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Headline: White House reportedly offers to boost military aid to Israel after Iran deal
President Obama has offered to increase U.S. military aid to Israel in the wake of the Iran nuclear agreement, according to a published report. According to the New York Times, Obama broached the subject in a phone conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday. White House officials said that Obama told Netanyahu that he was prepared to hold “intensive discussions” on bolstering Israel’s defense capabilities. The paper reported that Netanyahu denied to discuss the subject with the president, leading U.S. officials to believe he wants to wait and see what Congress has to say about the deal, which was agreed to after long talks involving the U.S., Iran, and five other world powers. Lawmakers have up to 60 days to review the agreement.
July 16, 2015
Headline: ICC to Reopen Mavi Marmara Case Against IDF
The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday evening called to reopen a case accusing Israel of “war crimes” in its handling of the infamous May 2010 Mavi Marmara flotilla to Gaza. In an unusual move, the judges decided to investigate the previously closed case in which ten protesters – who attacked IDF soldiers with lethal weapons – were killed and Israeli troops were wounded, reports Channel 2. The ICC called to “recheck” the decision not to investigate the IDF’s naval commando Shayetet 13 storming of the Mavi Marmara, conducted after the flotilla ignored repeated demands to stand down and have Israel deliver its supposed humanitarian goods to Gaza, in defense of Israel’s legal maritime blockade of Gaza. Last year the ICC rejected a request for an official investigation by the Comoros, an island nation in Africa under whose flag several of the ships sailed. ICC chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said then that “there is a basis to believe that war crimes were committed” on the Marmara, but said the file was “not of sufficient gravity” to appear before The Hague. Today, the ICC said that Bensouda made “essential mistakes in determining the seriousness of the case,” claiming that it had evidence that she was wrong in her assessment.
July 17, 2015
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/198249#.VakTGPlRLSg
“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: Hamas chief meets Saudi king for first top level meeting in years
Hamas chief Khaled Meshal and other top officials from the Palestinian militant group met with Saudi Arabia’s King Salman and senior Saudi leaders on Friday, a Hamas source said, in the first meeting between the two sides for years. The meeting brought together top members of Hamas political wing with the Saudi king, crown prince and defense minister in a possible rapprochement between the conservative United States-allied kingdom and the traditionally Iran-allied party. “The delegation discussed Palestinian unity and the political situation in the region. This meeting will hopefully develop relations between Hamas and Saudi Arabia,” the source told Reuters.
July 17, 2015
http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/1.666527
Headline: ISIS claims car bombing near Saudi prison
A car bomb exploded at a checkpoint near Saudi Arabia’s highest security prison at sunset Thursday, killing the driver and wounding two security officials, the Interior Ministry said, in an attack claimed by ISIS. State television said the driver was a teenager on the run after killing his uncle. He triggered the blast after officers surrounded his vehicle south of the capital, Riyadh. The use of an explosive so close to a prison holding hundreds of Islamist detainees will stoke fears of a growing threat of militancy in the world’s top oil exporter. State news agency SPA named the bomber as Abdullah Fahd Abdullah al-Rashed. It said he was born in 1997 and had never travelled outside of the kingdom. SPA named the dead uncle as Rashid Ibrahim al Safyan, adding that Safyan had been a colonel, without elaborating. In a statement posted online, ISIS claimed responsibility for the killing of the slain officer and the attack, celebrating it a “double operation.”
July 17, 2015
Egypt
Headline: ISIS says it destroyed Egyptian ship with rocket
The Islamic State’s affiliate in Egypt’s Sinai says it has destroyed an Egyptian navy vessel with a rocket off the strategic peninsula’s Mediterranean coast. The claim of responsibility by the Sinai Province of the Islamic State, as the group calls itself, was made in a brief statement posted on Twitter accounts known to be linked to the group. The authenticity of the statement could not be immediately verified, but it was accompanied by photos purporting to show what appears to be a rocket flying toward the vessel, a large explosion engulfing most of the boat and then black smoke rising up from the vessel. Egypt’s military spokesman, Brig. Gen. Mohammed Samir, said in a statement earlier that the vessel caught fire in an exchange of gunshots on Thursday with “terrorists” on the shore.
July 16, 2015
Headline: Six Killed in Clashes at Cairo Islamist March
Egyptian officials say at least six people have been killed in Cairo during clashes between police and supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi. The fighting erupted Friday during an Islamist protest march following morning prayers in the Talibiya neighborhood near the Giza pyramids, said police. There are also reports of protests in the town of Nahya, an Islamist stronghold on the outskirts of the Egyptian capital. The protests occurred on the important holiday of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
July 17, 2015
http://www.voanews.com/content/police-islamist-protestors-clash-in-cairo/2866201.html
Syria Iraq ISIS- the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (the Levant) ISIS=ISIL=IS=Daash
Iraq Syria Kurdistan
Syria Headline: Rebels attack Shiite towns in retaliation for Zabadani
Islamist rebels have launched an offensive against two Shiite towns in the Idlib province in reprisal for the Syrian regime and Hezbollah’s ongoing attack on Zabadani. “We have decided to start ‘The Battle of Kafriyeh and Fuaa’ against the Assad regime’s forces and Iran’s militias to give them a taste in the north of what our people are tasting in Zabadani so that they will return to their senses,” the Army of Conquest announced in a statement late Wednesday on its Twitter account. The Shiite-populated enclave of Fuaa and Kafriyeh—which are north of the provincial capital of Idlib—has not fallen to rebels who seized the vast majority of the rest of the province in early June following the collapse of the regime’s salient running south from the provincial capital. In a March 23 report, Al-Aan television said that Al-Fuaa and Kafriyeh are “strongholds for Shiite militias, both Hezbollah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.” Following the announcement, the Syrian rebels besieging Fuaa and Kafriyeh intensified their already intermittent and routine shelling, and launched a bid to take the two towns. “Clashes continued between Islamist rebels one side and National Defense Force militias and armed Shiite committees under Hezbollah’s supervision in Fuaa and Kafriyeh, which the rebels are aiming to seize,” the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported Wednesday evening. Pro-Hezbollahnewspaper Al-Akhbar said Thursday morning that the rebels had fired over 150 mortar rounds and rockets into the two towns, causing widespread damage to homes and a number of deaths and injuries. The SOHR, in turn, said that a man and a girl were killed in the heavy shelling, while a number of others were injured. As the rebels pressed their assault on Kafriyeh and Fuaa, the Syrian regime maintained its aerial bombardment on the nearby Idlib town of Binnish, killing at least four people Thursday.
***See also Lebanon earlier this week
July 17, 2015
Syria Headline: Syrian rebels storm military airport near Aleppo
On Thursday, factions from the Syrian armed opposition stormed regime-held Mount Azzan in the southern countryside of Aleppo province, northern Syria, military sources reported. Speaking to ARA News, Hussein Salem, a fighter in al-Muhajirin and Ansar Army, said that several rebel brigades, including Noureddin Zanki, al-Muhajirin, Ansar and Ibn Taymiyyah battalions announced the start of an extended military operation against pro-Assad forces in the southern countryside of Aleppo. The source pointed out that the Mount Azzan is of a strategic importance because of its location near the supply lines of regime forces south Aleppo. “Opposition forces make efforts to cut off those supply lines,” Salem said. The attacks also reached Neirab military airport, which was exposed to heavy bombardment by opposition forces in an attempt to halt the movement of pro-Assad warplanes. “Rebel fighters targeted the Neirab military airport with several Grad and Katyusha rockets on Thursday evening,” media activist Ali Hammad told ARA News in Aleppo.
July 17, 2015
http://aranews.net/2015/07/syrian-rebels-storm-military-airport-near-aleppo/
Syria Headline: Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
https://www.facebook.com/syriahroe http://syriahr.com/en/category/news
Iraq Headline: Iraq closes border crossing with Jordan until further notice
Iraq has closed its sole border crossing with Jordan after reports emerged that the ISIL Takfiri terrorist group levies taxes on goods crossing areas under its control. A spokesman for Iraq’s Joint Operations Command said Thursday that the Trebil crossing will remain closed until further notice. Brigadier General Saad Maan said the move is partly aimed at depriving ISIL of the income it makes through taxing the cargo trucks driving through its territory inside Iraq. Maan said the crossing will be reopened after the security situation improves in the area. Officials in Jordan also confirmed the closure with state news agency Petra, saying that government has urged drivers not to head to the Iraqi border. The move could further affect Jordan’s fragile economic situation which has suffered in the wake of ISIL’s land grabs in neighboring Iraq and Syria since last summer.
July 17, 2015
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/07/16/420574/Iraq-Jordan-ISIL-Takfiri
Kurdish Headline: Hasakah: ISIS under Kurdish siege
As battles continue in the northeastern Syrian city of Hasakah, Kurdish forces of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) seized Thursday major roads linking the city with neighboring towns. “This development means surrounding IS-hed districts of Hasakah by our (YPG) forces,” a Kurdish fighter told ARA News. The YPG’s Media Center released Thursday a statement, of which ARA News received a copy, saying the YPG forces seized control of the areas between Mount Kazwan (Mount Abdul Aziz) and the al-Khabur River, in addition to their control of the highway that connects the city of Hasakah with the town of Shaddadi and Raqqa province. The YPG forces have also liberated new neighborhoods southwest Hasakah after fierce clashes with IS militants. The YPG leadership added that the Kurdish units seized control of Hasakah’s southern power plant, the juvenile prison and the Martyrs’ Cemetery. This enabled the YPG forces to control the southern road between Hasakah city and Deir ez-Zor, after two weeks of clashes near al-Ghazl Junction.
July 17, 2015
http://aranews.net/2015/07/hasakah-isis-under-kurdish-siege/
Kurdish Headline: Erdogan calls on pro-Kurdish party to sever ties with PKK
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has publicly urged the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) to sever all ties with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). On Friday, the president argued that as the HDP is now a political party with 80 seats in the Turkish parliament, it must break with the PKK, which is considered as a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the US and the EU. “An offshoot that attained representation at the parliament must do its best [to cut off relations with PKK] as they apparently maintain an indirect link, even if not a direct one, with the terrorist organisation,” Erdogan told reporters before performing the Eid al-Fitr prayer at Istanbul’s Atasehir Mimar Sinan Mosque. The comments follow talks between Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and HDP leaders earlier this week as the AKP party, which is led by Erdogan and the prime minister, seeks to form a coalition following general elections in June. So far the AKP have not been able to garner a majority in parliament in order to form the next government.
***See also Turkey below
July 17, 2015
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/erdogan-calls-pro-kurdish-party-sever-ties-pkk-2124965517
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 Starts Fighting ISIS – In Order to Fight Kurds
Turkey is stepping up its role in the fight against Islamic State (ISIS) extremists after realizing the threats to its own security from jihadists and responding to pressure from its Western partners, analysts say. Turkish security forces have over the last week arrested dozens of ISIS terrorists and sympathizers, in its most significant raids since the group began to seize swathes of neighboring Iraq and Syria in 2014. Turkey has faced bitter accusations it was not doing enough to halt the rise of ISIS and even secretly colluding with the group – allegations Ankara vehemently denies, but which were strengthened by video showing how Turkish intelligence bungled an arms shipment to Syrian jihadists. But analysts say the Turkish authorities have now clearly understood the domestic threat posed by ISIS, which rules its territory under strict Islamic law exceptional for its brutality. Ankara will also get nowhere in trying to prevent the Kurds, who have been battling ISIS in northern Syria, from establishing their own autonomous region there unless it supports the Western coalition against the jihadists. The US has likewise said it won’t support an autonomous region for the Kurds.
July 17, 2015
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/198266#.VakS1vlRLSh
Iran
Headline: UN Set to Adopt Iran Nuke Deal Monday in Obama Blitzkrieg
Headline: Erdoğan speaks with Iran’s Rouhani, welcomes nuclear deal
In a diplomatic blitzkrieg, the Obama Administration has set this coming Monday at 9 a.m. EST for a vote at the UN Security Council (UNSC) in New York on the adoption of the Iran nuclear deal, which was announced by the world’s leading powers and the Islamic Republic of Iran in Vienna on Tuesday. A terse announcement by the New Zealand delegation which assumed the monthly rotating UNSC’s Presidency for July revealed the vote session. “The Iran JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) resolution is now under silence and its adoption has been scheduled for Monday 20 July at 9 a.m.,” read the announcement on the Iran deal vote. From the New Zealand statement’s use of the diplomatic jargon of “under silence,” it appears the UNSC may employ a rarely used “under silence” procedure in such an important vote at the UNSC. In an “under silence” adoption procedure, instead of the UNSC holding a normal positive vote, the motion that is set for adoption “under silence” is deemed automatically adopted unless a party specifically objects to the motion. This “under silence” procedure would put the onus on Israel to be the first, and possibly the only, objector to the UNSC’s adoption of the Iran deal.
July 17, 2015
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/198273#.VakRvflRLSg
Afghanistan
Headline: U.S. Steps Up Airstrikes in Afghanistan, Even Targeting ISIS
The American military has intensified its airstrikes in Afghanistan in recent weeks, expanding them to include a bombing campaign against Islamic State militants who defeated the Taliban in fighting over a sliver of territory in the eastern part of the country. Throughout June, American drones and warplanes fired against militants in Afghanistan more than twice as much as they had in any previous month this year, according to military statistics. The increase in the use of American air power comes more than six months after President Obama declared that the American combat mission in Afghanistan had ended. The vast majority of the strikes appear to remain focused on Taliban forces, the traditional targets of American airstrikes here for more than a decade. But several have targeted insurgent commanders who defected from the Taliban to swear allegiance to the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL. American officials have said that the strikes against the Islamic State were part of a defensive policy to protect the coalition forces from harm. But Afghan officials said the strikes against Islamic State targets came partly at the urging of the Afghan domestic intelligence service, which thought it was time to remove them or risk the Islamic State’s gaining a foothold in eastern Afghanistan.
July 15, 2015
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/16/world/asia/afghanistan-us-steps-airstrikes-isis.html?_r=0
Libya
Headline:UN Security Council Commends Libya For Signing Peace Agreement
The United Nations Security Council has commended the signing of the Libyan Political Agreement to resolve the country’s institutional and security crises. A statement from the United Nations in New York on Thursday noted that the agreement was signed on July 11 by Libyan delegates. It observed that the agreement would move the political transition process forward via the formation of a Government of National Accord in the country. In the statement, members of the Security Council, therefore, called on all parties to engage with the Libyan Political Dialogue and unite in support of this agreement. “The Security Council support the formation of a Government of National Accord to help rebuild the country and to tackle the growing threat of terrorism in Libya and its neighboring countries,’’ it stated. The members encouraged the UN Support Mission in Libya to advance relevant efforts for coordination of international assistance to the Government of National Accord.
July 17, 2015
http://leadership.ng/news/447712/un-security-council-commends-libya-for-signing-peace-agreement
Algeria
Headline: ISIS vows to storm Algeria
Islamic State group (IS/ISIS) vowed in a video message to expand its activities in Algeria. IS militants released a statement from the group’s media office in Syria’s Raqqa, saying the jihadi war will expand in Algeria, accusing Algerians of apostasy. The radical group called on its militants and supporters in Algeria to fight apostasy. In the video message, IS militants Abu Bara al-Jazaeri and Abu Hafs al-Jazaeri demanded Algerian people to announce allegiance to the Islamic State, vowing opponents of a massive war. The IS extremists said that a group of people in Skikda state and the desert of Algeria pledged allegiance to the alleged caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. “We are glad that our brothers in Skikda and Algerian desert swore allegiance to the Islamic State and its caliph. All jihadist groups in this country should join our ranks,” an IS member said in the video. “If the war spread in the land of Algeria, we (IS) will definitely head to Andalusia.”
July 17, 2015
http://aranews.net/2015/07/isis-vows-to-storm-algeria/
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: Nigeria’s Boko Haram crisis: Eid prayer blasts hit Damaturu
At least nine people have died in explosions at prayers for the Muslim festival of Eid in the Nigerian town of Damaturu, the army says. The two female suicide bombers included a 10-year-old girl, said Nigerian army spokesman Col Sani Usman. There were two blasts at a venue where volunteers were waiting to screen worshippers, he said. No group has said it carried the attack but Boko Haram has recently stepped up its campaign of violence. They have been forced out of most areas they had seized but have increased their attacks since President Muhammudu Buhari took office in May. Some 300 people have been killed this month. The explosions were at an open-air praying area, known as Eid grounds, which were set aside for Muslims to gather to pray at the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan. Because of the threat of a Boko Haram attack, worshippers were being searched before they reached the Eid grounds – this is where the explosions happened. Col Usman said four persons died in the first explosion and five died in the second explosion. “The first blast went off around 07:15 local time (06:15 GMT) while security volunteers who had come earlier than worshippers were waiting for the worshippers so they could assist in crowd control,” added eye witness Ahmad Adamu, a security volunteer. “While we were attending to the victims we heard another blast about 500 metres (547 yards) away,” he added. On Thursday, explosions targeting people shopping for Eid at a market in the north-eastern city of Gombe killed at least 49 people.
July 17, 2015
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-33565992
Headline: Somalia’s al-Shabab leader outlines plans for East Africa expansion
***Keep in mind, on Monday we brought you the news the Shabaab may pledge to ISIS
The leader of Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Shabab rebels on Friday issued an Eid message calling for a wave of new recruits in order to “lift the pain of Muslims” across East Africa. In a statement that underscored the group’s ambition to expand its operations, al-Shabab leader Ahmed Diriye, also known as Ahmed Umar Abu Ubaidah, took aim at Kenya, Ethiopia, Djibouti and Uganda. “The sword of the Mujahedeen is drawn and attacks against the enemy are ongoing countrywide and we are calling them to increase their attacks on the infidels,” he said in a statement posted on an Islamist website. “We say to our beloved brothers living in territories under Kenyan colonization that your brothers will never stop coming to your assistance,” he said. “You have to know that Jihad is the only way you can free yourselves from the oppression and humiliation you are now facing, so rush and join in the Jihad… and liberate your territories from the Christians.”
July 17, 2015
Headline: Yemen’s exiled government says Aden ‘liberated,’ Houthis expelled
Saudi-backed Yemeni fighters completed their offensive to retake the southern city of Aden from the Houthi militia on Friday, residents said, as fighting in one main district subsided. Their victory in the port city – backed up by training and heavy weapons delivered by an Arab military coalition – marks a turning point in almost four months of aerial bombing and civil war in which battle lines seldom changed but more than 3,500 people have been killed and a million displaced. Exiled president Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi praised the fighters and the Arab alliance, promising that the gains in Aden were the start of a drive to take back the country. “We will soon achieve a glorious victory in Yemen, our beloved country, in its entirety … the victory in Aden will be the key to saving our cause,” Hadi said in a televised speech.
July 17, 2015
http://newsdaily.com/2015/07/yemens-exiled-government-declares-aden-liberated-as-clashes-continue/
Headline: Ukraine Crisis Update: July 15, 2015
http://www.understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/Ukraine%20SITREP%20July%2015.pdf
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: Greek MPs pass bailout austerity laws
Headline: Greek banks to reopen Monday with restrictions
Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras survived a rebellion by a quarter of his governing Syriza party on Wednesday night, after the Greek parliament passed a series of austerity measures needed to access a third EU bailout. In a tense vote which followed a fractious debate, Greek MPs backed a raft of tax increases and spending cuts by a 229 to 64 majority in a vote which saw 39 Syriza MPs, including Tsipras’ outspoken former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, oppose the planned bailout. The neo-fascist Golden Dawn was the only party to oppose the bailout, which was backed by the centre-right opposition New Democracy. The vote means that eurozone finance ministers will hold a conference call on Thursday (16 July) to discuss a €7 billion short-term financing plan using the European Financial Stability Mechanism that will be needed to keep Greece afloat while talks on a three year €86 billion loan package can be thrashed out over the summer. The European Central Bank will also hold a meeting of its governing council, possibly with a view to extending financial support to Greek banks, which have remained closed for the last ten days.
July 17, 2015
https://euobserver.com/news/129661
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 Crash Is ‘Way Bigger Than Subprime’
Hedge fund manager Paul Singer said that China’s debt-fueled stock market crash may have larger implications than the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis, echoing warnings from fellow billionaire money managers Bill Ackman and Jeffrey Gundlach. “This is way bigger than subprime,” Singer, founder of hedge fund Elliott Management, said at the CNBC Institutional Investor Delivering Alpha Conference in New York in response to a question about China’s crash potentially affecting other markets. Singer said it may not be big enough to cause a global financial market conflagration. China’s stock market has dropped from a June 12 peak wiping out almost $4 trillion in value in less than a month after investors who borrowed to buy shares had to unwind trades. Markets tumbled even as President Xi Jinping’s government ramped up efforts to stem the rout, including preventing share sales of companies. The threat to markets from the country is a bigger concern to Ackman, who runs Pershing Square Capital Management, than Greece. “China is a bigger global threat by far,” Ackman said Wednesday at the conference. “The Chinese stock market is a fairly remarkable phenomenon and I think kind of a frightening one.”
July 16, 2015
Headline: The Bankruptcy Of The Planet Accelerates – 24 Nations Are Currently Facing A Debt Crisis
There has been so much attention on Greece in recent weeks, but the truth is that Greece represents only a very tiny fraction of an unprecedented global debt bomb which threatens to explode at any moment. As you are about to see, there are 24 nations that are currently facing a full-blown debt crisis, and there are 14 more that are rapidly heading toward one. Right now, the debt to GDP ratio for the entire planet is up to an all-time record high of 286 percent, and globally there is approximately 200 TRILLION dollars of debt on the books. That breaks down to about $28,000 of debt for every man, woman and child on the entire planet. And since close to half of the population of the world lives on less than 10 dollars a day, there is no way that all of this debt can ever be repaid. The only “solution” under our current system is to kick the can down the road for as long as we can until this colossal debt pyramid finally collapses in upon itself. As we are seeing in Greece, you can eventually accumulate so much debt that there is literally no way out. The other European nations are attempting to find a way to give Greece a third bailout, but that is like paying one credit card with another credit card because virtually everyone in Europe is absolutely drowning in debt. Even if some “permanent solution” could be crafted for Greece, that would only solve a very small fraction of the overall problem that we are facing. The nations of the world have never been in this much debt before, and it gets worse with each passing day. According to a new report from the Jubilee Debt Campaign, there are currently 24 countries in the world that are facing a full-blown debt crisis…
July 16, 2015
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jul/11/beyond-greece-world-filled-debt-crises
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: Re-emergence of Ebola in Liberia remains a mystery
Six cases of Ebola have surfaced in Liberia in the two months since the nation was declared free of the deadly virus, raising fears the disease lingers in the human body in ways not fully understood. Three of those cases were in the past week, doubling the number of new infections since the virus re-emerged in late June, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Wednesday. The newest case occurred in a suburb of Monrovia, the capital city devastated at the peak of last fall’s epidemic by scores of new Ebola infections each week. This new patient was a nurse who died Sunday on arrival at an Ebola treatment clinic in Monrovia, according to the United Nations and the Liberian government. She had been caring for her son, who became infected with the disease in a remote village and fled to the capital. Government health officials are ramping up responses in Monrovia, tracking more than 140 people exposed to the virus, including 16 placed under quarantine.
July 16, 2015
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: EU urges Russia to halt Georgia ‘provocations’
Russia’s “annexation” of a small strip of land in Georgia has met with condemnation from the EU and the US. Russian troops, earlier this week, moved markers saying “state border” 450 metres deeper into Georgia from the South Ossetia demarcation line. The step means Russia controls a 1.6 km-long segment of the Baku-Supsa oil pipeline, which is owned by British firm BP. It puts Russian soldiers within a few metres of the E60 highway, which connects Tbilisi with the rest of the country. It also cuts off local Georgian farmers from 10 hectares of wheat fields and cattle pastures. The move was described to AFP by David Kereselidze, a Georgian foreign ministry spokesman, as “creeping annexation of Georgian territory [which] threatens peace and security in the entire region”. The EU, which deployed monitors in Georgia after the 2008 war, said Russia’s action is “provocative”. It urged Russia to “avoid … any action that is detrimental to ongoing efforts to stabilise the situation” and called on Georgia to show “restraint”. The US ambassador to Georgia, Richard Norland, said the land-grab is designed to “humiliate” Georgia’s pro-Western government.
July 17, 2015
https://euobserver.com/foreign/129686
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: Shootings at Chattanooga military facilities leave 4 Marines, gunman dead; act called ‘domestic terrorism’
Shootings at a pair of military facilities in Chattanooga, Tenn., Thursday, left five people dead, including four Marines and the lone gunman, officials said. The shooter was later identified by the FBI as 24-year-old Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez, and it was revealed late Thursday by SITE, a widely read website that tracks Islamic terrorism, that he maintained a blog where he wrote “Islamic-focused” posts that were entered as recently as three days ago. An FBI official told Yahoo News, “there is no reason to question the authenticity” of the blog with the pro-jihad entries. The official said it is actively investigating whether the shooter may have contacts with ISIS through social media, but currently has no evidence of that. In a July 13 post, Abdulazeez wrote that “life is short and bitter” and that Muslims should not let “the oppourtunity to submit to Allah…pass you by,” the website said in an email sent to subscribers.
July 16, 2015
http://news.yahoo.com/chattanooga-active-shooter-officer-down-live-coverage-154953657.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: Typhoon Nangka lashes Japan, killing two, triggering floods
Powerful Typhoon Nangka lashed Japan on Friday, killing at least two people and triggering floods as authorities urged more than 230,000 residents to evacuate. Packing gusts up to 126 kilometres (78 miles) per hour, Nangka barrelled over the nation’s main island of Honshu after making landfall near Cape Muroto on Shikoku island late Thursday. The storm was passing near Tottori prefecture in western Japan by Friday noon, moving north at 15 kilometres an hour towards the Sea of Japan, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. Nangka, Malaysian for jackfruit, paralysed traffic, grounding at least 94 domestic flights, as torrential rain and violent winds swept large areas of western Japan, officials said. Television footage showed muddy water overflowing Naka river in Tokushima flooding up to the second floor of nearby school buildings. The weather agency has issued warnings for floods, gale-force winds, landslides and high waves in southern Japan.
July 17, 2015
Headline: The Freakish Year in Broken Climate Records
The annual State of the Climate report is out, and it’s ugly. Record heat, record sea levels, more hot days and fewer cool nights, surging cyclones, unprecedented pollution, and rapidly diminishing glaciers. The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issues a report each year compiling the latest data gathered by 413 scientists from around the world. It’s 288 pages, but we’ll save you some time. Here’s a review, in six charts, of some of the climate highlights from 2014.
1- Temperatures set a new record
2- Sea levels also surge to a record
3- Glaciers retreat for the 31st consecutive year
4- There are more hot days and fewer cool nights
5- Record greenhouse gases fill the atmosphere
6- The oceans absorb crazy amounts of heat
July 17, 2015
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-17/the-freakish-year-in-broken-climate-records
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Headline: What’s shaking? 
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