Thursday, April 26, 2018

AFTER 42 YEARS A EX COP WAS CAPTURED AS THE GOLDEN STATE KILLER-RAPER.TODAY IN CALIFORNIA-AMAZING GREAT WORK CALIFORNIA POLICE.AND GOD FOR REVEALING HIM TO BE CAPTURED.

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)

1977 RECORDING OF THE GOLDEN STATE KILLER-RAPER.
Authorities on Wednesday identified Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, of Citrus Heights, as the man suspected of being the "Golden State Killer" and "East Area Rapist."Authorities on Wednesday identified Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, of Citrus Heights, as the man suspected of being the “Golden State Killer” and “East Area Rapist.” - 12 MURDERS-52 RAPES ANS AT HUNDREDS OF BURGLURIES.

THE PROFILER SAID ON TV HE WOULD BE AROUND 65 OR 70 YEARS OLD. HE IS 72. THE PROFILER SAID HE WOULD STILL BE LIVING IN CALIFORNIA. HE WAS. AND IF THE PROFILER IS CORRECT. THE POLCE WILL FIND ITEMS FROM THE RAPED WOMEN IN HIS HOME. THANK YOU JESUS FOR ANSWERING MY PRAYER. WHILE I WAS WATCHING THE SERIES. I PRAYED GOD WOULD REVEAL HIM TO PAY FOR HIS CRIMES. SOME WAY THE POLICE GOT HIS DNA AND IT MATCHED THE GOLDEN STATE KILLERS DNA. THEY KNEW THIS EX COP WAS THE KILLER-RAPER.

Former police officer is suspected ‘Golden State Killer,’ ‘East Area Rapist’-UPDATED: April 25, 2018 at 2:50 pm


After more than three decades, authorities have arrested a former police officer who they say terrorized communities throughout California from 1976 to 1986, becoming known first as the ‘East Area Rapist’ and later as the ‘Golden State Killer,’ according to authorities.Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, of Citrus Heights was booked into the Sacramento County jail Tuesday night on two counts of murder, based on an arrest warrant from the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office.At a press conference Wednesday with law enforcement officials from across the state, Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Schubert said DeAngelo was charged two two murders in her county. DeAngelo is also suspected of a string of rapes and other killings starting in the mid-1970s. His nearly 60 victims ranged in age from 13 to 41 and included women home alone, women at home with their children, and husbands and wives, according to the FBI.DeAngelo was a police officer for two California departments, but was fired from Auburn in 1979 after being accused of shoplifting dog repellent and a hammer from a store, according to the Auburn Journal at the time.He has been living in the Sacramento area and was identified after a renewed push of the investigation by the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department and Schubert.“Each of us we knew the answer was and is always going to be in the DNA,” Schubert said. “We found the needle in the haystack and it was right here in Sacramento.”Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones said detectives began surveillance on DeAngelo last week and obtained some “discarded DNA.”“Today we at least bring the first step of closure to the victims of these horrendous crimes,” Jones said.“The haunting question of who committed these terrible crimes has been put to rest,” Orange County DA Tony Rackauckas said at the press conference.DeAngelo worked as a police officer for two California agencies, according to authorities. He first worked as a police officer for the Exeter Police Department in the Central Valley from 1973 to 1976, during the time several burglaries occurred in the Visalia area.  DeAngleo worked for the Auburn Police Department from August, 1976 to September, 1979, according to the Auburn City Manager.“His employment was terminated three years after being hired by the department,” according to a press release from the city of Auburn.“Even though this case reaches four decades into the past, the city of Auburn and its police department will do everything within its power to support this investigation and any prosecution that follows,” City Manager Bob Richardson said in a press release. “We will pull out all the stops for our Sacramento area law enforcement partners in this horrific and historic case.”FBI agents and law enforcement officials from Sacramento County and Southern California were outside a home Wednesday morning in Citrus Heights, according to the Sacramento Bee. The Bee reported that DeAngelo has lived at that home for at least two decades, according to public records.The Golden State Killer, also known as the East Area Rapist, the Original Night Stalker and the Diamond Knot Killer, is believed to have killed at least 12 people, raped at least 45 victims and burglarized hundreds of homes in the Sacramento area, Central Valley, Bay Area and Southern California, according to the FBI.Investigators believe the suspect was active in Sacramento between 1976 and 1978, culminating in the murder of a husband and wife on Feb. 2, 1978 in Rancho Cordova, according to the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department. Following the murders of Katie and Brian Maggiore, the East Area Rapist didn’t strike within the jurisdiction of the Sacramento Sheriff’s Department again.But authorities believe the same man continued terrorizing residents in the Bay Area before committing several murders in Southern California. The DNA from evidence located during both series was linked in 2001, according to authorities.Authorities believe the suspect attacked people in San Jose, Concord, San Ramon, Walnut Creek and Danville, among many other cities.On the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office website, there is a section dedicated to the cold case, including a video interview with homicide Sgt. Paul Belli published in June, 2016.In the video, Belli describes the terror that was unleashed in the late 1970s during a string of rapes in the Sacramento area.“It was so impactful on so many people,” Belli said. “Even now, all this time later, as we talk to other people, we always get the stories about what was going on in peoples lives. I’ve heard stories of fathers sleeping with guns by their bedsides, shotguns very close, things of that nature.”In the video, Belli describes the suspect as “an extremely prolific offender.”“When you look at a number of the sexual assaults that occurred in Sacramento County, that takes a great toll on the families,” Belli said. “A number of them were couples.“Here you have somebody’s wife being rape in their home while the husband is home and unable to do anything about it. That’s very terrorizing. That can only be described to me as somebody who’s wanting to develop that terror and create that type of fear.”Knutson, who was born and raised in Sacramento and now heads the FBI’s portion of the investigation, described in 2016 how the “East Area Rapist” operated in the Sacramento area during the late ’70s. The first rape occurred on June 18, 1976 with a female victim in the Rancho Cordova area of Sacramento.The crimes escalated, with the rapist breaking into homes occupied by single women and couples, Knutson said.When the suspect found a couple in bed, he would have the woman bind the man, Knutson said. Then the rapist would bind the woman and re-bind the man.Then he would take the woman to another part of the house and rape her. In some instances, the rapist would put plates or cups on the backs of the male victims, threatening to come back and kill them if the plates fall over.“Our guy would vanish in the middle of the night,” Knutson said. “He would just disappear.”Authorities believe the reign of terror included phone calls with threats of murder.The FBI’s website includes an audio recording of a 1977 phone call believed to be from the East Area Rapist in which a woman answers “Hello?” and the caller breathes heavily into the receiver and whispers “I’m going to kill you” three times.Also on the FBI website are interviews with local police who investigated the Sacramento area rapes.The first recorded victim said she never heard her rapist come into her home, but suddenly noticed a man in her bedroom door. At first she thought it was her father, who she said often worked late hours. But it was a man wearing a ski mask over his face and carrying a knife.“I don’t remember exactly what he said, something like ‘don’t scream,’” the woman recalled. “He tied my hands behind my back. … I just remember feeling extremely threatened. After it was all over and done with, he went through the stuff in my room.”The woman said she lay in bed for what seemed like hours waiting to hear him leave before screwing up the courage to move. Even years later, she recalled in the recorded interview, she often felt “the tinglies, like someone’s watching you.”“I don’t hold it against him, I think there’s something wrong with him, something not wired right,” the woman said. “Either he had some trauma or had something that caused that. But I know it’s not good to hold hate in your heart, and I don’t think I do, I’m just a lot more careful. I don’t want him to be dead because I think that would be an easy way out for him.”The rapist would also ransack the homes and take small items, such as jewelry or cash.A five-part documentary about the case, “Unmasking a Killer,” recently aired on HLN.Author Michelle McNamara, who died in her sleep in April, 2016, wrote a best-selling true-crime book about the case.  “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark” was published in 2018 after her death. McNamara’s husband, actor Patton Oswalt, wrote on Twitter that he hopes to interview the suspect to ask questions for his late wife.If they’ve really caught the #GoldenStateKiller I hope I get to visit him. Not to gloat or gawk — to ask him the questions that @TrueCrimeDiary wanted answered in her “Letter To An Old Man” at the end of #IllBeGoneInTheDark. pic.twitter.com/32EHSzBct5— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) April 25, 2018.

FRIEDMAN SAID SEEKING TO CALL WEST BANK JUDEA AND SAMARIA IN STATEMENTS.

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

Friedman said seeking to call West Bank ‘Judea and Samaria’ in statements-Officials say US envoy was prevented from adopting Israeli term for territory; he also pushed, with some success, for dropping 'occupied' from official document-By TOI staff and AP-APR 25,18

United States Ambassador to Israel David Friedman has been seeking to adopt the Israeli name for the West Bank, Judea and Samaria, in his official remarks and statements, but has so far been prevented from doing so by the Trump administration, officials told the Associated Press.The territory, captured by Israel during the Six Day War in 1967 and regarded as occupied by most of the international community, is referred to in internal Israeli discourse primarily by its biblical name. Its southern part is known as Judea, while the northern part is called Samaria.It is known internationally as the West Bank due to its location west of the Jordan River, which separates the territory from Jordan.Friedman and Jason Greenblatt, Trump’s envoy for international negotiations, have also led internal administration opposition to criticism of Israel for its response to recent Palestinian protests organized by Hamas, the terror organization that rules the Gaza Strip, the administration officials said.IDF forces have killed 40 protesters and rioters who participated in the weekly “March of Return” along the Gaza border, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. While many in the international community have criticized Israel for its response, Jerusalem has said that the protests — whose eventual goal is to erase the border — have been used as cover for violence against IDF soldiers and infiltrations. Most recently, kites carrying firebombs have been flown over the fence from Gaza to torch Israeli crops.The sources added that Friedman, who lobbied heavily for Trump’s December 6 recognition of Jerusalem and the embassy’s relocation to Jerusalem, has also championed the recent removal of the term “occupied territories,” which had been the standard for more than 20 years, from the title of sections covering Israel, the West Bank and Gaza in the State Department’s annual human rights reports released Friday.The 2017 report did not entirely eliminate the term from the report, but it significantly reduced its use. Compared with more than 40 references in the 2016 report, the words “occupation” or “occupied” appeared only six times.Whereas previous iterations of the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices had a section on “Israel and the Occupied Territories,” this year’s document refers instead to “Israel, Golan Heights, West Bank, and Gaza.”Israel captured the Golan, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza in the Six Day War. It has annexed East Jerusalem and the Golan and, in 2005, withdrew from the Gaza Strip, which is now ruled by Hamas. The Palestinian Authority rules parts of the West Bank, but overall control remains under the Israeli militarily.Last December, it was reported that Friedman had asked the State Department to stop calling the West Bank “occupied.”In the past, Friedman had made remarks that were rebuffed by Washington as not reflecting official policy. Last September, for instance, he told Israel’s Walla news site he thought “the settlements are part of Israel.” State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert later told reporters at the time that his comments marked no shift in the US position.Before his confirmation to the diplomatic role, Friedman was a staunch supporter of settlements and a columnist for right-wing Israeli publications.

Netanyahu tells family of Israeli held by Hamas of new ‘opportunities’-PM updates relatives of Avera Mengistu about 'diplomatic and covert' efforts being made to return captive Israelis-By Stuart Winer-APR 25,18-TOI

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Wednesday with the family of an Israeli civilian held captive by the Hamas terror group in the Gaza Strip and reportedly told them of new “opportunities” in the ongoing efforts have him released.The meeting with the family of Avraham Mengistu was also attended by Yaron Blum, who coordinates efforts to return Israelis held by Hamas, the Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement.Netanyahu presented the family with details of the “diplomatic and covert” efforts being made to return Mengistu. The talks were within the framework of the regular contact maintained by the prime minister with the families of Israelis in Hamas captivity, the statement said.Mengistu’s brother, Ilan Mengistu, told Hadashot TV news after the meeting, “They updated us on new things that are developing. The government has a very good feeling that there are opportunities.”Two Israeli civilians and two killed soldiers are held by Hamas. During the 2014 Gaza war, Hamas terrorists captured the remains of IDF soldiers Oron Shaul and Hadar Goldin. In the following year, two apparently mentally ill Israeli civilians, Mengistu and Hisham al-Sayed, on separate occasions entered the Gaza Strip of their own volition and were taken captive by Hamas.Netanyahu last met with the Goldin and Shaul families on April 9.The prime minister has had a stormy relationship with the missing Israelis’ families, who have accused the government of not doing enough to bring their loved ones home.-Family and supporters of Avraham Avera-Earlier this month Mengistu’s family launched a tent protest outside the Prime Minister’s Residence in Jerusalem, calling on the government to bring back him from Hamas captivity. In March, State Comptroller Yosef Shapira asked Netanyahu to respond to claims by the Goldins about efforts to return their son’s body.Israel has called for the civilians and slain soldiers to be returned, but Hamas has insisted that Israel release many convicted terrorists from prison before negotiations can even begin, something that Israel has refused to do.Netanyahu’s meeting with the Mengistu family came as the body of a Hamas rocket and drone expert, who was gunned down over the weekend in Malaysia, was due to arrive in the Gaza Strip via Egypt for burial.Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman said Sunday that Israel had asked the Egyptian government not to allow the body of Fadi al-Batsh to be returned to his family in Gaza until Hamas returns to Israel the bodies of the two IDF soldiers and the Israeli citizens it is holding in the enclave.Batsh, 35, was shot dead early Saturday while on his way to prayers in Kuala Lumpur. Hamas, which claimed him as a member of its military wing, blamed the Mossad spy agency for his killing and threatened revenge.Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.

2 West Bank villages, Israeli Arab town targeted in hate attacks-Tires slashed, Hebrew slogans painted in Deir Ammar and Jalud in the West Bank; cars torched in northern Israeli town of Iksal-By Jacob Magid-TOI-APR 25,18
Residents of two Palestinian villages found cars tires slashed and Hebrew-language slogans spray-painted on walls Wednesday morning, bringing the number of such vandalism attacks in Israel and the West Bank overnight to three.In Deir Ammar, northwest of the Beit El settlement, the tires of some 15 vehicles were slashed and the phrases “Let us take care of them” and “We’ll take our fate into our own hands” were found graffitied on walls outside several homes, police said.In Jalud, north of the Shiloh settlement, the same slogans were found spray-painted on various homes and the tires of four cars were punctured, police said.The name of a far-right activist who has received an administrative order restricting him from the West Bank was also referenced in one of the graffiti messages in Jalud.Criticism of the defense establishment’s employment of administrative orders issued in response to settler violence has been a common theme in much of the graffiti found at the scene of hate crime attacks on Palestinian villages.The hilltop youth who have been the primary targets of such orders have have argued that they rob them of due process.Also overnight, two cars were torched and Hebrew-language racist graffiti was daubed in an Arab Israeli village. Arsonists burned the two vehicles in the village of Iksal, in the north of country. On a wall a Hebrew slogan read, “Jews let’s win.” Police opened an investigation.The incidents in Iksal, Deir Ammar and Jalud followed similar hate crimes that have taken place this month in the West Bank villages of Ramun, Beit Iksa, Burqa, Burin, Urif, As-Sawiya and Luban a-Sharqiya, Aqraba, and Fara’ata. In total 11 such incidents have been logged.Attacks have included the chopping down of dozens of olive trees, stones thrown through the windows of homes, and cars and graffiti calling for the murder of Arabs.Israeli settlers also suffered property damage on Wednesday in an attack that they blamed on Palestinians.Police said they had opened an investigation after some 150 grapevines in a vineyard belonging to a resident of the Jordan Valley settlement of Tomer were chopped down overnight.The owner of the vineyard, Yossi Kirshenberg, said in a statement that the perpetrators “chose to act against me because I am the representative of the security establishment and the security coordinator of the community.”On Sunday, the Shin Bet security service released statistics showing far-right hate crimes against Palestinians have increased significantly since the beginning of 2018.Through the first four months of the current calendar year, the Shin Bet documented 13 anti-Arab attacks (not including incidents this week). That was in contrast with only eight such incidents in all of 2017.On Monday, a defense official told The Times of Israel that the security establishment views the northern West Bank settlement of Yitzhar as primarily responsible for the recent uptick in such incidents.The town of roughly 1,500 residents has become a “refuge for hilltop youth” who have been involved in most of the so-called price tag attacks in the past year, the official said. The young activists are often referred to as hilltop youth due to their practice of setting up illegal outposts on West Bank hilltops.The perpetrators of such attacks often use the slogan “price tag” to describe them. They say that the attacks are in retaliation for Palestinian violence or government policies perceived as hostile to the settler movement. Palestinian olive groves, mosques, churches have been targeted by far-right vandals in recent years, as have dovish Israeli rights groups and even IDF military bases.

Mourners at sendoff for Hamas rocket expert’s body call for revenge-Assassinated scientist Fadi al-Batsh due to be buried in Gaza later Wednesday-By AFP and TOI staff-APR 25,18

The body of an assassinated Palestinian scientist was driven Wednesday through the Malaysian capital accompanied by a crowd shouting for revenge, as mourners accused Israel of killing him.Fadi Mohammad al-Batsh, a member of the Islamist terror group Hamas said to be a rocket-making expert, was shot by motorbike-riding attackers Saturday as he walked from his Kuala Lumpur home to a mosque for dawn prayers.Family and friends of the 35-year-old, along with Hamas, have accused Israel’s Mossad spy agency of carrying out the killing, but Israel has denied the claim.Hundreds of mourners marched through the capital under Palestinian flags accompanying a van holding the body. They carried placards showing the victim’s face and chanted, “God is greatest.”The Hamas-affiliated Palestinian Information Center reported that the crowd also chanted, “Al-Qassam Brigades, make the criminals pay!” in reference to the military wing of the organization.Batsh’s body was taken to a mosque, where prayers for the dead were performed before about 500 mourners.“Every Palestinian who has heard of this assassination is saddened and shocked,” Muslim Imran, chairman of the Palestinian Cultural Organisation of Malaysia, told the crowd.“This crime, I believe, is another reflection of the nature of the Israeli occupation,” he said. “They carry out crimes, massacres, not only in Palestine but also in the rest of the world.”Batsh’s corpse is set to be flown to Egypt later in the day before being transported on to Gaza for burial.On Sunday, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman had said Israel was asking the Egyptian government not to allow Batsh’s body to be returned to his family in the Gaza Strip until Hamas returns to Israel the bodies of two IDF soldiers, as well as two mentally ill Israeli citizens.The bodies of the two soldiers — Hadar Goldin and Oron Shaul — are currently being held by Hamas, along with two Israeli civilians, Avera Mengistu and Hisham al-Sayed, who entered Gaza of their own volition in 2014 and 2015, respectively.Malaysian police on Wednesday released a photograph of one of two suspects in the killing of the Hamas rocket and drone expert, saying they have yet to identify the pair, who may still be in the country.The men were believed to have entered Malaysia in January but their nationalities were still not known, police said.The motorbike they were allegedly riding was found abandoned Tuesday not far from where the assassination took place.The Mossad has been accused in the past of eliminating figures who supplied Palestinian and Lebanese terror groups with advanced technology, as well as of assassinating Iranian nuclear scientists.Batsh’s expertise in making weapons could have made him a target — terrorists in Hamas-ruled Gaza regularly fire rockets at southern Israel. The Gaza-born scientist had reportedly published material recently on drone development, and on transmitters for controlling drones.But Liberman denied claims of the Jewish state’s involvement, suggesting instead that it was a “settling of accounts” between factions of a terror group.

French deputy mayor says future of Jews in Europe is ‘hopeless’-After call for German Jews to stop wearing kippahs in cities, Aviv Zonabend, Jewish member of Toulouse council, says the advice should be followed throughout Europe-By Michael Bachner-TOI-APR 25,18

A Jewish deputy mayor of the French city of Toulouse said Wednesday that all European Jews should stop wearing yarmulkes in public, claiming that “the future of the Jewish people in Europe is hopeless” after a series of high-profile attacks on Jews.Asked during an interview about a statement issued Tuesday by a prominent Jewish community leader in Germany advising people against wearing Jewish skullcaps in big cities, Aviv Zonabend said: “Only in Germany? I think we need to remove the kippahs in all of Europe.”“My son wears a kippah, but I prefer that he wear a hat on top,” he said. While he himself isn’t religious and therefore doesn’t wear one, he does wear a pendant bearing a Star of David but usually hides it under his shirt.Zonabend, the only Jewish member of the Toulouse city council, revealed during a Hebrew-language interview with Israel’s Army Radio that his office received an envelope with white powder several weeks ago, adding that “we still don’t know what the substance is.”“The situation in Toulouse is quite difficult,” Zonabend lamented. He said there are “very many, too many” Arabs in the city, making up 11-12 percent of its population.On the other hand, there are “very few” Jews, he said, adding that about 600 families have left Toulouse and immigrated to Israel in the last five years.“Anti-Semitism in Europe, in France, in Toulouse is no longer just by the far-right, but from political Islam,” Zonabend said, saying Muslims in France had “violently” opposed a public letter condemning anti-Semitism.The open letter published Sunday in the Parisien newspaper blamed “Islamist radicalization” for what it said was “quiet ethnic purging” in the Paris region, with abuse forcing Jewish families to move out. It called for certain passages of the Quran to be removed on the grounds of rising anti-Semitism.The manifesto sparked anger Monday from Muslims who said their religion was being unfairly “put on trial.”Muslim leaders charged that the nearly 300 signatories, who included ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy and former prime minister Manuel Valls, were blaming a whole religion for the actions of an extremist minority.“The only thing we can agree on is that we must all unite against anti-Semitism,” said Ahmet Ogras, head of the French Council of the Muslim Faith umbrella group.Zonabend said many Muslims in the municipality were having “difficulty” accepting his outspoken Zionism. When he travels to Tel Aviv, a “sister city” of Toulouse, to promote joint projects, “it disturbs them. They say ‘why don’t you also go to Ramallah or Palestine to do the same?'”But Zonabend also accused Israel of making it hard on French immigrants by not recognizing professional diplomas acquired in France and requiring them to take additional courses in Israel, saying this practice amounted to the country “not accepting” the French aliyah.The latest anti-Semitic attack rocked France last month when two perpetrators stabbed an 85-year-old Jewish woman 11 times before setting her body on fire.Officially, the number of anti-Semitic crimes fell in France in 2017 for a third year running, according to the interior ministry, down seven percent.But Jews are the target of about a third of France’s recorded hate crimes despite making up only about 0.7 percent of the population.The half-a-million-plus Jewish community is the largest in Europe but has experienced a wave of emigration to Israel in the past two decades, partly due to anti-Semitism in immigrant neighborhoods.

950 US rabbis condemn ‘alarming’ rise in NYC anti-Semitic violence-Rabbinical Alliance of America calls on police to apprehend, prosecute assailants in several recent assaults on Jews-By Michael Bachner-TOI-APR 25,18

An organization representing more than 950 US Orthodox rabbis has condemned an “alarming” increase in violent attacks on Jews in New York City, saying it would work with authorities to provide protection to “neighborhoods under siege” after at least two anti-Semitic assaults within a week.The Rabbinical Alliance of America — also known as “Iggud HaRabbonim” — said in a statement Monday that it “categorically condemns the alarming increase of horrifying physical attacks on Jews throughout New York City and beyond, and calls on all community, civic and political leaders to unite in denouncing this violent Jew hatred.”The professional rabbinical organization, which was founded in 1942, listed three recent incidents in which Jews were violently attacked, two of which have been confirmed as anti-Semitic.On Saturday, 52-year-old Menachem Moskowitz, an ultra-Orthodox Jew, was violently assaulted while walking home from Shabbat services in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn.Police have opened an investigation into the attack as an assault motivated by bias, after the victim said the assailant had told him he “hated Jews” and threatened to kill him.In footage that emerged Monday of the brutal anti-Semitic assault, the attacker can be seen jumping on Moskowitz from behind in the Crown Heights neighborhood in Brooklyn, sending his hat and glasses flying into a nearby garden, beating him, pushing him up against an iron fence, and attempting to strangle him.“I turned around and I see that he’s right behind me and he jumped me. And then he said ‘I hate Jews,’” Moskowitz told CBS late Sunday. “He put me in a headlock and I’m trying to maneuver out of him. In the meantime, I’m screaming, ‘Help! Help! Help! Help!’ He says, ‘You don’t need help. I’m going to kill you right here.’”Moskowitz sustained a cracked rib along with a black eye, swelling, bruising and scratches over his body.On April 13, a Jewish man was assaulted in the Crown Heights near 770 Eastern Parkway, the international headquarters of the Chabad movement, with police opening a bias investigation into the attack.The man, who was walking with another ultra-Orthodox man, was attacked late in the evening by three black men and two black women, CrownHeights.info reported. One of the assailants asked the man, “Do you want to fight?” and began to kick and punch him with others joining in the attack.The Rabbinical Alliance of America also mentioned in its statement an incident in which Madraque Tyquan Bailey, 22, a FedEx employee, repeatedly stabbed 28-year-old Jack Gindi, a Jewish man, in the Midtown section of Manhattan on Monday, on West 33rd Street and Fifth Avenue. The suspect was apprehended while the victim was seriously wounded and taken for treatment.However, police said that Bailey knew Gindi, and that the brutal attack was the result of a dispute between them rather than anti-Jewish bias.“The egregious scourge of anti-Semitism has reared its loathsome head once again,” said Rabbi Mendy Mirocznik, the organization’s vice president. “We cannot deny it, or even worse turn a blind eye to it.“We intend to work closely with law enforcement officials towards the goal of providing sufficient protection to neighborhoods under siege,” he added. “We also ask that the NYPD continue their investigations in finding and apprehending the assailants who are still on the loose and we ask that each of them is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.“Everyone in this blessedly diverse society is at risk when anti-Semitism, racism and xenophobia rise,” Rabbi Mirocznik concluded. “We must organize to stem the tide of such toxic hatred with every method at our disposal in order to protect the people of this great country.”

Rome’s Jews to boycott official Liberation Day event over pro-Palestinian groups-Community pulls out of state ceremonies celebrating liberation from Nazis due to inclusion of organizations that intend to protest against Israel-By JTA-TOI-APR 25,18

Rome’s Jewish community said it will boycott official ceremonies marking Italy’s Liberation Day because of the inclusion of pro-Palestinian groups that intend to protest against Israel.The April 25 holiday marks Italy’s liberation from the Nazis in 1945. Marches and commemorative rallies are scheduled to be held in many cities on Wednesday.A statement issued Tuesday said the Rome Jewish Community would hold its own separate observances to which the public also would be invited.It said that despite agreements signed earlier this month by the National Association of Italian Partisans, or ANPI, Rome’s mayor and the head of the Jewish community, “ANPI failed to take an official and definitive position against the organized participation of Palestinian and pro-Palestinian associations that carry symbols alien to the spirit of April 25.”The statement added: “It is unacceptable and inconsistent with history to maintain an attitude of impartiality between symbols of those who fought with the Nazis and those of the Jewish Brigade.”The Jewish Brigade, or Jewish Infantry Brigade Group, was part of the British Army formed by about 5,000 Jewish volunteers from British Mandatory Palestine. It fought against the Germans in Northern Italy in March and April 1945. The brigade fought under a flag similar to today’s Israeli flag.Pro-Palestinian groups have taken part in the marches for decades, but in recent years open tensions and sometimes violent confrontations have erupted.

MIGRATING BIRDS IN ISRAEL EATS HUMANS FLESH FOR COMING AGAINST ISRAEL-JERUSALEM

EZEKIEL 39:11-12,18
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog (RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS) a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers (EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN JORDAN VALLEY) on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog (RUSSIAN) and all his multitude:(ARAB/MUSLIM HORDE) and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.(BURIEL SITE OF THE 300 MILLION,RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS)
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.(OF ISRAEL)
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.(OF THE ISRAEL-GOD HATERS)

EZEKIEL 39:17-21
17  And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.(OF RUSSIAN/ISLAMIC HORDES AGAINST ISRAEL)
18  Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19  And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.
20  Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
21  And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.
22  So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day and forward.

REVELATION 19:17-18
17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;(AGAINST ALL NATIONS ARMIES THAT COME AGAINST JERUSALEM AND ISRAEL)
18 That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.

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

EZEKIEL 39:1-8
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back,(RUSSIA-ARAB MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS) and leave but the sixth part of thee,(5/6TH OR 300 MILLION DEAD RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS I BELIEVE) and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.

Russia says it will soon deliver new air defense systems to Syria-Moscow doesn't specify model, though officials have recently said S-300 could be transferred to Assad; Israel has warned it would destroy system if it is used against IAF jets-By TOI staff-APR 25,18

Russia will supply the Syrian regime with new air defense systems in the near future, the RIA news agency reported Wednesday, citing the Russian Defense Ministry.The report did not specify what type of systems Moscow will give its Damascus ally.On Monday, the Russian daily Kommersant reported that Moscow was getting closer to delivering its S-300 missile defense system to Syrian dictator Bashar Assad, despite Israel’s efforts to prevent it. Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman responded by saying that if the powerful S-300 was used against Israeli jets, the system would be destroyed.The Russian Foreign Ministry later denied parts of the report, saying that a decision about the transfer of the S-300 had yet to be made.Defense analysts have questioned whether an S-300 system in Syrian hands could threaten Israel’s air power in the region and prevent it from being able to conduct strikes against targets in Syria.Russian military sources told Kommersant that if Israel tried to destroy the anti-aircraft batteries, it would be “catastrophic for all sides.”Moscow first announced that it was considering reversing its longtime policy against supplying the S-300 system to the regime following a series of airstrikes against Syrian targets by the United States, United Kingdom and France earlier this month in response to an alleged chemical weapons attack by Assad.Speaking to the Ynet news site on Wednesday, Russaian Ambassador to Israel Alexander Shein stressed that Israel was not the intended target of any defense system delivery.Russia had originally agreed to sell the system to Syria in 2010, but scrapped the plan at Israel’s behest.According to Kommersant’s report, Russia will not be selling Assad the S-300 system, but rather providing it at no cost as part of a military aid package in order to hasten the delivery.The Russian-made system, made up of radar arrays and missile launchers, offers long-range protection against both fighter jets and missiles. The system has been supplied by Moscow to Tehran, and deployed by the Russian army in Syria, alongside its more advanced iteration, the S-400.In what many saw as a direct reaction to the looming proliferation of the S-300 and other missile defense systems throughout the Middle East — but especially in Iran — Israel has purchased a fleet of F-35 stealth fighter jets from the American Lockheed-Martin defense contractor.The state-of-the-art planes are meant to offer a solution to the challenges posed by the S-300, whose radar systems can detect aircraft from some 300 kilometers (186 miles) away.In addition to the American-led coalition’s strikes against Assad targets, Israel has increasingly carried out air raids in Syria, which it says are meant to prevent the transfer of advanced weaponry to the Hezbollah terrorist group and halt the military entrenchment of Iran in the country.While Israeli officials acknowledge that these strikes are carried out in general, Jerusalem rarely takes responsibility for specific attacks.

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

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

WORLD TERRORISM

OH BY THE WAY WHEN THE MEDIA SAYS ALLU-AK-BAR MEANS GOD IS GREAT LIE. IN ISLAM ALLU-AK-BAR MEANS OUR GOD IS GREATER OR GREATEST. THIS IS HOW THE MEDIA SUCK HOLES UP TO ISLAMIC-QURANIC-MUSLIMS. BY WATERING DOWN THE REAL MEANING OF THE SEX FOR MURDER DEATH CULT ISLAM. TO MAKE IT SOUND LIKE A PEACEFUL RELIGION (CULT OF DEATH AND WORLD DOMINATION).

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

GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her,(HAGAR) Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he (ISHMAEL-FATHER OF THE ARAB-MUSLIMS) will be a wild (DONKEY-JACKASS) man;(ISLAM IS A FAKE AND DANGEROUS SEX FOR MURDER CULT) his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against him;(PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM BEING BEHEADED) and he (ISHMAEL ARAB/MUSLIM) shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)

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

JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.(ISLAM MURDERS IN THE NAME OF MOON GOD ALLAH OF ISLAM)

EU shelves Macron idea for 'European Darpa' By Peter Teffer-APR 25,18-EUOBSERVER
https://www.blogs.uni-mainz.de/fb05philosophieengl/files/2018/03/Metzinger_2018_Global_Artificial_Intelligence_Charter_PE_614.547.pdf
https://ec.europa.eu/epsc/events/high-level-hearing-european-union-strategy-artificial-intelligence_en

Brussels, Today, 17:09-Europe will not have a pan-European innovation agency comparable to the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa), as proposed by French president Emmanuel Macron last year."I think that the approach that we want is a little bit different," said EU commissioner for research and innovation Carlos Moedas, at a press conference in Brussels on Wednesday (25 April).He presented the European Commission's strategy paper on artificial intelligence (AI), together with three other commissioners.The legally non-binding document is the first formal commission paper to discuss AI in depth since Macron held his speech at the university of Sorbonne in September 2017, calling for a European agency that dealt with AI."I propose that, over the next two years, we create a European agency for disruptive innovation in the same vein as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) in the United States during the conquest of space," Macron said there.Darpa is a US defence agency that had a crucial role in the space race, as well as laying the basis for the internet."Such an agency would make Europe an innovator and not a follower," the French president added.But the commission has decided not to propose a 'European Darpa'.-Darpa is too top-down-Moedas said that the commission shared Macron's concerns on a lack of disruptive innovation happening in Europe."You can have innovation that replaces one product for another product, but that doesn't really create jobs. The innovation that creates jobs is the one that is disruptive, that creates an all new market," he said."We were not good enough on that in Europe," he noted.The Portuguese commissioner added that in response the EU has set up a European innovation council, which is there to support startups and give advice on how to scale up innovative ideas."The Darpa system in the US is a little bit different from that," said Moedas."It is a more top-down approach where you have the ability to tell someone to develop on a certain area, a certain method or new technology. I think that the approach that we want is a little bit different, is more open than that."He noted that if France or Germany wanted to set up their own agencies, they would "of course" be free to do so."To really have a European added value there is where you have to have something that is more open, more bottom up," said Moedas.A commission official added later, on the condition of anonymity, that it was too early to have a 'horizontal' agency that deals with AI.Moreover, the source told EUobserver that even when member states publicly call for EU-level agencies, they sometimes show lacklustre support after the commission actually filed a legislative proposal to set them up, because of budget constraints.

Toronto van attack left ‘predominantly female’ victims, police say-Jonathan Rumley-Yahoo Canada News-April 25, 2018

The suspected driver of a van that jumped the curb and drove through a crowd of pedestrians Monday in Toronto has been charged.Alek Minassian, 25, faces 10 counts of first-degree murder and 13 counts of attempted murder. Due to the gravity of his alleged crimes, he will remain detained while he awaits his next court appearance  scheduled for May 10.Police say they are anticipating a 14th count of attempted murder, but that has not been made official at this time.Minassian was arrested by Toronto police after at least 24 people were struck by a vehicle on Yonge Street near Finch Avenue in the north end of the city. Ten people are confirmed dead and 14 others are injured. Police had previously said 15 people were hurt.During a Tuesday news conference, Det. Graham Gibson confirmed “the accused is alleged to have posted a cryptic message on Facebook” moments before the van slammed into pedestrians. That message is believed to have praised Elliot Rodger, the 22-year-old killer in a 2014 California rampage known for his reported hatred of women, but police wouldn’t go into details to confirm the connection.Gibson said the victims were “predominantly female,” ranging in age from their mid 20s to 80s. Injuries range from “scrapes and bruises to terrible injuries,” he added.It is “far too early to say” whether the suspect was mentally ill, the detective told members of the media. Gibson did confirm that the van used in the attack was rented north of the city.As for the police response, Toronto police Chief Mark Saunders said it took officers seven minutes from the first call to the moment of arrest to detain the suspect. He also spoke about police takedown of the suspect, which he called “nothing short of remarkable” since no gunshots were fired.The suspect’s cellphone was seized by police, Saunders confirmed. Police are also appealing members of the public who witnessed or recorded the incident to come forward to authorities.“We’re seeing what the city is made of today,” Toronto Mayor John Tory told reporters. “Everything is being done as quickly as possible.”However, Ontario’s chief coroner said it will take “a number of days” before the names of victims are released.The accused is from Richmond Hill, Ont., a town located just outside of Toronto. On a LinkedIn page believed to belong to him, it states he has been a student at the Toronto-based Seneca College since 2011.Pedestrians were hit when the vehicle left the roadway and drove along the sidewalk and in the wrong lanes during a one-kilometre stretch of road, which is one of the busiest in Canada’s largest city.Saunders had previously told reporters the act appeared to be deliberate. Minassian was not known to Toronto police before the incident, Saunders said.Victims being identified in media reports-The chief coroner for Ontario says it will be days before the identities of the victims are released, media reports are surfacing.CBC News reports Invesco Canada president Peter Intraligi confirmed Anne Marie D’Amico was one of the victims.“I can now confirm that unfortunately one of our employees has succumbed to her injuries,” Intraligi told CBC News via email.Jon Tam was one of her colleagues at the U.S.-based investment company. In an interview with CBC News, he described her as “very warm, a very happy person” who was “always smiling.” Tam added that she was known for her volunteer work.Tennis Canada also expressed their condolences regarding D’Amico’s death. In an online statement, the organization said she had been working the Rogers Cup tournament since she was 12 and was voted volunteer of the year in 2016.“She was always smiling, had the biggest heart and always put other people’s needs ahead of her own,” the statement said. Tournament organizers are expected to pay tribute to her this summer.It is with deepest sorrow that Tennis Canada confirms the passing of a member of its extended family this morning.https://t.co/VyiyGrvkMM— Tennis Canada (@TennisCanada) April 24, 2018-CBC News also reports Dorothy Sewell, an 80-year-old woman, has been identified as a victim by her grandson, Elwood Delaney.“She was the foundation for all things sports here in our family, that’s for sure,” Elwood told CBC News. “She loved her Maple Leafs, she loved her Blue Jays. I don’t think she ever missed a Blue Jays game.”Global News reports Chul Min Kang has been identified as a victim by his employer, Copacabana Brazilian Steakhouses, in a letter sent to employees.Meanwhile, Jordanian media has identified Munir Abdu Habib Al-Najjar as a victim, while the South Korean Foreign Affairs Ministry has confirmed two nationals were also killed.Yahoo Canada has not confirmed the reports of the victims’ identities independently.The Canadian Press reports Minassian was a member of the Canadian Armed Forces from Aug. 23, 2017 until Oct. 25, 2017, according to a spokeswoman for the Department of National Defence.“He did not complete his recruit training and requested to be voluntarily released from the CAF after 16 days of recruit training,” Jessica Lamirande told The Canadian Press.The Globe and Mail reports one of the suspect’s former classmates, who wanted to remain anonymous, described him as a person with a significant social or mental disability. Another unnamed classmate told the newspaper Minassian never showed any signs of extremism, but was somewhat socially awkward.Yahoo Canada has not confirmed the Globe and Mail’s report.Alek Minassian first appearance Finch court, returns May 10th by video. He was assisted by duty council. He has been ordered to have no contact with list of victims. pic.twitter.com/xIxJt0Rp3q— marianne boucher (@CityCourtsTO) April 24, 2018-The charges come after high-ranking public officials weighed in on the deadly incident.The mayor said the city is “strong and resilient and we will not be thrown off course by one person or one act, no matter how horrific.”In Ottawa, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called the event a “senseless attack and a horrific tragedy.” He praised first responders for their work at the scene.“They handled this extremely difficult situation with professionalism and bravery. They faced danger without a moment of hesitation, and there is no doubt that their courage saved lives and prevented further injuries,” Trudeau said.“All Canadians stand united with Toronto today.”Both Trudeau and Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale also reassured members of the public that there does not appear to be a link between the attack and terrorism.“We have no reason to suspect that there is any national security element to this attack,” the prime minister told reporters.“The investigation that is underway is still in its very early hours, but thus far, there is no discernible connection to national security in the incident last evening, based on all available information at the present time,” Goodale said.In the House of Commons in Ottawa, a moment of silent was held Tuesday afternoon to honour the victims.Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale thanks Toronto police, says 'there is no discernible connection to national security' in the van attack, based on available information​ https://t.co/cM4BpR1icr pic.twitter.com/0A5qq1qMij— CBC Toronto (@CBCToronto) April 24, 2018-The incident also caught the attention of U.S. President Donald Trump, who spoke publicly about it for the first time on Tuesday in Washington, D.C.“I also want to express our deepest sympathies to the Canadian people following the horrendous tragedy in Toronto that claimed so many innocent lives,” U.S. President Donald Trump said. “Our hearts are with the grieving families in Canada.”Trump is being joined at the White House by French President Emmanuel Macron, who tweeted a message in French about the attack on Monday.“I express my profound solidarity with the Canadian people after the tragedy that has just struck the city of Toronto,” Macron said.President Trump addresses Toronto van attack: 'I also want to express our deepest sympathies to the Canadian people following the horrendous tragedy in Toronto that claimed so many innocent lives. Our hearts are with the grieving families in Canada.'— CBC News Alerts (@CBCAlerts) April 24, 2018-J’exprime ma profonde solidarité au peuple canadien après la tragédie qui vient de frapper la ville de Toronto.- Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) April 23, 2018-A GoFundMe campaign has been launched to raise money to pay for the victims’ funeral expenses. Tory also said the city was teaming up with the Toronto Foundation to create the #TorontoStrong Fund to support victims and their families.

Wednesday, April 25, 2018

THE DOW WAS DOWN 424 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-APRIL 25,2018-12:00AM

DOW MARKET WEDNESDAY-APRIL 25,,2018
09:30AM-5.07-
10:00AM-174.77-
10:30AM-54.44-
11:00AM-37.46-
11:30AM-49.92-
12:00PM-116.15-
12:30PM-118.91-
01:00PM-68.16-
01:30PM-44.44-
02:00PM-45.77
02:30PM-15.51-
03:00PM-10.07-
03:30PM-7.61-
04:00PM-59.70+ 24083.83 - S&P +4.84 2639.40 - NASDAQ -3.62 7003.74
HIGH +60 LOW -175
TSX -32.75 15,509.75 - GOLD $-08.51 $1,321.87 - OIL $+00.30 $68.00

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-APRIL 25, 2018-11:55PM

1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ U.S.38 of 40 earthquakes in map area.

    2.9-8km NE of Aguanga, CA-2018-04-25 23:30:06 (UTC)-2.9 km
    4.6-23km S of Tokoroa, New Zealand-2018-04-25 23:28:11 (UTC)-170.4 km
    2.5-16km NNE of Borrego Springs, CA-2018-04-25 22:39:22 (UTC)-13.8 km
    4.9-7km NE of Quesada, Guatemala-2018-04-25 22:18:24 (UTC)-191.3 km
    4.7-240km SE of Lambasa, Fiji-2018-04-25 22:00:26 (UTC)-538.9 km
    2.7-84km W of Larsen Bay, Alaska-2018-04-25 20:10:03 (UTC)-3.0 km
    2.5-83km W of Larsen Bay, Alaska-2018-04-25 20:07:53 (UTC)-3.1 km
    3.1-48km NW of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico-2018-04-25 19:56:57 (UTC)-11.0 km
    2.8-8km SSW of Stella, Puerto Rico-2018-04-25 18:42:06 (UTC)-85.0 km
    2.8-4km SW of Volcano, Hawaii-2018-04-25 18:18:23 (UTC)-0.0 km
    2.5-37km WSW of Big Lake, Alaska-2018-04-25 17:33:25 (UTC)-59.0 km
    4.6-15km SSE of Comandau, Romania-2018-04-25 17:15:48 (UTC)-151.4 km
    5.1-104km SE of Amahai, Indonesia-2018-04-25 17:00:15 (UTC)-10.0 km
    3.2-6km NNE of Moreno Valley, CA-2018-04-25 16:52:07 (UTC)-14.2 km
    2.6-66km SE of Whittier, Alaska-2018-04-25 15:28:23 (UTC)-9.7 km
    2.9-10km SSW of Caldwell, Kansas-2018-04-25 14:52:58 (UTC)-4.3 km
    2.8-44km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico-2018-04-25 14:07:10 (UTC)-98.0 km
    4.8-164km WSW of Vostok, Russia-2018-04-25 13:46:21 (UTC)-460.9 km
    2.8-5km SSW of Volcano, Hawaii-2018-04-25 13:19:38 (UTC)--0.2 km
    4.7-243km WSW of Bristol Island, South Sandwich Islands-2018-04-25 13:10:37 (UTC)-10.0 km
    4.3-58km W of Adamas, Greece-2018-04-25 11:17:25 (UTC)-89.3 km
    2.8-20km SW of Leilani Estates, Hawaii-2018-04-25 11:04:10 (UTC)-6.3 km
    2.8-103km NW of Arctic Village, Alaska-2018-04-25 10:53:28 (UTC)-0.0 km
    4.3-64km SSE of False Pass, Alaska-2018-04-25 10:42:30 (UTC)-65.3 km
    2.7-45km SE of Esperanza, Puerto Rico-2018-04-25 10:32:13 (UTC)-9.0 km
    4.3-3km NW of Montecilfone, Italy-2018-04-25 09:48:43 (UTC)-10.0 km
    2.5-19km NW of Desert Center, CA-2018-04-25 09:47:45 (UTC)-1.2 km
    2.5-57km SW of Cantwell, Alaska-2018-04-25 08:52:32 (UTC)-70.4 km
    4.9-119km ESE of Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands-2018-04-25 08:05:08 (UTC)-55.9 km
    2.7-5km SW of Mascot, Tennessee-2018-04-25 07:56:16 (UTC)-8.2 km
    2.5-3km SSW of Volcano, Hawaii-2018-04-25 07:53:14 (UTC)-1.7 km
    2.8-6km SE of G. L. Garcia, Puerto Rico-2018-04-25 07:20:59 (UTC)-23.0 km
    2.8-26km WNW of Ludlow, CA-2018-04-25 06:19:24 (UTC)-1.7 km
    3.5-218km SE of Kodiak, Alaska-2018-04-25 06:01:18 (UTC)-4.8 km
    2.6-6km SW of Volcano, Hawaii-2018-04-25 03:04:58 (UTC)-1.7 km
    3.1-72km NW of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico-2018-04-25 02:05:39 (UTC)-76.0 km
    3.9-186km SE of Akutan, Alaska-2018-04-25 02:00:00 (UTC)-10.0 km
    5.0-233km ESE of Hihifo, Tonga-2018-04-25 01:33:24 (UTC)-20.9 km
    2.6-6km S of Volcano, Hawaii-2018-04-25 00:44:49 (UTC)-1.4 km
    2.7-5km SSW of Volcano, Hawaii-2018-04-25 00:43:38 (UTC)--0.3 km
    5.3-88km E of Olonkinbyen, Svalbard and Jan Mayen-2018-04-25 00:06:56 (UTC)-10.0 km

STOCK MARKET AND EARTHQUAKE NEWS
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GERMANY SAYS EVERY NATION CAN NAME CAPITAL-BUT NOT JERUSALEM.THE WORLD THINKS THEY CAN TELL ISRAEL WHAT TO DO WITH THEIR CAPITAL IN THEIR GOD GIVIN LAND.NUTS.

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

Germany says every state can name capital, but not Jerusalem-Replying to far-right MP's query, Berlin argues that Israel's 1980 declaration of the united city as its capital violated international law-By Raphael Ahren-TOI-APR 24,18

The German government affirmed last week that every country has the right to name its own capital, but argued that the status of Jerusalem can only be settled through Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.“As a matter of principle, every state has the right to determine a city in its territory to be its capital,” Niels Annen, a minister of state in Germany’s Foreign Ministry, stated in response to a query by a lawmaker from the far-right Alternative for Germany party.Annen cited Israel’s 1980 Basic Law: Jerusalem, which declares that the “complete and united” city is the Jewish state’s capital, and added: “Since the eastern part of Jerusalem that Israel occupied in 1967 contrary to international law is not part of Israel’s sovereign territory, the international community, including Germany, has not recognized this declaration.”In his written response Friday, Annen cited United Nations Security Council Resolution 478, which in 1980 proclaimed that Israel’s declaration on united Jerusalem being its capital “constitutes a violation of international law.”Annen, a Social Democrat, also cited Article XVII of the 1995 Oslo Accords, which states that Jerusalem is one of the issues “that will be negotiated in the permanent status negotiations.” He also referred to a European Council decision from 2014 that said that a way “must be found through negotiations to resolve the status of Jerusalem as the future capital of both states,” referring to Israel and a future Palestinian state.“The Federal Government shares the view that the status of Jerusalem, just like other final status issues, can only be settled through negotiations to be durable and acceptable,” Annen wrote Friday.Earlier this week, Chancellor Angela Merkel made the same argument in an interview with Israel’s Channel 10, reiterating that Berlin will not move its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.Last week, Petr Bystron, one of the Alternative for Germany’s chief foreign policy spokespeople, filed a written query with the government asking it to name Israel’s capital.In a press release he later added that his faction is strongly supportive of the State of Israel and US President Donald Trump’s December 6 decision to recognize Jerusalem and move the US embassy there.“The German government’s answer was almost identical with that of the Palestinian Authority, which has been protesting US President Donald Trump’s decision to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem since December,” Byron said in a press release issued Tuesday.Bystron said he was “amazed that, even 70 years after the founding of the State of Israel, the German government has no idea what its capital is.” He was especially surprised, he said, that Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, who had just visited Jerusalem and emphasized Germany’s “special responsibility for, and solidarity with, the democratic, Jewish state of Israel,” was unwilling to support Israel’s position.“Considering the special responsibility the German government keeps emphasizing it has toward Israel, it is strange they keep repeating the arguments of Israel’s enemies,” Bystron said.Official Israel boycotts the populist opposition party, known by its German acronym AfD, due to its nationalist and xenophobic policies.Similar to other far-right parties in Europe, the AfD formally rejects anti-Semitism and professes to strongly support Israel, seeing a common enemy in radical Islamism. However, the party is largely rejected by the local Jewish community, which argues that it promotes xenophobia and fails to adequately distance itself from anti-Semites within its ranks.

Liberman: Israel would destroy Syrian S-300 if it attacked our jets-As Russia threatens to sell powerful air defense system to Assad, defense minister downplays reports, stresses ties with Russia remain solid-By Judah Ari Gross-APR 24,18

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman on Tuesday downplayed Israeli concerns over Russia’s purported plans to outfit the Syrian military with its powerful S-300 air defense system, but stressed that Israel would retaliate if such a battery were used against its aircraft.“What’s important is that defense systems being supplied by Russia to Syria aren’t used against us,” Liberman said during a live interview with the Ynet news site.“One thing needs to be clear: If someone shoots at our planes, we will destroy them. It doesn’t matter if it’s an S-300 or an S-700,” he said.On Monday, the Russian daily Kommersant reported that Moscow was getting closer to delivering the S-300 missile defense system to Syrian dictator Bashar Assad, despite Israel’s efforts to prevent it.The Russian Foreign Ministry later denied parts of the article, saying that a decision about the transfer of the S-300 had yet to be made.Liberman said he had seen the reports, but that “they don’t have a grip on reality.”The defense minister reiterated Israel’s stated policy as it relates to Syria, namely that Israel will not get involved in the country’s civil war, but will take military action to prevent advanced weaponry from reaching the Hezbollah terrorist group and to halt Iranian entrenchment in Syria.Israel’s focus is on ensuring that “Iran does not bring in a flood of advanced weapons systems aimed at Israel,” he said.Liberman denied that Israel’s relationship with Russia was in peril following an airstrike against Iranian facilities on a Syrian air base earlier this month, which Moscow claimed Israel had conducted. Israeli officials refuse to comment on the strike.“For several years, we have been coordinating with each other and succeeding in preventing direct conflict with the Russians,” Liberman said.“They understand that we won’t get involved in internal Syrian matters and that we won’t allow Iran to entrench itself [in Syria],” he said.The defense minister noted that Russia already has its own S-300 air defense system in Syria, along with the more advanced S-400 system, and that “hasn’t limited our operations.”However, defense analysts have questioned whether an S-300 system in Syrian, not Russian, hands could threaten Israel’s air power in the region and prevent it from being able to conduct strikes against targets in Syria.Israel’s former Military Intelligence chief Amos Yadlin, who currently heads the influential Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, said he assumed the air force would work quickly to destroy the S-300, if it were indeed handed over to Syria.“If I know the air force well, we have already made proper plans to deal with this threat. After you remove the threat, which is basically what will be done, we’re back to square one,” Yadlin told Bloomberg news last week.Russian military sources told Kommersant that if Israel tried to destroy the anti-aircraft batteries, it would be “catastrophic for all sides.”Moscow first announced that it was considering reversing its longtime policy against supplying the S-300 system to the regime following a series of airstrikes against Syrian targets by the United States, United Kingdom and France earlier this month in response to an alleged chemical weapons attack by Assad.The apparent chemical attack against the then-rebel-held city of Douma in central Syria killed at least 40 people, including children. Western powers blame the attack on Assad’s regime.“A few years ago at the request of our partners, we decided not to supply S-300s to Syria,” Lavrov told the BBC last week. “Now that this outrageous act of aggression was undertaken by the US, France and UK, we might think how to make sure that the Syrian state is protected.”Russia had originally agreed to sell the system to Syria in 2010, but scrapped the plan at Israel’s behest.Lavrov’s comments to the BBC indicated that the impetus for Russia to reverse its decision and give Assad the S-300 was not the airstrike allegedly conducted by Israel on April 9, but the American-French-British attack on April 13.According to Kommersant’s report, Russia will not be selling Assad the S-300 system, but rather providing it at no cost as part of a military aid package in order to hasten the delivery.The Russian-made system, made up of radar arrays and missile launchers, offers long-range protection against both fighter jets and missiles. The system has been supplied by Moscow to Tehran, and deployed by the Russian army in Syria, alongside its more advanced iteration: the S-400.It was not immediately clear if Russia would bring in new S-300 systems to Syria or if it would simply give over control of the batteries already in the country.The Kommersant report noted that in any case it would take at least several months from its reception before Syrian soldiers would be fully trained on the system and capable of using it.In what many saw as a direct reaction to the looming proliferation of the S-300 and other missile defense systems throughout the Middle East — but especially in Iran — Israel purchased a fleet of F-35 stealth fighter jets from the American Lockheed-Martin defense contractor.The state-of-the-art planes are meant to offer a solution to the challenges posed by the S-300, whose radar systems can detect aircraft from some 300 kilometers (186 miles) away.Israel also worked diplomatically to attempt to stop Russia’s sale of the S-300 system to Iran, which after being halted for nearly a decade went through in 2016. Last year, Tehran announced that the system was fully functional and connected to the rest of the country’s air defenses.In addition to the American-led coalition’s strikes against Assad targets, Israel has increasingly carried out air raids in Syria, which it says are meant to prevent the transfer of advanced weaponry to the Hezbollah terrorist group and halt the military entrenchment of Iran in the country.While Israeli officials acknowledge that these strikes are carried out in general, Jerusalem rarely takes responsibility for specific attacks.On April 9, Israel allegedly struck the T-4 air base in central Syria where Iran has reportedly been operating a fully functional air base of its own and where it has centered its attack drone operations. At least seven members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps were killed in the strike. The base was reportedly protected by surface-to-air missile defense systems.Satellite photographs of the base published on Sunday showed the strikes were carried out with a high degree of precision, hitting two hangars, but causing little damage to the surrounding area.While refusing to comment on whether it carried out the strike, a few days later Israel revealed for the first time that an Iranian drone dispatched from T-4 in February was an attack drone that carried explosives and was headed to an unspecified location in Israel when it was shot down 30 seconds after entering Israeli airspace.Israel lost an F-16 in retaliatory raids hours after the drone was downed on February 10, the first loss of a fighter jet in action in 35 years. The Israeli plane was hit by Syrian anti-aircraft fire, and crashed in Israel; the two pilots ejected to safety.Following the downing of the F-16, Israeli aircraft targeted Syria’s air defenses, destroying between one-third and one-half of them, according to Israeli military estimates.

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

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

WORLD TERRORISM

OH BY THE WAY WHEN THE MEDIA SAYS ALLU-AK-BAR MEANS GOD IS GREAT LIE. IN ISLAM ALLU-AK-BAR MEANS OUR GOD IS GREATER OR GREATEST. THIS IS HOW THE MEDIA SUCK HOLES UP TO ISLAMIC-QURANIC-MUSLIMS. BY WATERING DOWN THE REAL MEANING OF THE SEX FOR MURDER DEATH CULT ISLAM. TO MAKE IT SOUND LIKE A PEACEFUL RELIGION (CULT OF DEATH AND WORLD DOMINATION).

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

GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her,(HAGAR) Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he (ISHMAEL-FATHER OF THE ARAB-MUSLIMS) will be a wild (DONKEY-JACKASS) man;(ISLAM IS A FAKE AND DANGEROUS SEX FOR MURDER CULT) his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against him;(PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM BEING BEHEADED) and he (ISHMAEL ARAB/MUSLIM) shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)

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

JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.(ISLAM MURDERS IN THE NAME OF MOON GOD ALLAH OF ISLAM)

Toronto van attack suspect faces 10 counts of first-degree murder-[The Canadian Press]-YAHOONEWS-April 24, 2018

TORONTO — A man accused of driving a van into pedestrians along a stretch of a busy Toronto street has been charged with 10 counts of first-degree murder.Alek Minassian, of Richmond Hill, Ont., is also facing 13 counts of attempted murder.The 25-year-old appeared in a packed Toronto courtroom this morning clad in a white jumpsuit and only spoke his name during the brief hearing.Police arrested Minassian less than half an hour after the incident, which took place at 1:30 p.m. on Monday.Authorities say 10 people died and another 15 were injured as a result of the attack.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says that while the investigation into the attack is still underway, there is no evidence to suggest it was related to terrorism.The Canadian Press.

Police struggle to establish motive in deadly Toronto ramming-Suspect Alek Minassian to appear in court after killing 10 people and injuring 15 in apparently deliberate attack-By AP and TOI staff-APR 24,18

Police in Toronto on Tuesday were still piecing together witness accounts and surveillance video in an attempt to determine why a driver plowed a rented van along a crowded sidewalk, killing 10 people and injuring 15 in what authorities said was a deliberate attack.Twenty-five-year-old suspect Alek Minassian was quickly captured in a tense but brief confrontation with officers a few blocks away from where his van jumped the sidewalk Monday and continued for a mile (one and a half kilometers), leaving a trail of bodies in its wake. But authorities so far have not disclosed a possible motive or cause even as the police chief agreed with witnesses that it seemed intentional.“The incident definitely looked deliberate,” Police Chief Mark Saunders told reporters at a late-night news conference.Saunders said Minassian, who lives in the Toronto suburb of Richmond Hill, had not been known to police previously. An online social media profile described him as a college student.Canadian media outlet CBC News reports that in a Facebook post, Minassian appears to praise Elliot Rodger, a California man who stabbed and killed three people and shot dead another three individuals in a 2014 rampage. However, CBC was unable to verify that the Facebook profile belonged to the suspect in Monday’s attack, and on Tuesday the page appeared to have been removed from the social media network.Shereen Chami, a former classmate of Minassian, told Reuters that he had attended an education program for students with special needs. She told the news agency that Minassian was not violent, but that she remembered him walking the corridors with his head down and making meowing sounds.Officials would not comment on Minassian’s possible motive except to play down a possible connection to terrorism. Asked if there was any evidence of a terrorist link, the chief said, “Based on what we have there’s nothing that has it to compromise the national security at this time.”A senior national government official said earlier that authorities had not turned over the investigation to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, a sign that investigators believed it was unlikely that terrorism was the motive. The official agreed to reveal that information only if not quoted by name.Authorities released few details in the case, saying the investigation was still underway, with witnesses being interviewed and surveillance video being examined.“I can assure the public all our available resources have been brought in to investigate this tragic situation,” Toronto Police Services Deputy Chief Peter Yuen said earlier.Police said the suspect was scheduled to appear in court at 10 a.m. Tuesday, and that information on the charges against him would be released at that time.The driver was heading south on busy Yonge Street around 1:30 p.m. and the streets were crowded with people enjoying an unseasonably warm day when the van jumped onto the sidewalk.Ali Shaker, who was driving near the van at the time, told Canadian broadcast outlet CP24 that the driver appeared to be moving deliberately through the crowd at more than 30 miles per hour.“He just went on the sidewalk,” a distraught Shaker said. “He just started hitting everybody, man. He hit every single person on the sidewalk. Anybody in his way he would hit.”Witness Peter Kang told CTV News that the driver did not seem to make any effort to stop.“If it was an accident he would have stopped,” Kang said. “But the person just went through the sidewalk. He could have stopped.”Video broadcast on several Canadian outlets showed police arresting the driver, dressed in dark clothes, after officers surrounded him and his rental Ryder van several blocks from where the incident occurred in the North York neighborhood of northern Toronto. He appeared to make some sort of gesture at the police with an object in his hand just before they ordered him to lie down on the ground and took him away.Witness Phil Zullo told Canadian Press that he saw police arresting the suspect and people “strewn all over the road” where the incident occurred.“I must have seen about five, six people being resuscitated by bystanders and by ambulance drivers,” Zullo said. “It was awful. Brutal.”Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expressed his sympathies for those involved.“We should all feel safe walking in our cities and communities,” he said. “We are monitoring this situation closely, and will continue working with our law enforcement partners around the country to ensure the safety and security of all Canadians.”

What do we know about Alek Minassian, arrested after Toronto van attack?-[The Telegraph]-Rob Crilly-YAHOONEWS-April 24, 2018

The Toronto van attack suspect is a socially awkward student who graduated from college last week, his former classmates say. Alek Minassian, a 25-year-old student, was arrested after 10 people were killed by a van in northern Toronto on Monday evening. He was taken into custody after the rented vehicle ploughed into a crowd, leaving a further 15 people hospitalised.Video footage showed a suspect being handcuffed after a tense stand-off with armed police. Authorities are still attempting to establish a motive for the attack.The Globe and Mail spoke to three of Minassian's former classmates who described him as being socially awkward, believing he may have suffered from a social or mental disability.Police now inside home of Toronto van suspect. Alek Minassian lives in Richmond Hill, north of Toronto. (Picture by CBC's Natalie Nanowski). pic.twitter.com/DGPAB8VfZa— CBC News Alerts (@CBCAlerts) April 23, 2018-Minassian lives in nearby Richmond Hill and has been a student at Seneca College, according to his LinkedIn page. One classmate said he graduated from the college only last week.Another student, who worked with Minassian on a school project in 2015, expressed his surprise that the suspect was even capable of hiring and driving a vehicle, adding he didn’t know how a steering wheel worked when he knew him. Other classmates suggested he had never exhibited any indication of possessing extremist views or violent tendencies and was described by one couple as being “friendly”.One student said Minassian did not interact particularly well with other students, but would not describe him as a loner.Ari Bluff, who went to secondary school with Minassian, recalled that “he wasn’t overly social” when she knew him.“I'm not sure if he had any very, very close friends, at least publicly,” he told CBC News. “I never saw him with a group of friends, generally. But whenever we would see him in the hallways, we'd always speak to him or say hi to him or whatnot.“I remember seeing him probably just walking down the halls, usually by himself, or in the cafeteria by himself.”Minassian was also regarded as an IT expert with comprehensive knowledge of computers chips, according to his former classmates.  His name is listed as a developer on a number of apps, including one that found parking spots in the Toronto area.He is believed to have attended the college for seven years while also working in several software development jobs. Officers were searching his home on Monday night.Mark Saunders, Toronto police chief, said the suspect had not been known to police previously."Based on what we have there's nothing that has it to compromise the national security at this time," he told a news briefing after being asked if there was any like to international terrorism.Investigators are still working to establish a motive for the van rampage, Mr Saunders declined to speculate but said the driver’s actions “definitely looked deliberate”.“We are looking very strongly to what the exact motivation was for this particular incident to take place,” he told a press conference. “At the end of the day, we will have a fulsome answer, and we will have a fulsome account as to what the conclusion of this is.”Witness Ali Shaker, who was driving near the van at the time, told Canadian broadcast outlet CP24 that the driver appeared to be moving deliberately through the crowd.“He just went on the sidewalk,” he said. “He just started hitting everybody, man. He hit every single person on the sidewalk. Anybody in his way he would hit.”Witness Peter Kang told CTV News that the driver did not seem to make any effort to stop.“If it was an accident he would have stopped. But the person just went through the sidewalk. He could have stopped.”NBC news cited American and Canadian law enforcement officials saying that mental illness was the leading theory for a motive, rather than terrorism.They also said the suspect had been involved in an online discussion about Elliot Rodger, the man accused of carrying out a 2014 shooting rampage, near Santa Barbara, California, that killed six people.A Facebook post by a man with the same name and the same photo as the one that appears on the LinkedIn profile refers to the "Supreme Gentleman Elliot Rodger".In a video posted before the attack, Rodger had ranted about women turning down his advances, turning him into an "incel" - an abbreviation for "involuntarily celibate".Minassian is due to appear in court at 10am local time on Tuesday.

Malaysia finds motorbike allegedly used in Hamas drone expert’s killing-Local police chief announces development in investigation of drive-by shooting of Fadi al-Batsh, blamed on Israel-By AFP and TOI staff-APR 24,18

Malaysian police have found the motorbike allegedly used in the drive-by shooting of a Hamas rocket and drone expert in Kuala Lumpur, the national police chief said Tuesday.Fadi Mohammad al-Batsh, 35, was killed on Saturday in the country’s capital as he walked to a mosque for dawn prayers, according to Malaysian authorities. His family and the Hamas terror group have blamed the hit on Israel’s Mossad spy agency. Israel has denied the claim.National police chief Mohamad Fuzi Harun said that the motorbike allegedly used by the assailants had been found in the Setapak area of Kuala Lumpur.“The motorcycle is in good condition,” he told reporters, without giving further details-Police previously said they believed either a BMW or a Kawasaki was used in the attack.Earlier Tuesday, the Palestinian envoy to Malaysia said Batsh’s body will be flown to the Gaza Strip through Egypt within 24 hours. His family said the body would be flown to Egypt and enter the Palestinian enclave Wednesday at 2 p.m. through the Rafah crossing. His wife and three children would also be granted access, according to the claim.On Sunday, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman had said Israel was asking the Egyptian government not to allow Batsh’s body to be returned to his family in the Gaza Strip until Hamas returns to Israel the bodies of two IDF soldiers, as well as two mentally ill Israeli citizens, it is holding in the enclave.The bodies of the two soldiers — Hadar Goldin and Oron Shaul — are currently being held by Hamas, along with two Israeli civilians, Avera Mengistu and Hisham al-Sayed, who entered Gaza of their own volition in 2014 and 2015, respectively.Malaysian police on Monday issued facial composites of two suspects in the shooting.Harun said Sunday the suspects were male, around 1.80 meters tall, well-built, had fair complexions, and were believed to be of Middle Eastern or Western descent.Harun said the composite images were based on eyewitness descriptions.The Palestinian envoy said he trusts Malaysian authorities in investigating the killing, calling them “very professional.”“We have full confidence in them and are ready to give our full commitment,” he said. “Our embassy officer is also in contact with the Malaysian authorities involved and has been getting updated about the investigation.”Harun said 14 bullets were recovered from the body of the victim after an autopsy and had been sent for forensic examination.Hamas on Saturday threatened retaliation against Israel for the killing of Batsh, an electrical engineer it said was a commander in its military wing. Israeli reports said the dead man was an expert on attack drones and rocket systems.Batsh was walking from his high-rise apartment to dawn prayers at a local mosque in the Kuala Lumpur suburb of Gombak when he was shot by two gunmen riding motorcycles, officials have said. Police said closed-circuit television footage showed the suspects had waited for him for almost 20 minutes.Later Saturday the armed wing of Hamas opened a mourning tent in Gaza for Batsh. A main banner at the entrance to the tent described Batsh as a member of the terror group’s military wing and “a commander.”At the mourning tent Hamas’s leader Ismail Haniyeh vowed revenge, saying that Mossad “is not far from this disgraceful, terrible crime. There will be an unsettled account between us and it. We cannot forfeit the blood of our sons, youths, and scholars.”Hamas said Batsh was a “loyal” member and a “scientist of Palestine’s youth scholars.” It said he had made “important contributions” and participated in international forums in the field of energy.Hebrew media reports said Batsh was deeply involved in Hamas’s efforts to improve the accuracy of its rockets and to develop drones. The Gaza-born scientist had reportedly published material recently on drone development, and on transmitters for controlling drones.In a statement from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, the victim’s family said, “We accuse the Mossad of being behind the assassination.” Batsh left behind a wife and three young children. He had lived in Malaysia for the past 10 years.Hadashot TV news said Hamas has sent numerous young Gazans for technical training in Malaysia. The country has proved a “paradise” for Hamas in recent years, Channel 10 news reported.The Mossad has been accused in the past of eliminating those who supply Palestinian and Lebanese terror groups with advanced technology, as well as having assassinated Iranian nuclear scientists.The most high-profile case was the death of Hassan Lakkis, who was the head of Hezbollah’s weapons research and development. He was shot and killed south of Beirut in 2013. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah blamed Israel, but Jerusalem denied any involvement.In Dubai, in 2010, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a key Hamas missile purchaser and importer, was assassinated in his hotel room in a killing widely attributed to Mossad.Hamas also accused Mossad of assassinating one of its drone experts, Mohamed Zouari, in Tunisia in 2016.Agencies contributed to this report.

Senior Iranian official warns Tehran could pull out of non-proliferation treaty-Secretary of Supreme National Security Council says option on table if Trump follows through on threats to change or abrogate 2015 nuclear deal-By TOI staff and Agencies-APR 24,18

The secretary of the Iran’s Supreme National Security Council signaled Tuesday that Tehran could quit the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons if the US scraps a landmark nuclear deal signed between Iran and world powers.“Signatory countries have right to quit [the NPT] if they feel their national interests are not safeguarded,” Ali Shamkhani said before leaving for a visit to Moscow. “This is one of the choices Iran has.”US President Donald Trump is threatening to tear up the 2015 agreement aimed at curbing Iran’s nuclear efforts unless European capitals agree to supplement it with tougher controls on Tehran’s missile program and future ability to return to nuclear fuel enrichment.Shamkhani said that Tehran would consider any move by the US to pull out of the accord or attempts to modify it as a “collapse” of the deal.Earlier Tuesday, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said the US would face “grave” consequences if Washington decides to withdraw from the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action agreement that curbed Iran’s controversial nuclear enrichment program in exchange for lifting international sanctions on the Mideast nation.“If someone wants to betray our nation and the deal, grave consequences will affect them,” Rouhani told supporters in the city of Tabriz during a visit to the area. State TV broadcast the speech.The Iranian nation and government will “strongly resist” any plots by those who sit in the White House, he added but did not elaborate, only saying that Iran has prepared for “various scenarios” while it abided by its commitments under the deal.Iran has been upping the rhetoric over a possible US withdrawal from the nuclear deal, with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif warning Saturday that Tehran was ready to “vigorously” resume uranium enrichment if the US ditched the accord.Zarif told reporters in New York that Iran is not seeking to acquire a nuclear bomb, but that its “probable” response to a US withdrawal would be to restart production of enriched uranium – a key bomb-making ingredient.Trump has set a May 12 deadline for the Europeans to “fix” the agreement, which provided for curbs to Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for relief from financial sanctions.The fate of the deal was to be a key issue during French President Emmanuel Macron’s state visit to Washington that began Monday, which is to be followed by talks between the US president and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday.European officials say Trump’s demand to reopen the deal are impossible, and are scrambling to address his concerns on Tehran’s missile testing, inspections and the regime’s behavior in the region.On Monday Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that he had agreed with his Chinese counterpart that the two countries would “obstruct” any attempt by Trump to “sabotage” the nuclear deal with Iran.

Iran’s president warns US of ‘severe consequences’ if it pulls out of nuke deal-Rouhani says Tehran will 'react firmly' should Trump follow through on his threats to change or abrogate the 2015 agreement-By TOI staff and Agencies-APR 24,18

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday warned the US that it will face serious consequences should it pull out of a landmark nuclear deal that Washington says falls short of preventing Iran from producing atomic weapons.“I am telling those in the White House that if they do not live up to their commitments, the Iranian government will react firmly,” Rouhani said in a speech broadcast live on state television, according to Reuters.“If anyone betrays the deal, they should know that they would face severe consequences,” he added.US President Donald Trump is threatening to tear up the 2015 agreement aimed at curbing Iran’s nuclear efforts unless European capitals agree to supplement it with tougher controls on Tehran’s missile program and future ability to return to nuclear fuel enrichment.Iran has been upping the rhetoric in return, with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif warning Saturday that Tehran was ready to “vigorously” resume uranium enrichment if the US ditched the accord.Zarif told reporters in New York that Iran is not seeking to acquire a nuclear bomb, but that its “probable” response to a US withdrawal would be to restart production of enriched uranium – a key bomb-making ingredient.Trump has set a May 12 deadline for the Europeans to “fix” the agreement, which provided for curbs to Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for relief from financial sanctions.The fate of the deal was to be a key issue during French President Emmanuel Macron’s state visit to Washington that began Monday, which is to be followed by talks between the US president and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday.European officials say Trump’s demand to reopen the deal are impossible, and are scrambling to address his concerns on Tehran’s missile testing, inspections and the regime’s behavior in the region.On Monday Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that he had agreed with his Chinese counterpart that the two countries would “obstruct” any attempt by Trump to “sabotage” the nuclear deal with Iran.

2 armed Gazans cross into Israel, are arrested-Suspects enter Israeli territory from southern Strip with grenade, knife; are picked up after getting past security fence-By Judah Ari Gross-TOI-APR 24,18

IDF soldiers arrested two Palestinian men who crossed into Israel from the southern Gaza Strip, armed with a grenade and a knife, on Tuesday morning, the army said.The military said the suspects were picked up shortly after they entered Israeli territory.They were handed over to the Shin Bet security service for further questioning, the army said.It was not immediately clear what the suspects’ intentions were in Israel. There have been multiple cases of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip entering Israel with weapons with the goal of being arrested and sent to prison, seeing incarceration in Israel as preferable to life in the coastal enclave.The security situation along the Gaza border has been tense over the past month. Thousands of Palestinians have gathered regularly along the border for demonstrations that have included attempts to damage the security fence around the Strip, as well as violent actions against Israel, notably the sending of kites bearing burning containers over the border in order to set fire to farmland.IDF troops have responded to the riots with live fire, killing 40 Gazans since March 30, according to the Strip’s Hamas-run health ministry.On Monday, four unarmed Palestinians who infiltrated into Israel from the southern Gaza Strip were also arrested by IDF soldiers. The four suspects got past the security fence near the Israeli community of Kibbutz Kissufim, before they were picked up. The suspects were also handed over to the Shin Bet for interrogation.Such infiltrations are a relative routine occurrence, especially as of late. Generally, the suspects are monitored by Israeli soldiers through surveillance cameras as they make their way toward the border fence and are arrested shortly after they enter Israeli territory.However, in the most serious recent infiltration incident, on March 27, a group of three Palestinian men walked more than 20 kilometers (12 miles) into the country, over the course of several hours, before they were arrested outside the Tzeelim army base.They were found to be in possession of grenades and knives.While initially their intentions were unclear, the army later determined that the men were not looking to carry out a terror attack, but to get caught and arrested.The army’s failure to immediately realize that there’d been a breach — signs of the infiltration were only found hours after it had happened — prompted Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman to call for a full investigation of the incident.

Strong suspicion' of corruption in Council of Europe assembly By Peter Teffer-EUOBSERVER

Brussels, 23. Apr, 09:29-An independent body investigating the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has concluded there was "strong suspicion" that some former and current members were engaged "in activity of a corruptive nature", related to Azerbaijan.The damning report comes after ten months of research looking into the conduct of members of the assembly, which consist of MPs from 47 European and Central Asian countries who are all members of the Council of Europe – an international organisation which pre-dates the EU and deals mostly with human rights, democracy and rule of law.The investigation concluded that there was a lack of transparency in the assembly, and that there were conflicts of interests of some members and former members of PACE who dealt with Azerbaijan.The report, published on Sunday evening (22 April), said that there was "strong suspicion" that the assembly's former president, Pedro Agramunt, was "party to activity of a corruptive nature".Agramunt already had to leave his post last year, after a vote of no-confidence following a scandal involving his meeting of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad.The report said that Agrumunt's appointments to the position of president of the European People's Party and then the position of assembly president "were marked with controversy and with suspicions that corrupt activities supported by Azerbaijan had played a role in the appointments".Other members and former members also acted against the ethical standards of the assembly and broke the relevant code of conduct, the report said.Among them is Spanish politician Agustin Conde, current state secretary of defence in Spain.The report focused mainly on corruption and lobbying activities related to Azerbaijan, which had been a member of the Council of Europe since 2001.But it hinted that much more could be wrong in the assembly.The report listed allegations that surfaced during the investigation, involving Armenia, Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Monaco, Montenegro, Russia, Turkey, and Ukraine.The authors of the report suggested that others investigate those allegations."Due to the organisational, temporal and operational limitations of the investigation body's mandate, the investigation body has been unable to conduct a thorough investigation into all those allegations," they wrote.While the Council of Europe's assembly is not as important as EU institutions, the authors noted that its activities have high symbolic value."It would be wrong to assume that, since PACE activities might not have direct financial consequences within the member states, this risk is less real," it said."Indeed, membership of PACE, and of the COE in general, is important for the image that the authorities of a particular state wish to project in the international community."

France tightens immigration law, sparking division By Nikolaj Nielsen-EUOBSERVER

BRUSSELS, 23. Apr, 09:09-The National Assembly in France has passed new immigration laws that toughen up asylum rules by speeding up the application procedure and making it easier to deport people.The controversial law has brought widespread criticism from human right defenders and sown rare divisions within French president Emmanuel Macron's own Republic on the Move (LRM) centrist party.French lawmakers passed the bill 228 votes to 139, with 24 abstentions on Sunday (22 April) following a marathon debate that lasted 61 hours and attracted around 1,000 amendments.Some 14 members of the LRM party abstained with another voting against the bill. The Senate is now set to debate it in June."I am not sure we're sending to world citizens the universal message that has always been ours," said LRM party member Jean-Michel Clement, who voted against the bill, in a statement.Macron's party introduced the bill in February as part of a wider presidential campaign effort to wrestle support away from defeated far-right and anti-immigrant candidate, Marine Le Pen.It allows authorities to keep child asylum seekers in detention for up to 90 days as they await deportation. The tough stace is not unique to France. Hungary keeps children as young as 14 in shipping containers along its border with Serbia.Early last year, the European Commission told reporters that locking up children is a means to protect them from smugglers and traffickers. EU law allows detention to last for up 18 months. A few weeks later, it then issued recommendations on how best to protect children.But the French bill also reduces the asylum application filing period from 120 days to 90 days and shortens the deadline to launch appeals from one month to 15 days.Such measures render the application process much more onerous for the asylum seeker and risks unjustly sending home people who require international protection, according to Human Rights Watch.In 2017, the French national court of asylum granted protection to over 8,000 people who had appealed their negative decision. Around 100,000 applied for asylum last year.Those given refugee status under the new law will be granted easier access to work.The move also comes amid a greater push at the EU level to ensure that people denied the right to asylum are sent home, given that only around 36 percent actually leave."We need to significantly increase our number of returns, all member states must streamline the return process. Return decisions should not just be given but also enforced," said EU migration commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos last September.

Closing arguments to begin in Cosby's sexual assault trial-[Reuters]-By David DeKok-YAHOONEWS-April 24, 2018

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (Reuters) - The prosecution and Bill Cosby's defense team are expected to begin closing arguments on Tuesday in the retrial of the entertainer, who is accused of drugging and raping a one-time friend more than a decade ago.Cosby, 80, faces three counts of aggravated indecent assault of Andrea Constand, 45, a former administrator of the Temple University women's basketball team, at his Philadelphia home in January 2004.Cosby, who declined to testify on his own behalf on Monday, has denied wrongdoing, saying any sexual contact he had was consensual.He also did not testify at his first trial on the same charges last year, when the deadlocked jury was unable to reach a verdict, leading prosecutors to try him again. The current trial, now in its third week, began on April 9.About 50 women have accused Cosby of sexual assault, sometimes after drugging them, going back decades. All the accusations, apart from Constand's, were too old to be the subject of criminal prosecution.If convicted of all three counts, he would probably face at most 10 years in prison as a first offender under state sentencing guidelines, although Pennsylvania law allows for a maximum penalty of three consecutive 10-year sentences, a prosecution spokeswoman said.Earlier on Monday, Cosby's lawyers used phone and flight records from January 2004 to try again to convince the jury that he was not at his Philadelphia home at the time of the alleged crime.The timing is crucial, since Cosby was not criminally charged until December 2015, just days before the 12-year Pennsylvania statute of limitations would have expired. The defense has sought to show that a consensual encounter occurred earlier than January 2004.Douglas Moss, an expert on aviation record keeping, said Cosby's trips around the United States in January 2004 were accurately reflected in flight logs kept by his private jet pilot, who now suffers from dementia.District Attorney Kevin Steele sought to show that Cosby could have used other modes of transport to travel to Philadelphia.(Editing by Clarence Fernandez)

Waffle House shooting suspect arrested in Nashville woods-[Reuters]-By Tim Ghianni-YAHOONEWS-April 23, 2018
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Reuters) - Police on Monday arrested the man suspected of fatally shooting four people at a Waffle House restaurant, ending a 36-hour manhunt after tips from the public led police to search secluded woods nearby.Photos posted online by Nashville police showed Travis Reinking, a 29-year-old construction worker, in custody. He was suspected of opening fire with an assault rifle at the restaurant early Sunday then fleeing the scene naked.Photographed in the back of a police car, he looked disheveled and was wearing a torn red shirt and dirty blue jeans. He had scratches on his shoulder.No motive was known for the attack that sent shudders through one of the biggest cities in the U.S. South and stoked a simmering national debate on gun control.Reinking, who had a pistol and ammunition in a backpack when he was arrested, was not talking to police. He will be booked on four counts of criminal homicide, authorities said.More than 150 city, state and local law enforcement agents searched for the gunman, who has had a history of bizarre behavior, delusions and multiple encounters with authorities, including an episode in Washington in July 2017 when he was arrested for trying to get into the White House, according to police records."We need to move on as a community and do what we can to curb this violence," Nashville Mayor David Briley told a news conference near the Waffle House, describing the attack as a tragedy.Tips from people in the neighborhood helped lead police to search through the woods about two miles (3 km) from the restaurant using sniffer dogs on the ground and aircraft overhead.Metropolitan Nashville police Lieutenant Carlos Lara said as soon as a detective saw Reinking and ordered him to get on the ground, the suspect cooperated."He did not try to run," Lara said at the same news conference.In addition to the four deaths, two people were injured in the attack.Police said they planned to take the suspect to a hospital for evaluation before he is booked.Reinking was from Illinois before moving to Nashville. After the White House incident, Illinois authorities revoked his license to carry concealed weapons.After that, Reinking's father had told police he would lock up his son's guns, which they said included the rifle used in the Waffle House shooting. But the father returned the weapons to his son, Nashville police said on Sunday.Marcus Watson, an agent with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, said Reinking's father, Jeffrey, could face federal charges if he knowingly transferred weapons to a person who was prohibited from owning them. The father was not immediately available for comment.The killings in Tennessee's capital were the latest in a string of high-profile U.S. mass shootings in which a gunman used an AR-15 style rifle. These include a Feb. 14 mass shooting when a former student killed 17 people with an AR-15 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.In the area near the Nashville Waffle House, local resident Sheryl Friend, a woman in her 60s, said there was a sense of relief. "Everybody was taking precautions," she said. "You never knew which direction he was going to go and what was going to happen."Reinking is accused of shooting two people to death outside the restaurant around 3:30 a.m. on Sunday, and killing two inside. The suspect fled after a 29-year-old diner, James Shaw Jr., wrestled the rifle from him.Shaw, grazed by a bullet during the attack, was praised for his courage, but on Sunday he denied he was a hero. "I just wanted to live," he said.David Hogg, a Marjory Stoneman student and leader in a student movement for gun control that has emerged from the Parkland, Florida, attack, used Shaw's example to taunt the National Rifle Association, which lobbies for gun rights, on Twitter."So only a good guy with a gun can stop a bad guy with a gun?" Hogg wrote in a message directed at the NRA.An NRA representative could not immediately be reached to comment.(Additional reporting by Rich McKay in Atlanta, Bernie Woodall in Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Jonathan Allen in New York; Writing by Ben Klayman in Detroit and Jon Herskovitz in Austin; Editing by Frank McGurty, Jonathan Oatis and Cynthia Osterman)

PROOF HALF ON EARTH DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION PERIOD (8 BILLION ON EARTH)

REVELATION 6:7-8 (8 BILLION- 2 BILLION = 6 BILLION)
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth,(2 BILLION) to kill with sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).

REVELATION 9:15,18 (6 BILLION - 2 BILLION = 4 BILLION)
15 And the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels were loosed,
18 By these three was the third part of men killed,(2 BILLION) by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMBS)

HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)

LUKE 17:34-37 (8 TOTAL BILLION - 4 BILLION DEAD IN TRIB = 4 BILLION TO JESUS KINGDOM) (HALF DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION PERIOD JUST LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS)(GOD DOES NOT LIE)(AND NOTICE MOST DIE IN WAR AND DISEASES-NOT COMETS-ASTEROIDS-QUAKES OR TSUNAMIS)
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other shall be left.(half earths population 4 billion die in the 7 yr trib)
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten by the birds).THESE ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES-NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES.BECAUSE NOT HALF OF PEOPLE ON EARTH ARE CHRISTIANS.AND THE CONTEXT IN LUKE 17 IS THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION OR 7 YR TREATY PERIOD.WHICH IS JUDGEMENT ON THE EARTH.NOT 50% RAPTURED TO HEAVEN.

MATTHEW 24:37-42 (THESE ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES-SURE NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
42 Watch therefore:(FOR THE LAST DAYS SIGNS HAPPENING) for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

Russian rocket stage with toxic fuel to fall in Canadian Arctic-[The Canadian Press]-YAHOONEWS-April 24, 2018

Another Russian rocket stage likely to be holding highly toxic fuel is slated to splash down in environmentally sensitive waters of the Canadian Arctic on Wednesday.Documents on the website of the European Space Agency say the Cold-War-era missile repurposed for satellites is to lift off from a Russian launching pad. It will drop its second stage into Baffin Bay, outside Canada's territorial waters, but within ocean it claims to regulate and control.The launch vessel, a former SS-19 intercontinental ballistic missile, is powered by hydrazine — a fuel so toxic and carcinogenic that almost every space program in the world, including Russia's, no longer uses it.The spent rocket stage is expected to contain up to a tonne of unused hydrazine.It is expected to fall into the North Water Polynya, one of the most productive and biodiverse areas of the Arctic and heavily used by Inuit hunters. The waters are considered so important to mammals such as walrus and whales that Inuit from Canada and Greenland seek to manage it as a protected area.Eleven such splashdowns have taken place over the last 15 years, said Michael Byers, a professor of international law at the University of British Columbia.Although the rocket is Russian, the launch is a commercial service paid for by the European Space Agency."The ESA prides itself on being the most environmentally friendly space agency in the world," said Byers."One of the ironies here is that the satellite is a cutting-edge climate- change monitoring satellite. It's of central importance for environmental monitoring."Agency officials have said that unused fuel is burned up on re-entry, but studies done at launch sites in Russia suggest some fuel does reach the surface.Previous launches have drawn wide protests. The federal government has filed diplomatic protests with Russia and the government of Nunavut has argued the launches put Inuit at needless risk.The Inuit Circumpolar Commission has also objected in the past to possible contamination of pristine waters.The federal government did not immediately say if it has filed a protest over the upcoming launch.Byers points out that while Canada may have little influence over Russia, it is an associate member of the European Space Agency."We have, or should have, considerable influence over the ESA," he said. "I see no evidence that it was exercised."— Follow @row1960 on Twitter-Bob Weber, The Canadian Press.

Nuclear threat warning broadcast in Winnipeg neighbourhood a prank: police-[The Canadian Press]-YAHOONEWS-April 24, 2018
WINNIPEG — Police say a warning of a nuclear threat that was broadcast in a downtown Winnipeg neighbourhood was a prank.The audio recording blasted through Osborne Village around 9:20 p.m. on Sunday and warned that a nuclear attack was occurring against Canada and the United States. It said six missiles were expected to strike in the next 15 to 25 minutes."All Canadian residents should seek out a fallout centre immediately," the recording said in a mechanical-sounding voice.It warned people to stay away from windows and to put together survival kits.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau would address the public shortly, it added.Const. Jay Murray said police received four calls about the recording before officers arrived and the broadcast stopped.An investigation determined the audio was from an online video played through a home speaker system."This is some jokester who probably thought it would be funny to play this audio and it's unfortunate," Murray said. "I don't think they probably realized the amount of fear and panic they put into some people and the stress on, not only the police system, but other systems as well."Ron Schuler, minister responsible for emergency measures, said emergency alerts in Manitoba would be broadcast on radio and television or through a message on mobile phones."It is done by proper channels. It's not done by a rusty van with speakers hanging out the side. It's not the van down by the river making these announcements," he said.There have been false alerts around the world as U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un have exchanged words over the testing of nuclear weapons.In January, panic ensued in Hawaii after a false ballistic missile alert was sent out warning people to seek shelter. The employee who sent it was fired from the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency.Only a few days later, Japan's public broadcaster NHK sent a false emergency alert to subscribers of its mobile app that stated North Korea had launched a missile. The broadcaster quickly sent a retraction and apologized.On the weekend, the BBC had to issue a statement saying a video that went viral of a BBC journalist warning of thermonuclear war was false.Murray said Winnipeg police have not encountered a prank like this before, but he predicted it isn't likely to be the last. There would be serious ramifications for anyone considering a similar stunt, he said-"I can't imagine if you have someone who thinks this is imminent, what is going thorough their mind, so it's a matter we take very seriously."Kelly Geraldine Malone, The Canadian Press.

America's nuclear headache: old plutonium with nowhere to go-[Reuters]-By Scot J. Paltrow-YAHOONEWS-April 23, 2018

AMARILLO, Texas (Reuters) - In a sprawling plant near Amarillo, Texas, rows of workers perform by hand one of the most dangerous jobs in American industry. Contract workers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pantex facility gingerly remove the plutonium cores from retired nuclear warheads.Although many safety rules are in place, a slip of the hand could mean disaster.In Energy Department facilities around the country, there are 54 metric tons of surplus plutonium. Pantex, the plant near Amarillo, holds so much plutonium that it has exceeded the 20,000 cores, called “pits,” regulations allow it to hold in its temporary storage facility. There are enough cores there to cause thousands of megatons of nuclear explosions. More are added each day.The delicate, potentially deadly dismantling of nuclear warheads at Pantex, while little noticed, has grown increasingly urgent to keep the United States from exceeding a limit of 1,550 warheads permitted under a 2010 treaty with Russia. The United States wants to dismantle older warheads so that it can substitute some of them with newer, more lethal weapons. Russia, too, is building new, dangerous weapons.The United States has a vast amount of deadly plutonium, which terrorists would love to get their hands on. Under another agreement, Washington and Moscow each are required to render unusable for weapons 34 metric tons of plutonium. The purpose is twofold: keep the material out of the hands of bad guys, and eliminate the possibility of the two countries themselves using it again for weapons. An Energy Department website says the two countries combined have 68 metric tons designated for destruction - enough to make 17,000 nuclear weapons. But the United States has no permanent plan for what to do with its share.Plutonium must be made permanently inaccessible because it has a radioactive half-life of 24,000 years."A MUCH MORE DANGEROUS SITUATION" Edwin Lyman, a physicist at the Union of Concerned Scientists, a science advocacy group based in Washington, says solving the problem of plutonium storage is urgent. In an increasingly unstable world, with terrorism, heightened international tensions and non-nuclear countries coveting the bomb, he says, the risk is that this metal of mass annihilation will be used again. William Potter, director of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, told Reuters: “We are in a much more dangerous situation today than we were in the Cold War.”Washington has not even begun to take the steps needed to acquire additional space for burying plutonium more than 2,000 feet below ground - the depth considered safe. Much of America’s plutonium currently is stored in a building at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina - like Pantex, an Energy Department site. Savannah River used to house a reactor. Local opponents of the storage, such as Tom Clements, director of SRS Watch, contend the facility was never built for holding plutonium and say there is a risk of leakage and accidents in which large amounts of radioactivity are released.The Energy Department has a small experimental storage site underground in New Mexico. The department controls the radioactive materials - plutonium, uranium and tritium - used in America’s nuclear weapons and in the reactors of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines. In a Senate hearing in June 2017, Energy Secretary Rick Perry said the Energy Department has been in talks with New Mexico officials to enlarge the site. Environmental groups there have strongly opposed expansion.Under an agreement with Russia, the United States was to convert 34 metric tons of plutonium into fuel for civilian reactors that generate electricity. The fuel is known as MOX, for “mixed oxide fuel.” Plutonium and uranium are converted into chemical compounds called oxides, and mixed together in fuel rods for civilian nuclear power plants. The two metals are converted into oxides because these can’t cause nuclear explosions. But the U.S. effort has run into severe delays and cost overruns.The alternative method is known as dilute-and-dispose. It involves blending plutonium with an inert material and storing it in casks. The casks, however, are projected to last only 50 years before beginning to leak, and so would need to be buried permanently deep underground.THE MOX MESS-President Donald Trump has sided with the Energy Department in wanting to kill the MOX project because of the extreme cost overruns and delays. The Energy Department, beginning in the Obama administration, favored closing down the MOX project for the same reason, but Congress overruled it. The federal budget adopted in February, however, specifies a means for ending the project, if a study shows that dilute-and-dispose would be at least 50 percent cheaper than making MOX.The National Nuclear Security Administration, the part of the Energy Department that oversees the nuclear sites and materials, favors switching to the dilute-and-dispose method. In recent testimony before a House of Representatives subcommittee, Lisa Gordon-Hagerty, the new NNSA administrator, said that method would “cost billions less” than completing the MOX plant.Plutonium is a versatile nuclear bomb material. Terrorists would need only 11 pounds (5 kg) or less to make a bomb, Lyman says.Its ordinarily limited radioactivity makes plutonium safe for terrorists or other thieves to transport with little risk of radiation injury. It goes undetected by most sensors. It radiates alpha particles, relatively large on an atomic scale, which means the thin glass of a test tube, the leather of a briefcase, or even air or skin stop them. The danger from handling small amounts is inhaling plutonium dust. In that case, the dust spreads from the lungs throughout the body, causing multiple kinds of cancer.The federal government now has no solution in sight to dispose of the plutonium permanently. Its one effort to make it unusable for bombs has turned into what the White House and Energy Department say is a costly failure. The MOX project, at the Energy Department’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina, has been kept on life support by Congress thanks to the influence of South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham and other lawmakers. The MOX plant employs about 2,000 people in Graham’s state.Graham and other Congressional backers say MOX is the best way to keep plutonium out of the hands of terrorists. They note too that the pact with Russia requires the United States to use MOX as the method for disposal.A spokeswoman for Graham declined to comment on his behalf but sent a link to a YouTube video of a Senate hearing in March. In the hearing, Graham, referring to steps already taken to limit work on the MOX plant, said: “What I think we’ve done is ended the biggest non-proliferation program in the world, and I’m going to try and fix that.”Today’s plutonium glut mainly is a legacy of the Cold War. The quantities now seem surreal. By 1967 the U.S. nuclear arsenal reached its apex, with 37,000 warheads. The Soviet Union’s peak came in the 1970s, with approximately 45,000. These were enough to destroy life on Earth thousands of times over.A RADIOACTIVE PEACE DIVIDEND-Amid the terror and aggressiveness then of government and military leaders on both sides, little or no thought was given what to do with the warheads should the risk of mass annihilation ebb.Daniel Ellsberg, best known for leaking in 1971 the Pentagon Papers about the Vietnam war, in the early 1960s was an adviser to the Air Force and White House on nuclear policy. He recently published a book detailing and criticizing the nuclear policy debates and decisions of that era. In a phone interview, he said disposal of weapons was never considered at the time.“I don’t think one person gave one moment of thought to that,” Ellsberg said. “No one thought that the Cold War would end.”Treaties that dramatically reduced U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals were signed soon after the Soviet Union fell. It was then that the magnitude of the problem – disposing of the surplus plutonium – dawned on the two countries.Scientists proffered ideas, nearly all involving making the plutonium forbiddingly dangerous for malefactors to transport and burying it deep underground.Instead, under a 2000 treaty, the United States agreed to transform the 34 metric tons of plutonium into MOX, unusable for bombs. Russia agreed to destroy the same quantity using a special type of reactor. But the United States had never before built a MOX plant. No U.S. civilian reactor had ever used MOX as fuel.This misplaced optimism led to one of the costliest snafus ever in U.S. government construction. Work began in 2007 to build a MOX plant that was to be operational by November 2016. The Energy Department now estimates that, if allowed to proceed, it will not be finished until 2048. In 2007 the Energy Department said the total cost would be $4.8 billion. Now it estimates the cost at more than $17 billion.Building of the plant began when detailed designs were between 20 percent and 40 percent complete. But once initial construction finished, the contractor, under instructions from the Energy Department, breezed ahead without architectural plans.Reports from the Union of Concerned Scientists said rooms were built for laboratories and offices where none were needed. Ventilation ducts and electrical wiring were in the wrong places. Plumbing was a maze of misplaced pipes. The contractor later had to rip out much of its work and start over.The contractor is a consortium of companies, CB&I Areva MOX Services. It includes CB&I (formerly Chicago Bridge and Iron), based in the Netherlands, and Areva, which specializes in nuclear-related and alternative power projects, majority owned by the French government.GIVING IT AWAY-In an e-mailed statement to Reuters, the consortium said it expects to finish the facility. It said “the project is over 70 percent physically complete.”But Gordon-Hagerty, the National Nuclear Security Administration’s new chief, testified in March before a House Appropriations Subcommittee that it is “nowhere near” 50% complete. Government Accountability Office reports (https://www.gao.gov/assets/690/688369.pdf and https://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-17-651T ) criticized the Energy Department for awarding a “cost plus” contract, which guarantees a profit regardless of how much work is done.In an emailed response to questions for this article, Lindsey Geisler, a spokesperson for the NNSA, said that in 2011, after the contract had been awarded, “NNSA recognized the need to institute project management reforms.” She said the NNSA established a new office to better oversee contracting and acquisition, and that practices have improved significantly.Echoing other critics, Frank von Hippel, a Princeton University professor who researches nuclear arms control and policymaking, said weak oversight continues. “The problem at DOE is that the quality of managers, with some exceptions, is quite low,” he said. “Contractors just milk them for money.”An Energy Department panel reported in 2016 that there is no US market for MOX. To use MOX fuel rods, civilian power plants would have to modify their reactors, requiring lengthy relicensing by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The report said the best the Energy Department could hope for was to give the stuff away.(Edited by Michael Williams)

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