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A proper decision by the courts… for a change.

A FLORIDA COURT SETS  ATHEIST HOLY DAY
In Florida , an atheist created a case against Easter and Passover Holy days. He hired an attorney to bring a discrimination case against Christians and Jews and observances of their holy days..

        Luke 21:11 “And there will be great earthquakes in various places, and famines and pestilences; and there will be fearful sights and great signs from    heaven

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Jewish Third Temple is going to be rebuilt

Headline:    Holy Altar constructed for 3rd Jewish Temple

The Temple Institute in Jerusalem has announced that it has finished building an altar suitable for the Temple service. The altar, which took several years to build, can be operational at little more than a moment’s notice, reported Matzav Haruach magazine. The Temple Institute is committed to preparing all the necessary clothing and tools for the rebuilt Holy Temple in Jerusalem. In addition, the institute operates an educational center for visitors and a preparatory training program for members of the priestly family who wish to be ready to serve as soon as the Temple is rebuilt. The altar is a central component to the Biblical sacrificial service. In fact, there were separate altars for the incense and for other sacrifices. The larger altar sat in the outer courtyard of the Tabernacle, and later the Temple. It was approximately five meters (16 feet) tall and 16 meters (52.5 feet) wide, with four “horns”, or raised corners, and a ramp. The altar prepared by the Temple Institute, under the direction of architect Rabbi Shmuel Balsam, follows this requirement. It is constructed instead from bricks fired at roughly 1,000 degrees Celsius (1,832 degrees Fahrenheit), to withstand the immense heat of the Temple’s eternal flame and the weight of the sacrificial animals. Its measurements conform to the interpretation of Maimonides. What makes the altar so unique is that it can be disassembled and reassembled easily, allowing it to be transported quickly and efficiently from its current location, on display at the institute, to the Temple Mount when the time comes. It was inaugurated in December 2014 and is now ready for use.
March 14, 2015

http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/32009/altar-jewish-holy-temple-rebuilt-jewish-world/#l3A2KmuUX54lP1Uh.97

http://www.wnd.com/2015/03/holy-altar-constructed-for-third-jewish-temple/

https://www.templeinstitute.org/stone-altar-project.htm

Headline:   IAF jets scrambled in North after Syrian warplanes spotted near Lebanon border

Israel Air Force fighter jets were scrambled in the skies over the North on Saturday morning after higher-than-usual movement of Syrian aircraft was detected near the Syrian-Lebanese border. The government of President Bashar Assad has used aircraft in its efforts to quell a rebellion launched by a coalition of secular and religious Sunnis seeking to install a new regime in Damascus. Israeli warplanes often fly sorties over southern Lebanon. Lebanese press has been known to report that Israeli air force jets are visible in the Beka’a valley.
The IAF flyovers come against the backdrop of increasing tensions between Israel and Hezbollah following last week’s attack in the Golan Heights against a convoy of Hezbollah and Iranian military personnel.
March 14, 2015

http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/IAF-jets-scrambled-in-North-after-Syrian-warplanes-spotted-near-Lebanon-border-393887

Headline:   Netanyahu says no Palestinian state if re-elected

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, trailing in opinion polls, told Israeli voters on Monday that a Palestinian state will not be established if he is reelected and promised that he would build thousands of settler homes in Arab east Jerusalem. In an interview published Monday, Netanyahu told the daily Maariv newspaper that withdrawing from occupied areas to make way for a Palestinian state would only ensure that territory will be taken over by Islamic extremists. When asked if that means a Palestinian state will not be established if he is elected, Netanyahu said “indeed.” In a separate occasion, while speaking on a whistle-stop tour of Har Homa, a contentious settlement neighborhood of annexed east Jerusalem, Netanyahu vowed he would never allow the Palestinians to establish a capital in the city’s eastern sector. “I won’t let that happen. My friends and I in Likud will preserve the unity of Jerusalem,” he said of his ruling rightwing party, vowing to prevent any future division of the city by building thousands of new settler homes. “We will continue to build in Jerusalem, we will add thousands of housing units, and in the face of all the (international) pressure, we will persist and continue to develop our eternal capital,” he added.
March 16, 2015

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/03/16/Netanyahu-Palestinian-state-will-not-be-established-if-he-retains-premiership.html

http://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-no-palestinian-state-under-my-watch/

“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) 

  Saudi Arabia

Headline: US shuts down Saudi embassy amid security fears

The US embassy in the Saudi capital Riyadh has cancelled all consular services for Sunday and Monday due to “heightened security concerns”. In a statement, the embassy said consular services in Riyadh, Jeddah and Dhahran would not be available. It urged US citizens to take extra precautions when travelling in Saudi Arabia and to keep a low profile. On Friday, the embassy warned that Western oil workers could be the target of militant attacks. It said it had information that “individuals associated with a terrorist organisation” could be targeting people working in the oil-rich Eastern Province.
March 14, 2015

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-31893070

Headline: Saudis Say: Whatever Iran Gets, We Want the Same

A senior Saudi prince told the BBC Monday that if Iran is granted the right to enrich uranium – Saudi Arabia will demand the same right. “I’ve always said whatever comes out of these talks, we will want the same,” said Prince Turki al-Faisal, who has previously served as head of Saudi intelligence and Riyadh’s ambassador to Washington and London. While he is no longer a government official, al-Faisal’s words are widely understood as representing the views of the Al Saud ruling family. “So if Iran has the ability to enrich uranium to whatever level, it’s not just Saudi Arabia that’s going to ask for that,” stated. “The whole world will be an open door to go that route without any inhibition, and that’s my main objection to this P5+1 [the six world powers] process.” US Secretary of state John Kerry and his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif, have resumed nuclear talks in the Swiss city of Lausanne to try to narrow the gaps before a March 31 deadline set for a framework agreement on Iran’s nuclear program, and a June 30 deadline for a final accord.
March 16, 2015

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/192686#.VQcjXOEe2uQ 

Egypt

Headline: Egypt unveils plans to build new capital east of Cairo

The Egyptian government has announced plans to build a new capital to the east of the present one, Cairo. Housing Minister Mostafa Madbouly said the project would cost $45bn (£30bn) and take five to seven years to complete. He said the aim was to ease congestion and overpopulation in Cairo over the next 40 years. The announcement was made at an investment conference that aims to revive the Egyptian economy. The gathering, in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, has attracted pledges worth $12bn (£8bn) in aid and investment from Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Mr Madbouly said the population of greater Cairo, estimated at about 18 million, was expected to double within 40 years. The Egyptian parliament and its government departments and ministries, as well as foreign embassies, would move to the new metropolis, he said. “We are talking about a world capital,” he added.
March 13, 2015

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-31874886

http://thecapitalcairo.com/about.html

“In that day five cities in the land of Egypt will speak the language of Canaan and swear by the Lord of hosts; one will be called the City of Destruction” (Isaiah 19:18) Let me start by saying: I AM NOT saying this IS the city spoken of in Isaiah 19:18. What I am saying is that that particular prophecy has not yet been fulfilled and that this new capital city MAY be one of the five spoken about. As always we need to keep on the watch!

  
Syria Iraq ISIS- the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (the Levant) ISIS=ISIL=IS=Daash

Iraq                              Syria                          Kurdistan

Syria Headline:     Regime forces hit Damascus countryside, 20 civilians reported dead

At least 20 people were killed and hundreds others wounded on Sunday after pro-Syrian regime warplanes bombarded the residential neighborhoods in the city of Duma in the eastern Ghouta of Damascus, locals reported. Medical sources from field hospitals in the city reported that victims included women and children, adding that the airstrikes caused a mass destruction of several residential buildings. “Attempts to drag the dead bodies from the rubble continued,” said a member of the medical staff in Duma field hospital. “There were more than 150 wounded in critical conditions, amid a severe shortage of medical supplies due to the blockade imposed by the Syrian regime forces on the entire Eastern Ghouta,” the source told ARA News under the condition of anonymity. Speaking to ARA News in Duma, Mahmoud Fadel, a fighter in the ranks of the Army of Islam (linked to the Free Syrian Army “FSA”), said that the Syrian regime used vacuum-bombs during the airstrikes. “The regime committs massacres against civilians while the international community remains watching!”
March 16, 2015

http://aranews.net/2015/03/regime-forces-hit-damascus-countryside-20-civilians-reported-dead/

Syria Headline:   Syrian Observatory for Human Rights

https://www.facebook.com/syriahroe 

http://syriahr.com/en/category/news/

Iraq Headline:   Former Iraqi Dictator’s Tomb Levelled in Fighting for Tikrit

Iraq Headline: Tikrit Offensive On Hold So Civilians Can Flee

The tomb of Iraq’s former dictator Saddam Hussein was virtually leveled in heavy clashes between the Islamic State (ISIS) group and Iraqi forces in a fight for control of the city of Tikrit, The Associated Press (AP) reported on Sunday. Fighting intensified to the north and south of Saddam Hussein’s hometown Sunday as Iraqi security forces vowed to reach the center of Tikrit within 48 hours, the news agency said. AP video from the village of Ouja, just south of Tikrit, shows all that remains of Hussein’s once-lavish tomb are the support columns that held up the roof. As well, poster-sized pictures of Saddam, which once covered the mausoleum, are now nowhere to be seen amid the mountains of concrete rubble. Instead, Shiite militia flags and photos of militia leaders mark the predominantly Sunni village, including that of Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the powerful Iranian general advising Iraqi Shiite militias on the battlefield. “This is one of the areas where ISIS militants massed the most because Saddam’s grave is here,” Captain Yasser Nu’ma, an official with the Shiite militias, was quoted as having said. “The ISIS militants’ set an ambush for us by planting bombs around” the tomb, he added.
March 16, 2015

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/192670#.VQckDOEe2uQ

http://www.lbc.co.uk/tikrit-offensive-on-hold-so-civilians-can-flee-106540

Iraq Headline:  ISW Iraq Situation Report March 12-13, 2015

http://iswiraq.blogspot.com/2015/03/iraq-situation-report-march-12-13-2015.html 

Headline:    ISIS Vows To ‘Blow Up The White House, Big Ben And The Eiffel Tower’

En route to conquering the European cities of Paris and Rome, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria says they plan to “blow up” the White House, Big Ben and the Eiffel Tower. ISIS spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani detailed the terror group’s plans to conquer Portugal, Spain, Paris and Rome in an almost 30-minute audio message to the West, “So They Kill And Are Killed,” which references a Koran verse. “We won the day Europe and U.S. dreamt of reclaiming Tal Hamis, Mosul, Sinjar, Tikrit, Qaim, Derna, Tell Abyad, and more,” stated the ISIS mouthpiece, as transcribed by Ynet News. “We — with Allah’s help — want Paris, before Rome and Islamic Iberia and after we blow up the White House, Big Ben, and the Eiffel Tower before Paris, and Rome,” al-Adnani warned. “The Muslims will return to power, to be the vanguard and lead in every place.” The Islamic State’s al-Adnani gave Jews and Christians the ultimatum that they could either “convert to Islam or pay the ultimate price when you armies are expelled from Muhammad’s peninsula, from Jerusalem, and all Muslim lands,” Ynet news translated. He warned Christians and Jews they would soon be unable to stop the jihadi advance to the caliphate, saying, “The Jews and the Crusaders are scared and weak.”
March 16, 2015

http://washington.cbslocal.com/2015/03/16/isis-vows-to-blow-up-the-white-house-big-ben-and-the-eiffel-tower/

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: Russia says ready to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine conflict

Russian leader Vladimir Putin, in a pre-filmed interview, has said he was ready to use nuclear weapons if the West had tried to stop him seizing Crimea. He made the comment in a documentary, “Crimea. The Path to the Motherland”, aired on Russian state TV on Sunday (15 March). When asked if he would have put his nuclear arsenal on alert, he responded: “We were ready to do that … That’s why I think no one wanted to start a world conflict”. He said he also deployed high-tech coastal defence missiles, which can be seen from space, to deter outside intervention. He added that he warned his Western counterparts he is prepared to go to war: “I spoke to colleagues and I told them that this is our historic territory, Russian people live there, they are in danger and we can’t abandon them. What do you want to fight for? You don’t know? We know. And we’re ready for that”. The film also revealed that he sent Russian special forces to the Ukrainian peninsula prior to its so-called referendum on independence, which took place on 16 March last year. His remarks are not the first instance of nuclear sabre-rattling in the crisis.
March 16, 2015

https://euobserver.com/foreign/128001

Iran

Headline: Iran Threatens to Restart Uranium Enrichment if Deal Fails

Headline: Iran confronts US at nuke talks over GOP letter

An overwhelming majority of 260 out of 290 Iranian parliament members passed a proposal designed to strengthen the regime’s policy regarding the nuclear talks with world powers, with three important clauses contained in the document. The first clause demands a removal of all sanctions against Iran that were imposed by the United Nations (UN) Security Council, as part of implementing a nuclear deal. In the second clause, the Iranian parliament called for a preservation of Iran’s nuclear infrastructure and rights to develop nuclear power according to article 4 of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). Finally – and most significantly – the proposal delineates that if any of the obligations of the nuclear deal are breached, the deal will be considered null and void, and Iran will restart its uranium enrichment to the “level required by Iran’s needs.” Iran has been demanding to have 190,000 centrifuges, an amount allowing it to produce a full nuclear arsenal within weeks.
March 16, 2015

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/192695#.VQcivuEe2uR http://news.yahoo.com/us-iran-nuclear-pact-deadline-approaching-071208446–politics.html

Afghanistan

Headline:    Afghan government: Army operation in south kills commander of Islamic State group’s affiliate

Headline:   U.N. concerned by Islamic State’s ability to unite Afghan insurgents

Headline:   Officials: US to Keep More Troops in Afghanistan Into 2016

Afghanistan’s Ministry of Defense says a military operation in the country’s south has killed a militant commander who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group. A ministry statement says Hafiz Wahidi and nine of his men were killed in the operation in Sangin district on Monday. Sangin is in the southern Helmand province, a Taliban heartland. The statement said Wahidi was the nephew and a successor to Abdul Rauf Khadim, a former Taliban commander who switched allegiance and aligned his followers with the Islamic State group, which is fighting in Iraq and Syria. Khadim, who had set up an IS recruiting network across southern Afghanistan, was killed in drone strike last month. Officials have voiced concern about the IS presence in Afghanistan though the group’s real strength here is unknown.
March 16, 2015

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/03/16/afghan-government-army-operation-in-south-kills-commander-islamic-state-group/

http://newsdaily.com/2015/03/u-n-concerned-by-islamic-states-ability-to-unite-afghan-insurgents/

http://www.voanews.com/content/ap-officials-us-to-keep-more-troops-in-afghanistan-into-2016/2681567.html 

Libya

Headline:   Islamic State fighters in Libya battle militia near Sirte

Headline: Car bomb in Libyan city of Misrata kills 1

Fighting has been raging in Libya between Islamic State (IS) fighters and a militia alliance from the west of the country, near the city of Sirte. A spokesman for militia brigades told the BBC that two of their men had been killed in the clashes. Jihadists affiliated to Islamic State seized government buildings and a state radio station in Sirte last month. Their main base is in eastern Libya where the elected government and army have battled extremists for months. In February, a video was released appearing to show the beheadings of 21 Egyptian Christians kidnapped by IS militants in Sirte. Militia forces and the self-proclaimed government ruling western Libya deny IS has a significant presence in Libya, saying the fighters are former Gaddafi loyalists.
March 16, 2015

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-31892764

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2015/Mar-16/290955-witnesses-say-car-bomb-in-libyan-city-of-misrata-kills-1.ashx

Germany

Headline:   Germany urges major powers and Iran to seize fresh opportunity for a nuclear deal

Germany on Monday urged its international partners and Iran “to seize this opportunity” to negotiate an end to the standoff over Tehran’s nuclear program before a deadline at the end of the month. EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini, who is negotiating with Iran on behalf of the world’s five nuclear powers and Germany, said that “we are entering a crucial time, a crucial two weeks.” Iran says its nuclear program is aimed at generating electricity and at medical research, but many in the West fear the Islamic republic is trying to covertly build atomic weapons. A deal that has taken shape over the past 15 months could see Iran freeze its nuclear program for at least a decade in exchange for the gradual lifting of international sanctions. German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said that after “more than 10 years of negotiations, we should seize this opportunity.” He will join the foreign ministers of France and Britain and Mogherini for talks in Brussels on Monday evening with their Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif. “There are areas where we’ve made progress, areas where we have yet to make any progress,” British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said. “But the fact that we’re all here talking shows the commitment on both sides to try to reach an agreement.”
March 16, 2015

http://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2015/03/16/germany-urges-its-partners-iran-to-grab-nuclear-deal

Turkey

Headline:   Kerry’s Assad Reconciliation Enrages Turkey

Turkey on Monday slammed US Secretary of State John Kerry for suggesting negotiations would have to be opened with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to end the bloody conflict in Syria. Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told the state-run Anatolia news agency that all Syria’s current problems, on the fourth anniversary of the start of the conflict in March 2011, were caused by the Assad regime, reports AFP. “What is there to be negotiated with Assad?” Cavusoglu was quoted as saying at the end of his visit to Cambodia. “You are going to have what negotiations with a regime that has killed over 200,000 people and has used chemical weapons?” “Up until now, what result has been reached (with the regime) through negotiations?” he added. Cavusoglu said all parties needed to work for a political “transformation” in Syria. Kerry over the weekend conceded “we have to negotiate in the end” with Assad, on the fourth anniversary of a conflict that has left more than 215,000 dead.
March 16, 2015

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/192690#.VQcjCeEe2uQ

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: Two arrested as Ferguson protests move to St. Louis

Police arrested at least two people Saturday as nightly protests in the racially troubled US suburb of Ferguson over the police killing of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown shifted into the heart of St. Louis. Up to 50 youthful demonstrators gathered after sunset at the Midwestern city’s historic 19th century Old Courthouse to march through streets lined with bars filled with St. Patrick’s revelers. “Justice is dead! We have to wake it up,” one protester, David Ragland, shouted from the steps of the white colonnaded courthouse where in 1846 black slave Dred Scott filed his unsuccessful but historic lawsuit to win his freedom. When some of the protesters briefly held up traffic, police stepped in and took away two men — a young protester with a kerchief over his face and a freelance photojournalist, Philip Montgomery, on assignment for the Mashable website. Mashable’s executive editor Jim Roberts said via Twitter that Montgomery was “fine” after he was released a short time later.
March 15, 2015

http://www.arabnews.com/world/news/718676

Headline: Nearly a million protest Brazil’s president, economy, corruption

Close to a million demonstrators marched in cities and towns across Brazil on Sunday to protest a sluggish economy, rising prices and corruption – and to call for the impeachment of left-wing President Dilma Rousseff. The protests in the continent-sized country come as Brazil struggles to overcome economic and political malaise and pick up the pieces of a boom that crumbled about the time Rousseff took office in 2011. Rousseff, now early into her second four-year term, is unlikely to face the impeachment proceedings called for by many opponents. A fifth year of economic stagnation and a multibillion-dollar corruption scandal at state-run energy company Petroleo Brasileiro SA, or Petrobras, has fueled their anger. The unexpectedly large demonstrations also promise to embolden opposition parties and restive allies, including the leaders of both houses of Congress, who are nominally part of Rousseff’s ruling coalition, but nonetheless are hindering efforts to pass reforms intended to jump-start the economy.
March 15, 2015

http://news.yahoo.com/nearly-million-protest-brazils-president-economy-corruption-003721852–business.html

Headline: Nigerian troops discover Boko Haram ‘bomb factory’: military

Headline: Cameroonian forces attack Boko Haram extremists in Nigerian village

Headline: IS-Linked Twitter Accounts Refer to Boko Haram as “West Africa Province”

Nigeria’s military said on Friday that it had uncovered a Boko Haram bomb-making factory in the northeastern town of Buni Yadi after soldiers retook the town from the insurgents. Islamist fighters captured the town in Yobe state in August last year as the group seized swathes of territory in the crisis-hit northeast. The military announced that it had wrested back control last Saturday. Defence spokesman Chris Olukolade said that search operations in the area led to the discovery of the bomb-making factory manufacturing improvised explosive devices or IEDs. “A large quantity of IEDs, including those commonly used by suicide bombers were recovered from the site,” he added in an emailed statement. “The factory, which was located in a fertiliser company, has also converted some of the materials therein for production of all types of IEDs.”Troops are still evacuating the materials which include a large quantity of suicide bomber vests from the facility to their base.”
March 16, 2015

http://news.yahoo.com/nigerian-troops-discover-boko-haram-bomb-factory-military-223052842.html

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/03/16/cameroonian-forces-attack-boko-haram-extremists-in-nigerian-village/?intcmp=latestnews

https://news.siteintelgroup.com/Jihadist-News/is-linked-twitter-accounts-refer-to-boko-haram-as-west-africa-province.html

Headline:  Houthis lift house arrest on Yemeni prime minister

Headline:  Hamas to mediate between Riyadh and Yemen’s Islah party

Yemen’s Houthi rebels on Monday released Prime Minister Khaled Bahah and all his cabinet ministers after nearly two months under house arrest, government spokesman Rajeh Badi said. Bahah said in a statement on his Facebook page that the move was a goodwill gesture to ease talks on Yemen’s political transition, but said he had no intention of resuming his post. He had resigned in January after the Houthis captured the presidential palace. President Abderabbo Mansour Hadi, who has resumed power from second city Aden in the south after escaping from house arrest in Sanaa last month, has proposed the crisis talks move to neighboring Saudi Arabia.

Meanwhile, the head of the political bureau of Hamas, Khaled Meshaal, is set to mediate between the Saudi capital Riyadh and the Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated Islah party in Yemen, political sources said on Sunday. The mediation, the sources said, was being made at the request of Saudi Arabia, which has been alarmed at the possibility of a power struggle in Yemen, something that might negatively affect the Gulf. The sources added that Meshaal enjoyed close ties with Yemen’s Muslim Brotherhood, and that his role as mediator was specifically requested by the Saudi monarch King Salman bin Abdulaziz, as well as other high-ranking Saudi officials. The Defence Minister Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz, and Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef all contacted Meshaal to ask him to mediate between Riyadh and the Islah party because of his close relations with the latter.
March 16, 2015

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/03/16/Houthis-lift-house-arrest-on-Yemeni-prime-minister.html

http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hamas-mediate-between-riyadh-and-yemen-s-islah-party-1291245918

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:   America to lose one-third of its fresh produce when California runs out of water

As Michael Snyder points out in a timely article at The Economic Collapse Blog, California is rapidly reverting back to the desert it was once. Awareness of this is only now beginning to spread, but almost no one truly grasps the implications of what losing California’s Central Valley agricultural output means to grocery shoppers. Almost no one realizes, for example, that one-third of all the produce grown in the United States comes out of California’s Central Valley. As the NYT explains: Unlike the Midwest, which concentrates (devastatingly) on corn and soybeans, more than 230 crops are grown in the valley… melons, lettuce, asparagus, cabbage, broccoli, chard, collards, prickly pears, almonds, pistachios, grapes and more tomatoes than anyone could conceive of in one place. (The valley is the largest supplier of canned tomatoes in the world too.) Losing the ability to produce crops in the Central Valley means food prices will skyrocket across America: a pound of organic strawberries might cost $25, a single avocado might run you $10, and a head of organic romaine lettuce might set you back $12 or more. 
March 16, 2015

http://www.naturalnews.com/049013_California_water_crisis_fresh_produce.html

Headline:   Oil Continues Drop After Hitting Six-Year Low

Brent crude oil fell to around $53 a barrel on Monday, its lowest for more than a month, on rising global inventories and signs of a possible nuclear deal with Tehran that could allow more Iranian oil exports. Western powers are hoping for concessions from Tehran that could help clinch an agreement in nuclear talks this week after the United States and European powers voiced a willingness to compromise on suspending U.N. sanctions. Brent for April dropped $1.84 to $52.83, its lowest since early February, before recovering some ground to trade around $53.00, down $1.67, by 1430 GMT. U.S. crude fell to $43.18, its lowest since March 2009, before rebounding to around $43.35. Both benchmark crude futures contracts have fallen over the last two weeks on mounting evidence of a global glut that is filling oil inventories rapidly.
March 16, 2015

http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2015/03/16/oil-falls-on-supply-glut-iran-nuclear-talks/ 

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: China protests over ‘deadly Myanmar border raid’

China has sent fighter jets to its border with Myanmar and lodged a diplomatic protest after a Myanmar warplane reportedly dropped a bomb on its territory, killing four civilians. The bomb exploded in a sugar cane field near Lincang in Yunnan province along the frontier with Myanmar, reports say. Myanmar has been fighting rebels in the Kokang region, bordering China. A Myanmar official quoted by Reuters denied bombing China and said rebels may have caused the explosion. “It’s possible that those fighting with us purposely created these attacks with the intent of causing misunderstanding between China and us,” the official said. China recently warned Myanmar (also known as Burma) that the escalating conflict in the Kokang region could destabilise the border area
March 14, 2015

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-31885318

March 13, 2015 – 80,000 birds killed due to more outbreaks of avian flu in Taiwan, China

http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2015/03/taiwan-battles-more-h5n2-h5n8-outbreaks

March 15, 2015 – Massive die off of fish in a lake in Xiamen, China

https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Ffj.sina.com.cn%2Fnews%2Fm%2F2015-03-15%2Fdetail-iavxeafs1779479.shtml&edit-text=&act=url

March 15, 2015 – Hundreds of dead fish wash up along Chesapeake Canal in Virgina

http://wtkr.com/2015/03/15/hundreds-of-dead-fish-wash-up-along-chesapeake-canal/

March 15, 2015 – dolphins and sea lions found dead on a beach in San Felipe, Mexico

https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.excelsior.com.mx%2Fnacional%2F2015%2F03%2F12%2F1013190&edit-text=&act=url

March 15, 2015 – Masses of dead fish appear again on the shores of Lake San Roque in Cordoba, Argentina

http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.diaadia.com.ar%2Fcordoba%2Fpeces-muertos-en-el-lago-san-roque&edit-text=&act=url

March 16, 2015 – Thousands of dead fish wash up in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia

http://news.asiaone.com/news/malaysia/puzzling-dead-fish-case-resurfaces-kota-kinabalu

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: St Patrick’s Day: Gay groups march in Boston parade

Gay and lesbian groups have officially joined a St Patrick’s Day parade in the US city of Boston for the first time. Until now, they had been banned by the organisers, who won support for their stance from the US Supreme Court. But the organisers, the South Boston Allied War Veterans Council, had a change of heart and told Boston Pride and Outvets, representing gay military veterans, they were welcome. St Patrick’s Day parades celebrate Irish and Irish-American culture. “Finally in the city of Boston we’re seeing the inclusivity we never thought we would see,” said Outvets founder Bryan Bishop, “This is personally one of the greatest days of my life.” In 1995 the Supreme Court upheld a ban on gay and lesbian groups, citing free speech rights. The organisers had argued that it violated their Roman Catholic doctrine. But the Veterans Council changed its position and its commander, Brian Mahoney, is quoted as saying “who am I to judge?” when asked about the issue of sexual orientation.
March 15, 2015

http://www.bbc.com/news/31896300

Persecution Matthew 24:9 & Revelation 6:9 “Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake.” (Matthew) “When He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held.” (Revelation)

Headline:   Deadly blasts hit Pakistan churches in Lahore

Headline:   Christians riot in Pakistan after attacks targeting churches kill 14

Two bomb blasts have killed at least 14 people near two churches in a Christian neighbourhood of the Pakistani city of Lahore, local officials say. More than 70 people were hurt in the explosions, which targeted worshippers attending Sunday mass at the churches in the Youhanabad area. Violent protests erupted after the blasts, with a mob killing two men accused of involvement in the attacks. Pakistan’s Christian community has often been targeted by militants. An offshoot of the Pakistan Taliban, calling itself Jamatul Ahrar, has said it carried out the attack. Witnesses say suicide bombers were responsible for the explosions but police have not confirmed this. The bombers are said to have detonated their explosives near the gates of St John’s Catholic Church and Christ Church.
March 15, 2015

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-31894708

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/suicide-bombers-attack-catholic-church-in-pakistan/2015/03/15/e21f1b8a-caed-11e4-b2a1-bed1aaea2816_story.html

Headline:   Christians say under siege in Modi’s India after rape, attacks

Christians in India said on Monday that the Hindu nationalist government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi had not done enough to protect their religion, after a spate of attacks including the rape of a 75-year-old nun at the weekend. Christians prayed and held vigils across the country to protest against the rape during an armed assault on a convent school, the worst in a series of incidents that followers of the faith say are making them feel unwelcome in their own country. The convent attack also comes in the same month an interview emerged of a man being held on death row for a fatal gang rape in which he showed no remorse and blamed the victim. The government banned the documentary, “India’s Daughter”, a decision which angered some Indians who said it should be aired to highlight the prevalence of gender inequality and sex crimes. Father Savari Muthu, spokesman for the Delhi Catholic Archdiocese and a national Church organizer, said the government had not taken “concrete action to protect Christians. “We have to raise our voice against the atrocities. Christians will not tolerate this humiliation,” he said, joining critics who say Modi has not done enough to ensure religious harmony in a country with a history of inter-faith bloodshed. The motive for the assault and armed robbery in the eastern state of West Bengal on Saturday was not clear.
March 16, 2015

http://newsdaily.com/2015/03/christians-say-under-siege-in-modis-india-after-rape-attacks/ 

  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:   Heat wave sets new temperature records across California

A March heat wave set new temperature records across California on Saturday, with more sweltering conditions in the forecast for Sunday. Lifeguards reported big crowds at local beaches, even though the temperatures along the coast were in the high 80s and low 90s. Downtown L.A., Long Beach, San Diego and other spots set new temperature records for the date — for the second day in a row. Downtown L.A. was at 93 degrees by 1 p.m. Temperarures in inland valley areas were also high, including 94 in San Gabriel and 92 in Van Nuys. The heart extended to Northern California, where San Francisco, Sacramento, Stockton and Modesto set a new record for the day of 84 degrees. The heat is caused by a high-pressure system moving across the region, according to the National Weather Service. With temperatures 20 degrees above normal, the heat this weekend will break records that have stood for more than 60 years, said meteorologist Stuart Seto. On Saturday, highs will hit the 90s inland and the 80s on the coast. “These are record-breaking temperatures,” Seto said.
March 14, 2015

http://www.vagazette.com/news/la-me-ln-recordbreaking-heat-wave-broils-southern-california-20150314,0,2181905.story

    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:  6.2 magnitude quake hits Papua New Guinea

A 6.2-magnitude earthquake occurred in the New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea at 11.00am Beijing time (0300 GMT) on Monday, the Hong Kong Observatory said. The epicenter was near 4.2 degrees south latitude and 152.1 degrees east longitude, about 790 kilometers northeast of Port Moresby, the capital of Papua New Guinea, said the observatory. In an earlier bulletin from the US Geological Survey, the magnitude of the quake was put at 5.9 and the depth at 198.87 km.
March 16, 2015

http://www.punchng.com/news/6-2-magnitude-quake-hits-papua-new-guinea/

Headline:  Vanuatu Faces Lack of Food, Disease Outbreak

Relief workers said Monday the conditions in Vanuatu in the wake of Cyclone Pam are among the worst they have ever seen and the environment is rife for spreading disease. “I don’t think there has ever been destruction on this scale in one place,” said Aurelia Balpe, head of the Pacific Office of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. “Friday night was the first emergency with the arrival of Cyclone Pam, disease will be the second emergency without clean water, sanitation and hygiene provision,” Oxfam Vanuatu Director Colin Collett van Rooyen said. “We need food for the coming weeks,” said Red Cross Vanuatu CEO Jacqueline de Gaillarde. Officials in Vanuatu had still not made contact with outlying islands by Monday night and were struggling to determine the scale of devastation from the cyclone, which tore through the nation early Saturday. Authorities have confirmed at least eight deaths and more than 20 injuries. Bridges were down outside the capital, Port Vila, making travel by vehicle impossible even around the main island of Efate.  March 16, 2015

http://www.voanews.com/content/monster-cyclone-hits-vanuatu/2681449.html

Headline:    What’s shaking? List & map of USGS Earthquakes

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/#{%22feed%22%3A%221day_m25%22%2C%22search%22%3Anull%2C%22sort%22%3A%22newest%22%2C%22basemap%22%3A%22grayscale%22%2C%22autoUpdate%22%3Atrue%2C%22restrictListToMap%22%3Atrue%2C%22timeZone%22%3A%22local%22%2C%22mapposition%22%3A[[-82.49482361179572%2C-81.2109375]%2C[82.44876405595812%2C481.28906250000006]]%2C%22overlays%22%3A{%22plates%22%3Atrue}%2C%22viewModes%22%3A{%22map%22%3Atrue%2C%22list%22%3Atrue%2C%22settings%22%3Afalse%2C%22help%22%3Afalse}}

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Revelation 1:7 : “Behold, He is coming with clouds, and every eye will see Him, even they who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. Even so, Amen.”

Headline:   Hamas digging, building outposts not far from border fence

Footage filmed this week shows armed and masked Hamas fighters hard at work preparing for a possible future escalation with Israel; ‘This phenomenon did not exist before Operation Protective Edge, now they’re building outposts and training facilities right under our noses,’ area resident says. Hamas is preparing for the next round of fighting against Israel by building fortifications near the Israel-Gaza border, video footage filmed this week not far from the border fence shows. Armed and masked, Hamas fighters are seen in the video digging and setting up outposts and training facilities only dozens of meters from the border fence. At some point, two armed and masked Hamas fighters are seen helping a man descend – possibly into the ground. The video was not filmed covertly, or with advanced technology used by the IDF’s top intelligence units – it was filmed with a regular video camera from inside Israel, several dozen meters from the houses of Netiv HaAsara, north of the Gaza Strip. The Hamas fighters are seen operating where the settlements of Elei Sinai and Nisanit once were, before they were evacuated as part of the Gaza disengagement. The residents of Netiv HaAsara are accustomed to seeing Hamas men setting up outposts and levees near the border fence, but in recent days the men working have been armed and masked, with Hamas flags flying visibly overhead.
March 12, 2015

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4636622,00.html

Headline: Kerry and Abbas to Meet in Egypt

Headline: Kerry tells Abbas he’ll press Israel to transfer withheld funds

United States Secretary of State John Kerry will meet Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas and Jordan’s King Abdullah II on the sidelines of economic talks in Egypt on Friday, American officials said on Thursday night. The talks are likely to focus on the economic crisis facing the PA and could be a four-way meeting which would also include Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, a State Department official was quoted by AFP as having said. “We continue to be concerned about the PA,” the official told reporters travelling with Kerry on his plane to the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. “It’s really part of the continuous, ongoing conversation we’re having with the critical stakeholders here,” the official said, asking not to be named. Kerry is due to arrive Friday at the resort to attend an international economic conference, set to burnish Sisi’s global credentials. Last month, Kerry voiced fears that the PA may be teetering on the brink of collapse because of a lack of funding, as Israel withholds taxes and donor aid stalls.
March 13, 2015

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/192558#.VQM_duEe2uQ

http://www.timesofisrael.com/kerry-talks-mideast-peace-with-abbas-sissi-jordan-king/

Headline: Netanyahu and his Likud are running out of time to survive the March 17 ballot

Headline: Is This the Man Who Could Beat Netanyahu and Become Israel’s Next PM?

Five days before Israel’s snap election, people who have seen Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu close up say he looks weary and, behind his controlled façade, shocked to discover that his Likud party faces the real possibility of being thrown out of office on March 17. At a meeting of the party faithful, Wednesday, March 11,  he warned – not once but again and again – that if they don’t get a move on fast, Israel could be stuck with “Bougie and Tzipi”  [Yitzhak Herzog and Tzipi Livni co-leaders of the opposition Zionist Camp] as prime ministers. The former Labor party keeps on overtaking Likud in opinion polls – not by much but consistently. When the figures hit 24-25 Knesset seats to his party’s 21, Netanyahu finally bestirred himself to go stumping across the country. He hasn’t yet lost the race for another term in the prime minister’s office, but he will need to pull some rabbits out of his hat and aces from his sleeve if he wants to be chosen by the president as the most credible candidate for forming the next government. Herzog may get there first. This campaign has held a couple more surprises and others may be in store in the short time remaining.
March 13, 2015

http://debka.com/article/24455/Netanyahu-and-his-Likud-are-running-out-of-time-to-survive-the-March-17-ballot

http://time.com/3740282/herzog-israel-election/

“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: Israel security officials recommend barrier on Jordan border

Israeli security officials have recommended building a barrier along the border with Jordan — the Jewish state’s only frontier that does not yet feature a fence. “Security officials recommended the construction of a security barrier to protect the new airport which will be built at Timna” some 20 kilometres (12 miles) north of resort city Eilat, an army spokeswoman said, without elaborating. Work has already begun on the new airport near Eilat, which lies across the Jordanian border from the port city of Aqaba. Newspaper Haaretz reported that the planned 30-kilometre (19-mile) barrier was designed both to protect the airport and to foil attempts by would-be “jihadist infiltrators” from Jordan, which is home to some extremist sympathisers and a number of radical clerics. It was unclear whether the government would approve construction of the fence.
March 13, 2015

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2015/Mar-13/290722-israel-security-officials-recommend-barrier-on-jordan-border.ashx

Lebanon

Headline:    Hezbollah deputy chief slams anti-ISIS coalition

Hezbollah’s deputy chief Sheikh Naim Qassem Friday blasted the U.S.-led coalition against ISIS, accusing Washington and partner countries of creating the militant group. “We hear the world wants to confront ISIS because it represents takfiri terrorism. Who created ISIS? Those who want to fight [ISIS] are the ones who raised and funded ISIS,” Qassem told a local prize distributing ceremony. His comments came in a statement released by Hezbollah Friday. Qassem said the U.S. has provided ISIS with weapons and training “starting from Afghanistan all the way to Syria and Iraq.” Gulf countries, on the other hand, according to the Hezbollah official, “paid a lot of money to make them [ISIS] strong in order to [carry out acts of] sabotage in their name and on behalf of America.” “And Israel opened hospitals [to ISIS casualties]; and contact between takfiris in Syria’s Qunaitra and Israel is constantly ongoing, uninterrupted, because they are part of this scheme,” Qassem said. “Therefore, those from the [U.S.-led] coalition who claim to be combating the takfiri scheme are not honest.” He said the world today was witnessing a confrontation between two schemes: the resistance scheme which is honest, sincere and divine; and the scheme led by the U.S. and Israel, which seeks to plunge men into destruction at all intellectual, political and economic levels.
March 13, 2015

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2015/Mar-13/290656-hezbollah-deputy-chief-slams-anti-isis-coalition.ashx

Headline:   Hezbollah Readying to Attack Islamist Fighters along Lebanon’s Border

Hezbollah is reportedly mobilizing and preparing to carry out a wide-range attack on more than one axis in the rebel-held areas in the Syrian Qalamoun region and on Lebanon’s Eastern Mountain range. A source close to Hizbullah revealed in comments to the Italian news agency Adnkronos (AKI) that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and Syrian regime forces will back the party’s assault on militant posts. The source said Hizbullah had waged a stake that the harshness of the winter in Qalamoun, strategically located on the Lebanese border, would limit the movement of the Islamist fighters and reduce their areas of control. However, the failure of the party’s expectation compelled Hizbullah to stage the wide-area operation to force the rebels to retreat. “The party’s strategy during winter failed to block the key rebel supply line,” the source told the news agency, fearing that the rebels have stepped up their readiness for a battle in the spring.
March 13, 2015

http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/171269-report-hizbullah-readying-to-attack-islamist-fighters-along-lebanon-s-border

Egypt

Headline: Egypt’s Sisi faces growing pressure from jihadists, Obama administration

Headline:   Egypt’s Sissi says country in danger of collapse

Anger is building in Egypt’s government at being treated with hostility by its traditional ally in Washington while coping with a drumbeat of terror incidents targeting security forces in Sinai and foreign business interests here. Asked on March 9 about the shifting U.S. policy in the region, Egyptian President Abdul Fatah Sisi responded: “Difficult question.” After a long silence, he added: ““The suspending of U.S. equipment and arms was an indicator for the public that the United States is not standing by the Egyptians.” Although the Obama administration recently agreed to provide the Egyptian Air Force with Apache attack helicopters, it has blocked most military purchases since Muslim Brotherhood Leader Mohammed Morsi was overthown by Sisi in a coup that met with widespread popular support in Egypt. On Monday, terror attacks in Alexandria targeted an elementary school and three businesses including two banks. Security analyst Janet Basurto attributed some of the attacks to the desire to inhibit foreign investments in Egypt as well as punish police forces. In the past weeks, several cities in Egypt have been rocked by similar attacks, according to EgyptianStreets.com.
March 13, 2015

http://www.worldtribune.com/2015/03/12/egypts-sisi-faces-growing-pressure-from-jihadists-obama-administration/

http://www.timesofisrael.com/egypts-sissi-says-country-in-danger-of-collapse/

  
Syria Iraq ISIS- the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (the Levant) ISIS=ISIL=IS=Daash

Iraq                              Syria                          Kurdistan

Syria Headline:    Eighty percent of all Syria’s lights have gone out due to war

Eighty-three percent of all the lights in Syria have gone out since the start of the conflict four years ago, a research report based on satellite images said on Thursday. More than 200,000 people have been killed and nearly four million have fled the country according to the United Nations. The uprising started in 2011 with a pro-democracy movement and a government crackdown and has since spiralled into a civil war. A coalition of 130 humanitarian and human rights organisations, calling themselves WithSyria, in coordination with scientists based at Wuhan University in China, found that the worst hit area was Aleppo province. Much of Aleppo city has been destroyed by Syrian air force helicopters dropping barrel bombs, crudely-made explosives that can flatten whole neighbourhoods. The research showed a 97 percent decline in light in Aleppo province. Raqqa province, where the hard-line Islamic State insurgent group has taken control, saw a decline in light by 96 percent, it said. The southern province of Damascus, mostly held by the government, saw the smallest decline in light, by 33 percent, the research showed.
March 12, 2015

http://www.trust.org/item/20150312000117-pcxq8/

Syria Headline:     Fifty people killed in battle for Assad home province

More than 50 regime soldiers and Islamist fighters were killed as they battled over a strategic hilltop in Syrian President Bashar Assad’s home province, an activist group said Thursday. Government forces clashed with Al-Qaeda-affiliated militants backed by other armed Islamist groups in a village in Latakia province in the northwest. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the fighting broke out Wednesday and raged through the night in Jabal al-Akrad district, a rare rebel stronghold in the province, which is the heartland of the ruling Assad clan. Al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate the Nusra Front and its allies were seeking to recapture the village of Dourin, which overlooks their positions in one of the district’s main towns, Salma. They lost the village to Assad’s forces last week after holding it for more than a year. “The clashes Wednesday led to 50 dead from both sides. There are many casualties because the fighters are facing off directly,” Observatory head Rami Abdel-Rahman said.
March 13, 2015

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2015/Mar-13/290606-fifty-people-killed-in-battle-for-assad-home-province.ashx

Syria Headline:     Nusra Front pulls out of Damascus suburb

Militants from the Nusra Front have vacated a suburb of the Syrian capital in the wake of deadly clashes with residents and a local militia, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Thursday. The Britain-based group said that an “Islamist faction” was involved in the mediation efforts to secure the withdrawal by Nusra Front fighters from Beit Sahm. It came several days after an unspecified number of residents and fighters from the Nusra Front and the Sham al-Rasoul militia were killed in two days of running street battles. The tension erupted last week when hundreds of residents of Beit Sahm and nearby Babila staged a protest to demand the exit of the Nusra Front from the area. Pro-opposition media outlets said that among other things, the withdrawal of the Nusra Front could lead to the reopening of a regime-held humanitarian aid corridor.
March 13, 2015

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2015/Mar-13/290608-nusra-front-pulls-out-of-damascus-suburb.ashx

Syria Headline:   Syrian Observatory for Human Rights

https://www.facebook.com/syriahroe 

http://syriahr.com/en/category/news/

Iraq Headline:   Iran Deepening Involvement in Iraq’s War on ISIS

Iraq Headline: Iranian advisor clarifies ‘Baghdad capital of Iranian empire’ remark

Iraqi army forces and Shi’ite militias, with the help of Iranian Revolutionary Guards officers, continue their fight to liberate Tikrit from Islamic State (ISIS), according to local reports Friday. Iraqi officials explained that Iranian involvement in the region is deepening. Hadi al-Aamiri, leader of the “Badr” sect of the Iraqi parliament, said in an interview with Asharq Al-Awsat Friday that the presence of Iranian advisers accompanying the Iraqi army is “a source of pride.” “Why is there some sensitivity with respect to the presence of Iranian consultants here, when it is known that there are currently more than four thousand American advisers in Iraq?” he asked. “The Iranian advisers accompany us on the battlefield and give us the best counseling, and we are proud of them, because they will help us to liberate the provinces of Nineveh and al-Anbar fully after we liberate Tikrit and Kirkuk,” he continued. “Those who speak against the Iranian advisers should thank and praise them – for without them and without Qasem Soleimani (commander of the Guard’s Quds force), Iraq would be under ISIS rule.” Meanwhile, Ali Younisi, Iranian President Hassan Rowhani’s adviser on Ethnic and Religious Minorities affairs, clarified a statement made Monday – “Baghdad is now capital of the Iranian empire” – saying Tehran never wants to damage its neighboring country’s sovereignty and independence, Al Alam website reported. Instead, Younesi said that he was alluding to cultural similarities with Iraq, Azerbaijan and Afghanistan, adding that “unification” of these countries could halt expansionist agendas of powers foreign to the region.
March 13, 2015

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/192583#.VQM-8OEe2uQ

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/03/13/Iranian-advisor-clarifies-Baghdad-capital-of-Iranian-empire-remark.html

Iraq Headline: Iraqi Forces Press Offensive to Retake Tikrit

Iraq Headline: Iraqi offensive on Tikrit appears to stall

Iraqi security forces on Friday pressed on with their massive offensive to retake Tikrit, where fighters from the Islamic State group have reportedly begun to lose ground. Baghdad officials continue to express confidence they will soon completely retake the city, which has strategic and symbolic value, as the hometown of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. As many as 30,000 Iraqi troops and Iranian-backed Shi’ite militia members have surrounded the city and retaken several areas, though it remains unclear how far the forces have reached. The multi-front offensive, now in its second week, has been slowed by snipers and booby traps set by Islamic State fighters. On Friday, six soldiers were reportedly killed in a suicide car bombing.
March 13, 2015

http://www.voanews.com/content/iraqi-forces-continue-offensive-to-retake-tikrit/2678669.html

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/03/13/Iraqi-offensive-on-Tikrit-appears-to-stall.html

Iraq Headline: Islamic State Uses Chlorine Gas: Iraqi Official

An Iraqi official has revealed that Islamic State (IS) militants are resorting to using chlorine gas roadside IEDs in an effort to prevent the advances of Iraqi security forces against them.Iraqi officials have shown BBC footage, which they say proves Islamic State militants are using the gas in roadside attacks. The videos show bomb disposal teams carrying out controlled explosions, which send plumes of orange smoke into the air. The bombs contain small concentrations of a chemical agent and in open ground are unlikely to be lethal. Experts say they are designed to create fear rather than harm. There have been multiple reports that IS has been deploying chlorine gas since late last year, but Iraqi officials say the footage confirms its use. Haider Taher, from the Iraq Bomb Disposal Team, said troops have defused dozens of devices containing chlorine as part of the offensive against the militants. “They have resorted to this new method,” he said. “They’re putting chlorine inside these homemade roadside bombs, which is toxic for those that inhale it.”
March 13, 2015

http://basnews.com/en/news/2015/03/12/islamic-state-uses-chlorine-gas-iraqi-official/ 

Iraq Headline:   Foreign suicide bombers launch assault on Ramadi

The Islamic State utilized at least 13 suicide bombers yesterday in an attack on the city of Ramadi, the besieged capital of the western Iraqi province of Anbar. Many of these suicide bombers were foreigners, and included a Belgian, an Australian, a Chechen, an Uzbek, a Moroccan, a Tunisian, an Egyptian, and two Syrians. Iraqi officials have not disclosed the number of people killed in the suicide assault, but medical officials in the area told Reuters that five were killed. This toll has not been confirmed and could likely be much higher. The attacks came from the directions of Albu Aytha, to the northeast of Ramadi, and Albu Diab, which is northwest of the city center, according to Shafaaq News. Iraqi officials said that security forces were able to repel the attack, and some sources claimed that Iraqi Security Forces and Sunni tribal fighters killed 41 Islamic State fighters. The number of Islamic State fighters killed during the attack on Ramadi could not be confirmed. One suicide bomber was able to detonate on a bridge in the western portion the city, Reuters reported. The Islamic State has released several images from the attack, including one that shows a suicide bomber detonating on the Japanese bridge in the city. Another photo set shows the results of the battle near the bridge, including the bodies of several Iraqi security personnel killed during the fighting. At least two US-supplied M113 armored personnel carriers were also captured. The assault near the bridge targeted the Iraqi Army’s 1st Division. Iraqi officials said that the Islamic State assaulted the 2nd regiment of the 1st Division, but the attack was repelled and no losses were reported. However, the pictures released by the Islamic State contradict these claims.
March 13, 2015

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2015/03/foreign-suicide-bombers-launch-assault-on-ramadi.php

Iraq Headline:   ISW Iraq Situation Report March 10-11, 2015

http://iswiraq.blogspot.com/2015/03/iraq-situation-report-march-10-11-2015.html

Iraq Headline:   ISW Control of Terrain in Iraq: March 12, 2015

http://iswiraq.blogspot.com/2015/03/control-of-terrain-in-iraq-march-12-2015.html

Kurdish Headline:  Syria Kurds urge US-led strikes as ISIS forces mass

Kurdish Headline: Is ISIL after a second Kobane in Ras al-Ayn?

Syrian Kurdish fighters urged the U.S.-led coalition Friday to launch new airstrikes on ISIS as the jihadis brought in reinforcements for an attack in the northeast. The Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) called on the coalition to carry out raids to prevent ISIS from seizing the key town of Tal Tamr in Hassakeh province. “We call on the international coalition forces to take part in the battle for Tal Tamr,” a statement said, adding that the U.S.-led grouping had yet to carry out strikes in the area. ISIS forces began a major offensive in Hassakeh in February, seizing several villages and kidnapping several hundred members of the Assyrian Christian minority in the area. But it has also suffered setbacks, including the February 27 loss of jihadi bastion Tal Hamis. The extremist group is now battling to take Tal Tamr and the town of Ras al-Ain, which sits on the border with Turkey.
March 13, 2015

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2015/Mar-13/290696-syria-kurds-urge-us-led-strikes-as-isis-forces-mass.ashx

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/is-isil-after-a-second-kobane-in-ras-al-ayn.aspx?pageID=238&nid=79542

Kurdish Headline: ISIS attacks Kurdish headquarters in Kobane’s countryside

On Thursday, clashes continued between militant fighters of the Islamic State group (IS/ISIS) and the Kurdish joint forces (People’s Protection Units “YPG” and Peshmerga) in the southeastern countryside of Kobane in the province of Aleppo, northern Syria, military sources reported. Speaking to ARA News from Kobane, the YPG fighter Khaled Minas said that fierce battles took place in areas near the villages of al-Idaniya and Aqbash, and led to the death of two IS militants was well as the destruction of two armored vehicles. “Seven other IS terrorists were killed in clashes near the village of Khani, southeast of Kobane, in addition to the destruction of an armored car loaded with a heavy machine gun on the highway of Aleppo,” Minas told ARA News. The source added that the IS terrorists militants launched an attack on the village of Munif and its surroundings with heavy weapons on Thursday. “The joint forces were able to repel the attack, killing two militants and injuring several others,” he said.
March 13, 2015

http://aranews.net/2015/03/isis-attacks-kurdish-headquarters-in-kobanes-countryside/

Headline:     U.S. Exaggerates Islamic State Casualties

The war against the Islamic State has killed thousands of fighters and even some mid-level battlefield commanders, but the organization’s senior leadership and nerve center remain largely untouched, according to U.S. military and intelligence officials. These officials and other experts tracking the terror group tell us that the Islamic State’s Shura and Sharia councils, the advisory bodies that help inform the major decisions of the group’s leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, remain intact, notwithstanding one close call in November for Baghdadi. Although airstrikes and military campaigns have killed several regional administrators and designated “governors,” the Islamic State has quickly replaced them and maintains its command-and-control capabilities. This assessment of progress against the Islamic State differs sharply from public statements by top Obama administration officials as recently as last month, including Secretary of State John Kerry and retired General John Allen, the president’s special coordinator for the coalition against the Islamic State. In February, Allen said that half the group’s leaders in Iraq had been killed.
March 13, 2015

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-03-13/did-kerry-exaggerate-islamic-state-casualties-

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: Russia Conducts Military Drills In Crimea, Ukraine’s Forces Train Near Border Amid Ceasefire Deal

Headline:  US military official warns of increase in Russian bomber flights, most ‘since the Cold War’

Members of the Russian army in the Southern Military District, which includes Crimea, South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Armenia, started military exercises Thursday in the region while Ukrainian forces also began drills very close to the line of contact with Russia. The move by the two rivals comes even as a fragile ceasefire agreement stands amid frequent complaints of violations. Russian military drills are being conducted against both individual and group targets using the newest 2S34 Hosta self-propelled guns and 9K51M Tornado-G multiple rocket launcher systems. Moreover, a five-day training program also began in Russia’s Sverdlovsk region, on the border of Europe and Asia, on Thursday where commanders of rocket forces in the Central Military District will be trained in using Iskander and Tochka systems, among others, Sputnik News reported. “On 19 training grounds located in the Southern, North Caucasian and Crimean Federal Districts, as well as Russian military bases in Armenia, South Ossetia an [sic] Abkhazia, artillery belonging to motorized infantry brigades, formations and military bases of coastal troops will perfect their skills and their units’ military coordination,” the Southern Military District’s press service said, according to Sputnik News. The annexation of Crimea by Russia last year triggered violence in the region, leading to clashes between government forces and the pro-Russian rebels.
March 12, 2015

http://www.ibtimes.com/russia-conducts-military-drills-crimea-ukraines-forces-train-near-border-amid-1844650

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/03/13/us-military-official-warns-sharp-increase-in-russian-bomber-flights/

Iran

Headline: Major nations hold talks on ending U.N. sanctions on Iran – officials

Major world powers have begun talks about a United Nations Security Council resolution to lift U.N. sanctions on Iran if a nuclear agreement is struck with Tehran, a step that could make it harder for the U.S. Congress to undo a deal, Western officials said. The talks between Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States — the five permanent members of the Security Council — plus Germany and Iran, are taking place ahead of difficult negotiations that resume next week over constricting Iran’s nuclear ability. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told Congress on Wednesday that an Iran nuclear deal would not be legally binding, meaning future U.S. presidents could decide not to implement it. That point was emphasized in an open letter by 47 Republican senators sent on Monday to Iran’s leaders asserting any deal could be discarded once President Barack Obama leaves office in January 2017. But a Security Council resolution on a nuclear deal with Iran could be legally binding, say Western diplomatic officials. That could complicate and possibly undercut future attempts by Republicans in Washington to unravel an agreement. Iran and the six powers are aiming to complete the framework of a nuclear deal by the end of March, and achieve a full agreement by June 30, to curb Iran’s most sensitive nuclear activities for at least 10 years in exchange for a gradual end to all sanctions on the Islamic Republic. But Western officials involved in the negotiations said they are also discussing elements to include in a draft resolution for the 15-nation Security Council to begin easing U.N. nuclear-related sanctions that have been in place since December 2006.
March 12, 2015

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/12/us-iran-nuclear-idUSKBN0M82IS20150312

Afghanistan

Headline:     No Signs of Peace Talks as Afghan Fighting Season Nears

Headline:  Taliban attack leaves 14 dead in central Afghanistan

Conflicting claims by Afghan officials and the Taliban in recent days have added to the confusion and uncertainty plaguing peace and reconciliation efforts in war-torn Afghanistan. The murky situation about prospects of a peace dialogue has raised fears the country is likely to witness another bloody year as the traditional Afghan spring fighting season is about to begin. Top officials in Afghanistan and in neighboring Pakistan, where key Taliban leaders are allegedly sheltering, have suggested in recent statements that peace talks between the Afghan government and the Islamist insurgent group could begin sometime in March. The Taliban has rejected the claims and reports of any contacts with Afghan officials since early last month, when it was first reported the Islamist group was willing to enter talks with Kabul and that Pakistan was playing a role in facilitating the dialogue. There have also been reports of a Taliban delegation visiting Islamabad recently for secret talks with Pakistani officials and Chinese diplomats on how to further the peace process. On Friday, the Taliban again rejected as a “baseless propaganda war” against the group, reports of its contacts with Kabul, saying none of its representative at its political office in Qatar visited any country to seek negotiations with Afghanistan.
March 13, 2015

http://www.voanews.com/content/no-signs-of-peace-talks-as-afghan-fighting-season-nears/2679057.html

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/03/13/401637/Taliban-attack-kills-14-in-Afghanistan

Sudan

Headline:   Sudan rebels say they have begun armed campaign to derail elections

A Sudanese rebel group said on Friday it had launched a military campaign focused on derailing elections slated for next month, as rebels and the government reported fresh clashes. The statement by the Sudan People’s Liberation Army-North Sector (SPLM-N) marks the first time a major rebel group has explicitly said it is aiming to force the government to cancel the election through armed action. “The military campaign will reach cities and villages under the control of the (ruling) National Congress Party to prevent Bashir from re-electing himself as president once again,” SPLM-N spokesman Arnaud Lodi said in a statement. The SPLM-N statement said there had been clashes in South Kordofan, while a representative of the Sudan Liberation Movement, a major Darfuri armed group, said there had been clashes in Jebel Marra in Darfur. An army spokesman confirmed the clashes but dismissed the SPLM-N’s campaign. Violence on both fronts has increased in past months.
March 13, 2015

http://newsdaily.com/2015/03/sudan-rebels-say-they-have-begun-armed-campaign-to-derail-elections/

Libya

Headline:   Islamic State militants claim bomb attack in Libyan capital

Headline: Islamists are leading Libya to annihilation – and the west is letting them

Islamic State militants claimed responsibility for a bomb attack on a police station in the Libyan capital on Thursday in a statement posted on Twitter along with photographs of the scene. A bomb placed under a police car close to the Foreign Ministry in central Tripoli caused damage, local security spokesman Essam Naas said, and one officer was slightly wounded. Militants loyal to Islamic State, the group that controls much of Syria and Iraq, have been exploiting the chaos in Libya where two governments allied to armed factions are vying for power four years after the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi. Groups of Islamist militants, who have declared loyalty to Islamic State over the last six months, have claimed responsibility for several high-profile attacks in what appears to be an intensifying campaign.
March 13, 2015

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/12/us-libya-security-idUSKBN0M80DB20150312

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/13/islamists-libya-annihilation-uk-fence-sitting-undermining-democracy 

  Armenia

Headline:   Azerbaijan threatens Armenia over killed soldier

Azerbaijan has threatened to give a “severe” response to Armenian troops who have killed a second Azeri soldier this week in the latest conflict in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh border region. Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry said in a statement, “On March 13, the Armenian armed forces violated the ceasefire. An Azerbaijani soldier was shot dead…. We will take revenge for our soldier and deal a great blow on the enemy… [and] Azerbaijan’s counter-strike will be severe.” The incident comes two days after another soldier was killed in an attack on the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh on March 11. Clashes between Baku and Yerevan troops mounted again in January following an unprecedented spiral of violence last year.
March 13, 2015

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/03/13/401703/Azerbaijan-warns-Armenia-over-soldier

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: Two police officers shot, seriously injured in Ferguson ‘ambush’

Two police officers were shot and seriously injured early Thursday near the Ferguson, Mo., police headquarters, an incident that occurred amid ongoing protests in the city. Just hours earlier, the Ferguson police chief had announced his resignation, a decision that came in the wake of a blistering report from the U.S. Department of Justice. Federal investigators said last week they determined that the city’s police force and court system were racially biased and predatory. Protesters had gathered near the Ferguson police headquarters after Thomas Jackson, the chief of police, said he would step down next week. But the shooting, which occurred after midnight, took place as protests in the area were relatively quiet and after many demonstrators had left, according to police. “This is really an ambush,” Jon Belmar, chief of St. Louis County police, said during a news conference Thursday morning. The two officers, one of whom was shot in the face, were in serious condition after the shooting, but police said that the injuries were not life-threatening.
March 12, 2015

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/03/12/two-police-officers-shot-seriously-injured-in-ferguson/

Headline: Shabaab militants attack convoy in northern Kenya

Somalia’s Shabaab militants launched a cross-border raid into northern Kenya Friday, ambushing a convoy of Kenyan officials in the northeast of the country and wounding several people, officials said. A least six people were hurt in the attack, one of them critically, and were taken by ambulance to nearby hospitals, the Kenya Red Cross said. Mandera county governor Ali Roba, who was traveling in the convoy, escaped unharmed, Kenyan media reports said. Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-affiliated Shabaab rebels said they carried out the attack. “A Shabaab commando unit attacked a Kenyan convoy travelling from Mandera to Nairobi,” said Shabaab military spokesman Abdulaziz Abu Musab. He claimed the militants destroyed two vehicles, hijacked another and captured weapons.
March 13, 2015

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2015/Mar-13/290665-shabaab-militants-attack-convoy-in-northern-kenya.ashx

Headline:  Hundreds rally in Yemen for ex-leader’s son as president

Headline:  GCC unruffled by Houthi military drill

Headline:  Iran promises a year’s worth of oil to Yemen’s Houthis

Hundreds rallied in Yemen’s militia-controlled capital Friday to call for presidential elections and demand the son of ex-strongman Ali Abdullah Saleh run as a candidate. Sanaa has been under the control of the Shiite militia, known as Huthis, since September, and President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi has fled to the southern city of Aden after escaping house arrest in the capital last month. Saleh, who stepped down in February 2012 after a year-long popular uprising, has been accused of backing the Huthis, who are from the same Zaidi sect of Shiite Islam as he is. Gathered in Sabiin Square in Sanaa’s southern district, near the residence of Saleh’s son, Ahmed, demonstrators chanted “The next president is Ahmed” and “Ahmed is our president”. The demonstration passed without incident, a day after militiamen shot dead two protesters taking part in a rally in support of Western- and Gulf-backed Hadi. Meanwhile, The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) has said its member states had “enough capability to protect [their] territories and sovereignty,” after thousands of Shiite Houthi rebels reportedly held military drills in northern Yemen, near the border with Saudi Arabia. Qatari Foreign Minister Khaled al-Attiya, whose country currently holds of the rotating GCC chair, made the statements on Thursday after a GCC meeting in Riyadh. “A move here and there would not affect the GCC states,” Attiya told a news conference. The drill in the al-Buqa region in the Houthis’ home province of Saada included heavy weapons acquired from the Yemeni army, local tribal and Houthi sources said, according to Reuters.
March 13, 2015

http://news.yahoo.com/hundreds-rally-yemen-ex-leaders-son-president-135728782.html

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/03/13/GCC-unruffled-by-Houthi-military-drill.html

http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iran-promises-years-worth-oil-yemen-tensions-continue-mount-1806699296

Headline: 3 killed, 7 injured in NW Pakistan attack

At least three people, including two civilians, have been killed and seven others injured when unidentified gunmen launched an attack on a security checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan.  Police officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said a group of militants aboard a vehicle opened fire at the checkpoint in the Gora Qabristan area of Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province and situated 150 kilometers (93 miles) west of the capital, Islamabad, at around 7 a.m. local time (0200 GMT) on Thursday. Security personnel retaliated, shooting one of the assailants dead. The gunmen later sped off in their vehicle. The injured have been taken to Lady Reading Hospital in the city to receive medical treatment. Police have cordoned off the area, and an investigation is underway to determine the motive behind the assault. Pakistani security forces on Wednesday killed seven militants during a gunfight near a gas field in Pir Koh area, located some 245 kilometers (152 miles) southeast of Quetta, the capital of southwestern Balochistan Province. “We killed seven miscreants hiding in the gas field when they refused to surrender,” Manzoor Ahmed, a spokesman for Frontier Corps, said. “They resorted to a fight which lasted for several hours,” he said, adding there was no loss on the security forces’ side.
March 12, 2015

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/03/12/401468/Pakistan-militant-attack-leaves-3-dead

Headline: Riot police, student protesters clash in Italy

Italian riot police have clashed with a group of students staging a demonstration in Italy’s second most populous city of Milan in protest against a controversial school reform bill. On Thursday, scuffles broke out between riot police and protesters in Milan when the demonstrating students got close to the Lombardy Building, which is the city’s main seat of government. The students were protesting a reform plan known as “Buona Scuola” or Good School. As the police blocked the protesters from approaching the entrance of the building, the latter responded by throwing eggs, stones, smoke bombs as well as bottles containing paint at the police. Security personnel, in return, fired tear gas canisters and stun grenades to break up the protest, and arrested a 15-year-old student protester. Similar demonstrations also took place in a number of other cities, including Turin, Lecce, Pisa, Lecce, and the capital, Rome.
March 13, 2015

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/03/13/401577/Police-student-protesters-clash-in-Italy 

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: Iceland says final EU goodbye

Iceland definitively dropped its EU membership bid on Thursday (12 March), nearly six years after having made the demand. “The government of Iceland has no intentions to resume accession talks”, country’s foreign affair minister, Gunnar Sveinsson, wrote in a letter to enlargement commissioner Johannes Hahn and Latvia’s foreign affairs minister Edgars Rinkevics. Talks were suspended in May 2013 after a centre-right coalition, opposed to EU membership, had come to power. By that time, 27 of the 35 legislative chapters in accession talks had been opened and 11 concluded. But disputes remained on several issues, mainly to do with agriculture and fisheries.The decision by prime minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson’s government to leave EU talks for good has been criticized by the opposition.
March 13, 2015

https://euobserver.com/beyond-brussels/127983

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:    2 banks fail US Fed stress tests, Bank of America put on ‘warning’

The US Federal Reserve has rejected the capital plans of US branches of Germany’s Deutsche Bank and Spain’s Banco Santander in a test designed to gauge whether America’s biggest banks are prepared to withstand a hypothetical financial crisis. The 31 institutions that were tested this year hold $14 trillion in assets as of the fourth quarter of 2014, or about 80 percent of domestic bank holdings in the US, the US Federal Reserve said Wednesday. Both the banks which failed have passed Europe’s financial institution stress tests. The two banks were the only foreign banks out of the 31 major banks audited to fail the second part of the stress tests. America’s largest bank, Bank of America, only got a conditional pass, and will need to submit a new capital plan by September. The Fed said that BofA had “deficiencies” in how it would react to a severe economic downturn.
March 12, 2015

http://rt.com/business/239981-us-bank-stress-test-fail/

Headline:   UK to join China-backed Asian development bank

Britain said it has sought to become a founding member of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), making it the first Western nation to embrace the China-backed institution, but the United States reacted frostily to the development. The AIIB was launched in Beijing last year to spur investment in Asia in transportation, energy, telecommunications and other infrastructure. Analysts have said it could challenge the Western-dominated World Bank and Asian Development Bank. However, Britain’s finance ministry said on Thursday that the AIIB could complement work already done in the region by those organizations. Britain would meet other founding members this month to agree on the principles of the bank’s governance and accountability arrangements, the ministry said. Finance minister George Osborne said joining the bank would boost the country’s push to foster business and investment ties with countries in the region, chief among them China.
March 13, 2015

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/03/13/uk-britain-asia-bank-idUKKBN0M82S720150313

Headline:  S&P 500 Poised for Third Weekly Drop Amid Oil, Dollar Concerns

U.S. stocks fell, sending the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index toward its third straight weekly decline, as an oil selloff and dollar rally weighed on energy and industrial companies. International Business Machines Corp. and United Technologies Corp. fell more than 2.6 percent. Halliburton Co., Exxon Mobil Corp. and Chevron Corp. declined more than 1.1 percent as crude oil retreated amid rising supplies. Raw material companies lost 1.4 percent. The S&P 500 Index slipped 1.1 percent to 2,043.99 at 2:24 p.m. in New York, after rising 1.3 percent Thursday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 236.07 points, or 1.3 percent, to 17,659.15. The Nasdaq Composite Index fell 0.9 percent, erasing an earlier gain. “We need the dollar and oil to settle down or we’re going to see more big moves,” Randy Frederick, managing director of trading and derivatives at Charles Schwab Corp., said by telephone. “A lot of this volatility we’ve seen recently is related to most of the data indicating that the Fed’s rate hike is very likely coming in June.”
March 13, 2015

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-13/u-s-index-futures-little-changed-after-rally-biomarin-climbs

Revelation 6:6–  With the bees dying off, you will see a decrease in produce and an INCREASE in food prices!

Mar. 9, 2015- Mass die off of bees has hit colonies in Cherves-Richemont, France
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Mar. 10, 2015- 35 percent of bee colonies have died off during winter in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
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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:North Korea fires missiles into sea amid tensions, says South

Headline: Russia and North Korea declare new alliance and 2015 as a ‘year of friendship’

North Korea has fired seven ground-to-air missiles into the sea, South Korea’s defence ministry says. It comes on the last day of an annual US-South Korea military exercise. Leader Kim Jong-un was present during the launch on Thursday off the eastern coast, a ministry spokesman from the South said. The annual exercises, which Pyongyang calls a rehearsal for invasion, are always a trigger for a surge in tensions between the two Koreas. North Korea showed its opposition to this year’s drills by firing two short-range ballistic missiles when they began earlier this month. South Korea said the missiles fired on Friday were believed to be SA-2 or SA-3s, with a range of “dozens of kilometres”, as well as one SA-5 with a range of 200km (120 miles).
March 13, 2015

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-31865897

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/russia-and-north-korea-declare-new-alliance-and-2015-as-a-year-of-friendship-10100719.html

Headline: China warns Japan to remain pacifist as Tokyo eyes military return

China has called upon Japan to “remain on the pathway of peace.” The statement comes after Tokyo announced plans to introduce a new law allowing it to offer logistical support to foreign allies’ troops in conflicts abroad. Beijing hopes Tokyo will “take a correct attitude, stick to its previous correct positions and statements, including the Murayama Statement. We also expect that Japan will remain on the pathway of peace,” Cheng Yonghua, China’s ambassador to Japan, told China Daily newspaper. “If Tokyo attempts to tackle the war incorrectly, or to impose ambiguity or defiance upon its war-related actions, we will worry about it further honoring the pathway of peace,” he said. He added that any such attempt will “deal serious harm once again” to Asian people, and the move will feel like “peeling off a fresh scab and rubbing salt in the wound.”
March 13, 2015

http://rt.com/news/240305-china-japan-peace-war/

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:  Death toll from West Africa’s Ebola outbreak passes 10,000: WHO

The death toll from West Africa’s Ebola outbreak has passed 10,000, according to the latest tally released by the World Health Organization on Thursday. Liberia has recorded the most deaths with 4,162. Sierra Leone is the second worst-hit nation with 3,655, and Guinea has recorded 2,187 dead, according to the data. The deadly hemorrhagic fever reached Senegal, Nigeria and Mali but was contained there. A handful of cases have also been recorded in the United States, Spain and Britain.
March 12, 2015

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/12/us-health-ebola-toll-idUSKBN0M82CM20150312

March 11, 2015 – dead fish wash ashore along the coast of Montevideo Uraguay
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.elobservador.com.uy%2Fnoticia%2F299946%2Fimm-levanto-104-toneladas-de-peces-muertos-aun-se-desconocen-causas-%2F&edit-text=&act=url

March 12, 2015 – dead fish found floating in a lake in Yate, New Caledonia
http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fnouvellecaledonie.la1ere.fr%2F2015%2F03%2F12%2Fdes-centaines-de-poissons-morts-ont-ete-decouverts-yate-237551.html&edit-text=&act=url

March 12, 2015 – 30,000 chickens culled in bird flu outbreak, Dutch government confirms
http://www.euronews.com/2015/03/12/30000-chickens-culled-in-bird-flu-outbreak-dutch-government-confirms/

March 12, 2015 – 40,000 birds to be killed due to avian flu in Arkansas, America
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/12/us-birdflu-arkansas-turkeys-idUSKBN0M720S20150312

March 13, 2015 – Turkeys at Butterball farms infected with avian flu
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-butterball-avian-flu-20150312-story.html?track=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+latimes%2Fbusiness+%28L.A.+Times+-+Business%29

  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:    California has about one year of water left

Given the historic low temperatures and snowfalls that pummeled the eastern U.S. this winter, it might be easy to overlook how devastating California’s winter was as well. As our “wet” season draws to a close, it is clear that the paltry rain and snowfall have done almost nothing to alleviate epic drought conditions. January was the driest in California since record-keeping began in 1895. Groundwater and snowpack levels are at all-time lows. We’re not just up a creek without a paddle in California, we’re losing the creek too. Data from NASA satellites show that the total amount of water stored in the Sacramento and San Joaquin river basins — that is, all of the snow, river and reservoir water, water in soils and groundwater combined — was 34 million acre-feet below normal in 2014. That loss is nearly 1.5 times the capacity of Lake Mead, America’s largest reservoir. Statewide, we’ve been dropping more than 12 million acre-feet of total water yearly since 2011. Roughly two-thirds of these losses are attributable to groundwater pumping for agricultural irrigation in the Central Valley. Farmers have little choice but to pump more groundwater during droughts, especially when their surface water allocations have been slashed 80% to 100%. But these pumping rates are excessive and unsustainable. Wells are running dry. In some areas of the Central Valley, the land is sinking by one foot or more per year.
March 12, 2015

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-famiglietti-drought-california-20150313-story.html

Travailing Earth Romans 8:22 “For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now”

Headline: More giant craters spotted in Russia’s far north

Russian scientists have now discovered seven giant craters in remote Siberia, a geologist told AFP on Thursday, adding that the mysterious phenomenon was believed to be linked to climate change. The discovery of an enormous chasm in a far northern region known to locals as “the end of the world” in July last year prompted speculation it had been caused by a meteorite or even aliens. A YouTube video of the hole went viral and a group of scientists was despatched to investigate. “We have just learnt that in Yakutia, new information has emerged about a giant crater one kilometre (0.6 miles) in diameter,” the deputy director of the Oil and Gas Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vasily Bogoyavlensky, told AFP. He said this brought to seven the number of reported pits. “Footage allows us to identify minimum seven craters, but in fact there are plenty more,” he said. All of the craters have been discovered in the remote energy-rich Yamalo-Nenetsky region in north-western Siberia.
March 12, 2015

http://news.yahoo.com/more-giant-craters-spotted-russias-far-north-163604385.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:   Strong eruption of Turrialba prompts evacuations, causes flight disruptions, Costa Rica

A new strong eruption of Costa Rica’s Turrialba volcano started around 16:50 UTC on March 12, 2015. Volcanic material reached some 500 meters above the summit. This is the second major eruption of this volcano in the last five years. Raúl Mora, volcanologist with the National Seismological Network, said a series of volcanic tremors in the surroundings of Turrialba canton followed the explosion. He added the explosion had a greater magnitude than those recorded last weekend. At 23:20 UTC on March 12, Washington VAAC reported strong emission of volcanic ash. “GFS winds places height of volcanic ash moving NE about 9.1 km (FL300) and volcanic ash moving W at 6 km (FL200). At 22:45 UTC volcanic ash extends about 46 km NE of the summit and 30 km W of the summit”.
March 12, 2015

http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/turrialba-volcano-continues-er/43802707

Headline: Cyclone Pam: massive storm bears down on Vanuatu, with 260,000 people in its path

Headline:  Dozens feared dead after cyclone Pam makes landfall in Vanuatu

The capital of Vanuatu went into lockdown as a “once-in-a-lifetime” storm bore down on the South Pacific island nation, threatening up to a quarter of a million people in its path. Tropical cyclone Pam, a category five storm with predicted wind gusts of more than 280km/h at its core, was on track to hit the capital, Port Vila, at about 11pm Friday night local time (midday GMT). Evacuations across the country followed warnings of a life-threatening weather event bringing storm surges, torrential rain, flash flooding and landslides. The United Nations agency Unicef, which along with aid agencies was on the ground with personnel and emergency supplies, warned about 260,000 people were in the potential disaster zone. Port Vila was in lockdown by 7pm local time, with sources in the area describing “panic” setting in among those who filled 12 evacuation centres, while hotels crammed with guests booked in to shelter for the night ordered them into underground bunkers.
March 13, 2015

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/13/cyclone-pam-monster-storm-bears-down-on-vanuatu-with-260000-people-in-its-path

http://tvnz.co.nz/world-news/live-updates-dozens-feared-dead-after-cyclone-pam-makes-landfall-in-vanuatu-6254922

Headline:    What’s shaking? List & map of USGS Earthquakes

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/#{%22feed%22%3A%221day_m25%22%2C%22search%22%3Anull%2C%22sort%22%3A%22newest%22%2C%22basemap%22%3A%22grayscale%22%2C%22autoUpdate%22%3Atrue%2C%22restrictListToMap%22%3Atrue%2C%22timeZone%22%3A%22local%22%2C%22mapposition%22%3A[[-82.49482361179572%2C-81.2109375]%2C[82.44876405595812%2C481.28906250000006]]%2C%22overlays%22%3A{%22plates%22%3Atrue}%2C%22viewModes%22%3A{%22map%22%3Atrue%2C%22list%22%3Atrue%2C%22settings%22%3Afalse%2C%22help%22%3Afalse}}

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Headline: Hamas ‘working to double its arsenal of rockets for next war with Israel’

A senior commander of Hamas’ military wing said on Monday that while his organization has no interest at the moment in fighting Israel, the Gaza-based Islamist group wants to double its arsenal of rockets and missiles in anticipation of the next round of fighting. Marwan Issa told a gathering Gaza City that Hamas continues to manufacture rockets and forge alliances with whoever can assist its cause.
March 2, 2015

http://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Hamas-working-to-double-its-arsenal-of-rockets-for-next-war-with-Israel-392647

Headline: US officials warns tensions with Israel could last, as Kerry lobbies Saudis on Iran

A top US official Tuesday warned that the current tensions between traditional allies US and Israel could last until the end of the Obama administration in 2016. “There are moments of significant agreement and then there are moments of tactical disagreement,” US deputy secretary of state Antony Blinken told French radio station Europe 1. “That’s the nature of things and I imagine that will continue for the last two years of the Obama administration,” added Blinken, who spoke in French. Iran and the United States Tuesday returned to the negotiating table for a second day of talks, as a political storm over the issue unfolded thousands of miles away in Washington. By the shores of Lake Geneva in the town of Montreux, US Secretary of State John Kerry met with his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif as they try to pin down a political framework for a deal to rein in Tehran’s nuclear programme by a March 31 deadline. US officials said they began their talks at 9:30 am (8:30 am GMT).
***See also Saudi Arabia & Iran below
March 3, 2015

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4632839,00.html

Headline: Netanyahu Responds to Obama’s Criticism of His Speech to Congress

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday he offered a “practical alternative” to the deal being negotiated over Iran’s nuclear program, after President Barack Obama criticized his address to Congress as containing “nothing new.” Obama said Netanyahu didn’t offer any “viable alternative” and that “as far as I can tell, there was nothing new” in the Tuesday speech. “In my speech before the Congress, I presented a practical alternative,” Netanyahu said upon landing at Israel’s Ben-Gurion Airport. He said his alternative would impose tougher restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program and delay how quickly the Islamic Republic could assemble a nuclear weapon.
March 4, 2015

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/03/04/netanyahu-responds-to-obamas-criticism-of-his-speech-to-congress/

Headline: Abbas refuses to drop ICC lawsuits against Israel

The Palestinian Authority will not go back on its demands for an International Criminal Court investigation into war crimes allegedly committed by Israel, despite the fact that the Israeli government offered to return hundreds of millions of dollars in Palestinian tax revenues in exchange for dropping the lawsuits, PA President Mahmoud Abbas said Wednesday. “The International Criminal Court is the only place where we can raise complaints about the occupation,” Abbas said at a meeting of the Central Council of the Palestine Liberation Organization. “They told us that if we do not go to The Hague they will return us the money. We are against barter in return for us not appealing to the court,” he said. “How are they allowed to take away our money? Are we dealing with a state or with a gangster?” Abbas added, according to Reuters.
March 4, 2015

http://www.timesofisrael.com/abbas-refuses-to-drop-icc-lawsuits-against-israel/

Headline:Temple Mount Police Openly Defy Court Ruling on Jewish Prayer

The Israeli courts may have once again ruled in favor of Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount, but a senior Jerusalem police officer made it clear to Jews visiting the holy site that the police would not be following that ruling. The officer, who is well known to Jewish visitors and responsible for clearing Jewish visits (amid severe restrictions), told a group Wednesday morning that as far as he and the police force as a whole were concerned “this court ruling doesn’t exist.” Rabbi Chaim Richman, International Director of the Temple Institute and long-time advocate for Jewish rights on the Temple Mount, recounted the “astonishing” conversation to Arutz Sheva after returning from his visit. The fact that a police officer was willing to so brazenly deny the court’s authority “reveals the depths of the subterfuge” involved in banning Jews from worshipping at their holiest site, he said.
March 4, 2015

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/192116#.VPdo9uEe2uQ

“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: Jordanian King Warns Global Battle With ISIS Has Launched World War III

Jordan’s King Abdullah II is warning that the international battle against Daesh – the terror organization known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, ISIS or ISIL – has launched World War III, although the rest of the U.S.-led coalition fighting the radical Islamic terror group may not yet realize it. In fact, the Hashemite monarch told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria Global Public Square earlier this week, “This has to be unified. “I’ve said this to leaders both in the Islamic and Arab world, and to the world in general: This is a third World War by other means. “This brings Muslims, Christians, other religions together in this generational fight that all of us have to be in this together.
March 4, 2015

http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/jordanian-king-warns-global-battle-with-isis-has-launched-world-war-iii/2015/03/04/

Lebanon

Headline:  Lebanon Army expands northeast border shelling

Headline:   Lebanese soldier and militant killed in shootout in north: sources

The Lebanese Army has expanded its targets along the northeastern border with Syria, pounding jihadi militants on the outskirts of Arsal, security sources said Tuesday. The sources said the new preemptive measure began late-Monday night with artillerymen shelling ISIS and Nusra Front positions around Wadi Hmeid and Wadi Hosn on Arsal’s outskirts. The Army had maintained a near-daily pattern of pounding militant positions on the outskirts of Ras Baalbek, which nestles in the barren mountainsides embracing the Bekaa Valley, for about 10-15 minutes every few hours in a bid to repulse possible jihadi attacks. It was the first time the Army shelled Wadi Hmeid and Wadi Hosn – the farthest east points in Arsal, close to the border with Syria. The policy of preemptive shelling was put in place after eight soldiers, including an officer, were killed and 22 others were wounded in fierce clashes with ISIS militants on the outer edge of Ras Baalbek in January.
March 3, 2015

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2015/Mar-03/289433-lebanon-army-expands-northeast-border-shelling.ashx

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/03/us-lebanon-security-idUSKBN0LZ0LS20150303

Saudi Arabia

Headline: Saudi Arabia, South Korea sign nuclear cooperation agreement to build reactors

The leaders of Saudi Arabia and South Korea agreed to cooperate to build more than two small and medium-size nuclear reactors in projects worth as much as $2 billion, The Korea Herald reported Tuesday. South Korean President Park Geun-hye arrived in Riyadh on Tuesday and met with King Salman to discuss ways to enhance bilateral relations. Before visiting Saudi Arabia, Park concluded a three-day visit to Kuwait. She is scheduled to continue to the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. The two leaders signed a memorandum of understanding to build the Asian country’s SMART reactors, designed by the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute specifically for Middle Eastern countries to generate electricity and desalinate seawater, said the report. The agreement calls for a feasibility study to construct the reactors in Saudi Arabia, which should be completed by 2018.
March 3, 2015

http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Saudi-Arabia-South-Korea-sign-nuclear-cooperation-agreement-to-build-reactors-392805 

Egypt

Headline: Arab League to Discuss Creation of ‘Unified Arab Force’

The Arab League will consider setting up a defense unit to battle the spread of the Islamic State (ISIS) group at its annual summit later this month, an official said Tuesday. Deputy chief Ahmed Ben Helli told reporters that the March 28-29 meeting in Egypt’s Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh will discuss an Egyptian initiative to create a “unified Arab force,” reports AFP. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has called for such a unit to confront security threats in the region where ISIS holds swathes of Syria and Iraq and has gained a foothold in Egypt’s neighbor Libya. Last month Sisi ordered air strikes in Libya after ISIS jihadists there beheaded 21 mostly Egyptian Christians. Ben Helli said a united Arab force was needed, even as a “symbolic” show of deterrence at times of “conflict or disasters.” “Such forces should be ready and present so that they could symbolically show that the Arab countries have a deterrent force and a peacekeeping force that could step in at times of conflicts,” he said.
March 3, 2015

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/192086#.VPYeL-Ee2uQ

  
Syria Iraq ISIS- the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (the Levant) ISIS=ISIL=IS=Daash

Iraq                              Syria                          Kurdistan

Syria Headline:     Syrian Rebels Bomb Key Aleppo Intelligence HQ

Dozens were killed Wednesday when Syrian rebels set off a powerful tunnel explosion targeting an intelligence headquarters in Aleppo and clashed with regime forces, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the blast hit a building housing the air force intelligence offices in the west of Syria’s second city and was followed by heavy clashes, reports AFP. “The explosion and the fighting caused dozens of deaths on both sides,” the Britain-based group said, adding that part of the building had collapsed. At least 20 regime forces and 14 rebels were killed in the fighting according to the monitoring group. They added that the attempt to conquer the regime headquarters failed, and sporadic fighting had started to dwindle. The clashes pitted rebels from several factions against government troops supported by fighters from Lebanese Shi’ite terrorist group Hezbollah, an Iranian proxy and a key backer of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, it said. An AFP journalist in eastern Aleppo said the blast was loud enough to be heard across the city and some residents said it had felt like an earthquake. A Syrian military source confirmed the explosion and said clashes were continuing.
March 4, 2015

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/192153#.VPdoZeEe2uQ

Syria Headline:  Southern Syria fighting heats up

Syria Headline:   Nusra Front Refuses to Leave Beit Sahem in Southern Damascus, Declares it Will Defend its Bases

Fierce fighting pitting Hezbollah and Iranian-led troops against rebels in southern Syria has intensified, leaving dead an Afghan commander close to Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) Qods Force commander Qassem Soleimani. “Daraa [outskirts] have witnessed violent clashes over the past few days between opposition forces and the Al-Nusra Front on one side and Lebanon’s Hezbollah supported by Iranian and Syrian regime forces on the other,” the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported Tuesday. The monitoring group added that the regime was seeking to seize “full control” over the triangle of territory stretching from the western outskirts of Damascus down to Quneitra in the southwest and Daraa in the southeast.
March 4, 2015

https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/NewsReports/564911-southern-syria-fighting-heats-up

https://news.siteintelgroup.com/Jihadist-News/nusra-front-refuses-to-leave-beit-sahem-in-southern-damascus-declares-it-will-defend-its-bases.html

Syria Headline:  Pro-Assad forces target civilian cars near Turkish border

On Tuesday, pro-Assad military forces reportedly targeted with thermal rockets civilian cars which were carrying displaced families near the Turkish border. Dozens of casualties were reported, including children. Civil rights activist Ghias Ali told ARA News that the regime’s warplanes try to prevent displaced civilians from crossing into Turkey by targeting their vehicles near the borderline. While fleeing to the Turkish territory, the villagers are also facing vigorous difficulties due to the ongoing clashes between rebels of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and al-Nusra Front (Syria’s branch of al-Qaeda) in the countryside of Aleppo in northern Syria. Speaking to ARA News, Talib Ismail from the village of Maarat Nasan said that he has been trying to move his family out of the war-torn village for a few days without success. “The roads are closed due to the thermal rockets launched by Syrian warplanes,” he said, pointing out that the only road open is through Afrin area, “which we cannot cross because of the security checkpoint by different armed forces.” “Severe shortages of food hit the village (Maarat Nasan) over the last few days due to the closed roads. People can hardly survive under such conditions,” Ismail added.
March 4, 2015

http://aranews.net/2015/03/pro-assad-forces-target-civilians-cars-near-turkish-border/

Syria Headline:   ISW Syria Situation Report Feb. 24- March 2, 2015

http://iswsyria.blogspot.com/2015/03/syria-situation-report-february-24.html

Syria Headline:   Syrian Observatory for Human Rights

https://www.facebook.com/syriahroe 

http://syriahr.com/en/category/news/

Iraq Headline: IS says US suicide bomber carried out Iraq attack

Iraq Headline: ISIS Unleashes Guerrilla Tactics in Bitter Battle for Tikrit

An American jihadist carried out a suicide truck bomb attack against Iraqi forces involved in an operation to recapture the city of Tikrit, the Islamic State group said Tuesday. “The brother Abu Dawud al-Amriki (may Allah accept him) launched himself with his explosives-laden truck against a gathering” of Iraqi forces and militiamen, an IS radio bulletin said. The report gave no details on the man’s identity.  It claimed that dozens of Iraqi forces were killed and wounded in the blast, but no other sources could immediately confirm. Pro-IS social media accounts said the attack was carried out Monday near Samarra, the other main city in Salaheddin province, and released a picture they said was of Abu Dawud al-Amriki. He is masked with only a pair of dark eyes visible. He also wears a microphone, suggesting the group may issue a video of the militant later. Samarra is controlled by the government and has been the launchpad for a broad military operation which officially began Monday to wrest back Tikrit — further north up the Tigris River — from the jihadists.
March 3, 2015

http://news.yahoo.com/group-says-us-suicide-bomber-carried-iraq-attack-005028236.html

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/192085#.VPYeqeEe2uQ

Iraq Headline: Iranian-backed Shiite militias lead Iraq’s fight to retake Tikrit

The Iraqi Security Forces, supported by several Iranian-backed Shiite militias and Sunni tribal fighters, have launched an offensive to retake Tikrit from the Islamic State, which has held the central Iraqi city since June 2014. Massive columns of Shiite militas, including some groups that are listed by the US as Foreign Terrorist Organizations, have been leading the fight in Tikrit. The operation, which involves more than thirty thousand Iraqi security personnel and militia forces, started on the morning of March 2. According to Al Jazeera, Iraqi forces and allied militias attacked the city from three sides while Iraqi aviation launched an aerial bombardment. As of yet, the US has not launched any airstrikes in support of the operation. The US has refused to support the Tikrit offensive because Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) elements are actively supporting the operation, anonymous US officials have told The Wall Street Journal.  Although the US military has refused to provide air support for the offensive due to Iran’s involvement, General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that Iran’s involvement could be “a positive thing” if the Shiite militias do not lash out at Sunnis in and around Tikrit.
March 4, 2015

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2015/03/iranian-backed-shiite-militias-lead-iraqs-fight-to-retake-tikrit.php

Iraq Headline: Iraqi forces advance to free Salahudin province from IS militants

Iraqi security forces on Wednesday continued their biggest offensive for the third day in Salahudin (Salah al-Din) province to free the northern parts of the province from the Islamic State (IS) militants, security sources said. The troops and allied Sunni and Shiite militias, covered by Iraqi air support, attacked Ajil oilfield area in east of the provincial capital city of Tikrit, some 170 km north of Baghdad, sparking heavy clashes with the IS militants, a provincial security source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. The troops continue their fight during the day to free the oilfield within the coming few hours of the day, the source said. Late on Tuesday, the troops recaptured the nearby oilfield of Allas, after they drove away the extremist militants, he said, adding that both the small oilfields apparently were used to fund the extremist militants’ activities. Meanwhile, the security forces are still progressing slowly and cautiously from their positions around the towns of Dour in south of Tikrit and Alam in east of the city, because the militants planted dozens of bombs in the roads leading to the towns, while sporadic clashes and sniper shots were also behind the slow advance of the troops who sustained some casualties.
March 4, 2015

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-03/04/c_134038225.htm

Iraq Headline:   ISW Iraq Situation Report March 2, 2015

http://iswiraq.blogspot.com/2015/03/iraq-situation-report-march-2-2015.html   

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: Top U.S. general says it is time to consider arming Ukrainian forces

Headline: Russian Fighter Jets Practice Attacking NATO Ships

The top U.S. military officer expressed openness Tuesday to providing U.S. weapons to Ukrainian forces, joining a growing number of senior American officials who say greater U.S. involvement may be needed in Kiev’s fight against Russian-backed separatists. “I think we should absolutely consider providing lethal aid,” said Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. “And it ought to be in the context of our NATO allies because [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s ultimate objective is to fracture NATO.” Dempsey’s comments came in response to a question from Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), a strong proponent of arming Ukrainian forces, as Dempsey and Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee to defend President Obama’s proposal for military spending in fiscal 2016. Although he stopped short of saying he would definitely support providing weapons to the Ukrainian military, it was the first time that Dempsey publicly backed consideration of such a move.
March 3, 2015

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/top-us-general-says-it-is-time-to-consider-arming-ukrainian-forces/2015/03/03/aa68dade-c1d6-11e4-ad5c-3b8ce89f1b89_story.html
http://www.infowars.com/russian-fighter-jets-practice-attacking-nato-ships/

Headline:   Russia Accuses U.S. of Plot to Oust Putin Via Opposition Aid

Russia’s Security Council accused the U.S. of plotting to oust President Vladimir Putin by financing the opposition and encouraging mass demonstrations, less than a week after a protest leader was murdered near the Kremlin. The U.S. is funding Russian political groups under the guise of promoting civil society, just as in the “color revolutions” in the former Soviet Union and the Arab world, council chief Nikolai Patrushev said in an e-mailed statement Wednesday. At the same time, the U.S. is using the sanctions imposed over the conflict in Ukraine as a “pretext” to inflict economic pain and stoke discontent, he said. U.S. officials have dismissed the suggestion of a plot. White House spokesman Josh Earnest called the idea “outrageous and false.” Secretary of State John Kerry said this week that Putin “misinterprets a great deal of what the United States has been doing and has tried to do.” Will Stevens, a spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, said by e-mail that sanctions on Russia are aimed at seeking a change in the country’s policies, not its government. More than 50,000 people turned out in central Moscow on Sunday to mourn the death of Boris Nemtsov, a former deputy premier-turned Putin opponent who was gunned down in one of the most heavily guarded areas of the capital late Friday. That was the biggest rally Russia has seen since 2011-2012, when Putin was preparing to return to the presidency for a third term.
March 4, 2015

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-04/russia-accuses-u-s-of-plot-to-oust-putin-by-funding-opposition

Iran

Headline: Iran’s Khamenei: ‘Increasing global hatred of Israel is a sign of divine help’

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has claimed that heightened anti-Israel sentiments across the globe serve as a sign of “divine help” in the Islamic Republic’s fight against its arch enemy. “Increasing global hatred of #Israel is a sign of divine help,” he wrote late Monday on Twitter. Iran’s leading cleric came out against the pro-Israel lobby, American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the group’s annual confab on Monday. “The day when Western ppl realize that their problems result from #Zionism’s hegemony over govts they will make an inescapable #hell for them,” Khamenei said on Twitter. According to Khamenei, Israel has also exerted its control over American officials, “obliging” them to “flatter” the government in Jerusalem. “Zionists’ hegemony over US officials is such that these poor ppl have to show consideration for #Israel& cover up its crimes. #ShutDownAIPAC,” said the chief Iranian cleric.
March 3, 2015

http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Irans-Khemenei-Increasing-global-hatred-of-Israel-is-a-sign-of-divine-help-392755

Headline: Iran calls Obama’s 10-year nuclear demand ‘unacceptable’

Headline: Iran, UN atomic watchdog to meet in Tehran March 9

Iran rejected on Tuesday as “unacceptable” U.S. President Barack Obama’s demand that it freeze sensitive nuclear activities for at least 10 years but said it would continue talks on a deal, Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency reported. Iran laid out the position as the U.S. and Iranian foreign ministers met for a second day of negotiations and as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a stinging critique of the agreement they are trying to hammer out. Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met a day after Obama told Reuters that Iran must commit to a verifiable halt of at least 10 years on sensitive nuclear work for a landmark atomic deal to be reached. “Iran will not accept excessive and illogical demands,” Zarif was quoted by Fars as saying.
March 4, 2015

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/03/us-iran-nuclear-usa-idUSKBN0LZ0YU20150303

http://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-un-atomic-watchdog-to-meet-in-tehran-march-9/

Afghanistan

Headline:  Afghan forces kill 121 Taliban militants during cleanup operations

Afghan security forces have killed 121 Taliban militants and detained nine others during separate cleanup operations across the country over the past 24 hours. The Afghan Interior Ministry said in a statement on Wednesday that the militants were killed and arrested during a series of operations carried out in the provinces of Farah, Ghazni, Helmand, Herat, Kandahar, Kunduz, Nangarhar, Sari Pul, Takhar, Uruzgan and Zabul. The statement added that 23 foreign nationals were among the slain militants, noting, “The Taliban suffered the heaviest casualty in Khak Afghan district of Zabul Province.” It, however, did not mention whether there were any casualties on the side of the Afghan forces. Taliban have not yet made any comments on the issue.
March 4, 2015

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/03/04/400262/Afghan-forces-kill-121-Taliban-militants

Sudan

Headline:   U.N. Security Council sets up South Sudan sanctions regime

Headline:   South Sudanese rival leaders began direct talks, urged to take ’tough compromises’

The U.N. Security Council on Tuesday established a sanctions regime for South Sudan but stopped short of imposing worldwide travel bans and asset freezes on officials in the conflict-torn country or an arms embargo. The unanimously adopted resolution, drafted by the United States, threatens to blacklist anyone undermining security or interfering with the peace process after Thursday and April 1 deadlines set by the regional East African IGAD bloc. IGAD has so far been unsuccessful in its attempts to mediate an end to the civil war, in which at least 10,000 people have been killed and 1.5 million internally displaced. The latest round of IGAD-led peace talks are due to end on Thursday.
March 4, 2015

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/03/us-southsudan-un-idUSKBN0LZ1SV20150303

http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article54183

Libya

Headline:    Sources: More than a dozen ISIS operatives in Libya, but no US authority to strike

More than a dozen Islamic State fighters from Iraq and Syria — some with direct ties to the group’s leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi — are now in Libya working on behalf of the terror group, according to U.S. and European sources. And the U.S. has no authority to take them out. The fighters are in addition to dozens of ISIS sympathizers in the country. The situation is raising fresh security concerns, as the U.S. and its allies struggle to keep tabs on the many arms of the ever-expanding ISIS network. One source, who is not authorized to speak on the record given the sensitivity of the data, said they would not be surprised “if the next 9/11 came out of Libya.” An ISIS presence has been flagged in Benghazi, Derna and Sirte, in addition to training camps providing a steady flow of recruits.
March 3, 2015

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/03/03/sources-more-than-dozen-isis-operatives-in-libya-but-no-us-authority-to-strike/?intcmp=latestnews

Headline:  Libya oil fields of Bahi and Mabruk ‘seized by militants’

Headline:  Libya declares force majeure at 11 oil fields after attacks

Headline:  Air strikes carried out on Tripoli airport: military

Islamist militants are reported to have seized two oil fields in central Libya, as rival groups fight for control of the country. Forces guarding the Bahi and Mabruk sites retreated after running out of ammunition. It is not clear which group seized the oil fields. Libya’s internationally recognised government in Tobruk and its rivals Libya Dawn also conducted air strikes on each other’s positions. “Extremists took control of the Bahi and Mabruk fields and are now heading to seize the Dahra field following the retreat of the forces guarding these sites,” said Colonel Ali al-Hassi, a spokesman for the oil industry security service. A gun attack on Mabruk in February left 11 people dead. At the time witnesses said the attackers had claimed to be from a militia which has joined Islamic State. The Islamic State militia, which controls the town of Derna, has not commented. The BBC’s Rana Jawad in Tripoli says the seizure of these fields will put more pressure on Libya’s oil-reliant economy, already barely functioning because of the battles between rival forces driven by political differences and local grievances.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-31719043

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2015/Mar-04/289645-libya-declares-force-majeure-at-11-oil-fields-after-attacks.ashx

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2015/Mar-04/289613-air-strikes-carried-out-on-tripoli-airport-military.ashx

Tunisia

Headline:  Tunisian army kills two Islamist militants near Algerian border

Tunisian police killed two Islamist militants during clashes near the Algerian border, where the military has been targeted previously in ambushes, the army said on Wednesday. The fighting came after army and police launched a major operation this week to flush out militants from a base in the Chaambi mountains near Algeria. “Our special forces killed two members of the terrorist group in Chaambi mountains in an exchange of fire,” said army spokesman Bel Hassen Ouslati. “The Tunisian army seized weapons, after the confrontation with terrorists,” he added. Last month, four Tunisian police were killed in a militant attack in the same central region of Kasserine.
March 4, 2015

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/03/04/Tunisian-army-kills-two-Islamist-militants-near-Algerian-border.html

Algeria

Headline:   Algeria: 40 police wounded in anti-shale gas protest

Forty police officers were wounded on Sunday in clashes with demonstrators opposed to shale gas exploration in the Algerian Sahara, the Interior Ministry announced. “The town of In Salah saw incidents involving public order, initiated by a group of young people protesting against shale gas operations in the region,” the ministry said in a statement. It said the clashes “caused injuries to 40 police officers, including two who were seriously injured.” Protesters set fire to the headquarters of In Salah district and the residence of the district chief, as well as part of a police dormitory and a police truck. The security forces managed to “take control of the situation and bring calm to the city,” the statement said.
March 2, 2015

http://gulfnews.com/news/region/algeria/algeria-40-police-wounded-in-anti-shale-gas-protest-1.1465345

Germany

Headline:   70 Years After Hitler’s Death, Germany To Republish ‘Mein Kampf’

Adolf Hitler’s manifesto “Mein Kampf” is a rambling, hate-filled, disjointed and sometimes unintelligible blueprint for the Third Reich. When a new annotated edition of the book is published in Germany in January 2016, it will mark the first time in almost 70 years that the text will be found in German bookstores. After the war, the occupying allies banned the book, and the rights passed to Hitler’s home state of Bavaria. But the copyright expires at the end of the year, and all 16 German states have agreed that the book can be re-released, as long as it contains annotations. But even with the 4,000 or so expected footnotes, there has been protest. A spokesman for the Jewish Forum For Democracy Against Anti Semitism in Berlin asked “can you annotate the devil?”
March 4, 2015

http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2015/03/04/republish-mein-kampf-hitler

Turkey

Headline: Suspicions of Turkey, Hamas alliance stoke fears in Israel

Hamas, the terrorist group perpetually at odds with Israel, has found a willing patron in Turkey, say critics, who allege the NATO member has rolled out the red carpet for the Jewish state’s longtime nemesis, whose official headquarters are now in Istanbul. Kicked out of Damascus in Syria amid deteriorating relations with the Assad regime, Hamas’ top leadership has established a new office in Istanbul called the ‘West Bank and Jerusalem Headquarters.” With the approval of the Turkish authorities, Salah Al-Arouri, one of the founders of the Al Qassam Brigade (Hamas’ military wing), and who served 15 years in jail in Israel for terrorist offenses, has been directing Hamas’ efforts in the West Bank to overthrow the Palestinian Authority and attack Israel at the same time. “Turkey has become a Hamas hotbed, and members of the organization’s military wing are undergoing military training on Turkish soil, with the knowledge, support, and assistance of the local authorities,” leading Israeli daily Yediot Aharonot reported last week. “The U.S. administration has appealed in recent months to the Turkish government to prevent Hamas military activity in its territory, arguing that Turkey is a member of NATO and that Hamas is viewed by most NATO members as a terrorist organization. The appeals have gone unanswered.”
March 4, 2015

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/03/04/turkey-red-carpet-for-hamas-stokes-fears-in-israel/

Armenia

Headline:   Armenia-Azerbaijan bloodletting threatens Karabakh ceasefire

Locals sigh with relief as their Armenian village of Movses, close to the border with Azerbaijan, disappears in the lilac mist rolling down from the Kardash mountain, where Azeri snipers have fortified positions. “The mist is our salvation. When visibility is zero, we know the Azeris won’t be shooting,” said Khanum, an elderly Armenian woman who, like other Movses residents, lives in constant fear of Azeri snipers. But just across the frontline, on the Azeri side, the fear is no less intense. “The streets are deserted during the daytime,” said Ismail Nabiyev, who lives in Alibeyli, an Azeri village. “We can’t hold wedding parties or funerals. The Armenians shoot at us when they see people gathering.” The bloody Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict over the Nagorny Karabakh region formally became a frozen one over two decades ago. In reality the war has never stopped for Azeri and Armenian villagers living along their countries’ border. The villages of Movses and Alibeyli lie around 200 kilometres from Nagorny Karabakh itself. But violence has spread far beyond the epicenter of the conflict, with Azeri and Armenian sharpshooters along their border threatening the shaky peace as tit-for-tat bloodletting annually claims dozens of lives. Sparking fears of a new all-out war between the countries, last year saw an unprecedented spiral of violence with more than 70 people from both sides killed. At least for those living in these rural border areas, war has already returned.
March 4, 2015

http://news.yahoo.com/armenia-azerbaijan-bloodletting-threatens-karabakh-ceasefire-164131759.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: Chad president tells Boko Haram leader to surrender or face death

Headline: Boko Haram Adopts ISIS Style In New Beheading Video

President Idriss Deby of Chad said on Wednesday he knew the whereabouts of Abubakar Shekau, the leader of the Nigerian militant group Boko Haram, and called on him to surrender or risk being killed. Chad’s army has waged a series of battles against Boko Haram as part of a cross-border military campaign and has re-taken territory the militant group held in northeastern Nigeria. “‎Abubakar Shekau must surrender. We know where he is. If he doesn’t give himself up he will suffer the same fate as his compatriots,” Deby told a news conference. “He was in Dikwa two days ago. He managed to get away but we know where he is. It’s in his interests to surrender,” Deby said, referring to a town in northeastern Nigeria held by Boko Haram that fell to Chad’s army earlier this week. The Chadian army is considered one of the best in the region and is backed by a strong air force. It first deployed to help Cameroon fend off Boko Haram and is now pressing southwest into Nigerian territory after capturing the border town of Gambaru last month.
March 4, 2015

http://newsdaily.com/2015/03/chad-president-tells-boko-haram-leader-to-surrender-or-face-death/

http://www.vocativ.com/world/nigeria-world/boko-haram-adopts-isis-style-in-new-beheading-video/

Headline:  Five dead in Qaeda suicide attack on Houthis in central Yemen

Headline:  Yemen’s Hadi wants reconciliation talks moved to Saudi

Five people were killed in an al Qaeda suicide attack on a Houthi outpost in central Yemen on Tuesday, the Defence Ministry said, highlighting the volatility of a country torn by militant and sectarian violence. The United States and its Gulf allies fear the spread of militant and sectarian violence in Yemen — situated between oil giant Saudi Arabia and an important Red Sea shipping lane — will push the country towards a civil war and unravel the state’s already limited control over its territory. The ministry’s news website said five people were also wounded in Tuesday’s attack by a suicide bomber who detonated a vehicle laden with explosives on a youth centre used by the Houthi militia as an outpost in the city of al-Baydah. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), one of the Sunni Muslim militant groups battling the Shi’ite Houthis since they captured AQAP’s central Yemen strongholds last year, said several of its members carried out the attack.
March 3, 2015

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2015/Mar-03/289501-five-dead-in-qaeda-suicide-attack-on-houthis-in-central-yemen.ashx

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2015/Mar-03/289468-yemens-hadi-wants-reconciliation-talks-moved-to-saudi.ashx

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:  Saudi Arabia ups official oil prices amid signs of stronger demand

Headline:   GOP-led Senate fails to override Obama’s Keystone veto

Saudi Arabia raised the official selling prices (OSPs) for its oil deliveries to Asia and the United States on Tuesday, in the latest signal OPEC’s largest exporter is seeing signs of stronger demand. The Kingdom raised all U.S.-bound crude prices by $1 a barrel and hiked extra-light crude oil to Asia by $1.40 a barrel, in a vote of confidence oil demand is growing in two of its biggest markets following the price crash since June. While the increase was largely anticipated by traders amid other signs of robust demand, it bolsters the impression Saudi Arabia is comfortable with the rebound in Brent crude to around $60 a barrel after hitting a six-year low of $45 in January.
March 4, 2015

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/03/us-saudi-oil-osp-idUSKBN0LZ25C20150303

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/03/04/gop-senate-fails-to-get-enough-votes-to-override-obama-keystone-veto-says-fight/

Headline:   CBO: U.S. will hit debt limit in October or November

The Treasury Department will exhaust its capacity to borrow in October or November if the debt limit isn’t raised, the Congressional Budget Office estimated Tuesday. The non-partisan CBO had previously estimated that “extraordinary measures” Treasury could use to continue borrowing would last until September or October. Read CBO’s latest estimate. The debt limit is suspended until March 15. After that date, so-called extraordinary measures available to the Treasury to keep borrowing include deferring new investments in federal retirement and disability funds. Wall Street analysts have also estimated the Treasury will likely have until the fall to raise the debt ceiling. The Republican-led Congress would need to take a vote to increase the borrowing limit. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, has pledged not to let the government default on its obligations. But some in the GOP could call for spending cuts in exchange for raising the borrowing limit and force negotiations to go down to the wire.
March 3, 2015

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/cbo-us-will-hit-debt-limit-in-october-or-november-2015-03-03

March 2, 2015 – 100,000 ducks killed due to avian flu in Fuzesgyarmat, Hungary
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/150302/hungarian-farm-culls-100000-ducks-after-h5n8-bird-flu-detect

March 3, 2015 – Hundreds of dead fish found floating in a river in Hainan, China
http://www.ecns.cn/visual/hd/2015/03-03/60211.shtml

March 3, 2015 – Large die off of fish ‘due to cold weather’ at 3 sites in Nova Scotia, Canada
http://www.novanewsnow.com/News/Local/2015-03-03/article-4063974/Superchill-kills-fish-at-Cooke-Aquaculture-sites-in-Nova-Scotia/1

March 3, 2015 – Thousands of dead fish, plus dead ducks found in a lagoon in Buenos Aires, 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.agenciaelvigia.com.ar%2Fanoticia00060062.htm&edit-text=&act=url

March 3, 2015 – Dead turtles found on a beach in Piacabucu, Brazil
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.conexaopenedo.com.br%2F2015%2F03%2Fpraia-do-peba-amanheceu-com-grande-quantidade-de-tartarugas-mortas%2F&edit-text=&act=url

March 4, 2015 – 23,500 Birds to be killed due to avian flu in Schwanewede, Germany
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.weser-kurier.de%2Fregion%2Fdie-norddeutsche_artikel%2C-Entwarnung-fuer-Schwanewede-_arid%2C1070533.html&edit-text=&act=url

March 4, 2015 – Thousands of dead fish found on coast of East Java, Indonesia
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.merdeka.com%2Fperistiwa%2Fikan-di-pesisir-pantai-pamekasan-mati-melepuh-diduga-teracuni-gas.html&edit-text=&act=url

March 4, 2015 – Snow Geese have died this winter due to disease in Illinois, America
http://www.chicagonow.com/illinois-outdoors/2015/03/avian-cholera-outbreak-earlier-this-winter-claimed-300-birds-not-a-threat-to-overall-waterfowl-populations/

March 4, 2015 – 4.17 million birds have been killed since January due to avian flu in Taiwan, China
http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aeco/201503040026.aspx

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:   U.S. judge rules Nebraska same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional

A federal judge on Monday ruled Nebraska’s ban on gay marriage unconstitutional in a decision that could allow same-sex couples to marry in the state within a week. U.S. District Judge Joseph Bataillon issued a preliminary injunction in the case brought by seven same-sex couples in the state, calling Nebraska’s ban an “unabashedly gender-specific infringement of the equal rights of its citizens.” Bataillon denied a state request to stay his decision but said his injunction would take effect on March 9 to assuage Nebraska officials’ concerns of possible administrative turmoil. Nebraska state officials quickly appealed the ruling to the 8th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. “The definition of marriage is an issue for the people of Nebraska, and an activist judge should not substitute his personal political preferences for the will of the people,” Governor Pete Ricketts said in a statement. Nebraska voters in 2000 adopted a state constitutional amendment that defines marriage as only between one man and one woman and does not recognize civil unions, domestic partnerships or similar relationships for same-sex couples.
March 2, 2015

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/02/us-usa-gaymarriage-nebraska-idUSKBN0LY1MM20150302?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews

Headline: ABC Family’s show ‘The Fosters’ Airs Youngest-Ever Gay Kiss Between Two 13-Year-Old Boys

Set in a mixed family environment, The Fosters are a diverse group of children, both biological and adopted, whom an interracial lesbian couple cares for, according to the show’s IMDB page. The show, which premiered in 2013, already pushes the limits in the eyes of some, who have raised questions regarding what constitutes modern family programming. The watchdog group One Million Moms boycotted the show immediately after it was announced in 2012. The group then stated: Obviously, ABC has lost their minds… One Million Moms is not sure how the explanation will be given on how the biological children were conceived. None of this material is acceptable content for a family show … Let’s stop this dead in it its tracks. Co-executive producer Jennifer Lopez previously described the show as portraying “a new kind of family” and believes it is reflective of the world today. “Family has tuned into something else,” said Lopez. “Family equals love.” ABC Family, originally founded by controversial pastor Pat Robinson as the Christian Broadcasting Network, was acquired by Disney in 2001.
March 4, 2015

http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2015/03/04/abc-familys-the-fosters-airs-youngest-ever-gay-kiss-between-two-13-year-old-boys/

Apostasy Amos 8:11 & 2 Peter2:1-3 “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) “ But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction. ² And many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed. ³ By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction does not slumber.” (2 Peter)

Headline:   Idaho Senate opens with Hindu prayer, 3 lawmakers protest

Three lawmakers refused to attend the Idaho Senate’s daily invocation after objecting to the offering of a Hindu prayer. Rajan Zed, guest chaplain, gave a lengthy prayer in both English and Sanskrit on Tuesday that focused on selflessness and peace. Senators from both sides of the aisle shook his hand and thanked him for coming. However three lawmakers, all Republican, only came back onto the floor once the prayer was over: Sens. Steve Vick, Sheryl Nuxoll and Lori Den Hartog. Nuxoll says she declined to attend because she believes the United States is a Christian nation. Vick had announced his objections the day before, saying that he would ask his colleagues to join him. Hartog said it would’ve been disingenuous to her Christian faith to attend.
March 3, 2015

http://www.onenewsnow.com/ap/religion/idaho-senate-opens-with-hindu-prayer-3-lawmakers-protest#.VPZdqPnF98E

Headline:   New York public schools add two Muslim holidays to calendar

New York public schools will add two Muslim holidays to their vacation calendars, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday, a promise he made during his election campaign. Two of the most sacred holidays in the Islamic calendar, Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha, will be observed. Eid al-Adha, or “Festival of Sacrifice,” will be a vacation day on September 24, starting in the 2015-2016 school year. The festival of breaking the fast, Eid al-Fitr, which falls over the summer in 2016, will be designated a holiday for summer school students. The mayor said the move reflects New York’s diversity, calling it a “common sense change.” “We made a pledge to families that we would change our school calendar to reflect the strength and diversity of our city,” he said in a statement. “Hundreds of thousands of Muslim families will no longer have to choose between honoring the most sacred days on their calendar or attending school.” New York public schools already give students the day off for some Jewish and Christian holidays. Muslim children account for about 10 percent of New York’s public school students. It is not the first city to close for Muslim holidays — some districts in Vermont, Massachusetts and New Jersey already do.
March 4, 2015

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/world/2015/03/05/New-York-public-schools-add-two-Muslim-holidays-to-calendar.html

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:  Mexican drug cartels reach Japan; meth seizures double

A report released Wednesday by the International Narcotics Control Board revealed that Mexican drug cartels have extended their reach to Japan, where methamphetamine seizures have doubled compared to the previous year. The Control Board, a United Nations organization, released its annual report Wednesday and concluded that Mexican drug cartel influence has also created a “significant” increase in crime associated with the drug. Although most of the methamphetamine abused in east and southeast Asia is produced within the region, sources for methamphetamine have originated from Africa to Iran. “In a worrying development, trafficking of amphetamine-type stimulants through East Africa (e.g. Ethiopia and Kenya) for onward shipment by plane to east and southeast Asia has continued,” the Control Board states. “The latest reports from the authorities in Japan suggest an increasing influence of Mexican cartels on its domestic methamphetamine traffic.” The Attorney General’s Office of Mexico suspects gangs in Hong Kong are making deals with Mexican drug cartels by helping give the cartels the precursor chemicals to making meth.
March 4, 2015

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2015/03/04/Mexican-drug-cartels-reach-Japan-meth-seizures-double/6601425479021/?spt=sec&or=tn

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:  Volcano Villarrica erupts in southern Chile

Headline: Thousands flee as volcano erupts in southern Chile

Volcano Villarrica in southern Chile erupted in the early hours of Tuesday, sending a plume of ash and lava high into the sky, and forcing the evacuation of nearby communities. The volcano, located near the popular tourist resort of Pucon around 750 km (460 miles) south of the capital Santiago, is one of South America’s most active. It last erupted in 2000. A column of ash and rock particles shot up to 3 km (nearly 2 miles) into the night sky at around 3 a.m., said the national geological service Sernageomin. Some 3,385 people had been evacuated as a preventative measure, said Interior Minister Rodrigo Penailillo.
March 3, 2015

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/volcano-villarrica-erupts-in-southern-chile-villages-evacuated-1425392655-slideshow/villarica-volcano-erupts-near-pucon-chile-early-tuesday-photo-125611651.html

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/03/03/thousands-flee-as-volcano-erupts-in-chile/?intcmp=latestnews 

Headline:    What’s shaking? List & map of USGS Earthquakes

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