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Headline: Israeli combat troops react angrily to new rules of engagement in West Bank
In light of heightened security tensions in the West Bank, the Israeli defense establishment on Tuesday temporarily revised the rules of engagement for combat soldiers on the ground serving in the Palestinian territories, triggering a wave of resentment within the ranks. According to the 0404 web site, IDF soldiers were furious over the newly issued rules of engagement that they say will encourage more Palestinian terrorism. The Jerusalem Post‘s Hebrew-language sister publication Ma’ariv learned on Tuesday that the defense establishment is now requiring soldiers to hold their fire except for instances in which there is a genuine threat to their lives. Under the previous rules, soldiers were permitted to fire a number of warning shots in the air before taking aim at a potential terrorist. The defense establishment wishes to avoid situations in which IDF gunfire leads to the death of an alleged terrorist, a development that is liable to spark widespread protest and further fan nationalistic flames. One soldier serving in the Givati infantry brigade told 0404: “There are new rules and we are now studying them. If a Molotov cocktail is thrown at me, even from a distance of just 10 meters, I’m not allowed to shoot at the person throwing it.” “These are bizarre rules, and I, as an officer, will have difficulty in telling my soldiers and looking them in the eye,” the infantryman is quoted as saying. “Somebody upstairs thinks that we are female models and not soldiers in the Israel Defense Force.”
August 12, 2015
Headline: Terror victims’ families blast feds for intervening in court case
Attorneys for 11 American families who won a potential billion-dollar judgment against the Palestinian leadership, which a federal jury blamed for a string of deadly terror attacks, say the U.S. government took the side of terrorists when it weighed in on the case Monday. The State and Justice departments filed a “statement of interest” in the case known as Sokolow v. PLO, urging U.S. District Judge George Daniels not to force the Palestinian Authority and Palestinian Liberation Organization to post bond of up to $30 million per month while it appeals the jury’s February decision. Daniels had previously said he may require the bond as “some meaningful demonstration that the defendant is ready and willing to pay the judgment.” “The State Department should stand on the side of the American terror victims and not on the side of the Palestinian suicide bombers.- ” – Nitsana Darshan Leitner, attorney for victims’ families. In the statement and an accompanying affidavit from Deputy Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, the government warned that requiring the cash-strapped Palestinian government to make the bond payments could leave its ability to govern “severely compromised.” ” … the continued viability of the PA is essential to key U.S. security and diplomatic interests, including advancing peace between Israel and the Palestinians, supporting the security of U.S. allies such as Israel, Jordan and Egypt, combating extremism and terrorism, and promoting good governance,” read Blinken’s affidavit.
August 12, 2015
Headline: Report: Hamas’ Meshal Meets Blair in Doha to Discuss Israel Ceasefire
Tony Blair met with Hamas’ political bureau chief Khaled Meshal recently in Doha, according to Palestinian and other Arab media reports. The former British prime minister and Middle East Quartet envoy was meeting with Meshal, who lives in Doha, for the second time in a month and a half, according to the reports. The two were said to have discussed the implementation of the ceasefire with Israel in exchange for lifting the blockade on Gaza. According to the reports, the two sides have still not finalized the details. Blair is also reported to have consulted in recent weeks with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sissi and the head of Egyptian intelligence, along with Jordanian, Saudi and Israeli officials. News of the Blair-Meshal meeting surfaced one day after reports that an Israeli delegation led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s special envoy Isaac Molho met in Cairo with senior Egyptian officials.
August 12, 2015
http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/.premium-1.670831?date=1439395011232
Headline: Hamas claims to have Israeli drone under its control
Hamas announced Wednesday evening that it successfully dismantled and reassembled an Israeli drone that is now operational for use by its military arm al-Kassam Brigades.
The terrorist organization made the announcement through its official website, claiming that an Israeli Skylark 1 drone, that crashed into Gaza in late July was now in its possession and was ready for use. “Hamas’ military wing… al-Kassam Brigades took control of the Zionist drone Skylark 1 and managed to make its services operational” a statement on Hamas’ website read. The Hamas owned “Al-Aqsa” television channel reportedly aired a video allegedly showing the drone in action under the control of Hamas operatives. “This is a great achievement… and a gift to the Palestinian people,” the statement went on to say. “This demonstrates the strength of our people and its resistance.”
August 12, 2015
“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 accountable for any violations in Jerusalem — gov’t
Jordan said Tuesday that it holds the Israeli government responsible for any violation of Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem since it is the occupation force. Minister of State for Media Affairs and Communications Mohammad Momani said any attempt to raid the mosque by the Israelis or conducting excavations under the sanctuary are illegal, violating Islamic sanctities and the feelings of Muslims, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported. Momani said Jordan is doing all it can to preserve Islamic revered places and protect them, underlining an agreement His Majesty King Abdullah signed with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas last year under which the King was declared the custodian of the holy places in Jerusalem. Jordan’s commitment to the cause of Jerusalem’s holy places is a duty and the Kingdom accepts no excuses when it comes to violations committed by any party.
August 12, 2015
Lebanon
Headline: Truce reached between Hezbollah and rebels fighting in Syria
Headline: Hezbollah’s Syria war since 2011
A 48-hour ceasefire was declared on Wednesday to halt fighting between Syrian insurgents and the army and its Lebanese militant Hezbollah ally in the rebel-held town of Zabadani and two Shiite Muslim villages in Idlib province. The U.N. envoy for Syria said last month that government airstrikes had caused widespread death and destruction in Zabadani, and expressed concern that civilians were trapped both there and in al-Foua and Kefraya villages. Sources on both sides of the civil war told Reuters earlier on Wednesday the truce was to begin at 6 a.m. (0300 GMT), and negotiations would continue. The rebel group Ahrar al-Sham had led the negotiations on the insurgents’ side. “A ceasefire began at 6 a.m. today for 48 hours to halt military operations in Zabadani,” Hezbollah’s al-Manar reported. “It also includes the two villages of al-Foua and Kefraya in the Idlib countryside.” The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based group that reports on the war, said no fighting had been reported in Zabadani, Kefraya or al-Foua after the ceasefire’s agreed start time. “So far there is calm,” Rami Abdulrahman, who runs the Observatory, told Reuters.
August 12, 2015
https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/reportsfeatures/565725-mapping-hezbollahs-syria-war-since-2011
Egypt
Headline: Image shows Croatian beheaded by ISIS in Egypt
An online image circulated Wednesday purported to show a Croatian hostage held by the Islamic State group’s Egyptian affiliate beheaded. The still image, shared by Islamic State sympathizers on social media, showed the apparent body of Tomislav Salopek, a married, 30-year-old father of two, wearing a beige jumpsuit looking like the one he had worn in a previous video. A black flag used by the Islamic State group and a knife were planted in the sand next to him. The photo carried a caption in Arabic that said Salopek was killed “for his country’s participation in the war against the Islamic State,” and after a deadline had passed for the Egyptian government to meet their demands. This comes after the Islamic State affiliate set a Friday deadline for Egyptian authorities to free “Muslim women,” a term referring to female Islamist prisoners detained in a sweeping government crackdown following the 2013 military ouster of an Islamist president. Egyptian Foreign Ministry officials were not immediately available for comment. An official at the Croatian Embassy in Cairo who refused to give his name said the embassy cannot comment on the incident.
August 12, 2015
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/08/12/image-shows-croat-beheaded-by-isis-in-egypt/?intcmp=hplnws
Syria Iraq ISIS- the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (the Levant) ISIS=ISIL=IS=Daash
Iraq Syria Kurdistan
Syria Headline: ISIL attacks Syrian rebels near Turkish border
Dozens of combatants have been reported killed on both sides during fighting in and around the town of Marea, 20 km (12 miles) south of the border with Turkey, where ISIL suicide attackers detonated four car bombs overnight. The attack on Marea followed the capture of a nearby rebel-held village, Um Hosh, by ISIL fighters, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and a rebel commander said. The rebel commander said it was the most fierce ISIL attack in the area in several months. “There is fierce fighting,” he added, declining to be identified for security reasons. In a statement dated Tuesday, ISIL said its fighters had attacked two buildings in Marea and killed nearly 50 members of an “apostate” militia that opposes it. The rebel commander said the targeted rebels were from a group operating under the banner of the “Free Syrian Army”.
August 11, 2015
http://world.bgnnews.com/isil-attacks-syrian-rebels-near-turkish-border-haberi/8454
Syria Headline: Regime Airstrikes Near Damascus Kill 37 Civilians
At least 37 civilians were killed Wednesday in Syrian government air strikes near Damascus, while at least 13 people died as rebels fired a barrage of rockets into the capital, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least four children were among the dead in regime strikes on the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta region, where some 120 people were also injured. The death toll was likely to rise further, it said. The air raids hit the towns of Douma, Saqba, Kafr Batna and Hammouriyeh in the rebel stronghold region outside the capital. The strikes came as rebels fired dozens of rockets into Damascus. The Observatory, without specifying whether the raids or attack on Damascus came first, said at least 13 people, among them 10 civilians, were killed as a barrage of more than 50 rockets slammed into Damascus. It said another 60 people were wounded.
August 12, 2015
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/199359#.VctuOPlRLSg
Syria Headline: US-Led Coalition Hits Rebel Arms Depot in Syria
The US-led coalition against the “Islamic State” (ISIS) terrorist group hit a weapons depot belonging to a rebel group allied with Al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate overnight in northwestern Syria, a monitor said Wednesday, according to AFP. The strikes killed 10 members of the Jaish al-Sunna group, as well as a child, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The raid hit the Atmeh region of Idlib province, home to a large camp for displaced Syrians, but did not strike the camp itself, Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman said.
August 12, 2015
https://www.google.com/search?q=Jaysh+al-Sunna&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
Syria Headline: Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
https://www.facebook.com/syriahroe http://syriahr.com/en/category/news
Iraq Headline: Iraq ambush kills 14 soldiers in restive Anbar province
Iraqi officials say ISIS militants have ambushed a military convoy in the country’s western Anbar province, killing at least 14 soldiers. The officials, a military officer and a police officer, say numerous roadside bombs targeted a military convoy Wednesday morning as it was traveling on a highway outside the ISIS-held city of Ramadi. They say that the attack in Khabaz area, about 170 kilometers (105 miles) west of Ramadi, also wounded 10 soldiers. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to release information.
August 12, 2015
Iraq Headline: ISW Iraq Situation Report August 7-11, 2015
http://iswiraq.blogspot.com/2015/08/iraq-situation-report-august-7-11-2015.html
Kurdish Headline: Kurds threaten to secede from defense system
MP from the Kurdistan Alliance Chakhuan Abdullah announced on Tuesday presenting a number of candidates to the Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi for the post of Chief of Army Staff, noting that al-Abadi has not ratified them so far, while he threatened of secession from Iraq’s defense system in the event of failure to give them the post of Chiefs of Staff. Abdullah said during a press conference today in the parliament building attended by IraqiNews.com, “we have presented the names of the candidates for the post of Army Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, but the latter has not ratified them so far,” and expressed hope “about approving those names during the 20 days.” Abdullah added that “in the absence of ratification of our candidates for the presidency of this post, we will announce that we are not part of the defense system of Iraq,” indicating that “the position is the share of the Kurds.”
August 11, 2015
http://www.iraqinews.com/features/kurds-threaten-secede-defense-system/
Listed below are the nations which will attack Israel from Ezekiel chapter 38 and their modern day names (see chart above).
Gog is the leader of the invasion of Israel.
Magog, Meshech, and Tubal comprise modern day Turkey.
Persia is Iran, parts of northern Iraq, and Afghanistan.
Cush is Ethiopia and Sudan.
Put is Libya and will most likely include Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco.
Gomer is Eastern Turkey.
Beth Togarmah is Armenia.
Turkey
Headline: Turkey air strikes: PKK targeted by air force jets
Headline: Turkish soldier, 2 Kurdish fighters killed after PKK attack on security outpost
Turkey launched a series of overnight air strikes against Kurdish militants, aimed at 17 targets in the south-east, the army says. The targets were in Hakkari province on the border with Iran and Iraq. Turkey has seen increasing violence in recent weeks between the military and Kurdish separatists. Tuesday’s air strikes are being widely interpreted as retaliation for the attacks conducted on Monday, says the BBC’s Selin Girit in Istanbul. Early on Tuesday morning, further attacks took place. The Turkish military said Kurdish militants had attacked an army base in Sirnak, in the south-east. A soldier died of his wounds in hospital. Dawn raids also saw 16 people who were allegedly members of the Patriotic Revolutionist Youth Movement, being taken into custody according to the state-run agency Anadolu. And overnight, there were more shoot-outs between Turkish forces and militants in three other cities.
August 11, 2015
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33859991
Iran
Headline: Iranian, Russian Warships Hold Joint ‘War Games’
Iranian and Russian warships took part in joint “war games” training exercises on Tuesday in Iranian waters, giving clear expression to the military cooperation between the two states. Commander of Iran’s fleet in the Northern Gilan province Admiral Ahmad Reza Baqeri told Fars News Agency ahead of the war games that the Iranian destroyer Damavand and missile ships Joshan and Peikan took part in the drills, manned by 200 Iranian naval forces members. From the Russian side, the warships Volgodonsk and Makhachkala which docked in Anzali Port near the Caspian Sea on Sunday took part in the drills. After the drills the Russian ships are to depart Iranian waters and head for Azerbaijan, according to Baqeri. Russian backing has been a key source of support for Iran; late last month a senior Russian official said the advanced S-300 anti-missile system is being upgraded prior to delivery to Iran.
August 12, 2015
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/199343#.VctxiPlRLSg
Headline: Iran’s Syria plan: Hezbollah withdrawal, Assad as toothless leader
Headline: Zarif in Beirut: Nuke deal ‘historic opportunity’ to face Israeli threats
Iran’s latest plan to end the five-year civil war in Syria includes a withdrawal of Hezbollah fighters and and keeping Bashar Assad as a powerless head of state, according to pan-Arab newspaper Asharq al-Awsat. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif was to visit Syria on Wednesday to discuss a “new plan” by the Islamic Republic to help resolve the conflict there, his spokeswoman said. During his visit, Zarif will raise “Iran’s new plan to help solve the Syrian issue,” spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham said. Asharq al-Awsat cited sources as saying that Zarif had planned in his Tuesday visit with Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Lebanon to convey “Iran’s support for Hezbollah, which is still a main player, like other main players.” “However, there will be a change of roles in light of the talk about the expected settlement in Syria which will stipulate the departure of Shiite fighters from the battle,” the sources quoted Zarif as saying. As part of the Syrian peace plan, Assad would retain “a tokenistic role, that is, he will be a president without authority,” the report said, while an alternate government is formed. Zarif began a regional tour in Lebanon on Tuesday, after a previously scheduled trip to Turkey was postponed.
August 12, 2015
http://www.timesofisrael.com/irans-syria-plan-hezbollah-withdrawal-assad-as-toothless-leader/
http://www.timesofisrael.com/zarif-in-beirut-nuke-deal-historic-opportunity-to-face-israeli-threats/
Afghanistan
Headline: Taliban infiltrate base, kill up to 15 Afghan police: officials
Headline: Taliban raise flag over captured district in Helmand province
Taliban fighters disguised in police uniforms infiltrated a security forces compound in the southern Afghan province of Helmand and killed as many as 15 police, officials said on Wednesday. The attack, in the Musa Qala district, was the latest in a widening insurgency that has killed thousands of Afghan security force members and civilians since NATO forces ended combat operations at the end of last year. “The Taliban were in police uniform and had police vehicles and entered a police compound where they killed all 14 policemen and took their weapons,” said a security official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. He said the Taliban then went to another checkpoint where they killed another policeman. Other sources confirmed the attack but gave differing casualty figures, with Omar Zwak, a spokesman for the governor of Helmand saying nine police had been killed. Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, a spokesman for Taliban in southern Afghanistan said in a text message 12 police including two officers were killed in the attack and 12 weapons captured.
August 12, 2015
http://newsdaily.com/2015/08/taliban-infiltrate-base-kill-up-to-15-afghan-police-officials/
Sudan
Headline: Split among rebels in South Sudan threatens efforts to secure peace deal
Two top rebel generals have defected from South Sudan’s rebel movement, a rebel official said Wednesday, as the country’s warring factions negotiated in Ethiopia to secure a deal to end war in the world’s newest country. The rebel generals, identified as Peter Gadet and Gathoth Gatkuoth, defected and fled to Sudan after rebel leader Riek Machar removed them from their senior command positions, Puoch Riek told The Associated Press. Puoch Riek, a member of the rebel delegation here, said no rebel fighters had defected with the generals and he insisted the rebel movement is still under the command of Machar, the former vice president whose dismissal in July 2013 sparked a political crisis that led to the rebellion against President Salva Kiir. South Sudan’s warring factions face international pressure to reach a comprehensive peace deal by Aug. 17, but several earlier negotiations have failed. Kiir has made abrupt changes to the board of the national oil company, Nilepet, possibly “to cement his grip on this critical institution in advance of major political changes,” the watchdog group Global Witness said Wednesday.
August 12, 2015
Libya
Headline: Libya chaos deepens as PM threatens resignation
The future of Libya’s internationally recognised government was uncertain Wednesday after Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thani threatened to resign, and as the latest UN-brokered peace talks ended amid optimism about a deal. Thani made the resignation threat during an emotional live television appearance in which he faced a barrage of angry questions from citizens, but it was unclear whether he planned to follow through. His remarks added to the political uncertainty as Libya’s rival factions met for a second and final day. A UN statement said the talks in Geneva had been held in a “positive atmosphere” and that there was optimism that the process of dialogue was approaching its final stages.
August 12, 2015
Luke 21:9 and Matthew 24:7 speak of nation against nation and kingdom against kingdom in the end times. Revelation 6:3-4 speaks of the fiery red horse given power to make men slay one another and Revelation 6:8 speaks again of this red horse in conjunction with the pale horse of Death and Hades, as the one that has the power to kill by sword. Luke 21:9: wars & commotions; the Greek word here is Akatastasia, meaning instability, a state of disorder, disturbance, confusion (revolutions) Matthew 24:7: the Greek word for nation is Ethnos & refers to various ethnic groups fighting among themselves, where the next sentence in the verse refers to kingdoms (basileiva) fighting one another (not to be confused with an actual kingdom but rather the right or authority to rule over a kingdom)
Headline: At least 47 dead in market bomb blast in NE Nigeria
Headline: Boko Haram leader Shekau replaced by pro-peace deputy, Chad’s president says
At least 47 people were killed and dozens wounded in a bomb blast Tuesday in a part of northeast Nigeria frequently targeted by Boko Haram Islamists, a medical source and witnesses said. The explosion ripped through the weekly market in the village of Sabon Gari, around 135 kilometres (85 miles) south of Borno state capital Maiduguri, during peak trading around 1:15 pm (1230 GMT), the sources said. “We have received at least 47 dead bodies and at least 50 with injuries from the Sabon Gari market, where there was a blast this afternoon,” a nurse at Biu General Hospital, around 50 kilometres (30 miles) away, told AFP. He said the injuries from the blast are mostly “severe”, meaning the death toll could continue to rise. “The explosion happened inside the market at the mobile phone section, near the livestock section of the market,” said Yuram Bura, a member of a local vigilante group fighting Boko Haram alongside the army. “It was concealed in a knapsack used for spraying herbicides. It was smuggled into the market and apparently abandoned.”
August 11, 2015
http://news.yahoo.com/least-47-dead-market-bomb-blast-ne-nigeria-165920305.html
Headline: Migrants, police clash on Greek island
Greek police used fire extinguishers and batons against migrants on the island of Kos, as tensions boiled over in a sports stadium where hundreds, including young children, had gathered to wait for immigration papers, state television footage showed. The scuffles took place a day after a police officer on the island was suspended for brandishing a knife and slapping a man identified by Greek media as a Pakistani migrant. On Tuesday, TV images showed hundreds of migrants jostling with one another as they ran from huge clouds of thick white powder set off from fire extinguishers wielded by police officers who were apparently trying to disperse the crowd. It was not immediately clear what had sparked the violence. Greece has seen a surge in the number of migrants and refugees, fleeing war zones like Syria, trying to enter the European Union by crossing in rubber dinghies from Turkey. The United Nations refugee agency UNHCR said 124,000 had landed on Greek islands this year. The UNHCR called conditions for migrants on Kos and other islands “shameful”. Kos Mayor Yorgos Kyritsis said strained local services, including the police and coast guard were unable to cope with the influx. “This situation on the island is out of control,” he told Greek TV. “There is a real danger of uncontrollable situations. Blood will be shed.” A Greek police official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said riot police squads would be deployed to the island and police officers from the neighbouring islands of Rhodes and Syros would be sent in as reinforcements.
August 12, 2015
http://aranews.net/2015/08/migrants-police-clash-on-greek-island/
Headline: Victorious Hadi forces advance toward Taez
Headline: Houthi and Resistance fighters square off for battle over Yemen capital
Forces loyal to Yemen’s President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi clashed with the Houthi group inside the city of Ibb on Tuesday, residents said, in their latest significant advance into territory the rebels had held unopposed for months. Loyalists have launched a major counter-offensive in recent weeks and recaptured four southern provinces — Abyan, Aden, Daleh, and Lahj — from Houthis. Late Monday, they took Loder, the last Houthi-occupied town in Abyan, and were poised to enter the southern Shabwa province. Military officials said the advance is heading toward third city Taez, southwest of Sanaa. Clashes with Houthi forces also raged on Tuesday in the central provinces of Al-Bayda and Shabwa, where militiamen appeared to be gaining the upper hand backed by warplanes from Gulf states bombing from the air.
August 12, 2015
http://www.arabnews.com/featured/news/790181
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: China devalues yuan currency to three-year low
Headline: China’s move to devalue currency could reverberate globally
Headline: China’s yuan currency falls for a second day
China’s central bank has devalued the yuan to its lowest rate against the US dollar in almost three years. The lender said the move was a “one-off depreciation” of 1.9% in a move to make the exchange rate more market-oriented. The move, which makes exports cheaper, comes after weak economic data from the world’s second largest economy. Washington has in the past complained that China uses its currency for competitive advantage, but the US Treasury’s response was measured. “While it is too early to judge the full implications of the change… China has indicated that the changes announced today are another step in its move to a more market-determined exchange rate,” a department statement said. However, the statement added: “We will continue to monitor how these changes are implemented and continue to press China on the pace of its reforms, including additional measures to transition to a market-oriented exchange rate and its stated desire to move towards an economy that is more dependent on domestic demand, which is in China and America’s best interests. Any reversal in reforms would be a troubling development.”
August 12, 2015
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-33858433
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20150811/as–china-currency-ddaa2d84ab.html
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-33875061
Headline: 150 Days: Treasury Says Debt Has Been Frozen at $18,112,975,000,000
The portion of the federal debt that is subject to a legal limit set by Congress closed Monday, August 10, at $18,112,975,000,000, according to the latest Daily Treasury Statement, which was published at 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday. That, according to the Treasury’s statements, makes 150 straight days the debt subject to the limit has been frozen at $18,112,975,000,000. On March 13, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew sent an initial letter to House Speaker John Boehner and other congressional leaders informing them that he was planning to declare a “debt issuance suspension period.” “Beginning on Monday, March 16, the outstanding debt of the United States will be at the statutory limit,” Lew said in that letter. “In anticipation of reaching that date, Treasury has suspended until further notice the issue of State and Local Government Series securities, which count against the debt limit.” On July 29, Lew sent another letter to the leaders of Congress informing them: “I expect to extend the debt issuance suspension period through October 30.” Lew explained that he believed the Treasury would be able to continue using “extraordinary measures” to keep the debt from exceeding the limit through at least the end of October. “The effective duration of the extraordinary measures is subject to considerable uncertainty due to a variety of factors, including the unpredictability of September tax receipts and the normal challenges of forecasting the payments and receipts of the U.S. government months into the future,” Lew told the congressional leaders. “Given this unavoidable uncertainty, Treasury is not able to provide a specific estimate of how long the extraordinary measures will last,” Lew said. “Nonetheless, we believe that the measures will not be exhausted before late October, and it is likely that they will last for at least a brief additional period of time.”
August 12, 2015
August 9, 2015- Thousands of dead fish found in the waters of Quintana Roo, 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.eluniversal.com.mx%2Farticulo%2Festados%2F2015%2F08%2F9%2Fhallan-miles-de-peces-muertos-en-el-sur-de-quintana-roo&edit-text=&act=url
August 9, 2015- Die off of crayfish, shrimp and shellfish in Chachoengsao Province, Thailand
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thairath.co.th%2Fcontent%2F517123&edit-text=&act=url
August 11, 2015- Thousands of dead fish found in a creek in Georgia
http://www.11alive.com/story/news/local/2015/08/11/dahlonega-park-yahoola-lumpkin-environmental-natural-resources-georgia/31487659/
August 11, 2015- Sea birds and dolphins washing up dead, ‘dying of hunger’ in La Libertad, Peru
http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Flarepublica.pe%2Fimpresa%2Fsociedad%2F397632-otra-vez-aparecen-aves-marinas-muertas-en-las-playas-de-la-libertad&edit-text=&act=url
August 12, 2015- 512,000 birds killed due to avian flu in Sinaloa, Mexico
http://www.thepoultrysite.com/poultrynews/35594/avian-flu-reported-in-mexico/
August 12, 2015- Dead fish and pelicans wash ashore in La Brea, Trinidad and Tobago
https://www.guardian.co.tt/news/2015-08-11/ema-told-probe-cause-fish-kill-la-brea
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: Mexican court lifts ban on adoption by gay couples
The Supreme Court of Mexico lifted a state ban on adoption by homosexual couples Monday. In the Mexican state of Campeche, gay couples were legally unable to adopt. In its decision, the Supreme Court ruled article 19 of a law regulating civil unions unconstitutional, now allowing homosexual couples to adopt underage children. The court claimed that the article discriminated against children’s rights. Its president, Luis Maria Aguilar Morales, said the structure of any particular family is irrelevant. Rather, the lives of children in abandonment must be prioritized and turned over to parents who can provide an authentic life of affection and solidarity no matter their gender. The news follows the court’s nationwide decision in June to allow legal marriage between gay individuals. Though the ruling struck down state bans — gay marriage was only legal in Mexico City until then — it did not affect nationwide adoption laws. The court’s current decision only affects adoptions in Campeche, but may serve as the precedent for the lifting of the ban in other states.
August 12, 2015
Godlessness 2 Timothy 3:1-5 & Matthew 24:12 “But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: 2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, 4 traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!” “And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold”
Headline: Amnesty International approves policy supporting decriminalization of sex trade
Amnesty International approved a controversial policy Tuesday to endorse the de-criminalization of the sex trade, rejecting complaints from some women’s rights groups who say it is tantamount to advocating the legalization of pimping and brothel owning. At its decision-making forum in Dublin, the human rights watchdog approved the resolution to recommend “full decriminalization of all aspects of consensual sex work.” It argues its research suggests decriminalization is the best way to defend sex workers’ human rights. “We recognize that this critical human rights issue is hugely complex and that is why we have addressed this issue from the perspective of international human rights standards,” said Salil Shetty, Secretary General of Amnesty International. “We also consulted with our global movement to take on board different views from around the world.” Amnesty’s decision is important because it will use its heft to lobby governments around the world to accept its point of view. Advance word of the Amnesty policy sparked opposition from some women’s groups who argued that the human rights organization has made a serious mistake. The groups, such as the U.S.-based Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, have argued that while it agrees with Amnesty that those who are prostituted should not be criminalized, full de-criminalization would make pimps “businesspeople” who could sell the vulnerable with impunity.
August 12, 2015
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/08/12/amnesty-international-approves-policy-to-decriminalize-sex-trade-rejecting/?intcmp=hplnws
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”
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Headline: Three Years of Rain Falls in 12 Hours as Deadly Storm Causes Flooding, Mudslides in Chile
At least six people are dead in Chile after a potent weekend storm brought unusual rains to Chile’s Atacama desert region, while the coast was battered by destructive waves and strong winds. Antofagasta, Chile, saw 0.55 inches (14 mm) of rain in just 12 hours Saturday into Sunday. That may not sound like much, but it’s actually more than three years worth of rain for this town where the average annual rainfall is just 0.14 inches (3.8 mm). The unusual rains caused deadly flooding and mudslides just to the north of Antofagasta in the town of Tocopilla. According to Chile’s National Office of Emergency of the Interior Ministry, at least three people are dead and one more is missing due to the flooding. This is the second time in 2015 that this part of Chile has seen unusual rain amounts. In March, Antofagasta saw an even heavier bout of rainfall with 0.96 inches (24.4 mm) falling during the 24 hour period ending at 8 a.m. EDT March 26. That bout of rainfall also resulted in deadly flooding and was named our strangest weather event of 2015, so far.
August 11, 2015
http://www.wunderground.com/news/chile-deadly-storm-flooding-mudslides
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