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Could Antichrist Come From Turkey?
Before you go and vote for Mr. Trump there are some things that were just brought to light about him that you should know. I must warn you John Oliver in the video below does use some cursing which I wish he did not use because there was no need for it. That being said, Mr. Oliver in a comic way really gives you facts about Trump that have not been brought out on the debates yet. Most of what Mr. Oliver says in the video below I did not know. I am glad I found out these facts. I am sure you will also find the facts very interesting as well. It does appear Mr. Trump is not the person most people think he is.
Headline: Palestinian Killed When Israeli Soldiers Enter Refugee Camp
A Palestinian was shot dead Monday night in a riot after two Israeli soldiers accidentally entered a West Bank refugee camp, officials said. Violence erupted when the soldiers, using the cellphone navigation app Waze, strayed into the Qalandia refugee camp north of Jerusalem. The two Israelis had been traveling from Jerusalem approximately 10 miles north into the West Bank city of Ramallah. According to the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), the soldiers met with a crowd that directed gunfire, Molotov cocktails, and rocks at their military vehicle. Israeli military forces were sent to retrieve the pair, who were found later after having escaped on foot. The crowd reportedly set fire to the vehicle, and five Israeli border policemen were injured. In response, security forces “fired toward the direction” of oncoming gunfire, said the IDF. The Palestinian Ministry of Health reported that a 22-year-old Palestinian man was killed in the exchange of gunfire and that four others were injured. An additional 12 people were wounded by rubber bullets.
March 1, 2016
http://www.voanews.com/content/israeli-troops-follow-app-stray-into-palestinian-camp/3214420.html
Headline: Gazan ISIS supporters angry at close relationship with Hamas
Reports of cooperation between Hamas in Gaza and ISIS in the Sinai Peninsula are nothing new, but a recently-obtained letter from one ISIS jihadist reveals just how deeply those ties stretch – and that not all of Islamic State’s supporters are particularly enamored with it. A letter posted to social media by a Gaza-born ISIS fighter now in Syria named “Abu Abdallah Al-Muhajir” excoriates ISIS’s Sinai affiliate – “Sinai Province” – for, in the author’s view, betraying fellow ISIS supporters inside Gaza itself. He accuses Sinai Province leaders of forging close personal and strategic relationships with Hamas even while the rulers of Gaza arrest and torture Gazan ISIS-affiliated jihadists Al-Muhajir addresses his letter to the Islamic State’s self-proclaimed “Caliph” himself, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and appeals to his leader to act to end ties between the groups. These include mutual weapons smuggling, production of explosives, and Hamas medical treatment for wounded ISIS fighters – who are placed under the protection of members of Hamas’s Ezzadine al-Qassam Brigades. Even Sinai Province’s military uniforms are manufactured by Hamas in Gaza, according to Al-Muhajir.
March 2, 2016
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/208789
“Do not keep silent, O God! Do not hold Your peace, And do not be still, O God! 2 For behold, Your enemies make a tumult; And those who hate You have lifted up their head. 3 They have taken crafty counsel against Your people, And consulted together against Your sheltered ones. 4 They have said, “Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, That the name of Israel may be remembered no more.” (Psalm 83)
Jordan
Headline: Jordan thwarts ISIS suicide bombing plot inside country
Jordan’s security services said on Wednesday they had thwarted a plot by Islamic State militants to blow up civilian and military targets, in one of the US ally’s largest sweeps in years against hardline sleeper cells. The security services located the militants, who were carrying suicide belts, in a hideout in the northern city of Irbid near the Syrian border, they said in a statement carried by the state news agency Petra. Seven militants were killed in clashes that began on Tuesday night and lasted till dawn and one police officer was also killed, the statement said. The security services seized automatic weapons, munitions and explosives from the group. “After diligent and detailed intelligence gathering the intelligence department was able soon to thwart a criminal and destructive plot linked by the terrorist Daesh group aimed at destabilizing national security,” the statement said, using the Arabic acronym for Islamic State. Two security sources said dozens of special forces had been involved in the operation and that the militants had been holed up near a Palestinian refugee camp in the center of Irbid. The militants who refused to hand themselves over engaged in heavy exchange of gunfire with special forces in the clashes that also injured five policemen, the security services’ statement said.
March 2, 2016
http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Jordan-thwarts-ISIS-suicide-bombing-plot-inside-country-446632
Lebanon
Headline: Gulf Cooperation Council Declares Hezbollah a Terror Group
Headline: Lebanon interior minister rejects Arab summit statement classifying Hezbollah as terrorist group
The six-member Gulf Cooperation Council led by Saudi Arabia formally declared Hezbollah to be a terrorist organization on Wednesday (March 2). The group has already been declared a terrorist entity by the European Union and the United States. Hezbollah was blacklisted by the group in response to hostile acts perpetrated within GCC member states, the GCC said in a statement. Among the offenses listed were attempts to recruit new terrorists and smuggling weapons and explosives. The other five members of the GCC are the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman. All have recently withdrawn staff members from their embassies in Beirut and issued warnings to their citizens against travel to Lebanon. The move is seen by analysts as the lining up of Sunni Muslim nations against the Shi’ite Iranian axis being formed in the region. But it is also a move by Saudi Arabia to draw closer to the Western world at a time when radical Islamists are pulling Muslim-majority nations in the opposite direction.
March 2, 2016
Headline:Hezbollah launches Chemicals & Dirty Bombs program at secret Syrian site
The southwestern town of Zabadani, 30 km west of Damascus, is a ghost town, depopulated by five years of Syrian war ravages, except for one sign of life – or rather death. Since December, Hizballah has enclosed this once attractive tourist resort, strategically located on the Damascus-Beirut highway, into a heavily fortified ex territoria enclave whose high walls conceal the terrorist group’s new program for the development of weapons of mass destruction. This is disclosed for the first time by debkafile’s military and intelligence sources. Most of the facilities for the research and development of chemical weapons and dirty bombs are sunk below the surface of the secret 2.5 sq. km site. Syrian and Iranian engineers and technicians are developing the chemical weapons for Hizballah’s arsenal, and foreign experts were hired from outside the Middle East to help build radioactive weapons. They are kept out of sight in on-site accommodation at Zabadani. A telltale sign that the Shiite terrorist organization was actively pursuing a radioactive bomb program – and which prompted our investigation – was dropped in a speech given by Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Feb. 16. He boasted that a pair of Hizballah rockets falling on the Israeli city of Haifa would cause a catastrophe equivalent to a “nuclear bomb” attack. He elaborated on this: “An Israeli expert had said that Haifa’s residents fear a deadly attack on the ammonia storage tanks which contain more than 15,000 tons of this gas. That would lead to the deaths of tens of thousands of Israelis and affect another 800,000,” he declared. “This would be exactly like a nuclear bomb and we can say that Lebanon today has a nuclear bomb, seeing as any rocket that might hit these tanks is capable of creating a nuclear bomb effect,” Nasrallah said. When someone like the Hizballah terrorist chief drops four references to a nuclear bomb in as many sentences, ending with the boast that “Lebanon today has nuclear bomb,” it must be presumed that he is crowing over some sort of nuclear device in hand.
March 2, 2016
Egypt
Headline: Egyptian MP removed from office after meeting with Israeli ambassador
Following his recent meeting with the Israeli ambassador, Egyptian Member of Parliament Tawfik Okasha was ousted from his position on Wednesday, in a decision made by two thirds of the Egyptian lawmakers. 465 out of the 595 representatives voted in favor of his removal from office on the grounds that his meeting with Israeli ambassador Haim Koren damaged relations with neighboring nations and that it infringed upon the established parliamentary policy which opposes normalization of relations with Israel. The vote came three days after Okasha was accosted in parliament when another lawmaker hurled a shoe at him and demanded he be suspended from parliament for his misconduct. The former MP sparked the initial public outcry when he extended an invitation to the Israeli ambassador during his TV show “Egypt Today.” He announced in the broadcast: “I have personally invited the Israeli ambassador to Cairo, Haim Koren, to a dinner at my house next week to discuss the Nile dispute and other important issues.”
March 2, 2016
Syria Iraq ISIS- the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (the Levant) ISIS=ISIL=IS=Daash
Iraq Syria Kurdistan
Syria Headline: Plan B for Syria
Following the signing of the Syrian ceasefire agreement by the 17-countries International Syria Support Group, (ISSG), U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry announced that time was essential with regard to the implementation of the ceasefire if Syria’s territorial integrity was to be preserved. Syria could indeed fragment, and the United States are not the only player with a Plan B. Others with a Plan B include Russia, Turkey, Israel, and Iran. All members of the ISSG agreed on the implementation of a ceasefire in Syria, to begin next week. The group, jointly chaired by Russia and the USA, also agreed that the ceasefire would not include the self-proclaimed Islamic State (a.k.a. ISIS, ISIL, or Daesh), as well as Jabhat Al-Nusrah and other Al-Qaeda franchises. A coordination hotline is being established at the Hmeinim Air Base from where the Russian Air Force is conducting operations in Syria. The hotline will be operated by Russian military personnel and serve primarily as a means for all of the belligerent parties in Syria to have a contact point to coordinate the ceasefire, to avoid unintended confrontations, and to de-escalate situations in cases where clashes erupt. The Syrian government fully endorses the agreement but stresses that it would not allow terrorists to take strategic or tactical advantage of the ceasefire. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry briefed the press on the agreement and warned that time was of the essence if the territorial integrity of Syria should be preserved. The statement has been ill received in Russian media. The United States, however, is not the only international or regional player with a Plan B up the sleeve. The United States and NATO have long considered the establishment of a so-called Kurdish Corridor (see map) as a prime objective. The plan aims at the fragmentation of Syria, Iraq, and ultimately northern Iran. Military and Security analysts, such as Pakistani Major (r) Agha H. Amin noted that the long-term objective is the establishment of a belt of low-intensity conflicts from the Mediterranean, and along Russia’s soft and resource-rich underbelly to Pakistan and beyond. Hence the deployment of U.S. Special Forces to aid Syrian – Kurdish YPG / PYG fighters. The YPG / PYG is not (yet) officially calling for the establishment of a separate Kurdish State on Syrian territory. The Syrian government has, however, made considerable concessions to the YPG /PYG with regard to regional self-determination. The YPG / PYG is a traditional ally of the Turkish Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which is designated as a terrorist organization by Turkey, and most NATO member States.
March 1, 2016
http://www.globalresearch.ca/usa-russia-turkey-israel-iran-all-have-a-plan-b-for-syria/5511217
Syria Headline: Israel claims Syria used chemical weapons during cease-fire
Israel on Tuesday accused Syrian government forces of using chemical weapons against civilians since the start of a cease-fire brokered by the U.S. and Russia aimed at ending the bloody conflict. “The Syrians used military grade chemical weapons and lately have been using materials, chlorine, against civilians, including in these very days, after the supposed cease-fire, dropping barrels of chlorine on civilians,” Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon said in Tel Aviv, without providing further details. A fact-finding mission by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), a global chemical weapons watchdog, concluded in 2014 that the use of chlorine gas has been “systematic” in the war, even after the Syrian government handed over a stockpile of chemical arms, Reuters reports. On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed the Syria cease-fire efforts, but said Israel may still carry out attacks to counter any threats to its national security, Reuters reports.
March 2, 2016
Syria Headline: 18 killed in car bomb against Syrian insurgents in southern province Quneitra: monitor
Eighteen fighters were killed in a car bomb blast that hit a Syrian insurgent group in the southern province of Quneitra on Wednesday, a monitoring group reported, and a rebel source said the attack was likely carried out by hardline Islamists. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the explosion took place in the village of al-Isha, hitting a base belonging to Jabhat Thuwwar Souria, a Free Syrian Army group. Suhaib al-Ruhail, a spokesman for the Alwiyat al-Furqan group which operates in the area, said it was most likely carried out by “Daesh sleeper cells”, a reference to Islamic State. The incident did not appear to be related to the current cessation of hostilities between the Syrian government and its allies and non-jihadist insurgent groups.
March 2, 2016
Syria Headline: Syrian govt forces open new battle with rebels in northwest
Syrian government forces launched an attack Wednesday to capture a rebel-held hill in north-western Syria, a rebel official and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported, an expansion of operations that have continued in that area despite a deal to cease fighting. Rebels said the assault on Kabani hill in the province of Latakia was supported by Russian airstrikes. Both the government and rebels have accused each other of violating the truce, which came into effect Saturday. The agreement does not include ISIS or the Nusra Front, an al Qaeda-linked group that has a wide presence in northwestern Syria. The hill overlooks the rebel-held town of Jisr al-Shughour in neighboring Idlib province, and the Ghab Plain, where rebel advances last year were seen as a growing threat to President Bashar Assad. “The regime and militias are trying to storm (the hill) under very fierce Russian air cover and artillery fire,” said Fadi Ahmad, spokesman for the First Coastal Division, a group fighting under the banner of the Free Syrian Army. Rami Abdulrahman, Observatory director, said: “If the regime is able to capture Kabani hill, the insurgents will be in a difficult position because this hill overlooks the Ghab Plain and Jisr al-Shughour.”
March 2, 2016
Syria Headline: Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
https://www.facebook.com/syriahroe http://syriahr.com/en/category/news
http://syriahr.com/en/category/news/
Iraq Headline: U.S. Army’s Delta Force begins operations against ISIL in Iraq
Soldiers with the U.S. Army’s elite Delta Force are on the ground in Iraq and have begun missions to capture or kill top Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) operatives. “The only thing I’ll say is the (Expeditionary Targeting Force) is in position, it is having an effect and operating, and I expect it to be a very effective part of our acceleration campaign,” Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said. An Obama administration official told CNN the Delta Force “has spent the last several weeks preparing, including setting up safe houses, establishing informant networks and coordinating operations with Iraqi and Peshmerga units.” Carter said the Delta Force will conduct raids, seize places and people, and free ISIL-held hostages and prisoners, adding the force would cause ISIL “to fear that anywhere, anytime, it may be struck.”
March 1, 2016
http://www.worldtribune.com/u-s-armys-delta-force-begins-operations-against-isil-in-iraq/
Iraq Headline: Islamic State suicide bombers target Iraq army base, killing eight officers
Iraq Headline: Iraq begins major operation to retake Baghdad area
Four suicide bombers disguised as soldiers have targeted an Iraqi military base, killing eight army officers including a local commander, in an attack claimed by Islamic State. One of the bombers attacked the gate of the compound in the western town of Haditha, and the others struck after soldiers gathered to help the victims. Eight soldiers were wounded in the attack. IS claimed the assault in online statements issued on jihadi websites, saying it was carried out by two Syrian suicide bombers. Massive bombings claimed by IS over the last two days in Baghdad and the north-eastern town of Muqdadiyah killed at least 110 people. On Tuesday, separate attacks in and around Baghdad killed at least 13 people and wounded 31 others, according to police and health officials.
March 2, 2016
http://www.arabnews.com/middle-east/news/888871
Iraq Headline: ISW Iraq Situation Report Feb. 23 – Feb. 29, 2016
http://www.understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/iraq%20SITREP%202016-02-29.pdf
Kurdish Headline: Kurdish-led fighters close in on Syrian city of Aleppo
A Kurdish-led fighting alliance Wednesday captured a hill overlooking a main road in Aleppo from the militant Nusra Front group and its allies, in a surprise offensive aimed at encircling the northern city, Syrian opposition activists and state media said. Syrian state TV reported that pro-government gunmen captured Castello hill, “cutting supply lines for terrorists” in eastern neighborhoods of Aleppo with southern parts of Aleppo province. Sami al-Raj, an Aleppo-based opposition activist, confirmed the SDF advances via Skype, saying they are now very close to the road. An opposition activist based in Turkey said the SDF’s apparent aim is to push north of the Aleppo neighborhood of Sheikh Maqsoud and reach government forces in the nearby town of Handarat, which would completely besiege the eastern neighborhoods of the city that are under rebel control. He spoke on condition of anonymity fearing retaliation. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported fighting between Kurdish fighters and militants near Sheikh Maqsoud. It added that militants shelled the predominantly Kurdish Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood, wounding nearly 20 people.
March 2, 2016
Listed below are the nations which will attack Israel from Ezekiel chapter 38 and their modern day names (see chart above).
Gog is the leader of the invasion of Israel.
Magog, Meshech, and Tubal comprise modern day Turkey.
Persia is Iran, parts of northern Iraq, and Afghanistan.
Cush is Ethiopia and Sudan.
Put is Libya and will most likely include Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco.
Gomer is Eastern Turkey.
Beth Togarmah is Armenia.
Turkey
Headline: Report: Turkey demands weapons from Israel as part of normalization effort
Headline: Pentagon approves sale of ‘bunker buster’ bombs to Ankara
A representative appointed by Turkey’s Defense Ministry has been sent to Israel in order to procure Israeli made weapons and aircraft equipment as a condition for the return to normalized relations between the two countries, Arab media reported Wednesday. According to Kuwati based newspaper publication al-Jarida, Turkish Defense Minister Ismet Yilmaz sent a special envoy Tuesday to meet with Israel’s security echelon in order to negotiate financial terms concerning weapons sales. Israel in turn has demanded to know whether the weapons were intended to attack Kurdish rebels positioned on the Turkish-Syrian border, according to the report. The Turkish government made clear that the weapons sales, including the purchasing of unmanned aerial vehicles, was part of a wider framework agreement in which the two countries would normalize relations, according to the al-Jardia report. Israel has yet to responded to the Turkish request, waiting to see if Ankara was still committed to honoring previous agreements to buy gas from the Jewish state. In turn, Turkey has yet to respond to Israeli inquiries concerning the use of UAV’s against the Kurds.
March 2, 2016
http://debka.com/newsupdatepopup/15269/Pentagon-approves-sale-of-bunker-buster-bombs-to-Ankara
Headline: Putin boosts Russian campaign to smash ISIS by deploying warships into sea
Headline: Russia wants Syrian border with Turkey closed: Lavrov
The Russian strongman’s Pacific Fleet patrol boat crews have successfully passed exams ahead of performing tasks at sea and will be ready to enter the waters in the coming months. A spokesman for the Navy fleet said: “Boat crews, including that of the latest Project ‘Grachonok,’ of anti-diversionary submarine units and Kamchatka waters combined defence forces have successfully passed K-1 course tasks.” Sea crews prepare for a number of tasks including air defence, damage control, anti-sabotage defence as well as personnel actions under chemical, bacteriological and radiological contamination. It comes as the ruthless Russian president struck a deal with the US to only carry out airstrikes against the barbaric terror group in war-torn Syria.
March 1, 2016
http://news.yahoo.com/russia-wants-syrian-border-turkey-closed-lavrov-133526725.html
Afghanistan
Headline: At least five militants dead in attack on Indian consulate in Jalalabad, Afghanistan
Headline: Afghan troops pull out of more posts in volatile south
A massive bomb blast and a gun battle in which five attackers were killed Wednesday shook India’s consulate in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. A suicide bomber set off an explosion at the consulate’s front gate, India’s Ministry of External Affairs said. Everyone working within the building was safe, though minor injuries were reported. Afghan security forces and India’s Indo-Tibetan Border Police engaged in a gunfight with militants in the street. No group has taken responsibility for the attacks. Police said the suicide bomber killed only himself, and that nine people were injured in the gun battle. Eyewitnesses said windows and doors in nearby buildings along Jalalabad’s row of consulates were destroyed by the blast, as were at least eight vehicles.
March 2, 2016
http://in.reuters.com/article/afghanistan-taliban-idINKCN0W34HN
Tunisia
Headline: Tunisia Backs Plan to Host German Troops to Train Libyan Army
Tunisia’s government backs a plan for German forces to come to the country to train troops from neighboring Libya for the fight against Islamic State militants, the Tunisian defense minister said on Tuesday. The Islamic State militants have taken advantage of political chaos and a security vacuum in Libya to expand their presence there, taking control of the city of Sirte and staging frequent attacks. Western officials are discussing ways to counter the group, including through the use of air strikes and Special Forces operations, though plans for outside assistance have been hampered by the failure of a United Nations-backed unity government in Libya to win wide approval in the country. Last week a German delegation visited Tunisia to discuss a training program for Libyan forces. “We agree on the principle of the project,” Tunisian Defense Minister Farhat Harchani said in an interview with the TAP state news agency. He gave no details on the nature of the training or when it might happen, but said Tunisian forces would also take part.
March 1, 2016
http://www.voanews.com/content/tunisia-backs-plan-host-german-troops-train-libyan-army/3214930.html
Headline: ISIS’s Regional Campaign: February 2016
ISIS continued to develop its regional presence despite setbacks in Iraq and Syria in February. The organization launched spectacular attacks to weaken security in Iraq and Syria as it faces territorial losses, declining revenue, and decreased foreign fighter inflows in both countries. ISIS meanwhile strengthened its presence in Libya, launching large-scale attacks and defending its stronghold of Sirte despite ground opposition from rival militant groups and airstrikes by the U.S. and other actors. ISIS also maintained operational capability in other regions, as demonstrated by its attacks in the Gulf, Maghreb, and the Caucasus. ISIS’s military campaigns and safe haven outside of Iraq and Syria give it strategic resiliency that will ensure its longevity despite pressure on its Caliphate.
http://www.iswresearch.blogspot.com/
Headline: Nato commander: Isis ‘spreading like cancer’ among refugees
Refugees from the Middle East and north Africa are “masking the movement” of terrorists and criminals, Nato’s top commander told Congress on Tuesday, despite the protests of human rights groups who say that refugees overwhelmingly have no ulterior motive but escape. In testimony to the Senate armed services committee, US general Philip Breedlove said that the Islamic State terror group is “spreading like a cancer” among refugees. The group’s members are “taking advantage of paths of least resistance, threatening European nations and our own”, he added. Breedlove also blamed Russia’s bombing campaign in Syria, in support of autocratic leader Bashar al-Assad, for having “wildly exacerbated the problem”. The airstrikes, nominally against Isis but largely against the various rebel groups arrayed against Assad, have allegedly killed more than 1,000 civilians, including children. Breedlove said these indiscriminate attacks mean to terrorize Syrians and “get them on the road” toward neighboring countries and Europe. The Kremlin and Assad intend, according to Breedlove, to use migration as a weapon to weaken European unity and infrastructure. The general said that European nationalist groups that oppose immigration also weaken the continent, and could themselves threaten violence. Since taking command in 2013, Breedlove has pushed for an aggressive refortification of Europe, calling Russia a “long-term existential threat” to the US, and suggested Europe and the US should do more to counter Assad and Isis in Syria.
March 1, 2016
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/01/refugees-isis-nato-commander-terrorists
Economic collapse Revelation 6:5-6 & James 5:1-3– Worldwide– “ When He opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come and see.” So I looked, and behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand. 6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not harm the oil and the wine.” (Revelation) “Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you! 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have heaped up treasure in the last days.” (James)
Headline: Moody’s cuts China outlook
Moody’s downgraded its outlook on Chinese government debt to “negative” from “stable” on Wednesday, citing uncertainty over authorities’ capacity to implement economic reforms, rising government debt and falling reserves. The Moody’s downgrade comes just days before the National People’s Congress (NPC) is due to vote on China’s 13th five year plan, a closely held development blueprint for the next five years, which policymakers began formally drafting in 2015. Analysts will closely scrutinize the NPC’s final text for hints on the likely trajectory of reform and policymakers’ thinking on the appropriate growth strategy for China – key factors highlighted by Moody’s in the report issued on Wednesday. “Without credible and efficient reforms, China’s GDP growth would slow more markedly as a high debt burden dampens business investment and demographics turn increasingly unfavorable. Government debt would increase more sharply than we currently expect,” Moody’s said. The agency said the downgrade was driven by expectations that China’s fiscal strength will continue to decline, as well as the fall in its foreign exchange reserves which have shrunk by $762 billion over the last 18 months.
March 2, 2016
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-moody-s-china-idUSKCN0W407W
Scorching Sun Isaiah30:26 , Revelation 16:8-9 & Revelation 7:16, Malachi 4:1 “Moreover the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, And the light of the sun will be sevenfold, As the light of seven days, In the day that the Lord binds up the bruise of His people And heals the stroke of their wound.” (Isaiah 30:26) “Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and power was given to him to scorch men with fire. 9 And men were scorched with great heat, and they blasphemed the name of God who has power over these plagues; and they did not repent and give Him glory.” (Revelation 16:8-9) “Never again will they hunger; never again will they thirst. The sun will not beat upon them, nor any scorching heat.” ( Revelation 7: 16) “For behold, the day is coming,Burning like an oven, And all the proud, yes, all who do wickedly will be stubble. And the day which is coming shall burn them up,” Says the Lord of hosts, “That will leave them neither root nor branch” (Malachi 4:1) Prophecy Sign: Drought Jeremiah 50:38 & Isaiah 42:15 “A drought is against her waters, and they will be dried up. For it is the land of carved images, And they are insane with their idols.” (Jeremiah)“I will lay waste the mountains and hills, And dry up all their vegetation; I will make the rivers coastlands, And I will dry up the pools.”(Isaiah)
Headline: Vietnam hit by worst drought in 90 years
Vietnam is suffering its worst drought in nearly a century with salinization hitting farmers especially hard in the crucial southern Mekong delta, experts said Monday. “The water level of the Mekong River has gone down to its lowest level since 1926, leading to the worst drought and salinization there,” Nguyen Van Tinh, deputy head of the hydraulics department under the Ministry of Agriculture, told AFP. The low-lying and heavily cultivated Mekong region is home to more than 20 million people and is the country’s rice basket. Intensive cultivation and rising sea levels already make it one of the world’s most ecologically sensitive regions. Scientists blame the ongoing 2015-2016 El Nino weather phenomenon, one of the most powerful on record, for the current drought. Water shortages have also hampered agriculture in nearby Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Myanmar. Le Anh Tuan, a professor of climate change at the University of Can Tho in the heart of the Mekong region, said as much as 40-50 percent of the 2.2 million hectares (5.4 million acres) of arable land in the delta had been hit by salinization.
March 2, 2016
http://www.arabnews.com/world/news/888906
February 29, 2016 – Over 12,000 chickens and geese killed due to avian flu in Taiwan
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/national/national-news/2016/02/29/459485/Over-12000.htm
February 29, 2016 – 400,000 salmon dead due to ‘lice treatment and disease’ in fish farms in Norway
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fsysla.no%2F2016%2F02%2F29%2Fhavbruk%2F400-000-oppdrettsfisk-dode_79248%2F&edit-text=&act=url
March 1, 2016- Thousands of dead fish have washed up in a lake in Victoria, Australia
http://www.news.com.au/national/breaking-news/thousands-of-dead-fish-at-vic-lake/news-story/c56233321d214ae789abe373de739823
March 1, 2016- Over 4 million salmon dead due to algae bloom in Chiloe and Aysen region, Chile
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.latercera.com%2Fnoticia%2Fnegocios%2F2016%2F03%2F655-670392-9-salmoneras-pierden-peces-valorados-en-mas-de-us-30-millones.shtml&edit-text=&act=url
March 2, 2016- Hundreds of fish die in Devigere lake, India
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/532082/hundreds-fish-die-devigere-lake.html
Headline: Brazil confirms 641 cases of microcephaly amid Zika outbreak
Brazil has confirmed 641 cases of microcephaly and 139 babies with the birth defect who have died since the Zika virus outbreak started in October, the Health Ministry said. The latest figure was up 10 percent over the number of microcephaly cases reported by the ministry last week. Authorities were investigating another 4,222 possible cases of microcephaly, in which a baby is born with an abnormally small head and often incomplete brain development. Scientists in Brazil say the increase in microcephaly is linked to an explosion of the mosquito-transmitted Zika virus, with an estimated 1.5 million people infected. The World Health Organization is studying the possible connection and calls the Zika outbreak an international health emergency.
March 2, 2016
Matthew 24:7 “For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. Luke 21:11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.” Luke21:25 “And there will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring”
Headline: Indonesian official reports deaths after powerful earthquake hits region
An official says there are casualties following an earthquake of magnitude 7.8 off Sumatra Wednesday that prompted a tsunami warning. The quake was six miles deep and its epicentre was 502 miles southwest of Padang, according to the US Geological Society. It struck at around 6:50pm local time, was felt at least as far away as Malaysia and Singapore and had initially been measured at 8.2. Heronimus Guru, deputy head of operations for the country’s search and rescue agency, said: “There are some who have died”, but was unable to give further details. A tsunami warning was issued for parts of Sumatra, including West Sumatra, North Sumatra and Aceh shortly after the quake but around an hour later, local channel TVRI reported that the warning had been cancelled.
March 2, 2016
Headline: Japan bans access to 1km radius due to Niigata-Yakeyama volcano activity
Authorities in Japan have banned access to an area within a radius of 1km of the Niigata-Yakeyama volcano on the border of Niigata and Nagano prefectures, TASS reported. Meteorologists cited an increased activity of the volcano. Frequent emissions of steam and gases have been recorded on its eastern slope over the year. Gas and steam ejected on the surface of slopes to a height of 100 meters this year, NHK said. Higher temperature was recorded on separate sections of the volcano, considered ‘relatively active’.
March 2, 2016
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List & map of USGS Earthquakes