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Headline: Hamas: Netanyahu is playing with fire by allowing Jews on Temple Mount
Headline: Police vs politicians on the Temple Mount
Khaled Mashaal, the leader of Hamas, railed against Jews being allowed to visit the Temple Mount and justified the recent wave in Palestinian terror attacks as a reaction to the handful of times prayer at the holy site was closed due to security concerns, in an interview with Sky News on Friday. “Netanyahu is playing with fire when he allows members of his government and the extremists to repeatedly storm the al-Aksa mosque,” he said. “That’s dangerous. For every action, there’s a reaction.” In relation to the Temple Mount being closed for Friday prayers on a number of recent occasions, Mashaal continued to lash out against the prime minister. “Our fight is a national fight. Netanyahu is turning it into a religious fight. He bears responsibility for the consequences of what’s happening,” he said. Mashaal justified the brutal Palestinian attack on a Jerusalem synagogue, which killed four Jewish prayer goers and one Druse police officer, by repeating “I told you, for every action, there’s a reaction.” Meanwhile, Israel Police commissioner Yohanan Danino blew away whatever illusions were left about how his agency feels about recent visits by right-wing MKs to the Mount, finally saying out loud what police have said behind closed doors and in off-the-record comments to journalists throughout Israel’s recent tensions. On Tuesday, Danino sparked the ire of many on the Right when he said, “Anyone who wants to change the status quo on the Temple Mount should not be allowed up there,” leveling criticism at what he called an “extreme right-wing agenda to change the status quo” there.
Dec. 5, 2014
http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Weighing-the-options-on-the-Temple-Mount-383639
Headline: Belgium in talks on joint EU recognition of Palestine
Belgium is on course to join a new group of EU countries calling for Palestine recognition. Its federal parliament is expected to vote next week on a draft motion asking the Belgian government to do it at a future point when it sees fit. It is legally non-binding and does not mention a deadline. The initiative comes after four of the biggest parties – the N-VA, MR, CD&V, and VLD – agreed to back the project. For its part, the Belgian foreign ministry wants to wait for two developments. It wants to see if a new French-Jordanian UN Security Council project to get an Israel-Palestine peace deal by 2016 bears fruit. It also wants to see if a new EU Special Representative for the Middle East Peace Process, to be appointed shortly, can make an impact. “We’ve had 20 years of the peace process with no outcome and there is a lot of frustration in Europe with the lack of good will in Israel. But the time hasn’t come to abandon it [the process] yet”, a Belgian diplomat told EUobserver. He noted that Belgium is in talks with like-minded EU states who plan to jointly recognise Palestine if need be. He said the likely recognisers include Britain, France, Ireland, and Spain – where parliaments passed pro-recognition motions in the past six weeks.
Dec. 5, 2014
http://euobserver.com/foreign/126805
Headline: Obama officials mum on reports White House weighing sanctions on Israel
Headline: Obama set on obstructing Netanyahu’s re-election
The Obama administration is refusing to discuss reports that emerged early Thursday claiming that the White House is considering imposing sanctions on Israel for continuing construction on Jewish homes in Jerusalem. State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf dodged several questions on Thursday when confronted with reports that the administration had held secret internal meetings to discuss taking action against Israel for its ongoing building in East Jerusalem. The classified meetings were reportedly held several weeks ago and included officials from both the State Department and White House, according to the Israeli daily Ha’aretz, which first reported on the meetings. The possibility of sanctioning Israel for its ongoing construction sends a signal that the Obama administration is willing to go further in its denunciations of Israel then any previous White House. At the same time, the White House is vigorously pushing Congress against passing new sanctions on Iran.
Dec. 5, 2014
http://debka.com/article/24283/Obama-set-on-obstructing-Netanyahu%E2%80%99s-re-election
“Do not keep silent, O God! Do not hold Your peace, And do not be still, O God! 2 For behold, Your enemies make a tumult; And those who hate You have lifted up their head. 3 They have taken crafty counsel against Your people, And consulted together against Your sheltered ones. 4 They have said, “Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, That the name of Israel may be remembered no more.” (Psalm 83)
Jordan
Headline: Obama and Jordan’s King ‘Concerned’ Over Israel-PA Tensions
U.S. President Barack Obama met on Friday with King Abdullah II of Jordan at the White House, saying he was “concerned” about the tensions between Israelis and Palestinian Arabs. “We share concerns about the continuous tensions between Israel and Gaza,” Obama was quoted by UPI as having said following the meeting, adding, “We are going to work together for a Palestinian state.” The meeting comes as Jordan heads a bid to win backing for a UN resolution on a final Israeli-Palestinian settlement that could be presented to the Security Council in the coming weeks. Jordan’s Ambassador to the UN, Dina Kawar, said this week she would be meeting with representatives from Arab countries and council members to gauge whether there is support for a “unified text” on advancing Israeli-Palestinian Authority (PA) peace. If a consensus can be reached, a draft resolution could be presented to the council later this month or in January, she said. The PA, which is being backed by the Arab League, has been pushing for a draft resolution that calls for ending the “Israeli occupation” by November 2016. The text ran into opposition from the United States and other members of the council, opening the way for the Europeans led by France to begin talks on a separate draft that would set a timeframe for ending negotiations.
Dec. 5, 2014
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/188291#.VIIhe8m9aqA
Lebanon
Headline: Army fires at Israeli drone over east Lebanon
The Lebanese Army fired anti-aircraft guns at an Israeli drone flying at a low altitude above the Riyaq area in east Lebanon Thursday, the military said. Local sources earlier told The Daily Star that the Army fired at three unidentified drones which had violated Lebanon’s airspace. The Army confirmed in a statement that it shot at an Israeli drone, but said it only fired at one drone.
Dec. 4, 2014
Headline: Syrian militant threatens Lebanese Shiites
Headline: Nusra Front kills Lebanese army captive Bazzal
A militant commander in Syria who has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group has threatened to “retaliate” against Lebanese Shiites and families of Lebanese soldiers over the arrest of his wife and two children in Lebanon, according to a new militant posting. The video statement by the militant, Abu Ali Al-Shishani — whose real name is Anas Sharkas, according to Lebanese authorities — also said that mediation efforts for the release of more than 20 Lebanese soldiers held captive since August by IS and Al-Qaeda-linked militants in Syria have stopped, until his family is freed. It was unclear from the statement, released late Thursday, what role Al-Shishani has played so far in the mediation efforts, which are led by Qatar, a traditional Mideast mediator.
Dec. 5, 2014
http://www.arabnews.com/middle-east/news/670326
Headline: Lebanese Army Says It Arrested a Wife of ISIS Leader
The Lebanese army says it has arrested one of the wives of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State (ISIS), the world’s most notorious jihadi group. The woman, an Iraqi national named Saja al-Dulaimi, was traveling with Baghdadi’s 9-year-old daughter. They both were arrested roughly a week ago as they tried to cross into northern Lebanon from Syria, the army says. A senior member of the Lebanese army, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, says Dulaimi and her daughter are being held at a Defense Ministry facility near Beirut. Dulaimi is allegedly not cooperating with the investigation led by Lebanese army intelligence, and several media outlets have stated that she is being outright hostile. Dulaimi was arrested in a part of northern Lebanon where there are small pockets of support for ISIS. It remains unclear how much information she may have about Baghdadi or the operations of his jihadi group. As word spread of the arrest earlier today, some are holding out hope that Dulaimi and her daughter can be used in a prisoner swap for 27 Lebanese police and army troops who have been held since last summer by ISIS and the Nusra Front in the rugged mountains straddling the Lebanon-Syria border. Several of the prisoners have been executed over the past few months, and their families have staged sit-ins across the country.
Dec. 5, 2014
http://www.vocativ.com/world/lebanon-world/lebanese-army-arrests-wife-isis-leader/
Headline: ISIS, Nusra clash near Lebanon border: source
Clashes erupted between ISIS and Nusra Front fighters near the border with Lebanon Friday, after gunmen rejected an attempt by the latter to unite the opposition in Syria’s Qalamoun region under a single leader. The clashes were concentrated on the outskirts of the Syrian village of Ras al-Maara, a source close to the Nusra Front told The Daily Star. Ras al-Maara is a few kilometers from Lebanon’s northeastern town of Arsal, the scene of ongoing clashes between the Lebanese Army and the two jihadi groups.
Dec. 5, 2014
Egypt
Headline: Egypt police disperse anti-Mubarak rally in Cairo
Headline: US urges embassy staff in Cairo to restrict travel in light of heightened tensions
Egyptian police on Friday dispersed a demonstration in Abdel-Moneim Riyad Square, adjacent to Cairo’s flashpoint Tahrir Square where a protest was held last week after a court cleared ousted president Hosni Mubarak of charges that he had conspired to kill protesters in 2011. Police used batons to disperse demonstrators, several of whom were arrested at random, eyewitnesses reported. Groups of people walking by Tahrir on Friday – whether intending to protest or not – were also told to break up and go their separate ways, MEE contributors on the ground reported. The Interior Ministry has yet to comment on the incident with the demonstrators, but police usually disperse unauthorised protests in line with the controversial protest law regulating street demonstrations. In a Thursday press conference, various groups including the National Alliance for the Defense of Legitimacy, the main support bloc of ousted president Mohamed Morsi, and a handful of youth-led groups had called for protests on Friday against the court ruling. But on Friday, in the face of heightened security, plans changed, organisers said. “We called off today’s planned protests due to the heavy presence of security forces in and around the square,” Zizo Abdou, a member of the April 6 youth movement, said. Ahead of the expected Friday protests, Egyptian security forces closed off Tahrir and erected barbed wire barriers around the square, the epicentre of that popular revolution that ousted Mubarak in 2011. Armoured vehicles was also deployed around the square and near the state television building, according to Anadolu Agency (AA). People who work in buildings on the square have been reportedly refused entry too.
Dec. 5, 2014
Syria Iraq ISIS- the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (the Levant) ISIS=ISIL=IS=Daash
Iraq Syria Kurdistan
Syria Headline: ISIS fighters besiege crucial Syrian air base
Muslim militants pushed forward in their offensive on a major military air base in eastern Syria Friday capturing a nearby village in an attempt to take one of President Bashar Assad’s last outposts in a province that borders Iraq, activists said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Local Coordination Committees say clashes continued for the second day around the air base just outside the contested eastern city of Deir el-Zour. The Observatory said fighters from the Islamic State group captured the strategic village of Jafra reaching the fence of the sprawling air base. The Observatory, which has a network of activists around the country, said the fighting that started with an Islamic State offensive early Thursday has killed 30 government troops and 27 jihadi fighters. The key military air base gives government warplanes a hub from which to bomb IS-held cities and towns across much of eastern Syria. For the Islamic State group, capturing the airport would eliminate the main pocket of resistance in the area and provide a major morale and propaganda boost after a string of setbacks in recent weeks.
Dec. 5, 2014
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/12/05/isis-fighters-besiege-crucial-syrian-air-base/
Syria Headline: Syrian rebels report gains in Hama
On Thursday, the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and the allied Islamic Brigades took control of the village of al-Jabin village Hama suburb, central Syria, following clashes with the pro-regime forces, local sources reported. Speaking to ARA News in Hama, opposition activist Muhannad al-Barazi said that controlling the village of al-Jabin in the western part of Hama came after fierce battles between the pro-regime forces and rebels of the FSA –backed by Islamic Brigades. “Several casualties were reported on both sides,” al-Barazi said, without specifying numbers. “FSA-regime clashes extended to the areas of Jamleh, Tel Milh in the western countryside of Hama.” In Damascus, local sources told ARA News that the pro-regime air forces attacked the town of Deir Asafir in the eastern Ghouta with rockets, injuring at least seven civilians, who were transferred to nearby filed hospitals. This coincided with clashes between the pro-regime forces and FSA fighters in the outskirts of the town of Deir Asafir. Yezen Ibrahim, civil rights activist based in Damascus, told ARA News that the pro-Assad warplanes carried out three raids on the neighboring towns of Bala and Zebdin. “Mortars and ground to ground rockets targeted the two towns launched from pro-regime bases in the town of Hitetet Jarsh.” “No casualties were reported,” the source said. These developments coincided with barrel bombs hitting the city of Zabadani by pro-regime military helicopters. Zabadani’s attacks were coupled with clashes between the Army of Islam (a rebel faction that works under the umbrella of the Islamic Front) and the pro-regime forces, in the towns of Hosh al-Fara and Taiba in the western suburb of Damascus on Thursday evening.
Dec. 5, 2014
http://aranews.net/2014/12/syrian-rebels-report-gains-hama/
Syria Headline: Pro-Assad forces combat ISIS in Hasakah
After two days of calm, clashes renewed in the western countryside of the city of Hasakah, in northeastern Syria, between the pro-regime forces –backed by the National Defense Army (NDA)– and militants of the Islamic State group (IS/ISIS), coinciding with artillery shelling by pro-regime forces in their vicinity. The Media Center of the NDA in the province of Hasakah announced that their fighters were able to repel IS militants in the western countryside of the city on Thursday. “Subsequent to reinforcements received by the IS group through the road of the village of Abyad-Mount Abdulaziz, our fighters targeted the IS militants based in the vicinity of Mount Abdulaziz with thermal missiles on Wednesday evening,” the NDA statement read. In other developments, an explosion hit the Nasira neighborhood in Hasakah last night, causing the injury to a number of civilians and damage to nearby residential buildings. “The Christian security forces of Suturo surrounded the place of bombing, as residents accused IS militants of being behind the incident,” said Ahmed Khalil, a civil rights activist based in Hasakah’s Nasira.
Dec. 5, 2014
http://aranews.net/2014/12/pro-assad-forces-combat-isis-hasakah/
Syria Headline: ISW Syria Update Nov. 25- Dec. 2, 2014
http://iswsyria.blogspot.com/2014/12/syria-update-november-25-december-02.html
Syria Headline: Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
https://www.facebook.com/syriahroe
http://syriahr.com/en/category/news/
Iraq Headline: Car Bombs Leave 37 Dead in Iraq
At least two car bombs killed as many as 37 people Thursday in Iraq, apparently targeting Shiites and Kurds. Three of the attacks targeted Shiite districts in the capital, Baghdad, while the fourth targeted a Kurdish neighborhood in the oil-rich northern city of Kirkuk. Police officials said the first attack targeted a line of small restaurants in the Shiite district of Sadr City Thursday night, killing 11 people and wounding 25 others. Minutes later, a second car bomb blast near an outdoor market in the same district killed seven people and wounded 21 others. Later on, a bomb exploded near a restaurant in Baghdad’s Shiite northern neighborhood of Shaab, killing three people and wounding 12 others. In the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, a car bomb attack near a cafe killed 16 people, said deputy chief of the Kirkuk police, Maj. Gen. Torhan Abdul-Rahman Youssef. The blast took place in a Kurdish district in the city, 290 kilometers (180 miles) north of Baghdad. Medics in a nearby hospital confirmed the causalities. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to speak to the media.
Dec. 4, 2014
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/car-bomb-attacks-kill-15-people-iraq-27364631
Iraq Headline: ISW Iraq Situation Report Dec. 4-5, 2014
http://iswiraq.blogspot.com/2014/12/iraq-situation-report-december-4-5.html
Kurdish Headline: Kurdish forces stop ISIS attack in Kobane (Syria)
Islamist militants attacked the Kurdish forces in Kobane on three fronts Friday morning, a commander told Rudaw, and the Kurds responded with heavy fire, stopping the attack and killing several militants. “The militants first began by shelling the Kurdish areas then they began the ground assault,” Peshmerga Captain Sherwan Muhammad said. Cpt. Muhammad said that the Peshmerga and Peoples Protection Units (YPG) responded to the Islamic State (ISIS) attacks and killed seven militants. Coalition fighter jets also came to the support of the Kurdish fighters, he said, bombing the ISIS positions in and around the city.
Dec. 5, 2014
http://rudaw.net/english/kurdistan/051220141
Headline: U.S. has not canceled passports of known Americans fighting for ISIL
The United States, in the midst of a military campaign, has not sought to stop suspected operatives from traveling to and from strongholds of Islamic State of Iraq and Levant strongholds. The administration of President Barack Obama has acknowledged that the government has not prevented any of the at least 100 suspected ISIL operatives from traveling. The State Department said it has not canceled the passports of those Americans recruited to join ISIL in Iraq and Syria. “To my knowledge, the State Department has not cancelled any passports,” State Department senior adviser Robert Bradtke said on Dec. 2. Bradtke, who works for the State Department’s Bureau of Counterterrorism, acknowledged that Secretary of State John Kerry was empowered to revoke the passports of Americans. But he said Kerry and the administration did not want to interfere with the freedom of travel. “We would only do it also in consultations with law enforcement authorities,” Bradtke told a Foreign Affairs subcommittee. “And we have not yet had any requests from law enforcement authorities to cancel the passports of ISIS [ISIL] or foreign fighters. So again, we have the authority; it is one tool; we do have other tools to use as well in this regard.”
Dec. 5, 2014
http://www.worldtribune.com/2014/12/05/u-s-not-canceled-passports-known-americans-fighting-isil/
Headline: ISIS Twitter Accts Claim They Have Weaponized Stolen Uranium, Created ‘Dirty Bomb’
Islamic State terrorists are now claiming on social media that they have a “dirty bomb” in their possession. ISIS-affiliated users initially professed the information on Twitter, and added they had stolen 40 kg of Uranium from Mosul University after the city was overtaken by the jihadis in June. UK’s Mirror reported that an ISIS supporter revealed the terror group had already weaponized the Uranium and turned it into a “dirty bomb.” “O by the way Islamic State does have a Dirty bomb. We found Radioactive [sic] material from Mosul university,” said the tweet by Islamic State militant who called himself Muslim al-Britani. “We’ll find out what dirty bombs are and what they do. We’ll also discuss what might happen if one actually went off in a public area.” He added, threateningly, “This sort of bomb would be terribly destructive if went off in LONDON becuz it would be more of a disruptive than a destructive weapon.”
Dec. 4, 2014
Headline: ISIS Sanctuary Map: December 5, 2014
ISW has updated its ISIS Sanctuary map. This map, covering both Iraq and Syria, shows the extent of ISIS zones of control, attack, and support throughout both countries.
http://iswiraq.blogspot.com/2014/12/isis-sanctuary-map-december-5-2014.html
Listed below are the nations which will attack Israel from Ezekiel chapter 38 and their modern day names (see chart above).
Gog is the leader of the Russian invasion of Israel.
Magog, Meshech, and Tubal comprise modern day Russia.
Persia is Iran, parts of northern Iraq, and Afghanistan.
Cush is Ethiopia and Sudan.
Put is Libya and will most likely include Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco.
Gomer is Eastern Germany.
Beth Togarmah is Turkey and Armenia.
Russia
Headline: Russia Chechnya: Deadly rebel attack rocks Grozny
Headline: 6 killed, 13 injured east Ukraine clashes
Headline: Ukraine’s Poroshenko tells army not to give up Donetsk airport
Rebel gunmen have shot their way into the heavily fortified Chechen capital, Grozny, in a night-time attack which left as many as 16 people dead. Arriving at 01:00 (22:00 GMT Wednesday) in cars, they fired on a traffic police checkpoint before attacking a media building and a school. An Islamist group said it had launched a suicide attack to avenge attacks by security forces on Muslim women. Chechnya’s Moscow-backed president said the situation was under control. Ramzan Kadyrov said none of the attackers had escaped. Russian President Vladimir Putin said from Moscow he was confident Chechen security forces could handle the militants by themselves. This is the most serious violence in Grozny for some time and will be another worry for President Putin, amid a serious downturn in the Russian economy, the BBC’s Sarah Rainsford reports from Moscow.
Dec. 5, 2014
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30323751
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/12/05/388872/6-killed-in-east-ukraine-clashes/
http://news.yahoo.com/one-civilian-killed-one-wounded-shelling-east-ukraines-111433226.html
Iran
Headline: Kerry: Any Iran strikes against Islamic State ‘positive’
Kerry denied there was any military coordination with Iran after the Pentagon said that Iranian F-4 Phantom jets – acquired from the United States before the 1979 Islamic revolution – had deployed against IS fighters in Iraq’s eastern Diyala province. He suggested, however, that there was an understanding between mainly Shiite Iran and the US to tackle a common threat. “If Iran is taking on (IS jihadists) in some particular place… and it has an impact, then it’s going to be net effect (that) is positive,” Kerry told a press conference after the meeting.
Dec. 5, 2014
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4599613,00.html
Afghanistan
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Headline: War News for Friday, December 5, 2014
Reported security incidents
#1: Three persons, including a woman and a girl, were killed in a roadside blast in Nawagai tehsil of Bajaur Agency on Thursday, official sources said. They said unidentified militants had planted the explosives on a roadside in Karkanai area in Nawagai tehsil that went off around 11:30 am
#2: A suicide attacker who wanted to attack on police forces in Shindand district, killed by police forces. According to security forces, the attacker was resident of Balabalok district, Farah province, wanted to attack on police security post in Shozra region, killed by police forces.
#3: A policeman lost his life in explosion of a mine in Urozgan province late yesterday night. The incident occurred in Chakajou region, Khas district, Urozgan province while police forces were patrolling in the area.
http://warnewstoday.blogspot.com/
Sudan
Headline: Fighting flares up in S. Sudan after rains recede
Government troops and South Sudanese rebels have been fighting for more than a week in a remote northern region of the country, in the worst clashes since the rainy season receded in recent weeks. The European Union and the United States, keen to prevent the world’s newest state sliding into chaos, have already imposed sanctions on both sides for frequent breaches of a ceasefire. The initial pact was signed in January. Joe Contreras, spokesman for the UN mission in South Sudan, said the United Nations had received reports of continuous clashes in Fangak County in Jonglei State. “The fighting has been going on for over a week there,” he said. A monitoring team from the regional African IGAD bloc, put in place to monitor ceasefire violations, briefed the United Nations about clashes in Fangak on Tuesday. He called it the most sustained fighting in a single location since May. The warring factions renewed the ceasefire pact in May and signed another deal to halt fighting early in November but each time they have quickly collapsed. Talks to reach a comprehensive agreement are continuing in Ethiopia but with little sign of progress.
Dec. 5, 2014
http://ewn.co.za/2014/12/05/Fighting-flares-up-in-S-Sudan-after-rains-recede
Libya
Headline: U.S. Confirms ISIS Has Training Camps in Libya
Headline: Deadly air raid hits Libya militia on Tunisia border
The head of the U.S. Africa Command said on Wednesday that Washington is “very carefully” watching what he described as “nascent” Islamic State (ISIS) training camps in Libya. At the same time, Fox News reported, General David Rodriguez downplayed the threat posed by these training camps. Rodriguez said in a Pentagon press briefing that it is his belief that the camps may be made up of local militias that are trying to get on the map by working “the ISIS label.” “We don’t have enough information to know how serious they are,” he said. Rodriguez added that he could not provide any evidence that people had migrated to these camps from Iraq or Syria, where the group is active. ISIS is already known to have a presence in Libya, where it has an affiliate by the name Ansar al-Sharia which several months ago declared authority over the coastal city of Darna. Meanwhile, an airstrike hit a Libyan militia post on the border with Tunisia Friday, killing one person and wounding several others, a militia spokesman said. The Libya Shield militia accused forces loyal to the internationally recognized government of carrying out the raid close to the Ras Jedir border crossing.
Dec. 5, 2014
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/188216#.VIIaksm9aqA
Germany
Headline: German far-Left party takes state parliament- East German communists return to power 25 years after fall of Berlin Wall
Germany’s far-Left party has returned to power in a state government for the first time since the Berlin Wall fell 25 years ago, stoking heated debate about its communist roots. The Left Party, widely seen as the successor to the Socialist Unity Party (SED) that once ruled East Germany, will head the government of Thuringia after the state parliament narrowly voted to approve a new coalition. The new state prime minister, Bodo Ramelow, used his first speech in parliament to apologise to victims of the former communist regime, and said he wanted to “reconcile rather than divide”. Thousands of people braved sub-zero temperatures on the streets of the state capital, Erfurt, on Thursday night to protest against the expected result of the vote. Angela Merkel predicted the decision would be “bad news” for Thuringia, while the German President, Joachim Gauck, broke with the traditional neutrality of his role to speak out against it.
Dec. 5, 2014
Headline: U.S. Warns of Attack in Turkey
American officials in Turkey are warning that extremist groups may be planning an attack on the offices of the Western-backed Syrian opposition group in Gaziantep, a city near the border with Syria. The statement, issued Wednesday by the United States Embassy in Ankara, did not name the supposed planners of the attack, including the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, which has been active recently along Turkey’s 560-mile border with Syria. But it did specify the building that might be the target. “The U.S. Embassy has received reports that extremist groups may be planning an attack against the Syrian Interim Government building” in Gaziantep, the statement said. “We remind U.S. citizens that the situation in southeast Turkey, while usually calm, can change without warning and U.S. citizens should avoid traveling in areas close to the Syrian border.” The warning came as journalists and members of international organizations in southeastern Turkey were on alert after reports claimed that Islamic State militants would try to kidnap foreigners and take them into Syria.
Dec. 4, 2014
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:Outrage grows in New York after officer cleared in chokehold death
Headline: Protesters March After Phoenix Police Kill Rumain Brisbon
Headline: Ferguson protesters met with racial slurs during march to Missouri capital
Thousands of protesters were expected to take to the streets of New York on Friday in a third day of demonstrations against police violence, even as prosecutors said they would consider charges against an officer for the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man in November. The shooting of Akai Gurley, 28, in a dark stairwell in Brooklyn added to a string of police actions involving unarmed black men that have inflamed racial tensions throughout the United States. Since Wednesday, when a New York grand jury cleared white police officer Daniel Pantaleo in the July chokehold death of 43-year-old father-of-six Eric Garner, the city has seen two nights of angry but largely peaceful demonstrations. The decision was announced nine days after another grand jury declined to indict a white policeman for the killing in August of an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, spurring rioting in the St. Louis suburb.
Dec. 5, 2014
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/05/us-usa-new-york-chokehold-idUSKCN0JH2BI20141205
http://news.yahoo.com/ferguson-protesters-met-racial-slurs-during-march-missouri-205315666.html
Headline: Suspected Boko Haram attack on Nigerian town kills dozens
An attack by suspected Boko Haram militants on Bajoga town in northeast Gombe state of Nigeria reportedly killed dozens Thursday, according to security forces and witnesses. The suspected Boko Haram fighters invaded the town while worshippers were concluding their early morning prayers, Xinhua reported. According to a security source, the gunmen entered the town in a number of Hilux vans and started shooting. The source said that the divisional police headquarters and the Police Area Command at Bajoga, as well as a bank were attacked and destroyed. Security forces engaged the terrorists in a gun battle for about three hours and eventually repelled them, the Xinhua report said. State police spokesperson Fwaje Atajiri said normalcy had been restored in the affected areas. The raid follows a string of attacks by suspected Boko Haram fighters in Nigeria, including a suicide bomb and gun attack on a mosque in the northern city of Kano last Friday, which left at least 120 people dead, according to some accounts and a few days later, an attack on the Yobe State University in Damaturu.
Dec. 5, 2014
Headline: Suicide bombers kill up to seven in Somali town
Suicide bombers attacked a restaurant in the town of Baidoa northwest of the Somali capital on Friday, killing up to seven people and wounding dozens of others, a police officer and a doctor said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility but the Islamist group al Shabaab, which wants to impose its strict interpretation of Islam on Somalia, often carries out such attacks. Friday evening is a busy time when many Somalis go out. “First a suicide bomber blew himself up at the entrance of the restaurant and then a suicide car bomb followed when people converged to help,” Captain Nur Osman, a police officer, told Reuters by telephone. He said the death toll was at least five. Dr Abdullahi Ali, manager at Baidoa hospital, said the hospital had received seven dead with 34 others wounded in the two blasts.
Dec. 5, 2014
http://newsdaily.com/2014/12/suicide-bombers-kill-up-to-seven-in-somali-town/
Headline: Qaeda threatens US hostage in new video
Headline: Ansarullah fighters take over Sana’a army academy
Al-Qaeda’s branch in Yemen threatened an American hostage kidnapped over a year ago, giving Washington three days to meet unspecified demands and denouncing US actions in the country in a new video released on Thursday. The hostage, identified as 33-year-old Luke Somers, an American photojournalist born in Britain, is featured for the first time in the video, posted on the al-Qaeda offshoot’s Twitter account and first reported by Site Intelligence Group, which monitors militant sites. The video mimicked some of those used by al-Qaeda rivals from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group, which has beheaded several American and British hostages in the aftermath of a summer blitz that captured much of Iraq and Syria. Somers was kidnapped in September 2013 from a street in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, where he had worked as a photojournalist for the Yemen Times. Since his capture, Yemeni journalists have been holding sit-ins in Sanaa to press the government to seek his release. Somers was likely among a group of hostages who were the objective of a joint rescue mission by US operation forces and Yemeni troops last month that freed eight captives in a remote corner of Yemen’s Hadramawt province. Meanwhile, Shia fighters of Ansarullah movement in Yemen have reportedly seized the military academy in the capital city of Sana’a. Witnesses say the Shia fighters of Houthi tribe entered the academy on Friday with no resistance from the guards and stationed their patrols inside.
Dec. 4, 2014
http://www.news24.com/World/News/Qaeda-threatens-US-hostage-in-new-video-20141204
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/12/05/388905/ansarullah-seizes-sanaa-army-academy/
Headline: Kashmir attack kills 10 Indian forces
At least ten Indian security forces have been killed in a militant attack in Indian-controlled Kashmir, police say. The attack was carried out on Friday when unknown militants, armed with grenades and automatic rifles, stormed into a military camp in Uri, near the Line of Control (LoC) that divides the disputed Himalayan region. “Seven army men, three police and three terrorists died in the firing incident,” a senior Indian police officer said on condition of anonymity. A police officer also was wounded in the attack, he added. Tensions are running high in Kashmir ahead of a visit to the disputed region by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Meanwhile, six suspected militants and one Indian soldier died in two days of fighting which started on Tuesday in the snowy and mountainous Naugam area of Kashmir.
Dec. 5, 2014
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/12/05/388832/kashmir-attack-kills-5-indian-forces/
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: German growth forecast cut in half for 2015: Bundesbank
Germany’s central bank has halved its projection of economic growth in the country for 2015, putting the number at one percent. The Deutsche Bundesbank said gross domestic product (GDP) in Germany is expected to grow at only one percent next year — half of what it predicted earlier for the year. The economy will also perform less than expected this year, growing at 1.4 percent instead of the 1.9 percent the bank predicted in June. The German economy lost considerable momentum in the second and third quarters of 2014, the bank said, adding that growth reflects a more level path.
Dec. 5, 2014
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/12/05/388862/german-growth-forecast-halved-for-2015/
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: Labor Force Participation Remains at 36-Year Low
The labor force participation rate remained at a 36-year low of 62.8 percent in November, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The participation rate, which is the percentage of the civilian noninstitutional population who participated in the labor force by either having a job during the month or actively seeking one, was 62.8 percent in November which matches the percentage since March 1978. In November, according to BLS, the nation’s civilian noninstitutional population, consisting of all people 16 or older who were not in the military or an institution, reached 248,844,000. Of those, 156,397,000 participated in the labor force by either holding a job or actively seeking one. The 156,397,000 who participated in the labor force was 62.8 percent of the 248,844,000 civilian noninsttutional population, which matches the 62.8 percent rate in April, May, June, August and October of 2014 as well as the participation rate in March of 1978. The participation rate hit its lowest level of 62.7 percent in September 2014. Another 92,447,000 people did not participate in the labor force. These Americans did not have a job and were not actively trying to find one. When President Obama took office in January 2009, there were 80,529,000 Americans who were not participating in the office, which means that since then, 11,918,000 Americans have left the workforce.
Dec. 5, 2014
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/ali-meyer/labor-force-participation-remains-36-year-low-0
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 Seeing 80-100 New Ebola Cases Daily
Sierra Leone said Friday that between 80 and 100 new cases of Ebola are being reported every day and the country now hardest-hit by the deadly virus desperately needs over 1,000 beds to treat victims. Sierra Leone’s Finance Minister Kaifalah Marah painted a grim picture to the U.N. Economic and Social Council Friday of the challenges facing his West African nation which failed to meet a World Health Organization interim goal of isolating 70 percent of Ebola patients and safely burying 70 percent of victims by Dec. 1. The two other hard-hit countries, Liberia and Guinea, did meet the deadline, and the U.N.’s Ebola chief Dr. David Nabarro said the number of new cases in Liberia has dropped from 60 per day in September to 10 per day now. But Nabarro and WHO Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan stressed that Ebola that a much greater effort is needed to reach the elusive goal of zero new cases. “The Ebola outbreak is the largest, longest, most severe and most complex Ebola epidemic in the nearly 40-year history of this disease,” Chan said. “What began as a health crisis has become a crisis with humanitarian, social, economic and security implications.”
Dec. 5, 2014
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/sierra-leone-80-100-ebola-cases-daily-27394068
November 26, 2014- Thousands of fish die in fish cages in Wonogiri Regency, Indonesia
November 27, 2014- Thousands of dead fish appear in a pond in Bangkok, Thailand
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/general/445621/thousands-of-fish-found-dead-in-makkasan-pond
November 28, 2014- 400,000 salmon have died in fish farms in Puerto Natales, Chile
December 1, 2014- 40 TONS of dead fish found in the Tiete River, Brazil
December 1, 2014- 50,000 more birds to be killed due to avian flu in Zoeterwoude, Netherlands
December 2, 2014- Thousands of fish ‘die suddenly’ in Sragen Regency, Indonesia
December 2, 2014- Hundreds of dead fish found in a creek in Queensland, Australia
http://www.9news.com.au/national/2014/12/02/19/22/mass-fish-deaths-in-north-qld-spark-probe
December 2, 2014- 18,000 birds have died due to avian flu in British Columbia, Canada
December 4, 2014- Hundreds of thousands of mussels wash ashore ‘a mystery’ on a beach in South Africa
December 5, 2014- Hundreds of thousands of Salmon dying due to algae in southern Chile
Scorching Sun Isaiah30:26 , Revelation 16:8-9 & Revelation 7:16, Malachi 4:1 “Moreover the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, And the light of the sun will be sevenfold, As the light of seven days, In the day that the Lord binds up the bruise of His people And heals the stroke of their wound.” (Isaiah 30:26) “Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and power was given to him to scorch men with fire. 9 And men were scorched with great heat, and they blasphemed the name of God who has power over these plagues; and they did not repent and give Him glory.” (Revelation 16:8-9) “Never again will they hunger; never again will they thirst. The sun will not beat upon them, nor any scorching heat.” ( Revelation 7: 16) “For behold, the day is coming,Burning like an oven, And all the proud, yes, all who do wickedly will be stubble. And the day which is coming shall burn them up,” Says the Lord of hosts, “That will leave them neither root nor branch” (Malachi 4:1) Drought Jeremiah 50:38 & Isaiah 42:15 “A drought is against her waters, and they will be dried up. For it is the land of carved images, And they are insane with their idols.” (Jeremiah)“I will lay waste the mountains and hills, And dry up all their vegetation; I will make the rivers coastlands, And I will dry up the pools.”(Isaiah)
Headline: California drought, high temperatures create worst conditions in 1,200 years: study
A combination of record high temperatures and sparse rainfall during California’s three-year drought have produced the worst conditions in 1,200 years, according to a study accepted for publication by the American Geophysical Union (AGU). The state has gone through numerous periods of dry weather, with as little or less rainfall as the past few years, but scientists looking at the cumulative effects of temperature, low precipitation and other factors said that it all adds up to the worst conditions in more than a millennium. “The current California drought is exceptionally severe in the context of at least the last millennium and is driven by reduced though not unprecedented precipitation and record high temperatures,” the report’s authors said in the study released late Thursday. The study by the University of Minnesota and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution said that warm, dry conditions have shrunk the supply of surface water from reservoirs, streams and the Sierra Nevada snowpack in the state, even as demand from people and farms has gone up, resulting in unprecedented scarcity.
Dec. 5, 2014
http://news.yahoo.com/california-drought-high-temperatures-create-worst-conditions-1-211712775.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: Oklahoma now leads nation in earthquakes
Oklahoma has officially passed up California regarding the prevalence of earthquakes, according to Woodward County Emergency Manager Matt Lehenbauer. And they’re still happening on an almost weekly basis. A preliminary report posted Wednesday morning on Woodward County’s Ready Woodward Emergency Management site indicated a small earthquake shook the Mooreland region at about 7:30 Wednesday morning. The quake measured 4.0 on the Richter Scale and was fairly shallow – about 4 miles deep – according to the preliminary report posted by Matt Lehenbauer. There have been a total of four earthquakes in the last 24 hours measuring above 2.0 on the Richter Scale in the Mooreland region, Lehenbauer said. “They really have to be pretty shallow, 5 miles or less deep and more than 3.0 on the scale to be felt here,” Lehenbauer said. There have been 18 in the same region in the last month and 121 since January, he added.
Dec. 4, 2014
Headline: What’s shaking? 
List & map of USGS Earthquakes
