21/04/2012

               Struggle for Jerusalem (Zechariah 12:3; Luke 21:20)

Israeli Official: Rockets Fired at Eilat Came from Libya

The rockets that were fired from Egypt toward Israel earlier this month were smuggled from Libya, an Israeli defense official told The Associated Press on Friday.The official was referring to the firing of two Grad-style rockets at the Israeli resort town of Eilat, right before the Passover holiday. Israel has said the attacks originated in the Sinai Peninsula. Egypt has denied the rockets were fired from its territory.

               Damascus, Syria (Isaiah 17:1-3)

Europe, Russia Disagree Over Resolution on Syria

European nations and Russia proposed rival UN resolutions on Friday, both calling for expanding the number of UN cease-fire monitors in Syria from 30 to 300, but disagreeing on possible sanctions and on how quickly the larger observer force should get on the ground. The Associated Press reported that after several hours of negotiations by Security Council experts, Russia circulated a merged text, and council ambassadors met behind closed doors to discuss it.

               Middle East (Psalm 83:1-4) (Rev 9:16) (Rev 16:12)

‘Egypt is on a collision course’

A range of Egypt’s political forces has joined the large-scale protests against the ruling military on Tahrir Square. With the SCAF reluctant to give up power and the people still pushing for true democracy, Egypt seems to be on a collision course.Tens of thousands of liberals, leftists and Islamists all protested on Friday on Cairo’s landmark Tahrir Square. They accuse the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces of manipulating the upcoming presidential elections in order to hold on to power.

            Magog Invasion – Iran, Russia (Ezekiel 38-39)

IRGC delivers new missile-launching vessel to naval forces in PG

 The domestically designed and manufactured Tondar-class vessel was launched into the waters of the Persian Gulf at a ceremony attended by IRGC commanders and staff, the public relations of the IRGC naval forces announced on Saturday. “Considering the importance of the Persian Gulf, particularly its northern and central areas, and the existence of valuable oil and gas resources, the defense capabilities to safeguard such resources should be enhanced to a satisfactory level,”

U.S. preparing alternative options for Iran if diplomacy fails

April 21, 2012 – WASHINGTON - America’s plan B for Iran “will be successful,” promises US defense secretary, Leon Panetta. Reports suggest this is no sable rattling, as the US strike groups deployed to the Persian Gulf may be carrying some 430 Tomahawk missiles. Washington has not yet dropped its “all options” stance towards Iran, who, they fear, may be building nuclear weapons. The confirmation was obtained by CNN’s Wolf Blitzer from Panetta on Thursday. 

      Decline of United States (Hosea 4-14) 

Washington is leading world into lawlessness: US analyst 

“US government officials routinely criticize other governments for being undemocratic and for violating human rights. Yet, no other country except Israel sends bombs, missiles, and drones into sovereign countries to murder civilian populations,” Craig Roberts said in an article published by the Global Research website.The author noted that in addition to violating the rights of other nations, the US even violates the rights of its own citizens.

One Nation Under Debt With Endless Debt Slavery For All

 Debt is a “soft” form of slavery. In America today, it is not legal to bind people up with chains and force them to work for you, but that doesn’t mean that there are not millions upon millions of slaves in this country. When you borrow money, you willingly become a servant to the lender. Sadly, there are millions of Americans that will spend the rest of their lives working to pay off their debts but they will never escape the endless debt slavery that they have gotten themselves into. When you add up all forms of debt in the United States at this point, it comes to more than 54 trillion dollars. That is more than $178,000 for every man, woman and child in America.

Famines, Drought, Floods, Earthquakes & Pestilences (Matthew 24:7-8) (Luke 21:11; 25) (Rev 6:5-8)

6.6 magnitude earthquake rattles Papua New Guinea

April 21, 2012 – JAKARTA - A strong 6.6-magnitude earthquake rocked Indonesia’s Papua region on Saturday, the US Geological Survey said, but no tsunami warning was issued. The quake struck at 10:16 am (0116 GMT) at a depth of 30 kilometers (19 miles), 83 kilometers southeast of Manokwari, the USGS added, revising down from 6.9. There were no immediate reports of damage. Earlier, a strong 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck off Indonesia’s Sumatra Island on Saturday, the US Geological Survey said, but no tsunami warning was issued. The quake struck at 5:14 am (2314 GMT Friday) at a depth of about 34 kilometers (21 miles), 427 kilometers southwest of Banda Aceh on the northern tip of Sumatra.

20/04/2012

                      Struggle for Jerusalem (Zechariah 12:3; Luke 21:20)

Hamas Won't Honor Peace Accords With Israel

A senior Hamas leader on Thursday said that if the terror group came to power in a future 'Palestinian state,' it would not abide by any previous peace agreements with Israel.Moussa Abu Marzouk, the Hamas politburo's number-two, says any potential deal, even if ratified in a popular referendum, would be considered to be merely a hudna, or temporary truce agreement.

                      Damascus, Syria (Isaiah 17:1-3)

Syrian troops shell central city of Homs

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian troops shelled a rebel-held neighborhood and sent reinforcements to border areas as the opposition called for fresh protests Friday after the United Nations accused Syrian President Bashar Assad of failing to honor a peace plan that went into effect a week ago. The latest violence came hours after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called Thursday for the U.N. Security Council to adopt an arms embargo and other tough measures against Syria during a meeting in Paris of Western and Arab diplomats.

                   Babylon, Iraq (Jeremiah 50:9, 13) (Jeremiah 51:6, 29, 37, 55, 64) (Revelation 18)

Qaeda claims Iraq attacks that killed 38

Al-Qaeda front group the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) said on Friday that it carried out a wave of attacks across the country that killed 38 people, in a statement on jihadist website Honein."A part of the security and military efforts of the Islamic State mobilised for a new wave and... another bloody Thursday on the heads of the apostates, and in simultaneous operations targeted the security and military, and government centres and leadership," it said.

                  Magog Invasion – Iran, Russia (Ezekiel 38-39)

 Barak to Panetta: What is your bottom line for Iran?

Notwithstanding the hugs and personal friendship, Israel’s Defense Minister Ehud Barak arrived in Washington Thursday April 19 to tax his host, US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, with tough questions about the administration’s dialogue with Iran. They followed the lines of, “What’s going on? Is there a deal? Don’t tell me what you have settled with the Iranians, just your minimal demands, your bottom line.”



Wars and rumors of war: Iran army ready for action on disputed Gulf island 

April 19, 2012 – IRAN – Iran’s ground forces commander warned that should diplomacy fail, the military is ready for action over a disputed Gulf island controlled by Iran but also claimed by the United Arab Emirates, state TV reported Thursday. Gen. Ahmad Reza Pourdastan said Iranian forces are capable of confronting any offender against Iran’s sovereignty over the strategic Abu Musa Island in the Persian Gulf. It was the first time an Iranian military commander commented on the issue since President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad last week visited Abu Musa.

                     The Rise of the East

Attention: China - India Testing Long Range Agni V Missile

India's Defense Research & Development Organization (DRDO) successively tested the new Agni V long-range ballistic missile. It has a range of 3500 km, a radius that provides the capability to strike the Chinese heartland, as well as the extremely hypothetical option of hitting Eastern and Central Europe and most of Russia.

      Famines, Drought, Floods, Earthquakes & Pestilences (Matthew 24:7-8) (Luke 21:11; 25) (Rev 6:5-8)

Vietnam's new war: Incurable mystery virus kills 19 kids to date

Hanoi has asked the World Health Organization for help to cure a virulent disease affecting children. Symptoms include blistering on hands, feet and mouths accompanied by high fever and eventual organ failure.­Nineteen children died from the illness in 2011 alone. The virus spreads through direct contact with an infected person’s oral discharges or saliva, the fluid from burst blisters or the stool of infected persons.

Ecuador’s Reventador volcano unleashes column of steam and ash
 

April 20, 2012 – ECUADOR- Reventador continues to be mildly active with ongoing weak to moderate steam and ash emissions. The Instituto Geofísico reports a 2 km high column of steam and ash rising from Reventador volcano on 18 April. The ash cloud moved to the NW. IG characterizes the actual activity level (visual and seismic activity) of Reventador “moderate.” No major changes have been observed at the volcano in recent days. –Volcano Discovery


Earthquake swarm on Iran-Iraq border continues

April 20, 2012 – IRAN – 5.1 and 5.0 earthquakes are the latest in a swarm of about six earthquakes that have erupted along the convergent plate boundaries between the Arabian and Eurasian plate. The swarm is about 528 km (328 miles) SW of TEHRAN, Iran. The epicenter of the earthquakes is located on the convergent boundary where the two tectonic plates are colliding along the border of Iraq and Iran in what’s known as the Alpide Belt. Three moderate earthquakes have erupted along the epicenter in less than 20 hours.




Sudan declares war on South Sudan: Will this draw in East Africa, and China? 

April 19, 2012 – AFRICA - After South Sudan seizes Heglig oil fields, which both countries claim, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir declares war. How can the international community prevent a regional conflict? Although relations between the two countries started out well, hostilities had been brewing almost from the very beginning, over how the two countries would share revenues from the sale of oil – most of which is now within South Sudan’s territory,

Activity intensifies at Mexico’s Popocatepetl volcano: 19 million could be affected by an eruption

 April 19, 2012 – MEXICO - The Popocatepetl volcano is making movement and threatening to erupt, causing Mexican officials to raise the alert level from yellow phase three to yellow phase two. The volcano has already begun spewing red-hot bits of rock, and its opening has expanded. These are signs that the volcano, still quite active, could soon erupt. In a statement by Mexico’s National Center for Disaster Prevention, the volcano could produce “moderate exhalations, some with ash, sporadic low to moderate explosions with likely burning fragments, and flaming magma within the crater

19/04/2012

  Perilous times: Pentagon chief says ‘we’re within an inch of war almost every day’ in East Asia 

April 19, 2012 – WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta offered a blunt assessment of the threats facing the United States on Wednesday, saying the potential for another war breaking out remains high in places like North Korea. “We’re within an inch of war almost every day in that part of the world,” Panetta said in an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, in response to a question about the threats in the Korean Peninsula. “And we just have to be very careful about what we say and what we do.”          

                     Struggle for Jerusalem (Zechariah 12:3; Luke 21:20)

Chief of Staff: IDF's 'Steely Arm' will Hit Back at Enemies

 Maj. Gen. Benny Gantz, IDF Chief of Staff, warned Israel's enemies Wednesday that any attempt to harm Israel will be met with a painful response."The IDF draws from the memory of Holocaust Remembrance Day military strength and moral resilience that directs it in every crossroad and leads it to victory time after time," Gantz said, in a ceremony at the Masua Institute at Tel Yitzchak.

             
                   Damascus, Syria (Isaiah 17:1-3)

Turkey Intercepts Ship Carrying Weapons to Syria

Turkey has intercepted a vessel in the Mediterranean suspected of carrying weapons and ammunition to Syria, a diplomatic source told AFP on Wednesday.According to the source, “We received information that the vessel has a cargo of arms and ammunition headed for Syria.”

Syria: Security Forces Open Fire Near UN Monitors


Syrian security forces opened fire on anti-regime demonstrators surrounding the cars of a UN team of monitors on Wednesday, according to a report by The Associated Press.The gunfire sent the observers speeding off and protesters dashing for cover, according to activists and amateur videos.



Syria hasn't fully complied with Annan peace plan: U.N. chief

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Syria has not fully complied with a U.N.-backed peace plan for the country and has yet to send a "clear signal" about its commitment to ending more than a year of violence, the U.N. chief told the Security Council in a letter obtained by Reuters on Wednesday.

At the same time, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon voiced hope that there may be a chance for progress on ending a 13-month conflict that has brought Syria to the brink of civil war.

     

            Babylon, Iraq (Jeremiah 50:9, 13) (Jeremiah 51:6, 29, 37, 55, 64) (Revelation 18)           

Blasts in Baghdad, northern Iraqi cities kill 30

BAGHDAD (AP) — Bombings struck several areas in Baghdad and to the north Thursday, killing at least 30 people in the first major attacks in Iraq in nearly a month. The violence stoked fears that insurgents were trying to undermine confidence in the Shiite-led government amid rising sectarian tensions. In all, officials said extremists launched 12 attacks in the Iraqi capital and in the cities of Kirkuk, Samarra, Baqouba, Dibis and Taji. Mortars were fired into the northern cities of Beiji and Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit.

              Magog Invasion – Iran, Russia (Ezekiel 38-39)

 Obama ready to yield on Iran's nuclear transparency. Israel:Tehran will cheat

In the direct, secret exchanges between the US and Iran which led up to the Istanbul talks with the six powers, of Saturday, April 14, President Barack Obama quietly backed off from his demand that Iran “come clean” on its nuclear activities and open up to international inspection, debkafile reports.
This concession paved the way for Tehran’s consent to discuss his framework proposal to stop enriching uranium to 20 percent, halt work at its underground facility for higher enrichment near Qom...

The Rise of the East

Nuclear shadow grows across planet: India tests its first intercontinental ballistic missile capable of striking China

April 19, 2012 – NEW DELHI - India has launched a long-range intercontinental ballistic missile able to carry a nuclear warhead, say media. The locally-developed Agni-V missile was originally scheduled to have been launched on Wednesday in the eastern state of Orissa. Defense officials had delayed the launch until Thursday because of heavy lightning in the area, BBC informs. The missile has a range of more than 5,000km (3,100 miles), within range of targets in China.

                 Nuclear Contamination (Rev 8:10-11)

 Fukushima Reactor 2: Radiation “Comparable to What We See in Space”

“We want to check whether there is no deformation or damage in the suppression pool. And, with any luck, we hope to see areas where water (injected into the reactor as a coolant) may be leaking,” TEPCO spokesman Junichi Matsumoto said, according to Nuclear Street News.The suppression pool is a doughnut-shaped vessel connected to the primary containment structure designed to hold cooling water.

           Famines, Drought, Floods, Earthquakes & Pestilences (Matthew 24:7-8) (Luke 21:11; 25) (Rev 6:5-8)

Mount Lamington volcano awakens in Papua New Guinea after 56 years

 April 19, 2012 – PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Mount Lamington is a stratovolcano in the Oro Province of Papua New Guinea. Local community of Popendetta reported smoke and ash emission on March 25. No official reports have come in yet. Lamington is an andesitic stratovolcano with a 1.3-km-wide breached summit crater containing a lava dome. After a long quiescent period, the volcano sprang suddenly to life in 1951, producing a powerful explosive eruption during which devastating pyroclastic flows and surges swept all sides of the volcano, killing nearly 3000 persons. 

 New Brunswick town plagued for weeks by earthquake swarm and no one knows why

April 19, 2012 – CANADA - “Everybody is talking about the earthquakes,” says David Blair, a retired science teacher and lifetime McAdam resident from his home on Old Harvey Road, just east of downtown. “You’ll be out and about and people will say, ‘Did you feel the one last night, or did you feel the one this morning? Some people will say yes, others might say no. It really depends on what you are doing.’ “If you are quiet at home and there is not a lot of noise you are probably going to feel or hear it. But if you are banging around, or if the grandkids are banging around, you sometimes won’t know if it’s the kids 

Hailstorms hammer San Joaquin Valley crops

April 19, 2012 – CALIFORNIA – A series of freak April storms hammered the San Joaquin Valley last week, damaging vulnerable crops with a one-two-three punch of hail, lightning and tornados that caused millions of dollars of crop losses. It will be several weeks before an accurate tabulation of losses can be made, but for some growers it amounted to 100 percent of this year’s production. A number of crops suffered damage from the unrelenting power of hailstones measuring 1.5 inches in diameter or larger. 

                  Preaching the Gospel (Mat 24:14)

Methodist Church Prepares for London Olympic Outreach

The Methodist Church is encouraging people to get involved in the Olympic and Paralympic celebrations as the 100-day countdown to the London Games begins Wednesday.
One Methodist church in Cornwall, England is in full Olympic spirit already with plans for a nationwide Praise Bus to tour the country ahead of the official Olympic torch procession.


 State of the Bible 2012


The good news about the Good Book is that it's still the No. 1 seller of all time, with an estimated 6 billion copies sold. The not-so-good news though, according to a new survey by The American Bible Society, is that it's lost a bit of its prominence in affecting people's lives. The "State of the Bible 2012" looked at the trends surrounding the most influential book of Western civilization. The survey found that while 82 percent of Americans revere the Bible as sacred literature, that number is down slightly from a year ago when 86 percent thought so.

18/04/2012

                     Struggle for Jerusalem (Zechariah 12:3; Luke 21:20)

False start: Israeli-Palestinian talks collapse

Palestine’s prime minister has pulled out of planned negotiations with his Israeli counterpart. The talks promised to be the first high level meeting of the two sides of the conflict in almost two years.
­It appears that expectations of the US, the main initiator of the talks, have been dashed and the last chance to bring seemingly irreconcilable opponents to the negotiation table before the US presidential elections has been lost.Salam Fayyad, the prime minister of the Palestinian National Authority has allegedly pulled out of talks because of possible public opposition to the meeting.

                 Damascus, Syria (Isaiah 17:1-3)

UN mission in Syria threatened as 67 killed in recent clashes


At least 67 people were killed in Syria on Tuesday, activists said, with the continued violence threatening the future of a United Nations observer mission overseeing a peace plan."There are many obstacles, and the Syrian government is not helping to ease them off, which delays the movement of the team to prepare the ground for the larger batch of observers to arrive in Syria," a western diplomat based in Syria told DPA, on condition of anonymity.

Activists: Despite truce, Syria troops attack Homs


BEIRUT (AP) — Activists say Syrian government forces are pounding a rebel stronghold with mortar fire, violating a week-old cease-fire the international community is reluctant to declare dead despite ongoing violence.The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the regime on Wednesday resumed its attack on the city of Homs, battered by artillery for weeks.

                 Magog Invasion – Iran, Russia (Ezekiel 38-39)

Barak in Colombia: Time for Serious Sanctions on Iran

Defense Minister Ehud Barak met on Tuesday with Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos in the Colombian capital Bogota.During the meeting, which lasted for over an hour, Barak thanked Santos for his country’s support for Israel in international forums.

U.S. official says Netanyahu was fully briefed on Iran talks

After Israeli PM claimed that Iran was handed a 'freebie' at Istanbul talks, senior official says Netanyahu was fully briefed on strategy of six world powers; at next meeting, major powers to demand Iran suspend uranium enrichment at level of 20 percent at next meeting. In their upcoming round of talks next month with Iran over its nuclear program, the six major powers will demand an Iranian commitment to suspend uranium enrichment at the relatively high level of 20 percent, a senior American official said.

U.S. ambassador to Israel sounds warning on Iran 

The U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Daniel B. Shapiro, Tuesday called on Egypt to honor its peace treaty with Israel and warned that the diplomatic window for Iran was "shrinking." "Egypt must honor its peace treaty with Israel," Shapiro told a luncheon of the Israel, Britain and the Commonwealth Association in Tel Aviv. "We need to establish the principle that [political] parties cannot go to the polls with a gun in one hand and a ballot in the other."

             The Rise of the East

Global military machine: Rise of Russia and China

Worldwide military spending held strong at $1.7 trillion dollars in 2011, despite the lingering global financial crisis. With US arms spending on the slide, Russia and China are on the rise. ­The data released by The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute [SIPRI] shows that despite the astronomical global arms outlays for last year, the great recession halted a decade-long trend in increased military spending.While the United States remains by far the world’s biggest spender with a defense budget of US$711 billion dollars, its military spending decreased by 1.3 per cent from the previous year.

        Famines, Drought, Floods, Earthquakes & Pestilences (Matthew 24:7-8) (Luke 21:11; 25) (Rev 6:5-8)

Underwater volcano activity resumes at Greece’s infamous Santorini volcano basin

April 17, 2012 – GREECE – Santorini’s volcanic basin is showing signs of resumed volcanic activity. According to researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, satellite research tools suggest that a build-up of some 14m cubic meters of lava at a depth of 5km took place between September and January last. Widely touted by academics as the cause of the Minoan civilization’s obliteration, what is left of the volcano – a small archipelago – last witnessed significant geological activity in January of 2011.

6.2 magnitude earthquake strikes near S. Sandwich Islands

April 17, 2012 – ANTARCTICA - A shallow 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck near the Sandwich Islands around the Scotia tectonic plate. This is the third major 6.0+ magnitude earthquake to strike the planet in 16 hours. The earthquake is only one of the latest in a growing cluster of large quakes to strike the planet along plate boundaries after the massive 8.6 and 8.2 lateral slip-fault quakes off the coast of Sumatra set the entire planet reeling. Today’s 6.2 magnitude quake was rather shallow about 1 to 5 km in depth and is not expected to generate a tsunami. –The Extinction Protocol

Large explosion seen on the Sun’s northeastern limb

April 17, 2012 – SPACE – Magnetic fields on the Sun’s northeastern limb erupted around 17:45 UT on April 16th, producing one of the most visually-spectacular explosions in years. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) recorded the blast at extreme ultraviolet wavelengths. The explosion, which registered M1.7 on the Richter scale of solar flares, was not Earth-directed, but it did hurl a CME into space. 

Did N. Sumatra earthquakes set off a chain-reaction? Planet shaken by shocking number of tremors since April 11, 2012

April 17, 2012 - WORLD - The shocking number of earthquakes that have rattled the globe, especially along tectonic plate boundaries, since the double 8.0+ magnitude earthquakes struck off the coast of Northern Sumatra on April 11 could be early indication the planet may be shifting towards a new catastrophic model. Romania’ s top seismologist, Gheorghe Marmureanu, told the Bucharest Herald: “There is no doubt something is seriously wrong. There have been too many strong earthquakes.”

6.8 magnitude earthquake strikes off the coast of Papua New Guinea

April 17, 2012 – PAPUA NEW GUINEA - A 6.8-magnitude quake struck off the northeast of Papua New Guinea on Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, but there was no tsunami warning issued. The quake hit at 5:13 pm (0713 GMT) 141 kilometers (88 miles) north of the country’s second largest city of Lae and 443 kilometers from the capital Port Moresby at a depth of 201 kilometers, it said.

17/04/2012

                 Struggle for Jerusalem (Zechariah 12:3; Luke 21:20)

Hamas War on Israel: 1,100 Missiles a Year

Hamas’ missile and rocket war on southern Israel is 11 years old today (Tuesday), 12,500 rockets later. More than 40 people have been killed, thousands have been wounded and property damage and economic losses has been immeasurable. Since the beginning of 2012, terrorists from Hamas-controlled Gaza have attacked Israel with 269 rockets and missiles – a rate of more than two a day, according to the IDF.

Palestinian Prime Minister to meet with Netanyahu Tuesday

A delegation headed by Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem Tuesday afternoon and will present the Israeli premier with a missive from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on the stalled peace talks.Saeb Erekat, chief Palestinian negotiator, who is expected to attend Tuesday meeting, told the United Nations envoy to the Middle East, Robert Serry, that the meeting’s goal is merely transferring Abbas’s message and that what is important is what happens afterwards.
 
                 Damascus, Syria (Isaiah 17:1-3)

At least 3 killed in shelling, clashes in Syria as UN observers prepare mission

Violence gripped areas across Syria on Tuesday, with at least three people killed, as a United Nations advance team in charge of monitoring a fragile ceasefire in the country started to prepare logistics for their observer mission.Government forces shelled areas in the central province of Homs from the early morning, while clashes took place between troops and rebels near the Syrian-Jordanian border, opposition activists said. 

U.S. ambassador to U.N.: Syrian regime has no crediblity  

(CNN) -- While U.N. monitors try to observe a so-called cease-fire in Syria, the U.S. ambassador the United Nations said President Bashar al-Assad's regime has lost all credibility."They have lied to the international community, lied to their own people. And the biggest fabricator of the facts is Assad himself," Susan Rice said Monday night. "His representatives are merely doing his bidding and under probably some not insignificant personal duress."

 

                  Magog Invasion – Iran, Russia (Ezekiel 38-39)

Israel: Obama’s secret dealings with Iran conflict with US-Israeli understandings 



The fundamental rift on Iran between US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu burst into the open Monday, April 16 when high-ranking Israeli officials close to Netanyahu directly accused the president of reneging on the US-Israeli understandings reached ahead of the Istanbul talks between the six powers and Iran on April 14.Behind the show biz of Istanbul, they charged, the US and Iran had reached secret agreements in clandestine bilateral contacts channeled through Paris and Vienna

Iranian Army invincible due to strong faith in God: Ahmadinejad

Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has praised the Iranian Army’s strong faith in God, stressing that such an army is invincible and will bring shame and disgrace to any aggressor.The Iranian army relies on the Divine One and as such remains invincible, and will bring bitter regret and utter disgrace to any aggressor seeking to trespass on its homeland, said Ahmadinejad during the opening speech at a ceremony...

Iran Army, IRGC set to stage joint maneuvers: Cmdr.

The Iranian Army and the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) are set to stage joint drills in the second half of the Persian calendar year (started March 20), says the commander of the Army’s Ground Forces.The military maneuvers, in which state-of-the-art equipment will be employed, are slated to be held either in the southeastern or southwestern regions of the country, said Brigadier General Ahmad Reza Pourdastan in a Tuesday interview with Mehr news agency.

                    The Rise of the East

U.S. looking at "all options" on North Korea as nuclear test looms

SEOUL (Reuters) - The United States is looking at "all options" as it seeks to discourage North Korea from conducting a third nuclear test, a senior U.S. military officer said on Tuesday, days after a failed long-range rocket launch by the North that drew international condemnation.The U.N. Security Council on Monday condemned reclusive North Korea for Friday's rocket launch and warned of further action if Pyongyang carries out a nuclear test, reflecting concern that it may follow a pattern it set in 2009 during its second nuclear test.

                 Decline of United States (Hosea 4-14) 

 25 Signs That Middle Class Families Have Been Targeted For Extinction

The middle class in America is being systematically wiped out, and most people don't even realize what is happening. Every single year, millions more Americans fall out of the middle class and become dependent on the government. The United States once had the largest and most vibrant middle class in the history of the world,

       Famines, Drought, Floods, Earthquakes & Pestilences (Matthew 24:7-8) (Luke 21:11; 25) (Rev 6:5-8)

Strong earthquake shakes central Chile

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A strong magnitude-6.7 earthquake shook central Chile late Monday, prompting authorities to order the evacuation of a stretch of coastline and causing hundreds of people in the capital to flee buildings in panic.There were no reports of major damage, but authorities in the port city of Valparaiso said a 72-year-old man died of a heart attack during the quake. The earthquake was felt for almost a minute in Valparaiso and the capital, Santiago.The U.S. Geological Survey initially put the quake's magnitude at 6.5 but later raised it to 6.7....

 49th volcano erupts in 2012: Ecuador’s Sangay volcano unleashes 2 km ash cloud

April 17, 2012 – ECUADOR - During an over-flight on 13 April, an explosion from Sangay volcano was observed at 08:25 local time. It generated an ash and steam column of 2 km above the summit crater. A new vent was detected; both on visible and thermal images, located next to the active dome on the SE flank (Ñuñurqu). The activity in this area has intensified since October, when the last aerial survey had taken place.


Russia’s Shiveluch volcano spews ash up to 9,500 meters (31,000 ft) – its most powerful eruption this year

April 17, 2012 –RUSSIA – Russia’s northernmost active volcano is churning out ash to a height of 9,500 meters (over 31,000 feet) in the country’s Far East, local scientists reported on Tuesday. The 3,283-meter (10,771-foot) Shiveluch volcano increased activity in May 2009 and has been periodically spewing ash from three to ten kilometers. “A powerful eruption of ashes took place 05.59 a.m. local time [17:59 GMT on Monday], a source at the Far Eastern Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said.


Moderate 5.5 earthquake and aftershocks rattle southern Greece

April 16, 2012 – GREECE – A moderate earthquake measuring 5.5 magnitude on the Richter scale jolted southern Pelopponese in Greece on Monday noon, local media cited the Euromediterranean Seismic Institute as saying. The earthquakes were followed by 4.8 and 4.7 aftershocks. No injuries or major material damages have been reported by local authorities. The epicenter of the quake was traced at a distance of some 19 kilometers off the coast of the city of Methoni at a depth of about 40 kilometers, according to seismologists.

Are earthquakes destabilizing tectonic plates across the globe?

 April 16, 2012 – WORLD – A leading earthquake scientist has warned that the planet could be cracking up after a series of massive quakes in just 48 hours. Expert Gheorghe Marmureanu – from Romania’s National Institute of Earth Physics – says 39 quakes had hit the globe within two days. The series started with two massive quakes in Indonesia measuring 8.6 and 8.2 on the Richter scale rapidly followed by three more only slightly smaller in Mexico within hours. “There is no doubt that something is seriously wrong.

                    Preaching the Gospel (Mat 24:14)

New English Translation of Bible Omits 'Jesus Christ,' 'Angel'

A new translation of the Bible into English does not contain the name "Jesus Christ" nor the word "angel." It also prefers the word "emissary" over "apostle." The Voice, a Bible that replaces "Jesus Christ" with terms like "Jesus the Anointed One," had its complete edition released by Thomas Nelson Publishing last month. Frank Couch, Thomas Nelson's lead editor on the project, told The Christian Post that the purpose of The Voice was to make the Gospel message easier to understand for modern audiences.