Feb. 23, 2015- Iran forming ‘third front’ against Israel/Prophecy Signs
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Frank DiMora P.O. Box 732, Lompoc Ca. 93436 fjdimora@gmail.com
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At the end of my last prophecy seminar on February 11, 2015 I told those in the class to expect war in 2015. Why did I say this? Take a look at what Jesus said in Matthew 24:6-7. 6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. For the past 5 years I have repeated my statement that because Iran would not stop their quest to get a nuclear bomb Israel would have to take action against Iran that would lead to war. If you have been watching the news you are up to speed knowing that the time gap is closing very fast for Israel to take action to halt that bomb progress. Is Israel going to attack soon? Take a look at the video below. If there really is US troop movements to Israel it is happening just prior to the 
total solar eclipse which will take place on March 20, 2015 and the 
Blood Moon which will take place on April 4, 2015. We have seen in the past how major events have taken place during these heavenly signs. The next set of Blood Moons won’t show up until 2032-2033. There are many Pastors who are saying these next set of solar eclipses and Blood Moons are the ones Jesus warned us about for the last days. I refer to Matthew 24 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”. Most of you who have watched any news in 2014 or 2015 have already witnessed the many rumors of war that have taken place in this short amount of time. Then in the latter part of 2014, ISIS began their major assault into Iraq and, Syria and, now they have moved into areas bordering Israel as well as just recently taking over much of Libya. Seems like the fighting is everywhere you look now but, it will get worse according to Christ as you can see from the Matthew 24 scriptures.
I wish I could tell you exactly how things are going to be played out but like you all I can do is watch as Jesus instructed all of us to do and, see how these things unfold. There is one thing I can tell you for sure. I can tell you the exact names of the nations who are going to attack Israel as they are given to us in Psalm 83 and in Ezekiel 38. Is it possible that the US is going to Israel knowing that when Israel goes into Iran to bomb their nuclear plants that Iran would counter that attack and make moves on Israel? Could such an attack on Iran tick off the rest of the Muslims who are listed in the Psalm 83 war so much so that they would attack Israel for Iran? As I said, only our Lord know for sure but one thing is very clear at this point. War Is Coming Very Soon!
If you have noticed I have stepped up in trying to finish my teaching on the book of Revelation. I have been doing a verse by verse teaching through the Revelation. I just finished part 36. Jesus has laid it on my heart to finish this work. I never know how many people will watch these YouTube videos but, that is not my concern as the Lord has a plan for each person and, Christ will direct the people He wants to my teaching as He sees fit. As a watchmen on the wall for Christ I am asking any of you who have not taken Jesus Christ as your Savior yet to please consider what you are seeing in the news. I am sure that there are many of you who are watching the news not even knowing that you are seeing first hand Bible prophecy come to pass just as Christ warned it would. Even nature itself is calling out to Christ to be delivered! In my book I list all the reports concerning the mass bee deaths. I do this to show you little by little these important crop growers are dying off and, their death is going to have a huge impact on the global food supply. Did you notice in the Matthew 24:7 verse Jesus talks about famines? At the rate the bees are dying off one can see just one of the reasons why famines will occur. Are you taking notice that the list of birds, fish, and animals round the planet are also dying off in mass numbers? So far in the beginning of 2015 we have already seen 115 reports of either birds, fish, or animals dying in mass numbers in 34 nations. This sign alone should be enough to tell you there is something major going on around the world that is killing off our food supply!
Headline: Iran forming ‘third front’ against Israel on Golan: Netanyahu
Headline: Iran is Deployed, ‘Planning War’ Along Israel’s Northern Border
Iran is seeking to open a “third front” against Israel using Hezbollah fighters on the Syrian Golan Heights, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday. Netanyahu said Tehran’s attempts to entrench itself along Israel’s borders was one of the biggest emerging security threats facing the Jewish state. “Alongside Iran’s direct guidance of Hezbollah’s actions in the north and Hamas’s in the south, Iran is trying also to develop a third front on the Golan Heights via the thousands of Hezbollah fighters who are in southern Syria and over which Iran holds direct command,” he said. Speaking at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting, Netanyahu said his ministers were to be briefed on “the security challenges developing around us, first and foremost Iran’s attempt to increase its foothold on Israel’s borders even as it works to arm itself with nuclear weapons.”
Feb. 22, 2015
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/191709#.VOt1gy6xXhK
Headline: Al Qaeda-Linked Al-Shabaab Calls for Attacks on ‘Jewish-Owned’ Malls in UK, Canada & USA
The Somali al-Shabaab terror group linked to Al Qaeda has called on Muslims in the West to “answer the call” and attack “American and Jewish-owned” shopping malls in the UK, US and Canada. In the 77-minute video the speaker, whose face was covered, said, “We call upon our Muslim brothers, particularly those in the West, to answer the call of Allah and target the disbelievers wherever they are,” said a speaker wearing a military jacket, face covered. Suggesting the Mall of America – the largest mall in the United States – the speaker displayed coordinates for the site on the screen. The “twin cities” of S. Paul and Minneapolis are home to the largest population of Somali immigrants in the U.S. More than a few are known to have traveled from there to the Mideast and Africa to fight with radical Islamist terrorists. The threat has become a raison d’etre for America’s Department of Homeland Security, which was slated for shutdown this week. DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson said Sunday that the propaganda video released Saturday by al-Shabaab, made clear “why I need a budget.” The video also called for attacks on Oxford Street in London and two Westfield Malls in Stratford and White City as well as Canada’s West Edmonton Mall in Alberta – the largest shopping mall in North America.
Feb. 23, 2015
Headline: West Bank rage over frozen wages could boil over into violence
Headline: Israeli Utility Begins West Bank Power Cuts
Israel’s state-owned electric company briefly cut power to two Palestinian cities in the occupied West Bank on Monday to press for payment of what it said was $492 million owed by the Palestinian government. “The Israel Electric Corporation limited for 45 minutes today the supply of electricity to five power lines in Nablus and Jenin,” the company said in a statement, adding that further cuts were possible. Nablus Mayor Ghassan Al-Shaka’a said the power went out in parts of the city and was gradually restored. “This is collective punishment,” he told Reuters, calling the blackouts politically motivated. Israel Electric Corp said in a statement it had “long warned … about a debt that has ballooned to more than 1.9 billion shekels over the years — but no solution has been found”. Shaka’a told Reuters that Israeli power cuts would do more damage to a Palestinian economy already hit by Israel’s withholding of the monthly transfer of more than $100 million in tax revenues that it collects on behalf of the PA.
Feb. 23, 2015
http://www.timesofisrael.com/west-bank-rage-over-frozen-wages-could-boil-over-into-violence/
http://www.voanews.com/content/reu-israeli-electric-company-begins-west-bank-power-cuts/2655092.html
“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)
Lebanon
Headline: ISIS preparing to declare Islamic emirate in Lebanon: sources
Headline: ISIS commander murdered outside Arsal
ISIS is preparing military plans to declare an Islamic emirate in Lebanon very soon to serve as a geographical extension of the so-called “Islamic State” announced by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in Iraq last year, security sources said. ISIS fighters have demanded support from the militant group in northern Syria to achieve this goal, the sources said. They added that the ISIS command has begun preparations to set up a military organizational committee tasked with running Lebanese affairs and considering Lebanon as part of its state. However, ISIS is facing difficulties in choosing a Lebanese commander for this mission. The reported appointment of the fugitive preacher Ahmad al-Assir for this post was merely a trial balloon, the sources said. They added that arrangements to form an ISIS command for the Lebanon emirate were taking place under the supervision of the group commander Khalaf al-Zeyabi Halous, codenamed “Abu Musaab Halous,” a Syrian who had played a key role in the ISIS offensive to capture the Raqqa province in 2013. In the meantime, an influential party in Lebanon has received important information indicating that ISIS is bent on recruiting more suicide bombers equipped with explosives belts to target Shiite gatherings in Beirut and the southern suburbs as well as French and Western interests, while the Iranian Embassy in Beirut, which was targeted with a deadly twin suicide attack in November 2013, is still vulnerable to another assault.
Feb. 23, 2015
Egypt
Headline: Egypt Suggests Pan-Arab Force to Fight ISIS
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has called for a pan-Arab military force to fight the Islamic State (ISIS). Speaking a week after Egypt bombed ISIS positions in Libya in retaliation for the terrorist army’s execution of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians, al-Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said he believes in “coordination with our Arab brothers.” Judging by the Egyptian military’s far from superior past, it is no wonder the former general wants allies. The attack on Libya last week boosted Al-Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s popularity but also raises questions why he did not act sooner, before the hostages were beheaded. The aerial strikes also served to bury to put on the back burner, temporarily, at home, where he has been harshly criticized for detaining thousands of people for alleged terrorism during the crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood. Al-Sisi admitted in his televised speech on Sunday, “I am sure there are many innocent people inside prisons. Soon many of them will be released according to the available permissions.”
Feb. 23, 2015
Syria Iraq ISIS- the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (the Levant) ISIS=ISIL=IS=Daash
Iraq Syria Kurdistan
Syria Headline: Syria forces execute 10 children of rebels: monitor
Ten children were among at least 48 people killed in a Syrian village this week when regime forces executed six families of rebel fighters, a monitoring group said on Saturday. Tuesday’s executions took place in the village of Rityan, north of second city Aleppo, after regime forces entered that day during an offensive aimed at cutting rebel supply lines to the Turkish border, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The Britain-based monitor said that villagers had discovered the bodies when they returned to their homes after the regime forces withdrew a day later. Five women and 13 rebels from the six families were among the dead. “The troops and militiamen knew exactly where they lived thanks to the informers who accompanied them,” Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman said. “There was no resistance except in one house where a rebel opened fire at troops before being executed along with his family,” he added.
Feb. 21, 2015
http://news.yahoo.com/syria-forces-execute-10-children-alleged-rebels-monitor-142203604.html
Syria Headline: Four killed in twin suicide bombings south of Damascus
Two simultaneous suicide attacks killed four people and wounded 13 on Monday in southern Damascus near a Shiite shrine, Syria’s state news agency SANA reported. The agency, quoting police, said the twin attack took place at a security checkpoint near the shrine of Sayyida Zeinab, a granddaughter of the Prophet Mohammed. “A civilian car had stopped at the checkpoint… and a terrorist got out wearing an explosive vest which he detonated,” SANA said, adding that seconds later a man who had remained in the car blew it up. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the bombing targeted a checkpoint manned by a pro-regime militia, just 10 kilometres (six miles) east of Damascus and on the road to the international airport. The Britain-based Observatory also reported that a rocket hit the Adra prison northeast of Damascus on Monday, killing four people and wounding 15. It did not say if the casualties were prisoners, guards or visitors.
Feb. 23, 2015
Syria Headline: IS launches violent attack on the vicinity of Tal Tamer Town
Al- Hasakah Province: Violent clashes have taken place since morning between YPG and IS due to an attack launched by IS on YPG positions in the village of Ighaibish and other villages around the town of Tal Tamer, amid advancement for the IS militants and taking control over wide areas in the village of Ighaibish, initial information about withdrawal of YPG and casualties on both sides. The town of Tal Tamer are witnessing fall of shells launched by IS with no information about casualties so far. YPG fighters took control over 2 villages in the countryside of the border City of Jaz’ah after violent clashes with IS.
Feb. 23, 2015
http://syriahr.com/en/2015/02/is-launches-violent-attack-on-the-vicinity-of-tal-tamer-town/
Syria Headline: ISW Syria Situation Report Feb. 10-17, 2015
http://iswsyria.blogspot.com/2015/02/syria-situation-report-february-10-17.html
Syria Headline: Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
https://www.facebook.com/syriahroe
http://syriahr.com/en/category/news/
Iraq Headline: Separate bombings leave 19 dead, injure dozens in Iraq
At least 19 people have been killed and dozens injured in separate bombings in Iraq, including a truck bomb attack on Shia fighters in the country, police say. The deadliest attack involved a bomber who drove his explosives-laden truck into a manned checkpoint near the northern city of Tikrit on Sunday, killing eight Shia fighters and wounding at least 15 others. Tikrit, situated 130 kilometers (80 miles) north of Baghdad, remains under control of ISIL Takfiri terrorists, though the Iraqi government and Shia groups maintain control of areas and roads leading into the city. In a separate incident, seven people were killed and 14 others wounded when a car bomb exploded near a chain of car shops in Baghdad’s western district of Baiyaa, police said. Elsewhere, an explosion near an outdoor market in the town of Yusufiyah, located about 32 kilometers (20 miles) south of Baghdad, left two people dead and 10 others injured. Another bomb blast on a commercial street in Baghdad’s southeastern district of Zafaraniyah killed two people and wounded six others. Meanwhile, authorities discovered four bodies with gunshot wounds to the head and chest in different areas of Baghdad. Dead bodies lying on the streets have become a common occurrence in recent years amid the widespread sectarian violence engulfing Iraq.
Feb. 22, 2015
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/02/22/398740/Iraq-bombings-kill-19-injure-dozens
Iraq Headline: France deploys aircraft carrier against ISIS in Iraq – ministry
France has deployed its Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier against the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) in Iraq, as part of the US-led military campaign, French media report, citing government officials. “The integration of the Charles de Gaulle in the operation… (in Iraq) begins this morning,” a member of Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian’s staff told AFP. The agency reports that the first Rafale fighter jet took off from the aircraft carrier on Monday morning. The warship was sailing about 200 kilometres (120 miles) off the coast north of Bahrain in the direction of Iraq. Jets sent from the carrier reach Iraq twice as fast as those, flying from their base in the United Arab Emirates. France announced sending the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier for use in military operations against the Islamic State in Iraq in mid-January. The decision was made in the wake of the deadly Paris attacks, when Islamist gunmen killed 17 people at the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket.
Feb. 23, 2015
http://rt.com/news/234647-france-deploys-aircraft-carrier/
Iraq Headline: ISW Iraq Situation Report Feb. 19-20, 2015
http://iswiraq.blogspot.com/2015/02/iraq-situation-report-february-19-20.html
Kurdish Headline: ISIS Releases Video Purportedly Showing Caged Kurdish Fighters
The latest video from the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group purportedly shows 21 men believed to be Kurdish Peshmerga fighters paraded down an Iraqi street in cages set in the backs of 21 white pickup trucks. In the video released Saturday, titled “Healing the Chest of Those Who Believe,” the men wear orange jumpsuits and ISIS’s Black Standard flag is visible numerous times. All of the militants are dressed in black with only their eyes showing, similar to their appearance in other ISIS videos. A large crowd gathers in the street to view the procession, and many people take photographs. The video is similar to two others released by the terrorist group: The cage first appeared in the video showing Jordanian pilot Muadh al-Kasasbeh’s execution, and last week a video surfaced of 17 Kurdish Peshmerga being forced by militants to walk through an Iraqi town. The latter has called into question when and where the video released on Saturday was filmed, and whether it is linked to last week’s forced walk. The SITE Intel Group, a jihadist threat watchdog, believes the cage parade was filmed in Kirkuk, Iraq. Officials have not confirmed the authenticity of the video. The fate of the men also remains in question.
Feb. 23, 2015
Headline: Isis: Islamic State ‘moving Iraq’s HQs from Mosul to Hawija’ ahead of US-prepared offensive
Headline: The terrifying rise of ISIS: Map that shows how terror group’s tentacles now reach from Algeria to Afghanistan
Jihadi group Islamic State (Isis) is said to be relocating its Iraqi headquarters some 150km to the south in the Sunni-dominated town of Hawija, Sunni tribal fighters in Iraq told IBTimes US. IS has been running its operations in Iraq from Mosul, the country’s second largest city, since taking it over last year. Earlier in February, US officials disclosed that a coordinate military mission to retake the city involving some 25,000 Iraqi troops and Kurdish fighters was being set up. In preparation for the offensive, which is expected to start in April or May, the US has been providing weapons and training to Iraqi forces, while coalition warplanes bombarded IS positions in Mosul. Meanwhile, however, the Islamist group has consolidated its hold on Hawija, which lies some 35 miles east of the oil rich Kirkuk and the surrounding area. Since seizing the town in June 2014, IS has won the support of local residents and has recently started to increase its military presence in order to create its new Iraqi central command there, according to IBTimes US.
Last week’s Pentagon briefing outlined plans for Iraqi and Kurdish forces to retake Mosul from Islamic State, also known as ISIS. This strategy largely assumes that if ISIS is expelled from Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, pushed out of Anbar province and degraded in Syria, the organization will collapse because its narrative of victory will be tarnished and its legitimacy as a “Caliphate” will end. That may have been true some months ago. But ISIS has adapted more quickly than U.S. strategy has succeeded, and it is pursuing a deliberate strategy to offset its tactical losses in Iraq and Syria with territorial gains in the Mideast and globally. ISIS’s often stated objective is to “remain and expand.” This is not a mere defensive measure to preserve its combat power from destruction. Nor is it a mere recruiting slogan designed to replace some 6,000 ISIS fighters that Washington estimates have been killed since U.S.-led coalition airstrikes began in August. As Ms. Gambhir concludes in her recent Institute for the Study of War “ISIS Global Intelligence Summary,” open-source reporting indicates that ISIS is executing a complex global strategy across three geographic rings- the “Interior Ring” is at the center of the fighting and includes terrain the group is named for, specifically Iraq and al Sham—i.e., the Levantine states of Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Israel-Palestine. The “Near Abroad Ring” includes the rest of the Middle East and North Africa, extending east to Afghanistan and Pakistan. ISIS has claimed auxiliary operations or established what it calls “governorates” across this region. The “Far Abroad Ring” includes the rest of the world, specifically Europe, the U.S. and Asia. Here ISIS is most focused on nearby Europe, which it terms “Rome” as a reference to the Byzantine empire, the great power adversary in decline during the rise of the early Islamic caliphs. ISIS distinguishes between established Muslim lands and those that host Muslim diaspora communities, and it uses different but interlocking strategies in each ring to expand its influence.
Feb. 23, 2015
http://www.wsj.com/articles/islamic-states-global-ambitions-1424646205
http://www.understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/INTSUM_Summary_V5_0.pdf
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 Russian invasion of Israel.
Magog, Meshech, and Tubal comprise modern day Russia.
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 Germany.
Beth Togarmah is Turkey and Armenia.
Russia
Headline: Ukraine says cannot withdraw heavy weapons as attacks persist
Kiev accused pro-Russian rebels of opening fire with rockets and artillery at villages in southeastern Ukraine on Monday, all but burying a week-old European-brokered ceasefire deal. The Ukrainian military said it could not pull weapons from the front as required under the tenuous truce, as long as its troops were still under attack. The Ukrainian currency, nearly in freefall this month, fell a further 10 percent on Monday on fears that the truce could collapse. The central bank said it would impose import curbs to sustain the hryvnia. The value of Ukrainian debt also fell, with bonds now trading at 40 cents on the dollar. The reported shooting came closer to killing off the truce, intended to end fighting that has killed more than 5,600 people, which rebels ignored last week to capture the strategic town of Debaltseve in a punishing defeat for Kiev. Western countries still hope the truce can be salvaged if the rebels halt having achieved that objective. But Germany, whose Chancellor Angela Merkel was the driving force behind the peace deal, said in unusually strong terms that it was now clear that the ceasefire was not being implemented.
Feb. 23, 2015
http://newsdaily.com/2015/02/ukraine-military-says-cannot-withdraw-heavy-weapons-as-attacks-persist/
Iran
Headline: Russia offers Iran new air defense missile deal
Headline: Proposed Deal With Iran Would Enable it to Develop Nuclear Weapons
Russia has offered Iran its latest Antey-2500 missiles, the head of Russian state defence conglomerate Rostec said on Monday according to media reports, after a deal to supply less powerful S-300 missiles was dropped under Western pressure. Sergei Chemezov said Tehran was now considering the offer, TASS news agency reported. Russia scrapped a contract to supply Iran with S-300 surface-to-air missiles under Western pressure in 2010, and Iran later filed a $4-billion international arbitration suit against Russia in Geneva, but the two countries remain allies. The United States and Israel lobbied Russia to block the missile sale, saying it could be used to shield Iran’s nuclear facilities from possible future air strikes.
There was no immediate response to Chemezov’s comments from Iran, Israel or the United States.
Feb. 23, 2015
http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/1.643806
Headline: Iran airlifts thousands of Shiite fighters to Syrian port of Latakia to boost Aleppo warfront
Headline: Iranian-Backed Militias Cause a Political Crisis for Iraq
Headline: Hezbollah suffers Aleppo losses
debkafile’s exclusive military and intelligence sources have discovered a large-scale Iranian airlift is in progress for bringing thousands of Shiite fighters to the Syrian Mediterranean port of Latakia to reinforce the Syrian army forces falling back from the key city of Aleppo. Some of the flights are taking off from Baghdad airport. The Syrian rebels in heavy fighting Thursday and Friday, Feb. 19-20 repulsed a Hizballah-backed Syrian army offensive to recapture the town and took scores of Hizballah fighters prisoner. The incoming reinforcements are being transferred directly to the Aleppo battle-front in an effort to stabilize it and reverse the Syrian army’s retreat. The incoming reinforcements are made up of Iraqi, Afghan and Pakistani Shiite militiamen.The fact that Tehran was able to raise this force in less than 24 hours from the Syrian army’s defeat in Aleppo demonstrates Iran’s total military and strategic commitment to swift action for averting a Syrian-Hizballah retreat from a key front of the four-year old civil war. The Iranian planes are taking two routes to Syria, starting out either in Baghdad or Tehran. In Baghdad, they touch down in the military section of the international airport and collect the Iraqi Shiite militiamen destined for the Syrian battlefield. This step necessitated the consent of the Iraqi government and Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi. The Iranian operation therefore exposes two exceedingly disturbing developments which are causing Israel’s army chiefs to burn the midnight oil: The fall of the Abadi government under Tehran’s sway is one; and Iraq’s direct involvement for the first time in the military actions of the Syrian civil war.
Feb. 21, 2015
http://iswiraq.blogspot.com/2015/02/iranian-backed-militias-cause-political.html
https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/NewsReports/564875-hezbollah-suffers-aleppo-losses
Afghanistan
Headline: Afghanistan’s Abdullah: Taliban Talks to Start Soon
Headline: Defense Secretary Carter Hints At Slowing U.S. Exit From Afghanistan
Afghanistan’s Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah told a cabinet meeting that peace talks with the Taliban will start soon. Following days of media reports that peace talks are imminent, Abdullah confirmed that authorities are moving forward with preparations, but declined to provide a specific timetable for when they would begin. On Monday, Abdullah assured Afghans that negotiations will be held for the betterment of the country without compromising Afghanistan’s national interests. He promised to keep the nation fully informed about the opening of the peace dialogue and its progress. “The vast majority of people of Afghanistan desire restoration of lasting peace with dignity and we hope that the beginning of peace talks (with the Taliban) will help achieve this goal,” Abdullah said.
Feb. 23, 2015
http://www.voanews.com/content/afghanistans-abdullah-says-taliban-talks-to-start-soon/2654737.html
Libya
Headline: Libya violence: Islamic State attack ‘kills 40’ in al-Qubbah
Headline: Migrants tell of deepening chaos in Libya: ‘Everyone is armed now’
Headline: Libya Accuses US of Trying to Put Muslim Brotherhood in Power
Headline: Islamic State in Libya claims credit for bombing of empty Iranian embassy
A bombing by suspected Islamic State (IS) militants in Libya has killed at least 40 people and wounded dozens in the eastern town of al-Qubbah. Three bombs exploded, targeting a petrol station, a police station and the home of parliamentary speaker Agila Salah, a security source told BBC News. According to an online statement, IS fighters said they struck in retaliation for Egyptian air strikes. Egypt launched strikes after IS killed 21 Egyptian Christians it had abducted. The al-Qubbah attack is one of the deadliest in Libya since the toppling of Col Muammar Gaddafi four years ago. Meanwhile, Libya’s Islamic State affiliate claimed responsibility for an attack on the Iranian embassy in Libya’s capital on Sunday. Two bombs detonated at the facility’s main gate but produced no casualties, according to Libyan and Iranian officials. Marzieh Afkham, Iran’s foreign ministry spokeswoman, condemned the attack, saying “a handmade bomb in front of the residence of the former Iranian ambassador in Tripoli only led to trivial material damages.” The Iranian ambassador was not in the building at the time of the attack, and Iran said the facility has been empty since operations were suspended there in 2012. A similar attack last month on the empty Algerian embassy in Tripoli wounded three people and was claimed by Libya’s IS affiliate.
Feb. 22, 2015
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-31549280
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/191701#.VOt42S6xXhI
Tunisia
Headline: Islamic State ‘Caliphate’ In Libya Depends On Tunisian Foreign Fighters And Desert Training Camps
Headline: Egypt sends planes to Tunisia to evacuate Libya returnees
The Arab Spring’s success story has turned into a one of the most fertile breeding grounds for fighters joining the Islamic State group. Tunisia, where a 2011 revolution overthrew a corrupt regime and sparked a season of Middle Eastern upheavals, has emerged as a relatively stable and well-off country with a secular, democratic government. But that narrative is undermined by Tunisia’s newfound role as the prime supplier of manpower to the Islamic State group — and its proximity to Libya may turn it into a major source of combatants in that country’s civil war, which threatens to pull in Egypt and European countries. Tunisia has been the number one provider of foreign fighters in Syria so far. As of last October, there were an estimated 3,000 Tunisians who had traveled to Iraq and Syria and joined extremist groups like ISIS. Many of them were trained in the country, where a lawless desert area on the border with Libya offers ideal conditions for jihadis to train undisturbed. For years, the Tunisian desert has been home to training camps for various jihadist groups, and the army has been unable to shut them down. Camps were flush with Libyan weapons smuggled out when Moammar Gadhafi’s regime collapsed in 2011, and Tunisians were the most common trainee. At least one of those camps now belongs to ISIS and, until recently, fighters were trained there and then sent to Syria through Turkey with the help of a recruiter who was usually Tunisian. Earlier this month, the government reported that it was able to stop 9,000 would-be fighters en route to that camp, but that 540 already had completed their training and left the country.
Feb. 20, 2015
http://www.worldbulletin.net/world/155534/egypt-sends-planes-to-tunisia-to-evacuate-libya-returnees
Turkey
Headline: Turkey enters Syria to remove precious Suleyman Shah tomb
Hundreds of Turkish forces in armoured vehicles have entered war-torn northern Syria to evacuate troops guarding a historic tomb, demolishing it and moving the remains to a different site. The remains of Suleyman Shah, who died in the 13th Century, were moved to a site in Syria closer to the border. Turkey considered the shrine sovereign territory. Islamic State (IS) militants in the area had threatened to attack it last year. The government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, which has lost control over much of northern Syria as a result of the country’s civil war, condemned the incursion as “flagrant aggression”. It said that Turkey had informed its Istanbul consulate about the operation but had not waited for Syria’s consent. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his government and the armed forces had carried out a “successful operation which is beyond all kinds of appreciation”.
Feb. 22, 2015
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-31572257
Headline: Turkish government strikes down parliamentary request to investigate ISIS activity in Turkey
Turkey’s ruling Islamist party, the AKP, has struck down a parliamentary motion to launch an official probe into Islamic State’s activities inside Turkey, Hurriyet Daily News reported on Saturday. Nazmi Gur, a deputy of the opposition’s People’s Democratic Party, who initially forwarded the motion, claimed that the government’s rejection of the investigation is “a sign that the Turkish government still refrains from taking a clear position against ISIL (Islamic State).” This request for an inquiry comes in light of multiple incidents that have raised suspicions regarding Turkey’s relationship with the Islamic State group.
Feb. 22, 2015
Luke 21:9 and Matthew 24:7 speak of nation against nation and kingdom against kingdom in the end times. Revelation 6:3-4 speaks of the fiery red horse given power to make men slay one another and Revelation 6:8 speaks again of this red horse in conjunction with the pale horse of Death and Hades, as the one that has the power to kill by sword. Luke 21:9: wars & commotions; the Greek word here is Akatastasia, meaning instability, a state of disorder, disturbance, confusion (revolutions) Matthew 24:7: the Greek word for nation is Ethnos & refers to various ethnic groups fighting among themselves, where the next sentence in the verse refers to kingdoms (basileiva) fighting one another (not to be confused with an actual kingdom but rather the right or authority to rule over a kingdom)
Headline: Suicide bomber kills 4, injures 46 at northeastern Nigeria market
A girl suicide bomber as young as 10 blew herself up at a busy market in the northeast Nigerian town of Potiskum on Sunday, killing four others and seriously wounding 46 people, a witness and hospital records show. The girl, who appeared no more than 10 years old, got out of a tricycle taxi in front of the cell phone market and detonated her explosives on Potiskum’s main market day, according to survivor Anazumi Saleh, who suffered injuries to his head. Officials have not immediately ascertained the girl’s identification or her age from her remains. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the bombing but the attack bears all the signs of similar bombings by Boko Haram and raises fears that Nigeria’s home-grown Islamic extremists are using kidnap victims as bombers. It is unclear whether the girls and young women in many recent attacks have set off the explosions themselves, or whether the detonations are controlled remotely. Separately, a new group releasing propaganda for Boko Haram denied a Ministry of Defense statement that troops Friday seized back control of the border garrison town of Baga. It has been reported that military from Nigeria and neighboring Chad are retaking towns and villages held for months by Boko Haram even as the extremists attack other northeastern communities. Scores of civilians have been killed in such attacks in recent days.
Feb. 23, 2015
Headline: Bomb explodes near military academy in Yemeni capital
Headline: Yemen’s Shiite rebels threaten to arrest, charge ministers
A bomb exploded near a military academy in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Monday evening, security sources told Reuters, in a neighborhood that is a main stronghold of Shi’ite Muslim Houthi fighters. The blast did not cause any casualties and was being investigated, a security official was quoted as saying to the defense ministry’s official news outlet, 26 September. Security in Yemen has frayed since the Houthis formally took power in the capital this month, raising fears of an all-out civil war and of an increase in attacks by radical Sunni militants loyal to al Qaeda. There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula – regarded by the United States as the most dangerous affiliate of the global militant group – has taken credit for many past bombings against the Houthis, whom they regard as apostates.
Feb. 23, 2015
http://newsdaily.com/2015/02/bomb-explodes-near-military-academy-in-yemeni-capital-security-sources/
Headline: Myanmar says more than 130 dead in fighting near China border
Myanmar’s army Saturday said more than 130 people had died in a deepening battle with rebels in the northeast, declaring it would not rest until stability was restored to the border area which tens of thousands have fled. Fighting raged in the remote Kokang region of Shan state where conflict erupted on February 9 with insurgent attacks on soldiers that triggered a military onslaught, prompting at least 30,000 civilians to escape into bordering China. In the first press conference since clashes began, defence ministry spokesman Lieutenant General Mya Htun Oo said the conflict had killed 61 military and police officers, and around 72 insurgents. More than 100 military members have been injured since fighting broke out. “The fighting is strong… Because of serious fighting, our helicopters are helping,” he told reporters in the capital Naypyidaw. “We will not retreat until we get stability.” He did not provide figures on civilian deaths in and around Laukkai town, where the conflict has centred, as efforts to evacuate remaining communities have been hampered by an attack Tuesday on a local Red Cross convoy which wounded two aid workers — leading relief groups to officially suspend rescue missions.
Feb. 21, 2015
http://news.yahoo.com/myanmar-says-more-130-dead-fighting-near-china-144841012.html
Economic collapse Revelation 6:5-6 & Daniel 2:41-43- Decline of the Euro “ 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) “Whereas you saw the feet and toes, partly of potter’s clay and partly of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; yet the strength of the iron shall be in it, just as you saw the iron mixed with ceramic clay. 42 And as the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly fragile. 43 As you saw iron mixed with ceramic clay, they will mingle with the seed of men; but they will not adhere to one another, just as iron does not mix with clay.” (Daniel 2:41-43)
Headline: Who Won the Greek Showdown in Europe?
“Complete” surrender by the Greeks. “Major victory” for the eurocrats. To those who have followed Greece’s financial crisis for five years, there wasn’t much doubt who won the latest round Friday when the region’s finance ministers struck a deal to keep the bailout on track. Even German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, who said he didn’t “want to make it more difficult for them,” concluded Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will have a “difficult” time selling the agreement at home. That’s because Tsipras’s populist rhetoric of ending austerity was overpowered by the united front he faced. A “complete political surrender to the world of reality” was how Erik Nielsen, London-based global chief economist of UniCredit Bank AG, put it. Societe Generale SA and Berenberg Bank both labeled it a “u-turn” by Tsipras, who won election Jan. 25 promising an end to budget cutting. “If the deal holds, it would be a major victory of common sense over populism,” said Holger Schmieding, chief economist at Berenberg in London, who cut his probability of Greece leaving the euro area to 25 percent from 35 percent. “The taming of Tsipras would show that Europe’s ‘tough love’ approach is working.” While Tsipras says skirting national insolvency meant “we won a battle, but not the war,” economists say he may not have managed even that. That’s because the basics of the existing aid deal he fought against are still intact.
Feb. 23, 2015
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: Oil slide could trigger Opec emergency meeting
Headline: Obama expected to get Keystone bill on Tuesday
Members of Opec have discussed holding an emergency meeting if crude continues to slide, according to Nigeria’s oil minister, in a sign of their growing alarm over the impact of a lower oil price on their economies. The comments by Diezani Alison-Madueke come three months after the cartel’s decision to hold production at 30m barrels a day, even as the oil price has plunged since mid-June. That move, driven by Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies, marked a sharp deviation from Opec’s traditional strategy of adjusting production to keep prices high. The group’s main objective is now to defend market share, despite dramatically reduced revenues. The price plunge has forced energy companies all over the world to rewrite their investment plans, and caused a major slowdown in the US shale oil industry. But it has also thrown the fiscal balances of big oil producers such as Nigeria, Venezuela and Russia into disarray. “Almost all Opec countries, except perhaps the Arab bloc, are very uncomfortable,” said Ms Alison-Madueke, who as president of Opec is responsible for liaising with member countries and the producer group’s secretary-general in the event of an emergency meeting. If the price “slips any further it is highly likely that I will have to call an extraordinary meeting of Opec in the next six weeks or so”, she said in an interview with the Financial Times. “We’re already talking with member countries.” But market analysts say it is highly unlikely that Saudi Arabia, Opec’s de facto leader, will agree to such a meeting.
Feb. 23, 2015
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/669d962a-bb62-11e4-a31f-00144feab7de.html
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/02/23/keystone-bill-to-be-sent-tuesday-to-obama/
Revelation 6:6- With the bees dying off, you will see a decrease in produce and an INCREASE in food prices!
Feb. 12, 2015- 140 bee hives have died off ‘due to pesticides’ in Calasparra, Spain
Feb. 22, 2015- Growers feel sting of bee decline; Die-offs affect Y-S almond farmers
Pestilence & Plagues Luke 21:11 & Revelation 6:8 “And there will be great earthquakes in various places, and famines and pestilences; and there will be fearful sights and great signs from heaven.” (Luke) “So I looked, and behold, a pale horse. And the name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hades followed with him. And power was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, with hunger, with death (Thanatos in Greek meaning the death of the body whether natural or violent), and by the beasts of the earth” (Revelation)
Headline: India struggles with deadly swine flu outbreak
Indian health officials are struggling to contain a swine flu outbreak that has killed more than 700 people since it took hold in mid-December. The number of cases has doubled since last week to more than 11,000. Critics have accused the government of failing to distribute medicines, but officials insisted the situation was under control. This year’s outbreak of the H1N1 virus, which causes swine flu, is the deadliest in India since 2010. The northern state of Rajasthan has been worst affected. Health authorities across India have launched TV and radio campaigns to tell people about precautions they can take to avoid the flu. Health Minister JP Nadda attempted to rebuff reports of drug shortages. “If any medicine store refuses to give medicines after showing a medical prescription, it should be reported to the authorities and action will be taken,” he said. He said there was no need to panic, and insisted the government was monitoring the situation closely.
Feb. 20, 2015
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-31547455
Headline: Man’s death leads to discovery of new virus in Kansas, CDC reports
The CDC has discovered a new virus that may have contributed to a Kansas man’s death, the agency announced Friday. Named the Bourbon virus after the county where the patient lived, the virus is likely spread by tick or insect bites, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says. A 50-year-old man suffered multiple tick bites in the spring of 2014 while working outside on his property, the CDC said in an article published in the agency’s “Infectious Diseases” journal. The man fell ill over the next two days, went to a doctor on the third day, was hospitalized and died of a heart attack 11 days after becoming sick, the CDC said. Though the CDC only has one case to work with, the agency said “it is likely that Bourbon virus is spread through tick or other insect bites.” The Bourbon virus is part of a group of viruses linked to tick or insect bites in Europe, Asia and Africa, the CDC said. This is the first time a virus in this group, known as thogotoviruses, has been known to cause illness in the United States, the CDC said.
Feb. 21, 2015
http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/20/health/new-virus-discovered/
Headline: Coronavirus (MERS) toll hits 385 in Saudi Arabia with two new deaths
Two people have died from the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus, pushing the total number of deaths from the virus in the Kingdom to 385. Another two people have been infected with the virus and two others have recovered from the disease in various parts of the Kingdom within 24 hours, the Health Ministry announced on Saturday. chairman of the ministry’s command and control center Dr. Abdulaziz Abdullah Bin Saeed said the ministry has been using the Hisn electronic system in all government and private hospitals to check all suspected coronavirus cases. He said the cases will be kept in the hospitals until the medical checkups have confirmed whether they are infected or not. Keiji Fukuda, assistant director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), in a press conference in Riyadh on Saturday appreciated the measures taken by the ministry to contain the spread of the virus. He said he had noted a remarkable improvement in these measures since his last visit. “There are command and control centers in about 20 areas and the arrangements for tests are commendable,” he added. Fukuda described the virus to still be ambiguous and said infections were being reported in the Kingdom and some other countries. He said: “The WHO is still dealing with the coronavirus as an emergency event which is not causing international anxiety. “A number of world organizations have joined hands to curb it.” Since the virus was first discovered in the Kingdom in September 2012, a total of 902 people have contracted it and almost 390 patients have died of it since then.
Feb. 23, 2015
February 18, 2015 – Die off of fish in Araruama Lagoon in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fg1.globo.com%2Frj%2Fregiao-dos-lagos%2Fnoticia%2F2015%2F02%2Fpeixes-aparecem-mortos-na-praia-dos-amores-na-lagoa-de-araruama-no-rj.html&edit-text=&act=url
February 18, 2015 – Dozens of swans found dead and more dying on Snoqualmie River in Washington, America
http://www.king5.com/story/tech/science/environment/2015/02/18/swans-poisoned-by-lead-in-snoqualmie-valley/23654755/
February 18, 2015 – 100,000 birds dead, more culled in latest outbreak of avian flu in Taiwan, China
http://www.thepoultrysite.com/poultrynews/34396/latest-bird-flu-outbreaks-in-taiwan-affect-295000-poultry
February 19, 2015 – 417,041 birds killed due to avian flu throughout Nigeria
http://allafrica.com/stories/201502191179.html
February 19, 2015 – Thousands of dead fish found in the Uraguay River in Argentina
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lavoz901.com.ar%2Fdespachos.asp%3Fcod_des%3D220300%26ID_Seccion%3D12%26fecemi%3D18%2F02%2F2015%26Titular%3Dhallaron-miles-de-peces-muertos-sobre-la-costa-del-rio-uruguay.html&edit-text=&act=url
February 19, 2015 – Dead turtles wash up along Odisha in India
http://odishasuntimes.com/114242/olive-ridley-turtles-carcasses-dot-odishas-gahirmatha-coast/
February 20, 2015 – 3,000 birds have died due to another outbreak of avian flu in Katsina State, Nigeria
http://naija247news.com/flu-kills-3000-birds-in-katsina/
February 21, 2015 – Thousands of dead crabs wash ashore on Balboa Island, California, America
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/crabs-651975-ones-balboa.html
February 22, 2015 – Thousands of dead fish found floating in the Ganges, India
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kanpur/Dead-fish-found-floating-in-Ganga/articleshow/46331473.cms
February 23, 2015 – Fish kill occuring off the coast of Pasir Ris, Singapore
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/ava-probing-fish-deaths/1674084.html
Apostasy & Alternative Lifestyles Amos 8:11, 1 Timothy 4:1-3 & Romans1:26-27 “Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, 2 speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron, 3 forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.” (1 Timothy) “Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord God, “That I will send a famine on the land, Not a famine of bread, Nor a thirst for water, But of hearing the words of the Lord.” (Amos) “For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due”(Romans)
Headline: US Names First Global Envoy for LGBT Rights
The United States named its first international envoy for gay rights Monday, tasking a veteran diplomat with leading U.S. efforts to fight violence and discrimination against LGBT individuals overseas. Randy Berry, currently the consul general in the Netherlands, will promote human rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals, Secretary of State John Kerry said. A longtime foreign service officer, Berry has served at U.S. posts in Bangladesh, Egypt, Uganda and South Africa, and speaks Spanish and Arabic. “Defending and promoting the human rights of LGBT persons is at the core of our commitment to advancing human rights globally — the heart and conscience of our diplomacy,” Kerry said in a statement. He cited overturning laws that still criminalize same-sex activity in more than 75 countries as a specific priority. The State Department has said it planned to appoint an openly gay diplomat to the post.
Feb. 23, 2015
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/us-names-global-envoy-lgbt-rights-29165702
Increase in Drugs Revelation 9:21 “And they did not repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts.”
In Revelation 9:21 we see Jesus speaking to us about drug’s. The words “sorceries” in Revelation 9:21 is the Greek word pharmakia from which comes our word “pharmacy”. It signifies the use of medicine, drugs, spells, such as those used in witchcraft and those used today by those who are seeking a greater “high”. This generation was to be labeled a drug generation and we are.
Headline: 12 hospitalized due to MDMA overdose on Wesleyan campus
Ten Wesleyan University students and two visitors received medical attention after taking a party drug known as Molly over the weekend on campus, including some who attended a rave music show, school officials said Monday. Eight people were still hospitalized Monday, university President Michael Roth said. The school became aware of the incident early Sunday morning after several students showed up seeking treatment at a hospital near campus, university spokeswoman Lauren Rubenstein said. Two students had been flown by helicopter for treatment in Hartford, 20 miles north of the campus in Middletown. Molly is a term used to describe a refined form of Ecstasy, a synthetic drug also known as MDMA. It can drive up body temperature and cause liver, kidney or cardiovascular failure. Dr. Mark Neavyn, chief of toxicology at Hartford Hospital, said users who believe they are taking Molly are often receiving different kinds of designer drugs, with ranges of purity and potency making the health risks unpredictable. He said testing is underway to confirm what drugs the Wesleyan patients took.
Feb. 23, 2015
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/02/23/wesleyan-11-students-hospitalized-with-drug-symptoms/
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: Brazil water shortage: Sao Paulo devastated by its worst drought on record
As Brazil continues to battle a historic drought, millions of people in its largest city are about to run out of water. São Paulo, home to around 20 million, is experiencing its lowest rainfall since 1930, and new water-saving measures have been introduced in an attempt to manage the escalating catastrophe. Services including schools and hospitals are having to adapt to the country’s newfound water struggles, with The Telegraph reporting that doctors have even been forced to cut short dialyses treatment for kidney patients.Current reserves stand at just 10 per cent – known as the “dead volume” – and the government has warned that it could get worse in the coming months. The current crisis has reached a point that actual water rationing may be necessary, with state governor Geraldo Alckmin last month admitting it was already happening.
Feb. 23, 2015
Travailing Earth Romans 8:22 “For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now”
Headline: Dozens of new craters suspected in northern Russia
Respected Moscow scientist Professor Vasily Bogoyavlensky has called for ‘urgent’ investigation of the new phenomenon amid safety fears. Until now, only three large craters were known about in northern Russia with several scientific sources speculating last year that heating from above the surface due to unusually warm climatic conditions, and from below, due to geological fault lines, led to a huge release of gas hydrates, so causing the formation of these craters in Arctic regions. Two of the newly-discovered large craters – also known as funnels to scientists – have turned into lakes, revealed Professor Bogoyavlensky, deputy director of the Moscow-based Oil and Gas Research Institute, part of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Examination using satellite images has helped Russian experts understand that the craters are more widespread than was first realised, with one large hole surrounded by as many as 20 mini-craters, The Siberian Times can reveal. ‘We know now of seven craters in the Arctic area,’ he said. ‘Five are directly on the Yamal peninsula, one in Yamal Autonomous district, and one is on the north of the Krasnoyarsk region, near the Taimyr peninsula. ‘We have exact locations for only four of them. The other three were spotted by reindeer herders. But I am sure that there are more craters on Yamal, we just need to search for them. ‘I would compare this with mushrooms: when you find one mushroom, be sure there are few more around. I suppose there could be 20 to 30 craters more.’ He is anxious to investigate the craters further because of serious concerns for safety in these regions.
Feb. 23, 2015
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: More than 1,700 houses damaged in China earthquake
Over 1,700 houses were damaged in an earthquake that hit northwest China’s Muslim-majority Xinjiang region, state-run Xinhua News Agency reported Monday, citing local authorities. The earthquake measuring 5 on the Richter scale hit Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Sunday afternoon, affecting nearly 6,800 people, and causing a direct economic loss of CNY 92.23 million (USD 15 million) so far. No casualties were reported. Three teams of experts are carrying out disaster relief operations in 132 villages near the epicenter, the report said.
Feb. 23, 2015
http://www.kuna.net.kw/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2426532&language=en
Headline: Australia storms: Army deployed in massive clean-up
Australian soldiers have been deployed in Queensland to help clean up after a powerful tropical cyclone caused widespread damage in coastal areas. It is estimated 1,500 homes were damaged and 100 families left homeless after Cyclone Marcia struck on Friday. About 50,000 homes and businesses are still without power in the towns of Rockhampton and Yeppoon. Meanwhile, a state of emergency has been declared in the Northern Territory after Tropical Cyclone Lam on Friday. Lam brought winds of more than 200km/h (124mph) and heavy rainfall to isolated communities in Top End, in the far north of the state. There were no reports of any serious injuries in either Queensland or the Northern Territory. However, the repair bill could run into billions of dollars, the BBC’s Phil Mercer in Sydney reports.
Feb. 22, 2015
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-31580273
Headline: What’s shaking? 
List & map of USGS Earthquakes
