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Headline: Report: IDF Digging Trenches Along the Syrian Border
The IDF has begun digging trenches along the border with Syria, Walla! News reports Monday night, amid fears of real escalation between Israel and Islamists in neighboring Syria and Lebanon. The mechanical engineering company of the IDF’s Northern Command has employed tractors and borders to dig the trenches, a source told the news site, amid specific concerns regarding terrorist infiltrations by car via border crossings. “The trenches are being dug along vulnerable spots on the border, after a thorough analysis [of the risks], to prevent free traffic in the area and reduce infiltration,” the military source stated. Outposts near the Syrian border are not far from rebel positions from the Al-Nusra Front and the Free Syrian Army, who patrol the border regularly in cars and motorcycles. In addition, Western diplomatic officials said that Israel has imparted to Lebanon a stronger warning than before, emphasizing that Jerusalem will respond to any attack on Israel or Israeli institutions anywhere in the world.
Jan. 26, 2015
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/190529#.VMeieC6xXhI
Headline: Two projectiles fired from Syria land in Golan Heights, IDF returns fire
Headline: Syrian army base hit by IDF in response to Golan Heights rocket fire
Two projectiles fired from Syria landed in the Golan Heights on Tuesday. The IDF returned artillery fire toward the source of the projectiles. The army said that it scored a direct strike against the source of enemy fire. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage in the attack. Rocket alert sirens were sounded in the area prior to the attack. The rockets fell in the Mount Hermon area and in Merom Golan. The IDF was clearing the Mount Hermon ski resort area of visitors in the aftermath of the attack.
Jan. 27, 2015
http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Two-projectiles-fired-from-Syria-land-in-Golan-Heights-389103
http://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Reports-Syrian-army-base-hit-by-IDF-in-response-to-Golan-Heights-rocket-fire-389128
Headline: UN halts Gaza repairs saying donors failed to pay up
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees said on Tuesday that it cannot afford to repair Gaza homes damaged in Israel’s assault on the enclave last year because donors have failed to pay. “The agency has exhausted all funding to support repairs and rental subsidies,” the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) said in a statement. “$5.4 billion was pledged at the Cairo (aid) conference last October and virtually none of it has reached Gaza. This is distressing and unacceptable. “It is unclear why this funding has not been forthcoming,” it added. UNRWA said that the homes of more than 96,000 Palestine refugees were destroyed or damaged during the conflict. They made up the vast majority of the more than 100,000 homes that were hit during the 50-day conflict between Israel and Gaza’s de facto rulers Hamas. UNRWA said: “Some funds remain available to begin the reconstruction of totally destroyed homes.” But it added that cutting subsidies to displaced residents currently renting alternative accommodation could force large numbers back to UN schools and centres which are already sheltering 12,000 people.
Jan. 27, 2015
****I THINK THE BETTER QUESTION WOULD BE: WHERE IS THE $ 1,335,106,695.50 THAT POURED IN DURING THE 50 DAY WAR? SEE THE ATTACHED PDF FOR A COMPLETE BREAKDOWN – CLICKING ON THE DATE WILL TAKE YOU TO THE NEWS ARTICLE
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/un-halts-gaza-repairs-saying-donors-failed-pay-398722526
Operation Protective Edge– PDF
“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 Mulls Swap of Jihadist for Hostages, Lawmaker Says
Jordan is in indirect talks with Islamic State to secure the release of a Japanese war journalist and a Jordanian pilot held by the militants, a member of the kingdom’s parliament said Tuesday. The negotiations are taking place through religious and tribal leaders in Iraq, Bassam Al-Manaseer, chairman of the foreign affairs committee in Jordan’s lower house of parliament, said in an interview in Amman. Islamic State has demanded that Jordan release convicted jihadist Sajida al-Rishawi as its price for freeing the Japanese journalist. Manaseer said Jordan and Japan won’t negotiate directly with Islamic State and won’t free al-Rishawi in exchange for Japanese hostage Kenji Goto only. “We hope to hear good news soon,” Manaseer said.
Jan. 27, 2015
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2015-01-27/jordan-mulls-swap-of-convicted-jihadist-for-hostages-kyodo-says.html
Lebanon
Headline: UN expresses concern over Lebanon border battle with IS that killed 8 soldiers
The United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon Sigrid Kaag expressed “grave concern” Sunday over a border battle between Lebanese forces and Syria-based fighters from the Islamic State group that killed eight soldiers, as the chaos of Syria’s war increasingly threatens the security of its Mediterranean neighbour. Kaag issued her statement as Lebanese television broadcast funerals of the soldiers killed during the fighting near the northeastern Lebanese village of Ras Baalbek on Friday, after what appeared to be a cross-border attack from neighbouring Syria. A security official who spoke on condition of anonymity said the attackers belonged to the militant Islamic State group. Kaag “expressed grave concern over the attack on the Lebanese army Friday in the area of Ras Baalbek, that led to the deaths of eight officers and soldiers and caused a number of injuries,” the statement said. Friday’s attack was the most serious attack since militants seized over 20 Lebanese soldiers and policemen in a cross-border raid in August 2014. On Sunday, Lebanese forces opened fire on suspected militants they said were in an abandoned amusement park on the eastern border with Syria.
Jan. 25, 2015
http://globalnews.ca/news/1791959/un-expresses-concern-over-lebanon-border-battle-with-is-that-killed-8-soldiers/
Headline: Lebanon Army shells Syrian border region for third day
The Lebanese Army continued shelling sporadically the outskirts of the northeastern Bekaa town of Ras Baalbek Tuesday, in a preemptive move aimed at fending off jihadi militants holed up in the rugged border area with Syria, security sources said. The Army’s artillery positions have been firing rounds of long-range projectiles and mortar bombs for several minutes every one to two hours on the outer edges of Wadi Rafeq and Qaa to discourage any potential attack by suspected ISIS and Nusra Front militants, the sources told The Daily Star. “It is a warning to the gunmen that the Army is there and ready to respond to any possible attack,” one source said. Troops have been bombing intermittently the outskirts of Ras Baalbek since Sunday. The area was the scene of deadly battles Friday between the Lebanese Army and jihadis who tried to overrun a military post in nearby Tallet al-Hamra. Tallet al-Hamra is a hill overlooking Wadi Rafeq. Qaa is a few kilometers to the north of Ras Baalbek. The Syria-based militants launched a surprise attack on an Army post in Tallet al-Hamra early Friday, prompting clashes that lasted for over 16 hours. The fighting left eight Lebanese soldiers dead and at least 22 others wounded.
Jan. 27, 2015
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2015/Jan-27/285466-lebanon-army-shells-syrian-border-region-for-third-day.ashx
Saudi Arabia
Headline: ‘Worst-case scenario’: Yemen chaos, Saudi king’s death pose new challenges for US
Headline: Obama Seeks to Bolster Ties With Saudi Arabia
The collapse of the Yemeni government, coupled with the death early Friday of Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah, have in an instant thrown the future of America’s fight against Islamist extremists in the volatile region into question — while potentially giving Iran more sway. The Obama administration is still assessing the political earthquakes in the Arabian Peninsula, and for the near-term says the top priority in Yemen is the security of U.S. personnel. The State Department said it has reduced the number of personnel at the U.S. Embassy in the capital city of Sanaa. But when the sands settle, a new government – or no government at all – in Yemen could complicate one of the administration’s most active counterterror drone programs in the world. And the new leadership in Saudi Arabia raises questions about the country’s future involvement in fighting the Islamic State and other pressing issues. Further, a former U.S. diplomat close to the Saudi royal family told Fox News the two developments, which occurred within hours of each other, represent a “worst-case scenario” for the U.S. in terms of Iran’s ability to extend its influence. With the collapse of Yemen’s government, the former diplomat said Tehran’s influence is now seen in at least four Middle Eastern capitals – Sanaa in Yemen, Baghdad in Iraq, Damascus in Syria, and to a lesser extent Beirut in Lebanon.
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Jan. 27, 2015
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/01/23/worst-case-scenario-yemen-chaos-saudi-kings-death-pose-new-challenges-for-us/
http://www.voanews.com/content/obama-leading-us-delegation-to-pay-respects-to-late-saudi-king/2614913.html
Egypt
Headline: 9 killed in Cairo clashes between Islamists, police, Egypt security officials say
Headline: Car bomb kills one in Egypt’s Alexandria
Egyptian security officials say clashes between police and Islamist protesters in an eastern Cairo district have left nine demonstrators dead. They say the Sunday clashes in the Matariyah area also injured 13. Another protester was killed in similar clashes in the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria. Two suspected Islamists were also killed in the Nile Delta province of Beheira when an explosive device they were planting under a high-voltage tower exploded, according to the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media. The protests were staged to mark the 4th anniversary of the 2011 uprising that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak, and came a day after a female protester was shot dead while participating in a peaceful protest in downtown Cairo.
Jan. 27, 2015
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/01/25/egypt-tightens-security-for-2011-uprising-anniversary/?intcmp=latestnews
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/27/us-egypt-violence-idUSKBN0L00IV20150127
Syria Iraq ISIS- the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (the Levant) ISIS=ISIL=IS=Daash
Iraq Syria Kurdistan
Syria Headline: Seven killed in Damascus after Islamist fighters launch rocket barrage on Syrian capital
Syria Headline: Saudi-backed rebels from Army of Islam shell major Syrian cities
Islamist fighters struck the Syrian capital with at least 38 rockets on Sunday, killing seven people, a monitoring group said, in one of heaviest attacks on Damascus in over a year. State media confirmed the attack and said at least four people were killed. It said the army was retaliating. The Saudi-backed Islam Army, based in the eastern Ghouta region near Damascus, had warned earlier that it would hit back against an air strike last week in Ghouta in which more than 40 people were killed. Damascus residents said Sunday’s rockets seemed to be mortars and Katyusha. Rami Abdulrahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights which monitors the violence in the country, said this was the heaviest attack on the capital for more than a year. The Syrian army was shelling the rebel-held town of Douma where the Army of Islam is powerful, Abdulrahman said. Douma lies on one of the main roads linking the capital with Homs city further north. Reuters could not independently verify the reports.
Jan. 26, 2015
http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/middle-east-updates/1.638824
http://www.worldtribune.com/2015/01/26/saudi-backed-rebels-army-islam-shell-major-syrian-cities/
Syria Headline: Syria rebels overtake strategic base in south
Syrian insurgents including fighters from al-Qaeda’s Nusra Front, seized an important government army base in the southwestern Deraa province on Sunday, fighters who took part in the battle said. The base, one of several used to pound rebel-held villages and towns in southern Syria and along the frontier with Jordan, lies at the heart of a heavily fortified zone which has formed a southern line of defense protecting the capital, Damascus. The fighters said hundreds of insurgents armed with rocket launchers and anti-aircraft weapons had taken over the Brigade 82 base near the town of Sheikh Maskeen, close to the main north-south highway between Damascus and Jordan. “This advance will help us cut supply routes of the regime forces in the south from their supplies in the north to be able to eventually take over Deraa city,” Colonel Saber Safar, a leader of the First Army, a major faction of Western-backed rebels in the “Southern Front” grouping, told Reuters by phone. The rebel gain is the latest advance in the south, where President Bashar al-Assad’s forces have been on the defensive, losing control of large areas of countryside as well as parts of the border along with Israel near the Golan Heights, according to regional military experts and diplomats.
Jan. 25, 2015
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/01/25/Syria-rebels-overtake-strategic-base-in-south.html
Syria Headline: Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
https://www.facebook.com/syriahroe
http://syriahr.com/en/category/news/
Iraq Headline: Iraq’s Shiite militias killed 70 civilians after IS rollback: Sunni leaders
Sunni politicians and tribal chiefs from Iraq’s eastern Diyala province accused Shiite militias on Monday of killing more than 70 unarmed civilians who had fled clashes with Islamic State militants. Interior Ministry spokesman Brig. Gen. Saad Maan denied the claims, saying IS was trying to undermine the reputation of Iraqi security forces. A local Shiite official said it was too soon to draw conclusions and suggested IS could have been behind the deaths in the eastern village of Barwanah. The accusations followed a three-day offensive in which Iraqi security forces and Shiite militias captured two dozen villages from Islamic State fighters in Diyala. The assault, which began on Friday, enabled Shiite militias, the Iraqi army and Sunni tribesmen to push the militants out of the Muqdadiya area, the closest Islamic State outpost to the Iranian border 40 km (25 miles) to the east.
Jan. 27, 2015
http://www.arabnews.com/middle-east/news/695311
Iraq Headline: Passenger plane struck by gunfire at Baghdad airport
Gunfire struck a commercial aircraft as it landed at Baghdad’s airport, prompting at least two airlines to suspend flights to Baghdad. The incident Monday suggests Iraqi airports have become susceptible to attacks, with Islamic State militants’ advances in gaining territory, especially around Baghdad, and more sophisticated weaponry. The Boeing 737-800 of Flydubai, a budget airline based in the United Arab Emirates, was carrying 154 passengers when it arrived with “damage consistent with small-arms fire,” the airline said. It added no one was injured, but airport officials said one passenger, a girl, was injured but not severely. A security official at the airport said the plane was sprayed with gunfire, from an unknown source, as it touched down. Although Flydubai downplayed the incident, two larger airlines headquartered in the United Arab Emirates announced flights to and from Baghdad would be suspended. Emirates and Etihad canceled their flights Tuesday, Etihad saying in a statement, “This took effect from January 26 until further notice.
Jan. 27, 2015
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2015/01/27/Passenger-plane-struck-by-gunfire-at-Baghdad-airport/1171422357861/?spt=sec&or=tn
Iraq Headline: ISW Iraq Situation Report Jan. 24-26, 2015
http://iswiraq.blogspot.com/2015/01/iraq-situation-report-january-26-27-2015.html
Kurdish Headline: Syrian Kurds ‘drive Islamic State out of Kobane’
Kurdish Headline: Battles continue outside Syria’s Kobani after Kurds claim victory
Kurdish Headline: Turkish police fire tear gas to stop people entering Kobani
Kurdish forces have driven Islamic State (IS) militants from Kobane, officials say, ending a four-month battle for the northern Syrian town. Fighters from the Popular Protection Units (YPG) were said to have entered outlying areas in the east of the town after the jihadists retreated. The US said anti-IS forces were in control of 90% of the town. Kobane was seen as a major test of the US-led coalition’s strategy to combat IS in Syria with air strikes. Tens of thousands of people fled over the nearby border with Turkey after IS launched an offensive in September, capturing about 300 nearby villages before entering the predominantly Kurdish town itself. The fighting has left at least 1,600 people dead, among them 1,196 jihadists, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says. Meanwhile, Turkish police fired tear gas Tuesday to stop people trying to cross into the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani, after Kurdish forces drove out ISIS militants who besieged the city for four months, a Kurdish politician and a journalist said. Groups from Suruc, a border town overlooking Kobani, and nearby villages gathered to cross the border and celebrate alongside Kurdish fighters earlier in the day, but police stopped them, a journalist in Suruc said. “The people are coming out and are happy,” Adham Basho, a Syrian Kurdish politician said. “Police are using tear gas… they’ve closed the roads.”
Jan. 27, 2015
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-30991612
http://news.yahoo.com/battles-continue-outside-syrias-kobani-kurds-claim-victory-141609862.html
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2015/Jan-27/285491-turkish-police-fire-tear-gas-to-stop-people-entering-kobani.ashx
Kurdish Headline: Kurdish forces demand civilians evacuate Syria’s Hasakah
Kurdish fighters of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) called upon residents of the Khashman area and other Kurdish neighborhoods in the city of Hasakah, in northeastern Syria, to evacuate their houses before Tuesday midnight. Speaking to ARA News in Hasakah, M.A. from the Khashman area said that the YPG forces asked them to leave their homes before Tuesday midnight, pointing out that the clashes between the YPG and the pro-regime militia of the National Defense Army may renew at any moment. The Kurdish fighters of the YPG (backed by Assayish forces) have been battling pro-Assad gunmen in the city of Hasakah for more than a week. Mahmoud Birko, a Kurdish resident of the Tel Hajar neighborhood in Hasakah, reported that Kurdish military reinforcements has arrived to the area. “The Kurdish forces are in a state of high alert. They are watching the situation with great concern, particularly as tension prevails in the city since the morning,” Birko said.
Jan. 27, 2015
http://aranews.net/2015/01/kurdish-forces-demand-civilians-evacuate-syrias-hasakah/
Headline: Video Appears to Show Decapitated Body of a Japanese Hostage of ISIS
Japan’s prime minister expressed outrage on Sunday at an image released Saturday that appeared to show the decapitated body of one of two Japanese hostages captured by Islamic State militants, and President Obama condemned what he called a “brutal murder.” The kidnappers had threatened to kill the men if a Friday deadline passed for a $200 million ransom from Japan. On Saturday, a video appeared in which one of the hostages, Kenji Goto, a 47-year-old journalist, was shown holding a photo of what appeared to be the decapitated body of the other hostage, Haruna Yukawa, 42, an adventurer. The prime minister, Shinzo Abe, said that while experts were still analyzing the photo, it had “a high chance of being real.” Speaking on a television debate show, Mr. Abe condemned the apparent killing of Mr. Yukawa as an “outrageous and unforgivable act of violence,” and demanded the immediate release of Mr. Goto.
Jan. 25, 2015
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/25/world/middleeast/japan-hostages-video-islamic-state.html?_r=1
Headline: Muslim Brotherhood Starts A Political Party Out Of Chicago
When it comes to the United States government, most people usually know it to be a two-party system. For the longest time, branches of the government have been delegated as Democrat or Republican. Despite this, there are technically more parties in government, mostly supportive of the aforementioned two parties. The Inquisitr reported on these parties, such as the two offsets of the Republican Party, the Tea Party and the Libertarian Party, as well as the offset of the Democratic Party known as the Progressive Party. Then there are independent parties developed out of cause. The Green Party, for example, was developed to support a political ideology based on environmentalism, social justice, and grassroots democracy. Now there is a new party that is getting a lot of attention. The single most important detail is the fact this may be the first political party created from a Muslim organization. According to the Center for Security Policy, the U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO) has begun building the framework for a political party. USCMO’s party will also be the first political party in the U.S. to be openly connected to the Muslim Brotherhood. From what is reported by sources, this party arose right after Sabri Samirah, a Jordanian Brotherhood member, was allowed into the U.S. by President Barack Obama back in 2014 following an 11-year ban. He immediately galvanized Muslims to form the party, which is now recognized as the UMMA, an offset of the United Muslim Americans Association (UMAA).
Jan. 26, 2015
http://www.inquisitr.com/1790170/muslim-brotherhood-political-party-chicago/
Headline: ISIS Statement Urges Attacks, Announces Khorasan State
ISIS released a new statement Monday urging Muslims in the West to attack Westerners by any means possible. The statement also announces the Islamic State’s expansion to “Khorasan,” an area encompassing Afghanistan and Pakistan, and celebrates the death of the Saudi King Abdullah, calling on Allah to “cast him into hell.” In the propaganda statement, released online by ISIS media wing Al-Furqan and translated into English by Al-Hayat Media, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani says: We bring the mujahideen the good news of the Islamic State’s expansion to Khorasan (a region encompassing Afghanistan, Pakistan, and other nearby lands). Therefore, we call upon all the mujahideen in Khorasan to join the caravan of the Khilafah [caliphate] and abandon disunity and factionalism. Adnani mocks Western attempts to stem the attacks from ISIS and calls on European Muslims to intensify their attempts to cause terror and loss of life in their home countries.
Jan. 27, 2015
http://www.vocativ.com/world/isis-2/isis-khorasan/
http://www.scribd.com/doc/253766511/Islamic-State-Statement-Adnani-Jan-26
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: Rockets kill 30 in Mariupol as rebels launch offensive
Headline: Ukraine: Intensified fighting kills 9 troops, wounds 29
A series of rocket attacks has left 30 people dead and many more injured in the city of Mariupol in east Ukraine. Ukraine blamed pro-Russia rebels, but the separatists said Ukrainian forces were behind the attacks. East Ukraine’s main rebel leader claimed he had begun an offensive against Mariupol, but later said he “will not storm the city”. The Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) said the rockets came from rebel-held areas. But Alexander Zakharchenko, head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, said his forces had not carried out “active operations” near Mariupol until Saturday, Russian news agencies report. However, he added that after Kiev blamed the rebels for the attack, he ordered his troops to “neutralise” the positions of Ukrainian troops east of the port city. Meanwhile, Ukraine’s security service has published what it claims are intercepted audio messages between separatist rebels speaking about the Mariupol attack.
Jan. 27, 2015
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30967949
http://news.yahoo.com/ukraine-intensified-fighting-kills-9-troops-wounds-29-121954836.html
Iran
Headline: Iranian Official Calls to ‘Wipe Out the Zionist Regime’
Iran is continuing to threaten to retaliate against Israel for an airstrike last week, in which Iran’s General Mohammad Ali Allahdadi was killed. On Monday, a senior official in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, General Ramezan Sharif, declared that the airstrike “will accelerate the collapse of the Zionist regime.” “Undoubtedly, the bloods shed in the front of awakening the Islamic Ummah have provided the ground more than ever for wiping out the Zionist regime,” Sharif said in Tehran, according to the Fars news agency. He called on Muslim states to unite and said that the Islamic countries should desist from provoking rifts and use all their capacities to fight “the child-killing Zionist regime” instead. Another Iranian official, General Mohammad Reza Naqdi, said that the airstrike justified “striking painful blows at the Zionist regime.” Naqdi warned “the Zionists” that they would soon be forced to leave “the occupied Palestinian territories”, and added, according to Fars, “They will not experience tranquility, these bloods will not remain without a response and they should remain fully alerted until complete annihilation of the Zionist regime.”
Jan. 27, 2015
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/190543#.VMeiFS6xXhI
Afghanistan
Headline: Islamic State claws are in Afghanistan soil, warns former US and NATO forces commander
FORMER supreme allied commander of US and NATO forces Admiral James Stavridis has warned against a withdrawal from Afghanistan, claiming the war-torn country is at risk of again becoming a global magnet for terrorism. In an exclusive interview with The Daily Telegraph, the four-star admiral, regarded as one of the world’s leading military strategists, said coalition countries including Australia had to remain engaged in Afghanistan as Islamic State tried to spread its reign of terror. His calls for the US to remain engaged despite a 2016 deadline for withdrawal of forces echoed Foreign Minister Julie Bishop’s support yesterday, revealed in The Telegraph, for a longer Australian deployment. “We are seeing co-operation between the Taliban and IS,” Admiral Stavridis said. “It is extremely worrying. It underscores the need for constant surveillance especially electronic surveillance. ‘‘What is concerning is that the different groups are also competing. We have to stay engaged in Afghanistan. We don’t need to send 10,000 allied forces back in there but we have to maintain a strong mentoring and training and assistance in the country. “We cannot takes our eyes off Afghanistan. We have to still be engaged there.” Admiral Stavridis said the US needed to also maintain its strong intelligence network in the troubled nation, which it shared with Australia through the ‘‘five eyes’’ network.
Jan. 27, 2015
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/islamic-state-claws-are-in-afghanistan-soil-warns-former-us-and-nato-forces-commander/story-fni0cx12-1227198862144?nk=c9b28a09631d6c3905d75db07e629c75
Sudan
Headline: Several dead as convoy ambushed in South Sudan
At least 11 people, including five journalists, were killed in South Sudan’s western region, when gunmen attacked their convoy in the country’s west, a military spokesman told the Associated Press news agency. Col. Phiip Aguer blamed the attack on Tuesday on the Ugandan rebel group the Lord’s Resistance Army believed to be hiding in neighboring countries. Aguer said the rebels came into South Sudan’s Western Bahr el-Ghazal state from Sudan, Chad or Central African Republic. South Sudan is struggling to contain lawlessness as conflict between the government and the rebels continues. The fighting started in December 2013, when forces loyal to former Vice President Riek Machar fought the national army of President Salva Kiir’s government. The two sides have signed several peace deals brokered by neighboring governments, but none has actually stopped the warfare in the oil-rich country.
Jan. 27, 2015
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/01/dead-convoy-ambushed-south-sudan-150127123938894.html
Libya
Headline: Gunmen kidnap Libya deputy foreign minister
Gunmen kidnapped a Libyan deputy foreign minister from his hotel room on Sunday in the eastern city of Al-Baida where the recognized government is based, a ministry official said.
The kidnappers told staff they were members of the security forces when they entered the hotel before dawn, the official said, citing witnesses. They drove deputy minister Hassan al-Saghir off to an unknown destination. No group immediately claimed responsibility for his abduction but Libya has been rocked by a spate of kidnappings of both foreigners and Libyans since the overthrow of longtime dictator Moammer Qaddafi in a NATO-backed uprising in 2011.
Jan. 25, 2015
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Headline: Libyan OPEC representative goes missing
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2015/Jan-21/284791-libyan-opec-representative-goes-missing.ashx
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/01/25/Gunmen-kidnap-Libya-deputy-foreign-minister-.html
Headline: Libya gunmen attack Corinthia Hotel in Tripoli
Headline: Gunmen kill at least 8, take hostages at Tripoli hotel, Libyan official says
Headline: ISIS claims car bombing outside hotel in Libya’s Tripoli
Militants have attacked a hotel popular with foreigners in Libya’s capital, killing three guards and injuring 12 other people, officials say. Several gunmen stormed the Corinthia Hotel in Tripoli and opened fire in the reception area. A car bomb also exploded outside the hotel. Some of the gunmen are still thought to be inside the hotel. It is not clear whether any staff or guests are there. One foreigner, a Philippine national, was among the injured, officials said. A Twitter account linked to Islamic State said the group had attacked the hotel. The claim could not be verified. A civilian who witnessed the attack told the BBC: “I suddenly heard shots and saw people running towards me, and we all escaped from the back [of the hotel] through the underground garage. The hotel did a lockdown after that.” The total number of attackers is not clear. Different sources at the scene said there were between three and five – one says that several of the attackers have blown themselves up. A local official was quoted by the Reuters news agency as telling local TV that at least eight people, including five foreigners, had been killed in the attack.
Jan. 27, 2015
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-31001094
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/01/27/gunmen-kill-at-least-3-guards-take-hostages-at-triploli-hotel-libyan-official/
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2015/Jan-27/285473-isis-claims-car-bombing-outside-hotel-in-libyas-tripoli.ashx
Algeria
Headline: Algeria and Niger to ‘pool’ resources against jihadists
Algeria and Niger are set to “pool” their resources to tackle the rising threat posed by jihadist groups in the Sahel region, Nigerien President Mahamadou Issoufou said on Monday. “We have agreed to mobilise and pool our operational capabilities and intelligence to deal with terrorist threats and criminal organisations,” Issoufou said in Algiers after a meeting with Algerian counterpart Abdelaziz Bouteflika. “Algeria and Niger share a 1,000-kilometre (600-mile) border and have large desert areas that need securing,” he added. The leaders discussed the situation in neighbouring Libya, which has been rocked by fierce fighting between troops loyal to the internationally recognised government and mainly Islamist militias, as well as in Mali. Niger was one of five Sahel countries to call for international intervention in Libya, plunged into chaos since the NATO-backed ouster of strongman Moamer Kadhafi in 2011, “in order to neutralise armed groups”. Algeria meanwhile has called for national dialogue and the strengthening of democratic institutions in the North African nation.
Jan. 27, 2015
http://news.yahoo.com/algeria-niger-pool-resources-against-jihadists-213435184.html
Germany
Headline: Germany halts arms exports to Saudi Arabia citing regional instability – report
Germany has stopped arms exports to one of its biggest buyers, Saudi Arabia. The instability in the region led Chancellor Angela Merkel and her ministers to take the decision. The information hasn’t been officially confirmed. According to the Bild newspaper, weapons orders from the Middle Eastern country have either been “rejected, pure and simple,” or they have been deferred for further consideration. The decision was made by Germany’s Security Council on Wednesday, which includes Merkel, Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel and seven other ministers. “According to government sources, the situation in the region is too unstable to ship arms there,” despite the fact that Saudi Arabia is “one of the most important clients of Germany’s arms industry,” with €360 million ($400 million) of arms shipments authorized in 2013, Bild added. The talks between Merkel and the ministers were held in secret and the government said it won’t comment on the allegations.
Jan. 25, 2015
http://rt.com/news/226051-germany-arms-saudi-arabia/
Turkey
Headline: Turkey’s Erdogan says no to Syrian Kurdistan
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said his country opposes the idea of a Kurdish-controlled autonomous government in northern Syria, local media reported on Tuesday.
“We do not want a new Iraq. What’s this? Northern Iraq,” Erdogan told the Hurriyet newspaper aboard a plane en route from an African tour at the weekend. He was referring to the Kurdish-controlled part of Iraq known as Iraqi Kurdistan. “A northern Syria there after northern Iraq… It is not possible for us to accept this,” he said. “Such formations will lead to grave problems in the future.” His comments came as Kurdish militia drove the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria insurgents from the Syrian town of Kobane just across the Turkish border and raised their flags on Monday, in a heavy blow to jihadists after months of intensive fighting.
Jan. 27, 2015
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/01/27/Turkey-s-Erdogan-says-no-to-Syrian-Kurdistan.html
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: Boko Haram attacks northeastern Nigerian city, dozens killed
Headline: Suspected Boko Haram militants capture Nigerian city
Headline:Boko Haram leader claims responsibility for massacre, threatens more
In fierce fighting Sunday that killed more than 200 combatants, Nigerian troops clashed with Islamic extremists who attacked Maiduguri, the biggest city in northeastern Nigeria, from three fronts. At the same time the insurgents continued scorched-earth attacks on villages some 125 miles to the south in Adamawa state, slitting throats of residents, looting and burning homes and abducting dozens of trapped women and children, according to Vandu Kainu and other escaping survivors. Adamawa state legislator Adamu Kamale appealed for troops to protect civilians in Michika, where six villages are under attack. “The attacks have continued since Friday with no presence of security operatives,” he complained. The multiple attacks come as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital nearly 1,000 miles southwest of Maiduguri, over fears of violence around critical Feb. 14 elections.
Jan. 25, 2015
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/01/25/boko-haram-reportedly-attacks-key-nigerian-city/?intcmp=latestnews
http://www.haaretz.com/news/world/1.638908
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/01/21/leader-nigeria-islamic-extremists-claims-baga-massacre-threatens-more-killings/
Headline: U.N. troops in Mali open fire at protest, at least three dead: source
United Nations peacekeepers in the northern Malian town of Gao killed at least three people on Tuesday when they used live rounds to disperse protesters there, witnesses said, but a U.N. spokesman said only warning shots were fired. Violence erupted as peacekeepers were meeting local leaders angry over a plan to create a buffer zone in the north that would force pro-Bamako militia in the area to disarm while Tuareg separatist rebels to the north would be less affected. A witness at the protest said U.N. troops started shooting after initially using tear gas to try to disperse crowds. He said he saw a dead protester who had been shot in the face. A second witness said he saw four dead and four others who had been injured taken into Gao hospital. Medical officials there were not immediately available for comment. “U.N. forces panicked and they opened fire on the protesters,” a Malian military source in Gao told Reuters. “There are already three dead and many injured.”
Jan. 27, 2015
http://newsdaily.com/2015/01/u-n-troops-in-mali-fire-on-protesters-one-dead-witnesses/
Headline: Shiite rebels in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, fire into the air to disperse protesters, detain 11
Rebels occupying Yemen’s capital have dispersed a handful of demonstrators protesting against them, firing automatic rifles into the air, breaking journalists’ cameras and scuffling with the crowd while detaining 11 people. In another protest Sunday in Sanaa, around 200 demonstrators gathered in Change Square for a march toward the presidential palace. The square was the birthplace of Yemen’s 2011 uprising against longtime autocrat Ali Abdullah Saleh. State news agency SABA reported that parliament postponed a meeting which had been scheduled for Sunday to decide on whether to accept the resignation of Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, who quit as president Thursday along with his Cabinet. Hadi remains at his private residence. Meanwhile, U.N. envoy Jamal Benomar was in Sanaa meeting with Houthi representatives, as well a variety of Yemeni political parties.
Jan. 25, 2015
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/01/25/shiite-rebels-in-yemen-capital-sanaa-fire-into-air-to-disperse-protesters/
Headline: Kosovo hit by worst unrest since independence
Riot police and protesters fought running battles in the Kosovo capital Pristina on Tuesday as anti-government protests erupted into the worst unrest since the former Serbian province seceded in 2008. A Reuters reporter saw masked police officers firing tear gas and water cannon, trying to disperse about 2,000 protesters who had taken to the streets in rallies organized by opposition political parties. Ambulances attended to dozens of injured people as police pursued protesters into side streets around central Pristina. It was the second bout of unrest since Saturday, set off by popular anger over a government climbdown over the fate of a huge mining complex claimed by Serbia. The protesters are also clamoring for the dismissal of an ethnic Serb minister in the mainly Kosovo Albanian government after he branded as “savages” a group of Albanians who lost relatives in Kosovo’s 1998-99 war and had protested against ethnic Serb pilgrims marking Orthodox Christmas in January. Kosovo broke away from Serbia in 1999 with the help of NATO air strikes to halt the killing and expulsion of ethnic Albanians by Serbian forces waging a counter-insurgency war.
Jan. 27, 2015
http://news.yahoo.com/kosovo-hit-worst-unrest-since-independence-133332625.html
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: Nearly 50 million Americans now on food stamps as middle class plummets into poverty
Fifty years after President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a “war on poverty,” and five years after President Obama’s administration declared the “Great Recession” over, a record number of Americans remain on taxpayer-supported federal and state assistance programs. According to the most recent government figures, as reported by CNSNews.com, more than 46 million Americans are not only currently receiving some level of food stamp assistance but have been receiving that assistance for more than three years straight. The news website further elaborated: The number of beneficiaries on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)–AKA food stamps–has topped 46,000,000 for 38th straight months, according to data released by the Department of Agriculture (USDA). In October 2014, the latest month reported, there were 46,674,364 Americans on food stamps. Food stamp recipients have exceeded 46 million since September 2011. The number of people receiving food stamps in October represented an increase of 214,434, up from 46,459,930 in September.
Jan. 24, 2015
http://www.naturalnews.com/048389_food_stamps_poverty_American_economy.html
Headline: Russia cut to ‘junk’, as Lavrov says West wants ‘blood’
Ratings firm S&P has cut Russian bonds to “junk” status, with Moscow accusing the West of wanting “blood” amid threats of further sanctions. The agency said in its note on Monday (26 January) Russian bonds are not worth buying because of low oil prices, the risk of more economic sanctions, and long-term Russian mismanagement. It said the downgrade “reflects a lack of external financing due to the introduction of economic sanctions and the sharp decline in oil prices”. “We anticipate that asset quality in the financial system will deteriorate given the weaker rouble; restricted access of key areas of the economy to international capital markets due to sanctions; and economic recession in 2015”, it added. “We do not currently expect that the government will be able to effectively tackle the long-standing structural obstacles (perceived corruption, the weak rule of law, the state’s pervasive role in the economy, and the challenging business and investment climate) to stronger economic growth”. The Russian finance minister, Anton Siluanov, accused the US-based company of “exorbitant pessimism”. “There’s no reason to dramatise the situation … there are no grounds for foreign investors’ withdrawing assets from Russia”, he told Russian media the same day.
Jan. 27, 2015
https://euobserver.com/foreign/127387
Headline: Iran Is Ditching The Dollar In Foreign Trade
Iran is no longer using the US dollar in foreign-trade transactions and is replacing it with other currencies, t he deputy governor at the Iranian Central Bank Gholami Kamyab said, according to Sputnik News . “In trade exchanges with the foreign countries, Iran uses other currencies including Chinese yuan, euro, Turkish lira, Russian ruble, and South Korean won,” Kamyab reportedly said. He also reportedly added that Iran was considering bilateral currency-swap agreements, which would allow partners to exchange one foreign currency for the equivalent in the other currency. He did not explicitly name partners, however. Although nuclear sanctions imposed on Iran over the years are meant to deter the state from building up its nuclear-arms program, they could also be the catalyst that is pushing Iran to look for new economic partners. As Ian Bremmer noted, the glaring drawback of using coercive sanctions (and other weaponizations of finance) is that the targeted countries can and will increasingly diversify away from the dollar. And over the past few years, Iran has been strengthening economic and military ties with others countries (including China and Russia) in an effort to circumvent the Western-imposed sanctions. Turkey ran an extensive gas-for-gold scheme with Iran, which ran from about March 2012 to fall 2013 and yielded Iran more than $13 billion amid crippling sanctions implemented by the US over the country’s perceived nuclear program. “It’s a huge amount of money, Jonathan Schanzer, a former terrorism-finance analyst at the US Department of the Treasury, told Business Insider last year. “You can’t ignore the fact that the Turks helped Iran with a massive sanctions-busting scheme.”
Jan. 27, 2015
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/iran-ditching-dollar-134700360.html
Headline: Oil Trades Near 6-Year Low as OPEC Fails to Turn Focus From Glut
Headline: Falling Gas Tax Revenue Has California Lawmakers Considering Mileage Tax Plan
Headline: Iraq lowers oil price forecast in draft 2015 budget to $55 a barrel
Oil traded near its lowest close in almost six years as OPEC’s warning that prices may surge without new investment in production failed to shift the market’s focus from more immediate signs of a supply glut. U.S. crude inventories probably rose to 402.1 million barrels last week, the highest in records dating back to August 1982, a Bloomberg News survey shows before a government report on Wednesday. A spike to $200 a barrel is possible without adequate investment for the long term, OPEC Secretary-General Abdalla El-Badri said Monday. Oil slumped almost 50 percent last year as the U.S. pumped crude at the fastest rate in more than three decades and the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries resisted calls to reduce output. Prices may drop to as low as $30 a barrel, Gary Cohn, the president of Goldman Sachs Group Inc., said in an interview with CNBC on Monday.
Jan. 27, 2015
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2015-01-27/oil-trades-near-six-year-low-as-u-s-supplies-seen-widening-glut.html
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2015/01/25/low-gas-prices-falling-gas-tax-revenue-has-ca-lawmakers-considering-plan-to-impose-a-mileage-tax/
http://www.trust.org/item/20150127134948-svh27/
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: Plague is ‘endemic in Madagascar’: WHO chief
The head of the World Health Organization is warning about an “alarming” plague outbreak in Madagascar that could worsen, particularly as fleas that transmit the disease to humans have developed immunity to insecticide. In her address to the WHO’s executive board meeting Monday, executive director Margaret Chan reviewed the ongoing threat from “emerging and epidemic-prone diseases,” including the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, avian influenza, and the growing threat of human resistance to antibiotics. But she also warned of a plague outbreak in Madagascar that began last November, but is receiving little public attention despite its “disturbing dimensions.” Of particular concern is the fact that fleas that transmit the disease from rodents to humans have developed resistance to the main insecticide used to control their population. Plague is “endemic in Madagascar,” where seasonal outbreaks can be exacerbated by poverty and an increasing number of people living in close urban settings, Chan said in her address. Plague responds well to treatment when detected early, which is possible with a “cheap and reliable” diagnostic test that provides results within 15 minutes. However, the current outbreak has managed to establish a foothold in the capital Antananarivo, and could spread easily through the city’s densely populated slums, Chan warned. “This is alarming, as around eight per cent of cases progress to the lethal pneumonic form, which transmits directly from person to person,” she said.
Jan. 26, 2015
http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/plague-is-endemic-in-madagascar-who-chief-1.2205946
January 21, 2015- Hundreds of dead fish found in ponds in Brownsville, Texas
http://www.foxrio2.com/hundreds-of-dead-fish-discovered-in-brownsville-pond/
January 21, 2015- 73,000 birds killed due to avain flu in Kyushu, Japan
http://www.thepoultrysite.com/poultrynews/34183/bird-flu-hits-japanese-broiler-breeder-flock
January 21, 2015- 22,573 birds killed due to avain flu in 7 states across Nigeria
http://www.thecable.ng/22-000-birds-killed-bird-flu-spreads-7-states
January 22, 2015- Turkeys dead due to ‘new type of bird flu’ in Kollam, India
http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/kerala/New-Type-of-Bird-Flu-Hits-Turkey-Farm-160-Birds-Dead/2015/01/22/article2630521.ece
January 22, 2015- Hundreds of dead fish appear in canals in Padre Island, Texas
http://www.kiiitv.com/story/27918359/dead-fish-appearing-in-padre-island-canals-due-to-cold-weather
January 22, 2015- Thousands of dead jellyfish wash up on Redcliffe Peninsula, Australia
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/jellyfish-wash-up-on-redcliffe-peninsula-20150109-12l9go.html
January 23, 2015- Large amount of dead fish found along an estuary in Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
http://www.sunlive.co.nz/news/91769-dead-fish-mystery-remains-unsolved.html
January 23, 2015- 5,000+ dead fish in Oyster Creek in New Jersey
http://www.dailyrecord.com/story/news/local/grassroots/2015/01/23/thousands-fish-dead-oyster-creek-nuclear-plant/22211067/
January 22, 2015- 10,000 dead fish found in the Lujan 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.latecla.info%2F3%2Fnota_1.php%3Fnoticia_id%3D67040&edit-text=&act=url
January 24, 2015- 4 TONS of fish die suddenly in fish ponds in Guangzhou, China
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fgz.ifeng.com%2Ffygy%2Fdetail_2015_01%2F24%2F3472754_0.shtml&edit-text=&act=url
January 24, 2015- 40,000 turkeys to be killed due to avian flu in Sharon Region, Israel
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4618693,00.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: Judge Strikes Down Alabama’s Gay Marriage Ban
A federal judge ruled Friday that Alabama’s ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. The judge, U.S. District Judge Callie V.S. Granade, ruled that Alabama’s constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, known as the Sanctity of Marriage Amendment, violates the 14th Amendment’s due process and equal protection clauses. “If anything, Alabama’s prohibition of same-sex marriage detracts from its goal of promoting optimal environments for children,” Granade writes. “Those children currently being raised by same-sex parents in Alabama are just as worthy of protection and recognition by the State as are the children being raised by opposite-sex parents. Yet Alabama’s Sanctity laws harms the children of same-sex couples for the same reasons that the Supreme Court found that the Defense of Marriage Act harmed the children of same-sex couples.” The suit was brought against the state by two women, Cari Searcy and Kimberly McKeand, who traveled out of state to get married in order to become the legal parents of their son. “I am a parent in every way to our son, but legally I am still considered a stranger,” Searcy told the Associated Press in May. “We just want our son to have the same protections and securities as other Alabama families.” “There has been no evidence presented that these marriage laws have any effect on the choices of couples to have or raise children, whether they are same-sex couples or opposite-sex couples,” Granade wrote in Friday’s ruling. “In sum, the laws in question are an irrational way of promoting biological relationships in Alabama.”
Jan. 23, 2015
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/23/alabama-gay-marriage_n_6535610.html
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) 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’s most populous region facing worst drought in 80 years
Brazilian Environment Minister Izabella Teixeira has said the country’s three most populous states are experiencing their worst drought since 1930. The states of Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais must save water, she said after an emergency meeting in the capital Brasilia. Ms Teixeira described the water crisis as “delicate” and “worrying”. Industry and agriculture are expected to be affected, further damaging Brazil’s troubled economy. The drought is also having an impact on energy supplies, with reduced generation from hydroelectric dams. The BBC’s Julia Carneiro in Rio de Janeiro says Brazil is supposed to be in the middle of its rainy season but there has been scant rainfall in the south-east and the drought shows no sign of abating. The crisis comes at a time of high demand for energy, with soaring temperatures in the summer months. “Since records for Brazil’s south-eastern region began 84 years ago, we have never seen such a delicate and worrying situation,” said Ms Teixeira. Her comments came at the end of a meeting with five other ministers at the presidential palace in Brasilia to discuss the drought.
Jan. 24, 2015
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-30962813
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: 5.6 Earthquake hits Indonesia’s North Sumatra
An earthquake measuring 5.6 Richter scale jolted North Sumatra province of Indonesia earlier Tuesday, the Meteorology and Geophysics Agency said here. The quake struck at 07:53 a.m. local time with epicenter at 9 km northwest North Nias of the province and with the depth at 10 km under land, an official of the agency told Xinhua via phone. An aftershock with magnitude of 5.1 followed the main shock at 08:27 a.m., the official said.
Jan. 27, 2015
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/150127/earthquake-hits-indonesias-north-sumatra
Headline: Nor’Easter Could Paralyze Northeastern U.S.
Headline: 2010s officially the snowiest decade in the east coast in the NOAA record – surpassing the 1960s
Tens of millions of people along the Philadelphia-to-Boston corridor rushed to get home and settle in Monday as a fearsome storm swirled in with the potential for hurricane-force winds and 1 to 3 feet of snow that could paralyze the Northeast for days. Snow was coating cars and building up on sidewalks and roadways in New York City by evening, and flurries were flying in Boston. Forecasters said the storm would build into a blizzard, and the brunt of it would hit late Monday and into Tuesday. As the snow got heavier, much of the region rushed to shut down. More than 6,500 flights in and out of the Northeast were canceled, and many of them may not take off again until Wednesday. Schools and businesses let out early. Government offices closed. Shoppers stocking up on food jammed supermarkets and elbowed one another for what was left. Broadway stages went dark. “It’s going to be ridiculous out there, frightening,” said postal deliveryman Peter Hovey, standing on a snowy commuter train platform in White Plains, New York.
Jan. 27, 2015
http://connecticut.cbslocal.com/2015/01/26/northeast-residents-preparing-for-crippling-blizzard-that-could-dump-up-to-2-feet-of-snow-over-250-mile-stretch/
http://www.climatedepot.com/2015/01/26/meteorologist-2010s-officially-the-snowiest-decade-in-the-east-coast-in-the-noaa-record-surpassing-the-1960s/
Headline: What’s shaking? 
List & map of USGS Earthquakes
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