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Headline: Archaeologists say they’ve located the possible site of trial of Jesus
Archaeologists in Jerusalem say they may have uncovered the remains of Herod the Great’s palace, the site where the trial of Jesus Christ may have taken place prior to his crucifixion. The Washington Post reports that the remains are being opened to the public through tours organized by the Tower of David Museum, which is located close to the site. According to the paper, the remains of the palace were uncovered more than a decade ago by archaeologists who had been excavating an abandoned prison adjacent to the museum as part of a planned expansion. Archaeologist Amit Re’em told the paper that among the uncovered remains were foundation walls and an underground sewage system that likely supported the palace. Historians and archaeologists say there’s little doubt that Herod’s palace was located on the western side of Jerusalem’s Old City, near the present-day museum. But the question of whether Jesus was actually examined there by the Roman prefect Pontius Pilate remains a contentious one. The confusion stems from various interpretations of the four New Testament Gospels, all of which describe the trial of Jesus. Supporters of Herod’s palace as the site point to the Gospel of John, which describes the trial as having taken place near a gate and on a stone pavement, details that would match archaeological interpretations of the site.
Jan. 5, 2015
Headline: Gaza war to be the first Palestinian ICC case
The first case the Palestinians will refer to the International Criminal Court will be Israel’s actions during this summer’s Gaza war, a legal expert said Sunday. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas opted to turn to the ICC after losing a motion last week in the UN Security Council to set a 2017 deadline for a Palestinian state to be established in land occupied by Israel in 1967. The Palestinians delivered to UN headquarters in New York on Friday documents on joining the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and other global treaties, saying they hoped to achieve “justice for all the victims that have been killed by Israel, the occupying power.” Membership of the Rome Statute would open the way for Palestinians to pursue criminal complaints in The Hague. Israel will not permit its soldiers to be hauled in front of the International Criminal Court on potential war crimes charges, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday. “We will not let Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers and officers be dragged to the International Criminal Court in The Hague,” Netanyahu said at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting, two days after the Palestinians filed a controversial application to become a party to the court. “The Palestinian Authority has chosen to take a path of confrontation with Israel, and we will not sit idly by,” Netanyahu warned, vowing to defend Israeli military personnel from possible prosecution by the court. “IDF soldiers will continue to defend Israel with determination and strength — and as they defend us, we will defend them, with the same determination and the same strength,” Netanyahu said.
Jan. 5, 2015
Headline: Israel will ask Congress to stop US aid to Palestinians
Israel is poised to ask Congress to stop funding the Palestinian Authority, a day after the Israeli government froze NIS 500 million ($127 million) in Palestinian tax revenues collected on Ramallah’s behalf, in response to the Palestinian Authority filing a request to join the International Criminal Court earlier this week. An Israeli official said Sunday that Jerusalem will turn to pro-Israel Congress members to ensure that a law banning funds to the Palestinian Authority should it turn to the ICC be enforced, Haaretz reported. The Palestinians stand to lose some $400 million per year in US aid. The stop-gap funding bill passed by Congress and signed by President Barack Obama last month contains language that stipulates that no State Department economic support funding may be given to the PA if “the Palestinians initiate an International Criminal Court judicially authorized investigation, or actively support such an investigation, that subjects Israeli nationals to an investigation for alleged crimes against Palestinians.”
Jan. 5, 2015
http://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-to-ask-congress-to-stop-funding-pa/
Headline: Hamas ‘Totally Opposed’ to PA Statehood Bid
Hamas said Monday it was “totally opposed” to Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s plans to re-submit to the UN Security Council a resolution on forcing Israel to withdraw from Judea and Samaria. “Hamas is totally opposed to any return to the UN Security Council by the Palestinian Authority,” spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said in a statement. “Such a step would be political foolishness which plays a dangerous game with the destiny of our nation.” “Mahmud Abbas and the leadership of the Palestinian Authority should completely stop this political foolishness,” Abu Zuhri said. On January 2, the Palestinian leadership decided to refile a draft resolution forcing a unilateral solution to the Israeli-Arab conflict. The draft had failed to pass a vote in the Security Council on December 30. Speaking to AFP, Abbas’s spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeina said the resolution would be presented again “soon,” without saying exactly when. The vote saw Security Council heavyweights China, France and Russia among eight countries who gave their support, while the United States and Australia voted against. Five other countries, including Britain, abstained – among them Nigeria which had been expected to vote in favor but changed its stance at the last minute.
Jan. 5, 2015
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/189539#.VKq62nuxXhI
Headline: Israel Nabs ISIS Cell in Hebron
Israel’s military censor on Sunday cleared for publication the recent arrest of a terrorist cell claiming affiliation with the Islamic State (formerly ISIS) in the Judean town of Hebron. The Shabak (Israel’s equivalent of the FBI) worked together with the IDF in November to track and successfully arrest the terror cell, which was made up of Palestinian residents of Hebron. There were no injuries on either side in the raid. Security sources said the cell had been planning to attack a number of Israeli targets, both civilian and military. One specific plan involved the murder of an Israeli soldier and the use of his weapon and uniform to carry out a shooting attack against Israeli civilians.
Jan. 4, 2015
http://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/25760/Default.aspx
“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: Palestinians to ‘fully coordinate’ with Jordan on future moves
Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour on Sunday discussed with his Palestinian counterpart Rami Hamdallah issues of mutual concern, mainly the failure of the Arab push to obtain a UN resolution setting a deadline for Israeli withdrawal from the occupied Palestinian lands. During the meeting, Hamdallah noted that any future Palestinian measures will be taken after full coordination and consultation with Jordan. Last week, the UN Security Council turned down a Palestinian draft resolution, endorsed by the Arab group at the UN and filed by Jordan, to end the Israeli occupation. The proposal failed to win the support of nine members to be placed for a vote. Later, Palestinians decided to join the International Criminal Court (ICC), where they can pursue their campaign for independence, a move that triggered Israel’s anger. The two officials also went over the Israeli decision to halt the transfer of tax revenues to the Palestinians following their ICC bid.
Jan. 4, 2015
http://jordantimes.com/palestinians-to-fully-coordinate-with-jordan-on-future-moves
Lebanon
Headline: Hezbollah regains Syrian Qalamoun border position
Headline: Al-Nusra Front Publishes Pictures of Attack on Hezbollah and Syrian Army in Qalamoun
The Syrian army backed by Hezbollah regained control over the weekend of a key position in Qalamoun near the border with Lebanon in the fiercest bout of fighting since the Syrian military and its allies took over villages and towns in the area, security sources told The Daily Star. The sources expected similar rebel attacks to increase with worsening weather conditions. “Militants will become even more hostile as it gets colder because they look for supply lines,” one source said. Four Hezbollah fighters and five Syrian army soldiers were killed in the clashes Saturday, while more than 30 jihadis were killed, the sources said. Media reports said Ali Bakri and Fadel Abbas of Hezbollah were killed during the fighting. The sources said militants initially overran a strategic Hezbollah position in the Syrian village of Flita located 5 km away from the border with Lebanon, leading to violent clashes. However, Hezbollah soon regained the post.
Jan. 5, 2015
Headline: Sunnis, Shiites in Lebanon to join forces against Israel: Hezbollah official
Lebanon’s resistance, led by the powerful Shiite movement Hezbollah, will be joined by thousands of Sunnis in the next confrontation with Israel, a Hezbollah official said Sunday. “Hezbollah’s response to Israel’s bet on Sunni-Shiite strife is this: The resistance is preparing for the next war with Israel, and thousands of our Sunni brothers in Lebanon will be among the ranks [of the] resistance,” Hezbollah’s Executive Council chief Sheikh Nabil Qaouk said during a Hezbollah ceremony in Sidon. Jihadi terrorism, according to Qaouk, should not be seen as a phenomenon that targets Shiites and bypasses Sunnis since many Sunnis have been killed by across the region. “Takfiris are not in a place of representing Sunnis, but instead they are in a place of animosity against Sunnis and Shiites alike,” he said. The Hezbollah official expressed beliefs that terrorists still have their eye on Lebanon as an extension of their “emirate,” arguing that they are planning to use Lebanon’s border regions for future attacks.
Jan. 4, 2015
Saudi Arabia
Headline: Saudi Arabia to reopen Baghdad embassy after 25-year chill
A Saudi delegation will travel to Baghdad in the coming week to start preparations to reopen an embassy in the Iraqi capital for the first time in 25 years, official Saudi media said on Saturday. A thaw in the once chilly relations between Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia and Shi’ite-led Iraq could help strengthen a regional alliance against Islamic State militants who have seized territory in Iraq and Syria. Saudi Arabia closed its Baghdad embassy in 1990 after the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. It has long accused Iraq of being too close to Shi’ite Iran, its main regional rival, and of encouraging sectarian discrimination against Sunnis, a charge Baghdad denies. The Saudi move would help return Iraq to the Arab nation “after an absence since the toppling of the Saddam Hussein regime and the penetration of the Iranian regime into the joints of the Iraqi state,” said Abdullah al-Askar, head of the foreign affairs committee on Saudi Arabia’s Shoura Council, which advises the government on policy.
Jan. 3, 2015
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/03/us-saudi-iraq-idUSKBN0KC06S20150103
Headline: 2 Saudi guards killed in attack on Iraq border: Riyadh
Headline: Saudi army attack ISIL terrorists within its territories near Iraqi borders
At least two Saudi border guards, including a senior officer, have been killed and a third wounded in a shooting and bomb attack on the kingdom’s border with Iraq, where the ISIL Takfiri militants have seized a swathe of territory. The Saudi Interior Ministry said in a statement released on Monday that the attack took place in the Swiff crossing in the Arar region when unidentified attackers shot at a border patrol. One of the assailants was captured and blew his explosives, the brief statement added. One of those killed in the assault was a senior officer, the ministry’s spokesman Major General Mansour Turki said without giving his name. The officer was named by local media as General Oudah al-Belawi. Arar region borders Iraq’s volatile Anbar province, where the ISIL have been actively operating.
Jan. 5, 2015
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/01/05/391689/2-Saudi-border-guards-killed-in-attack
Egypt
Headline: Bomb attack wounds four Egypt policemen in restive Sinai
Headline: ISIS Is Getting More Organized—and Lethal—in Egypt
Egyptian security sources say at least four police officers have sustained injuries after an improvised explosive device went off in the violence-scarred Sinai Peninsula of the North African country. The sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the explosive charge had been planted at the entrance to an apartment building, and detonated in the city of el-Arish, situated 344 kilometers (214 miles) northeast of the capital, Cairo, on Monday. Separately, unknown assailants attacked a security checkpoint in Cairo’s upscale al-Mohandeseen district late on Sunday, killing one civilian and injuring three policemen. The attackers fled the scene following the drive-by shooting. No group has claimed responsibility for the act of violence, The development came a day after Egyptian military forces killed seven militants and arrested 15 others during separate operations in the volatile Sinai.
Jan. 5, 2015
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/01/05/391718/Bomb-hurts-4-Egypt-policemen-in-Sinai
http://www.vocativ.com/world/isis-2/isis-egypt-nightmare-comes-true/
Syria Iraq ISIS- the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (the Levant) ISIS=ISIL=IS=Daash
Iraq Syria Kurdistan
Syria Headline: Syrian Army Announces its own Suicide Bomber Platoon
Responding to growing pressure from Sunni Islamist rebels, Syrian regime takes drastic decision to try to beat them at their own game. As if things weren’t bloody enough in Syria’s four-year civil war: The Syrian army has announced the formation of a platoon of suicide bombers, to counter the ever-growing threat of Sunni jihadis including ISIS and Al Qaeda’s Nusra Front. A video released at the end of December and translated by MEMRI shows an announcement by half a dozen men calling themselves “the commandos of the Mountain Battalion,” declaring their new “martyrdom-seeking platoon.” Strapped with explosives and standing behind a copy of the Koran, a message is read out by one of the masked men who says that their platoon was formed in “response to all the foreigners who have distorted the religion of Islam, and have defiled the soil of our country.”
Jan. 4, 2015
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/189486#.VKrQ_HuxXhI
Syria Headline: US-led warplanes target jihadi oil pipeline in Syria
U.S. and coalition aircraft Sunday targeted a crude oil pipeline and collection depots in Syria held by ISIS jihadis, the American military said, in the latest bid to undercut the group’s oil smuggling. Allied fighter jets and bombers carried out 14 air raids near the eastern city of Deir Al-Zor since Sunday morning, including six strikes on five crude oil collection points, a pipeline, armored vehicles and a shipping container, the U.S. military said in a statement. The U.S.-led coalition on Sunday also conducted eight bombing runs near the northern town of Kobani, targeting ISIS troops that have waged a months-long battle to seize the area near the Turkish border. In Iraq, American and allied fighter jets carried out six airstrikes on Sunday against ISIS in the north and west, including two raids near the Al-Asad air base where U.S. military advisers are deployed.
Jan. 5, 2015
Syria Headline: Fighters seize Damascus suburb from rivals: NGO
Fighters seized a suburb east of Damascus on Sunday after driving out a smaller rival insurgent group in deadly clashes, a monitoring group said, the latest example of rebel infighting in Syria’s nearly four-year conflict. Fighters from the Army of Islam clashed with members of the Army of the Nation group in Douma, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Both groups militants opposed to President Bashar Al Assad’s government, and the fighting is seen as more of a turf war than a conflict over ideology.
The Observatory, which gathers information from a network of sources in Syria, said several fighters were killed, without giving details. It added that the Army of Islam had detained many of its rival combatants.
Jan. 5, 2015
http://gulftoday.ae/portal/a7c2d3ba-9d5c-4496-9eb6-fab9c7243a77.aspx
Syria Headline: Syria’s Idlib under regime fire, casualties reported
At least two civilians were killed and several others injured during an aerial bombardment launched by the pro-regime warplanes on the town of Kfar Owaid in Idlib’s countryside, northern Syria, locals reported on Sunday. Speaking o ARA News in Idlib, civil rights activist Mohamed Salloum said that pro-regime warplanes bombed residential neighborhoods in the town of Kfar Owaid and Mount al-Zawiya with missiles, killing two women and injuring a number of civilians. “The injured were transferred to a medical center in Idlib,” Salloum reported. Also on Sunday, a similar attack hit Mount al-Arbin and towns of Deir Simbel, Fillon and Kansafra, in Idlib province, without recording civilian casualties. The pro-Assad air forces dropped barrel bombs on the village of Madaya, causing at least two injuries among civilians.
Jan. 5, 2015
http://aranews.net/2015/01/syrias-idlib-regime-fire-casualties-reported/
Syria Headline: Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
https://www.facebook.com/syriahroe
http://syriahr.com/en/category/news/
Iraq Headline: Nearly a dozen Iraqi soldiers and allies killed fighting Islamic State near Baghdad
Several members of Iraqi security forces and allied tribesmen were killed by Islamic State forces in central Iraq and north of Baghdad, the latest bloodshed in an international war against the powerful militant group. At least 11 Iraqi soldiers and tribal fighters died while 61 were wounded in the most recent round of fighting, the worst of which raged Sunday in Saladin province’s Dujail district, 40 miles north of Baghdad, sources told Al Jazeera. One policeman and five other persons were hit by IS shell fire against barracks and police positions in the town of Amiriyat Fallujah, southeast of the city of Fallujah, the sources said. Three Sunni tribal fighters from Sahwa (called the Awakening Movement) were also wounded in the missile attack.
Jan. 5, 2015
Iraq Headline: Unknown aircrafts drop weapons to ISIS southeast of Tikrit
On Saturday, the Security Committee in the Council of Salahuddin province revealed that unidentified aircrafts dropped weapons and equipment for ISIS southeast of Tikrit, indicating that there are countries that want to keep Iraq under the ISIS occupation. Committee Chairman Jassim Al Jabara said in an interview for IraqiNews.com , “Our sources of intelligence received reports that unidentified aircrafts dropped weapons and munitions to the ISIS organization near Dour district (25 km south-east of Tikrit).” Jabara added “This is not the first time ; an unknown aircraft dropped weapons and munitions to ISIS in Yathrib area south of Tikrit, several areas in Salahuddin, and in Mosul,” adding that, “We do not know to which source those aircrafts belong yet.”
Jan. 5, 2015
http://www.iraqinews.com/iraq-war/urgent-unknown-planes-airdrop-weapons-isis-southeast-tikrit/
Iraq Headline: ISW Iraq Situation Report Jan. 2-4, 2015
http://iswiraq.blogspot.com/2015/01/iraq-situation-report-january-2-4-2015.html
Listed below are the nations which will attack Israel from Ezekiel chapter 38 and their modern day names (see chart above).
Gog is the leader of the Russian invasion of Israel.
Magog, Meshech, and Tubal comprise modern day Russia.
Persia is Iran, parts of northern Iraq, and Afghanistan.
Cush is Ethiopia and Sudan.
Put is Libya and will most likely include Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco.
Gomer is Eastern Germany.
Beth Togarmah is Turkey and Armenia.
Russia
Headline: France Calls for Lifting Russia Sanctions if Progress on Ukraine
French President Francois Hollande is calling for sanctions on Russia to be lifted if there is progress in Ukraine. During a two-hour radio interview, Hollande said sanctions imposed by Europe and the United States had not only hit Russia hard, but were also hurting the European economy. But there must be no new sanctions – and those in place should be lifted if there is progress on Ukraine, he added. There will be an opportunity for that next week, when Ukraine’s Petro Poroshenko and Russia’s Putin are scheduled to hold talks in Kazakhstan. Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have been invited to join them at the meeting, to be held January 15 in Astana.
Jan. 5, 2015
Iran
Headline: Will crashing oil prices make Russia, Iran and Venezuela more dangerous?
The plummeting price of oil is giving the economies of Russia, Iran and Venezuela a strong smack upside the head. And while the resulting crises before Russian President Vladimir Putin, the ruling clerics in Iran and the successor to Hugo Chavez in Venezuela won’t engender much sympathy from many corners of the world, what those leaders may do in response has a number of foreign policy analysts worried. “With the oil situation, things can go in a lot of different ways,” Stephen Szabo, executive director of the Transatlantic Academy, told Watchdog.org. “The leadership in these countries is not exactly responsive to their people and they could lash out.” All three countries rely on high oil prices to keep their governments afloat. A recent estimate by the International Monetary Fund, Deutsche Bank and Fitch Rankings reported Russia needs the global oil price at $98 a barrel to cover its budgetary expenditures. Venezuela’s “break even” price is about $117.50 a barrel and Iran’s is even higher — $130.70.
***See also Economy below
Jan. 5, 2015
Afghanistan
Headline: Suicide bomber hits European police in Kabul, one killed
Headline: Afghan Taliban Claims Suicide Bombings on EU Police in Kabul, American Troops in Nangarhar
A suicide car bomber struck near the headquarters of the European police training mission in Kabul on Monday, killing one Afghan civilian and wounding five others nearby, police and EUPOL said, Al Arabiya reported. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, the first against a foreign target in the Afghan capital in 2015. According to a statement from the EUPOL mission, the driver of the car packed with explosives apparently targeted a convoy of mission vehicles near its headquarters on the eastern outskirts of Kabul in the early afternoon. “The vehicle’s occupants were uninjured,” EUPOL said on its Facebook page. The mission funds and trains Afghanistan’s 157,000-strong police force. The spokesman for the Kabul police chief, Hashmat Stanekzai confirmed the casualties. A separate explosion struck near Kabul’s international airport earlier on Monday, leaving no casualties.
Jan. 5, 2015
http://en.trend.az/world/other/2350024.html
Headline: 1 ANA martyred, 4 injured in magnetic bomb attack in Badghis
According to reports a vehicle of Afghan National Army (ANA) was attacked in the Bala Murghab district of Badghis province this afternoon. A police officer from Balamurghab district who did not want to be named told Khaama Press that a soldier of the ANA was martyred and four others wounded in the explosion. He added that vehicle was also damaged in the explosion. The incident took place in the Sarkhaland area of Balamurghab district around 03:00PM Monday afternoon. This was the 2nd attack on security forces today. An explosion targeting the Security Officer of southern Zabul province martyred two civilians and injured eleven others including four policemen.
Jan. 5, 2015
http://www.khaama.com/1-ana-killed-4-injured-in-magnetic-bomb-attack-in-badghis-2671
Sudan
Headline: At least six die in South Sudan fighting: rebels
At least six civilians have died in fighting in South Sudan in the past two days, rebels said, and both rebels and the government accused one another of planning a return to full-blown conflict after a lull in the rainy season. South Sudan military spokesman Philip Aguer said government forces were expecting another round of attacks in oil-producing Unity State, and Upper Nile State, which experienced fighting in recent days. He said fighters allied to Machar had staged attacks on Saturday near Bentiu, Unity state’s capital. “The SPLA forces in those areas are monitoring preparation of Riek Machar forces to wage attacks possible within this coming week,” Aguer told Reuters. Rebel military spokesman Lul Ruai Koang on Saturday accused government troops, police and pro-government militia of a series of attacks in the past two days in Unity and Upper Nile States in which at least six civilians were killed. The government denied that it had caused any deaths.
Jan. 4, 2015
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/04/us-southsudan-crisis-idUSKBN0KD0C320150104
Libya
Headline: Greek oil tanker bombed in Libyan port of Derna
Headline: Warplanes attack top steel plant in Misrata
Headline: Islamic State kills 14 Libyan soldiers, official government says
Military jets have attacked a Greek-operated oil tanker in the Libyan port of Derna, killing two crew members, the Greek authorities have said. The attack, on Sunday, was carried out by the Libyan air force after the ship’s movements aroused suspicion, a Libyan military spokesman told the BBC. Derna has been controlled by Islamist militants for the past two years. The Libyan military attacked the port several times last year in an attempt to weaken militant groups there. The military spokesman, Colonel Ahmed Mesmari, said the tanker had been targeted because it had failed to submit to an inspection before entering the port. He said the vessel was supposed to dock at a power plant in Derna but instead “took a different route”, entering a “military zone”. “We asked the ship to stop, but instead it turned off all its lights and would not respond so we were obliged to strike it. “We bombed it twice,” he said.
Jan. 5, 2015
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-30681904
http://www.arabnews.com/middle-east/news/684546
http://news.yahoo.com/air-strike-libyan-city-misrata-clashes-near-oil-135039996.html
Morocco
Headline: Spectre of Isis used to erode rights in Morocco
The 100 or so activists gather in front of the Moroccan parliament at dusk. They chant slogans demanding freedom and greater civil liberties in a scene that would be unimaginable in almost any other Arab country. “We have a kind of a freedom,” says Mohammed Rachid el-Mouewouine, an environment ministry employee attending the small rally. “We can have a demonstration like this. We can express ourselves.” But many worry such modest freedoms, won by civil society and human rights activists in fits and starts over the years, are being eroded as the country’s security forces use the threat of rising regional instability and the resurgence of jihadi groups like the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or Isis, to restrict the country’s political space. “Though . . . the group has no real presence here, the Moroccan government has used the Isis issue repeatedly,” says one analyst at an international organisation. “The government has made multiple arrests of recruitment networks, but there is no sign of any armed group on the ground connected to Isis.” Activists lament growing public apathy about democratic reform, triggered in large part by the rise of Isis and the regional conflicts that populate television news broadcasts. Over 2,000 Moroccan men are believed to have joined Isis, along with hundreds more fighters of Moroccan descent residing in Europe.
Jan. 4, 2015
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/cecac612-89eb-11e4-9dbf-00144feabdc0.html
Germany
Headline: Germany Pegida Marches: Thousands Of German Counter-Protesters Expected To March Against Anti-Islamic Group
Thousands across four German cities plan to counter-protest against growing anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim marches that have drawn thousands to the streets, reports the Associated Press. Most of the anti-immigration protesters are part of Pegida, or Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West, a group that has attracted far-right extremists and nationalists. Counter-protesters were expected to hold rallies Monday in Berlin, Stuttgart, Dresden and Cologne. The Cologne Cathedral, one of the largest in the world, announced on Friday it would turn off all of its normally bright exterior lights in protest of the Pegida marches there, according to the Independent. Pegida began drawing attention in October, when their marches numbered in the hundreds. The group has now held multiple rallies in the thousands, attracting an eclectic group of Germans with differing political stances. The common thread among them is the strong opposition to immigrants coming to Germany for asylum from troubled areas of the world. Around 10,000 anti-Pegida marchers are expected in Berlin, and about half that many in Stuttgart. It is unclear how many will gather in Dresden, which has been a hub of ultra-right-wing activity. Small groups in the hundred have gathered there during past Pegida rallies to counter-protest. Chancellor Angela Merkel asked Germans in her New Years Address to reject Pegida’s stance and welcome those coming to Germany for safety from war-torn countries like Syria and Libya. She denounced Pegida’s leaders of fomenting “prejudice, coldness and hatred.”
Jan. 5, 2015
Turkey
Headline: Turkish soldier missing on Syrian border: army
A Turkish soldier has gone missing during an anti-smuggling operation on the border with Syria, the army said Monday, amid press reports he may have been kidnapped. Ozgur Ors, a non-commissioned officer, went missing on Thursday after he crossed the border into Syria from the southeastern Turkish province of Kilis in an operation to capture a group of smugglers. In a statement quoted by the Turkish media, the army confirmed Ors was missing but said there was still no news on the fate of the soldier. “A thorough investigation is under way. But a cross-border operation has not taken place,” it said, adding that the Turkish intelligence agency MIT was also joining the efforts. There was speculation in the press Monday that the soldier might have been kidnapped by ISIS militants who have seized swathes of Iraq and Syria, or another militant group.
Jan. 5, 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: Radical black activist issues cop-kill prediction
Malik Zulu Shabazz, the former national leader of the New Black Panther Party, said the radical group will “build up an army” in 2015 to combat police, and he predicted coming events “that are gonna seem tragic to white America and may even shock our own consciences,” including the killing of police officers. On a recent episode of the New Black Panthers Party’s “Black Power Radio” posted at Breitbart.com, Shabazz, current national president of Black Lawyers for Justice, said: “Mister Malcolm X, he consistently teaches us self-defense. The most honorable Elijah Muhammad continuously teaches us self-defense. The honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey teaches us self-defense, and we know, our leader and our teacher, the honorable Khalid Abdul Muhammad, teaches us self-defense. “What am I saying? Right now it’s time to build up that army. Right now it’s time for us to build up those corps, those troops. It’s time to get strong. It’s time for lifting weights and working out and going to the gun range and all of that.”
Jan. 2, 2015
http://www.wnd.com/2015/01/radical-black-activist-issues-cop-kill-prediction/
Headline: Boko Haram seizes army base in Nigeria town of Baga
The militant group Boko Haram has seized a town and key multinational military base in north-eastern Nigeria, officials and eyewitnesses say. A senator in Borno state said troops had abandoned the base in the town of Baga after it was attacked on Saturday. Residents of Baga, who fled by boat to neighbouring Chad, said many people had been killed and the town set ablaze. Residents who fled to Chad said they had woken to heavy gunfire as militants stormed Baga early on Saturday, attacking from all directions. They said they had decided to flee when they saw the multi-national troops running away. One unnamed resident of the town described what had happened for the BBC: “Yesterday at around 05:00 [04:00 GMT] we were woken up by heavy gunshots, and we couldn’t identify where the shots were coming from. “They came through the north, the west and from the southern part of the town because the eastern part is only water. So, when we [went] towards the western part, we saw heavily armed Boko Haram men coming towards us. “The soldiers were trying to repel the attack but that wasn’t going to happen because a lot of the soldiers were without their guns and some were running into the town. When you see soldiers running away into the town – what are you to do, other than to just run away as well?”
Jan. 4, 2015
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-30672391
Headline: Suicide bomber kills 4 people in Somalia, police say
A Somali police officer says a suicide car bomber blew himself up near a moving convoy of Somalia’s U.S.-trained elite forces in Mogadishu, killing at least four people. Capt. Mohamed Hussein says the attacker drove his bomb-laden car into a convoy of troops on the airport road in the capital on Sunday. He said most of the casualties were pedestrians walking along the road. The Alpha Group troops, who are part of Somalia’s intelligence forces, often carry out operations against militants in Somalia. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. Somali militant group al-Shabab is waging an insurgency against Somalia’s government. The blast comes days after a U.S. airstrike killed al-Shabab’s intelligence chief, Abdishakur Tahlil.
Jan. 4, 2015
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2015-01-04/suicide-bomber-kills-4-people-in-somalia-police-say
Headline: Unidentified gunmen attack army base in eastern Mali, kill 5
Unidentified gunmen in Mali have killed at least five people in an attack on an army base in Nampala City near the Mauritanian border. According to a source in the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) on Monday, attackers slipped into a camp belonging to the Malian army “with relative ease” about 0615 GMT and opened fire on the soldiers. The UN source added that the identities of those killed have not been ascertained so far. The clashes, which lasted for more than three and a half hours, also left two Malian soldiers injured. A Malian Defense Ministry spokesman confirmed the deadly clashes in Nampala, saying, “Our positions were attacked early this morning…. We confronted the enemy and reinforcements are now being sent from a neighboring area to Nampala.” The Nampala fighting came a day after gunmen killed six MINUSMA soldiers in the northeast of the country. Chaos broke out in Mali after President Amadou Toumani Toure was toppled in a military coup on March 22, 2012. The coup leaders said they mounted the coup in response to the government’s inability to contain the rebellion in the country’s north. The rebels are fighting to gain autonomy in the northern region of Mali.
Jan. 5, 2015
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/01/05/391741/Gunmen-attack-Mali-army-base-kill-5
Headline: Bomb explosion injures 6 Ansarullah fighters in Capital Sana’a Yemen
Headline: AQAP Claims Bombing Houthis in Dhamar and Sana’a, Assassination Attempt on Yemeni Intel Officer
The blast targeted their headquarters in Hayel district. This is the latest attack on members of the Shia movement– also known as Houthis. On Sunday, at least five Houthi fighters were killed in a bomb blast in the mainly Shia city of Dhamar, south of the capital. The Ansarullah movement has been fighting al-Qaeda-linked militants in a bid to restore Yemen’s security. The Shia group has so far managed to push the insurgents out of a number of cities including the capital Sana’a.
Jan. 5, 2015
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/01/05/391731/Bomb-explosion-injures-6-Ansarullah-fighters
Headline: Police, protesters clash in Bahrain over opposition leader’s detention
Bahraini police fired rubber bullets and tear gas to scatter protesters who gathered outside the home of a Shi’ite Muslim opposition leader on Monday, witnesses said, after he was remanded in custody for a further 15 days. Around 100 protesters angry at the decision had assembled outside his house in the Manama suburb of Bilad al-Qadeem calling for his immediate release, according to a Reuters eyewitness, and clashes with police ensued. Authorities were not available for comment on the fresh outbreak of sectarian tension in the Sunni Muslim-ruled, Gulf Arab kingdom, a close ally of the United States which bases its Fifth Fleet there as a bulwark against Iran across the Gulf. Sheikh Ali Salman, head of the al-Wefaq Islamic Society, was arrested on Dec. 28 after leading a protest rally against elections that were held in November and which his party boycotted, prompting U.S. criticism. Late on Sunday, Salman’s lawyer, Abdulla al-Shamlawi, told Reuters that he had been charged by the public prosecutor with inciting a change of government by force, inciting hatred of a segment of society, inciting others to break the law and publicly insulting the Interior Ministry. “The secretary general of a political society shall be detained for 15 more days pending investigation,” the official Twitter account of Bahrain’s Public Prosecution said. It did not name Salman. After a U.S. State Department statement on Thursday criticizing Salman’s detention, saying this would further stoke tensions, Bahraini authorities denounced what they called foreign double standards and interference.
Jan. 5, 2015
http://newsdaily.com/2015/01/bahrain-extends-detention-of-opposition-leader-statement/
Headline: India, Pakistan step up border fighting ahead of Kerry visit
Indian and Pakistani troops intensified cross-border firing Monday, killing an Indian border guard and forcing hundreds of villagers to flee, escalating tensions before visits by top U.S. officials. India said four Pakistanis planning an attack on Indian soil were killed, although Indian media and opposition parties disputed the official account. The Pakistani army confirmed two civilian deaths from Indian shelling. Monday’s incident, in the Samba district south of Jammu along the international border in Jammu and Kashmir, followed the killing of four Pakistani soldiers by their Indian counterparts on New Year’s Eve. A senior Indian official with the border security force said they had retaliated against machine gun and mortar attacks on about 60 positions along a more than 200 km stretch of the border on Monday. “Pakistani rangers fired rocket propelled grenades in villages near the border and our men have responded,” the officer told Reuters.
Jan. 5, 2015
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: Euro crashes to nine-year low on ‘Grexit’ fears
Headline: Euro at its weakest since 2006 after Draghi drops QE hint
The euro tumbled to its lowest level against the dollar in nearly nine years on Sunday night amid mounting fears that Greece could exit the eurozone. The sharp slide came as Asian markets accelerated a sell-off sparked on Friday, when Mario Draghi gave his strongest hint ever that the European Central Bank was ready to launch quantitative easing to tackle the threat of deflation. In a separate, though disputed, report in Der Spiegel on Friday, claimed that Angela Merkel’s government in Germany now believes the eurozone could handle a Greek exit, piling even more pressure on the single currency. The German government has since countered that it is confident Greece will stick to the bailout terms set out by the EU and the IMF. Georg Streiter, a spokesman for Mrs Merkel, refused to comment on reports that she believes the eurozone is now robust enough to cope with the potential exit of Greece should the looming general election in Greece reignite the eurozone crisis.
Jan. 5, 2015
http://euobserver.com/news/127086
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: US Debt Soars By $100 Billion On Last Day Of 2014, Hits Record $18.14 Trillion
Headline: Welfare dependency peaks under Obama
Headline: 11 Predictions Of Economic Disaster In 2015 From Top Experts All Over The Globe
It seems like it was only yesterday when we reported that, in yet another sleight of hand for the US Treasury and Social Security Administration, US debt rose by $32 billion on the last day of November sending total US debt above $18 trillion for the first time ever. As we further noted, it also meant “that total US debt has increased by 70% under Obama, from $10.625 trillion on January 21, 2009 to $18.005 trillion most recently.” Fast forward to today when we are happy to report that according to the US Treasury, America’s debt-funded spending spree, while supposedly slowing down if looking at the declining monthly budget deficit report, never actually has. As of the last day of 2014, total US debt soared by $98 billion in one day (driven again by Social Security debt surging on the last day of the month to a record $5.117 trillion), and closing off 2014 with a new all time high total of $18.141 trillion in Federal debt – an increase of $136 billion in the month of December and $790 billion for all of 2014.
Jan. 4, 2015
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/4/obama-economy-welfare-dependency-peaks-as-rich-get/
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/11-predictions-economic-disaster-2015-top-experts-globe
Headline: US stocks slump as oil price slides, hurting energy stocks
US stocks dropped Monday, led by declines in energy stocks as the price of oil plunged again. The euro sank to a nine-year low against the dollar as new doubts surfaced about Greece’s future in the common currency bloc. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index sank 26 points, or 1.3 percent, to 2,031 as of 10:43 a.m. Eastern. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 211 points, or 1.2 percent, to 17,619. The Nasdaq composite dropped 47 points, or 1 percent, to 4,678. Oil prices extended a slide that began in June last year. Benchmark U.S. crude was down $1.91 at $50.76 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract dropped 58 cents to $52.69 on Friday. Oil is down from $107 a barrel in June as global demand slackened while supplies remained high. Energy stocks led declines in the S&P 500, dropping 3.1 percent. Chevron fell $3.5, or 3 percent, to $109.16 and Exxon Mobil dropped $1.98, or 2.2 percent, to $90.82.
Jan. 5, 2015
http://news.yahoo.com/euro-sinks-9-low-asian-stocks-gain-043107448–finance.html
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: Deadly Virus Claims First U.S. Victim
The CDC says it’s never seen anything like it before, and it’s already claimed a life in the U.S. A new virus thought to be carried by ticks or other insects has been discovered following the death of a southeast Kansas resident during the summer, public health officials said Monday. The new virus is called Bourbon virus, after Bourbon County, home of the patient who died. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment said the patient’s symptoms, including fever and fatigue, were similar to symptoms from other tick-borne diseases. The Kansas health department said testing by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed that the patient had a virus not previously identified. Health department spokeswoman Aimee Rosenow said it’s still not clear how much the Bourbon virus contributed to the patient’s death. “This was the first known instance and the only confirmed case,” Rosenow said. “This is a new virus, and we are still learning.”
Jan. 1, 2015
http://www.weather.com/news/news/bourbon-virus-takes-first-us-victim
December 29, 2014 – 100,000 dead starfish found washed ashore on Fripp Island, S.Carolina, America
http://www.thestate.com/2014/12/27/3895515_mass-starfish-stranding-reported.html?rh=1
December 30, 2014 –3,200 Birds killed due to outbreak of avian flu in Seoul, South Korea
http://www.thepoultrysite.com/poultrynews/33997/bird-flu-spreads-to-seoul-city-in-south-korea
December 30, 2014 – Thousands of dead fish found floating in a creek in Brevard County, Florida, America
December 31, 2014 –15,000 birds killed due to avian flu in Hong Kong, China
December 31, 2014 –Scores of dead fish washed ashore Chennai, India
December 31, 2014 – Hundreds of dead sea birds washing ashore along the coast of Oregon, America
January 2, 2015 –Hundreds of dead fish found in a lake in Nevada, America
January 2, 2015 –Thousands of dead birds washing ashore along the coast between California and Washington in America
http://www.latimes.com/science/la-na-dead-birds-20150103-story.html
January 2, 2015 –Large amount of dead fish wash ashore on a lake in Carlos Paz, Argentina
January 2, 2015 –Turtles found washed up dead during past week in Cattolica and Rimini, Italy
January 4, 2015 –Thousands of fish dead in a fish farm in Kampung Baru, Malaysia
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: Scores of GIANT asteroids on course to hurtle past Earth within the month, NASA reveals
Some are more than 1km wide and threaten devastating consequences if they were to strike our planet. Of almost 70 asteroids on the radar most are around 100 metres wide, the size of a double decker bus, and would be capable of causing significant damage. Experts warn if one of these monsters, some of which travel at up to 70,000 miles an hour, were to hit Earth it could “alter life as we know it”. Plumes of debris thrown into the atmosphere would change the climate making the planet inhabitable for all life including humans. An impact would still be catastrophic destroying cities and knocking out transport and communication networks. According to NASA’s Near Earth Object Programme, there are 68 ‘close approaches’ forecast before the end of next month The next, due on January 3, is the 490-metre wide 2005 YQ96 asteroid currently hurtling through space at more than 30,000 miles per hour. The biggest to skim the planet will be the mile-wide 2007 EJ asteroid due to throttle past on January 12th at 34,500 miles per hour. Experts say although it is unlikely any of these will hit the Earth, there is always a chance they may veer off course or explode showering the planet with debris.
Jan. 5, 2015
Headline: Idaho suffers millions in property damage following earthquake
A moderate earthquake shook a large area of Idaho early Saturday, causing millions in property damage and cutting off power to residents near its epicenter in Challis. The city has experienced hundreds of slight to moderate temblors over the past 10 months, authorities said, but Saturday’s tremor was the strongest since 1983. The quake measured at a magnitude of 4.9 and was located about 6.5-kilometres from Challis in the state’s central mountains. The tremor was felt as far away as Boise, however, 305-kilometres to the southwest, the US Geological Survey said. The quake caused rockslides, damaged homes and knocked out power around Custer County, local officials reported. Challis Mayor Mark Lupher told journalists that there were no known injuries. Several people living close to the epicenter reported property damage such as cracks in the walls of their homes, he said.
Jan. 3, 2015
http://www.bignewsnetwork.com/index.php/sid/229058631
Headline: What’s shaking? 
List & map of USGS Earthquakes