pakistani-origin families in the West tend to be less educated and thus presumed to be better housewives, said Eric T. Dean Jr., a Connecticut-based immigration lawyer who specializes in fiance visas for brides and grooms from abroad, like the visa on which Malik arrived.Dean said he's noticed one particularity on fiance visas: The United States appears to give almost all would-be grooms from Pakistan seeking fiance visas an extra layer of security checks known as "administrative processing."But he couldn't recall a would- be Pakistani bride getting that extra scrutiny.The State Department, which last year denied no more than 618 out of more than 36,500 fiance visas sought globally, declined to say how many of those denials were for security concerns.The Islamic State group, meanwhile, has avidly sought female recruits to serve as brides for fighters in its territory in Syria.While lawmakers including Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, voiced worry, after the San Bernardino shootings, of foreign brides marrying American citizens specifically to launch attacks here, there's no evidence to date that's ever happened, security experts and others said.The prohibition on women taking the offense in jihad is one key reason. Only if imams issue a fatwa, or ruling, that women are needed for the fight can they join it, the Islamic State group declared earlier this year in an online manifesto.If Malik's marriage to Farook were arranged by an extremist organization or operative, Graham described that as a "game changer" during a hearing this week in Washington.In response to a question from Graham, FBI Director James Comey testified that any involvement in the marriage by extremist groups would be "a very, very important thing to know."So far, IS has noted the husband-and-wife team publicly only as "supporters." Malik went on Facebook at the time of the attack to swear the couple's allegiance to the group.Perhaps because of Malik's role, female IS recruits who've been quick to crow online about other beheadings, bombings and shootings have been hushed about this attack, said Melanie Smith, another researcher at Havlicek's Center for Strategic Dialogue."I think they want to be kind of celebratory about it," Smith said. "But it kind of goes against what they are told is necessary and authorized for them."___Associated Press writers Munir Ahmed in Islamabad and Bradley Klapper in Washington, D.C., contributed to this report.

Search for shooters' hard drive concludes in California lake-Associated Press By AMANDA LEE MYERS-DEC 13,15-YAHOONEWS

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An underwater search for a computer hard drive and anything else linked to the husband-and-wife shooters who killed 14 in the California attacks concluded on Saturday.FBI spokes woman Laura Eimiller said specialized divers with the agency concluded their search through a San Bernardino lake for abandoned evidence. However, she declined to say whether any items recovered are related to the probe.Investigators have said the killers tried to cover their tracks by destroying emails, cellphones and other items at their home in Redlands. They were tipped that the small lake in a park about 3 miles from where the shootings happened might hold the hard drive, according to a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation but not authorized to speak publicly about the case.The search began Thursday after authorities learned the shooters, Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 29, may have been in the area the day of the attack, said David Bowdich, chief of the FBI's Los Angeles office.Farook, a U.S. citizen, and his Pakistani-born wife, opened fire Dec. 2 at a holiday luncheon attended by many of Farook's co-workers in the San Bernardino health department. The couple died in a shootout with law enforcement hours later, leaving behind a 6-month-old daughter.Authorities say Farook and Malik, who came to the U.S. on a fiancee visa in July 2014 and married her husband the next month, were not known to law enforcement before the shootings. But since the attack they have determined the couple discussed martyrdom and jihad online as early as 2013.Farook's longtime friend and relative-through-marriage, Enrique Marquez, bought the assault rifles used in the shooting more than three years ago, about the time he converted to Islam, according to the law enforcement official. Farook asked Marquez to buy the rifles because he was worried he wouldn't pass the background check himself.Marquez, who checked himself into a mental hospital after the attack, told investigators that he and Farook were plotting an attack in 2012.Idaho Sen. Jim Risch, a Republican who sits on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said they had an actual plan, including buying weapons, but became apprehensive and shelved it because of law enforcement activity and arrests in the area.Marquez hasn't been charged with a crime and has been cooperating with authorities.Meanwhile funerals for the victims continued Saturday. Hundreds of mourners packed a church near Orange County's Little Saigon to remember Tin Nguyen. The 31-year-old was honored in a service conducted in Vietnamese at St. Barbara's Catholic Church in Santa Ana.A funeral was also held in Southern California for another victim, 60-year-old Isaac Amanios.On Friday, a suspicious fire at a California mosque about 75 miles from San Bernardino stoked fears among local Muslims.Police got a call around noon about the fire at Islamic Center of Palm Springs, said Deputy Armando Munoz, a spokesman for the Riverside County Sheriff's Department. Firefighters quickly contained the fire and no one was injured.The mosque's acting imam, Reymundo Nour, said people there described hearing a loud boom and seeing flames.Authorities announced Saturday that a 23-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of committing a hate crime and arson in connection with the fire.___Associated Press writers Tami Abdollah in Washington, and Christine Armario, Justin Pritchard and Daisy Nguyen in Los Angeles contributed to this report.

Divers retrieve more items in search for California shooting clues-Reuters By Alana Wise-DEC 12,15-YAHOONEWS

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (Reuters) - FBI divers picked through the bottom of a San Bernardino lake on Saturday for a third day, seeking evidence related to a married couple who massacred 14 people at a holiday party, in what the bureau has called an act of terror inspired by Islamic State.Federal Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said in an email divers retrieved objects from Seccombe Lake, as they did the previous day. But she declined to say what those were or whether they appeared to be tied to the mass shooting.The San Bernardino lake, nestled in a public park, about 2.5 miles (4 km) north of the site of the shooting, is believed to be littered with junk and debris.U.S. officials have said their investigation has yet to turn up evidence that foreign militants directed Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, or Tashfeen Malik, 29, when the married pair stormed a holiday gathering of his co-workers at a regional center in San Bernardino on Dec. 2 and opened fire with assault rifles.The couple shot dead 14 people and wounded more than 20 in a rampage the FBI said it is treating as an act of terrorism inspired by Islamic militants. If that is confirmed, it would mark the most lethal such attack on U.S. soil since Sept. 11, 2001.Farook, the U.S.-born son of Pakistani immigrants, and Malik, a Pakistani native he married last year in Saudi Arabia, were killed in a shootout with police hours after their assault in San Bernardino, 60 miles (100 km) east of Los Angeles. CNN and other media have reported the FBI divers at the lake were looking for a computer hard drive that belonged to the couple, but Eimiller declined to confirm that.The underwater search stemmed from leads indicating Farook and Malik had been in the vicinity of Seccombe Lake on the day of the killings, the FBI has said.The FBI has determined that the couple declared they were acting on behalf of the Islamic State. But FBI Director James Comey has said there was no evidence the militant group controlling vast swaths of Iraq and Syria was even aware of them prior to their attack.On Friday, a fire that appeared to have been intentionally set burned the entrance to a mosque in Southern California's Coachella Valley, some 75 miles (121 km) from San Bernardino, raising concerns of a possible reaction to the shooting.A 23-year- old man was arrested on suspicion of arson and for committing a hate crime, according to the Riverside County Sheriff's Department, which has not said if he was motivated by the shooting in targeting the mosque. Muslim Americans across the country have said they are worried about a backlash, as happened in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.(Writing by Alex Dobuzinskis; Editing by David Gregorio)

France pulls security badge for 70 airport workers after attacks-AFP-DEC 13,15-YAHOONEWS

Paris (AFP) - Secure-zone clearance has been withdrawn for nearly 70 people working at two Paris airports following the November 13 terror attacks on the French capital, the boss of the airports company said Sunday.So-called red badges are issued to people employed in the secure zone of Roissy-Charles de Gaulle and Orly airports, working for instance as baggage handlers, aircraft cleaners and suppliers.Augustin de Romanet, chief executive officer of Aeroports de Paris (ADP), said the prefecture -- the representative of the state -- which issues the badges had carried out a screening after the attacks on Paris, in which 130 people were killed and 350 injured."Nearly 70 red badges were withdrawn after the attacks, mainly for cases of radicalisation," he said in an interview with French media.He said around 85,000 people had secure-zone clearance in the two airports, most of them working for airlines or for "several hundred" sub- contractors."To be issued with a red badge, you have to be cleared by police, and if you work for a company that carries out security checks of in-flight luggage, you need three police checks," De Romanet said.He added that deployment of military personnel at the two airports had been boosted by half following the attacks, and passport officers were checking the IDs of all people leaving the country, "including flights in the Schengen zone," the European Union's border-free area.Air traffic was down five percent compared with a year earlier, de Romanet said."I hope we will return to a more normal level of traffic. It has been a heavy blow," he added.

EU needs to rehabilitate returning jihadists: anti-terror chief-AFP-December 11, 2015 3:23 PM-YAHOONEWS

Rome (AFP) - Europe must work out ways to rehabilitate jihadists returning from Syria, the EU's anti-terror czar said on Friday, warning not all of them could be simply thrown in jail.Speaking to delegates at a conference in Rome, Gilles de Kerchove said Europe needed to figure out a way of absorbing hundreds of returning extremists.Kerchove estimated that around 3,000 Europeans had been to Syria, lured by jihadist groups like the Islamic State (IS) group which has claimed a string of recent attacks, including last month's assault on Paris.Returning radicals must be given the possibility of being reintegrated into society, he said."It's important to give them an alternative to prison," he told delegates at a session on counter-terror strategies. Using an Arabic acronym for the IS group, Kerchove said it was not easy to "prove that someone fought alongside Daesh," later telling AFP that the EU was trying to improve its identification of jihadists using "digital proof"."To prove that someone was with Daesh in Syria requires access to their email, a conversation on WhatsApp or on Facebook," he explained."Oftentimes this data is saved in cloud storage in the US and it can take months to obtain," he said, indicating he was working with Internet companies and the US government to speed up the process.He also urged European nations to step up efforts to prevent people becoming radicalised, giving the example of a online US programme that has connected a million American students with a million Arab students overseas.At first, the two sides were wary of each other, but after several weeks the students realised they had a lot in common, he explained, saying the EU was hoping to set up a similar programme of its own.

Immigration, jobs, shifting politics in French regional vote-Associated Press By ANGELA CHARLTON-DEC 12,15-YAHOONEWS

PARIS (AP) — France's regional election runoffs Sunday has taken on extra importance after Marine Le Pen's far-right National Front party dominated first-round voting, selling its anti-immigrant, tough-on-security message to voters worried about an unprecedented wave of refugees and Islamic State violence.Here's a look at what's at stake:-LE PEN'S PROSPECTS-The vote — the last nationwide election before France's 2017 presidential vote — is seen as a gauge of political sentiment, especially Marine Le Pen's presidential chances.While National Front party lists dominated in six of France's 13 regions, several polls suggest it could lose that edge in Sunday's final round.Le Pen herself is facing a tough challenge by conservative former labor minister Xavier Bertrand in the northern region of Nord-Pas de Calais-Picardie. Likewise for her niece, Marion Marechal-Le Pen, running in the southern region of Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur against conservative Nice Mayor Claude Estrosi.The two National Front women scored more than 40 percent each in the first round. The struggling Socialists, the party of President Francois Hollande, quickly withdrew their candidates in both regions ahead of the final round, asking their backers to vote for rival conservatives in hopes of keeping the Le Pens out of power.But the outcome Sunday remains unclear. The nearly 50 percent of people who failed to cast ballots in the Dec. 6 first round could hold the key to the runoff.___ MIGRANTS AND MUSLIMS-Le Pen has worked hard to soften the image of her party from the days it was run by her father, Jean-Marie, repeatedly convicted of racism and anti-Semitism.The party's main target is immigrants, and what Le Pen sees as a threat to France from Islam. Le Pen and her niece have said that they would refuse funding to interests representing a single community, a reference to Muslim groups.The National Front's long-standing calls to increase security and lock out immigrants dovetailed this year with two deadly attacks by Islamic extremists in Paris and an unusually large influx of migrants to Europe.___EUROPEAN UNITY-Another nemesis of the National Front is the European Union. The party wants to pull France out of the 28-nation EU and the shared euro currency and restore what it touts as the country's past greatness.That resonates with many voters frustrated that governments left and right have failed to bring down France's 10 percent unemployment and at France's shrinking global economic clout. Far-right and nationalist parties have gained ground across Europe in recent years, from Greece to Hungary, Austria, the Netherlands and elsewhere — partly due to Europe's immigration crisis.___RISING RIGHT, LIMPING LEFT-All but one of France's regions are currently run by the Socialists, who have seen their support shrivel since Hollande won the presidency in 2012.The Socialists came in an embarrassing third place in the nationwide vote in the first round, though polls suggest they could win back a bit of support in the runoff.Former President Nicolas Sarkozy's conservative Republicans party may come out on top Sunday, taking several regions. Sarkozy, also eyeing a 2017 presidential bid, would welcome such a victory.Prime Minister Manuel Valls has led the Socialist charge against the National Front — and warned Friday that its victory could sow divisions that "could lead to civil war."___Elaine Ganley in Paris contributed.

Nine things Saudi women still can't do-AFP-December 11, 2015 9:42 PM-YAHOONEWS

Riyadh (AFP) - Saudi women vote Saturday for the first time in elections but still face a host of other restrictions, among the tightest in the world.Under Saudi policies and practices women cannot:- Drive. Saudi Arabia is the world's only country banning women from getting behind the wheel.- Travel, without the consent of a male family member known as a guardian- Marry, without the consent of a guardian- Work, without the consent of a guardian- Appear in public without covering herself in a black abaya robe from head to toe-- Receive the same amount of inheritance as a man-- Work in certain jobs- Mingle with unrelated men in public places such as restaurants-- Divorce as easily as a man-Saudi women can:- Vote in municipal elections, the kingdom's only polls for public officials- Sit on the Shura Council, an appointed body which advises cabinet- Hold the most senior corporate executive posts- Work in government administration and an expanding number of private sector areas, including as lawyers- Be forced to marry at a young age, as there is no legally defined minimum age

Christian female fighters take on IS in Syria-AFP By Delil Souleiman-DEC 13,15-YAHOONEWS

Hasakeh (Syria) (AFP) - Babylonia has no regrets about leaving behind her two children and her job as a hairdresser to join a Christian female militia battling against the Islamic State group in Syria.The fierce-looking 36-year-old in fatigues from the Syriac Christian minority in the northeast believes she is making the future safe for her children."I miss Limar and Gabriella and worry that they must be hungry, thirsty and cold. But I try to tell them I'm fighting to protect their future," she told AFP.Babylonia belongs to a small, recently created battalion of Syriac Christian women in Hasakeh province who are fighting IS.They are following in the footsteps of Syria's other main female force battling the jihadists -- the women of the YPJ, the female counterpart to the Kurdish People's Protection Units or YPG.So far the new force is small, with around 50 graduates so far from its training camp in the town of Al-Qahtaniyeh, also known as Kabre Hyore in Syriac, and Tirbespi in Kurdish.But the "Female Protection Forces of the Land Between the Two Rivers" -- the area between the Tigris and Euphrates waterways historically inhabited by Syriacs -- is teeming with women eager to prove their worth against IS.It was actually Babylonia's husband who encouraged her to leave Limar, nine, and six-year-old Gabriella and join the unit whose first recruits graduated in August.Himself a fighter, he urged her to take up arms to "fight against the idea that the Syriac woman is good for nothing except housekeeping and make-up", she said.- 'Fear quickly went away' -"I'm a practising Christian and thinking about my children makes me stronger and more determined in my fight against Daesh," added Babylonia, using the Arabic acronym for IS.Syriac Christians belong to the eastern Christian tradition and pray in Aramaic. They include both Orthodox and Catholic branches, and constitute around 15 percent of Syria's 1.2 million Christians.Before the conflict began in March 2011, Christians from some 11 different sects made up around five percent of the population.The unit's first major action was alongside the newly created Syrian Democratic Forces, a coalition of Kurdish, Arab and Christian fighters, which recently recaptured the strategic town of Al-Hol."I took part in a battle for the first time in the Al-Hol area, but my team wasn't attacked by IS," said 18-year-old Lucia, who gave up her studies to join the militia.Her sister also joined up, against the wishes of their reluctant mother."I fight with a Kalashnikov, but I'm not ready to become an elite sniper yet," the shy teenager said, a wooden crucifix around her neck and a camouflage bandana tied round her head.Al-Hol, on a key route between territory IS controls in Syria and Iraq, was the first major victory for the SDF, which has captured around 200 villages in the region in recent weeks.It has received air support from the US-led coalition fighting IS, as well as drops of American weapons.Ormia, 18, found battle terrifying at first."I was afraid of the noise of cannons firing, but the fear quickly went away," she said."I would love to be on the front line in the fight against the terrorists."- 'Not afraid of Daesh' -The battalion's fighters train in an old mill in a programme that includes military, fitness and academic elements.With its limited combat experience, the unit for now focuses mainly on protecting majority Christian parts of Hasakeh province.Thabirta Samir, 24, who helps oversee the training, estimates that around 50 fighters have graduated so far."I used to work for a Syriac cultural association, but now I take pleasure in working in the military field," she said."I'm not afraid of Daesh, and we will be present in the coming battles against the terrorists."Samir said both local and "foreign forces" helped train the women, without specifying the nationality of the foreigners.In late November, Kurdish sources said US soldiers had entered the town of Kobane in northern Syria to train Kurdish fighters and plan offensives.Some women cited what is known as the Sayfo ("Sword") massacres in 1915 of Syriac, Assyrian and Chaldean Christians as reasons for joining the unit."We are a community that is oppressed by others," said 18-year-old Ithraa. She joined four months ago inspired by the memory of Sayfo, in which Ottoman authorities are said to have killed tens of thousands of Christians in Turkey and Iran.She said the community hoped to prevent "a new massacre like that committed by the Ottomans... when they tried to erase our Christian and Syriac identity".

Arrival of Syrian refugees in Montreal a "real Christmas present" to reunited family-By Morgan Lowrie, The Canadian Press | The Canadian Press – DEC 13,15-YAHOONEWS

MONTREAL - The arrival of a second federal government planeload of Syrian refugees in Montreal Saturday night was "a real Christmas present" for one Syrian man who was reunited with family he hasn't seen in eight years.Anas Fransis and his mother were at the welcome centre near the airport to welcome Francis' uncle and his wife, their two teenage daughters and Fransis' grandmother, who were among the 161 privately-sponsored refugees to make the trip from Beirut to Canada aboard a government aircraft.Fransis ran out to greet them, twirling his cousins and embracing the adults. His grandmother, Laila Saeed, was the last one through the door, her face wet with tears."They'll be here for Christmas, they'll be here for New Year's," said Fransis, who came to Canada from Syria in 2008. "Their arrival is a Christmas present...a real Christmas present."His 13-year-old cousin Laila Beylouneh was excited for her family's new start."My future is starting now," she told reporters in English. "I wish all my dreams will come true."Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard was on hand with Federal Immigration Minister John McCallum and Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre to greet the refugees, who landed around 8 p.m. Saturday evening. Numerous other federal and provincial cabinet ministers were also in attendance.Speaking to volunteers ahead of time, Couillard said he was taking a special interest in the proceedings because he and his wife will be sponsoring a refugee family who are set to arrive in early 2016. He said he was proud of Quebec and Canada's efforts to welcome the newcomers."It makes me extremely proud that we are able as a people to return a horrible situation like these people are fleeing, and to show them the face of freedom, the face of welcome, and the face of brotherhood," he said.The arrival comes less than 48 hours after a government aircraft brought 163 refugees to Toronto on Thursday.More than 400 refugees have arrived by commercial flights since the federal Liberals took power last month, but these have been the first to be brought by government aircraft.Upon arrival at Montreal's Pierre Elliott Trudeau Airport, border services agents confirmed the refugees' identities and issued them interim health program certificates. By the time they were bussed to the centre they were officially permanent residents of Canada.Jerais Der Kaspar, of Aleppo, Syria, arrived on the plane with his wife Emelda Margarian and their three children, ages 10, 11, and 17. Wearing a new blue-and-tan winter coat that Couillard and his wife helped him try on, he said he was looking forward to a new life in Canada after fleeing the bombings in Syria."Canada is the best country, and I wish to be in the best," he said in English. "This is a good beginning."All but one of the 161 refugees on Saturday's flight were expected to stay in Quebec, which has set aside $29 million until the end of 2016 to settle over 7,000 refugees. One refugee was continuing on to P.E.I.All were sponsored by private groups, many of whom filed the necessary paperwork months ago in order to bring in some of the estimated 4.3 million Syrians displaced by the ongoing civil war in that country.The federal government plans to bring 25,000 Syrians to Canada by the end of February.

CAR: Christians and Muslims sign the Pope’s truce-The two groups of militants who have been at war for years, ended hostilities on the occasion of Francis’ visit-A symbolic date. The truce between Christian and Muslim militias on the occasion of the Pope’s visit, was signed on 13 November, the day of the Paris attacks.-VATICAN INSIDER-newsletter-10/12/2015-BY andrea tornielli

ROME-A “non-aggression pact” jointly signed by the Islamic and Christian warring parties of the devastated Central African capital Bangui, helped avert any incidents unravelling during Francis’ recent visit. The document carries the signatures of Abdoulaye Hissen representing ex-Seleka Muslims and Maksim Mokom representing Christian-friendly anti-Balakas. The date of its signing is destined to remain imprinted in Europe’s memory: 13 November, the day of the Paris attacks. Just a few hours before the horror of fundamentalist ideology unleashed itself in the streets of the French capital, turning it into a bloodbath, in the heart of Africa, in a country that historically has strong ties with France, two influential figures whose respective armed groups have been at loggerheads in the Central African Republic (CAR) for a long time, signed a truce. Thanks to the patient mediation work of the Vatican Gendarmerie and the Community of Sant’Egidio, they have now officialised their commitment on paper, allowing Francis to inaugurate the Jubilee of Mercy over a week earlier than scheduled. Furthermore, the opening of Bangui’s Holy Door went ahead without any incidents or threats to the Pope’s safety or that of his entourage and faithful present.On Monday 30 November, in the sacristy of the Bangui stadium where Pope Francis celebrated mass in front of thousands of young people, Hissen and Mokom, in utmost confidentiality, left the “non-aggression pact” in the hands of the Substitute Secretary of State, Archbishop Angelo Becciu, who confirmed to the press that the meeting had taken place and the document was delivered. In this way, the document was sent to Francis through the mediation of one of his closest collaborators. Readers will recall that the Central African leg of the Pope’s visit to Africa was seen as risky right up until the end because of the clashes between militants and above all because of the instability of the Muslim “KM5” neighbourhood - where shootings have been going on for weeks, leaving a number of people dead. The French government had informed some time ago that it could not guarantee the Pope’s safety and that it would not be deploying its troops for this cause, strongly advising him not to go ahead with the visit. There were constant warnings right up until the eve the Pope’s visit to Africa. But Francis wanted to be there in person in order to show his closeness with his presence rather than with words.And so, in the run-up to the Pope’s visit, the commander of the Vatican Gendarmerie, Domenico Giani, who spearheaded the operation and Mauro Garofalo, head of the Community of Sant’ Egidio’s international section who has worked on peace mediation operations in CAR on a number of occasions, launched negotiations on the ground. “Together with the Gendarmerie’s commissioner Luca Cintia, we formed a small task force comprising four or five people and we held a number of evening meetings in Bangui’s riskiest neighbourhoods,” Garofalo explained to La Stampa. “The problem,” he continued, “was posed by the “KM 5”, the Muslim neighbourhood, as well as by various sections of the route Francis was due to travel along in the capital, areas where there is a strong anti-Balaka presence. We tried to explain that Francis was not coming as a politician but as a messenger of peace and that he visit was a unique occasion for reconciliation in the country.” Abdoulaye Hissen and Maksim Mokom accepted and despite the fact that the militia themselves are divided – partly due to the tense climate ahead of the upcoming elections – they agreed to commit to respecting the truce.The Pope’s trip, including his visit to Bangui’s mosque, went smoothly: he received a very warm welcome. The Gendarmerie had the support of MINUS CA’s soldiers, the Blue Helmets and the UN, led by Keita Balla, a Muslim general of Senegalese origin. Heads of UN security also came from New York. Local sources confirmed that the pact is just about holding up. Freedom of movement for non-Muslims in “KM 5” has improved. “For the militia,” Garofalo said, “it was a chance to demonstrate their goodwill”. Yesterday, Fides news agency reprinted the statements gathered from Bangui’s missionaries: “The atmosphere that Pope Francis left is reducing many reactions, which until recently would have been violent and are now calmer. Unfortunately, some news media continue to inflate tensions like that of yesterday. The coming of the Pope has given confidence to the people and this has allowed the resumption of economic activities.” Hopefully the fragile truce will not be broken.

Vatican revives dialogue with Jews 50 years after the Council-Just a few weeks before the Pope’s visit to the synagogue in Rome, the Vatican’s Commission for Religious Relations with Jews headed by Cardinal Koch has released a new document on the unresolved theological questions at the heart of Christian-Jewish dialogue. The text rejects anti-Semitism and proselytism-VATICAN INSIDER-newsletter-10/12/2015-iacopo scaramuzzi

Vatican city-The Vatican aims to revive Christian-Jewish dialogue, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council’s Nostra Aetate declaration (28 October 1965), with a document by the Commission for Religious Relations with Jews, which was published today, just a few weeks before the Pope is due to visit the Great Synagogue of Rome (on 17 January). Against the backdrop of some controversies that have emerged over recent years (the Latin rite Good Friday prayer for the conversion of Jews, Pius XII’s beatification, the situation of the “Christian minority” in Israel) the text emphasises the thumbs down to “anti-Semitic tendencies” and underlines that THE Catholic Church neither leads nor encourages any institutional mission aimed specifically at Jews. Because “the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable” (Rom 11:29),” the document reads, “the Catholic Church neither conducts nor supports any specific institutional mission work directed towards Jews. While there is a principled rejection of an institutional Jewish mission, Christians are nonetheless called to bear witness to their faith in Jesus Christ also to Jews, although they should do so in a humble and sensitive manner, acknowledging that Jews are bearers of God’s Word, and particularly in view of the great tragedy of the Shoah.” The final section of the document, titled “The goals of dialogue with Judaism”, clarifies that “the first goal of the dialogue is to add depth to the reciprocal knowledge of Jews and Christians,” underlining that “it is important that Catholic educational institutions, particularly in the training of priests, integrate into their curricula both Nostra Aetate and the subsequent documents of the Holy See regarding the implementation of the Conciliar declaration.”In terms of “the common concern for justice and the development of peoples,” “in the past,” the text adds, “it may have been that the different religions - against the background of a narrowly understood claim to truth and a corresponding intolerance - contributed to the incitement of conflict and confrontation. But today religions should not be part of the problem, but part of the solution. Only when religions engage in a successful dialogue with one another, and in that way contribute towards world peace, can this be realised also on the social and political levels. Religious freedom guaranteed by civil authority is the prerequisite for such dialogue and peace. In this regard, the litmus-test is how religious minorities are treated, and which rights of theirs are guaranteed. In Jewish-Christian dialogue the situation of Christian communities in the state of Israel is of great relevance, since there - as nowhere else in the world - a Christian minority faces a Jewish majority. Peace in the Holy Land - lacking and constantly prayed for - plays a major role in dialogue between Jews and Christians.”“Another important goal of Jewish-Catholic dialogue consists in jointly combatting all manifestations of racial discrimination against Jews and all forms of anti-Semitism, which have certainly not yet been eradicated and re-emerge in different ways in various contexts. History,” the text goes on to say, “teaches us where even the slightest perceptible forms of anti-Semitism can lead: the human tragedy of the Shoah in which two-thirds of European Jewry were annihilated. Both faith traditions are called to maintain together an unceasing vigilance and sensitivity in the social sphere as well. Because of the strong bond of friendship between Jews and Catholics, the Catholic Church feels particularly obliged to do all that is possible with our Jewish friends to repel anti-Semitic tendencies. Pope Francis has repeatedly stressed that a Christian can never be an anti-Semite, especially because of the Jewish roots of Christianity.”The document – which is not a magisterial text or a doctrinal teaching of the Catholic Church but a Catholic reflection signed by Cardinal Kurt Koch, Mgr. Brian Farrell and Fr. Norbert J. Hoffmann, respectively President, Vice President and Secretary of the Commission for Religious Relations with Jews – “is intended to be a starting point for further theological thought with a view to enriching and intensifying the theological dimension of Jewish-Catholic dialogue”. At the Vatican press conference for the presentation of the document, to which Rabbi David Rosen, the director of Interreligious Affairs, American Jewish Committee and Edward Kessler, director of the Woolf Institute, Cambridge. The Good Friday prayer, which proclaims the future salvation of Jews, “is misinterpreted”, said Cardinal Koch in response to a question. It is an “eschatological prayer” and “a text that is intended for the extraordinary rite. The ordinary rite prayer can be used as it does not create these misunderstandings”. Rabbi Rosen, in turn, underlined that a “small number of faithful” followed the old rite and focused his attention on the title for the “conversion” of Jews, which can be “misinterpreted and misunderstood” and could thus be modified. As far as the controversies that emerged in previous years between the Catholic Church and Jewish faith, Cardinal Koch mentioned “the discussion over the construction of the Carmine church in Poland,” the saga involving Richard Williamson, the holocaust-denier, which emerged after the remission of the Lefebvrian excommunication by Benedict XVI, which constitutes “a big problem but thanks to Cardinal Kasper, universal dialogue has facilitated a quick resolution”. Then there is Pius XII’s beatification, a contentious issue not only in Catholic-Jewish relations but also among the Jewish people themselves, as “some say we cannot accept his beatification, while others say we must give Pius XII the recognition he deserves.”According to Koch, this “is an internal issue within the Catholic Church but the Catholic Church clearly can be cautious in making sure it does not harm Catholic-Jewish relations. I am certain,” the Swiss cardinal said, “that Pope Francis is very open about the question of opening up the archives in order to clarify situations”. Both Rosen and Kessler were cautious in dealing with the question of Messianic Jews, who believe in the “messiah” Jesus Christ. The rabbi, in particular, underlined the suspicion – which stems also from a Jewish “hypersensitivity”, that they represent a form of “proselytism” in disguise. In general, the Pope,s “visit to the Holy Land and his upcoming visit to the Great Synagogue of Rome,” “are an even more powerful manifestation of a transformation in Catholic-Jewish relations, than documents.”

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GAZA ROCKET STRIKES SOUTHERN ISRAEL-NO INJURIES OR DAMAGE.

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)

ISAIAH 31:5
5 As birds flying,(WAR PLANES WITH BOMBS) so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem;(WITH PLANES) defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.(NUKE OR BOMB ISRAELS ENEMIES)

ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet,(disolved from atomic bomb) and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(disolved from atomic bomb) and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(disolved from atomic bomb)
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)

ZECHARIAH 14:1-4 King James Bible
1 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.

Israeli jets strike Gaza after rocket attack-Army says it targeted 2 Hamas posts in the Strip, hours after projectile explodes in south of country-By Judah Ari Gross and Times of Israel staff December 14, 2015, 1:06 am

Israeli aircraft struck in the Gaza Strip Sunday night, hours after a rocket fired from the territory exploded in Israel.The army said it targeted two Hamas military posts in northern and central Gaza. There were no immediate reports of Palestinian casualties.The IDF noted that it holds Hamas rulers responsible for any attacks emanating from the Strip.The rocket prompted air-raid sirens in multiple communities in the Sha’ar Hanegev Regional Council, the IDF said. Residents of Sha’ar HaNegev, a group of communities bordering the Gaza Strip, said they heard a loud explosion, but no injuries or damage were reported.The military said the rocket landed in an open area.Israel regularly carries out limited air strikes on Hamas targets in response to sporadic rocket-fire, though it is believed that the rockets are fired by fringe groups inside Gaza, rather than by Hamas.The latest attack came as Hamas demanded the release of prisoners held in Israeli jails in exchange for information on the fate of two IDF soldiers declared killed in action during last summer’s Gaza war.

Gaza rocket strikes southern Israel; no injuries or damage-Residents of the Sha’ar Hanegev Regional Council report hearing a loud ‘boom’; IDF troops launch search of the area-By Judah Ari Gross December 13, 2015, 8:34 pm

A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip struck southern Israel on Sunday night, as air-raid sirens sounded in multiple communities in the Sha’ar Hanegev Regional Council, the IDF said.Residents of Sha’ar HaNegev, a group of communities bordering the Gaza Strip, said they heard a loud “boom,” but no injuries or damage were reported.The Israel Defense Forces said that the rocket had landed in an open area. Israeli troops were searching the area, the army said.Last month, a rocket fired from Gaza also struck an open field in the Sha’ar Hanegev area. In response, the Israeli Air Force struck multiple Hamas outposts in the Strip.The rocket strike comes as Hamas demands the release of prisoners held in Israeli jails in exchange for information on the fate of two IDF soldiers declared killed in action during last summer’s Gaza war.

Israel redeploys guards to protect Jerusalem buses, trains-In light of ongoing terror threat, Transportation Ministry arms 300 ex-soldiers, allows them to conduct searches-By Times of Israel staff December 13, 2015, 11:20 pm

As a result of the ongoing threat of terrorism in the nation’s capital, Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz on Sunday approved the deployment of 300 additional security guards for Jerusalem’s public transport, the Maariv news site reported.The guards and a number of security vehicles will be sent out to bus stops and Jerusalem Light Rail stops throughout the city. “The very deployment and correct use of the guards can bring the threat to a minimum and even prevent it,” Katz said.In the first few weeks of the ongoing violence, a similar group of guards and IDF soldiers were sent to protect Jerusalem’s public transportation system, but they were eventually taken off that duty. Now, however, they will return.The guards, all former combat soldiers, will be given uniforms, pistols and radios in order to protect passengers. They will also be given legal permission to conduct searches of those they determine to be potential security risks.In October, soon after the start of the ongoing violence, Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan approved an expanded “stop and frisk” policy to allow law-enforcement officials the ability to carry out searches at just the slightest suspicion of a threat.The plan was approved by the security cabinet in light of the ongoing terror, which has been predominantly centered around Jerusalem and the West Bank.“Your mission is to act with determination and responsibility,” Katz told the guards. “On the one hand to be determined in order to prevent, in any way, injury or threat to travelers on public transportation. But on the other hand, to act responsibly.”In addition, the Israel Defense Forces will maintain its increased presence in the West Bank, keeping four additional battalions in the area, according to Channel 2’s website.

ISRAEL SATAN COMES AGAINST

1 CHRONICLES 21:1
1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.

GENESIS 12:1-3
1  Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I (GOD) will shew thee:
2  And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3  And I will bless them that bless thee,(ISRAELIS) and curse (DESTROY) him that curseth thee:(DESTROY THEM) and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

ISAIAH 41:11
11  Behold, all they that were incensed against thee (ISRAEL) shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing;(DESTROYED) and they that strive with thee shall perish.(ISRAEL HATERS WILL BE TOTALLY DESTROYED)

ISRAELS TROUBLE

JEREMIAH 30:7
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble;(ISRAEL) but he shall be saved out of it.

DANIEL 12:1,4
1 And at that time shall Michael(ISRAELS WAR ANGEL) stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people:(ISRAEL) and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation(May 14,48) even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,(WORLD TRAVEL,IMMIGRATION) and knowledge shall be increased.(COMPUTERS,CHIP IMPLANTS ETC)

And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE

Iran ‘examining’ possible successors to Khamenei-Council tasked with appointing Islamic republic’s next supreme leader is already looking at options, top politician says-By Times of Israel staff December 14, 2015, 2:37 am

Iran has begun looking for a potential successor to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, a top Iranian official said Sunday.In comments translated by Reuters, former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani told the country’s ILNA news agency that the Assembly of Experts, the body responsible for electing the Islamic republic’s supreme leader, “will act when a new leader needs to be appointed. They are preparing for that now and are examining the options.”He added: “They have appointed a group to list the qualified people that will be put to a vote when an incident happens.”Rafsanjani also noted that the Assembly may elect “a council of leaders if needed,” as opposed to a single ruler.Officially comprised of 86 religious figures elected by the people, the Assembly of Experts chooses the supreme leader and monitors his actions.The clerical body grants the leader, currently Khamenei, an indefinite term but it retains the power to sack him, if it sees fit.Elections to the council are held approximately every 10 years, with the next round scheduled for February 2016. The run-up to the election has seen tensions between Iran’s conservative and moderate leaders, with hardliners recently cracking down on activists, journalists and artists in what some view as an effort to curb the influence of moderate President Hassan Rouhani.“The hardliners are wary of Rouhani’s influence at home and abroad. They fear it may harm the balance of power in Iran,” an anonymous senior official close to Rouhani told Reuters in November.Should Rouhani’s faction win in the February elections for the council in charge of selecting the supreme leader, it would empower reform-minded leaders.AFP and AP contributed to this report.

After 68 years, a Syrian great-grandmother comes home… to her Jewish family in Israel-She was 16 when she disappeared from pre-state Israel, and had been assumed dead. This week, Rachel Elkayam was reunited with her relatives, closing a heart-wrenching circle-By Times of Israel staff December 11, 2015, 10:47 pm

Sixty-eight years after she last saw her family, an 85-year-old, silver-haired, Jewish great-grandmother returned home to Haifa in northern Israel this week — having spent her entire adult life living as an Arab woman in the neighboring enemy state of Syria.Rachel Elkayam, the third of 10 children, was a 16-year-old girl living in the mixed Jewish-Arab city of Haifa in 1947 when her parents moved the family to Tel Aviv. Conflict between pre-state Israel and the Arab world was escalating, ahead of the following year’s declaration of Israeli independence and the full-scale war that then erupted, and the Elkayams believed they would be safer in the center of Israel than the north. But Rachel, a rebellious child, had fallen in love with one of her Arab neighbors, Fuad, and was pregnant with his child. “I loved him, and he loved me,” Rachel Elkayam told Israel’s Channel 2 news in a report on her remarkable life story, broadcast on Friday night. Fuad’s family came to Tel Aviv to find her, and she went back to Haifa with them, and married her young love in a ceremony that she kept secret from her parents. In fact, from the day she disappeared in Tel Aviv, the family never knew what had befallen her, and always presumed that she was dead.What actually happened was complicated, heart-wrenching, and almost defies belief. Not long after their secret marriage, Fuad was shot in the streets of Haifa by a sniper — “I never saw him again,” said Rachel — and he died in a local hospital. Her parents-in-law decided to flee Israel, for Syria, and insisted that she come with them; she was, after all, carrying their grandson in her womb. “I didn’t want to go,” Elkayam recalled tearfully, in the mixture of Arabic and halting Hebrew with which she spoke throughout the report.Later, in Syria, Fuad’s family told her she could leave if she wanted to, but without her son. “I couldn’t do that,” she said. “I loved the child.”And so she stayed in Syria — a Jewish mother, with her Jewish child, as part of her new Arab family. The family then married her to one of Fuad’s brothers, and she had eight children in total over the years. When she and her second husband would fight, she confided gleefully in the TV interview, “I would curse him in Hebrew: ‘Kiss my butt.'” She’d also call other members of the family “a bunch of old shoes” in Hebrew, she said. It was a small pleasure, she smiled, to be able to insult them in a language they couldn’t understand.Elkayam said she “always wanted to come back, but I couldn’t” and that she had tried to at least establish contact with her family in Israel — a difficult task given the relentless hostilities between the two countries. She once gave a visitor from Germany, who said he was eventually traveling on to Israel, a note to her parents assuring them that she was alive and well, but it was apparently never delivered. Her parents passed away assuming she had died, never knowing that she had become a mother, grandmother and great-grandmother just a few hours’ impossible drive away — across the northern border.When major wars broke out — notably in 1967 and 1973, she said — she would secretly listen to Israel Radio on a transistor, praying not to hear the name “Elkayam” read out among the dead. As a minor act of defiance, she also kept her personal phone book updated in Hebrew.She would have died in Syria, her story never known to her family in Israel, were it not for the actions of one of her grandsons. In London last year, he went to the Israeli Embassy and told a staffer that his grandmother in Syria had told him that she was actually an Israeli Jew from Haifa. And so it was that Geula Elkayam, one of Rachel’s siblings, received a phone call from London asking her if she had a sister named Rachel.This past Tuesday, December 8, Rachel Elkayam, now 85, was flown to Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport, via a third country and by means of an undoubtedly highly complex and sensitive diplomatic process. Waiting in the arrivals hall were members of her family, some of whom she had not seen for 68 years, others whom she had never seen at all. They cried over her as she was pushed out to them in a wheelchair, and wrapped her in an Israeli flag, which she kissed.Then they drove her home to Haifa, where her brother Amnon, 71, a toddler when she disappeared, took her on a small tour of the neighborhood and the city. She visited her parents’ graves, and was wheeled to the view she said she most wanted to see, of the Mediterranean coast — with Syria, where she had spent her life, to the north.When major wars broke out — notably in 1967 and 1973 — she would secretly listen to Israel Radio on a transistor, praying not to hear the names of her relatives read out among the dead-The TV report ended with a scene of Rachel and her old-new family together in Haifa celebrating this week’s Hanukkah — the Jewish festival of lights, a festival also resonant with tales of triumph over the odds. Soon Elkayam plans to travel to Europe, where some of her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren live.The report, understandably, did not specify where she had lived in Syria, under what name, or whether any of her children and descendants still live there. It also did not detail how she got to Israel, beyond acknowledging the help of the Haifa municipality, the Israeli Interior Ministry, and the quasi-governmental Jewish Agency, which is centrally involved in Israel’s relations with Diaspora Jews.Rachel Elkayam, the report said, has already re-registered as an Israeli citizen and been given her new Israeli identity card. The clerk at the Interior Ministry had assumed, speaking to her, that she was a Muslim, the report said. She had proved that she was a Jew by reciting the first words of the Shema, the central Jewish prayer: “Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is One.”