DEMOLIBNUTS CLAIM BOTH RUNOFFS WITH FIXED HELP AND A LONG DAY AHEAD FOR CONGRESS COUNT

2020 AMERICAN ELECTION RESULTS BY STATE TRUMP VS LOSER LIBERAL SLEEPY (SLOPPY JOE) BIDEN.

ON D-66 OF THE TRUMP WIN OF THE PRESIDENCY. WED JAN 06,21.

Key dates for the Electoral College and what they mean-AEIdeas-DECEMBER 14,20

What are the key dates for the workings of the Electoral College?

November 3 — Election Day

Election Day is November 3. We may or may not know the winner of the presidential contest on election night, but we certainly will not have a final tally and certified results until weeks later. States vary widely in the time they allot for certifying their election results. Some may give a final certification the week after Election Day. Others may take over 30 days. And there is the possibility of recounts and judicial contests of elections which could extend the time to determine an official winner of a state.
Ballots are passed out to 16 Electors on the Michigan Senate floor for them to cast their formal votes for the president and vice president of the United States in Lansing, Michigan, U.S., December 19, 2016. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook

December 8 — Safe Harbor

December 14 — The meeting of the Electors

Two key dates loom in December. On December 14, presidential electors must have been selected by the states and will meet as a group in their states to cast electoral votes for president and vice president. But December 8 is also a significant date, the so-called “safe harbor” date. The Electoral Count Act sets this date as an important date for states to make their official selection of electors, as those electoral votes will be given greater protection from challenge when Congress counts the electoral votes in January. The Supreme Court in Bush v. Gore assigned great significance to this date in Bush v. Gore.

January 3 — The convening of the new Congress

January 6 — Congress counts the votes

January 20 — Inauguration Day. The new presidential term begins at noon.

On January 3rd, the new Congress will take office, and on January 6th it will meet to count the electoral votes and declare a president- and vice president-elect. On January 20th at noon, the current presidential term will end and the next one will begin.This is excerpted from the new fourth edition of After the People Vote, edited by John Fortier, senior fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center and a member of AEI’s Election Watch team.John C. Fortier-AEI Adjunct Scholar-SENOIRFELLOWKarlyn Bowman-Senior Fellow

OK SO AFTER I DONE MY LAST POST AT 11.58PM. IT SAID 98% OF THE VOTES WERE IN. AFTER THE COMMERCIAL. IT MIRACULOUSLY WENT BACK TO 97% TO GO. THE HITLARY THE 2ND CLINTON NEWS NETWORK CNN IS GOING THE WRONG WAY IN THE FIX FOR THE DEMOLIBNUTS. THEN WHEN I WOKE UP HERE AT 6AM. IT SAID 99% COMPLETE. BUT AFTER MY BATH. IT IS AGAIN CHANGED FROM 99 TO 98% COMPLETER. THE MEDIA NEEDS MORE TIME TO FIX THE FINAL RESULTS FOR THE DEMOLIBNUTS. BY ADDING 3% OF VOTES TO GO INSTEAD OF 2%. AND OF COURSE THE DEMOLIBNUTS LEAD IN BOTH RACES. R1 WARNOCK HAS 2,227,296-50.6 TO GOP LOEFFLER 2,173,866-49.4. AND IN R2 OSSOFF HAS 2,208,717-50.2 TO GOP PERDUE 2,192,347-49.8.

AND AT 1PM TODAY THE CONGRESS COUNTS THE VOTES. WERE THE HOUSE AND SENATE GOP WILL BE FORCING A 2 HOUR DEBATE 6 TIMES DURING THE COUNTS. WISCONSIN, PENNSYLVANIA, ARIZONA AND 3 OTHER STATES AT LEAST THE REPUBLICANS WILL BE FORCING 2 HOUR DEBATES IN THE HOUSE AND SENATE. ITS GONNA BE A LONG DAY OF EXCITMENT. SEE IF HERES HOW TRUMP BECOMES PRESIDENT. AND ALSO TODAY. MIKE PENCE WILL PROVE TO AMERICA OF VOTER FRAUD. ITS GOING TO BE AN INTERESTING DAY.

AT 11AM TRUMP WILL BE TALKING FROM GEORGIA I THINK. ABOUT THE LOSSES IN  GEORGIA LAST NIGHT AND BTODAY AND UNTILL FRIDAY. THEN AT 1PM. IT WILL BE A LONG DASY OF DEBATES. AND SOMEHOW TRUMP WILL BECOME PRESIDENT.

ITS 12.57PM-AND IN 3 MINUTES THE AFFIRM PRESIDENT ELECT STARTS. THE FIRST ONE TO BE FILIBUSTERED BY GOP MEMBERS WILL BE ARIZONA-THE 3RD ONE NAMED.THE JOINT HOUSE - SENATE COUNT.

PELOUSI AND PENCE WILL LEAD THE ELECTORAL COUNT. 11 MEMBERS FROM EACH SIDE ARE ALLOWED IN THE CHAMBER-AND NO DEBATES ALLOWED IN THE JOINT SESSION-ALABAMA-9-TRUMP.ALASKA-3-TRUMP.ARIZONA-11-BIDEN (61 GOPS OBJECT)-EACH SIDE-SENATE-HOUSE DEBATE FOR 2 HOURS NOW. TILL 3.15PM.

ITS 3.50PM. AND PROTESTERS FOR THE LAST HOUR OR SO HAVE PLACED THEMSELVES OUTSIDE THE WHITEHOUSE. OF COURSE THE MENTAL CASES TAPPER , BLITZER AND EX TERRORIST VAN JONES ARE CALLING FOR TRUMP TO STOP THE PROTESTERS FROM STANDING OUTSIDE THE WHITEHOUSE. AND THE 3 ARE CALLING FOR SOMEBODY ELSE TO TAKE OVER TRUMPS POSITION. CALLING TRUMP INCOMPITANT. NOW BLITZ IS COMPLAINING TRUMP HAS 14 DAYS LEFT. AND HE WON'T TELL THE PROTESTERSD TO LEAVE. JOHN THE BOARD NUTJOB AT CNN IS SAYING THESE ARE DANGEROUS, VIOLENT, MOB, LAWLESS, CRIMINALS. HMM EVERY THING I SAY ABOUT DEMOLIBNUTS WHEN THEY RIOT-BURN-LOOT ALL KINDS OF AMERICAN CITIES IN THE NAME OF BLACK RIGHTS AND RACISM. BIGOTRY AND HATRED. NOW DEMOLIBNUTS HOW DO YOU LIKE THEM NOW. A TASTE OF ALL YOUR OWN MOB-TERRORIST-LAWLESS-CRIMINAL-ACTIONS. 2 SIDES CAN PLAY THE PROTEST GAME-NOT JUST NUTJOB DEMOLIBNUTS. THE ENTIRE NATIONALGUARD HAS BEEN CALLED TO THE WHITEHOUSE. BIDEN IS NOW BLABBING HOW THESE PROTESTERS ARE AN ASSAULT ON DEMOCRACY AND DISORDER AND CHAOS. BIDEN SAYS I CALL ON THIS MOB TO GET BACK. GET BACK-THERE STANDING QUITELY OUTSIDE THE WHITEHOUSE. BIDEN SAYS THERE INSURRECTION-LAWLESS PEOPLE,BREAKING WINDOWS-STORMING THE WHITEHOUSE.AMERICAN DEMOCRACY REQUIRES PEOPLE OF GOOD WILL NOT POWER BUT GOOD WILL OF WE THE PEOPLE. AMERICA IS SO MUCH BETTER THAN THIS. PEACEFUL-GENEROUS-JUST PEOPLE OF RESPECT AND HONOR. THE WORLD IS WATCHING THIS. BIDEN IS SUCH A B-SER. AND HE CLAIMS TRUMP IS DOING NOTHING. MEANWHILE ITS TRUMP THAT CALLED IN THE NATIONAL GUARD. THE CLINTON NEWS NETWORK IS CALLING THIS A CONSPIRACY THEORY COUP BY TRUMP. CNN IS BEING EVACUATED FROM THE WHITEHOUSE. OH POOR CNN. POOR CRY BABIES. THE CAPITAL POLICE ARE IN THE WHITEHOUSE AND TAKING THE MEDIA TO A SECRET LOCATION....OH WHAT A DERANGED DANGEROUS SITUATION THE MEDIA GOING TO A SECRET LOCATION. AND THE MEDIA IS NOT BLAMING THEMSELVES FOR THESE ACTIONS. NO OF COURSE THEY BLAME TRUMP AND HIS FOLLOWERS. THE MEDIA ARE THE BLAME CLINTON-COMMUNIST-NEWS-NETWORK. AND THE REST OF THE DECIEVING LYING HATING MEDIA. ITS 4.22PM. NOW TRUMP IS SAYING GO HOME-PEACEFUL BUT WE GOT ROBBED OF THE STOLEN ELECTION. DON'T DO WHAT THE DEMOLIBNUTS DO RIOT-BURN-LOOT CITIES. WE ARE PEACEFULNPEOPLE UNLIKE THE VDEMOLIBNUTS AND BTHEIR VIOLENCE.ITS 4.25PM-JAN 6,2021. CNN CLAIMES TRUMP REFUSES THAT HE LOST THE ELECTION. AND IS CAUSING INSURRECTION TO THE COUNTRY.
 
ITS 6.22PM. AND THERE IS A 6PM CURFEW IN WASHINGTON. WOLF BLITZER JUST OUT RIGHT LIED ABOUT THE PEACEFUL PROTESTERS. BLITZER PROPAGANDA HITLER EXPERT SAID. DID THE POLICE TELL THE MOB HE CALLS THEM TO GET BACK FROM THE WHITHOUSE OR WE WILL GAS YOU AND ARREST YOU. THIS ALEX MARQUARTE PROPAGANDIST OF CNN. SAID NO BLITZY-THE POLICE ARE NOT SAYING ANYTHING TO THE PEACEFUL PROTESTERS. AND ALSO A WOMAN WAS SHOT AT THE WHITEHOUSE. AND SHE NOW HAS DIED FROM HER WOUND. BUT OF COURSE CNN WITHOUT KNOWING THE FACTS ABOUT HER DEATH. BLAMED THE TRUMP SUPPORTERS AT THE WHITEHOUSE FOR KILLING HER. BUT WHEN A TERRORIST ATTACK OCCURS. CNN INSIST YOU CAN'T BLAME A MUSLIM. YOU MUST WAIT FOR THE FACTS. BLITZER-CNN HYPOOOOOCRIT HITLER LIERS. CNN NEEDS A 10,000 FOOT WHEEL BARROW TO CATCH ALL THE HITLER DUNG THEIR PROPAGANDIZING  AGAINST THESE PEACEFUL TRUMP SUPPORTING PROTESTERS WHO ARE WALKING AROUND. BUT CNN CALLS THEM VIOLENT DOMESTIC TERRORISTS-INSURRECTORS AND  RIOTERS AND HATERS OF AMERICA. AND BLAMES EVERYTHING ON TRUMP. AND WANTS TRUMP IMPEACHED OR THROWN OUT OF OFFICE. TO STOP HIS LAST 14 DAYS OF THIS OFFICE. UNTILL HE REKNEWS THE NEXT 4 YEARS AS PRESIDENT ON JAN 20TH. PELOUSY SAYS THE VOTE COUNT GOES ON TONIGHT ET. HMM-IF THEIR SO VIOLENT. WHY WOULD POLOUSY COME OUTTA THE UNDER GROUND WHITEHOUSE BUNKER AND WANT TO CONTINUE THE COUNT IF THE WORLD IS GOING TO END WITH THESE PEACEFUL PROTESTERS.IS MY QUESTION COW DUNG HITLERS CNN.THE ELECTORAL COUNT RESUMES AT 8PM.ITS 6.45PM CURRENTLY.

1 hour ago-Kate Murphy-D.C. police chief: 'Just above 13 arrests' made

At a press conference Wednesday afternoon, Robert J. Contee III, chief of the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department, said his officers made "just above 13 arrests" during the breach of the U.S. Capitol.None of those arrested were Washington residents, Contee said. Three were from Arlington, Va., and the rest were "from out of the area."A number of firearms, including long guns and handguns, were recovered by police, he added.

National Review-At Least One Person Shot after Trump Supporters Breach Capitol-Tobias Hoonhout-Wed, January 6, 2021, 2:20 PM EST

At least one person was shot by police in the Capitol building Wednesday afternoon, according to multiple reports, after thousands descended on the hill following a “Stop the Steal” rally in which President Trump again claimed the election was stolen from him.Armed standoff on House floor. Police pointing guns at protestors who have broken glass door — Erik Wasson (@elwasson) January 6, 2021-Video from the chamber. pic.twitter.com/UKF7MScHKN — Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) January 6, 2021-House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) told Fox News that he overheard “shots fired” on Capitol Hill police radios, and there are reports of at least one woman being shot in the chest. Trump has tweeted asking his supporters to “remain peaceful. No violence!”A person on a stretcher just wheeled out with what appears to be a serious injury. pic.twitter.com/wucrpusBzE- Michael Del Moro (@MikeDelMoro) January 6, 2021-The Senate chamber has also been breached by protestors. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) has requested the National Guard, and D.C. mayor Muriel Bowser has ordered a 6 p.m. curfew.Several people got on to a scaffolding outside Senate, took it to second floor, which looked like the area where McConnell’s office is located, and started banging on windows pic.twitter.com/IIZ21nkzFT — Igor Bobic (@igorbobic) January 6, 2021-The massive crowd, numbering tens of thousands, moved on the Capitol — where vice president Mike Pence is overseeing the certification of the Electoral College — after Trump repeatedly urged them to do so, saying he would join them and vowing to “never give up” and “never concede.” Trump, however, left for the White House after delivering his address, and did not join the MAGA crowd.Capitol Hill police moved to evacuate the Cannon House office building after the crowd overwhelmed police and broke through barriers. Flash bangs and tear gas were used on the crowd, with little effect. There are reports of multiple suspicious packages near the Capitol grounds (the New York Times later reported that an “explosive device” was safely detonated at the Republican National Committee). The crowd subsequently broke into the building as both the House and the Senate sessions to certify the election were forced into recess, and Pence was escorted out.Tear gas has been deployed inside the building, and members of Congress have been instructed to put on gas masks and are being evacuated.Broke down the barriers- storming Congress pic.twitter.com/gCFOgX4PTT — Storm_Chaser (@StmCh_) January 6, 2021-Right outside the Capitol building: pic.twitter.com/UKNCEqF4P5— Henry Rodgers (@henryrodgersdc) January 6, 2021-BREAKING: Trump supporters have breached the Capitol building, tearing down 4 layers of security fencing and are attempting to occupy the building — fighting federal police who are overrun-This is the craziest thing I’ve ever seen in my life. Thousands, police can’t stop them pic.twitter.com/VVdTUwV5YN— ELIJAH SCHAFFER (@ElijahSchaffer) January 6, 2021-Capitol Police are using flashbangs to try to get the Trump crowd to disperse. pic.twitter.com/IHAtc1dsJ5- Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) January 6, 2021-BREAKING: revolution in process as Trump supporters break into the Capitol building, attacking police, breaking windows, and knocking down doors-Full anarchy at this “mostly peaceful” demonstration DC-The people have pushed through & are storming to main chambers pic.twitter.com/NW6VDDNBQw— ELIJAH SCHAFFER (@ElijahSchaffer) January 6, 2021-While Donald Trump Jr. condemned the actions of the crowd, urging them to not “start acting like the other side,” the president took to Twitter to attack his running mate.Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2021-Less than 15 minutes later, Trump urged his supporters to “[s]tay peaceful!” White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany has announced that, per Trump’s orders, the National Guard and federal law enforcement have been called to secure the Capitol.Multiple Republicans, including Senator Ted Cruz (R., Texas) — one of the instigators in the effort to object to the Electoral College certification — have condemned the clashes with police.Violence is always unacceptable. Even when passions run high.Anyone engaged in violence—especially against law enforcement—should be fully prosecuted.God bless the Capitol Police and the honorable men & women of law enforcement who show great courage keeping all of us safe. — Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) January 6, 2021-Violence and anarchy are unacceptable. We are a nation of laws.This needs to end now. https://t.co/zyrFUFYZm1-— Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) January 6, 2021-

The Week-Ted Cruz suggested the Senate hold a 'commission' to investigate election results. Bipartisan senators immediately tore him apart.Kathryn Krawczyk-Wed, January 6, 2021, 2:43 PM EST

In his opposition to the counting of electoral votes for President-elect Joe Biden on Wednesday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) suggested Congress "follow the precedent" of another disputed election.In 1877, just a few years after the end of the Civil War, a disputed election was resolved with a bipartisan electoral commission that put former Republican President Rutherford B. Hayes in the White House, but also ended most of the Reconstruction efforts aimed at enforcing the end of slavery and white supremacy in the South. The 1877 commission allowed Jim Crow laws to take hold in the South and remain for nearly a century later. But without much regard for that racist history, Cruz suggested today's Congress follow 1877's lead."I would urge that we follow the precedent of 1877," says Senator Ted Cruz.The bipartisan electoral commission that Cruz speaks of was widely regarded as a disaster https://t.co/azXMO0zfYw pic.twitter.com/dLSuPLrvcO— Bloomberg Opinion (@bopinion) January 6, 2021-Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) followed with a complete teardown of Cruz's argument, questioning why Cruz wasn't also disputing the elections of dozens of House members elected on the same ballots. And then came Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.), a Republican from a swing state Biden won. Despite supporting and campaigning for Trump, Toomey also wasn't siding with the Republican opposition, instead questioning just how much good a "commission" would do for the undisputed count.

Ossoff declares victory-JAN 6,21

Democrat Jon Ossoff declared victory in his Senate race against Republican incumbent David Perdue, saying in a video statement, "It is with humility that I thank the people of Georgia for electing me to serve you in the United States Senate." The Associated Press has yet to call the race.Early Wednesday morning, Ossoff’s campaign manager, Ellen Foster, released the following statement:“When all the votes are counted we fully expect that Jon Ossoff will have won this election to represent Georgia in the United States Senate. The outstanding vote is squarely in parts of the state where Jon’s performance has been dominant. We look forward to seeing the process through in the coming hours and moving ahead so Jon can start fighting for all Georgians in the U.S. Senate.”

(AP)-Democrat Warnock defeats Loeffler-JAN 6,21

Rev. Raphael Warnock defeated Sen. Kelly Loeffler in one of two Senate runoff elections that took place Tuesday. Warnock, the pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, is the first Democrat to win a Senate election in the state since 1996 and the first Black person to represent the state in the chamber. Loeffler, a businesswoman who was appointed to the seat in December 2019, attempted to portray Warnock as a radical and aligned herself closely with President Trump in his bid to overturn last November's presidential election. The Associated Press called the race at 2:01 a.m. ET.We are still awaiting a call in the contest between Sen. David Perdue and challenger Jon Ossoff. If Ossoff were to win, Democrats would take control of the Senate, while a Perdue victory would keep Sen. Mitch McConnell installed as majority leader.

Associated Press-Warnock makes history with Senate win as Dems near majority-STEVE PEOPLES, BILL BARROW and RUSS BYNUM-Wed, January 6, 2021, 3:02 AM EST

ATLANTA (AP) — Democrat Raphael Warnock won one of Georgia’s two Senate runoffs Wednesday, becoming the first Black senator in his state’s history and putting the Senate majority within the party's reach.A pastor who spent the past 15 years leading the Atlanta church where Martin Luther King Jr. preached, Warnock defeated Republican incumbent Kelly Loeffler. It was a stinging rebuke of outgoing President Donald Trump, who made one of his final trips in office to Georgia to rally his loyal base behind Loeffler and the Republican running for the other seat, David Perdue.The focus now shifts to the second race between Perdue and Democrat Jon Ossoff. That contest was too early to call as votes were still being counted.There were still some mail ballots and in-person early votes left to be counted statewide, the majority of which are in Democratic-leaning counties. Under Georgia law, a trailing candidate may request a recount when the margin of an election is less than or equal to 0.5 percentage points.If Ossoff wins, Democrats will have complete control of Congress, strengthening President-elect Joe Biden’s standing as he prepares to take office on Jan. 20.Warnock’s victory is a symbol of a striking shift in Georgia’s politics as the swelling number of diverse, college-educated voters flex their power in the heart of the Deep South. It follows Biden’s victory in November, when he became the first Democratic presidential candidate to carry the state since 1992.Warnock, 51, acknowledged his improbable victory in a message to supporters early Wednesday, citing his family’s experience with poverty. His mother, he said, used to pick “somebody else’s cotton” as a teenager.“The other day, because this is America, the 82-year-old hands that used to pick somebody else’s cotton picked her youngest son to be a United States senator,” he said. “Tonight, we proved with hope, hard work and the people by our side, anything is possible.”Loeffler refused to concede in a brief message to supporters shortly after midnight.“We’ve got some work to do here. This is a game of inches. We’re going to win this election,” insisted Loeffler, a 50-year-old former businesswoman who was appointed to the Senate less than a year ago by the state’s governor.Loeffler, who remains a Georgia senator until the results of Tuesday’s election are finalized, said she would return to Washington on Wednesday morning to join a small group of senators planning to challenge Congress’ vote to certify Biden’s victory.“We are going to keep fighting for you,” Loeffler said, “This is about protecting the American dream.”Georgia’s other runoff election pitted Perdue, a 71-year-old former business executive who held his Senate seat until his term expired on Sunday, against Ossoff, a former congressional aide and journalist. At just 33 years old, Ossoff would be the Senate’s youngest member.Trump’s false claims of voter fraud cast a dark shadow over the runoff elections, which were held only because no candidate hit the 50% threshold in the general election. He attacked the state’s election chief on the eve of the election and raised the prospect that some votes might not be counted even as votes were being cast Tuesday afternoon.Republican state officials on the ground reported no significant problems.This week’s elections mark the formal finale to the turbulent 2020 election season more than two months after the rest of the nation finished voting. The unusually high stakes transformed Georgia, once a solidly Republican state, into one of the nation’s premier battlegrounds for the final days of Trump’s presidency — and likely beyond.Both contests tested whether the political coalition that fueled Biden’s November victory was an anti-Trump anomaly or part of a new electoral landscape. To win in Tuesday's elections — and in the future — Democrats needed strong African American support.Drawing on his popularity with Black voters, among other groups, Biden won Georgia’s 16 electoral votes by about 12,000 votes out of 5 million cast in November.Trump's claims about voter fraud in the 2020 election, while meritless, resonated with Republican voters in Georgia. About 7 in 10 agreed with his false assertion that Biden was not the legitimately elected president, according to AP VoteCast, a survey of more than 3,600 voters in the runoff elections.Election officials across the country, including the Republican governors in Arizona and Georgia, as well as Trump’s former attorney general, William Barr, have confirmed that there was no widespread fraud in the November election. Nearly all the legal challenges from Trump and his allies have been dismissed by judges, including two tossed by the Supreme Court, where three Trump-nominated justices preside.Even with Trump’s claims, voters in both parties were drawn to the polls because of the high stakes. AP VoteCast found that 6 in 10 Georgia voters say Senate party control was the most important factor in their vote.Even before Tuesday, Georgia had shattered its turnout record for a runoff with more than 3 million votes by mail or during in-person advance voting in December. Including Tuesday’s vote, more people ultimately cast ballots in the runoffs than voted in Georgia’s 2016 presidential election.In Atlanta’s Buckhead neighborhood, 37-year-old Kari Callaghan said she voted “all Democrat” on Tuesday, an experience that was new for her.I’ve always been Republican, but I’ve been pretty disgusted by Trump and just the way the Republicans are working,” she said. “I feel like for the Republican candidates to still stand there with Trump and campaign with Trump feels pretty rotten. This isn’t the conservative values that I grew up with.”But 56-year-old Will James said he voted “straight GOP.”He said he was concerned by the Republican candidates’ recent support of Trump’s challenges of the presidential election results in Georgia, “but it didn’t really change the reasons I voted.”“I believe in balance of power, and I don’t want either party to have a referendum, basically,” he said.___Peoples reported from New York. Bynum reported from Savannah, Ga. Associated Press writers Haleluya Hadero, Angie Wang, Sophia Tulp, Ben Nadler and Kate Brumback in Atlanta contributed to this report.

Dylan Stableford-here things stand
• Democrat Raphael Warnock was declared the winner over Republican incumbent Kelly Loeffler at 2:01 a.m. ET.
• We are still awaiting a call in the race between GOP Sen. David Perdue and challenger Jon Ossoff. Current tracking slightly favors the Democrat, but the contest could be close enough to trigger an automatic recount if the final margin is within .5 percentage points. On Wednesday morning, Ossoff declared victory.
• If Warnock and Ossoff both win, Democrats will hold an edge because Vice President-elect Kamala Harris can cast any tiebreaking votes.
• President Trump, who campaigned for both GOP candidates on Monday, claimed without evidence that election officials were planning to rig the vote count against them.
• Trump is scheduled to speak at a rally protesting the results of the presidential election at 11 a.m. ET.
• Congress is convening in a joint session at 1 p.m. ET to count electoral votes certifying Joe Biden's victory.
• Some of Trump's Republican allies say they will object to the certification.

Yahoo News-How Congress will count up Biden's Electoral College victory-Crystal Hill·Reporter-Tue, January 5, 2021, 8:59 PM EST

The 2020 presidential election will likely reach a decisive conclusion this week as the new Congress begins counting the Electoral College votes on Wednesday, a process that experts say could potentially last days.President-elect Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory isn’t in doubt. President Trump nevertheless has spread a steady stream of misinformation about the election itself and Wednesday’s proceedings.Here’s how the count will play out in Congress.The Democratic-controlled House and Republican-controlled Senate will convene at 1 p.m. ET on Wednesday to receive and count the electoral votes from the states and address and resolve any objections to the votes. Biden is expected to be certified as the winner, after receiving 7 million more votes than Trump and clear victories in enough battleground states to win the Electoral College.With few exceptions, the counting process has historically been a polite affair, election experts said Tuesday in a press briefing with reporters. But with roughly a dozen Republican lawmakers vowing to make the unusual move of objecting to states’ whole slates of electors, the count may be fraught with disagreements, fueling the false notion, spread fervently by Trump and his allies, that the election was rigged.One thing experts are sure of is that there will be a newly certified president before Jan. 20, the final day of the current presidency. And it won’t be Trump.“I don’t see any real potential for [objectors] to change the outcome,” Paul M. Smith, an election expert at Georgetown University Law Center and the vice president for litigation and strategy at the Campaign Legal Center, told Yahoo News. “It’s very clear that there’s a majority in both houses to support the counting of the Biden electors from the six disputed states [Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada].”Normally, the vice president acts as the presiding officer, a largely symbolic role, over the event to maintain order. The count starts after pages bring in ceremonial boxes full of votes from the states. Then, alphabetically, the states’ votes are counted.Assuming Vice President Mike Pence presides over the count, each state’s vote count and the attached certifications from the state governors and election officials will be presented to Pence, who will then hand the votes (in an envelope) to one of the four tellers selected to receive them, according to Trevor Potter, president of the Campaign Legal Center.The tellers are two Republicans and two Democrats from each legislative chamber — the ranking and minority members on the Senate Rules Committee and the House Administration Committee. This year the tellers should be Sens. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and Roy Blunt, R-Mo., and Reps. Rodney Davis, R-Ill., and Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif.Their job, Potter said, is to open the envelopes and read the vote totals, stating that they appear to be properly given. At that stage, any member can rise from their seat and object to the vote. The objector is then asked to detail the objection, and is also asked if it’s in writing and if it’s signed by a member of the House and a member of the Senate.If the objection doesn’t meet that standard, then it’s ruled out of order. For example, during the count in 2017, multiple Democratic House representatives objected to the vote, citing Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, which Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton lost to Trump, CNN reported. But none of the lawmakers had the required Senate member signature.If an objection does clear that hurdle, it is received by the presiding officer. Then the two chambers divide and separately debate the objection, for no longer than two hours, during which the objector presents arguments that support the dissent.This procedure is what theoretically could prolong the process, if both chambers end up having to discuss multiple objections. Last week Trump loyalist Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., announced that he will object during the process — on the grounds that he believes some states failed to follow their own election laws — and call for an investigation into potential fraud and election irregularities. At least a dozen other like-minded senators are expected to join him.A spokesperson for Biden’s transition team told Yahoo News that the planned objections “won’t change the fact that President-elect Biden will be sworn in on [Jan. 20], and these baseless claims have already been examined and dismissed by Trump’s own attorney general, dozens of courts and election officials from both parties.”Rebecca Green, co-director of William & Mary Law School’s Election Law Program, said that any attempt to somehow hand Trump a reelection by trying to “run out the clock” won’t succeed.“I think we should expect things [to] take longer,” Green told reporters on Tuesday, noting that COVID restrictions may also affect how lawmakers can gather. “But the debate is limited by law to two hours. If the vote-counting session lasts for five days, that is, if it lasts past Monday, Congress is required to finish the counting without recessing until it is complete.”After the debate, there is a vote in each chamber. Then the Senate comes back to the House, and officers of the two chambers announce the results of the debate and the vote. If both chambers have refused to accept the objections, then the votes are counted. But if one chamber has objected and not the other, then under the Electoral Count Act — a federal law that sets the procedures for counting the electoral votes — the vote that was certified by that state’s governor is valid.This process continues with each state until the end, when the presiding officer announces how many electoral votes were cast, received and accepted, and which candidate got how many votes, and then announces who has won the presidency and the vice presidency.In accordance with the election results, the final count will hand Biden 306 electoral votes and Trump 232. But the potential for a controversy looms large over Wednesday’s vote, including the possibility that pro-Trump electors send in their own slate of votes, which would not be revealed until Wednesday. However, Potter said if that were to happen, it’s unlikely that those votes would even be accepted and read out by the teller, because they were not sent by a state.Pence has said he would hear the objections, but stopped short of saying he would take any further steps, despite public pressure from the Oval Office.On Tuesday, Trump floated the false notion that Pence can accept and reject votes on Wednesday, tweeting that the “vice president has the power to reject fraudulently chosen electors.”“There’s really no conceivable legal basis for that,” Smith told Yahoo News. “The only thing that he’s supposed to do is announce the count; the idea that this entire election would all come down to who Pence wants to win is pretty absurd.”If either candidate fails to reach 270 votes (which would occur if enough electors were invalidated), Green said, “then the contingent election takes place, which is a state-by-state vote in the House.” The 12th Amendment gives each state congressional delegation one vote to determine the presidency. The vice president would be chosen by the Senate.And if for some reason there’s still no decision by noon on Jan. 20 — an even more far-fetched scenario — then the 20th Amendment requires an acting president, which would be the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, according to Green.Even with the added drama, Potter said he believes there are “more than enough” Republican senators and House members who have indicated they expect to recognize the duly certified votes from the states.“So unless people change their minds,” he said, “the result is already visible.”

Mike Pence faces biggest loyalty test in announcing Trump's loss during a special session of Congress-Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY-Wed, January 6, 2021, 9:02 AM EST

WASHINGTON – Vice President Mike Pence began the Trump administration tasked with investigating Donald Trump’s baseless claims that millions of illegally cast ballots cost him the popular vote in 2016.The “election integrity” commission Pence headed quickly faded from view and disbanded months later after uncovering no evidence of widespread voter fraud.Now, Pence is ending his tenure with an even bigger test of whether to support Trump’s spurious election claims.Pence's constitutional role of presiding over the Senate includes the obligation of declaring during a joint session of Congress Wednesday that President-elect Joe Biden received more Electoral College votes than Trump.It will be the biggest break with Trump yet for the ever-loyal Pence.Trump, who continues to argue without evidence that he won the election, has urged Pence to unilaterally reject state-certified results that show that Biden won the Electoral College, 306-232.Trump has falsely asserted Pence has the option of blocking Congress from formally accepting the results. However, Pence has informed the president that he intends to carry out his constitutional role and that he does not believe the law gives him the authority to do otherwise, according to reports from the New York Times and other outlets.Trump – but not Pence – denied the reports. Trump asserted in a statement late Tuesday that he and Pence "are in total agreement that the Vice President has the power to act.""If Vice President @Mike_Pence comes through for us, we will win the Presidency," Trump tweeted early Wednesday morning.Pence's office did not immediately respond to a request for a response to Trump's comments.The rules may not matter to Trump’s supporters, some of whom apparently believe Pence can do as he wants.“We need you to do the right thing Jan. 6!" a Trump supporter yelled at Pence during a rally Monday for the Senate runoff races in Georgia.The Supreme Court twice refused to take up Trump-endorsed lawsuits that sought to overturn the results of the Nov. 3 election. Federal and state courts dismissed Trump's claims of voter fraud more than 60 times. And recounts in Georgia and Wisconsin upheld Biden's victories in those states.In addition to prevailing in the Electoral College, Biden won the popular vote by more than 7 million votes.Breaking with Trump could hurt Pence’s chances of inheriting his mantle to run for president himself in four years.But Pence – a history major who reveres the Constitution and said he gets "chills" when he visits Independence Hall – also has to be hyper aware of how history will judge his actions.Even if Pence stays within the law, he will share with Trump the blame and criticism for a manufactured crisis because he did not counter the president’s disinformation campaign about widespread election fraud, said Timothy Naftali, a presidential historian at New York University.“It’s not enough to say President Trump has put Vice President Pence in a tough spot,” Naftali said. “I think Vice President Pence has put himself in a tough spot.”Looking ahead to 2024-Trump’s refusal to concede has divided the Republican Party, including those eyeing a possible bid for the White House in 2024.“The party is in the process of tearing itself apart,” GOP pollster Frank Luntz said Tuesday on CNBC.Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., whom Pence made an extra effort to help elect in 2018, was the first GOP senator to announce he would object to the Electoral College results.Vice President Mike Pence meets with his chief of staff, Marc Short, at the White House on Jan. 4, 2020.Pence, as he has throughout the presidency, has tried to strike a balance between remaining loyal to Trump while not parroting his most divisive rhetoric and unfounded claims.Pence did not support an unsuccessful lawsuit aimed at giving him the authority to decide which states’ Electoral College votes to count. But he “welcomed” the efforts of lawmakers to “use the authority they have under the law to raise objections and bring forward evidence.”Pence described his actions as making sure all “legal votes” are counted without acknowledging that states and courts have found no widespread irregularities in the election. He hasn't addressed Trump's effort Saturday to strong-arm Georgia officials to overturn his election defeat in that state.Audiotape: Trump pressures Georgia secretary of state to 'find' votes.In his only public comments about Wednesday's proceedings, Pence promised Trump supporters on Monday: “We’ll hear the objections. We’ll hear the evidence.”He stopped short of saying he would do anything other than follow the prescribed rules in doing so.“The VP’s role under law is purely ministerial,” said Norman Eisen, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and outside counsel for the nonpartisan Voter Protection Program. “His responsibility is to open the certificates and call for objections in writing signed by at least one senator and one congressperson.”Those objections are certain to fail. They require majority support from both the Democrat-controlled House and Republican-controlled Senate.Will Pence 'do his duty'? An Indiana Republican who requested anonymity to speak freely said Pence is doing what many other Republicans have done for four years – keeping his head down and hoping that everything will work out.Though the Republican expects Pence to “do his duty,” he said he would not be surprised if Pence steps off stage for the final vote total announcement.Pence could hand the gavel to Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, who would become the presiding officer as the most senior member of the majority party in the Senate.Vice presidential scholar Joel Goldstein said that “would be pretty miserable behavior” on Pence’s part. Most vice presidents who have announced the results of their own defeat recognized the importance to democracy of gracefully accepting their loss and offering support to the victors, he said.“To preside but boycott stating the result would make clear that pleasing Trump is more important to Pence than communicating that basic and traditional democratic message,”Donald Trump congratulates vice presidential candidate Mike Pence at the 2016 Republican National Convention.What past VPs have done-Richard Nixon and Al Gore both received standing ovations after declaring their opponents the winner when, as sitting vice presidents, they had to certify their own presidential losses.Nixon said he could not think of "a more striking and eloquent example of the stability of our constitutional system."In 2017, when some House Democrats tried to raise complaints about Russian election interference and voter suppression allegations, Biden repeatedly ruled them out of order."There is no debate. There is no debate,” Biden said as he wielded the gave.Dramatic moments: Congress' count of Electoral College votes could be most contentious in 144 years.Pence’s spokesman Devin O'Malley declined to say whether the vice president intends to oversee all of the vote counting proceedings, including declaring the winner.Former Rep. Mark Souder said Pence has consistently bent his own record to accommodate Trump but is probably still not considered 100% loyal by Trump’s core supporters. Backing Trump’s claims to the end would probably not be enough to become the most “pro-Trump future candidate,” the Indiana Republican said, and it would end the chance for Pence to expand his potential political base, as well as compromising the basic integrity of the office he has been honored to hold.“Within these parameters, the vice president has been walking a fine line,” said Souder, a Republican. “Now he will have to choose.”-Pence has limits-Former Indiana Rep. David McIntosh, a close friend of Pence’s, said the vice president wants to do everything he can to support Trump and believes there were irregularities in the election that need to be corrected. But there are limits to how far he’ll go.“He's going to perform his role and not go beyond that to try to exert power that he doesn't have,” said McIntosh, head of the conservative Club for Growth.McIntosh tried to relieve some of the pressure Pence faces by running ads to counter those aired by the Lincoln Project. The anti-Trump group trolled the president and vice president by warning that Pence “will put the nail in your political coffin when he presides over the Senate vote to prove Joe Biden won.”The Club for Growth’s ads proclaimed, “Mike Pence stays true. … Always has. Always will.”“The main audience was the president,” said McIntosh, who heard that the Lincoln Project ads had gotten to Trump. “We wanted to correct the record.”As Trump publicly pressured Pence on Monday to ignore the law, he alternated his entreaties with praise for Pence as a smart man who calls it straight.“Of course, if he doesn’t come through, I won’t like him quite as much,” Trump said during a rally in Georgia before adding, “No, Mike is a great guy.”Long-term impacts-Pence's longtime friend Ralph Reed, chairman of the Faith and Freedom Coalition, said the relationship that Pence built with Trump is strong enough to withstand Pence’s expected decision to follow the rules Wednesday.“He has been an indispensable governing partner to this president and his team,” Reed said. “There is a tremendous and deep personal regard for him.”Reed said Pence’s “overriding priority” will be to “do the right thing and let the verdict of history take care of itself.”Assuming Pence does not ignore the law Wednesday, his presiding over the congressional certification of Trump’s defeat may not become a big part of his legacy, said Lindsay Chervinsky, a presidential historian and author of “The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution.”“But certainly, his acceptance and flirtation and sort of careful cultivation of these ideas that maybe the election was rigged will be a big part of his biography,” she said. “They're trying to overthrow the democracy. And so I think that he will be remembered as participating in that.”This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Mike Pence faces biggest loyalty test in announcing Trump's loss

CBC-Hospital figures reach pandemic highs as Ontario reveals more details about vaccine rollout-Tue., January 5, 2021, 3:13 p.m. EST

The Ontario government has unveiled a plan to vaccinate all long-term care residents, workers and essential caregivers in the hard-hit areas of Toronto, Peel, York and Windsor-Essex by Jan. 21.The announcement comes amid mounting criticism around the pace of Ontario's rollout of the vaccine and on a day when the province saw more than 3,000 new cases of COVID-19 and hospitalizations reached pandemic highs.Provincial health professionals have called for a "greater sense of urgency" in administering doses and have questioned why the province has only used about a third of its vaccine supply.On Tuesday, Premier Doug Ford and retired general Rick Hillier, tasked with overseeing Ontario's vaccinations plan, said things would be speeding up soon."It might take us a week, maybe a couple of weeks to ramp up, but once we get the machine going, we kick butt anywhere in the country," Ford said.As of Monday, the province had received 148,350 doses of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines in all.And, by 9 a.m. on Tuesday, public health officials said 50,495 people in Ontario had received one dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at a total of 44 immunization sites. That figure includes more than 26,000 health-care workers in long-term care and retirement homes, about 20,700 other health-care workers and nearly 1,000 residents of long-term care.Further, nearly 3,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine have also been administered, members of the province's vaccine task force said at a morning briefing. About 4,000 additional doses of the Moderna vaccine are expected to be given out in 26 long-term care homes in the first half of this week.Hillier told reporters that the province is now doing 10,000 vaccinations a day.He also said the province had been holding back doses of the Pfizer vaccine to ensure there were adequate numbers available for people's second shots, but that Ontario will have used up its initial shipment by this weekend.A new shipment is arriving in Ontario this week, while a new shipment of Moderna vaccines is set to arrive next week.Pfizer vs. Moderna-The Pfizer-BioNTech shot is largely being given out in hospitals to health-care workers due to its storage requirements, while the Moderna shot is being used in long-term care homes.The officials said, however, that a pilot project is currently underway in Ottawa to explore how the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine may be brought into long-term care facilities to accelerate its delivery. Protocols will be developed this week, the officials said.On Tuesday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expressed concern about long-term care outbreaks in Ontario specifically, saying during the same news conference that "now is the time, with the new year upon us, to really accelerate."Meanwhile, doses of the Moderna vaccine are expected to begin arriving in some Indigenous communities this week. A collaboration between Ornge, Ontario's air ambulance service, and the Nishnawbe Aski Nation will see doses distributed to 31 mainly remote communities in the coming weeks.Hillier said vaccines will arrive at smaller long-term care homes along the coast of James Bay in northeastern Ontario on Thursday and Friday, and in the northwestern town of Sioux Lookout, Ont. on Friday.Health-care workers administering the immunizations will be vaccinated beforehand, officials said.You can read a summary of the province's updated vaccine rollout plan at the bottom of this story.7-day case average tops 3,000-Ontario reported another 3,128 cases of COVID-19 and 51 more deaths of people with the illness on Tuesday, as the number of active infections and hospitalizations in the province both reached pandemic highs.There are now 25,840 confirmed, active cases of the illness throughout Ontario, and the seven-day average of new daily cases surpassed 3,000 for the first time.Further, there are 1,347 people with COVID-19 in hospitals, 157 more than yesterday, which was the previous record.Of those, 352 are being treated in intensive care and 245 require the use of a ventilator, both also all-time highs in Ontario.Public health officials have said that about 350 admissions to Ontario's ICUs is the threshold for when hospitals must begin postponing or even cancelling non-COVID-19 related care and procedures.Meanwhile, Ontario's network of labs processed just 35,152 test samples for the novel coronavirus — despite capacity for tens of thousands more — and reported a test positivity rate of 9.4 per cent.The new cases reported today include 778 in Toronto, 614 in Peel Region, 213 in York Region, 172 in Durham Region and 151 each in Middlesex-London and Hamilton.Other public health units that saw double- or triple-digit increases were:Windsor-Essex: 142 - Waterloo Region: 129 - Halton Region: 128 - Ottawa: 126 - Niagara Region: 101 - Simcoe Muskoka: 72 - Lambton: 62 - Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph: 46 - Eastern Ontario: 45 - Chatham-Kent: 39 - Southwestern: 35 - Brant County: 29 - Huron Perth: 21 - Haldimand-Norfolk: 18-(Note: All of the figures used in this story are found on the Ministry of Health's COVID-19 dashboard or in its Daily Epidemiologic Summary. The number of cases for any region may differ from what is reported by the local public health unit, because local units report figures at different times.)-Combined, the new cases reported today push the seven-day average to 3,065.No Ford news conference today-Though he made remarks on his way into a vaccine task-force meeting on Tuesday, Ford did not hold a news conference. It has been 14 days since Ford last took questions from the media.During that time in Ontario, there have been more than 37,000 new COVID-19 cases, the number of people hospitalized has increased by 34 per cent and 542 more people have died.Ford also hasn't answered detailed questions about the actions of his former finance minister, Rod Phillips, who travelled to St. Bart's over the holidays and resigned after returning home to Ontario.Field hospital opens in Burlington-Ontario's first field hospital built during the pandemic is taking patients this week as COVID-19 infections strain the health-care system.The Burlington facility, built on the grounds of Joseph Brant Hospital, was ready to treat patients as of Monday.The hospital said it's responding to increased pressure on hospital capacity across the southern Ontario region that includes Hamilton, Niagara, Haldimand County and Burlington.Rob MacIsaac, CEO of Hamilton Health Sciences, said opening the field hospital is a necessary step as the health-care system is stretched to its limits.Hospitals in the region are identifying patients whose care has progressed enough to be treated at the field unit, after consulting with their families.The field hospital was built in April as part of the hospital network's capacity plan.A summary of Ontario's COVID-19 vaccine distribution plan:

GEORGIAS 2 RUNOFFS FOR SENATE CONTROL - IS THE FIX IN FOR THE DEMOLIBNUTS

2020 AMERICAN ELECTION RESULTS BY STATE TRUMP VS LOSER LIBERAL SLEEPY (SLOPPY JOE) BIDEN.

ON D-65 OF THE TRUMP WIN OF THE PRESIDENCY. TUE JAN 05,21.

Key dates for the Electoral College and what they mean-AEIdeas-DECEMBER 14,20

What are the key dates for the workings of the Electoral College?

November 3 — Election Day

Election Day is November 3. We may or may not know the winner of the presidential contest on election night, but we certainly will not have a final tally and certified results until weeks later. States vary widely in the time they allot for certifying their election results. Some may give a final certification the week after Election Day. Others may take over 30 days. And there is the possibility of recounts and judicial contests of elections which could extend the time to determine an official winner of a state.
Ballots are passed out to 16 Electors on the Michigan Senate floor for them to cast their formal votes for the president and vice president of the United States in Lansing, Michigan, U.S., December 19, 2016. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook

December 8 — Safe Harbor

December 14 — The meeting of the Electors

Two key dates loom in December. On December 14, presidential electors must have been selected by the states and will meet as a group in their states to cast electoral votes for president and vice president. But December 8 is also a significant date, the so-called “safe harbor” date. The Electoral Count Act sets this date as an important date for states to make their official selection of electors, as those electoral votes will be given greater protection from challenge when Congress counts the electoral votes in January. The Supreme Court in Bush v. Gore assigned great significance to this date in Bush v. Gore.

January 3 — The convening of the new Congress

January 6 — Congress counts the votes

January 20 — Inauguration Day. The new presidential term begins at noon.

On January 3rd, the new Congress will take office, and on January 6th it will meet to count the electoral votes and declare a president- and vice president-elect. On January 20th at noon, the current presidential term will end and the next one will begin.This is excerpted from the new fourth edition of After the People Vote, edited by John Fortier, senior fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center and a member of AEI’s Election Watch team.John C. Fortier-AEI Adjunct Scholar-SENOIRFELLOWKarlyn Bowman-Senior Fellow

THE 2 GEORGIA RUNOFFS ARE GOING ON AT 7PM. JAN 5,21-AT AROUND 6.15PM OR AROUND THAT. ALREADY GEORGIA GOVERNOR MADE AN EXCUSE THAT SOME POLLS WILL BE OPENED FOR AN HOUR LATER BECAUSE OF SOME EXCUSE. THEY BETTER DO THE PRE VOTE-VOTING NUMBERS FIRST. OR WE WILL HAVE A FIX FOR SURE AGAIN.AT 7.25PM THE DEMOLIBS LEAD BOTH RACES BY 67.9% TO 32.1. THEY KNOW THERE WAS 3 MILLION PRE VOTES. WHY ARE THEY NOT GETTING THEM RESULTS OUT FIRST. THERE ALL COUNTED ALREADY. THIS IS HOW THEY FIX THE VOTES. FOR THE DEMOLIBNUTS. NOW THERE STAYING OPEN 3 HOURS LATER-THE VOTER REGISTTRATION SYSTEM FROM 11PM TO 2 AM.

AT 8.05PM AFTER 26% OF THE VOTES DEMOLIBNUTS LEAD BOTH RACES OSOFF 52.6% - WARNOCK 53.0%

AT 10.55PM-LOFFLER OF THE GOP HAS 2,017,336 OVER LIB 1,943,217 AND GOP PERDU HAS 2,033,382 OVER LIB 1,927,013 GOP R1 50.9% - 49.1% AND 51.3% IN R2 - 48.7% . THERES STILL 9% LOOK FOR TRICKS BY THE DEMOLIBNUTS. IN DEKALB COUNTY WE GOT A SCREW UP BY THE OFFICIALS. ONE SAID THERES A 171,000 LEFT. ANOTHER SAID 117,000 VOTES TO COME. GABRIEL STERLING COMES ON AND SAYS - OH THE LADY GOT THE 1 AND 7 MIXED UP. WHAT BULL. STERLING CLAIMS THE 171,000 VOTES WILL BE COUNTED IN TONIGHT. AND HE CLAIMS THE DEMOLIBNUTS WILL TAKE THE LEAD IN BOTH RACES.ITS 11.05PM.

AT 11.20PM-AT 94%. SUDDENLY THE DEMOLIBNUTS LEAD IN R1 WARNOCK 2,120,825 - LOEFFLER 2,100,815 50.2% - 49.8%. AND GOP PERDUE LEADS DEMOLIBNUT 50.2% - 49.8%. 2,122,971 - 2,103,342. STERLING KNEW WHAT WAS COMING. HE SAID THE DEMOLIBNUTS WOULD BE LEADING AFTER THE VOTES CAME DOWN AFTER CLAIMING 171,000 INSTEAD OF 117,000 VOTES. FIXXXXXX. NOW THEY CLAIM DEKALB COUNTY HAS 18,000 MORE VOTES TO COUNT IN. CLINTON NEWS NETWORK CNN. IS PLAYING WITH THE NUMBERS TO CONFUSE EVERYBODY NOW. ITS 96% DONE.AT 11.30PM.THEY NOW CLAIM SOME WON`T BE COUNTED TILL TOMORROW OR THU OF THE 4% LEFT AND MAIL IN VOTES.

AT 11.50PM-ONE DEMOLIBNUTS LEAD AND THE OTHER VIRTUALLY TIED NOW AFTER 98%. WARNOCK 2,205,935 50.4% AND LOEFFLER 2,170,803 49.6%. AND PERDUE STILL LEADS BY 2,000 VOTES-2,189,226 50.0% AND OSSOFF 2,187,338 50.0%. ABOUT 200,000 VOTES STILL TO BE COUNTED SAYS GA SEC OF STATE. JUST ENOUGH FOR THE DEMLIBNUTS TO SECURE THE SENATE AT A 50-50 DRAW WITH PENCE GETTING THE DECIDING VOTE WHEN TRUMP WINS THE PRESIDENCY INNTHE NEXT 15 DAYS.ITS 11.58PM.JAN 5,21.

Some Georgia precincts granted extensions for wait times

Georgia Election Official Gabriel Sterling announced Tuesday evening that several precincts have received judicial extensions for polling locations to remain open as wait times build up: Gwinnett County with 1 precinct; Columbia County with 2 precincts; Tift County with 1 precinct and Chatham County with 2 precincts.

35 minutes ago 7PM.Dylan Stableford-JAN 5,21-The latest

• Polls closed in Georgia at 7 p.m. ET, though voters who were in line at that time are legally allowed to vote.
• A record 3 million people cast ballots in early voting, both in person and by mail; about another million were expected to vote in person Tuesday.
• Republicans David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler are facing Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock in races that will decide control of the U.S. Senate.
• If Warnock and Ossoff both win, Democrats will take control because Vice President-elect Kamala Harris can cast any tiebreaking votes.
• If either Perdue or Loeffler win, Republicans will retain control with a slim majority.

Yahoo News-Trump supporters in Georgia explain why they believe the president's claims of voter fraud-BY Marquise Francis·National Reporter & Producer-Tue, January 5, 2021, 7:10 PM EST

DALTON, Ga. — On Monday, President Trump traveled to rural Georgia to campaign for the state’s two incumbent Republican senators, where, a day before two runoff elections that will decide control of the U.S. Senate, he continued to spread baseless claims of widespread voter fraud.“Since the election, we have put forth indisputable evidence documenting the rampant fraud, which will be announced on Wednesday, as you know,” Trump said at Monday night’s rally in this city, known as the carpet capital of the world, in front of thousands of his supporters. “I want to thank Sen. Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz and all of the incredible senators that have stepped up to fight, because they’ve seen what happens. They know it’s a fraud and not just here.”Trump’s supporters at the rally held onto his every word, repeatedly chanting, “Stop the steal” and “U-S-A” at several moments during the evening. In interviews with Yahoo News, they explained why, despite the lack of evidence to support the president’s claims, they continue to repeat them.“I believe [Trump] won the election by a landslide,” said Debbie Edwards, 67, of Rome, Ga. “We are here to stop the steal!”Despite the Trump campaign’s dismal record in court challenging the election results, Dorothy Harpe from Atlanta, who attended Monday’s rally, said Trump should get a second term because the election was “rigged.”“[Trump] has done great things for this country,” Harpe, 70, told Yahoo News, saying he brought jobs to the country and did “great things” for Black people.“I don’t trust the election, but I already voted,” she said. “I think the voting [in November] was rigged and the election was fraud. We have enough evidence to prove that the election was rigged,” she continued, adding that election ballots in Fulton County were hidden, which is not true.Jim Earnhardt, 76, from Canton, said there is mathematically no way Democrats could have won in Georgia.“Democrats stole it,” Earnhardt said. “They’re not smart enough to pull it off, and the numbers don’t add up.”Alanta-based political strategist Fred Hicks told Yahoo News that he believes this election cycle has forced voters to “justify” their decisions.“This election season, perhaps more than any other, has forced voters to justify to themselves and their families their decisions,” he said. “I think that is why Trump lost Georgia while Republicans in the state had a good day overall.”Hicks added that Republicans are once again in a tough place for this Senate race, but Democrats aren’t going to win on anti-Trump rhetoric alone.“Republicans are in what I call the Trump conundrum,” Hicks said. “They need [Trump’s] votes to have any chance at winning, yet Trump lost Georgia and is their biggest liability.”“Democrats can get to 48 or even 49 percent by being anti-Trump, but we have to tell what we are going to do if we win and how that will reduce suffering if we want to get people — especially minorities who live outside of metro Atlanta — out to vote and get over 50 percent,” he added. “The key determinant of the outcome will be if left-leaning groups can connect the dots for voters between this election and their day-to-day lives.”

Yahoo News-At Georgia rally, Pence says America will 'hear the evidence' of election fraud on Jan. 6-Jay Busbee-January 4, 2021, 2:31 PM EST

Vice President Mike Pence said Monday that the case for widespread election fraud would be made to the American people when Congress meets this week to certify President-elect Joe Biden’s victory over President Trump.“We’ve all got our doubts about the last election. I share the concerns of millions of Americans about voting irregularities,” Pence said at an indoor congregation at Rock Springs Church in Milner, Ga., in support of Republican Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue in runoff elections there.Pence, who by law will be tasked with declaring a winner of the Electoral College vote, seemed to leave open the possibility that Trump could still remain in power for a second term.“Come this Wednesday,” he said, referring to the impending certification of election results, “we’ll have our day in Congress. We’ll hear the evidence.”Biden won the state of Georgia by 12,000 votes, and three separate recounts have confirmed that victory. But with Trump contesting the election results, and pressuring Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find 11,780 votes” and declare him the winner, Pence’s job of turning out the vote in the two Senate runoff elections has been made more precarious.If both Loeffler and Perdue lose to Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, the Senate will be split 50-50 between Democrats and Republicans, giving Vice President-elect Kamala Harris a tie-breaking vote and vastly easing the path for Biden’s agenda.Mike Pence“I hear some people saying, ‘Just don’t vote,’” Pence said, referring to multiple Trump loyalists who have suggested voters boycott the election. “If you don’t vote, they win.”From the moment that Rock Springs senior pastor Benny Tate introduced him with “He’s a Christian, he’s conservative, he’s Republican, in that order,” it was clear Pence’s faith would play a significant role in his remarks. He praised the role of prayer in American life; he contended that the Trump administration had protected religious freedom; and, in one particularly applause-heavy line, he thundered, “We’re going to keep Georgia, and we’re going to save America!”Pence also touted the Trump administration’s response to COVID-19, praising the jobs regained and the vaccines rolled out and contending that America is nearing the end stage of the pandemic. “We know what we need to do to stop the spread and flatten the curve,” he said before the indoor crowd, many of whom were unmasked.Perhaps it was the fact that he was behind a pulpit, or perhaps he was rising to the gravity of the moment, but Pence was more animated and engaged than he’d been in most past public appearances. He spoke with the cadence of a preacher, he modulated his voice to project both sincerity and resolve, and he made absolutely sure to tie himself directly to Trump, which brought the loudest cheers of the rally.“We’re looking to you, Georgia, we’re looking to you to hold the line,” he said, “and I believe in all my heart that you will.”Election Day is Tuesday, with early voting already complete. FiveThirtyEight’s current average of all polls of the races has Ossoff ahead by 1.4 percentage points and Warnock ahead by 2 percentage points, though those margins have narrowed slightly since the weekend.Pence’s rally was the second of several major visits to Georgia in the days leading up to the election. Harris spoke at a rally in Savannah on Sunday, Biden is slated to speak Monday afternoon in Atlanta, and Trump will be hosting a rally in Dalton on Monday night.

Yahoo News-Georgia election official on Trump call: ‘Nobody I know who would be president would do something like that’Mon, January 4, 2021, 4:19 PM EST

Georgia election official Gabriel Sterling condemned President Trump’s call with Georgia’s secretary of state, saying, “I personally found it to be something that was not normal, out of place and nobody I know who would be president would do something like that to a secretary of state."Some have said, do you believe that what happened in that phone call was an attack on democracy? I'll leave other people that make the decision on that. I personally found that to be something that was not normal, out of place, and nobody I know who would be president would do something like that to a Secretary of State.Thank you.

Yahoo News-More than 1.3 million votes already cast in key Georgia races-Marquise Francis·National Reporter & Producer-December 20, 2020

ATLANTA — More than 1.3 million people have already cast their ballots in the first week of early voting in the critical Georgia Senate runoff races, according to state election data. After just six days of early in-person voting and about four weeks of mail-in balloting, the unusually high number is just about on track with last month’s historic presidential race turnout in which 5 million Georgians voted.“Georgians are fired up,” Georgia-based Democratic strategist Greg Nasif told Yahoo News. “While some folks like me will always hold out hope for 100 percent turnout and find disappointment when we inevitably fall short, I think many will be very pleased with how the voters turn out.”Runoff elections in Georgia, triggered when no candidate wins 50 percent of the November vote, are relatively rare. The last notable runoff in Georgia occurred in 2008, when Republican Saxby Chambliss defeated Democrat Jim Martin. The two runoff races underway right now will determine control of the U.S. Senate and potentially define the arc of the first two years of President-elect Joe Biden’s term.Republican Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler are looking to keep their seats, while Democratic hopefuls Jon Ossoff and the Rev. Raphael Warnock are trying to unseat the two incumbents and position Georgia as a blue state for years to come. Unless both Ossoff and Warnock win, the GOP will retain its Senate majority and its ability to block much of Biden’s agenda.Late Saturday evening, President Trump announced he would host a rally on Jan. 4, on the eve of the Jan. 5 election. Trump used the announcement to renew his attacks on Georgia Republicans who reject his false claim that he won the Peach State in the November presidential vote.“As badly as we were treated in Georgia by the ‘Republican’ Governor and ‘Republican’ Secretary of State, we must have a massive victory for two great people, Kelly Loeffler & David Perdue, on January 5th,” Trump tweeted. “I will be having a big Rally for them on Monday night, January 4th.Local Republicans are likely to pay close attention to Trump’s message in the closing days of the campaign. If he uses the rally to continue to undermine confidence in the state’s election system, he could be turning off his own voters.“As the Georgia secretary of state noted, the president’s public hostility toward mail voting cost him in key states, and it’s a significant issue Republicans are seeking to address by telling their people to vote however they can, including absentee,” veteran Republican strategist Liam Donovan told Yahoo News. “If they don’t address this inequity, you could very well see another election-night lead for Republicans eroded as the mail votes roll in.”Campaigns usually struggle to turn out voters in off-cycle elections, and officials feared the heightened tensions surrounding Trump’s flurry of baseless legal challenges of fraud would dissuade voters from casting ballots. But with high turnout so far, voters appear engaged in the runoff contests.“The Republicans may have a problem on their hands, with many of their voters convinced the [presidential] election was rigged and Jan. 5 could be rigged again,” Nasif said. “I tend to think those voters will gravitate toward cynicism over consistency, and that angry voters vote.”About 150,000 people have voted each day of early voting thus far, as a flood of TV ads, giant highway bililboards and other forms of outreach bombard voters across the state.Early data offers some hope for Democrats in the historically Republican state.About 59 percent of runoff voters so far who also voted in the primary requested Democratic Party ballots, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, while about 39 percent requested GOP ballots.But one-third of runoff voters didn’t show up for the primary, leaving no record this year of which party they prefer.Atlanta-based political strategist Fred Hicks told Yahoo News that he believes more legal battles should be expected.“Unless Republicans win, this election will not be over Jan. 5,” Hicks said. “What we are seeing play out in the presidential election will happen in the Senate race if Democrats win.”

US: 'We stand by our principles, stand up for what is right' 2 to 167: Just Israel, US reject UN budget, over alleged bias against Jerusalem-Two allies object specifically to funding 20th-anniversary event for 2001 Durban conference, where motion equated Zionism with racism; $3.2 billion budget endorsed by 167 nations-By TOI staff and AFP-DEC 31,20-Today, 12:20 am

US President Donald Trump’s outgoing administration on Thursday fired a late salvo against the United Nations by voting against its budget, citing disagreements on Israel and Iran — but it found almost no international support.Only Israel voted with the United States, with 167 nations in favor, as the General Assembly closed the year by approving the $3.231 billion UN budget for 2021.Kelly Craft, the US ambassador to the United Nations, voiced objections that the budget would fund a 20th-anniversary event for the 2001 UN conference on racism in Durban, South Africa, where the United States walked out in solidarity with Israel after countries advanced a motion equating Zionism with racism. That analogy was deleted before the motion passed.The United States, the biggest funder of the UN, “called for this vote to make clear that we stand by our principles, stand up for what is right and never accept consensus for consensus’s sake,” Craft said on the General Assembly floor.(From L-R) UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan, US UN Ambassador Kelly Craft, US Special Envoy for Iran Brian Hook and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meet in New York on August 21, 2020. (Ronny Przysucha/Israeli UN Mission)-“Twenty years on, there remains nothing about the Durban Declaration to celebrate or to endorse. It is poisoned by anti-Semitism and anti-Israel bias,” she said.Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, said that the Durban conference “will become another meeting demonizing the Jewish state — it will be used once again to slander us and to launch false accusations of racism against Jewish self-determination.”“Today we must all speak out against commemorating the disgrace that was the Durban Conference,” Erdan said. “Israel opposes any measure aimed at allocating a budget for this purpose — we all know that such funds will not be used to support human rights but to spread even more anti-Semitism and hate towards Israel.”“It is part of a wider anti-Israel bias at the UN,” said Erdan. “I will not stand by when such lies and incitement against Israel and the Jewish people are freely given a platform.”The General Assembly separately approved a resolution backing follow-up efforts on the Durban conference.That resolution passed 106-14 with 44 abstentions. The United States and Israel were joined in voting no by Western powers including Britain, France and Germany.Craft also complained about how the United States received almost no support in the world body in September when it declared that UN sanctions against Iran had come back into force.The Trump administration said it was triggering UN sanctions due to alleged Iranian violations of a nuclear deal negotiated by former US president Barack Obama, but even US allies scoffed at the argument that Washington remained a participant in an accord that Trump had loudly rejected.“The US doesn’t need a cheering section to validate its moral compass,” Craft said. “We don’t find comfort based on the number of nations voting with us, particularly when the majority have found themselves in an uncomfortable position of underwriting terrorism, chaos and conflict.”Craft said that the US vote would not change its UN contribution, including 25 percent of peacekeeping expenditures and some $9 billion a year in UN-channeled humanitarian relief.US President-elect Joe Biden is expected to seek a more cooperative relationship with the UN, including stopping a US exit from the World Health Organization, which Trump blamed for not doing more to stop COVID-19.

Ending tortuous Brexit journey, UK breaks away from EU economy-‘We have our freedom in our hands and it is up to us to make the most of it,’ Boris Johnson says, as London officially severs decades-long partnership with Europe-By Jitendra Joshi and Phil HAZLEWOOD-1 January 2021, 1:40 am

LONDON (AFP) — Britain on Thursday finally severed its turbulent half-century partnership with Europe, quitting the EU single market and customs union and going its own way four-and-a-half years after its shock vote to leave the bloc.Brexit, which has dominated politics on both sides of the Channel since 2016, became a reality as Big Ben struck 11:00 p.m. (2300 GMT) in London, just as most of mainland Europe ushered in 2021.Prime Minister Boris Johnson — the figurehead of the “Leave” campaign — described it as an “amazing moment” for the country and played up his upbeat narrative of a “Global Britain” unshackled from rules set in Brussels.He vowed that post-Brexit Britain, despite being battered by a surge in coronavirus cases, would be an “open, generous, outward-looking, internationalist and free-trading” country.“We have our freedom in our hands and it is up to us to make the most of it..There will be plenty who will be only too happy to say goodbye to the grimness of 2020.But this was also the year when we rediscovered a spirit of togetherness, of community.In 2021 we have our freedom in our hands and it is up to us to make the most of it. Happy New Year! pic.twitter.com/gDRXe2SuCb — Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) December 31, 2020-Legally, Britain left the European Union on January 31 but has been in a standstill transition period during fractious talks to secure a free-trade agreement with Brussels, which was finally clinched on Christmas Eve.Now the transition is over, EU rules no longer apply. The immediate consequence is an end to the free movement of more than 500 million people between Britain and the 27 EU states.Customs border checks return for the first time in decades, and despite the free-trade deal, queues and disruption from additional paperwork are expected.Matt Smith, managing director of HSF Logistics, which ships mainly fresh meat and chilled goods between Britain and Europe, said he was sending around 15 truckloads to the EU on New Year’s Eve ahead of the changes.The government’s new post-Brexit customs systems are largely untested and Smith was doubtful how his business would fare with the new paperwork.After disembarking from a ferry, lorries undergo checks at the port of Dover on the south-east coast of England, just after 2300 GMT, as Britain officially leaves the EU (European Union) trading block, late on New Year’s Eve, December 31, 2020 (JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP)-“We’re not too sure to be honest, it seems to be a bit of a headache,” he told AFP. “There’ll be delays along the line at some stage.”Britain is the first member state to leave the EU, which was set up to forge unity after the horrors of World War II.The 2016 referendum opened up abiding wounds between Leavers and Remainers, and ushered in years of political paralysis before Johnson took power last year, vowing to chart a future for Britain built on scientific innovation and new partnerships across the seas.A parliamentary debate on Wednesday to ratify the trade deal was marked by elegiac farewells from pro-EU lawmakers, and warnings of disruption as Britain dismantles the intricate network of ties built since it joined the EU’s forerunner in 1973.While the EU trade deal averted potential business chaos in the immediate future, the divorce will play out in many practical ways.The clock-face on the Elizabeth Tower, commonly known by the name of the bell, ‘Big Ben’ in London, shows 2300 (GMT), as Britain officially leaves the EU (European Union) trading block, on New Year’s Eve, December 31, 2020 (Tolga Akmen / AFP)-Changes apply to everything from pet passports, to how long Britons can visit their holiday homes on the continent and an end to British involvement in a student exchange program.Potential disruption at ports is stoking fears of food and medicine shortages, as well as delays to holidaymakers and business travelers used to seamless travel in the EU.British fishermen are disgruntled at a compromise to allow continued access for EU boats in British waters.The key financial services sector also faces an anxious wait to learn on what basis it can keep dealing with Europe, after being largely omitted from the trade agreement.In a landmark deal sealed just hours before 2300 GMT, the tiny British territory of Gibraltar will become part of Europe’s passport-free zone to keep movement fluid on its border with Spain.Northern Ireland’s border with EU member state Ireland will be closely watched to ensure movement is unrestricted — a key plank of a 1998 peace deal that ended 30 years of violence over British rule.And in pro-EU Scotland, where Brexit has given a boost to calls for a new vote on independence, Johnson faces a potential constitutional headache as 2021 dawns.An anti-Brexit pro-Scottish independence activist holds a flag mixing the EU flag and the Scottish Saltire as she gathers for a small protest against Britain’s exit from the European Union outside the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh on December 31, 2020 (Andy Buchanan / AFP)-But opinion polls indicate that most Britons, on both sides of the referendum divide, want to move on and are far more worried about the worsening coronavirus pandemic, which has hit the country harder than most.Johnson, who himself was among those who was struck down by the virus, warned of tough times ahead because of a resurgence of Covid-19 infections but said a UK-developed vaccine offered grounds for hope.“It’s going to be better,” said Maureen Martin, from the port of Dover that lies across the Channel from France. “We need to govern ourselves and be our own bosses.”Britain is a financial and diplomatic big-hitter and a major NATO power with a permanent seat on the UN Security Council and in the G7 grouping of the world’s richest economies.The EU has now lost 66 million people and an economy worth $2.85 trillion, and there is regret that Britain wanted out.French President Emmanuel Macron said Britain will remain “our friend and ally” but lamented that Brexit was the fruit of “a lot of lies and false promises.”Michel Barnier, head of the European Commission’s Task Force for Relations with the United Kingdom at the London School of Economics in London, January 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)-“No one has been able to show me the added value of Brexit,” added EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier. “It’s a divorce… you can’t celebrate a divorce.”Boarding a Eurostar train in Paris as the Brexit hour approached, Francois Graffin, 59, said he was going to pack up his life in London and return to live in France.“It breaks my heart,” he said.In Britain, Brexit has been the culmination of years of anti-Brussels agitation as the union morphed from a trading community to a more ambitious political project.However, the 2016 referendum never spelt out what shape Brexit should take.Johnson’s predecessor Theresa May repeatedly failed to drive through a “soft” separation that would have kept Britain largely bound to the EU.But he drove a much harder bargain, to the profound unease of UK businesses and opposition parties.Now after months of stormy negotiations that were repeatedly upended by the pandemic, Brussels, too, is keen to move on.But UK lawmaker Chris Hazzard, from the Irish republican Sinn Fein party, said Brexit was far from over.“When all the bluster dies down… it will become depressingly clear that this trade deal is… the beginning of a new trading relationship built on permanent negotiation, disputes and recriminations,” he warned.The Daily Telegraph, where Johnson made his name as a Brussels-bashing Europe correspondent, said the government faced a new reality shorn of the EU bogeyman.“Politicians will have to get used to bearing much greater responsibilities than they have been used to while the UK has been in the EU,” it said.

Exclusive-Set to amend ‘pay to slay,’ PA hopes Biden will shun law deeming PLO ‘terrorist’ Palestinians aim to fundamentally change relationship with US when new president takes office, hope to reopen PLO office in DC, including by overcoming a US law that hinders ties-By Jacob Magid-DEC 31,20-Today, 6:16 pm

NEW YORK — With just three weeks until US President-elect Joe Biden enters the White House, the Palestinian Authority (PA) is putting together a strategy for a reset of ties with Washington after three years of boycotting the Trump administration.The centerpiece of the effort will be convincing the Biden administration to designate as unconstitutional congressional legislation from 1987 that labeled the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) “and its affiliates” a terror group, senior Palestinian officials told The Times of Israel.They hope that doing so will set the stage for a renewed bilateral relationship — one in which Ramallah is viewed as a more equal partner, and that isn’t entirely tied to the peace process with Israel.PA President Mahmoud Abbas severed relations with the Trump administration after US President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in December 2017 and moved the US embassy there from Tel Aviv in May 2018. He also preemptively rejected Trump’s January 2020 “vision” for Israeli-Palestinian peace. The administration, while repeatedly urging Abbas to reengage, drastically reduced state funding for the Palestinians.Senior Palestinian officials told The Times of Israel that a fresh willingness to alter the way it pays stipends to Palestinian security prisoners, as well as the families of terrorists and others killed by Israelis, is aimed at laying the groundwork for the new diplomatic push.The altered policy would base the stipends on prisoners’ financial need rather than the length of their sentence, potentially marking a shift away from what has long been a sticking point for the PA’s detractors.The readiness to amend the stipends policy was first reported by The New York Times last month and confirmed to The Times of Israel this week by a senior Palestinian official.The practice of paying allowances to those convicted of carrying out terror attacks and to the families of those killed while carrying out attacks — often referred to by some Israeli officials as a pay-to-slay policy —  has been pilloried by critics as incentivizing terror.Palestinian leaders have long defended the payments, describing them as a form of social welfare and necessary compensation for victims of Israel’s callous military justice system in the West Bank.Over the past year, officials in the US and the EU have warned Ramallah that a failure to substantively change the policy would prove a major obstacle to improved relations, two sources familiar with the matter said.The change may also usher Ramallah into compliance with the 2018 Taylor Force Act, which suspended US aid to the PA as long as it continued to implement the existing prisoner payment policy.An effort to amend the practice would be “a step forward… if it means that the welfare allocations will be similar to those of needy families, which are less than a tenth of what the terrorists earn,” said Yossi Kupferwasser, the former research division head in the IDF Military Intelligence Directorate, and a vocal critic of the PA’s stipends policy. “If not, this is a trick.”Highlighting his skepticism, Kupferwasser pointed to an announcement earlier this month by the PA Prisoners Affairs Commission that it would pay three months of the prisoner salaries in advance in order to avoid an Israeli military order penalizing banks that distribute them.-A means to an end-As Ramallah moves to change the controversial practice, it hopes that Biden will agree to deem the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1987 an unconstitutional constraint on his powers, said two senior Palestinian officials, insisting on anonymity.The reality has changed dramatically since 1987, the officials said. As part of the 1993 Oslo Accords, Israel recognized the PLO as the representative of the Palestinian people. The PA governing body that was formed as part of that deal has gone on to ink bilateral anti-terrorism agreements with both the US and Israel. Also as part of the accords, PLO chairman Yasser Arafat publicly renounced violence as a means for achieving self-determination — a commitment Israeli leaders have long dismissed, with many alleging that Arafat played a direct role in orchestrating the suicide bombing onslaught of the Second Intifada.But in a post-Oslo era where Ramallah has relations with both the US and Israel, “it is simply unfair to continue deeming the PLO a terror organization,” said a member of the PLO’s National Council. Palestinian officials declined to speak on record, saying that they feared the intended strategy would be interpreted as an ultimatum to the transition team before the US president-elect even takes office.Snubbing the 1987 law designating the PLO a terror group, as two of Biden’s predecessors did, would allow for the reopening of the PLO mission in Washington.Distinct from, yet affiliated with the PA, the PLO coalition of Palestinian factions had been operating a diplomatic office since the Oslo Accords until it was closed by the Trump administration in 2018.The 1987 legislation deeming the PLO a terror group remained in place, but Congress allowed for the mission’s operation, so long as the president signed a waiver every six months stipulating that doing so was a US national interest.In 2011, Congress began placing additional conditions on the mission’s continued presence, including one requiring the president to certify that “the Palestinians have entered into direct and meaningful negotiations with Israel.” This effectively conditioned Washington’s relations with the Palestinians on a substantive peace process.That paradigm is one the Palestinians are desperate to change. “We’re not asking to detach the peace process from the relationship entirely, but ties shouldn’t be exclusively judged based on the outcome of it, because that punishes Palestinians regardless of whether they’re responsible for the stalemate,” said the PLO’s National Council member who spoke to The Times of Israel.Other provisions to the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1987 added by Congress in recent years have included a ban on the Palestinians joining any UN bodies or pursuing a case against Israel at the-International Criminal Court.When Ramallah began to seek action against Israel at the ICC in 2017, filing an official complaint against Israel at The Hague, it effectively prevented Trump from signing the waiver and the PLO mission was officially shuttered in September 2018.Nonetheless, US legal tradition gives presidents wide leeway to disregard parts of laws that they deem to be unconstitutional shackles on their powers, especially regarding foreign policy.Biden could use that privilege to allow the mission to reopen, thus obviating the need for the waiver along the way. Otherwise, the only way to reopen the diplomatic office within the confines of the law would be to alter provisions that banned the Palestinians from Washington once they went to the ICC. Then the waiver process could be re-introduced.The Palestinians, however, are intent on resetting relations entirely, rather than simply returning to the days where their operations in DC were limited and constantly under a microscope.One Palestinian official who spoke to The Times of Israel on the condition of anonymity said Ramallah could no longer accept its presence in Washington being up for debate every six months. However, he recognized that the eradication of the 1987 law would take time and characterized it as an “intermediate goal” that would likely require at least a year to see through.Biden indeed campaigned on reopening the PLO mission as well as a US consulate in East Jerusalem, but one former campaign adviser familiar with the transition’s discussions on the matter said that the president-elect has yet to decide how he would go about doing so.In the meantime, the Palestinians may be forced to continue operating without representatives in Washington.The PLO national council member acknowledged that the Israeli-Palestinian issue likely won’t be at the top of the Biden administration’s agenda, but said that declaring the 1987 legislation unconstitutional would prevent the further deterioration of US-Palestinian ties in the interim.When Trump did the Palestinians a favor-While doing so might require a degree of political capital, there is in fact precedent for the move.In a signing statement issued at the time of the passage of the 1987 legislation, US president Ronald Reagan asserted that while he had no intention of forging ties with the Palestinians, “the right to decide the kind of foreign relations, if any, the United States will maintain is encompassed by the President’s authority under the Constitution” and by not Congress through legislation aimed at handcuffing the executive’s diplomatic capabilities.Subsequent presidents chose to ignore Reagan’s concerns, even after the Oslo Accords, deciding that they would operate within the letter of the law and sign the presidential waiver every six months.It was Trump who ended that trend. He went further than Reagan when he allowed the PLO mission to remain open for almost a year after the Palestinians began pursuing a criminal case against Israel in the ICC in the fall of 2017, in direct violation of the Congressional provision to the 1987 law.Instead, Trump’s State Department simply asked the Palestinians to limit their operations “to those related to achieving a lasting, comprehensive peace between the Israelis and Palestinians.”The PA hopes that when it changes its prisoner payment practice, Biden will be prepared to similarly disregard the 1987 legislation. To justify the reopening of the PLO mission, the incoming president could simply point to the precedent set by Reagan and Trump. No further action would be needed. While the position could be challenged in court, the executive’s constitutionally granted authority to oversee diplomatic relations would be difficult to rebut.Alternatively, Congress could simply repeal the Anti-Terrorism Act, but doing so would be a much taller order, given that the legislative branch has historically been much tougher on the Palestinians than the executive.Mission impossible? Even if the Biden administration grants Ramallah’s wish, the PA will still face obstacles once the PLO mission is reopened. This is because the return of its officials to Washington would trigger the 2018 Anti-Terrorism Clarification Act (ATCA), which allows American victims of terror to sue the PA for damages in US courts by deeming Ramallah’s monthly “martyr” allowances funding for terrorism.Skirting such suits would require the US secretary of state to invoke exemptions listed in the legislation. This would be politically fraught but legally tenable and also easier to justify if the Biden administration could point to Ramallah’s reform of the prisoner payments policy.“There are forces out there that are going to be looking to exact a political price on Biden for anything that he does that is seen as conciliatory for the Palestinians,” said Foundation for Middle East Peace president Lara Friedman, a dovish commentator on Israel. “The best thing he can do is own his policies.”She added that heeding the PA’s request regarding the 1987 legislation “would be a powerful declaration of independence by Biden from decades of foreign policy-making shackled by logic and legal constructs [imposed by Congress] geared not to promote Israeli-Palestinian peace but to prevent it.”“Aside from declaring the law unconstitutional, Biden has no clear path to allowing the PLO back in Washington,” Friedman said.The Biden transition team and the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office declined a request to comment on this story.

Iran’s Zarif says Trump trying to fabricate ‘pretext for war’Slamming US president for show of force in region, foreign minister says Tehran will ‘openly and directly defend its people, security & vital interests’-By TOI staff-31 December 2020, 4:37 pm

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Thursday accused outgoing US President Donald Trump of attempting to fabricate a “pretext for war” as tensions mount between the two countries.His remarks come ahead of the first anniversary of the US killing of top Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani in a drone strike in Baghdad on January 3.US aircraft carrier USS Nimitz has been patrolling Gulf waters since late November and two American B-52 bombers recently overflew the region.“Instead of fighting Covid in US, @realDonaldTrump & cohorts waste billions to fly B52s & send armadas to OUR region,” Zarif wrote on Twitter.“Intelligence from Iraq indicate plot to FABRICATE pretext for war,” he added.A US Air Force B-52H ‘Stratofortress’ from Minot Air Force Base, N.D., is refueled by a KC-135 ‘Stratotanker’ in the US Central Command area of responsibility, December 30, 2020. (Senior Airman Roslyn Ward/U.S. Air Force via AP)-Trump ordered a drone strike on January 3 this year to kill Soleimani near Baghdad’s international airport.Days later, Iran launched a volley of missiles at Iraqi bases housing US and other coalition troops, with Trump refraining from any further military response.“Iran doesn’t seek war but will OPENLY & DIRECTLY defend its people, security & vital interests,” Zarif said.Instead of fighting Covid in US, @realDonaldTrump & cohorts waste billions to fly B52s & send armadas to OUR region-Intelligence from Iraq indicate plot to FABRICATE pretext for war.Iran doesn't seek war but will OPENLY & DIRECTLY defend its people, security & vital interests.— Javad Zarif (@JZarif) December 31, 2020-Trump said last week said he would hold Iran “responsible” for any fatal attack on Americans in Iraq after accusing Tehran of being behind a rocket strike on the US embassy in Baghdad on December 20.Zarif at the time warned the US president against any “adventurism” before leaving the White House on January 20, and said, “putting your own citizens at risk abroad won’t divert attention from catastrophic failures at home.”US President Donald Trump addresses the nation from the White House on the ballistic missile strike that Iran launched against Iraqi air bases housing US troops, January 8, 2020. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)-The US embassy in Iraq and other foreign military and diplomatic sites have been targeted by dozens of rockets and roadside bomb attacks since later 2019.Trump unilaterally withdrew the US from a landmark nuclear deal with Iran and world powers in 2018 and launched a “maximum pressure” campaign against Tehran, reimposing and reinforcing crippling sanctions.The two countries have twice come to the brink of war since June 2019, especially following the killing of Soleimani.Tensions with Iran further escalated with the killing in November of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, an Iranian scientist named by the West as the leader of the Islamic Republic’s disbanded military nuclear program. Iran has blamed Israel for the killing, but US officials are concerned that any Iranian retaliation could hit US interests.

COVID-19 PREVENTION

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)

 COVID-19 PREVENTION

Zelenko Protocol
Treatment Plan for Patients with Covid-19 symptoms
Prehospital Management

Dr. Vladimir Zelenko
Website: Vladimirzelenkomd.com


Fundamental Principles
Treat patients based on clinical suspicion as soon as possible, preferably within the first 5 days of symptoms.  Perform PCR testing, but do not withhold treatment pending results.  

Risk Stratify Patients
Low risk patient - Younger than 45, no comorbidities, and clinically stable
High risk patient - Older than 45, younger than 45 with comorbidities, or clinically unstable

Treatment Options
Low risk patients - over the counter options:

1. Elemental Zinc 50mg 1 time a day for 7 days
2. Quercetin 500mg 2 times a day for 7 days or
Epigallocatechin-gallate (EGCG) 400mg 1 time a day for 7 days
3. Vitamin C 1000mg 1 time a day for 7 days     
4. Rest, oral fluids and close follow up with doctor

High risk patients

1. Elemental Zinc 50mg 1 time a day for 7 days
2. Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) 200mg 2 times a day for 7 days  
If HCQ not available, Quercetin 500mg 3 times a day for 7 days or
EGCG 400mg 2 times a day for 7 days
3. Azithromycin 500mg 1 time a day for 5 days or
Doxycycline 100mg 2 times a day for 7 days
4. Vitamin C 1000mg 1 time a day for 7 days
5. Rest, oral fluids and close followup with doctor
 
Additional treatment options.  Should be uniquely custom tailored for every patient.
 
1. Ivermectin 6mg 2 times a day for 1 day   
2. Budesonide 1mg/2cc solution via nebulizer 2 times a day for 7 days
3. Dexamethasone 6mg 1 time a day for 7 days
4. Blood thinners  (i.e. Lovenox)
5. Home Oxygen
6. Home IV fluids
 
IF POSSIBLE, KEEP PATIENTS OUT OF THE HOSPITAL

DR VLADMIR ZE'EV ZELENKOS MIXTURE FOR RECOVERY OF COVID-19

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)

 DISEASES-ANIMAL TO HUMAN

REVELATION 6:7-8 (500 MILLION DEAD EACH FROM THE 4 JUDGEMENTS)(2 BILLION TOT DEAD HERE)
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) of (8 billion) to kill with sword,(WEAPONS)(500 million) and with hunger,(FAMINE)(500 million) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES)(500 million) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE)(500 million).

WORLD COVID TOTALS AS OF SUN JAN 03,21-CASES-85,018,738-DEATHS-1,844,399

DR ZELENKO ON COVID-19 RECOVERY-TAMAR YONAH
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DR VLADMIR ZE'EV ZELENKOS MIXTURE FOR RECOVERY OF COVID-19
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Republicans enlist in Trump’s effort to undo Biden win in Congress-11 GOP senators, senators-elect to vote against certifying election results, even as they acknowledge they won’t succeed in reversing outcome-By LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK-JAN 3,21-Today, 3:58 am

WASHINGTON (AP) — A growing number of Republican lawmakers are joining US President Donald Trump’s extraordinary effort to overturn the election, pledging to reject the results when Congress meets next week to count the Electoral College votes and certify President-elect Joe Biden’s win.Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas on Saturday announced a coalition of 11 senators and senators-elect who have been enlisted for Trump’s effort to subvert the will of American voters.This follows the declaration from Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, who was the first to buck Senate leadership by saying he would join with House Republicans in objecting to the state tallies during Wednesday’s joint session of Congress.Trump’s refusal to accept his defeat is tearing the party apart as Republicans are forced to make consequential choices that will set the contours of the post-Trump era. Hawley and Cruz are both among potential 2024 presidential contenders.Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had urged his party not to try to overturn what nonpartisan election officials have concluded was a free and fair vote.The 11 senators largely acknowledged Saturday they will not succeed in preventing Biden from being inaugurated on Jan. 20 after he won the Electoral College 306-232. But their challenges, and those from House Republicans, represent the most sweeping effort to undo a presidential election outcome since the Civil War.“We do not take this action lightly,” Cruz and the other senators said in a joint statement.They vowed to vote against certain state electors on Wednesday unless Congress appoints an electoral commission to immediately conduct an audit of the election results. They are zeroing in on the states where Trump has raised unfounded claims of voter fraud. Congress is unlikely to agree to their demand.The group, which presented no new evidence of election problems, includes Sens. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, James Lankford of Oklahoma, Steve Daines of Montana, John Kennedy of Louisiana, Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee and Mike Braun of Indiana, and Sens.-elect Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, Roger Marshall of Kansas, Bill Hagerty of Tennessee and Tommy Tuberville of Alabama.Trump, the first president to lose a reelection bid in almost 30 years, has attributed his defeat to widespread voter fraud, despite the consensus of nonpartisan election officials and even Trump’s attorney general that there was none. Of the roughly 50 lawsuits the president and his allies have filed challenging election results, nearly all have been dismissed or dropped. He’s also lost twice at the US Supreme Court.The days ahead are expected to do little to change the outcome.“Joe Biden will be inaugurated on January 20th, and no publicity stunt will change that,” said Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, the top Democrat on the panel overseeing the Electoral College count.Klobuchar said the Republican effort to create a federal commission “to supersede state certifications” is wrong.“It is undemocratic. It is un-American. And fortunately it will be unsuccessful. In the end, democracy will prevail,” she said in a statement.The convening of the joint session to count the Electoral College votes is usually routine. While objections have surfaced before — in 2017, several House Democrats challenged Trump’s win — few have approached this level of intensity.On the other side of the Republican divide, several senators spoke out Saturday against Cruz and Hawley’s effort.Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska said in a statement that she will vote to affirm the election and urged colleagues in both parties to join her in “maintaining confidence” in elections “so that we ensure we have the continued trust of the American people.”Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania said a “fundamental, defining feature of a democratic republic is the right of the people to elect their own leaders.” He said the effort by Hawley, Cruz and others “to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in swing states like Pennsylvania directly undermines this right.”Earlier this week, Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska, another possible 2024 contender, urged his colleagues to “reject this dangerous ploy,” which he said threatens the nation’s civic norms.Caught in the middle is Vice President Mike Pence, who faces growing pressure from Trump’s allies over his ceremonial role in presiding over the session Wednesday. His chief of staff, Marc Short, said in a statement Saturday that Pence “welcomes the efforts of members of the House and Senate to use the authority they have under the law to raise objections.”Several Republicans have indicated they are under pressure from constituents back home to show they are fighting for Trump in his baseless campaign to stay in office.Sen. John Thune, the second-ranking Republican, told reporters at the Capitol that leadership was allowing senators to “vote their conscience.”Thune’s remarks as the GOP whip in charge of rounding up votes show that Republican leadership is not putting its muscle behind Trump’s demands, but allowing senators to choose their course. He noted the gravity of questioning the election outcome.“This is an issue that’s incredibly consequential, incredibly rare historically and very precedent-setting,” he said. “This is a big vote.”Pence will be carefully watched as he presides over what is typically a routine vote count in Congress but is now heading toward a prolonged showdown that could extend into Wednesday night, depending on how many challenges are mounted.A judge in Texas dismissed a lawsuit from Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, and a group of Arizona electors trying to force Pence to step outside mere ceremony and shape the outcome of the vote. US District Judge Jeremy Kernodle, a Trump appointee, dismissed the suit late Friday.To ward off a dramatic unraveling, McConnell convened a conference call with Republican senators Thursday specifically to address the coming joint session and logistics of tallying the vote, according to several Republicans granted anonymity to discuss the private call.The Republican leader pointedly called on Hawley to answer questions about his challenge to Biden’s victory, according to two of the Republicans.But there was no response because Hawley was a no-show, the Republicans said.Hawley’s office said he sent an email afterward to his colleagues explaining his views. In the email, Hawley said constituents back home are “angry and disillusioned” with the outcome of the election.McConnell had previously warned GOP senators not to participate in raising objections, saying it would be a terrible vote for colleagues. In essence, lawmakers would be forced to choose between the will of the outgoing president and that of the voters.

‘An act of desperation’: UK’s delay of second vaccine dose comes under fire-Experts criticize British policy, which also reportedly includes directive allowing healthcare workers to mix Pfizer-BioNTech and AstraZeneca inoculations-By TOI staff and Agencies-JAN 3,21-Today, 1:45 am

In a shift from practices in the US, Britain plans to give people second doses of the coronavirus vaccines within 12 weeks of their first shot rather than within 21 days, to accelerate immunizations across as many people as quickly as possible. The practice has drawn some criticism from experts around the world.“It’s an act of desperation. It also controvenes the scientific protocols,” said Israeli epidemiologist Ron Balicer on Saturday, in an interview with Channel 12, underlining that it remains unknown how effective a single dose will be in shielding elderly and high-risk people from the virus.More than a million people in the UK have already received their first jab of the Pfizer vaccine. Earlier this week, Britain also approved a vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and British pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca that is substantially cheaper and easier to use.British authorities then outlined the new dosing regimen, which delays a person’s second vaccine shot from being done at three weeks to being given up to 12 weeks after the first shot. According to The New York Times, British health authorities were also given permission to combine the vaccines, should a second dose by one of the companies not be available.“In the short term, the additional increase of vaccine efficacy from the second dose is likely to be modest. The great majority of the initial protection from clinical disease is after the first dose of vaccine,”  British medical officers said.The UK plans to ramp up vaccinations on Monday using 530,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine and has set a goal of vaccinating 2 million people a week as soon as possible.Still, the new plan has faced criticism. The UK’s main union for doctors warned that delaying the second dose causes huge scheduling problems for thousands of partially vaccinated elderly and vulnerable people.“It is grossly and patently unfair to tens of thousands of our most at-risk patients to now try to reschedule their appointments,” said Richard Vautrey from the British Medical Association.Responding to the intention to mix the vaccines — a practice banned by the CDC, — John Moore, a vaccine expert at Cornell University, told The New York Times that British officials “seem to have abandoned science completely now and are just trying to guess their way out of a mess.”The UK on Saturday hit a daily record for new coronavirus infections — 57,725 — and looked set to soon overtake Italy once again to become the worst-hit country in Europe with nearly 75,000 COVID-19 deaths. The fear is that with rising infections, the number of deaths will also grow over the coming weeks.The UK has recorded its five highest daily new infection numbers over the past five days — all above 50,000 and double the number of only a few weeks ago.

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

MATTHEW 18:6
6  But whoso shall offend (HURT) one of these little ones (CHILDREN) which believe in me,(JESUS) it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.(THATS THE DEATH PENALTY FOLKS)

EXODUS 21:12
12 He that smiteth (MURDER)a man,(OR BABY) so that he die, shall be surely put to death.(THATS THE DEATH PENALTY PEOPLE)

REVELATION 9:20-21
20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils,(OCCULT) and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries,(DRUG ADDICTIONS) nor of their fornication,(SEX OUTSIDE OF MARRIAGE) nor of their thefts.(STEALING)

Mock funeral procession held in Baghdad to mark anniversary of Soleimani killing-Memorial event held for former head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard’s Quds Force and senior Iraqi militia leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, both killed in US drone strike last year-By AP-JAN 3,21-Today, 9:37 am

BAGHDAD (AP) — A mock funeral procession marked the anniversary of the killing of Iran’s top general and a senior Iraqi militia leader in a US drone strike that heightened fears of a military escalation in the region.Thousands of mourners joined the march on the highway leading to the Baghdad airport Saturday evening where the strike that killed Gen. Qassem Soleimani and senior Iraqi militia leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis took place. Soleimani’s killing dramatically ratcheted up tensions in the region and brought the US and Iran to the brink of war.Posters of the dead men adorned both sides of the road, which was lined with tents that served food and drinks for those who walked the highway. The scene of the bombing was turned into a shrine-like area sealed off by red ropes, with a photo of Soleimani and al-Muhandis in the middle, as mourners lit candles.Shrapnel marks were still visible on the asphalt and walls in the area.Soleimani headed Iran’s Revolutionary Guard’s elite Quds Force, responsible for the Islamic Republic’s foreign operations and frequently shuttled between Iraq, Lebanon and Syria.The procession came as Iraq’s military said that explosives experts with its naval forces successfully dismantled a mine that was discovered stuck to an oil tanker in the Persian Gulf two days earlier.The statement Saturday said Iraqi authorities have opened an investigation into the incident. No group has claimed responsibility for placing the mine.The announcement came a day after Iraq confirmed reports by private security firms that a mine had been discovered attached to the side of a tanker rented from Iraq’s Oil Marketing Company, known as SOMO, as it was refueling another vessel. It said that Iraqi teams were working to dismantle the mine.Iraq has not provided further details, but the two private security firms said the discovery was likely a limpet mine on the MT Pola, a Liberian-flagged tanker.A limpet mine is a type of naval mine that attaches to the side of a ship, usually by a diver-member of special forces. It later explodes, and can significantly damage a vessel.The discovery came amid heightened tensions between Iran and the US in the final days of President Donald Trump’s administration.Already, America has conducted B-52 bomber flyovers and sent a nuclear submarine into the Persian Gulf over what Trump officials describe as the possibility of an Iranian attack on the anniversary of the strike near Baghdad that killed Soleimani and al-Muhandis.

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.

AMERICA (POLITICAL BABYLON)(NUKED BY SNEAK ATTACK FROM RUSSIA)

IN REVELATION 17 & 18 IS THE DESTRUCTION OF THE RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL BABYLONS.IF YOU CAN NOT DECERN BETWEEN THE 2 BABYLONS IN REV 17 & 18.YOU WILL JUST THINK THEIR BOTH THE SAME.BUT NO-THERES A RELIGIOUS BABYLON (THE VATICAN IN REV 17)(AND THE POLITICAL BABYLON IN REV 18 (AMERICA OR NEW YORK TO BE EXACT)

ISAIAH 34:10
10  It (AMERICA-POLITICAL BABYLON) shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.

JEREMIAH 51:29-32 (CYBER ATTACK 1ST)
29  And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon,(AMERICA-NEW YORK) to make the land of Babylon (AMERICA) a desolation without an inhabitant.
30  The mighty men of Babylon (AMERICA) have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.
031  One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon (NEW YORK) that his city is taken at one end,
32  And that the passages are stopped,(THE WAR COMPUTERS HACKED OR EMP'D) and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.(DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO)

COMPLETE SILENCE AFTER AN EMP GOES OFF
REVELATION 8:1
1 And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.

JEREMIAH 50:3,24
3 For out of the north (RUSSIA) there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.
24 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon,(AMERICA) and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD. (RUSSIA A SNEAK CYBER,EMP ATTACK,THEN NUKE ATTACK ON AM

Iran says has ‘finger on trigger’ to enrich uranium to 20% ‘as soon as possible’-Tehran nuclear chief issues warning amid heightened tensions day ahead of one-year anniversary of Soleimani’s killing in US drone strike-By Agencies and TOI staff-2 January 2021, 12:07 pm

Iran said Saturday it plans to enrich uranium up to 20 percent at its underground Fordo nuclear facility “as soon as possible,” pushing its program a technical step away from weapons-grade levels as it increases pressure on the West over the tattered atomic deal.Ali Akbar Salehi, the US-educated head of the civilian Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, offered a military analogy to describe his agency’s readiness to take the next step.“We are like soldiers and our fingers are on the triggers,” Salehi told Iranian state television. “The commander should command and we shoot. We are ready for this and will produce [20% enriched uranium] as soon as possible.”The move comes amid heightened tensions between Iran and the US in the waning days of the administration of President Donald Trump, who unilaterally withdrew America from Tehran’s nuclear deal in 2018, and ahead of the Sunday anniversary of a US drone strike that killed a top Iranian general in Baghdad a year ago, that has American officials now worried about possible retaliation by Iran.The head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization Ali Akbar Salehi delivers his speech at opening of the general conference of the IAEA in Vienna, Austria, September 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)-Iran informed the International Atomic Energy Agency that it intends to produce uranium enriched to up to 20% purity, well beyond the threshold set by the 2015 Vienna accord, the UN nuclear watchdog said Friday.“Iran informed the agency of its intention to enrich uranium at a rate of up to 20 percent in its Fordo underground plant, to comply with a law recently passed by the Iranian parliament,” an IAEA spokesperson said.The letter dated December 31 “did not state exactly when this enrichment activity would begin,” the spokesperson added.Iran has not enriched to such levels since it entered into the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, which capped its enrichment at 3.67%. Tehran has recently broken that limit as the nuclear deal has disintegrated, reaching 4.5%.Uranium enriched to 20% is far below the 90% needed to construct nuclear bombs, but the jump from 20% to 90% is actually rather quick compared to the work needed to move from 4% to 20%.Iran’s announcement coincides with the anniversary of the US drone killing of Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad last year. That attack later saw Iran retaliate by launching a ballistic missile strike injuring dozens of US troops in Iraq. Tehran also accidentally shot down a Ukrainian passenger jet that night, killing all 176 people on board.As the anniversary approached, the US has sent B-52 bombers flying over the region and sent a nuclear-powered submarine into the Persian Gulf.On Thursday, sailors discovered a limpet mine on a tanker in the Persian Gulf off Iraq near the Iranian border as it prepared to transfer fuel to another tanker owned by a company traded on the New York Stock Exchange. No one has claimed responsibility for the mining, though it comes after a series of similar attacks in 2019 that the US Navy blamed on Iran. Tehran denied being involved.Tensions have been increasing since Trump withdrew from the accord in 2018 and began imposing a host of sanctions against Tehran as part of a so-called maximum pressure campaign aimed at buckling Iran and convincing it to agree to a more favorable agreement, in Washington’s eyes.But Iran has not done so, instead choosing to enrich uranium to numbers far beyond what the deal allowed. The Islamic Republic’s stockpile of enriched uranium is more than 2.4 tons, 12 times the JCPOA limit, though still less than the more than eight tons Iran had enriched before signing the deal.Since the assassination in late November of Iranian nuclear physicist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, which Iran has blamed on Israel, hardliners in Tehran pledged a response and parliament passed a controversial law calling for the production and storage of “at least 120 kilograms per year of 20 percent enriched uranium” and to “put an end” to the IAEA inspections intended to check that the country is not developing an atomic bomb.The Iranian government opposed the initiative which was also condemned by the other signatories to the accord who called on Tehran not to “compromise the future.Iran has indicated some willingness to return to compliance with the agreement if the US, under incoming president Joe Biden, lifts the sanctions that were put in place after Trump’s withdrawal.Biden has vowed to re-enter the nuclear agreement if Iran first returns to compliance with it. He has also expressed a desire to negotiate a “longer and stronger” follow-up agreement that would extend the time-limited provisions on the JCPOA, while also addressing Iran’s missile program and curbing the influence of Tehran’s regional proxies.Iran has rejected any such negotiations.The remaining countries that signed the agreement with Iran — Germany, France, Britain, China and Russia — have been trying to keep it from collapsing after the unilateral withdrawal of the United States in 2018.In late December the countries agreed to “positively address” the possibility of a US return to the accord. Germany’s foreign minister urged Iran not to waste what he called a final window of opportunity.The three European powers have expressed hope that with the change of administrations in Washington, the US could be brought back into the deal, whose goal is to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear bomb — something Tehran insists it doesn’t want to do.Centrifuge machines in the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran, November 5, 2019. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP)-The deal promises Iran economic incentives in exchange for curbs on its nuclear program, but with the reinstatement of American sanctions, the other nations have been struggling to provide Iran the assistance it seeks.Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said that Iran would “rapidly reverse” its violations of the nuclear accord when the United States and the three European powers “perform their duties.”Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif smiles during talks in Moscow, Russia, September 24, 2020. (Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service via AP)-Despite Iran’s violations, the International Atomic Energy Agency has reported that Tehran continues to give inspectors full access to its nuclear sites — a key reason the JCPOA member nations say it is worth preserving.In December, photos obtained by The Associated Press showed that Iran has begun construction on a site at its underground nuclear facility at Fordo.Iran has not publicly acknowledged any new construction at Fordo, whose discovery by the West in 2009 came in an earlier round of brinkmanship before world powers struck the 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran.While the purpose of the building remains unclear, any work at Fordo will likely trigger new concern. Already, Iran is building at its Natanz nuclear facility after a mysterious explosion in July there that Tehran described as a sabotage attack.“Any changes at this site will be carefully watched as a sign of where Iran’s nuclear program is headed,” said Jeffrey Lewis, an expert at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies who studies Iran.This Nov. 4, 2020, satellite photo by Maxar Technologies shows Iran’s Fordo nuclear site (Maxar Technologies via AP)-The IAEA as of yet has not publicly disclosed if Iran informed it of any construction at Fordo.Under the 2015 nuclear deal, Iran agreed to stop enriching uranium at Fordo and instead make it “a nuclear, physics and technology center.”“This location was a major sticking point in negotiations leading to the Iran nuclear deal,” Lewis said. “The US insisted Iran close it while Iran’s supreme leader said keeping it was a red line.”Since the deal’s collapse, Iran has resumed enrichment there.

US, Iran locked in tense standoff on 1-year anniversary of Soleimani killing-American officials fear the Islamic Republic could carry out attacks on date of assassination of its top general-By TOI staff and Agencies-JAN 3,21-Today, 6:14 am

Iran on Sunday marked one year since the death of General Qassem Soleimani in an American drone strike in Baghdad, amid fears in Washington that Tehran could retaliate for the killing on the anniversary.US officials have expressed concern that Iran may be planning attacks against US-allied targets in neighboring Iraq or elsewhere in the region to coincide with the date. In recent weeks the US military has taken a range of steps designed to deter Iran, while publicly emphasizing that it is not planning, and has not been instructed, to take unprovoked action against Iran.US President Donald Trump has warned Iran against any attack, and the US has flown strategic bombers over the Persian Gulf in a show of force meant to deter Iran from attacking American or allied targets in the Middle East. A US nuclear submarine crossed the Strait of Hormuz on Monday.Iranian officials have issued a stream of threats against the US as the anniversary of Soleimani’s death approached, while accusing Trump of seeking a “pretext” for war.The US killed Soleimani, who oversaw the Revolutionary Guard’s expeditionary Quds Force, and others in the January 3, 2020, strike near Baghdad International Airport. It came after months of incidents raising tensions between the two countries and ultimately saw Iran retaliate with a ballistic missile strike targeting American troops in Iraq.Iran has also threatened to attack Israel since the assassination of its top nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, in late November, in a raid blamed on the Jewish state.The Israeli military is preparing for the possibility of a strike by Iran-backed militias in Iraq or Yemen, according to a Friday report. The Israel Defense Forces held discussions last week about possible attacks, including missile and drone strikes, from the Iraqi militias and Houthi groups in Yemen, the Kan public broadcaster reported.Further ratcheting up tensions, the UN nuclear watchdog said Friday that Iran intends to produce uranium enriched up to 20 percent purity, well beyond the threshold set by the 2015 Vienna accord and a short jump from weapons-grade material.Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif claimed Saturday that Israeli agents were planning to attack American targets in order to instigate an aggressive US reaction against Iran and spark armed conflict, warning Trump to avoid such a “trap.” And he warned that any attack against the Islamic Republic by the US would “backfire badly” on Washington’s “BFFs” (an initialism for “best friends forever”), in an apparent reference to the Jewish state.“New intelligence from Iraq indicate (sic) that Israeli agent-provocateurs are plotting attacks against Americans — putting an outgoing Trump in a bind with a fake casus belli,” Zarif tweeted.Top Iranian authorities, including supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had previously said that all those involved in Soleimani’s killing would face retribution.Days after Soleimani’s killing, Iran launched a volley of missiles at Iraqi bases housing US and other coalition troops, with Trump refraining from any further military response.The Iranian leadership has called the strikes a “slap” and vowed that “severe revenge” awaits.CNN on Friday reported disagreements within the Pentagon as to the threat level from Iran. Some officials said the threat was the highest it’s been since Soleimani’s killing, with US forces in the region in real danger of attack, while others insisted this was an exaggeration.“We do see several planning efforts underway and if even some of them are true and they execute they could kill several Americans,” one military official said.Tensions between Washington and Tehran have soared since 2018, when Trump unilaterally withdrew the US from the Iran nuclear deal and reimposed crippling sanctions.The two sides have twice come to the brink of war since June 2019, especially following the killing of Soleimani, who headed the foreign operations arm of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Ahead of Soleimani anniversary, Iran vows harsh response to ‘any action’ by foes-Day before commemoration of killing of general in US drone strike, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards chief makes comments on visit to troops stationed on Gulf islands contested by UAE-By Agencies and TOI staff-2 January 2021, 2:42 pm

TEHRAN — Iran’s Revolutionary Guards chief Hossein Salami vowed Saturday to respond to any “action the enemy takes,” in a visit to a strategic Gulf island, amid rising tensions with the US.Salami was speaking on the eve of the first anniversary of the US killing of top Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani in a Baghdad drone strike on January 3, 2020.“We are here today to evaluate and be assured of our powerful capabilities at sea and against enemies who sometimes boast… and threaten,” Salami said according to the Guards’ official website Sepahnews.Salami inspected the troops stationed on Abu Musa island, accompanied by the Revolutionary Guard Corps navy commander Rear Admiral Alireza Tangsiri.“We would respond with a reciprocal, decisive and strong blow to whatever action the enemy would take against us,” Salami warned.Abu Musa and the Greater and Lesser Tunb islands are located in the Gulf near the entrance to the strategic Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of world oil output passes.The islands are under Iranian control but are also claimed by the United Arab Emirates.Tangsiri had last visited the two Tunb islands on December 25 and emphasized the necessity of the troops’ “combat-readiness and awareness,” according to ISNA news agency.Tensions have been building up in the run-up to the anniversary of Soleimani’s killing, with two American B-52 bombers recently flying over the region.Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Thursday accused outgoing US President Donald Trump of aiming to fabricate a “pretext for war” after Trump blamed Tehran for a rocket strike on the US embassy in Baghdad on December 20.The US aircraft carrier USS Nimitz has been patrolling Gulf waters since late November, but American media said this week that the acting US defense secretary, Christopher C. Miller, had ordered the Nimitz to return home.The New York Times, quoting US officials, said this move was part of a “de-escalatory” signal to Tehran to avoid a conflict in Trump’s last days in office.Iran’s judiciary chief warned Friday that Soleimani’s killers will “not be safe on Earth.” Ebrahim Raisi, speaking at an event in Tehran to pay tribute to Soleimani, said not even Trump, who ordered the January 3 strike, was “immune from justice.”In a further increase in tensions, Iran said Saturday it plans to enrich uranium up to 20 percent at its underground Fordo nuclear facility “as soon as possible,” pushing its program a technical step away from weapons-grade levels as it increases pressure on the West over the tattered atomic deal.Trump unilaterally withdrew the US from a landmark nuclear deal with Iran and world powers in 2018 and launched a “maximum pressure” campaign against Tehran, reimposing and reinforcing crippling sanctions.The two countries have twice come to the brink of war since June 2019, especially following the killing of Soleimani.Days after the Soleimani assassination, Iran launched a volley of missiles at Iraqi bases housing US and other coalition troops, with Trump refraining from any further military response.Tehran also accidentally shot down a Ukrainian passenger jet that night, killing all 176 people on board.Iran has also threatened to attack Israel since the assassination of its top nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, in late November, in a raid blamed on the Jewish state.The Israel Defense Forces held discussions last week about possible attacks, including missile and drone strikes, from the Iraqi militias and Houthi groups in Yemen, the Kan public broadcaster reported.

Iraq dismantles mine on tanker in Persian Gulf-No group has claimed responsibility for attaching explosives to vessel; authorities open investigation-By AP-JAN 3,21-Today, 5:08 am

BAGHDAD — Iraq’s military on Saturday said explosives experts with its naval forces successfully dismantled a mine that was discovered stuck to an oil tanker in the Persian Gulf two days earlier.The statement said Iraqi authorities have opened an investigation into the incident. No group has claimed responsibility for placing the mine.The announcement came a day after Iraq confirmed reports by private security firms that a mine had been discovered attached to the side of a tanker rented from Iraq’s Oil Marketing Company, known as SOMO, as it was refueling another vessel. It said that Iraqi teams were working to dismantle the mine.Iraq has not provided further details, but the two private security firms said the discovery was likely a limpet mine on the MT Pola, a Liberian-flagged tanker.A limpet mine is a type of naval mine that attaches to the side of a ship, usually by a diver-member of special forces. It later explodes, and can significantly damage a vessel.The discovery came amid heightened tensions between Iran and the US in the final days of President Donald Trump’s administration.Already, America has conducted B-52 bomber flyovers and sent a nuclear submarine into the Persian Gulf over what Trump officials describe as the possibility of an Iranian attack on the one-year anniversary of the US drone strike near Baghdad that killed a top Iranian general, Qassem Soleimani, and top Iraqi militia leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.Iraq is marking the anniversary with a series of events this week, including a ceremony at Baghdad’s airport Saturday night, where the strike that killed the two men occurred.Thousands of mourners joined a mock funeral procession on the highway leading to the airport, which was blocked with cars Saturday evening.Posters of the dead men adorned both sides of the road, which was lined with tents that served food and drinks for those who walked the highway. The scene of the bombing was turned into a shrine-like area sealed off by red ropes, with a photo of Soleimani and al-Muhandis in the middle, as mourners lit candles.Shrapnel marks were still visible on the asphalt and walls in the area.Soleimani headed Iran’s Revolutionary Guard’s elite Quds Force, responsible for the Islamic Republic’s foreign operations and frequently shuttling between Iraq, Lebanon and Syria. His assassination dramatically ratcheted up tensions in the region and brought the US and Iran to the brink of war.

Yemen PM: Airport attack by Iran-backed rebels meant to ‘eliminate’ government-Missile attack in Aden killed 25 people, targeted prime minister’s plane as it landed, the arrival hall and the VIP lounge-By Samy Magdy    -JAN 3,21-Today, 12:54 am

CAIRO (AP) — Yemen’s prime minister on Saturday said that a missile attack on the airport in Aden was meant “to eliminate” the country’s new government as it arrived in the key southern city — a daring assault which he blamed on Iran-backed rebels.Prime Minister Maeen Abdulmalik Saeed spoke to The Associated Press in an interview conducted at his office in the Mashiq Palace in Aden. It was the leader’s first interview with international media after he survived Wednesday’s attack that killed at least 25 people and wounded 110 others.“It’s a major terrorist attack that was meant to eliminate the government,” the premier said. “It was a message against peace and stability in Yemen.”Saeed repeated his government’s accusations that Yemen’s Houthi rebels were responsible for the missile attack on the airport and a drone assault on the palace, shortly after the premier and his Cabinet were transferred there.The new Yemeni government was formed in December to end a dangerous political rift with southern separatists who are backed by the United Arab Emirates. The internal rift threatened the UAE’s partnership with Saudi Arabia that is fighting the Houthis in Yemen.Saeed said that the “techniques” used in the airport missile attack were hallmarks of the Houthis’ strategy.Houthi officials have denied being behind the attack, but sought to blame unspecified groups in the Saudi-led coalition. The rebel leaders have not offered any evidence nor answered requests for comment.The Houthis have carried out similar attacks in the past. In 2015, former Yemeni Prime Minister Khaled Bahah and members of his Cabinet survived a missile attack, blamed on the Houthis, that struck an Aden hotel used by the government. Last year, the Houthis fired a missile at a military parade of a militia loyal to the UAE at a base in Aden, killing dozens.The attack took place moments after a plane carrying Saeed and his Cabinet members landed at the airport. AP footage from the scene at Aden’s airport showed members of the government delegation disembarking as the blast shook the tarmac, with many ministers rushing back inside the plane or running down the stairs, seeking shelter.Saeed said three precision-guided missiles had struck the facility, targeting his plane, the arrival hall and the VIP lounge of the airport.“The guidance accuracy was great. The operation was huge,” he said.The prime minister said Yemeni investigators have collected the remains of the missiles and that experts from the Saudi-led coalition and the US would help determine the type and origins of the missiles.Saeed and his newly formed Cabinet were returning to Yemen a week after they were sworn in before Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi in Saudi Arabia’s capital, Riyadh, where the embattled leader resides.The Cabinet reshuffle was part of a power-sharing deal between the Saudi-backed Hadi and the secessionist Southern Transitional Council, an umbrella group of militias seeking to restore an independent southern Yemen, which existed from 1967 until unification in 1990.Saeed, the prime minister, said his government would prioritize “security and stability” in government-held areas after months of infighting between Hadi’s government and the STC.“Whatever the challenges in Aden, the government remains,” he said.He also pointed to “huge” economic challenges as being the focus of his government.The conflict in the Arab world’s most impoverished nation began when the Houthis captured the capital of Sanaa in 2014, forcing Hadi’s government to flee.The following year, the Saudi-led coalition intervened against the Iran-backed rebels in what has turned into a stalemated war. Since then, more than 112,000 people — fighters and civilians — have been killed.Aden’s airport is expected to reopened Sunday, Transportation Minister Abdel-Salam Hamied announced while visiting the facility.

THE FUTURE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH)

JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people(ISRAEL) and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(UPROOTED ISRAELIS AND DIVIDED JERUSALEM)(THIS BRINGS ON WW3 BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED,WARNING TO ARABS-MUSLIMS AND THE WORLD).

EEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS

Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week:(7 YEARS) and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
DANIEL 11:21-2321 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
23 And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.

DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he ( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant (PEACE TREATY) with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE ANIMAL SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

 1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

ISAIAH 33:8
8  The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant,(7 YR TREATY) he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.(THE WORLD LEADER-WAR MONGER CALLS HIMSELF GOD)

JERUSALEM DIVIDED
GENESIS 25:20-26
20  And Isaac was forty years old (A BIBLE GENERATION NUMBER=1967 + 40=2007+) when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
21  And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
22  And the children (2 NATIONS IN HER-ISRAEL-ARABS) struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD.
23  And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels;(ISRAEL AND THE ARABS) and the one people shall be stronger than the other people;(ISRAEL STRONGER THAN ARABS) and the elder shall serve the younger.(LITERALLY ISRAEL THE YOUNGER RULES (ISSAC)(JACOB-LATER NAME CHANGED TO ISRAEL) OVER THE OLDER ARABS (ISHMAEL)(ESAU)
24  And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.
25  And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.(THE OLDER AN ARAB)
26  And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob:(THE YOUNGER-ISRAELI) and Isaac was threescore (60) years old when she bare them.(1967 + 60=2027)(COULD BE THE LAST GENERATION WHEN JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AMOUNG THE 2 TWINS)(THE 2 TWINS WANT JERUSALEM-THE DIVISION OF JERUSALEM TODAY)(AND WHOS IN CONTROL OF JERUSALEM TODAY-THE YOUNGER ISSAC-JACOB-ISRAEL)(AND WHO WANTS JERUSALEM DIVIDED-THE OLDER,ESAU-ISHMAEL (THE ARABS)

ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.DANIEL 11:36-40
36 And the king shall do according to his will;(EU PRESIDENT) and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS A EUROPEAN JEW) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(HES A MILITARY GINIUS) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds (CONTROL HEZBOLLAH,AL-QUAIDA MURDERERS ETC) with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south(EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR PROTECTING ISRAELS SECURITY) and the king of the north(RUSSIA) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.

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, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
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)

Outgoing UN peace envoy: Palestinians can gain from Israel’s normalization deals-As he leaves post, Nickolay Mladenov says he sought to mediate through understanding sides’ viewpoints, rather than ‘sit on the sidelines and preach’-By TOI staff-2 January 2021, 7:12 pm

The UN’s outgoing Middle East peace envoy has said the Palestinians could gain from Israel’s normalization agreements with Arab states, potentially strengthening their hand in peace talks.Nickolay Mladenov, 48, finished his term as United Nations peace envoy this week after serving in the role since 2015. He previously was Bulgaria’s foreign minister and had been set to become the special UN envoy for Libya, but last week said he couldn’t take on the position for “personal and family reasons.”In a report on Mladenov’s time in office published Saturday, the New York Times said the ambassador was one of the first officials to come to the conclusion that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was utterly serious in his pledge to annex parts of the West Bank, which he believed would be “terrible” for Israel.My thinking was: If this is the wrong way to go but you can see why it would be appealing to certain parts of the population, what would be appealing to a larger part that is not destructive but actually constructive?” Mladenov told the paper.While he did not claim any credit for the agreements, the report said Mladenov helped build support for using normalization as a carrot for Israel in exchange for shelving the annexation plans.“There were some people who were very much caught off guard by this,” said Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law. “He saw what we were doing. We confided in him, and he would give us constructive feedback.”Israel agreed to drop the annexation plans as part of the US-brokered agreement with the United Arab Emirates announced in August. It has since reached additional normalization deals with Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco.The Palestinian Authority fumed at the UAE and Bahrain over the deals, recalling its ambassadors to the two Gulf states in protest. The PA also slammed the agreement with Sudan, but has been muted in its response to the normalization deal between Israel and Morocco.“OK, now it’s very emotional, the Palestinians are super angry,” Mladenov said. “But put away those emotions and think: Who’s most effective when they try to push Israel to do certain things? Egypt and Jordan. If four, six or 10 Arab countries have embassies in Tel Aviv, you’d want them to be on your side, right?”He noted that Israel, the UAE and Bahrain had inked formal agreements establishing diplomatic ties.“That’s a big thing. Neither Israel nor the Arab countries will want to ruin it. That gives certain countries leverage in Israel. If you’re the Palestinians, you’ll really want to explain to your Arab brothers and friends what your positions are, and bring them back to the table on your side of the conversation,” he said.Mladenov also recalled his intense mediation efforts during periodic bouts of fighting in the Gaza Strip between Israel and Palestinians, and said he preferred to attempt to reach solutions through understanding each side’s viewpoint than “sit on the sidelines and preach.“I know from my own experience that when the quote-unquote foreigners come and tell you what to do, you just shut them off. You’re like, ‘Thank you very much,'” he said. “You can’t preach to these guys. Remember, they’ve been it at it for half a century.”His tenure as Middle East peace envoy has won him plaudits from officials in Israel, the Palestinian Authority, the Trump administration and Hamas.“If you as the UN are not clear where you stand on these things, you can’t be credible,” Mladenov said in the interview. “And I suppose that being critical of both the Israelis and the Palestinians, where I felt that they’ve done things wrong, and welcoming them when they’ve done things right — I think that’s a novelty in this frozen conflict.”

Netanyahu hints at trips to Arab states: ‘I recently visited other countries’-PM doesn’t specify which countries he visited, following trip in November to Saudi Arabia for meeting with crown prince-By TOI staff-JAN 3,21-Today, 12:33 am

Prime Minister Netanyahu on Saturday hinted that he recently visited several Arab countries, in an apparent reference both to his trip in November to Saudi Arabia and others.“I recently visited other countries and like I couldn’t say then about the Emirates, I can’t specify right now,” he told officials from his Likud party, according to leaks from the meeting. Netanyahu had been asked about a possible deal with Iraqi Kurds, the Walla news site reported.The comments come two weeks after Netanyahu said that “many, many more countries” would be signing normalization agreements with the Jewish state “a lot sooner than people expect.”Netanyahu was reported to meet with the Saudi crown prince in Red Sea city of Neom on November 22, along with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.At the time, a Saudi government adviser confirmed the meeting and the trip to The Wall Street Journal, saying that the meeting, which had lasted several hours, focused on Iran and the establishment of diplomatic ties between Riyadh and Jerusalem, but did not yield substantial agreements. Education Minister Yoav Gallant also confirmed the trip, calling it “an amazing achievement.”US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia John Abizaid, left, and Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan, second from left, greet Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his wife Susan as they arrive at Neom Bay Airport in Neom, Saudi Arabia, Sunday, Nov. 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, Pool)-However, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan denied that Netanyahu or any other officials from the Jewish state had taken part in a meeting with the crown prince, in a tweet issued several hours after the reports started circulating.Since September, Israel has struck normalization agreements with the UAE, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco, with US officials saying a deal with Saudi Arabia is “inevitable.” Saudi officials, however, have said a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians must precede recognition of the Jewish state.However, Bahrain normalizing ties suggested at least a Saudi acquiescence to the idea, as the island kingdom relies on Riyadh. Saudi Arabia has also approved flights between Israel and its new Gulf friends passing over its territory.Israel has long had clandestine ties with Saudi Arabia and Gulf Arab states that have strengthened in recent years, as they have confronted a shared threat in Iran.In 2018, Netanyahu visited Oman, another country with which it does not have diplomatic ties.A senior Trump administration official said last month that the White House had offered Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation, up to $2 billion in US development aid if it recognizes Israel.Likud’s Regional Cooperation Minister Ofir Akunis said last month that two countries were considered favorites to soon reach a rapprochement with Israel, but refused to name them.US President Donald Trump said after the Israel-UAE-Bahrain signing ceremony in September that he expected “seven or eight or nine” more countries to normalize ties with Israel, including Saudi Arabia.

Government to fund settler efforts to monitor illegal Palestinian construction-Settlement Affairs Ministry says it will devote $6 million for new program in Area C, including for patrolmen, vehicles and drones-By TOI staff-2 January 2021, 9:52 pm
   
The government has announced it will fund settlements’ efforts to monitor illegal Palestinian construction in Area C — regions controlled by Israel under the Oslo Accards — using patrols and drones.The Settlement Affairs Ministry announced Thursday that it was devoting NIS 20 million ($6 million) to build the new program.“With Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu’s approval, we are going in with full momentum to the campaign against the hostile takeover of Area C,” Settlement Affairs Minister Tzachi Hanegbi said.Local councils in the West Bank will be able to apply to receive funding for patrolmen, vehicles, drones, fencing and electronic measures to monitor Palestinian construction. Councils will also be able to hire outside advisers on patrols and data collection.The councils will not be allowed to take action against any illegal construction, but rather can inform Israeli authorities who are in charge of enforcement.Haaretz said the Civil Administration, which oversees such matters, was not consulted on the move.Haaretz said several local councils already operate such teams independently.The majority of settlements and outposts are located on land defined by the 1995 Oslo II Accord as Area C, meaning Israel is responsible for both civil and security matters in the zone. Area C constitutes around 60 percent of the West Bank.Between 200,000-300,000 Palestinians are estimated to live in Area C, although a definitive census has not been conducted. While some Palestinian communities in Area C are recognized by the state, most are not, as the Israeli military government rarely approves plans for them or issues construction permits. According to the human rights group Bimkom, 98.6% of requests by West Bank Palestinians for construction permits between 2016 and 2018 were rejected.

Iran claims Israeli agents ‘plotting attacks’ on US in Iraq to spark conflict-FM Zarif warns Trump to avoid Jerusalem’s ‘trap,’ says it will ‘backfire badly’ on Israeli ‘BFFs,’ amid heightened regional tensions between Tehran and US and Israeli allies-By TOI staff and Agencies-2 January 2021, 5:25 pm

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif claimed Saturday that Israeli agents were planning to attack American targets in order to instigate an aggressive US reaction against Iran and spark armed conflict, warning President Donald Trump to avoid such a “trap.”And he warned that any attack against the Islamic Republic by the US would “backfire badly” on Washington’s “BFFs” (an initialism for “best friends forever”), in an apparent reference to the Jewish state.“New intelligence from Iraq indicate (sic) that Israeli agent-provocateurs are plotting attacks against Americans — putting an outgoing Trump in a bind with a fake casus belli,” Zarif tweeted.“Be careful of a trap, [Trump]. Any fireworks will backfire badly, particularly against your same BFFs.New intelligence from Iraq indicate that Israeli agent-provocateurs are plotting attacks against Americans—putting an outgoing Trump in a bind with a fake casus belli.Be careful of a trap, @realDonaldTrump. Any fireworks will backfire badly, particularly against your same BFFs.— Javad Zarif (@JZarif) January 2, 2021-The US is Israel’s top global ally, and Jerusalem and Washington cooperate closely in the Middle East in general and on the threat posed by Iran in particular, sharing intelligence and working together to counter Tehran militarily — making Zarif’s claims highly dubious.US officials have expressed concern that Iran may be planning attacks against US-allied targets in neighboring Iraq or elsewhere in the region. In recent weeks the US military has taken a range of steps designed to deter Iran, while publicly emphasizing that it is not planning, and has not been instructed, to take unprovoked action against Iran.US President Donald Trump has warned Iran against any attack, and the US has flown strategic bombers over the Persian Gulf in a show of force meant to deter Iran from attacking American or allied targets in the Middle East.A US nuclear submarine crossed the Strait of Hormuz on Monday.Tensions in the Middle East have heated in recent weeks as Israel and the US have traded threats with Iran ahead of the 1-year anniversary of the US airstrike that killed top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani.Iranian officials have issued a stream of threats against the US as the anniversary of Soleimani’s death approaches. The general was killed in a US airstrike in Baghdad on January 3 of last year.A Friday report on Kan News said the Israeli military was preparing for the possibility of a strike by Iran-backed militias based in Iraq or Yemen.Possible attacks being prepared for include missile and drone strikes from Iraqi militias and Houthi groups in Yemen, the report said.Iran has also threatened to attack Israel since the assassination of its top nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, in late November, in a raid blamed on the Jewish state.Further ratcheting up tensions, the UN nuclear watchdog said Friday that Iran intends to produce uranium enriched up to 20 percent purity, well beyond the threshold set by the 2015 Vienna accord and a short jump from weapons-grade material.The Friday report from Kan echoed comments made last week by IDF Spokesperson Hidai Zilberman, who told a Saudi news outlet that Israel was not aware of any specific plans by Iran to attack the Jewish state, but that Iranian forces could carry out an attack from Iraq or Yemen.He said Israel had information indicating Iran was developing unmanned aerial vehicles and “smart missiles” in Iraq and Yemen, and that the weapons could have the ability to strike Israel.Zilberman said Israel was tracking Iranian movements around the region, and that Israeli submarines were quietly “sailing everywhere.” His interview came after an Israeli submarine reportedly openly crossed the Suez Canal in a show of force directed at Iran.A day after the interview was published, an unnamed Iranian official told Al Jazeera that “Tehran’s response to any attack on national security will be strong and wide.”

SIGNS OF THE END OF THE AGE (NOT THE WORLD) THE WORLD GOES ON FOREVER.

GENESIS 1:5,145 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:(ISRAELS HOLY DAYS AND SABBATH STARTS AT 6PM) And for SIGNS (PROPHECY SIGNS TO HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE, OUR DAY)
SIGNS IN THE SUN, MOON AND STARS-CHEMICAL WEAPONS

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences;(BIOLOGICAL/CHEMICAL/NUCLEAR) and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun,(HEATING UP-SOLAR ECLIPSES) and in the moon,(MAN ON THE MOON-LUNAR ECLIPSES) and in the stars;(ASTEROIDS-PROPHECY SIGNS) and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)
REVELATION 16:21 80-120LB HAIL ON HUMANS
21And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent:(80-120 LBS) and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.


OZONE DEPLETION JUDGEMENT ON THE EARTH DUE TO SIN
ISAIAH 30:26-27
26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold,(7X OR 7-DEGREES HOTTER) as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people,(ISRAEL) and healeth the stroke of their wound.
27 Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:

MATTHEW 24:21-22,221 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22 And except those days should be shortened,(DAY LIGHT HOURS SHORTENED) there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake (ISRAELS SAKE) those days shall be shortened (Daylight hours shortened)(THE ASTEROID HITS EARTH HERE)
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
 
REVELATION 16:7-9
7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.