Prophecy Signs for November 17, 2014
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Frank DiMora P.O. Box 732, Lompoc Ca. 93436 fjdimora@gmail.com
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Fatah blesses terrorists for heeding call: “Jerusalem needs blood to purify itself of Jews”
Headline: EU proposal could punish Israel for settlements
Headline: EU mulling envoy recall if settlement activity continues
An internal European Union document proposes unspecified “actions” against Israel for its settlement activities in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, reflecting unhappiness with the lack of progress in Mideast peace efforts. The document, known as a “nonpaper,” is a proposal that is meant to serve as a basis for discussion among the EU’s 28 member states. While it is far from becoming policy, the document noted that it was drawn up with “inputs” by member states, indicating at least some support for the proposals. The document calls for unspecified moves against European companies operating in Israeli settlements. It also proposes actions against settlers themselves, including a “no contact” policy toward settler organizations, and a refusal “to engage with settlers,” including public figures who oppose the establishment of a Palestinian state.
Nov. 17, 2014
http://news.yahoo.com/eu-proposal-could-punish-israel-settlements-172954951.html
http://www.timesofisrael.com/eu-mulling-envoy-recall-if-settlement-activity-continues/
Headline: UN Blames ‘Occupation’ for Jerusalem Violence, Calls for Talks
A senior UN official warned the Security Council on Monday that violence in Israel and the Palestinian territories was likely to worsen without a quick return to peace talks, AFP reports Monday. “Returning to negotiations has never been more important,” UN Assistant-Secretary General Jens Toyberg-Frandzen told the 15-member council, during a meeting on the Middle East. “Without a genuine commitment from the parties and an overall improvement in the lives of Palestinians, we should anticipate further deterioration of the security situation and an expansion of the current violence,” he said. It is unclear why the UN believes that the peace process will help rather than exacerbate violence in the capital. An Israel Security Agency (ISA) study revealed last year that terror only escalated since the latest round of peace talks began in 2013. The appeal followed a visit to the region last week by US Secretary of State John Kerry, who sought to ease tensions over Jerusalem, which has been wracked by violence. The capital has been subjected to months-long rioting on the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site, and to multiple terror attacks over the past several weeks.
Nov. 17, 2014
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/187562#.VGppysm9aqA
Headline: Hamas Calls for Escalation After Arab Bus Driver’s Suicide
Headline: Riots as Arab Bus Driver’s Death Blamed on ‘Settlers’
Headline: Hamas Leader: We Plan to Carry Out Terror from Judea and Samaria
In the wake of allegations that bus driver Yusuf Hasan al-Ramuni was killed by “Israeli settlers”, Palestinian terror organization Hamas called for an escalation [of violence] against Israel, Walla! News has reported. Al-Ramuni, an Egged bus driver from the A-Tur neighborhood in eastern Jerusalem, was found hanged on Sunday night in his bus at the Har Hotzvim industrial zone bus depot in northern Jerusalem. His death, an apparent suicide, is quickly being portrayed by some other Arabs as a “murder” to incite riots. According to Palestinian news agency Al-Ra’i, Hamas responded to al-Ramuni’s death with the following statement: “This murder proves Israel’s racism and the reaction to it should be an escalation of resistance by any means.” Hamas leader Izzat al-Rishq also took to Twitter, writing on his account that, “the blood of martyr Yusuf Hasan al-Ramuni, who was murdered by hanging in Jerusalem, will become a fire engulfing Israel.”
Nov. 17, 2014
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/187555#.VGpqE8m9aqA
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/187544#.VGpqaMm9aqA
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/187528#.VGpq0sm9aqA
“Do not keep silent, O God! Do not hold Your peace, And do not be still, O God! 2 For behold, Your enemies make a tumult; And those who hate You have lifted up their head. 3 They have taken crafty counsel against Your people, And consulted together against Your sheltered ones. 4 They have said, “Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, That the name of Israel may be remembered no more.” (Psalm 83)
Lebanon
Headline: ISIS postpones hostage executions
ISIS had given 4 p.m. as ultimatum for the Lebanese government to revoke death sentences handed down to Islamists in Roumieh Prison, threatening to execute seven captives. The move created a climate of hysteria among the captives’ families, who escalated their continuous protest and blocked the Charles Helou road, which is the northern entrance of Beirut. Families of captive servicemen have re-opened roads across Lebanon after receiving assurances that ISIS will not behead the seven hostages it threatened to kill Monday. “Some calls were made, and the threat has been delayed,” Health Minister Wael Abu Faour told reporters after he visited protesters near Beirut’s Saifi neighborhood. “We gained some time. I can only say that we gained some time, nothing more.” Abu Faour said both the families and Lebanon’s negotiators were contacted with news of the delay.
Nov. 17, 2014
Headline: Special Lebanon Court permits prosecutor to bring evidence against Assad in Hariri case
The Special Tribunal for Lebanon decided on Friday to allow prosecutors to present new evidence against Syrian President Bashar Assad in the case against mainly Hezbollah operatives for the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Lebanon’s Daily Star reported that prosecutors will seek to expose Assad’s role in the massive February 14, 2005 bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others, a major change in strategy and one which is only likely to further controvertialize the court. Because the case is against five senior Hezbollah operatives for killing its former Sunni leader, it essentially pits the country’s Shiites against its Sunnis in a region where the two sides are already at loggerheads or outright war.
Until now the prosecution had carefully steered clear of accusations against Syria, trying to avoid further controversy and diplomatic opposition from Syria’s supporters and it did not explain the reason for the timing of the change in strategy. Assad has lost considerable standing in much of the world over the course of the ongoing Syrian civil war and is not as strong politically as he was when the trial started. The new evidence focuses on the breakdown of relations between Hariri and Assad.
Nov. 16, 2014
Egypt
Headline: Egypt to deepen buffer zone with Gaza after finding longer tunnels
Headline: IS-allied Sinai terrorists vow to ‘liberate Jerusalem’
Egypt will double to one kilometer (0.62 mile) the depth of a security buffer zone it is clearing on its border with the Gaza Strip after some of the worst anti-state violence since President Mohamed Mursi was overthrown last year. Egypt declared a state of emergency in the border area after at least 33 security personnel were killed last month in two
attacks in the Sinai Peninsula, a remote but strategic region bordering Israel, Gaza and the Suez Canal. It also accelerated plans to create a 500-metre deep buffer strip along the border by clearing houses and trees and destroying subterranean tunnels it says are used to smuggle arms from Gaza to militants in Sinai. “A decision was taken to increase the buffer zone along the border in Rafah to one kilometer. The decision … came after the discovery of underground tunnels with a total length of 800 to 1,000 meters,” the state MENA news agency said.
Nov. 17, 2014
http://www.timesofisrael.com/is-allied-sinai-terrorists-vow-to-liberate-jerusalem/
Syria Iraq ISIS- the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (the Levant) ISIS=ISIL=IS=Daash
Iraq Syria Kurdistan
Syria Headline: Peace-talks between the Islamic State and Jabhat al-Nusra in Syria
Syria Headline: Fighters from the Al Nusra front, the group known as Syria’s Al Qaeda affiliate, haVE taken an oath of allegiance to support the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) militant Islamist group.
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper is said to have told CBS’s 60 Minutes that he has observed tactical cooperation between the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) and Jabhat al-Nusra (JN). The two global, Salafi jihadist groups are engaged in an ideological struggle, or fitnah. They are competing for the leadership of the fight in Syria and recognition by the al-Qaeda movement, which has been conducting mediation attempts between the two since 2013 and in 2014 recognized JN as its official affiliate in Syria. Director Clapper’s statements challenge recent public reports of their negotiations, which suggest that more fundamental mediation may be underway, indicating the possibility of heightened cooperation in coming months. The interview has not aired, and his statements may be more nuanced than the advanced press publicizing the show. But the issue at hand should not be whether more than tactical cooperation has already been observed, but rather, whether conditions are being set that will favor operational cooperation between ISIS and JN in the medium term. The mediation effort may not quickly result in Baghdadi and his inner circle reconciling with JN leader Abu Mohammed al-Joulani, but the groups are eventually likely to cooperate at the operational and strategic level, as they share mutual goals. In the short term, this may include joint action against the Assad regime, which could relieve pressure on ISIS from the regime in Deir ez-Zour and embolden JN to initiate offensive operations against the regime on battlefronts that have stalled. Furthermore, ISIS is under stress in Iraq, and may pursue the acquisition of manpower and other support from JN in Syria in order to reinforce and retake the offensive.
Nov. 15, 2014
http://iswsyria.blogspot.com/2014/11/peace-talks-between-islamic-state-and.html
Syria Headline: Syrian rebels abandon Aleppo, leader flees to Turkey
The Free Syrian Army (FSA), the recognized armed opposition group against the Bashar al-Assad in Syria, has ceased its resistance in Aleppo, Syria’s second biggest city, withdrawing its 14,000 militia from the city, a ranking Turkish security source told the Hürriyet Daily News on Nov. 17.
“Its leader Jamal Marouf has fled to Turkey,” confirmed the source, who asked not to be named. “He is currently being hosted and protected by the Turkish state.” The source did not give an exact date of the escape but said it was within the last two weeks, that is, the first half of November. The source declined to give Marouf’s whereabouts in Turkey. As a result, the FSA has lost control over the Bab al-Hawa border gate (opposite from Turkey’s Cilvegözü in Reyhanlı), which is now being held by a weak coalition of smaller groups led by Ahrar al-Sham. The source said some of the weaponry delivered to the FSA by the U.S.-led coalition in its fight against both Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) and the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria might have fallen into the hands of Ahrar al-Sham and al-Nusra, the Syria branch of al-Qaeda. A weakening Western-supported opposition in Syria could not only put Aleppo in jeopardy, but also weaken the U.S.-led coalition in Syria and Iraq, which might affect the positions of other important players in the region, such as Iran, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Israel.
Nov. 17, 2014
Syria Headline: Moderate Syrian rebels say they’re advancing on Damascus from south
Rebel groups based in southern Syria are advancing on the western suburbs of Damascus and warning they might soon enter the capital, a development that’s in sharp contrast to the grim reports from northern Syria, where moderate rebels have suffered setbacks from the government and radical Islamists. The advance by the so-called Southern Front also stands apart from the situation in the north because moderate rebels still appear to be the dominant opposition force in the south, eclipsing al Qaida’s Syrian affiliate, the Nusra Front, in planning and executing military advances. Further, Southern Front commanders credit airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition with helping their cause, primarily by keeping Islamic State fighters from moving against them. “If it weren’t for the coalition strikes, Daash would have reached our areas,” Abul Majd, a spokesman for the Southern Front, told McClatchy via Skype, using the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State. “Thanks to these strikes, we are focusing now on the regime, our main enemy.” In contrast, commanders in the north have complained that they’ve benefited little from the strikes on the Islamic State, and they even accuse the United States of undercutting support for the rebels with airstrikes aimed at Nusra and the so-called Khorasan Group, which the U.S. says consists of al Qaida members plotting attacks on Western targets from Syria. On Friday, another Southern Front leader, Gen. Assad al Zubi, told Damascus residents via opposition Orient TV that the day of the “big victory” is close. In his statement, he warned that the government was likely to crack down hard as rebel forces drew near and Damascus residents should expect to receive instructions in the coming days, in the form of pamphlets distributed by civil activists working with the rebels.
Nov. 17, 2014
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/11/17/247143/moderate-syrian-rebels-say-theyre.html
Syria Headline: 20 Syrian soldiers killed in Deir Azzor
Syrian armed groups said at least 20 soldiers and pro-regime militiamen were killed in a bomb attack on their camp in Huwaijeh Saker district in the eastern city of Deir Azzor on Sunday. The opposition fighters used an explosive-laden Hummer in the attack, according to a statement released by the opposition tonight. Meanwhile, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported that the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) executed 13 men under suspicion of being members of pro-regime sleeper cells. The victims were captured by the ISIL in Tabaqa area in Ar-Raqqah governorate a month ago; they were found in possession of personal weapons and communication devices, SOHR said, noting that it received reports on similar executions in Baath Dam area in the northern governorate. In Maarat Misrin town in the northwestern governorate of Idlib the Syrian forces launched an air attack killing four civilians, including a woman and a child. In from Ras Al-Ain town, Hasakah Governorate, near the borders with Turkey, Kurdish fighters ambushed ISIL militants and killed seven of them, including a leading member, according to SOHR report.
Nov. 17, 2014
http://www.kuna.net.kw/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2408897&Language=en
Syria Headline: Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
https://www.facebook.com/syriahroe
http://syriahr.com/en/category/news/
Iraq Headline: 14 killed in separate car bomb explosions in Baghdad
Iraq Headline: IS Claims Downing a Coalition Drone in Diyala, Fighter Poses with the Plane
Security and medical officials say at least 14 people have been killed and over 30 others wounded when a pair of car bomb explosions ripped through busy commercial districts in the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad. Police sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the first attack took place in Baghdad’s eastern neighborhood of Meshtal when an explosive-laden car blew up in a commercial street. The blast killed at least eight people and wounded 15 others. The second car bombing was carried out in Baghdad’s western district of al-Amiriya, killing at least six people and wounding 16 others. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blasts. However, Iraqi officials usually blame such attacks on the ISIL Takfiri terrorists.
Nov. 17, 2014
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/11/17/386389/baghdad-blasts-leave-over-dozen-dead/
Iraq Headline: ISIL car bomb reaches ‘first line of security’ at Baghdad Airport
Iraq Headline: ISIS claims Baghdad bomb attack on U.N. convoy
After months of efforts, Islamic State of Iraq and Levant has begun attacks on Baghdad International Airport. Officials said a car bomb exploded in a parking lot outside Baghdad International Airport and five people were injured. They said the explosion marked the first attack on the perimeter of the airport, which contains U.S. military aircraft, including that which brought Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. “The bomb was detonated at the first line of security at the airport,” an official said. “The security regime remained intact.” Officials said ISIL has sought to attack the airport for months. The facility contains U.S. military transports that brought American troops to advise and mentor the Iraq Army over the last three months. So far, no group claimed responsibility for the attack. Officials said ISIL was trying to infiltrate the airport by recruiting passengers as well as Iraqi staffers.
Nov. 17, 2014
http://www.worldtribune.com/2014/11/17/isil-reaches-first-line-security-car-bomb-baghdad-airport/
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/16/isis-claim-responsibility-car-bomb-baghdad-airport
Iraq Headline: Planes bringing in arms to ISIS, Iraqi official says
The Islamic State (ISIS) is being supplied with weapons through planes landing in areas controlled by the militants, the head of Iraq’s security and defence committee said. “Some countries are delivering weapons to ISIS by using airplanes in Tel Afar airport, near Mosul,” Hakim Zalmi said. “I am asking the Iraqi air force to shell Tel Afar airport, together with any other airports under the control of ISIS in Iraq,” he added. His comments come after a Russian plane landed in Baghdad last week with a cargo of weapons and ammunition. That is being investigated by a committee, which is looking into the origin of the weapons. “The plane that landed in Baghdad last week was filled with weapons, and it was not the first plane to land, breaching Iraqi air space,” Zalmi said. “An investigation is still ongoing regarding that case,” he added. The Russian plane carried 40 tons of weapons and ammunition and attempted to land at Sulaimani airport. It landed in Baghdad after being refused permission.
Nov. 17, 2014
http://rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iraq/171120144
Iraq Headline: ISW Iraq Situation Report Nov. 14-16, 2014
http://iswiraq.blogspot.com/2014/11/iraq-situation-report-november-14-16.html
Kurdish Headline: ISIS threat: It’s time to fully back the Kurds
The only effective fighting force opposing ISIS on the ground today are the Kurdish Peshmerga. These warriors—legendary since the days of the Ottoman Empire—have fought valiantly even when the larger, U.S.-trained Iraqi army abandoned the field, leaving their sophisticated U.S.-made weapons to the enemy. The Kurds have liberated cities, defended citizens of nearly every faith and, though the war is still desperate, won their signal victories. They ought to be celebrated, both in their native Kurdistan and around the world. They ought to be cheered on and supported in every way by the U.S. and her allies. They are not. Instead the U.S. has continued it’s decades-long policy of dealing with the Kurds only through the corrupt and ineffective Iraqi government in Baghdad. This has meant that the noble Peshmerga often lack the arms necessary to press through to victory. It has meant that while militias in Syria enjoy close U.S. air support, the Kurds often do not. It may mean that unless this failed policy is abandoned the war against ISIS will be lost.
Nov. 17, 2014
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/11/17/isis-threat-it-time-to-fully-back-kurds/
Headline: U.S. hostage Peter Kassig is killed by Islamic State
Islamic State militants have beheaded another American hostage, Peter Kassig, issuing a video claiming the killing on Sunday and warning the United States they would kill other U.S. citizens “on your streets.” U.S. President Barack Obama confirmed the death of the aid worker in what he called “an act of pure evil by a terrorist group that the world rightly associates with inhumanity.” The announcement of Kassig’s death, the fifth such killing of a Western captive by the group, formed part of a 15-minute video posted online in which Islamic State showed the beheadings of at least 14 men it said were pilots and officers loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Nov. 16, 2014
http://news.yahoo.com/islamic-state-claims-beheaded-u-hostage-kassig-093719276.html
Headline: US group CAIR named terrorist organization by United Arab Emirates
A U.S.-based pro-Muslim group that enjoys close ties with the Obama administration has landed on one Arab nation’s list of terrorist organizations. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) was one of 82 groups around the world designated terrorist organizations by the United Arab Emirates, placing it in the company of Al Qaeda, Islamic State and others. While CAIR has previously been linked to Hamas, it has held hundreds of meetings with White House officials on a wide range of community issues and has sought to present itself as a mainstream Muslim organization. “We call on the United Arab Emirates cabinet to review this list and remove organizations such as CAIR, the Muslim American Society (MAS) and other civil society organizations that peacefully promote civil and democratic rights and that oppose terrorism whenever it occurs, wherever it occurs and whoever carries it out,” CAIR wrote in a statement on its Facebook page, which also called its inclusion on the UAE list a “bizarre move.”
****GOOD FOR THE UAE!
Nov. 17, 2014
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: Ten Ukraine soldiers, police killed in east: Officials
Headline: Ukraine on the verge of ‘full-scale invasion’ by Russia, says interior minister
Ten Ukrainian soldiers and police officers have reportedly been killed in the country’s volatile east, which has witnessed fierce fighting between government troops and pro-Russia forces in recent months. Official sources in Kiev said on Monday that violence had claimed the lives of six Ukrainian soldiers and three police officers in eastern Ukraine over the past 24 hours. According to the sources, the three policemen were targeted in a shelling attack while they were patrolling an area in the restive Lugansk region. Five other police officers also sustained injuries in the incident. Some six army troops were also killed and nine others wounded in separate incidents in Ukraine’s east, the government officials said. One of the injured officers succumbed to his injuries at the hospital, the Ukrainian military later reported.
Nov. 17, 2014
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/11/17/386365/nine-troops-police-killed-in-e-ukraine/
Afghanistan
****Clicking on the UNDERLINED sections will take you to the news link
Headline: War News for Monday, November 17, 2014
Reported security incidents
#1: Airstrikes and ground clashes between security forces and militants in North Waziristan Agency early Sunday left four soldiers, including an army major, and 34 militants dead. Four soldiers were killed and at least eight were missing after insurgents using rockets and grenades stormed a checkpoint in the remote border region of North Waziristan Agency, security sources said. Eleven men were wounded and between eight and 10 were missing, they said.
#2: An outspoken female Afghan lawmaker survived a suicide bombing attack on her vehicle on Sunday, suffering slight wounds, but three civilian bystanders were killed, a police spokesman said.
#3: In a clash between armed Taliban and security forces in Takhar province, six armed Taliban was killed and 12 others wounded yesterday evening. The Ministry of Interior (MoI) said that the attack took place by Taliban militants on a police check post in Khwajah Ghar district in northeastern Takhar province.
#4: Nine armed oppositions were killed by Afghan National Army forces operation in Kunduz province last night.
#5: Student of a school and an engineer were martyred and three other students wounded in a blast in Maidan-Wardak province.
#6: Taliban militants launched a massive offensive with the involvement of some 400 fighters against Balablok district in the western Farah province, 695 km west of Kabul, on Monday, gun battle continues, a private television channel Tolo has reported.
#7: Three local police personnel were injured as a roadside bomb struck their vehicle in Marawara district of Kunar province on Monday, provincial police chief Abdul Habib SayedKhili said.
http://warnewstoday.blogspot.com/
Sudan
Headline: South Sudan downplays shooting of US diplomat’s vehicle
US ambassador Charles Twining said he was travelling in armoured diplomatic convoy when his vehicle came under fire by one of the soldiers accompanying vice president, James Wani Igga. Two bullets reportedly hit the car leaving two big holes on its bulletproof glasses. “That was not an assassination attempt because assassination attempt implies intention. What happened in this incident can be interpreted differently to mean different thing for different people. The government point of view about this incident is that this incident could have been avoided if the vehicle in which the US diplomat was traveling had stepped aside and stopped to allow the motorcade of the vice president to pass,” Kuol told Sudan Tribune. “This is a universal protocol even in the United States where protection of the president, the vice president and other high ranking officials remains one of the key missions of the United States secret service,” he added. Kuol said motorcades of the president, deputy vice president and other senior government officials who are constitutionally accorded special treatment is given way to avoid inconveniences. “The system is that when a president, vice president and other senior government officials and ambulance carrying patients on the road, the rest move aside and allow them to pass. This is a universal protocol. It is done so to avoid inconveniences,” he said. Kuol claimed the diplomat’s vehicle was not fired at, but only stopped to be identified.
Nov. 16, 2014
http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article53064
Libya
Headline: Armed clashes shut down Tripoli airport
Headline: IS Provincial Division in Libya Claims Suicide Bombings, Car Detonations in East of Country
Headline: Fighters Under IS Banner in Libya Celebrate Pledge of Allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
Armed clashes broke out in Libya’s capital Tripoli closing down the city’s main working airport, local residents and an official said on Sunday. Tripoli has been mostly calm since the Libya Dawn force, an armed faction allied to the city of Misrata, took over the capital in the summer and set up its own government in rivalry to Prime Minister Abdullah Al-Thinni. It was not immediately clear who was involved in Sunday’s fighting, and there was no confirmation from health authorities of any casualties. A spokesman for the civil aviation authority said Mitiga airport had been closed because of the security situation. Mitiga has operated as the capital’s main airport since fighting in the summer damaged and shut Tripoli airport.
Nov. 17, 2014
http://www.arabnews.com/middle-east/news/661221
Turkey
Headline: Turkey rejects outside mediation to resolve Kurdish issue
Turkey rejected Monday a proposal for a third party to help mediate the long-standing conflict with the Kurdish minority, the deputy prime minister said. “This is a local process. It is a process which Turkey has brought to life through its own discretion. We do not find it right to have a different country, mechanism, system or organization as a part of this,” Yalcin Akdogan told the state-run Anadolu news agency. The armed Kurdistan Workers‘ Party (PKK) declared a ceasefire last year, which has largely held. Last month the ceasefire appeared under threat as the air force launched strikes against the group‘s bases in the east of the country, which was followed by accusations that the PKK had carried out attacks against Turkish soldiers. The government is set to meet later Monday with the Peoples‘ Democratic Party (HDP), a pro-Kurdish party which meets with the PKK‘s jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan has taken the lead in the peace talks.
Nov. 17, 2014
http://www.ekurd.net/mismas/articles/misc2014/11/turkey5236.htm
Headline: Turkish President Erdogan: Muslims Discovered America Three Centuries before Columbus- VIDEO
http://www.memri.org/clip/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/4604.htm
Armenia
Headline: Armenia escalates tensions with new provocations
Azerbaijani Defense Ministry has said the military-political regime in Armenia still continues to make irresponsible statements with full of threats against Azerbaijan. The ministry said Armenia, deceiving its people and pulling it to the provocation, is pursuing an aggressive policy against Azerbaijan, adding this is the result of the country’s misjudge of the real situation that formed at present in the region. “The enemy must recognize the importance of the withdrawal of its troops from the occupied territories of Azerbaijan and should not involve the Armenian youth in the war,” the ministry stressed. The ministry went on to add that Azerbaijani Armed Forces are able and ready to prevent any provocation of the enemy. The ministry said in case the enemy side once again dares to commit any military operation, then the Azerbaijani side will answer with immediate blow struck that will leading to huge losses by Armenia and destruction. An Armenian MI-24 helicopter flying 1,700 meters northeast of the Kengerli village of Azerbaijan’s Aghdam region attacked the Azerbaijani army positions on November 12. The helicopter was shot down by the Azerbaijani side.
Nov. 17, 2014
http://www.azernews.az/azerbaijan/73327.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: Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon issues state of emergency ahead of Ferguson grand jury decision
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon declared a state of emergency and activated the National Guard Monday in advance of a grand jury decision about whether a white police officer will be charged in the fatal shooting of a black 18-year-old in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson. Nixon said the National Guard would assist state and local police as needed, in case there is civil unrest when the grand jury’s decision is announced. There was no indication an announcement is imminent. There is no specific date for a decision to be revealed about whether Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson should face charges for shooting Michael Brown on Aug. 9. The St. Louis County prosecutor has said that he expects the grand jury to reach a decision in mid-to-late November. Meanwhile, police officials in Ferguson and other cities across America were bracing Monday for possible violence in the wake of the decision, one day after hundreds of people took to the streets of St. Louis briefly to block a major intersection to protest the death of Brown.
Nov. 17, 2014
Headline: Suicide attack in Nigerian market kills at least 12: witnesses
Headline: Nigeria’s Military Retakes Chibok
A female suicide bomber blew herself up on Sunday, killing at least a dozen people in a cellphone market in Azare, a town in Nigeria’s Bauchi State where a similar attack at a bank last week killed seven, witnesses said. No one claimed immediate responsibility for Sunday’s blast, but Boko Haram, which has waged a bloody five-year campaign to establish an Islamic state in northern Nigeria, is suspected of having carried out a wave of attacks this week. The group has also seized two towns and occupied a third in the country’s northeast region since it rejected a ceasefire announced last month by the government. “I was near the market when I heard a loud sound inside. After a while we rushed to the scene of the blast. I saw lots of people in the ground and blood all over the place,” said local resident Ibrahim Ahmed, adding that he had counted at least 12 bodies. “The severed head of the female suicide bomber was later found, and a crowd of boys took it to the front of the Emir’s palace and set it on fire,” he said. An official at the town’s hospital said six bodies were brought in and four other people had later died there of their injuries.
Nov. 16, 2014
http://news.yahoo.com/suicide-attack-nigerian-market-kills-least-12-witnesses-205827538.html
http://www.voanews.com/content/nigeria-military-retakes-chibok/2522939.html
Headline: Wagah border blast – Taliban splinter group releases fidayeen’s photograph
Headline: TTP Jamat-ul-Ahrar Threatens in Video to Behead Pakistani Soldiers in Khyber Agency
Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, the splinter group of Pakistani Taliban, has tweeted photographs of a person identifying him as the suicide bomber of November 2 Wagah blast. The horrific terror strike claimed lives of 61 innocent people and left more than 110 injured. The photograph was posted by Ehsanulla Ehasn, spokesperson of Jamaat-ul-Ahrar. The suicide bomber, Hanifullah alias Hamza, believed to be 25 year old was shown in the picture sitting with two automatic guns and the terror outfit’s white and black flags. The suicide bomber blew himself up at the entrance of the parade complex, few meters short of viewer’s gallery on the Pakistan side of Wagah border, minutes after the flag-lowering ceremony on November 2, killing 61 people. Officials said the damage could have been greater if the attacker had managed to penetrate into the main ceremony area. The Jamaat-ul-Ahrar spokesperson said he would also soon issue a video of the deadly attack. According to a PTI report Ehsan said Jamaat-ul-Ahrar chose Wagah Border because of its ‘international significance’ and that it is occupied by more security personnel. Ehsanulla Ehasn further warned that such attacks would continue. In a telephone call to Dawn newspaper in Pakistan, Ehsan had claimed responsibility for the Wagah border attack.
Nov. 17, 2014
Headline: Over 10,000 Hungarians in anti-corruption protest
More than 10,000 people protested Monday in the Hungarian capital, demanding the ouster of the head of the tax authority and greater accountability from Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government. The demonstration outside Parliament was spurred by anger over Orban’s refusal to dismiss Ildiko Vida, who along with some of her colleagues has been denied entrance into the United States because of alleged ties to corruption. Vida has denied the allegations. The event, dubbed “Public Outrage Day,” was the fourth large anti-government rally held in Budapest in the past month. Smaller rallies were also held in 20 other Hungarian cities and in European capitals like London, Berlin and Stockholm. Protest organizer Balazs Nemes blamed Hungary’s whole political class for the country’s problems, saying that “we are not here to bury a government but to bury a system.” After the protest was officially over and organizers left, several thousand people remained on the square and refused to go away despite repeated requests by police. The crowd dismantled some metal barriers near parliament and faced off with several dozen police in riot gear while singing the national anthem and chanting against Orban. Some protesters were trying to push police lines further up the parliament’s steps, but no violence was reported.
Nov. 17, 2014
http://news.yahoo.com/over-10-000-hungarians-anti-corruption-protest-192606482.html
Headline: Bombing in Philippines kills 1, injures 16, blamed on militant breakaway group
A bomb detonated in the southern Philippines Sunday, killing at least one person and injuring over a dozen others in what is being called the work of a splinter cell from a larger Islamic militant group. The explosion rocked a pedestrian overpass near a school in Kabacan, a farming town in North Cotobato province, wounding at least 16 people, Al Jazeera reports. Four of the injured were critical, and one later died after being rushed to the hospital, according to local media and Kabacan officials. Soldiers defused two other bombs in the immediate area. Police Senior Inspector Jarwin Castroberde said that top suspects in the investigation of the blast include militants who may have broken off from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
Nov. 16, 2014
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 6:5-6)“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: Eurozone facing unprecedented triple-dip recession, warns Cameron
The eurozone is on the ‘brink’ of an unprecedented triple-dip recession, UK prime minister David Cameron warned as the weekend’s G20 summit in Australia came to its conclusion on Sunday (16 November). In an article in the Guardian published Sunday (16 November), Cameron said that the “eurozone is teetering on the brink of a possible third recession, with high unemployment, falling growth and the real risk of falling prices too”. The UK was already feeling the “impact of the eurozone slowdown on our manufacturing and our exports,” he added. The eurozone economy grew by 0.2 percent in the third quarter of 2014, according to data published on Friday (14 November) by Eurostat, fractionally below the 0.3 percent across the 28-country bloc, having recorded zero growth in the three months between April and June. Germany and France, the eurozone’s two largest economies, have achieved sluggish growth so far this year, while Italy has fallen back into recession.
Nov. 17, 2014
http://euobserver.com/news/126539
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: JAPAN IS IN RECESSION
Japan’s economy shrank an annualised 1.6 percent in July-September, confounding expectations for a modest rebound after a severe contraction in the previous quarter and solidifying the view premier Shinzo Abe will delay a second sales tax hike next year. Abe has said Monday’s GDP data would be key to his decision on whether to proceed with the increase to 10 percent in October next year. That decision had been expected by year-end. The second straight quarter of contraction, which compared with a 2.1 percent increase forecast in a Reuters poll, added to signs the world’s third-largest economy has been slow in healing from the blow to consumption from the first tax increase in April. The April tax hike to 8 percent from 5 percent led to a revised 7.3 percent economic contraction in the second quarter, which was the biggest decline since the global financial crisis.
Nov. 16, 2014
Headline: Turkey’s unemployment rate exceeds 10 percent
A new official report says Turkey’s unemployment rate has hit 10.1 percent in August 2014, recording the highest rate since February. The Turkish Statistics Agency (TÜİK) said in a report on Monday that the jobless rate for the country hit double digits in August, up from 9.8 percent in July. According to the data, 2.94 million people were out of jobs as of August, an increase of 77,000 unemployed people from the July. Meanwhile, youth unemployment reached 18.9 percent in August, which is the highest rate since January 2011. The figures come as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) announced last week that the average jobless rate for its member countries in September was recorded at 7.2. The report left out Turkey since the country’s figures for that month have not been out yet.
Nov. 17, 2014
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/11/17/386420/turkeys-jobless-rate-exceeds-10/
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: Sierra Leone surgeon brought to US for Ebola treatment dies
Headline: Mali places 442 people under surveillance over Ebola fears
A surgeon from Sierra Leone who was being treated for Ebola at a Nebraska hospital died on Monday, according to the hospital. Dr Martin Salia, a permanent US resident, is the second patient to die of Ebola in the US. He arrived in Omaha on Saturday, having left Freetown on Friday by air ambulance. He was immediately transported to Nebraska medical center, where he began treatment in the hospital’s biocontainment unit. Doctors and nurses cared for the ailing surgeon around the clock, the hospital said. At around 4am on Monday Salia’s heart stopped and medical staff were not able to revive him. “It is with an extremely heavy heart that we share this news,” Dr Phil Smith, medical director of the Biocontainment Unit at Nebraska medical center, said in a statement. “Dr Salia was extremely critical when he arrived here, and unfortunately, despite our best efforts, we weren’t able to save him.” Experts believe early detection and treatment is critical to surviving the disease which has killed nearly 5,200 people, primarily in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
Nov. 17, 2014
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/17/sierra-leone-doctor-ebola-dies
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/11/17/386404/mali-monitors-442-for-fear-of-ebola/
Headline: Egyptian woman dies of bird flu, second this year
Egyptian health officials say a woman who was diagnosed with bird flu has died, the second fatality from the H5N1 virus this year in the country. Egypt has reported seven bird flu cases so far in 2014. Most victims have been women and children who are traditionally tasked with caring for domestic poultry. Ahmed Abdel-Hamid in the southern city of Assiut says the woman was a 19-year-old who raised chicken at home. He says she was admitted to hospital on Nov. 10 and died on Monday. Health Ministry official Amr Kandil says the earlier fatality was in June. Since 2006, there have been 64 bird flu deaths in Egypt. The H5N1 virus is hard to catch but has remained a threat. Most cases have been linked to contact with poultry.
Nov. 17, 2014
http://news.yahoo.com/egyptian-woman-dies-bird-flu-second-152640818.html
Headline: 172 people on cruise ship contract norovirus
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that 172 people on a cruise ship arriving in California on Sunday have fallen ill with the highly contagious norovirus during a nearly month-long trip. The Crown Princess has more than 4,100 people on board and were expected to be met by CDC staff upon arrival in San Pedro. Princess Cruises has “enacted our stringent disinfecting protocols” developed in consultation with the CDC and will do a deep cleaning of the ship and terminal in Los Angeles before departing Sunday night for a week-long cruise through the Mexican Riviera, spokeswoman Susan Lomax said. In April, 129 people on the same ship contracted norovirus during a seven-day cruise off the California coast. Lomax said the ship went through the same stringent disinfecting process after it docked.
Nov. 16, 2014
Headline: Ebola Outbreak Map
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http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014-ebola-outbreak-map
Headline: HealthMap
Global leader in utilizing online informal sources for disease outbreak monitoring and real-time surveillance of emerging public health threats. The freely available Web site ‘healthmap.org’ and mobile app ‘Outbreaks Near Me’ deliver real-time intelligence on a broad range of emerging infectious diseases for a diverse audience including libraries, local health departments, governments, and international travelers.
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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 Quake Prince Edward Islands region
****THIS IS IN ADDITION TO MULTIPLE LARGE QUAKES OVER THE WEEKEND:
6.1 ON 11-16 IN THE SOLOMON ISLANDS
6.7 11-16 IN NEW ZEALAND
7.1 11-14 IN INDONESIA
Nov. 17, 2014
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usc000sy62#summary
Headline: 5.4 quake strikes near Prokopion in Greece
A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (mg/mb) has striked on Tuesday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Prokopion in Greece. The temblor was reported at 01:05:57 / 1:05 am (local time epicenter) at a depth of 13.17 km (8 miles). Global time of event 2014-11-17 11:05:57 UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude 23.4156 East, latitude 38.6957 North, depth 13.17 km.
Nov. 17, 2014
Headline: Deadly mudslides engulf homes in Switzerland and Italy
At least four people have been killed in landslides in southern Switzerland and northern Italy following days of torrential rain. Two women died when a wall of mud destroyed a house near the Swiss town of Lugano on Sunday. Over the border, a pensioner and his granddaughter were killed when a mudslide engulfed their home. The heavy rain is expected to continue across the region, and both countries have issued major flood alerts. The levels of lakes Lugano and Maggiore are already dangerously high.
Nov. 16, 2014
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30077272
