WAR WITH IRAN - DAY 14 - ISRAEL,USA HAMMER IRAN.

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)

WAR WITH IRAN - DAY 14 - ISRAEL,USA HAMMER IRAN.

THE NEXT US-ISRAEL HIT ON IRAN SHOULD BE VERSE 37. ALL OFFENSIVE NUKE SITES MISSLES,DRONES,AND OF COURSE KHEMENI AND THE IRGC GUARDS.THEN AFTER IRANS REGIME CHANGE. MUSLIMS COME TO JESUS BY THE MILLIONS.

JEREMEIAH 49:32-39 (IN IRAN AT THE BUSHEHR OR ARAK NUKE SITES AND ALL OFENSIVE WEAPONS DESTROYED IN IRAN)
Jeremiah 49:32-39    
32 Their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter to all winds those who have the corners [of their hair] cut off; and I will bring their calamity from every side of them, says Yahweh.
33 Hazor shall be a dwelling-place of jackals, a desolation forever: no man shall dwell there, neither shall any son of man sojourn therein.(Location & Size: It was strategically located along the Via Maris (Way of the Sea), a major trade route connecting Egypt with Syria and Mesopotamia.)
34 The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam,(IRAN) in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,
35 Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,(IRANS OFFENSIVE WEAPONS) the chief of their might.(MISSLES AND NUKE SITES)
36 On Elam (IRAN) will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of the sky, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation where the outcasts of Elam shall not come.(SINCE 1979 IRANIANS HAVE GOTTIN OUT OF IRAN BECAUSE OF KHEMENI AND HIS APOCOPOLIPTIC DEATH CULT BELIEF-BLACK HATER 12ERS)
37 I will cause Elam (IRAN) to be dismayed before their enemies, and before those who seek their life;(ISRAEL THE LITTLE SATAN AND THE U.S THE BIG SATAN) and I will bring evil on them, (MISSLES) even my fierce anger,(FIRE) says Yahweh; and I will send the sword after them,(IRANS OFFENSIVE WEAPONS) until I have consumed them; (DESTROYED THEM ALL NUKE SITES,MISSLES ETC)
38 and I will set my throne in Elam,(IRAN WILL BECOME A CHRISTIAN NATION) and will destroy from there king (KHEMENI, ISLAM) and princes, says Yahweh.(IRANIAN ARMY GUARDS)
39 But it shall happen in the latter days, that I will bring back the captivity of Elam,(IRAN) says Yahweh.(WERE IN THE LATTER DAYS NOW)

JEREMEIAH 49:23-27
23  Concerning Damascus.(SYRIA) Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea;(WAR SHIPS WITH NUKES COMING ON SYRIA) it cannot be quiet.
24  Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
25  How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
26  Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
27  And I will kindle a fire (NUKES OR BOMBS) in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.(ASSADS PALACES POSSIBLY IN DAMASCUS)

Interview'The likelihood of success in toppling the regime is slim'War aimed at preventing Iranian nukes may actually lead to them, ex-IDF expert warns-Danny Citrinowicz, IDF’s former top Iran researcher, fears regime will try and break out toward a bomb in response to killing of its supreme leader, whose policy was to keep Tehran at threshold-By Jacob Magid-Today, 3:53 pm-MAR 13,26

Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei saw his nuclear strategy blow up in his face when an Israeli strike killed him on the first day of the war Jerusalem launched together with the United States against the Islamic Republic on February 28.For decades, Khamenei had a policy of developing the ability to build a nuclear weapon, while holding off on actually doing so.Khamenei’s threshold nuclear strategy was designed to pose a deterrent to US and Israeli attacks, while staying true to his 2005 religious ban on nuclear weapons.The scheme didn’t save Iran from crippling US sanctions imposed by both Democratic and Republican administrations, but until last year’s 12-Day War, Tehran avoided paying a kinetic price.Unmoved by the massive damage inflicted on his country’s three main nuclear sites last June, Khamenei directed his negotiators to continue insisting that Iran retain the right to enrich uranium in talks with the US last month.For US President Donald Trump, a deal with Iran offered the opportunity to block Tehran’s path to a nuclear weapon. But the sanctions relief Washington needed to give in exchange would have strengthened a destabilizing regime when it was at its weakest.Untrusting of Iran’s intentions, Trump authorized the launch of Operation Epic Fury, rather than allow his top aides to convene for another round of talks.The past two weeks have seen a relentless US-Israeli bombing campaign that has shaken the foundations of the entire region, with countries in the Gulf and beyond finding themselves the targets of much of Iran’s retaliation.While the US and Israel are hoping this war strips Iran of the capability to obtain a nuclear weapon — let alone the ability to use it — a former top Iran analyst for the Israel Defense Forces argues that it may have an opposite effect, as the preemptive US-Israeli strikes once and for all proved Khamenei’s threshold strategy ineffective.So now, Iran is left with two choices: abandon its nuclear program entirely or rush to a bomb.Danny Citrinowicz, who headed the Iran branch of the Israeli Military Intelligence’s Research and Analysis Division, maintains that a threatened Iran is more likely to choose option two, particularly given that it is now led by Khamenei’s son Mojtaba, who is determined to avenge the deaths of his family members killed along with his father in the war’s opening strike.Regime change would solve this most fateful of crises, and while Israel has been unambiguous about that being a primary goal, the US has stopped short of following suit. Trump has said he would like to pick Iran’s next leader and has urged the Iranian people to rise up against the regime once the bombing stops, but he is also insisting that the war will soon wrap up.“The likelihood of success in toppling the regime is slim, and by taking kinetic action, you’re pushing the Iranians to cross the Rubicon on the nuclear file,” Citrinowicz said in an interview this week with The Times of Israel.“This is what I’m afraid of — that this war will not prevent Iran from getting a bomb, but actually accelerate its plans to do so,” he added.In the lengthy interview, Citrinowicz explained why each side’s misunderstanding of the other doomed the nuclear talks to fail. He also stressed the importance and difficulty of recovering Iran’s stockpiles of highly enriched uranium now that the war is being waged.The former IDF analyst cautioned against assumptions that Trump will be able to unilaterally declare victory to end the conflict, while suggesting that further military achievement will not translate to an improvement in Israel’s strategic position in the region.‘Dialogue of the deaf’Citrinowicz characterized the February negotiations that preceded the war as a “dialogue of the deaf,” with the US convinced that Iran would capitulate completely if pressured enough.While Iran, in the talks, continued to insist on maintaining the right to enrich uranium, mediating Omani Foreign Minister Badr al-Busaidi said Tehran had agreed not to stockpile the uranium it was enriching.Related: He led IDF intel gathering on Iran, was ignored and fears Israel is now paying price-“That was an important development because it meant that Iran was only seeking to maintain its enrichment project as a means of saving face,” maintained Citrinowicz, who is currently a senior fellow at the Tel Aviv-based Institute for National Security Studies.“If you wanted to prevent Iran from building a bomb, and that is really what the Iranians have offered, then this kind of an agreement wasn’t a bad option,” he said, noting that it would also include an inspections regime, so nothing would have come down to simply trusting the Islamic Republic.“The problem is that an agreement prevents the Iranians from reaching a bomb, but strengthens the regime, while [a military strike] weakens the regime, but strengthens its [resolve] to reach a bomb,” Citrinowicz said, suggesting that the US effectively chose the latter option.Asked if a way could be found around that dilemma, the INSS scholar acknowledged the difficulty in doing so when trust between the sides is so low.An agreement prevents Iranians from reaching a bomb, but strengthens the regime,” Citrinowicz said. A strike “weakens the regime, but strengthens its [resolve] to reach a bomb.“In the Iranian view, they agreed to negotiate twice, and both times the US and Israel attacked. So I don’t think we’ll see the Omani-mediated process being discussed anytime soon,” Citrinowicz said, referring to the 2025 US-Iranian talks that preceded the war in June.‘Victory’ requires seizing highly enriched uranium-Citrinowicz speculated that Netanyahu will declare victory regardless of the outcome, recalling the premier’s claim after the 12-Day War just nine months ago that the blows struck to Iran’s missile and nuclear programs would “abide for generations.”“We now understand that there may have been achievements, but definitely not strategic ones,” argued Citrinowicz.“If the war ends tomorrow, we will again have operational achievements to point to, but they will be eroded in the future because this regime — if it remains, and I assume it will, unfortunately — will rebuild its nuclear capacities,” he said.But even the operational achievements would be limited, he cautioned, if they do not include the recovery of the 440 kilograms of highly enriched uranium that Iran is believed to be storing deep underground at the Isfahan site.“If the war is about preventing Iran from building a bomb and that 440 kilograms isn’t seized, then you definitely cannot speak of strategic gains,” Citrinowicz said, given that Tehran would still be left in control of uranium that has undergone most of the work needed to reach weapons-grade status.If the war is about preventing Iran from building a bomb and that 440 kilograms [of enriched uranium] isn’t seized, then you definitely cannot speak of strategic gains.The US and Israel have an undeniable military advantage over Iran, but recovering that uranium will take more than a small team of skilled commandos. A massive unit would likely be needed to first conquer the area surrounding the nuclear site to give American or Israeli soldiers time to reach the stockpile deep underground and load the steel cylinders onto a truck. Troops would have a hard time catching the Iranians off guard, given that Tehran knows that the highly enriched uranium is a target.While Netanyahu has claimed Israel knows where the material is located, there are also reports that Iran has dispersed it to several locations.Recovering the enriched uranium would indeed set Iran back from building a nuclear weapon, but Tehran still would be left with uranium enriched at lower levels, the know-how to enrich it further, and a potential newfound drive to rush toward a weapon, even if it takes longer to get there, Citrinowicz said.The determination not to cave under US and Israeli pressure was demonstrated by the election of Khamenei’s son Mojtaba as the next supreme leader on the eighth day of the war, even after Trump warned against such a decision.Citrinowicz maintained that Mojtaba would not have been chosen by the regime’s clerical Assembly of Experts — in an election reportedly orchestrated by Iran’s hardline Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps — had his father not been killed. The elder Khamenei, Citrinowicz said, “was against” the idea of Mojtaba taking his place, “and a lot of people in the regime were against it as well.”“Iran is not a monarchy. But when you kill [Ali] and when President Trump threatens [against picking Mojtaba], then you’re pressuring those people who want to show defiance toward the US to elect him,” he said.Citrinowicz suggested that Israel may have been better off with the elder Khamenei still at the helm.“[Ali] Khamenei was a fierce adversary of Israel and the US, and I’m not shedding a tear over the fact that he’s gone. But he did have his advantages,” he said, arguing that Khamenei was easier to predict and had clear red lines.Ali Khamenei was committed to a weaponized enrichment program until 2003, when Iran agreed to halt the military track in favor of just a civilian one, amid fears of a strike by the US following its invasion of neighboring Iraq. After Trump abandoned the nuclear deal Washington signed with Tehran in 2015, Khamenei approved the acceleration of Iran’s enrichment to 60 percent purity, a level with no civilian application, while still stopping just short of weapons-grade.“We are now getting an ‘upgraded’ version of [Ali Khamenei] — someone who is extreme, someone who wants to avenge the deaths of his family members.”“I don’t know if Mojtaba will live to see the day after the war, and Iran will have a mountain to climb in terms of its domestic problems, regardless,” Citrinowicz said. “But [Ali] Khamenei was a balancer between the IRGC and the more moderate forces within the regime. Now we have someone who is controlled by the IRGC, and I think that will manifest in Iran’s nuclear strategy moving forward.”Citrinowicz rejected the idea that Iran would respond to the ongoing war by deciding to forgo its nuclear program completely. “The regime would see that as a capitulation and a betrayal of its legacy and of everything that Khamenei led in Iran.”While Israel or the US could well kill Mojtaba as they did his father, doing so would likely be more difficult in the middle of a war, with the new supreme leader yet to show his face.Regardless, Trump should not expect developments in Iran to unfold as they did in Venezuela, Citrinowicz noted.“There is no Delcy Rodriguez in Iran,” he said, referring to the Venezuelan vice president who has agreed to work with the Trump administration after the US captured her country’s leader Nicolás Maduro. “With this [Iranian] regime, working with the US gets you shot, especially after the killing of Khamenei.”This is why ending the war will be so problematic, he went on, as there is no way to ensure the current Iranian regime won’t return to enriching uranium.“You can threaten to come back and bomb them again if necessary, but you’ll have to bring the aircraft carriers back, and it’s unclear whether you’d have the same willingness from both countries to act again,” Citrinowicz argued. “So Iran will wait for a certain number of months, pull out their uranium and begin enriching again.”Is Israel actually interested in regime change? It is likely these issues that have led Israel to conclude that the only solution is to topple the regime entirely, but Citrinowicz expressed heavy skepticism that doing so is possible.It would require the Iranian people to return to the streets, knowing that those who did so before them were mowed down in their tens of thousands during the weeks leading up to the war. Even if the protesters do come out after the bombing stops, “the regime will still be in the fight for its life. [Iranian forces will be] obligated to Mojtaba and will be very violent toward anyone who takes to the streets,” Citrinowicz asserted.And while there is widespread domestic opposition to the regime, it is unclear whether those dissidents would be willing to follow the orders of the countries currently attacking Iran, telling them that the time has come for them to oust the Islamic Republic from within.Citrinowicz contended that Israel would have been better served by allowing “nature to take its course,” arguing that another wave of protests would have eventually gathered force since the regime remains fundamentally incapable of providing for its citizens.He also called into question whether Israel is genuinely committed to bringing down the Islamic Republic, as opposed to less drastically removing the current iteration of the regime, arguing that if it were, it would not have targeted Iran’s fuel facilities in Tehran, inflicting harm that extends beyond the ruling elite.“For Netanyahu, the main issue is preventing Iran from being a strategic threat to the state of Israel, and if, to achieve that, you need to have chaos or civil war in Iran, so be it. He sees anything as better than the current [version of the] regime,” Citrinowicz maintained. “Netanyahu is not planning on continuing the war until [the son of Iran’s last shah Reza] Pahlavi has been installed to take care of the Iranian people.”For Netanyahu, the main issue is preventing Iran from being a strategic threat to the state of Israel, and if, in order to achieve that, you need to have chaos or civil war in Iran, so be it.Who gets the last word? Citrinowicz acknowledged that it is difficult to predict how the war will unfold, but he said the most likely scenario — absent another dramatic development — would be for Trump to try and unilaterally declare victory.But while the US would be able to say it significantly degraded Iran’s nuclear and missile capacity, that’s not the same as irreversibly destroying those two programs.“You can’t really call this a war of winners,” Citrinowicz maintained.The Iran expert also expressed significant skepticism that Tehran and its proxies would immediately agree to a ceasefire, as they did when Trump declared one nine months ago.“The Iranians understand that nothing good comes out of a unilateral ceasefire. That’s what they had in June. They want different conditions: [They’ll seek] a non-aggression pact or [warn otherwise that] they’ll continue firing, or that their proxies will continue launching missiles, or that they can carry out terror attacks,” Citrinowicz said.“It’s not that the Iranians want an endless war. But they want to create a new reality that will prevent Israel and the US from attacking them every eight months,” he clarified.“We should think long and hard about whether we can mow the lawn in Iran every few months, given all the prices we are paying. Maybe it’s time to think about a different solution, and not only the kinetic one,” Citrinowicz argued.Asked whether that makes him a pacifist, he responded, “Go and topple the regime. I’m in favor of the idea [in theory]. It would be a positive earthquake for the region.”“It won’t solve Israel’s problems in terms of the Palestinian issue or normalization with its neighbors, but it would definitely allow the region to prosper. I just don’t think the chances for success are very high,” Citrinowicz explained.“Changing the regime takes time. We can find someone from the opposition, we can arm the opposition, we can do many things, but I’m not sure they will help in the foreseeable future,” he said. “We came to this war with no strategic plan whatsoever.”

Analysis-With Iran war exit elusive, Trump aides vie to affect the outcome-US president’s shifting statements are result of tug-of-war in his administration, sources say, as officials weigh economic, political costs of continued strikes By Nandita Bose, Matt Spetalnick and Humeyra Pamuk Today, 2:59 pm-MAR 13,26

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — A complex tug-of-war inside the White House is driving US President Donald Trump’s shifting public statements on the course of the Iran war, as aides debate when and how to declare victory even as the conflict spreads across the Middle East.Some officials and advisers are warning Trump that surging gasoline prices could exact a political cost from the US-Israeli attacks on Iran, while some hawks are pressing the president to maintain the offensive against the Islamic Republic, according to interviews with a Trump adviser and others close to the deliberations.Their observations to Reuters offer a previously unreported glimpse inside White House decision-making as it adjusts its approach to the biggest US military operation since the 2003 Iraq war.The behind-the-scenes maneuvering underscores the high stakes Trump, who returned to office last year promising to avoid “stupid” military interventions, faces nearly two weeks after plunging the nation into a war that has rattled global financial markets and disrupted the international oil trade.The jockeying for Trump’s ear is a feature of his presidency, but this time the consequences are a matter of war and peace in one of the world’s most volatile and economically critical regions.Shifting from the sweeping goals he framed in launching the war on February 28, Trump in recent days has emphasized that he views the conflict as a limited campaign whose objectives have mostly been met.But the message remains unclear to many, including the energy markets, which have lurched in both directions in response to Trump’s statements.He told a campaign-style rally in Kentucky on Wednesday that “we won” the war, then abruptly pivoted: “We don’t want to leave early, do we? We’ve got to finish the job.”Economic advisers and officials, including those from the US Treasury Department and National Economic Council, have warned Trump that an oil shock and rising gasoline prices could quickly erode domestic support for the war, said the adviser and two others close to the deliberations, speaking on the condition of anonymity to disclose internal discussions.Political advisers, including Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and deputy chief James Blair, are making similar arguments, focusing on the political fallout from higher gas prices and urging Trump to define victory narrowly and signal the operation is limited and nearly finished, the sources said.Pushing in the other direction are hawkish voices urging Trump to sustain military pressure on Iran, including Republican lawmakers such as US Senators Lindsey Graham and Tom Cotton, and media commentators such as Mark Levin, according to people familiar with the matter.They argue the US must prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and respond forcefully to attacks on American troops and shipping.A third force comes from Trump’s populist base and figures such as strategist Steve Bannon and far-right, anti-Israel television personality Tucker Carlson, who have been pressing him and his top aides to avoid getting dragged into another prolonged Middle East conflict.“He is allowing the hawks to believe the campaign continues, wants markets to believe the war might end soon and his base to believe escalation will be limited,” the Trump adviser said.Asked for comment, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement: “This story is based on gossip and speculation from anonymous sources who aren’t even in the room for any discussions with President Trump.“The President is known for being a good listener and seeking the opinions of many people, but ultimately everyone knows he’s the final decision maker and his own best messenger,” she said. “The President’s entire team is focused on ensuring the objectives of Operation Epic Fury are fully achieved.”Other people named for their roles in the deliberations did not immediately respond to Reuters’ questions.In taking America to war, Trump offered little explanation, and the administration’s stated war aims have ranged from thwarting an imminent attack by Iran to crippling its nuclear program to replacing its government.As he seeks an exit from an unpopular conflict, Trump is trying to juggle competing narratives that some critics say have complicated an already difficult situation, with Iran defiant despite the devastating US-Israeli air assault.Top political aides and economic advisers, whose warnings before the war of the potential economic shock were largely ignored, appear to have played a major role in pushing Trump’s efforts this week to reassure skittish markets and contain rising oil and gas prices.His public shift to downplaying the war’s impact, describing it as a “short-term excursion,” and his insistence that gas price hikes would be short-lived appeared aimed at calming fears of an open-ended conflict.Some top aides have advised him to work toward a conclusion to the conflict that he can call a triumph, at least militarily, the sources said, even if much of the Iranian leadership survives, along with remnants of a nuclear program that the campaign was meant to target.Wave after wave of US and Israeli air strikes have killed a number of top Iranian leaders, devastated its ballistic missile arsenal, sunk much of its navy and degraded its ability to support terror proxies around the Middle East.But the military achievements have been seriously undercut by Iran’s stepped-up attacks on oil tankers and transport facilities in the Gulf, driving up oil prices.Trump has said he will decide when to end the campaign. He and his aides say they are far ahead of the four- to six-week timeframe Trump initially announced.The shifting reasons for launching the conflict, which has spilled over into more than half a dozen other countries, have only made it more difficult to predict what comes next.For their part, Iran’s rulers will claim victory, analysts say, for simply surviving the US-Israeli offensive, especially after demonstrating their ability to fight back and inflict damage on Israel, the US and its allies.Critical to the war’s final trajectory will be the Strait of Hormuz. A fifth of the world’s oil shipments, which normally traverse the narrow waterway, have come to a near-standstill. Iran in recent days has struck tankers in Iraqi waters and other ships near the strait, and the new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei, vowed to keep it shut in a recent statement attributed to him.If Iran’s stranglehold on the waterway pushes US gas prices high enough, that could increase political pressure on Trump to end the military campaign to help his Republican Party, which is defending narrow majorities in Congress in November’s midterm elections.Trump has recently refrained from pushing the idea that the war seeks to topple the government in Tehran. US intelligence indicates that Iran’s leadership is not at risk of collapse anytime soon, Reuters reported on Wednesday.At least some of the confusion over the war’s trajectory appears rooted in the quick US military success in Venezuela.Since the start of the war, some aides have struggled to convince Trump that the Iran campaign was unlikely to unfold in the same way as the January 3 Venezuela raid that captured its president, Nicolas Maduro, according to another source familiar with the administration’s thinking.That operation opened the way for Trump to coerce former Maduro loyalists into giving him considerable sway over the country’s vast oil reserves – without requiring extended US military action.Iran, by contrast, has proved a much tougher, better-armed foe with an entrenched clerical and security establishment.Experts have rejected claims by Trump aides that Iran had been within weeks of being able to produce a nuclear weapon, despite the president’s insistence in June that US-Israeli strikes had “obliterated” its nuclear program during the war that month.Most of Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium is believed to have been buried by the June strikes, meaning the material potentially could be retrieved and purified to bomb grade.If the war drags on, American casualties mount and the economic costs multiply, some analysts say it could erode backing from Trump’s political base. But despite criticism from some supporters opposed to military interventions, members of his “Make America Great Again” movement have so far largely stayed with him on Iran.“The MAGA base is going to give the president wiggle room,” said Republican strategist Ford O’Connell.

PROOF HALF ON EARTH DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION PERIOD (8 BILLION ON EARTH)

REVELATION 6:7-8 (8 BILLION- 2 BILLION = 6 BILLION)
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) to kill with sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).

REVELATION 9:15,18 (6 BILLION - 2 BILLION = 4 BILLION)
15 And the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels were loosed,
18 By these three was the third part of men killed,(2 BILLION) by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMBS)

HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)

LUKE 17:34-37 (8 TOTAL BILLION - 4 BILLION DEAD IN TRIB = 4 BILLION TO JESUS KINGDOM) (HALF DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION PERIOD JUST LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS)(GOD DOES NOT LIE)(AND NOTICE MOST DIE IN WAR AND DISEASES-NOT COMETS-ASTEROIDS-QUAKES OR TSUNAMIS)
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other shall be left.(half earths population 4 billion die in the 7 yr trib)
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten by the birds).THESE ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES-NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES.BECAUSE NOT HALF OF PEOPLE ON EARTH ARE CHRISTIANS.AND THE CONTEXT IN LUKE 17 IS THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION OR 7 YR TREATY PERIOD.WHICH IS JUDGEMENT ON THE EARTH.NOT 50% RAPTURED TO HEAVEN.

MATTHEW 24:37-42 (THESE ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES-SURE NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
42 Watch therefore:(FOR THE LAST DAYS SIGNS HAPPENING) for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

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.(CAN YOU SAY TORNADOES,HURRICANES,VOLCANOES,EARTH QUAKES,LANDSLIDES,FLASH FLOODING,EXPLOSIONS,SNOW STORMS,THEN FINALLY NUKESAND ANY OTHER JUDGEMENTS THE EARTH CAN VOMIT THE SINNERS OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH WITH.

MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

2 Peter 3:6-7 Amplified Bible (AMP) (HOT SUN, NUKES ETC)
6 By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed. 
7 By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.

LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun,(HEATING UP-SOLAR ECLIPSES) and in the moon,(MAN ON THE MOON-LUNAR ECLIPSES) and in the stars;(ASTEROIDS-PROPHECY SIGNS) and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)

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)

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-King James Version (YOU DIVIDE JERUSALEM IN HALF - YOUR POKING GOD IN THE EYE - GOD SAYS AN EYE FOR AN EYE AND A TOOTH FOR A TOOTH- YOU WANNA DIVIDE JERUSALEM IN HALF -  HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION 4 BILLION DIE ON EARTH.
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 and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

Explosion outside Rotterdam synagogue sparks fire, damages building; 4 arrested-No injuries reported; police say suspects may have planned attack on second Jewish house of worship; synagogue chair decries lack of action over rising antisemitism By AFP and ToI Staff Today, 4:32 pm-MAR 13,26

Dutch police said Friday they had arrested four young men on suspicion of setting off an explosion outside a synagogue in Rotterdam that caused a brief blaze and damage to the building.After the blast, police monitored other synagogues as a precaution and stopped a vehicle near another building driven by someone matching the description of one of the suspects.“It is not yet clear whether the suspects planned to detonate an explosive or set fire to another synagogue as well,” police said in a statement.Two men were aged 19, one 18, and the fourth was 17 years old, said police, without specifying any potential motive.Authorities said they were launching a “large-scale investigation into this serious incident” and appealed for witnesses to come forward.An unverified video showing an explosion near a building resembling the targeted synagogue circulated on social media on Friday, which police said they were examining as part of their probe.Justice Minister David van Weel said the attack was “terrible news.”“We will not tolerate antisemitism, intimidation, and violence. Local authorities are ensuring the safety of synagogues,” he wrote on X.The minister voiced solidarity with the Dutch Jewish community, adding: “They must feel safe in the Netherlands.”Rotterdam city mayor Carola Schouten said the attack had caused “a great deal of anxiety among our Jewish fellow citizens.”There was no place for antisemitism, intimidation, violence, or hatred toward religious communities in her city, added Schouten.The synagogue’s chairman, Chris den Hoedt, told public broadcaster NOS that the attack was “shocking” but came amid warnings of a lack of action over rising antisemitism.“This is material damage,” he said, showing the scorched doors of the building.“But the emotional damage our community feels is bigger and longer-lasting. We can repair this (the door), but not the rest,” he added.“It is the prelude to what we have been seeing for two years: rising antisemitism. And the fact that little is being done about it,” he said.On Monday, an explosion shook a synagogue in the Belgian city of Liege before dawn, causing some damage but no injuries.On Thursday, an unidentified assailant rammed his car into a synagogue that had a preschool on the premises, on the outskirts of Detroit, Michigan, sparking a blaze. Security guards opened fire on the attacker, who was killed in the assault.Antisemitism and anti-Israel sentiments have skyrocketed worldwide since the start of the war sparked by the devastating Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.

Michigan synagogue attacker was US-Lebanese citizen with relatives said killed in IDF strike-Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, 41, was naturalized US citizen who worked in restaurant; four family members reportedly killed in Israeli airstrike amid fighting with Hezbollah By Leon Kraiem and Agencies Today, 3:41 pm-MAR 13,26

The armed man who rammed his truck into a Reform synagogue in Michigan on Thursday has been identified as 41-year-old Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, a naturalized citizen born in Lebanon, US federal officials said Friday.Multiple reports, as well as a statement from the mayor of Dearborn Heights, who said he was a resident, said that several of Ghazali’s Lebanese relatives were killed in an Israeli airstrike recently, amid the renewed fighting between Israel and the Hezbollah terror group.Security guards opened fire on Ghazali after he smashed a truck through the doors of the Temple Israel synagogue and preschool in West Bloomfield, near Detroit.According to the US Department of Homeland Security, Ghazali came to the United States in 2011 on an IR1 immigrant visa, given to spouses of US citizens, and was granted US citizenship himself in 2016.Ghazali worked at a popular restaurant in Dearborn Heights, Hamido, but had been absent in recent weeks, fellow employees told The New York Times. Coworkers and a neighbor praised him to the Detroit Free Press, with the neighbor saying she had planned to bring him flowers because his brother had died.He was divorced and had at least one child, according to The Detroit News, which cited court records. The newspaper reported, citing two people familiar with the investigation, that at least four of Ghazali’s relatives, including a sibling, “had been killed days earlier in a military strike in Lebanon.”Dearborn Heights Mayor Mo Baydoun said in a statement that this month, “he lost several members of his own family, including his niece and nephew, in an Israeli attack on their home in Lebanon.”At a news conference Thursday evening, Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard said no synagogue staff or children were hurt in the attack, but 30 law enforcement officers were “taken to the hospital for smoke inhalation” after the evacuation efforts. Earlier, he said one security guard was injured by the assailant’s truck.The FBI will investigate the incident “as a targeted act of violence against the Jewish community,” Jennifer Runyan, special agent in charge of the federal agency’s Detroit field office, told reporters Thursday. Law enforcement has not yet publicly detailed a motive.CBS News cited a source in Michigan’s Lebanese-American community who said that in the wake of the strike, Ghazali stopped working and spent his time alone at home. According to the source, who has long known Ghazali, the strike killed two of Ghazali’s brothers and two of their children, and severely wounded one of his sisters.The same source said that prior to the synagogue attack, Ghazali called his ex-wife. The conversation reportedly left her concerned, and she called the police afterward.According to the source quoted by CBS, the strike in Lebanon took place roughly 10 days before Ghazali carried out the synagogue attack, which would place the event on March 3 or 4.Israel has been carrying out extensive airstrikes targeting Hezbollah in Lebanon, and the Israel Defense Forces has pushed further into the south of the country on the ground, after the Iran-backed terror group started firing hundreds of rockets and drones at Israel on March 2, in response to US-Israeli attacks on Iran.Mayor condemns attack, does not mention antisemitism-In his statement posted to social media late Thursday, Dearborn Heights’s Baydoun wrote: “Earlier today, we learned that the individual responsible for the incident that took place at Temple Israel Synagogue in West Bloomfield was a resident of Dearborn Heights. He died at the scene.”“No matter where violence occurs, whether in West Bloomfield or anywhere around in the world, harm against innocent people is something we must all stand firmly against,” he said, adding: “The tensions we see across the world too often find their way into our own neighborhoods, reminding us how deeply connected our shared safety is.”Baydoun urged residents to “stay aware and vigilant, especially as we gather during these sacred final days of Ramadan,” the Muslim holy month.It was the second statement issued by the mayor since the attack. Both made reference to houses of worship, including “the impacted congregation,” and noted that the event took place at a synagogue. Neither statement made any explicit reference to antisemitism.According to a report in local Detroit media from 2024, Baydoun himself also lost relatives — a family of five — in Lebanon as a result of an Israeli airstrike during the previous round of Israel-Hezbollah fighting, which started when the terror group began attacking Israel on October 8, 2023.  That round ended with a ceasefire agreement in November 2024.

US defends Israel against South Africa’s allegation of genocide in top UN court-US legal adviser: Finding against Israel would be ‘radical’; Iceland, Netherlands also intervene in case, with Dutch urging court to probe ‘deliberate withholding’ of aid By AP and ToI Staff Today, 12:23 pm-MAR 13,26

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The United States will intervene in the genocide case against Israel brought at the United Nations’ highest court by South Africa, arguing that the accusations are false and warning that a ruling against Israel could undermine international law.Since late 2023, the International Court of Justice has been considering whether Israel’s military operation in Gaza, launched in response to the Hamas-led onslaught of October 7, 2023, amounts to genocide under a treaty drawn up after World War II.Israel, which was founded in the aftermath of the Holocaust, has vehemently denied the allegations, saying it makes efforts to protect non-combatants. It has accused Hamas of fighting from within civilian population centers and of using civilians as human shields.The war ended with a US-backed ceasefire that took effect in October, though clashes between Israel and Hamas still occur regularly. Gaza is effectively split between Israeli and Hamas control.In a filing obtained on Thursday by The Associated Press, the US says that the accusations are part of a “broader campaign” against Israel and the Jewish people, to justify or encourage terrorism against them.Any party to the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide can intervene to contribute its assessment of the legal questions in the case. In 2023, over 30 countries backed Ukraine in a separate case it brought against Russia.More than a dozen other countries have filed interventions in the Israel case, including Spain and Ireland. Many take a different view from that of the United States. Iceland and the Netherlands both said this week that they would intervene in the case.Judges start a hearing at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, January 12, 2024. The United Nations’ top court opened hearings Thursday into South Africa’s allegation that Israel’s war with Hamas amounts to genocide against Palestinians, a claim that Israel strongly denies. (AP/Patrick Post)-In its declaration of intervention, the Netherlands said: “The Court should take account of starvation or the deliberate withholding of humanitarian aid for the purpose of establishing specific intent, in particular when this occurs based on a concerted plan of a consistent pattern of conduct.”Israel halted the entry of aid into Gaza for 11 weeks in 2025, but has denied a plan to cause systematic starvation there and has highlighted its efforts to ensure a flow of humanitarian supplies to the Strip. It has accused Hamas of stealing humanitarian aid.The current ceasefire has led to more humanitarian aid and other supplies entering the enclave, though restrictions have been reimposed during the ongoing US and Israeli attacks against Iran.The US filing stresses that a finding of genocide requires a “specific intent” to commit the crime and cautions the court, which sits in The Hague, against “lowering the standard.”“Civilian casualties, even widespread civilian casualties, are not necessarily probative of genocidal intent, particularly when they occur in the context of an armed conflict involving urban combat,” the US argues in the filing.Reed Rubenstein, a legal adviser at the State Department who represents the US, said that a finding against Israel would be a “radical repudiation” of the court’s precedent.Such a decision would “feed the perception that the court is simply just one more tool in the ongoing pro-Hamas lawfare campaign” against Israel, Rubenstein told the AP.The ICJ has issued a series of orders concerning Israel’s conduct in Gaza since South Africa filed its case, including telling the country to do all it can to prevent death, destruction and any acts of genocide.In separate proceedings, the court has said that Israel must allow the UN aid agency in Gaza, known as UNRWA, to provide humanitarian assistance to the Palestinian territory. Israel has enacted laws banning UNRWA and has accused it of ties to Hamas, including alleging that some of its members took part in the October 7 attack.Separately, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister Yoav Gallant in 2024 in connection with the Gaza war. The ICC said there was reason to believe the pair used “starvation as a method of warfare” by restricting humanitarian aid and intentionally targeting civilians.The Trump administration responded by sanctioning ICC officials, including nine judges and top prosecutors. Israel also adamantly denies the charges.Trump: Mojtaba likely alive; 'deranged scumbags' should watch out-Woman wounded by shrapnel, dozens lightly hurt as Iranian missile hits northern town.

US military announces 4 killed in aircraft crash; IDF strikes 200 targets in Iran over past day, including underground weapons site; French soldier killed in Iraq, 2 dead in Oman By Emanuel Fabian,Agencies and Diana Bletter-Today, 11:46 am-MAR 13,26

An Iranian ballistic missile attack on the northern Israeli town of Zarzir moderately wounded a 34-year-old woman and lightly wounded dozens more in the early hours of Friday.The incident came as Iran continued to fire barrages at both Israel and neighboring Gulf countries, while Israel carried out hundreds of strikes on regime targets across the Islamic Republic, including on an underground weapons site, as the war that began with US-Israeli strikes on February 28 neared the two-week mark.The US military announced on Friday that four of its soldiers died when a refueling aircraft crashed over Iraq last night, bringing the US military death toll to 11. US President Donald Trump has sent mixed signals about how long the war will continue, warning on Friday that “deranged scumbags” should watch out.The war has shaken the world’s energy market as Iran has struck countries across the region and blocked the Strait of Hormuz, a key artery for the global oil supply.One day earlier, Iran’s new leader Mojtaba Khamenei ostensibly issued his first statement, but was not seen or heard. His father, former supreme leader Ali Khamenei, was killed in strikes on the war’s first day, and the younger Khamenei was reportedly injured. On Thursday, Trump said he believes Mojtaba is “probably” alive.The IDF said it was investigating the circumstances that led to the impact in Zarzir at around 2:30 a.m. on Friday.Home Front Command search and rescue soldiers were dispatched to the scene, where they conducted an assessment alongside rescue services and assisted with clearing the scene, the army said.According to the IDF’s initial findings, the missile may have been partially intercepted by air defenses, and the warhead remained entirely intact and ultimately crashed down on Zarzir and exploded.Nearly 60 people were wounded by the incident, almost all of them lightly due to broken glass or panic attacks. One 34-year-old woman was moderately wounded by shrapnel. She, along with a 17-year-old who was lightly hurt, were taken to a local hospital. Many of the wounded had been discharged by the late morning.Images from the scene showed a large crater and extensive damage to homes and cars following the direct impact. The strike blew out windows and damaged dozens of homes.The missile that struck Zarzir came as the Tehran-backed Hezbollah terror group in Lebanon has aimed constant missile fire at the north. Hezbollah entered the fray last week, launching missiles and drones at Israel. In response, Israel has conducted heavy strikes on the terror group and expanded its ground presence in Lebanon.There were no other reports of injuries as a direct result of Iran’s three ballistic missile attacks overnight and early Friday, which set off sirens in northern and southern Israel.The missile in the third attack was likely intercepted, according to initial military assessments. Sirens had sounded in the southernmost city of Eilat.The Health Ministry reported Friday that in the preceding 24 hours, 213 injured people had been taken to hospitals as a result of the conflict with Iran. Among those treated in hospitals, four were in moderate condition, and 196 were in good condition. Thirteen people had been treated for acute anxiety.The ministry did not give a breakdown of the causes of injuries, and some might have been sustained by people trying to reach shelter rather than as a direct result of missile fire from Iran or rocket fire from Lebanon.On Thursday evening, a 17-year-old girl was fatally run over by a car in Rehovot, paramedics said, reportedly while dashing across a street to seek shelter ahead of an Iranian missile attack.IDF strikes underground ballistic missile site in Shiraz-On Friday morning, the military said the Israeli Air Force had launched a fresh wave of “extensive” airstrikes in Tehran, targeting Iranian regime infrastructure sites. It also issued an “urgent warning” to Iranians in several areas in the Tehran region, ahead of planned airstrikes targeting the regime.Previous waves of Israeli airstrikes in Tehran, Shiraz, and Ahvaz on Thursday hit several Iranian military sites, including a subterranean ballistic missile manufacturing and storage site, the Israel Defense Forces said.The military said the underground site in Shiraz was used by Iran to manufacture and store ballistic missiles “which were set to be launched toward the State of Israel.”In Tehran, the IDF said it struck several sites belonging to Iran’s air defense array, including a “key base,” along with facilities used by Iran to manufacture various weapons, including air defense systems and ballistic missile components.In Ahvaz, the IDF said it struck several headquarters of various Iranian regime bodies, including the IRGC ground forces and Iran’s internal security forces. The military said dozens of Iranian soldiers were operating at the headquarters that were targeted.The military also said Friday morning that the IAF had struck over 200 targets in western and central Iran over the preceding twenty-four hours.Dozens of IAF aircraft dropped numerous bombs on the targets, the military added, attaching footage showing some of the strikes.Sirens heard at NATO base in Turkey hosting US troops-Amid the fighting, countries surrounding Iran reported continuing attacks by the Islamic Republic on targets within their territory.Sirens were heard early Friday morning at Turkey’s Incirlik airbase, a key NATO facility where US troops are stationed near the southeastern city of Adana, state news agency Anadolu reported.There was no immediate official comment on the incident, which took place four days after NATO air defenses shot down a ballistic missile in Turkish airspace that was fired from Iran, the second in five days.Several people posted mobile phone footage on social media of a glowing image flying through the sky, suggesting it could be a missile heading for the airbase, it said.NATO said it shot down a second ballistic missile fired from Iran on Monday, prompting a stern warning from Turkey to Tehran not to take “provocative steps.”Gulf states report ongoing attacks; two dead in OmanTwo people died after security forces intercepted a drone in northern Oman, state media says, without giving further details.Both victims in the incident at the Al Awahi industrial area were expatriates, the Oman News Agency says, adding that others were injured.A building at the Dubai International Financial Center also sustained damage on Friday after what authorities described as a “successful interception.” The Dubai Media Office did not elaborate on what had been intercepted, nor did it acknowledge the damage done to DIFC, an economic free zone for banks, capital traders and wealth managers, home to exclusive restaurants and nightclubs for the city’s elite.The United Arab Emirates’ air defenses have intercepted more than 1,500 Iranian drones and nearly 300 missiles during the current war.Saudi Arabia’s defense ministry said its own air defenses had downed 10 more drones headed toward the kingdom’s Eastern and Central Provinces, bringing the total to nearly 50 drones entering Saudi airspace over the span of a few hours.The overnight barrage represented a higher-than-usual number of aerial threats for the kingdom, which has seen sites including the US Embassy in Riyadh, oil infrastructure, and a military base hosting US troops targeted as the war has intensified.On Friday, the Saudi Defense Ministry said its forces intercepted a drone targeting Riyadh’s Diplomatic Quarter, housing foreign embassies.French soldier killed by drone attack in Iraqi Kurdistan-Meanwhile, French President Emmanuel Macron announced early Friday that a French soldier was killed, the country’s first fatality in this war, in a drone attack in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region.A member of the armed forces “died for France during an attack in the Erbil region of Iraq,” Macron wrote on X. He added that several other soldiers had been wounded in the incident, which the French military earlier said was a drone attack on troops carrying out a training exercise.Around the same time, the pro-Iranian Ashab al-Kahf group in Iraq posted a statement to its Telegram channel, warning that French interests “in Iraq and the region” will be “under targeting fire” after the arrival of a French aircraft carrier.Iran’s military, in a statement carried by state TV, also claimed that an allied group in Iraq had downed an American refueling aircraft and killed all its crew. The Islamic Resistance in Iraq, a loose alliance of Iran-backed factions, claimed to have struck the plane with a missile.An American KC-135 aerial refueling aircraft did crash in western Iraq. However, US Central Command, which is responsible for American forces in the Middle East, said in a statement Thursday that the crash “was not due to hostile fire or friendly fire.”At rally, IRGC threatens Iranians who would protest government-Israel’s strikes came just before rallies were to begin for the annual Quds Day on Friday, which Iran has been marking on the last Friday of Ramadan since its 1979 Islamic Revolution, and which sees annual anti-Israel demonstrations.In Iran, state television aired footage on Friday showing thousands of people participating in the Quds Day rallies, chanting “Death to Israel” and “Death to America” while carrying Iranian flags.Iran’s Revolutionary Guards warned on Friday that any new protests against the authorities would be met with a stronger response than in anti-regime protests in January, when activist groups say security forces killed as many as tens of thousands of people.“The evil enemy, failing to achieve its field battle goals, is once again pursuing the instillation of fear and street riots,” the Guards said in a statement broadcast on TV. The statement promised “a stronger blow than on January 8” in the event of new unrest.The rallies came almost a week after Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei, took over the helm of the Islamic Republic. The elder Khamenei was killed on the war’s first day.Trump: ‘Watch what happens’ to regime ‘scumbags’ todayTrump weighed in on the younger Khamenei’s status after the new supreme leader ostensibly issued his first statement since being appointed.Asked if he thinks Mojtaba Khamenei is alive, Trump said, “I think he probably is.”“I think he is damaged, but I think he’s probably alive in some form, you know,” Trump continued, speaking to the Brian Kilmeade Show on Fox News Radio. The interview was taped on Thursday to air Friday morning.Early Friday, Trump issued a new threat online, writing: “Watch what happens to these deranged scumbags today.”Trump made the post on his Truth Social website, saying that “Iran’s Navy is gone, their Air Force is no longer, missiles, drones and everything else are being decimated, and their leaders have been wiped from the face of the earth.”“They’ve been killing innocent people all over the world for 47 years, and now I, as the 47th President of the United States of America, am killing them,” Trump wrote. “What a great honor it is to do so!”Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.

Inside Story-With foreign airlines fleeing war, fares take off as local carriers cash in-Ticket prices for the coming weeks have already gone up by 15% in the past 10 days, as Israeli airlines look to profit off a dominant position during war yet again, says expert By Sharon Wrobel-Today, 11:27 am-MAR 13,26

An exodus of major foreign airlines from routes serving Israel due to the war with Iran has led to sky-high prices and rampant uncertainty for Israelis attempting to book Passover travel or plan for summer trips abroad.On Tuesday, British low-cost carrier easyJet said it will stay away from Ben-Gurion Airport until the fall, while other carriers have voided the route for the coming weeks. It’s unclear when they will return, if at all.Local carriers, which are the only airlines reliably flying in and out of Israel into the near future, are taking advantage of the cloudy horizon for air travel by charging customers exorbitant sums. That includes flagship carrier El Al, which has been repeatedly accused of price gouging during wartime since October 7, 2023.“Every day that we are at war means another foreign carrier is going to delay its return until it’s quiet in the skies over Israel,” Mark Feldman, CEO of Ziontours Jerusalem, told The Times of Israel.Feldman said carriers who have abandoned Ben Gurion Airport would seek to return when they could, but are dealing with the same uncertainty as everyone else over how much longer the war will last.“Most foreign carriers want to come back and fly to Israel as they don’t want to lose all of their revenue, since they have already booked and sold tickets,” he said.  “But we don’t know if the war is going to last three days or another three weeks.”Yet even if there were to be a ceasefire with Iran and quiet on the northern front with Hezbollah, many foreign carriers are likely to “step into the water cautiously,” with a return of limited flight services, Feldman cautioned.Just over two weeks before the beginning of the Passover break, visitors who are already booked to travel to and from Israel are, for now, left in limbo.“We have many customers booked for Passover, and they are worried and scared about whether they will be able to come,” said Feldman. “They have already bought flights, booked their hotel or Airbnb, and they are aware that if they cancel now, they are going to have to face huge cancellation fees.”Israel’s airspace has been shut to most commercial traffic since February 28, when joint attacks with the US on Iran began. In recent days, the airport has gradually reopened, but only for inbound flights operated by Israeli airlines El Al, Arkia, Israir, and Air Haifa to repatriate some of the 100,000 Israelis stuck abroad. El Al sold seats to the general public on its repatriation flights at a fixed price, though those have since sold out.The country’s main gateway has also partially reopened for a restricted service of outbound flights, but only by local carriers with no more than 100 passengers per flight.With no easy way out of the country, Israelis looking for R&R, or at least respite from the missile attacks and air raid sirens that have become a daily reality in the center and north, are planning vacations closer to home.“Over the past few days, we have been seeing a daily increase in bookings for vacations at hotels across Israel,” said Eshet Tours VP Shirley Cohen-Orkaby. “At a time when traveling abroad is not possible and the education system is closed, with studies already taking place remotely, Israelis prefer to get away on a short vacation in Eilat, the Dead Sea, and also in Jerusalem — areas where the number of sirens is significantly lower than in other parts of the country.”The majority of European and US carriers have suspended Tel Aviv services through March and into April, though the cancellations could be extended if the war drags on.Citing the military situation in the Middle East, Air Canada has suspended all flights to and from Tel Aviv through May 2. American Airlines has pushed back the resumption of flights to and from the country to April 23, while Delta has cancelled through March 23, and United Airlines through March 21.The Lufthansa group — which includes Lufthansa, SWISS, Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines, and Eurowings — and ITA Airways have canceled all services to and from Ben Gurion through April 2.Other European airlines, such as British Airways, have extended suspensions until the end of March and French carrier Air France said the earliest it could return is March 16.Easyjet, which has repeatedly postponed a resumption of flight services since the last war with Iran in June, had been scheduled to start flying to and from London Luton, Amsterdam, and Milan Malpensa on March 29.But on Tuesday, the low-cost carrier said it was extending the cancellation until October.Rival Wizz Air, based in Hungary, has also postponed a resumption of flight services to at least March 29. The budget carrier had been poised to set up an operational aviation hub in Israel as early as April, boosting competition and bringing down sky-high fares for travelers.El Al has canceled all regular scheduled flights through March 21. It and other local carriers are charging higher prices than other airlines, banking that consumers will be willing to pay a premium to book a flight that is less likely to get canceled.“We have seen a 15% increase in ticket prices for the spring and summer to almost all destinations, relative to just 10 days ago,” said Feldman.El Al is already facing an NIS 121 million ($39 million) fine after Israel’s competition watchdog last month alleged that the airline exploited its monopolistic power and charged “excessive and unfair” fares during the two-year war with Hamas in Gaza.Over the course of the war, foreign airlines repeatedly halted flight services to and from Israel due to heightened regional tensions, leaving travelers largely dependent on Israeli carriers.A limited number of flights allowed El Al to raise airfares by 16% on average, a situation that seems poised to repeat.“Most bookings we are getting are almost exclusively on El Al, which reinforces, once more, why El Al will have a dominant position, and reap the benefits from a near monopoly on its routes,” said Feldman.Round-trip tickets for flights to New York in the last week of May currently sell for $1,990 with El Al and for $1,700 with United Airlines, said Feldman. Flights to and from New York operated by the smaller Israeli carrier Arkia for the same period are selling between $1,550 and $2,448, depending on the dates, and in the summer prices start around $1,800.“People booking their holidays abroad are prepared to pay more and book with El Al because they want to know that they will be able to fly,” said Feldman. “This is a short-term gain for El Al, as once there is peace and a few months have gone by with quiet, foreign carriers’ market share will go up again.”

'We can no longer take this like good Canadians'‘Every light is flashing’: After shootings at synagogues, Canada’s Jews fear what’s next-Community leaders worry a Bondi Beach-type attack is around the corner after years of unchecked antisemitism; they’re hopeful lawmakers will finally heed the warnings-By Zev Stub-Today, 8:15 am-MAR 13,26

When shots were fired at two Toronto synagogues last Friday night, only the timing of the gunfire — after the buildings had emptied — prevented anyone from being hurt. Occurring not far from each other, these attacks, Jewish leaders say, reflect an alarming rise in antisemitism in the city.At Beth Avraham Yoseph of Toronto (BAYT), the last guests from a singles dinner had left about half an hour before the shots rang out.“The attack on our shul happened a bit before midnight,” said BAYT’s Rabbi Daniel Korobkin. “Fortunately, someone saw what had happened, and the police and members of the shul were on top of it almost immediately. No one was hurt.”Korobkin believes the gunfire may have been carried out by the same person who shot at the nearby Shaarei Shomayim congregation in North York about 30 minutes later. Police have not confirmed a connection between the incidents or announced any arrests.The two attacks came just days after a third synagogue was targeted with gunshots on the Purim holiday, heightening alarm in Canada’s Jewish community.“What we need to do now is make sure that this doesn’t escalate,” Korobkin said. “We have to make it clear to our elected officials that the status quo is completely unacceptable.”Some might say it’s already too late for that. Antisemitism was already on the rise in Canada before the bloody Hamas invasion of southern Israel on October 7, 2023. But since then, Canadian Jews have been targeted in a surge of incidents, including shootings and firebombings of community institutions.Just over the past year, three men attempted to kidnap Jewish women, antisemitic graffiti was daubed on three synagogues in Nova Scotia, and a Jewish man in Montreal was beaten in front of his children. And in 2024, the community experienced 6,219 antisemitic incidents — about 17 cases of harassment, vandalism or violence per day — according to B’nai Brith Canada.Just across the border, on Thursday, an armed suspect crashed his truck into the hallway of a Detroit-area synagogue where children were attending preschool. The attacker, identified by federal officials as a US citizen born in Lebanon, was shot dead in a confrontation with security personnel.Canadian community leaders worry that there will be a further escalation and more — and more serious — attacks.After the Toronto synagogue shootings, Israeli President Isaac Herzog held an emergency Zoom call with Canadian Jewish leaders on Sunday to discuss the growing threat. Several days later, B’nai Brith Canada published a list of demands of the Canadian Government to deliver “a serious and immediate response commensurate with the gravity of the moment.” And several figures told The Times of Israel that they feel like a Bondi Beach-type terror attack is lurking right around the corner.“Every light on the dashboard is flashing,” said Richard Marceau, senior vice president of strategic initiatives and general counsel for the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA), an umbrella organization representing the country’s Jewish Federations. “It is long past time for people to realize how dangerous the situation is.”Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney condemned the shootings as “criminal antisemitic attacks” that are “an assault on the rights of Jewish Canadians to live and pray in safety,” and pledged federal assistance in investigating and prosecuting them.But Jewish community leaders are calling on government officials to take stronger actions to increase security enforcement, prosecute hate crimes, and invest more resources to secure the Jewish community. They hope their demands — which they have repeated frequently — will be taken more seriously this time.“Until now, the Jewish community here has tried to be polite and avoid making waves when we’ve confronted our political leaders about antisemitism,” Korobkin said. “That’s the Canadian ethos. But the line has been crossed, and we can no longer take this like good Canadians and comport ourselves in the same way.”Changes in society-For many Canadian Jews, the shootings at synagogues are not isolated incidents but part of a broader shift in the country’s social climate. But it’s still a wonder how they got here.The world’s fourth-largest Jewish community, with more than 400,000 people, had seen several decades of unprecedented social acceptance and freedom from oppression since the 1980s, experiencing a golden age of safety, public visibility and upward mobility.Prime ministers like Stephen Harper and Justin Trudeau prided themselves on their special relationships with Israel, even as the latter was often critical of Israeli policies, especially late in his term. A 2021 University of Toronto Press collection of essays entitled “No Better Home?” went so far as to suggest that Canada was the best home that Jews have ever had.But things began to shift in recent years, and accelerated with the global surge in antisemitism since the bloody Hamas invasion of southern Israel on October 7, 2023. Carney has shifted the country’s diplomatic tone regarding Israel, recognizing a Palestinian state in September and threatening to arrest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on an International Criminal Court warrant if he traveled to Canada.Meanwhile, the country has seen synagogues firebombed, shootings at schools, people assaulted, and discrimination and hate in schools, universities and in the workplace. Jews have begun wondering openly about whether they should consider leaving the country.A dangerous progression of hatred-The increase in overt antisemitism and violent episodes has been similar to that in Australia, which culminated in the deadly Bondi Beach attack on Hanukkah that killed 15 people and wounded dozens, according to Israel’s Canadian-born Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel, who has been closely following developments in the country.Deputy Foreign Minister MK Sharren Haskel attends a Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, December 2, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)“Over the last two years, many red lines have been crossed,” she said. “It started the day after the October 7 attack, when mobs were marching through Canadian neighborhoods, chanting and glorifying violence, and intimidating Jews.”A lack of police deterrence created the conditions for more brazen acts of aggression to become thinkable, she said. Demonstrations outside synagogues and on university campuses gave way to attacks on Jewish-owned businesses and institutions. More than 10 shooting attacks against Canadian Jewish targets have followed, with virtually no security enforcement or consequences, Haskel said.It’s the same pattern that has played out in Australia, where unchecked hate speech and harassment culminated in violence, Haskel added.“The writing is on the wall,” she said. “The next step is going to be bloodshed if there is no real action.”Doxxing soldiers and institutions-It’s gotten to the point where former IDF soldiers are being targeted and threatened. Last year, Davide Mastracci, managing editor of left-wing news site The Maple, published a website listing Canadian citizens who had served in the IDF, including their personal information. The site insists that it is not a call for doxxing anyone, even as some of the people on the list said they felt “targeted” and compared it to historical attempts to single out Jews.More recently, a federal petition by a member of the New Democratic Party has called on the government to investigate Canadian citizens who have served in the IDF for “serious violations of international law.” That petition has already garnered nearly 10,000 signatures.IDF veterans in Canada are unlikely to ever be arrested, the CIJA’s Marceau said, but such campaigns are part of a long-term effort to stigmatize those individuals and “divide and weaken Israel and the Jewish community here.”In December, Mastracci launched a new list, highlighting Jewish institutions in the Greater Toronto Area, including schools, synagogues, and summer camps.“This, in effect, puts a target on the back of those people and those institutions, and the people who frequent those institutions,” Marceau said. “It is unconscionable that this is happening.”The website insists that it is merely gathering the information for public knowledge, and doesn’t encourage harassment. But both of the synagogues attacked this past weekend, BAYT and Shaarei Shomayim, were on that list, Marceau said.The country’s political echelon talks tough about fighting antisemitism domestically, but hasn’t backed it up with concrete actions, Marceau says.“We have seen a systemic failure in Canada at all levels to address rising hatred,” said Marceau. “There is a lack of resources allocated, there’s a lack of understanding of antisemitism, and there is a refusal to face the current reality.”CIJA and B’nai Brith have a long list of things that need to change on multiple levels of government. Locally, Jewish neighborhoods and institutions need greater security, including more funding for security infrastructure, and authorities need to take a zero-tolerance approach to intimidation and hate in public spaces. Those who are apprehended must be punished to the full extent of the law to discourage others, they say.Canadian law has a mechanism in which prosecution for certain minor crimes can be diverted outside of the formal justice system, allowing police to use their discretion to assign more lenient punishments. Hate crimes should be excluded from this track and prosecuted fully, Marceau stressed.On a broader scale, hate crimes need to be tackled by federal police, not just municipal forces, and there should be intelligence coordination between police and national agencies to monitor and respond to potential threats. A federal hate-crimes bill — currently stalled in parliamentary proceedings — must move forward as part of a broader strategy to fight hate, said Marceau.More fundamentally, Jewish leaders are asking governments and public institutions to apply existing regulations in schools, universities, unions and workplaces to curb harassment and incitement. They also want clear, consistent public messaging from federal, provincial and municipal officials that antisemitism is unacceptable and incompatible with Canadian values.There is some reason to be optimistic that these demands will be taken more seriously now, Marceau said. Toronto’s Jewish leaders are set to meet with the provincial government in the coming days, and British Columbia announced several days ago that it will introduce legislation to protect safe access to places of worship and schools. On Wednesday, the government announced a $10 million investment in Jewish community security, on top of previous grants made in recent years.“There is a growing realization from policymakers that things cannot remain as they have been,” Marceau said.A shooting this week at the US consulate in Toronto has also made it clear that violence in Canada is not only a Jewish issue, he added.“This is an attack on Canadian values and the Canadian way of life,” Marceau said. “The promise of Canada has been broken. It is time to fix this.”

 

CANADA FINALLY STOPS NOSE KILLER SWABS AND HOPEFULLY MASKS OFF IN LONG TERM CARE HOMES AS OF MAR 31,23.

 CANADA FINALLY STOPS NOSE KILLER SWABS AND HOPEFULLY MASKS OFF IN LONG TERM CARE HOMES AS OF MAR 31,23.

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).

THE COVID-19 TOTALS.
WORLD OVER ALL CASES-680,944,975 - DEAD 6,807,804 - AS OF WED MAR 08,2023 (AND THE SCAM OF THE DEATH KILL SHOTS CONTINUES)

HOW THE 3RD TEMPLE WILL HELP CHRITIANS AND JEWS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gObsqvGtLDo&t=8s

COVID HEARINGS-GAIN OF FUNCTION RESEARCH
https://www.c-span.org/video/?526520-1/house-subcommittee-examines-origins-covid-19

Ontario Updating COVID-19 Measures in Long-Term Care Homes-High vaccine uptake and effective antivirals allow Ontario to adjust its COVID-19 response-March 22, 2023

TORONTO — As Ontario approaches the end of respiratory illness season, the province is updating its COVID-19 measures in long-term care homes in consultation with the Chief Medical Officer of Health. While homes will continue to be required to monitor residents daily to detect the presence of infection and indoor masking requirements remain in place at this time, other guidance and requirements that are no longer necessary are being adjusted to reflect the high vaccine uptake among residents and the availability of safe and effective antivirals that are reducing the risk of severe outcomes to residents. These changes will bring Ontario into alignment with other provinces across the country that have already made similar adjustments.“Over the past three years, the COVID-19 pandemic has required sacrifices from individuals, families, businesses, the health care system and especially the long-term care sector. Thanks to their continued efforts, Ontario has reached a point where it can begin a safe, cautious and balanced reduction of public health measures in long-term care homes across the province,” said Dr. Kieran Moore, Chief Medical Officer of Health. “The health and safety of residents remains paramount, and we will continue to work with the sector to ensure residents and their families receive the level of care they need and deserve, in a safe and comfortable environment.”Working with the Office of the Chief Medical Officer of Health, Ontario is taking a phased approach to updating COVID-19 measures for people living in, working in or visiting long-term care homes. The first phase involves realigning measures effective March 31, 2023, including:Testing of staff, caregivers and visitors who don’t show symptoms (asymptomatic) is no longer required.Masking outdoors is no longer recommended for residents, caregivers and visitors, although wearing a mask outdoors continues to be recommended for staff when they are close to a resident.Daily temperature checks or screening of residents returning from an absence is no longer required.Removing the limit of one caregiver at a time during a COVID-19 outbreak, or when a resident is symptomatic or isolating.Social and physical activities can be held without adjusting for physical distancing.Long-term care homes that have retained COVID-19 proof-of-vaccination requirements are also encouraged to revisit their policies and consider allowing visitors and qualified staff, regardless of their vaccination status.They will also help ensure people living in long-term care get the quality of care and quality of life they need, and that valuable staff time and resources are focused on resident care and effective infection prevention and control practices. The government will continue to work closely with the Chief Medical Officer of Health to monitor the pandemic to keep homes safe for residents and staff.Quick Facts-By updating the province’s COVID-19 measures, Ontario will now be aligned with other provinces across the country, including Quebec, New Brunswick, Alberta, and Saskatchewan.The Ontario government is providing up to $1.25 billion to long-term care homes this year to hire and retain thousands of additional long-term care staff, part of the government’s historic four-year, $4.9 billion commitment to ensure residents receive, on average, four hours of direct care per day by March 31, 2025.Through a $6.4 billion investment, Ontario now has 31,705 new and 28,648 upgraded beds in development across the province. This will help increase overall bed capacity, address long-term care waitlists and hallway health care, and provide our seniors the care they deserve.Ontario is a leading province in terms of inspector per long-term care home ratio in Canada, with one inspector for every two homes in the province.Quotes-"The Ontario Long Term Care Association and long-term care (LTC) homes thank the Ontario Government for its support throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, and for those living and working in LTC homes. As the levels of COVID-19 infections decrease and we continue to normalize, we support transitioning to LTC COVID measures based on the expert advice articulated by various long-term care home medical directors that will help bring back a greater quality of life to our homes, and normalize the environment for our residents and families."- Donna Duncan-Chief Executive Officer, Ontario Long Term Care Association "On behalf of the Ontario long-term care clinicians, we support the government’s prudent recalibration of Ontario’s COVID-19 measures. We believe these changes will continue to prioritize the safety and well-being of residents while also reflecting the new reality and trajectory of the COVID-19 Pandemic." - Rhonda Collins-President, Ontario Long-Term Care Clinicians"OARC supports the government’s decision to adjust COVID-19 measures in long-term care homes intended to improve the quality of living for residents, including ease of access to the people of importance to them. We echo the government’s direction to licensees to continue to consult with Residents’ Councils, ensuring that residents are meaningfully engaged in shaping visitor policies and the implementation of any practice changes in their homes."- Ontario Association of Residents’ Councils

TRUMP GETS NAILED FOR PAYING HUSH MONEY TO A PROSTITUTE. BUT THE COMMUNIST LOVER FAMILY BIDENS. 4 OF THEM. GET 3 MILLION TO SHARE FROM THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT. AND NO INVESTIGATION. NO TREASON INQUIRY. AND CHINA JOE BIDEN WHOS A WALKING ZOMBIE WITH HAIR. HALF THE TIME DOESN'T EVEN KNOW WERE HE IS. WHILE HE WAS HERE IN CANADA. HE PROBABLY THOUIGHT HE WAS IN CHINA GETTING MORE CASH FOR HIS FAMILY. AND GIVING THEM MILITARY SECRETS. OH BUT THATS NOT A CRIME IN THE LIBERAL MEDIAS EYES. OR THE LAME BRAIN FAKE NEWS MEDIA CROWD. BUT TRUMP JUST SNEEZES AND THATS A CALL FOR VIOLENCE AGAINST THE DEMOLIBNUTS. THE LAME BRAIN FAKE NEWS LIBERAL CROWD BELIEVE. BUT AFTER THIS IS ALL SETTLED TRUMP WILL DEFEAT THE LIBERALS. AND THE THERAPY ROOMS WILL BE FULL AGAIN. CRY ROOM THERAPY. BULL PETTING THERAPY. PORCUPIONE AND PET SKUNK THERAPY. TURN THEMSELVES INTO TRANNY THERAPY. SO THEY CAN TRY TO FORGET ABOUT TRUMPY BEATING THEM IN THE OPPOSITE SEXS BODY.

Trump holds first 2024 campaign rally, dismissing potential looming indictment-Former US president plays tribute to Capitol insurrectionists in Waco, Texas, says New York grand jury is probing him for something that’s ‘not a crime’-By Jill Colvin and Michelle L. Price-MAR 26,23-Today, 5:26 am

WACO, Texas (AP) — Facing a potential indictment, former US president Donald Trump took a defiant stance at a rally Saturday in Waco, disparaging the prosecutors investigating him and predicting his vindication as he rallied supporters in a city made famous by deadly resistance against law enforcement.With a hand over his heart, Trump stood at attention when his rally opened with a song called “Justice for All” performed by a choir of people imprisoned for their roles in the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the US Capitol. Some footage from the insurrection was shown on big screens displayed at the rally site as the choir sang the national anthem and a recording played of Trump reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.The extraordinary display opened Trump’s first rally of his 2024 Republican presidential campaign. He then launched into a speech brimming with resentments and framed the probes, including a New York grand jury investigation, as political attacks on him and his followers.“You will be vindicated and proud,” Trump said. “The thugs and criminals who are corrupting our justice system will be defeated, discredited and totally disgraced.”Trump’s event at the airport grounds in Waco was part of a broader effort by the former president to use the potential indictment as a rallying cry for supporters to maintain his status as the GOP frontrunner in what is expected to be a crowded primary. It came one day after Trump raised the specter of violence should he become the first former president in US history to face criminal charges.Trump declared his innocence in the Manhattan investigation into a hush money payment made during the 2016 election to porn actor Stormy Daniels to keep her from going public about a sexual encounter she said she had with Trump years earlier. A grand jury hearing the case is expected to meet again on Monday.Trump said the Manhattan district attorney was investigating him “for something that is not a crime, not a misdemeanor, not an affair.”Some of Trump’s recent rhetoric, including at the rally, has echoed language he used before the Capitol insurrection by a mob of his supporters seeking to stop the transfer of power to Democrat Joe Biden, who won the presidential election.Trump declared Saturday that his “enemies are desperate to stop us” and that “our opponents have done everything they can to crush our spirit and to break our will.”He added: “But they failed. They’ve only made us stronger. And 2024 is the final battle, it’s going to be the big one. You put me back in the White House, their reign will be over and America will be a free nation once again.”Trump could be indicted soon by a Manhattan grand jury investigating a $130,000 payment that Trump’s longtime lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, made as Trump was in the throes of his 2016 presidential campaign.Trump later reimbursed Cohen and his company logged the reimbursements as a legal expense. Cohen has already served time in prison after pleading guilty to campaign finance charges and lying to Congress, among other crimes.Trump’s eyebrow-raising choice of venue in Waco for his first rally came amid the 30th anniversary of a 51-day standoff and deadly siege between US law enforcement and the Branch Davidians that resulted in the deaths of more than 80 members of the religious cult and four federal agents and has become a touchstone for far-right extremists and militia groups.Trump’s campaign insisted the location and timing of the event had nothing to do with the Waco siege or its anniversary. A spokesperson said the site, 17 miles from the Branch Davidian compound, was chosen because it was conveniently situated near four of the state’s biggest metropolitan areas — Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston, Austin and San Antonio — and has the infrastructure to handle a sizable crowd.Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick said before Trump’s arrival that he was the one who had suggested Waco as the venue. Any suggestion Trump had picked the city because of the anniversary was “fake news. I picked Waco!” he told the crowd.Trump did not make any direct references in his speech to Waco’s history, telling the crowd of thousands that he told Patrick he wanted to hold his rally in a place with overwhelming support, not “one of those 50-50 areas,” and said he told Patrick: “Let’s go right into the heart of it.”At several points, Trump criticized Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who is expected to run for president and is seen as his strongest potential challenger for the GOP nomination. Trump called his one-time ally disloyal and said he was “dropping like a rock.”Audience members were holding red and white signs handed out by the campaign that said “Witch Hunt,” “Trump 2024” and “I stand with Trump.”Hours before Trump arrived, hundreds of his supporters began streaming into the airport past vendors selling merchandise, including Trump flags, bumper stickers and action figures.Among them was Eugene Torres, 41, who said he was unfazed by the prospect that Trump could be indicted.“It’s just another political attack on him to keep him from running and winning this race again,” said Torres, who is from the Texas coast city of Corpus Christi.Alan Kregel, 56, traveled with his wife from Dallas to see Trump in person for the first time. While he voted for Trump in 2016 and 2020, he said he felt the former president’s “methods and vocabulary” often detracted from his policies. But now, two years out of office, he said he is more supportive of Trump than he was before.“He’s an innocent man, just persecuted,” said Kregel, arguing an indictment would help Trump win in 2024.Trump has spent weeks now railing against the New York probe and in a post on his social media site on Friday warned of “potential death & destruction in such a false charge” if he’s charged with a crime.In a move that seemed designed to preempt a formal announcement, he claimed last Saturday that he would be arrested the following Tuesday. While that did not happen, Trump has used the days since to try to shape public perception — echoing a strategy he has used before, including during special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.Trump has also repeatedly invoked violence, urging his supporters to protest, and used increasingly racist and dehumanizing rhetoric as he has launched ever more personal attacks against Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.On Friday, a powdery substance was found with a threatening letter in a mailroom at Bragg’s offices, authorities said. Officials later determined the substance wasn’t dangerous.Even before the threatening letter was sent to Bragg’s office, Democrats warned that Trump’s remarks had the potential to incite violence.“The twice-impeached former president’s rhetoric is reckless, reprehensible and irresponsible. It’s dangerous, and if he keeps it up he’s going to get someone killed,” House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York said.In addition to the Manhattan case, Trump is also facing an investigation in Georgia over his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election as well as federal investigations into his handling of classified documents and possible obstruction, as well as his efforts on January 6.

It’s in the DNA: Israeli grapes are the mother of all European wines-Massive DNA study of over 3,500 wild and domesticated grapevines overturns what historians thought they knew about the first cultivation of grapes and wine-By Melanie Lidman    25 March 2023, 2:09 pm

A massive study that sequenced the DNA of more than 3,525 grape cultivars from around the world, published this month in the journal Science, has upended the history of how humans first domesticated grapes for winemaking and may reveal important information about how a few shriveled ancient Israeli grape seeds could save the future of winemaking from global warming.Dr. Wei Chen of the Yunnan Agricultural Institution in southern China first started sequencing the DNA of grape cultivars in 2017 for a study of Chinese grape varieties. He and his lab sequenced almost 500 grapevines and found that through the DNA they could track the way different grape varieties migrated across the country, and how cultivars split off from one another to form distinct varieties.He and his colleagues realized that if they could get their hands on enough varieties’ DNA, they would be able to map the migration of different varieties throughout the world, and throughout time, pinpointing when humans domesticated grapes for the first time.The concept of creating a global study started off as a spitball idea among friends. But in 2019, Chen and his lab decided to take the plunge and launched an international research project focusing on grape cultivars.“We started to reach out to our friends and colleagues in Europe, and we got the first batch from Germany, France, and Spain,” said Chen.Colleagues sent dried young leaves from various local grape varieties, so Chen’s lab could extract and sequence the DNA, or they sequenced the DNA of local varieties themselves and sent Chen the results.“Then colleagues from Europe started to call up their friends and colleagues, and we just got more and more people into this international collaboration,” said Chen.Within a few months, Chen’s lab got to work sequencing the DNA and looking for patterns after they received samples from 90 scientists in 70 countries of both wild and domesticated grapes — with the Israeli contingent being the largest.Grapes that share more DNA are more closely related, while those that have little DNA in common are less related. Tracking unique bits of DNA allows Chen and his lab to trace when different varieties split off from each other, and when domesticated grapes split from wild grapes.The results were completely different from what Chen or anyone else had expected. Previously, it was widely believed that grapes were domesticated around 8,000 years ago during the Neolithic Agricultural Revolution, likely somewhere in the Fertile Crescent.The key result from our study is that the original belief that there was only one domestication event was completely wrong.But by tracking the DNA from the thousands of samples, Chen pinpointed that there were actually two simultaneous domestication events, each around 11,000 years ago. One happened in Western Asia, and the other happened 1,500 kilometers away in the Caucasus.“The key result from our study is that the original belief that there was only one domestication event was completely wrong,” said Chen. He said the belief that there was a single domestication event of grapes had seeped into history books so deeply that scientists no longer questioned it, and this was a good reminder that much of what is “known” about ancient history is really just conjecture.One thing that the DNA sequencing did confirm is that the movement of grape varieties throughout the world correlates closely with human migration routes.“Grapevines are really a wonderful crop that has so much to do with human history,” said Chen. “There were way more varieties [of grapes] than any other crop, and we actually care about this crop. We give each cultivar a name, and you can find these names in historical records. Naming of varieties started very late in history for other crops.”A white grape in the wild-Prof. Elyashiv Drori, a senior lecturer at Ariel University and head of the Samson Wine and Research Center, has been swashbuckling through Israel’s last untamed wilderness for the past 12 years in search of the country’s last surviving wild grapes.For Chen’s study, Israel’s submissions, collected by Drori and archaeobotanist Dr. Ehud Weiss of Bar Ilan University, constituted the largest contingent of wild grapes from a single country, or about 10 percent of the total wild grapes sequenced for the study.Using this rich data set, the study determined that around 8,000 years ago, domesticated table grapes from Israel crossed with wild grapes in Turkey and then migrated throughout Europe. Today, every European wine grape – from the German Reisling to the French Chardonnay – can be traced back to this interaction.“Spanish, French, German – every country had its own regional development of specific varieties, that all started from table grapes from Israel bred with wild grapes from Turkey,” said Drori.Israel is the only country involved in the study to have wild white grapes, which Drori located. He is constantly astounded by the variety of wild grapes found in the country, which he calls “the wild grapevine mother collection.”He started searching for the country’s wild grapes more than a decade ago with a different goal in mind.“The idea was to try to find the ancient grapevines used for winemaking in ancient Israel,” said Drori.Ancient Israeli winemaking was among the most developed in the world, until the 7th century, when alcohol fell out of favor following the Islamic conquest. For that reason, many of the surviving domesticated grape cultivars in Israel are for table grapes, which were selected for things such as large berry size, high sugar, long shelf life, and delicate skin. Wine grapes generally have higher acid, and attributes such as berry size, shelf life, and skin toughness do not matter.Because of the decline in wine production during the Islamic period, the cultivation of grapes used for making wine in ancient times tapered off. This means today’s wild grape varieties are the most genetically similar to the types of grapes grown for ancient wine. Drori hopes it’s only a matter of time before he finds a wild grape with closely matching DNA to the grapes found in archaeological digs.Each grape variety has a unique seed structure, like a thumbprint, that can be mapped, explained Drori. Any excavated grape seed that is larger than five milliliters can be scanned by high-powered microscopes to see if a match can be identified with modern counterparts. So far, Drori’s lab has scanned 20 seeds from archaeological digs.The biggest haul of ancient material came from archaeologist Dr. Eilat Mazar, who excavated at the Ophel, between the City of David and the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.“She called me one day and said, ‘I have three kilos of grapes,’” Drori recalled. “I said, you mean seeds? And she said, ‘No, three kilos of grapes.’ I dropped everything and ran to her lab. They found a big pot, maybe a wine jar used for fermentation. They also found a very nice inscription on it that says ‘smooth wine’ so we know what it was for.” The dried berries dated to around the 10th century BCE, said Drori.Over the years, by scrambling up hillsides and through abandoned villages, Drori has collected about 600 wild grape plants from across the country, representing more than 90 varieties. Most wild grapevines are concentrated near areas of water, including the Jordan River, around the Sea of Galilee, and along streams running through the Golan Heights.However, as Israel develops the last tracks of untouched land, these wild grape varieties are at risk of disappearing. Wild grape vines are not protected plants in Israel, though Drori is trying to petition the Nature and Parks Authority to give them protection like wildflowers or other endangered plants.-The future of wine is in Israeli wild grapes-Drori is a winemaker himself, and he believes that Israeli wild grapes may hold secrets to helping other varieties face climate change.All Israeli grapes – wild and domesticated – have adapted to thrive amid heat waves and drought conditions. Wild grapes could also have new genes that scientists and vintners haven’t even considered.“We already have the conditions here that will start other regions of the world in 20 or 30 years,” said Drori. “We might be able to find new genes, like finding stress-resistant genes, or find stronger plants.”As the climate warms, winemakers around the world are scrambling to adapt to changing conditions.“Grapevines that were selected and bred in the northern hemisphere, in cooler areas will not be suitable,” said Drori. “Now is the time to look into Levantine populations and understand which genes give strains unique drought resistance and heat resistance, and try to breed them into known varieties in areas where climate change will happen,” he said.Chen from China agreed, saying, “The genetic diversity in wild grapes is beyond our imagination, and until now, we didn’t have the chance to see it, let alone analyze it.”Currently, Drori and his lab are cultivating some of the wild vines they’ve found, while cleaning them of viruses and pathogens that occur naturally in the wild but could decimate domesticated crops.Drori hopes that in the future, enterprising Israeli vintners will use not just ancient grape varieties but other artisanal methods, including fermentation inside ceramic vessels and other ancient tactics, the way people once made wine thousands of years ago. He envisions a boutique wine experience offering a glass of wine close to one that King David could have drunk.“Wine processes are always changing throughout history, and can be connected to different empires that ruled and how it impacted things differently,” said Drori. “One of the interesting things about wine and grape vines is that they were so important that the dispersion of humankind was almost simultaneous with the distribution of wine. Once people moved into new territories and built civilizations, they always brought the wine.”

New York’s power to regulate religious schools, including yeshivas, trimmed by judge-Ruling says parents cannot be forced to pull children from private schools that do not meet educational standards, amid ongoing battle over yeshiva education in New York State-By Michael Hill-24 March 2023, 11:38 pm

ALBANY, New York (AP) — Parents cannot be required to pull their children from private schools in New York that fail to meet state-designated standards, a judge decided Friday, striking down a key provision of rules recently passed to strengthen oversight of such schools, including those specializing in religious education.The ruling in a state trial court in Albany came in response to a lawsuit brought by Haredi Jewish schools, called yeshivas, and related advocacy groups over education rules enacted last fall. Under the rules, the state’s 1,800 private and religious schools must provide an education that is “substantially equivalent” to that of a public school.Opponents in the Haredi community say the rules improperly target yeshivas, some of which focus intently on religious instruction with far less teaching in secular subjects such as English, math and science.The issue has become a major flashpoint for the Haredi community in New York, amid a series of prominent, controversial articles by The New York Times attacking the school system.Judge Christina Ryba on Thursday rejected an argument that the state regulations were unconstitutional. But she said state officials overstepped their authority in setting penalties for schools that don’t adhere to them.Specifically, she said education officials lack legal authority to make parents take their children out of schools that fall short of the requirements, and they don’t have the authority to order that those schools be closed.Ryba said parents of those children could still receive required instruction in combination with sources, such as homeschooling.A co-plaintiff cheered the judge’s rejection of the “draconian penalties.”“In striking those provisions of the regulations, the Court agreed with parents and non-public schools across New York State who opposed these regulations,” read a prepared statement from the group Parents for Educational and Religious Liberty in Schools (PEARLS).Yaffed, a group that supports reforming yeshivas, said it was concerned by parts of the new ruling.“We worry that Hasidic yeshivas will continue to benefit from the extraordinary amount of funding available to them without fulfilling their obligations to the children,” said Beatrice Weber, Yaffed’s executive director.The state Education Department said the decision validates its commitment to improving the educational experience for all students.“We remain committed to ensuring students who attend school in settings consistent with their religious and cultural beliefs and values receive the education to which they are legally entitled,” read the prepared statement.It was not clear if any aspects of the ruling would be appealed.Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.

Biden blasted for claiming GOP would slash border funding: 'Must be a parody'Biden previously said 'there are more important things going on' than border crisis-By Jessica Chasmar | Fox News

Former Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott discusses the state of security at the U.S. southern border, hammering the impact the Biden administration’s border policy have caused.President Biden felt the wrath of the Twitter ratio Saturday after he claimed "MAGA" Republicans want to cut federal funding for border security."MAGA House Republican proposals would slash funding for border security – a move that could allow nearly 900 pounds of fentanyl into our country," the president tweeted. "We need more resources to secure the border. Not less."Biden’s tweet included a photo of himself shaking hands with a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer, which was taken from his first and only trip to the border in El Paso, Texas, in January. Photos taken by Getty showed Biden briefly spoke with CBP officers sitting inside a mobile X-ray truck on the Bridge of the Americas border crossing.The post was quickly noticed by Republicans and Twitter users overwhelmingly "ratioed" the post, giving it far more negative replies than retweets and likes.Biden took a brief trip to El Paso in January after facing fierce criticism for not visiting the border since taking office while thousands of illegal immigrants continue to flood into the U.S. undetected every day.In December, after nearly two years in office, the president said he hadn’t visited the U.S.-Mexico border because "there are more important things going on." At the time he had already taken 59 trips to Delaware and stopped for ice cream at least eight times.Fox News Digital previously reported that Border Patrol agents seized more than 800 pounds of fentanyl between ports of entry this fiscal year, which began in October amid continued concerns about the lethal drug getting into the U.S.The head of the U.S. Border Patrol told lawmakers earlier this month the agency does not have operational control of the U.S. southern border and also said migration levels were at "crisis" levels in some places. It was also revealed this week that Border Patrol had reached one million migrant encounters already for fiscal year 2023.Biden released his budget proposal on March 9, and while House Republicans have yet to release a plan, the president has taken aim at a proposal from the House Freedom Caucus.President Joe Biden walks down the stairs of Air Force One with first lady Jill Biden after arriving in Canada to meet with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau."MAGA House Republicans put out extreme budget proposals that would eliminate funding for over 2,000 border patrol agents – undermining our ability to combat drug trafficking," Biden tweeted on Tuesday. "My budget keeps our borders secure while expanding legal pathways for migrants seeking asylum."Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., blasted Biden's claim, tweeting, "A total fabrication. In your 2024 budget proposal, you call for billion-dollar cuts to border security operations and ICE. By the way, it took you 80 years to get that picture."Fox News' Adam Shaw contributed to this report.

Explosion at R.M. Palmer chocolate factory in Pennsylvania leaves 3 dead, company offers condolences-Three people have been confirmed dead, and several others hurt, after an explosion at the historic chocolate factory-By Sarah Rumpf | Fox News

Chocolate factory explosion kills at least 2 and leaves five unaccounted forFox News correspondent CB Cotton has the latest on recovery efforts out of the R.M. Palmer Company chocolate factory blast in West Reading, Pa., on 'Fox News Live.'Three people have been confirmed dead, and several others wounded, after an explosion at R.M Palmer Factory, a historic chocolate factory in Pennsylvania, officials confirmed.On Saturday evening, West Reading Borough Police Department confirmed with FOX 29 Philadelphia that three people died and five are unaccounted for following the fiery blast on Friday evening.On Saturday morning, officials say there was "a sign of hope" after one person was found alive among the rubble of the deadly blast."Someone was found alive in rubble, not knowing if they were going to live or die," West Reading City Council Vice President Philip Wert said in a press conference. "We found the person, and now they have a second chance."The identity of the person, as well as their current condition, has not yet been released.On Saturday, March 25, one day after the fatal explosion and fire, the RM Palmer company released a statement, sharing their condolences with those who lost loved ones in the fatal accident."The tragic events that occurred on Friday have had a profound impact on all of us at R.M. Palmer, and we appreciate the outpouring of support as all of us continue to deal with the loss of our friends and coworkers. We offer our heartfelt condolences to those families who have lost loved ones and hope those injured will recover quickly," the company said in a Facebook post."We offer our heartfelt condolences to those families who have lost loved ones and hope those injured will recover quickly."— - R.M Palmer Company"We have always viewed our employees as family and are focused now more than ever on providing any support we can to you and the families of employees directly affected by this tragedy," RM Company continued.During a press conference Saturday morning, officials said recovery efforts were still underway as rescue workers on the scene search for survivors. A spokesperson from Tower Health said eight people were taken to Reading Hospital. One victim was transferred to another facility, two people are in fair condition and five have been discharged.Liz Soto, who was near the explosion, told FOX 29 she heard "a loud noise, like a roaring sound, then the house shook." She also said she hadn't heard from a friend who works inside the factory."She went to work, she's confirmed to have gone to work, but we don't know anything about her," Soto told the outlet."Our hearts break for the families of those who didn’t come home… We are with you."— - Pennsylvania Govenor Josh Shapiro-Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro visited the explosion site Saturday, pledging resources for first responders to continue the rescue effort."Our hearts break for the families of those who didn’t come home… We are with you – and my administration is here to provide all the resources and support West Reading needs." Fox News' Elizabeth Pritchett contributed to this report.Sarah Rumpf is a writer on the breaking news team for Fox N.

Dr. Kedar: Left-Wing Protests threaten Israeli Democracy-Why do nations assemble, and peoples plot vain things;Psalms-21Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz-Israel News-March 24, 2023

Israel is being brought to a standstill due to mass protests over the judicial reform proposed by Prime Minister Netanyahu’s coalition government. Despite the stated purpose of the protests, they have taken on other left-wing positions with Palestinian flags appearing and a strong anti-Netanyahu element. Yair Lapid, the former Prime Minister and current head of the opposition, is fanning the flames of the protests.Dr. Mordechai Kedar, a senior lecturer in the Department of Arabic at Bar-Ilan University, has a strong take on the protests, suggesting they pose an existential threat to Israeli democracy.Mordechai Kedar (courtesy: Facebook)-“The left-wing is trying to perpetuate its rule over the country through the judicial system,” Dr. Kedar told Israel365 News. “That is the essence of what is happening here. They are grabbing at the last bit of power they have.”Indeed, Meretz, a left-wing extremist party, was formed in 1992 and was at its peak in 1996 when it had 12 seats in the Knesset. They failed to pass the threshold in 2020 and no longer have representation in the Knesset. Similarly, the left-wing labor party formed in 1968 is associated with European socialists. It was the dominant political party until 1977. The party has been in decline and garnered four seats in the last election.“Even though the left wing has lost the elections time and again, they still hold control through the court system,” Dr. Kedar said. “The judicial system has legal advisors throughout the Knesset who are the people who have a huge influence on the decisions. This has no parallel in the US judicial system which separates the judicial from the legislative. There is actually no point in voting for the Knesset since they do not make the decisions. The supreme court does not act as a part of the judicial branch. It is actually a super legislator. It is self-appointing and supersedes the legislative at every turn.”Dr. Kedar said that this outsized judicial power was instilled within the judicial system by Aharon Barak in the 1990s. Barak was an Israeli lawyer and jurist who served as President of the Supreme Court of Israel from 1995 to 2006. Prior to this, Barak served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel from 1978 to 1995, and before this as Attorney General of Israel from 1975 to 1978. In the course of his service on the Supreme Court Barak greatly expanded the range of issues with which the court dealt. During his time as President of the Supreme Court, Barak advanced a judicial activist approach, whereby the court was not required to limit itself to judicial interpretation, but rather was permitted to fill the gaps in the law through judicial legislation at common law. This approach was highly controversial and was met with much opposition, including from some left-wing politicians.“Those who oppose the proposed reforms claim that the Supreme Court has struck down 22 different laws passed by the Knesset on the grounds that the laws contradict Israel’s Basic Laws,” Dr. Kedar said. “While this is technically true, there were thousands of laws that were never brought up in the Knesset because they never stood a chance with the Supreme Court holding all the power and it was clear they would not approve those laws,” Dr. Kedar said, adding, “And the Supreme court clones itself. Without a major action, judicial activism by the Supreme Court would never end.”Dr. Kedar suggested that there will be a solution.“There will have to be some kind of compromise,” Dr. Kedar said. “Both sides will walk away disappointed. They must accept this because if there is no compromise, there will be no state.”“My concern is that the left wing doesn’t care. If they don’t feel that this country is working according to their dictates, they can fly away to a different country where their form of politics is popular. They love the country only so long as it works according to their dictates.”Dr. Kedar saw this as a result of the social divide between the religious Zionists and the secular Zionists.“Secular Zionism is conditional love,” Dr. Kedar said. “Religious Zionism is entirely unlike secular Zionism. The religious love for Israel is unconditional. Even if the political system is not what they want, they will never leave and never stop loving Israel.”“When the government decided to dismantle Gush Katif, there were protests. It was the worst possible thing the government could do in the eyes of the religious. But they didn’t call to take the government down. They didn’t bring the country to a total standstill. They didn’t turn to foreign governments to pressure the Prime Minister.”

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)

Stuck in a swamp’: With Iran detente, Saudi Arabia seeks exit from Yemen war-Analysts say that after 8-year campaign against Houthi rebels, Riyadh wants to ‘wash its hands’ of the situation to focus on ambitious rebranding effort aimed at drawing tourists-By Hashem Osseiran-MAR 26,23-Today, 6:50 am

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AFP) — Eight years after launching its military campaign in Yemen, Saudi Arabia wants to extricate itself from the conflict, despite slim hopes of lasting peace, to focus on ambitious projects at home.The oil-rich monarchy gave a signal this month by announcing plans to resume ties with Iran, which backs Yemen’s Houthi rebels against the Saudi-supported government in a proxy war.But as Saudi Arabia instigates sweeping social and economic changes as part of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s “Vision 2030” reform, it “is seeking to shift its approach in Yemen from a military strategy to a soft security and political one,” said Ahmed Nagi, from the International Crisis Group.Since the Saudi-led military intervention began on March 26, 2015, the kingdom has pounded its impoverished neighbor with airstrikes in a conflict that has triggered one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, according to the United Nations.Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed through direct and indirect causes, with 4.5 million people internally displaced and more than two-thirds of the population living below the poverty line, according to UN estimates.Nagi said that “military operations, such as airstrikes” are now likely to cease, adding that the priority now is a “diplomatic solution.”The Saudi-led intervention, which marks its eighth anniversary on Sunday, came after the Houthis took control of the capital Sanaa in 2014.A UN-brokered ceasefire that took effect last April brought a sharp reduction in hostilities. Even though the truce expired in October, fighting has largely remained on hold.Even before the truce, Saudi Arabia and the Houthis were engaging in back-channel negotiations, including talks in neutral neighbor Oman.Riyadh’s top priority is securing border areas and stopping the drone and missile attacks that have targeted its all-important oil facilities, analysts say.“Saudi [Arabia] is currently negotiating with the Houthis to establish understandings that would enable it to secure its borderlands while maintaining influence” in areas controlled by Yemen’s government, Nagi said.“This new approach could enable Saudi [Arabia] to remain the key actor in Yemen’s domestic politics, to ensure that no security threats can affect the kingdom in case conflict continues at the local level,” Nagi added.The Saudi-led intervention’s stated aim was to protect civilians from Houthi attacks, restore the government and stop Yemen from becoming a safe haven for Iranian-backed forces.Eight years in, the rebels control swathes of the country and command an impressive arsenal of weapons that they have used to attack Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, another coalition member.For Riyadh, the fallout jeopardizes a rebranding project that aims to turn the conservative country into a hub for tourism and investment.Saudi Arabia, relatively closed off for decades, is building a $500 billion futuristic new city, NEOM, and a swathe of holiday resorts and attractions.‘Wash their hands’“There is a huge focus in Saudi [Arabia] now on development, tourism, mega-projects,” said an analyst following the negotiations between Riyadh and Houthi officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the press.For Riyadh, there is concern that “anything involving conflict” will harm investment and stability, the analyst added.The unofficial talks with the Houthis are now maturing into a potential “understanding” that could pave the way for a slimmer Saudi military role ahead of a UN-sponsored inter-Yemeni dialogue, the analyst said.“They want to go from some form of Saudi-Houthi understanding to being able to hand it over to a wider UN process,” he said.The Saudis “want to wash their hands of the situation,” and avoid responsibility for any future flare-ups, he added.A Saudi official, also speaking anonymously, said the country “will not tolerate any threat to our security,” noting it shares a long border with Yemen.“Iran can and should play a major part in promoting this — and we hope it will,” the official said, confirming negotiations with the Houthis aimed at reviving UN-facilitated peace talks.“We did see some progress of course, and we want to build on that progress to achieve lasting peace to open up for a political solution,” the official said.Many analysts are pessimistic that Riyadh’s plans for a downsized military role will bring peace to Yemen, which remains deeply fractured along religious, regional and political lines.Saudi Arabia, nonetheless, has “decided to leave Yemen whatever the price is,” said an Arab diplomat in Riyadh. “They are… stuck in a swamp that is very costly on all levels.”

Saudi Arabia, Syria discuss restoring ties amid Mideast reshuffling-Saudi TV reports talks on reopening embassy in Damascus, after Chinese-backed deal to reestablish relations with Iran-By ABBY SEWELL-24 March 2023, 1:06 pm

BEIRUT (AP) — Saudi Arabia is in talks with Syria to reopen its embassy in the war-torn nation for the first time in a decade, state television in the kingdom reported late Thursday, the latest diplomatic reshuffling in the region.The announcement on state TV comes after Chinese-mediated talks in Beijing saw Saudi Arabia and Iran agree to reopen embassies in each others’ nations after years of tensions. Syrian President Bashar Assad has maintained his grip on power in the Mediterranean nation rocked by the 2011 Arab Spring only with the help of Iran and Russia.Saudi Arabian state television aired a report late Thursday, quoting an anonymous official in the country’s Foreign Ministry, acknowledging the talks between the kingdom and Damascus.“A source in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs revealed to Al-Ekhbariyah that ongoing discussions have begun with the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, commenting on what was circulated by some international media,” an anchor said on air. “Discussions are underway between officials in the kingdom and their counterparts in Syria about resuming the provision of consular services.”Arabic-language media had been reporting the possible detente in recent days ahead of the Saudi state TV announcement. The Wall Street Journal, quoting anonymous Saudi and Syrian officials, attributed the talks to reopen the countries’ embassies to Russian mediation.Syrian state media did not immediately acknowledge the talks. Officials in both Saudi Arabia and Syria did not immediately respond to requests for comment from The Associated Press early Friday.Earlier Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin called Oman’s Sultan Haitham bin Tariq, which the Kremlin called “the first high-level bilateral contact since the establishment of diplomatic relations” between the nations. Muscat established ties with the Soviet Union in 1985.Oman long has been an interlocutor between the West and Iran. Recent months have seen talks in Oman over Yemen’s long-running war, in which Saudi Arabia backs the country’s exiled government against the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels that hold its capital, Sanaa.The kingdom backed the Syrian opposition against Assad during Syria’s uprising-turned-civil war that began in 2011. However, in recent years, a regional rapprochement has been brewing. Last month’s devastating earthquake in Syria and Turkey sparked international sympathy and speeded up the process, with Saudi and other Arab countries shipping aid to Damascus.Assad visited Oman in late February. He traveled Sunday to the United Arab Emirates, another nation that earlier had backed fighters trying to topple his government.Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister has acknowledged publicly that there is a growing consensus among Arab countries that dialogue with Damascus is necessary. Saudi Arabia is hosting the next Arab League summit in May, where most states hope to restore Syria’s membership after it was suspended in 2011, the league’s secretary-general, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, has said.China’s and Russia’s interest in the Middle East long has been a concern for US officials, which view the region as crucial to global energy prices even as America pumps more crude oil than ever before and doesn’t rely on Saudi oil as much as it once did. Saudi Arabia has grown closer to Russia as Moscow has rallied allies to back production cuts by OPEC to boost global oil prices amid the coronavirus pandemic.Relations between the US and Saudi Arabia also have been at a low since President Joe Biden took office calling the kingdom a “pariah” over the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018. The State Department and White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

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).

THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT IN YOUR RIGHT HAND OR FOREHEAD.

US CENTRAL BANK DIGITAL CURRENCY
https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/money-and-payments-20220120.pdf

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.

JONES ON BANK FAILURE
https://www.infowars.com/posts/from-collapse-to-cbdc-to-hell-on-earth/

Face biometrics market reacts to geopolitical, ethical pressures-Mar 25, 2023, 11:30 am EDT    | Chris Burt

Face biometrics supply chain decisions and certifications, implementations and contracts for government digital identity schemes are the top themes of the most-read articles on Biometric Update over the past week. Wisesoft has a new source of microchips for its 3D facial recognition cameras, while Facewatch is moving away from a camera supplier it used to integrate in its retail biometric solution. Controversy over training data continues to simmer, meanwhile. Deloitte is the biggest winner in a set of UK contracts to support its system for signing in to government services, while Mastercard has been certified as a digital identity provider.South Africa’s government is being taken to court by a human rights advocacy group to change the requirements to register births. Registration for a birth certificate currently requires the submission of a parent’s ID, as well as proof of the child’s birth and biometrics, all within 30 days, which is excluding people and violates the constitution, according to the legal challenge.Nearby Botswana is planning to launch a biometric ID card to facilitate travel across the border shared with Namibia, following an agreement between the neighbors. Zimbabwe is deploying biometric gates at its borders, meanwhile, to automate clearance processes.An announcement from Chengdu-based 3D facial recognition developer Wisesoft suggests that China’s tech sector is having some success in mitigating the effects of sanctions by making its own semiconductor chips. Even better for Wisesoft, the new supply of chips is faster and half the price of those made in places like the U.S. and Taiwan.Facewatch has committed to avoiding the use of Hikvision cameras in new installations of its retail facial recognition system, and says it has never used algorithms developed in China, following a furor raised by reports of the Chinese manufacturers devices in UK retailers. Tesco had already banned cameras from Hikvision and Dahua.Many of the most popular datasets used to train facial recognition algorithms are made up of images gathered without consent from the subjects, and often used in violation of the license they were collected under, according to a presentation by a privacy advocate and researcher.Worldcoin has launched a new protocol and SDK for developers to build applications for its credential, and the company’s World ID has been integrated with Discord for account access. Tools for Humanity’s Tiago Sada tells Biometric Update that World ID may soon use face biometrics for reauthentication, while iris is used for global deduplication.The EU has advanced to ‘trilogues’ which represent the final step before ratification of a trusted framework for digital identity. The negotiations between EU Parliament, Council and Commission will focus on privacy considerations and how accessible the digital wallet-based system will be for the elderly.Mastercard has received DIATF certification, setting it up as a UK digital identity provider for a range of applications. At the same time, a partnership in New South Wales will see Mastercard’s digital ID used to verify people purchasing alcohol online are of age.A trend towards requiring age verification for online interactions among many governments is examined in a guest post by Jumio CEO Robert Prigge. There are privacy challenges to be considered, Prigge writes, and responsibility ultimately needs to be shared between organizations and parents.The UK’s GDS handed out contracts totalling over $50 million recently, largely to support the development of its One Login access control system for public services. PA Consulting, Deloitte and Deloitte LLP, Kin and Carta Create, The Dextrous Web and Thoughtworks were awarded contracts.An OECD committee is seeking comment on a draft series of recommendations for governing digital ID as digital public infrastructure. SonicBee’s Henk Marsman helps guide Biometric Update readers through the seven sets of recommendations, which include guidance on accessibility, cross-border use, privacy, and interoperability.NIST has also invited input on its draft white paper encouraging the adoption of digital identities on people’s mobile devices. Best practices, standards and testing for mobile driver’s licenses are all part of the agency’s plan. New York is preparing to issues mDLs, continuing their slow march across the U.S.Someone appears to be using deceit, including a fake AI industry publication, to try to elicit information from a facial recognition provider about deposits at Silicon Valley Bank, as reported by IPVM. The suspicious website appears to have AI-generated content, and possibly staff. If you have any information on who is behind the misrepresentation, or organizations affected by SVBs collapse, for that matter, you know where to direct it.

Digital ID process questioned in Nepal, Kenya; Philippines issuance hits 60M-Mar 24, 2023, 5:36 pm EDT | Alessandro Mascellino

Dozens of Nepalese citizens have questioned the usefulness of the national digital ID card launched by the government in 2018. According to a recent article by the Kathmandu Post, the digital ID was created to replace several IDs and facilitate access to government services.However, the document has not yet, as had been expected, replaced the citizenship certificate, a document required for government jobs and other services. It is not accepted by the Department of Transport Management or Public Service Commission, either.The digital ID is only required when applying for a passport or taking a medical entrance exam.The Department of National ID and Civil Registration confirmed it had distributed 133,000 cards but more than 1.2 million cards have been printed. Biometrics of 11.4 million people across the country have also been collected.Insufficient funding has hampered distribution, said Krishna Paudel, a spokesperson for the department. That could change as the government prepares to make having the card mandatory.Implementing the digital ID infrastructure is expected to cost 20 billion Nepalese rupees (US$243 million). About Rs4 billion ($48.6 million) has been spent on distribution and storage of cards.Kenyan MP points to discrimination in ID issuance-Meanwhile, in Kenya, Marsabit Woman Representative Naomi Waqo has criticized local administrators for withholding identity cards in the border town of Moyale.According to reporting by KBC, Waqo said that 18-year-olds are being denied identity documents unless they pay bribes.PSA announces new PhilID milestones-The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) announced it has issued over 60 million PhilIDs and ePhilIDs, a new milestone in its implementation of PhilSys, the country’s ID system.“Reaching 60 million national IDs printed brings us closer to fully realizing the envisioned benefits of PhilSys,” comments PSA Undersecretary Dennis Mapa. “That’s why our coordination with government agencies such as the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) centers on using PhilSys to support the implementation of social protection programs.”The PSA also says password-protected ePhilIDs via mobile devices is now possible using an SMS code.Verification can be done by scanning the QR code of the PhilID or ePhilID through the identity authentication tool, PhilSys Check, Mapa adds.The milestones come weeks after PSA confirmed it had issued over 50 million physical and digital cards.The country’s national police (PNP) recently launched a digitized booking system for arrested individuals that requires the collection of their biometrics.

Thoughtful Biometrics: DNA, vendor-tactics, better signage and finding common ground-Mar 24, 2023, 2:43 pm EDT | Frank Hersey

The virtual Thoughtful Biometrics “unconference” on all things biometric generated fifteen different sessions, chosen at the start of the day then run by participants. Industry, government, and civil society member joined from around the world to have their say.“I’m super pleased at the diversity of perspectives we were able to bring together including having serious participation from government folks from the U.S. and Canada,” organizer Kaliya Young told Biometric Update.“There were folks from a range of different parts of NIST, OBIM and Canadian officials working on border modernization.”Event sponsors included Paravision, Simprints, and ID2020, and Veridium CTO Dr. John Callahan was among the organizers.Sessions covered areas as broad as how to secure DNA in biometric authentication, risks from using 2D barcodes for ID and how better signage is needed for indicating how, where, and why biometrics are being used in public.A group considered how private identity companies go about discussing their platforms and selling them to governments and whether or how others can attempt to intervene.One session in particular struck at the heart of the hoped outcome of the (un)conference, according to Young. The session titled “Stimulating a more nuanced discussion with policymakers and implementers” sought to help see sometimes opposing sides of biometric usage gain some common ground, particularly as technology may have evolved faster than ideas and understanding in some areas.Regulation was covered in multiple sessions – for digital identity as well as biometrics. Both can rely on an “authoritative source,” but what is that and when is it not as authoritative as one believes.Participants discussed practicalities such as how biometrics use should be announced and whether an individual can ever “regain control” once they have had their biometrics captured by their government.As more technologists devise ever further ways to track personal features and behavior, a session discussed what should actually be considered a biometric and how can the various behaviors and markers be regulated.Even more conceptual issues were tackled, still in a practical sense, such as the probabilistic nature of biometrics. Given the fact they can fail, how can this impact on user experience? How do systems allow for smooth use or access? A PDF book of proceedings based on the notes taken in the sessions will soon be published and made publicly available.

Nordsec, PayPal move forward with passkey and passwordless authentication products-Mar 24, 2023, 4:17 pm EDT | Jim Nash

Vendors, in this case Nordsec and PayPal, continue to throw rocks in the form of new software at the scourge of passwords. Whether they will move the needle in terms of obviating passwords is unknown.Nordsec has added its patented two-factor authentication software to its password manager NordPass. Putting the authenticator in NordPass eliminates the need for NordPass owners (corporate accounts only for now) to download an authenticator.Cutting this step, something that sometimes arises while someone is trying to order a product or access a service, is a notable step forward in the war to fight fraud without tripping the end user.Those end users are at least as likely to use NordPass’ authenticator as any other because it is coming from a company they already trust enough to use.That is good for Nordsec two similar ways. First, of course, it is a good bet that it will draw customers and increase their loyalty to NordPass.Second, it presumably adds value to its NordVPN service, which benefits whenever the company shows it is a coherent set of interoperable software designed to make life online safer and less effort. NordVPN is made by Nord Security, which is owned by Nordsec.It plans a new feature, due before 2024: passwordless sign-in to NordPass.It is patented, but the authenticator is not unique in how it works. NordPass creates one-time, timed passwords. Biometrics can be saved and used for accessing NordPass, too, according to technology trade publication TechRadar.There are a couple of passkey announcements, as well, one of which also involves Nordsec’s NordPass.The company is pushing a way to securely store and manage passkeys. Nordsec’s newest management software is called Passkeys, and is on the NordPass desktop app, web vault and Firefox and Chrome extensions.Those cryptographically pairs snatches of software are of interest to PayPal, too.Already integrated with iOS, PayPal has added passkey compatibility with Google Android 9+ on Android mobile web for faster sign-ins. PayPal is a founding member of the FIDO Alliance.

Tech5 launches umbrella brand for biometric products, comprehensive SDK-Mar 24, 2023, 2:15 pm EDT | Chris Burt

The branding for all Tech5 biometric products is being consolidated under the name ‘T5-OmniMatch,’ the company has announced.The new brand name encompasses Tech5’s biometric matching technologies and platforms for identification, verification, authentication and de-duplication use cases in the face, fingerprint and iris modalities. T5-OmniMatch is also designed to be extendable to other modalities, according to the announcement.The technology suite includes platforms, toolkits and SDKs running on servers and mobile devices.A new SDK encompassing Tech5’s three current biometric modalities is also being launched as part of the product integration. The T5-OmniMatch BioSDK includes Tech5’s high-ranking fingerprint and iris recognition algorithms. The new SDK can be used to implement all Tech5 biometric products, including its T5-IDencode credential issuing platform.“T5-OmniMatch is a combination of Tech5’s flagship platforms that have proven their efficiency and reliability in the market over the years,” says SVP Sales and Business Development Ameya Bhagwat. “The new functionality and improved technologies that T5-OmniMatch offers make it unique. We are proud to introduce it to the market and are excited to witness the experience of the first implementations in various countries that are currently ongoing.”“We believe that merging high-performance dedicated verification and identification functionalities into one main platform will allow for greater ease of integration, deployment, and maintenance for our partners and customers,” says Tech5 Co-founder and CTO, Rahul Parthe. “We also believe that this is the right move for Tech5 in terms of product development strategy.”Tech5’s contactless fingerprint technology was recently tested by BixeLab, in a sign of the modalities increasing maturity and shed light on the applications it is and is not currently ready for.

Incode deals expand presence in EMEA, New Zealand-Company suggests making Mexican fan app mandatory-Mar 24, 2023, 12:42 pm EDT | Chris Burt

Incode has announced a series of partnerships further expanding the reach of its biometrics and identity verification technologies geographically.Austria-based Advanced Living Technologies (ALTec) and sister company at-visions will use Incode’s omnichannel identity verification and biometric authentication for age verification, KYC compliance and reusable identity within the gaming and hospitality sectors. Incode’s liveness detection, automation and watchlist features made it stand out to ALTec, according to the announcement.ALTec provides an identity product called SONIO to the gaming industry, while at-vision supplies IP streaming technologies to the hospitality industry.“While we’re continuously reminded of both the risks associated with human-in-the-loop verification and how AI/ML helps reduce bias, inaccuracies, and inefficiencies, legacy providers are also challenged to move away from slow, physical commerce and shift to seamless, touchless transactions,” says Ricardo Amper, CEO and founder of Incode, in the announcement. “ALTec and at-visions share Incode’s commitment to One Identity Everywhere and this partnership of guest-facing technologies and unrivaled track record in identity systems with ongoing and rigorous certifications completely transforms the customer journey. The ability to offer our identity solutions to at-visions’ robust customer base will enable innovation in time-tested industries and, ultimately, a reimagining of the trust between hotel guests, gamers, and the organizations that serve them.”While this integration adds Incode customers in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region, the company has also formed a reseller agreement with Infolog to deliver its technology in New Zealand.The deal, reported by New Zealand Reseller News, will start by targeting the public sector, with a plan to begin selling to all customers in the months ahead.Incode launched in the ANZ region late last year.Fan ID showing potential in rookie season
It has also been a year since Incode’s Fan ID was launched to prevent a repeat of a violent riot by attendees of a Mexican pro soccer match. The app was first used at at the Clausura 2023 tournament, and in its first half-season being trialled, has shown enough promise that it should be made mandatory, the company says in a blog post.Fan ID is currently optional, with users taking a selfie for ID verification, and having their face biometrics matched on entry to the stadium.The use of facial recognition on security cameras in Mexican soccer stadiums was reduced following a decision last August.The app can help authorities hold violent fans to account, Incode argues, and potentially even support criminal prosecutions.

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).

Nigeria’s Abuja, Lagos airports to pilot facial recognition from NEC to boost security-TSA head says US system opt-out is temporary-Mar 23, 2023, 6:19 pm EDT | Ayang Macdonald

The federal Ministry of Finance of Nigeria has disclosed that talks are underway for the conclusion of agreements with Japan which will enable the deployment of facial recognition technology by NEC Corporation at some of the country’s airports, starting with a pilot at those of Abuja and Lagos.At the end of talks which the Minister of State for Budget and National Planning Clem Agba had with the Turkish Ambassador to Nigeria Matsunaga Kazuyoshi and officials of NEC recently, the government official said deploying facial recognition in Nigeria’s airports will curb insecurity and other illegal activities, Punch reports.The project is expected to be financed with grants secured through the planned cooperation agreement. NEC will first deploy the system at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos and the Nnamdi Azikiwe Internal Airport in Abuja for a trial, before eventually expanding it to airports in the cities of Enugu, Kano and Port Harcourt.Agba called on the support and collaboration of shareholders for the project which he said started with consultations back in January in the Japanese capital Tokyo.He said he believes the system “would further strengthen the security of our people and the country as a whole” as “this project was conceived in view of several security concerns and the need to nip these growing concerns in the bud.”Before the project implementation begins, Agba said a site visit would be conducted by a joint team.The Japanese Ambassador is also quoted as hailing the project, saying it will go a long way in bolstering Nigeria’s airport architecture and encourage travel to and investment in the country.“We want to holistically support the Nigerian Government to improve security, social cohesion and promote better migration management through the use of technology and installation of CCTV cameras at strategic places,” said Kazuyohsi as reported by Punch.In the past, experts in the aviation industry in Nigeria have suggested the use of biometrics technology to improve security at the country’s airports.Biometrics boost airport security, will become mandatory, says TSA-In an airports security related story, the head of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) David Pekoske has underscored the use of facial recognition technology as one of the best ways of enhancing airport security and accelerating passenger checks at airports across the United States.Speaking at a panel which was themed on improving airport security, Pekoske said the federal agency’s advanced technology including biometrics enables the screening of around 2.4 million persons at airports in the U.S. daily, as reports The Dallas Morning News.The tech deployment, according to the TSA chief, means lesser need for deployment of personnel.For now, biometrics screening for passengers by the TSA is optional as they can out of any stage they are uncomfortable with. The official mentioned however that this will not be the case eventually.He added that their technology is being improved upon for greater efficiency.“We’re upgrading our camera systems all the time, upgrading our lighting systems, upgrading our algorithms, so that we are using the very most advanced algorithms and technology we possibly can. With the technology we’ve already deployed, we know we don’t have to increase the size of our workforce,” said Pekoske.

Zighra behavioral biometrics green-lit for sale directly to govt of Canada-Mar 23, 2023, 5:42 pm EDT | Larisa Redins

Authentication software maker Zighra has been qualified to directly sell digital identity security products to Canada via the Pathway to Commercialization Program.This will allow sales of up to $8 million per contract to all departments.Zighra also announced that it has completed an Innovative Solutions Canada (ISC) Testing Stream contract for continuous biometric authentication with the Royal Canadian Navy. A testing stream is a program in which products can be tested before purchase.The company’s technology aims to minimize the effect of adversary nation-states and associated groups that try to breach government cybersecurity. By using digital identity security measures, government personnel and contractors, can be better protected, Zighra says.With SilentEdge, its patented, FIDO-certified behavioral biometric software, the company says, it has secure passwordless access to digital and physical systems, enabling a zero-trust process.Through sensors, machine learning, continuous multi-factor authentication (CMFA) and dynamic, fine-grained identity, credential and access management (ICAM), Zighra says SilentEdge can replace legacy access cards, one-time passcodes and conventional MFA.Microsoft reports that the percentage of government organizations targeted by Russian threat actors, went from approximately 3 percent in 2020 to 53 percent in 2021.

Three in five organizations will soon use biometrics, but perception problems persist-HID Global reports on state of security and identity-Mar 23, 2023, 3:37 pm EDT | Chris Burt

Biometrics and digital identity for cloud-based access management are joining the mainstream as a way to secure hybrid workplaces, a report from HID Global indicates.The 30-page ‘2023 State of Security and Identity’ report identifies five trends shaping security and identity this year, from supply chain issues, to increased focus on sustainability, and the relationship between hybrid work and cloud-based access management. Ever-faster adoption of digital ID and contactless biometrics are the other two.HID polled more than 2,700 people, just over half of them partners and the rest end-users of the company’s technology, with organizations of various sizes from small businesses to large enterprises, to inform the report.Company executives discussed the findings in a webinar this week.Four in five are still working in a hybrid model, and two-thirds of those surveyed say MFA or passwordless authentication is the most important technology for the transition that marks the future of work. This change is driving cloud-based access management into the mainstream, HID says.HID found that 43 percent of government agencies are planning to use IDaaS in the near future.A solid majority (59 percent) of organizations plan to use, or at least test biometrics in the next five years. The others are more likely smaller organizations, explains Lena Abdelahad VP of HID’s IAM authentication business.Abdelahad notes that FIDO growth is helping push MFA and passwordless adoption, and layering in behavioral biometrics to increase security is a growth area for the industry.Asked by Biometric Update about the understanding organizations have of how to utilize newer technologies with more complex architecture, Abdelahad says most businesses are not used to thinking in terms of technology layers.“I do see us having to come and serve as a trusted advisor to help organizations navigate those complexities or misperceived complexities around, let’s say, the regulations, or the deployment, or the use cases,” she says.Asked if there is a skills gap holding back adoption, Abdelahad emphasized the need “dislodge some of those misperceptions to really help them get to their business goals and their security goals.”The availability of mobile devices and sustainability goals are each driving adoption of mobile authentication, according to Sanjit Bardhan, head of the global mobile business for HID’s physical access control solutions.

Face Forensics adapts biometric software for disaster victim identification-Mar 23, 2023, 2:25 pm EDT | Chris Burt

Face Forensics has responded to a request from an international agency by developing a Disaster Victim Identification suite based on its biometric corpse and tattoo recognition technologies.The new f2 software is specifically designed to help identify deceased people by matching their faces, even if their eyes are closed and they have suffered damage or other are obscured by other markings like tattoos.The international agency requesting the update is attempting to identify people who have died crossing the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe.The company also launched a system for investigating human trafficking and child abuse last year, with CEO Ian Drummond saying at the time that f2 had worked with Red Cross International on identifying migrants.Facial recognition is traditionally very dependent on information from the subject’s open eyes, due to the sharp edges and high contrast of their features, f2 says. The company developed technology to work around this limitation by providing an ability to crop part of the face image and place it over a generic face biometric template, the announcement explains.The system works by ingesting several photos of the subject’s face, cropping them if necessary, automatically encoding them and then comparing them to templates in the database. The top matches are then displayed for visual confirmation by investigators.Multiple filters are provided to narrow down possible matches.The database is built by automatically enrolling images from external databases, and importing images provided by relatives.Face Forensics is making its Disaster Victim Identification suite available as an application, a .NET SDK, and a web service.

JESUS SHED HIS BLOOD FOR US THAT WE CAN BE SAVED FOREVER.AND DURING WW3 PEOPLES BLOOD WILL BE SHED AS A JUDGEMENT FOR HATING HIM AND ISRAEL.GOD IS NOT MOCKED.

ZEPHANIAH 1:2-3
2  I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the LORD.
3  I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD.

PSALMS 97:3
3 A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.

EZEKIEL 5:15-17
15  So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the (ARAB/MUSLIM) nations that are round about thee,(ISRAEL) when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken it.
16  When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:
17  So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts,(WHEN RUSSIA/MUSLIMS GET DEFEATED THIER BODIES GET EATEN BY BIRDS,ANIMALS IN ISRAEL MIGRATION SEASON) and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee;(NUKES) and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it.

REVELATION 14:18-20
18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
20 And the winepress was trodden without the city,(JERUSALEM) and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.(200 MILES) (THE SIZE OF ISRAEL)

ISAIAH 66:15-18
15 For, behold, the LORD will come with fire,(NUKES) and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
17 They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.
18 For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.

ISAIAH 26:21
21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity:(GOD/ISRAEL HATE AND BRAKING OF HIS COMMANDMENTS) the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.(WW3,1/2 earths population die - 3 BILLION).

ISAIAH 13:6-13 KJV
6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:(FROM FRIGHT)
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.

ISAIAH 24:17-23 KJV
17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.

2 TIMOTHY 3:1
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.

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)

EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.

ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.

MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven;(FROM ATOMIC BOMBS) and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

REVELATION 9:18
18 By these three was the third part of men killed,(2 BILLION) by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(ATOMIC BOMBS)(RUSSIA CHINA DESTROYED BY ISRAELS ATOMIC BOMBS)

REVELATION 16:12-16
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates;(WERE WW3 STARTS IN IRAQ OR SYRIA OR TURKEY) and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon,(SATAN) and out of the mouth of the beast,(WORLD DICTATOR) and out of the mouth of the false prophet.(FALSE POPE)
14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.(WERE 2 BILLION DIE FROM NUKE WAR)
15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
17 And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done.

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 AM

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)

EZEKIEL 38:1-23
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2  Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him,
3  And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
4  And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, 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)
7  Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8  After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9  Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.
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, 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, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, 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?(OIL IS IN SPOIL-I BELIEVE THATS WHY RUSSIA,ARAB/MUSLIMS MARCH TO ISRAEL)
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?
15  And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, 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 (atomic bomb) of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;
20  So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.
21  And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord GOD: every man’s sword shall be against his brother.
22  And I will plead against him with pestilence (biological,chemical,nuclear) and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.(NUKED,THEN MIGRATING BIRDS EAT RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS FLESH)
23  Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD.

EZEKIEL 39:1-29
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
2  And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee,(300 MILIION RUSSIA-ARAB-MUSLIMS GET NUKED BY ISRAEL) and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, 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,(RUSSIA) and all thy bands,(RUSSIA SUPPORTED WITH WEAPONS-ARAB/MUSLIM COUNTRIES) 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 (ATOMIC BOMB) on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7  So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8  Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
9  And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years:
10  So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord GOD.
11  And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.
12  And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.
13  Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
14  And they shall sever out men of continual employment, passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
15  And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamongog.
16  And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.
17  And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.
18  Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19  And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.
20  Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
21  And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.
22  So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day and forward.
23  And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword.
24  According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from them.
25  Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name;
26  After that they have borne their shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when they dwelt safely in their land, and none made them afraid.
27  When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies’ lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations;
28  Then shall they know that I am the LORD their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there.
29  Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.

JEREMEIAH 49:35-37 (IN IRAN AT THE BUSHEHR OR ARAK NUKE SITE SOME BELIEVE)
35  Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,(IRAN/BUSHEHR NUCLEAR SITE) the chief of their might.(MOST DANGEROUS NUKE SITE IN IRAN)
36  And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven,(IRANIANS SCATTERED OR MASS IMIGARATION) and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.(WORLD IMMIGRATION)
37  For I will cause Elam (IRAN-BUSHEHR NUKE SITE) to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger,(ISRAELS NUKES POSSIBLY) saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:(IRAN AND ITS NUKE SITES DESTROYED)

ISAIAH 17:1,11-14
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
11  In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
12  Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations,(USELESS U.N) that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13  The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14  And behold at evening tide trouble; and before the morning he is not.(ASSAD KILLED IN OVERNIGHT RAID) This is the portion of them that spoil us,(ISRAEL) and the lot of them that rob us.

AMOS 1:5
5  I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden:(IRAQ) and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir,(JORDAN) saith the LORD.(I belive ISIS-DAMASCUS GET NUKED BY ISRAEL)

CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL 2ND WAVE OF WW3 (200 MILLION MAN ARMY)(THIS WILL BE WW3 DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION PERIOD I BELIEVE.2 BILLION DIE ON EARTH IN THIS NUKE WAR)

REVELATION 16:12-16
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates;(WERE WW3 STARTS IN IRAQ OR SYRIA OR TURKEY) and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.(THE TURKEY ATATURK DAM ON THE EUPHRATES CAN BE SHUT AND DRIED UP ALREADY BY TURKEY)
13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon,(SATAN) and out of the mouth of the beast,(WORLD DICTATOR) and out of the mouth of the false prophet.(FALSE POPE)
14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.(WERE 2 BILLION DIE FROM NUKE WAR)
15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.(ITS AT THIS TIME I BELIEVE WHEN AMERICA GETS NUKED BY RUSSIA ON THE WAY TO THE MIDEAST)

DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
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)

REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(WORLDWIDE WAR)(TURKEY-IRAQ-SYRIA)(EUPHRATES RIVER CONSISTS OF 760 MILES IN TURKEY,440 MILES IN SYRIA AND 660 MILES IN IRAQ)
15 And the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels were loosed,(WORLDWIDE WAR) which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE-2 billion)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)

EZEKIEL 39:6
6  And I will send a fire on RUSSIA (Magog,) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.

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)

North Korea claims to test underwater nuke drone that causes ‘radioactive tsunami’ Analysts say Pyongyang’s claim of new weapons system isn’t the same as a credible demonstration of capability, could be ‘an attempt at deception’By KANG Jin-kyu and Claire Lee-24 March 2023, 10:41 pm

SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea claimed Friday it had tested an underwater nuclear attack drone able to unleash a “radioactive tsunami,” as it blamed recent US-South Korea exercises for a deteriorating regional security situation.Pyongyang carried out military drills of its own in response this week, the official Korean Central News Agency said, including test-firing a new nuclear-capable underwater drone.The weapon’s mission is to “stealthily infiltrate into operational waters and make a super-scale radioactive tsunami… to destroy naval striker groups and major operational ports of the enemy,” it said.The new weapon, called Haeil which means tsunami in Korean, “can be deployed at any coast and port or towed by a surface ship for operation,” the report said.North Korean leader Kim Jong Un personally oversaw the tests, KCNA reported, and images released by Pyongyang’s Rodong Sinmun newspaper showed a smiling Kim and what appeared to be an underwater explosion.The agency also said Pyongyang had fired strategic cruise missiles “tipped with a test warhead simulating a nuclear warhead” on Wednesday.But analysts questioned North Korea’s claims.The idea that Pyongyang has “a nuclear-capable underwater drone should be met with skepticism,” said Leif-Eric Easley, a professor at Ewha University in Seoul.“Pyongyang’s claims about a new weapons system are not the same as a credible demonstration of capability,” he added.In a Twitter post, US-based analyst Ankit Panda said it could not be ruled out that the announcement was “an attempt at deception/psyop.”Even so, the claim was “shocking,” Cheong Seong-chang of the private Sejong Institute told AFP.If true, it is hard to see how Seoul “could respond to such a formidable new weapon from North Korea that [it says] can completely destroy the South’s major operational ports.”The KCNA statement also indicates “Pyongyang is more than ready to use its tactical nuclear weapons at any time,” An Chan-il, a defector-turned-researcher, told AFP.“This obviously further strengthens Kim’s justification for his future nuclear tests.”Nuclear power? Russia has also reportedly developed a similar weapon — nuclear-capable Poseidon torpedoes — but mastering the complex technology required for such weaponry might yet be beyond North Korea, experts said.“For an unmanned submarine to go deep underwater undetected, it requires advanced technology such as control sensors and radar,” Choi Gi-il, professor of military studies at Sangji University told AFP.North Korea has not acquired this “to an extent that it can deploy nuclear unmanned sea drones in combat yet,” but its claims about the Haeil drone fit a broader pattern, Choi said.Pyongyang has moved on from simply stockpiling nuclear warheads and is “attempting to further advance and diversify launch mediums,” he said, adding that further testing could yet give Pyongyang “formidable” new ways to deliver a nuclear payload.After a record-breaking year of weapons tests and growing nuclear threats from Pyongyang in 2022, Seoul and Washington have ramped up security cooperation.On Thursday, the two allies completed their largest joint military drills in five years.Pyongyang views all such exercises as rehearsals for invasion and on Friday claimed the recent exercises, dubbed Freedom Shield, were a drill for “occupying” North Korea.Pyongyang’s “underwater nuclear attack drone” drill was staged “to alert the enemy to an actual nuclear crisis,” KCNA said.North Korea last year declared itself an “irreversible” nuclear power and Kim recently called for an “exponential” increase in weapons production, including tactical nuclear weapons.KCNA’s Friday statement comes about a week after Pyongyang test-fired its largest and most powerful missile, a Hwasong-17 — its second ICBM launch this year.

Putin Says Russia Will Station Tactical Nukes in Belarus-26 Mar 2023Associated Press

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin announced plans on Saturday to station tactical nuclear weapons in neighboring Belarus, a warning to the West as it steps up military support for Ukraine.Putin said the move was triggered by Britain’s decision this past week to provide Ukraine with armor-piercing rounds containing depleted uranium.Tactical nuclear weapons are intended for use on the battlefield and have a short range and a low yield compared with much more powerful nuclear warheads fitted to long-range missiles. Russia plans to maintain control over those it sends to Belarus, and construction of storage facilities for them will be completed by July 1, Putin said.He didn’t say how many nuclear weapons Russia would keep in Belarus. The U.S. government believes Russia has about 2,000 tactical nuclear weapons, which include bombs that can be carried by tactical aircraft, warheads for short-range missiles and artillery rounds.Putin argued that by deploying its tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, Russia was following the lead of the United States, noting that the U.S. has nuclear weapons based in Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey.“We are doing what they have been doing for decades, stationing them in certain allied countries, preparing the launch platforms and training their crews,” Putin said, speaking in an interview on state television that aired Saturday night. “We are going to do the same thing.”Russia has stored its tactical nuclear weapons at dedicated depots on its territory, and moving part of the arsenal to a storage facility in Belarus would up the ante in the Ukrainian conflict by placing them closer to the Russian aircraft and missiles already stationed there.Some hawkish commentators in Russia long have urged the Kremlin to put the tactical nuclear weapons close to the weapons to send a signal to the West about the readiness to use them.The U.S. said it would “monitor the implications” of Putin's announcement.“We have not seen any reason to adjust our own strategic nuclear posture nor any indications Russia is preparing to use a nuclear weapon,” National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson said. "We remain committed to the collective defense of the NATO alliance.”Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine had Soviet nuclear weapons stationed on their territory but handed them over to Russia after the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union.Putin said Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has long asked to have nuclear weapons in his country again as a counter to NATO. Belarus shares borders with three NATO members — Latvia, Lithuania and Poland — and Russia used its territory as a staging ground to send troops into neighboring Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022.Putin noted that Russia helped modernize Belarusian military aircraft last year to make them capable of carrying nuclear warheads. He said 10 such planes were ready to go. He said nuclear weapons also could be launched by the Iskander short-range missiles that Russia provided to Belarus last year.Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, who is living in exile, said the agreement to transfer the tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus “underlines the threat to regional security” from Lukashenko's regime.“Europe won’t be safe until Belarus dictator is removed & brought before tribunal to face justice for crimes against our country & Ukraine," Tsikhanouskaya wrote in English on Twitter.Lukashenko’s support of the war has drawn international criticism and sanctions. But he has publicly stood by Russia, which has pumped billions of dollars into shoring up his Soviet-style, state-controlled economy with cheap energy and loans.Putin had initially objected to the depleted uranium rounds that Britain promised to ship to Ukraine by making the false claim that they have nuclear components.He subsequently toned down his language, but insisted Saturday that the ammunition posed an additional danger to both troops and civilians in Ukraine by leaving a radioactive trace and contaminating agricultural land.“Those weapons are harmful not just for combatants, but also for the people living in those territories and for the environment,” he said.Putin added that Russia has vast stockpiles of similar ammunition but so far has refrained from using it.Depleted uranium is a byproduct of the uranium enrichment process needed to create nuclear weapons. The rounds can't generate a nuclear reaction but they do emit low levels of radiation. The U.N. nuclear watchdog has warned of the possible dangers of exposure.Such rounds were developed by the U.S. during the Cold War to destroy Soviet tanks, including the same T-72 tanks that Ukraine now faces in its push to break through a stalemate in the east.

US army chief: Iran could produce enough material for nuclear weapon within 2 weeks-Milley says Tehran would still require several more months to assemble weapon for use, states US military has developed ‘multiple options’ for leadership to consider if needed-By ToI Staff-24 March 2023, 7:34 pm

Iran could produce enough fissile material for a nuclear weapon within two weeks and would only need several additional months to assemble the weapon for use, US Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Mark Milley said Thursday.Milley shared the updated US assessment in testimony before the House Appropriations Committee in a hearing on the Defense Department’s annual budget request.“But the United States remains committed, as a matter of policy, that Iran will not have a fielded nuclear weapon,” he added, noting that the US military has “developed multiple options for our national leadership to consider if or when Iran ever decides to develop an actual nuclear weapon.”While the Biden administration has largely refrained from publicly discussing the military option, the president has stated that it remains on the table if diplomatic efforts to prevent Tehran from acquiring a nuclear weapon fail.Milley’s remarks built on testimony given last month by US Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Colin Kahl who also said Iran could produce enough fissile material for one nuclear bomb in under two weeks.Kahl said at a House of Representatives hearing that Iran’s nuclear program had significantly progressed since the Trump administration withdrew from the Iranian nuclear deal in 2018.He was asked why the Biden administration has attempted to revive the agreement formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of action (JCPOA).“Because Iran’s nuclear progress since we left the JCPOA has been remarkable. Back in 2018, when the previous administration decided to leave the JCPOA, it would have taken Iran about 12 months to produce one bomb’s worth of fissile material. Now it would take about 12 days,” Kahl said.“So I think there is still the view that if you could resolve this issue diplomatically and put constraints back on their nuclear program, it is better than the other options. But right now, the JCPOA is on ice,” Kahl said.US officials previously estimated Iran’s so-called breakout time to amass material for a weapon as weeks. The US also believes Iran does not yet have all of the technology required to build a bomb and has not made a final decision to build a weapon.Talks to reinstate the nuclear deal between Iran and world powers restarted in April 2021 but have been stalled since last year as Iran forges ahead with its nuclear ambitions.Inspectors from the United Nations nuclear watchdog have found uranium particles enriched up to 83.7 percent in Iran’s underground Fordo nuclear site, the UN’s nuclear watchdog revealed earlier this month.The confidential quarterly report by the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) distributed to member states has raised tensions further between Iran and the West over Iran’s program, even as Tehran already faces internal unrest after months of protests and Western anger over sending bomb-carrying drones to Russia for its war on Ukraine.The IAEA report only speaks about “particles,” suggesting that Iran isn’t building a stockpile of uranium enriched above 60% — the level it has been enriching at for some time, which nonproliferation experts already say has no civilian use for Tehran.Uranium at nearly 84% is almost at weapons-grade levels of 90% — meaning any stockpile of that material could be quickly enriched for the purposes of building an atomic bomb if Iran chooses.Earlier this week, the Axios news site reported that Israel has told the US and several European countries that an Iranian decision to enrich uranium above the 60% level could trigger an IDF strike.An Israeli official told Axios that Israel doesn’t consider the small amounts enriched at 84% purity to be particularly significant because Iran didn’t amass any of the material at that level.Despite the warning, Israel has avoided laying out a “red line,” regarding when it will act, as Netanyahu did during the Obama administration.The Israeli official told Axios that Israel was avoiding declaring that its “red line” is 90% purity because it fears that might give Iran the legitimacy to continue enriching up to that level.The US intelligence community continues to maintain its assessment that Iran isn’t pursuing an atomic bomb.“To the best of our knowledge, we don’t believe that the supreme leader in Iran has yet made a decision to resume the weaponization program that we judge they suspended or stopped at the end of 2003,” CIA Director Williams Burns told CBS’s “Face the Nation” program last month. “But the other two legs of the stool, meaning enrichment programs, they’ve obviously advanced very far.”Fordo, which sits under a mountain near the holy Shiite city of Qom, some 90 kilometers (55 miles) southwest of Tehran, remains a special concern for the international community. It is about the size of a football field, large enough to house 3,000 centrifuges, but small and hardened enough to lead US officials to suspect it had a military purpose when they exposed the site publicly in 2009.Any explanation from Iran, however, likely won’t be enough to satisfy Israel.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has threatened military actions against Tehran, and Israel and Iran have been engaged in a high-stakes shadow war across the wider Middle East since the nuclear deal’s collapse.

UK says Russia ‘largely stalled’ in Bakhmut, shifting focus-British military intelligence assesses ‘extreme attrition’ of Russian forces in city responsible for Moscow’s shift to defensive posture-By AP-25 March 2023, 9:41 pm

KYIV, Ukraine — The top commander of Ukraine’s military said Saturday that his forces were pushing back against Russian troops in the long and grinding battle for the town of Bakhmut, and British military intelligence says Russia appears to be moving to a defensive strategy in eastern Ukraine.“The Bakhmut direction is the most difficult. Thanks to the titanic efforts of the defense forces, the situation is being stabilized,” General Valerii Zaluzhnyi said in a post on Telegram giving a synopsis of a telephone call with Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, Britain’s chief of defense staff.The seven-month fight for Bakhmut, where Russian forces have closed in on three sides, is the longest battle of the war, with Russia deploying both regular soldiers and fighters of the mercenary Wagner Group.Russian forces must go through Bakhmut to push deeper into parts of the eastern Donbas region, though Western officials say the capture of the city would have a limited impact on the course of the war.Britain’s Defense Ministry said in its latest intelligence update that “Russia’s assault on the Donbas town of Bakhmut has largely stalled. This is likely primarily a result of extreme attrition of the Russian force.”Russia is likely shifting its focus toward two other sectors, which “suggests an overall return to a more defensive operational design after inconclusive results from its attempts to conduct a general offensive since January,” the UK ministry wrote on Twitter.However, the Ukrainian military cautioned that a change in strategy was not yet clear and that Bakhmut remained Russia’s main point of attack for now. A spokesman for Ukraine’s eastern forces, Serhii Cherevaty, said the Russian forces were still hitting the town with artillery and airstrikes, although the number of daily clashes had dropped to fewer than 20, down from 30 to 50 not long ago.“The coming week will tell,” Cherevaty said on Ukrainian television.Pavlo Kyrylenko, the governor of Donetsk province, where Bakhmut is located, said one civilian was killed in the fighting on Friday and another civilian was killed elsewhere in the province. Russian rockets hit the town of Kramatorsk during the night, but caused no injuries, Kyrylenko said.On Saturday, Russian artillery struck Chasiv Yar, a city west of Bakhmut, and Toretsk to the south, killing two civilians, the Ukrainian presidential office said.Two people were killed and six injured in Russian firing on the southern Kherson region, the local administration said.

Iran-backed fighters on alert in eastern Syria after US retaliates for deadly attack-Tehran warns any further American airstrikes on Iranian bases in the country ‘will immediately face an answer’ By Bassem Mroue-25 March 2023, 4:50 pmUpdated at 6:17 pm

BEIRUT (AP) — Iran-backed fighters were on alert in eastern Syria on Saturday, a day after US forces launched retaliatory airstrikes on sites in the war-torn country, opposition activists said. The airstrikes came after a suspected Iran-made drone killed a US contractor and wounded six other Americans on Thursday.The situation was calm following a day in which rockets were fired at bases housing US troops in eastern Syria. The rockets came after US airstrikes on three different areas in Syria’s eastern province of Deir el-Zour, which borders Iraq, opposition activists said.While it’s not the first time the US and Iran have traded strikes in Syria, the attack and the US response threaten to upend recent efforts to deescalate tensions across the wider Middle East, whose rival powers have made steps toward détente in recent days after years of turmoil.“The calm continues as Iran-backed militiamen are on alert out of concern of possible new airstrikes,” said Rami Abdurrahman, who heads the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor.US President Joe Biden said Friday that the US would respond “forcefully” to protect its personnel after American forces retaliated with airstrikes on sites in Syria used by groups affiliated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. The strikes followed an attack Thursday by a suspected Iran-made drone that killed a US contractor and wounded five American servicemembers and a US contractor.“The United States does not, does not seek conflict with Iran,” Biden said in Ottawa, Canada, where he was on a state visit. But he said Iran and its proxies should be prepared for the US “to act forcefully to protect our people. That’s exactly what happened last night.” Activists said the US bombing killed at least four people.In Iran, domestic media outlets quoted a spokesman for the nation’s Supreme National Security Council, Keivan Khosravi, as saying that Tehran would immediately respond to any US attack on Iranian bases in Syria.“Any excuses-seeking attitude for attack on bases that are established at the request of the Syrian government, will immediately face an answer,” Khosravi was quoted as saying. Khosravi rejected US charges that Iran is behind attacks on American bases in Syria, suggesting they are attacks against “illegal occupation of part of Syria.”A statement issued late Friday by the Iranian Consultative Center in Syria warned the US not to carry out further strikes in Syria. Otherwise, “we will have to retaliate.” It warned that “it will not be a simple revenge.”The center, which speaks on behalf of Tehran in Syria, said the US airstrikes targeted places used to store food products and other service centers in Deir el-Zour. It said the strike killed seven people and wounded seven others without giving the nationalities of the dead. An official with an Iran-backed group in Iraq said the strikes killed seven Iranians.The Observatory raised the death toll from the US strikes to 19, saying they were killed in three locations, including an arms depot in the Harabesh neighborhood in the city of Deir el-Zour, and two military posts near the towns of Mayadeen and Boukamal.Iran-backed militia groups and Syrian forces control the area, which also has seen suspected airstrikes by Israel in recent months allegedly targeting Iranian supply routes.According to US officials, two simultaneous attacks were launched at US forces in Syria late Friday. Officials said that based on preliminary information, there was a rocket attack on the Conoco plant, where US troops are stationed, and one US service member was wounded but is in stable condition. At about the same time, several drones were launched at Green Village, in Deir el-Zour province where US troops are also based. One official said all but one of the drones were shot down, and there were no US injuries there. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss military operations.Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, which answers only to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been suspected of carrying out attacks with bomb-carrying drones across the wider Middle East.US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said the American intelligence community had determined the drone in Thursday’s attack was of Iranian origin, but offered no other immediate evidence to support the claim. The drone hit a coalition base in the northeast Syrian city of Hasakeh.Iran relies on a network of proxy forces throughout the Mideast to counter the US and Israel, its arch regional enemy. The US has had forces in northeast Syria since 2015, when they deployed as part of the fight against the Islamic State group, and maintains some 900 troops there, working with Kurdish-led forces that control around a third of Syria.The exchange of strikes came as Saudi Arabia and Iran have been working toward reopening embassies in each other’s countries. The kingdom also acknowledged efforts to reopen a Saudi embassy in Syria, whose embattled President Bashar Assad has been backed by Iran in his country’s long war. According to officials, Iran has launched 80 attacks against US forces and locations in Iraq and Syria since January 2021. The vast majority of those have been in Syria.The US under Biden has struck Syria previously over tensions with Iran — in February and June of 2021, as well as August 2022.Syria’s conflict that began in 2011 has left nearly half a million people dead.

US carries out airstrikes on Iran-linked groups in Syria after attack on base-Biden says Washington does not seek conflict with Iran but will ‘forcefully’ protect personnel in Syria-By Layal Abou Rahal-25 March 2023, 6:49 am

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — US resident Joe Biden said Friday that the US would respond “forcefully” to protect its personnel after US forces retaliated with airstrikes on sites in Syria used by groups affiliated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard following a suspected Iranian-linked attack Thursday that killed a US contractor and wounded seven other Americans in northeast Syria.“The United States does not… seek conflict with Iran,” Biden said in Ottawa, Canada, where he is on a state visit. But he said Iran and its proxies should be prepared for the US “to act forcefully to protect our people. That’s exactly what happened last night.” Activists said the US bombing killed at least four people.While it’s not the first time the US and Iran have traded strikes in Syria, the attacks and the US response threaten to upend recent efforts to deescalate tensions across the wider Middle East, whose rival powers have made steps toward détente in recent days after years of turmoil.The Pentagon said a drone attack on a US base Thursday killed a contractor and injured five US troops and another contractor. That was followed by two simultaneous attacks on US forces in Syria Friday, according to US officials.The officials said that based on preliminary information, there was a rocket attack Friday at a Conoco plant, and one US service member was injured but is in stable condition. At about the same time, several drones were launched at Green Village, where US troops are also based. One official said all but one of the drones were shot down, and there were no US injuries there. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss military operations.Two Syrian opposition activist groups reported a new wave of airstrikes on eastern Syria that hit positions of Iran-backed militias after rockets were fired at a Conoco gas plant that has a base housing American troops. Several US officials, however, said the US did not launch any attacks late Friday, and it wasn’t clear if the activists were referring to the attack on US forces at Green Village.US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said the American intelligence community had determined the drone in Thursday’s attack was of Iranian origin. US officials said that conclusion was based on recovered debris and intelligence threat streams. They offered no immediate evidence to support the claim. The drone hit a maintenance facility at a coalition base in the northeast Syrian city of Hasaka.In retaliation, the Pentagon said F-15 fighter jets flying out of al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar struck several locations around Deir el-Zour. Those strikes, said Austin, were a response to the drone attack “as well as a series of recent attacks against coalition forces in Syria” by groups affiliated with the Revolutionary Guard.Biden, speaking during a press conference with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, expressed his “deepest condolences” to the family of the American killed and well-wishes for the injured.Iran relies on a network of proxy forces through the Mideast to counter the US and Israel, its regional enemy. The US has had forces in northeast Syria since 2015, when they deployed as part of the fight against the Islamic State group, and maintains some 900 troops there, working with Kurdish-led forces that control around a third of Syria.Overnight, videos on social media purported to show explosions in Deir el-Zour, a strategic province that borders Iraq and contains oil fields. Iranian-backed militia groups and Syrian forces control the area, which also has seen suspected airstrikes by Israel in recent months allegedly targeting Iranian supply routes.Reports on the number of killed and wounded in the US strikes varied. Activist group Deir Ezzor 24, which covers news in the province, said four people were killed and a number of others were wounded. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor, said 11 Iranian-backed fighters were killed — including six at an arms depot in the Harabesh neighborhood in the city of Deir el-Zour and five at military posts near the towns of Mayadeen and Boukamal.Rami Abdurrahman, who heads the Observatory, said three rockets were fired earlier Friday at the al-Omar oil field in Deir el-Zour that houses US troops, an apparent retaliation to the American strikes.The Associated Press could not immediately independently confirm the activist reports. Iran and Syria did not immediately acknowledge the strikes, and their officials at the United Nations in New York did not respond to requests for comment from the AP.Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, which answers only to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been suspected of carrying out attacks with bomb-carrying drones across the wider Middle East.The exchange of strikes came as Saudi Arabia and Iran have been working toward reopening embassies in each other’s countries. The kingdom also acknowledged efforts to reopen a Saudi embassy in Syria, whose embattled President Bashar Assad has been backed by Iran in his country’s long war.US Army Gen. Erik Kurilla, the top US commander for the Middle East, warned that its forces could carry out additional strikes if needed. “We are postured for scalable options in the face of any additional Iranian attacks,” Kurilla said in a statement.On Thursday, Kurilla warned Congress during a hearing that the “Iran of today is exponentially more militarily capable than it was even five years ago.” He pointed to Iran’s arsenal of ballistic missiles and bomb-carrying drones.“What Iran does to hide its hand is they use Iranian proxies,” Kurilla said.According to officials, Iran has launched 80 attacks against US forces and locations in Iraq and Syria since January 2021. The vast majority of those have been in Syria.Diplomacy to deescalate the exchange appeared to begin immediately. The foreign minister of Qatar spoke by phone with US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan as well as Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, the Qatari state news agency reported. Doha has been an interlocutor between Iran and the US recently amid tensions over Tehran’s nuclear program.The US under Biden has struck Syria previously over tensions with Iran — in February and June of 2021, as well as August 2022.Dareen Khalifa, a senior Syria analyst with the Brussels-based International Crisis Group, said that while Thursday’s exchange of strikes comes at a sensitive political moment due to the “overall deterioration of US-Iran relations and the stalling of the nuclear talks,” she does not expect a significant escalation.“These tit-for-tat strikes have been ongoing for a long time,” Khalifa said, although she noted that they usually do not result in casualties.Since the US drone strike that killed Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani in 2020, Iran has sought “to make life difficult for US forces stationed east of the Euphrates,” said Hamidreza Azizi, an expert with the German Institute for International and Security Affairs.“Iran increased its support for local proxies in Deir el-Zour while trying to ally with the tribal forces in the area,” Azizi wrote in a recent analysis.The strikes come during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.Syria’s war began with the 2011 Arab Spring protests that roiled the wider Middle East and toppled governments in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Yemen. It later morphed into a regional proxy conflict that has seen Russia and Iran back Assad. The United Nations estimates over 300,000 civilians have been killed in the war. Those figures do not include soldiers and insurgents killed in the conflict; their numbers are believed to be in the tens of thousands.

Analysis-‘Sea change’: Disruptive Saudi prince shows new pragmatism with Iran-Some analysts believe deal with Tehran signals maturation and realism in Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s regional approach-By Robbie COREY-BOULET and Haitham el-Tabei-25 March 2023, 5:41 am

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AFP) — Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman once compared Iran’s supreme leader to Hitler, but has now green-lit a reconciliation deal intended to usher in a new era of regional prosperity.As a 29-year-old defense minister, he launched a ferocious assault on Houthi rebels in neighboring Yemen, but is now pursuing back-channel talks that could ultimately remove Saudi forces from the conflict.He has also worked to mend bitter rifts with regional rivals like Qatar and Turkey, and even offered up the Gulf kingdom as a possible mediator for the war in Ukraine.Analysts say it points to an evolution of Prince Mohammed, now 37, from erratic disruptor to pragmatic power player.The deal with Iran in particular “marks a sea change in his political approach,” signaling “maturity and a more realistic understanding of regional power politics,” said Umar Karim, an expert on Saudi foreign policy at the University of Birmingham.Yet it’s too soon to know whether such de-escalatory measures will succeed — and how far they will go.The Iran deal still needs to be implemented, with embassies due to reopen by the second week of May after seven years of severed bilateral ties.Saudi Arabia and Syria are also in talks on resuming consular services, state media in the kingdom said Thursday, more than a decade after the Gulf kingdom cut ties with President Bashar Assad’s regime.Riyadh had long openly championed Assad’s ouster.Regardless of what happens next, Riyadh’s agenda is clear: minimizing turbulence abroad to keep the focus on a raft of economic and social reforms at home.“Our vision is a prosperous Middle East,” one Saudi official said, “because without your region developing with you, there are limits to what you can achieve.”It was domestic reforms that initially helped burnish Prince Mohammed’s reputation on the world stage.On his watch, the formerly closed-off kingdom sidelined the notorious religious police, allowed women to drive, opened cinemas and started granting tourist visas.Its deep-pocketed sovereign wealth fund inked a series of high-profile investments in everything from Newcastle United to Nintendo, hinting at how his “Vision 2030” reform agenda might transition the world’s largest crude exporter away from fossil fuels.Hanging over all this were concerns about ramped-up repression, especially following the 2018 killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the kingdom’s Istanbul consulate.But Saudi officials also recognised how security threats, especially from Iran, endangered Prince Mohammed’s big plans.This point was driven home with attacks in 2019, claimed by the Iran-backed Huthis, on Saudi oil facilities that temporarily halved crude output.Riyadh and Washington charged that Tehran was behind the operation, which the Iranians denied.The incident was a game-changer, spurring Saudi Arabia to pursue a more conciliatory path, analysts and diplomats say.Saudi officials were deeply disappointed by the tepid response of then-US president Donald Trump’s administration, which they believed undermined the oil-for-security trade-off that has underpinned the two countries’ partnership for decades.“The Saudis were shocked that the Americans did nothing to protect them,” said an Arab diplomat based in Riyadh.“Saudi officials told us, ‘We need to focus on the megaprojects,'” the diplomat added, citing a futuristic megacity known as NEOM and a budding arts hub in the northern city of AlUla.“If one missile hits NEOM or AlUla, there will be no investment or tourism. The vision will collapse.”In making up with Iran, Prince Mohammed has not gone it alone.Neighboring Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates restored full diplomatic ties with the Islamic Republic last year.But the Saudi-Iranian deal is seen as more significant because the two Middle East heavyweights have often found themselves on opposite sides of conflicts — not just in Yemen but also in places including Lebanon and Iraq.“The kingdom is pursuing a calibrated geopolitic reset that attempts to holistically improve the broader regional security environment,” said Ayham Kamel of Eurasia Group.Anna Jacobs of the International Crisis Group added: “Lowering the temperature with Iran is a smart way to lower tensions across the region and mitigate some of the proxy battles surrounding Saudi Arabia.”The next step for implementing the deal is a meeting between the two countries’ foreign ministers, though it has not yet been scheduled.Earlier this week, an Iranian official said Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi had favorably received an invitation to visit Saudi Arabia from King Salman, Prince Mohammed’s father, though Riyadh has yet to confirm.These expected encounters will be closely watched as worries persist that the rapprochement remains fragile.“Mistrust is deep between Saudi Arabia and Iran,” Jacobs said, “and both sides will need to see positive signals from the other very soon to proceed with the deal.”

Netanyahu: If calls spread for refusal to serve, State of Israel in ‘terrible danger’ In London briefing following meeting with Sunak, PM says Memorial Day would be used for political ends ‘even if I would halt the legislation’By Amy Spiro-24 March 2023, 6:26 pm

LONDON — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that calls for refusal to serve in the IDF are a grave danger to the future of the State of Israel, and could spread beyond those who oppose the government’s judicial overhaul.“Surrendering to [IDF] refusal is a terrible danger to the State of Israel,” Netanyahu said in a briefing to reporters following his meeting with UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in London. “It won’t stop with just one side, it will move from side to side.”The prime minister said he has heard from those who support the government’s plans who say they could also refuse to serve in the military if the legislation is not passed.“You need to understand what is happening on the other side. People say that if it’s like this because of the threat of IDF refusal, why just on one side?” Netanyahu said. “They say: ‘We will not send our children either.”Netanyahu said he expects the security establishment to adopt a “firm stand against” the phenomenon, which has been growing in recent weeks among those who stand firmly opposed to the government’s plans to radically shake up the judiciary, including giving the coalition widespread control over the appointment of Israel’s judges. Many groups of elite IDF reservists from all branches of the military have declared that they will not continue to serve if the government’s program is enacted.“The country cannot exist without the IDF. There will not be a nation, it’s very simple,” Netanyahu said Friday. “All red lines have been crossed. People who were responsible for the security of the country suddenly adopted this cynicism.”On Friday, 200 reservist pilots and 100 doctors who serve in the military reserves said they will halt service due to the legislative push, as opposition to the government’s efforts in the army’s ranks continued to spread.After the meeting between Netanyahu and Sunak Friday morning, Israel and the UK both issued statements about the sit-down, although only the British one mentioned the judicial overhaul. Sunak’s statement said he had stressed to Netanyahu “the importance of upholding the democratic values that underpin our relationship, including in the proposed judicial reforms in Israel.”A senior Israeli official who was present during the meeting said that the issue of the judicial overhaul was discussed for less than a minute toward the end of the Sunak-Netanyahu meeting.Netanyahu also spoke out Friday against concerns that the intense protests and divides could color Israel’s national Memorial Day next month.The prime minister said that “even if I would halt the legislation, it wouldn’t help” to keep Memorial Day apolitical, “because whoever wants to make a provocation on Memorial Day will do it.”Netanyahu said that he spoke out strongly against any attempts to use Memorial Day to political ends while he led a strong opposition campaign against the Oslo Accords in the 1990s.“People would tell me that I was disrespecting Yoni,” said Netanyahu, referring to his late brother, Yoni Netanyahu, who was killed during the IDF raid on Entebbe in 1976. “It is forbidden to say that!”Netanyahu’s convoy was greeted Friday morning in London by several hundred Israeli and Jewish protesters chanting against the prime minister and his government’s controversial judicial overhaul. In an unusual move, he and Sunak did not make any public comments or hold a press conference, rather only released readouts of their meeting, which lasted about an hour.Sunak has faced pressure in recent days to publicly comment on Israel’s highly contentious judicial shakeup, leading to speculation that he chose to forgo any public comments with Netanyahu in order to avoid taking a stance.During Netanyahu’s visit to Berlin last week, he and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz publicly sparred during a press conference over the government’s continued push for legislation that will greatly expand political control over Israel’s High Court.Netanyahu said Friday he invited Sunak to visit Israel in the near future. According to the British readout, Sunak said he “looked forward to visiting Israel at the earliest opportunity.”Netanyahu was slated to meet later Friday with UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman, also without any public statements or press conference. His only other scheduled meeting during his trip — which is slated to last until early Sunday morning — is with the Conservative Friends of Israel.As it stands, the legislative package will — among other things — allow the Knesset to override court decisions with the barest majority, preemptively shield laws from judicial oversight, and put the selection of judges in the hands of coalition politicians. Netanyahu said Thursday night that the law on selecting judges would be enacted next week.While supporters say the judicial overhaul will rebalance power away from an overly activist court, critics argue the moves will remove essential checks on executive and legislative power, putting democracy in peril and leaving many basic rights unprotected.Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.

Jerusalem security forces on alert as tens of thousands at 1st Friday Ramadan prayers-Senior police officer stresses non-Muslims to be barred from Temple Mount during holiday; estimated 83,000 worship at Al-Aqsa Mosque without incident-By ToI Staff-24 March 2023, 11:25 am

Security forces were on high alert in Jerusalem for the first Friday of Ramadan, as mass afternoon prayers held at the Temple Mount passed peacefully.The Muslim holy month, which began Thursday and will end April 21, often sees elevated Israeli-Palestinian tensions, with frictions already high this year in Jerusalem and across the West Bank following months of deadly violence.According to official estimates, some 83,000 people took part in afternoon prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, located atop the Temple Mount.“This is a sensitive and complex period,” Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai said after an assessment with commanders at the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City. “The unique social fabric in East Jerusalem, the Old City and Temple Mount needs to be preserved.”“We will do everything in our capabilities to ensure freedom of religion for all worshipers while maintaining security and order,” he added.Shortly after prayers ended, police detained one man suspected of incitement for hanging the banner of a terrorist organization at the complex.As police sought to ensure calm, a top commander in Jerusalem stressed non-Muslims would be barred from visiting the Temple Mount during prayers.The military has eased some restrictions on movement for West Bank and Gazan Palestinians to allow women, children and some men to pray there without permits.“Jews will not be authorized to go up to the [Temple] Mount during Muslim prayer times,” Chief Superintendent Amir Ben-Kiki, the head of police operations in the capital, told Kan public radio.For Palestinian Muslims, worship at the Al-Aqsa Mosque — the third-holiest site in Islam — is a central part of the festival. Jews revere the same site as the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism as the location of the ancient Temples.Regarding potential Palestinian home demolitions during Ramadan, Ben-Kiki stressed the matter was up to the Jerusalem Municipality, with police only providing security. Israeli authorities have typically refrained from such actions during Ramadan, though far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir — whose actions security officials have reportedly warned are contributing to tensions — has been pushing for increased demolition of illegal construction in East Jerusalem.“At the moment, we do not know that the municipality intends to destroy homes during Ramadan,” Ben-Kiki said.Meanwhile, Ben Gvir’s office announced he would attend a security briefing with police officers near the Temple Mount before giving a public statement.Border Police said some 2,400 officers were deployed Friday to Jerusalem, the West Bank and elsewhere as part of the heightened security measures.On Sunday, Israeli and Palestinian Authority delegations recommitted to de-escalating tensions ahead of Ramadan during a relatively rare, albeit low-stakes, regional summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.Some officials have warned that this Ramadan may be the most difficult to handle in years, as tensions remained high amid a cycle of deadly Israeli raids in the West Bank and deadly Palestinian terror attacks, as well as an uptick in settler violence.According to the Haaretz daily, during a recent meeting with Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, military officials said Israel’s ongoing internal unrest, the declining popularity of the Palestinian Authority, a rise in nationalist Jewish attacks and the actions of Ben Gvir are all contributing to a highly volatile state in the West Bank.A string of Palestinian attacks in Israel and the West Bank in recent months have left 15 people — almost all of them Israelis — dead and several more seriously hurt. Many of the attacks have occurred in the capital and were carried out by Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem.At least 85 Palestinians have been killed since the beginning of the year, most of them while carrying out attacks or during clashes with security forces, though some were uninvolved civilians and others were killed under circumstances that are being investigated.

NATO Secretary General to Party of European Socialists: crucial to sustain support to Ukraine-23 Mar. 2023 - Last updated: 23 Mar. 2023 11:51

Mr Stoltenberg outlined that sustaining support for Ukraine will involve ramping up production of weapons and ammunition, engaging with industry, and advancing joint procurement efforts. He stressed that he expected NATO Allies to agree an ambitious new defence investment pledge at the Vilnius Summit in July, with 2% of GDP as a minimum to be invested in defence.The Secretary General welcomed progress on Finland and Sweden’s path to NATO membership, including the upcoming ratification of Finland’s accession by Hungary and Türkiye. He further reiterated his strong commitment to ensuring that Sweden’s accession is also finalised as soon as possible.The PES is meeting in Brussels ahead of the European Council. It brings together heads of state and government and other high-level political actors from the socialist, social democratic, labour and democratic parties in Europe.

SIGNS IN THE SUN, MOON AND STARS-CHEMICAL WEAPONS

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences;(BIOLOGICAL/CHEMICAL/NUCLEAR) and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun,(HEATING UP-SOLAR ECLIPSES) and in the moon,(MAN ON THE MOON-LUNAR ECLIPSES) and in the stars;(ASTEROIDS-PROPHECY SIGNS) and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)
REVELATION 16:21 80-120LB HAIL ON HUMANS
21And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent:(80-120 LBS) and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.

FAMINE

EZEKIEL 5:16
16  When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:

REVELATION 6:5-6
5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.(A DAYS WAGES FOR A LOAF OF BREAD)

MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

DEUTORONOMY 28:24
24  The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.

LOCUSTS (DEMONIC) TORTURES SINNERS 5 MONTHS
REVELATION 9:1-6
1 And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.
2 And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
3 And there came out of the smoke (DEMONIC) locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
4 And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.
5 And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.
6 And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.

FEARFUL SIGHTS AND GREAT SIGNS FROM HEAVEN

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS

REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

OZONE DEPLETION JUDGEMENT ON THE EARTH DUE TO SIN
ISAIAH 30:26-27
26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold,(7X OR 7-DEGREES HOTTER) as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people,(ISRAEL) and healeth the stroke of their wound.
27 Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:

MATTHEW 24:21-22,221 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22 And except those days should be shortened,(DAY LIGHT HOURS SHORTENED) there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake (ISRAELS SAKE) those days shall be shortened (Daylight hours shortened)(THE ASTEROID HITS EARTH HERE)
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
 
REVELATION 16:7-9
7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.

At least 23 killed, dozens injured as tornado rips through rural Mississippi-Four people still missing in southern US state; National Weather Service issued alert as the storm was hitting that didn’t mince words: ‘To protect your life, TAKE COVER NOW!’-By AP-25 March 2023, 3:43 pm

ROLLING FORK, Mississippi — Emergency officials in Mississippi said 23 people have been killed by tornadoes that tore through the state on Friday night, destroying buildings and knocking out power as severe weather that produced hail the size of golf balls moved through several southern states.The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency confirmed there had been 23 deaths as of 6:20 a.m. Saturday with dozens of injuries and four people missing throughout the state. The agency said in a Twitter post that search and rescue teams from numerous local and state agencies were deployed along with personnel to assist those impacted by the tornadoes.The National Weather Service confirmed a tornado caused damage about 60 miles (96 kilometers) northeast of Jackson, Mississippi. The rural towns of Silver City and Rolling Fork reported destruction as the tornado swept northeast at 70 mph (113 kph) without weakening, racing towards Alabama through towns including Winona and Amory into the night.The National Weather Service issued an alert as the storm was hitting that didn’t mince words: “To protect your life, TAKE COVER NOW!”“You are in a life-threatening situation,” it warned. “Flying debris may be deadly to those caught without shelter. Mobile homes will be destroyed. Considerable damage to homes, businesses, and vehicles is likely and complete destruction is possible.”Cornel Knight told The Associated Press that he, his wife and their 3-year-old daughter were at a relative’s home in Rolling Fork when the tornado struck. He said the sky was dark but “you could see the direction from every transformer that blew.”He said it was “eerily quiet” as that happened. Knight said he watched from a doorway until the tornado was, he estimated, less than a mile away. Then he told everyone in the house to take cover in a hallway. He said the tornado struck another relative’s home across a wide corn field from where he was. A wall in that home collapsed and trapped several people inside. As Knight spoke to AP by phone, he said he could see lights from emergency vehicles at the partially collapsed home.Rolling Fork mayor Eldridge Walker told WLBT-TV he was unable to get out of his damaged home soon after the tornado hit because power lines were down. He said emergency responders were trying to take injured people to hospitals. He did not immediately know how many people had been hurt.A former mayor of Rolling Fork, Fred Miller, told the television station a tornado blew the windows out of the back of his house.Storm chaser Reed Timmer posted on Twitter that Rolling Fork was in immediate need of emergency personnel and that he was heading with injured residents of the town to a Vicksburg hospital.The Sharkey-Issaquena Community Hospital on the west side of Rolling Fork was damaged, WAPT reported.The Sharkey County Sheriff’s Office in Rolling Fork reported gas leaks and people trapped in piles of rubble, according to the Vicksburg News. Some law enforcement units were unaccounted for in Sharkey, according to the newspaper.Rolling Fork and the surrounding area has wide expanses of cotton, corn and soybean fields and catfish farming ponds. More than a half-dozen shelters were opened in the state by emergency officials.Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves said in a Twitter post Friday night that search and rescue teams were active and that officials were sending more ambulances and emergency assets to those affected.“Many in the MS Delta need your prayer and God’s protection tonight,” the post said. “Watch weather reports and stay cautious through the night, Mississippi!”This was a supercell, the nasty type of storms that brew the deadliest tornado and most damaging hail in the United States, said University of Northern Illinois University meteorology professor Walker Ashley. What’s more is that this is a night-time wet one, which is “the worst kind,” he said.Meteorologists saw a big tornado risk coming for the general region, not the specific area, as much as a week in advance, said Ashley, who was discussing it with his colleagues as early as March 17. The National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center put out a long-range alert for the area on March 19, he said.Tornado experts like Ashley have been warning about increased risk exposure in the region because of people building more.“You mix a particularly socioeconomically vulnerable landscape with a fast-moving, long-track nocturnal tornado, and disaster will happen,” Ashley said in an email.Earlier Friday, a car was swept away and two passengers drowned in southwestern Missouri during torrential rains that were part of a severe weather system. Authorities said six young adults were in the vehicle that was swept away as the car tried to cross a bridge over a flooded creek in the town of Grovespring.Four of the six made it out of the water. The body of Devon Holt, 20, of Grovespring, was found at 3:30 a.m., and the body of Alexander Roman-Ranelli, 19, of Springfield, was recovered about six hours later, Missouri State Highway Patrol Sgt. Thomas Young said.The driver told authorities that the rain made it difficult to see that water from a creek had covered the bridge, Young said.Meanwhile, the search continued in another southwestern Missouri county for a woman who was missing after flash flooding from a small river washed a car off the road. The Logan Rogersville Fire Protection District said there was no sign of the woman. Two others who were in the car were rescued. Crews planned to use boats and have searchers walking along the riverbank.When a woman’s SUV got swept up in rushing flood waters Friday morning near Granby, Missouri, Layton Hoyer made his way through icy-cold waters to rescue her.Some parts of southern Missouri saw nearly 3 inches (8 centimeters) of rain Thursday night and into Friday morning as severe weather hit other areas. A suspected tornado touched down early Friday in north Texas.Matt Elliott, warning coordination meteorologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma, said the severe weather was expected across several states.The Storm Prediction Center warned the greatest threat of tornadoes would come in portions of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee. Storms with damaging winds and hail were forecast from eastern Texas and southeastern Oklahoma into parts of southeastern Missouri and southern Illinois.More than 49,000 customers had lost power in Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee as of Friday night, according to poweroutage.us.In Texas, a suspected tornado struck about 5 a.m. in the southwest corner of Wise County, damaging homes and downing trees and power lines, said Cody Powell, the county’s emergency management coordinator. Powell said no injuries were reported.The weather service had not confirmed a tornado, but damage to homes was also reported in neighboring Parker County, said meteorologist Matt Stalley.

Tornado levels homes in Georgia, 'people trapped' as severe weather piles on region post-Mississippi disaster-Tornado wreaks havoc in Troup County, Georgia, near West Point and LaGrange-By Danielle Wallace | Fox News

A tornado reportedly touched down early Sunday in Troup County, Georgia, near the Alabama border, flattening homes and risking a possible direct hit to an automobile plant. Georgia Mutual Aid Group (GMAG) said affected areas included the county seat of LaGrange, about 67 miles southwest of Atlanta."I-85 Blocked both sides N of Ga 103. All Troup Co. vollies activated, ordered to report to all stations to stand by for deployment. Many buildings damaged, people trapped," GMAG wrote on Facebook. In the town of West Point, Ga., the group warned of, "numerous houses collapsed, people trapped" around the areas of Samples Road, First Ave. and West Smith Road. "Many Roads blocked by debris. I-85 Closed, both directions due to many trees across Interstate and vehicles damaged," the post said.The Troup County Sheriff's Office said it was receiving multiple reports of trees down, damage to houses and power lines down."If you do not have to get on the roads this morning please do not travel," the agency wrote Sunday morning. "There is also a report that Verizon cell service is interrupted." "STAY OFF THE ROADS Troup County!" another message from the sheriff's office said. "TORNADO WATCH for Troup County until 1 PM," another post added. "FLOOD WATCH until Monday."Georgia residents shared photos and videos to social media of large golf-ball-sized pieces of hail falling over the area early Sunday. Amid the tornado watch, the sheriff's office also warned it received a report from the Pine Mountain Animal Safari "that they are reporting a Tiger that is unaccounted inside the park." The Weather Channel meteorologist Jennifer Watson cited local EMA in tweeting Sunday about multiple injuries reported from the tornado that moved south of LaGrange, Ga. this morning. She also noted reports of homes leveled and that parts of highways I-85 and 185 were closed due to trees and damage.Another social media user speculated that the projected path of the tornado suggested the Kia Assembly Plant in West Point, Ga., could take a "direct hit." Fox News Digital reached out to Georgia Emergency Management and Kia Georgia for more information but did not hear back before publication. This comes as President Joe Biden issued an emergency declaration for Mississippi early Sunday, making federal funding available to the areas hardest hit Friday night by a deadly tornado that ripped through the Mississippi Delta, one of the poorest regions of the U.S. At least 25 people were killed and dozens of others were injured in Mississippi as the massive storm ripped through several towns on its hour-long path. One man was killed after his trailer home flipped several times in Alabama.Search and recovery crews on Sunday resumed the daunting task of digging through the debris of flattened and battered homes, commercial buildings and municipal offices after hundreds of people were displaced. The National Weather Service warned of a risk of more severe weather Sunday -- including high winds, large hail and possible tornadoes in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia.The Associated Press contributed to this report.Danielle Wallace is a reporter for Fox News Digital.

HOMOSEXUALS.(SODOMITE RAINBOW GROUPERS)

LEVITICUS 20:13
13  If a man also lie with mankind,(ANOTHER MAN) as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

LEVITICUS 18:22
22  Thou shalt not lie with mankind,(ANOTHER MAN) as with womankind: it is abomination.

2 TIMOTHY 3:3
3 Without natural affection,(HOMOSEXUALS) trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

1 CORINTHIANS 6:9,
9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate,(HARDENED SODOMITE RAINBOW GROUPERRS) nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

PSALMS 14:1
1  To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

ROMANS 1:18-32
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:(HOMOSEXUALITY,AND ALL SEX SINS)
25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:(LESBIENS)
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly,(SODOMITES) and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.(AIDS ETC)
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

GOD CREATED THEM MALE AND FEMALE IN MARRIAGE

GENESIS 1:27-28
27  So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
28  And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply,(HAVE LOTS OF CHILDREN) and replenish the earth,(HOMOSEXUALS CAN NOT REPLENISH THE EARTH WITH CHILDREN)(BY HAVING SEX WITH EACH OTHER) and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

GENESIS 2:21-24
21  And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
22  And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
23  And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
24  Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

MATTHEW 19:4-6
4  And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
5  And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
6  Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

LGBTQ dating app Grindr warns Egyptian users of police targeting-Company says cops in Muslim nation impersonating community members to catch and prosecute individuals-By AP-25 March 2023, 5:20 am

CAIRO — A popular gay social networking application said Friday that it is issuing a warning to its users in Egypt, as police impersonate community members to target LGBTQ individuals.Users in Egypt will see the following warning appear in Arabic and English when they open the app:“We have been alerted that Egyptian police is actively making arrests of gay, bi, and trans people on digital platforms. They are using fake accounts and have also taken over accounts from real community members who have already been arrested and had their phones taken. Please take extra caution online and offline, including with accounts that may have seemed legitimate in the past.”Egypt, though it technically does not outlaw homosexuality, frequently prosecutes members of the LGBTQ community on the grounds of ‘debauchery,’ or ‘violating public decency.’ In 2017, it arrested seven for raising a rainbow flag at a rock concert. And arrests of homosexuals and non-gender conforming individuals remain common.An Egyptian government media officer did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Grindr’s new measure.The warning to users comes after rights groups and media have reported how authorities in the wider region are increasingly taking to digital platforms to crack down on the LGBTQ community.In February, Human Rights Watch released a report documenting dozens of cases of security agencies in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Tunisia extorting, harassing, publicly outing, and detaining LGBTQ people based on their activities on Facebook and Instagram, as well as the dating app Grindr. The publication also questioned major tech companies for not investing sufficiently in Arabic language content moderation and protection.“Grindr is working with groups on the ground in Egypt to make sure our users have up-to-date information on how to stay safe, and we are pushing international organizations and governments to demand justice and safety for the Egyptian LGBTQ community,” said Grindr spokesperson Patrick Lenihan in response to a request for comment on Friday.A popular dating app for the gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community, California-based Grindr has faced criticism in the US and been fined in Norway for sharing personal data with third parties that could potentially identify users.The privacy policy on the company’s website outlines how it uses and aims to protect user data. It adds that its goal “is to put you in control of as much of the Personal Information that you share within the Grindr Properties as possible.”

JOEL 3:2
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.(UPROOTED ISRAELIS AND DIVIDED JERUSALEM)(THIS BRINGS ON WW3 BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED,WARNING TO ARABS-MUSLIMS AND THE WORLD).

WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS

Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week:(7 YEARS) and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
DANIEL 11:21-2321 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he ( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant (PEACE TREATY) with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE ANIMAL SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

 1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

ISAIAH 33:8
8  The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant,(7 YR TREATY) he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.(THE WORLD LEADER-WAR MONGER CALLS HIMSELF GOD)

JERUSALEM DIVIDED
GENESIS 25:20-26
20  And Isaac was forty years old (A BIBLE GENERATION NUMBER=1967 + 40=2007+) when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
21  And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
22  And the children (2 NATIONS IN HER-ISRAEL-ARABS) struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD.
23  And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels;(ISRAEL AND THE ARABS) and the one people shall be stronger than the other people;(ISRAEL STRONGER THAN ARABS) and the elder shall serve the younger.(LITERALLY ISRAEL THE YOUNGER RULES (ISSAC)(JACOB-LATER NAME CHANGED TO ISRAEL) OVER THE OLDER ARABS (ISHMAEL)(ESAU)
24  And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.
25  And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.(THE OLDER AN ARAB)
26  And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob:(THE YOUNGER-ISRAELI) and Isaac was threescore (60) years old when she bare them.(1967 + 60=2027)(COULD BE THE LAST GENERATION WHEN JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AMOUNG THE 2 TWINS)(THE 2 TWINS WANT JERUSALEM-THE DIVISION OF JERUSALEM TODAY)(AND WHOS IN CONTROL OF JERUSALEM TODAY-THE YOUNGER ISSAC-JACOB-ISRAEL)(AND WHO WANTS JERUSALEM DIVIDED-THE OLDER,ESAU-ISHMAEL (THE ARABS)

ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.DANIEL 11:36-40
36 And the king shall do according to his will;(EU PRESIDENT) and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS A EUROPEAN JEW) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(HES A MILITARY GINIUS) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds (CONTROL HEZBOLLAH,AL-QUAIDA MURDERERS ETC) with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south(EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR PROTECTING ISRAELS SECURITY) and the king of the north(RUSSIA) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.

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, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
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)