Friday, September 23, 2016

THE DOW WAS UP 98 POINTS THURSDAY-YESTERDAY.

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.

1 KINGS 10:13-14
13  And king Solomon gave unto the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside that which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty. So she turned and went to her own country, she and her servants.
14  Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold,

GENESIS 49:16-17
16  Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
17  Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.

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.

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UPDATE-SEPTEMBER 23,2016-12:00AM

DOW MARKET FRIDAY-SEPTEMBER 23,2016
09:30AM-10.77-
10:00AM-37.90-
10:30AM-42.39-
11:00AM-47.25-
11:30AM-54.72-
12:00PM-62.62-
12:30PM-65.16-
01:00PM-70.61-
01:30PM-85.33-
02:00PM-114.70-
02:30PM-107.73
03:00PM-105.64-
03:30PM-98.98-
04:00PM-131.01- 18,261.45 - S&P -12.49 2164.69 - NASDAQ -33.78 5305.75
HIGH -10 LOW -129
TSX -99.75 14,697.93 - GOLD $-00.85 $1,336.55 - OIL $-01.69 $44.52

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-SEPTEMBER 23, 2016-11:55PM

1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ Worldwide-43 of 44 earthquakes in map area.

    4.5-41km SSE of Acajutla, El Salvador-2016-09-24 00:05:39 (UTC)-50.0 km
    4.9-47km SE of Tamisan, Philippines-2016-09-23 23:45:39 (UTC)-88.3 km
    5.6-7km W of Nereju, Romania-2016-09-23 23:11:20 (UTC)-88.3 km
    6.3-35km SE of Tamisan, Philippines-2016-09-23 22:53:10 (UTC)-65.0 km
    4.9-133km ENE of Mohean, India-2016-09-23 22:27:25 (UTC)-44.4 km
    3.1-43km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic-2016-09-23 22:07:52 (UTC)-89.0 km
    2.6-98km W of Fort Yukon, Alaska-2016-09-23 21:05:43 (UTC)-15.0 km
    3.2-18km W of Volcano, Hawaii-2016-09-23 19:29:25 (UTC)-8.3 km
    2.7-45km WNW of Rincon, Puerto Rico-2016-09-23 17:19:16 (UTC)-17.0 km
    2.6-14km NNW of Pawnee, Oklahoma-2016-09-23 17:12:38 (UTC)-6.4 km
    4.8-26km ESE of Cyangugu, Rwanda-2016-09-23 16:11:56 (UTC)-10.0 km
    4.9-4km NNE of Kupang, Indonesia-2016-09-23 15:37:26 (UTC)-54.6 km
    5.2-Izu Islands, Japan region-2016-09-23 15:05:15 (UTC)-35.0 km
    4.5-159km ESE of Katsuura, Japan-2016-09-23 13:58:08 (UTC)-35.0 km

    4.8-88km E of Pangai, Tonga-2016-09-23 13:49:07 (UTC)-53.8 km
    3.8-6km W of Manley Hot Springs, Alaska-2016-09-23 13:26:10 (UTC)-22.8 km
    3.2-55km WNW of Anchor Point, Alaska-2016-09-23 13:09:15 (UTC)-96.6 km
    4.9-147km ESE of Katsuura, Japan-2016-09-23 12:04:54 (UTC)-35.0 km
    4.6-128km SE of Katsuura, Japan-2016-09-23 11:04:56 (UTC)-35.0 km

    4.6-13km ESE of Behbahan, Iran-2016-09-23 10:50:53 (UTC)-33.1 km
    5.2-102km ESE of Katsuura, Japan-2016-09-23 10:28:24 (UTC)-35.0 km
    4.6-144km ESE of Ohara, Japan-2016-09-23 10:27:02 (UTC)-12.1 km
    4.7-138km S of False Pass, Alaska-2016-09-23 08:59:19 (UTC)-21.4 km
    2.8-13km NW of Pawnee, Oklahoma-2016-09-23 08:28:18 (UTC)-2.7 km
    2.8-13km NW of Pawnee, Oklahoma-2016-09-23 08:28:14 (UTC)-2.7 km
    4.9-5km WNW of Ayutla de los Libres, Mexico-2016-09-23 07:54:54 (UTC)-40.9 km
    4.6-West of Macquarie Island-2016-09-23 07:36:42 (UTC)-10.0 km
    4.7-142km ESE of Ohara, Japan-2016-09-23 06:46:03 (UTC)-26.4 km
    4.6-Off the west coast of northern Sumatra-2016-09-23 06:31:06 (UTC)-10.0 km
    4.8-39km E of Leof, Indonesia-2016-09-23 06:30:15 (UTC)-35.2 km
    4.3-108km NE of Gisborne, New Zealand-2016-09-23 06:20:15 (UTC)-10.0 km
    5.1-94km SSE of Hasaki, Japan-2016-09-23 06:13:24 (UTC)-38.0 km
    4.3-70km NNW of Antofagasta, Chile-2016-09-23 06:08:35 (UTC)-14.3 km
    5.0-123km NNE of Gisborne, New Zealand-2016-09-23 05:56:29 (UTC)-10.0 km
    5.2-167km ESE of Ohara, Japan-2016-09-23 05:34:30 (UTC)-10.0 km
    5.1-190km NNW of Saumlaki, Indonesia-2016-09-23 05:09:27 (UTC)-130.7 km
    4.9-South Georgia Island region-2016-09-23 03:35:14 (UTC)-10.0 km
    4.5-109km NE of Hasaki, Japan-2016-09-23 02:26:02 (UTC)-10.0 km
    2.7-20km SSW of Buellton, CA-2016-09-23 02:10:40 (UTC)-6.7 km
    5.1-22km NE of Dieppe Bay Town, Saint Kitts and Nevis-2016-09-23 01:48:35 (UTC)-1.0 km
    4.9-166km ESE of Ohara, Japan-2016-09-23 00:42:33 (UTC)-10.0 km
    4.5-119km SE of Hasaki, Japan-2016-09-23 00:30:25 (UTC)-10.0 km

    4.2-92km NW of Vallenar, Chile-2016-09-23 00:25:19 (UTC)-18.6 km
    6.3-149km ESE of Katsuura, Japan-2016-09-23 00:14:34 (UTC)-10.0 km
    6.4-149km ESE of Katsuura, Japan-2016-09-23 00:14:33 (UTC)-10.0 km
    2.7-16km NW of Tehachapi, CA-2016-09-22 23:39:42 (UTC)-6.9 km

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PERES SHOWING SLIGHT IMPROVEMENT AFTER STROKE.

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)

LUKE 21:28-29
28 And when these things begin to come to pass,(ALL THE PROPHECY SIGNS FROM THE BIBLE) then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption (RAPTURE) draweth nigh.
29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree,(ISRAEL) and all the trees;(ALL INDEPENDENT COUNTRIES)
30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.(ISRAEL LITERALLY BECAME AND INDEPENDENT COUNTRY JUST BEFORE SUMMER IN MAY 14,1948.)

JOEL 2:3,30
3 A fire devoureth (ATOMIC BOMB) before them;(RUSSIAN-ARAB-MUSLIM ARMIES AGAINST ISRAEL) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(ATOMIC BOMB AFFECT)

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)(BECAUSE NUKES HAVE BEEN USED ON ISRAELS ENEMIES)(GOD PROTECTS ISRAEL AND ALWAYS WILL)
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)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)

EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.

ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.

MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven;(FROM ATOMIC BOMBS) and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

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

Peres showing slight improvement after stroke, doctors say-China sends message of support to former president who remains ‘serious but stable’ as medical team continues treatment-By Times of Israel staff September 22, 2016, 4:05 pm

Former Israeli president Shimon Peres saw “slight improvement” on Thursday but remained in serious condition after suffering a major stroke nine days earlier.The 93-year-old Peres was hospitalized at the Sheba Medical Center near Tel Aviv on September 13. He has been under sedation since then, with his condition consistently described as serious but stable.“The medical status of the ninth president Shimon Peres is stable and there has been a slight improvement in his breathing,” his spokesperson said.The spokesperson added that doctors were continuing to monitor his neurological state.The Chinese Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Zhang Ming visited the Sheba Medical Center Thursday morning to pass on wishes of support to Peres and his family from Beijing, calling Peres the father of Sino-Israeli ties.“The Chinese people admire and respect Shimon Peres just like the rest of the world. He is a great and important friend to the Chinese people and we have immense respect and deep appreciation for him,” Zhang said.Although Peres remains sedated, his medical team decided on Sunday to gradually reduce the respiratory support as well as the level of anesthesia currently being administered.Also on Sunday a senior neurologist at the Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem said Peres’s condition had likely moved “from the acute to the chronic” — meaning he was likely no longer in life-threatening danger but now faced more protracted health challenges.Prof. Avinoam Reches told the Walla news website Saturday that “when a man suffers such massive bleeding there is immediate danger to his life. I am not the doctor in attendance and his medical file is not open to me, but according to reports coming from the hospital, our friends in Sheba worked correctly and succeeded in stabilizing his condition, so the immediate danger has passed.“Peres,” Reches said, “is still in danger, but his main enemies now are the inevitable infections coming from a long hospitalization and the development of an edema around the hematoma in his head [a swelling around blood vessels affected by the stroke].”Peres is the elder statesman of Israeli politics, one of the country’s most admired symbols and the last surviving link to its founding fathers.Over a seven-decade career, he’s held virtually every senior political office, including two stints as prime minister and extended terms as foreign, defense and finance minister. He won the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize for his work in reaching an interim peace agreement with the Palestinians.Long a divisive personality in Israeli politics, Peres finally became one of Israel’s most popular public figures in his later years.World leaders have sent wishes of a speedy recovery to the former president, recalling his achievements and warm personality.

Obama: Israel cannot ‘permanently occupy, settle Palestinian land’-In final, wide-ranging UN address, US president also says Palestinians must reject incitement, recognize ‘legitimacy of Israel’-By Times of Israel staff and Agencies September 20, 2016, 6:53 pm

US President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that while the Palestinians should reject terror and incitement, Israel must recognize that it cannot “permanently occupy and settle Palestinian land.”“Surely Israelis and Palestinians will be better off if Palestinians reject incitement and recognize the legitimacy of Israel. But Israel must recognize that it cannot permanently occupy and settle Palestinian land. We all have to do better,” the US president said at the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.In his wide-ranging address, Obama sought to use his last appearance before the global body to define how his leadership had put the world on a better trajectory over the last eight years. At the heart of that approach, Obama said, is the notion that conflicts are best solved when nations cooperate.The president cited his administration’s outreach to former adversaries Cuba and Myanmar as key examples of progress. He also cited the resolution last year “of the Iranian nuclear issue through diplomacy” as a key achievement over the past eight years.In his address, Obama spoke of a “less violent” and “more prosperous” world but one rife with “uncertainty, unease and strife,” as nations struggle with a devastating refugee crisis, terrorism and a breakdown of order in the Middle East.“Despite enormous progress, governing has become more difficult, and tensions are more quick to surface,” he said, adding that the world now faces a choice, to “press forward with a better model for cooperation and integration, or retreat into a world that is sharply divided.”“This is the paradox that defines the world today,” Obama said. “We must go forward, and not backward.”The US president also conceded that “bloodletting” throughout the Middle East will not be easily resolved and insisted the Syrian civil war could only be ended through diplomacy.“The mindset of sectarianism and extremism and bloodletting that has been taking place [in the Middle East] will not be quickly reversed,” Obama said adding that “no external force is going to force communities to coexist,” and that the international community must “work with those who seek to build, rather than destroy.”In Syria, where the civil war has claimed the lives of over 300,000 people, Obama said that there was “no ultimate military victory to be won,” and that the world must pursue the “hard work of diplomacy and humanitarian assistance.”He added that the there was a was a “military component – it means being united and relentless against ISIL [the Islamic State terror group].”In a subtle reference to Republican nominee Donald Trump, Obama also bemoaned how terrorist networks had spread their ideology on social media, spurring anger toward “innocent immigrants and Muslims.”“We must reject any forms of fundamentalism, or racism or a belief in ethnic superiority” that is “irreconcilable with modernity,” said Obama.Earlier on Tuesday, UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon told the UN General Assembly that the only solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would be a two-state solution, and that the one-state option would “spell doom” for both sides.“This is madness. Replacing a two-state solution with a one-state construct would spell doom: denying Palestinians their freedom and rightful future, and pushing Israel further from its vision of a Jewish democracy towards greater global isolation,” said Ban.

Top EU lawyer says Hamas should be dropped from terror list-Advocate general says decision to blacklist Palestinian Islamist group shouldn’t have been made based on ‘media reports and the internet’-By AFP and Times of Israel staff September 22, 2016, 4:05 pm

A top EU lawyer on Thursday said Islamist movement Hamas and Sri Lankan rebel group LTTE should be taken off the bloc’s terror list because procedural mistakes invalidated the decision to put them on it.Advocate General Eleanor Sharpston of the European Court of Justice said Thursday that a European judicial body was correct to remove Hamas and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam from the list in 2014.The European Union imposed travel bans and asset freezes against Hamas and the LTTE under 2001 rules. The groups subsequently contested being kept on the bloc’s terrorist black list.The General Court, second to the ECJ, found in their favor in 2014 on the grounds the EU had based its decision on publicly available information, not on a finding by a competent authority.In a statement at the time, the court explained the EU’s blacklisting of Hamas had been based on “factual imputations derived from the press and the internet” instead of “on acts examined and confirmed in decisions of competent authorities.”Stating that the European Council, which placed Hamas on the terrorism list in 2001, “did not produce the obligatory judicial effects for the designation,” the court scrapped it but kept sanctions in place for another three months pending appeal.The European Council of the 28 member states in turn appealed that finding.Sharpston said Thursday that the EU “cannot rely on facts and evidence found in press articles and information from the internet, rather than in decisions of competent authorities, to support a decision to maintain a listing.”Given that “some of the reasons advanced could not justify the decision to maintain the listing of LTTE and Hamas,” the General Court was correct to dismiss the EU appeal when it could find no other sufficient reasons for their listing.Accordingly, the ECJ “should annul the measures maintaining Hamas and LTTE on the EU list of terrorist organizations on procedural grounds.”Washington, which already defines the Hamas organization as a “foreign terrorist organization,” added Hamas politburo member Fathi Hamad to its terror blacklist last week, meaning that US citizens and companies are banned from doing business with him and any assets he holds in areas under US jurisdiction will be frozen.According to the US State Department, which issued the designation, during his time as Hamas interior minister in Gaza Hamad used his position to “coordinate terrorist cells.”The State Department said that Hamad had founded Al-Aqsa TV, “with programs designed to recruit children to become Hamas armed fighters and suicide bombers upon reaching adulthood.”Advocates general of the ECJ are regularly called on to give their view on a case before a final ruling and in most instances their opinions are followed.Officials said they could not comment on Sharpston’s opinion and would wait until the final ruling in the case.For the moment, nothing has changed and Hamas and LTTE remain listed.The ECJ is expected to deliver a final ruling in the coming months.

Hollande: France still wants peace conference this year-At UNGA, French president says Paris seeks relaunch of negotiations between Israel, Palestinians; FM says ‘this week must be a moment of political mobilization’-By Agencies and Times of Israel staff September 20, 2016, 9:44 pm

French President Francois Hollande expressed hope Tuesday that Paris would still be able to host a peace conference between Israel and the Palestinians this year.Speaking to the UN General Assembly in New York, Hollande said: “On the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, France wants to convene a conference for negotiations by the end of the year.”The statements echoed those of his Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault who said at a briefing earlier Tuesday, on the sidelines of the General Assembly, that “this week must be a moment of political mobilization that we can reach that goal.”Ayrault’s push for an international conference follows an announcement by Russia’s Foreign Ministry on September 8 that Israeli and Palestinian leaders have agreed “in principle” to meet in Moscow for talks.But the wide gaps between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas raise doubts about the prospect for any meeting — and, if there is one, whether they would make any progress.Abbas demands that Israel halt all settlement construction in east Jerusalem and the West Bank, and release about two dozen Palestinian prisoners before any meeting. Netanyahu rejects the preconditions, charging that the Palestinian leadership must stop the incitement and support for terrorism.Ayrault said several countries, including Egypt, Russia and the United States, are trying to restart talks between Israel and the Palestinians. He said he told them that “all efforts are in fact complementary of the French initiative.”A statement from Secretary of State John Kerry’s office said Kerry met Abbas in New York Monday to discuss “our shared goal of a two state solution.”It said Kerry voiced “concern over trends on the ground, including the recent surge in violence and settlement activity.”France hosted an international meeting in Paris in June attended by more than two dozen Western and Arab countries to try to come up with a new strategy for Mideast peace and revive Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, which have been all but dead for over two years. The Israeli and Palestinian leaders were not invited.The participants welcomed the “prospect” of a conference with both parties later this year.Ayrault hosted a closed meeting Monday for officials from the countries that attended the June conference.

UN chief: One-state solution for Israeli-Palestinian conflict would ‘spell doom’-In last address as secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon criticizes ‘illegal settlement expansion,’ and ‘growing polarization and hopelessness’; Danon slams ‘UN obsession with Israel’-By Times of Israel staff September 20, 2016, 5:40 pm

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday that the only solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would be a two-state solution, and that the one-state option would “spell doom” for both sides.Speaking at the 71st session of the UN General Assembly in New York for the final time as UN chief, Ban gave a wide-ranging address focused largely on the Syrian civil war, which has claimed the lives of over 300,000 people since March 2011.On stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, Ban said that prospects for the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel “are being lowered by the day.”“It pains me that this past decade has been lost to peace. Ten years lost to illegal settlement expansion. Ten years lost to intra-Palestinian divide, growing polarization and hopelessness,” he said, adding that West Bank settlements were “obstacles to progress.”“This is madness. Replacing a two-state solution with a one-state construct would spell doom: denying Palestinians their freedom and rightful future, and pushing Israel further from its vision of a Jewish democracy towards greater global isolation,” said Ban.Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon criticized some of Ban’s comments, charging that “the real madness is of the UN’s.”“Instead of slamming the incitement and the terror [on the part of Palestinians], instead of bringing [Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas] to the negotiating table, the secretary general has chosen once again to attack Israel,” he said in a statement, adding that this is a “crazy obsession regarding Israel and it must stop.”“At a time when Palestinian terror has returned to Israeli streets, the secretary-general has chosen to attack Israel and not the terrorism and has ignored the direct responsibility of Abu Mazen [Abbas] and the Palestinian leadership who continue to incite terror,” Danon added.At least six Israelis were injured in the most recent wave of Palestinian attacks over the past week, one of them seriously.The UN chief opened his address with a call to end the Syrian civil war. Railing against “powerful patrons that keep feeding the war machine,” Ban said such countries “also have blood on their hands,” urging “all those with influence to end the fighting and get talks started.”“Present in this hall today are representatives of governments that have ignored, facilitated, funded, participated in or even planned and carried out atrocities inflicted by all sides of the Syria conflict against Syrian civilians,” he said, adding that “many groups have killed innocent civilians — none more so than the government of Syria.”In his address, Ban denounced the “sickening, savage and apparently deliberate attack” on an aid convoy in Aleppo province on Monday and confirmed that the United Nations had suspended deliveries of humanitarian assistance.“Just when you think it cannot get any worse, the bar of depravity sinks lower,” he added.The UN chief hailed the aid workers on the convoy as “heroes” and said “those who bombed them were cowards” before calling for accountability for crimes committed in the war.Both Syria and Russia denied they were behind the raid on the convoy near the northern city Aleppo, which the Red Cross said killed “around 20 civilians” including an employee of the Syrian Red Crescent. Air raids and shelling meanwhile pounded key battlefronts across the country — dimming hopes that the fraught ceasefire brokered by Moscow and Washington could be revived.Ban blamed all sides for killing innocent people, but “none more so than the government of Syria, which continues to barrel bomb neighborhoods and systematically torture thousands of detainees.”The former South Korean foreign minister is stepping down as UN secretary-general on December 31 after 10 years.AFP contributed to this report

Republican senators push to expand military aid to Israel-Lawmakers slam ten-year agreement, which forbids Jerusalem from accepting extra funds from Congress, as curtailing their powers-By Times of Israel staff and AP September 21, 2016, 3:30 am

Four Republican senators are promising a showdown with the White House over the ten-year, $38 billion military aid deal signed between the Obama administration and the Netanyahu government earlier this month.The lawmakers, Lindsey Graham, Kelly Ayotte, John McCain and Ted Cruz, told a news conference Tuesday that they are planning to introduce legislation in the Senate that would overturn a provision of the deal, formally called the Memorandum of Understanding, that prevents Israel from receiving any additional funds beyond those allowed under the agreement, and even requires it to return any added funds granted to it by Congress, Reuters reported.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has spent the past week defending the deal in the face of critics on the Israeli center-left. It is not clear how Israel will handle a fight between Congress and the White House over a deal it has already signed.According to the lawmakers, they are acting to protect Congress’s control over federal spending, which they said was curtailed by the US-Israel aid agreement.According to Reuters, the senators said they were proposing a bill Tuesday that would enable Israel to receive $1.5 billion in additional military aid, as well as renewing some American sanctions on Iran that were removed in last year’s nuclear deal between Tehran and six world powers.Three other GOP senators, Marco Rubio, Roy Blunt and Mark Kirk, are cosponsors of the new bill.“This is a very dramatic moment in the US-Israel relationship between Congress and the state of Israel. Congress is not going to sit on the sidelines,” Graham, who holds significant sway over the US foreign aid budget as chairman of a Senate Allocations subcommittee, was quoted as saying.Last week, Graham used a conference call arranged by the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs to chastise Israeli leaders for accepting the agreement. Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump would have been more generous, he insisted, adding that both Republicans and Democrats in Congress support upping the military aid.“They left money on the table,” Graham said of Israel.The Obama administration was trying to “neuter” Congress by undercutting its ability to appropriate money, he charged. “I will not stand for that.”Graham seemed to draw further support from Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tennessee, chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who said in a statement last week that the agreement “sends an important signal about our long-term commitment to Israel,” but the amount of money “is ultimately up to Congress to decide.”The agreement was signed last week in Washington after over three years of on-and-off negotiations.Obama’s national security adviser Susan Rice, who witnessed the signing, called it a signal of Washington’s “unshakable commitment” to the security of the Jewish state. It is the largest such deal ever offered by Washington to a foreign state.The total includes $33 billion in foreign military financing funds — which is money used to buy materiel and ammunition — as well as $5 billion in missile defense funding. Under the previous arrangement, Congress approved funds for Israeli missile defense systems, including Iron Dome, separately and on an annual basis.The old agreement, set to expire by the end of 2017 and be replaced by the new one in early 2018, allowed Israel to use 26.3 percent of the aid to buy products from its own domestic defense industry. The new deal phases out that amount over several years, until all US-granted aid is spent on American-made products.The new agreement also eliminates Israel’s ability to spend a fraction of the funds on fuel for its military.In his comments last week, Graham said lawmakers wanted to give Israel $600 million for missile defense — $100 million more than the agreement proposes to provide in 2019, as well as a $300 million hike in the foreign military financing account.Republican lawmakers have said that Israel was pressured into signing the agreement out of fear of growing Iranian power in the wake of the nuclear deal and growing Iranian assertiveness throughout the region.

Israeli minister slams ‘naive and messianic’ Obama-Comments by Netanyahu confidant Hanegbi come day after leaders broadcast friendly ties in meeting; US envoy says administration ‘disappointed’ with lack of progress on 2-state solution-By Raoul Wootliff September 22, 2016, 2:57 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

Israeli minister Tzachi Hanegbi slammed US President Barack Obama’s efforts to foster Israeli-Palestinian peace Thursday, a day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a cordial meeting with the American leader and trumpeted warming relations between the two.Speaking a day after what was likely the last meeting between Netanyahu and Obama in their current positions, Hanegbi, a close confidante of the prime minister, told Army radio that the US president was “naive and messianic” in his dealings with Israel.“At the moment Obama is not acting like the most powerful man in the world,” he said, “instead he is behaving like someone working in Hillary Clinton’s campaign office.”In their public remarks on Tuesday, Obama and Netanyahu displayed a jovial camaraderie with the US president only briefly mentioning peace efforts with the Palestinians and concerns over settlement building.But behind closed doors, senior Obama administration officials claimed Obama was more pointed, raising “profound US concerns” that settlement-building was eroding prospects for peace.Netanyahu challenged that notion, said one official, adding that the two leaders had not “papered over” their differences.However, a senior Israeli official said the issue was only point of contention between the two leaders, as they sought to put a history of testy ties behind them.Hanegbi’s comments highlighted lingering discomfort in Israel’s government with Obama’s efforts to push for a two-state deal with the Palestinians, despite attempts by Netanyahu to smooth out ruffles between Washington and Jerusalem.In 2014, then defense minister Moshe Ya’alon called US Secretary of State John Kerry “obsessive and messianic,” drawing loud protests from the US administration. Ya’alon later apologized, after Netanyahu expressed unhappiness with the comments.Hanegbi was not alone to show cracks in the relationship Thursday, US ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro saying that Obama was “disappointed” in the lack of progress towards a two-state solution under the Israeli leader.While Obama still believes there is a possibility for positive developments in the three months left before he leaves office, he has accepted that he will not achieve the significant progress he had originally hoped for, Shapiro told Army Radio in an interview from the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.“Obama aspired to help Israel achieve its goal of two states for two peoples. There is disappointment over what was not achieved but at the same time there is still a will and an obligation to move forward, however possible, in the right direction,” Shapiro said.“In the last eight years they haven’t held back from discussing the things they disagree on and that’s a sign of good relationship, that they are not afraid to speak about the important things,” he added.Addressing the General Assembly on Tuesday, Obama said that while the Palestinians should reject terror and incitement, Israel must recognize that it cannot “permanently occupy and settle Palestinian land.”“Surely Israelis and Palestinians will be better off if Palestinians reject incitement and recognize the legitimacy of Israel. But Israel must recognize that it cannot permanently occupy and settle Palestinian land. We all have to do better,” Obama said.“There are things that Israel can do to improve the situation,” Shapiro said Thursday, echoing Obama’s words.Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.

EZEKIEL 38:1-7
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:TOBOLSK)
4 And I (GOD) will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY) of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.(AFRICAN MUSLIMS,SUDAN,TUNESIA ETC)
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.

EZEKIEL 39:1-22
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back,(RUSSIA-ARAB MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS) and leave but the sixth part of thee,(5/6TH OR 300 MILLION DEAD RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS I BELIEVE) and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
9  And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years:
10  So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord GOD.
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog (RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS) a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers (EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN JORDAN VALLEY) on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog (RUSSIAN) and all his multitude:(ARAB/MUSLIM HORDE) and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.(BURIEL SITE OF THE 300 MILLION,RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS)
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.(OF ISRAEL)
13 Yea, all the people of the land (OF ISRAEL) shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I (GOD-JESUS) shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment,(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB EXPERTS) passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
15 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it,(WON'T TOUCH IT) till the buriers have buried it (PROPERLY) in the valley of Hamongog.(RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS NEW BURIEL SITE)(EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN THE JORDAN VALLEY)
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.(OF THE ISRAEL-GOD HATERS)
17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl,(500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS THREW ISRAEL EVERY SPRING,FALL) and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.(OF THE RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ARMIES)
18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19 And ye (MIGRATING BIRDS IN ISRAEL) shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.(RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS)
20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
21 And I (GOD-JESUS) will set my glory among the heathen,(WORLD NATIONS) and all the heathen (WORLD NATIONS) shall see my judgment that I have executed,(AGAINST ISRAELS ENEMIES) and my (GODS) hand that I have laid upon them.(ISRAELS HATER ENEMIES)
22  So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day and forward.

In sign of thaw, top diplomat meets South African foreign minister-On sidelines of UN assembly, Dore Gold discusses bilateral ties with Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, who in 2013 said Pretoria ‘curtails senior leadership contact’ with Israelis-By Raphael Ahren September 22, 2016, 3:18 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

NEW YORK — The director general of Israel’s Foreign Ministry met on Wednesday with the Foreign Minister of South Africa, who three years ago infamously said that officials from her country do not engage with Israel.Dore Gold’s meeting with Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, who has been Pretoria’s minister of international relations and cooperation since 2009, took place at the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.The Israeli Foreign Ministry confirmed the meeting took place but initially kept mum about its content. Gold tweeted a photo of him shaking hands with Nkoana-Mashabane, adding that he was “[e]xploring the ties between our nations.”“We consider the very fact that this meeting was held an extraordinary achievement,” a senior Foreign Ministry official told The Times of Israel on Thursday.During the meeting, Gold discussed the importance of South Africa-Israel relations, particularly in the context of Jerusalem’s renewed push to engage with all countries on the continent, the official added.In 2013, Nkoana-Mashabane said that due to the Palestinians’ plight, South African officials refuse to engage with Israel.“Ministers of South Africa do not visit Israel currently. Even the Jewish Board of Deputies that we engage with here, they know why our ministers are not going to Israel,” she said at the time.Exploring the ties between our nations with Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, #SouthAfrica-'s Minister of International Relations and Cooperation @UN pic.twitter.com/duZzTkK13b— Dr. Dore Gold (@DoreGoldMFA) September 22, 2016-Nkoana-Mashabane further said that South Africa has “agreed to slow down and curtail senior leadership contact with that regime until things begin to look better… The struggle of the people of Palestine is our struggle,” she declared.Nkoana-Mashabane’s comments caused a stir, and the South African cabinet later asserted that it had not imposed “a ban on travel to Israel by government officials.”Relations between Jerusalem and Pretoria have long been fraught over the latter’s harsh criticism of Israeli policies and its staunch support for the Palestinians. Last year, the African National Congress — the country’s ruling party — hosted the leader of Hamas’s political bureau, Khaled Mashaal, a move protested by Israel.Earlier this year, Gold embarked on a three-day visit to South Africa, meeting with Jewish community leaders and government officials.“The meetings were a very important start. To say that we’re about to have a completely different relationship is premature. But there was a readiness to hear our arguments,” Gold told The Times of Israel at the time. “There’s potential. Now, everything is in the follow-up.”On Thursday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to meet with about a dozen leaders from African countries, part of a push to forge stronger trade and diplomatic ties with the continent. It is not clear whether South African officials will be present.During his current trip to New York, Gold also meet with the foreign ministers of Tanzania, Malawi, Ethiopia and Rwanda.South African President Jacob Zuma is currently in New York, where he addressed the UN General Assembly Wednesday. In his speech, he said that the lack of progress on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict “remains a major concern for us.” It is time for the UN to “carry out its historic mission” and help resolve the conflict, which he called one of the “longest outstanding decolonization and occupation issues.”

Assad blames US for Syria truce collapse-In interview, Syrian president takes no responsibility for atrocities, accusing enemies of the state of all killings-By ian phillips and Zeina Karam September 22, 2016, 4:13 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — President Bashar Assad rejected US accusations that Syrian or Russian planes struck an aid convoy in Aleppo or that his troops were preventing food from entering the city’s rebel-held eastern neighborhoods, blaming the US for the collapse of a ceasefire many had hoped would bring relief to the war-ravaged country.In an interview with The Associated Press in Damascus, Assad also said deadly US airstrikes on Syrian troops last week were intentional, dismissing American officials’ statements that they were an accident. Assad said the US lacked “the will” to join forces with Russia in fighting extremists.Assad, who inherited power from his father and is now in his 16th year in office, cut a confident figure during the interview — a sign of how his rule, which once seemed threatened by the rebellion, has been solidified by his forces’ military advances and by the air campaign of his ally Russia, which turned the tables on the battlefield last year.He said his enemies alone were to blame for nearly six years of devastation across Syria, and while acknowledging some mistakes, he repeatedly denied any excesses by his troops. He said the war was only likely to “drag on” because of continued external support for his opponents-“When you have many external factors that you don’t control, it’s going to drag on and no one in this world can tell you when” the war will end, he said, insisting Syrians who fled the country could return within a few months if the US, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar stopped backing insurgents.He spoke Wednesday in Damascus’ Muhajireen palace, a white-stone building where he often receives guests, nestled among trees on the foothills of Qasioun Mountain. The Syrian capital, seat of Assad’s power, has stayed relatively untouched throughout the conflict, spared the devastation inflicted on other, opposition-held areas of the country. In recent months, Assad’s forces have taken rebel strongholds in suburbs of the capital, bolstering security and reducing the threat of mortar shells.The attack on the aid convoy outside Aleppo took place Monday night, hitting a warehouse as aid workers unloaded cargo and triggering huge explosions. Footage filmed by rescuers showed torn flesh being picked from the wreckage. Witnesses described a sustained, two-hour barrage that included barrel bombs — crude, unguided explosives that the Syrian government drops from helicopters.A senior US administration official said the US believes with a very high degree of confidence that a Russian-piloted aircraft carried out the strike. The official wasn’t authorized to speak publicly on the matter and asked for anonymity.Assad dismissed the claims, saying whatever American officials say “has no credibility” and is “just lies.”Like Syria, Russia has denied carrying out the convoy bombing.Syria and the United States have been at loggerheads since the September 17 US airstrike last week that hit Syrian troops in the eastern province of Deir el-Zour. US officials said the attack — its first direct hit on Syrian forces since the civil war began — was accidental and that the warplanes thought they were targeting Islamic State group positions. Russia said the strikes killed more than 60 Syrian troops, and afterward, IS militants briefly overran government positions in the area until they were beaten back.Assad said he did not believe the American account and said that attack targeted a “huge” area constituting many hills.“It wasn’t an accident by one airplane… It was four airplanes that kept attacking the position of the Syrian troops for nearly one hour, or a little bit more than one hour,” Assad said in the interview. “You don’t commit a mistake for more than one hour.”“How could they [IS] know that the Americans are going to attack that position in order to gather their militants to attack right away and to capture it one hour after the strike?” Assad asked. “So it was definitely intentional, not unintentional as they claimed.”The strikes contributed to the collapse of the ceasefire, which had already been marred by numerous violations on both sides of the conflict. They also cast serious doubt on chances for implementing an unprecedented US-Russian agreement to jointly target militants in the country.Assad said the United States lacked the will to work with Russia against extremists in Syria. “I don’t believe the United States will be ready to join Russia in fighting terrorists in Syria,” he said.Despite extensive evidence to the contrary, Assad repeatedly denied that his forces were besieging opposition-held eastern Aleppo, which has become a symbol both of resistance and also the high price civilians are paying in the war.He flatly denied claims of malnutrition and a chronic lack of medical supplies.“If there’s really a siege around the city of Aleppo, people would have been dead by now,” Assad said, asking how rebels were able to smuggle in arms but apparently not food or medicine.The ancient city, now partly destroyed, has been carved out into rebel and government-controlled areas since 2012. Rebel reinforcements broke a hole in the blockade in August. But in heavy bombardment over the following weeks, more than 700 civilians were killed. Earlier this month, Syrian troops backed by Russian airstrikes retook the roads and the siege resumed.Since then, the UN has accused Assad’s government of obstructing aid access to the city, despite an agreement to allow aid in during the week-long ceasefire. During the brief ceasefire, trucks carrying aid sat idle by the nearby Turkish border, awaiting permits and safety guarantees.Throughout the conflict, Assad’s forces have been accused of bombing hospitals and civilians and choking opposition cities. Millions have fled Syria, some of them drowning at sea in the Mediterranean.The war has been defined by gruesome photos and video posted in the aftermath of bloody attacks or documenting the plight of children in particular. Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed, and once thriving cities have been ravaged, with entire blocks reduced to rubble. The images have galvanized public opinion worldwide — but Assad, while acknowledging that the war had been ‘savage,’ said eyewitness accounts should not be automatically believed.“Those witnesses only appear when there’s an accusation against the Syrian army or the Russian [army], but when the terrorists commit a crime or massacre or anything, you don’t see any witnesses… So, what a coincidence,” he said.Assad scoffed at the idea that Syria’s “White Helmets” — civil defense volunteers in opposition held areas seen by many as symbols of bravery and defiance — might be considered for a Nobel Peace Prize after a nomination earlier this year.“What did they achieve in Syria?” he said. “I would only give a prize to whoever works for the peace in Syria.”The group shared this year’s Right Livelihood Award, sometimes known as the “Alternative Nobel,” with activists from Egypt and Russia and a Turkish newspaper, the prize foundation announced Thursday.Asked about his methods, including the use of indiscriminate weapons, Assad said “when you have terrorists, you don’t throw at them balloons, or you don’t use rubber sticks for example. You have to use armaments.”

PROSECUTORS-DEFENDER ARGUE OVER STATUS OC NY-NJ ISLAMIC TERRORIST-SEX FOR MURDER DEATH CULT ATTEMPTED MURDERER WITH 10 OR MORE BOMBS.AND DAY 2 OF NORTH CAROLINA BLACK RACISTS OF POLICE HATER RIOTERS.

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)

Prosecutors, public defender squabble over status of accused NY bomber-[By David Ingram]-September 22, 2016-YAHOONEWS

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Prosecutors and New York's top federal public defender squabbled on Thursday over when the suspect in the series of weekend bombings around the city and New Jersey will get a lawyer.Ahmad Khan Rahami, 28, has been held in a Newark, New Jersey, hospital since he was arrested on Monday after a gunfight with police. He faces federal charges in both states for a Saturday night bombing in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood that injured 31 people and a pair of blasts in New Jersey.Rahami, a naturalized U.S. citizen who emigrated from Afghanistan with his family at the age of 7, was motivated by militant Islamic views, prosecutors said, citing a journal he was carrying in which he begged for martyrdom and expressed outrage at the U.S. "slaughter" of Muslim fighters in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Palestine.The case is being treated by authorities as an act of terrorism, and while prosecutors currently believe Rahami acted alone they are still searching for anyone who may have helped him plan the attack or build the homemade bombs.David Patton, the head of the federal public defenders office in New York asked on Wednesday to be appointed as Rahami's attorney and asked to be allowed to meet with him, saying he has not had the advice of a lawyer thus far.New York police said on Wednesday they had not yet been cleared to interview Rahami and were waiting for doctors to confirm that he is well enough to be questioned.The FBI also said that Rahami was arrested by police in New Jersey and remained in the custody of the state, not the federal government.A U.S. magistrate judge late Wednesday said he accepted that position."The Government asserts unequivocally that the defendant 'is not in federal custody,'" Judge Gabriel Gorenstein wrote in an order late Wednesday. "Whether there are federal authorities questioning defendant does not address the issue of custody."The judge said the timetable for when Rahami can meet with a public defender cannot be decided until the issue of custody is resolved.Normally, a U.S. criminal defendant goes before a magistrate with little delay and, if too poor to afford a lawyer, appointed a lawyer at that first appearance or soon afterward, said Norman Lefstein, an Indiana University law professor."A person in this situation ought to have the capacity to confer with a lawyer. If the person had money, they would be able to talk to a lawyer," Lefstein said.The FBI also continued to search for two men who found a second, unexploded pressure cooker device that prosecutors say Rahami left in a piece of luggage in Chelsea on Saturday night.The two men, who took the bag but left the improvised bomb on the street, are not suspects, officials said, but investigators want to interview them as witnesses.Investigators also looked into Rahami's history of travel to Afghanistan and Pakistan as well as for evidence he may have picked up radical views or been trained in bomb-making.The attacks in New York and New Jersey were the latest in a series in the United States inspired by Islamic militant groups including al Qaeda and Islamic State.A pair of ethnic Chechen brothers killed three people and injured more than 260 others at the Boston Marathon in 2013 with homemade pressure-cooker bombs similar to those used in this weekend's attacks.In June an Orlando gunman and in December 2015 a married couple in San Bernardino, California killed dozens in mass shootings inspired by Islamic State.(Writing by Scott Malone; Editing by Jeffrey Benkoe)

I PUT THE BLACK THUG CRIMINAL TERRORISTS STORIES WITH ISLAM. BECAUSE THESE BLACK LIVES HATE CULT IS AS MUCH A TERRORIST GROUP AS ISLAM. THE ONLY DIFFERENCE THE BLACK LIVES RIOT-CULT BURNS-LOOTS-TERRORIZES INNOCENT PEOPLES BUSINESSES AND PEOPLE.

Charlotte, N.C. in state of emergency after second night of violence-[Reuters]-By Greg Lacour and Andy Sullivan-September 22, 2016-YAHOONEWS

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (Reuters) - Residents of Charlotte, North Carolina, woke to a state of emergency on Thursday with National Guard troops deployed on the streets after a second night of violent protests over the fatal police shooting of a black man.One person was on life support after being shot by a civilian late Wednesday as riot police used tear gas, rubber bullets and flash-bang grenades to try to disperse demonstrators who looted stores and threw rocks, bottles and fireworks.Four police officers suffered non-life threatening injuries, city officials said.The latest trouble erupted after a peaceful rally earlier in the evening by protesters who reject the official account of how Keith Scott, 43, was gunned down by a black police officer in the parking lot of an apartment complex on Tuesday afternoon.Authorities say Scott was wielding a handgun and was shot after refusing commands to drop it. His family and a witness say he was holding a book, not a firearm, when he was killed.A spokesman for the Charlotte Fraternal Order of Police told CNN on Thursday he had seen video from the scene showing Scott holding a gun.Scott's wife, Rakeyia Scott, said on Wednesday evening that her family was "devastated" and had "more questions than answers" about her husband's death.She said she respected the rights of those who wanted to demonstrate, and asked that they do so peacefully.But the pleas appeared to go mostly unheeded. Overnight, protesters smashed windows and glass doors at a downtown Hyatt hotel and punched two employees, the hotel's manager told Reuters. The slogan "Black Lives Matter" was spray-painted on windows.Looters were seen smashing windows and grabbed items from a convenience store as well as a shop that sells athletic wear for the National Basketball Association's Charlotte Hornets. Protesters also set fire to trash cans.It was the second night of unrest in North Carolina's largest city and one of the biggest U.S. financial centres. Sixteen police officers and several protesters were injured on Tuesday night and in the early hours of Wednesday.-'VIOLENCE NOT TOLERATED'-Governor Pat McCrory declared a state of emergency late Wednesday night and began the process of deploying the National Guard and state highway patrol officers to the city to help restore peace."Any violence directed toward our citizens or police officers or destruction of property should not be tolerated," McCrory said in a statement.Charlotte Mayor Jennifer Roberts was considering a curfew and Bank of America Corp , which is headquartered in Charlotte, told employees not to report to work at its uptown offices, local media reported.The American Civil Liberties Union has called on the police in Charlotte to release camera footage of the incident. Authorities have said the officer who shot Scott, Brentley Vinson, was in plainclothes and not wearing a body camera. But according to officials, video was recorded by other officers and by cameras mounted on patrol cars.Todd Walther, the Charlotte Fraternal Order of Police official, said the plainclothes officers were wearing vests marked "police" and that he saw them do nothing wrong. Releasing the video would satisfy some people, but not everyone, he added, and people will have to wait for the investigation to conclude."The clear facts will come out and the truth will come out. It's unfortunate to say that we have to be patient, but that's the way it's going to have to be," Walter said.Mayor Roberts said she planned to view the footage on Thursday, but did not indicate if or when it would be made public.The killing of Scott came just days after a fatal shooting of an unarmed black man in Tulsa, Oklahoma that was recorded on video. Protesters have held peaceful rallies demanding the arrest of the female officer involved.U.S. President Barack Obama spoke by telephone on Wednesday with the mayors of Charlotte and Tulsa, a White House official said.The two deaths were the latest in a series of police shootings over the last couple of years that have raised questions about racial bias in U.S. law enforcement.They have also made policing and community relations a major topic ahead of the presidential election in November.William Barber, president of North Carolina's chapter of the NAACP, called for the "full release of all facts available," and said NAACP officials planned to meet with city officials and members of Scott's family on Thursday.(Additional reporting by Brendan O'Brien in Milwaukee; Editing by Jeremy Gaunt and Jeffrey Benkoe)

EUROPEAN UNION ARMY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI5_pMvLZd8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytWmPqY8TE0&feature=player_embedded

DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 DIVSION REGION WORLD GOVERNMENT) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.( BE HEAD OF 3 NATIONS)
25 And he (EU PRESIDENT) shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.(3 1/2 YRS)

DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT-NEW AGE MOVEMENT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.

DANIEL 11:36-39
36 And the king (EU DICTATOR) shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS JEWISH) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.(CLAIM TO BE GOD)
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(WAR) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god,(DESTROY TERROR GROUPS) whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.

REVELATION 19:19
19 And I saw the beast,(EU LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies,(UNITED NATIONS TROOPS) gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse,(JESUS) and against his army.(THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)

Focus-University rankings reveal two-speed Europe-By Joseph Boyle-SEPT 22,16-EUOBSERVER

VIENNA, Today, 08:04-The EU is breaking into a two-speed continent as far as universities are concerned, the latest global rankings suggest.Institutions from the UK, Germany and the Netherlands are leaving behind most of the rest of the EU, according to the Times Higher Education (THE) World University rankings.The University of Oxford, in the UK, has achieved the ultimate prize – it has been named as the world's best university, displacing American institutions for the first time since the THE began the rankings 13 years ago.Some 32 British universities made the top 200, described by the THE as the elite group. Three reached the top 10 – Oxford, the University of Cambridge (4) and Imperial College London (8).The only other European institution in the top 10 was ETH Zurich (9). The rest of the top 10 were from the US.Germany's top university, LMU Munich, came in at 30, but overall German institutions performed strongly, with 22 ranked in the top 200.And the Netherlands supplied 13 of the top 200, with the Delft University of Technology (59) ranking most highly.These three nations performed similarly in last year's rankings.No guarantee for Europe-However, although Europe was still the most successful continent, the THE suggested that it was falling back slightly.“Overall six European institutions have fallen out of the top 200, with 99 now making this cohort,” said Phil Baty, editor of the rankings.He highlighted France as being particularly weak, with one-third of France's 27 institutions falling down the rankings.Just three French institutions now make the top 200 – Ecole Normale Superieure (66), Ecole Polytechnique (116) and Pierre and Marie Curie University (121) – all of which have fallen compared with last year.Other surprises included the University of Copenhagen, which plummeted from 82 last year to 120 this year, and the University of Helsinki, which tumbled from 76 to 91.Baty suggested the Nordic institutions were feeling the effects of budget cuts.He also painted a damning picture for Central and Eastern Europe, saying the region provided just one university in the top 600, down from six last year, and three of Romania’s four universities dropped significantly.“Europe’s success in the ranking cannot be guaranteed in the long-term while more of Asia’s leading universities soar to join the world elite,” Baty concluded.-The Americans always win-The THE rankings, one of three major global studies, are mainly aimed at the institutions and public bodies that buy their products.THE looks at 13 different factors, the main one being quality of teaching.Much of the data comes from surveys filled in by more than 10,000 academics, who are asked to rate the teaching at the institutions they are familiar with.The other main factors are the volume and quality of research at a university.Another index, the QS ranking, is aimed much more at students and places a much greater emphasis on the reputation of an institution among academics and employers.In that survey, Cambridge beat Oxford, Germany did not do as well, and France performed much more strongly.A third survey, the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities, focuses on research funding and outcomes.Cambridge again beat Oxford on the Shanghai rankings, and France's top two institutions are ahead of anything Germany has to offer.One thing that all the surveys have in common, though, is that US institutions are completely dominant.

Report: Hungary could push for treaty change on migration By Eszter Zalan-SEPT 22,16-EUOBSERVER

BUDAPEST, Today, 09:30-Hungary's government might push for a treaty change to keep asylum rules in national competences if it wins a referendum on migration quotas on 2 October, Hungarian daily Nepszabadsag reported Wednesday (21 September).The paper quoted senior government officials saying that if the majority reject the EU's migration quotas, prime minister Viktor Orban could use the momentum to change the Lisbon treaty.According to the paper, Hungary would propose exempting national migration rules from the common European policies.Orban has been a key figure among leaders of eastern European countries which have been calling for reinforced national competencies.The Hungarian prime minister said in July he had an "ambivalent relationship" with treaty change.Speaking after the EU summit he told journalists that even though it was not time for treaty change, "when tempers calm down, we should ask ourselves: aren't there problems in this treaty that we should rethink?"Hungary's government had already challenged the quota plan in the EU's top court, the European Court of Justice.Voters support the government's position, polls have shown, the question is whether enough people bother to show up to surpass the 50 percent threshold to make the plebiscite valid.While Hungary's referendum will not have direct legal consequences for the EU, the government said it wanted to use the extra mandate to close down discussions on the quota.-Nordic disputes-In the meantime, Nordic countries are calling on the EU to act, as Hungary has refused to take back asylum seekers from other EU and other European countries under the bloc's asylum rules, called Dublin regulation.In a 9 September letter seen by AFP, ministers from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden expressed their "great concern" at Budapest's refusal to abide by the Dublin rules under which refugees must seek asylum in the first EU country they enter.The joint letter quotes from a statement sent by Budapest to fellow EU nations in May, which insisted that Hungary "cannot accept any incoming Dublin transfers". Hungary has argued that the migrants first entered the EU in Greece.The ministers argue this is "a violation of the EU law and it is not acceptable" and called on EU migration commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos to "act promptly".While the EU Commission has launched probes into Hungary's asylum laws, it has been reluctant to act on the Nordic complaint, saying it was a bilateral issue.-No-go zones-The government's referendum has caused a diplomatic spat with the UK.The British embassy in Budapest has complained to the Hungarian foreign ministry about the publication of a leaflet sent to millions of people that suggested parts of Britain and other countries had become "no-go areas" because of high numbers of migrants."This leaflet is clearly inaccurate. There are no areas in the UK in which the laws of the UK cannot be enforced," Britain's foreign office said in a statement according to AFP."There are no-go zones in Europe and we don't want no-go zones in Hungary," Hungary's foreign minister Peter Szijjarto told BBC on Wednesday.There a few migrants in Budapest, and the government has refused to accept the migrants it was assigned – just under 1,300 people – under last year's EU quota plan.

Canada's peacekeeping plan not politically motivated, says top soldier-[The Canadian Press]-September 22, 2016-YAHOONEWS

OTTAWA — The country's top soldier is pushing back against suggestions the Liberal government wants to use Canadian troops for political purposes by deploying them on United Nations peacekeeping missions.The opposition Conservatives accused the Liberals this week of treating the military like "pawns" by promising to support peacekeeping operations in exchange for a UN Security Council seat.The Liberal government has promised up to 600 troops for future peacekeeping operations, as well as 150 police officers and $450 million for peace support operations.But chief of the defence staff Gen. Jonathan Vance said Wednesday that Canadian troops will be deployed as peacekeepers for no other reason than to help bring peace and stability to another part of the world."I reject the notion that this is done simply for political reasons and putting troops in harm's way into risky areas for anything other than the true merits of the value of the use of military force," he said.Vance told the Senate defence committee that his staff members are looking at various UN mission options to see where Canada could best contribute. The government still has not decided on a specific mission, he added.Vance wouldn't say which missions the government is currently considering, but he acknowledged that many — if not all — carry some degree of risk. He said he wouldn't advise Canada participate in a mission with unnecessary or unmanageable risk."But a risky mission that has great potential of success may be a mission that you want to invest in," he said. "And the military, we do risk. We're good at that, if we can mitigate it."Some have worried that Canadian peacekeepers could be put into a no-win situation, or bound by endless UN bureaucracy that might tie their hands or otherwise put them at risk, such as in previous missions in Rwanda and Bosnia.Vance said UN commanders might give Canadian troops specific tasks, but he would "never" let the UN have the last word on when or how Canadian peacekeepers could act. He said he is the one who writes the rules of engagement for Canadian troops, which would continue with a peacekeeping mission."I never relinquish Canadian command of those troops," he said. "We have learned a lot since the days of Bosnia and Rwanda and elsewhere. And one of those is you're never out from under Canadian command."— Follow @leeberthiaume on Twitter.Lee Berthiaume, The Canadian Press

DRUG PUSHERS AND ADDICTS

1 PET 5:8
8 Be sober,(NOT DRUGED UP OR ALCOHOLICED) be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

REVELATION 18:23
23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries (DRUGS) were all nations deceived.

REVELATION 9:21
21 Neither repented they of their murders,(KILLING) nor of their sorceries (DRUG ADDICTS AND DRUG PUSHERS), nor of their fornication,(SEX OUTSIDE MARRIAGE OR PROSTITUTION FOR MONEY) nor of their thefts.(STEALING)

B.C. coroner warns against complacency in wake of encouraging overdose stats-[The Canadian Press]-September 22, 2016-YAHOONEWS

VANCOUVER — British Columbia is bombarding the province with thousands of overdose-reversing naloxone kits as part of an all-out assault against a drug crisis that has killed 488 people so far this year.Health Minister Terry Lake said Wednesday during an update on the opioid emergency that 13,000 life-saving kits have been distributed cost-free to nearly 300 sites across B.C., including emergency departments, public-health units and provincial and federal correctional facilities.Newly released data from the provincial coroners' service show the number of deaths involving illicit drugs decreased to 49 in August from 55 the previous month, though the 488 fatalities so far this year have nearly overtaken the 505 deaths reported for all of 2015."(August) marks the first month of 2016 where the number was reduced over the equivalent month in 2015, but we are very, very cautious about what that means," Lake told a news conference."We need more data, more time to see if there's a trend happening."Over 11,000 people have been trained to administer naloxone, including first responders such as police officers and firefighters."All ambulance crews and 46 fire departments are now carrying naloxone," Lake said, adding the B.C. Centre for Disease Control is expanding its take-home naloxone program and that the province expects to reach its goal of opening 500 new addiction treatment beds by 2017.The number of drug deaths where fentanyl was detected between Jan. 1 and July 31 of this year has remained strong at 264, or around 55 per cent of total illicit drug deaths. That's more than three times the 82 fentanyl-related deaths that occurred over the same period last year."Thirty-six per cent of fentanyl deaths also involved cocaine, which is frightening, because we know there are people who thought they were taking cocaine and had absolutely no idea they were taking fentanyl," Lisa Lapointe, B.C.'s chief coroner, told the news conference.Fentanyl continues to take an exceptionally high toll, she added."We must all work together to try and reduce that toll, which is predominantly affecting young people and people who should have many more years of life ahead of them," said Lapointe."Despite the small decrease in the number of deaths in August, the last thing we would want is for anyone to become complacent or think that the danger is over or that the risks are diminished."British Columbia has been the epicentre of opioid deaths in Canada, and the province declared a public health emergency in April, after which the coroner's service began collecting and releasing monthly statistics on overdose deaths.While Vancouver has seen the highest number of deaths in the province this year, the fatality rate has remained consistent since last year. The same can't be said for other B.C. municipalities such as Kamloops, where the number of fatalities has spiked more than five times higher.In June, Premier Christy Clark announced a joint task force on overdose response."It's a massive effort," Lake said, adding that overdose deaths involving fentanyl have hit communities across North America."People have been reaching out to British Columbia to learn about what we're doing," he said.Earlier Wednesday, the chief medical health officer of Vancouver Coastal Health said the city could see as many as four new supervised-injection sites by early next year.Dr. Patricia Daly said the health authority is applying to Health Canada to expand the number of harm-reduction sites in its area, where there are currently two such facilities. Insite, in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, was North America's first supervised injection site.Daly said she hoped the sites will be up and running by early 2017.Applying to offer safe-injection services became especially difficult in early 2015 after the previous federal government passed a bill that added several prohibitive regulations.— Follow @gwomand on Twitter-Geordon Omand, The Canadian Press

SEX SINS

1 CORINTHIANS 6:9,14-18
9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
14 And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.
15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.
16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

GALATIONS 5:19-21
19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Conservative leadership hopeful compares Ontario sex ed to residential schools-[The Canadian Press]-September 22, 2016-YAHOONEWS

TORONTO — Conservative leadership hopeful Brad Trost raised some eyebrows Wednesday when he compared Ontario's new sex-education curriculum to residential schools.Trost joined a couple hundred parents gathered outside the provincial legislature to protest Liberal changes to the way sex education is taught in the province.The updated document includes warnings about online bullying and sexting, but some parents have taken issue with discussions of same-sex marriage, masturbation and gender identities.Unlike at their previous rallies, the protesters also lashed out at Progressive Conservative Leader Patrick Brown, whose flip-flopping on the issue has made him a target of the ire of many social conservatives.Trost, known for his opposition to same-sex marriage, was one of the guest speakers at the protest."You have a responsibility, a responsibility that you take very seriously, a sacred responsibility to do what is right for your children," the Saskatchewan MP told the crowd."We in Canada, when we have taken away those rights from parents we have had a disaster each and every time. The most tragic incident in our history was the residential schools and that was the underlying problem: parental rights were not respected."About 150,000 First Nations, Inuit and Metis children were taken from their families and forced to attend government schools. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission heard graphic testimony from survivors who detailed physical, sexual and emotional abuse at the schools.Trost said after his speech that the Ontario sex-ed curriculum is "not nearly" the same level of seriousness as residential schools, but "the underlying principle is the same."He was hesitant to comment on the controversy surrounding Brown, his former Conservative caucus colleague, but said his "personal friend" has always been "a shy guy when it comes to policy and things like that."Brown told social conservatives last year that he would "repeal" the curriculum — a promise he never made publicly. A letter went out under his name last month in a Toronto byelection saying he would "scrap" the curriculum if elected premier, but Brown disavowed it in an op-ed days later, saying he hadn't seen it and that he now supports the changes.Social conservatives have since produced emails that appeared to suggest Brown was aware of the promise to scrap the updated curriculum. Tanya Granic Allen of the group Parents as First Educators says she had discussions with Brown's chief of staff during the byelection about what commitments the leader could make to win her group's support.Brown said Wednesday they're upset he has changed his position."It's their mission now to make life difficult for those that oppose them," he said."I've made my position very clear on sex education. It is today what it was when I wrote my op-ed, that I support an updated curriculum."The crowd of protesters booed when social conservative leader Charles McVety mentioned Brown's name."Patrick Brown, I supported him," he said. "I want my $10 (membership fee) back because it was taken from me in a fraudulent manner."The curriculum was implemented last year and all of the three major party leaders now support it, but the protesters insist it is age inappropriate."(Premier Kathleen Wynne) does not get to tell us parents what our children will learn, we tell her what they will learn," Granic Allen said. "Most parents don't want their kids indoctrinated by the state and whatever new fad is taking hold of society these days."Allison Jones, The Canadian Press

GENESIS 9:1
1  And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.(WITH CHILDREN-NOT ABORT AND MURDER GODS CREATED CHILDREN)

Italian minister under renewed fire for Fertility Day campaign-[Reuters]-By Steve Scherer-September 22, 2016-YAHOONEWS

ROME (Reuters) - Italian Health Minister Beatrice Lorenzin came under renewed fire on Thursday as she hosted a "Fertility Day" conference aimed at persuading couples to have more children.An advertising campaign launched by the ministry had to be pulled at the start of the month after critics denounced it as sexist and another advert was withdrawn on Wednesday following accusations that it was racist.Lorenzin put a brave face on the mishaps, and said it was vital to raise Italy's falling birth rate. Fewer babies were born in 2015 than in any year since the modern state was founded 154 years ago."What's more important than polemics are facts, and the facts are that we currently have 700,000 people who want to procreate and for various reasons cannot," she said at the conference.Dozens of protesters shut out of the Rome conference by police accused the government of doing little to help couples have children, saying Italy needed more jobs, day care services and welfare support.Italy's fertility rate last year was 1.35 children per woman, compared with an EU average of 1.6.The idea that Italians will be persuaded to have more children by adverts appeared to be dismissed even by Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, who said earlier this month services and economic conditions, not advertisements, were needed.Lorenzin is a member of a centrist bloc, considered close to the Catholic Church, that is allied with Renzi's Democratic Party.Arturo Scotto, an opposition parliamentarian for the Italian Left party who took part in Thursday's protest, called for Lorenzin's resignation."The minister should listen to the reasons why many people are protesting against this campaign all over Italy," he said.Events organised by the ministry to mark the first "Fertility Day", and counter-protests, were being held in other cities on Thursday.The ministry's first ad campaign included a picture of a woman holding an hourglass next to the words: "Beauty has no age limit. Fertility does."On Wednesday, the ministry put out another ad with the words, "the good habits to promote" over a picture of two white men with smiling white women clinging to their backs on a beach.The bottom half of the ad read "the bad habits to leave behind" over a picture of youths smoking cannabis, one of them black.The ad was denounced as racist on social media and by Italian rights groups, and withdrawn by the ministry hours after it was sent out."There was supposed to be a different photograph than the one that was used," Lorenzin said. "The person who switched the picture will be held responsible."(Reporting by Steve Scherer; editing by Andrew Roche)

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

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

WORLD TERRORISM

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

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)

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

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)

Dunford: No doubt Russia is responsible for aid convoy hit-[Associated Press]-September 22, 2016-YAHOONEWS

WASHINGTON (AP) — The top U.S. military officer is telling a Senate committee he has no doubt that Russia is responsible for the airstrike on a humanitarian aid convoy in Syria, calling it an unacceptable atrocity.U.S. Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that both Russian and Syrian aircraft were in the area at the time of the strike.Dunford tells the Senate Armed Services Committee that he's not certain which aircraft dropped the bombs, killing 20 civilians.A senior U.S. official said Wednesday that the U.S. has a very high degree of confidence that the attack was carried out by a Russian-piloted aircraft. The official wasn't authorized to discuss the issue publicly and spoke anonymously.

India calls Pakistan 'terrorist state' at UN debate-[Associated Press]-September 22, 2016-YAHOONEWS

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — India has branded Pakistan a "terrorist state" in a stinging response to Pakistan's criticism of Indian suppression of protests in disputed Kashmir.India exercised its right of reply in the U.N. General Assembly late Wednesday. It was responding to Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif who had demanded a U.N. probe into "brutalities" by Indian forces.Indian diplomat Eenam Gambhir described that as a "hypocritical sermon."She blamed Pakistan for a rebel attack Sunday that killed 18 Indian soldiers in Kashmir, the deadliest attack on a military base there for years.She said: "What we see in Pakistan is a terrorist state, which channelizes billions of dollars, much of it diverted from international aid, to training, financing and supporting terrorist groups as militant proxies against it neighbors."

Defence chief defeating ISIL alone won't bring peace, stability to Iraq-[The Canadian Press]-September 22, 2016-YAHOONEWS

OTTAWA — Western military intervention may have prevented a "short-term calamity" in Iraq, but it is only the start of a long effort to bring peace and stability to the country, says Canada's defence chief."My belief is that the work we're doing now militarily in Iraq is the first step in a long, long journey to ensure the success of that region into the future," Gen. Jonathan Vance told the Senate defence committee Wednesday.Concerns about Iraq's long-term stability are mounting after its parliament sacked a high-profile minister for the second time in a month.Finance minister Hoshiyar Zebari was impeached Wednesday on allegations of corruption — the same fate that befell defence minister Khaled al-Obaidi at the end of August.The allegations have not been publicly proven, and some believe they are actually politically motivated and intended to weaken Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's grip on power.There has also been an uptick in violence between some of the various Iraqi groups, including Kurdish forces and Shia militias, that have until now been united in their fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.Thomas Juneau, an expert on Middle East politics at the University of Ottawa, said the fear is that such infighting will only increase as Iraq's various ethnic, religious and political factions begin to stake out ground for the post-ISIL era."Everybody's fighting ISIL right now," he said. "But this coalition — in the loosest term — against ISIL is very weak in the sense that the only glue that holds it together is fighting against ISIL. So the more ISIL weakens, the more glue that barely holds this coalition together also weakens."Vance told the Senate committee that ISIL — also known variously as the Islamic State, ISIS and Daesh — will be dismantled or at least rendered militarily insignificant in Iraq. However, he said there are a variety of other issues that need to be addressed, including the country's many political, economic and social challenges."Political stability, the rule of law, democratic principles, all of that, is of huge importance to the long-term success of Iraq," he said."We prevented the short-term calamity that would have been the Islamic State in Baghdad. But there's lots more to be done."But Juneau said that is more easily said than done.The reality is that the West doesn't have as much sway over internal Iraqi politics as it would like to believe, he noted. As a result, the divisions that many have blamed for creating the conditions to let a group like ISIL grow are unlikely to go away any time soon."In practice, there's very little that can be done," Juneau said. "What everyone is realizing is this pressure is not working."— Follow @leeberthiaume on Twitter-Lee Berthiaume, The Canadian Press

Death toll from air strike in Yemen rises to 26, sources say-[Reuters]-September 22, 2016-YAHOONEWS

SANAA (Reuters) - The death toll from an Arab coalition air strike which hit a house in a residential area in western Yemen has risen to 26 people, medics and residents in the Houthi-held area said on Thursday, and the alliance said it was looking into the report.Warplanes of the Saudi-led alliance launched missiles on Wednesday at a residential neighborhood in the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah where Houthi leaders were staying, a resident and medical workers in the Houthi-controled area told Reuters.The raid hit a house in a neighborhood populated by workers, according to medical services and local officials. Apart from those killed, 60 others were wounded, they said.The coalition, which began operations in Yemen in March last year to try to reverse the rise to power of the Iran-allied Houthi group, has repeatedly said it does not target civilians.In a statement, the coalition said it was aware of reports alleging civilian casualties in Hodeidah city."As with any allegation we receive, the information about the incident will be reviewed, and once it is found supporting the allegation based on credible evidence we will then move to a next step of investigations," the statement said.The deputy governor of Hodeidah province, Hashim Azazi, had earlier put the death toll at 19 civilians, but said rescue workers were still pulling victims out of the rubble.A Houthi leader, Ali al-Amad, said in a Tweet he had survived a raid on the presidential palace.U.N.-sponsored talks to try to end the fighting that has killed more than 10,000 people collapsed in failure last month and the Houthi movement and allied forces loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh resumed shelling into neighboring Saudi Arabia.Hundreds have been killed in strikes that have hit schools, hospitals, markets and private homes. Nearly half of Yemen's 22 provinces are on the verge of famine, according to the U.N. World Food Program, as a result of the war that has drawn in regional rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia.(Reporting by Mohammed Ghobari and William Maclean,; Writing by Reem Shamseddine, editing by Sami Aboudi and Raissa Kasolowsky)

U.N. says revival of Syria truce is possible, working on peace talks-[Reuters]-By Tom Miles and Stephanie Nebehay-September 22, 2016-YAHOONEWS

GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations said it was possible that countries backing the Syria peace process would agree on Thursday to salvage a collapsed ceasefire, and that it was still working to restart peace talks within weeks.U.N. Deputy Special Envoy for Syria Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy told reporters in Geneva that the United States and Russia had the backing of other states in the International Syria Support Group (ISSG), which was to meet later on in New York for the second time this week, to reinvigorate their joint truce plan."Clearly, the resumption of the talks would be greatly helped by revitalising the cessation of hostilities, and I think that is a possibility," he said. "That is the objective of the meeting of the ISSG."Ramzy said he hoped to hear a positive outcome within hours.A relaunch of the U.S.-Russia peace plan would require all sides to swallow their anger over attacks committed since the ceasefire was supposed to take hold on Sept. 12, including a U.S. air strike on Syrian forces and an attack on a U.N. aid convoy.Ramzy's boss, U.N. Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura, had conceded at the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday that a U.N. plan for a new constitution and free and fair elections sounded like "a dream".But with no other prospect of peace and a U.S. presidential election looming, diplomats say failure to revive the plan would doom Syria to months or years more war."This is where the situation is right now: a grim picture on the ground in terms of humanitarian aid and in terms of the cessation of hostilities, but at the same time a determination by the ISSG, and particularly the co-chairs, to make things work and to jump-start the political process," Ramzy said.De Mistura said on Wednesday he was ready to bring the warring sides together for direct talks for the first time, and Ramzy said preparations would begin immediately, "with a view to holding these talks hopefully within the next few weeks".(Reporting by Tom Miles and Stephanie Nebehay; writing by Tom Miles)

The Latest: Iran blames world powers for spread of terrorism-[Associated Press]-September 22, 2016-YAHOONEWS

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The latest on the high-level U.N. General Assembly meetings (all times local):___11:00 a.m.Iran's president is blaming world powers for the spread of terrorism over the past 15 years, saying their "repression and military intervention" has led to a more insecure world.Hassan Rohuani also accused regional rival Saudi Arabia of spreading "hate ideology" in the region in speech to the U.N. General Assembly that touched on familiar Iranian concerns. He also criticized a U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowing families of victims of bombing attacks linked to Iran to receive monetary damages from the country. At risk for Tehran is 1.75 billion in bonds, plus accumulating interest.At the same time, he praised the nuclear deal reached with the United States and five other powers last year as a "win-win approach for both sides.___10:45 a.m.Japanese officials say that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe requested that Iran cease military cooperation with North Korea.Abe made the request at a Wednesday meeting with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly.The officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to speak publicly about the conversation between the two leaders.The appeal from Abe reflects a desire to cut sources of revenue for North Korea's nuclear and missile programs.The officials say Rouhani responded that development of weapons of mass destruction would not contribute to world stability and he supports denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.According to the U.S. Congressional Research Service, there's no evidence that Iran and North Korea have engaged in nuclear cooperation but they have on missile technology.___9:00 a.m.India has branded Pakistan a "terrorist state" in a stinging response to Pakistan's criticism of Indian suppression of protests in disputed Kashmir.India exercised its right of reply in the U.N. General Assembly late Wednesday. It was responding to Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif who had demanded a U.N. probe into "brutalities" by Indian forces.Indian diplomat Eenam Gambhir described that as a "hypocritical sermon."She blamed Pakistan for a rebel attack Sunday that killed 18 Indian soldiers in Kashmir, the deadliest attack on a military base there for years.She said: "What we see in Pakistan is a terrorist state, which channelizes billions of dollars, much of it diverted from international aid, to training, financing and supporting terrorist groups as militant proxies against it neighbors."

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