JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER. 1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
I HOPE ISRAEL FLOODS GAZAS TUNNELS.
REVELATION VERESE BY VERSE BY DR JACK AND REXELLA VAN IMPE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIYtJAUUx0o&list=PLQ6QjtBzr5_eln4Wwdyqw8niA97w7bpv6
TAPE 1 - REV CH 1 - 4:6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4egxDQbC-Po&list=PLQ6QjtBzr5_eln4Wwdyqw8niA97w7bpv6&ind
TAPE 2 - REV CH 4:7-8 TO 9:31
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAHF8qRW_0c&list=PLQ6QjtBzr5_eln4Wwdyqw8niA97w7bpv6&index=3
TAPE 3 - REV CH 10:1 TO 14:1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8nvow7gDsI
TAPE 4 - REV CH 14:2 TO REV 18:25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jzejO8qr1g
TAPE 5 - REV CH 19:1 TO REV 22:20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFSaL7wuOZU&list=PLQ6QjtBzr5_eln4Wwdyqw8niA97w7bpv6&index=6
TAPE 1 - REVELATION RUMBLINGS
DANIEL VERSE BY VERSE BY DR JACK AND REXELLA VAN IMPE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zvrylU6E2A
TAPE 1 - DAN 1:1 TO DAN 3:30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dySOniNlbjA
TAPE 2 - DAN 4:1 TO DAN 6:28
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPlfIHcQVrE
TAPE 3 - DAN 7:1 TO DAN 9:27
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHB_jtS6NF8
TAPE 4 - DAN 10:1 TO DAN 12:13
DISEASES-ANIMAL TO HUMAN
REVELATION 6:7-8 (500 MILLION DEAD EACH FROM THE 4 JUDGEMENTS)(2 BILLION TOT DEAD HERE)
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8
And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that
sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given
unto them over the fourth part of the earth,(2 billion) of (8 billion)
to kill with sword,(WEAPONS)(500 million) and with hunger,(FAMINE)(500
million) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES)(500 million) and with the
beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE)(500 million).
GAYS MARRYING-EVERYBODY CAN JOIN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/pope-francis-opens-meeting-on-future-of-catholic-church-by-saying-everyone-must-be-allowed-in/
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=POPE+FRANCIS+ANYBODY+CAN+JOIN+THE+CATHOLIC+CURCH+VIDEO&t=newext&atb=v387-1&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DMKh2nNVjV24
JVI THE FINAL POPE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIY8wdebNqo
REVELATION 12:1-17 (SATAN BOOTED TO EARTH - GREATEST PERSECUSSION OF ISRAEL EVER)
1
And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the
sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve
stars:
2 And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
3
And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red
dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his
heads.
4 And his tail (SATANS)drew the third part of the stars of
heaven,(1/3RD OF ANGELS FELL WITH SATAN AT THE FALL WHO ARE DEMONIC
FALLIN ANGELS-DEMONS) and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon
stood before the woman (ISRAEL) which was ready to be delivered, for to
devour her child as soon as it was born.(SATANS LAST HOLOCAUST TO TRY TO
DESTROY ISRAEL FOREVER)
5 And she brought forth a man child,(MARY
DID-JESUS WHO IS(JEWISH) who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron:
and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.
6 And the
woman (MARY WHOS JEWISH REPRESENTING ISRAEL)fled into the wilderness,
where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a
thousand two hundred and threescore days.(3 1/2 YRS PROTECTED IN PETRA
JORDAN)
7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.
9
And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil,
and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the
earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
10 And I heard a loud
voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the
kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our
brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
11
And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of
their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
12
Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the
inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto
you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short
time.
13 And when the dragon (SATAN) saw that he was cast unto the
earth, he persecuted the woman (MARY) which brought forth the man child.
(JESUS IS JEWISH)(ISRAEL PERSECUTED THE WORST IN HISTORY YET)
14 And
to the woman (ISRAEL) were given two wings of a great eagle, that she
might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished
for a time, and times, and half a time,(3 1/2 YRS) from the face of the
serpent.(PROTECTED FOR 3 1/2 YRS IN PETRA JORDAN)
15 And the serpent
cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might
cause her to be carried away of the flood.(A TSUNAMI I BELIEVE SATAN
WILL TRY TO DESTROY ISRAEL WITH)
16 And the earth helped the woman,
and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the
dragon cast out of his mouth.(GOD PROBABLY CREATES A QUAKE TO STOP THE
TSUNAMI WATERS)
17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went
to make war with the remnant of her seed,(SAVED) which keep the
commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
ISRAEL
DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS 2ND STORY GUY. FLOOD THEM OUT. IN THE FUTURE.
SATAN WILL TRY TO FLOOD ALL YOU ISRAELIS OUT WITH A TSUNAMI. BUT GOD
WILL CAUSE AN EARTHQUAKE TO OCCUR. AND SWALLOW UP THE WATER.AND PROTEC
HIS PEOPLE ISRAELIS. AND GOD WILL THEN FLY USE OVER TO PETRA TO PROTECT
USE FOR 3 1/2 YEARS.
Regarding the female hostages,
'we know why we are worried'-IDF chief: Flooding Gaza tunnels with
seawater ‘a good idea’; Khan Younis surrounded-Halevi says military
moving to ‘3rd phase’ of ground offensive, while working to prevent harm
to Strip’s civilians; IDF fighting ‘justified war’ and ‘the world
enables us to do so’By Emanuel Fabian 5 Dec 2023, 9:11 pm 1
Israel
Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi appeared to confirm
on Tuesday a report that Israel aims to flood Hamas’s tunnel network in
the Gaza Strip, calling it “a good idea.”“We are seeing a lot of
underground infrastructure in Gaza, we knew there would be a lot. Part
of the goal is to destroy this infrastructure,” Halevi said in response
to a question at a press conference, regarding a report in The Wall
Street Journal.“We have various ways [to deal with the tunnels], I won’t
talk about specifics, but they include explosives to destroy, and other
means to prevent Hamas operatives from using the tunnels to harm our
soldiers,” he said.“Therefore, any means which give us an advantage over
the enemy that [uses the tunnels], deprives it of this asset, is a
means that we are evaluating using. This is a good idea, but I won’t
comment on its specifics,” Halevi added.Quoting US officials, the
Journal reported that the IDF set up five large water pumps last month
near the al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, which are capable of
flooding the tunnels within weeks by pumping thousands of cubic meters
of water per hour into them.The officials said Israel alerted the US
about the plan last month, but has not yet decided whether to implement
it.Speaking to the press, Halevi said Tuesday that the military was
encircling southern Gaza’s Khan Younis as it launched the “third phase”
of its ground offensive against Hamas in the Strip.Israel has vowed to
topple Hamas after Palestinian terrorists stormed across the border from
Gaza on October 7, slaughtered some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and
took around 240 hostages.“After 60 days since the beginning of the war,
our forces are surrounding the Khan Younis area in southern Gaza. At
the same time, we are working to deepen the achievement in the northern
part of the Strip. Anyone who thought that the IDF would not know how to
resume the fighting after the truce was mistaken. Hamas is feeling this
strongly,” Halevi said.“In the last few days, many operatives,
including senior commanders, were eliminated,” he said.On Tuesday
evening, the IDF released footage and a photograph showing senior Hamas
commanders inside the terror group’s tunnels in the northern part of the
Gaza Strip several months ago, and said five of those in the picture
were killed in Israeli airstrikes since the war began, including Wael
Rajab, the deputy commander of Hamas’s northern Gaza brigade.Said
Halevi: “We captured many Hamas strongholds in northern Gaza, and now we
are operating against its centers of gravity in the south.”“We are
operating with professionalism, clearing the [Palestinian] population
ahead of time from the combat areas. We are striking Hamas above and
below ground, from the air, land, and sea,” he said.The commander of the
army’s southern command said earlier that troops were operating “in the
heart of Khan Younis,” calling Tuesday the most intense day of fighting
yet.“They ask us a lot about the destruction in Gaza. Hamas is the
address, [Hamas leader Yahya] Sinwar is the address. Our forces find in
nearly every home weapons, terrorists. We understand that part of their
way of operating is to leave weapons in the homes, a terrorist comes to
the home in civilian clothing, and fights from there,” Halevi said.“This
requires heavy firepower, to strike the enemy and to protect our
forces. That’s why they are operating with great power, but at the same
time working to avoid harm to those who are uninvolved, as much as
possible,” he said.Responding to a question regarding the entry of aid
to the Gaza Strip amid the ground offensive, Halevi said the IDF is
making “great efforts” to ensure it is only fighting Hamas, and not
harming the Palestinian civilian population.“Our enemy is Hamas, not the
population in the Gaza Strip, and therefore there is humanitarian aid
including fuel, which allows the hospitals, water pumps, purification
plants, to prevent diseases that can spread,” he said.“It is important
to note that the State of Israel, and the IDF, are operating in a
justified war, and we live in a world that enables us to do this, and
understands our justified war. As long as we differentiate between the
enemy and the population, we will be able to deepen our achievements, to
fight more, find more [Hamas] commanders, to destroy more
infrastructure,” Halevi added.The rising death toll and unfolding
humanitarian crisis in Gaza have sparked outrage in much of the world.
The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says Israel’s military campaign,
in response to the terror group’s murderous attacks, has killed more
than 16,000 people so far, most of them women and children. Those
figures cannot be independently verified, and are believed to include
both Hamas terrorists and civilians, and people killed as a consequence
of terror groups’ own rocket misfires.According to military estimates,
some 5,000 Hamas members have been killed in the Gaza Strip, in addition
to more than 1,000 killed in Israel during the October 7 onslaught.In
his statement, Halevi said the IDF’s military pressure on Hamas has
advanced the goals of the war, including the return of the hostages.“We
are doing everything to return the hostages,” he said.Responding to a
question on the well-being of the hostages, Halevi said the IDF is
working constantly to find out information on the hostages.“We don’t
have full information of course. We are working to release them, and not
to harm them,” he said.“Regarding the female hostages, we have great
concern for everyone who is held by Hamas. And we know why we are
worried,” he added, in an apparent reference to claims of sexual
violence against those being held in Gaza.Though the army’s focus
remains on the Gaza Strip, Halevi said operations were continuing in the
north, where hostilities have also resumed since a weeklong truce ended
on Friday.Halevi said the military knew in advance that Hezbollah would
resume its attacks. “We prepared for this, and we are operating with
determination against anyone who is preparing or carrying out attacks on
civilians or soldiers,” he said. “We are exacting a heavy price from
Hezbollah, which the group tries to hide, it knows why.”Halevi said the
IDF was working to allow civilians to return to their homes in border
communities in the north and south as soon as possible.“We know we will
need more forces on the border, better abilities… This is what we will
do,” he said. “We will do everything to amend what was harmed. For the
murdered, it’s too late. But for the living, for the continued living in
Israel, these amends are necessary.”Turning to an incident in Jerusalem
last week, in which civilian Yuval Castleman was killed by a reservist
who mistook him for a terrorist, Halevi said soldiers should not shoot
at someone putting their hands up.Staff Sgt. (res.) Aviad Frija was one
of two off-duty troops who responded to a terror attack at a Jerusalem
bus stop on Thursday, shooting at the two assailants but also at
Castleman, an armed civilian who had also opened fire first at the
terrorists.Yuval Castleman. (Courtesy)-Frija, who opened fire at
Castleman after he had put his gun down and was holding his hands in the
air, was arrested Monday.Halevi said the military shows its
appreciation for Castleman’s “brave” action in taking down the Hamas
gunmen. “This truly is heroism,” he said.“At the same time, we emphasize
the need to stick to the basic and required rules in complex situations
like these, shooting in a civilian environment,” he said. “Do not shoot
when the threat is lowered, and we do not shoot at those who put their
hands up.”He noted that the incident, during the Jerusalem terror
attack, was still under investigation.On the West Bank, Halevi said the
military has seen major success against terror. He said more than 1,200
Hamas members have been arrested in recent weeks, and many others who
were planning attacks, or had carried them out, were killed.
Flooding
Hamas tunnels could harm Gaza’s freshwater for generations, warns
academic-Experts call on defense establishment to carefully weigh
environmental impacts of reported plan to flush terrorists out of vast
underground network-By Sue Surkes 5 December 2023, 10:35 pm 9
Environmental
experts called on the defense establishment Tuesday to carefully weigh
the long-term environmental implications of reported plans to flood the
immense network of tunnels in the Gaza Strip with seawater to flush the
terrorists out.Quoting US officials, The Wall Street Journal reported
Monday that the Israeli army last month set up five large water pumps
near the al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, which are capable of
flooding the tunnels within weeks by pumping thousands of cubic meters
of water per hour into them.Under normal circumstances, rain falls to
earth and percolates down into subterranean storage areas, or aquifers.
This groundwater is pumped up into wells to supply drinking water.Gaza
is home to more than two million people and is one of the most densely
populated places on earth. The enclave’s only sweet-water supply comes
from a shallow aquifer running parallel to the Mediterranean coast.That
has been so overpumped and the subterranean water levels have dropped so
far that seawater has entered the aquifer and mixed with the little
sweet-water that remains.The aquifer’s water quality has been further
eroded by sewage, and agricultural chemical runoff, to the extent that
97 percent of Gaza’s freshwater no longer meets World Health
Organization (WHO) water quality standards.Even before the war, most
Gazans relied on private water tankers and the yield of small
desalination plants for drinking water.Following Hamas’s invasion of
Israel on October 7, in which terrorists murdered some 1,200 people and
kidnapped 240 others, Israel turned off three pipelines carrying
drinking water into the strip. Under US pressure, it subsequently
reopened two of them, and during the recent pause in fighting to release
hostages, allowed in more of the fuel needed to pump the water from the
Israel-Gaza border into the enclave.Still, Gazans are desperately short
of clean water.Prof. (Emer.) Eilon Adar of the Zuckerberg Institute for
Water Research at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, in southern
Israel, said that further potential ecological damage to Gaza’s aquifer
by flooding the tunnels would depend on the quantity of water and the
reach.Stressing that he was neither an expert on the issue nor involved
with the Defense Ministry’s reported plans, he said that the pumping of a
relatively small amount of seawater affecting the area between the
Mediterranean coastline and the point where sea- and sweet-water were
mixing anyway would have minimal consequences.That latter point lies
anywhere from tens to several hundreds of meters inland from the Gazan
shore.But if several million cubic meters were pumped into the tunnels,
and seeped into the aquifer, “the negative impact on groundwater quality
would last for several generations, depending on the amount that
infiltrates into the subsurface,” he said.Israel would hardly feel the
effect, he went on, because the coastal aquifer’s water flows from
Israel to Gaza.Nevertheless, Adar added, he would “hesitate about
destroying a massive natural resource.”“As a citizen, despite the
disaster that we experienced on October 7, I still think that in the
long run — and we have to think of the future — it would be politically
and morally incorrect to have a thirsty neighbor,” he said.Another water
expert, who asked not to be named, said tunnels, carved out of porous
sand, would need to be flooded several times.Some of them were built to
bring terrorists into Israel, he added. If seawater entered those
sections, it could salinate Israeli wells close to the Gaza border.Prof.
Hadas Mamane, who heads the Environmental Engineering Program at Tel
Aviv University, said the environmental impacts of all options for
destroying the tunnels had to be considered, and their effects on the
air, water, soil, hydrology and ecology tested in advance.Blowing up
weaponry in the tunnels could also have environmental consequences, she
added, if dangerous toxic materials and heavy metals seeped into the
groundwater.“You don’t look at what’s best but what’s the least worst
solution,” she said.Both the IDF and the Defense Ministry said they had
no comment.The officials cited by The Wall Street Journal said Israel
had alerted the US about the plan last month, but had not yet decided on
whether to implement it.The report said opinions in the Biden
administration about the idea were mixed.It also noted it was unclear
whether the IDF would move to flood the tunnels before all of the
hostages that Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups abducted during
the October 7 onslaught were freed, due to the apparent risk that would
be posed to hostages being held underground.
Undeterred by heavy
snow, absent buses, thousands rally for Israel in Ottawa, Canada-Event
organizers decry antisemitism after company makes ‘shameful decision’ to
cancel charter buses expected to transport rally-goers
By David Lazarus 5 December 2023, 8:00 pm 1
MONTREAL,
Canada (JTA) — Despite a foot of snow in Montreal and chartered buses
that never showed up in Toronto, thousands of Canadian Jews assembled on
Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Monday to voice solidarity with Israel and
decry a rise in antisemitism.The rally’s speakers included several
prominent Canadian politicians, Jewish leaders, college students who
feel unsafe on campus and family members of Israelis taken hostage or
killed by Hamas on October 7.Local Jewish leaders called the event,
organized by Jewish federations across Canada and the Centre for Israel
and Jewish Affairs, a historic gathering. But 17 of 70 chartered buses
did not show up to pick up rally-goers in Toronto, just weeks after a
similar incident in Detroit before a massive pro-Israel rally in
Washington.Organizers called the no-show bus company
antisemitic.“Despite charging in full in advance and confirming its
participation, the company did not send a single bus and has declined
all communications while refusing to provide any explanations,” said
Adam Minsky, president and CEO of United Jewish Appeal Federations in
Toronto.“We are driven to the view that this shameful decision is
intended to disrupt our peaceful rally out of hatred toward Jews,” he
added. “What happened today is sickening and outrageous. We will respond
aggressively with every legal and public affairs tool at our
disposal.”Israel’s ambassador to Canada Iddo Moed, Liberal Party member
of parliament Anthony Housefather and deputy Conservative Party leader
Melissa Lantsman all spoke on Monday.“This is not 1943. I’m grateful
that Israel exists and has an army to fight back against those who
launched this pogrom,” said Housefather, who is Jewish and represents
Montreal’s heavily Jewish Mount Royal district.Raquel Look, whose son
Alexandre was murdered at the music festival in southern Israel attacked
by Hamas on October 7, called on Canadian politicians to take more
action against antisemitism. Hate crimes against Jews — including
multiple incidents that have involved Molotov cocktails thrown at
Montreal-area synagogues and Jewish centers — have spiked across
Canada.“Our sorrow is deep and immeasurable, but today we want to
channel this immense pain into a call for action,” Look said. “Please
let us honor his memory by standing up against the forces that seek to
destroy Jewish and Canadian values we hold so dear.”
Defense
minister establishes directorate to restore security to northern
Israel-Northern Horizon will strengthen security measures in communities
close to Lebanese border to lay the groundwork for tens of thousands of
displaced people to return home-By ToI Staff 5 December 2023, 7:08 pm 0
Defense
Minister Yoav Gallant on Tuesday announced the establishment of a new
directorate within the Defense Ministry that will focus on strengthening
security along Israel’s northern front.Israel’s northern communities
have been pummeled by rocket fire and shelling carried out by Hezbollah
and allied Palestinian groups during the ongoing war with Hamas in
Gaza.In a statement following a situational assessment on Tuesday,
Gallant announced that the directorate, dubbed Northern Horizon, will
work to strengthen and improve both civil and security infrastructure in
residential areas up to nine kilometers (5.6 miles) from the Lebanese
border, allowing an opportunity for displaced residents to return
home.The directorate will work to ensure that civilian standby units
receive improved training and weapons, and that communities are
fortified with new gates, fences, lookout posts and a primary operation
center with command capabilities.Some 200,000 people from the north and
south of Israel have been internally displaced since October 7, when
thousands of Hamas-led terrorists burst into southern Israel, killing
more than 1,200 people, seizing some 240 hostages and destroying
property across more than 20 different communities.In response, Israel
launched an aerial operation and subsequent ground campaign, vowing to
eliminate Hamas and bring the hostages home.At the IDF operated against
Hamas in Gaza, repeated skirmishes with Hezbollah and other groups on
the northern border led to the decision to evacuate residents from
dozens of northern communities, with no indication when they will be
able to return home.“In light of the complexity in the north and our
desire to create conditions to return residents to their homes, the
first action that needs to be made is to take care of everything that
happens in the communities; for their protection, for activity within
them, for a normal life, for the protection of the bloc and the
restoration of infrastructure,” Gallant said, and added that the project
will be implemented alongside additional security measures.The
directorate will work in cooperation with local municipalities and the
IDF, and decisions will be made following assessments of the security
situation as it continues to develop.It will aim to complete the work
started in 2018 during the government’s Defender of the North project.
Defender of the North was aimed at protecting public, institutional and
private buildings up to nine kilometers away from the northern
border.Since the start of the war with Hamas in Gaza, the northern
border has seen near-daily skirmishes as Hezbollah attempts to tie down
troops with a steady stream of low-level clashes and attacks.Since the
cross-border exchanges began, six soldiers and three civilians have been
killed on the Israeli side, and 107 people have been killed on the
Lebanese side, including at least 14 civilians, according to an AFP
tally.Hezbollah has said that 79 of its members have been killed since
the war’s outbreak in southern Lebanon.Emanual Fabian contributed to
this report.
Health Ministry says Hamas drugged released hostages
to make them appear happy-Knesset committee urges ministry to send
international health organizations an official report with evidence of
the drugging and other disturbing post-release medical findings-By Renee
Ghert-Zand 5 December 2023, 6:00 pm 2
At a Knesset Health
Committee meeting on Tuesday, a Health Ministry representative said that
the hostages recently freed from captivity in Gaza were given
tranquilizer pills by Hamas before their release.The drugging would have
been aimed to make the hostages appear calm and happy after suffering
physical abuse, deprivation, and psychological terror in Gaza for more
than 50 days.Dr. Hagar Mizrahi, head of the Health Ministry’s medical
division, specifically named the drug as Clonazepam. Known as Clonex in
Israel and sold under the brand names Klonopin and Rivotril elsewhere,
the drug is used to prevent and treat anxiety disorders, seizures,
bipolar mania, agitation associated with psychosis, and
obsessive-compulsive disorder.The ministry representative did not
disclose whether the drugging had been confirmed by blood tests done on
the released hostages at Israeli hospitals, from the freed hostages’
testimony, or both.Families of hostages speaking earlier to the
committee were the first to raise the issue.Health Committee Chairman MK
Yonatan Mashriki (Shas) urged the Health Ministry to send health
organizations around the world an official report detailing the evidence
of the drugging and other medical findings following the released
hostages’ return.Speaking before the committee, Shir Siegel described
some of the horrific experiences of her mother, Aviva Siegel, during her
51 days in captivity. Aviva and Keith Segal were seized by terrorists
from their home in Kfar Aza on October 7. Keith, 64, is still a
hostage.Calling the hostages’ situation a “Holocaust three hours from
here,” Shir Siegel said she could barely suffer listening to her
mother’s accounts of how the terrorists bound and beat her, and denied
her food and water.Her testimony echoed information shared with the
public by medical professionals caring for the released hostages in
Israeli hospitals. While at first hospital officials told the media that
the hostages had come back in “good physical health,” they are now
saying that this is not altogether accurate.Dr. Yael Mozer-Glassberg,
director of Israel’s pediatric liver transplantation service at
Schneider Children’s Medical Center, told a press conference on Monday
that “reports that everyone is giving that the returnees are in more or
less stable condition are not true.”A member of a team of six female
physicians, as well as nutritionists, psychologists, and social workers
who have attended to the 19 children and seven women brought to
Schneider, Mozer-Glassberg reported that the hostages had lost 10-15
percent of their body weight. After having been deprived of food and
water, some exhibited disordered eating upon their
return.Mozer-Glassberg said the freed hostages’ heads and bodies were
riddled with lice and rashes. The returnees had injuries that had become
infected due to a lack of proper care and access to hygiene.In a
television interview aired on Monday, Prof. Itai Pessach, head of the
Safra Children’s Hospital at Sheba Medical Center, said more than he had
in prior statements about the hostages’ medical condition, letting on
that some of them required considerable treatment.Pessach said the
returnees’ stories had shaken him and his colleagues. He likened the
situations the hostages lived through in Gaza to the Nazi ghettos and
concentration camps of World War II.Asked what kind of abuse the
hostages spoke of having been subjected to, he said only, “They
experienced every kind of abuse you can imagine.”At the Knesset on
Tuesday, Health Ministry officials shared a presentation summarizing
what they and the hospitals learned from receiving and treating the 105
hostages freed before a truce deal with Hamas collapsed on Friday, and
how protocols can be improved for caring for those released in the
future.The ministry officials detailed how the responsibility for care
for the first wave of released hostages is now being transferred from
hospitals to health maintenance organizations. Individualized plans for
each person will be overseen by a nurse coordinating and overseeing
their medical and psychosocial care.Much attention will be put on
restoring healthy and nutritious eating habits, as many hostages came
back with digestive problems and vitamin deficiencies due to lack of
food and sunlight. Achieving this may prove difficult for some hostages
who have no home to return to and must live in a hotel or guesthouse.
WORLD TERRORISM
GENESIS 6:11-13
11
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with
violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13
And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the
earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and,
behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
STRONGS CONCORDANCE FOR VIOLENCE IN THE BIBLE-SEE IT FOR YOURSELVES.
2554.
chamas - Strong's Concordance - chamas: to treat violently or wrong -
Part of Speech: Verb - Transliteration: chamas -Phonetic Spelling:
(khaw-mas') - Definition: to treat violently or wrong - make bare, shake
off, violate, do violence, take away violently, wrong -A primitive
root; to be violent; by implication, to maltreat -- make bare, shake
off, violate, do violence, take away violently, wrong, imagine
wrongfully.
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD
said unto her,(HAGAR) Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son,
and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because
the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he (ISHMAEL-FATHER OF THE
ARAB-MUSLIMS) will be a wild (DONKEY-JACKASS) man;(ISLAM IS A FAKE AND
DANGEROUS SEX FOR MURDER CULT) his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM
HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against him;(PROTECTING THEMSELVES
FROM BEING BEHEADED) and he (ISHMAEL ARAB/MUSLIM) shall dwell in the
presence of all his brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN
JEWS)
ISAIAH 14:12-14
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O
Lucifer,(SATAN) son of the morning!(HEBREW-CRECENT MOON-ISLAM) how art
thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For
thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt
my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the
congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I (SATAN HAS EYE
TROUBLES) will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like
the most High.(AND 1/3RD OF THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN FELL WITH SATAN AND
BECAME DEMONS)
JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the
synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think
that he doeth God service.(ISLAM MURDERS IN THE NAME OF MOON GOD ALLAH
OF ISLAM)
SECOND ANGEL: The Middle East DR DOCTORIAN
Then
Isawthat the second angel had a sickle in his hand,such asis used in
harvesting. The second angelsaid, “Harvest time has come in Israel and
the countries all the wayto Iran.” Isawthose countriesin a
fewsplitseconds. “All of Turkey and those other countries that have
refused me and refused my message of love shall hate each other and kill
one another.” I saw the angel raise the sickle and come down on all the
Middle East countries.I saw Iran, Persia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, all of
Georgia – Iraq, Syria,Lebanon,Jordan, Israel, all of Asia Minor – full
of blood. Isaw blood all over these countries. And I saw fire; nuclear
weapons were used in many of those countries. Smoke rising from
everywhere. Sudden destruction – men destroying one another. I heard
these words, “Israel, Oh Israel, the great judgment has come.”The angel
said, “The chosen, the church, the remnant, shall be purified. The
Spirit of God shall prepare the children of God.” I saw fires rising to
heaven.The angel said, “This is the final judgment My church shall be
purified, protected and ready for the final day. Men will die from
thirst. Watershall be scarce all over the Middle East. Rivers shall dry
up, and men will fight for water in those countries.” The angelshowed me
that the United Nationsshall be broken in pieces because of the
crisisin the Middle East. There shall be no more United Nations. The
angel with the sickle shall reap the harvest.
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12
And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the
people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume
away while they stand upon their feet,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and
their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB)
and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED FROM
ATOMIC BOMB)(BECAUSE NUKES HAVE BEEN USED ON ISRAELS ENEMIES)(GOD
PROTECTS ISRAEL AND ALWAYS WILL)
13 And it shall come to pass in that
day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they
shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand
shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN
WW3)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)
ISAIAH 54:3
03-King James
Bible-For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and
thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be
inhabited.
The right hand was a symbol of strength-Exodus 15:6, ”
Your right hand, O LORD, is majestic in power. Your right hand, O LORD,
shatters the enemy.”
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7
Gebal,(HEZBOLLAH, LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and
Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the
inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
8 Assyria (SYRIA) also has joined with them; They have helped the children of Lot. Selah
9 Deal with them as with Midian, As with Sisera, As with Jabin at the Brook Kishon,
10 Who perished at En Dor, Who became as refuse on the earth.
11 Make their nobles like Oreb and like Zeeb, Yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
12 Who said, “Let us take for ourselves The pastures of God for a possession.”
13 O my God, make them like the whirling dust, Like the chaff before the wind!
14 As the fire burns the woods, And as the flame sets the mountains on fire,
15 So pursue them with Your tempest, And frighten them with Your storm.
16 Fill their faces with shame, That they may seek Your name, O Lord.
17 Let them be [e]confounded and dismayed forever; Yes, let them be put to shame and perish,
18 That they may know that You, whose name alone is the Lord, Are the Most High over all the earth.
And
here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either
through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and
only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this
land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia,
Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the
Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11,
Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL
DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.12 TRIBES
INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE.
Putin to discuss Israel-Hamas war on
rare trip to Saudi Arabia, UAE-Kremlin announces surprise Middle East
visit, hoping for ‘very useful negotiations’; Russian president to host
Iranian counterpart in Moscow later this week
By Agencies 5 December 2023, 1:58 pm 1
MOSCOW
(AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin will make a one-day trip to the
United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia focused on the Israeli-Hamas war
and host the Iranian president in Moscow this week, the Kremlin said
Tuesday.Putin will make working visits to both countries on Wednesday,
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.The talks will focus on bilateral
relations, the war between Israel and Hamas and other international
issues, Peskov said. Issues related to oil price caps under OPEC+ will
also be on the agenda, he added.Putin’s trip was first announced on
Monday by his foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov, who did not give a
date for the visits when he spoke to the Russian news outlet Life.“I
hope that these will be very useful negotiations, which we consider
extremely important,” Ushakov was quoted as saying by Life.Putin will
host Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in the Kremlin on Thursday, Peskov
added.The visit comes at a time when Russia wants to advance its role as
a power broker in the conflict in the Middle East.War erupted between
Israel and Hamas after the terror organization’s October 7 massacre,
which saw some 3,000 terrorists burst across the border into Israel from
the Gaza Strip by land, air and sea, killing some 1,200 people and
seizing over 240 hostages of all ages under the cover of a deluge of
thousands of rockets fired at Israeli towns and cities. The vast
majority of those killed as gunmen seized border communities were
civilians — including babies, children and the elderly.The International
Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Putin in March for war
crimes, accusing him of personal responsibility for the abductions of
children from Ukraine.Since the warrant was issued, Putin chose not to
attend a BRICS summit in South Africa because the country would be
obliged to arrest Putin upon arrival as it is a signatory to the
international court’s treaty.Neither Saudi Arabia nor the UAE have
signed the ICC’s founding treaty.The notice against Putin in March was
the first time the global court issued a warrant against a leader of one
of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council. The ICC said
in a statement that Putin is accused of the war crime of ” unlawful
deportation ” of children from occupied areas of Ukraine to Russia.The
Russian president visited China in October and recently made several
trips to former Soviet nations.Times of Israel staff contributed to this
report.
EU warns of ‘huge’ risk of Christmastime terror attacks
due to Israel-Hamas war-Warning comes following suspected Islamic
State-linked murder near Eiffel Tower over the weekend-By Agencies 5
December 2023, 1:55 pm 1
BRUSSELS, Belgium — Europe faces a “huge
risk of terrorist attacks” over the Christmas holiday period due to the
fallout from the war between Israel and the Palestinian terror group
Hamas, the European Union’s home affairs commissioner warned on
Tuesday.The warning came as French investigators probe a fatal weekend
attack near the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Questions were raised about the
mental health of the suspect, who swore allegiance to the extremist
Islamic State group before stabbing a German-Filipino tourist to death
and injuring two other people with a hammer.“With the war between Israel
and Hamas, and the polarization it causes in our society, with the
upcoming holiday season, there is a huge risk of terrorist attacks in
the European Union,” EU Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson told
reporters.“We saw (it happening) recently in Paris, unfortunately we
have seen it earlier as well,” she said, as EU interior ministers
gathered in Brussels. She provided no details about any information that
might have led to her warning. Her office did not immediately respond
to requests for details.Johansson, whose brief includes security and
immigration, said that European Commission will provide an additional 30
million euros ($32.5 million) to help bolster security in vulnerable
areas, notably places of worship.German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser
sent her condolences to France over the attack, and said that it
highlights “just how acute and how serious the threat posed by Islamist
terrorism is currently in the EU.”“The war in Gaza and Hamas’s terror
are exacerbating this situation,” she told reporters.Related: Israel
issues severe travel warnings to dozens of countries amid rising
antisemitism-War between Israel and Hamas erupted after Hamas’s October 7
massacre, which saw some 3,000 terrorists burst across the border into
Israel from the Gaza Strip by land, air and sea, killing some 1,200
people and seizing some 240 hostages of all ages under the cover of a
deluge of thousands of rockets fired at Israeli towns and cities.The
vast majority of those killed as gunmen seized border communities were
civilians — including babies, children and the elderly. Entire families
were executed in their homes, and over 360 were slaughtered at an
outdoor festival, many amid horrific acts of brutality by the
terrorists.Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
PM
vows not to quit: 'Won't give Hamas what it wants' Netanyahu: Gaza must
be demilitarized after war, only the IDF can be trusted to do it-PM says
IDF has killed half of Hamas battalion chiefs, denies humanitarian aid
weakens leverage for hostage releases; Gantz urges premier to redirect
coalition funds — he declines-By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff Today, 1:56
am 0-DEC 6,23
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday night
insisted the Gaza Strip will have to be demilitarized after the current
war with Hamas, saying only the Israel Defense Forces and not any
international force could be entrusted with that mission.Speaking during
a joint press conference with Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and
Minister Benny Gantz, Netanyahu said past experience showed that
international forces have been ineffective in demilitarizing areas with
forces hostile to Israel and that he would not accept such an
arrangement in Gaza.Netanyahu also denounced the UN, human rights groups
and women’s organizations on Tuesday night for failing to speak out
against the severe sexual violence committed by Hamas in the October 7
atrocities it committed.He called on all “civilized” leaders and
governments to condemn the mass rape committed by Hamas terrorists, and
questioned whether the silence of many groups was because the victims
were Jewish women.Gantz in his remarks urged Netanyahu to remove the NIS
1 billion in discretionary funds which have been earmarked for
political promises from the wartime budget, which will soon come for a
vote in the Knesset.All three politicians, who together compose the war
cabinet managing the offensive in Gaza, stressed that bringing home the
138 hostages who remain in the Strip was a key priority following a
fraught meeting earlier Tuesday with the hostages’ families, but equally
asserted that the ground operation in Gaza was key to achieving this
goal.“Gaza must be demilitarized. And in order for Gaza to be
demilitarized, there is only one force which can ensure this
demilitarization – and this force is the Israel Defense Forces,” said
Netanyahu.“No international force can be responsible for this,” he said,
referencing vague proposals made for such a force to take control of
Gaza after the fighting is over.“We have seen what has happened in other
places where international forces were brought in for demilitarization
purposes,” he continued, in a strong allusion to the failure of UNIFIL
in southern Lebanon to demilitarize the area after the Second Lebanon
War in 2006.He also addressed the outrage that has mounted in recent
weeks in Israel and among the Jewish state’s supporters abroad over the
failure of the UN and human rights groups to condemn the mass rape
perpetrated by Hamas against Israeli women on October 7.The UN Women
organization finally condemned Hamas’s savage October 7 assault on
December 1 after weeks of dithering, and expressed alarm over “the
numerous accounts of gender-based atrocities and sexual violence” during
the attack.“I have heard, and you have heard, of the sexual abuse and
rape incidents of unparalleled cruelty, but I have to say that until a
few days ago I did not hear theb human rights organization, I did not
hear the women’s organizations, I did not hear the UN. I did not hear
their cry. And I say to them: Where were you? Are you silent because
we’re talking about Jewish women,” demanded the prime minister.“Where
the hell are you?” he exclaimed in English. “I expect all civilized
leaders, governments, nations, to speak up against this
atrocity.”Speaking about the current campaign in Gaza, Netanyahu said
the army had the upper hand in the battle and was making good progress
in destroying Hamas, stating that the IDF has killed around half of the
terror group’s battalion commanders.“We are bringing to a reckoning
anyone who abducted… murdered, slaughtered, raped, and burned the sons
and daughters of our people. We will not forgive and will not forget,”
intoned the prime minister.He added that the IDF has now surrounded
Jabalya in northern Gaza and Khan Younis in the south of the
enclave.Gantz in his prepared remarks challenged Netanyahu directly on
the issue of the controversial political funds in the wartime budget,
which have been criticized for funneling money toward pet goals and
projects of sectoral political parties and their particular electorates,
instead of to the war effort.“It’s still not too late to stop these
budget additions which are not connected to the fighting and everything
surrounding it, and transfer them to the war effort, like the rest of
available resources,” said Gantz.“We must act out of collective national
considerations,” he continued, adding that it was now the time to
demonstrate “leadership.”Netanyahu politely rebuffed Gantz’s call,
noting the war budget amounted to some NIS 30 billion for the final
month and a half of the year, with the discretionary funds making up NIS
1 billion of that sum.”It’s a giant budget. There is no shortage of
money” said Netanyahu.Answering questions about his political future,
Netanyahu maintained that it was the wrong time to discuss such issues
or step down in light of the severe military, intelligence and strategic
failings which enabled Hamas to carry out its October 7 invasion.“Of
course, we could give Hamas what it wants… You know exactly what it
wants,” Netanyahu said, implying that Hamas wants to see him gone and
the reemergence of a governmental and social crisis in Israel.“I don’t
think we should give it what it wants. I think we have to bring what we
want — crushing victory, the return of the hostages, and a promise that
the continuation [in Gaza] will be different.”Netanyahu also rejected
criticism of the government’s decision to allow additional humanitarian
aid and fuel into Gaza, a policy which has been questioned for reducing
Israel’s leverage over Hamas to release hostages.This is the truck
convoy carrying humanitarian aid waiting to enter the #Gaza Strip.The
conditions required to deliver aid to the people of Gaza exist. We've
completed all the necessary logistics to make it happen. Now, the #UN
has to keep up. https://t.co/cMFqqRRq0i pic.twitter.com/UzERqC4hXz—
COGAT (@cogatonline) December 5, 2023-The prime minister said the “main
card” Israel has to return the hostages is the military campaign itself
and that humanitarian aid buttresses the IDF’s operation since it would
be forced to bring it to a halt if a humanitarian disaster took hold in
Gaza.“There is no contradiction” between the war effort and the
accompanying humanitarian aid, as they together combine to help
vis-a-vis the hostages, Netanyahu said.Asked about the sanctions against
violent extremist settlers in the West Bank announced by the US State
Department Tuesday night, Gantz urged the US not to speak of “settler
violence” and insisted that “99 and more percent” of settlers were
“normative, law-abiding people.” He did however condemn the violence
which has been perpetrated by extremist settlers against Palestinians in
the weeks since October 7.Answering the same question, Gallant said
only the IDF, police and security forces have the right to use force.“We
have to restrain all illegal violence,” Gallant said, adding that
Israel doesn’t need others to tell it to do so, and insisted that some
of the violence against Palestinians in the West Bank has been
perpetrated by extremist Israelis who live inside sovereign
Israel.Gallant in his remarks gave an update on the progress of the war,
saying that Hamas was gradually losing control of Gaza and that the IDF
was achieving its objectives.“What happened in Gaza City is happening
now in Khan Younis… with impressive results,” said the defense
minister.“The leaders of Hamas now well understand that nobody is coming
to save them — not the Iranians and not Hezbollah,” he added.Gallant
said he had told the families of hostages that the government was fully
dedicated to bringing back all the captives, with no exception,” and
that the IDF through its ground operation was creating the conditions to
bring about their return.“It is our duty as a nation, it is our duty as
the defense establishment, and it is my duty as the Minister of
Defense,” he said.“There is only one legitimate thing to do: to win
against Hamas, to strike them and eliminate them – destroying their
governing and military capabilities, and bringing the hostages home.”
Amid
Israel-Hamas war, students say antisemitism is ‘new normal’ at Columbia
University-Jewish and Israeli students fear for their safety in a
campus climate that’s dismissive of their well-being while allowing
rampant, bitter anti-Israel rhetoric to cross red lines-By Cathryn J.
Prince Today, 1:24 am-DEC 6,23
NEW YORK — A stack of fliers
caught Melissa Saidak’s eye when she walked into the lobby of the
Columbia University School of Social Work in late November.Advertising a
“teach-in,” the fliers depicted three missiles targeting a Palestinian
flag dripping in blood. One missile was emblazoned with the Columbia
University logo, one with the American flag, and the third with the
Israeli flag. Two weeks earlier, more than 50 students, some banging
drums, some chanting into a megaphone, had staged a nine-hour sit-in in
the school’s lobby. It was one of many such protests on campus.“They
were saying things like ‘Zionists get out,’ and ‘Israel go to hell.’
Most of the world is not safe for Jewish people and the facts are,
Israel is important for a lot of reasons; namely, it’s a safe haven,”
said Saidak, who describes herself as a non-Zionist secular Jew.Nearly
eight weeks before, on October 7, thousands of Hamas-led terrorists had
stormed across Israel’s border, killing 1,200 people, mostly civilians,
and kidnapping 240 more into the Gaza Strip. The brutality of the
massacre — in what President Joe Biden called the “deadliest day for the
Jewish people since the Holocaust” — gained global attention: the
rampaging gunmen slaughtered entire families, many of them burned alive
in their homes, and raped, tortured, dismembered and mutilated their
victims, who included women, children and the elderly.Israel has since
vowed to dismantle the Hamas terror regime, which governs the Gaza
Strip, and to secure the return of the hostages.The conflict has brought
raging protests against Israel in the Middle East, Europe and the
United States from its earliest days, even as Israelis were struggling
to secure their towns and treat the thousands of wounded prior to the
country’s military response.Melissa Saidak, a graduate student at the
Columbia University School of Social Work. (Cathryn J. Prince/ToI)-Now,
like on many campuses across the US, antisemitism and anti-Israel
sentiment continues to intensify at Columbia University as the
Israel-Hamas war progresses into its ninth week.A flier for the November
29 Teach-In at Columbia University’s School of Social Work. (Courtesy:
Amy Werman)-Social media posts mock the October 7 Hamas massacre or hail
it as justified; masked protesters chant phrases that are antisemitic
dog whistles such as “Globalize the Intifada”; and teach-ins, which
don’t include Jewish speakers, preach about “settler colonialism.” More
than a dozen Jewish and Israeli students at Columbia who spoke to The
Times of Israel for this article said that confronting antisemitism is
now part and parcel of daily campus life.“I always felt comfortable and
safe here. Then October 7 happened and a war broke out in Israel — and a
second war broke out here in the US. It’s a war of antisemitism and
public opinion, and Columbia is ground zero,” said Andrew, a graduate
student at the school of architecture who requested that neither his
last name nor photo be used out of concern for his safety.A planned
December 6 ‘teach-in’ at Columbia University School of Social Work. (via
X)-While Columbia announced the formation of an antisemitism task force
on November 1 to “enhance our ability to address this ancient, but
terribly resilient, form of hatred,” a newly released Anti-Defamation
League (ADL) national survey of American college students found that
before the Israel-Hamas war, 67 percent of Jewish students said they
felt physically safe on campus, and 66% felt emotionally safe. Following
the massacre, only 46% felt physically safe and 33% felt emotionally
safe.“Jewish students are experiencing a wave of antisemitism unlike
anything we’ve seen before, but shockingly, non-Jewish students barely
see it,” said ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt.At Columbia, where 22.3% of
undergraduate students are Jewish, the incidents started soon after
students held their first candlelight vigil to honor those killed and
those kidnapped.Screenshots of social media posts shared with The Times
of Israel show that the Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)
and Columbia Jewish Voices for Peace (JVP) described the Hamas
atrocities as “an unprecedented historic moment for the Palestinians of
Gaza, who tore through the wall that has been suffocating them… Despite
the odds against them, Palestinians launched a counter-offensive against
their settler-colonial oppressor.” Neither SJP nor JVP responded to
requests to comment.On October 11, a Jewish Israeli student was
assaulted in an incident the Manhattan District Attorney is
investigating as a possible hate crime. And on October 27, a swastika
was found drawn inside a men’s bathroom at the School of International
and Public Affairs.Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel demonstrations quickly
ramped up, leading University Public Safety to close the campus on more
than one occasion. In the two weeks leading up to the Thanksgiving
break, there were protests nearly every day.While SJP and JVP organized
the initial protests, both organizations were suspended for the
remainder of the semester for violating university policy. However, the
suspension didn’t end the protests. The only difference is they are no
longer officially organized by SJP or JVP.Fliers advertising a November
30 event titled “Injustice Anywhere: A teach-in on Palestine and the
Black Radical Tradition,” listed both SJP and JVP next to the Black
Students Organization as event sponsors. According to the university, it
was a departmental event and the faculty hosting the event were asked
to tell students not to incorrectly advertise it.Keffiyehs are all the
rage-Earlier last week students, many of whom wore keffiyehs, staged a
six-hour sit-in in the lobby of the School of International and Public
Affairs demanding, among other things, that the university divest from
Israel.It has become increasingly common to see Columbia students of all
ethnicities and races wearing keffiyehs — a traditional black-and-white
Palestinian scarf. And while some might consider that cultural
appropriation, SJP, which had been selling keffiyehs, said they are “a
subtle way to make a statement and show solidarity,” according to campus
newspaper the Columbia Spectator.“It’s become very clear that these
rallies are being used to cover Jew hatred,” said Joshua Shain, a
sophomore who is on the board of Students Supporting Israel, an
international Zionist student activist movement.That’s certainly been
the case for Ariana Pinsker-Lehrer, an Israeli graduate student at the
School of Social Work.“I know college campuses are very pro-Palestinian,
but when October 7 happened, it was so gruesome and well-documented
that I felt like there would be some compassion. However, it’s been very
toxic and very painful,” said Pinsker-Lehrer. “It’s going to class and
hearing ‘Intifada.’ For me that is my childhood trauma. It’s privileged
to support a call for violence when you will not pay the price for that
violence. Not the Israeli price or the Palestinian price.”‘The rhetoric
is what scares the shit out of me’The invective, both on social media
and during protests, is taking a toll — not only on students, but also
on professors.Amy Werman, a full-time professor at the Columbia School
of Social Work, said she’s not bothered by the protests per se; it’s the
rhetoric that she finds alarming. In fact, she walked through the
November 9 sit-in because she wanted to bear witness and because she
“believe[s] in conversation.”“The rhetoric is what scares the shit out
of me. It’s so harsh and caustic. Who says dismembering, raping, and
decapitating is a form of resistance? That’s a level of barbarism I
could never imagine. I feel so deflated,” said Werman.Noah Miller, a
graduate student in the school of architecture, recounted how a fellow
student, who wanted to read him a quote from “Mein Kampf,” also told him
“Zionism scares me.”But lately, he said he feels more angry than
unsafe. “Sometimes there are three protests in a week. I can’t focus, I
can hear all of this chanting while I’m inside the studio trying to
work,” he said.Miller’s thoughts echo a recent Hillel International
survey, which found that 84% of Jewish students say the situation in
Israel and Gaza is affecting them in some way.Students interviewed for
this story also described being spurned by friends and clubs outside the
Jewish community.Shortly after the October 7 terror attack, Gabriella
Frants, a senior, posted a blue and white heart on Instagram.“I was
unfollowed by so many people over something I just thought was a human
thing to do because so many civilians died. The thing I find most
shocking is the amount of dismissing of Jewish voices and narratives. We
are just brushed off or met with such disregard,” she said.In
mid-October, the president and founder of LionLez, a club for queer
women and nonbinary people run by students of color, put out a
promotional flier with a note: “It’s FREE PALESTINE over here. Zionists
aren’t invited,” according to the Columbia Spectator.Shain said he saw
that incident as the “canary in the coal mine. It was so overt, and then
other random clubs which have nothing to do with Israel pressure
students.”Investigating ‘alleged’ antisemitic harassment-Meanwhile, on
November 20 the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights
announced that Columbia is one of seven schools being investigated for
alleged antisemitic harassment. An investigation means the Education
Department has identified a credible allegation that civil rights law
has been violated.“We have received the notification letter from the
Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights and will cooperate with
any investigation,” said Columbia spokesperson Samantha Slater.Under
Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, colleges and universities
receiving federal money must protect students from discrimination based
on race, color or national origin. This includes Jews, Muslims and other
ethnic or religious groups with “shared ancestry.”If a civil rights
violation is found, the university could lose federal funding. But for
that to happen, it has to be proved that victims were denied equal
access to education and the university acted with deliberate
indifference toward those students. It’s not enough to show that the
campus environment was hostile. Most often, even if a civil rights
violation is found, a settlement will be reached between the school and
the DOE.Barnard senior Frants said she hopes the investigation brings a
measure of relief to all students.“I can only hope it will legitimize
some of the real concerns of students on campus, including those who are
facing antisemitism, Islamophobia, and other forms of hatred,” Frants
said.
Netanyahu, Biden slam global silence on Hamas sexual
violence against Israeli women-PM calls out women’s and rights groups
for not denouncing sexual violence by October 7 terrorists; US president
says it must be condemned ‘without equivocation, without exception’-By
ToI Staff Today, 12:29 am 0-DEC 6,23
Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu and US President Joe Biden on Tuesday castigated human rights
groups, women’s organizations and the United Nations for failing to
speak out about the rapes and other atrocities committed by Hamas
against Israeli women.Speaking at a press conference in Tel Aviv,
Netanyahu noted he met earlier with released hostages and with relatives
of those still held in Gaza, a gathering described as hostile and
stormy by those present.“I heard heartbreaking stories of abuse,” he
said. “I heard, as you have heard, about sexual abuse and unprecedented
cases of cruel rape.”But, Netanyahu said, he has not heard women’s and
human rights groups “scream” against the sexual violence by Palestinian
terrorists who invaded southern Israel on October 7, and he asked if
they were “silent because it was Jewish women.”Switching to English, he
added: “I say to the women’s rights organizations, to the human rights
organizations, you’ve heard of the rape of Israeli women, horrible
atrocities, sexual mutilation? Where the hell are you?”“I expect all
civilized leaders, governments, nations to speak up against this
atrocity,” he added, before switching back to Hebrew.During a fundraiser
in Boston, Biden echoed Netanyahu’s condemnation of international
organizations.“Reports of women raped — repeatedly raped — and their
bodies being mutilated while still alive — of women corpses being
desecrated, Hamas terrorists inflicting as much pain and suffering on
women and girls as possible and then murdering them. It is appalling,”
he said.“The world can’t just look away at what’s going on. It’s on all
of us — government, international organizations, civil society and
businesses — to forcefully condemn the sexual violence of Hamas
terrorists without equivocation. Without equivocation, without
exception,” Biden added.International human rights organizations have
faced intense scrutiny from public figures and rights organizations in
Israel and the Jewish state’s supporters abroad, who have urged them to
acknowledge and investigate the testimonies of rape and sexual violence
committed during the October 7 onslaught in which thousands of Hamas-led
terrorists killed more than 1,200 people and seized some 240
hostages.The United Nations in particular has been the target of
criticism by Israeli rights groups, after close to eight weeks went by
before they issued a condemnation and committed to launching an
investigation into the allegations.On November 30, UN Secretary-General
Antonio Guterres broke his silence on allegations of sex crimes and
called for the allegations to be “vigorously investigated and
prosecuted.”The following day, 57 days after the brutal Hamas attacks,
the women’s rights group UN Women released a statement condemning the
events of October 7, but drew criticism after leading with “regret” that
fighting had resumed between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.“We unequivocally
condemn the brutal attacks by Hamas on Israel on 7 October. We are
alarmed by the numerous accounts of gender-based atrocities and sexual
violence during those attacks,” the statement continued.It then went on
to laud the UN Commission of Inquiry on the
Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem and Israel, for
“opening its call for submissions on gender-based crimes since October
7.”On Monday, Israel’s Permanent Mission to the UN led a special session
at the UN headquarters in New York to raise awareness about the crimes
committed against Israeli women and girls.“On October 7, Israel suffered
its most brutal massacre since the Holocaust; the atrocities were more
barbaric than ISIS, some say more than the Nazis,” said Israeli
Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan at the outset of the event. “Families
were burned alive, children executed in front of their parents and
parents executed in front of their children.“But the crimes didn’t end
there: Hamas used rape and sexual violence as weapons of war. These were
not spur-of-the-moment decisions to defile and mutilate girls and
parade them while onlookers cheered; rather, this was premeditated,”
Erdan said. “Sadly, the silence of international bodies who are
supposedly defenders of women has been deafening.”Graphic accounts from
survivors of the attack and those who prepared bodies for burial detail
acts of gang rape and mutilation carried out against women and girls,
and an ongoing police investigation has been exploring evidence of
post-mortem mutilation.The police investigation was hampered initially
by the fact that physical evidence of sexual assault was broadly not
collected on the day of the attacks due to complications posed by the
evidence being located in an active warzone.Rape kits, which need to be
used in the first 48 hours following an assault, could not be used, and
many of the bodies arriving at the emergency morgue set up at the Shura
military base were so badly mutilated that collecting physical evidence
of sexual assault, such as semen or DNA samples, was not
possible.Additionally, many of the women who experienced the sexual
assault and rape firsthand, however, were either killed or taken
hostage, and so cannot provide the firsthand information that some are
demanding.A report published by the BBC on Tuesday shared the account of
a survivor of the slaughter at the Supernova music festival, where some
360 people were killed.In the testimony, the anonymous survivor
referred to only as Witness S. recounts watching a group of terrorists
shoot and kill a woman at the same time as they continued to abuse and
assault her body.In the face of mounting evidence of their crimes, Hamas
claimed on Monday that the accusations of sexual violence were part of
“Zionist campaigns which promote unfounded lies and allegations to
demonize the Palestinian resistance.”Carrie Keller-Lynn contributed to
this report.
OIL IN ISRAEL
JOB 29:6
6 When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;
GENESIS 12:3
3
And I will bless them that bless thee,(ISRAEL) and curse (DESTROY) him
that curseth thee:(DESTROY THEM) and in thee shall all families of the
earth be blessed.
GENESIS 14:10
10 And the vale of Siddim was
full of slimepits;(CRUDE OIL) and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled,
and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain
DEUTERONOMY 33:19,24
19
They (ISRAEL) shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall
offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of the abundance
of the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand.
24 And of Asher he
said, Let Asher be blessed with children; let him be acceptable to his
brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil.
DEUTERONOMY 12:3
13
He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the
increase of the fields;(OIL) and he made him to suck honey out of the
rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;
COUNTRIES WITH ISRAEL AND THE ENEMIES OF ISRAEL AND THE WEST
EZEKIEL 38:10-19
10
Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same
time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil
thought:
11 And thou shalt say,(RUSSIA,ARAB,MUSLIMS) I will go up to
the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that
dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither
bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine
hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the
people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle
and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
13 Sheba, and
Dedan,(SAUDIA ARABIA)(JORDAN) and the merchants of Tarshish,(ENGLAND)
with all the young lions thereof,(USA,CANADA,AUSTRALIA,NEW
ZEALAND,EU,ENGLAND,ENGLISH SPEAKING shall say unto thee, Art thou come
to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry
away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great
spoil?
14 Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus
saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth
safely, shalt thou not know it?
PSALMS 83:3-7 (COUNTRIES AGAINST ISRAEL)(EXCEPT JORDAN)
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7
Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and
Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the
inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
ISRAEL-WEST ENEMIES EZEK 38:4-6,15-19
4
And I (GOD) will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD
FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all
thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of
armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them
handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6
Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY) of
the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with
thee.(AFRICAN MUSLIMS,SUDAN,TUNESIA ETC)
15 And thou shalt come from
thy place out of the north parts,(RUSSIA-ARAB/MUSLIMS) thou, and many
people with thee,(AFRICAN ISLAMIC COUNTRIES) all of them riding upon
horses, a great company, and a mighty army:
16 And thou shalt come up
against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be
in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the
heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before
their eyes.
17 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have
spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which
prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against
them?
18 And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall
come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall
come up in my face.
19 For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath
have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the
land of Israel;
DANIEL 11:44 (CHINA WITH RUSSIA-MUSLIMS)
44 But
tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS
WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL)
therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to
make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
EZEKIEL 39:1-6 ISRAELS ENEMIES DESTROYED
1
Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and
say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the
chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will
turn thee back,(RUSSIA-ARAB MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS) and leave but the
sixth part of thee,(5/6TH OR 300 MILLION DEAD RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS I
BELIEVE) and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA)
and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4
Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,(
ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the
ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be
devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6
And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB) and among them
that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the
LORD.
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will
inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its
Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God
promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile
River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part
of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen
13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL
THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT
ISHMAELS LAND.12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE.
JOEL 3:2 (WW3 OCCURS WHEN JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED)
2
I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the
valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people
(ISRAEL) and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the
nations, and parted my land.(JERUSALEM)(WW3 STARTS BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS
DIVIDED AND ISRAELIS UPROOTED FROM THEIR GOD GIVIN LAND BRINGS 3 DEAD
BILLION IN WW3)
AMERICA (POLITICAL BABYLON)(NUKED BY SNEAK ATTACK FROM RUSSIA)
IN
REVELATION 17 & 18 IS THE DESTRUCTION OF THE RELIGIOUS AND
POLITICAL BABYLONS.IF YOU CAN NOT DECERN BETWEEN THE 2 BABYLONS IN REV
17 & 18.YOU WILL JUST THINK THEIR BOTH THE SAME.BUT NO-THERES A
RELIGIOUS BABYLON (THE VATICAN IN REV 17)(AND THE POLITICAL BABYLON IN
REV 18 (AMERICA OR NEW YORK TO BE EXACT)
ISAIAH 34:10
10 It
(AMERICA-POLITICAL BABYLON) shall not be quenched night nor day; the
smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it
shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
JEREMIAH 51:29-32 (CYBER ATTACK 1ST)
29
And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD
shall be performed against Babylon,(AMERICA-NEW YORK) to make the land
of Babylon (AMERICA) a desolation without an inhabitant.
30 The
mighty men of Babylon (AMERICA) have forborn to fight, they have
remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women:
they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.
031 One
post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to
shew the king of Babylon (NEW YORK) that his city is taken at one end,
32
And that the passages are stopped,(THE WAR COMPUTERS HACKED OR EMP'D)
and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are
affrighted.(DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO)
COMPLETE SILENCE AFTER AN EMP GOES OFF
REVELATION 8:1
1 And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.
JEREMIAH 50:3,24
3
For out of the north (RUSSIA) there cometh up a nation against her,
which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they
shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.
24 I have laid a
snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon,(AMERICA) and thou
wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast
striven against the LORD. (RUSSIA A SNEAK CYBER,EMP ATTACK,THEN NUKE
ATTACK ON AMERICA.
JOEL 3:2 (WW3 OCCURS WHEN JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED)
2
I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the
valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people
(ISRAEL) and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the
nations, and parted my land.(JERUSALEM)(WW3 STARTS BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS
DIVIDED AND ISRAELIS UPROOTED FROM THEIR GOD GIVIN LAND BRINGS 3 DEAD
BILLION IN WW3)
US CENTRAL BANK DIGITAL CURRENCY
https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/money-and-payments-20220120.pdf
HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3
Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a
witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have
heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10
Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that
great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment
come.(IN 1 HR THE STOCK MARKETS WORLDWIDE WILL CRASH)
17 For in one
hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all
the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood
afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping
and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich
all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one
hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast
their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be
removed:(CONFISCATED) their silver and their gold shall not be able to
deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy
their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the
stumblingblock of their iniquity.
MARK OF THE BEAST (engraved microchip in your hand or forehead)
REVELATION 13:16-18
16
And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor,
free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their
foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18
Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the
beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred
threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
REVELATION 16:1-2
1
And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels,
Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the
earth.
2 And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth;
and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the
mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.
I
KNOW THIS MARK WILL BE A MICROCHIP IMPLANT UNDER THE SKIN. LETS LOOK UP
WHAT THE WORD MARK SAYS IN REVELATION 13:16-18, 14:9,11, 15:2, 16:2,
19:20, 20:4-ALL THESE VERSES FROM THE BOOK OF REVELATION SPEAK OF THIS
DICTATORS MARK. NOW LETS SEE WHAT IT MEANS FROM STRONGS EXAUSTIVE
CONCORDANCE OF THE BIBLE. UNDER MARK PAGE 684.MARK UNDER MARK. THE OLD
TESTAMENT IS UNDER HEBREW AND THE NEW TESTAMENT IS UNDER GREEK. SO WHEN
WE LOOK UNDER REVELATION 13:16-17 WE SEE IT IS UNDER GREEK, SO WE GO TO
GREEK IN THE BACK SECTION AND GO TO 5480 TO SEE WHAT IT SAYS THIS MARK
WOULD BE. SO LETS GET TO IT.MARK IN STRONGS GREEK 5480 XAPAYUA CHARAGMA,
KHAR-AG-MAH: FROM THE SAME AS 5482: A SCRATCH OR ETCHING, I.E STAMP (AS
A BADGE OF SERVITUDE), OR SCULPTURED FIGURE-(STATUE):-GRAVEN, MARK FROM
5482 XAPAE CHARAX, KHAR-AX; FROM XAPAOOW CHARASSO (TO SHARPEN TO A
POINT; AKIN TO 1125 THROUGH THE IDEA OF SCRATCHING); A STAKE, I.E
(BYIMPL.) A PALISADE OR RAMPART (MILITARY MOUND FOR CIRCUMVALLATION IN A
SIEGE): - TRENCH FROM 1125 YPAPOE GRAPHO, GRAF-0; A PRIM. VERB; TO
"GRAVE", ESPEC. TO WRITE; FIG. TO DESCRIBE:-DESCRIBE, WRITE (-ING,
-TEN).G5516-GO TO G4742-666 - STRONGS NT 4742: στίγμα - στίγμα,
στιγματος, τό (from στίζω to prick; (cf. Latinstimulus, etc.; German
stechen, English stick, sting, etc.; Curtius, § 226)), a mark pricked in
or branded upon the body. According to ancient oriental usage, slaves
and soldiers bore the name or stamp of their master or commander branded
or pricked (cut) into their bodies to indicate what master or general
they belonged to, and there were even some devotees who stamped
themselves in this way with the token of their gods (cf. Deyling,
Observations, iii., p. 423ff); hence, τά στίγματα τοῦ (κυρίου so Rec.)
Ἰησοῦ, the marks of (the Lord) Jesus, which Paul in Galatians 6:17 says
he bears branded on his body, are the traces left there by the perils,
hardships, imprisonments, scourgings, endured by him for the cause of
Christ, and which mark him as Christ's faithful and approved votary,
servant, soldier (see Lightfoots Commentary on Galatians, the passage
cited). (Herodotus 7, 233; Aristotle, Aelian, Plutarch, Lcian, others.)
THE INVENTOR OF THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT-CARL SANDERS MICROCHIP ENGINEER LEADER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgH9D6n4ZWo
THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT IN YOUR RIGHT HAND OR FOREHEAD.
LEVETICUS 19.28
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
Australia invites a select few to bid for national digital ID contract-Nov 29, 2023, 5:12 pm EST | Bianca Gonzalez
The
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), the nation’s
digital identity competition regulator, is issuing a limited tender to
build the platform that will house its national digital ID system. It
has invited just 5 to 10 vendors to submit a request for quote on the
platform, and refuses to share if any local suppliers are among them or
how much the project will cost, according to InnovationAus.The RFQ
issued last week on the BuyICT platform sought to find an “experienced
provider” to develop the digital ID system. It has only invited 5 to 10
companies to submit a request to bid on the platform. The listing says
it is seeking a one-year contract that would start in January and can be
extended for one 6 month term.Australian companies outside the chosen
few are frustrated at being deprived of the opportunity to bid on what
will be an essential part of the plan for the Australian Government’s
Digital ID System (AGDIS). Over the past five years of development, the
digital ID project has already cost over $600 million.A spokesperson for
the ACCC says that it cannot disclose who was approached until the
tender closes on December 13th. It will close sooner if all invited
applicants respond before the deadline.Courtenay Hollis, co-founder of
Australian IT firm Imminently, says the limited tender is
“inappropriate” in the development of a platform that will govern a
system managing Australians’ biometric data.He says that inviting a
select few suppliers who are likely to be large multinational companies
with dedicated national sales teams limits what can be done through
local suppliers. “It’s not creating a genuine opportunity to understand
local innovations and achieve value for money assessments,” he tells
InnovationAus.com.The Digital Marketplace, which is now part of the
BuyICT platform, began as a way to connect smaller suppliers with more
opportunities. Increasingly, however, it is used to “select source”
preferred companies. “It has gotten out of control to the point that I
believe it breaches the Government’s anti-competitive laws,” says
Hollis.Sometime next year, it will be put into law that the ACCC is the
formal regulator of AGDIS, according to the report. It will oversee the
digital ID accreditation scheme and operation of the system, and manage
accreditation for approved digital ID providers. Last month, the
organization began recruiting directors to manage the accreditation
team.
Rank One Computing launches iris biometrics with fastest speed in NIST test-Dec 5, 2023, 4:31 pm EST | Bianca Gonzalez
Rank
One Computing (ROC.ai) has announced the launch of their iris
recognition software, complementing its established business lines in
face and fingerprint biometrics, as well as weapons and object
detection.In NIST’s IREX evaluation, ROC.ai has the fastest mean search
speed of all vendors at 0.11 seconds when tested on a database of 1
million iris scans, with an algorithm submitted in October. It also has a
true match accuracy in searching two eyes at 99.3 percent and false
positive identification rate of 1.0 percent.According to a release,
ROC.ai managed to create an algorithm with a competitive speed in less
than six months, demonstrating the potential of American biometrics
companies. Its algorithm is 100 times faster than those of NEC, Idemia,
and Thales.The company notes that iris biometrics are gaining traction
in sectors like national security and access control, due to the
modality’s high accuracy.ROC.ai is also the top ranking global face
recognition provider in combined accuracy and efficiency. Earlier in the
year, ROC.ai announced its first fingerprint matching algorithms. Its
tenprint fingerprint segmentation algorithm achieved the top rank by
NIST for accurate segmentation of biometrics with a 95.7 percent
accuracy for detecting 8 fingers.“We’re developing from the ground up,
here in the U.S., and competing head-to-head with established foreign
biometric giants,” says Scott Swann, CEO of ROC.ai. Brendan Klare, chief
scientist and co-founder, says the development of iris recognition
capabilities builds on past efforts that delivered the industry-leading
face and fingerprint recognition algorithms which ROC.ai is known
for.“It is a combination of the pattern recognition scientific
principles espoused by the seminal textbook pattern classification, a
blue-collar work ethic and mentality, and software engineering trade
secrets that for nearly a decade now have landed ROC as the fastest and
most efficient computer vision algorithm developer in the world,” Klare
says.
Palmki scores again with biometric payments for Belgian pro sports club-Dec 5, 2023, 4:19 pm EST-| Joel R. McConvey
In
basketball, palming is technically a carrying violation, but palming
for a beer is now allowed for fans of the Leuwen Bears, a Belgian hoops
club that has partnered with Perfect-ID to enable purchases using palm
biometrics with its Palmki platform. According to a release, the system
was formally launched last month when Perfect-ID’s director, Marc
Strackx, scanned his palm with Palmki to purchase a frosty Stella
Artois, which sponsors the Leuwen Bears.“Palm payment is an innovative
and secure way to complete transactions, and we are confident it will
significantly enhance the fan experience at Leuven Bears games,” says
Strackx. The Palmki biometric digital identity verification palm key,
based on palm vein biometrics, operates through the cashless closed
payment system Ping.Ping, which allows users to load funds onto an
account associated with their palm scan. “As the European Capital of
Innovation, we always strive to break new ground when it comes to
innovation,” says Johan Geleyns, Leuven’s Alderman for Sport and Trade.
“Palmki’s technology brings together everything that Leuven excels in:
top sports, innovation, and welcoming hospitality.” The deal is Palmki’s
second with a pro sports team in Belgium, following a contract with
football club KAA Gent.Experience Palmki in the flesh at new center in
Hasselt.Biometrics professionals who are in Belgium to take in a Leuven
Bears game now have the option of taking a forty-five minute jaunt to
visit the new Palmki Experience Center in Hasselt, about 60 kilometers
to the east. The center at Bedrijfsstraat 2 will serve as Palmki’s new
office, but also provide a showcase space for the company’s vascular
pattern recognition technology. Visitors can expect a comprehensive palm
vein biometrics experience right out of the gate, which literally must
be opened with a palm scan. Palm registration, payment account access
and on-site palm payments all figure into the deal, as do demos of
seamless biometrics enrollment, time and attendance control and double
authentication. Palmki has been making strides in bringing biometrics to
large event venues in Belgium and the Netherlands.
History repeats with Kenyan High Court blocking Maisha Namba for lack of DPIA-Dec 5, 2023, 3:18 pm EST-| Chris Burt
The
lack of a data protection impact assessment has scuttled Kenya’s
government’s rollout of the Maisha Namba national digital ID project,
with the country’s High Court ruling it must pause. The court
intervention is a repeat of a decision that ultimately marked the
beginning of the end of the digital ID scheme’s predecessor, Huduma
Namba.The implementation of the associated chip-bearing physical
identity card, digital ID, unique personal identifier (UPI) and National
Master Population Register must all halt until the project is compliant
with Kenya’s Data Protection Act, TechCabal reports.The legal challenge
was mounted by civil society groups including constitutional lobby
group Katiba Institute, Nubian Rights Forum, the Kenya Human Rights
Commission and Defenders Coalition.Section 31 of the Data Protection Act
requires the government to perform a data protection impact assessment
before processing digital identity data, according to the Kenya edition
of Nation.Citizen TV Kenya also reports the ruling found that public
participation and communication was inadequate.Katiba Institute argues
that all biometric and biographic data enrolled during registration was
illegally collected, and that the government does not have a legal basis
for the digital identity system.The previous attempt at standing up a
national digital ID, the Huduma Namba scheme of former President Uhuru
Kenyatta’s government, was shuttered by William Ruto’s government at
least in part because of a lack of engagement with Kenyans. The project
was also criticized for inadequate privacy protections, and some
lawmakers have called for a probe into what the government got out of
the ten billion Kenyan Shillings (over US$69 million) it allegedly spent
on Huduma Namba.Huduma Namba’s rollout was halted by a High Court
ruling that it did not comply with the Data Protection Act due to the
lack of data protection impact assessment, in a challenge also brought
by Katiba Institute.
UK govt tells online porn users to show their faces for biometric age checks-Dec 5, 2023, 3:06 pm EST | Joel R. McConvey
Facial
age estimation, biometric photo ID matching, bank or mobile ID and
digital wallets are all effective options for age verification to keep
minors from accessing online pornography, according to newly proposed
guidelines from Ofcom, the UK’s regulatory body for communications.In a
news release, Ofcom lays out the numbers on digital pornography, saying
that the latest research from the UK Children’s Commissioner shows that
the average age at which children first see online pornography is 13.
More than a quarter encounter it by age 11, and ten percent see it as
young as 9. Nor is it just sex the kids are being exposed to: 79 percent
have seen pornography that features violence or degrading
acts.“Pornography is too readily accessible to children online, and the
new online safety laws are clear that must change,” says Ofcom CEO Dame
Melanie Dawes. “Our practical guidance sets out a range of methods for
highly effective age checks. We’re clear that weaker methods – such as
allowing users to self-declare their age – won’t meet this
standard.”Dawes says that under the Online Safety Act, sites or apps
hosting pornographic content must implement “highly effective” age
assurance checks that provide “robust protection to children from
stumbling across pornography.” On the other hand, they should also “take
care that privacy rights and freedoms for adults to access legal
content are safeguarded.” Personal data protection and privacy are the
biggest concerns that most adults have about age assurance, and as such
Ofcom emphasizes that all approved methods are subject to the UK’s data
privacy laws.Ofcom’s list of effective age assurance and verification
technologies includes biometric options and the use of digital identity
wallets. Photo ID face matching with liveness checks, as well as
biometric face scans for facial age estimation are among the tools that
get the thumbs up. But Ofcom also recognizes the speed at which
available digital security technology can change. “Given the technology
underpinning age assurance is likely to develop and improve in future, “
it says, “our guidance includes a non-exhaustive list of methods that
we currently consider could be highly effective.”One suggestion is the
establishment of a “challenge age”, wherein anyone estimated to be under
a certain age threshold would face additional checks. “We are aware
that a wide range of age estimation methods exist,” Ofcom says, but “at
present, we have only proposed including facial age estimation in our
guidance, as we do not have evidence to suggest that other methods of
age estimation are currently capable of being highly effective, are
sufficiently mature technologies, or are being deployed at scale. We
will continue to review this position over time as technologies
evolve.”One thing is explicitly clear: legacy verification methods will
no longer cut the mustard. Self-declaration of age, online payment
methods that do not require users to be 18, and general terms and
conditions are “weaker methods” that do not meet the standards of
Ofcom’s draft guidelines.Ofcom says it will publish its final guidelines
in 2025, in anticipation of them becoming law thereafter. This could
prove to be an optimistic projection. A previous attempt to mandate age
verification for porn sites died after getting mired in debates over
potential privacy concerns. Porn providers continue to argue that the
risks of potential data leaks from age checks could have serious
consequences.That said, the issue of age checks for porn, social media,
online gambling and other age-restricted content remains a red hot topic
in regulatory and biometric circles.
Deutsche Telekom works with Bielefeld University students on digital identity project-Dec 5, 2023, 2:50 pm EST-| Bianca Gonzalez
Deutsche
Telekom and Bielefeld University are partnering for the self-sovereign
access management (SESAM) university cooperation project in which
experts from Deutsche Telekom and T-Labs, the company’s research and
development team, introduced concepts pertaining to digital identity and
self-sovereign identity (SSI) to over 100 IT students at the
university.The SESAM project focuses on improving access control to
efficiently manage office spaces shared between multiple companies. SSIs
make it possible to share only required information from the ID in
order to grant access.Students broke up into 11 teams and were tasked
with developing apps to manage room access and display employee login
for hypothetical customers. Students were in contact with the full-stack
development team at Telekom IT and had access to some on-site. They
also regularly met for check-ins and progress updates.This hands-on
project provides networking opportunities and prepares students for
internships and entry level positions. The project also reflects T-Labs
decentralized systems research focus area.Deutsche Telekom recently
began collaborating with two new customers for digital identity wallets
as part of its larger digital ID strategy.
AI deciders targeted for regulation in California-Dec 5, 2023, 1:21 pm EST | Jim Nash
California
regulators have published draft rules for automated decision
making.Broad and sweeping guidelines would govern consumer access and
opt-out rights regarding use of the algorithms by businesses collecting
personally identifiable data including biometrics.Business advocates say
what has been released is unworkably vague. If approved, the
regulations would be nestled in California’s Consumer Privacy Act, or
CCPA.The agency’s draft defines automated decision-making technology as
“any system, software, or process,” which is indeed broad. A
representative of tech lobby organization NetChoice told Bloomberg Law
that flipping a coin would fit the bill as neatly as profiling.As part
of the proposed rules, a business would have to tell consumers before
they use a biometric or other AI decision-making service and that they
can opt out of the AI and get more information about it. They would also
have to perform risk assessments for each system that poses a
significant risk to people’s privacy by processing their information.The
examples of effected systems provided in the California Privacy
Protection Agency’s announcement include facial recognition for consumer
behavior analysis and profiling for behavioral advertising. Monitoring
worker productivity with keystroke logging or speech recognition is also
explicitly identified as falling under the proposed regulation.There
are exceptions available to some businesses that appear to be highly
contextual.Members of the board at California’s privacy agency will hold
a public meeting meet to discuss the draft rules on December 8. There
is no date yet set for binding votes, although the process is expected
to end next year.
Duplicative biometric databases in Nigeria,
India face criticism-New registrations for students, marriages
planned-Dec 5, 2023, 1:11 pm EST-| Ayang Macdonald
A database
dubbed the National Education Repository and Databank (NERD) put in
place to manage a student loans scheme in Nigeria has been greeted with
mixed feelings. So too have criticisms rocked a similar move in the
Bengal region of India where regional authorities have directed the
collection of biometrics for the registration of marriages, separate
from biometrics collected for the Aadhaar digital ID. Observers say
these duplicative databases do not only sometimes breed inconveniences,
they also present great data security risks.Group tells Nigerian govt to
link student loan database to NIN-Felix Attah Nnalue, senate president
of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has called for a
review of the Student Loan Act to allow for ID verification of
beneficiaries using their biometrics and National Identification Number
(NIN).NIN is already used for other student-related activities in
Nigeria like JAMB exams registration, and it is issued by the National
Identity Management Commission (NIMC).Nnalue, a social activist, said a
review of the law, officially known as the Access to Higher Education
Act 2023, is necessary in order to clear some of the barriers that limit
the scope of beneficiaries, The Cable reports.In June, Nigeria’s
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu enacted the legislation which is designed to
provide interest-free loans to a certain category of young Nigerians
who are thirsty for tertiary education. Key points of the law are
detailed in an explainer by Premium Times.Among the requirements for
eligibility is the fact that the student’s income or that of their
family must be less than 500,000 Naira (US$631) per annum.Nnalue feels
this requirement is discriminatory. “We want the students’ loan to cover
every category of students,” he said as quoted by The Cable. He also
reiterated his support for the National Education Repository and
Databank (NERD) to manage the loan scheme which, he says, should be
linked to the biometrics and NIN of beneficiaries.According to Nnalue,
the NERD should be the only platform through which the loan scheme is
managed since it will be the body responsible for handling all the data
of potential recipients of loan payments.Linking the NERD to the NIMC
database would be consistent with the position of the government to
harmonize all government databases in the country and create one central
repository.Criticism trails biometrics collection for marriage
registration in Bengal-In a similar development, a recent move to
collect biometrics afresh for marriage registration in the Indian region
of Bengal has also faced criticism.This has been in force since
November 1, and officials say the idea is to reduce incidents of bigamy
and polygamy, per India Today.As part of the criticism, an editorial by
the Times of India questions why Bengal authorities have to capture
biometrics separately for that purpose, whereas there is the main
Aadhaar database which has the biometrics of almost every Indian
citizen.To the outlet, it would make more sense for the authorities to
use the Central Identity Data Repository of the Unique Identification
Authority of India (UIDAI) which is already well established.The
editorial argues that creating several databases for different purposes
is a good recipe for security risks, and that data encryption alone is
never enough to deter data thieves.Indians’ personal data has been
exposed in several data breaches of ID information in the recent past.
NIST updates biometric image quality assessment evaluation, seeks feedback-Dec 4, 2023, 5:48 pm EST | Chris Burt
Image
quality assessment algorithms are getting better at detection specific
defects that will impact face biometrics match success, according to a
new report from the U.S. National Institute of Standards and
Technology.NIST’s Face Analysis Technology Evaluation (FATE) Part 11
report evaluates algorithms for Face Image Quality Vector Assessment, in
terms of their performance for Quality Specific Image Defect Detection
(SIDD).The latest evaluation adds a pair of submissions from secunet, as
well as modified measures for subjects with open eyes and mouths, and
occluded faces. The measurement modifications were made to better align
the test with the specifications of ISO/IEC 29794-5:2024.Prior
submissions have been entered by Digidata, FRP LLC, Neurotechnology,
Rank One Computing, Fraunhofer IGD, Idemia, Dermalog and Seamfix, along
with two prior submissions from secunet.All of the 13 “algorithms
submitted have some success at measuring various quality-related
parameters.”The evaluation evaluated a use case involving
machine-readable travel documents, how long it takes to produce results,
and how accurately algorithms count the number of faces in a frame.
Assessments of yaw, pitch and roll angle, as well as background
uniformity, resolution, and under- and overexposure are also evaluated.
Algorithms were also evaluated for detection of eyeglasses and
sunglasses, and motion blurring.Algorithms from secunet delivered a
particularly sharp decrease in false non-match rate (FNMR) as its
quality assessments were used to discard lower-quality images.
Biometric
legislation increasingly out of date, says Australia’s new privacy
commissioner-Dec 4, 2023, 5:39 pm EST | Masha Borak
Rapid
changes in biometric technology are a challenge to regulators, while
legislative approaches to applications such as keystroke and eye
tracking are increasingly out of date, according to Australia’s new
national privacy commissioner, Carly Kind.Kind, a human rights lawyer
and founder of UK privacy organization the Ada Lovelace Institute, was
named the country’s new Privacy Commissioner last week. Kind is expected
to take her place in February alongside Elizabeth Tydd, who has been
appointed as the new Freedom of Information Commissioner.The move was
seen as significant as it returned Australia’s privacy office to its
original structure for the first time in eight years. Previous
Information Commissioner Angelene Falk had been covering both the
privacy and Freedom of Information files.In an interview with the
Australian Financial Review, Kind says that biometric technologies are
not only used to identify people but increasingly to classify and
categorize them based on gender and race, or even emotions.“I think
there’s a real mismatch between how quickly biometric technologies are
moving and how well they are appropriately regulated in many different
jurisdictions,” she says.Biometric data is considered sensitive
information under the Privacy Act, but limited recourse is provided for
citizens if their biometrics are misused. Australia has had a chance to
learn from other jurisdictions as it seeks to strengthen its own
protections, according to Kind.Last Friday, Australia’s federal
government introduced the Digital ID Bill in the Senate to formally
establish and provide a framework for the country’s digital ID system.
According to the draft, new powers would be given to the Privacy
Commissioner as a regulating authority.Kind added that her background in
civil society rather than the private sector has left her “free of some
of the conflicts of interest” that some people working in the data
privacy field have. She also added that she is closely engaged in
efforts to regulate artificial intelligence in the UK and Europe and
through the United Nations.“I think it’s clear that something in the way
of novel regulatory approaches are needed for AI,” she says.
MOSIP-based legal, digital ID enrollments hit 100M milestone-Dec 4, 2023, 5:07 pm EST- Ayang Macdonald
The
Modular Open-Source Identity Platform (MOSIP) has achieved a new
landmark in its efforts to support non-proprietary digital ID ecosystem
initiatives around the world as the Indian firm says more than 100
million digital and civil identities based on its open-source software
have now been issued in all partner countries.From 2018 when the
platform launched, to now, MOSIP says it has been relentless in all-out
efforts to offer counties the opportunity to “customize, scale, and own
core components of their digital public infrastructure” one of which is
digital ID.The number of countries joining MOSIP’s ecosystem of partners
has been expanding and as open-source digital ID projects keep cropping
up.The platform is at various stages of adoption and implementation in
11 countries in Africa and Asia.MOSIP says this milestone would not have
been reached without the active accompaniment of implementing
countries, technology developers and research institutions which have
over the years “worked tirelessly to design, test and implement
MOSIP-based systems with us.”“The trust that countries have placed in
MOSIP has been pivotal to its success. It is a source of great pride
that country governments have chosen to trust a university-based project
for the development of technologies at this scale, and we continue to
work to prove that they put their faith in the right team,” Arun
Gurumurthy, MOSIP head of strategy and resourcing, said in a press
release.On this milestone, MOSIP says it celebrates not only the small
team of dedicated individuals that started the project five years ago,
but also the sustained efforts to “to build a collaborative ecosystem
that can cater to our ever-evolving global landscapes.”Throughout this
period, the MOSIP team believes it has been a moment for learning and
improving on the products and services offered to a growing
clientele.MOSIP says with a much larger team than when they took off,
their prospects are spare no efforts in making sure that “no individual
will be left behind on the journey towards global digital
transformation” in the future.In a recent webinar, MOSIP gave details
about the work it’s leading with its ecosystem partners on the
development of a biometric device certification framework.
Papua New Guinea issues RFI for digital ID ecosystem, 6 other DPI projects-Dec 4, 2023, 1:31 pm EST-| Ayang Macdonald
The
Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) of Papua
New Guinea has issued a Request for Information (RFI) for its national
digital ID project, along with six others touching on the country’s
digital public infrastructure (DPI) development.The deadline for
submissions in response to the RFIs is December 8, according to an
announcement from the department.The RFIs are being solicited within the
framework of the country’s Digital Government Act 2022 and the GovPNG
Technology Stack.Other than the digital ID ecosystem, the other areas to
be covered by the RFI include digital government portal solutions,
internet payment gateway solutions, interoperability (a secure data
exchange platform), a national cyber coordinating center (N3C), and a
national cyber security center (NCSC).RFI deadline for the seventh
project – the Cyber Advisory Service – closed last month.DICT says the
purpose of seeking these FRIs is to “gather information and explore
potential solutions to establish a secure, reliable, and cost-effective
infrastructure for government agencies to drive innovation and improve
the delivery of digital services to citizens, businesses and within
government.”The solicited RFIs are for planning purposes, the DICT
notes, adding that intentions for any procurements arising from them
will be the subject of a different process which shall be carried out in
respect of the country’s public procurement regulations.“As we explore
the possibilities of modernizing our identity management systems, we are
interested in understanding the latest technologies, best practices and
potential partners who can support PNG in this endeavor,” a part of the
note announcing the RFI reads.Papua New Guinea intends to issue digital
IDs to all its citizens by 2025.Information solicited by the DICT
includes an overview of the profile of interested organizations; their
software, hardware and capabilities; security and privacy measures;
usability and accessibility; integration capabilities; scalability and
future-proofing; project references; cost structure; data protection and
compliance; timeline and implementation; support and maintenance; and
partnerships and collaborations.The RFI, the government says, will
enable it make an informed decision on the pathway to pursue in the
development of its digital ID ecosystem and how it can support its
digital economy development in line with its development projections.The
country is also working with India to tap from the latter’s vast pool
of DPI experience.
Legal age is porous online; digital ID firms,
regulators, platforms spar for leverage-Dec 4, 2023, 1:16 pm EST-| Joel
R. McConvey
The increasing demand for age assurance tools to
protect youth online is prompting new investments in biometrics and
digital identity verification.Projects receive funding to fight online
child abuse and exploitation.Safe Online, which bills itself as “the
only global investment vehicle dedicated to keeping children safe in the
digital world,” has staked $2 million to support ten innovative
projects across the sector focused on age assurance and preventing
online child sexual exploitation and abuse (CSEA).A release from Safe
Online emphasizes the particular focus on the live streaming of abuse.
The organization’s director, Marija Manojlovic, says the current social
and regulatory approach to the issue is fragmented and reactionary.
“With these ten new projects,” she says, “Safe Online is promoting a
unified and proactive approach that focuses on upcoming legislation, new
and emerging technology and tackling rapidly evolving
threats.”Recipients were selected based on relevance, potential
scalability, strength of research, context against global and national
comparables, and solid legal underpinning. Selected organizations
include several names from both the private and public ends of the
biometrics and digital ID spectrum. Yoti was given the nod for its Level
Playing Field project aimed at expanding monitoring and secure
verification capabilities in the CSEA ecosystem through digital ID, age
assurance, identity verification and e-signatures. The company has
firmly established itself as a leader in biometric age estimation. The
EU’s euConsent project receives support for its second phase, following
the deployment of a phase one pilot of “pan-European, open-system,
secure and certified interoperable age verification and parental
consent.” T3K Forensics is utilizing AI in its CounterACT project to
detect exploitative content in livestreams, joining Web IQ, Rigr AI and
Universidad de los Andes in leveraging the power of machine learning and
algorithmic detection.The list reflects the global scope of the
challenge, with projects centered on the Philippines, New Zealand and
Latin America. A detailed list of recipients can be found here.UK report
shows weakness of legacy age verification measuresIn theory, most
social media networks require users to be a minimum age before they can
create an account. However, a new report from the UK’s communications
regulator suggests what many parents already know: without age assurance
tools that use biometrics or other ID channels to authenticate a
person’s age, age verification is mostly perfunctory.According to Ofcom,
22 percent of 8-17-year-olds with at least one social media profile
have their user age set to over 18, putting them at greater risk of
seeing adult content. A third of children aged 8-15 with a social media
profile have a user age of at least 16.Moreover, advanced tech that
still wildly underregulated has made inroads with the young, with 79
percent of online teenagers and 40 percent of kids aged 7-12 saying they
have used generative AI tools such as Chat GPT, Midjourney or – most
popular with kids – Snapchat My AI, which half of UK kids between 7 and
17 reported using.Those most concerned about sexually explicit content
might take solace in knowing that the highest risks to kids are
relatively less coital, with Ofcom listing swears, misinformation,
“content showing dangerous stunts or online challenges,” unwanted friend
requests and online gambling ads as the biggest potential digital harms
facing kids.Social media restrictions enacted and disputed across US-As
U.S. states such as New Jersey, Mississippi and Utah move to tighten
laws around age verification for those wishing to create a social media
profile, the legal back-and-forth over legislation is likely to
increase.Certainly, examples such as the proven ways that Instagram
harms teen girls and the collapse of Twitter into the shambolic X
demonstrate the need for solid social media regulation around age. This
is especially true as it becomes clear how little Silicon Valley’s tech
impresarios care to enforce their own rules.The Independent reports on a
newly opened legal complaint by 33 U.S. states, which accuses
Instagram’s parent company, Meta, of knowingly allowing and harvesting
the data of underage users, and – in the words of New York Attorney
General Letitia James – having “profited from children’s pain by
intentionally designing its platforms with manipulative features that
make children addicted to their platforms while lowering their
self-esteem.”Meta has expressed disappointment in the suit, and will
likely stick to its track record of active legal pushback against
proposed protections. Presently among these is a motion filed in an
Arkansas court in objection to Act 689, the so-called Social Media
Safety Act.The Arkansas Democrat Gazette reports that attorneys for the
Washington tech lobbying firm NetChoice filed for summary judgment in
its case against the state. Among the plaintiffs’ objections to the law
are the rule requiring major social media platforms to license age
verification systems from third-party digital ID vendors, and the
requirement that users under 18 obtain parental permission before
creating an account.The legislation exempts companies that generate less
than $100 million, as well as cloud storage platforms and sites for
which social interaction is not the primary use. The state’s attorney
general has vowed to “vigorously oppose the motion for summary
judgment.” However, a U.S. district court judge has already indicated
that the law likely violates the First Amendment.To paraphrase the old
adage, online age verification is more than just a number.
WORLD POWERS IN THE LAST DAYS (END OF AGE OF GRACE NOT THE WORLD)
EUROPEAN UNION-KING OF WEST-DAN 9:26-27,DAN 7:23-24,DAN 11:40,REV 13:1-10
EGYPT-KING OF THE SOUTH-DAN 11:40
RUSSIA-KING OF THE NORTH-EZEK 38:1-2,EZEK 39:1-3
CHINA-KING OF THE EAST-DAN 11:44,REV 9:16,18
VATICAN-FALSE RELIGIOUS LEADER-REV 13:11-18,REV 17:4-5,9,18
REVELATION 13:16-18 (WORLD ECONOMY RUN BY THE EUROPEAN UNION)
16
And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor,
free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their
foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18
Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the
beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred
threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
REVELATION 17:12-13
12
And the ten horns (NATIONS) which thou sawest are ten kings, which have
received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with
the beast.(SOCIALISM)
13 These have one mind,(SOCIALISM) and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
REVELATION 6:1-2
1
And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it
were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
2
And I saw, and behold a white horse:(PEACE) and he that sat on him had a
bow;(EU DICTATOR) and a crown was given unto him:(PRESIDENT OF THE EU)
and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.(MILITARY GENIUS)
2 THESSALONIANS 2:9-12
9 Even him,(EU WORLD DICTATOR) whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
10
And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish;
because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be
saved.
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion,(THE
FALSE RESURRECTION BY THE WORLD DICTATOR) that they should believe a
lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
GENESIS 49:16-17-POSSIBLY A JEW FROM DAN KILLS THE DICTATOR AT MIDPOINT OF TRIB
16 Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
17 Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.
REVELATION 13:3,7,8 (WORLD GOVERNMENT, WORLD ECONOMY, WORLD RELIGION)
1
And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of
the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten
crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.(THE EU AND ITS
DICTATOR IS GODLESS)
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a
leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the
mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and
great authority.(DICTATOR COMES FROM NEW AGE OR OCCULT)
3 And I saw
one of his heads as it were wounded to death;(MURDERERD) and his deadly
wound was healed:(COMES BACK TO LIFE) and all the world wondered after
the beast.(THE WORLD THINKS ITS GOD IN THE FLESH, MESSIAH TO ISRAEL)
7
And it was given unto him to make war with the saints,(BEHEAD THEM) and
to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and
tongues, and nations.(WORLD DOMINATION)
8 And all that dwell upon the
earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of
life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.(WORLD
DICTATOR).
Renewed attack on EU’s proposed Eurodac biometric upgrade-Dec 5, 2023, 1:46 pm EST-| Jim Nash
Dozens
of civil society organizations have renewed their demand that the EU
stop expanding the capabilities of its biometric asylum-registration
infrastructure.Expressing their opposition in an open letter, they say
expansion likely will threaten the human rights of would-be migrants. A
similar statement with overlapping authorship was published in 2021.The
portfolio of the Eurodac database system, which began recording the
fingerprints of asylum seekers 20 year ago, would grow significantly if
pending legislation passes. An upgrade, referred to as a recast, to
Eurodac has been debated for almost a decade, and it is difficult to
know where it eventually will land.Face biometrics of asylum-seekers and
irregular migrants would be included in the upgrade, according to
tentative agreement in 2018 between the European Parliament and European
Council, two-thirds of the bodies needed to enact a law. The EU
Commission is the third.The proposal also calls for lowering the age at
which subjects could be fingerprinted from 14 years old to six years
old, and EUobserver reports an agreement is imminent. As well, Europol
would be given a more streamlined process for searching Eurodac, a loose
acronym for European Dactyloscopy Database.Proponents say it would
bolster criminal and terror investigations and better manage the flow of
migrants before, during and after they arrive at the EU’s external
borders.Migrant and privacy advocates don’t see it in the same
light.They say the new Eurodac would pull in more biometric and document
records from more people in more categories: those being resettled and
relocated, those who’ve been aided in search-and-rescue operation and
those arrested in the EU’s borders.They also cite accuracy and bias
statistics of facial recognition algorithms.Signatories include European
Digital Rights (EDRi), Privacy International, the Helsinki Foundation
for Human Rights and Access Now.Eurodac is a component of eu-LISA, the
EU Agency for the Operational Management of Large-Scale IT Systems in
the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice.
HIPPA trumps biometric privacy law in drug cabinet lawsuit-Dec 4, 2023, 5:22 pm EST-| Jim Nash
A
rare Biometric Information Privacy Act win for the defense has been
recorded in the U.S. state of Illinois.Health care workers in some
instances are not protected by BIPA, an Illinois law that requires
private organizations to get written consent from people before
collecting biometric data and inform them of how it will be managed.The
Illinois Supreme Court unanimously found that no consent is required
when a health care worker is required by an employer to submit to a
fingerprint scan to access drug cabinets. The defendants were med-tech
firm Becton, Dickinson and two Chicago area hospitals that used the
company’s cabinets to store restricted substances and medications.The
justices said they were not giving a categorical exclusion to health
care workers.Virtually every other BIPA case has ended in a victory for
the plaintiff or settlement.The plaintiffs in this court case (No.
129081) felt that BIPA creates an exclusion for patient information. But
the justices said the “plain language” of the law make it clear that
the legislature intended to exclude health care workers as well as
patients from protection of their biometric data.Lawmakers that wrote
BIPA created protection exclusions for some classes of biometric data,
including data related to the federal Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act. HIPPA is one of the very few U.S. laws protecting a
broad and vital vein of information, a person’s health data.In rejecting
plaintiffs’ challenge, the Supreme Court all but created sentence trees
and analyzed verbs to divine politicians’ intent.Of particular interest
was a phrase about what can be excluded: “information captured from a
patient in a health care setting or information collected, used, or
stored for health care treatment, payment, or operations under the
federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.”
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