Thursday, February 01, 2018

US MAY REJECT UNS GRANTING OF ARABS REFUGEE STATUS TO DESCENDANTS.

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

US general: N. Korea not yet shown ICBM that could hit America-Despite advances in its missile technology, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff says unlikely Pyongyang has technology to deliver a warhead to North America-By AFP-TOI-31 January 2018

WASHINGTON — North Korea has made new advances in its intercontinental ballistic missile program but has not yet demonstrated all the capabilities needed to strike America with such a weapon, a top US general said Tuesday.While Pyongyang has shown it can put the United States in range and point a rocket to the country, General Paul Selva, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said it has not yet proven that its fusing and targeting technologies can survive the stresses of ballistic missile flight.“They have made some strides but it’s still true that they haven’t demonstrated all of the components of an intercontinental ballistic missile system,” Selva told reporters.Also unclear is whether North Korea has a re-entry vehicle strong enough to return into the Earth’s atmosphere from space and deliver a warhead.“It’s possible (North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un) has them, so we have to place the bet that he might have them, but he hasn’t demonstrated them,” Selva said.Last year, North Korea tested ICBMs that had the potential range of reaching the United States mainland and in September it conducted its sixth and largest nuclear test.Pyongyang’s weapons program has seen tensions on the Korean Peninsula ratchet up in recent months, prompting fresh rounds of sanctions and fiery rhetoric from President Donald Trump and Kim.Selva said North Korea has also become very good at predicting when spy satellites are overhead and adept at camouflaging its missiles.Kim has developed new techniques of getting a missile to a launchpad, so the US and its allies might now only get about 12 minutes warning before North Korea launched a missile, down from up to an hour previously, Selva added.

TV: US may reject UN’s granting of Palestinian refugee status to descendants-Israeli TV report says Trump administration is considering reallocating all aid it currently sends to UN's Palestinian refugee agency-By TOI staff-31 January 2018

Amid its deepening standoff with the Palestinians, the Trump administration is considering halting all of its financial aid to the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA, and declaring that it rejects the UN criteria under which refugee status is extended to millions of descendants of the original Palestinian refugees, a TV news report said Tuesday.Hadashot TV news said this “new ultimatum” under consideration by the Trump administration is one of the avenues being explored as the US seeks to press the Palestinian Authority into returning to peace talks with Israel.The TV report said that State Department sources, asked for confirmation of the report, noted only that President Donald Trump said in Davos last week that all US aid to the Palestinians was under review and that no formal statements were yet being issued.Hadashot reported that the State Department, having already frozen some $100 million in UNRWA funding, was considering stopping all of its $360-million annual funding for the organization, and instead allocating it to other UN bodies that work with the Palestinians.At the same time, it further reported that some in the administration and the State Department want to accompany that move with a formal declaration that the US rejects the mandate under which UNRWA operates — according to which Palestinian refugee status is transferred from generation to generation.Of the hundreds of thousands of refugees who left or were forced out of Israel when the country was established, a figure estimated in the low tens of thousands are still believed to be alive. But their descendants, considered refugees under the unique designation afforded by the UN to Palestinians, number in the millions.Israel has for years demanded that the UN change its designation of Palestinian refugees, and that it use the same criteria it applies for other refugee populations worldwide. Humanitarian assistance to other refugee groups is overseen by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, which does not extend refugee status to descendants of original refugees.The TV report quoted Israeli diplomatic sources who are aware of the new US thinking on the issue as saying that a Trump declaration rejecting the UN criteria for Palestinian refugees would represent “a tremendous victory” for Israeli diplomacy and a direct continuation of Trump’s December 6 declaration recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.In previous rounds of negotiations, Palestinian leaders have sought a “right of return” to Israel for these millions. No Israeli government would ever be likely to accept this demand, since it would spell the end of Israel as a Jewish-majority state. Israel’s position is that Palestinian refugees and their descendants would become citizens of a Palestinian state at the culmination of the peace process, just as Jews who fled or were forced out of Middle Eastern countries by hostile governments became citizens of Israel.Earlier Tuesday, the head of UNRWA indicated that he was aware of the US thinking. Pierre Krahenbuhl said the US decision to reduce funding for UNRWA “has a political dimension that I think should be avoided,” and claimed Washington would ultimately slash payments by $300 million, contributing just $60 million to the agency’s 2018 budget.Krahenbuhl made the comments while issuing an emergency appeal for more than $800 million in funds to provide additional assistance to Palestinian refugees in Syria, Gaza and the West Bank.Last Friday, Hadashot said Israel was hoping to see the US make plain that it rejects Palestinian demands for a “right of return” of millions of Palestinians to Israel.Quoting what it said were diplomats who are following the process, Hadashot reported that now that Trump has declared Jerusalem to be Israel’s capital, and the Jerusalem issue to be “off the table,” the next step being sought is to remove the “right of return” from the list of final status issues to be resolved.After that is done, the Friday TV report said, Trump will present the “proposal for peace” that he spoke of on Thursday — a proposal, the Hadashot TV reporter remarked, that might better be described “perhaps as the Netanyahu plan” since it is expected to meet many of the Israeli prime minister’s demands.The Palestinian Authority has been boycotting the Trump administration since December 6, when Trump formally recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and said he would move the US embassy to the holy city from Tel Aviv. In that address, the president said the boundaries of Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem would still have to be negotiated by the two sides, and thereby did not negate Palestinian claims to East Jerusalem.Sitting with Benjamin Netanyahu in Davos last Thursday, however, Trump said: “We took Jerusalem off the table, so we don’t have to talk about it anymore.” He added, turning to Netanyahu, “You won one point, and you’ll give up some other points later on in the negotiation.”In his unscripted remarks to the press on Thursday, Trump said the US would no longer transfer monetary aid to the Palestinians unless they entered peace negotiations with Israel, and excoriated the Palestinian leadership’s reaction to his decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.“That money is not going to them unless they sit down and negotiate peace, because I can tell you that Israel does want to make peace, and they’re going to have to want to make peace, too, or we’re going to have nothing to do with it any longer,” he said.The US is also considering shutting down the offices of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Washington, the de facto embassy of the Palestinian Authority in the US, if Ramallah continues to refuse to take part in peace talks, Hadashot TV news reported Thursday.

IDF chief warns Hezbollah is improving its military capabilities-Gadi Eisenkot says Lebanon terror group violating UN security council resolutions, IDF working 'day and night' to ward off threat-By Stuart Winer and TOI staff-31 January 2018

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot said Tuesday the army is working “day and night” to bolster its defenses against the Lebanon-based Hezbollah terror organization, which is improving its military capabilities.He also accused the Iran-backed Hezbollah of violating United Nations Security Council resolutions by fielding militia units in areas from which it was supposed to withdraw.The comments followed Israeli warnings that Iran plans to manufacture advanced missiles in Lebanon that will be deployed against the Jewish state.“The Hezbollah terror group is breaking the UN Security Council resolutions, it maintains a military presence in the area, is holding military systems, and is improving its military capabilities,” Eisenkot said. “The IDF is working day and night against these threats to ensure readiness and deterrence.”Under the terms of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701 that ended fighting in the 2006 Second Lebanon War, all militias other than the Lebanese army were supposed to surrender their weapons and there were to be no armed forces other than those of UN peacekeepers south of the Litani River, a natural marker that lies roughly 29 kilometers (18 miles) from the Israeli border and parallel to it.Hezbollah, an Iranian proxy, has held on to its weapons and made efforts to obtain advanced weaponry, a development Israel has vowed to prevent. Dozens of airstrikes on weapons convoys bound for Lebanon have been attributed to Israel by foreign media reports. It has also deployed units south of the Litani River.“We will do everything necessary to keep Israel’s northern border quiet and safe,” Eisenkot continued. “Our challenge is to maintain the readiness, to deepen our knowledge of the enemy, to reduce its capability, and to extend as much as possible the security and civilian reality that has continued for 11 years and serves the populations on both sides of the fence.”“I am confident in our military superiority, in the quality of the commanders and fighters, and their ability to achieve victory in a time of war and to determine a high and painful outcome for the enemy,” Eisenkot said.Over the past year, Israel has warned repeatedly against Iranian efforts to set up weapons production facilities in Lebanon and establish a presence near the Israeli border with Syria.The topic of Iran’s efforts to expand its military footprint into Lebanon and Syria was a key topic under discussion between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin when the two leaders met in Moscow on Monday.Speaking to reporters after the meeting Netanyahu said that he told Putin precision-guided missiles factories are currently “in the process of being built” by Iran in Lebanon.“These missiles pose a grave threat to Israel,” Netanyahu said, adding that Israel is determined to prevent their development.In an opinion piece published Sunday in Arabic by several Lebanese news outlets, Israel’s top military spokesman Brig. Gen. Ronen Manelis accused Hezbollah of morphing Lebanon into a branch of Iran, and of turning Lebanon into “one big missile factory.”Hezbollah lawmaker Mohammad Raad responded, writing in Al-Hewar Al-Motamaden, one of the Lebanese blog sites where Manelis’ column was published, saying, “Israel should not be unmindful and engage itself in a war that would destroy it… Hezbollah has become today stronger and has what it takes to destroy the Israeli army.”Eisenkot spoke at a memorial ceremony to mark 21 years since the deadliest air crash in Israel’s history, in which 73 IDF servicemen lost their lives when two aircraft collided near the northern border with Lebanon. In what is known in Israel as “the helicopter disaster,’ the two air force transport choppers collided on February 4, 1997, as they ferried troops to the security zone in southern Lebanon, which the IDF maintained at the time. The IDF pulled out of Lebanon in 2000.

11 countries speed up funding for Palestinians after US cuts-UNRWA chief says Russia, Kuwait, and 9 European nations are stepping up contributions-By Agencies and TOI staff-31 January 2018

The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees said Tuesday that Russia, Kuwait and nine European countries have agreed to speed up their contributions to help fill a shortfall left by the Trump administration’s decision to reduce crucial US funding.Commissioner General Pierre Krähenbühl of the UN Relief and Works Agency also said it has received no specifics about reforms sought by the United States, suggesting politics — notably surrounding the US decision to recognize Jerusalem as the Israeli capital — were at play.UNRWA, which serves some 5 million Palestinian refugees and their descendants, had a budget of over $1 billion last year. This covered long-running programs, including education, as well as emergency funds for crises such as the war in Syria.The US has been the largest donor, giving one-third of the total budget. The Trump administration withheld half of the first installment of payments this year, demanding reforms as a condition for future aid.The UN agency says the Trump administration has committed $60 million this year — far short of the $360 million that the US provided last year — and Krähenbühl said he has no sign that other US funding might be on the way.The US has said it is withholding two payments to UNWRA totaling some $100 million.But the administrator of the US Agency for International Development said Friday that the Trump administration had not yet made decisions regarding cuts in humanitarian aid to Palestinians.“This process is ongoing, and no funding decisions have been made. As the President said, the United States expects the Palestinian leadership to work with us,” USAID’s Mark Green told The Times of Israel on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.The UNRWA head said the changes marked “a very severe and dramatic change in the parameters of funding from the United States,” which he called a “stable, predictable and most-generous contributor to UNRWA over decades.”“It is clear that we have a very big task on our hand to fill that gap,” Krähenbühl told reporters in Geneva.UNRWA responded by calling on donors to speed up their funding, and Switzerland, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Germany, Russia, Belgium, Kuwait, the Netherlands and Ireland have taken steps to do so, he said. Others were considering similar action.“Advancing contributions is extremely important to help us address the first few months,” he said. “Of course, a shortfall of $300 million can only be addressed with obtaining additional income from other sources over the year.”The comments Tuesday came as UNRWA said it is seeking $800 million for emergency operations in Syria, the West Bank and Gaza Strip this year. UNRWA sought $400 million each for Syria and the Palestinian territories. In an appeal last week, the agency sought an additional $500 million.“We signed our new framework agreement with the US in the beginning of December in which every aspect of our relationship from funding to reform discussions was covered and agreed,” Krähenbühl told The Associated Press. “They did not explain the current decision by reform-related elements.”He said he believed the funding cut was linked to the Trump administration’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and a subsequent vote by the UN General Assembly to denounce the decision.“It is very clear that the decision by the United States was not related to our performance,” he said. “This has to be part of the debate that took place around Jerusalem.”Israel has often criticized UNRWA, accusing it of sheltering terrorists and allowing Palestinians to remain refugees even after settling in a new city or country for generations, thus complicating a possible resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

UN envoy warns Gaza on verge of ‘full collapse’-Senior official Nickolay Mladenov tells Israeli security conference that Palestinian enclave is 'well beyond' humanitarian crisis-By AFP and TOI staff-31 January 2018

A senior United Nations official on Tuesday warned the Palestinian coastal enclave of the Gaza Strip was on the verge of “full collapse.”UN Middle East peace envoy Nickolay Mladenov said a key to saving Gaza from disaster was restoring the government of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to power there, a decade after it was forced out by the Islamist terror group Hamas.“Without that Gaza risks exploding in our face again, this time in a far more deadly and violent manner than in the past,” Mladenov said at the annual conference of Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv.Repeated reconciliation efforts between Hamas and Fatah — the party that dominates the Palestinian Authority — have failed to reach an agreement that would return control of Gaza to the PA, most recently because Hamas refused to surrender its considerable arsenal of weapons and military infrastructure.Earlier this month, the White House froze around $100 million in contributions to UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees after the Palestinians announced they would no longer accept the US as a mediator in peace talks with Israel. The Palestinians were angered after US President Donald Trump on December 6 recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, though he stressed that he was not specifying the boundaries of Israeli sovereignty in the city, and called for no change in the status quo at the city’s holy sites.“I often say publicly, in (UN) Security Council briefings and in other formats, that we are in the midst of a major humanitarian crisis,” Mladenov said.“Let me be very clear today here, that we’re well beyond that,” he added.“We’re on the verge of a total systems failure in Gaza, with a full collapse of the economy, with social services, political, humanitarian and security implications stemming from that.”Mladenov said he would raise those concerns in Brussels on Wednesday at a meeting of the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee, which coordinates international donor support for the Palestinians.He said the meeting would be at a high level with representatives of the Israelis, Palestinians and “a number” of Arab foreign ministers attending.PA Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah will take part, a Palestinian Authority statement said. Hamdallah is set to meet with Israel’s Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon in Jerusalem on Sunday in what will be the first high-level meeting of Israeli and Palestinian officials since the US policy move on the capital.“One of our key messages must really be: what can we actually do to create and preserve hope for the people of Gaza, in order to address both the militant aspect of it and the humanitarian aspect?” Mladenov said.Since Trump’s announcement on Jerusalem, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has refused to engage in American-led peace talks, saying the US is not an honest broker. He has also refused to meet with senior White House officials, including US Vice President Mike Pence, and in a speech earlier this month he denounced a peace plan being formulated by the US as the “slap of the century.”

Russians fume as US lists of over 200 politicians, oligarchs it could sanction-Washington refrains from issuing punishments against those named; Putin calls lineup of 114 government people and 96 business figures a 'hostile step,' but won't respond just yet-By NATALIYA VASILYEVA and Josh Lederman-TOI-31 January 2018

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday the Trump administration made a “hostile step” when it published a list of Russian businessmen and politicians as part of a sanctions law against Moscow.The long-awaited US publication appears to be mainly a list of people in Russian government, along with 96 “oligarchs” from a Forbes magazine ranking of Russian billionaires.The list, ordered by Congress in response to Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential campaign, had induced fear among rich Russians that it could lead to US sanctions or being informally blacklisted in the global financial system.But the US surprised observers by announcing that it had decided not to punish anybody under the new sanctions, at least for now. Some US lawmakers accused US President Donald Trump of giving Russia a free pass, fueling further questions about whether the president is unwilling to confront Moscow.Putin on Tuesday referred to the list as a “hostile step” — but said Moscow does not want to make the situation even worse.“We were waiting for this list to come out, and I’m not going to hide it: we were going to take steps in response, and, mind you, serious steps, that could push our relations to the nadir. But we’re going to refrain from taking these steps for now,” Putin said.The Russian president said he does not expect the publication to have any impact but expressed dismay at the scope of the officials and business people listed.“Ordinary Russian citizens, employees and entire industries are behind each of those people and companies, so all 146 million people have essentially been put on this list,” Putin said at a campaign event in Moscow. “What is the point of this? I don’t understand.”Russia hawks in Congress had pushed the administration to include certain names, while Russian businessmen hired lobbyists to keep them off.In the end, the list of 114 Russian politicians released just before a Monday evening deadline included the whole of Putin’s administration, as listed by the Kremlin on its website, plus the Russian cabinet, all top law enforcement officials and chief executives of the main state-controlled companies.President Putin even joked on Tuesday that he felt “slighted” that his name wasn’t there.A companion list of 96 “oligarchs” is a carbon copy of the Forbes magazine’s Russian billionaires’ rankings, only arranged alphabetically. It makes no distinction between those who are tied to the Kremlin and those who are not. Some of the people on the list have long fallen out with the Kremlin or are widely considered to have built their fortunes independently of the Russian government.Officials said more names, including those of less senior politicians and businesspeople worth less than $1 billion, are on a classified version of the list being provided to Congress. Drawing on US intelligence, the Treasury Department also finalized a list of at least partially state-owned companies in Russia, but that list, too, was classified and sent only to Congress.The idea of the seven-page unclassified document, as envisioned by Congress, was to name-and-shame those believed to be benefiting from Putin’s tenure, as the United States works to isolate his government diplomatically and economically.Every top Russian official except for Putin is on the list of 114 senior political figures. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev is on it, along with all ministers from the Russian government, all 42 of Putin’s aides, and top law enforcement officials. The CEOs of all major state-owned companies, including energy giant Rosneft and Sberbank, are also on the list.The oligarchs list includes tycoons Roman Abramovich and Mikhail Prokhorov, who challenged Putin in the 2012 election. Aluminum magnate Oleg Deripaska, a figure in the Russia investigation over his ties to former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, is included.Less obvious names on the list include Sergei Galitsky, founder of retail chain Magnit, and Arkady Volozh, founder and CEO of the search engine Yandex, and bankers Oleg Tinkov and Ruben Vardanyan. They have been lauded as self-made men who built their successful businesses without any government support.Some billionaires on the list have fallen out with the Kremlin entirely, like the Ananyev brothers, who fled the country last year and vowed to sue the Russian government after their bank was declared bankrupt.The list shows that the United States views the entire Russian government as enemies, Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov — himself on the list — told reporters on Tuesday.Although he said Russia should not “give in to emotions” before studying the list and its implications carefully, Peskov pointed out the name of the law: “On countering America’s adversaries through sanctions.”“De facto everyone has been called an adversary of the United States,” he said.In a Facebook post Tuesday, Konstantin Kosachev, chairman of the foreign affairs committee for the Federation Council, the upper chamber of Russian parliament, said US intelligence failed to find compromising material on Russian politicians and “ended up copying the Kremlin phone book.”Kosachev criticized the US government for harming Russia-US relations, saying that “the consequences will be toxic and undermine prospects for cooperation for years ahead. He added that the list displays “political paranoia” of the US establishment.Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who came to prominence thanks to his investigations into official corruption, tweeted Tuesday that he was “glad that these (people) have been officially recognized on the international level as crooks and thieves.” Navalny in his investigations has exposed what he described as close ties between government officials and some of the billionaires on the list.The list’s release was likely to at least partially defuse the disappointment from some US lawmakers that Trump’s administration opted against targeting anyone with new Russia sanctions that took effect Monday.Under the same law that authorized the “Putin list,” the government was required to slap sanctions on anyone doing “significant” business with people linked to Russia’s defense and intelligence agencies, using a blacklist the US released in October. But the administration decided it didn’t need to penalize anyone, even though several countries have had multibillion-dollar arms deals with Russia in the works.US State Department officials said the threat of sanctions had been deterrent enough, and that “sanctions on specific entities or individuals will not need to be imposed.”Companies or foreign governments that had been doing business with blacklisted Russian entities had been given a three-month grace period to extricate themselves from transactions, starting in October when the blacklist was published and ending Monday. But only those engaged in “significant transactions” are to be punished, and the US has never defined that term or given a dollar figure. That ambiguity has made it impossible for the public to know exactly what is and isn’t permissible.New York Rep. Eliot Engel, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, lambasted the move to punish no one, saying he was “fed up” and that Trump’s administration had chosen to “let Russia off the hook yet again.” He dismissed the State Department’s claim that “the mere threat of sanctions” would stop Moscow from further meddling in America’s elections.“How do you deter an attack that happened two years ago, and another that’s already underway?” Engel said. “It just doesn’t make sense.”

Iran hackers reportedly tried to phish Israeli nuclear scientists-Emails sent to Israeli researchers contained links to news stories from a fake British media outlet, TV report says-By TOI staff-31 January 2018

Iranian hackers reportedly targeted Israeli nuclear scientists with phishing scams in a effort to gain access to sensitive material.According to a Hadashot TV news report on Tuesday, Israeli scientists received emails containing dubious links to news stories from a fake news outlet called the British News Agency.The TV report did not indicate whether any of the phishing attempts were successful or when they took place.Erel Margalit, an former Zionist Union MK and high-tech entrepreneur, said the incident should be a warning to the world that Iranian hacking attempts must be taken seriously.Last month, the Israel-based ClearSky Cybersecurity said Iranian hackers were sending links from the fake British News Agency to targets across the world in an effort to obtain information about political dissidents living in Iran.According to ClearSky, the Iranian hackers behind that attempt were called Charming Kitten, and their cyber espionage activities were state-sanctioned.The hackers focused on academic researchers, human rights activists, media personalities, and political advisers mostly from Iran, Israel, the US and UK.Among the Israeli figures known to have been targeted were Iran researcher Tamar Eilam Gindin from the Shalom Center, Kan radio news editor Eran Cicurel, and movie producer Alon Gur Arye, according to Hebrew-language media reports at the time.ClearSky also said it had found connections between Charming Kitten and Behzad Mesri, an Iranian hacker indicted by the FBI for hacking HBO and then leaking episodes of the “Game of Thrones” series. The FBI said Mesri is a member of another Iran-based hacking group sometimes known as Turk Black Hat, which has targeted hundreds of websites in the United States and around the world.Earlier on Tuesday, the former director of the CIA, Gen David Petraeus, told a Tel Aviv conference that US-Israeli collaboration on cybersecurity has reached new heights.“According to various foreign publications, our cooperation has harmed significantly Iran’s nuclear program,” he said at the conference, hinting at the reported collaboration between the two nations in planting the malicious computer worm Stuxnet that damaged Iran’s nuclear program and was uncovered in 2010.He said he could not confirm or deny those reports.Shoshanna Solomon, Stuart Winer contributed to this report.

Iranian-American, wife sentenced to prison over Zoroastrian faith-Art dealers Karan Vafadari and Afarin Neyssar given 27 years and 16 years respectively, after arrest by Revolutionary Guards-By AP-TOI-JAN 31,18

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran has sentenced an Iranian-American art dealer and his wife to prison for being Zoroastrians, a New York-based rights group said Wednesday, marking the latest case of Tehran imprisoning dual nationals.Art dealer Karan Vafadari was sentenced to 27 years in prison, while his Iranian wife, Afarin Neyssar, who has permanent residency in the US, received a 16-year sentence, the Center for Human Rights in Iran said.The sentences have yet to be reported in Iran. Iran’s mission to the United Nations did not immediately respond to a request for comment.The two were reportedly arrested by Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard in July 2016. Little information has come out about their case since then.Early Wednesday, the Center for Human Rights in Iran said it had received a letter dated January 21 that Vafadari wrote to it from Tehran’s Evin prison. In it, Vafadari said he was sentenced “last week” to prison by Judge Abolghassem Salavati of Tehran’s hard-line Revolutionary Court. The charges included holding mixed-gender parties and having alcohol, both of which are supposed to be protected for Zoroastrians.Salavati is known for his tough sentences and has heard other politically charged cases, including one in which he sentenced Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian to prisonVafadari said he and his wife were sentenced under a law allowing for properties of dual nationals to be seized and sold at auction. He said his work in the art world “raised the suspicions” of the Guard’s intelligence unit. The sentence also included lashes and a fine.“Fortunately, the initial, baseless security accusations that led to our arrest were dropped, but our gallery, office, warehouses and home remained locked and our cars, computers and documents were confiscated, followed by accusations and interrogations that indicated a deeper plot,” he wrote.Posted by Karan Vafadari on Saturday, 25 February 2012-He added that the sentences mean “my wife and me, and every one of you dual national Zoroastrians who returned to your country to invest in the homeland you love, are always going to be in danger of losing your assets and forced to leave the country.”Zoroastrianism is a pre-Islamic ancient religion in Iran that is in theory protected under the Iranian constitution. However, its adherents can face discrimination in Iran, whose government is overseen by Shiite clerics.Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.

US court temporarily suspends Kansas anti-BDS law-ACLU challenges measure banning state contracts with individuals or companies participating in a boycott of Israel over free speech concerns-By ROXANA HEGEMAN-TOI-JAN 31,18

WICHITA, Kansas (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked a Kansas law barring state contractors from participating in boycotts against Israel, saying the state law violates their free speech rights.US District Judge Daniel Crabtree wrote in his decision that the US Supreme Court has held that the “First Amendment protects the right to participate in a boycott like the one punished by the Kansas law.”Several states have enacted laws in recent years amid an increasingly visible movement protesting Israel’s policies toward Palestinians. Backers of boycotting Israeli companies argue they’re defending Palestinians’ human rights, while boycott critics contend the goal is to destroy the Jewish state.The judge granted the request from the American Civil Liberties Union to block enforcement of the Kansas law while the case proceeds. Crabtree found it is “highly likely” that the Kansas law is invalid.“A desire to prevent discrimination against Israeli businesses is an insufficient public interest to overcome the public’s interest in protecting a constitutional right,” Crabtree wrote.The ACLU brought the lawsuit on behalf of Esther Koontz, a math and science curriculum coach at a Wichita public school. She is seeking to overturn a law that took effect in July that prohibits the state from entering into contracts with individuals or companies participating in a boycott of Israel.Twenty-four states have such policies, including California, Alabama and Texas, according to Palestine Legal, a non-profit advocacy group that aims to protect the rights of people who speak out for Palestinian freedom. The measure had strong bipartisan support in Kansas.ACLU attorney Brian Hauss said the court recognized the harms imposed by the “misguided law,” which imposes “an unconstitutional ideological litmus test.”“This ruling should serve as a warning to government officials around the country that the First Amendment prohibits the government from suppressing participation in political boycotts,” Hauss said.The ACLU has also filed a legal challenge to a similar law in Arizona prohibiting contractors from boycotting Israel, but this is the first court ruling in the country dealing with such laws, said ACLU attorney Doug Bonney.Departing Governor Sam Brownback, who signed the policy into law, said he thinks the ACLU will ultimately lose the case.Brownback, a Republican, said the federal government has passed such laws for years. He cited laws against trade with Iran or limits on investments in South Africa during apartheid.Brownback is stepping down as governor Wednesday to become US ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom.State officials have described Israel as an important trading partner, with Kansas exporting $56 million worth of products there in 2016 while buying $83 million worth. Brownback made an unpublicized visit to Israel last summer, during which he met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Hawaii warning officer reportedly believed missile threat was real-FCC investigation finds emergency worker issued state-wide warning after hearing a drill recording saying 'this is not a drill'-By Chris Lefkow-TOI-31 January 2018

WASHINGTON (AFP) — A warning officer who sent an alert that a ballistic missile was headed towards Hawaii believed the threat was real, according to a report on the January 13 incident which sparked widespread panic.The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), in a preliminary report released on Tuesday, said the unidentified officer with the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency (HEMA) claimed not to have heard a phrase warning that it was just an exercise.At the same time, the report said, the sentence “This is not a drill” was mistakenly included in the recorded message which prompted the officer to issue a warning of an imminent ballistic missile attack.Mobile phones across the Pacific islands received the emergency alert around 8:07 a.m. and it was also transmitted by television and radio stations.“In the minutes that followed, panic-stricken citizens called their families to say what they believed were their last words, and some even resorted to jumping into manholes to find shelter,” FCC chairman Ajit Pai said in a statement accompanying the report.The erroneous message came amid tensions with North Korea, which has tested rockets powerful enough to reach the United States, though it is unclear whether they are yet able to deliver nuclear payloads.It took the authorities 38 minutes to send out a message canceling the false alert and the FCC also looked into why it took so long to do so.The FCC investigation blamed the mistake on a combination of “human error and inadequate safeguards.”It began, the report said, with a decision by the overnight-shift supervisor to conduct an unannounced drill when the day shift arrived at 8:00 am.The overnight-shift supervisor informed the day-shift supervisor of the plan but the day-shift supervisor understood the drill was for the overnight workers ending their shift not for his arriving staff.“As a result, the day shift supervisor was not in the proper location to supervise the day shift warning officers when the ballistic missile defense drill was initiated,” the report said.-‘Exercise, exercise, exercise’-It said the overnight-shift supervisor called the day-shift warning officers at 8:05 a.m. pretending to be US Pacific Command.A recorded message was played over the phone which began and ended with the words “exercise, exercise, exercise.”The message also mistakenly, however, included the phrase “This is not a drill” used for an actual live ballistic missile alert, the report said.Three day-shift warning officers listened to the recording on speakerphone and one of them “believed that the missile threat was real” and issued a live alert at 8:07 am after hearing the sentence “This is not a drill,” it said.The officer declined to be interviewed by the FCC but said in a written statement to HEMA that he did not hear the phrase “exercise, exercise, exercise.”“Other warning officers who heard the recording in the watch center report that they knew that the erroneous incoming message did not indicate a real missile threat, but was supposed to indicate the beginning of an exercise,” the report said.“Because we’ve not been able to interview the day shift warning officer who transmitted the false alert, we’re not in a position to fully evaluate the credibility of their assertion that they believed there was an actual missile threat and intentionally sent the live alert (as opposed to believing that it was a drill and accidentally sending out the live alert),” it added.The FCC was also critical of HEMA’s failure to develop “standard procedures” to cancel a false alert and said “the error was worsened by the delay in authoritatively correcting the misinformation.”In the future, the FCC said, supervisors will receive advance notice of all drills and two warning officers will validate alerts instead of one.Crabtree wrote that he is not persuaded by the state’s argument that enjoining the Kansas law will cause Israeli companies to refuse to do business in Kansas, or with Kansas companies, and thus harm the Kansas economy.The lawsuit said Koontz, who lives about 25 miles (40 kilometers) north of Wichita in Newton, is a Mennonite and the wife of a pastor. She decided to boycott Israeli products and services to “support the Palestinians’ struggle for equality.”A Kansas State Department of Education official told Koontz in August that she could not be paid as a teacher trainer because she refused to certify that she was not participating in a boycott of Israel. The lawsuit names state Education Commissioner Randy Watson as the defendant.In his ruling, Crabtree wrote that Koontz and other members of the Mennonite Church have “banded together” to express collectively their dissatisfaction with Israel and influence governmental action.The law’s legislative history reveals that its goal is to undermine the message of those participating in a boycott of Israel, the judge wrote. This is either viewpoint discrimination against the opinion that Israel mistreats Palestinians, or subject matter discrimination on the topic of Israel — both impermissible goals under the First Amendment, Crabtree said.State Rep. Randy Powell, a conservative Olathe Republican who pushed for the law, said he remains confident that it’s constitutional.“It still allows for freedom of speech. It still allows individuals to boycott,” he said. “But any state can choose to do business with who they wish.”

Ruth Bader Ginsburg to skip State of the Union address-Supreme Court Justice will be speaking at Rhode Island university in lieu of attending Trump's speech to Congress-By JTA-TOI-31 January 2018

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will miss the State of the Union speech by President Donald Trump due to a speaking engagement.On Tuesday night, at the time of the address, Ginsburg will be speaking at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island. She has been on an extensive speaking tour during the high court’s current monthlong recess, The Associated Press reported.Ginsburg also did not attend Trump’s address to Congress in January 2017; fellow justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas also skipped the speech. She attended all eight of President Barack Obama’s State of the Union addresses. It is not unusual for the justices to skip such addresses, however, according to the AP.Ginsburg spoke last week at the Sundance Film Festival, where a documentary about the justice was screened, in a conversation/interview with Nina Totenberg of National Public Radio. She also is scheduled to speak at law schools and synagogues during her speaking tour, the AP reported.Ginsburg, 84, the oldest member of the court, criticized Trump in July 2016 when he was the presumptive Republican presidential nominee in several interviews, calling him “a faker” and saying that he “has no consistency about him.”“He says whatever comes into his head at the moment. He really has an ego,” she said.Trump responded in a tweet, saying that Ginsburg “has embarrassed all by making very dumb political statements about me. Her mind is shot — resign!”Ginsburg has written two of the court’s four decisions this session and reportedly has hired law clerks through 2020, according to the AP.

EU in push to seal Latin American trade deal-By Eszter Zalan-JAN 31,18-EUOBSERVER

BRUSSELS, Today, 16:22-Top officials from the EU and the Mercosur countries of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay were meeting on Tuesday (30 January) in Brussels to give a political push to reaching a trade deal in the face of increasing US protectionism.Trade commissioner Cecilia Malmstroem and agriculture commissioner Phil Hogan were meeting with ministers from the four countries in an effort to make political compromises and let negotiators work out the details in the coming days and weeks.An announcement on a deal was not expected Tuesday, although a breakthrough could come from the talks that, according to EU officials, are designed to prepare for an "endgame".After securing major free trade deals in recent times with Canada and Japan, the EU is now keen to secure yet another market opening, whilst US president Donald Trump heralds in an 'America First' policy of protectionism.For the EU, trade has become an important tool to secure multilateralism and free trade as the US is withdrawing from treaties and closes inwards - while also creating opportunities for European firms to export.Talks with the Mercosur countries initially kicked off in 2010, then were paused in 2012, and reopened in 2016.However, negotiators are working against the clock as a deal is needed to be secured before the campaign for Brazil's presidential and general elections kicks off in March, ushering in a series of elections that would put off any meaningful negotiation until 2019.-No Plan B-"There is no plan B, no exit strategy, we need to finish it and we need to finish it now," chief EU negotiator Sandra Gallina told MEPs last week.

EU offers UK 'status quo' transition without vote-By Eszter Zalan-EUOBSERVER

BRUSSELS, 29. Jan, 17:50-EU ministers adopted on Monday (29 January) the starting positions in the negotiation with the UK on a transition period after Brexit, saying the UK should apply all the EU rules without having a say in them."EU General Affairs Council adopts guidelines for Brexit negotiations within 2 min: status quo transition without institutional representation, lasting from Brexit date to 31 December 2020," Sabine Weyand, the EU's deputy chief Brexit negotiator tweeted during the meeting.It represents the EU's starting position for chief negotiator Michel Barnier to negotiate with London a transition deal that British prime minister Theresa May has proposed last September.EU ministers agreed the transition should last until 31 December 2020, to coincide with the end of the EU's long-term budget - so that the lengthy negotiations for the next budget cycle are not mixed up with Brexit talks.That gives 21 months months after the UK officially leaves the bloc on 30 March 2019 to negotiate and ratify a deal on the future relations.During the transition period the UK will have to abide by all the EU rules as if it were a member state.But it will not take part in any of the institutions, nor will it be part of the decision-making, which is sure to irritate Brexit-supporters, some within Theresa May's own party, who hoped to "take back control" from the EU.Barnier told reporters after the meeting the UK will have to agree to this from the outset.He said that the UK will have to adhere to EU rules because London wanted to stay in the single market and the customs union during the transition period."The UK will continue to have all the economic benefits, therefore it must apply all the EU rules ... the single market cannot be a la carte," the French poltiician said, adding that this will provide stability for citizens and businesses.All existing budgetary and judiciary structures will also apply, meaning the UK will continue to pay into the budget, and accept the competence of the EU's top court.-Rare invites-Changes to the EU law adopted during the transition period would also apply to the UK. Although "exceptionally on a case-by-case basis", the UK can be invited to meetings without voting rights, if it is in the interest if the EU.UK Brexit minister David Davis, however, said last Friday the UK wants a mechanism to make sure such decisions do not run contrary to the UK's interests."We will have to agree a way of resolving concerns if laws are deemed to run contrary to our interests and we have not had our say," he said.-Third countries-EU ministers agreed that the UK can start trade negotiations with non-EU countries during the transition period, but those accords cannot enter into force during this period, unless the EU-27 agrees.The UK will also have to comply with EU trade policy. This means it will be bound by the over 750 international agreements the EU already has in place, and so it will have to apply EU customs tariffs and collect custom duties.Barnier warned however that the EU cannot guarantee the benefits stemming for those deals for the UK. "Our partners have their own views on this," he added.As part of maintaining the single market and its four freedoms, the EU also wants EU-27 citizens to enjoy the same rights in the UK until the transitions period ends as now."Those who arrived before the [end of the transition] date will enjoy the protection agreed in the joint report," Barnier said referring to the EU-UK agreement reached in December.No deal-The EU also warns the UK that what has been agreed so far, last December will have to be respected for further progress to happen.The transition agreement will be part of the withdrawal agreement.The main withdrawal issues were resolved last December, but as Barnier warned, some issues are still outstanding, such as public procurement, data protection, intellectual property and governance of the agreement."If no agreement on withdrawal agreement there will be no transition period," Barnier warned."For the market access part we need political impetus from both sides," Gallina said, adding: "I am in need for big political help if we are to finish this, […] it will be geopolitically very important, this agreement."Mercosur countries say the EU needs to further open up its own agricultural markets, including beef and ethanol.The EU offered in December to let Mercosur export 70,000 metric tonnes of beef at reduced tariffs, but Mercosur countries deemed it too low.While previously France was at odds with opening up the market for Mercosur beef, Ireland has now become concerned about its capacity to export, as its beef could also face UK tariffs after Britain leaves the EU."The moment is difficult for Europe, beef in Ireland might be affected by Brexit, so this maybe not the best time to go after such a deal," Gallina admitted last week.But the negotiations are not only about beef.The EU wants Mercosur countries – a region of 260 million consumers – to open their markets more significantly to dairy products, particularly cheese, cars and car parts, have access to maritime services, and reach an agreement on rules of origin and geographical indicators.The EU has called for an "ambitious and balanced" trade agreement. The EU-Mercosur trade in 2016 amounted to €85 billion.The deal will not cover investment provisions, thus there is no need for any sort of dispute mechanism, a controversial issue in previous trade deals.The EU is still negotiating with Japan the precise investment dispute mechanism to include in the economic agreement.

Wednesday, January 31, 2018

THE DOW WAS DOWN 362 POINTS TUESDAY-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-JANUARY 31,2018-12:00AM

DOW MARKET WEDNESDAY-JANUARY 31,,2018
09:30AM-5.07
10:00AM-195.06
10:30AM-223.34
11:00AM-148.25
11:30AM-148.93
12:00PM-115.25
12:30PM-125.43
01:00PM-136.33
01:30PM-162.77
02:00PM-152.66
02:30PM-151.10
03:00PM-23.11
03:30PM-31.12
04:00PM-72.57+ 260149.39 - S&P +1.38 2823.81 - NASDAQ +9.00 7411.48
HIGH +253 LOW +05
TSX -03.34 15,951.67 - GOLD $-00.17 $1,338.68 - OIL $-0.10 $64.40

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-JANUARY 31, 2018-11:55PM

1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ U.S.40 of 43 earthquakes in map area.

    5.2-27km ESE of Palora, Ecuador-2018-01-31 23:13:21 (UTC)-18.7 km
    4.1-21km SE of Mandali, Iraq-2018-01-31 21:29:10 (UTC)-10.0 km
    3.6-206km SE of Kodiak, Alaska-2018-01-31 21:10:47 (UTC)-28.9 km
    2.5-26km E of Hydesville, CA-2018-01-31 20:58:59 (UTC)-27.3 km
    2.7-38km SW of Challis, Idaho-2018-01-31 20:44:36 (UTC)-10.7 km
    4.8-250km SE of Kodiak, Alaska-2018-01-31 20:01:50 (UTC)-10.0 km
    3.8-244km SE of Kodiak, Alaska-2018-01-31 18:02:30 (UTC)-10.0 km
    3.1-59km N of Middleton Island, Alaska-2018-01-31 17:55:00 (UTC)-10.7 km
    2.9-18km WNW of Kodiak Station, Alaska-2018-01-31 17:54:00 (UTC)-35.5 km
    5.1-41km E of Pedasi, Panama-2018-01-31 16:41:52 (UTC)-10.0 km
    5.7-55km SE of Pedasi, Panama-2018-01-31 16:37:06 (UTC)-10.0 km
    2.6-48km WNW of Larsen Bay, Alaska-2018-01-31 16:22:16 (UTC)-74.6 km
    2.5-4km ENE of Covelo, CA-2018-01-31 15:41:20 (UTC)-7.5 km
    5.1-Line Islands, Kiribati region-2018-01-31 15:26:51 (UTC)-13.9 km
    5.6-34km SE of Lae, Papua New Guinea-2018-01-31 11:49:39 (UTC)-74.7 km
    2.5-65km NW of Valdez, Alaska-2018-01-31 11:44:17 (UTC)-17.2 km
    3.4-64km S of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic-2018-01-31 11:08:10 (UTC)-84.0 km
    4.0-38km ESE of Farkhar, Afghanistan-2018-01-31 11:01:38 (UTC)-212.4 km
    3.2-24km ESE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic-2018-01-31 10:33:23 (UTC)-119.0 km
    3.8-252km SE of Kodiak, Alaska-2018-01-31 09:18:56 (UTC)-0.1 km
    2.9-84km S of Jobos, Puerto Rico-2018-01-31 08:36:58 (UTC)-58.0 km
    2.5-95km W of Healy, Alaska-2018-01-31 07:27:25 (UTC)-18.3 km
    6.1-35km S of Jarm, Afghanistan-2018-01-31 07:07:00 (UTC)-191.2 km
    3.1-8km NNW of Arecibo, Puerto Rico-2018-01-31 06:04:09 (UTC)-76.0 km
    2.6-10km ESE of Yosemite Lakes, CA-2018-01-31 03:59:21 (UTC)-5.4 km
    2.6-9km NE of Aguanga, CA-2018-01-31 03:59:48 (UTC)-3.0 km
    2.6-10km ESE of Yosemite Lakes, CA-2018-01-31 03:59:21 (UTC)-5.4 km
    3.3-10km N of Coalinga, CA-2018-01-31 03:34:32 (UTC)-13.7 km
    4.7-232km ENE of Raoul Island, New Zealand-2018-01-31 02:16:57 (UTC)-10.0 km
    5.3-50km NNW of Sangiang, Indonesia-2018-01-31 02:00:31 (UTC)-15.2 km
    2.5-8km WSW of Nikiski, Alaska-2018-01-31 01:23:11 (UTC)-50.3 km
    4.8-38km E of Oarai, Japan-2018-01-31 01:15:25 (UTC)-52.4 km
    4.9-Central Mid-Atlantic Ridge-2018-01-31 00:55:53 (UTC)-10.0 km
    4.6-47km NNE of Sampungu, Indonesia-2018-01-31 00:55:34 (UTC)-22.6 km
    4.5-8km W of Nagarote, Nicaragua-2018-01-31 00:09:49 (UTC)-134.7 km
    3.2-205km E of Kodiak, Alaska-2018-01-31 00:04:14 (UTC)-16.8 km

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NETANYAHU ORDERS IRISH ENVOY SUMMONED OVER BILL BANNING SETTLEMENT GOODS.

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

Netanyahu orders Irish envoy summoned over bill banning settlement goods-Ahead of vote in Ireland's senate, PM's office says legislation's 'sole purpose' is to support BDS movement, harm Israel-By Alexander Fulbright-JAN 30,18-TOI

6:52 pm-Palestinian teen said killed during clashes near Ramallah-The Palestinian Health Ministry says a 16-year-old Palestinian was killed after being shot by Israeli security forces during clashes near Ramallah.The IDF says it is looking into reports of the incident.6:44 pm-Netanyahu condemns Irish bill outlawing settlement goods-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemns a bill set to be voted on by the Irish senate tonight outlawing goods from West Bank settlements.In a statement, his office says the legislation’s “sole purpose is to support the BDS movement and harm the State of Israel.” It says the bill gives backing to calls for Israel to be boycotted and “stands in complete contrast to the guiding principles of free trade and justice.”The PMO also says Netanyahu ordered the Foreign Ministry to summon the Irish ambassador in Israel.6:08 pm-11 countries speed up funding for Palestinian refugees after US aid freeze-GENEVA — The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees says that Russia, Kuwait and nine European countries have agreed to speed up their contributions to help fill a shortfall left by the Trump administration’s decision to greatly reduce crucial US funding.Commissioner General Pierre Krahenbuhl of the UN Relief and Works Agency also says it has received no specifics about reforms sought by the United States, suggesting politics — notably surrounding the US decision to recognize Jerusalem as the Israeli capital — were at play.UNRWA, which serves some 5 million Palestinian refugees and their descendants, had a budget of over $1 billion last year. This covered long-running programs, including education, as well as emergency funds for crises such as the war in Syria.The US has been the largest donor, giving one-third of the total budget. The Trump administration withheld half of the first installment of payments this year, demanding reforms as a condition for future aid.— AP-5:57 pm-VW suspends chief lobbyist over exhaust fume tests on humans, monkeys-BERLIN — Germany’s scandal-hit auto giant Volkswagen on Tuesday suspends its chief lobbyist Thomas Steg as outrage mounts over monkey and human experiments to study the effects of diesel exhaust fumes.CEO Matthias Mueller says VW has “taken first consequences” from the tests on monkeys and put on leave Steg, the general representative for external relations and government affairs, who has “taken full responsibility.”The New York Times reported last week that US researchers in 2014 locked 10 monkeys into airtight chambers and made them breathe in diesel exhaust from a VW Beetle while the animals were watching TV cartoons.Separately, it emerged that a research group funded by VW, Mercedes-Benz parent Daimler and BMW had ordered a study in Germany measuring the effects of inhaling nitrogen dioxide on 25 human volunteers.— AFP-5:47 pm-Israel’s Holocaust memorial honors ‘righteous’ Poles amid row-Israel’s Yad Vashem memorial on Tuesday awards a posthumous medal for heroism to three Poles who risked their lives to protect Jewish neighbors during the Nazi Holocaust.Piotr Kozlowski, charge d’affaires at Poland’s embassy in Israel, speaks at the Jerusalem ceremony without mentioning a diplomatic row over the Polish role in the mass murder of the country’s Jews.Kozlowski was summoned by Israel’s foreign ministry Sunday after Poland’s right wing-dominated parliament adopted legislation setting fines or up to three years in jail for anyone who accuses the Polish nation or state of complicity with Nazi crimes or refers to Nazi death camps as Polish.At Tuesday’s ceremony Jan Dziadosz, his wife Sabina and their son Aleksandr are honored as “Righteous Among the Nations,” the title Yad Vashem applies to non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust.The family sheltered two Jews on their farm near Modliborzyce, a village in southeastern Poland. Both later made their way out of the country, Yad Vashem said.The family’s medal and certificate are accepted by the couple’s daughter Alicja Mularska.— AFP-5:35 pm-Eisenkot says Hezbollah ‘growing stronger’-IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot says Lebanon’s Hezbollah is “growing stronger in its military capabilities.”Speaking at an event marking the anniversary of the 1997 helicopter disaster, Eisenkot accuses the terror group of “violating UN Security Council resolutions,” namely by maintaining an armed presence in southern Lebanon, according to the Ynet news site.He also says the IDF is “working day and night to ensure preparedness and deterrence against these threats.”5:16 pm-Bennett: Millions of Jews being lost to assimilation-Education Minister says millions of Jews are disappearing due to assimilation.“The Jewish people are losing millions of Jews to assimilation and this is a matter that [we] can’t five up on,” Walla news quotes Bennett as saying at an event marking the anniversary of the 1997 helicopter disaster, in which 73 soldiers died after two helicopters collided.Bennett, who is also diaspora affairs minister, adds: “We have grown stronger. Now it is our turn to volunteer and guard world Jewry.”5:05 pm-EU envoy says US ‘remains crucial’ to peace process-The EU’s ambassador to Israel says the US “remains crucial” to the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.Emanuele Giaufret makes the remark at a meeting attended by US peace envoy Jason Greenblatt and officials from a number of Western countries, ahead of a meeting of donor countries to the Palestinians in Brussels Wednesday.Giaufret says the EU is working to achieve a two-state solution along with the US, the Middle East Quartet, Norway and unnamed Arab countries.PA President Mahmoud Abbas said last month following Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital that the US was no longer an honest broker of peace talks.On the eve of the AHLC in Brussels, it was a pleasure to host @jdgreenblatt45 at the EU Delegation. The EU is ready to do its part towards the two state solution together with the USA, whose role remains crucial, the Quartet, the Arab countries and Norway. pic.twitter.com/lRB6M9qXkB— Emanuele Giaufret (@EGiaufretEU) January 30, 2018-5:00 pm-Ruth Bader Ginsburg to skip State of the Union to speak at university, visit synagogue-BRISTOL, Rhode Island — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is skipping US President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union address while she travels to Rhode Island to speak to a group of law students.Ginsburg is scheduled to speak on Tuesday at Roger Williams University School of Law in Bristol.The talk will only be open to students, faculty and staff, although members of the media are allowed.During her trip to Rhode Island, Ginsburg also is set to make stops at a synagogue and at US District Court, both in Providence. Both stops are closed to the media.The trailblazing 84-year-old justice is the subject of a new documentary called “RBG,” which just premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.— AP-4:58 pm-Putin says US publication of ‘oligarchs’ list a ‘hostile step’-WASHINGTON — Russian President Vladimir Putin says the Trump administration’s list of top officials and businesspeople is a “hostile step” that harms relations between Russia and the United States.Just 12 minutes before the deadline, the administration late on Monday released a long-awaited list of 114 Russian politicians and 96 “oligarchs” who have flourished under Putin, fulfilling a demand by Congress that the US punish Moscow for interfering in the 2016 US election.The section on political leaders includes the entire Kremlin administration and the Cabinet as well as other top officials.Speaking at a campaign event in Moscow on Tuesday, Putin, who is running for president at the March election, jokes that he felt “slighted” that he himself was not on the list.Putin describes the list as a “hostile step” but says Moscow does not want to make the situation worse and is eager to “develop the relations as much as our American counterparts are willing to.”— AP-4:18 pm-Lawyer says another woman arrested in Iran for shedding headscarf-TEHRAN, Iran — An Iranian woman has been arrested and bail set at more than $100,000 after she protested against the mandatory headscarf, a lawyer says on Tuesday.Narges Hosseini, whose age was not known, was jailed after posing in central Tehran on Monday without a headscarf, lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh says.At least three other women did the same around the city on Monday, according to images shared on social media, mirroring a protest by a woman on December 27 whose images went viral across the globe.Several more images of women protesting in Tehran are shared on social media on Tuesday, although their authenticity cannot be immediately verified.— AFP-4:17 pm-UN peace envoy says Gaza nearing ‘full collapse’-A senior United Nations official warns the the Gaza Strip is on the verge of “full collapse.”UN Middle East peace envoy Nickolay Mladenov says a key to saving Gaza from disaster is restoring the government of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to power there, a decade after it was forced out by the Hamas terror group.“Without that Gaza risks exploding in our face again, this time in a far more deadly and violent manner than in the past,” Mladenov says at the annual conference of Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv.“I often say publicly, in (UN) Security Council briefings and in other formats, that we are in the midst of a major humanitarian crisis,” Mladenov says.“Let me be very clear today here, that we’re well beyond that,” he adds.“We’re on the verge of a total systems failure in Gaza, with a full collapse of the economy, with social services, political, humanitarian and security implications stemming from that.”— AFP-3:52 pm-‘World’s oldest man’ dies in Spain at age 113-MADRID — A Spanish village on Tuesday declares a day of mourning following the death of a retired farmer billed as “the world’s oldest man,” who passed away just over a month after turning 113.Francisco Nunez Olivera, who was 10 years old when World War I broke out, died on Monday in the village of Bienvenida in southwestern Spain where he had lived throughout his life, village mayor Antonio Carmona tells AFP.“It’s a very cold day and most of all a very sad day,” Carmona says.Born on December 13, 1904, relatives credited Nunez Olivera’s long life to a diet based on vegetables he grew on his own land and a daily glass of red wine.Every morning for breakfast, he would have sponge cake made with olive oil and a glass of milk. And until the age of 107, he went out for daily walks by himself, according to Spanish media reports published when he celebrated his last birthday— AFP-3:44 pm-Opposition figure voices rare criticism of Iran’s top leader-DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — An Iranian opposition figure under house arrest voices rare criticism of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, blaming him for the “disastrous results” of the Revolutionary Guard’s vast political and economic influence.In a rare letter published Tuesday, Mahdi Karroubi says Khamenei violated the constitution, and calls on him to order the Guard to loosen its grip on the economy. The letter was published on a website affiliated with Karroubi.Karroubi and Mir Hossein Mousavi both lost in the 2009 presidential election, which sparked mass protests and allegations of vote-rigging. They were placed under house arrest two years later.Under Iran’s political system, Khamenei is considered the representative of God on earth, with the final say on all major policies. Iranians can go to jail for publicly criticizing him.— AP-3:11 pm--Kahlon attends inauguration of new scanner at Allenby crossing alongside PA minister-Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon inaugurates a new system for scanning shipping containers at the Allenby border crossing with Jordan alongside Palestinian Authority Economy Minister Abeer Odeh.The new system will allow for a substantial increase in the flow of goods between Israel, Jordan and the PA, according to the Walla news site.Kahlon’s attendance at the inauguration ceremony alongside Odeh comes after Hadashot TV news reported Monday he’ll meet next week with PA Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah, in the first such meeting between senior Israeli and Palestinian officials since Trump’s December 6 recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.While the Palestinians continue to give the US the silence treatment, Israeli finance minister @KahlonMoshe and Palestinian economy minister Abeer Odeh this morning inaugurated a new scanner system at the Allenby crossing pic.twitter.com/0PZLIRH7SA— Tal Shalev (@talshalev1) January 30, 2018-3:02 pm-Louvre displays art looted by Nazis in bid to find rightful owners-PARIS — The Louvre Museum is putting 31 paintings on permanent display in an effort to find the rightful owners of works of art looted by Nazis during World War II.The Paris museum says it’s opening two showrooms to display the paintings, which are among thousands of works of art looted by German forces in France between 1940 and 1945.More than 45,000 objects have been handed back to their rightful owners after the war, but more than 2,000 remain unclaimed, including 296 paintings stored at the Louvre.Sebastien Allard, the head of the paintings department at the Louvre, tells The Associated Press “these paintings don’t belong to us. Museums often looked like predators in the past, but our goal is to return them.”— AP-2:57 pm-Rivlin attends cornerstone-laying ceremony for Greek Holocaust museum-THESSALONIKI, Greece — President Reuven Rivlin and Greece’s prime minister attend a cornerstone-laying ceremony for a Holocaust museum in the Greek city of Thessaloniki, which lost 97 percent of its Jewish community in German World War II death camps.Rivlin and Alexis Tsipras symbolically planted two olive trees on the plot.The scheduled six-story building will be built by 2020, next to the northern city’s old railway station, from which some 55,000 Thessaloniki Jews were forced into goods wagons for the camps. About 50,000 died there.Tsipras says the museum will fulfill an old debt for the city, some 40 percent of whose pre-war population was Jewish.Overall, some 90 percent of Greece’s Jewish population was murdered by Nazi forces during the war.— AP-2:57 pm-Egypt opposition coalition calls for boycott of March vote-CAIRO — A coalition of eight Egyptian opposition parties and some 150 pro-democracy public figures calls on voters to boycott the March presidential election, saying it amounts to a “farce” or “absurdity bordering on madness.”The incumbent, general-turned-president Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, is virtually certain to win the March 26-28 vote, sweeping aside a face-saving would-be candidate whose last-minute participation spared the government the embarrassment of a one-candidate election.Tuesday’s call for a boycott by the Civilian Democratic Movement comes just days after five opposition figures, including a 2012 presidential candidate and two top campaign aides for now-arrested presidential hopeful Sami Annan, called for a boycott of the vote and on Egyptians not to recognize the vote’s outcome if it goes ahead.— AP-2:48 pm-Shin Bet chief says Israel thwarting cyber-attacks from ‘all over the world’-The head of the Shin Bet says his agency thwarted cyber-attacks targeting Israel from “all over the world” during the past year.Speaking at the CyberTech conference in Tel Aviv, Nadav Argaman says “cyber is today a central tool in our daily work thwarting terror.”“The ability of our enemies now to shorten the process of acquiring breakthrough technologies requires us to be better than before and to be at the front of global technology, and that is what we strive to do,” he says, according to the Ynet news site.2:47 pm-Palestinian protesters interrupt US-backed event in Bethlehem, damage SUV-Palestinian demonstrators interrupt a US-backed event in the West Bank city of Bethlehem in protest of US President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, Reuters reports.The news agency says protesters pelted a SUV that had US diplomatic license plates, kicked one of its doors and damaged a side mirror as it left a digital marketing workshop at the Bethlehem Chamber of Commerce under police escort.Samir Hazboun, the head of the Bethlehem Chamber of Commerce, tells Reuters five demonstrators interrupted the workshop.“We hosted an American expert on this issue. Some people who have been trying to express their point of view and protest (against) the American decision regarding Jerusalem and the political situation … interrupted the workshop and we stopped the workshop,” he says.2:14 pm-Saudi authorities net $106 billion in corruption settlements-DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Saudi Arabia says a wide-reaching anti-corruption campaign has netted more than $106 billion in financial settlements with 65 people who remain in custody.Saudi Attorney General Saud al-Mojeb says on Tuesday that the settlements reached include seizure of real estate assets, commercial entities, securities and cash. His statement doesn’t disclose further details on the types of businesses or real estate that was acquired.The attorney general says the remaining 65 still in custody have not reached a financial settlement “due to other pending criminal cases, or in order to continue the investigation process.”Among those released over the weekend was billionaire Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, who was among at least 11 princes and dozens of businessmen and officials detained in the sweep that began on November 4.— AP-2:13 pm-Russian delegation to visit Israel to talk Iran, Syria-A delegation of senior Russian security officials will arrive in Jerusalem tomorrow for talks on Iran and Syria to follow up on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow yesterday, Channel 10 reports.The Prime Minister’s Office confirms the report. It says the delegation will be led by the head of Russia’s Security council, Nikolai Patrushev, and will also include the deputy foreign, justice and public security ministers, as well as generals and top military and intelligence officials.The PMO tells the TV channel the talks will address “regional matters and other issues related to the common interests of Russia and Israel.”Netanyahu’s meeting with Putin Monday focused on Iran, namely its establishment of missile factories in Lebanon and military entrenchment in Syria.2:11 pm-Russia-sponsored Syria meeting starts in Sochi-MOSCOW — Russia’s foreign minister opens a Moscow-sponsored peace conference for Syria on Tuesday by saying that time is ripe to end the “painful” conflict in the war-torn Arab country. Key Syrian opposition and rebels groups, however, are boycott the gathering, which Moscow describes as an effort to speed up political settlement for Syria.Sergey Lavrov’s comments are also in sharp contrast with the violence on the ground in Syria, where opposition activists report more airstrikes on the rebel-held province of Idlib. Also, Turkish troops and Turkey-backed opposition fighters are marching deeper into a Kurdish enclave in the country’s north.The Russia-sponsored conference opens in the Black Sea resort of Sochi after a two-hour delay, after some members of rebel groups returned to the airport in protest.Russia, a key ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad, says it invited 1,600 representatives to the Syrian Congress of National Dialogue, but so far only the government and opposition representatives tolerated by Damascus have shown up. The main Syrian opposition body is boycotting the talks.— AP-2:10 pm-UNRWA head slams ‘political dimension’ of US aid freeze-GENEVA — The head of the UN agency for Palestinians criticizes Tuesday the “political dimension” of the US decision to dramatically slash funding to the organization over the PA’s refusal for peace talks, warning the cuts could lead to rising instability.Pierre Krahenbuhl lamented that the US decision to reduce funding for UNRWA this year by $300 million “has a political dimension that I think should be avoided.”— AFP.

Tuesday, January 30, 2018

TU BISHVAT - MINOR HOLIDAY - NEW YEAR OF TREES

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)

TU BISHVAT - MINOR HOLIDAY - NEW YEAR OF TREES-Tu BiShvat or Tu B'Shevat or Tu B'Shvat (Hebrew: ט״ו בשבט‎) is a minor Jewish holiday, occurring on the 15th day of the Hebrew month of Shevat. It is also called "The New Year of the Trees" or (Hebrew: ראש השנה לאילנות, Rosh HaShanah La'Ilanot‎). Tu BiShvat is one of four "New Years" mentioned in the Mishnah.
https://www.hebcal.com/holidays/tu-bishvat
http://www.jewfaq.org/holiday8.htm

OTHER STORIES
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2012/04/last-generation-israel-as-nation-and.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/07/tisha-bav-2015-in-israel-today-11amest.html
ISRAELI FEASTS DAYS AND PROPHECIES FULFILLED ON P 1 & 2
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2007/03/fulfilled-prophecies-on-feast-days-p-1.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2007/03/fulfilled-prophecies-on-feast-days-p-2.html
LITERAL PROPHECIES FULFILLED THROUGH JESUS
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2007/12/332-prophecies-fulfilled.html
LAST GENERATION SIGNS FROM THE 4 GOSPELS-ISAIAH
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2007/12/last-generation-signs-chapters.html

THE DOW WAS DOWN 177 POINTS MONDAY-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.

BANK RELATED INFORMATION
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/09/bank-related-links.html 
CURRENCIES
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COMMODITIES
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UPDATE-JANUARY 30,2018-12:00AM

DOW MARKET TUESDAY-JANUARY 30,,2018
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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-JANUARY 30, 2018-11:55PM

1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ U.S.26 of 29 earthquakes in map area.

    3.7-271km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska-2018-01-30 23:12:57 (UTC)-11.8 km
    3.9-Gulf of Alaska-2018-01-30 22:57:16 (UTC)-4.2 km
    2.9-248km SSE of Kodiak, Alaska-2018-01-30 20:38:49 (UTC)-4.4 km
    5.0-37km SSE of Shizunai, Japan-2018-01-30 20:11:48 (UTC)-60.8 km
    3.1-43km NW of Stovepipe Wells, CA-2018-01-30 19:39:05 (UTC)-1.3 km
    3.2-59km W of Beatty, Nevada-2018-01-30 19:39:05 (UTC)-0.0 km
    4.9-89km WNW of Hofn, Iceland-2018-01-30 19:24:20 (UTC)-10.0 km
    2.8-100km SSW of Haines Junction, Canada-2018-01-30 18:40:02 (UTC)-0.0 km
    4.6-33km WSW of Madang, Papua New Guinea-2018-01-30 16:40:19 (UTC)-72.2 km
    2.9-6km WNW of The Geysers, CA-2018-01-30 15:46:23 (UTC)-1.0 km
    4.3-55km WNW of San Antonio Argentina-2018-01-30 15:35:05 (UTC)-209.0 km
    2.5-2km NNE of The Geysers, CA-2018-01-30 14:41:36 (UTC)-1.2 km
    5.3-46km S of Acari, Peru-2018-01-30 14:23:49 (UTC)-10.0 km
    4.7-83km N of Namuac, Philippines-2018-01-30 14:11:52 (UTC)-33.4 km
    2.5-8km ENE of San Martin, CA-2018-01-30 13:57:05 (UTC)-1.7 km
    2.8-63km WSW of Anchor Point, Alaska-2018-01-30 12:43:56 (UTC)-99.2 km
    5.0-33km ESE of Adak, Alaska-2018-01-30 11:49:28 (UTC)-50.1 km
    3.8-251km SE of Kodiak, Alaska-2018-01-30 10:07:50 (UTC)-11.9 km
    4.6-17km SW of Corredor, Costa Rica-2018-01-30 09:45:17 (UTC)-10.0 km
    2.8-105km E of Kodiak, Alaska-2018-01-30 08:18:27 (UTC)-41.4 km
    3.1-259km SE of Kodiak, Alaska-2018-01-30 07:09:01 (UTC)-11.5 km
    4.1-246km SE of Kodiak, Alaska-2018-01-30 04:09:38 (UTC)-10.0 km
    4.1-229km SE of Kodiak, Alaska-2018-01-30 04:09:34 (UTC)-0.0 km

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SUNNI ARAB MUSLIM OBAMA COLLUDED WITH A RACIST WHITE HATER ANTISEMITE ISRAEL HATER. AND WE WONDERED WHY HE HATED ISRAEL SO MUCH.ALL THEM BLACK RIOTERS MAKE PERFECT SENSE NOW IN AMERICA DURING OBAMAS LOVE FEST WITH RACE BAITING AND BLACK RIOTING-LOOTING-BURNING.AND MUSLIM SUCK HOLING.

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

Journalist says Obama, Farrakhan photo suppressed at request of black lawmakers-Photographer and others did not want to hurt Obama's chances, if he ran for president, by distributing his 2005 picture with noted anti-Semite-By JTA-TOI-29 January 2018

Barack Obama posed for a photo in 2005 with Louis Farrakhan, the virulently anti-Semitic leader of the Nation of Islam movement, and the photographer said he suppressed its publication at the request of a member of the Congressional Black Caucus.The future president was the US senator from Illinois at the time.The Trice Edney News Wire first published the photo on January 20. It quotes the photographer, Askia Muhammad, saying that after snapping the picture at a meeting of the Congressional Black Caucus, an unidentified member of the caucus asked him immediately not to run the photo.Muhammad said he gave the disk containing the photo to Farrakhan’s chief of staff.This 2005 photo with Minister Louis Farrakhan and former President Barack Obama was captured by Askia Muhammad at the Congressional Black Caucus meeting. It was hidden for 12 years and has now been released in the journalist's book, “The Autobiography of Charles 67X”. #Farrakhan pic.twitter.com/QWTzT2l7bQ— The Nation of Islam (@OfficialNOI) January 25, 2018-As there was already talk in 2005 of Obama running for president, Muhammad said he and others did not want to harm the Democrat’s chances. It isn’t clear who was employing Muhammad at the time, but he had previously worked for the Nation of Islam publication, The Final Call.Jewish leaders have repeatedly denounced Farrakhan as an anti-Semite, noting his speeches accusing Jews variously of conspiring to control the government, the media, and Hollywood.Farrakhan apparently referred to the photo in 2016 toward the end of Obama’s second term, saying he had met privately with Obama and had a photo of them together. He didn’t specify the date of the meeting. The newly released photo shows Obama and Farrakhan with members of Farrakhan’s family and the Rev. Willie Wilson, an organizer of Farrakhan’s Million Man March in 1995.Farrakhan expressed support for Obama’s candidacy in 2008, and Obama’s pastor at the time, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, had praised Farrakhan on multiple occasions. That made Farrakhan an issue during the primary campaign that year, and Obama’s rival at the time, Hillary Clinton, called on him to repudiate Farrakhan. Obama did so during a primary debate.The Talking Points Memo, which also reported Thursday on the photo, solicited comment from Obama. A spokesman directed the liberal news site to an interview Obama gave in 1995 when he was first running for the Illinois state Senate, and after he had attended Farrakhan’s Million Man March on Washington, D.C.“What I saw was a powerful demonstration of an impulse and need for African-American men to come together to recognize each other and affirm our rightful place in the society,” Obama told the Chicago Reader, describing his impressions of the march. “There was a profound sense that African-American men were ready to make a commitment to bring about change in our communities and lives.”But he continued: “But cursing out white folks is not going to get the job done. Anti-Semitic and anti-Asian statements are not going to lift us up. We’ve got some hard nuts-and-bolts organizing and planning to do. We’ve got communities to build.”

Slovenia president throws doubt on recognition of Palestine-Premier says he will back measure only if it will 'contribute to the solution of its bilateral issues with Israel'-By AFP and TOI staff-JAN 29,18

Slovenia’s president cast doubt on Friday on his country recognizing Palestine as a state in the near future, days after the foreign minister talked up the chances of such a move.President Borut Pahor’s office said in a statement to AFP that he would only back the recognition of a Palestinian state “in circumstances that would contribute to the solution of its bilateral issues with Israel but not to the worsening of relations.”But the statement added that for the moment, “those circumstances are not in place.”Foreign Minister Karl Erjavec had said on Monday he hoped Slovenia would officially recognize a Palestinian state in March or April and that this would “strengthen Palestine’s negotiation in the Middle East peace process.”Last week, the Slovenian ambassador in Tel Aviv, Barbara Sušnik, told The Times of Israel the issue of recognizing Palestinian statehood had been pending in the country’s parliament since 2014, and was only coming to a vote now.Slovenia would be the second of the EU’s 28 member states to recognize Palestine while a member of the EU. Sweden was the first to officially recognize the Palestinian state as an EU member, in 2014. Eight other countries took the step before entering the EU: the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Malta and Cyprus.Recent reports of Solevnia’s possible recognition of Palestine follow US President Donald Trump’s December recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and plans to move the US Embassy to the city from Tel Aviv.Trump said his declaration reflected reality on the ground, and was not intended to prejudge any future arrangement between Israel and the Palestinians regarding the disputed city, though he later said it had taken Jerusalem off the table. Welcomed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and leaders across most of the Israeli political spectrum, the move caused an uproar throughout the Muslim world and was panned by the United Nations, the European Union, and many European countries.

Oslo Accords are dead,’ Abbas tells Israeli left-wing leader-PA president tells Meretz head Zehava Galon that Trump had promised him a 'good deal' before 'punishing' Palestinians; hopes alternative peace mediator can be found-By TOI staff-JAN 29,18

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told Meretz party leader Zehava Galon Friday that “the Oslo Accords are dead,” Channel 10 news reported.Abbas, speaking with Galon to express condolences on the death of her father, said US President Donald Trump had, in several past conversations, “promised a good deal to [resolve] the conflict, and then came this unfortunate surprise, which we cannot accept.”Palestinians froze their ties with Washington, and said they would not accept the administration as a peace broker, following Trump’s December 6 recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The US has reacted to the boycott by threatening to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars it provides in aid.Galon recounted that Abbas told her: “We are prepared for negotiations, and we never intended to leave the talks, but regrettably no one is offering us talks, especially not the Americans, who now wish to punish us.”He added, she said, that “The Oslo Accords are dead, and even though Israel has not lived up to its obligations, we have so far not halted security cooperation. We are waiting to see if there can be negotiations under fair mediators.”But he stressed that that term no longer applied to the US, and expressed hope that Europe, the Middle East Quartet (which includes the US) and Arabic countries could come together to provide such mediation.At the start of a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Davos Thursday, Trump said the US would no longer provide aid to the Palestinians if they refused to engage in US-brokered peace talks with Israel.He suggested that his recognition of Jerusalem had settled one of the key issues in the conflict.“The hardest subject they had to talk about was Jerusalem,” he said. “We took Jerusalem off the table, so we don’t have to talk about it anymore. They never got past Jerusalem. We took it off the table.”The Palestinians rejected the threat, saying peace talks were “off the table” if the American recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital was not reversed.Chief negotiator Saeb Erekat said that the president’s latest remarks showed “the US has disqualified itself from playing a role in achieving peace” and that his Jerusalem decision was a “wake-up call” to Arab leaders.“Jerusalem is not off the negotiations table, rather the US is outside the international consensus. Those who say that Jerusalem is off the table are saying that peace is off the table,” said Erekat. “There will be no peace without East Jerusalem being the sovereign capital of the State of Palestine.”Erekat accused Trump of “blackmailing and punishing the Palestinian people for fighting and believing in their freedom and human rights per international law and UN resolutions.” He added that the US president “could buy many things with his money, but he won’t be able to buy the dignity of our nation.“This is not a game for the people of Palestine. It is about our very existence that continues to be denied by Israel with full US support,” he said, adding that the Palestinians would continue to pursue statehood while Trump fuels “international anarchy.”Abbas himself appeared to express doubt over the Jewish state’s right to exist in a speech earlier this month to the Palestine Liberation Organization’s Central Council in Ramallah.During the speech Abbas portrayed Zionism as a European plot against the Palestinian people. He asserted that the State of Israel was formed as “a colonial project that has nothing to do with Judaism,” to safeguard European interests.The Palestinian leader also suggested the Jews of Europe chose to remain in their home countries during the Holocaust, rather than emigrate.

Tillerson insists Russia to blame for Syria chemical attacks-Moscow has sought to block Western-backed efforts at the UN to impose sanctions on Damascus over use of unconventional arms-By AFP-TOI-JAN 29,18

WARSAW, Poland — US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Saturday said he stands by his claim that Russia bears responsibility for recent chemical attacks in Syria, despite strong denials from Moscow.“These are just unacceptable deployments of chemicals in ways that violate all conventions which Russia itself has signed up for. It violates agreements that Russia undertook to be responsible for identifying and eliminating the chemical weapons inside of Syria,” Tillerson said during a visit to Warsaw.“The chemical weapons are clearly there, they’re being used against civilian populations — and the most vulnerable are children — inside of Syria,” Tillerson told reporters, in a joint press conference with Polish Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz.“So we are holding Russia responsible for addressing this. They are [Syrian President Bashar] Assad’s ally. They are members of those conventions and they made commitments. They need to deliver on those commitments.”Tillerson first made the accusations on Tuesday, as diplomats from 29 countries met in Paris to push for sanctions and criminal charges against the perpetrators of the chemical attacks in Syria.Russia and China have blocked Western-backed efforts at the UN to impose sanctions on Damascus over their use.On Wednesday, Russia lashed out at Tillerson for having “hastily accused the Syrian — as they call it — ‘regime’ for the attack in Eastern Ghouta,” adding “now they are trying to drag Russia into this as well.”Damascus has been repeatedly accused of using chemical weapons, with the United Nations among those blaming government forces for an April 2017 sarin gas attack on the opposition-held village of Khan Sheikhun that left scores dead.There have been at least 130 separate chemical weapons attacks in Syria since 2012, according to French estimates, with the Islamic State group also accused of using mustard gas in Syria and Iraq.Next week, Moscow will hold negotiations in the Russian city of Sochi, aimed at ending Syria’s civil war.

Trump, Pence effigies hanged and burned in video on Palestinian TV station-Wattan, an independent channel, says West Bank protesters were acting in 'rejection' of US cuts to UNRWA; sign equates Zionism with Nazism, US with Islamic State-By TOI staff-JAN 29,18

Palestinian television on Saturday aired a video of Palestinians carrying out a mock-execution of US President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence.Effigies of the US leaders were hanged and then burned in a street in the Aida refugee camp north of Bethlehem.Palestinians froze their ties with Washington following Trump’s December 6 recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The US has reacted to the boycott by freezing payments worth $100 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) earlier this month, and the White House and Congress are threatening to further cut aid to the Palestinians.Wattan TV said the action was intended as a “rejection” by protesters of US cuts to UNRWA. Wattan is an independent TV station based in Ramallah.Before the “execution” protesters held up Palestinian flags and various placards, including one with pictures of Trump, Pence and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, all with ‘X’ marks on them. Above them was written: “Zionism = Nazism = fascism. USA = ISIS = terror.”A poll released last week showed support for armed struggle has almost doubled among Palestinians in the last six months: Only 26 percent of Palestinians said they supported a peace deal, a staggering decline from 45% last June. Thirty-eight percent supported armed struggle, up from just 21% in the previous survey.The same poll, by the Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research at Tel Aviv University and the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research in Ramallah, found that Israeli backing for a decisive military offensive to end the conflict increased during the same period by almost 60 percent.The rise in militancy was believed to be tied to Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital on December 6.The declaration saw a spike in violent protests in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. There has also been a surge in rocket attacks from Gaza, and Hamas, the terror group which rules Gaza and seeks to destroy Israel, has called for a new intifada to liberate Jerusalem and urged Palestinians to confront soldiers and settlers.The Central Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PCC) — the second-highest decision-making body for Palestinians — recently voted to officially declare the US no longer fit to be the sole sponsor of peace talks.Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told Meretz party leader Zehava Galon Friday that “the Oslo Accords are dead,” Channel 10 news reported.

US ex-envoy warns Israeli leaders not to ‘burn bridges’ with Democrats-Former ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro says Jewish state should take concerns of progressives in America seriously rather than throw in lot with Republican party alone-By TOI staff-JAN 29,18


Former US ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro on Saturday cautioned Israeli leaders to be wary of “burning bridges” with the Democratic Party and aligning themselves solely with the Republicans, amid a sharp uptick in partisan divides over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as reflected in the findings of a new Pew Research Center poll released Tuesday.“Israeli leaders may find it difficult to resist the temptation to ride this wave, embracing one side in partisan US political battles — as when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arranged his speech in Congress against the Iran deal solely with the Republican congressional leadership,” Shapiro said in an op-ed co-written with Tamara Cofman Wittes and published by the Atlantic. “But that approach comes at the cost of alienating even longtime allies across the aisle, and when the next crisis inevitably hits, Israel’s leaders may regret having burned those bridges.”According to the poll, Democrats are almost as likely to sympathize with the Palestinians as they are with Israel in the Israeli-Palestinian peace conflict, while support for the Jewish state among Republicans is nearly three times higher than Democrats.Twenty-seven percent of Democrats told the Pew Research Center they sympathize with Israel over the Palestinians, compared to 25% who said their sympathies lie with the Palestinians.Among Republicans, those numbers were 79% and 6%, respectively.“Based on the findings, some Israeli pundits and politicians, and many on the American right, have been arguing that Israel and its supporters should give up on the Democratic Party and its elected representatives as supporters of Israel,” Shapiro wrote, pointing to a tweet by the Republican Jewish Coalition, which boasted that the “GOP is the pro-Israel Party.” Shapiro, however, warned that the poll was “a terrible foundation for such claims,” adding that the results did not necessarily imply that Democrats were anti-Israel.“The poll question is faulty because sympathy for Palestinians should not imply hostility to Israel, nor should sympathy for Israel require disregard for the fate of Palestinians,” the ex-envoy wrote. “A solution to their conflict enshrining two states for two peoples is the outcome most preferred by Americans regardless of party, and administrations of both parties have sought to help both Israel and the Palestinians achieve their goals in a two-state solution.”While Shapiro acknowledged that “support for Israel is, in fact, becoming a politicized issue in the United States, and partisan divides on policy toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are indeed getting wider,” he insisted that it would be a grave mistake for Israeli leaders to throw in their lot with the Republican party alone.“Looking at the underlying data from the survey responses, we see that 34 percent of this year’s sample identify as independents — more than identify as Republicans (26 percent) or Democrats (33 percent),” he continued. “The gap between independents and Republicans remains large and trending larger, but the independents’ trend tracks the Democratic trend — both moving toward less sympathy with Israel relative to the Palestinians in the conflict between them. That’s the pattern that should worry Israelis, because independents and Democrats together represent more than two-thirds of Americans.”“Americans are far more divided on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict than they are on Israel or the US-Israel relationship and so when Israel advocates and Israelis themselves use this poll question as a proxy for American support for Israel, they are not doing themselves any favors.”Although the percentage gap in support for Israel remained fairly steady between the parties in the two decades after 1978, the parties’ views on Israel began to diverge in 2001, with support among Democrats having fallen from 38% to 27% today, while among Republicans it has risen from 50% to 79%.“In recent years, some Americans have come to look at the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the lens of human rights — and this is especially true for younger Americans, African Americans, and Hispanic Americans,” Shapiro wrote. “This makes them sensitive to the hardships faced by Palestinian civilians, and to certain Israeli practices, like housing demolitions. These groups form a larger proportion of the voting public than they have in the past, and a growing proportion of the Democratic Party’s core constituency. And yes, there is some anti-Israel sentiment on the left end of the progressive political spectrum, just as there is some on the right end of the conservative camp.”According to Shapiro, “the survey results point to how specific aspects of Israeli policy, such as the expansion of West Bank settlements that make a two-state solution more difficult, [and] affect the way Israel is viewed in the United States.”In light of these trends, and due to the changing demography in America, Shapiro advised Israelis to consider what policies can contribute to the US-Israeli relationship, and which might erode its foundations.“Israelis don’t have to take all the blame for the diplomatic stalemate. Palestinians bear plenty of their share, from failing to respond to negotiating proposals, to inciting and glorifying violence, to denying the historical Jewish connection to the land of Israel,” the former ambassador wrote. “But an Israeli government that does not seem committed at least to keeping the two-state solution alive and viable for the future will likely find there are some American supporters whose sympathy they will struggle to retain.”“Israeli leaders would be wise not to allow the perception to take hold that they are writing off whole chunks of the Democratic camp, or disrespecting elected officials from the Democratic Party,” Shapiro continued. “And without weakening their own relationship with President Trump, Israeli leaders should find ways to demonstrate sensitivity to progressives’ concerns, especially when those concerns touch on issues core to the values Israel and the United States share.”

Palestinian security forces uncover 12 roadside bombs in West Bank-Improvised devices discovered on road linking two Palestinian villages; radio report says they may have been intended for use against IDF vehicles-By TOI staff-JAN 29,18

Palestinian security forces on Saturday uncovered and dismantled at least 12 roadside bombs on a road connecting two Palestinian villages near the city of Tulkarem in the West Bank.A Palestinian driver noticed suspicious objects on the road, located in the West Bank’s Area A which is under full security control of the Palestinian Authority, and alerted PA security forces, a source with the security forces told Israeli news site Ynet.Members of the security forces’ engineering department scrambled to the scene and found 12 improvised explosive devices placed into the road, the source said, each weighing between 20 and 30 kilograms. The source added it appears the bombs were there for some time.The road is mainly used by Palestinian civilians although Israeli military vehicles have been spotted on it, said the PA source.Army Radio said the devices may have surfaced amid heavy rains. It said investigators believe they were planted for use against IDF vehicles.An investigation is ongoing.

UN chief calls for Syria referral to International Court-Guterres tells Security Council of 'serious violations,' including blocking aid deliveries and medical care to millions-By Edith M. Lederer-TOI-JAN 29,18

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is again calling on the UN Security Council to refer Syria to the International Criminal Court, pointing to “serious violations” including blocking aid deliveries and medical care to millions.The UN chief also called on all combatants, UN member states and civil society to cooperate with an independent panel established by the General Assembly in December 2016 to assist in the investigation and prosecution of those responsible for war crimes or crimes against humanity in Syria.Guterres said in a report to the council circulated Friday on the humanitarian situation in Syria in December that “accountability for serious violations is a requirement under international law and central to achieving sustainable peace.”During December, he said, no aid was delivered to over 417,000 people in nine “besieged” locations, and only 60,000 of the nearly 2.5 million Syrians living in “hard-to-reach” areas received humanitarian help. He said 95 percent of the besieged population is besieged by Syrian government forces.Guterres said “access for the United Nations and its partners to those people living in besieged and hard-to-reach locations remained a critical concern.”He said deliveries of food and other aid remained “extremely challenging” in many areas last month “as a result of active conflict, shifting conflict lines, administrative impediments and deliberate restrictions imposed on the movement of people and goods by the parties to the conflict.”The secretary-general singled out the deteriorating humanitarian situation for the estimated 393,000 people living in eastern Ghouta, an opposition-held pocket besieged by Syrian forces. Prices for basic goods there are some 30 times higher than in neighboring Damascus city, “far beyond the purchasing power of most residents,” he said.Guterres noted that in the two days leading up to December 28, 29 urgent medical cases were evacuated from eastern Ghouta. But he said “an additional 600 people remain in need of urgent medical evacuation” and “18 have already died while waiting to be evacuated.”The UN chief called on all countries with influence over the Syrian government and opposition fighters “to do their utmost” to facilitate medical evacuations and humanitarian aid into eastern Ghouta.Syrian authorities also continued rejecting or removing “life-saving and life-sustaining medical items” from convoys last month, he said. In addition, 16 health care facilities and personnel were attacked in December.While Guterres again urged that Syria be referred to the International Criminal Court, the search for justice has proven to be exceedingly difficult, especially at the United Nations.A Security Council resolution backed by more than 60 countries to refer the Syrian conflict to the ICC was vetoed by both Russia and China in May 2014.A new attempt at the council to refer Syria to the ICC would almost certainly face a similar fate.But following the double veto, several countries, including Sweden, Germany, France and Finland, said they were investigating or prosecuting alleged perpetrators of grave crimes in Syria.In November, Russia also vetoed renewal of the expert body from the UN and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons that was determining responsibility for chemical weapons attacks in Syria.The Joint Investigative Mechanism or JIM had blamed Russia’s close ally, President Bashar Assad, for using chlorine gas in two attacks and the nerve agent sarin in one — accusations that Moscow strongly criticized. By contrast, Russia supported the JIM’s findings that the Islamic State extremist group used mustard gas twice.On Tuesday, Russia’s UN Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia called a Security Council meeting and circulated a draft resolution that would replace the JIM.The council session coincided with a meeting in Paris where the US, France and 22 other countries launched a new organization aimed at identifying and punishing anyone who uses chemical weapons.US Ambassador Nikki Haley called the Security Council meeting a distraction, saying the US is ready to re-establish the JIM “with its original independent and impartial mandate, right now. But anything less is unacceptable.”

MARK OF THE BEAST

REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM

REVELATION 16:1-2
1 And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.
2 And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.

REVELATION 19:19-21
19 And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war (NOT COMETS KILLING AND COMING) against him (JESUS) that sat on the horse, and against his army.(THE 7 YRS EARLIAR RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)
20 And the beast (EU WORLD DICTATOR) was taken, and with him the false (VATICAN POPE) prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
21 And the remnant were slain with the sword of him (JESUS) that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.(ISRAELS MIGRATION BIRDS EAT ISRAELS ENEMIES FLESH)

REVELATION 20:11-15
10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.

Why humans will happily follow a ROBOT messiah: Religions based on AI will succeed because we tend to 'worship supreme understanding', claim experts-By Harry Pettit For Mailonline-Updated: 10:47 EST, 11 December 2017

Same drive that compels people to believe in religions will also work for AI-People will eventually rely on a 'robot messiah' to solve society's problems-This is because we 'have a tendency to worship supreme understanding'-Last month a former Google engineer formed the world's first church to follow an artificially intelligent being.A religion based around a robot god will succeed because humans tend to 'worship supreme understanding', experts have claimed.One researcher has said the same drive that compels people to believe in higher beings and follow religions will also work for so-called AI 'Godheads'.Others have commented that, like religion, people will eventually rely on a 'robot messiah' to solve society's problems.Last month, former Uber and Google engineer Anthony Levandowski formed the first church to follow an artificially intelligent being.WAY OF THE FUTURE-Former Uber and Google engineer Anthony Levandowski formed the first church to follow an artificially intelligent being in November.The religion, known as 'Way of the Future' (WOTF), claims our species can better itself by following the instructions of a robot that is 'a billion times smarter than humans'.It will eventually have a gospel called 'The Manual', rituals and even a physical place of worship, Levandowski claims.Workshops and educational programs have already begun in the San Francisco area. Levandowski says everything in the church will be open source and members of the church would have special social media accounts.He has appointed four other people to the Council of Advisers and the listing says each week they will spend a few hours organising workshops and meetings.In 2017, the Internal Revenue Service listed the religion as having received $20,000 (£15,000) in gifts, $1,500 (£1,100) in membership fees and $20,000 (£15,000) in other revenue.WOTF has $7,500 (£5,700) put aside for wages, although Levandowski, who earned $120 million (£91 million) from Google, says he will not receive any money.The religion, known as 'Way of the Future', claims our species can better itself by following the instructions of a robot that is 'a billion times smarter than humans'.Now AI expert and lawyer John Mitchell has said humans have a tendency to 'worship supreme understanding', and that this also applies to AI.'We [believe] there must be some higher power that causes lightning, sunsets, and crashing waves - or at least speaks to the bottom of our beings, rather than ignore them as ho-hum background,' he told Fox News.Mr Mitchell said the same thing could happen with AI, adding that robots could help us better understand religion.Dr Stephen Thaler, President and CEO of Imagination Engines and an AI and consciousness expert, said people will rely on AI to solve society's problems.'An AI would provide the equivalent of a "messiah" - having many orders of magnitude more processing elements than the brain, enabling it to gift us with solutions to the most daunting social, political, economic, and environmental challenges,' he said.But if AI develops this level of intelligence, it might choose not to be worshipped, said author and consultant Peter Scott.'I would expect the AIs that evolve in the next 50 years to be very rational and, if conscious, not want to be worshipped,' he said.'If they have the human race's best interests at heart (and God help us if they don't) then they would want us to have as much right of self determination as possible.'The new comments come just a month after Way Of The Future (WOTF) was officially registered as a religion by Anthony Levandowski.The ex-Google engineer, who first announced plans for the creed in May, says he is 'raising a god' that will that charge of humans.WOTF will eventually have a gospel called 'The Manual', as well as rituals and even a physical place of worship.Levandowski named himself as 'dean' of WOTF, giving him complete control until his death or resignation.He said his robot god, which will be a 'billion times smarter than humans' will take charge of its subjects, who will relinquish power to a being of higher intelligence.The filed documents for WOTF give its purpose is to 'develop and promote the realisation of a Godhead based on Artificial Intelligence'.Workshops and educational programs have already begun in the San Francisco area. Levandowski says everything in the church will be open source and members of the church would have special social media accounts.He has appointed four other people to the Council of Advisers and the listing says each week they will spend a few hours organising workshops and meetings.In 2017, the Internal Revenue Service listed the religion as having received $20,000 (£15,000) in gifts, $1,500 (£1,100) in membership fees and $20,000 (£15,000) in other revenue.WOTF has $7,500 (£5,700) put aside for wages, although Levandowski, who earned $120 million (£91 million) from Google, says he will not receive any money.WHO IS ANTHONY LEVANDOWSKI? Anthony Levandowski is best known for helping create Google Street View and engineering Waymo and Uber's self-driving cars.Levandowski is currently at the heart of a legal fight between Google's parent company Alphabet and Uber.Waymo, the self-driving car subsidiary which Alphabet owns, is suing Uber, claiming it stole trade secrets to make their own self-driving cars.The engineer they say is responsible for the theft is Levandowski who they allege downloaded 14,000 secret files before leaving Google in 2016 after nine years at the company.A month after his departure, he founded Otto, a company which specialised in self-driving trucks.Seven months later, Uber acquired Otto and Levandowski began working on the ride-sharing company's self-driving cars.In February this year, Alphabet filed a multi-billion lawsuit against Uber and Otto accusing it of stealing trade secrets.Levandowski was called to give evidence in March but he pleaded the Fifth Amendment throughout, refusing to answer questions on the grounds that his answers may incriminate him.http://www.dailymail.co.uk/

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