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Headline: 3 Palestinian, One Israeli Officer Killed in Jerusalem Attack
Headline: IDF closes entrance to Kabatiyah after deadly attack
Three Palestinians armed with guns, knives and explosives killed an Israeli border policewoman and seriously wounded another before being shot dead by nearby officers at an entrance to Jerusalem’s walled Old City on Wednesday, Israeli police said. It was the latest in a spate of stabbings, shootings and car-rammings by Palestinians that has killed 27 Israelis and a U.S. citizen since October. Israeli forces have killed at least 155 Palestinians, 101 of them assailants according to authorities. Most of the others have died in violent protests. The Palestinians launched the attack at the Damascus Gate, a busy plaza in East Jerusalem, after being stopped by police for an identity check, a police spokeswoman said. All of the three attackers were carrying concealed weapons and at least one of them opened fire with an automatic rifle, killing one of the policewomen before they were shot dead by Israeli security forces, the spokeswoman said. The other policewoman was stabbed and wounded, and two pipe bombs were found at the scene, she said.
February 3, 2016
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/207496
Headline: Hamas official claims terror tunnels are ‘defensive’
Headline: Hamas PM Haniya in Friday Sermon: We Are Digging Tunnels East of Gaza- VIDEO
Headline: Netanyahu threatens to eclipse 2014 war to destroy Gaza tunnels
Hamas on Wednesday buried two of its terrorists killed in a tunnel collapse, amid growing concerns in Israel over the rebuilding of underground attack tunnels for use against Israeli civilians. The Islamist terror movement that runs Gaza said the two men killed in Tuesday night’s tunnel collapse belonged to its armed wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades. Hundreds of men, many armed and wearing balaclavas, took part in the funeral. Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’s leader in Gaza, called the two men “martyrs” and praised “those who work silently underground for us to live in dignity on earth.” The collapse came just one week after an even deadlier accident in another terror tunnel, in which seven Hamas terrorists were killed. Israeli concerns increased on Friday after Haniyeh, in comments at the seven men’s funeral, boasted that Hamas is developing its military capabilities and rebuilding the underground tunnels leading from Gaza to Israel. But Mahmoud al-Zahar, a senior Hamas official, on Wednesday toned down the rhetoric with a statement on the Hamas website denying comments attributed to him that the tunnels had already reached into Israeli territory. “The resistance tunnels are defensive tunnels for the protection of our people in the face of any Israeli aggression,” he claimed.
February 3, 2016
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/207492
http://www.memri.org/clip/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/5293.htm
http://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-threatens-to-eclipse-2014-war-to-destroy-gaza-tunnels/
Headline: IDF General Says Israel Effectively Part of Coalition Against ISIS
A top Israeli general said Wednesday that the Islamic State group is “our enemy” and that Israel is sharing intelligence with allies battling the extremists despite remaining on the sidelines of Syria’s civil war. Maj. Gen. Nitzan Alon said that while Iran remains the greatest threat to Israel, the ISIS group is also a dangerous adversary. Israel has kept its distance from the civil war on its northern doorstep, wary of appearing to side with any of the warring parties — nearly all of which are hostile to it. But Alon, who heads the military’s operations branch, told reporters that Israel is essentially part of the international coalition against ISIS and shares intelligence with its allies. “From Israel’s perspective, we definitely see Daesh as an enemy,” he said, using the Arabic acronym for ISIS.
February 3, 2016
http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.701192
Jeremiah 24:5-6: “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: ‘Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge those who are carried away captive from Judah, whom I have sent out of this place for their own good, into the land of the Chaldeans. For I will set My eyes on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land; I will build them and not pull them down, and I will plant them and not pluck them up.
Headline: 10,000 French Jews, 3,000 Americans expected to Make Aliyah in 2016
The coming year is expected to see another increase in the number of Jews immigrating to Israel, this after more than 30,000 Jews made Aliyah last year, a record for the past 15 years. In 2016, some 10,000 Jews are expected to emigrate from France alone; 3,000 Jews are expected to arrive from the United States; 7,000 from Russia and an additional 7,000 from Ukraine. “We are monitoring the intensifying anti-Semitism in Europe, while at the same time the government ministries are preparing to absorb the olim,” the head of the Committee for Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs, MK Avraham Naguisa, said Wednesday. “Their absorption is a national mission and a Zionist, social and economic window of opportunity for the Jewish nation, the State of Israel and Israeli society.”
February 3, 2016
“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: Lebanese army kill 2, arrests 27 militants in border town
Lebanese soldiers killed two gunmen and arrested at least 27 suspected militants, including a commander from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group, in a raid in the town of Arsal near the border with Syria, a security source on Wednesday. The source said that among those detained was Abu Bakr al-Raqqawi, a local commander of ISIS, and three high profile insurgents. He said the army carried out the raid after receiving intelligence that Raqqawi and others were in the northeastern town, which has suffered from a spillover of violence from nearly five years of conflict in Syria.
Nusra Front and ISIS fighters have staged regular incursions into Arsal from the barren hills just outside the town. They overran the town briefly in 2014 before withdrawing to the hills after clashes with the army.
February 3, 2016
Syria Iraq ISIS- the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (the Levant) ISIS=ISIL=IS=Daash
Iraq Syria Kurdistan
These photos say it all:
http://eaworldview.com/2015/12/syria-analysis-what-will-happen-to-the-economy-in-2016/
Syria Headline: U.N. halts Syria talks as government closes in on Aleppo
A United Nations envoy halted his attempts to launch Syrian peace talks on Wednesday after the army, backed by Russian air strikes, made a major advance against rebel forces north of Aleppo, choking opposition supply lines from Turkey to the city. The government’s territorial breakthrough came after hundreds of bombing raids by Russian warplanes. The U.N. said it had been told hundreds of families had been uprooted following “an unprecedented frequency of air strikes in the past two days”. Three aid workers were among the dead. U.N. envoy Staffan de Mistura announced a three-week pause in the Geneva talks, the first attempt to negotiate an end to Syria’s war in two years. He had formally opened them on Friday but both sides denied they had ever begun.
February 3, 2016
http://newsdaily.com/2016/02/u-n-scrambles-to-sustain-syria-talks-russia-vows-to-crush-terrorists/
Syria Headline: Syrian army and allies breaks rebel siege of Shi’ite towns: army
The Syrian army and its allies have broken a three-year rebel siege of two Shi’ite towns in northwest Syria, government and rebel groups said on Wednesday, cutting off a main insurgent route to nearby Turkey. The two towns of Nubul and Zahraa, with an estimated 60,000 population, are connected to the border by areas under the control of Kurdish militias that provided them some access. Al Manar, television channel of Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group, joined Syria’s army and state media in reporting the breakthrough, which it said came after the army moved in from towns secured in a recent offensive in northern Aleppo province. A Levant Front rebel said the siege was broken “after three days of legendary resistance by the revolutionaries facing the Russian military machine, an after more than 500 raids by Russian air planes”. “Less than 3 km separate the regime from cutting all routes to opposition-held Aleppo,” said Rami Abdulrahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said. “It did in three days what it failed to do in 3-1/2 years.”
February 3, 2016
Syria Headline: Syrian army, with Russian air support, attacks southern town of Athman
DEBKAfile’s military sources report that Syrian infantry and tank forces, backed by artillery, attacked the town of Athman, located four kilometers north of the rebel stronghold of Daraa, from three directions on Wednesday morning. The attack included Russian bombers as well as Syrian attack helicopters dropping barrel bombs. The sources said the rebels may lose control of Daraa, their stronghold in southern Syria, if Athman falls to the Syrian army.
February 3, 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: Iraq building security wall around Baghdad
Iraqi security forces have begun building a concrete wall surrounding the capital Baghdad in a bid to prevent attacks by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants, a military statement said on Wednesday. ISIS, the ultra-hardline group that seized vast swathes of territory north and west of Baghdad, claimed several attacks in recent months in the Iraqi capital. The last one, on Jan. 11, targeted a shopping mall and killed at least 18 people, according to police sources. The planned security barrier will surround the city from all sides, said Baghdad Operations Command’s head Lieutenant-General Abdul Ameer al-Shammari, in a statement published on the defense ministry’s website. The preparatory work on the wall started on Monday, he said. “The security barrier around Baghdad will prevent terrorists from infiltrating the capital or smuggling explosives and car bombs to target innocent civilians,” he said.
February 3, 2016
Iraq Headline: Arabs, Kurds retake Iraq village from Daesh
Sunni Muslim Arab fighters backed by Kurdish forces and US-led air strikes retook a village in northern Iraq on Wednesday in an example of effective military cooperation on the ground between them against Daesh insurgents. The offensive in the Makhmour district south of Erbil began early on Wednesday, resulting in the recapture of Kudila — part of a series of planned operations to clear Daesh militants from the area, Kurdish and Arab commanders said. Kurdish forces have driven the ultra-hard-line Sunni militants back in northern Iraq, but have been reluctant to push further into predominantly Arab territory for fear of being seen as an occupying force by inhabitants and provoking a backlash. Local Sunni Arabs have been training in the Makhmour area as part of the Hashid Shaabi or Popular Mobilization Force, a coalition of mainly Shiite Muslim militias in which Iraqi Prime Minister Abadi would like to include Sunni groups. “In coordination with the (Kurdish) peshmerga and supported by coalition planes they have a plan to clear and liberate all the areas that the terrorists seized,” said peshmerga commander Qader Qader. “These attacks will continue.”
Speaking via phone from Kudila with the sound of heavy machine gun fire in the background, one peshmerga said Daesh had deployed three suicide car bombs to fend off the assault and at least eight militants had been killed.
February 3, 2016
http://www.arabnews.com/middle-east/news/874756
Iraq Headline: ISW Iraq Situation Report Jan. 26. – Feb. 1, 2016
http://www.understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/iraq%20SITREP%202016-02-01.pdf
Kurdish Headline: Iraqi-Kurdish leader urges independence vote
Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region should hold a non-binding referendum on independence, its president said on Tuesday, despite the numerous crises it is facing. Massoud Barzani has previously called for a referendum but set no timetable for a proposed vote. The chaos created by ISIS’s occupation of swathes of Iraq and Syria has given Kurds a chance to further their long-held dream of independence. But the region is currently struggling to avert an economic collapse. “The time has come and the situation is now suitable for the Kurdish people to make a decision through a referendum on their fate,” Barzani said in a statement on his website. “That referendum does not mean proclaiming statehood, but rather to know the will and opinion of the Kurdish people about independence and for the Kurdish political leadership to execute the will of the people at the appropriate time and conditions.”
February 3, 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: Walls and watchtowers rise as Turkey tries to seal border against Islamic State
Headline: EU finalises €3bn fund for Turkey refugees
Slabs of concrete wall have sprung up and military patrols have intensified, but local people say this stretch of Turkey’s border facing Syrian territory under Islamic State control is still far from water-tight. Ankara is under intense pressure from its NATO allies to seal off the 70 km (40 mile) strip that stretches from just east of the Turkish town of Kilis to Karkamis, long a conduit for fighters, smuggled goods and war materiel. Beyond a string of tiny villages nestled in undulating fig and olive groves lies the last stretch of Syrian territory on Turkey’s southern frontier that Islamic State militants still hold, following advances by rival Kurdish rebels. European governments fear that their own citizens who have fought with the jihadists could still cross back into Turkey before heading home to stage attacks. Likewise, the United States believes Turkey, which has NATO’s second largest army, must close the frontier if Islamic State is to be defeated in Syria. Soldiers patrol in armored vehicles along a border delineated in some places by little more than razor-wire fence. Additional watchtowers and huts have appeared in recent months, and three-meter (10 foot)-high concrete slabs are being erected along some of the most vulnerable sections.
February 3, 2016
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-turkey-islamicstate-idUSKCN0VC270
https://euobserver.com/migration/132126
Afghanistan
Headline: US airstrikes destroy ISIS’ ‘Voice of the Caliphate’ radio station in Afghanistan
Headline: Four police officers shot dead in northwest Afghanistan
U.S. airstrikes have destroyed an Islamic State-operated radio station in a remote part of eastern Afghanistan, officials said Tuesday. “Voice of the Caliphate” radio was destroyed by two U.S. airstrikes, according to a U.S. military official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief media on the subject. Army Col. Mike Lawhorn, spokesman for the U.S.-NATO mission in Afghanistan, said U.S. forces conducted two “counter-terrorism airstrikes” late Monday in Achin district, in the eastern Nangarhar province, without elaborating. An ISIS affiliate has emerged in Afghanistan over the past year, with a military presence in districts near the border with Pakistan. The radio station was broadcasting illegally across Nangarhar, calling on fighters to join the group and threatening journalists in the provincial capital, Jalalabad.
February 3, 2016
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/02/03/448495/Afghanistan-Qadis-Badghis-Taliban-militants
Libya
Headline: US airstrikes destroy ISIS’ ‘Voice of the Caliphate’ radio station in Afghanistan
Headline: Four police officers shot dead in northwest Afghanistan
U.S. airstrikes have destroyed an Islamic State-operated radio station in a remote part of eastern Afghanistan, officials said Tuesday. “Voice of the Caliphate” radio was destroyed by two U.S. airstrikes, according to a U.S. military official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief media on the subject. Army Col. Mike Lawhorn, spokesman for the U.S.-NATO mission in Afghanistan, said U.S. forces conducted two “counter-terrorism airstrikes” late Monday in Achin district, in the eastern Nangarhar province, without elaborating. An ISIS affiliate has emerged in Afghanistan over the past year, with a military presence in districts near the border with Pakistan. The radio station was broadcasting illegally across Nangarhar, calling on fighters to join the group and threatening journalists in the provincial capital, Jalalabad.
February 3, 2016
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/02/03/448495/Afghanistan-Qadis-Badghis-Taliban-militants
Armenia
Headline: Azerbaijan Warns of Potential Action Against Armenia
Senior political figures in Azerbaijan have warned that a military option remains on the table to resolve the smoldering conflict with Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh region. Azerbaijan will spend $1.2 billion on defense and security in 2016 and Baku hopes a decade-long massive military build-up will help it win back Nagorno-Karabakh and other Armenian-occupied territories. Baku prefers a diplomatically brokered resolution to the conflict but Hikmat Hajiyev, spokesman for Azerbaijan’s foreign minister, cautioned that if these do not soon bear fruit, Azerbaijanis may lose patience with the international community. He said Azerbaijani armed forces “stand ready” to prevent any “provocation,” adding, “We have the defense capabilities to take back these territories militarily. We do not want to use force but we can be patient only up to a certain point.” The official stressed that defense spending had enabled the Azerbaijani armed forces to be supplied with requisite advanced weaponry needed to re-take
”its Armenian-held territories.”
February 3, 2016
Headline: ISIS’s Regional Campaign: January 2016
ISIS is building strategic resiliency and projecting an image of continued expansion through its regional campaign, even as it faces opposition in Iraq and Syria. The organization executed a complex operation across multiple Libyan cities this month, demonstrating its capability and intent to develop Libya as a safe haven to increase presence throughout North Africa. ISIS also used its Southeast Asian foreign fighter network to direct and resource its first attack in Indonesia, reflecting a growing consolidation of pro-ISIS militant groups. ISIS will likely continue outreach to jihadist elements in North Africa and Southeast Asia in order to prepare for formal military expansion into those areas in support of its grand strategic objective of expanding its caliphate to all historically Muslim lands.
Wars & Rumors of Wars Matthew 24:6 , Revelation 6:3-4 & Revelation 6:8 “ And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.” 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. Prophecy Sign: Weapons of Mass Destruction Zechariah 14:12 “And this shall be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the people who fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh shall dissolve while they stand on their feet, Their eyes shall dissolve in their sockets, And their tongues shall dissolve in their mouths.”
Headline: South Korea warns North Korea not to launch long-range rocket
Headline: Japan military on alert over North Korea’s planned rocket launch
Headline: Russia says deeply concerned by North Korea’s planned rocket launch
South Korea warned on Wednesday of “searing” consequences if North Korea doesn’t abandon plans to launch a long-range rocket that critics call a banned test of ballistic missile technology. North Korea on Tuesday informed international organizations of its plans to launch an Earth observation satellite on a rocket between Feb. 8 and 25, and if North Korea’s past patterns are any clue, angry warnings by its neighbors and Washington probably won’t dissuade a coming launch. The launch declaration, which is meant to warn civilians, shipping and aircraft in the area about the rocket and falling debris, follows North Korea’s disputed claim on Jan. 6 to have tested a hydrogen bomb, the country’s fourth nuclear test. A launch would be seen as a snub by North Korea of its only major ally, China, whose representative for Korean affairs landed in the North for talks on Tuesday. South Korean and U.S. officials said the launch would threaten regional security and violate U.N. Security Council resolutions that ban the country from engaging in any ballistic activities. “We warn that if North Korea proceeds with a long-range missile launch, the international society will ensure that the North pays searing consequences for it as the launch would constitute a grave threat to the Korean Peninsula, the region and the world,” senior South Korean presidential official Cho Tae-yong said in televised remarks.
February 3, 2016
http://newsdaily.com/2016/02/north-korea-notifies-imo-of-planned-satellite-launch/
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: Dollar Suffers Worst Day in 7 Years as Traders Face Fed Reality
Headline: National debt hits $19 trillion
The dollar plunged by the most since the Federal Reserve announced the start of its Treasury bond-buying program seven years ago, as signs of a slowing U.S. economy helped derail bets on diverging policies between global central banks. The U.S. currency sank more than 1.7 percent against six of its biggest peers amid concern that growth in the world’s largest economy is cooling. Currency traders are catching up to the bond market, where 10-year yields sank to the lowest in a year Wednesday and futures are sending the strongest signal yet that traders expect the Fed to stand pat this year. Concern about a global demand slump and policy makers’ response to a slowing growth worldwide has put the $5.3 trillion-a-day market in disarray. The dollar’s pullback this week has reversed all the yen’s decline against the greenback on Friday when Bank of Japan introduced negative interest rates to revive inflation, which is stuck near zero.
February 3, 2016
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/national-debt-hits-19-trillion/article/2582097
February 1, 2016 – Hundreds of dead fish found in a lake in Texas
http://www.kvia.com/news/county-reacts-to-hundreds-of-dead-fish-at-ascarate-lake/37762740
February 1, 2016 – Whales and dolphins wash up dead along Oregon-Washington Coast
http://www.wkyc.com/news/nation-now/dead-humpback-whale-3-dolphins-wash-up-along-oregon-and-washington-coast/28950006
February 3, 2016 – 11,500 Chickens killed due to avian flu in Changhua County, Taiwan
http://focustaiwan.tw/news/asoc/201602030020.aspx
February 3, 2016 – Hundreds of dead fish found in ponds in Queensland, Australia
http://www.dailymercury.com.au/news/video-hundred-fish-found-dead-gooseponds/2919546/
February 3, 2016 – Dozens of dead turtles found along beaches in Tecpan de Galeana, Mexico
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February 3, 2016 – 36 tons of fish have died in farms, ‘due to red tide’ in Hong Kong
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/1909196/disaster-hong-kong-fish-farmers-deadly-red-tide
February 3, 2016 – dead whales found along coast of Friedrichskoog, Germany
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3427195/The-gentle-giants-graveyard-Eight-sperm-whales-washed-German-coast-mass-beachings-northern-Europe.html
Headline: Australia reports two cases of Zika virus, detects mosquitoes at Sydney airport
Headline: Six cases of Zika virus were diagnosed in California in the last three years
Headline: First U.S. Zika virus transmission reported, attributed to sex
Headline: Florida governor declares Zika emergency
Two Australians were diagnosed with the Zika virus after returning home from travels in the Caribbean, a state health service said on Tuesday, confirming the first cases of the mosquito-borne virus in the country this year. Officials also said that mosquitos carrying the virus had been detected at Sydney International Airport, but stressed that it was unlikely the virus would establish local transmission given the lack of large numbers of the Aedes Aegypti mosquitos. Confirmation of the Australian cases came just a day after the World Health Organization declared the Zika virus to be an international public health emergency due to its link to underdeveloped brains in some babies. There is no vaccine against the mosquito-borne virus. The New South Wales (NSW) health department said the two Sydney residents were diagnosed with the Zika virus on Friday after returning to Australia from Haiti.
February 3, 2016
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-california-zika-cases-20160201-story.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-zika-idUSKCN0VB145
Increase in Drugs Revelation 9:21 “And they did not repent of their murders or their sorceriesor 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: Legal US pot sales soar to $5.4B in 2015: Report
Legal U.S. pot sales soared to $5.4 billion for 2015, up 17.4 percent from $4.6 billion in 2014, according to data released Monday by the ArcView Group, which tracks the cannabis markets. The figures include medical and adult consumer sales. However, the annual gain was largely fueled by the explosive growth in consumer sales, as some states have approved adult recreational marijuana use. Adult use sales grew to $998 million from $351 million in 2014, according to the research. And voters in more states, including California, are likely to take up the issue in 2016. By many measures, 2015 was a bellwether year for marijuana, as states like Colorado and Washington paved the way for new business models and growth. Entrepreneurs have opened spa-like retail shops for adult users and medical cannabis sales. The social experiment to abolish cannabis prohibition in some instances is melding with a for-profit corporate culture. The growing cannabis market features a variety of innovative consumer-facing products such as vaporizers, edibles and capsules. As an example, Colorado adult use sales surpassed $100 million last year for the first time.
February 1, 2016
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/02/01/legal-us-pot-sales-soar-in-2015.html
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: Dozens of homes destroyed after tornadoes touch down in Alabama, Mississippi
Strong storms in the Southeast spawned tornadoes that touched down in Alabama and Mississippi Tuesday, damaging or destroying dozens of homes and at least one church, as well as a prison. No fatalities or major injuries were reported. The worst damage occurred Tuesday in Sapps, Ala., a small community near the Mississippi border approximately 40 miles west of Tuscaloosa. AL.com reported that dozens of homes were reduced to rubble and at least one mobile home was cracked in half after it was apparently picked up, carried and dropped by high winds. “I was in the bed asleep at the time and it woke me up. It sounded like a train,” Anthony Walker told AL.com. “It’s the first time in about 25 years a tornado hit here.” The National Weather Service in Birmingham confirmed that a “large and destructive tornado” touched down near the city of Aliceville, about 45 miles west of Tuscaloosa, early Tuesday evening.
February 3, 2016
Headline: First ever recorded snow 300km south of Hanoi, Vietnam
The province of Nghe An in Vietnam recorded its first snowfall ever with records stretching back to 1650. There is really something strange going on right now. Are we entering a period of global cooling in the atmosphere and the oceans? Is our Earth about to begin a steep drop in global temperatures off its present global temperature plateau? With these anomalic snow falls and freezing periods in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Laos and now Vietnam it seems that we are going towards such a temperature decline of our planet, enhanced by a “solar hibernation”, which is expected to be reached by the year 2031.
February 3, 2016
http://strangesounds.org/2016/02/first-ever-recorded-snow-hanoi-vietnam-january-2016.html
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