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Headline: Priests Reenact Biblical Temple Service to Celebrate New Month
A special ceremony was held in the Cardo in Jerusalem on Thursday, March 10th. It was the beginning of the month of Adar, or, to be precise, the second day of Rosh Chodesh Adar Bet. In temple Times, the new month was considered a minor holiday and the ceremony, a reenactment of the Temple service, gloriously illustrated that. On the day of the new month, special sacrifices were brought to the Temple: two oxen, a ram, seven lambs, wine libations, flour, and oil (Numbers 28:11-15). This is identical to the sacrifices offered on Passover and Shavuot, indicating the holy aspect of the new month. Special trumpet blasts were also added in celebration. To commemorate the special nature of the day, the Temple Institute, in conjunction with the Sanhedrin and other Temple organizations, held a reenactment of the service as it would have been performed in the Temple. The ceremony was intended to be educational for the spectators and a dry-run for the priests who participated. The priests, students of the Temple Institute’s Nezer HaKodesh Academy for Kohanim, wore authentic garments made to Biblical specifications, and performed the Kohanic blessing. Musicians played instruments suited for use in the Temple provided by the Temple Institute, accompanied by a choir. Though no animals were actually slaughtered, the organs and special fats were displayed and explained. There was also a demonstration of how blood is sprinkled on the altar. A minchaoffering of semolina was burned on the altar, a precise scale model, approximately one meter tall and two-and-a-half meters square.
March 21, 2016
Headline: Israel ups security level along Egypt’s Sinai border
Fearing an Islamic State spillover, Israel has in recent months tightened security along its border with Egypt after an IS affiliate group’s two-year campaign which has claimed the lives of hundreds of Egyptian police and soldiers. Along the restive Egyptian border in the northern Sinai Peninsula, IDF soldiers are seen every day patrolling across the 6,000-square kilometer desert terrain, which has for years been a haven for heavily armed militants.Israeli forces said the increased military presence along the Sinai border is in response to unprecedented attacks carried out by the IS-linked militant group since last year, as well as an intelligence assessment that an extremist attack on Israel is possible. “No fence in the world can stop militants, unless soldiers are guarding that fence,” said Zvi Arden, commander of a military operation dubbed “Dragon Battalion,” along the Israel-Egypt border.
March 21, 2016
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Israel-ups-security-level-along-Egypts-Sinai-border-448651
Headline: Anti-Israel Protesters March on AIPAC Policy Conference
“Do not negotiate! We must keep fighting!” declared Abbas Hamideh, co-founder of Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition, to the few hundred pro-Palestinian activists gathered before him in front of the White House on Sunday. They were there to protest the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, widely known as AIPAC, America’s most influential pro-Israel lobbying group, on the first day of its annual policy conference at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. Beyond AIPAC, the purpose of the protest was to “advocate for the right of Palestinians all over the world.” To this end, the protestors were calling for the creation of a new Palestinian state stretching from the Jordan River in the east to the Mediterranean Sea in the west, an area within which the entire state of Israel is located, and for all Palestinians around the world to have a right to return to this land. The protesters first gathered at the White House at noon to organize and hear various speakers before marching to AIPAC conference. “We have Christians—the real ones—[and] Jews, the real Jews,” Hamideh told the crowd with a smile while speaking of its diversity. He then asked, “Are you ready to give up an inch on Palestine?” to which the crowd responded, “No!” Hamideh’s question is similar to a statement on his Twitterpage in which he declares, “I don’t compromise on one inch of Palestinian land!”
March 21, 2016
http://freebeacon.com/issues/anti-israel-protesters-march-on-aipac-policy-conference/
“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: Jordan to install cameras at Aqsa compound
Jordan said on Sunday it will set up security cameras around Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound in the coming days to monitor any Israeli “violations”. In October, US Secretary of State John Kerry endorsed a plan to install cameras at the site in a bid to calm repeated disturbances, after talks with Jordan’s King Abdullah II and Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed. But the Jordanian-run trust or “Waqf” that administers the site — which houses the famed golden Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa mosque — then complained that Israeli police had blocked it from installing the cameras. A “control centre” will be set up to monitor round-the-clock video surveillance of the compound, Jordan’s Islamic Affairs Minister Hayel Daoud said. The footage will be broadcast online to “document all Israeli violations and aggressions”, he said in a statement, adding that no cameras would be installed inside mosques. Clashes between Palestinian youths and Israeli security forces erupted at the compound in September amid fears among Muslims that Israel was planning to change rules governing the site. The Israeli prime minister has said repeatedly there are no such plans.
March 21, 2016
Headline: Al-Aqsa Mosque Address: King Abdallah, “Traitor of Jordan,” Fights “So-Called Terrorists” Instead of Sending His Army to Humiliate the Jews- VIDEO
http://www.memri.org/clip/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/5401.htm
Lebanon
Headline: Nasrallah warns Israel not to launch war, threatens nuke facilities
Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah says Israelis are too scared to engage Hezbollah in a large-scale military conflict knowing the damage and loss of life the Lebanese terror group will cause. “Any Israeli war on Lebanon would be an uncalculated adventure,” he says in an interview with al-Manar TV. “The cost is very important for Israel regarding the casualties and the psychological and economic repercussions. Through its readiness, expertise, military skills and stance, the resistance has made the Israelis realize that any war on Lebanon will be very costly and that they must balance between feasibility and cost.” Nasrallah says that Hezbollah is able to “exploit” Israel’s value for life in order to build up vast military stockpiles without the threat of an attack. “The Israelis know that the resistance possesses effective missiles that can hit any point in occupied Palestine. We have a full list of targets in occupied Palestine, including nuclear reactors and biological research centers. We will not abide by any restrictions or red lines in the event of any war against Lebanon,” he warns.
March 21, 2016
http://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-march-21-2016/
Egypt
Headline: Militants kill 13 policemen in Egypt’s northern Sinai
Militants killed 13 Egyptian policemen in an attack Saturday on a checkpoint south of northern Sinai’s provincial capital of el-Arish, the Egyptian Interior Ministry said. A Sinai-based Islamic State affiliate has claimed responsibility for the attack, according to a statement circulated on social media. The Associated Press could not independently verify theclaim. The local IS affiliate has been targeting Egyptian security forces in Sinai and claimed the downing of a Russian airliner last October that killed 224 people.
March 19, 2016
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/03/19/militants-kill-13-policemen-in-egypts-northern-sinai.html
Syria Iraq ISIS- the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (the Levant) ISIS=ISIL=IS=Daash
Iraq Syria Kurdistan
Syria Headline: ISIS affiliate on the march in Daraa
Syria Headline: Islamic State raises flags over towns in Daraa after fierce battles
The Yarmouk Martyrs Brigade has seized a town in southwest Syria in the latest round of fighting between the ISIS affiliate and rebel factions in a stretch of territory near the Golan. “Clashes raged at dawn between the Yarmouk Martyrs Brigade one side and Islamist battalions and other fighting factions in the area around Tasil,” the Syrian Observatory for Human Rightsreported on Monday morning. The monitoring NGO tracking the conflict in war-torn Syria added that the extremist group—which has long fought battles in southern Syria against not only Free Syrian Army-affiliated factions but also the Nusra Front—had seized the town after a battle that left at least two people dead. Yarmouk Martyrs Brigade members broadcast an appeal over loudspeakers for the rebels to choose between “allegiance, surrendering their arms, or staying home.” A number of pro-rebel outlets also covered the fighting, saying that the Yarmouk Martyrs Brigade on Friday morning had also taken the nearby village of Adawan due east of Taseel.
March 21, 2016
https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/NewsReports/566766-isis-affiliate-on-the-march-in-daraa
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/fighters-take-over-rural-towns-west-daraa-2084156366
Syria Headline: ISIS kills 26 Syrian soldiers near Palmyra: activists
ISIS fighters killed 26 Syrian soldiers on Monday west of Palmyra, a monitoring group said, after days of advances by government forces backed by Syrian and Russian air cover. Russian President Vladimir Putin said last week that the Syrian army would soon recapture Palmyra from ISIS, which has held the desert city for nearly a year. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the fighting took place about 4 kilometers (2 miles) west of Palmyra. It was not possible to independently verify the death toll. Syria’s state news agency SANA said the army and allied forces, backed by the Syrian air force, carried out “concentrated operations” against ISIS around Palmyra and the ISIS-held town of al-Qaryatayn, about 100 km further west. After more than five months of airstrikes in support of Syrian President Bashar Assad, Putin announced the withdrawal last week of most Russian forces. But Russian planes have continued to support army operations near Palmyra, according to the Observatory and regional media, and Putin said on Thursday he hoped that the city would soon fall to the Syrian government.
March 21, 2016
Syria Headline: Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
https://www.facebook.com/syriahroe http://syriahr.com/en/category/news
http://syriahr.com/en/category/news/
Iraq Headline: Iran-backed jihadists threaten to attack U.S. forces in Iraq
Iraq Headline: More US troops to Iraq after Marine killed in ISIS attack
Iraq Headline: Some US Marines on ground in Iraq ‘to fight ISIS’
The Iran-sponsored Hizbullah Brigades in Iraq have vowed to attack American troops after the U.S. Army said it would send reinforcements to support the international coalition fighting Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL). Hizbullah Brigades, which is not directly affiliated with Lebanon-based Hizbullah, said in a March 20 statement that “the United States increasingly intervenes in Iraq’s issues with its presence in the Iraqi joint operations command.” “We have vanquished the American occupation with our quality and quantity in the past and we will continue attacking them, with our resources significantly increased,” the statement said. Col. Steve Warren, the spokesman for the U.S. military operation against ISIL, announced on March 20 that a group of Marines will be deployed to reinforce existing forces in Iraq. Last week, an American Marine was killed and several others wounded in an ISIL rocket attack on a base in northern Iraq. Hizbullah Brigades said that “Iraq’s streets are still filled with the ruins of their (U.S.) vehicles that destroyed our explosive devices, and those injured by their soldiers are still hospitalized.
March 21, 2016
http://www.worldtribune.com/iran-backed-jihadists-threaten-to-attack-u-s-forces-in-iraq/
http://debka.com/newsupdatepopup/15544/More-US-troops-to-Iraq-after-Marine-killed-in-ISIS-attack
Iraq Headline: Extremist attack kills six soldiers in western Iraq
At least six soldiers were killed Monday in an attack in western Iraq claimed by ISIS that began with five suicide bombers ramming explosives-laden vehicles into a checkpoint, officials said. Several foreigners were among the bombers, including a Frenchman, according to a statement by ISIS which said its fighters carried out the attack. A senior officer in the Iraqi army, manning the checkpoint near the town of Al-Baghdadi in Anbar province, said nine soldiers were also wounded. He told AFP that after the suicide attacks some 25 extremists launched an assault on the checkpoint, the main one on the road leading to Al-Asad air base, where a large number of Iraqi troops and foreign advisers are stationed. The officer said most of the gunmen were wearing suicide vests. About five hours of clashes ensued, he said, and all the attackers were killed, with the support of strikes from the US-led international coalition. Malallah al-Obeidi, who heads Al-Baghdadi local council, confirmed the details of the attack and said Iraqi forces were in control of the checkpoint. ISIS, in its statement posted on social media, claimed that the battle was still ongoing.
March 21, 2016
Kurdish Headline: Arab League rejects Syrian Kurds’ federal region
The Arab League has rejected last week’s declaration by Syrian Kurds of a de-facto federal region in northern Syria. The league’s deputy chief, Ahmed bin Helli, said on Monday that calls for federalization could impact Syria’s unity. Last Thursday, a meeting of some 200 Kurdish officials declared they were establishing a federal region. The officials insisted they are not seeking secession – but rather making sure the country remains one nation. In Syria’s civil war, Kurdish fighters have emerged as the most effective fighting force against the Islamic State group and are backed militarily by the United States. The Kurds, a longtime oppressed minority, have taken advantage of the chaos of the civil war to advance their goals of autonomy. After government troops withdrew from Kurdish areas to focus elsewhere in Syria, they declared their own civil administration in 2013. The European Union’s foreign policy chief has expressed optimism about Syria’s peace process, urging international and regional actors to build on current, favorable conditions.
March 21, 2016
Listed below are the nations which will attack Israel from Ezekiel chapter 38 and their modern day names (see chart above).
Gog is the leader of the invasion of Israel.
Magog, Meshech, and Tubal comprise modern day Turkey.
Persia is Iran, parts of northern Iraq, and Afghanistan.
Cush is Ethiopia and Sudan.
Put is Libya and will most likely include Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco.
Gomer is Eastern Turkey.
Beth Togarmah is Armenia.
Turkey
Headline: Istanbul shopping area hit by suicide bomber
Headline: Istanbul bomber identified as Turk member of Daesh
A suicide bomb attack at a busy shopping area in the Turkish city of Istanbul has killed at least four people, officials say. They include two Israelis with dual US nationality, and an Iranian. Another 36 were injured in the blast near a government building. No-one has admitted carrying out the attack, the latest in recent months. The Turkish government has blamed Kurdish militants for previous attacks and has retaliated against them. Saturday’s attack on Istiklal Street in Istanbul, Turkey‘s largest city, occurred at about 11:00 local time (09:00 GMT). Uwes Shehadeh was some 500m (1,640ft) away when he heard “a horrific and horrible noise”. “People didn’t know what was going on. It was very chaotic. Everyone was screaming and running away,” he told the BBC. “Istanbul is on high alert and people are very worried as to what will happen next.” Eleven Israelis were among the injured. Two Irish citizens and one person each from Germany, Iceland, Dubai and Iran were also injured.
March 21, 2016
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35850625
http://www.arabnews.com/middle-east/news/898281
Headline: Scores of Turkish forces killed in renewed clashes with PKK
Three members of the Turkish security forces were reportedly killed and seven others wounded in confrontations with rebels of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in Turkey’s south-east, Turkish army said on Sunday. Chief of staff of the Turkish army also revealed Sunday that a Turkish soldier was killed during clashes with the PKK rebels in the district of Yeşil Yurt in the city of Şırnak southeastern Turkey in the early morning hours, while another soldier killed in the same area on Sunday evening. The Turkish army leadership pointed out that 13 PKK fighters have been killed since Saturday, while the Turkish death toll mounted to 28 in the ongoing operations led by government since March 14. The security forces have imposed a curfew in the Kurdish-majority districts of the city for weeks. In the meantime, PKK rebels detonated a hand-made explosive device among a unit of the Turkish special forces in the neighborhood of Dijla in the city of Nusaybin, led to the death of a policeman and the injury of seven others, according to Turkish military sources. The sources emphasized that four of the injured are in critical case.
March 21, 2016
http://aranews.net/2016/03/scores-turkish-forces-killed-renewed-clashes-pkk/
Iran
Headline: Revolutionary Guards commander demands that Iran annex Bahrain
General Saeed Qasemi, a Revolutionary Guards commander and the commander of Ansar Hezbollah, a paramilitary conservative Islamic group in Iran, has demanded that Iran annex Bahrain, the Revolutionary Guard-affiliated news agency Tasnim reported Sunday. Speaking at a forum in the city of Bushehr, Qasemi urged the annexation of Bahrain to Iran, explaining that “Bahrain is an Iranian province that was detached from the Islamic Republic of Iran due to the Western colonialism.” “Iran must make efforts to bring Bahrain back into Iranian territory and transform it into a part of Bushehr province,” Qasemi further stated. General Qasemi was a senior commander during the Iran-Iraq war that erupted in September 1980, and is also considered a crony of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.Similar declarations regarding the dire need to annex Bahrain to Iran are recurrently voiced by senior Iranian officials. While Sunni-ruled Bahrain specifically, and Iran’s opponents in the Arab world generally, consider such declarations as evidence of Iran’s expansionist policy, Iranians view them merely as “historic justice.”
March 21, 2016
Afghanistan
Headline: Afghan Military Raid Frees 16 Hostages From Taliban Prison
The Afghan military has raided a Taliban-held prison and freed 16 hostages, including civilian and security personnel, in the restive southern province of Helmand, officials said Monday. A Defense Ministry spokesman, Dawlat Waziri, told VOA the overnight raid in the district of Gerishk also killed 17 Taliban insurgents, including six suicide bombers who were guarding the prison. A Taliban spokesman confirmed the raid in the Shoraki area and alleged that “foreign invaders,” a reference to the U.S.-led military coalition in Afghanistan, also took part. He said eight civilian prisoners were taken away while another seven were killed in the military action and five were wounded. Local Afghan security officials have also confirmed involvement of foreign troops but the NATO-led Resolute Support mission has not yet commented.
March 21, 2016
http://www.voanews.com/content/afghanistan-helmand-prison-raid/3247434.html
Algeria
Headline: Algerian troops kill 6 Islamist militants near Tunisia border: ministry
Headline: AQIM claims attack on Algerian gas plant
Algerian troops killed six armed Islamist fighters in the country’s southeast near the Tunisian border, and captured arms and munitions, the ministry of defense said Monday. They were killed in El Oued, and Kalashnikov rifles, handguns and ammunition were recovered from two off-road vehicles, the ministry said in a statement. Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb claimed a rocket attack Friday on a southern Algerian gas plant operated by BP, Statoil and state energy firm Sonatrach. It caused no damage or casualties, but Monday the two foreign companies began pulling workers out of gas sites in the country.
March 21, 2016
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2016/03/aqim-claims-attack-on-algerian-gas-plant.php
Morocco
Headline: UN accuses Morocco over actions on Western Sahara mission
The United Nations is accusing Morocco of violating the U.N. Charter in ordering the withdrawal of U.N. civilians from the peacekeeping mission in the disputed Western Sahara and says the Security Council must take action. U.N. deputy spokesman Farhan Haq warned Monday that without an effective peacekeeping force, there is a risk of a return to heightened tensions “and even conflict.” Morocco has ordered 84 civilians in the U.N. mission to leave. Haq says 11 of those people were no longer with the mission. Of the remaining 73, 72 have left and one remains for medical reasons. Haq says Morocco has also ordered the U.N. to close its military office in Dakhla. Morocco is angered by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s recent comment about “occupation” of the territory, which Morocco claims.
March 21, 2016
Headline: IS Develops Drones inside Mosul
The Islamic State (IS) is building its own drones and uses them against Kurdish Peshmerga forces in northern Iraq, a Peshmerga commander said. Qadir Qadir, Commander of Peshmerga forces on the Gwer frontline, told BasNews that his men have recently downed two drones apparently developed by the IS jihadists to monitor the Peshmerga forces in the area. Qadir explained that the drones were improvised for long-distance flights with a high-quality camera to survey Peshmerga movements. According to the Peshmerga commander, IS has the technical capacity in Mosul to develop domestic drones into military surveillance drones to closely monitor Peshmerga and Iraqi security forces.
March 21, 2016
http://www.basnews.com/index.php/en/news/iraq/265548
Luke 21:9 and Matthew 24:7 speak ofnation 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: Brazil crisis: Thousands join pro-Dilma Rousseff rallies
Tens of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of Brazil to show support to President Dilma Rousseff, who is facing calls for her impeachment. Earlier, police used tear gas on anti-government protesters in Sao Paulo. Several protests against Ms Rousseff erupted two days ago after she appointed her predecessor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, as a minister. Meanwhile, a Supreme Court judge has suspended his nomination as minister. The decision is not final, and the government can appeal. In naming Lula, Ms Rousseff is accused of shielding him from charges of money-laundering, which he denies.
March 19, 2016
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-35848210
Headline: At Least 6 Somali Soldiers Killed in Militant Attack
Officials in Somalia say al-Shabab militants have attacked a Somali government military base, killing at least six soldiers. Authorities say the insurgents attacked the base in Laanta Buur, 40 kilometers south of Mogadishu, from two directions early Monday. Several military vehicles were seized in the assault, officials say. “The militants were so many, and well armed,” military officer Abdullahi told Reuters on Monday. “The soldiers fled the base – only one soldier died – but (al Shabaab militants) took nine vehicles.” A spokesman for al Shabaab confirmed the attack, and said it had killed 70 men. “We left only one truck that was burning. Seven of the vehicles we took had anti-aircraft guns fixed on,” Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, al Shabaab’s military spokesman, told Reuters.
March 21, 2016
http://www.voanews.com/content/somali-soldiers-killed-in-militant-attack/3247031.html
http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-somalia-fighting-idUKKCN0WN0ET
Headline: EU military training mission attacked in Mali capital
Unidentified gunmen have attacked a European Union Training Mission (EUTM) headquarters in Bamako, the capital of Mali. The mission is stationed at the Azalai Hotel Nord Sud. “The attackers tried to force through the entry and the guards posed in front of the entrance opened fire. One attacker was killed. The gunfire continued for several minutes,” a witness near the hotel told Reuters on Monday. A Defense Ministry spokesman confirmed the shooting. The US Embassy in Bamako said it is “aware of small arms fire” in the vicinity of the hotel, and has advised its citizens to avoid the area and “shelter in place” until further notice. The diplomatic compound “is in duck and cover status,” it said. One assailant has been killed at the hotel, while another is still entrenched on the premises, French news website L’Express reported, saying there are no victims among the French contingent. The EUTM in Mali confirmed the attack on its headquarters, but said that no mission personnel had been hurt or injured. No one has immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. As part of the mission, some 600 EU military personnel are currently deployed in Mali to train its security forces, according to Reuters.
March 21, 2016
https://www.rt.com/news/336491-mali-eu-base-gunmen/
Headline: 32 attacks on Ukraine troops in last day
Headline: Ukraine’s parliament may send PM to resignation on Thursday — lawmaker
The combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine 32 times in the past 24 hours, including 28 times in the Donetsk sector, twice in the Mariupol sector, and once in the Luhansk sector, according to press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO). The Russian-backed terrorists fired 82mm mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns on the Ukrainian fortified positions near the village of Luhanske, as well as mortars, infantry fighting vehicles’ guns and heavy machine guns near the town of Svitlodarsk. In addition, enemy snipers were working near Avdiyivka, and the villages of Zaitseve and Leninske. The occupiers also fired grenade launchers of various systems on the Ukrainian positions near the village of Opytne, as well as small arms on the Ukrainian fortified positions near the village of Pisky and the town of Maryinka.
March 21, 2016
http://uatoday.tv/news/32-attacks-on-ukraine-troops-in-last-day-614539.html
http://tass.ru/en/world/863861
Headline: Ukraine Crisis Update: March 18, 2016
http://www.understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/Ukraine%20SITREP%2020160318.pdf
Wars & Rumors of Wars Matthew 24:6 , Revelation 6:3-4 & Revelation 6:8“ And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.” Revelation 6:3-4 speaks of the fiery red horse given power to make men slay one another and Revelation 6:8 speaks again of this red horse in conjunction with the pale horse of Death and Hades, as the one that has the power to kill by sword. Prophecy Sign: Weapons of Mass DestructionZechariah 14:12 “And this shall be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the people who fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh shall dissolve while they stand on their feet, Their eyes shall dissolve in their sockets, And their tongues shall dissolve in their mouths.”
Headline: North Korea fires short-range projectiles into sea amid tension over nuclear ambitions
Headline: South Korea simulates strikes against ‘key’ North Korea facilities
North Korea fired five short-range projectiles into the sea off its east coast on Monday, South Korea’s military said, amid heightened tension over the isolated country’s nuclear and rocket programs. The unidentified projectiles were launched from south of the city of Hamhung and flew about 200 km (120 miles), landing in waters east of North Korea, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement. On Friday, North Korea fired two mid-range ballistic missiles into the sea in defiance of tough new U.N. and U.S. sanctions slapped on the country following nuclear and rocket tests earlier this year. “North Korea should refrain from all provocative actions, including missile launches, which are in clear violation of U.N. resolutions,” Sung Kim, the U.S. special envoy for North Korea, told reporters in Seoul when asked about Monday’s firing. In recent weeks, North Korea has stepped up its bellicose rhetoric, threatening pre-emptive nuclear strikes against Washington and Seoul and firing short-range missiles and artillery into the sea.
March 21, 2016
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-nuclear-idUSKCN0WN0H2
March 18, 2016- Dead sea lions found this week on beaches of Vancouver Island, Canada
http://www.cheknews.ca/154176-154176/
March 19, 2016- Die off of fish found washed up on a beach in Calodyne, Mauritius
http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lexpress.mu%2Farticle%2F278103%2Fpoissons-retrouves-morts-sur-plage-calodyne&edit-text=&act=url
March 19, 2016- Hundreds of fish dead in a lake in Devarabeesanahalli, India
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bengaluru/Hundreds-of-fish-die-in-Devarabeesanahalli-lake/articleshow/51466262.cms
March 19, 2016- Major fish kill reported along Indian River Lagoon in Florida
http://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/local/2016/03/18/report-fish-kill-brevard-county/81992006/
March 19, 2016- Thousands of fish dying in fish farms ‘due to heat’ in Taiping, Malaysia
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sinarharian.com.my%2Fedisi%2Fperak%2Fribuan-ikan-sangkar-mati-1.498747&edit-text=&act=url
March 20, 2016- Over 350,000 cattle dead due to cold weather in the Mongolian Steppes, Mongolia
http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lavenir.net%2Fcnt%2Fdmf20160318_00797449&edit-text=&act=url
In Revelation 9:21 we see Jesus speaking to us about drug’s. The words “sorceries” in Revelation 9:21 is the Greek word pharmakia from which comes our word “pharmacy”. It signifies the use of medicine, drugs, spells, such as those used in witchcraft and those used today by those who are seeking a greater “high”. This generation was to be labeled a drug generation and we are.
Headline: Rise of the synthetic-high zombies: Cops across Florida called to ‘horror-movie style scenes’ where groups of people are left slumped and stupefied after taking ‘spice’
Authorities in several Florida cities have seen an increase in emergency calls related to people being slumped over in a stupefied state, as they have overdosed on the dangerous drug known as spice, or synthetic marijuana. Police in Tampa say that more people than ever before are overdosing on the drug, as investigators in Clearwater say they’ve received dozens of calls for people who have had to be rushed to the hospital because of suspected spice use. WTVT reported that Tampa medical and law enforcement professionals warned last week about the dangerous uptick in overdoses that is possibly linked to a bad batch of spice that’s being sold. According to officials, there were three overdoses on Wednesday, as the calls for the usage of Spice are centered around Crest Lake Park where homeless people spend a lot of time reportedly.
March 21, 2016
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 greatearthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; andfearful 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: 2016 so far: small earthquakes drive 23 percent increase in tremors
The total number of earthquakes across Oklahoma has increased 23 percent from this time last year, though most of the quakes are very small according to USGS data. Oklahoma started the year slowly for the total number of quakes, though now has seen a large jump in the number of quakes registering 1.9 magnitude or smaller, year-to-date. So far in 2016, the state has seen 142 of the very small quakes. At this time in 2015, the state registered 16. Overall, 2016 has had a total of 825 quakes compared to 2015’s 671.
March 21, 2016
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Look for Suzi my former editor of my book
By · CommentsI am looking for Suzi the women who Jesus spoke to and told her to edit my book.
Suzi to me that Jesus spoke to her and told her not to hunt for a job but to edit my
book first and then he was going to give her the best job she has ever had. Suzi
did what she was told and the Suzi I am looking for called me after the book was
finished to tell me Jesus fulfilled his promise to her by giving her a great job.
I am sorry to hunt you down this way but I lost all my emails we sent to each other
and I also lost her last name. Can you email me if you see this post. I would like you to
wrote down the story of how Jesus spoke to you about my book. fjdimora@gmail.com
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Headline: After declaring autonomy, Syrian Kurds ‘open to ties with Israel’
After the main Syrian Kurdish group officially declared areas under its control in northern Syria a federalized autonomous region this week, the Syrian regime and opposition, as well as Turkey, immediately rejected the declaration. [The Syrian Kurds] are a community of people who are willing to cooperate with Israel,” Professor Ofra Bengio, head of the Kurdish studies program at Tel Aviv University, told The Times of Israel on Thursday. There have not been any pro-Israel public declarations by Kurdish Syrians leaders, Bengio said, “but I know some that some have been to Israel behind the scenes but do not publicize it.” The group was also not given a seat at the table of peace negotiations taking place in Geneva. Despite not being recognized, the Syrian Kurds have fully governed their region for two years. Their governance has been overwhelmingly democratic, egalitarian and secular in a region where totalitarian and Islamist ideologies prevail. The only other areas in the Middle East that can be characterized in this way are the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in Iraq — where minorities are well-protected under new laws — and Israel.
***SEE ALSO KURDS BELOW
March 18, 2016
http://www.timesofisrael.com/after-declaring-autonomy-will-israel-embrace-syrias-kurds/
“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)
Lebanon
Headline: Trouble Brewing in Lebanon: Beirut Facing New ‘Cedar Revolution’
Is Lebanon teetering on the edge of a new civil war? French intellectual Thierry Meyssan suggests that the failure of a regime change operation in Syria will prompt Saudi Arabia and its Western backers to seek a new target in the Middle East. Lebanon’s much discussed “garbage crisis” is by no means an accident, but one link in the chain of political events which could escalate into social turmoil, Thierry Meyssan, French intellectual, founder and chairman of Voltaire Network and the Axis for Peace Conference, writes. The Lebanese government is trying to find the way out of the country’s 7-month-long trash crisis, which “suddenly” began in August 2015. According to Meyssan, there is serious trouble brewing in Lebanon. “Over the last seven months however, the country has been shaken by the ‘garbage crisis’ and the resulting demonstrations which could have led to a second ‘Cedar Revolution,’ then by a crisis of confidence with Saudi Arabia and its allies, and finally by the international accusations against Hezbollah,” the journalist notes, adding that the combination of the three events looks rather sinister. Fanning the flames of the ongoing crisis, Saudi Arabia forbade its subjects to travel to Lebanon under the pretext of Beirut’s “inappropriate” reaction to Riyadh’s decapitation of peaceful cleric Nimr al-Nimr. The execution of al-Nimr prompted a wave of indignation among the Shiite populations of the world, including Lebanon.
March 17, 2016
http://sputniknews.com/politics/20160317/1036479607/lebanon-economic-political-crisis.html
Saudi Arabia
Headline: U.N. Condemns Airstrikes That Killed 106 in Yemen
Headline: Saudi Arabia to scale down military operations in Yemen
The top United Nations human rights official condemned the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen on Friday, citing repeated attacks on civilian targets in airstrikes, including an attack on a crowded village market this week that killed 106 people. United Nations officials who went to the site of the attack on Tuesday in Hajjah Province found that airstrikes there had killed 106 people, including 24 children, making them the deadliest episode in the coalition’s yearlong intervention. The Saudis are backing the contested government of President Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi against rebels, known as the Houthis, who are aligned with the former President Ali Abdullah Saleh. The Saudis have been pressuring the United States for support in the conflict, saying that their archrival, Iran, is backing the Houthis. United Nations officials recorded the names of 96 people who died in the strikes, and they found 10 more bodies that were burned beyond recognition. An additional 40 people were wounded, “but that may be a low estimate,” said Rupert Colville, a spokesman for the high commissioner for human rights, Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein. The Saudi-led coalition has repeatedly denied striking civilian targets during operations against Houthi rebels and affiliated forces. But United Nations officials said they had found no evidence of any military targets near the scene of the airstrikes, and Mr. al-Hussein said that may amount to a violation of international law.
March 18, 2016
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/19/world/middleeast/yemen-airstrikes-civilians-un.html?_r=0
Egypt
Headline: Six Egyptian policemen killed in three ISIS attacks in Sinai
Headline: El-Sisi tells West to keep out of Libya
In three separate incidents in the northern part of the Sinai Peninsula on Thursday morning, six Egyptian policemen were killed and about 10 were injured in ISIS attacks using roadside bombs, sniper fire on police positions and mortar fire on a police base. Egyptian newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm added that three ISIS gunmen were killed in a shootout with policemen in the town of Sheikh Zuwayed. Meanwhile, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi has warned Western powers Libya could spiral out of control if they try to intervene militarily in the conflict-wracked North African state. Speaking in a rare interview, the military-backed ruler of one of the region’s biggest powers said the West and its allies should instead concentrate on strengthening the army of Libya’s internationally recognized government and let it do the job of stabilising the country.
March 18, 2016
http://debka.com/newsupdatepopup/15504/Six-Egyptian-policemen-killed-in-three-ISIS-attacks-in-Sinai
http://www.arabnews.com/middle-east/news/896936
Syria Iraq ISIS- the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (the Levant) ISIS=ISIL=IS=Daash
Iraq Syria Kurdistan
Syria Headline: ISIS claims killing 5 Russian troops near Palmyra
Syria Headline: Russia says groundwork laid for routing Islamic State in Syria’s Palmyra
The Islamic State (ISIS) group has claimed the killing of five Russian troops in fighting near the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra. “The soldiers of the caliphate, by the grace of God, have killed five Russian soldiers and six members” of the Syrian army, ISIS said in a statement. The group also claimed the killing of several members of the Lebanese Iran-proxy Hezbollah terror group in fighting near Palmyra. A website linked to ISIS, Aamaq, carried a similar claim, adding that one of the Russians killed was a military adviser. “Four of the Russian soldiers were killed in Qasr al-Halabat west of Palmyra during an attempt to storm the area that ISIS forces foiled, while the adviser whose corpse was shown in a video distributed by the agency died (Thursday) in the Dawa area,” Aamaq claimed. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said that Russian advisers were present near Palmyra, but could not confirm whether any Russian forces had been killed there in recent days.
March 18, 2016
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/209583
Syria Headline: Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
https://www.facebook.com/syriahroe http://syriahr.com/en/category/news
http://syriahr.com/en/category/news/
Iraq Headline: Followers of Iraqi cleric Sadr rally in Baghdad
Thousands of Iraqis staged a protest on Friday outside the capital Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone to demand anti-corrpution measures, heeding a call by influential Shiiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. At around 11 a.m. (0800 GMT), riot police stood aside and allowed leaders of the demonstrators to cut and pull aside barbed wire barriers to allow them to cross a bridge that leads to the zone, which houses government offices, the parliament and embassies. “Let’s get rid of them, they’re all thieves!”, chanted the demonstrators as they rushed across the bridge, aiming to hold their weekly Friday prayer at a Green Zone gate that leads to the parliament building. The Interior Ministry earlier said it had not authorized any sit-down protest, amid concern about clashes with the forces guarding the zone. Sadr earlier rejected the calls to cancel a planned sit-in of the Green Zone, which he called “a bastion of support for corruption.” He published a statement on his website on Thursday in response to politicians who asked him to drop the protest over concern that it could lead to violence near the sensitive district, which houses government offices and embassies. Sadr called for the sit-in last week to press Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to replace cabinet ministers with technocrats unaffiliated with political parties in order to counter systemic political patronage that has abetted corruption.
March 18, 2016
Kurdish Headline: Russia backs self-ruling Kurdish buffer state at Turkey’s back door
Kurdish Headline: Kurdish-controlled areas declare federation in Syria’s north
Kurdish Headline: Russia Sends Arms to Iraqi Kurds for IS Fight
Kurdish Headline: Syrian rebels condemn Kurdish-led moves towards regional autonomy
Just four days after drawing down the bulk of Russian forces in Syria, President Vladimir Putin was quietly redrawing the Syrian map on federal lines, and planting Russian influence in its first semiautonomous region. debkafile’s intelligence sources report that the Russian leader’s hand was behind the establishment of the Syrian Kurdish federal region on March 17, at a meeting of Kurdish Democratic Union Party leaders in the Syrian town of Rmeilan. The new self-ruling entity covers three Kurdish-controlled enclaves:: Jazira, Hassakeh and Qamishli and the two cities of Kobani and Afrin, They include areas captured in battle from the Islamic State. One of the DUP leaders, Nawaf Khalil, noted the presence at the ceremony of representatives of the three enclaves, some parts of which are still controlled either by the Syrian army, Syrian rebel groups or ISIS. The Syrian Kurds are expected next to fight, with Russian backing, to connect the three enclaves into a contiguous self-ruled territory 500-kilometer long, adjacent to the Turkish border. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has warned repeatedly that Ankara would not tolerate the establishment of Kurdish self-rule in Syria and would send his army across the border to prevent it. Our sources report that Putin has assured Kurdish leaders that the Russian air force would be there to defend the new region if Turkey invaded.
***SEE ALSO TURKEY BELOW
We are watching this very closely because if the Kurds remain and hold their autonomy, then it would be more plausible that Scripture is pointing to Kurdistan rather than Iran as the “kingdom of the North” however the wrench in the gear would be if Iran goes after the Kurds and retakes the land, then it would be Iran that the Lord is revealing.http://endtimesresearchministry.com/the-kurds-in-prophecy-special-post-september-6-2014/
https://www.rt.com/news/335951-kurds-federal-system-syria/
http://www.voanews.com/content/russia-sends-arms-iraqi-kurds-fight-islamic-state/3242588.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 invasion of Israel.
Magog, Meshech, and Tubal comprise modern day Turkey.
Persia is Iran, parts of northern Iraq, and Afghanistan.
Cush is Ethiopia and Sudan.
Put is Libya and will most likely include Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco.
Gomer is Eastern Turkey.
Beth Togarmah is Armenia.
Turkey
Headline: Lives shattered, homes destroyed: Ankara’s anti-Kurd military op mapped out
Headline: Turkey’s Erdogan urges Europe to stop backing Kurdish rebels
People killed in crossfire, burned alive in basements. Tanks in the streets and indefinite curfews – Kurds in Turkey’s southeast have been living a nightmare ever since Ankara started a crackdown on Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants in August 2015. The map is based on a report by the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey from January 2016. It recorded curfews in Turkey’s south-east between August 16, 2015 and January 21,2016. The second-largest city in southeastern Turkey with highly-developed infrastructure, Diyarbakir is gradually becoming a city of the dead and missing. The unofficial capital of the Kurdish area of Turkey, the city has seen repeated shelling since July 2015. It was placed under two curfews in December. On March 16, following clashes between Kurdish militants and Turkish forces, Ankara once again imposed an indefinite curfew in some parts of the city. Ever since the military operations were launched in the city,“tens of thousands” of people have been forced to flee their homes, according to reports from Republican Peoples Party (CHP) said.
March 18, 2016
https://www.rt.com/news/336082-turkey-crackdown-kurds-map/
Afghanistan
Headline: Taliban claims to have shot down US helicopter in southern Afghanistan
Headline: US Denies Taliban Claim it Shot Down NATO Helicopter
Taliban extremists claim they have shot down a US helicopter in southern Afghanistan, reports on social media say, adding that all American soldiers on board were allegedly “killed on the spot.” The incident is said to have taken place in the Shawal Manda area of Nad Ali district in Helmand province, the largest province in Afghanistan. According to unconfirmed social media reports, four soldiers aboard the helicopter were killed in the incident. Meanwhile, a helicopter belonging to NATO-led forces made a “hard” landing in southern Afghanistan Friday, but all personnel on board “have been recovered with no casualties,” a U.S. military spokesman said, dismissing Taliban claims of shooting down the aircraft.
March 18, 2016
https://www.rt.com/news/336059-us-helicopter-downed-afghanistan/
http://www.voanews.com/content/us-denies-taliban-claim-of-shooting-down-helicopter/3243308.html
Sudan
Headline: Sudan Threatens to Close Border with South Sudan
Sudan is threatening to close its border with South Sudan and deport more than 300,000 South Sudanese students on grounds that the South is supporting rebels fighting the government of President Omar al-Bashir. Ibrahim Mohamud Hamid, a senior assistant to Bashir, aired the accusation and warnings on Thursday. South Sudan’s Foreign Minister Barnaba Marial Benjamin denied his government is supporting rebels of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army, or SPLA North, who are fighting the Sudanese government in Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile states. Marial, speaking to VOA’s South Sudan in Focus program, said his country is working to bring peace to Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile. “President Salva (Kiir) and the government are fully committed to see that there is peace in Sudan and peace in South Sudan,” he said. “And the president is very clear that we will not support any armed insurgency against the Republic of Sudan.” Sudan and South Sudan signed a cooperation agreement four years ago to stop supporting rebels in each other’s territory, to promote trade and to create two viable states. But the border was closed until earlier this year, when Sudanese President Bashir ordered it open to help the South cope with its ongoing economic crisis, caused by the country’s civil war.
March 17, 2016
http://www.voanews.com/content/sudan-threatens-to-close-borders-with-south-sudan-again/3241864.html
Libya
Headline: EU Leaders Discuss Scaling Up Libya Naval Operation
European leaders discussed powering up the bloc’s naval operation to fight people-smuggling gangs off the Libyan coast on Friday, as they sought to prevent a pickup of migrant flows from North Africa into Europe, people familiar with the discussions said. U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron told EU leaders gathered in Brussels on Thursday night that he was prepared to extend the mission of Royal Navy vessel HMS Enterprise in the central Mediterranean at least until the summer and wanted to see it deployed in Libyan territorial waters. Mr. Cameron discussed Libya early afternoon on Friday with the leaders of France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Malta. EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini also attended. An EU official said Ms. Mogherini told the leaders she will call a joint meeting of EU foreign and defense ministers on Libya on April 18 in Luxembourg to discuss the bloc’s plans. The EU launched Operation Sophia in May 2015 as part of its response to the migration crisis. At the time, hundreds were dying every month on a treacherous sea journey across the Mediterranean from Libya into Europe. The success of the operation has been hampered by the continuing conflict in Libya, where two rival factions are vying for power and who have so far resisted United Nations-led efforts to broker a unity government. That has meant the EU has been unable to win Libyan government permission to expand the mission. While the naval operation is now able to stop, seize and arrest suspected smugglers on boats carrying migrants in the high seas, it is not able to operate in Libyan waters. That permission could only come once a unity government is in place in Libya.
March 18, 2016
http://www.wsj.com/articles/france-says-more-eu-talks-on-libya-crisis-1458304885
Algeria
Headline: Militants Attack Algeria Gas Plant, No Casualties
Headline: Russia to supply 40 Mi-28 attack helicopters to Algeria: Interfax
Unknown attackers fired rockets at a natural gas plant in southern Algeria Friday but there are no reports of casualties. The facility is jointly operated by three energy firms, including Norway’s Statoil. Statoil said in a statement that the In Salah gas plant in Krechba “was hit by explosive munitions fired from a distance” at about 6 a.m. local time. It said its three employees in Krechba are unharmed, and that it has no information about anyone else being injured during the attack.
March 18, 2016
http://www.voanews.com/content/militant-attack-algeria-gas-plant-no-casualties/3243360.html
Morocco
Headline: War looms in Western Sahara
Tensions are boiling over in the Western Sahara, a region Morocco has occupied since 1976, and local Sahrawi groups warn that if the UN pulls out its troops from the region in a concession to the Moroccan government, war will likely follow. Morocco has occupied the region since it was handed to its troops by Spain, when Madrid ended its colony there. The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) holds a government-in-exile in Algeria, arguing for its rights to rule over the region, and the Algerian-backed Polisario Front has been fighting for independence in the disputed territory. If the UN ends its peacekeeping mission in the vast and mineral-rich Western Sahara that would be “the shortest way to the resumption of war,” warned Polisario Front’s UN representative Ahmed Boukhari, as reported by Associated Press on Friday. “If there is no mission, there is a vacuum and an invitation to war,” he warned, calling on the UN Security Council to maintain the UN presence in the region. Morocco on Thursday ordered the UN to evacuate its 84 international peacekeepers within three days from Western Sahara, and announced Morocco is cancelling $3 million in funding for the UN operation.
March 18, 2016
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/209584
Luke 21:9 and Matthew 24:7 speak ofnation 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: Mass rallies as Brazil political crisis deepens
Brazil faced a deepening political crisis and mass street protests Friday as opponents and backers of President Dilma Rousseff mobilized after lawmakers renewed efforts to drive her from office.
With Rousseff fighting an impeachment drive and financial markets apparently betting on a collapse of her government, her embattled left-wing support base vowed to take to the streets Friday.
Late Thursday, police in Brasilia fired tear gas and stun grenades to keep at bay angry protesters demanding her resignation. The ongoing protests capped a day of political drama as lawmakers relaunched impeachment proceedings against Rousseff, 68. The courts, meanwhile, blocked her bid to bring her powerful predecessor Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva into the cabinet. Scores of protesters camped overnight near the headquarters of the anti-Rousseff FIESP industry federation in Sao Paulo, vowing to stay put until she quits.“We are going to protest like they did in Ukraine. There will be more of us tomorrow,” said one protester, Cristiane Galvao, 44, member of a group called Beloved Homeland Brazil.
March 18, 2016
http://www.arabnews.com/featured/news/897086
Headline: 3 Niger Police Killed in Attack Near Border
Three policemen have been killed in an attack on Niger security forces near the border with Nigeria, Burkina Faso and Mali. Niger’s Ministry of Defense made the statement on public television Thursday. Colonel Ledru Moustapha said in the statement the attack was launched by assailants who arrived on four motorcycles and in a Toyota pickup truck. In an earlier attack, three members of Niger’s defense forces were wounded and five suicide bombers were killed Wednesday in an ambush in the Diffa region authorities have blamed on Boko Haram. The attacks come just before Niger voters go to the polls Sunday for a presidential runoff vote.
March 18, 2016
http://www.voanews.com/content/niger-police-killed-in-attack-near-border/3243253.html
Wars & Rumors of Wars Matthew 24:6 , Revelation 6:3-4 & Revelation 6:8“ And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.” Revelation 6:3-4 speaks of the fiery red horse given power to make men slay one another and Revelation 6:8 speaks again of this red horse in conjunction with the pale horse of Death and Hades, as the one that has the power to kill by sword. Prophecy Sign: Weapons of Mass DestructionZechariah 14:12 “And this shall be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the people who fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh shall dissolve while they stand on their feet, Their eyes shall dissolve in their sockets, And their tongues shall dissolve in their mouths.”
Headline: North Korea conducts yet another missile test
Headline: North Korea developing ballistic missiles, Joint Chiefs chairman says
North Korea on Friday morning (local time) fired a ballistic missile into the sea off its eastern coast Friday, just days after its leader Kim Jong-Un ordered further nuclear warhead and missile tests, AFP reports. The report was based on South Korea’s defense ministry, whose spokesman said the missile was launched from Sukchon in the country’s southwest and flew 800 kilometers (500 miles) into the East Sea, also called the Sea of Japan. The spokesman did not confirm the type of missile, but South Korea’s Yonhap news agency cited military sources as saying it was a Rodong missile, a scaled up Scud variant with a maximum range of around 1,300 kilometers. Kim has upped his rhetoric in recent days, saying last week his country now possesses nuclear warheads small enough to fit on ballistic missiles. The previous week, Kim ordered his country to be prepared to use nuclear weapons “at any time”.
March 18, 2016
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/209563
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: Global Government Debt Is Actually Triple What We Thought, Thanks to Pensions
Government debt in 20 industrialized countries stands at $44 trillion. But it’s actually a lot more than that, according to a new report. After factoring in public pension and other retirement liabilities, the debt levels nearly triple to a staggering $122 trillion. That’s the math according to a new report from Citigroup Inc report called, “The Coming Pensions Crisis,” which analyzed government pension liabilities from 20 countries that are members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development . “It is really a ticking time bomb,” said Charles Millard, Citi’s head of pension relations and former head of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, the U.S. safety net for private-sector pensions. To put the unstated debt levels in perspective: The additional unstated $78 trillion in retirement-related debt is equivalent to a single year of global economic output. Citi researchers measured government pension liabilities, a combination of Social Security and public-sector pension obligations, finding the average country was carrying retirement debt of 190% versus gross domestic product—well above a 100% threshold that many experts consider concerning.
March 17, 2016
March 13, 2016- Hundreds of dead fish found washed ashore along McPhee Reservoir in Colorado
http://www.durangoherald.com/article/20160313/NEWS01/160319814&template=mobileart
March 15, 2016- Thousands of fish and crocodiles dead as river runs dry in Yadgir, India
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/fish-crocodile-dead-as-bhima-runs-dry/article8354808.ece
March 15, 2016- Hundreds of dead fish washing up at Cape Canaveral and Cocoa Beach in Florida
http://news.brevardtimes.com/2016/03/dead-fish-wash-up-on-cocoa-beach.html
March 16, 2016- Sea bird die off now up to 36,000 in Alaska
http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/scientists-continue-researching-seabird-death-mystery-in-alaska-1.2819117
March 16, 2016- Hundreds of dead crows found near Battle Creek in Michigan
http://www.wzzm13.com/news/local/michigan-dnr-investigating-hundreds-of-dead-crows/85683861
March 17, 2016- Large die off of fish along coastline in Kimberley, Australia
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-03-17/kimberley-fish-kill-mystery-fisheries-department-says/7253930
March 17, 2016- Large amount of dead fish found washed up on a beach in Rayong, Thailand
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Fishermen-seek-probe-into-large-number-of-dead-fis-30281779.html
Bee and butterfly populations are dwindling: crops, the economy, and the future of the world are beginning to feel the effects
March 15, 2016
http://www.naturalnews.com/053308_butterflies_pollinators_glyphosate_weedkiller.html#
Headline: What Is Causing Deadly Bacterial Infections In Wisconsin?
There’s a deadly bacterial infection going around in 12 Wisconsin counties. The bacteria, called Elizabethkingia anophelis, has sickened 54 people, killing 17 of them, since November 1 of last year. And no one knows why it’s happening. The symptoms of Elizabethkingia infection, like those of many other bacterial infections, can include fever, shortness of breath, chills or an infection of the skin tissues called cellulitis, according to the Wisconsin Department of Health Services. To be sure it’s Elizabethkingia and not other bacteria causing the infection, patients need their blood tested by a healthcare professional. Officials have some clues as to why Elizabethkingia is affecting people. Most of the infected patients are over 65 and have another major health issue, indicating that the bacteria could infect them because their immune systems are compromised—scientists know that Elizabethkingia is opportunistic, based on previous outbreaks. But the bacteria are fairly common in the environment—it’s the predominant bacterial species in thegut of some kinds of mosquito, and it’s often found in soil. That makes researchers question just what’s going on here that makes it so deadly. And officials haven’t found any similarities—some were in nursing homes and some were not, some were infected while in the hospital and others weren’t, according to the Washington Post. The cases are geographically spread out. Tests of water—the source of some outbreaks in hospitals in the past—came back negative. And yet, almost all the bacteria have the same genetic code, indicating that they very likely came from the same source, Stat News reports. That means that officials are going to have to investigate a huge number of other factors, including medications and food, in order to find a pattern. This Elizabethkingia outbreak, the largest and most deadly to date, is particularly disturbing because the bacteria are resistant to most antibiotics, making it difficult to treat even if it’s caught early.
March 17, 2016
http://www.popsci.com/scientists-are-stumped-by-this-bacteria-killing-people-in-wisconsin
Headline: Ebola outbreak: Guinea confirms two new cases
Two new Ebola cases have been confirmed in Guinea, almost three months after it celebrated the end of the outbreak. Three other members of the family are suspected to have recently died from the virus. The cases were reported in the southern region of Nzerekore, where the outbreak began in December 2013. The new cases were reported by the World Health Organization (WHO) hours after it declared the latest Ebola flare-up to be over in Sierra Leone. A risk of new flare-ups remains because Ebola can persist in body fluids of some survivors for months after they recover. A very small number of new cases have been linked to sexual transmission. The world is in new territory here – scientists are still learning as the worst Ebola outbreak in history continues to unfold.
March 18, 2016
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-35840782
Headline: Brazil says confirmed and suspected microcephaly cases rise to 5,131
Headline: Zika Virus in the U.S.: New Report Suggests the Mosquito-borne Illnesses Poses a Threat to at Least 50 Cities
The number of confirmed and suspected cases of microcephaly in Brazil associated with the Zika virus has risen to 5,131 from 4,976 a week earlier, the Ministry of Health said on Friday. Of these, the number of confirmed cases climbed to 863 from 745 a week earlier, while suspected ones increased to 4,268 from 4,231 in the same period.
March 18, 2016
Headline: Stabbing Surge Stumps NYC Police, Sows Fear Among Residents
New York City has seen a 20 percent increase in stabbings this year compared with last, and police say they don’t understand why it’s happening or what to do about it. While most of the attacks are part of domestic disputes in homes, random assaults without apparent motives are on the rise. As of March 13, police recorded 809 incidents, up from 673 last year. So far there have been 20 attacks in the subways — nine more than last year — including a fatal encounter Wednesday in a Harlem station. Kitchen knives, screw drivers, box cutters and machetes are among the weapons used. The stabbings have overshadowed a promising trend showing a 23 percent decline in homicides and a 12 percent drop in shootings compared to last year. Tabloids reporting a stabbing almost every day in the most populous U.S. city have heightened the police department’s concern about their impact on the public. “The numbers are relatively very small, but stabbings are occurring all over the city,” Robert Boyce, the department’s chief of detectives, said in a telephone interview. “The random nature of some of these crimes affect everyone because it’s disturbing when it happens to just regular folks.”
March 18, 2016
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 greatearthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; andfearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.” Luke21:25“And there will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring”
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Headline: What’s shaking? List & map of USGS Earthquakes