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)
CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL 2ND WAVE OF WW3 (200 MILLION MAN ARMY)
REVELATION 16:12-16
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates;(WERE WW3 STARTS IN IRAQ OR SYRIA OR TURKEY) and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.(THE TURKEY ATATURK DAM ON THE EUPHRATES CAN BE SHUT AND DRIED UP ALREADY BY TURKEY)
13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon,(SATAN) and out of the mouth of the beast,(WORLD DICTATOR) and out of the mouth of the false prophet.(FALSE POPE)
14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.(WERE 2 BILLION DIE FROM NUKE WAR)
15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.(ITS AT THIS TIME I BELIEVE WHEN AMERICA GETS NUKED BY RUSSIA ON THE WAY TO THE MIDEAST)
DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(WORLDWIDE WAR)(TURKEY-IRAQ-SYRIA)(EUPHRATES RIVER CONSISTS OF 760 MILES IN TURKEY,440 MILES IN SYRIA AND 660 MILES IN IRAQ)
15 And the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels were loosed,(WORLDWIDE WAR) which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE-2 billion)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
Russian-North Korea projects foundering because of missile tests: minister-[Reuters]-By Polina Nikolskaya and Katya Golubkova-YAHOONEWS-Aug 28, 2017, 9:11 AM
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Commercial ventures planned between Russia and North Korea three years ago are not being implemented because of Pyongyang's missile testing program, the Minister for the Development of the Russian Far East, Alexander Galushka, said.Russia has been under international scrutiny over North Korea because it has taken a more doveish approach to Pyongyang than Washington, and Russian trade with North Korea increased sharply at the start of this year.The United States government earlier this month imposed new North Korea-related sanctions that targeted Russian firms and individuals for, it alleged, supporting Pyongyang's weapons programs and providing oil.However Galushka, in an interview with Reuters, said Moscow was faithfully implementing the international sanctions regime on North Korea, and held up the stalled bilateral projects as an indication that Pyongyang was paying an economic price for its weapons program."Russia has not violated, does not violate and will not work outside the framework (of the resolution) that was accepted by the U.N. Security Council," said Galushka, who also heads a Russia-North Korean Intergovernmental Commission.Russian businesses discussed a number of projects with North Korea in 2014. But then North Korea conducted military tests, including some involving nuclear weapons, and the projects became difficult to implement, Galushka said.One such project, called "Pobeda", or "Victory," would have involved Russian investments and supplies that could be exchanged for access to Korean natural resources."We told our North Korean partners more than once ... that it hampers a lot, makes it impossible, it restricts things, it causes fear," Galushka said, referring to the weapons testing.Another joint project between the two countries is a railway link with North Korea, from the Russian eastern border town of Khasan to Korea's Rajin.It is operating but below its potential. The link could work at a capacity of 4 million tonnes a year, officials have said previously, but now it only carries around 1.5 million tonnes of coal per year, according to Galushka.UN sanctions also prohibit countries from increasing the current numbers of North Korean laborers working in their territories.According to Galushka, around 40,000 employees from North Korea worked in Russia. Mainly they are engaged in timber processing and construction.Russian business is interested in access to the North Korea workforce, Galushka said, but the numbers will stay in line with what the sanctions permit.He said 40,000 workers from North Korea "is a balance formed in the economy, neither more nor less."Bilateral trade between the two countries has been decreasing for the last four years, from $112.7 million in 2013 to $76.9 million in 2016, according to Russian Federal Customs Service statistics.But it more than doubled to $31.4 million in the first quarter of 2017 in year-on-year terms. Most of Russia's exports to North Korea are oil, coal and refined products.Asked to explain why trade was rising if political issues were hurting commercial projects, a spokeswoman for Galushka's ministry said in an email: "According to the latest data, there was an objective increase due to exports to North Korea, primarily oil products. But the export of oil does not violate the agreements of the UN countries in any way."The interview with Galushka took place before the U.S. imposed the sanctions targeting Russian entities and individuals for trading with North Korea.Galushka's ministry referred questions about the new sanctions to the Russian foreign ministry.Maria Zakharova, a foreign ministry spokeswoman, told reporters Washington's unilateral sanctions worsened tensions on the Korean peninsula, and that Russia is fulfilling its international obligations in full.(Editing by Andrew Heavens)
India and China agree to end border standoff-[Reuters]-By Sanjeev Miglani and Ben Blanchard-YAHOONEWS-August 28, 2017
NEW DELHI/BEIJING (Reuters) - India and China have agreed to an "expeditious disengagement" of troops in a disputed border area where their soldiers have been locked in a stand-off for more than two months, India's foreign ministry said on Monday.The decision comes ahead of a summit of the BRICS nations - a grouping that also includes Brazil, Russia and South Africa - in China beginning on Sunday, which Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to attend.Indian and Chinese troops have been confronting each other at the Doklam plateau near the borders of India, its ally Bhutan, and China, in the most serious and prolonged standoff in decades along their disputed Himalayan border.The Indian ministry said the two sides had agreed to defuse the crisis following diplomatic talks."In recent weeks, India and China have maintained diplomatic communication in respect of the incident at Doklam," the ministry said in a statement."On this basis, expeditious disengagement of border personnel at the face-off site at Doklam has been agreed to and is on-going," it said in a statement.It did not offer more details of the terms of disengagement from the area which had raised fears of a wider conflict between the Asian giants who fought a brief border war in 1962.China said Indian troops had withdrawn from the remote area in the eastern Himalayas. Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said Chinese troops would continue to patrol the Doklam region."China will continue to exercise sovereignty rights to protect territorial sovereignty in accordance with the rules of the historical boundary," she said.The Chinese defense ministry said troops would remain on a state of alert."We remind the Indian side to learn the lesson from this incident, earnestly respect the historical boundary and the basic principles of international law, meet China half way and jointly protect the peace and tranquillity of the border region," spokesman Wu Qian said in a statement."The world is not peaceful, and peace needs to be safeguarded. The Chinese military has the confidence and the ability to protect the country's sovereignty, security and development interests," Wu added.-SMOOTH SUMMIT-The trouble started in June when India sent troops to stop China building a road in the Doklam area, which is remote, uninhabited territory claimed by both China and Bhutan.India said it sent its troops because Chinese military activity there was a threat to the security of its own northeast region.But China has said India had no role to play in the area and insisted it withdraw unilaterally or face the prospect of an escalation. Chinese state media had warned India of a fate worse than its crushing defeat in the war in 1962.Indian political commentator Shekhar Gupta said there was too much at stake for the two countries to fight over a small piece of territory."Hopefully, Doklam is a new chapter in India-China relations. Too much at stake for both big powers to let legacy real-estate issues linger," he said in a Twitter post.India and China have been unable to settle their 3,500-km (2,175-mile) frontier and large parts of territory are claimed by both sides.Lin Minwang, an India expert and the deputy director of the Center for South Asia Studies at China's Fudan University, said the detente would ensure a smooth BRICS meeting."Both sides should be happy. Modi is also happy. They can conduct a meeting smoothly and naturally. If there was still a stand-off, how could they meet?"(Additional reporting by Tommy Wilkes in NEW DELHI and Michael Martina in BEIJING; Editing by Sanjeev Miglani and Robert Birsel)
Scores treated after mystery 'chemical haze' hits UK coast-[The Canadian Press]--YAHOONEWS-Aug 28, 2017, 12:30 PM
LONDON — A mysterious chemical haze that left scores of people on the English coast with streaming eyes, sore throats and breathing problems has dissipated, but its cause remains a mystery, police and emergency services said Monday.The gas cloud appeared Sunday, sending people fleeing from the beach and cliffs at Birling Gap, a popular coastal spot 60 miles (100 kilometres ) south of London.Life boats were dispatched to help clear people from the beaches there, and Eastbourne District General Hospital said it had treated more than 130 people. Sussex Police said the injuries were mostly minor."Whatever it was, it smelled like burnt plastic," said Bob Jefferey of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution's Eastbourne division. "It hung about and didn't move yesterday because there was no wind. The cloud seems to have dispersed today, though."Pollution has been known to drift to Britain from industrial plants in France, but police said the wind direction made that unlikely in this case."Neither the gas nor its source have been established, but agencies are continuing to investigate and have not ruled out either on-shore or off-shore locations," Sussex Police said.Meteorological Office weather forecaster Jay Merrell said a ship in the English Channel may have been responsible, but stressed nothing conclusive had been proven yet.Toxicologist John Hopkins said the haze might have been photochemical smog caused by sunshine reacting with vehicle pollution."It's just a function of we've got too much traffic on the roads and too much sunshine," he told Sky News.The Associated Press.
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun,(HEATING UP-SOLAR ECLIPSES) and in the moon,(MAN ON MOON-LUNAR ECLIPSES) and in the stars;(ASTEROIDS ETC) and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)
THE FIRST JUDGEMENT OF THE EARTH STARTED WITH WATER-IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THE LAST GENERATION WILL BE HAVING FLOODING
GENESIS 7:6-12
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
GOD PROMISED BY A RAINBOW-THE EARTH WOULD NEVER BE DESTROYED TOTALLY WITH A FLOOD AGAIN.BUT FLOODIING IS A SIGN OF JUDGEMENT.
Houston crippled by catastrophic flooding with more rain on the way-[Reuters]-By Ruthy Munoz and Marianna Parraga-YAHOONEWS-August 28, 2017
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Houston is facing worsening historic flooding in the coming days as Tropical Storm Harvey dumps more rain on the city, swelling rivers to record levels and forcing federal engineers on Monday to release water from area reservoirs in hopes of controlling the rushing currents.Harvey was the most powerful hurricane to strike Texas in more than 50 years when it came ashore on Friday near Corpus Christi, about 220 miles (354 km) south of Houston, and has killed at least two people. It has since lingered around Texas' Gulf Coast, where it is forecast to remain for several more days, drenching parts of the region with a year's worth of rain in the span of a week.Rains have submerged cars and turned freeways into rivers, with more flooding expected when the storm shifts back in the direction of Houston. Harvey's center was 90 miles (148 km) southwest of Houston on Monday morning and forecast to arc slowly toward the city through Wednesday, with the worst floods expected later that day and on Thursday.Schools, airports and office buildings in the nation's fourth largest city were shut on Monday as chest-high water filled some neighborhoods in the low-lying city that is home to about 2.3 million people.The metropolitan area, home to 6.8 million people, also is the nation's refining and petrochemical hub, which has been crippled by the storm. Numerous refiners shut operations, likely for weeks.Torrential rain also hit areas more than 150 miles (240 km) away, swelling rivers upstream and causing a surge that was heading toward the Houston area, where numerous rivers and streams already have been breached. Some areas have already seen as much as 30 inches (76 cm) of rain, according to the National Weather Service.By the end of the week in some Texas coastal areas the total precipitation could reach 50 inches (127 cm), which is the average rainfall for an entire year, forecasters said.Harvey is expected to produce an additional 15 to 25 inches (38 to 63 cm) of rain through Friday in the upper Texas coast and into southwestern Louisiana, the National Hurricane Center said.-CONVENTION CENTER FOR DISPLACED-More than 30,000 people are expected to be placed temporarily in shelters, FEMA Administrator Brock Long said at a news conference on Monday. The George Brown Convention Center in downtown Houston now has about 2,500 people, up from 1,000 last night, as people continue to arrive at the center.Wendy Rom, 24, was among those taking refuge at the center with her husband and 1 1/2-year-old daughter."The water was high, entering our house," she said, "so we moved to the second floor but they started evacuating the neighborhood so I came with my whole family."Dallas, 240 miles (386 km) north of Houston, also was setting up a "mega shelter" at its convention center to house 5,000 evacuees, the city said in a statement.The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Monday that it was releasing water from two nearby reservoirs into Buffalo Bayou, the primary body of water running through Houston."If we don’t begin releasing now, the volume of uncontrolled water around the dams will be higher and have a greater impact on the surrounding communities," said Colonel Lars Zetterstrom, Galveston district commander of the Corps.The Harris County Flood Control District said it expected the release to start flooding homes around the Addicks and Barker reservoirs on Monday morning.Authorities ordered more than 50,000 people to leave parts of Fort Bend County, about 35 miles (55 km) southwest of Houston, as the Brazos River was set to crest at a record high of 59 feet (18 m) this week, 14 feet above its flood stage.Houston did not order an evacuation, even a voluntary one, due to concerns about people being stranded on city highways now consumed by floods, Mayor Sylvester Turner said on Sunday.FEMA's Long on Monday did not question the decision, saying the time frame "for evacuation of the city of Houston could take days, days, literally days."Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who had suggested on Friday that people leave the area, on Monday told "CBS This Morning" that "the time for making that determination has passed, and (there's) no need to for us to relitigate that issue right now."-TRUMP VISIT-U.S. President Donald Trump plans to go to Texas on Tuesday to survey the damage, a White House spokeswoman said on Sunday. On Monday he approved an emergency declaration for Louisiana.Trump, facing the first big U.S. natural disaster since he took office in January, had signed a disaster proclamation for Texas on Friday, triggering federal relief efforts. Abbott said on Sunday he planned to add 1,000 more National Guard personnel to the flood battle.Almost half of the U.S. refining capacity is in the Gulf region. Shutdowns extended across the coast, including Exxon Mobil's facility in Baytown, the nation's second largest refinery. More than 2.4 million barrels of capacity were offline as of Monday morning, about 13 percent of daily U.S. production.The outages will limit the availability of U.S. gasoline and other refined products and push prices higher, analysts said. Gasoline futures rose 3 percent on Monday.Federal authorities predicted it would take years to repair the damage from Harvey. The expected rain conjured memories of Tropical Storm Allison, which lingered for days over South Texas in 2001, flooding 70,000 homes and causing $9 billion in damage.Damages are not likely to be as extensive as Katrina in 2005, which killed 1,800 people in and around New Orleans, or Sandy, which hit New York in 2012, said a spokeswoman for Hannover Re, one of the world’s largest reinsurers. Those caused $80 billion and $36 billion in insured losses, respectively.All Houston port facilities are closed on Monday because of the weather threat, a port spokeswoman said.More than 263,000 customers in the Houston area were without power on Monday morning, utilities CenterPoint Energy, AEP Texas and TNMP said. CenterPoint warned, though, it could not update its figures due to limited access caused by flooding.Jose Rengel, 47, a construction worker who lives in Galveston, helped rescue efforts in Dickinson, southeast of Houston, where he saw water cresting the tops of cars."I am blessed that not much has happened to me but these people lost everything," he said."And it keeps raining. The water has nowhere to go."For a graphic on hurricanes in the North Atlantic, click: http://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/rngs/STORM-HARVEY/010050K2197/index.html-(Additional reporting by Brian Thevenot in Rockport, Kevin Drawbaugh, Valerie Volcovici and Jeff Mason in Washington, DC, Chris Michaud and Dion Rabouin in New York, Erwin Seba, Marianna Parraga, Nick Oxford and Ernest Scheyder in Houston; Writing by Jon Herskovitz and David Gaffen; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn and Bill Trott)
Oil markets roiled by Storm Harvey; U.S. dollar extends fall-[Reuters]-By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed-YAHOONEWS-August 28, 2017
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil markets were roiled on Monday after Tropical Storm Harvey wreaked havoc along the U.S. Gulf Coast over the weekend, hitting the heart of the U.S. oil and gas industry.The U.S. dollar dropped to its lowest in roughly 16 months against a basket of major currencies and a more than 2-1/2-year low against the euro, following comments from central bankers on Friday and worries over the storm hurting the U.S. economy.Harvey made landfall in Texas late on Friday as the most powerful hurricane to hit the region in more than 50 years and caused large-scale flooding.Those floods forced refineries in the area to close, which sent U.S. gasoline prices soaring. Spot prices for U.S. gasoline futures surged 7 percent to a peak of $1.7799 per gallon, before easing to $1.7253."Global refining margins are going to stay very strong," said Olivier Jakob, managing director of Petromatrix."If (U.S.) refineries shut down for more than a week, Asia will need to run at a higher level, because there's no spare capacity in Europe."In turn, U.S. crude futures fell as the refinery shutdowns could reduce demand for American crude.Brent crude was down 1.6 percent at $51.55 a barrel, while U.S. crude was down 3.4 percent at $46.26.In the U.S. equity market, the Dow and the S&P were little changed in late morning trading as losses in insurance and oil stocks were offset by gains in shares of health and home improvement retail chains as investors assessed the impact of the storm."We're looking at this as more of a shorter term phenomenon and the energy stocks have held in relatively well," said Matt Miskin, market strategist at John Hancock Investments."The market is not seeing that as a significant move but we'll have to see how the dynamics play out over the course of the week."The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 18.75 points, or 0.09 percent, to 21,794.92, the S&P 500 gained 0.21 points, or 0.01 percent, to 2,443.26 and the Nasdaq Composite added 20.97 points, or 0.33 percent, to 6,286.62.European shares fell as the euro strengthened after European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi did not express concern about a strong currency in a closely watched speech.MSCI's world index, which tracks shares in 46 countries, was up just 0.08 percent.The U.S. dollar extended its weakness from last week."In general, what you're seeing is a consistent tone of dollar weakness," said Kathy Lien, managing director at BK Asset Management in New York."The disappointment from (U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Janet) Yellen at Jackson Hole on Friday has carried over to trading this week," Lien said, referring to the fact that Yellen did not address monetary policy at a recent summit of central bankers in Wyoming. The impact of Harvey was also weighing slightly on the greenback, she added.The dollar index, which tracks the greenback against six major currencies, was down 0.51 percent at 92.269, after earlier falling to 92.252, its lowest since May 2016.U.S. Treasuries were steady as market participants waited on data that will culminate in Friday's August employment report for further indications of the strength of the U.S. economy.The weaker dollar helped gold rise to its highest in more than a week.(Additional reporting by Sam Forgione in New York, Sruthi Shankar and Tanya Agrawal in Bengaluru and Ahmad Ghaddar in London; Editing by Bernadette Baum)
Houston shelters overwhelmed as Louisiana braces for monster storm-Katie SCHUBAUER, Brendan SMIALOWSKI-Agence France-Presse-YAHOONEWS-August 28, 2017
Houston (AFP) - Houston rescue agencies were struggling to find beds Monday for tens of thousands of Texans driven from their homes by an unprecedented rainstorm that swamped America's fourth largest city.And -- as forecasters warned that Storm Harvey will regain strength and inundate the already devastated Gulf shore again by Wednesday -- neighboring Louisiana braced for the floods to come.Roads are flooded, Houston's two airports have suspended commercial flights and two hospitals have been forced to evacuate their patients, while volunteers, rescue agencies and the National Guard battle to ferry beleaguered families from their homes.At least three people have died so far, with reports of other fatalities still unconfirmed, in what the National Hurricane Center called the biggest rainstorm on record, which crashed ashore late Friday as Hurricane Harvey.Harvey is now expected to swing back on itself and back over the warm waters of the Gulf on Mexico, sucking up another load of rain before doubling back midweek, on a deadly path back across Texas and Louisiana and deep into the US interior.Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) administrator Brock Long said finding shelter for those flooded out of their homes would be his next priority."We're anticipating over 30,000 people being placed in shelters temporarily to basically stabilize the situation and provide for their care," he said."This is a landmark event. We have not seen an event like this. You could not dream this forecast up. You couldn't draw this situation up."President Donald Trump plans to go to the disaster zone on Tuesday.On Monday, he declared a federal state of emergency in Louisiana to match that in Texas and free up funds for relief and rescue.As of Monday morning, there were reports of five to six inches (12.7 to 15.2 centimeters) of rain per hour and unofficial reports of up to eight inches in a band of heavy rainfall.- Roads completely submerged -"It's crazy to see the roads you're driving on every day just completely under water," Houston resident John Travis told AFP.Overwhelmed emergency services warned residents to head for high ground or climb onto rooftops -- not into attics -- so they could be seen by rescue helicopters. More than 2,000 rescues had been made so far.Emergency 911 operators in Houston received 56,000 calls in a 15-hour span -- seven times more than in a usual full day."We are going on fumes and our hearts ache for community we serve, but we will not stop!" said Houston police chief Art Acevedo.Texas Governor Greg Abbott warned the operation was far from over, given the foreboding forecasts."The number of evacuees is increasing. The number in harm's way will increase also with the rain that is forecast to come," Abbott said, adding that the storm had inflicted billions of dollars in damage.Houston proper has a population of 2.3 million people, but the greater metropolitan area has more than six million.- 'Life and safety' -"The focus must be on life and safety," Trump wrote in a series of tweets about the disaster, his most serious domestic challenge since taking office in January."The breadth and intensity of this rainfall are beyond anything experienced before," the National Weather Service said, as the storm spawned tornadoes and lashed east and central Texas with torrential rains.The NWS said that between June 1 and Sunday, Houston had received 46 inches (117 centimeters) of rain -- almost as much as it would expect in a year -- in only three months.- 'I might have left sooner' -More than two feet (60 centimeters) of rain fell in Houston and nearby Galveston in a 24-hour period. Another 20 inches were expected.Flooding is expected to worsen as Harvey, the most powerful storm to hit the United States mainland since 2005, lingers over the area.Harvey ripped off roofs, flipped mobile homes and left hundreds of thousands of people in the dark on the Gulf Coast, home to some of the country's most important oil refineries.Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport and Hobby International, the city's two airports, also stopped all commercial flights. However the hard-hit city of Corpus Christi reopened its airport Sunday afternoon.Thousands of National Guard troops joined local police and emergency workers to help with rescues in inundated areas of Houston.Boats also were being deployed, but more were needed. Harris County Judge Ed Emmett appealed to residents to use their own vessels."I'm not even thinking about myself right now," Bryan Curtis, who came to Houston with his jet skis to rescue people, told AFP. "I'm here to help, I want to do my part."- 'Landmark' disaster -FEMA said there should be no illusions about the long-term impact of Harvey. Long told CNN it would take "years" to recover.Coastal Texas is home to a large number of oil refineries and a number of major ports.ExxonMobil said Sunday it had closed its massive Baytown refining complex -- the second-largest in the country.US authorities said about 22 percent of crude production in the Gulf of Mexico, accounting for more than 375,000 barrels a day, was shut down.But Abbott said the oil industry was well prepared."They have the ability to ratchet up back up there quickly," he said on Fox News Sunday, predicting a "one- or two-week downturn."US neighbors Mexico and Canada offered solidarity and aid.Mexico's foreign ministry said it offered help to deal with Harvey, "as good neighbors should always do in trying times."Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tweeted that Canadians "are keeping the people of Texas in our thoughts -- we're ready to offer any assistance needed to help recover from this disaster."
DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS-10 WORLD REGIONS/TRADE BLOCS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS-10 WORLD DIVISION WORLD GOVERNMENT) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(EITHER THE EUROPEAN UNION DICTATOR BOOTS 3 COUNTRIES FROM THE EU OR THE DICTATOR TAKES OVER THE WORLD ECONOMY BY CONTROLLING 3 WORLD TRADE BLOCS)
REVELATION 17:9-13
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.(THE VATICAN IS BUILT ON 7 HILLS OR MOUNTAINS)
10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen,(1-ASSYRIA,2-EGYPT,3-BABYLON,4-MEDO-PERSIA,5-GREECE) and one is,(IN POWER IN JOHNS AND JESUS DAY-6-ROME) and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.(7TH-REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE OR THE EUROPEAN UNION TODAY AND THE SHORT SPACE IS-7 YEARS.THE EUROPEAN UNION WILL HAVE WORLD CONTROL FOR THE LAST 3 1/2 YEARS.BUT WILL HAVE ITS MIGHTY WORLD POWER FOR THE FULL 7 YEARS OF THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION PERIOD.AND THE WORLD DICTATOR WILL BE THE BEAST FROM THE EU.AND THE VATICAN POPE WILL BE THE WHORE THAT RIDES THE EUROPEAN UNION TO POWER.AND THE 2 EUROPEAN UNION POWER FREAKS WILL CONTROL AND DECIEVE THE WHOLE EARTH INTO THEIR DESTRUCTION.IF YOU ARE NOT SAVED BY THE BLOOD OF JESUS.YOU WILL BE DECIEVED BY THESE TWO.THE WORLD POLITICIAN-THE EUROPEAN UNION DICTATOR.AND THE FALSE PROPHET THAT DEFECTS CHRISTIANITY-THE FALSE VATICAN POPE.
11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
13 These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week:(7 YEARS) and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he ( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant (PEACE TREATY) with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE ANIMAL SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
Focus-Estonia tests water for own virtual currency By Peter Teffer-euobserver
Brussels, 24. Aug, 17:53-People around the world can already become a digital resident of Estonia. Perhaps in the future they will also be able to pay into a new Estonian digital currency.On Tuesday (22 August), the managing director of Estonia's e-Residency programme, Kaspar Korjus, suggested that the Baltic country could introduce a virtual currency for its e-residents, comparable to existing so-called cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum.“What would happen if a country, such as Estonia, issued its own crypto tokens?” wrote Korjus in a blog post.“It’s clear that there is strong interest in cryptocurrencies and other blockchain-based solutions among our growing community of e-residents,” he said.Blockchain is the cryptographic technology that makes digital currencies such as Bitcoin possible.Estonia has almost 22,000 e-residents, 3,670 of which own a company in Estonia.The virtual currency could be called estcoins, Korjus suggested, although in the same post he also noted that it might not be the right name “because its use could grow far bigger than Estonia”.“In time, estcoins could also be accepted as payment for both public and private services and eventually function as a viable currency used globally,” he wrote.The Estonian government said, however, that the proposal is “not an official fixed plan or policy yet”.“This is an innovative proposal by our e-Residency team, as one among many possible further directions of the programme,” said Siim Sikkut in an e-mailed statement.Sikkut is deputy secretary general for IT and telecoms at the Estonian ministry of economic affairs.“Rather, the blog piece was intended to test the waters and initiate discussion - would this idea be appealing? How to make it happen?”Sikkut noted that the same interest-gauging happened before the launch of the e-Residency programme.-Legal tender-However, it is unclear whether Estonia would in fact be allowed to introduce a virtual currency - at least as legal tender.Estonia is one of the 19 EU countries in the eurozone. It joined on 1 January 2011, saying goodbye to its former currency, the kroon.Economist Daniel Gros, of the Centre for European Policy Studies, told EUobserver via e-mail that to his understanding the plan "would basically provide the seeds for a (national) sovereign wealth fund".He said there was little in EU law to prevent governments from accepting electronic currencies, but that the "key threshold" is whether the currency is legal tender."Throughout the euro area you have to be able to extinguish a debt with euros. Even today, the creditor might accept dollars or anything else, but euros he has to accept," said Gros.-No exceptions-“Article 128 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU (TFEU) specifies that euro banknotes issued by the European Central Bank and the national central banks shall be the only such notes to have the status of legal tender within the Union,” a spokesperson for the European Commission told EUobserver by e-mail.“There are no exceptions to this rule.”The spokesperson said the commission had seen the press reports about estcoin, but noted it is “not aware of any official proposals”.Even in Estonia, the idea is still very fresh.A spokesman for the Estonian Centre Party, the largest coalition partner, told EUobserver that it had not yet been discussed in the party.Spokesman Viljar Raask for the Bank of Estonia said the proposal “needs to be more concrete” before it can have an opinion.“Only if it is more fleshed out can we weigh the pros and cons,” said Raask.“The legal tender is the euro,” he added.-Happy with the euro-The second-largest coalition partner, the centre-left Social Democratic Party (SDE), also noted “we have the euro”.“It's a very interesting idea, but our currency is the euro and, in our opinion, the euro is an excellent currency,” said Toomas Sildam, SDE's spokesman.When asked whether the party would support a second currency like estcoin, Sildam merely said, “We are very happy with the euro.”
EU and UK to talk Brexit with different expectations-By Peter Teffer-AUG 28,17-EUOBSERVER
Brussels, Today, 09:04-British negotiators will be in Brussels again this week to continue talks on leaving the EU, but they arrive with different expectations than their hosts who are representing the 27 EU member states that will remain in the bloc.“For the UK, the week ahead is about driving forward the technical discussions across all the issues,” Brexit secretary David Davis will say on Monday (28 August), according to a statement shared with the British press.The EU-27 side, however, is still looking to hear further details from the UK on what it wants politically out of Brexit.“The technical cannot outpace the political,” a senior EU official told reporters on the condition of anonymity.An example of where the EU believes it is too soon to talk about specific solutions, is the future of the border between Northern Ireland, part of the UK, and Ireland, which will remain part of the EU.“We are not yet there in terms of political debate,” the official said.She referred to a UK position paper on Northern Ireland, published 21 August, in which the UK said the border between Northern Ireland and Ireland should be “as seamless and frictionless as possible”.But the paper contained, in the words of the EU official, “a lot of magical thinking about how an invisible border could work in the future”.“This is not the moment to discuss technical let alone technological solutions. … It's too early to get into that territory because the substance isn't there yet,” she said.Meanwhile, Davis is expected on Monday to repeat that “flexibility and imagination” is needed “from both sides”.“We want to lock in the points where we agree, unpick the areas where we disagree, and make further progress on a range of issues,” Davis' prepared statement said.Aside Northern Ireland, many other topics will feature on the agenda, including how the UK should disentangle itself from the European Investment Bank (EIB), in which it is one of the four largest shareholders.The EIB has granted loans that are backed by member states' guarantees, which have a longer lifetime than March 2019 - the month the UK is expected to leave the EU.However, the big elephant in the room is the overall financial bill, which will not be discussed in-depth this week."We are not looking at a number now," the EU source said. "I would not like to get your hopes up that we will see a breakthrough on this issue."Instead, discussions will continue on relatively minor financial issues, just to keep the pace going.“We are trying to advance on [other] issues in the absence of … making a breakthrough on the key challenge.”-Soft Brexit-Meanwhile in the UK, the opposition Labour party is moving towards supporting a so-called soft Brexit.Over the weekend, MP Keir Starmer, the shadow Brexit secretary for Labour, came out in favour of a transitional period after March 2019.He wrote in the Observer that the “harsh realities of the negotiating process and the glacial pace of progress in the first two rounds of talks” showed that “a transitional period is an economic and political necessity”.Starmer said that, during that transitional period, Britain should remain in the EU's customs union and the single market.The ruling Conservative party dismissed the idea as “a weak attempt to kick the can down the road”.-Ireland-Also over the weekend, Irish prime minister Leo Varadkar weighed in on the border discussion.“In life and politics nothing is 100 percent certain, but I am very confident that there won’t be passport controls between Northern Ireland and Ireland,” Varadkar said.He noted that “Dublin, Belfast, London and Brussels” all want to “continue passport-free travel between Northern Ireland and Ireland”.
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
OH BY THE WAY WHEN THE MEDIA SAYS ALLU-AK-BAR MEANS GOD IS GREAT LIE. IN ISLAM ALLU-AK-BAR MEANS OUR GOD IS GREATER OR GREATEST. THIS IS HOW THE MEDIA SUCK HOLES UP TO ISLAMIC-QURANIC-MUSLIMS. BY WATERING DOWN THE REAL MEANING OF THE SEX FOR MURDER DEATH CULT ISLAM. TO MAKE IT SOUND LIKE A PEACEFUL RELIGION (CULT OF DEATH AND WORLD DOMINATION).
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)
EU and Africa leaders in migrant talks By Nikolaj Nielsen-AUG 28,17-EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS, Today, 09:29-A mini-summit on Africa is being hosted in Paris on Monday (28 August) to stem economic migration.Heads of state and government from France, Germany, Italy, Spain, along with the EU's foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, will meet with their counterparts from Chad, Niger, and Libya.The European Commission in a statement last week said that the summit will reaffirm the EU's support for Chad, Niger and Libya in their efforts to manage migratory flows.All three states are seen as key in broader plans to crack down on migrant smuggling and toughen up security throughout the volatile and often lawless north African region.Although some 105,000 people have made the journey so far this year along the central Mediterranean route, over 2,200 are estimated to have died in the attempt, while more and more people begin to disembark from Morocco to Spain.Far fewer people are leaving from Libya towards Italy compared to earlier this year, amid reports of a Libyan coastguard firing warning shots at NGO rescue vessels.Save the Children, Germany’s Sea Eye, and Doctors without Borders (MSF) recently suspended rescue operations in the Mediterranean due to reported clashes with the Libyan coastguard.Five of the eight NGOs operating at sea refused to sign a controversial Italian-led code of conduct, which restricts their operations.The Italian news agency Ansa reports the code is set to be signed by the leaders at the Paris summit.Monday's mini-summit is also likely to discuss Libya's porous border with its southern neighbouring countries, given that the UN-recognised unity government, headed by Fayez al-Sarraj, has little control over large swathes of the oil-rich country.Germany and Italy in May had called for tighter border controls, along with greater "technical and financial support" to Libyan authorities, with French president Emmanuel Macron later proposing to set up migrant processing centres in Libya.Macron's proposal was dismissed. Instead, both the United Nations and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) are stepping up voluntary returns of people caught up in Libya's notorious migrant detention centres.IOM's chief, Lacy Swing, had earlier said the plan is to turn the detention centres into open reception centres where "people can come and go". The conditions at the centres, many of which are run by militia groups, have been described as death traps.The EU had also announced a €200 million package to finance projects around north Africa, geared towards migration in Libya.The EU commission says around €90 million will go to stepping up the protection of migrants and reinforcing migration management in Libya.More resources are also being poured into surveillance and cooperation with the Libyan coastguard, as part of a so-called Seahorse Mediterranean Network.The mini-summit comes ahead of the EU's fifth Africa summit in November. The November summit aims to focus on youth, security, and economic development."Europe's security and prosperity depends heavily on what is happening in Africa and with our relations with that continent," an EU official told reporters earlier this year.But while greater focus shifts towards Africa, reports are emerging that Turkey is allowing more and more people to depart towards Greece.Greek media outlet Kahtimerini, in an article on Sunday, cites unnamed Greek government sources that say Turkey is deliberately allowing more people to disembark from its coast, despite an EU deal to stem the flow.The source told the paper that the increase in arrivals on the Greek islands is being used as leverage by Turkey on the European Union, in regard to stalled EU membership talks.
Merkel, Macron urge Putin, Poroshenko to support ceasefire in Ukraine-[Reuters]-YAHOONEWS-August 28, 2017
BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday called for Russia and Ukraine to increase their efforts to implement a fragile ceasefire agreement in eastern Ukraine.Merkel and Macron said they were concerned that the security situation in eastern Ukraine had not significantly improved, and were keeping a close watch on the situation. The two leaders held a four-way telephone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko in the so-called Normandy format on Aug. 22."We urge President Putin and President Poroshenko to fully respect their commitments, to support the ceasefire in a public and clear manner, and to ensure that appropriate instructions have been sent to the military and local forces," they said in a joint statement issued by the chancellery in Berlin.The ceasefire agreement was signed in February 2015 in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, but has failed to end the separatist conflict in which some 10,000 people have been killed.(Reporting by Michael Nienaber; Editing by Andrea Shalal)
Islamic State begins to leave Syria-Lebanon border zone-[Reuters]-By Angus McDowall-YAHOONEWS-August 28, 2017
BEIRUT (Reuters) - A convoy of Islamic State fighters and their families began to depart the Lebanon-Syria border zone on Monday under Syrian military escort, surrendering their enclave and leaving for eastern Syria after a week-long battle.A line of ambulances and buses were shown on Syrian state television driving slowly through the arid countryside, the border's pale hills behind them, as they departed.It will end any Sunni militant presence on the border, an important goal for Lebanon and the Shi'ite Hezbollah group, and is the first time Islamic State has publicly agreed to a forced evacuation from territory it held in Syria.Islamic State agreed a ceasefire on Sunday with the Lebanese army on one front and the Syrian army and Hezbollah on the other after losing much of its mountainous enclave straddling the border, paving the way for its evacuation.Both Hezbollah and Lebanese officials have billed the evacuation as a surrender by the jihadist group."We do not bargain. We are in the position of the victor and are imposing conditions," Lebanese Internal Security General Abbas Ibrahim said on Sunday.Hezbollah, a Lebanese group, has been a close ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad through Syria's six-year civil war. The Lebanese army said its offensive against Islamic State did not involve coordination with Hezbollah or the Syrian army.A commander in the pro-Assad military alliance said Syria and Hezbollah had accepted Islamic State's evacuation rather than a fight to the end to avert a bloody war of attrition.Islamic State fighters were sheltering among civilians and to complete the offensive would have involved great bloodshed, the commander added. "Every battle that ends with negotiation or surrender is a victory," the commander said.-HEAVY SECURITY-A total of 600 people, including both Islamic State fighters and their family members, will leave in the convoy, Syria's state-run Ikhbariya television station reported.The militants will travel across Syria under heavy security escort to Islamic State lines near Al-Bukamal in the east, a Lebanese security source said.The Syrian army and Hezbollah were communicating with Islamic State near Al-Bukamal to arrange the transfer of the convoy into jihadist territory, the security source said.One Hezbollah prisoner and the corpses of five Hezbollah fighters, as well as the bodies of some Syrian soldiers, will be handed over by Islamic State, the security source added.Islamic State fighters were earlier seen burning heavy equipment and arms which the left in the border enclave.The deal also involved Islamic State revealing the fate of nine Lebanese soldiers it captured when it overran the town of Arsal in Lebanon in 2014.A senior Lebanese security official said late on Sunday the soldiers were almost certainly dead after recovering six bodies and digging for two others in areas previously held by Islamic State.Earlier this month, two other pockets straddling the border were recaptured by Lebanon and Syria after other militant groups accepted similar evacuation deals.Those agreements were prompted by a brief Hezbollah offensive that began at the end of July against militants of the group formerly known as Nusra Front, which was al Qaeda's official partner in Syria until last year.Hezbollah has maintained a strong presence in the parts of Syria near the border with Lebanon for years, helping Assad to recapture several rebel-held towns and villages there.The threat to Lebanese territory from rebel and militant groups in Syria was evident in the 2014 attack on Arsal. Suicide bomb attacks struck a predominately Shi'ite area in south Beirut, where Hezbollah is widely supported, in November 2015.Inside Syria, Islamic State is retreating on all fronts, losing territory both to the Syrian army and its allies, and to an alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias backed by a U.S.-led coalition.(Additional reporting by Sarah Dadouch; Editing by Richard Balmforth and Alison Williams)
